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Release v0.1.11 — the community-PR queue clears

Seven third-party contributions, each through the full review protocol — rebase onto current main, a four-lens fitness review with DESIGN.md conformance as the veto lens, reshaping where the review ordered it, evidence-backed dispositions on every finding, and a green 18-context wall at every final head. Six issues closed with their PRs (#683, #725, #349, #1156, #425, #450; #558 deliberately stays open for its option (b)). The review records are posted on each PR.

What shipped across the seven: the spec-ch10/Lark rule-name alignment gate with the resume reservation (E153) it surfaced; the E130 in-scope slot table with its 12-row cap; handler-aware vera/addEffect propagation; the browser-runtime coverage battery that uncovered and tabled two real divergences (#1293, #1294); the editor-grammar registry gate and the CI-lint-row gate; and two new inference providers (xAI, DeepSeek) — both live-verified end-to-end with real keys — under the new one-flagship-model-per-provider registry (claude-opus-5, gpt-5.6-sol, kimi-k3, mistral-large-latest, grok-4.6, deepseek-v4-pro, every ID verified against vendor documentation at change time).

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Merge with a merge commit. On merge, release.yml detects 0.1.10 → 0.1.11, validates the sync surface and the [0.1.11] section, builds and tests the artifact, pauses at the pypi environment for your approval, publishes via Trusted Publishing, verifies registry hashes, then tags and cuts the GitHub Release at the merge SHA — and this time the release body fits, so the tag-and-Release step should complete without the v0.1.10 manual recovery.

Open issues stand at 106 (13 bugs, one-to-one with the Bugs table). Post-release queue: the #1296 ruling, #1288's workflow fix, #1291's rendered-diagnostic gate, #1292's alias-resolution swap, and the #1263 dead-ID lint.

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  • Release

    • Updated the project to version 0.1.11 with refreshed release history and changelog information.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified provider selection and override behaviour.
    • Improved slot-reference formatting and diagnostic guidance.
    • Documented browser limitations, host-specific differences, and platform boundaries.
    • Updated language specification guidance, including the reserved keyword where.
  • Known Issues

    • Added documentation for current testing, browser compatibility, and reserved-name limitations.
  • Roadmap

    • Added planned improvements for diagnostics, provider management, handler validation, and compiler performance.

aallan and others added 3 commits August 13, 2026 17:47
Cut the [Unreleased] section as 0.1.11: the release that clears the
community-PR queue, seven third-party contributions reviewed, reshaped
and merged. They close #683, #725, #349, #1156, #425 and #450 — the
grammar-alignment and editor-grammar gates, the xAI and DeepSeek
providers behind a one-flagship-model-per-provider registry, the
browser runtime's untested host imports, E130's in-scope binding
table, and a handler-aware addEffect.

Version 0.1.10 -> 0.1.11 across the check_version_sync.py surface, and
the release count moves to 209 in README.md and HISTORY.md; site
assets regenerated. ROADMAP.md needed no sweep — every one of the six
closed issues had its row deleted in the PR that closed it.

The HISTORY row is one sentence, and the v0.1.8, v0.1.9 and v0.1.10
rows are trimmed to the same standard: name the theme, cite one issue,
stop. The detail they carried is the CHANGELOG's job, which is where
it already is.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
Reconcile the browser-parity claim across the six places that stated it.
The two host divergences the #349 coverage battery uncovered --
json_stringify (#1293) and md_render (#1294) -- are tracked bugs, not
deliberate boundaries, and the docs said three cases and called them
deliberate. TESTING.md, vera/README.md, README.md, spec 12.9.3 and
12.9.6, and the docs/index pair now name two, say they are tracked, and
keep the Inference/DB browser refusals separate as the platform boundary
they are.

Spec 9.5.7's '(documented divergence, 12)' pointer resolved to nothing:
chapter 12 named neither DB nor Inference. Both now have rows in the
12.9.3 table, mirroring the HttpServer row that already resolved, with a
paragraph separating the boundary rows from the two tracked divergences.

