@event4u/agent-config 16.2.0 → 16.4.0

package/src/scripts/lint_rule_law_section.ts

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+#!/usr/bin/env tsx
+/**
+ * lint_rule_law_section — every routed rule states its law in one section short
+ * enough to stand on its own.
+ *
+ * THE DEFECT. Measured 2026-10-01 over `dist/router.json`'s 106 tier rules:
+ * 71 carry a heading matching `Iron Law`, 35 do not — among them
+ * `runtime-safety` and `tool-safety`, which govern tool grants and execution
+ * handlers. Several of the 35 state a law in bold text or a bare fence instead,
+ * so 35 is an upper bound on what is genuinely missing, not a count of
+ * lawless rules. Nothing asserted either way: law sections were an authoring
+ * habit, never a state.
+ *
+ * That matters now because `project_thin_rules` ships a class of rules as a
+ * stub plus their own law section. A rule with no law section cannot be in that
+ * class, and a rule whose law section is 5,387 characters defeats the point of
+ * a stub. This gate holds three lines so the projector can rely on them.
+ *
+ * WHAT IT ASSERTS, three axes, each with its own ratchet:
+ *
+ * 1. PRESENCE (`--axis presence`). Every routed tier rule has a law section, or
+ *    is named in the `missing` baseline. SHRINK-ONLY: an id may leave that list
+ *    freely, and a routed rule that is not on it and has no law section fails.
+ *    A NEW routed rule therefore cannot be born lawless.
+ *
+ * 2. LAW CEILING (`--axis ceiling`). Target 1,200 characters, REPORTED and
+ *    never failing; hard 2,000, failing. A rule over the hard ceiling today is
+ *    named in `law_exceptions` with an owner and a review date, and may only
+ *    shrink — its recorded size is a ceiling, not a licence.
+ *
+ * 3. BODY CEILING (`--axis body-ceiling`). 8,000 characters of
+ *    comment-stripped body, the unit a full runtime delivery carries, so it is
+ *    priced in the same unit the installed-layer report uses. Today's larger
+ *    rules are named in `body_exceptions`, shrink-only on the same terms.
+ *
+ * 4. TRIGGER PRESENCE (`--axis trigger`). Added by step 3.4 of
+ *    `road-to-an-installed-layer-that-is-thinned`: a stub is a pointer a prompt
+ *    must be able to pull in, so a routed rule with ZERO triggers in
+ *    `dist/router.json` cannot be discovered once it ships as a stub — the
+ *    pointer sits in the installed layer forever and the law behind it never
+ *    arrives. Four rules read zero today (measured 2026-10-06) and are named in
+ *    `no_trigger`, SHRINK-ONLY on the same terms as `missing`: each is delivered
+ *    by a mechanism other than a keyword match — a path collision
+ *    (`collision_ok`) or an unconditional load with no scoping at all — which is
+ *    a deliberate routing choice recorded in the rule's own frontmatter, not an
+ *    oversight this gate should paper over. A NEW routed rule therefore cannot
+ *    be born with no trigger a prompt can fire, same as it cannot be born
+ *    lawless.
+ *
+ * WHY THE TARGET IS REPORTED AND NOT ENFORCED. A rule shortened to fit a number
+ * is the failure this roadmap says it will not cause. 1,200 is where the
+ * distribution sits (median 511, p90 1,787) and a rule between target and hard
+ * ceiling is a rule to look at, not a rule to cut. Only 2,000 — above p90, so
+ * no rule is truncated by it — refuses.
+ *
+ * WHY SCOPED TO TIER RULES. "Routed" means present in `router.json`'s `tier_1`
+ * or `tier_2`. The nine kernel rules are excluded and the exclusion is a fact
+ * about this repository, not a judgement: kernel rule files are agent-write-
+ * denied, and two of them (`agent-authority`, `scope-control`) carry no Iron-Law
+ * heading today, so a gate that included them would be a gate no agent could
+ * ever make green. They are counted and printed under `kernel (reported)` so
+ * the exclusion is visible rather than silent, and `project_thin_rules` keeps
+ * the kernel full-bodied anyway — it never ships a kernel stub, so the stub-law
+ * question does not arise there.
