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Drop the 100% shell coverage bar; back to a presence ratchet

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bca70b67 (2026-08-22) turned the shell ratchet from "a run_all.sh exists
beside this lib" into a measured 100% line-coverage bar, run through the
kcov+userns jail. It works -- dot_resolver_install.sh really does measure
39/39 -- but the price is one hand-written test file per lib: fixes/lib
took 34 test files for 22 libs, the jail runs serially at 37-90s a pass
(concurrent jails give false failures), and most libs need a production
seam added before they can be driven at all.

That put the remaining 84 exempt libs at several days of work, for a
repo of personal automation scripts. User's call today: not worth it.

python_pkg keeps its 100% branch bar, which is already met -- 2101 tests,
100.00%, zero missing statements or branches. The difference is the
instrument: pytest-cov is fast, reliable and parallel; the shell jail is
none of those.

Also tried and rejected, recorded in the file: a middle option where the
suite must MENTION the lib by name, closing the empty-suite hole the
100% bar was reaching for. It newly BLOCKED 68 libs sitting in
directories that already have suites -- 38 in utils/lib alone -- because
those passed the old presence check and so were never allowlisted, and
seed_allowlist refuses to grow by design. Tightening a ratchet with no
way to grandfather the existing tree turns it into a wall.

The jail is not deleted; it is still the tool for measuring a lib on
purpose, and ci_mirror.sh still runs jailed suites.

  check_shell_coverage.sh --all:  >600s  ->  0.31s
  BLOCK entries:                  3, all pre-existing meta/scripts/lib
                                  coverage-tooling libs
  allowlist:                      unchanged at 84 (--seed correctly
                                  refused to add the 3)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PJrqKERAo5QUeEHWS5Asgp
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{
"intent": "Stop enforcing a measured 100% line-coverage bar on shell libraries, which priced the remaining work at several days, and return the ratchet to the presence check it was before 2026-08-22.",
"scope": [
"meta/scripts/lib/shell_coverage_bar.sh",
"Non-goal: deleting shell_coverage_jail.sh, which is still used deliberately and by ci_mirror.sh",
"Non-goal: changing python_pkg's 100% branch-coverage bar, which is already met"
],
"changes": [
"is_covered() is once again 'the lib's directory has a tests/run_all.sh', replacing the jail-measured COVERAGE_BAR=100 introduced in bca70b67.",
"Recorded why in the file: 22 libs in fixes/lib required 34 hand-written test files, the jail runs serially at 37-90s per pass, and most libs need a production seam added before they are testable at all.",
"Documented that a stricter 'the suite must mention the lib' variant was written and measured first, and rejected because it newly blocked 68 libs in directories that already have suites, which seed_allowlist cannot grandfather since it refuses to grow."
],
"verification": [
{
"command": "bash meta/scripts/check_shell_coverage.sh --all",
"result": "pass",
"evidence": "0.31s, '37 uncovered shell librar(ies), 84 exempt', 3 BLOCK entries -- all three are meta/scripts/lib coverage-tooling libs that blocked before this change too. Under the 100% bar the same command took over 600s."
},
{
"command": "check_shell_coverage.sh on a new lib in a dir WITH a suite, and in a dir WITHOUT one",
"result": "pass",
"evidence": "exit 0 and exit 1 respectively; the ratchet still refuses a lib whose directory has no suite. Both probe files removed."
},
{
"command": "check_shell_coverage.sh --seed",
"result": "pass",
"evidence": "Refused, as designed: seeding would ADD the 3 tooling libs and the allowlist only ever shrinks. Allowlist left byte-identical at 84 entries."
},
{
"command": "shellcheck and bash -n on the changed file",
"result": "pass",
"evidence": "clean; 49 lines, within the 250-line cap"
}
],
"risks": [
"An empty run_all.sh that sources nothing would now satisfy the gate. Accepted deliberately and recorded in the file; closing it requires a grandfathering mechanism the ratchet does not have.",
"Shell libraries will drift below whatever coverage they have today. Mitigated in that the suites already written are still run by ci_mirror.sh and the shell-tests workflow on every push."
],
"rollback": [
"git revert this commit to restore COVERAGE_BAR=100 and the jail-measured predicate.",
"After rollback, re-run check_shell_coverage.sh --all and expect it to take minutes again and to fail the ~11 non-exempt libs in suite-having directories."
]
}

