@event4u/agent-config 14.8.0 → 14.10.0

package/src/scripts/check_publish_surface.ts

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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+/**
+ * Make a change to what ships a diff a reviewer reads.
+ *
+ * THE DEFECT. Two surfaces decide the published payload — `package.json`
+ * `files[]` and `.npmignore` — and nothing compared them or noticed when one
+ * changed. Editing what ships is legitimate; editing it invisibly is not, and a
+ * 26-root allowlist plus a 27-line ignore file is exactly the shape nobody
+ * re-reads.
+ *
+ * THE ARTEFACT IS NOT A COPY OF THE TWO FILES. Copying them would move the
+ * problem: a reviewer would still have to know which of the two wins. It
+ * records the resolved surface plus the one fact that is genuinely surprising —
+ * **`files[]` is an allowlist and it overrides `.npmignore` for anything under
+ * an included root.** That was measured, not assumed: an attempt to strip
+ * compiled test artefacts via `.npmignore` had NO effect, because `dist/` is an
+ * included root; the strip only worked as `!` negations inside `files[]`. So
+ * every `.npmignore` pattern is classified against the live payload, and a
+ * pattern the payload contradicts is reported SHADOWED rather than listed as
+ * though it were doing something.
+ *
+ * `--write` regenerates. Default checks. The check compares the artefact to the
+ * live config, so a stale artefact is the failure rather than the resting state.
+ *
+ * Exit: 0 in sync, 1 on drift, 2 on a usage error or a dead scope.
+ */
+import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
+import * as fs from 'node:fs';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+
+import { runSelfTest } from './_lib/gate_self_test.js';
+import { assertScanned, DeadScopeError } from './_lib/scan_scope.js';
+
+const _HERE = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
+export const REPO_ROOT = path.resolve(path.dirname(_HERE), '..', '..');
+export const ARTEFACT = path.join(REPO_ROOT, 'src/config/publish-surface.json');
+
+export interface PublishSurface {
+    _comment: string;
+    /** Positive `files[]` entries — the allowlist roots. */
+    roots: string[];
+    /** `!`-prefixed `files[]` entries — the only way to remove from a root. */
+    negations: string[];
+    /** `.npmignore` patterns, comments and blanks dropped. */
+    npmignore: string[];
+    /**
+     * `.npmignore` patterns the live payload contradicts — the rule is present
+     * and not doing what its author expected.
+     *
+     * INFORMATIONAL, and excluded from the drift verdict. It is derived from the
+     * live payload, so it is tree-dependent in principle: a built tree ships
+     * `dist/cli/**` and an unbuilt one does not. Comparing it would make the
+     * gate red for anyone whose build state differs from whoever last
+     * regenerated the artefact — the exact false-drift shape the content-class
+     * check had to close with `measured_in`.
+     *
+     * Measured in both states on 2026-08-22 and identical (`['agents/']`), so
+     * the tolerance is not covering a known difference; it is refusing to assert
+     * one it cannot control.
+     */
+    npmignore_shadowed: string[];
+    /** Which tree the shadowed set above was measured in. */
+    shadowed_measured_in: string;
+}
+
+/** Strip comments and blanks; keep author order, because order is reviewable. */
+export function parseNpmignore(text: string): string[] {
+    return text
+        .split('\n')
+        .map((l) => l.replace(/\r$/, '').trim())
+        .filter((l) => l !== '' && !l.startsWith('#'));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Does an `.npmignore` pattern match a payload path?
+ *
+ * Deliberately a narrow subset of gitignore semantics — a leading double-star segment, a
+ * trailing `/` for a directory, and `*` inside a segment. A full matcher would
+ * be a dependency, and the classification only has to be right about the
+ * patterns this file actually uses; a pattern it cannot model is reported as
+ * not-shadowed, which is the conservative direction (it never claims a rule is
+ * inert without a payload path to prove it).
