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pipeline-scripts/check-pre-commit-hook-pr.sh is run by two python-suite tests, and no pattern in
.github/filters/python-paths.yml matched it. A change confined to the wrapper computed
python != 'true', the required-context shim reported python-suite green, and the tests that
exercise the change never ran — a guard bypassable by touching the one file it exists to watch.

The issue's coordination note said to wait for #16199; that merged 2026-09-13, so the hold is released.

The issue attributes this to one cause and there are two. python_filter_covers_its_guards_test.py
exists for exactly this class, and the issue notes it sweeps repo_tests/ only. It also carries
_NOT_A_READ = {"repo_tests", "pipeline-scripts", "scripts", "tools", "libs", ".git"}, whose stated
premise is "trees whose contents no guard reads directly". That premise is false —
check-pre-commit-hook-pr_test.py reads its own .sh — so even sweeping pipeline-scripts/ would
discard the finding. The guard structurally cannot see this.

What Changed

Six paths added to the filter, not the one reported: four wrappers with sibling tests
(check-pre-commit-hook-pr.sh, check_baseline_no_growth.sh, detect-hardcoded-values.sh,
pr-queue-open-list.sh) and the two libraries they source (scripts/lib/git-scope.sh,
scripts/lib/hardcoded-value-rules.sh).

repo_tests/python_filter_covers_tested_shell_wrappers_test.py — six tests asserting the narrow
invariant directly: a wrapper that python-suite tests must itself be able to trigger python-suite.

Verification

Widening the existing guard was measured, not argued. I reimplemented its sweep independently and
validated it against the recorded baseline — 38 uncovered reads, equal to MAX_UNCOVERED_READS and
to the 38 entries in UNCOVERED_READS — before judging any option:

Option Uncovered reads
today 38
also sweep pipeline-scripts/ 58
…and drop pipeline-scripts from _NOT_A_READ 63
…and drop scripts too 77

Every option raises a count whose own rule is that it may only fall, and the 25 newly surfaced reads
are mostly workflow and config files — a different population from this defect. Hence the narrow
guard. Re-measured after the filter change: still 38, so the equality rule holds in both
directions. Adding patterns could have lowered it, which fails the same assertion.

Two of the six paths came from the new guard failing against my own enumeration — before review,
not after.

  1. I paired scripts to tests by name, which crosses a hyphen/underscore boundary silently:
    pr-queue-open-list.sh is tested by pr_queue_open_list_test.py. The guard pairs them by
    content and named the one I had missed.
  2. My source-line pattern matched the quoted argument as [^"]+, which stops at the first inner
    quote. The portable spelling nests them — source "$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/../x.sh" —
    so it yielded $(cd , ended in no .sh, and was dropped as if the line sourced nothing. Only
    the simple "${REPO_ROOT}/..." spelling parsed. That is how hardcoded-value-rules.sh surfaced
    at all, and how git-scope.sh then read as absent.

The second is the one worth dwelling on: a parser that fails closed on an unparseable dependency
reports "sources nothing", which is indistinguishable from a script that genuinely sources nothing.
The extractor now matches the .sh argument itself, and returns what it cannot resolve instead of
skipping it
— test_no_source_line_goes_unread fails on any argument that does not land on a
repository file.

Transitive closure checked, not assumed, per the issue's own "not verified" note. Neither library
sources anything — and both look like they might: git-scope.sh contains the word source four
times, hardcoded-value-rules.sh six, every occurrence prose in a comment. An anchored grep returned
zero for the first; counting the unanchored word is what made that zero trustworthy.

Four of six tests are controls: the sweep must find ≥4 tested wrappers and name the reported one;
the extractor is pinned to exact sourced sets for all four real wrappers, including the empty one,
which is what would catch an extractor that started matching prose; unresolvable arguments are
reported; and the imported matcher is asserted to say no to an absent path, without which both
findings tests pass vacuously.

The guard imports _filter_patterns and _is_covered from the existing one rather than
restating them. Two matchers drifting apart would disagree silently and certify coverage the real
gate does not grant; a rename breaks the import loudly instead.

Local: [pre-push OK], 6 passed. CI is the gate.

Model Used

Claude Opus 5

Not in this PR

AC2 asked for a decision on extending python_filter_covers_its_guards_test.py, and the decision
is no — with the numbers above as the reason.
Extending it cannot be done without raising a
shrink-only count, and the population it would surface is not this defect. If the owner would rather
widen it and re-baseline, that is a deliberate ratchet decision and the measurements are here to
support it.

_NOT_A_READ's false premise is left in place. Correcting it is the same re-baselining decision,
and doing it inside a fix for one filter gap would bury it. Recorded on the issue.

