holocron/plugins/kyberforge/skills/skill-audit/scripts/validate-provenance.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

usage() {
  cat <<EOF
Usage: validate-provenance.sh <skill-dir> [--base-ref=<ref>]

Validate that a skill's sources provenance chain is complete and internally consistent.

Arguments:
  skill-dir       Path to the skill directory to validate.
  --base-ref=REF  Git ref to diff references/sources.md against for check 9.
                  Defaults to \`git merge-base HEAD origin/main\`. Override this
                  when origin/main is not the right comparison point (a fork,
                  a long-lived branch, a mirror with a different remote name).
                  The VALIDATE_PROVENANCE_BASE_REF environment variable is an
                  equivalent, lower-precedence way to set it — the flag wins
                  if both are given, including when the flag is given empty
                  (\`--base-ref=\`), which selects the default resolution.

Exit codes:
  0  All checks passed (or nothing to validate)
  1  One or more checks failed
  2  Usage error, or the argument is not a skill directory

An exit code of 2 is NOT a finding. SKILL.md tells the auditor to surface a
non-zero exit as findings, so a usage error leaving exit 1 with nothing on
stdout was indistinguishable from a clean-but-failing run. Environment and
argument problems exit 2; only real findings exit 1.

Checks performed:
  0  source_keys present but references/sources.md absent
  1  FILL IN: placeholders in sources.md
  2  source_keys in SKILL.md → slug exists in sources.md
  3  source_keys in references/*.md → slug exists in sources.md (INFO if no
     source_keys; an explicit 'source_keys: []' declares the file house-authored
     and passes silently)
  4  Contributing files listed in sources.md exist on disk. An explicit
     '(none)' skips silently; a Contributing files block this parser cannot
     read is reported as an INFO saying checks 4 and 5 did not run, never
     skipped silently.
  5  Contributing files back-reference the parent slug in their source_keys
  6  Research doc field present and not placeholder
  7  Slug in sources.md present in upstream research doc (INFO only). A section
     annotation ('§ ...', '→ ...', '(...)') is stripped before the path is
     resolved; a path that still does not resolve is reported as an INFO saying
     checks 7 and 8 did not run, never skipped silently.
  8  Extracted non-(none) slug in research doc present in sources.md
  9  Description or Contributing files text changed since --base-ref (INFO
     only — a bash script cannot verify the claim is still TRUE, only that it
     changed; the auditor reads the named files to check that). Wrapped values
     are joined before comparison, so a re-wrap alone is not a change and a
     rewrite of any line of one is. A slug absent at the base ref is a
     creation, not a change, and is not flagged; a field that WAS there and is
     now gone is announced as a removal. When the base ref cannot be resolved,
     or references/sources.md is not tracked under this path at that ref, this
     is announced as ONE INFO for the whole check, never a silent skip.

  Checks 7 and 8 apply ONLY when the Research doc value names a research SOURCE
  INDEX — a file whose basename is sources.md, whose H2 headings ARE source
  slugs. A Research doc pointing at a topic document is reported as an INFO
  saying the two checks are not applicable, and every other reason they do not
  run is announced the same way.
EOF
}

if [[ "${1:-}" == "--help" || "${1:-}" == "-h" ]]; then
  usage
  exit 0
fi

# --base-ref=<ref> is the only recognised flag, for check 9's base-ref
# override. It is pulled out before the positional-count checks below so it
# never counts against them — a caller passing it alongside skill-dir sees
# the same argument-count behaviour as one who does not pass it at all, and a
# genuinely extra positional argument is still rejected.
#
# BASE_REF_OVERRIDE is deliberately left UNSET here rather than initialised to
# the empty string. `--base-ref=` (given, but empty) and "no flag at all" are
# different instructions — the first says "use the default resolution, ignoring
# the environment", the second says "fall back to the environment" — and an
# empty-string initialiser collapsed them: `${BASE_REF_OVERRIDE:-$ENV}` treats
# an empty flag value as absent, so the environment variable won and the usage
# text's "the flag wins if both are given" was false for exactly that spelling.
declare -a POSITIONAL_ARGS=()
for arg in "$@"; do
  case "$arg" in
    --base-ref=*)
      BASE_REF_OVERRIDE="${arg#--base-ref=}"
      ;;
    *)
      POSITIONAL_ARGS+=("$arg")
      ;;
  esac
done

