@dzhechkov/harness-core 0.8.36 → 0.8.37

package/src/qe-findings.ts

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+/**
+ * qe-findings-record (ADR-001, tier M): machine-readable Step-8 verdict + findings ledger.
+ *
+ * Two prior facts drove this (Step 0, `00_complexity_assessment.md`): scoring reads review PROSE
+ * with a regex (`readQeGrade` in score.ts) and 41 of 100 feature reports came back `ambiguous`
+ * because a report that was fixed after review states two grades in prose — a real fact about the
+ * report, not a parser bug. Findings were not read at all: `dz score` could say "cross-model QE ran"
+ * but never how many BLOCKER/HIGH findings it raised or what happened to them.
+ *
+ * This module adds ONE machine-readable surface on top of the prose, never replacing it:
+ *  - `QE-VERDICT: <A|A-|A+|B|B+|B-|C|C+|C-|D>` — a single line, the source of truth when present.
+ *  - a `Findings ledger` table under the EXACT header `QE_FINDINGS_HEADER`, closed dictionaries for
+ *    Severity/Status/Author. A row outside the dictionary is REFUSED, never coerced to the nearest
+ *    known value (ADR-001 D2) — that would make the resulting severity/status tally unprovable.
+ *  - an empty (header-only) table is `hollow: true` — worse than no table at all (ADR-001 D3, the
+ *    same principle as the mutation table's `present-unproven` in score.ts).
+ *
+ * Absence of either surface is NOT an error: 406 pre-existing reports carry neither, and this module
+ * reports `{status:'absent'}` for them exactly as it always will (ADR-001 D4, NFR-1).
+ *
+ * fix-round-1 (codex-r1-verdict, Grade C, findings 1/2/5/6/7): a machine artifact recognised inside
+ * fenced/indented code, a blockquote or an HTML comment is not a machine artifact — a review that
+ * QUOTES the format as an example must not be read as the report's own verdict/table. Both scans
+ * below run over TEXT MASKED THE SAME WAY as `amendment-trace.ts` (`maskMarkdown`), plus one block
+ * kind that shared masker does not cover — blockquotes — added here as the minimal local pass the
+ * ADR calls for. Masking blanks a line to spaces of the SAME LENGTH, so every line number reported
+ * in `refused`/`QeVerdictInvalidLine` still points at the real line in the ORIGINAL text.
+ *
+ * The findings table is additionally accepted ONLY under the single, top-level `## Findings ledger`
+ * heading (finding 1); a table found anywhere else is refused `outside ledger section`, never parsed.
+ *
+ * PURE, deliberately: no node:fs import here (NFR-2, guarded by test/core-boundary.test.ts). File
+ * reads belong to the CLI / the calling agent, same as every other core module.
+ */
+
+import { maskMarkdown } from './markdown-masker.js';
+
+export const QE_SEVERITIES = ['BLOCKER', 'CRITICAL', 'HIGH', 'MEDIUM', 'LOW', 'INFO'] as const;
+export type QeSeverity = (typeof QE_SEVERITIES)[number];
+
+export const QE_STATUSES = ['confirmed', 'fixed', 'partial', 'refuted', 'named-limit', 'open'] as const;
+export type QeStatus = (typeof QE_STATUSES)[number];
+
+export const QE_AUTHORS = ['codex', 'claude', 'lead'] as const;
+export type QeAuthor = (typeof QE_AUTHORS)[number];
+
+/** The ONE exact heading a producer must write and a reader must find — see score.ts's own
+ *  comment on why this is a single shared constant rather than two strings that can drift apart. */
+export const QE_FINDINGS_HEADER = '| Finding | Severity | Status | Round | Author | Title |';
+
+/** The section a Findings ledger table must live directly under — fix-round-1 finding 1: a table
+ *  found anywhere else (before this heading, after the section ends, or with no/duplicate heading)
