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+{
+  "intent": "Gate the two session_autopsy Claude Code hooks on their observable behaviour. The analyzer package reached 100% branch coverage in a83b5ab, but its only production entry points -- the SessionEnd and SessionStart hook scripts in ~/.claude/hooks -- were untracked, unlinted and untested: the same 'untracked means unlinted' shape a83b5ab's own message describes, one directory over.",
+  "scope": [
+    "linux_configuration/tests/test_session_autopsy_hooks.py (new, only file changed here)",
+    "Subjects under test: ~/.claude/hooks/session_autopsy_end.sh and session_autopsy_start.sh",
+    "Non-goal: changing hook behaviour. The hooks are unmodified.",
+    "Non-goal: re-auditing the 880 python_pkg tests committed in a83b5ab."
+  ],
+  "changes": [
+    "Added 12 behavioural tests. Both hooks end in an unconditional 'exit 0' by design, so exit status is a constant and asserting it is vacuous; every assertion is on a side effect instead.",
+    "SessionEnd: a 'setsid' shim on PATH records the launch argv rather than spawning an ingest. Asserts the ingest command, transcript path, --quiet, PYTHONPATH and 'timeout 120' on the happy path; asserts no launch at all for a missing key, empty path, nonexistent file and malformed JSON.",
+    "SessionStart: asserts exact stdout AND stderr. stderr matters because 'set -u' makes '(( count > 0 ))' on a non-numeric count raise an arithmetic error to stderr while stdout stays silent -- a stdout-only assertion misses a hook injecting bash noise into every session start.",
+    "Hooks are resolved via AUTOPSY_HOOKS_DIR (default ~/.claude/hooks) so the real deployed artifact is what gets tested, and so the mutation check can run the same suite against a broken copy without touching the live hooks. The suite skips where the hooks are not deployed (CI runners).",
+    "Test placement is deliberate: a pytest file, not a test_*.sh. Only .py in linux_configuration/tests is picked up by meta/scripts/pytest_changed_packages.py (the local pytest-coverage pre-commit hook); the .sh tests there are gated by the shell-tests CI workflow alone."
+  ],
+  "verification": [
+    {
+      "command": "python3 -m pytest linux_configuration/tests/test_session_autopsy_hooks.py",
+      "result": "pass",
+      "evidence": "12 passed"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "python3 -m pytest (full testpaths, --cov=python_pkg --cov-branch)",
+      "result": "pass",
+      "evidence": "977 passed in 6.93s; TOTAL 3899 stmts, 0 miss, 1126 branch, 0 partial, 100%; 'Required test coverage of 100.0% reached'. Up from 965 -- the new file imports nothing from python_pkg, so the 100% gate is untouched."
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "mutation matrix: gut each hook body; drop the transcript guard; '(( count > 0 ))' -> '>= 0'; drop the numeric regex guard; drop the readability guard; always-announce; and the readability+always-announce compound",
+      "result": "pass",
+      "evidence": "12 tests, 12 killed by at least one mutation. Ran per-guard rather than as a single whole-body gutting: gutting alone kills only the 3 positive tests, and would have falsely branded the 9 negative ones vacuous."
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "shellcheck ~/.claude/hooks/session_autopsy_end.sh ~/.claude/hooks/session_autopsy_start.sh",
+      "result": "pass",
+      "evidence": "clean, no findings; hooks unmodified"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "pre-commit run --files linux_configuration/tests/test_session_autopsy_hooks.py",
+      "result": "pass",
+      "evidence": "all hooks pass. One real mypy finding was fixed rather than suppressed: pytest.fail is not seen as NoReturn here, so _await_launch raised 'Missing return statement'; it now raises AssertionError. No noqa or type: ignore added."
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "live end-to-end: pipe a real SessionEnd payload into the deployed hook, first under an isolated HOME, then against the real store",
+      "result": "pass",
+      "evidence": "Isolated run ingested a real 9KB transcript into a scratch store with an empty hook.log. Live run: exit 0; sessions.jsonl rows 264 -> 264 and unreviewed_count 178 -> 178, with the session present exactly once, confirming store.py:117 upsert_records replaces by session_id rather than appending. The AttributeError tracebacks in hook.log are stale (last written 15:56, before a83b5ab); nothing was appended by this run."