Spec 1.4's reserved-keyword list did not match the checker: 'exists' was
missing (fn exists is E153) and 'handle' sat under an absolute MUST NOT
though public fn handle(@request -> @response) is legal as the host entry
point. Both corrected against probes, with the carve-out worded from 5.2.

Also: LSP_SERVER's line count pointed at the gated module map instead of
restating a figure that had drifted 300 lines; the TextMate README cites
the effect-registry gate instead of a version 150 releases old; SKILL.md
records the twelve-row cap on the E130 bindings table; ENVIRONMENT.md
states that provider detection takes the first key in registry order; the
probe READMEs re-anchor from the closed #1213 burndown to the open #1233;
test_browser.py attributes the read_char stub to the open #609 rather
than lumping it with the closed #618; and bare @T.n mentions are
backticked so they stop rendering as GitHub @mentions.

Five open issues with no tracking home gain rows: #1249 (KNOWN_ISSUES
limitations), #1275, #1289, #1291, #1292 (ROADMAP).

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
The v0.1.11 doc sweep probed spec 1.4's reserved-keyword list against the
checker and found the MUST unenforced for seventeen of its names --
public fn with / where / type / pure / requires / import and eleven more
declare, check green, and are callable from the same file. The comment
above _KEYWORD_FN_NAMES in vera/checker/registration.py gives the
opposite as the reason those names are absent from the set, so the
omission rests on a premise the tree refutes.

That is a maintainer ruling, not a mechanical fix -- enforce the
seventeen under E153 beside resume, or narrow 1.4's MUST to the names
actually reserved -- so it is filed as #1296 and tabled here rather than
acted on. Spec 1.4's handle carve-out sentence was written in the sweep
with no enforcement claim for exactly this reason.

Also fixes the citation nit the sweep flagged: 12.9.3's IO.read_char row
lumped the closed #618 with the open #609. It now reads as the
test_browser.py docstring does -- shipped natively in #618, browser half
pending #609.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
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The pull request updates the project to version 0.1.11. It revises release records and aligns language, browser runtime, diagnostic, editor, architecture, testing, and roadmap documentation with current behaviour.

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CHANGELOG.md, HISTORY.md, README.md, pyproject.toml, vera/__init__.py, ROADMAP.md, TESTING.md, FAQ.md
Release metadata now identifies version 0.1.11, 209 tagged releases, and 10,486 tests.
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ENVIRONMENT.md, README.md, scripts/build_site.py, spec/09-standard-library.md, spec/12-runtime.md, tests/test_browser.py, TESTING.md, vera/README.md
Documentation and tests now record provider selection, browser platform boundaries, parity exceptions, file-I/O stubs, and current browser test coverage.
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AGENTS.md, SKILL.md, spec/01-lexical-structure.md, editors/textmate/README.md, vera/README.md, CHANGELOG.md
Slot references now use inline code formatting. The specification documents where and host-invoked handle exceptions. Editor grammar validation is described against the effect registry.
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KNOWN_ISSUES.md, ROADMAP.md, LSP_SERVER.md, tests/probes/README.md, tests/probes/state_handlers/README.md
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This release updates documentation and release metadata, but one parity-testing section still describes the wrong validation oracle and the new HISTORY row may still need the established issue-link format. These are bounded documentation and release-readiness issues; the PR is mergeable with explicit maintainer follow-up.

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  • aallan/vera#968: Updates package version metadata and release documentation.
  • aallan/vera#1030: Updates slot-reference diagnostics and documentation.
  • aallan/vera#1283: Covers related handler-machinery, slot-diagnostic, reserved-keyword, and browser-runtime documentation.

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In `@HISTORY.md`:
- Around line 476-479: Add the issue-tracking link for the v0.1.11 entry in
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contribution information there; keep that detail in CHANGELOG.md.