+ *
+ * WHAT IT DOES NOT ASSERT. Not that the extracted section is the rule's real
+ * obligation — a heading match is structural and checkable, "this sentence is
+ * the obligation" is not; the ids in `src/config/rule-obligations.json` and
+ * `report_obligation_carriers` own that. Not that a rule at its recorded
+ * exception is correct, only that it is not worse. And not a cross-commit
+ * ratchet: this gate reads one tree, so "shrink-only" means the tree sits at or
+ * under what is committed, and a silently LOWERED baseline is a question the
+ * diff answers, not this gate. Saying so is the point.
+ *
+ * Exit codes: 0 clean, 1 violations, 2 usage error, 3 internal error.
+ */
+import * as fs from 'node:fs';
+import * as os from 'node:os';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+import process from 'node:process';
+import { fileURLToPath, pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
+
+import { asOf } from './_lib/as_of.js';
+import { measureRuleFile, type RuleLawMeasure } from './_lib/rule_law_section.js';
+import { DeadScopeError, reportScanned } from './_lib/scan_scope.js';
+
+const _HERE = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
+export const REPO_ROOT = path.resolve(path.dirname(_HERE), '..', '..');
+
+export const CONFIG_REL = 'src/config/rule-law-ceilings.json';
+export const RULES_REL = 'src/rules';
+export const ROUTER_REL = 'dist/router.json';
+
+/** Reported, never failing — a rule above it is a rule to look at. */
+export const LAW_TARGET_CHARS = 1_200;
+/** Refused. Above p90, so no rule in the distribution is truncated by it. */
+export const LAW_HARD_CHARS = 2_000;
+/** Refused. The unit a full runtime delivery carries. */
+export const BODY_HARD_CHARS = 8_000;
+
+export interface SizeException {
+    /** Recorded size at adoption. The rule may sit at or under it, never above. */
+    chars: number;
+    /** Who answers for this rule staying oversized. */
+    owner: string;
+    /** `YYYY-MM-DD` the exception is due for review. */
+    review: string;
+    /** Why this rule cannot state its law under the ceiling today. */
+    reason: string;
+}
+
+export interface LawConfig {
+    _comment?: string;
+    measured_at_commit?: string;
+    /** Routed rules with no law section. Shrink-only: ids may leave, never join. */
+    missing: string[];
+    /** Routed rules with no trigger a prompt can fire. Shrink-only, same terms as `missing`. */
+    no_trigger: string[];
+    /** Rules whose law exceeds {@link LAW_HARD_CHARS}. */
+    law_exceptions: Record<string, SizeException>;
+    /** Rules whose body exceeds {@link BODY_HARD_CHARS}. */
+    body_exceptions: Record<string, SizeException>;
+}
+
+export type Axis = 'presence' | 'ceiling' | 'body-ceiling' | 'trigger' | 'all';
+
+export interface Finding {
+    id: string;
+    axis: Exclude<Axis, 'all'>;
+    kind: string;
+    detail: string;
+}
+
+export interface LintResult {
+    findings: Finding[];
+    /** Rules at or above the soft target but under the hard ceiling. */
+    overTarget: Array<{ id: string; chars: number }>;
+    measures: RuleLawMeasure[];
+    kernelReported: Array<{ id: string; sections: number }>;
+    scanned: number;
+}
+
+/** Routed tier rule ids, sorted — `tier_1` + `tier_2`, kernel excluded. */
+export function routedRuleIds(root = REPO_ROOT): string[] {
+    const data = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(root, ROUTER_REL), 'utf-8')) as Record<
+        string,
+        unknown
+    >;
+    const ids: string[] = [];
+    for (const tier of ['tier_1', 'tier_2']) {
+        const entries = data[tier];
+        if (!Array.isArray(entries)) continue;
+        for (const e of entries) ids.push(String((e as Record<string, unknown>).id));
+    }
+    return [...new Set(ids)].sort();
+}
+