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# 250-line cap. Sourced, not executed.
# ============================================================================
# A lib is covered when its directory has a suite AND that suite drives the
# lib to COVERAGE_BAR% line coverage.
# A lib is covered when its directory has a suite that actually exercises it.
#
# This was a presence check until 2026-08-22 -- "a run_all.sh exists beside
# it" -- which is satisfiable by an empty suite that sources the lib and
# asserts nothing. The bar is a measured percentage because that is the only
# version a suite cannot trivially pass.
# History, because this has moved twice:
# * originally a presence check -- "a run_all.sh exists beside it".
# * 2026-08-22: raised to a measured 100% line-coverage bar through
# shell_coverage_jail.sh, on the grounds that presence alone is satisfied
# by an empty suite that sources the lib and asserts nothing.
# * 2026-08-23: lowered back to presence, PLUS a reference check that closes
# the empty-suite hole the 100% bar was reaching for.
#
# 100% is reachable without suppressions and without touching production
# source: run the suite inside the user+mount namespace of
# shell_coverage_jail.sh and the sudo-writes, systemd units and nftables rules
# execute for real against a throwaway /etc. Measured on the repo's hardest
# library, dot_resolver_install.sh (15 root ops, 5 system writes): 39/39.
readonly COVERAGE_BAR=100
# Why the 100% bar was dropped. It is reachable -- dot_resolver_install.sh
# measures 39/39 -- but only with one hand-written test file per lib, driven
# through a kcov+userns jail. Measured cost across the campaign: 22 libs in
# fixes/lib took 34 test files, and each lib is 30-60 minutes because the jail
# runs serially (concurrent jails produce false failures), takes 37-90s per
# pass, and needs a production "seam" added before most libs are testable at
# all. That priced the remaining 84 exempt libs at several days of work for a
# repo of personal automation scripts. The user's call, 2026-08-23: not worth
# it. Python keeps its 100% branch-coverage bar, where the instrument is fast
# and reliable and the bar is already met.
#
# What replaces it: presence, as before 2026-08-22. The empty-suite hole is
# accepted deliberately rather than closed with a stricter check. A "the suite
# must mention the lib by name" variant was written and measured first: it
# newly BLOCKED 68 libs in directories that already have suites (38 in
# utils/lib alone), because those libs passed the old presence check and so
# were never added to the allowlist -- and seed_allowlist refuses to grow, by
# design. Tightening the predicate without a way to grandfather the existing
# tree turns a ratchet into a wall, so the looser check is the correct one
# here. The hole it leaves needs someone to deliberately write an empty
# run_all.sh, which no one has done.
#
# The jail is NOT deleted. shell_coverage_jail.sh remains the tool for
# measuring a lib on purpose, and ci_mirror.sh still runs jailed suites. Only
# the automatic per-lib percentage gate is gone.
is_covered() {
local path="$1"
local suite
suite="$(dirname "$path")/tests/run_all.sh"
[[ -f "$suite" ]] || return 1
# Presence alone is enough when the measurement cannot be made: kcov is a
# developer dependency, and a hook that hard-fails on a missing tool would
# block commits on any machine without it. The CI job carries the tool and
# enforces the number, so nothing merges on presence alone.
command -v kcov >/dev/null 2>&1 || return 0
command -v unshare >/dev/null 2>&1 || return 0
# A suite declares the mounts and seeds it needs in a `jail_args` file
# beside its run_all.sh -- the same marker ci_mirror.sh and
# shell-tests.yml read. Hardcoding flags here was a latent gate failure:
# the features/lib suite needs /usr/local/share and /etc/pki, and without
# them it ABORTS partway under `set -e`. The coverage number still printed
# (kcov had already recorded the lines the dead run reached), so the gate
# would have passed a lib whose suite never finished.
local jail_args=()
local args_file
args_file="$(dirname "$suite")/jail_args"
if [[ -f "$args_file" ]]; then
local arg
while IFS= read -r arg; do
jail_args+=("$arg")
done < <(grep -v '^#\|^$' "$args_file" || true)
if [[ ${#jail_args[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "Error: jail_args is present but empty: $args_file" >&2
return 1
fi
else
# No marker: the suite runs without needing anything mounted, so give
# it the historical defaults rather than nothing.
jail_args=(--bind /etc --bind /usr/local/bin --bind /var/lib)
fi
# --fail-on-case-error: a suite that dies partway must fail the gate, not
# be graded on however many lines it managed to reach first.
# --timeout: the jail defaults to 120s per case, which is a hang-catcher
# rather than a performance budget -- and this repo's suites have outgrown
# it. fixes/lib/tests/run_all.sh measures 76s bare with 25 test files and
# 93s with 27, and kcov instrumentation roughly doubles that, so the
# default started failing the gate on libs that measured a clean 100%
# (bt_audio.sh: "127/127 lines = 100.00%" followed by "case timed out").
# CI runners are slower than this workstation, so the ceiling is set well
# clear of the suite rather than just above it. The cost is that a genuine
# hang -- thorium_repairs.sh's `read -r -p` is exactly that shape -- now
# takes 10 minutes per pass to surface instead of 2.
"$REPO_ROOT/meta/scripts/shell_coverage_jail.sh" \
--subject "$suite" \
--timeout 600s \
"${jail_args[@]}" \
--measure "$(basename "$path")" \
--min "$COVERAGE_BAR" \
--fail-on-case-error \
-- "" >/dev/null 2>&1
[[ -f "$(dirname "$path")/tests/run_all.sh" ]]
}