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- Line 225: Update the README parity statement around the browser compilation
description to explicitly exclude the platform-boundary operations
Inference.complete, DB.query, and DB.execute, which intentionally return Err in
the browser runtime. Distinguish these deliberate unsupported effects from the
json_stringify and md_render parity bugs, and narrow the effects-as-host-imports
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- Line 641: Update the IO.read_char documentation to describe Unix TTY input as
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- Line 602: Update the parity-enforcement paragraph to describe the IO tests
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Four of the five findings were still live against the tree.

Chapter 12.9.3's table sorted into three kinds, because a browser Err
means three different things: adaptations that succeed by another
mechanism, deliberate boundaries (read_file/write_file, <HttpServer>,
Inference and DB) that Err by definition of the target, and read_char,
the one row that is a stub awaiting #609 and expected to become Ok.

The read_char reference cell said 'Termios raw-mode', which is what the
implementation deliberately does NOT do: api.py calls tty.setcbreak, not
tty.setraw, precisely so ISIG stays on and Ctrl-C raises SIGINT instead
of arriving as a byte. Corrected, with the behaviour it buys -- Ctrl-D as
a literal \x04 mapped to Err('EOF') in cbreak, and redirected stdin
going through sys.stdin.read(1) where \x04 is an ordinary character.
Host APIs are named because the neighbouring cells already name
msvcrt.getwch(), time.sleep and os.environ.

README's parity sentence now names Inference.complete, DB.query and
DB.execute as boundaries distinct from the two tracked bugs, and the
landing page scopes its claim to operations the browser target supports.

The two IO stubs are covered by tests of different shapes -- read_file
runs both runtimes and pins native Ok against browser Err, read_char runs
Node alone and asserts the stub's arm -- so 12.9.6 and the compiler
README stop describing them jointly.

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test_file_io_returns_error runs the file_io example through Node and
asserts only that the harness reported no error. That holds whether
hostWriteFile returns Err or writes the file for real, so the claim in
12.9.3 that write_file Errs by definition of the browser target rested
on coverage that could not see the difference.

test_write_file_is_err_stub_in_browser asserts the branch, on the shape
its read_file sibling already uses: one compile, wasmtime prints ok,
Node prints err, and the file is read back afterwards so the native Ok
arm is only accepted if the write really happened -- the target
directory has to be writable or an unwritable one would Err on both
sides and prove nothing.

Proved in the RED direction three ways: expecting ok from the browser
fails, expecting err from the native side fails, and -- the one that
matters -- making hostWriteFile return allocResultOkUnit() turns the new
test red while test_file_io_returns_error stays green, which is the gap
stated as an experiment.

12.9.6 and the compiler README now put write_file beside read_file as
per-host pinned, leaving read_char as the Node-only shape. Test and
total counts re-derived from check_doc_counts across its six citations.

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661-661: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Qualify the universal parity claim for Decimal operations.

The sentence says that all non-IO operations produce identical results. Browser Decimal arithmetic uses JavaScript Number, while the reference runtime uses exact decimal arithmetic. Large or high-precision values can therefore produce different results. Scope this sentence to the tested inputs or document the Decimal precision limitation beside the two tracked parity bugs.

Based on learnings, this JavaScript Number precision loss is a documented browser-runtime limitation.

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In `@spec/12-runtime.md` at line 661, Update the non-IO parity statement to
qualify Decimal operations, documenting that browser Decimal arithmetic uses
JavaScript Number and may differ from the reference runtime for large or
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Comment thread spec/12-runtime.md Outdated
'Runs every compilable example through both runtimes' overstated it.
tests/test_browser.py iterates two hand-maintained lists --
EXAMPLES_WITH_MAIN for stdout parity and FUNCTION_CALL_EXAMPLES for
return-value parity -- covering 21 of the 42 examples. The other 21 are
excluded for reasons recorded beside the list: interactive stdin, a host
family the browser refuses (file IO, DB), or not compiling standalone.