+ *  is `refused` as `outside ledger section`, never parsed as the real ledger. */
+export const QE_LEDGER_HEADING = '## Findings ledger';
+
+/** `QE-VERDICT: B`, `QE-VERDICT: A-`, `QE-VERDICT: A+` — a whole line, nothing trailing but
+ *  whitespace. Only A-D (FR-1); this is deliberately narrower than score.ts's prose GRADE_RE, which
+ *  also accepts E/F and looser punctuation because prose is written by hand. */
+export const QE_VERDICT_RE = /^QE-VERDICT:\s*([A-D][+−-]?)\s*$/m;
+
+/** Any line that OPENS a verdict declaration — any case, any leading whitespace, with or without the
+ *  colon — checked separately from `QE_VERDICT_RE`'s strict grammar (fix-round-1 finding 2): this is
+ *  what lets `readQeGrade` tell "no verdict was ever attempted" (legacy prose fallback allowed) apart
+ *  from "a verdict was attempted and is malformed" (fallback forbidden — the report must say `invalid`
+ *  rather than silently reading a stale prose grade). */
+const QE_VERDICT_LOOKALIKE_RE = /^\s*QE-VERDICT\b/i;
+
+/** U+2212 (minus sign) and the ASCII hyphen spell the same grade sign — the same normalisation
+ *  score.ts's `normaliseGradeSign` applies to prose grades, duplicated here (not imported) so this
+ *  module never depends on score.ts and stays the leaf of the dependency graph. */
+function normaliseVerdictSign(grade: string): string {
+  return grade.replace('−', '-');
+}
+
+/** A leading Markdown blockquote marker (CommonMark: up to 3 leading spaces, then `>`).
+ *  `maskMarkdown` (the canonical shared masker, also used by amendment-trace.ts) does not mask
+ *  blockquotes — only fences, indented code and HTML comments — so this ONE missing block kind is
+ *  added here as the minimal local pass fix-round-1 calls for, with the same blank-to-spaces
+ *  contract (line count and every other line's length never change). */
+const BLOCKQUOTE_RE = /^ {0,3}>/;
+/** CommonMark block starters that INTERRUPT a paragraph (so they can never be a lazy continuation
+ *  of a blockquote): ATX heading, thematic break, fenced code, table row, list item, HTML block. */
+const BLOCK_STARTER_RE = /^ {0,3}(?:#{1,6}(?:\s|$)|(?:[-*_])(?: *[-*_]){2,} *$|```|~~~|\||(?:[-*+]|\d{1,9}[.)])\s|<)/;
+
+/**
+ * qe-findings-lazy-blockquote (backlog baba20e3b1c14060): a `>` line only opens the mask — a
+ * CommonMark blockquote paragraph can continue onto a FOLLOWING line that carries no `>` marker at
+ * all (a "lazy continuation"), and that unmarked line still belongs to the quote. The original
+ * single-line `.map()` masked only lines that themselves started with `>`, so a `QE-VERDICT: X` or
+ * `## Findings ledger` line written as the *second* line of a quoted example (no blank line, no
+ * `>`) was left unmasked and misread as the report's own artifact.
+ *
+ * Fix: a small two-state line machine (in-quote / not-in-quote). Once a `>` line is seen, every
+ * following line is ALSO masked until the first blank line (a line with no non-whitespace
+ * character) or end-of-input — the blank line is the ONLY terminator (a deliberate
+ * over-approximation of strict CommonMark, which also lets a block-starting line such as an ATX
+ * heading end a paragraph early: `01_requirements.md` FR-4 / acid A2 require the opposite, that a
+ * `## Findings ledger` heading glued to a quote with no blank separation stays masked, so the
+ * ambiguous case is read fail-closed as "still inside the quote" rather than as a real heading).
+ * A line already blanked by an earlier pass (fence/indented-code/HTML-comment) has no
+ * non-whitespace character either, so it is read as blank and CLOSES an open run rather than
+ * extending it — the existing already-masked invariant (line 90-93 above) holds unchanged.