+    }
+  ],
+  "risks": [
+    "The gate is local-pre-commit only. CI skips the suite (no ~/.claude on the runner), and pytest_changed_packages.py is types: [python], so it fires when this test file is in a testsAndMisc commit -- editing a hook inside ~/.claude, which has no .pre-commit-config.yaml, triggers nothing. Closing that means giving ~/.claude its own pre-commit config: a separate task.",
+    "The 'no launch' assertions sleep a 1s settle window because the hook detaches with 'setsid ... &'. Asserting absence the instant the parent exits would pass even against a hook whose guard had been deleted. Cost: about 4s of suite time, spent deliberately to keep those four tests non-vacuous.",
+    "test_unreadable_state relies on running as non-root; root bypasses the readability check, so it is skipped there. It must not be moved into the root arch-tests CI job.",
+    "Finding, not acted on: the start hook's '[[ ! -r \"$STATE\" ]]' guard is provably redundant -- deleting it kills zero tests, because jq's stderr is suppressed and an empty count already fails the arithmetic. Harmless defence in depth; left alone because hook behaviour changes were out of scope."
+  ],
+  "rollback": [
+    "git revert this commit, or delete linux_configuration/tests/test_session_autopsy_hooks.py -- no production code is touched, so reverting removes only test coverage.",
+    "After rollback, confirm 'python3 -m pytest' still reports 965 passed at 100% coverage and that both hooks remain executable and shellcheck-clean."
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/linux_configuration/tests/test_session_autopsy_hooks.py b/linux_configuration/tests/test_session_autopsy_hooks.py
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+"""Behavioural tests for the two session_autopsy Claude Code hooks.
+
+Both hooks end in an unconditional ``exit 0`` by design — an autopsy failure must
+never surface into the session lifecycle — so exit status is a constant and
+asserting it proves nothing. Every assertion here is on an observable side
+effect instead: what the SessionEnd hook hands to ``setsid``, and what the
+SessionStart hook writes to stdout.
+
+The hooks under test are the real deployed artifacts in ``~/.claude/hooks``.
+``AUTOPSY_HOOKS_DIR`` overrides that, which is what lets the mutation check run
+the same suite against a deliberately broken copy without touching the live
+hooks.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+import subprocess
+import time
+
+import pytest
+
+_HOOKS_DIR = Path(
+    os.environ.get("AUTOPSY_HOOKS_DIR", Path.home() / ".claude" / "hooks")
+)
+_END_HOOK = _HOOKS_DIR / "session_autopsy_end.sh"
+_START_HOOK = _HOOKS_DIR / "session_autopsy_start.sh"
+
+# The hooks live in ~/.claude, which does not exist on a CI runner.
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(
+    not (_END_HOOK.is_file() and _START_HOOK.is_file()),
+    reason=f"session_autopsy hooks are not deployed under {_HOOKS_DIR}",
+)
+
+_LAUNCH_WAIT_SECONDS = 5.0
+_POLL_SECONDS = 0.02
+_RUN_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 30
+
+# The hook detaches its ingest with ``setsid ... &``, so the parent can exit
+# before the shim has recorded anything. Asserting "no launch" the instant the
+# parent exits would therefore pass even against a hook whose guard had been
+# deleted — vacuously. This window gives a launch that WAS made time to show up.
+_SETTLE_SECONDS = 1.0
+
+
+def _isolated_env(home: Path, *extra_path: Path) -> dict[str, str]:
+    """Build an environment whose ``HOME`` — and so every hook path — is ``home``."""
+    env = dict(os.environ)
+    env["HOME"] = str(home)
+    if extra_path:
+        joined = os.pathsep.join(str(entry) for entry in extra_path)
+        env["PATH"] = f"{joined}{os.pathsep}{env['PATH']}"
+    return env
+
+
+def _write_setsid_shim(bin_dir: Path, record: Path) -> None:
+    """Install a ``setsid`` that records its argv instead of launching an ingest."""
+    bin_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    shim = bin_dir / "setsid"
+    shim.write_text(
+        f'#!/bin/bash\nprintf "%s\\n" "$*" >> {record}\nexit 0\n',
+        encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    shim.chmod(0o755)
+
+
+def _run_end_hook(tmp_path: Path, payload: str) -> tuple[Path, Path]:
+    """Run the SessionEnd hook on ``payload``; return its fake HOME and argv record.
+
+    The record is written by the ``setsid`` shim, so its existence means the hook
+    decided to launch an ingest, and its absence means a guard stopped it.
+    """
+    home = tmp_path / "home"
+    home.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+    record = tmp_path / "setsid.argv"
+    _write_setsid_shim(tmp_path / "bin", record)
+    subprocess.run(
+        [str(_END_HOOK)],
+        input=payload,
+        env=_isolated_env(home, tmp_path / "bin"),
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        timeout=_RUN_TIMEOUT_SECONDS,
+        check=False,
+    )
+    return home, record
+
+
+def _await_launch(record: Path) -> str:
+    """Return the recorded argv, waiting for the backgrounded ``setsid &`` to land."""