# Usage and environment problems exit 2, findings exit 1. See the usage text
# above for why the two must not share a code. This is a deliberate divergence
# from validate.sh, which has no 2 tier: validate.sh always prints PASS lines,
# so a usage error there is visibly not a findings report. This script prints
# NOTHING on a clean run, so exit 1 plus empty stdout was the only signal a
# caller got either way.
if [[ ${#POSITIONAL_ARGS[@]} -lt 1 ]]; then
  echo "Error: skill-dir is required." >&2
  echo "" >&2
  usage >&2
  exit 2
fi

# Extra positional arguments were silently dropped, so a typo'd flag or a second
# path looked like it had been honoured.
if [[ ${#POSITIONAL_ARGS[@]} -gt 1 ]]; then
  echo "Error: expected exactly one argument, got ${#POSITIONAL_ARGS[@]}: ${POSITIONAL_ARGS[*]}" >&2
  echo "" >&2
  usage >&2
  exit 2
fi

SKILL_DIR_ARG="${POSITIONAL_ARGS[0]}"

# The flag wins over the environment variable whenever the flag was GIVEN —
# `+x` tests for presence, not for a non-empty value, which is the distinction
# `:-` could not make. An empty result either way tells the Python body to fall
# back to `git merge-base HEAD origin/main`.
if [[ -n "${BASE_REF_OVERRIDE+x}" ]]; then
  BASE_REF="$BASE_REF_OVERRIDE"
else
  BASE_REF="${VALIDATE_PROVENANCE_BASE_REF:-}"
fi

# python3 is a HARD dependency. Without this preflight a missing interpreter
# produced 'line NN: python3: command not found' and exit 127 — an exit code no
# caller maps to anything, from a message that names this script's line number
# rather than the missing dependency.
if ! command -v python3 > /dev/null 2>&1; then
  echo "Error: python3 is required but was not found on PATH." >&2
  echo "  Why: skipping the provenance checks entirely would be a vacuous pass." >&2
  echo "  Fix: install python3 (pre-commit itself is a Python application, so it is almost certainly already present)." >&2
  exit 2
fi

# A path that is not a directory, or a directory that is not a skill, used to
# reach the Python body, find no sources.md and no source_keys, take the
# "nothing to validate" early exit and report exit 0 with no output — which
# references/validation-scripts.md explicitly told the auditor to read as a
# pass. A typo'd target was therefore indistinguishable from a clean skill.
# vale-wrap.sh hard-errors on a nonexistent path for exactly this reason.
if [[ ! -d "$SKILL_DIR_ARG" ]]; then
  echo "Error: not a directory: $SKILL_DIR_ARG" >&2
  echo "  Why: a nonexistent target would otherwise report a silent pass." >&2
  echo "  Fix: pass the path of the skill directory to validate." >&2
  exit 2
fi

if [[ ! -f "$SKILL_DIR_ARG/SKILL.md" ]]; then
  echo "Error: not a skill directory (no SKILL.md): $SKILL_DIR_ARG" >&2
  echo "  Why: a directory with no SKILL.md has no provenance chain to validate, and reporting that as a pass hides the wrong-target mistake." >&2
  echo "  Fix: pass the skill directory itself, not its parent or its references/ subdirectory." >&2
  exit 2
fi

python3 -u - "$SKILL_DIR_ARG" "$BASE_REF" <<'PYTHON'
import sys
import os
import re
import subprocess