+export function kernelRuleIds(root = REPO_ROOT): string[] {
+    const data = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(root, ROUTER_REL), 'utf-8')) as Record<
+        string,
+        unknown
+    >;
+    const kernel = data.kernel;
+    return Array.isArray(kernel) ? kernel.map((x) => String(x)).sort() : [];
+}
+
+export function readConfig(root = REPO_ROOT): LawConfig {
+    const p = path.join(root, CONFIG_REL);
+    const raw = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(p, 'utf-8')) as Partial<LawConfig>;
+    return {
+        missing: Array.isArray(raw.missing) ? raw.missing : [],
+        no_trigger: Array.isArray(raw.no_trigger) ? raw.no_trigger : [],
+        law_exceptions: raw.law_exceptions ?? {},
+        body_exceptions: raw.body_exceptions ?? {},
+        measured_at_commit: raw.measured_at_commit ?? '',
+    };
+}
+
+/** Measure every routed rule that has a file. */
+export function measureRouted(root = REPO_ROOT): RuleLawMeasure[] {
+    const out: RuleLawMeasure[] = [];
+    for (const id of routedRuleIds(root)) {
+        const p = path.join(root, RULES_REL, `${id}.md`);
+        if (!fs.existsSync(p)) continue;
+        out.push(measureRuleFile(id, p));
+    }
+    return out;
+}
+
+/** Trigger count per routed tier rule id, straight off `dist/router.json`. */
+export function routedRuleTriggerCounts(root = REPO_ROOT): Map<string, number> {
+    const data = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(root, ROUTER_REL), 'utf-8')) as Record<
+        string,
+        unknown
+    >;
+    const counts = new Map<string, number>();
+    for (const tier of ['tier_1', 'tier_2']) {
+        const entries = data[tier];
+        if (!Array.isArray(entries)) continue;
+        for (const e of entries) {
+            const rec = e as Record<string, unknown>;
+            const triggers = rec['triggers'];
+            counts.set(String(rec['id']), Array.isArray(triggers) ? triggers.length : 0);
+        }
+    }
+    return counts;
+}
+
+export function lint(root = REPO_ROOT, axis: Axis = 'all'): LintResult {
+    const cfg = readConfig(root);
+    const measures = measureRouted(root);
+    const triggerCounts = routedRuleTriggerCounts(root);
+    const findings: Finding[] = [];
+    const overTarget: Array<{ id: string; chars: number }> = [];
+    const baselined = new Set(cfg.missing);
+    const noTriggerBaselined = new Set(cfg.no_trigger);
+    const want = (a: Exclude<Axis, 'all'>): boolean => axis === 'all' || axis === a;
+
+    for (const m of measures) {
+        if (want('trigger') && (triggerCounts.get(m.id) ?? 0) === 0 && !noTriggerBaselined.has(m.id)) {
+            findings.push({
+                id: m.id,
+                axis: 'trigger',
+                kind: 'no-trigger',
+                detail:
+                    'routed rule has no trigger in `dist/router.json` — a prompt can never pull it in, ' +
+                    `so it cannot ship as a stub; add a trigger, or add the id to \`no_trigger\` in ` +
+                    `${CONFIG_REL} (that list is shrink-only, so a new routed rule may not join it)`,
+            });
+        }
+        if (want('presence') && m.law === null && !baselined.has(m.id)) {
+            findings.push({
+                id: m.id,
+                axis: 'presence',
+                kind: 'no-law-section',
+                detail:
+                    'routed rule has no heading matching `Iron Law` — state the obligation under ' +
+                    `one, or add the id to \`missing\` in ${CONFIG_REL} (that list is shrink-only, ` +
+                    'so a new routed rule may not join it)',
+            });
+        }
+        if (want('ceiling') && m.law !== null) {
+            const exc = cfg.law_exceptions[m.id];
+            if (exc === undefined) {
