Cross-check the verdicts, not just the arithmetic; close the lint debt

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Three pieces of follow-up to #1. They needed different treatments, and they are ordered here by weight, not by commit date.

The Lean layer checked the wrong thing

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The cross-check compared 29 facts, and python_facts() recomputed every one of them from kernel internals — all_coeffs, classify, adequate, fibres, lookup_R, eval_ops, goal_y. Not one went through check_search. So Lean corroborated the kernel's parts and never its output: a checker whose parts are each right and whose verdict is assembled from them wrongly agreed with Lean on all 29.

Each Lean file now also derives the verdict the checker has to report for the specs shipping in its domain — the branch order transcribed from realize.checker, applied to numbers Lean computes itself — and emits it as VERDICT/optimality/reason. effect_facts() answers the same 22 questions by running check_search on the real spec file and reading the certificate.

Band	Facts	Lean reports	Python reports	What only this band sees
parts	29	what a search contains	the same, recomputed from kernel internals	a kernel that counts wrong
effect	22	the verdict a shipped spec has to draw	the verdict check_search did give it	a verdict assembled wrongly from right parts

Grid.lean grew an enumerator for this: the checker reports realizations_exist only after walking every term the grammar can name, so Lean walks all 31 rather than assuming the two that work. Encoder.lean computes the inclusion-minimal obstruction {0,1,2} rather than restating it.

Watched failing, twice

Move the histogram pre-check in _search_grid to after the enumeration. grid_preserve_histogram still reports UNSAT, still exits 3 — so vv/domains.json, which records outcome and exit, is structurally blind to it; the whole Python suite passes; all 29 part-facts agree. Only the effect band sees the reason change to no_typed_realization. Report an exhaustive UNSAT as unresolved rather than proved and the same thing happens again. Both confirmed, then restored.

The first draft of the regression test named no_typed_realization as its wrong answer, which tied it to the checker's wording and made it fail under the very fault it documented. It now uses a reason no branch can produce.

Coverage is structural rather than a list someone remembers to extend: a spec landing in vv/specs/ or demos/ that no Lean file derives a verdict for fails tests/test_vv.py. Confirmed by adding one.

What stays false, now written down in NONCLAIMS §10, VV.md and vv/lean/README.md: Lean does not read the spec files. Each is transcribed by hand, so the comparison catches an edit to one side and not a matching edit to both. Deriving what a verdict has to be is not issuing one, and nothing in vv/lean/ sits on the path that produces a certificate.

Claims that outran their mechanism

ad1d00e, 8356a5e

This is the class of error the repository exists to name, so it should not be in the thing doing the checking.

Was	Is	Why
objective_provenance docstring: "Validation gate"	"an authoring rule with a lint"	VV.md said "They are not validation" two paragraphs in. Both could not be right.
no_self_grading	synthesize_emits_no_verdict	The check reads one payload's shape. [ok] no_self_grading is read as self-grading has been ruled out, which the check cannot see.
"a one-field spec edit turns PASS into an adapter reject"	"bound.budget changed by one and the bound candidate was refused"	One field was edited. The general property comes from the digest covering the whole document, not from the test.
VV.md: no verdict "anywhere in the payload"	the check now reads every key at every depth	The claim was the part worth keeping, so the mechanism was widened to meet it rather than the sentence narrowed. See finding 4 below.

VV.md gains the rule behind all of them: an objective is named for what it reads, not for the property someone might hope it establishes.

Lint debt — closable

scripts/export_web_fixtures.py carried three # noqa: E402 markers that ruff 0.16 rejects as unused (RUF100), while the same markers are load-bearing under ruff 0.15 where E402 is enabled. Since pyproject.toml allows ruff>=0.6, the file could not be clean under both.

It now uses the same try/except import shape as scripts/vv.py and needs no suppression at all — verified under both 0.15.8 and 0.16.8, with the bare-checkout fallback actually exercised. Both dev scripts carrying shebangs are now executable, clearing EXE001.

CI lints all of scripts/ again. That widening is exactly what broke CI in #1 — the difference is that this time every file in scope is clean under both ruff versions before the scope changes, rather than after.