+ */
+export function npmignoreMatches(pattern: string, payloadPath: string): boolean {
+    let p = pattern;
+    const anchored = p.startsWith('/');
+    if (anchored) p = p.slice(1);
+    const dirOnly = p.endsWith('/');
+    if (dirOnly) p = p.slice(0, -1);
+    const anySegment = p.startsWith('**/');
+    if (anySegment) p = p.slice(3);
+    const rx = new RegExp(
+        `${anchored ? '^' : anySegment ? '(^|/)' : '(^|/)'}${p
+            .split('*')
+            .map((s) => s.replace(/[.+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&'))
+            .join('[^/]*')}${dirOnly ? '/' : '($|/)'}`,
+    );
+    return rx.test(payloadPath);
+}
+
+export function packPayload(root: string): string[] {
+    const out = spawnSync('npm', ['pack', '--dry-run', '--ignore-scripts', '--json'], {
+        cwd: root,
+        encoding: 'utf-8',
+        maxBuffer: 64 * 1024 * 1024,
+    });
+    if (out.status !== 0 || typeof out.stdout !== 'string') return [];
+    const i = out.stdout.indexOf('[');
+    if (i < 0) return [];
+    try {
+        const parsed = JSON.parse(out.stdout.slice(i)) as { files?: { path?: unknown }[] }[];
+        const files = Array.isArray(parsed[0]?.files) ? (parsed[0]?.files ?? []) : [];
+        return files.map((f) => (typeof f.path === 'string' ? f.path : '')).filter((s) => s !== '');
+    } catch {
+        return [];
+    }
+}
+
+export function buildSurface(root: string, payload: readonly string[]): PublishSurface {
+    const pkg = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(root, 'package.json'), 'utf-8')) as {
+        files?: string[];
+    };
+    const entries = pkg.files ?? [];
+    const ignPath = path.join(root, '.npmignore');
+    const npmignore = fs.existsSync(ignPath) ? parseNpmignore(fs.readFileSync(ignPath, 'utf-8')) : [];
+    const shadowed = npmignore.filter((pat) => payload.some((p) => npmignoreMatches(pat, p)));
+    return {
+        _comment:
+            'GENERATED by src/scripts/check_publish_surface.ts --write. Do not hand-edit. ' +
+            'It records the resolved publish surface so a change to what ships is a diff a reviewer reads. ' +
+            '`files[]` is an ALLOWLIST and it overrides .npmignore for anything under an included root — ' +
+            'measured, after an attempt to strip compiled test artefacts via .npmignore had no effect because ' +
+            'dist/ is an included root. That is why `negations` exists and why `npmignore_shadowed` is reported: ' +
+            'a pattern the live payload contradicts is present and not doing what its author expected.',
+        roots: entries.filter((e) => !e.startsWith('!')),
+        negations: entries.filter((e) => e.startsWith('!')),
+        npmignore,
+        npmignore_shadowed: shadowed,
+        shadowed_measured_in:
+            payload.some((p) => p.startsWith('dist/cli/'))
+                ? 'built tree (payload carries dist/cli/**)'
+                : 'unbuilt tree (payload carries no dist/cli/**)',
+    };
+}
+
+/**
+ * The fields the drift verdict compares — everything read from a FILE, nothing
+ * derived from the payload. See `npmignore_shadowed`.
+ */
+export function driftKey(s: PublishSurface): string {
+    return `${JSON.stringify({ roots: s.roots, negations: s.negations, npmignore: s.npmignore }, null, 2)}\n`;
+}
+
+function render(s: PublishSurface): string {
+    return `${JSON.stringify(s, null, 2)}\n`;
+}
+
+function selfTest(): number {
+    return runSelfTest({
+        gate: 'check_publish_surface',
+        minCases: 7,
+        minRejectCases: 4,
+        cases: [
+            {
+                name: 'a directory pattern matches a path under it',
+                expect: 'reject',
+                run: () => (npmignoreMatches('agents/', 'agents/roadmaps/x.md') ? 1 : 0),
+            },
+            {
+                name: 'a double-star-prefixed pattern matches at any depth',
+                expect: 'reject',
+                run: () => (npmignoreMatches('**/*.pyc', 'src/a/b/c.pyc') ? 1 : 0),
+            },
+            {
+                name: 'a bare filename matches at any depth',
+                expect: 'reject',
+                run: () => (npmignoreMatches('.DS_Store', 'docs/.DS_Store') ? 1 : 0),
+            },
+            {
+                name: 'a `*` glob stays within one segment',
+                expect: 'reject',
+                run: () => (npmignoreMatches('*.swp', 'a.swp') ? 1 : 0),
+            },
+            {
+                // The counter-test: a segment glob must NOT cross a slash, or
+                // every pattern would match everything and the whole
+                // shadowed-set would be noise.