+                if (m.lawChars > LAW_HARD_CHARS) {
+                    findings.push({
+                        id: m.id,
+                        axis: 'ceiling',
+                        kind: 'law-over-hard-ceiling',
+                        detail:
+                            `law section is ${m.lawChars} chars, over the ${LAW_HARD_CHARS} hard ceiling — ` +
+                            'move the discussion under it behind `load_context`, or record a dated ' +
+                            `exception with an owner in ${CONFIG_REL}`,
+                    });
+                } else if (m.lawChars > LAW_TARGET_CHARS) {
+                    overTarget.push({ id: m.id, chars: m.lawChars });
+                }
+            } else if (m.lawChars > exc.chars) {
+                findings.push({
+                    id: m.id,
+                    axis: 'ceiling',
+                    kind: 'law-exception-grew',
+                    detail:
+                        `law section is ${m.lawChars} chars, above its recorded exception of ` +
+                        `${exc.chars} (owner ${exc.owner}, review ${exc.review}) — an exception is ` +
+                        'a ceiling, not a licence; it may only shrink',
+                });
+            }
+        }
+        if (want('body-ceiling')) {
+            const exc = cfg.body_exceptions[m.id];
+            if (exc === undefined) {
+                if (m.bodyChars > BODY_HARD_CHARS) {
+                    findings.push({
+                        id: m.id,
+                        axis: 'body-ceiling',
+                        kind: 'body-over-hard-ceiling',
+                        detail:
+                            `body is ${m.bodyChars} chars, over the ${BODY_HARD_CHARS} hard ceiling — ` +
+                            'move history and mechanism discussion into a context file the rule names ' +
+                            `in \`load_context\`, or record a dated exception in ${CONFIG_REL}`,
+                    });
+                }
+            } else if (m.bodyChars > exc.chars) {
+                findings.push({
+                    id: m.id,
+                    axis: 'body-ceiling',
+                    kind: 'body-exception-grew',
+                    detail:
+                        `body is ${m.bodyChars} chars, above its recorded exception of ${exc.chars} ` +
+                        `(owner ${exc.owner}, review ${exc.review}) — it may only shrink`,
+                });
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // A baseline entry for a rule that now HAS a law section is debt that was
+    // paid and never collected. Reported as a finding, because a stale
+    // suppression is how a ratchet hardens into configuration.
+    if (want('presence')) {
+        const haveLaw = new Set(measures.filter((m) => m.law !== null).map((m) => m.id));
+        const routed = new Set(measures.map((m) => m.id));
+        for (const id of cfg.missing) {
+            if (haveLaw.has(id)) {
+                findings.push({
+                    id,
+                    axis: 'presence',
+                    kind: 'stale-baseline-entry',
+                    detail: `now has a law section — remove it from \`missing\` in ${CONFIG_REL}`,
+                });
+            } else if (!routed.has(id)) {
+                findings.push({
+                    id,
+                    axis: 'presence',
+                    kind: 'stale-baseline-entry',
+                    detail: `is not a routed rule any more — remove it from \`missing\` in ${CONFIG_REL}`,
+                });
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Same stale-debt check for the trigger baseline: an id that gained a
+    // trigger, or left the routed set, is debt that was paid and never
+    // collected.