# Output is UTF-8 for the same reason input is: under LC_ALL=C the streams
# default to ASCII, and every finding this script prints contains an em dash.
# Pinning only the reads moved the crash from the read to the write — a
# UnicodeEncodeError inside print_findings(), which loses the whole report
# after all the checks have already run.
for _stream in (sys.stdout, sys.stderr):
    try:
        _stream.reconfigure(encoding='utf-8')
    except AttributeError:  # pragma: no cover — Python < 3.7
        pass

skill_dir = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1])
sources_md_path = os.path.join(skill_dir, "references", "sources.md")
refs_dir = os.path.join(skill_dir, "references")

# Empty string (the shell side passes "" when neither --base-ref nor
# VALIDATE_PROVENANCE_BASE_REF was given) means: resolve the default via
# `git merge-base HEAD origin/main` at check-9 time, below.
base_ref_override = sys.argv[2] if len(sys.argv) > 2 else ""

# --- Helpers ---

# The trailing character class used to be CONSUMING — `[^`\n]` — so a
# `FILL IN:` at end of line matched nothing and escaped checks 1 and 6
# entirely. `- **Description:** FILL IN:` is the most likely spelling of a
# half-written entry, and it was the one spelling the placeholder gate could
# not see. The exclusion it was really expressing is "not inside backticks",
# which a lookahead states without eating a character.
PLACEHOLDER_RE = re.compile(r'(?<!`)FILL IN:(?!`)')


# --- Input ----------------------------------------------------------------
# Ported from validate.sh, where the same two problems were already fixed.
#
# read_text() pins UTF-8 explicitly instead of inheriting
# locale.getpreferredencoding(), which is ASCII under LC_ALL=C — an ordinary em
# dash in a references file then aborted the run with a bare UnicodeDecodeError
# traceback, or, at the one call site that wrapped its read in `except
# Exception: return False`, reported the unreadable file as having no
# source_keys and therefore as clean. A file that genuinely is not UTF-8 still
# fails; it just says which file and why.
#
# strip_bom() runs on every read because a leading BOM defeats
# parse_frontmatter()'s `^---` anchor, which silently disabled check 2 on a
# BOM-prefixed SKILL.md: no frontmatter parsed means no source_keys parsed
# means nothing to validate.


class EncodingError(Exception):
    pass


def strip_bom(text):
    return text[1:] if text.startswith(u'\ufeff') else text


def read_text(path):
    """File contents as text, UTF-8 and BOM-free, with a diagnostic instead of a traceback."""
    try:
        with open(path, encoding='utf-8') as fh:
            return strip_bom(fh.read())
    except UnicodeDecodeError as exc:
        raise EncodingError(
            "not valid UTF-8 (%s at byte %d) — re-save the file as UTF-8; "
            "this gate does not guess at other encodings"
            % (exc.reason, exc.start))

def parse_frontmatter(content):
    """Return (frontmatter_str, body_str) or (None, content) if no frontmatter."""
    m = re.match(r'^---\n(.*?)\n---', content, re.DOTALL)
    if not m:
        return None, content
    return m.group(1), content[m.end():]

def parse_source_keys(fm):
    """Extract list of source_keys from frontmatter string (handles metadata.source_keys and top-level)."""
    if fm is None:
        return []
    keys = []
    # Match either:
    #   metadata:\n  source_keys:\n    - slug
    # or:
    #   source_keys:\n  - slug
    in_source_keys = False
    in_metadata = False
    for line in fm.splitlines():
        if re.match(r'^metadata:', line):
            in_metadata = True
            continue
        if in_metadata and re.match(r'^  source_keys:', line):
            in_source_keys = True
            continue
        if not in_metadata and re.match(r'^source_keys:', line):
            in_source_keys = True
            continue
        if in_source_keys:
            m = re.match(r'^[ \t]+-\s+(\S+)', line)
            if m:
                keys.append(m.group(1).strip())
            elif line and not line[0].isspace():
                in_source_keys = False
                in_metadata = False
    return keys