+                //
+                // The first version of this case asserted that `*.swp` does not
+                // match `a.swp/b.txt` — which is wrong, and the self-test caught
+                // it: gitignore semantics say `*.swp` matches a DIRECTORY of
+                // that name and everything under it, so the matcher was right
+                // and the fixture was not. `a*b` vs `a/x/b` tests the property
+                // the case was reaching for without the ambiguity.
+                name: 'a `*` glob does not cross a slash',
+                expect: 'accept',
+                run: () => (npmignoreMatches('a*b', 'a/x/b') ? 1 : 0),
+            },
+            {
+                name: 'a directory pattern does not match a same-named file',
+                expect: 'accept',
+                run: () => (npmignoreMatches('vendor/', 'vendor') ? 1 : 0),
+            },
+            {
+                name: 'an unrelated pattern matches nothing',
+                expect: 'accept',
+                run: () => (npmignoreMatches('composer.lock', 'src/scripts/x.ts') ? 1 : 0),
+            },
+            {
+                // Drift detection itself: the shadowed set must react to the
+                // payload, not just to the file. A pattern with no payload
+                // match is not shadowed.
+                name: 'shadowed is computed against the payload, not asserted',
+                expect: 'reject',
+                run: () => {
+                    const withHit = buildSurfaceFrom(['agents/'], ['agents/x.md']);
+                    const without = buildSurfaceFrom(['agents/'], ['src/x.ts']);
+                    return withHit.length === 1 && without.length === 0 ? 1 : 0;
+                },
+            },
+        ],
+    });
+}
+
+/** Test seam: the shadowed computation alone, with no filesystem. */
+export function buildSurfaceFrom(npmignore: readonly string[], payload: readonly string[]): string[] {
+    return npmignore.filter((pat) => payload.some((p) => npmignoreMatches(pat, p)));
+}
+
+export function main(argv: readonly string[] = process.argv.slice(2)): number {
+    if (argv.includes('--self-test')) return selfTest();
+    const payload = packPayload(REPO_ROOT);
+    try {
+        assertScanned({
+            gate: 'check_publish_surface',
+            scanned: payload.length,
+            units: 'packed file(s)',
+            roots: ['npm pack --dry-run --ignore-scripts payload (package.json files[])'],
+        });
+    } catch (err) {
+        if (err instanceof DeadScopeError) {
+            process.stderr.write(`❌  publish surface: ${err.message}\n`);
+            return 2;
+        }
+        throw err;
+    }
+    process.stdout.write(`scanned: ${String(payload.length)}\n`);
+    const live = render(buildSurface(REPO_ROOT, payload));
+    if (argv.includes('--write')) {
+        fs.writeFileSync(ARTEFACT, live);
+        process.stdout.write(`✅  publish surface written to ${path.relative(REPO_ROOT, ARTEFACT)}\n`);
+        return 0;
+    }
+    if (!fs.existsSync(ARTEFACT)) {
+        process.stderr.write(
+            `❌  publish surface: ${path.relative(REPO_ROOT, ARTEFACT)} is missing — run with --write\n`,
+        );
+        return 1;
+    }
+    const committed = fs.readFileSync(ARTEFACT, 'utf-8');
+    let committedKey: string;
+    try {
+        committedKey = driftKey(JSON.parse(committed) as PublishSurface);
+    } catch {
+        process.stderr.write(`❌  publish surface: ${path.relative(REPO_ROOT, ARTEFACT)} is not valid JSON\n`);
+        return 1;
+    }
+    if (committedKey === driftKey(buildSurface(REPO_ROOT, payload))) {
+        if (committed !== live) {
+            // The tree-independent surface matches; only the payload-derived
+            // shadowed set differs, which a different build state explains.
+            // Said out loud rather than swallowed: a silent difference between
+            // the committed artefact and the live one is the thing this gate
+            // exists to make visible, even when it is not a failure.
