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fix(audit): repair the merge-loss reconciliation exemption and classify how each loss happened (#324) - #2014

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fix(audit): repair the merge-loss reconciliation exemption and classify how each loss happened (#324)#2014
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Two changes to the already-delivered audit:merge-loss detector, at your explicit request. It stays advisory, stays out of CI and off any schedule, still exits 0 on findings, and auto-closes nothing#324's (a) schedule / (b) triage-owner / (c) one-tool-vs-two decisions are untouched and deliberately not pre-empted. The delivered script was not reimplemented.

  • The reconciliation exemption had never once fired.treeEntryReader split git ls-tree output on the literal two-character sequence \t instead of a tab, so the "tree entry" kept the filename. Same-path comparisons are unaffected — which is why the tool still found real losses — but isReconciliationMove compares an inbox request against its applied/ record, two different paths, so it could never match. Measured over a 14-day window: 51 findings / 255 flagged files / filesExempted 0 before, 11 findings / 66 flagged files / 189 exempted after a one-character fix. The exemption the script's own docstring says exists to stop inbox noise burying the genuine Retire the --shadow-tight role alias onto the --e1 elevation tier #1803 signal was dead from the day it was written.

  • Why it escaped, and why it can't again. Every existing test injected entryAt directly, and bare entries compare equal whether or not the path was stripped — so the bug was invisible to a green suite. Closed by extracting parseTreeEntry as an exported pure function and testing it against real ls-tree output.

  • Added the mechanism classifier, which is what makes the report triageable.classifyRemoval walks the commits touching each flagged file between the landing and the ref, oldest first, takes the first whose tree entry already equals the pre-landing entry, and reports whether that commit was a merge (the accidental case) or single-parent (usually deliberate, and its subject says why). Merge-resolution findings sort first; unknown is reported rather than guessed. Over the window, 14 of 66 flagged files were merge-resolution removals — 13 from the single documented bad merge acf78bf — while all 53 others carried an explanatory single-parent subject (Re-land the --shadow-tight retirement, rework the viewer for phone and PWA reading, ci: speed iteration without weakening gates).

    This orders the reading list. It does not filter and it is not a verdict: a deliberate-looking commit can still be a mistake, and unknown is a question rather than a clean bill.

Real run on current main now leads with the accidental case instead of burying it:

[merge-loss] scanned 377 pull request landing(s) on origin/main over the last 14 day(s); compared 3774 file(s).
[merge-loss] 189 inbox request(s) were excluded: issues:reconcile moved them to applied/ verbatim.
[merge-loss] 12 landing(s) look reverted — HUMAN CONFIRMATION REQUIRED.
[merge-loss] removal mechanism across 67 flagged file(s): 14 merge-resolution, 53 deliberate commit, 0 unresolved.
PR #1800 — Add conservative typo-tolerant fuzzy matching to catalogue searches (#1800)
- src/lib/therapies.ts
via MERGE-RESOLUTION: acf78bf4f6fa — Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into probe2-1815

Also queues one immutable inbox request (1d35d652) recording the characterisation against #324. #324 stays open — it is a partial close, not a close.

Verification

  • npm run verify:pr-local — fell through to executable scope (not the docs route) and completed 9 checks:
PR-local verification summary:
- completed: check:runtime, check:installed-lock-parity, format:changed, lint, typecheck,
test, check:rag:fixtures, check:medication-interactions, check:medication-lexicon-report
- failed: (none)
- not reached: (none)
  • Focused suite: tests/merge-loss-audit.test.ts29 passed (was 16). node scripts/audit-merge-loss.mjs --self-testmerge-loss audit self-test passed.
  • Mutation-verified in three directions, so none of the new guards is decorative:
    • reintroducing the \t bug → 3 tests fail and the self-test fails with parseTreeEntry did not strip the path from an ls-tree line
    • walking newest-first → fails blames the oldest matching commit, not a later one carrying the absence forward
    • treating unknown as deliberate → fails 2 tests

An earlier revision of this branch failed typecheck ('removalOf' does not exist in type…) because the JSDoc @param still declared the old options shape; the annotation was updated and the gate re-run clean. Reporting it because the first run was genuinely red.

UI verification not run: no UI, routing, or styling changed — this is a non-UI script. Independently, this container cannot run Chromium gates at all: Playwright ships chromium-1194 against a pinned 1234 (#255/#312), so check:playwright-browser-revision fails closed and verify:ui / verify:phone-chrome are unavailable. No browser coverage is implied.

Risk and rollout

  • Risk: low and contained to a manually-invoked advisory script. Nothing imports it, no workflow calls it, and its exit-code contract is unchanged (0 on findings unless --strict). The behavioural change is that 189 correctly-exempt inbox requests stop being reported and each finding gains a mechanism line. The residual risk is the inverse of the old bug — an over-broad exemption hiding a real loss — which is why isReconciliationMove still credits a move only when the applied/ record's entry matches the request's entry exactly, and why the four pre-existing exemption tests (including "reports a missing request when its applied record has different contents") were left intact and still pass.
  • Rollback:git revert either commit independently; they are separately revertible while this PR is open.
  • Provider or production effects: None. Local git reads only — no Supabase, no OpenAI, no CI mutation, no schedule.