# An explicit `source_keys: []` — top-level or under metadata: — is a
# DECLARATION that the file is house-authored and has no external source.
# parse_source_keys() returns [] both for that and for a file with no
# source_keys key at all, so the two are indistinguishable downstream and
# check 3 emitted the same INFO for each (#111). That left no honest way to
# record "this file has no external source": the only ways to silence the INFO
# were to invent a slug or borrow an unrelated one, both false provenance
# claims that then have to be maintained in sources.md as well. A bare
# `source_keys:` with nothing after it is NOT accepted here — that reads as a
# truncated or half-written entry, not a decision.
#
# The indent is pinned to the two positions parse_source_keys() actually reads
# — column 0, or two spaces under `metadata:`. A permissive `^\s*` matched a
# `source_keys: []` nested at ANY depth under an unrelated key, which
# parse_source_keys() never reads, so a stray nested key silenced the check-3
# INFO for a file that had declared nothing.
EMPTY_SOURCE_KEYS_RE = re.compile(r'^(?:  )?source_keys:\s*\[\s*\]\s*$')

def declares_empty_source_keys(fm):
    """True when frontmatter carries an explicit, empty `source_keys: []`."""
    if fm is None:
        return False
    return any(EMPTY_SOURCE_KEYS_RE.match(line) for line in fm.splitlines())

def parse_h2_slugs(content):
    """Return list of H2 heading values from a markdown file."""
    return re.findall(r'^## (.+)$', content, re.MULTILINE)

# ===== BEGIN SHARED CONTRIBUTING-FILES PARSER =====
# ONE parser, embedded VERBATIM in two scripts:
#   plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/skill-audit/scripts/validate-provenance.sh
#   plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/agent-audit/scripts/validate-provenance.sh
# The block between these markers must stay byte-identical in both. It is
# copied rather than imported because a cache-installed plugin's scripts cannot
# read files outside their own plugin directory, so there is no single file both
# can share — the same constraint that forces the ADR-0020 boundary resolver to
# be duplicated across three scripts. Edit one copy, then paste it over the
# other.
#
# tests/test-adr0020-contract.sh hashes both copies and fails on drift. Before
# it did, the agent-audit copy's docstring merely ASSERTED the two were
# "behaviourally identical" and nothing checked it — which is how the two
# already-diverged spellings of the bullet loop went unnoticed.
#
# Requires: re (imported by the host script).


def parse_contributing_files(content, slug):
    """Find the Contributing files for a given slug H2 in content.

    Both authored forms are accepted, because both are in use across the
    corpus and only recognising the first silently skipped the contributing-
    file checks on every sources.md written the other way:

        - **Contributing files:** SKILL.md, references/a.md

        **Contributing files:**
        - SKILL.md (what this source contributed)
        - references/a.md (what this source contributed)

    Returns a list of paths with any trailing parenthetical note stripped.
    Note the bullet form's notes may themselves contain commas, so the list
    is built per bullet rather than by splitting the joined value.

    The three return values are NOT interchangeable, and callers depend on
    the distinction:

        [path, ...]  the entry names contributing files
        []           the entry EXPLICITLY records "(none)"
        None         the entry says nothing this parser can read

    Only an explicit "(none)" yields []. A "Contributing files:" heading
    followed by a numbered list, by `*` bullets, or by prose parses nothing
    and returns None, never [] — a caller reads [] as a deliberate "no
    contributing files" record and SKIPS its check on that basis, so a parse
    failure returning [] would silently disable the check instead of leaving
    the unreadable entry exposed to it.
    """
    pattern = re.compile(
        r'^## ' + re.escape(slug) + r'\s*\n(.*?)(?=^## |\Z)',
        re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL
    )
    m = pattern.search(content)
    if not m:
        return None
    block = m.group(1)

    def strip_note(entry):
        # "references/a.md (why)" -> "references/a.md"
        return re.sub(r'\s*\(.*$', '', entry).strip()