+ */
+function maskBlockquotes(md: string): string {
+  let inQuote = false;
+  return md
+    .split('\n')
+    .map((line) => {
+      if (BLOCKQUOTE_RE.test(line)) {
+        inQuote = true;
+        return ' '.repeat(line.length);
+      }
+      if (!inQuote) return line;
+      if (!/\S/.test(line)) {
+        inQuote = false; // FR-2: a blank line always ends the lazy-continuation run
+        return line;
+      }
+      if (BLOCK_STARTER_RE.test(line)) {
+        // FR-1 clause (b), lead delta after Step 8 (F1/F2): a line that STARTS A NEW BLOCK — ATX
+        // heading, thematic break, fence, table row, list item, HTML block — interrupts the quoted
+        // paragraph per CommonMark, so it is NOT a lazy continuation: it and everything after it
+        // are outside the quote. Without this, a real `## Findings ledger` heading or a real table
+        // glued under a `> note` line vanished into a SILENT `absent` — exactly the near-miss-vs-
+        // absent failure this module exists to prevent.
+        inQuote = false;
+        return line;
+      }
+      return ' '.repeat(line.length); // FR-1: lazy continuation — still inside the quote
+    })
+    .join('\n');
+}
+
+/** The one masking pass both scans below share: fenced code, 4-space indented code and HTML
+ *  comments (the canonical masker) plus blockquotes (the local addition above). Blockquote masking
+ *  runs SECOND on purpose — a `>` line already blanked by the canonical pass (inside a fence) is all
+ *  spaces and can never spuriously match `BLOCKQUOTE_RE` again; a live blockquote outside any fence
+ *  is exactly what still needs masking. */
+/** Lead delta after Codex r2 (#1 PARTIAL): HTML `<blockquote>…</blockquote>` regions are masked too
+ *  (same-length blanking, newlines kept) — a quoted example inside them must not count. */
+function maskHtmlBlockquotes(md: string): string {
+  return md.replace(/<blockquote\b[\s\S]*?<\/blockquote>/gi, (m) => m.replace(/[^\n]/g, ' '));
+}
+
+function maskForScan(md: string): string {
+  return maskBlockquotes(maskHtmlBlockquotes(maskMarkdown(md, { indentedCode: true, inlineComments: true })));
+}
+
+/** Every `QE-VERDICT:` line found, normalised, IN DOCUMENT ORDER (duplicates included — the caller
+ *  decides whether repeats of the SAME grade still count as ambiguous; ADR-001 D1 says they do:
+ *  "две строки — ambiguous, никогда «последняя побеждает»"). Scans MASKED text (fix-round-1 finding
+ *  1): a `QE-VERDICT:` line inside a fenced/indented code block, a blockquote or an HTML comment is
+ *  an EXAMPLE, not the report's own verdict, and must never be counted. */
+export function readQeVerdictLines(md: string): string[] {
+  const found: string[] = [];
+  const masked = maskForScan(md);
+  const re = new RegExp(QE_VERDICT_RE.source, QE_VERDICT_RE.flags.includes('m') ? 'gm' : 'g');
+  for (const m of masked.matchAll(re)) {
+    found.push(normaliseVerdictSign(m[1] as string));
+  }
+  return found;
+}
+
+export interface QeVerdictInvalidLine {
+  /** 1-based line number in the ORIGINAL (unmasked) text. */
+  readonly line: number;
+  /** The raw line text, exactly as written (from the original, unmasked text). */
+  readonly text: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * fix-round-1 finding 2: lines that LOOK LIKE a `QE-VERDICT:` declaration (any case, any leading
+ * whitespace, with or without the colon) but do not match the strict grammar — `QE-VERDICT: B – final`
+ * (en dash + trailing prose), wrong case, a missing colon, a grade outside A-D. Masked the same way as
+ * `readQeVerdictLines` — a malformed EXAMPLE inside a fence/quote/comment is still not a real attempt.
+ * A genuinely valid line is never reported here (it belongs to `readQeVerdictLines` instead).