+    if (want('trigger')) {
+        const routed = new Set(measures.map((m) => m.id));
+        for (const id of cfg.no_trigger) {
+            if (!routed.has(id)) {
+                findings.push({
+                    id,
+                    axis: 'trigger',
+                    kind: 'stale-baseline-entry',
+                    detail: `is not a routed rule any more — remove it from \`no_trigger\` in ${CONFIG_REL}`,
+                });
+            } else if ((triggerCounts.get(id) ?? 0) > 0) {
+                findings.push({
+                    id,
+                    axis: 'trigger',
+                    kind: 'stale-baseline-entry',
+                    detail: `now has a trigger — remove it from \`no_trigger\` in ${CONFIG_REL}`,
+                });
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    const kernelReported = kernelRuleIds(root).map((id) => {
+        const p = path.join(root, RULES_REL, `${id}.md`);
+        return { id, sections: fs.existsSync(p) ? measureRuleFile(id, p).sections : 0 };
+    });
+
+    findings.sort((a, b) => (a.id < b.id ? -1 : a.id > b.id ? 1 : a.kind < b.kind ? -1 : 1));
+    overTarget.sort((a, b) => b.chars - a.chars);
+    return { findings, overTarget, measures, kernelReported, scanned: measures.length };
+}
+
+/** Rebuild the config from the current tree. Never raises an existing ceiling. */
+export function writeBaseline(root = REPO_ROOT, today: string): string {
+    const prev = fs.existsSync(path.join(root, CONFIG_REL))
+        ? readConfig(root)
+        : { missing: [], no_trigger: [], law_exceptions: {}, body_exceptions: {} };
+    const measures = measureRouted(root);
+    const triggerCounts = routedRuleTriggerCounts(root);
+    const missing = measures.filter((m) => m.law === null).map((m) => m.id).sort();
+    const no_trigger = measures
+        .filter((m) => (triggerCounts.get(m.id) ?? 0) === 0)
+        .map((m) => m.id)
+        .sort();
+    const law_exceptions: Record<string, SizeException> = {};
+    const body_exceptions: Record<string, SizeException> = {};
+    for (const m of measures) {
+        if (m.law !== null && m.lawChars > LAW_HARD_CHARS) {
+            const old = prev.law_exceptions[m.id];
+            law_exceptions[m.id] = {
+                chars: old === undefined ? m.lawChars : Math.min(old.chars, m.lawChars),
+                owner: old?.owner ?? 'agent-config-maintainer',
+                review: old?.review ?? today,
+                reason: old?.reason ?? 'recorded at adoption; not yet reviewed',
+            };
+        }
+        if (m.bodyChars > BODY_HARD_CHARS) {
+            const old = prev.body_exceptions[m.id];
+            body_exceptions[m.id] = {
+                chars: old === undefined ? m.bodyChars : Math.min(old.chars, m.bodyChars),
+                owner: old?.owner ?? 'agent-config-maintainer',
+                review: old?.review ?? today,
+                reason: old?.reason ?? 'recorded at adoption; not yet reviewed',
+            };
+        }
+    }
+    const cfg = {
+        _comment:
+            'Per-rule law-section and body ceilings (road-to-rule-laws-that-can-stand Phase 1) plus ' +
+            'the trigger-presence baseline (road-to-an-installed-layer-that-is-thinned step 3.4). Two ' +
+            'different guarantees, not one: `law_exceptions` and `body_exceptions` are numeric ' +
+            'ceilings `--write-baseline` structurally refuses to raise (it re-records the SMALLER of ' +
+            'old and current, never the current alone) — a rule at its exception is not thereby ' +