    # Inline form: value on the same line, comma-separated, no notes.
    cf_m = re.search(r'^\- \*\*Contributing files:\*\* (.+)$', block, re.MULTILINE)
    if cf_m:
        value = cf_m.group(1).strip()
        if value.startswith("(none"):
            return []
        return [p for p in (strip_note(x) for x in value.split(","))
                if p] or None

    # Bullet form: heading on its own line, one file per following bullet.
    cf_m = re.search(r'^\*\*Contributing files:\*\*\s*$', block, re.MULTILINE)
    if not cf_m:
        return None
    files = []
    for line in block[cf_m.end():].splitlines():
        line = line.strip()
        if not line:
            if files:
                break
            continue
        if not line.startswith("- "):
            break
        entry = line[2:].strip()
        if entry.startswith("(none"):
            return []
        entry = strip_note(entry)
        if entry:
            files.append(entry)
    return files or None
# ===== END SHARED CONTRIBUTING-FILES PARSER =====

def parse_research_docs(content, slug):
    """Every Research doc value under a given slug H2, in document order.

    The caller uses the first and reports the rest. Returning only the first —
    what this did before — meant a second '- **Research doc:**' line in one
    entry was silently ignored, so an author who added a doc rather than
    replacing one got checks 7 and 8 run against the old path and no hint that
    the new one was never looked at.
    """
    pattern = re.compile(
        r'^## ' + re.escape(slug) + r'\s*\n(.*?)(?=^## |\Z)',
        re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL
    )
    m = pattern.search(content)
    if not m:
        return []
    block = m.group(1)
    return [v.strip() for v in
            re.findall(r'^\- \*\*Research doc:\*\* (.+)$', block, re.MULTILINE)]

# A Research doc value is a path, and very often a path PLUS an annotation
# naming the section the slug came from:
#
#   plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/gitflow.md (whole-document reference)
#   plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/remotes.md → `## Pushing (`git push`)`
#   .../pre-commit/hooks-reference.md § "pre-commit-hooks (official collection)"
#
# os.path.isfile() is false for every one of those strings, and checks 7 and 8
# used to skip SILENTLY whenever the path did not resolve. The effect was that
# both checks were dead on eight of the nine git skills — git-history, the one
# skill writing a bare path, was the only place they ran, which is why it was
# the only skill ever reporting a check-7 INFO. Strip the annotation before
# resolving, and report when the result still does not resolve: a check that
# quietly does not run is worse than one that fails.
RESEARCH_DOC_ANNOTATION_RE = re.compile(r'[§→(]')

def strip_research_doc_annotation(value):
    """Path part of a Research doc value, with any section annotation removed."""
    return RESEARCH_DOC_ANNOTATION_RE.split(value, maxsplit=1)[0].strip()

def research_doc_is_none(value):
    """True when a Research doc value declares that no research doc backs the slug.

    Both '(none)' and the bare 'none — org convention, ...' spelling are in
    use; recognising only the parenthesised one would report the other as an
    unresolvable path. Checked BEFORE the annotation strip, because '(none)'
    is itself a parenthesis and would strip to the empty string.
    """
    return re.match(r'\(?none\b', value.strip(), re.IGNORECASE) is not None

# The Status value is what gates check 8, so every spelling this parser fails
# to read is a check that does not run. Two were unreadable:
#
#   - **Status:** `extracted` — partial fetch     (a trailing note)
#   **Status:**                                   (the bullet form, the same
#   - `extracted`                                  shape parse_contributing_files
#                                                  already accepts)
#
# Both used to parse to a string that compared unequal to "`extracted`", and
# check 8 skipped on that inequality without a word. Returning the BACKTICKED
# TOKEN — not the whole line — is what makes the trailing note harmless, and it
# lets the caller name the actual status when it announces a skip.
STATUS_TOKEN_RE = re.compile(r'^`([^`]*)`')


def parse_status(content, slug):
    """Find the Status value for a given slug H2 in content.