+ */
+export function findInvalidQeVerdictLines(md: string): readonly QeVerdictInvalidLine[] {
+  const masked = maskForScan(md);
+  const maskedLines = masked.split('\n');
+  const originalLines = md.split('\n');
+  const strict = new RegExp(QE_VERDICT_RE.source);
+  const out: QeVerdictInvalidLine[] = [];
+  for (let i = 0; i < maskedLines.length; i++) {
+    const line = maskedLines[i] as string;
+    if (!QE_VERDICT_LOOKALIKE_RE.test(line)) continue;
+    if (strict.test(line)) continue; // grammatically valid — readQeVerdictLines already has it
+    out.push({ line: i + 1, text: originalLines[i] as string });
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+export interface QeFindingRow {
+  readonly finding: string;
+  readonly severity: QeSeverity;
+  readonly status: QeStatus;
+  readonly round: number;
+  readonly author: QeAuthor;
+  readonly title: string;
+}
+
+export interface QeFindingsRefusedRow {
+  /** 1-based line number in the source text the refused row (or duplicate/misplaced table header)
+   *  starts at. */
+  readonly line: number;
+  /** The raw line text, exactly as written. */
+  readonly text: string;
+  /** Why the row (or table) was refused — human-readable, not a code. */
+  readonly reason: string;
+}
+
+export interface QeFindingsSummary {
+  readonly bySeverity: Readonly<Record<string, number>>;
+  readonly byStatus: Readonly<Record<string, number>>;
+  readonly total: number;
+}
+
+export type QeFindingsResult =
+  | { readonly status: 'absent' }
+  | {
+      readonly status: 'present';
+      /** Header-only table (no data rows at all, valid or refused) — worse than no table (D3). */
+      readonly hollow: boolean;
+      /** accepted | accepted-hollow (header only) | rejected-only (every table was refused) — lead delta after Codex r2 */
+      readonly tableStatus: 'accepted' | 'accepted-hollow' | 'rejected-only';
+      readonly rows: readonly QeFindingRow[];
+      readonly refused: readonly QeFindingsRefusedRow[];
+      readonly summary: QeFindingsSummary;
+    };
+
+const SEVERITY_SET: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set(QE_SEVERITIES);
+const STATUS_SET: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set(QE_STATUSES);
+const AUTHOR_SET: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set(QE_AUTHORS);
+
+/** A markdown table separator row, e.g. `|---|---|---|---|---|---|` or `| --- | :--- | ---: |`. */
+const SEPARATOR_RE = /^\|[\s:|-]+\|$/;
+
+/** A top-level Markdown heading (`#` through `######`, ATX-style) — used to close a `## Findings
+ *  ledger` section at the next heading of any level, same as a reader would read the document. */
+const TOP_LEVEL_HEADING_RE = /^#{1,6}\s/;
+
+/** Splits the INSIDE of a `| a | b | c |` row on top-level `|` boundaries: a `\|` is a literal pipe
+ *  (never a boundary — fix-round-1 finding 5), and a `|` inside a single-backtick inline-code span is
+ *  never a boundary either (`` `a|b` `` stays one cell). Deliberately minimal — not a full CommonMark
+ *  table parser; nested/nested-backtick edge cases are out of scope. */
+function splitTableCells(inner: string): string[] {
+  const cells: string[] = [];
+  let current = '';
+  let inCode = false;
+  let codeFence = 0;
+  for (let i = 0; i < inner.length; i++) {
+    const ch = inner[i] as string;
+    if (ch === '\\' && inner[i + 1] === '|') {
+      current += '|';
+      i++;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (ch === '`') {
+      // Lead delta after Codex r2 (#5 PARTIAL): a code span opens with N backticks and closes only
+      // with a run of the SAME length — ``a|b`` must not flip twice on its double backticks.