Chapter 12.9.6, TESTING.md's module row, and the compiler README now say
the examples the browser target can execute, and give the exclusion rule
rather than a count, so the sentences do not go stale as the corpus
grows. The separate stub-pinning description is unchanged.

No qualification of the Decimal identical-results claim: the premise
behind that request is the pre-#856 implementation. runtime.mjs is an
exact scaled-BigInt engine, and every Number()/Math.* in the block is on
an exponent, never a coefficient.

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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff comment about spec/12-runtime.md and browser Decimal: not qualifying this one, because the premise is the implementation #856 removed. vera/browser/runtime.mjs:2046 says so in its own header — "an exact scaled-BigInt engine mirroring the Python runtime's decimal.Decimal under its default context (28 significant digits, ROUND_HALF_EVEN) … (the #856 self-contradiction: the old engine routed through JS Number for compare/arithmetic while eq string-compared)". The value model is {sign, coeff: BigInt, exp: int}; decAdd scales via 10n ** BigInt(...), decDiv uses BigInt / and % with a guard digit for HALF_EVEN, and every Number()/Math.* call in that block acts on an exponent or on DEC_PREC, never on a coefficient. Measured it as well — one compiled .wasm, run under wasmtime and Node: 12345678901234567890.12345678 + 0.0000000112345678901234567890.12345679 on both; 1234567890123456789 × 1000000000.0000000011234567890123456790234567890 on both; 1 ÷ 30.3333333333333333333333333333 on both. A double holds 16 significant digits and would have given 12345678901234567000, 1.2345678901234567e+27 and 0.3333333333333333. Byte-identical across hosts at 28 digits, so the identical-results claim stands as written and qualifying it would put a false statement in the spec. The one Decimal exclusion that is real is already documented in §9.7.2: non-finite floats through decimal_from_float, where the browser rejects arithmetic with a loud error.

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vera/browser/runtime.mjs now uses the scaled-BigInt {sign, coeff, exp} model. decAdd, decMul, decDiv, rounding, and comparison keep coefficients in BigInt. The Number() and Math.* calls in this block operate on exponents, digit counts, or precision configuration.

Section 9.7.2 states the same finite-Decimal parity contract. It correctly identifies non-finite decimal_from_float values as the only exclusion. The claim in spec/12-runtime.md therefore needs no Decimal qualification. My prior finding used the pre-#856 implementation premise and was incorrect.

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Learning: In `vera/browser/runtime.mjs`, the `decimal_eq` host import compares raw stored string representations (e.g., `"1.0"` and `"1"` are NOT equal). Arithmetic ops (`decimal_add`, `decimal_sub`, `decimal_mul`, `decimal_div`, `decimal_round`, `decimal_compare`) all convert through JS `Number()` (IEEE 754 binary float), which loses precision for values beyond `Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER` or with many decimal digits. This is a documented known limitation for the MVP browser runtime. `decimal_neg` correctly canonicalises `-0` to `"0"` / `"0.0"` as of PR `#340`.

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Learning: In the Vera project (vera/browser/runtime.mjs and Python host), the Decimal type's accepted string grammar per spec §9.7.2 is restricted to ASCII finite decimals only — no NaN/Inf/sNaN, no underscore digit separators, and no unicode digits. Both the Python host (pre-validation before decimal.Decimal) and the browser runtime (via a DEC_RE regex) must conform to this identical grammar so that decimal_from_string acceptance (Some/None) stays in parity across runtimes. This is an explicit-over-implicit design decision (per DESIGN.md) to keep the Decimal domain finite, rather than modelling non-finite values in the browser's scaled-BigInt Decimal engine.

