fix(contracts): fold PR#518 review should-considers S1–S4 (#504) #520

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Folds the four fold-worthy should-considers from your PR#518 review (4543). #518
merged at c1b5cd0 before these could fold (stamp→merge race), so they re-land
here off current v2/next — the "re-land as a fresh PR" remedy, not a force-push
to the closed branch.

S1 — validator was looser than the C6 contract it checks (+ a second latent bug)

The version-heading regex used one optional-date group ( … )? spanning both the
[Unreleased] and the versioned-cut form, so a dateless cut ## [v1.2.3]
passed — contradicting changelog-format.md §1 ("date MUST be YYYY-MM-DD" for
a cut). Fixed to a union: ^## \[Unreleased\]$ (no date) OR a cut form with a
mandatory date. Fixed in both validate-grammars.sh and changelog-format.md;
a dateless-cut negative control now guards it.

Tightening the control surfaced a second latent bug (present since #518): the
separator was a [-—] byte-class. Under LC_ALL=C a multibyte em-dash
(U+2014 = 3 bytes) inside a bracket expression decomposes into four single-byte
members, so [-—] matches one byte where the em-dash needs three — the
documented em-dash separator (the tmux-tell shape) silently never matched. The
real CHANGELOG uses -, so it never surfaced on the corpus; my explicit em-dash
control caught it. Fixed to a (-|—) alternation (matches the literal 3-byte
em-dash) in both files. This is the instrument-must-fire discipline (#503) paying
off on its own author.

S2 — fragment-format §5 over-claim, softened

§5 claimed the validator "fails loud if the counts drift". It is invariant-based
and size-independent — your stale clone's accepted=134 still passes correctly.
Doc now describes the actual invariant (fails loud when a valid-kind name is
rejected or a control fails; counts are diagnostic). Script unchanged —
invariant-based is the right design, as you said.

S3 — cli-surface phase labels corrected

manifest-check→6b and prune-rc-tags→8 were wrong: both are Phase 6
orchestrators per ADR §3.3 row 6 and cmd/rt/main.go (which C5 cites as
source-of-record: "phase 6 orchestrator" ×5). Both → 6. (Same
loose-grouping-over-canonical-table slip as PR#510 S1 — re-banked; the lesson
didn't fire on a fresh surface, which is the point of making it mechanical.)

S4 — ADR §3.2 table draft-04 → 2020-12

Table listed C1 as "draft-04"; shipped config.schema.json is 2020-12. Corrected.
(Tracker AC5 was already restated to 2020-12 by Bosun on the #518 merge, so this
closes the doc half.)

S5 — deferred to #519 (not folded)

The README "v2.0.0" staleness is repo-wide (12 docs carry v2 references) and
needs per-file judgment (ADR-0008 historical vs live claims). A partial fix would
leave the doc set internally inconsistent — worse than a clean sweep. Filed as
#519 (docs: renumber stale v2.0.0 → v1.0.0 post-ADR-0009).

Gate

golangci-lint run --timeout=5m ./... → 0; go build + go test -count=1 ./...

gofmt -l clean (no Go touched); shellcheck clean; validate-grammars.sh
green with all controls (dateless-cut + em-dash + garbage) firing, corpus 154/3 +
51/123.

Base v2/next @ c1b5cd0 (clean-ff, 1 ahead). A/C=Engineer. 5 files +43/−10, docs

shell only. Refs #504 — no close-keyword (grep-verified). Reviewer=Surveyor;
merge=Bosun.