+            process.stdout.write(
+                '⚠️  publish surface: files[] and .npmignore match, but the payload-derived\n' +
+                    '    shadowed set differs — a different build state, not drift in what ships.\n' +
+                    '    Regenerate with --write if you want the artefact to record THIS tree.\n',
+            );
+        }
+        process.stdout.write('✅  publish surface in sync with package.json files[] + .npmignore.\n');
+        return 0;
+    }
+    process.stderr.write(
+        '❌  publish surface drifted: what ships changed and the committed artefact did not.\n' +
+            '    Changing what ships is legitimate; changing it without the artefact moving is the defect,\n' +
+            '    because the change is then invisible in review. Run:\n' +
+            '      ./scripts-run src/scripts/check_publish_surface --write\n' +
+            '    and commit the diff alongside the package.json / .npmignore edit that caused it.\n',
+    );
+    return 1;
+}
+
+if (process.argv[1] !== undefined && process.argv[1].includes('check_publish_surface')) {
+    process.exit(main(process.argv.slice(2)));
+}

package/src/scripts/check_requirements_trace.ts

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+#!/usr/bin/env tsx
+/**
+ * Requirement → acceptance → evidence INVENTORY. Exits 0 always.
+ *
+ * ## Why a listing and not a gate
+ *
+ * A gate that can fail on day one reds the whole backlog, and this tree has
+ * recorded that failure once already: `road-to-plan-gates-measurement` sits in
+ * `later/` because its counter measured **0** — its own text records "Measured
+ * at parking time: 0" and an advisory window of 0 of 10 gated PRs. So this
+ * script is deliberately a *reader*: it prints the distribution and returns 0
+ * whatever it finds, including when it finds nothing.
+ *
+ * The name carries a `check_` prefix because that is what the gate-population
+ * classifier keys on and the script IS registered for coverage; the exit code is
+ * what makes it a listing rather than an enforcement.
+ *
+ * ## Three populations, reported separately
+ *
+ * The council's correction, and the reason this is not one number. Step 2.1
+ * originally named three roadmaps to dogfood; all three were archived by sibling
+ * pull requests in the same drain run, so the named set was gone before any
+ * window opened. Merging one PR before another would have changed the reported
+ * result with no roadmap edited — which makes merge order part of the
+ * experiment.
+ *
+ *   - `fixture`   — synthetic inputs, for parser and resolver mechanics. Never
+ *                   counts toward adoption: a maintainer-authored fixture is
+ *                   evidence about the reader, not about uptake.
+ *   - `cohort`    — a frozen manifest of files under study, active or archived.
+ *                   Experimental history; may include archived members.
+ *   - `live`      — the current ACTIVE corpus only. This is the compliance
+ *                   number, and the only one a ratchet may read.
+ *
+ * Collapsing them is how a zero from non-adoption becomes indistinguishable
+ * from a zero from non-compliance.
+ *
+ * ## What `unresolved` means, and when it is evaluated
+ *
+ * At the CURRENT head, always. A ref that resolved when it was declared and no
+ * longer resolves is `unresolved`, and that is the intended reading rather than
+ * a defect in it — deleted evidence is what an inventory exists to surface. The
+ * consequence, stated rather than discovered: a completed roadmap can move from
+ * resolved to unresolved with no roadmap edit.
+ *
+ * Usage:
+ *     ./scripts-run src/scripts/check_requirements_trace [--json] [--dir P]
+ */
+
+import * as fs from 'node:fs';
+import * as os from 'node:os';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath, pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
+
+import { runGateCli, runSelfTest, type SelfTestCase } from './_lib/gate_self_test.js';
+import { assertScanned, DeadScopeError } from './_lib/scan_scope.js';
+
+const _HERE = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
+const REPO_ROOT = path.resolve(path.dirname(_HERE), '..', '..');
+const ROADMAP_DIR = path.join(REPO_ROOT, 'agents', 'roadmaps');
+
+/** The claim-ledger kebab slug, reused rather than invented. */
+const SLUG = /^[a-z0-9]+(?:-[a-z0-9]+)*$/;
+
+export interface TraceRow {
+    requirement_id: string;
+    acceptance_id: string;
+    evidence_refs: string[];
+}
+
+export interface FileTrace {
+    file: string;
+    rows: TraceRow[];
+    /** `[AC:<id>]` ids found on `verify:` lines. */
+    ac_annotations: string[];
+    /** Rows whose ids do not match the reused slug grammar. */
+    malformed: string[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Parse the `traceability:` rows out of a roadmap.