+    deadline = time.monotonic() + _LAUNCH_WAIT_SECONDS
+    while time.monotonic() < deadline:
+        if record.is_file():
+            return record.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+        time.sleep(_POLL_SECONDS)
+    msg = f"no ingest was launched within {_LAUNCH_WAIT_SECONDS}s"
+    raise AssertionError(msg)
+
+
+def _assert_no_launch(record: Path) -> None:
+    """Assert no ingest was launched, allowing for the hook's detached ``&``."""
+    time.sleep(_SETTLE_SECONDS)
+    assert not record.exists()
+
+
+def _run_start_hook(
+    tmp_path: Path, state: str | None, *, mode: int | None = None
+) -> tuple[str, str]:
+    """Run the SessionStart hook against ``state``; return ``(stdout, stderr)``.
+
+    stderr matters as much as stdout here: this hook runs at every session start,
+    and bash noise (an arithmetic error on a non-numeric count, say) would be
+    injected into the session just as surely as an intentional banner.
+    """
+    home = tmp_path / "home"
+    autopsy = home / ".claude" / "autopsy"
+    autopsy.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    if state is not None:
+        state_file = autopsy / "state.json"
+        state_file.write_text(state, encoding="utf-8")
+        if mode is not None:
+            state_file.chmod(mode)
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        [str(_START_HOOK)],
+        env=_isolated_env(home),
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        timeout=_RUN_TIMEOUT_SECONDS,
+        check=False,
+    )
+    return result.stdout, result.stderr
+
+
+class TestSessionEndHookLaunchesIngest:
+    """A usable transcript is handed to the analyzer, detached."""
+
+    def test_launches_ingest_for_the_transcript(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+        transcript = tmp_path / "session.jsonl"
+        transcript.write_text('{"type":"user"}\n', encoding="utf-8")
+        home, record = _run_end_hook(
+            tmp_path,
+            json.dumps({"transcript_path": str(transcript)}),
+        )
+        argv = _await_launch(record)
+        assert "python_pkg.session_autopsy" in argv
+        assert "ingest" in argv
+        assert str(transcript) in argv
+        assert "--quiet" in argv
+        assert f"PYTHONPATH={home}/testsAndMisc" in argv
+        assert "timeout 120" in argv
+
+    def test_creates_the_autopsy_home(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+        transcript = tmp_path / "session.jsonl"
+        transcript.write_text("{}\n", encoding="utf-8")
+        home, record = _run_end_hook(
+            tmp_path,
+            json.dumps({"transcript_path": str(transcript)}),
+        )
+        _await_launch(record)
+        assert (home / ".claude" / "autopsy").is_dir()
+
+
+class TestSessionEndHookDeclinesToLaunch:
+    """Nothing is launched without a transcript that exists."""
+
+    def test_missing_key(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+        _, record = _run_end_hook(tmp_path, "{}")
+        _assert_no_launch(record)
+
+    def test_empty_path(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+        _, record = _run_end_hook(tmp_path, json.dumps({"transcript_path": ""}))
+        _assert_no_launch(record)
+
+    def test_nonexistent_path(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+        payload = json.dumps({"transcript_path": str(tmp_path / "gone.jsonl")})
+        _, record = _run_end_hook(tmp_path, payload)
+        _assert_no_launch(record)
+
+    def test_malformed_payload(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+        _, record = _run_end_hook(tmp_path, "not json at all")
+        _assert_no_launch(record)
+
+
+class TestSessionStartHookAnnounces:
+    """The nudge is printed only when there is something to review."""
+
+    def test_announces_unreviewed_candidates(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+        stdout, stderr = _run_start_hook(tmp_path, json.dumps({"unreviewed_count": 7}))
+        assert stderr == ""
+        assert stdout.count("\n") == 1
+        assert "7 unreviewed automation candidates" in stdout
+        assert "REPORT.md" in stdout
+        assert "/compile-candidate" in stdout
+
+
+class TestSessionStartHookStaysSilent:
+    """Every path that is not a positive count costs zero context tokens.
+
+    Silence means BOTH streams: a bash error on stderr reaches the session too.
+    """
+
+    def test_no_state_file(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+        assert _run_start_hook(tmp_path, None) == ("", "")
+
+    def test_zero_count(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+        assert _run_start_hook(tmp_path, json.dumps({"unreviewed_count": 0})) == (
+            "",
+            "",
+        )
+
+    def test_non_numeric_count(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+        state = json.dumps({"unreviewed_count": "abc"})
+        assert _run_start_hook(tmp_path, state) == ("", "")
+
+    def test_malformed_state(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+        assert _run_start_hook(tmp_path, "{not json") == ("", "")
+
+    @pytest.mark.skipif(os.geteuid() == 0, reason="root bypasses the readability check")
+    def test_unreadable_state(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+        state = json.dumps({"unreviewed_count": 9})
+        assert _run_start_hook(tmp_path, state, mode=0o000) == ("", "")