    Returns the status with its backticks stripped ('extracted', 'referenced',
    'no content extracted'), or None when the entry has no Status line.
    """
    pattern = re.compile(
        r'^## ' + re.escape(slug) + r'\s*\n(.*?)(?=^## |\Z)',
        re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL
    )
    m = pattern.search(content)
    if not m:
        return None
    block = m.group(1)

    raw = None
    st_m = re.search(r'^\- \*\*Status:\*\* (.+)$', block, re.MULTILINE)
    if st_m:
        raw = st_m.group(1).strip()
    else:
        st_m = re.search(r'^\*\*Status:\*\*\s*$', block, re.MULTILINE)
        if not st_m:
            return None
        for line in block[st_m.end():].splitlines():
            line = line.strip()
            if not line:
                continue
            if not line.startswith("- "):
                break
            raw = line[2:].strip()
            break
        if raw is None:
            return None

    token = STATUS_TOKEN_RE.match(raw)
    return token.group(1).strip() if token else raw

def find_repo_root(start_dir):
    """Walk up from start_dir until we find a directory containing .git."""
    current = start_dir
    while True:
        if os.path.exists(os.path.join(current, ".git")):
            return current
        parent = os.path.dirname(current)
        if parent == current:
            return None
        current = parent

# --- Check 9 helpers ---------------------------------------------------
# Check 9 needs a raw field VALUE (as text, to diff against an earlier
# version), not the parsed structure parse_contributing_files() and
# parse_status() return. The ONE normalization applied is whitespace
# collapsing, which is what makes a re-wrap or a re-indent invisible; nothing
# else is normalized away.
#
# In particular a REORDERED Contributing files list DOES fire this check, and
# that is deliberate — the header here used to claim the opposite, which the
# code never did. Order-insensitivity cannot be had for one field without
# distorting the other: the two fields share this parser, and the only way to
# ignore order is to split the value into items and sort them, which for a
# prose Description means splitting on commas and would then hide a genuine
# rewrite that merely permuted its clauses. Check 9 is always an INFO whose
# whole job is to point a human at a place to read; a reordered list costs
# that human one glance to dismiss, whereas a hidden rewrite is the exact
# failure #118 exists to catch. False positive over false negative, on this
# check, on purpose.

def run_git(args, cwd):
    """Run `git <args>` in cwd. Returns (returncode, stdout, stderr) — never
    raises, so a missing git binary or an unexpected OSError is just another
    non-zero result the caller folds into "could not run", not a crash."""
    try:
        result = subprocess.run(
            ["git"] + args, cwd=cwd, capture_output=True, text=True,
            encoding="utf-8", errors="replace"
        )
        return result.returncode, result.stdout, result.stderr
    except OSError as exc:
        return 1, "", str(exc)

def ref_exists(ref, cwd):
    """True when ref resolves to a commit in the repo at cwd."""
    rc, _out, _err = run_git(["rev-parse", "--verify", "--quiet", ref + "^{commit}"], cwd)
    return rc == 0

def find_slug_block(content, slug):
    """The raw text of a '## <slug>' entry's body, or None if no such H2."""
    pattern = re.compile(
        r'^## ' + re.escape(slug) + r'\s*\n(.*?)(?=^## |\Z)',
        re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL
    )
    m = pattern.search(content)
    return m.group(1) if m else None