Clinical Governance Preflight

Not required — classifyPullRequestFiles returns clinicalRisk: false, operationalRisk: false, ragRanking: false for all changed paths. This is a repo-hygiene audit script; it touches no ingestion, answer generation, search/ranking, source rendering, document access, privacy, or clinical output.

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https://claude.ai/code/session_01PZL59KVSBWURMKvfc9mbJr


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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Merge-loss audits now classify findings as merge-resolution removals, deliberate commits, or unresolved cases.
    • Reports include removal details, mechanism counts, and prioritized merge-resolution findings.
    • Improved Git tree parsing increases audit accuracy.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected parsing of tab-separated tree entries.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for tree parsing, reconciliation, removal classification, and finding metadata.

…fy how each loss happened (#324)
Two changes to the delivered `audit:merge-loss` detector. It stays ADVISORY,
stays out of CI and off any schedule, and still exits 0 on findings — `#324`'s
ownership decision is untouched and deliberately not pre-empted.
**The exemption was dead since it was written.** `treeEntryReader` split
`git ls-tree` output on the literal two-character sequence `\t` rather than a
tab, so the "tree entry" kept the filename. Same-path comparisons are
unaffected, which is why the tool still found real losses — but
`isReconciliationMove` compares an inbox request against its `applied/`
record, two different paths, so it could never match. Measured over a 14-day
window: 51 findings / 255 flagged files / `filesExempted 0` before, and
11 findings / 66 flagged files / 189 exempted after a one-character fix. The
exemption the script's own docstring says exists to stop inbox noise burying
the genuine #1803 signal had never once fired.
Why it escaped: every test injected `entryAt` directly, and bare entries
compare equal whether or not the path was stripped. Closed permanently by
extracting `parseTreeEntry` as an exported pure function and testing it
against real `ls-tree` output.
**The mechanism classifier is what makes the report readable.**
`classifyRemoval` walks the commits touching each flagged file between the
landing and the ref, oldest first, takes the first whose tree entry already
equals the pre-landing entry, and reports whether that commit was a merge
(the accidental case) or single-parent (usually deliberate, and its subject
says why). Merge-resolution findings now sort first; `unknown` is reported
rather than guessed. Over the window, 14 of 66 flagged files were
merge-resolution removals — 13 from the one documented bad merge acf78bf —
while all 53 others carried an explanatory single-parent subject.
This orders the reading list; it does not filter, and it is not a verdict. A
deliberate-looking commit can still be a mistake.
Gate: `npm run verify:pr-local` fell through to executable scope and completed
9 checks with "failed: (none)" — lint, typecheck, full unit suite,
check:rag:fixtures, check:medication-interactions,
check:medication-lexicon-report. Focused suite 29 passed (was 16).
Mutation-verified in three directions: reintroducing the `\t` bug fails 3
tests plus the self-test, walking newest-first fails the blame-the-oldest
test, and treating `unknown` as deliberate fails 2 tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PZL59KVSBWURMKvfc9mbJr
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The merge-loss audit now parses real ls-tree output, classifies removals by file history, orders findings by mechanism, and reports mechanism metadata and counts. Tests and review records document the behavior and validation results.

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Merge-loss audit

Layer / File(s)Summary
Tree parsing and removal classification
scripts/audit-merge-loss.mjs, tests/merge-loss-audit.test.ts
The audit parses tab-delimited tree entries, detects reconciled entries, classifies merge-resolution and deliberate removals, and handles unresolved history.
Finding aggregation, reporting, and validation
scripts/audit-merge-loss.mjs, tests/merge-loss-audit.test.ts, docs/branch-review-records/..., docs/outstanding-issues-inbox/...
The CLI supplies cached readers and removal classification. Findings include mechanism counts and ordered removal metadata. Tests and records document validation results and unresolved cases.

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The audit’s new removal classification can report the wrong mechanism for some files, causing reviewers to prioritize or interpret findings incorrectly; the accompanying records also contain an inconsistent count. These are bounded issues in an advisory report, but the classification logic should be corrected before merging.

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participant classifyMergeLoss
participant CachedReaders
participant classifyRemoval
CLI->>CachedReaders: create tree, history, and merge readers
CLI->>classifyMergeLoss: submit landings and readers
classifyMergeLoss->>CachedReaders: read tree and file history
classifyMergeLoss->>classifyRemoval: classify each detected removal
classifyRemoval-->>classifyMergeLoss: mechanism and removal metadata
classifyMergeLoss-->>CLI: ordered findings and mechanismCounts
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