Closes #16249

Single-issue rationale

#16249 is one filter file plus the guard that keeps it honest. It cannot ride with another issue
because the guard it adds asserts a property of .github/filters/python-paths.yml itself — a second
issue's changes in the same PR would make a failure there ambiguous between the two.

The natural batching partner would be #16248, the other coverage-guard gap I measured today. It is
deliberately not ridden with: that one needs a 315-route baseline decision, which is a ratchet call
at a different risk level entirely, and I posted measurements there rather than code.

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  • Tests

    • Added regression checks to verify that tested shell wrappers and their sourced libraries are correctly matched by the Python test path filter.
    • Added validation for repository-root and script-relative source paths, including checks for unresolved references and filter matching behaviour.
  • Chores

    • Updated path filtering so changes to relevant pipeline scripts and sourced libraries trigger the Python test suite reliably, avoiding misleading successful results when tests are skipped.

…16249)

`pipeline-scripts/check-pre-commit-hook-pr.sh` is run by two python-suite
tests, and no pattern in `.github/filters/python-paths.yml` matched it. A change
confined to the wrapper computed `python != 'true'`, the required-context shim
reported `python-suite` green, and the tests that exercise the change never ran
— a guard bypassable by touching the one file it exists to watch.

Six paths, not the one reported: four wrappers with sibling tests
(check-pre-commit-hook-pr.sh, check_baseline_no_growth.sh,
detect-hardcoded-values.sh, pr-queue-open-list.sh) and the two libraries they
source (scripts/lib/git-scope.sh, scripts/lib/hardcoded-value-rules.sh).

Both extra findings came from the new guard failing against my own enumeration,
before review rather than after:

  * I paired scripts to tests by NAME, which crosses a hyphen/underscore
    boundary silently — pr-queue-open-list.sh is tested by
    pr_queue_open_list_test.py. The guard pairs them by CONTENT and named it.
  * my source-line pattern matched the quoted argument as `[^"]+`, which stops
    at the first INNER quote. The portable spelling nests them —
    `source "$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/../x.sh"` — so it
    yielded `$(cd `, ended in no `.sh`, and was dropped as if the line sourced
    nothing. Only the simple `"${REPO_ROOT}/..."` spelling parsed, which is how
    hardcoded-value-rules.sh — sourced by two of the four — surfaced at all,
    and how git-scope.sh then read as absent. The extractor now matches the
    `.sh` argument itself, last one on the line.

Both variables are assigned `$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)`,
checked in each script rather than inferred from the name. The transitive
closure was checked too, per the issue's "not verified" note: neither library
sources anything, though both look like they might — git-scope.sh contains the
word `source` four times and hardcoded-value-rules.sh six, and every occurrence
is prose in a comment. An anchored grep returned zero for the first; counting
the unanchored word is what made that zero trustworthy.

Why the existing coverage guard cannot catch this, which the issue did not
record. `python_filter_covers_its_guards_test.py` exists for exactly this class
and two independent things stop it: it sweeps `repo_tests/` only, and
`pipeline-scripts`, `scripts` and `tools` sit in its `_NOT_A_READ` set — whose
stated premise, "trees whose contents no guard reads directly", is false, since
check-pre-commit-hook-pr_test.py reads its own `.sh`. Sweeping those directories
would still discard the finding.

Widening it was measured, not guessed. The sweep was reimplemented independently
and validated against the recorded baseline (38 uncovered reads, equal to
MAX_UNCOVERED_READS and to the 38 recorded entries) before any option was
judged:

  today                                         38
  also sweep pipeline-scripts/                  58
  ...and drop pipeline-scripts from _NOT_A_READ 63
  ...and drop scripts too                       77

Every option raises a count whose own rule is that it may only fall, and the 25
newly surfaced reads are mostly workflow and config files — a different
population from this defect. So the narrow invariant is asserted directly in
`repo_tests/python_filter_covers_tested_shell_wrappers_test.py`: a wrapper that
python-suite tests must itself be able to trigger python-suite. Exact, and it
costs the ratchet nothing — re-measured after the filter change, still 38, so
the equality rule holds in both directions.

That guard imports the matcher from the existing one rather than restating it.
Two matchers drifting apart would disagree silently and certify coverage the
real gate does not grant; a rename breaks the import loudly instead.

Four of its six tests are controls: the sweep must find at least four tested
wrappers and name the reported one; the extractor is pinned to exact sourced
sets for all four real wrappers, including the empty one, which is what would
catch an extractor that started matching prose; an argument that does not
resolve to a repository file is REPORTED rather than skipped, so an unreadable
source line cannot look like a script that sources nothing; and the imported
matcher is asserted to say no to an absent path, without which both findings
tests pass vacuously.

Closes #16249
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The Python path filter now covers four tested shell wrappers and two sourced libraries. Regression tests discover wrappers, resolve sources, verify coverage, and record the guard dependency.