+ *
+ * A deliberately small reader over the block form § 2c fixes, and NOT a YAML
+ * parser: the block may appear inside a blockquote (this roadmap dogfoods it
+ * that way) and a real parser would need the whole document to be YAML, which a
+ * roadmap is not. Leading `>` and whitespace are stripped per line.
+ */
+export function parseTrace(text: string): { rows: TraceRow[]; malformed: string[] } {
+    const lines = text.split('\n').map((l) => l.replace(/^\s*>\s?/, ''));
+    const rows: TraceRow[] = [];
+    const malformed: string[] = [];
+    let inBlock = false;
+    let cur: Partial<TraceRow> | null = null;
+    let inRefs = false;
+
+    const flush = (): void => {
+        if (cur === null) return;
+        const { requirement_id: req, acceptance_id: acc } = cur;
+        if (req !== undefined && acc !== undefined) {
+            if (!SLUG.test(req)) malformed.push(`requirement_id \`${req}\` is not a kebab slug`);
+            if (!SLUG.test(acc)) malformed.push(`acceptance_id \`${acc}\` is not a kebab slug`);
+            rows.push({ requirement_id: req, acceptance_id: acc, evidence_refs: cur.evidence_refs ?? [] });
+        }
+        cur = null;
+        inRefs = false;
+    };
+
+    for (const raw of lines) {
+        if (/^\s*traceability:\s*$/.test(raw)) {
+            inBlock = true;
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (!inBlock) continue;
+        // A fence or a non-indented non-list line ends the block.
+        if (/^\s*```/.test(raw) || (raw.trim() !== '' && !/^\s/.test(raw))) {
+            flush();
+            inBlock = false;
+            continue;
+        }
+        const item = /^\s*-\s+requirement_id:\s*(\S+)\s*$/.exec(raw);
+        if (item) {
+            flush();
+            cur = { requirement_id: item[1] as string, evidence_refs: [] };
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (cur === null) continue;
+        const acc = /^\s*acceptance_id:\s*(\S+)\s*$/.exec(raw);
+        if (acc) {
+            cur.acceptance_id = acc[1] as string;
+            inRefs = false;
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (/^\s*evidence_refs:\s*$/.test(raw)) {
+            inRefs = true;
+            continue;
+        }
+        const ref = /^\s*-\s+(\S+)\s*$/.exec(raw);
+        if (ref && inRefs) {
+            (cur.evidence_refs ??= []).push(ref[1] as string);
+        }
+    }
+    flush();
+    return { rows, malformed };
+}
+
+/** `[AC:<id>]` ids on `verify:` lines — the first structural reader of them. */
+export function parseAcAnnotations(text: string): string[] {
+    const out: string[] = [];
+    for (const m of text.matchAll(/verify:\s*\[AC:([a-z0-9-]+)\]/g)) out.push(m[1] as string);
+    return out;
+}
+
+export interface Summary {
+    files: number;
+    rows: number;
+    /** Rows with at least one evidence ref. */
+    linked: number;
+    /** Rows with no evidence ref at all. */
+    unlinked: number;
+    /** Evidence refs that do not resolve at the current head. */
+    unresolved: number;
+    refs: number;
+    ac_annotations: number;
+    /** `[AC:…]` ids with no matching `acceptance_id` in the same file. */
+    dangling_ac: number;
+    malformed: number;
+}
+
+export function summarise(traces: readonly FileTrace[], repoRoot: string): Summary {
+    let rows = 0;
+    let linked = 0;
+    let unlinked = 0;
+    let refs = 0;
+    let unresolved = 0;
+    let dangling = 0;
+    let malformed = 0;
+    for (const t of traces) {
+        rows += t.rows.length;
+        malformed += t.malformed.length;
+        const accIds = new Set(t.rows.map((r) => r.acceptance_id));
+        for (const id of t.ac_annotations) if (!accIds.has(id)) dangling += 1;
+        for (const r of t.rows) {
+            if (r.evidence_refs.length === 0) unlinked += 1;
+            else linked += 1;
+            for (const ref of r.evidence_refs) {
+                refs += 1;
+                // Evaluated at the CURRENT head. A ref that has been deleted is
+                // unresolved, which is the reading this inventory exists for.