+            'correct, only not worse. `missing` and `no_trigger` are LIST membership: an id SHOULD ' +
+            'only leave, never join, but that is a review convention the generator does not enforce ' +
+            'by construction — `--write-baseline` re-records every id that currently fails ' +
+            'presence/trigger, full stop, so a newly-broken rule is swept in exactly like a ' +
+            'genuinely-fixed one is swept out. The `stale-baseline-entry` finding makes a fixed id ' +
+            'visible for removal; nothing makes a newly-broken id visible for refusal except a human ' +
+            'reading the diff. Regenerate with `lint_rule_law_section --write-baseline`; never ' +
+            'hand-edit the counts, but DO hand-edit `owner`, `review` and `reason` — those are the ' +
+            'review contract and the generator only seeds them.',
+        measured_at_commit: prev.measured_at_commit ?? '',
+        no_trigger,
+        missing,
+        law_exceptions,
+        body_exceptions,
+    };
+    const text = JSON.stringify(cfg, null, 4) + '\n';
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(root, CONFIG_REL), text, 'utf-8');
+    return text;
+}
+
+interface Args {
+    axis: Axis;
+    quiet: boolean;
+    writeBaseline: boolean;
+    root: string;
+    selfTest: boolean;
+}
+
+const USAGE =
+    'usage: lint_rule_law_section [--axis presence|ceiling|body-ceiling|trigger|all] [--quiet] ' +
+    '[--write-baseline] [--root DIR] [--self-test]\n';
+
+function parseArgs(argv: string[]): Args {
+    const out: Args = { axis: 'all', quiet: false, writeBaseline: false, root: REPO_ROOT, selfTest: false };
+    for (let i = 0; i < argv.length; i += 1) {
+        const a = argv[i] as string;
+        if (a === '-h' || a === '--help') {
+            process.stdout.write(USAGE);
+            process.exit(0);
+        } else if (a === '--quiet') {
+            out.quiet = true;
+        } else if (a === '--write-baseline') {
+            out.writeBaseline = true;
+        } else if (a === '--self-test') {
+            out.selfTest = true;
+        } else if (a === '--axis') {
+            const v = argv[i + 1];
+            if (v === undefined) {
+                process.stderr.write(USAGE);
+                process.exit(2);
+            }
+            out.axis = v as Axis;
+            i += 1;
+        } else if (a.startsWith('--axis=')) {
+            out.axis = a.slice('--axis='.length) as Axis;
+        } else if (a === '--root') {
+            const v = argv[i + 1];
+            if (v === undefined) {
+                process.stderr.write(USAGE);
+                process.exit(2);
+            }
+            out.root = path.resolve(v);
+            i += 1;
+        } else if (a.startsWith('--root=')) {
+            out.root = path.resolve(a.slice('--root='.length));
+        } else {
+            process.stderr.write(USAGE);
+            process.stderr.write(`lint_rule_law_section: error: unrecognized argument: ${a}\n`);
+            process.exit(2);
+        }
+    }
+    if (!['presence', 'ceiling', 'body-ceiling', 'trigger', 'all'].includes(out.axis)) {
+        process.stderr.write(USAGE);
+        process.stderr.write(`lint_rule_law_section: error: unknown axis: ${out.axis}\n`);
+        process.exit(2);
+    }
+    return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Prove the gate's reading changes its verdict, not just that it read
+ * something. A `scanned:` floor says a corpus was inspected; only a rejecting
+ * case says the inspection decides anything.