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Learning: In spec/09-standard-library.md §9.7.2, a dedicated "Browser runtime precision" subsection documents that the Python runtime uses exact decimal.Decimal arithmetic, while the browser MVP routes all arithmetic through JS Number (IEEE 754). The affected built-ins are decimal_add, decimal_sub, decimal_mul, decimal_div, decimal_round, and decimal_compare. The planned fix is an arbitrary-precision JS library. This is a documented known limitation, not a language-level concern, so the builtins are intentionally available on both targets for portability.

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Scope the cross-runtime equality claim.

Inference.complete and DB.query/DB.execute are deliberate browser boundaries in Lines 652-658, so they are not identical across hosts. The supplied tests/test_browser.py:509-531 context also records that fused Http error text differs by design. Therefore, “All non-IO operations” and “the values are identical” are too broad.

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The compiler README said the harness asserts identical stdout, which is
only half true: test_stdout_parity compares node stdout against Python
stdout for the examples exporting main, while test_return_value_parity
calls an exported function with fixed arguments and compares the
returned value. Both oracles are now named.

Chapter 12.9.3's summary said 'all non-IO operations produce identical
results'. Inference, DB and HttpServer are non-IO and have no browser
counterpart to agree with, so the sentence now covers the surface the
two runtimes actually share and points at the boundary rows for the
rest. Http gets its own qualifier: runtime.mjs issues requests through
synchronous XMLHttpRequest, so a JavaScript host without one returns an
explanatory Err where the reference runtime performs the request.

Fused async no longer claims identical values. The value is preserved
when the two hosts' results are comparable -- test_fused_async_await_err_path
asserts the Err ARM matches and notes the Err text differs by design --
so what remains is an Http-outcome difference, not an async one. Chapter
9.5.4's bullet carried the same 'with identical values' claim and now
says the same thing as chapter 12, since a consistency sweep should not
ship the divergence it just removed one chapter over.

Section refs and links in 12.9.3 through 12.9.6 re-checked: 9.5.4, 9.5.5,
9.5.7 and 12.9.3 all resolve to real headings.

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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff comment about spec/12-runtime.md's parity statement: both halves were valid, fixed in 3fe91ac. The boundary scoping was genuinely missing at the sentence level — an earlier commit sorted the §12.9.3 table into adaptations / deliberate boundaries / not-yet-implemented, but the summary sentence still began "All non-IO operations … produce identical results", and Inference, DB and <HttpServer> are all non-IO, so it contradicted the list four lines above. It now covers the surface the two runtimes actually share and defers to the boundary rows. The Http qualifier is sourced: vera/browser/runtime.mjs:2648 issues requests through new XMLHttpRequest() behind a typeof XMLHttpRequest === "undefined" guard returning "Unsupported runtime: synchronous HTTP requires XMLHttpRequest (browser only)", so a JavaScript host without one Errs where the reference runtime performs the request. On the async wording, I checked how the fused path is actually compared before rewriting: test_fused_async_await_err_path asserts stdout == "ERR" — the arm, not the value — and its docstring notes the native Err text differs by design. So "the values are identical" was wrong, and the text now says the underlying value is preserved when the two hosts' results are comparable, with the remaining difference attributed to the Http outcome rather than to async, since the evaluation strategy itself is value-preserving. Section refs and links in §12.9.3–§12.9.6 re-checked: 9.5.4, 9.5.5, 9.5.7, 12.9.3 all resolve, and §9.5.4 does carry the MAY the text cites.

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@aallan Verified. The correction in 3fe91acf resolves the finding.

spec/12-runtime.md now limits the identical-results claim to the shared surface. It excludes Inference, DB, and <HttpServer> through the boundary rows.

vera/browser/runtime.mjs confirms the XMLHttpRequest guard. Node returns the documented explanatory Err when no browser XHR implementation exists.

test_fused_async_await_err_path checks the Err arm. It does not assert identical error text. Section 9.5.4 also contains the cited MAY rule.