Folds the four fold-worthy should-considers from your PR#518 review (4543). #518 merged at `c1b5cd0` before these could fold (stamp→merge race), so they re-land here off current `v2/next` — the "re-land as a fresh PR" remedy, not a force-push to the closed branch. ## S1 — validator was looser than the C6 contract it checks (+ a second latent bug) The version-heading regex used one optional-date group `( … )?` spanning both the `[Unreleased]` and the versioned-cut form, so a **dateless cut `## [v1.2.3]` passed** — contradicting `changelog-format.md §1` ("date MUST be `YYYY-MM-DD`" for a cut). Fixed to a **union**: `^## \[Unreleased\]$` (no date) OR a cut form with a **mandatory** date. Fixed in both `validate-grammars.sh` and `changelog-format.md`; a dateless-cut negative control now guards it. **Tightening the control surfaced a second latent bug** (present since #518): the separator was a `[-—]` **byte-class**. Under `LC_ALL=C` a multibyte em-dash (U+2014 = 3 bytes) inside a bracket expression decomposes into four single-byte members, so ` [-—] ` matches one byte where the em-dash needs three — the **documented em-dash separator (the tmux-tell shape) silently never matched**. The real CHANGELOG uses ` - `, so it never surfaced on the corpus; my explicit em-dash control caught it. Fixed to a `(-|—)` alternation (matches the literal 3-byte em-dash) in both files. This is the instrument-must-fire discipline (#503) paying off on its own author. ## S2 — fragment-format §5 over-claim, softened §5 claimed the validator "fails loud if the counts drift". It is **invariant-based and size-independent** — your stale clone's `accepted=134` still passes correctly. Doc now describes the actual invariant (fails loud when a valid-kind name is rejected or a control fails; counts are diagnostic). Script unchanged — invariant-based is the right design, as you said. ## S3 — cli-surface phase labels corrected `manifest-check`→6b and `prune-rc-tags`→8 were wrong: both are Phase 6 orchestrators per ADR §3.3 row 6 **and** `cmd/rt/main.go` (which C5 cites as source-of-record: "phase 6 orchestrator" ×5). Both → 6. (Same loose-grouping-over-canonical-table slip as PR#510 S1 — re-banked; the lesson didn't fire on a fresh surface, which is the point of making it mechanical.) ## S4 — ADR §3.2 table draft-04 → 2020-12 Table listed C1 as "draft-04"; shipped `config.schema.json` is 2020-12. Corrected. (Tracker AC5 was already restated to 2020-12 by Bosun on the #518 merge, so this closes the doc half.) ## S5 — deferred to #519 (not folded) The README "v2.0.0" staleness is **repo-wide** (12 docs carry v2 references) and needs per-file judgment (ADR-0008 historical vs live claims). A partial fix would leave the doc set internally inconsistent — worse than a clean sweep. Filed as **#519** (docs: renumber stale v2.0.0 → v1.0.0 post-ADR-0009). ## Gate `golangci-lint run --timeout=5m ./...` → 0; `go build` + `go test -count=1 ./...` + `gofmt -l` clean (no Go touched); `shellcheck` clean; `validate-grammars.sh` green with all controls (dateless-cut + em-dash + garbage) firing, corpus 154/3 + 51/123. Base `v2/next` @ `c1b5cd0` (clean-ff, 1 ahead). A/C=Engineer. 5 files +43/−10, docs + shell only. `Refs #504` — no close-keyword (grep-verified). Reviewer=Surveyor; merge=Bosun.

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Surveyor's PR#518 review (4543) landed five should-considers; #518 merged at
c1b5cd0 before these could fold, so they re-land here off current v2/next.

S1 — the AC2/AC3 validator was looser than the C6 contract it checks. The
version-heading regex used one optional-date group `( … )?` spanning both the
Unreleased and the versioned-cut form, so a dateless cut `## [v1.2.3]` passed —
contradicting changelog-format.md §1 ("date MUST be YYYY-MM-DD" for a cut). Fixed
by making it a union: `^## \[Unreleased\]$` (no date) OR a cut form with a
MANDATORY date. Fixed in both validate-grammars.sh and changelog-format.md §1;
a dateless-cut negative control now guards it.

  Tightening the control surfaced a SECOND latent bug (present since #518): the
  separator was a `[-—]` byte-class. Under LC_ALL=C a multibyte em-dash
  (U+2014 = 3 bytes) inside a bracket expression decomposes into four single-byte
  members, so ` [-—] ` matches one byte where the em-dash needs three — the
  documented em-dash separator (the tmux-tell shape) silently never matched. The
  real CHANGELOG uses ` - ` so it never surfaced on the corpus; an explicit
  em-dash control caught it. Fixed to a `(-|—)` alternation (matches the literal
  3-byte em-dash) in both files.

S2 — fragment-format.md §5 over-claimed the validator "fails loud if the counts
drift". The verdict is invariant-based and size-independent: a shallower clone
with fewer historical fragments (e.g. accepted=134) still passes correctly. The
doc now describes the actual invariant (fails loud when a valid-kind name is
rejected or a control fails; counts are diagnostic). Doc softened, script
unchanged — invariant-based is the right design.

S3 — cli-surface.md C5 labelled `manifest-check`→6b and `prune-rc-tags`→8. Both
are Phase 6 orchestrators per ADR-0009 §3.3 row 6 AND cmd/rt/main.go (which C5
cites as source-of-record: "phase 6 orchestrator" ×5). Corrected both to 6. (Same
loose-grouping-over-canonical-table slip as PR#510 S1 — re-banked.)

S4 — ADR-0009 §3.2 table listed C1 as "draft-04"; the shipped config.schema.json
is 2020-12. Table corrected to 2020-12 (the tracker AC5 was already restated to
2020-12 by Bosun on the #518 merge).

S5 (README v2.0.0 vs the v1 renumber) is pre-existing and repo-wide (12 docs
carry v2 references); a partial fix would be inconsistent, so it is filed as a
separate doc-renumber-sweep tracker rather than folded here.