+                if (!fs.existsSync(path.join(repoRoot, ref.replace(/:\d+(-\d+)?$/, '')))) {
+                    unresolved += 1;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return {
+        files: traces.length,
+        rows,
+        linked,
+        unlinked,
+        unresolved,
+        refs,
+        ac_annotations: traces.reduce((n, t) => n + t.ac_annotations.length, 0),
+        dangling_ac: dangling,
+        malformed,
+    };
+}
+
+function readLive(dir: string): FileTrace[] {
+    let names: string[] = [];
+    try {
+        names = fs.readdirSync(dir).filter((n) => n.endsWith('.md') && n !== 'README.md').sort();
+    } catch {
+        return [];
+    }
+    const out: FileTrace[] = [];
+    for (const n of names) {
+        const text = fs.readFileSync(path.join(dir, n), 'utf-8');
+        const { rows, malformed } = parseTrace(text);
+        const ac = parseAcAnnotations(text);
+        if (rows.length === 0 && ac.length === 0) continue;
+        out.push({ file: `agents/roadmaps/${n}`, rows, ac_annotations: ac, malformed });
+    }
+    return out;
+}
+
+/** Floors for `--self-test`, declared here so a truncation is a visible diff. */
+const SELF_TEST_MIN_CASES = 5;
+const SELF_TEST_MIN_REJECT = 1;
+const SCRIPT_REL = 'src/scripts/check_requirements_trace.ts';
+
+/**
+ * `--self-test` for a gate that exits 0 ALWAYS — which needs explaining, since
+ * the harness's whole premise is that a gate proves it can go red.
+ *
+ * This one cannot, by design, so the reject case is the harness's OWN floor:
+ * a truncated suite must fail. What the accept cases prove instead is that the
+ * reader DISCRIMINATES — the same discrimination a failing exit would
+ * demonstrate elsewhere, asserted on the output rather than the exit code.
+ * Stated rather than left implicit, because a self-test whose cases all accept
+ * is exactly the degenerate pass the harness warns about.
+ */
+function _fixture(name: string, body: string, args: readonly string[] = []): number {
+    const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), `reqtrace-st-${name}-`));
+    const rm = path.join(dir, 'agents', 'roadmaps');
+    fs.mkdirSync(rm, { recursive: true });
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(rm, 'a.md'), body, 'utf-8');
+    return runGateCli(REPO_ROOT, SCRIPT_REL, ['--dir', rm, ...args], dir);
+}
+
+const _ROW = 'traceability:\n  - requirement_id: r-one\n    acceptance_id: a-one\n';
+
+function selfTest(): number {
+    const cases: SelfTestCase[] = [
+        { name: 'a declared row is accepted', expect: 'accept', run: () => _fixture('row', _ROW) },
+        {
+            name: 'a dangling [AC:] annotation still exits 0 — this is a listing, not a gate',
+            expect: 'accept',
+            run: () => _fixture('dangling', `${_ROW}\n      verify: [AC:nowhere] x\n`),
+        },
+        {
+            name: 'an empty corpus exits 0 and does not read as a clean bill',
+            expect: 'accept',
+            run: () => _fixture('empty', '# no traceability block here\n'),
+        },
+        {
+            name: 'a non-slug id exits 0 and is reported, never enforced',
+            expect: 'accept',
+            run: () => _fixture('slug', 'traceability:\n  - requirement_id: Not_A_Slug\n    acceptance_id: a\n'),
+        },
+        {
+            name: 'an unknown argument is refused — the one non-zero path there is',
+            expect: 'reject',
+            run: () => _fixture('badarg', _ROW, ['--not-a-flag']),
+        },
+    ];
+    return runSelfTest({
+        gate: 'check_requirements_trace',
+        cases,
+        minCases: SELF_TEST_MIN_CASES,
+        minRejectCases: SELF_TEST_MIN_REJECT,
+    });
+}
+
+export function main(argv: readonly string[] = process.argv.slice(2)): number {
+    if (argv.includes('--self-test')) return selfTest();
+    for (let k = 0; k < argv.length; k += 1) {
+        const a = argv[k] as string;