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Learning: In `aallan/vera`, the browser parity statement in `spec/12-runtime.md` §12.9.3 applies only to the shared runtime surface. `Inference`, `DB`, and `<HttpServer>` are deliberate browser-target boundaries and are outside that claim. Fused `async(Http.get(...))` / `await(...)` is value-preserving when the host results are comparable, but an `Http` outcome can differ independently: `vera/browser/runtime.mjs` uses synchronous `XMLHttpRequest` and returns `Err("Unsupported runtime: synchronous HTTP requires XMLHttpRequest (browser only)")` when it is unavailable. `tests/test_browser.py::TestBrowserRuntime.test_fused_async_await_err_path` therefore asserts the `Err` arm, not identical native and browser error text.

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Learning: For fused async-await classification in `aallan/vera`, resolving only outer aliases is insufficient: aliases nested in `Future` type arguments must also be canonicalized recursively. The regression shape `type R = Result<String, String>; let Future<R> = async(Http.get(...)); await(Future<R>.0)` previously identity-lowered `await` (no `async_await` import and an `Err` result on HTTP 200), so coverage should assert both fused imports and an exact runtime `Ok` payload.

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Describe the parity oracle accurately.

This paragraph says that the example corpus and per-binding batteries assert identical stdout. The release contract defines two oracles: stdout parity for examples exporting main, and return-value parity for exported functions called with fixed arguments. Update the sentence to name the correct oracle for each test group.

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In `@spec/12-runtime.md` around lines 688 - 690, Update the browser parity
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The previous round named both parity oracles in the compiler README but
left 12.9.6 saying 'asserting identical stdout output', which is the
claim that round removed one file over. It now says what the README
says: the corpus is two explicit lists with different oracles -- the
examples exporting main compared on stdout, the ones reached as exported
functions called with fixed arguments and compared on the returned value
-- with the per-binding batteries on stdout. The exclusion rule that
followed is kept, reworded so 'two lists' is not said twice.

Swept chapter 9's parity mentions and the rest of 12.9.6 for other
survivors. Chapter 9's are all specific and hold: float_to_string and
the sixteen string/char builtins are inline WAT emitting the same bytes
by construction, and the Decimal pair was verified against the
scaled-BigInt engine last round. TESTING.md's pre-commit table still
labelled the hook 'produces identical output', the same blanket in
one-line form, so it now reads across the surface the two share.

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On the outside-diff finding for spec/12-runtime.md (the parity oracle at §12.9.6): @coderabbitai Correct, and it's the mirror of my own previous fix — thanks for catching the half that didn't land. Fixed in 1966f87. §12.9.6 now states both oracles, matching vera/README.md:602: the corpus is two explicit lists in tests/test_browser.py with different comparisons — test_stdout_parity runs the main-exporting examples and compares stdout, test_return_value_parity calls exported functions with fixed arguments and compares the returned value — with the per-binding batteries on stdout. The exclusion rule is kept, reworded so "two lists" isn't repeated. I also swept chapter 9's parity mentions and the rest of §12.9.6 for other survivors so this closes the thread rather than deferring it: chapter 9's claims are all specific and hold (float_to_string and the sixteen string/char builtins are inline WAT emitting the same bytes by construction; the Decimal pair was verified against the scaled-BigInt engine in an earlier round), and one more blanket turned up outside your scope — TESTING.md's pre-commit table labelled the hook "produces identical output", which now reads "matches the Python runtime across the surface the two share". A repo-wide grep for the remaining phrasings returns only the #1293 bug row describing the divergence, an unrelated vera fmt sentence in §0, and the already-scoped landing page.

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@aallan Verified. Commit 1966f876 resolves the finding.

test_stdout_parity runs EXAMPLES_WITH_MAIN and compares stdout.

test_return_value_parity runs FUNCTION_CALL_EXAMPLES with fixed arguments and compares returned values.

Section 12.9.6 and vera/README.md Line 602 now describe both oracles. TESTING.md also scopes browser parity to the shared runtime surface.

The remaining broad parity statements are already scoped. The vera fmt statement is unrelated.


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