+      let run = 0;
+      while (inner[i + run] === '`') run++;
+      if (!inCode) { inCode = true; codeFence = run; }
+      else if (run === codeFence) { inCode = false; codeFence = 0; }
+      current += '`'.repeat(run);
+      i += run - 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (ch === '|' && !inCode) {
+      cells.push(current.trim());
+      current = '';
+      continue;
+    }
+    current += ch;
+  }
+  cells.push(current.trim());
+  return cells;
+}
+
+/** Splits `| a | b | c |` into `['a', 'b', 'c']`, trimmed. Returns null when the line does not open
+ *  and close with a pipe (not a table row at all) or has the wrong column count for this table. */
+function splitRow(line: string, expectedCols: number): string[] | null {
+  const t = line.trim();
+  if (!t.startsWith('|') || !t.endsWith('|')) return null;
+  const cells = splitTableCells(t.slice(1, -1));
+  if (cells.length !== expectedCols) return null;
+  return cells;
+}
+
+function parseRound(raw: string): number | null {
+  if (!/^[0-9]+$/.test(raw)) return null;
+  const n = Number(raw);
+  return n >= 1 ? n : null;
+}
+
+/** Walks a table's body from just below its header (same rules as the real parse loop: an optional
+ *  separator row, then rows starting with `|` until a blank line, a new header, or a non-table line)
+ *  and counts how many row lines it contains — WITHOUT validating a single cell. Used only to make a
+ *  refusal (duplicate or misplaced table) NAME how much was ignored (fix-round-1 finding 6), never to
+ *  parse the rejected table's content. */
+function countIgnoredRows(lines: readonly string[], headerIdx: number): number {
+  let cursor = headerIdx + 1;
+  if (cursor < lines.length && SEPARATOR_RE.test((lines[cursor] as string).trim())) cursor++;
+  let count = 0;
+  while (cursor < lines.length) {
+    const trimmed = (lines[cursor] as string).trim();
+    if (trimmed === '') break;
+    if (trimmed === QE_FINDINGS_HEADER) break;
+    if (!trimmed.startsWith('|')) break;
+    count++;
+    cursor++;
+  }
+  return count;
+}
+
+export function parseQeFindings(md: string): QeFindingsResult {
+  const lines = md.split('\n');
+  const maskedLines = maskForScan(md).split('\n');
+
+  // fix-round-1 finding 1: locate the single top-level `## Findings ledger` heading (masked-aware —
+  // a heading quoted inside a fence/blockquote/comment does not count). Zero or more-than-one such
+  // headings means there is NO section a table can be "under", and every table found is refused.
+  const headingIdxs: number[] = [];
+  for (let i = 0; i < maskedLines.length; i++) {
+    if ((maskedLines[i] as string).trim() === QE_LEDGER_HEADING) headingIdxs.push(i);
+  }
+  let sectionStart = -1;
+  let sectionEnd = -1;
+  if (headingIdxs.length === 1) {
+    sectionStart = (headingIdxs[0] as number) + 1;
+    sectionEnd = maskedLines.length;
+    for (let i = sectionStart; i < maskedLines.length; i++) {
+      if (TOP_LEVEL_HEADING_RE.test(maskedLines[i] as string)) {
+        sectionEnd = i;
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  const inSection = (idx: number): boolean => sectionStart >= 0 && idx >= sectionStart && idx < sectionEnd;
+  const noSectionReason =
+    headingIdxs.length === 0
+      ? `no '${QE_LEDGER_HEADING}' heading in the report`
+      : headingIdxs.length > 1
+        ? `${headingIdxs.length} '${QE_LEDGER_HEADING}' headings found — the heading must be unique`
+        : '';
+
+  // Header-row detection is ALSO masked-aware (finding 1): a `QE_FINDINGS_HEADER` line inside a
+  // fence/indented block/blockquote/HTML comment is example text, never even a candidate.
+  const headerIdxs: number[] = [];
+  for (let i = 0; i < maskedLines.length; i++) {
+    if ((maskedLines[i] as string).trim() === QE_FINDINGS_HEADER) headerIdxs.push(i);
+  }
+  if (headerIdxs.length === 0) {
+    // Lead delta (dogfooding the lead's own 08, 2026-09-17 02:08 UTC): a pipe-table sitting DIRECTLY
+    // under the single ledger heading whose header row is NOT the canonical one used to parse as
+    // `absent` — indistinguishable from "no ledger at all". It is a table the author MEANT as the
+    // ledger, so it is refused LOUDLY with the expected header spelled out (`rejected-only`).