+        if (a === '--json') continue;
+        if (a === '--dir') {
+            k += 1;
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (a === '--self-test') continue;
+        process.stderr.write(`check_requirements_trace: unrecognized argument: ${a}\n`);
+        return 2;
+    }
+    const i = argv.indexOf('--dir');
+    const dir = i >= 0 && i + 1 < argv.length ? path.resolve(argv[i + 1] as string) : ROADMAP_DIR;
+    const root = i >= 0 ? path.dirname(path.dirname(dir)) : REPO_ROOT;
+
+    let corpus = 0;
+    try {
+        corpus = fs.readdirSync(dir).filter((n) => n.endsWith('.md') && n !== 'README.md').length;
+    } catch {
+        corpus = 0;
+    }
+    const live = readLive(dir);
+    const s = summarise(live, root);
+
+    if (argv.includes('--json')) {
+        process.stdout.write(`${JSON.stringify({ population: 'live', corpus, ...s, files_detail: live }, null, 2)}\n`);
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    process.stdout.write(`scanned: ${String(corpus)}\n`);
+    try {
+        assertScanned({
+            gate: 'check_requirements_trace',
+            scanned: corpus,
+            units: 'roadmap file(s)',
+            roots: ['agents/roadmaps'],
+        });
+    } catch (err) {
+        if (err instanceof DeadScopeError) {
+            // Reported, and STILL exit 0. A dead scope is a real finding about
+            // this reader, and turning it into a non-zero exit would make the
+            // listing a gate — which is the one thing it must not become.
+            process.stderr.write(`⚠️  ${err.message}\n`);
+        } else {
+            throw err;
+        }
+    }
+
+    process.stdout.write('\n| Roadmap | requirement_id | acceptance_id | evidence refs | unresolved |\n');
+    process.stdout.write('|---|---|---|---|---|\n');
+    if (live.length === 0) {
+        process.stdout.write('| _none declared_ | — | — | — | — |\n');
+    }
+    for (const t of live) {
+        for (const r of t.rows) {
+            const bad = r.evidence_refs.filter(
+                (ref) => !fs.existsSync(path.join(root, ref.replace(/:\d+(-\d+)?$/, ''))),
+            ).length;
+            process.stdout.write(
+                `| ${t.file} | ${r.requirement_id} | ${r.acceptance_id} | ` +
+                    `${String(r.evidence_refs.length)} | ${String(bad)} |\n`,
+            );
+        }
+        for (const id of t.ac_annotations) {
+            const known = t.rows.some((r) => r.acceptance_id === id);
+            if (!known) {
+                process.stdout.write(`| ${t.file} | — | **[AC:${id}] dangling** | — | — |\n`);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // The line a ratchet reads, and the line a later reading is compared to.
+    // Integers with the corpus they were computed over, never a verdict: "
+    // traceability is patchy" cannot be compared to the next reading.
+    process.stdout.write(
+        `\nlive: rows ${String(s.rows)} · linked ${String(s.linked)} · unlinked ${String(s.unlinked)} · ` +
+            `refs ${String(s.refs)} · unresolved ${String(s.unresolved)} · ` +
+            `ac_annotations ${String(s.ac_annotations)} · dangling_ac ${String(s.dangling_ac)} · ` +
+            `malformed ${String(s.malformed)} · over ${String(corpus)} active roadmap(s), ` +
+            `${String(s.files)} declaring\n`,
+    );
+    process.stdout.write(
+        '    POPULATION: live (active corpus only). A `fixture` population tests this reader\n' +
+            '    and never counts toward adoption; a frozen `cohort` may include archived files\n' +
+            '    and is experimental history. Collapsing the three is how a zero from\n' +
+            '    non-adoption becomes indistinguishable from a zero from non-compliance.\n',
+    );
+    return 0;
+}
+
+if (process.argv[1] !== undefined && import.meta.url === pathToFileURL(process.argv[1]).href) {
+    process.exit(main());
+}