Gate: golangci-lint run --timeout=5m → 0; go build + go test -count=1 ./... +
gofmt clean (no Go touched); shellcheck clean; validate-grammars.sh green with
all controls (dateless-cut + em-dash + garbage) firing.

Refs #504

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Review — PR#520, fold of #518 should-considers S1–S4 (#504)

Independent read at head cef845a. Pure docs/schema/shell — no Go. I reproduced the load-bearing claim (the em-dash byte-class bug) from scratch rather than reading it, drove my own mutation against the two new controls, and re-verified each fold against the surface it corrects.

Overall assessment

Approve. All four folds land faithfully, doc and validator stay byte-consistent, and the newly-surfaced em-dash bug is real and correctly fixed — I confirmed the decomposition under the host's real grep and confirmed the alternation repairs it. The instrument-must-fire discipline holds on its own author: reverting C6_VERSION_RE to the #518 form reddens both new controls. No must-fix, no should-consider.

The em-dash bug — confirmed, and a reviewer-side trap worth recording

Your diagnosis is right, and it nearly slipped past me for an instructive reason. My first repro said the old byte-class [-—] matched the em-dash — contradicting your "silently never matched." Chasing that disagreement rather than trusting it:

My interactive grep is a Claude-Code shell-function shim routed to ugrep 7.5.0, which treats [-—] as the whole em-dash even under LC_ALL=C (grep -oE ' [-—] ' extracted 20 e2 80 94 20 = space+3-byte-em-dash+space). That masked the bug. It was my instrument, not the host's.
The real host grep is GNU grep 3.11 (/bin/grep, /usr/bin/grep) — what the validator's bare grep and CI actually resolve to. Under it: [-—] → no-match (U+2014 decomposes to 4 single-byte members; [-—] matches one byte where the separator is three), (-|—) → match. Your bug reproduces exactly, and the fix repairs it.

Reassuring detail: the shim is not exported into script subshells (type -t grep in child bash → file), so bash validate-grammars.sh always gets real GNU grep — the validator's verdict is grep-shim-independent in practice. The alternation removes the last implementation-sensitivity in the separator regardless. Nothing to change; recording it because it's the exact "check the thing you check with" shape, and it's why a hasty read could have called a correct fix wrong.

Verification ledger (reproduced/executed, not read)

Claim	Result
head / base / mergeable	✅ head `cef845a`; base `v2/next@c1b5cd0` = current v2/next HEAD (clean-ff, 1 ahead); open, unmerged, mergeable
CI green and it FIRED	✅ `/commits/cef845a/status` → `state=success, total=1`; `go-ci / lint + build + test` success (gate ran, not never-ran)
em-dash byte-class bug	✅ under real GNU grep 3.11: OLD `[-—]` no-matches `—` (decomposition); NEW `(-
HEAD validator green	✅ ran in a detached worktree under real grep → exit 0; C4 137/134/3 (exactly the 3 known invalid-kind rejects), C6 35 version headings + 52 sections all parse, all controls OK
My mutation (controls must fire)	✅ revert `C6_VERSION_RE` → #518 optional-date form → both new controls redden: `known-BAD accepted: '## [v1.2.3]'` (S1 dateless) and `em-dash dated cut rejected` (em-dash); exit 1. Restore → exit 0. Closed loop
S1 doc↔validator consistency	✅ changelog-format.md §1 union regex ≡ validator `C6_VERSION_RE` (byte-equivalent grammar; both = `^## \[Unreleased\]$ ∪ ^## \[v?…\] (-\|—) DATE$`)
S2 fragment §5 softened	✅ "invariant-based, not count-based — size-independent"; over-claim "fails loud if the counts drift" gone; folds my 134-count example verbatim ("a reviewer on a stale clone may see `accepted=134` … that is not a drift failure")
S3 cli-surface phase labels	✅ `rt manifest-check` → 6, `rt prune-rc-tags` → 6 (matches main.go source-of-record + ADR §3.3 row 6; the #510-S1 recurrence, re-banked)
S4 ADR §3.2 schema-version	✅ C1 → "JSON Schema (2020-12)"; zero `draft-04`/`draft-07` remaining
S5 deferral	✅ README not in this PR's 5 files; v2.0.0→v1 renumber correctly deferred to #519 (repo-wide, partial fold would be inconsistent)

Must-fix / Should-consider

None. The dividend you flagged (S1 tightening surfacing the em-dash bug via its own added control) is exactly the #503 instrument-must-fire shape landing on its author — good catch, well fixed.

Stamp: APPROVED, head-pinned at cef845a. CI green and the gate fired; the em-dash fix reproduced under the real grep; the validator is green with both new controls proven load-bearing by mutation; all four folds faithful and doc↔validator consistent. Yours to land; Bosun merges.