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Python filter coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Python filter entries
.github/filters/python-paths.yml
The python filter includes four pipeline-scripts wrappers and two sourced libraries.
Wrapper discovery and source resolution
repo_tests/python_filter_covers_tested_shell_wrappers_test.py
The guard finds wrappers referenced by Python tests and resolves repository-root and script-relative source paths.
Coverage and guard regression checks
repo_tests/python_filter_covers_tested_shell_wrappers_test.py, repo_tests/glob_declared_reads_15900_test.py
Tests verify wrapper and library coverage, expected wrapper discovery, source resolution, matcher behaviour, unresolved sources, and the guard declaration for shell-file reads.

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- Around line 109-110: Update the _sourced_paths processing branch for source
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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from pathlib import Path
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root = Path('.')
source_re = re.compile(r'^\s*(?:source|\.)\s+(.+)$')
for path in sorted(root.rglob('*.sh')):
    if any(part in {'.git', 'node_modules', 'dist', 'build'} for part in path.parts):
        continue
    text = path.read_text(encoding='utf-8', errors='replace')
    for lineno, line in enumerate(text.splitlines(), 1):
        if source_re.match(line):
            print(f'{path}:{lineno}:{line}')
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rg -n -i --glob '*.md' --glob '*.rst' --glob '*.txt' --glob '*.py' \
  '(_sourced_paths|source arguments|source target|source line|sourced dependencies|\.sh suffix|extensionless|unresolv)' \
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Record source lines without a .sh match.

_sourced_paths promises to return every unresolvable source argument, but this branch discards valid extensionless source targets. The coverage checks then ignore that dependency, and test_no_source_line_goes_unread still passes. The repository also uses extensionless sourced files, so .sh is not an enforced source requirement.

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         arguments = _SH_ARGUMENT.findall(raw)
         if not arguments:
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             continue
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In `@repo_tests/python_filter_covers_tested_shell_wrappers_test.py` around lines
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✅ SSOT Configuration Compliance: Passing

🎉 No new hardcoded values of either class — ssot and other both block.

Known backlog in pipeline-scripts/hardcoded_values_baseline.txt is suppressed and tracked in #14371.

`python-suite shard 8/12` failed on
`glob_declared_reads_15900_test.py::test_the_record_names_exactly_the_guards_that_declare_each_glob`:

  declaring-but-not-recorded:
  ['repo_tests/python_filter_covers_tested_shell_wrappers_test.py']

The guard added by this PR sweeps `pipeline-scripts/*.sh`, and #15900's record
names every guard that declares each tracked glob so a sweep cannot quietly
appear or vanish. A new declarer has to be added in the same change — which is
the record doing its job, not an obstacle.

Only `*.sh` needed recording. The guard also calls `glob("*_test.py")`, and that
pattern is not tracked: the record carries `*_test.sh` but no `*_test.py`.

Checked the two other guards this session added for the same trap —
`command_position_scan_test.py` and `hook_declarations_are_reachable_test.py` —
and neither globs at all; they read a module's `dir()` and the router's exported
routes respectively. So this is the only entry needed.
…_test.py (#16249)

pyflakes F821: Path is used in 3 type annotations (dict[Path, list[str]],
def _sourced_paths(script: Path)) but never imported. from __future__ import
annotations defers evaluation at runtime, but pyflakes still resolves
annotation strings statically. Pure import addition, no logic change.

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🟡 Minor · Check both directions of the wrapper census. · python_filter_covers_tested_shell_wrappers_test.py:187-196

repo_tests/python_filter_covers_tested_shell_wrappers_test.py:187-196
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Check both directions of the wrapper census.

The expected mapping is checked only from expected names to files. A newly discovered Python-tested wrapper can be absent from this mapping and still leave this baseline test green. Compare the mapping keys with the wrappers returned by _tested_wrappers() while keeping script.is_file() to reject stale entries.

As per path instructions, census and baseline mappings must reject both new and stale entries.

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In `@repo_tests/python_filter_covers_tested_shell_wrappers_test.py` around lines
187 - 196, Update the wrapper census test around _tested_wrappers() so it
compares the expected mapping keys with the discovered Python-tested wrapper
names in both directions, rejecting missing and unexpected entries. Preserve the
existing script.is_file() assertion and source-path checks for each expected
wrapper, including stale-entry detection.

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In `@repo_tests/python_filter_covers_tested_shell_wrappers_test.py`:
- Around line 187-196: Update the wrapper census test around _tested_wrappers()
so it compares the expected mapping keys with the discovered Python-tested
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Carried by #17116 (10c9f419d469741297c0f36233e039351b039aa8). Closing as superseded, branch kept.

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