+    if (sectionStart >= 0) {
+      for (let i = sectionStart; i < sectionEnd; i++) {
+        const t = (maskedLines[i] as string).trim();
+        if (t === '') continue;
+        if (t.startsWith('|')) {
+          return {
+            status: 'present',
+            hollow: false,
+            tableStatus: 'rejected-only',
+            rows: [],
+            refused: [{ line: i + 1, text: lines[i] as string, reason: `non-canonical header row: expected exactly '${QE_FINDINGS_HEADER}'` }],
+            summary: { bySeverity: {}, byStatus: {}, total: 0 },
+          };
+        }
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+    return { status: 'absent' };
+  }
+
+  const rows: QeFindingRow[] = [];
+  const refused: QeFindingsRefusedRow[] = [];
+  let sawAnyRowLine = false;
+  let acceptedOne = false;
+
+  // Lead delta after Codex r2 (#1 PARTIAL): the table must sit DIRECTLY under the heading — only
+  // blank lines between `## Findings ledger` and the header row; prose in between disqualifies it.
+  const directlyUnderHeading = (idx: number): boolean => {
+    if (sectionStart < 0 || idx < sectionStart) return false;
+    for (let i = sectionStart; i < idx; i++) if ((maskedLines[i] as string).trim() !== '') return false;
+    return true;
+  };
+  for (const headerIdx of headerIdxs) {
+    const accept = !acceptedOne && inSection(headerIdx) && directlyUnderHeading(headerIdx);
+    if (!accept) {
+      const ignored = countIgnoredRows(lines, headerIdx);
+      const ignoredNote = ignored > 0 ? ` (${ignored} row(s) ignored)` : '';
+      const reason = inSection(headerIdx) && acceptedOne
+        ? `duplicate table: a Findings ledger table already appeared earlier in this report${ignoredNote}`
+        : inSection(headerIdx)
+          ? `not directly under the heading: prose sits between '${QE_LEDGER_HEADING}' and the table${ignoredNote}`
+          : `outside ledger section: ${noSectionReason || `must appear directly under the single '${QE_LEDGER_HEADING}' heading`}${ignoredNote}`;
+      refused.push({ line: headerIdx + 1, text: lines[headerIdx] as string, reason });
+      continue;
+    }
+    acceptedOne = true;
+
+    let cursor = headerIdx + 1;
+    // Optional separator row right after the header.
+    if (cursor < lines.length && SEPARATOR_RE.test((lines[cursor] as string).trim())) cursor++;
+
+    while (cursor < lines.length) {
+      const raw = lines[cursor] as string;
+      const trimmed = raw.trim();
+      if (trimmed === '') break; // a blank line ends the table
+      if (trimmed === QE_FINDINGS_HEADER) break; // a second header starts a NEW (duplicate) table
+      if (!trimmed.startsWith('|')) break; // a non-table line ends the table
+      sawAnyRowLine = true;
+      const cells = splitRow(raw, 6);
+      if (cells === null) {
+        refused.push({ line: cursor + 1, text: raw, reason: 'malformed row: expected 6 columns' });
+        cursor++;
+        continue;
+      }
+      const [finding, severity, status, roundRaw, author, title] = cells as [string, string, string, string, string, string];
+      const reasons: string[] = [];
+      if (finding === '' || /\s/.test(finding)) reasons.push(`Finding id ${JSON.stringify(finding)} must be a non-empty token with no whitespace`);
+      if (!SEVERITY_SET.has(severity)) reasons.push(`severity ${JSON.stringify(severity)} not in dictionary`);
+      if (!STATUS_SET.has(status)) reasons.push(`status ${JSON.stringify(status)} not in dictionary`);
+      const round = parseRound(roundRaw);
+      if (round === null) reasons.push(`round ${JSON.stringify(roundRaw)} is not an integer >= 1`);
+      if (!AUTHOR_SET.has(author)) reasons.push(`author ${JSON.stringify(author)} not in dictionary`);
+      if (reasons.length > 0) {
+        refused.push({ line: cursor + 1, text: raw, reason: reasons.join('; ') });
+      } else {
+        rows.push({
+          finding,
+          severity: severity as QeSeverity,
+          status: status as QeStatus,
+          round: round as number,
+          author: author as QeAuthor,
+          title,
+        });
+      }
+      cursor++;
+    }
+  }
+
+  const bySeverity: Record<string, number> = {};
+  const byStatus: Record<string, number> = {};
+  for (const r of rows) {
+    bySeverity[r.severity] = (bySeverity[r.severity] ?? 0) + 1;
+    byStatus[r.status] = (byStatus[r.status] ?? 0) + 1;
+  }
+
+  // Lead delta after Codex r2 (new MEDIUM #2): `hollow` means an ACCEPTED table with no rows — a
+  // report whose only tables were refused has no accepted table at all (`rejected-only`).