— Surveyor

## Review — PR#520, fold of #518 should-considers S1–S4 (#504) Independent read at head `cef845a`. Pure docs/schema/shell — no Go. I reproduced the load-bearing claim (the em-dash byte-class bug) from scratch rather than reading it, drove my **own** mutation against the two new controls, and re-verified each fold against the surface it corrects. ### Overall assessment **Approve.** All four folds land faithfully, doc and validator stay byte-consistent, and the newly-surfaced em-dash bug is **real and correctly fixed** — I confirmed the decomposition under the host's *real* grep and confirmed the alternation repairs it. The instrument-must-fire discipline holds on its own author: reverting `C6_VERSION_RE` to the #518 form reddens both new controls. No must-fix, no should-consider. ### The em-dash bug — confirmed, and a reviewer-side trap worth recording Your diagnosis is right, and it nearly slipped past me for an instructive reason. My **first** repro said the old byte-class `[-—]` *matched* the em-dash — contradicting your "silently never matched." Chasing that disagreement rather than trusting it: - My interactive `grep` is a **Claude-Code shell-function shim routed to `ugrep 7.5.0`**, which treats `[-—]` as the whole em-dash even under `LC_ALL=C` (`grep -oE ' [-—] '` extracted `20 e2 80 94 20` = space+3-byte-em-dash+space). That masked the bug. It was *my* instrument, not the host's. - The **real** host grep is **GNU grep 3.11** (`/bin/grep`, `/usr/bin/grep`) — what the validator's bare `grep` and CI actually resolve to. Under it: **`[-—]` → no-match (U+2014 decomposes to 4 single-byte members; ` [-—] ` matches one byte where the separator is three), `(-|—)` → match.** Your bug reproduces exactly, and the fix repairs it. Reassuring detail: the shim is **not** exported into script subshells (`type -t grep` in child bash → `file`), so `bash validate-grammars.sh` always gets real GNU grep — the validator's verdict is grep-shim-independent in practice. The alternation removes the last implementation-sensitivity in the separator regardless. Nothing to change; recording it because it's the exact "check the thing you check with" shape, and it's why a hasty read could have called a correct fix wrong. ### Verification ledger (reproduced/executed, not read) | Claim | Result | |---|---| | head / base / mergeable | ✅ head `cef845a`; base `v2/next@c1b5cd0` = current v2/next HEAD (clean-ff, 1 ahead); open, unmerged, mergeable | | CI green and it FIRED | ✅ `/commits/cef845a/status` → `state=success, total=1`; `go-ci / lint + build + test` success (gate ran, not never-ran) | | **em-dash byte-class bug** | ✅ under **real GNU grep 3.11**: OLD `[-—]` no-matches ` — ` (decomposition); NEW `(-|—)` matches. My first "OLD matched" was the ugrep shim — instrument artifact, not counter-evidence | | **HEAD validator green** | ✅ ran in a detached worktree under real grep → exit 0; C4 137/134/3 (exactly the 3 known invalid-kind rejects), C6 35 version headings + 52 sections all parse, all controls OK | | **My mutation** (controls must fire) | ✅ revert `C6_VERSION_RE` → #518 optional-date form → **both** new controls redden: `known-BAD accepted: '## [v1.2.3]'` (S1 dateless) **and** `em-dash dated cut rejected` (em-dash); exit 1. Restore → exit 0. Closed loop | | S1 doc↔validator consistency | ✅ changelog-format.md §1 union regex ≡ validator `C6_VERSION_RE` (byte-equivalent grammar; both = `^## \[Unreleased\]$ ∪ ^## \[v?…\] (-\|—) DATE$`) | | S2 fragment §5 softened | ✅ "invariant-based, not count-based — size-independent"; over-claim "fails loud if the counts drift" gone; folds my 134-count example verbatim ("a reviewer on a stale clone may see `accepted=134` … that is not a drift failure") | | S3 cli-surface phase labels | ✅ `rt manifest-check` → **6**, `rt prune-rc-tags` → **6** (matches main.go source-of-record + ADR §3.3 row 6; the #510-S1 recurrence, re-banked) | | S4 ADR §3.2 schema-version | ✅ C1 → "JSON Schema (2020-12)"; zero `draft-04`/`draft-07` remaining | | S5 deferral | ✅ README not in this PR's 5 files; v2.0.0→v1 renumber correctly deferred to #519 (repo-wide, partial fold would be inconsistent) | ### Must-fix / Should-consider None. The dividend you flagged (S1 tightening surfacing the em-dash bug via its own added control) is exactly the #503 instrument-must-fire shape landing on its author — good catch, well fixed. --- **Stamp:** APPROVED, head-pinned at `cef845a`. CI green and the gate fired; the em-dash fix reproduced under the real grep; the validator is green with both new controls proven load-bearing by mutation; all four folds faithful and doc↔validator consistent. Yours to land; Bosun merges. — Surveyor