Provenance — partly closable

The gate checked that a source string existed, not that it named anything. Four specs in #1 passed it citing NONCLAIMS.md §2 — the section explaining why a zero budget yields UNKNOWN — as the source of the relation in R. A reviewer caught that; the gate could not, because a citation that does not cite still looks like a citation.

Rule	Why
a clause that constrains is cited at all	unchanged from #1
source is a non-blank string	str(1) is a nonblank string; types are checked, not coerced
unsourced is an actual boolean	the string "false" is truthy, and would otherwise wave a clause through
the citation does not name a repository document	none of NONCLAIMS.md, README.md, VV.md, SKILL.md is ever where a clause came from
a clause declaring unsourced: true still owes a reason	an unexplained bypass is one nobody can audit

formula_unrecognized_phrase reads that way — its R is a phrase deliberately outside the declared set, so it declares unsourced: true and says why.

The rule is split out as provenance_gaps() so it can be called directly, and tests/test_vv.py pins the exact failure that got through #1, plus non-string sources, non-boolean unsourced, blank sources, uncited constraining clauses, a declared absence with and without its reason, and a sweep asserting every shipped spec is gap-free. Every rule was confirmed by injecting the fault it exists to catch, then restoring.

What does not close: whether a source names anything real. VCOS §8.1 Table 2 and asdf are the same shape, and nothing in a finite checker tells them apart. What changed is where the gap sits: it used to hide inside citations that looked fine, and now it is a marker you can grep for. This is V₂ reaching into a V₁ check, and it stays open — consistent with NONCLAIMS §7 and §11.

Review rounds

Four findings came in, all valid, all on code added in this PR:

1. Strict provenance types (Major) — str() coercion and truthiness meant {"source": 1} and {"unsourced": "false"} both slipped through. Fixed in 4047022.
2. Import fallback masking a broken install (Minor) — worse than reported: with an installed realize whose __init__ imports a missing submodule, the runner printed "V&V objectives met" and exited 0 against a broken package. Fixed in 4047022, in both scripts.
3. unsourced validated after source (Major) — real ordering bug with a misleading message. Fixed in 2e6af3d, but not with the proposed diff: bypassing source validation entirely would have let {"unsourced": true} pass unexplained, making the bypass silent. Reordered as asked; reason requirement kept and made explicit.
4. synthesize_emits_no_verdict read two levels, not the payload (Minor) — {"metadata": {"verdict": "PASS"}} passed. Fixed in 8356a5e, taking the other of the two options offered: a synthesize payload is small, shallow and entirely ours, so verdict_keys() walks every key and reports the path it found one at. Confirmed by injecting that exact payload — all four domains fail with carries a verdict at metadata.verdict — then restoring.

Verification

ruff check src tests scripts    clean under 0.15.8 and 0.16.8
pytest                          71 passed (was 54 before #1's lineage)
realize demo {three_state,max_formula,grid_recolor}   ok
export_web_fixtures + git diff web/fixtures           no drift
scripts/vv.py --domain <each of 4>                    ok
scripts/vv.py --lean-required   V&V objectives met, 51 facts compared

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• New Features

  • Provenance validation now requires sources for constraining clauses, rejects repository documents as origins, and supports explicitly unsourced clauses with explanations.
  • Verification now cross-checks both finite search facts and reported verdicts for shipped specifications.

• Documentation

  • Updated provenance requirements, citation limitations, verification terminology, and domain-authoring guidance.
  • Updated an example specification with explicit unsourced provenance.

• Developer Experience

  • Linting now covers all files in the scripts directory.
  • Fixture export scripts preserve errors from incomplete installations.

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The pull request adds provenance validation, checker-effect corroboration in Lean, stricter package import fallback behavior, updated specifications and documentation, and full scripts lint coverage.