+  const tableStatus: 'accepted' | 'accepted-hollow' | 'rejected-only' = !acceptedOne ? 'rejected-only' : (sawAnyRowLine ? 'accepted' : 'accepted-hollow');
+  return {
+    status: 'present',
+    hollow: tableStatus === 'accepted-hollow',
+    tableStatus,
+    rows,
+    refused,
+    summary: { bySeverity, byStatus, total: rows.length },
+  };
+}

package/src/recap.ts

@@ -227,7 +227,12 @@ export const FORBIDDEN_METRICS: readonly ForbiddenMetric[] = [
  */
 export type Delivery =
   | { readonly slug: string; readonly createdIso: string; readonly gradeStatus: 'unique'; readonly grade: string }
-  | { readonly slug: string; readonly createdIso: string; readonly gradeStatus: 'ambiguous' | 'none' | 'no-report'; readonly grade: null };
+  // fix-round-1 (codex-r1-verdict finding 2/3): `readQeGrade` gained an `'invalid'` status — a
+  // report that ATTEMPTED a machine `QE-VERDICT:` line and got the grammar wrong. It is counted
+  // alongside `'ambiguous'` below (both mean "no single grade can be trusted", for different
+  // reasons) rather than getting a fifth bucket in the printed line — the type keeps the real
+  // status, `buildRecap` chooses how to group it for display.
+  | { readonly slug: string; readonly createdIso: string; readonly gradeStatus: 'ambiguous' | 'invalid' | 'none' | 'no-report'; readonly grade: null };
 
 /** A `unique` with no usable grade is not a graded delivery; it is a report we could not read. */
 function normaliseDelivery(d: Delivery): Delivery {
@@ -346,14 +351,16 @@ export function buildRecap(facts: RecapFacts): RecapReport {
     const covered = coveredWindow(v, facts.window);
     const items = (facts.deliveries?.items ?? []).map(normaliseDelivery).filter((d) => withinWindow(covered, d.createdIso));
     const graded = items.filter((d): d is Extract<Delivery, { gradeStatus: 'unique' }> => d.gradeStatus === 'unique');
-    const ambiguous = items.filter((d) => d.gradeStatus === 'ambiguous');
+    // fix-round-1: 'invalid' (a malformed QE-VERDICT attempt) is folded into the same printed bucket
+    // as 'ambiguous' — both are "no single grade can be trusted", just a different reason.
+    const ambiguous = items.filter((d) => d.gradeStatus === 'ambiguous' || d.gradeStatus === 'invalid');
     const ungraded = items.filter((d) => d.gradeStatus === 'none' || d.gradeStatus === 'no-report');
     const lines = sectionLines(v, facts.window, (scope) => items.length === 0
       ? emptyOrUnavailable(v, `no feature directories were created in ${scope}`)
       : [
           `${items.length} feature director${items.length === 1 ? 'y' : 'ies'} created in ${scope}`,
           `${graded.length} carry a grade an independent review stated unambiguously${graded.length > 0 ? `: ${tally(graded.map((d) => d.grade))}` : ''}`,
-          `${ambiguous.length} have a report that states MORE THAN ONE grade — reported as ambiguous, never guessed`,
+          `${ambiguous.length} have a report that states MORE THAN ONE grade or a malformed QE-VERDICT line — reported as ambiguous, never guessed`,
           `${ungraded.length} have no letter grade in their report, or no report at all`,
           'cadence is not value: this counts deliveries, not what they were worth',
         ]);