+ */
+export function selfTest(write: (s: string) => void = (s) => process.stdout.write(s)): number {
+    const tmp = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'law-selftest-'));
+    try {
+        fs.mkdirSync(path.join(tmp, 'src', 'rules'), { recursive: true });
+        fs.mkdirSync(path.join(tmp, 'src', 'config'), { recursive: true });
+        fs.mkdirSync(path.join(tmp, 'dist'), { recursive: true });
+        fs.writeFileSync(
+            path.join(tmp, ROUTER_REL),
+            JSON.stringify({
+                kernel: [],
+                tier_1: [
+                    { id: 'lawless', triggers: [{ keyword: 'lawless-word' }] },
+                    { id: 'lawful', triggers: [{ keyword: 'lawful-word' }] },
+                    { id: 'mute', triggers: [] },
+                    { id: 'vocal', triggers: [{ keyword: 'vocal-word' }] },
+                ],
+                tier_2: [],
+            }),
+        );
+        fs.writeFileSync(
+            path.join(tmp, CONFIG_REL),
+            JSON.stringify({ missing: [], no_trigger: [], law_exceptions: {}, body_exceptions: {} }),
+        );
+        fs.writeFileSync(path.join(tmp, 'src/rules/lawless.md'), '---\nx: 1\n---\n\n# Lawless\n\nProse.\n');
+        fs.writeFileSync(
+            path.join(tmp, 'src/rules/lawful.md'),
+            '---\nx: 1\n---\n\n# Lawful\n\n## The Iron Law\n\nNEVER DO THE THING.\n',
+        );
+        fs.writeFileSync(
+            path.join(tmp, 'src/rules/mute.md'),
+            '---\nx: 1\n---\n\n# Mute\n\n## The Iron Law\n\nNEVER DO THE THING.\n',
+        );
+        fs.writeFileSync(
+            path.join(tmp, 'src/rules/vocal.md'),
+            '---\nx: 1\n---\n\n# Vocal\n\n## The Iron Law\n\nNEVER DO THE THING.\n',
+        );
+
+        const rejecting = lint(tmp, 'presence');
+        const accepting = (() => {
+            fs.writeFileSync(
+                path.join(tmp, CONFIG_REL),
+                JSON.stringify({
+                    missing: ['lawless'],
+                    no_trigger: [],
+                    law_exceptions: {},
+                    body_exceptions: {},
+                }),
+            );
+            return lint(tmp, 'presence');
+        })();
+        const ok =
+            rejecting.findings.length === 1 &&
+            rejecting.findings[0]?.kind === 'no-law-section' &&
+            accepting.findings.length === 0;
+
+        // Same rejecting/accepting shape for the trigger axis (step 3.4):
+        // `mute` has a law but no trigger and is unbaselined, `vocal` has both.
+        const triggerRejecting = lint(tmp, 'trigger');
+        const triggerAccepting = (() => {
+            fs.writeFileSync(
+                path.join(tmp, CONFIG_REL),
+                JSON.stringify({
+                    missing: ['lawless'],
+                    no_trigger: ['mute'],
+                    law_exceptions: {},
+                    body_exceptions: {},
+                }),
+            );
+            return lint(tmp, 'trigger');
+        })();
+        const triggerOk =
+            triggerRejecting.findings.map((f) => f.id).sort().join(',') === 'mute' &&
+            triggerRejecting.findings.every((f) => f.kind === 'no-trigger') &&
+            triggerAccepting.findings.length === 0;
+
+        const allOk = ok && triggerOk;
+        write(
+            allOk
+                ? '✅  self-test: presence + trigger axes each have a rejecting and an accepting case\n'
+                : `❌  self-test FAILED: presence rejecting=${rejecting.findings.length} ` +
+                      `accepting=${accepting.findings.length}; trigger rejecting=` +
+                      `${triggerRejecting.findings.length} accepting=${triggerAccepting.findings.length}\n`,
+        );
+        return allOk ? 0 : 1;
+    } finally {
+        fs.rmSync(tmp, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+}
+
+export function main(argv: string[] | null = null): number {
+    const args = parseArgs(argv ?? process.argv.slice(2));
+    if (args.selfTest) {
+        return selfTest();
+    }
+    if (args.writeBaseline) {
+        const today = asOf().toISOString().slice(0, 10);
+        writeBaseline(args.root, today);
+        process.stdout.write(`wrote ${CONFIG_REL}\n`);
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    let res: LintResult;
+    try {
+        res = lint(args.root, args.axis);
+    } catch (exc) {
+        process.stderr.write(`❌  lint_rule_law_section: ${(exc as Error).message}\n`);
+        return 3;
+    }
+
+    // Outside the `--quiet` guard on purpose: CI passes `--quiet`, and a gate
+    // whose count disappears under the flag reads as silent to the coverage
+    // census.