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V&V validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Provenance contract and objective updates scripts/vv.py, vv/README.md, vv/specs/formula_unrecognized_phrase.spec.json, VV.md	The runner validates provenance for constraining clauses, supports explicitly unsourced clauses, rejects nested verdict keys, and uses the renamed synthesis objective.
Checker-effect corroboration scripts/vv.py, vv/lean/*.lean, vv/lean/README.md, NONCLAIMS.md, VV.md	The Python runner and Lean models compare verdicts and supporting facts for shipped specifications. Documentation describes the comparison scope and its transcription limits.
V&V validation tests tests/test_vv.py	Tests cover provenance forms, shipped-spec compliance, and missing-submodule import failures.

Script tooling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Package import fallback scripts/export_web_fixtures.py, scripts/vv.py	The scripts prefer the installed realize package and fall back only when the top-level package is absent. Missing submodules now raise their original errors.
Expanded script lint scope .github/workflows/ci.yml, README.md	Ruff now checks all files under scripts in CI and development instructions.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PythonRunner
  participant LeanModels
  participant ShippedSpecifications
  PythonRunner->>ShippedSpecifications: collect verdict and witness facts
  LeanModels->>LeanModels: compute and prove checker-compatible verdicts
  PythonRunner->>LeanModels: compare emitted facts
  LeanModels-->>PythonRunner: return matching or differing facts

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🟠 Major · Handle explicit unsourced: true before source validation. · vv.py:226-269

scripts/vv.py:226-269
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Handle explicit unsourced: true before source validation. The provenance contract allows a clause with no origin to declare "unsourced": true. provenance_gaps currently rejects a missing source before it checks that flag, so valid originless entries fail the provenance objective. Validate the boolean first, bypass source validation only for True, and retain strict source validation for sourced entries.

Proposed fix

     for entry in entries:
         clause = entry.get("clause")
+        unsourced = entry.get("unsourced", False)
+        if not isinstance(unsourced, bool):
+            gaps.append(
+                f"{label}:{clause} declares unsourced as {unsourced!r}, which is not a boolean"
+            )
+            continue
+        if unsourced:
+            continue
         source = entry.get("source")
-        # Types are checked rather than coerced: str(1) is a nonblank string, and the
-        # string "false" is truthy. A gate this easy to fool is not a gate.
         if not isinstance(source, str) or not source.strip():
             gaps.append(f"{label}:{clause} cites an empty source")
             continue
         source = source.strip()
-        unsourced = entry.get("unsourced", False)
-        if not isinstance(unsourced, bool):
-            gaps.append(
-                f"{label}:{clause} declares unsourced as {unsourced!r}, which is not a boolean"
-            )
-            continue
-        if unsourced:
-            continue

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Re: the outside-diff finding on scripts/vv.py:226-269 — Handle explicit unsourced: true before source validation. Replying here since GitHub could not post it inline. Fixed in 2e6af3d, though not with the proposed diff.

The ordering problem is real. Reproduced:

{"clause": "R", "unsourced": true}   ->  "cites an empty source"

That message is wrong, and it sends the author looking for the wrong fix.

But the proposed remedy would weaken the gate. Reordering so unsourced: true skips source validation entirely lets {"clause": "R", "unsourced": true} pass with no explanation at all. VV.md argues the bypass earns its keep by being auditable — "counting the unsourced clauses in vv/specs/ is a minute's work for a person" — and an unexplained bypass is not auditable. vv/README.md already required such a clause to declare unsourced and explain why; that requirement was enforced only by accident of ordering, and reported badly.

So unsourced is validated first, as the finding asks, and a declared absence of origin still owes a reason:

unsourced: true, no reason        -> declares itself unsourced but gives no reason
unsourced: true, with a reason    -> passes
unsourced: "false", has source    -> declares unsourced as 'false', which is not a boolean
no unsourced, blank source        -> cites an empty source
no unsourced, repo doc            -> cites NONCLAIMS.md, which explains this package rather than
                                     being where the clause came from
no unsourced, a paper             -> passes

VV.md now states the reason requirement and why it exists. A regression test pins both halves: that the gap is reported, and that it is reported as the right gap.

Verified: ruff clean under 0.15.8 and 0.16.8, 64 tests (was 63), four domains, 29 Lean facts compared, no web-fixture drift, docstrings 42/42.

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