+    try {
+        reportScanned({
+            gate: 'lint_rule_law_section',
+            scanned: res.scanned,
+            units: 'routed rule(s)',
+            roots: [RULES_REL, ROUTER_REL],
+        });
+    } catch (exc) {
+        if (exc instanceof DeadScopeError) {
+            process.stderr.write(`❌  ${exc.message}\n`);
+            return 1;
+        }
+        throw exc;
+    }
+
+    if (!args.quiet) {
+        const withLaw = res.measures.filter((m) => m.law !== null).length;
+        process.stdout.write(
+            `law sections: ${withLaw}/${res.measures.length} routed rules; ` +
+                `kernel reported separately (${res.kernelReported.filter((k) => k.sections > 0).length}/` +
+                `${res.kernelReported.length} carry one, write-denied so never failed here)\n`,
+        );
+        for (const t of res.overTarget) {
+            process.stdout.write(
+                `   over target (${LAW_TARGET_CHARS}), not a failure: ${t.id} — ${t.chars} chars\n`,
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (res.findings.length > 0) {
+        for (const f of res.findings) {
+            process.stderr.write(`❌  ${f.id} [${f.axis}/${f.kind}] ${f.detail}\n`);
+        }
+        process.stderr.write(`❌  lint_rule_law_section: ${res.findings.length} finding(s)\n`);
+        return 1;
+    }
+    if (!args.quiet) {
+        process.stdout.write('✅  lint_rule_law_section clean\n');
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+
+function isCliEntry(): boolean {
+    if (process.argv[1] === undefined) return false;
+    if (import.meta.url === pathToFileURL(path.resolve(process.argv[1])).href) return true;
+    try {
+        return fs.realpathSync(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)) === fs.realpathSync(path.resolve(process.argv[1]));
+    } catch {
+        return false;
+    }
+}
+
+if (isCliEntry()) {
+    process.exit(main());
+}

package/src/scripts/lint_rule_skill_pack_reach.ts

@@ -35,6 +35,23 @@
  * the wizard may offer it and the user may decline, so an invariant that
  * counted it would pass on installs that do not exist.
  *
+ * SIBLING GATE, OPPOSITE READING, SAME REASONING (2026-10-09). Since D5 of
+ * `road-to-gates-a-pull-request-can-hear`, `lint_pack_boundaries` DOES read
+ * `suggests` — as permitting a cross-pack link. That is not a contradiction of
+ * the paragraph above, and the discriminator is the direction of the claim
+ * each gate makes:
+ *
+ *   - THIS gate asserts a route WILL RESOLVE on the installs it covers.
+ *     Counting an advisory edge would assert resolution on installs that may
+ *     not exist — a false negative in the dangerous direction.
+ *   - The boundary gate reports a link that MAY DANGLE. An advisory edge is
+ *     the author stating they accept the dangle for a declining consumer, so
+ *     reading it there downgrades a finding the author has already answered.
+ *
+ * Practical consequence, stated because it is the mistake the asymmetry
+ * invites: adding a `suggests` edge does NOT clear an `unreachable-route`
+ * finding here. It never will. Fix the route or accept the finding.
+ *
  * ADVISORY UNTIL ITS FINDING SET IS EMPTY, AND THE FIRST RUN SAYS WHY.
  * Measured on introduction: 12 `unreachable-route` and 14 `unrouted-skill`
  * findings across 116 rules. The UI pair is one instance of an estate-wide

package/src/scripts/lint_settings_classes.ts

@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ function main(): number {
     for (const [removedKey, reason] of REMOVED_KEYS) {
         if (reason.trim() === '') {
             findings.push(
-                `src/scripts/_lib/agent_settings.ts  \`${removedKey}\` is in REMOVED_KEYS with an empty ` +
+                `src/scripts/_lib/settings_removed_keys.ts  \`${removedKey}\` is in REMOVED_KEYS with an empty ` +
                     'reason — name what decides instead, not that it is gone.',
             );
         }