# A field value ENDS at the next field, the next heading, or a blank line.
# Every other non-blank line is a continuation of the value the author wrapped
# across physical lines.
#
# This boundary is what the old `(.+)$` regex did not have. `.` does not cross
# a newline, so only the FIRST physical line of a wrapped value was ever
# compared — and a rewrite confined to a continuation line produced no finding
# at all. That is verbatim the hedge-to-confident-claim regression #118 exists
# to catch, invisible to the check written to catch it. The bullet branch had
# the same defect one level down: a wrapped bullet's continuation does not
# start with '- ', so the loop broke there and silently dropped every
# remaining bullet.
#
# A continuation line that itself opens with bold text ('**note** — ...') is
# read as a boundary and truncates the value. That is a known, narrow
# false-negative, accepted because the alternative — no boundary at all —
# is what produced the wide one above.
FIELD_BOUNDARY_RE = re.compile(r'^(?:- )?\*\*|^#{1,6} ')


def _is_field_boundary(stripped_line):
    """True when a stripped line starts a new field, bullet-less heading or H2."""
    return bool(FIELD_BOUNDARY_RE.match(stripped_line))


def parse_field_raw(content, slug, field_name):
    """Raw text of a '**<field_name>:**' field under a slug H2, wrapping joined.

    Mirrors the two authored shapes parse_contributing_files() and
    parse_status() already handle (inline value on the same line, or a
    bare heading followed by '- ' bullets), but returns text rather than a
    parsed structure, because check 9 diffs wording, not semantics.

    Continuation lines are joined into the value they belong to before the
    caller normalizes and compares, so a value wrapped across two lines and
    the same value on one line are the same text — and a change made on any
    line of a wrapped value is visible, not just one made on the first.

    Returns None when the H2 itself is absent (the slug did not exist at
    this content's revision) or the field is absent — both read as "no
    earlier claim to compare against" to the caller, which is deliberate:
    a field appearing for the first time is a creation, not a change.
    """
    block = find_slug_block(content, slug)
    if block is None:
        return None
    lines = block.splitlines()
    inline_re = re.compile(r'^\- \*\*' + re.escape(field_name) + r':\*\*[ \t]*(.*)$')
    heading_re = re.compile(r'^\*\*' + re.escape(field_name) + r':\*\*[ \t]*$')

    for idx, line in enumerate(lines):
        im = inline_re.match(line)
        if im:
            parts = [im.group(1).strip()]
            for cont in lines[idx + 1:]:
                stripped = cont.strip()
                if not stripped or stripped.startswith("- ") or _is_field_boundary(stripped):
                    break
                parts.append(stripped)
            joined = " ".join(p for p in parts if p).strip()
            return joined or None
        if heading_re.match(line):
            entries = []
            for cont in lines[idx + 1:]:
                stripped = cont.strip()
                if not stripped:
                    if entries:
                        break
                    continue
                if _is_field_boundary(stripped):
                    break
                if stripped.startswith("- "):
                    entries.append(stripped[2:].strip())
                elif entries:
                    # A wrapped bullet: fold it back into the bullet it
                    # continues rather than ending the list here.
                    entries[-1] = (entries[-1] + " " + stripped).strip()
                else:
                    break
            return ", ".join(e for e in entries if e) or None
    return None

def normalize_field_text(value):
    """Collapse whitespace so reformatting alone never registers as a change.

    True only because parse_field_raw() joins wrapped continuation lines
    first: collapsing whitespace inside a value that had already been
    truncated at its first newline normalized nothing a re-wrap could change.
    """
    return re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', value).strip()

findings = []
has_fail = False

# A finding identical in every field is the same finding, and the same file is
# now reached by more than one check — the walk that looks for source_keys and
# check 3 both read every references/*.md, so an unreadable one would otherwise
# be reported twice with the same words. Distinct findings about the same file
# still both appear.
def _record(entry):
    if entry not in findings:
        findings.append(entry)

def emit_fail(desc, fpath, why, fix):
    global has_fail
    has_fail = True
    _record(("FAIL", desc, fpath, why, fix, None))

def emit_info(desc, fpath, note):
    _record(("INFO", desc, fpath, None, None, note))

def print_findings():
    for entry in findings:
        kind = entry[0]
        desc = entry[1]
        fpath = entry[2]
        why = entry[3]
        fix = entry[4]
        note = entry[5]
        if kind == "FAIL":
            print(f"FAIL  {desc} — {fpath}")
            print(f"      Why: {why}")
            print(f"      Fix: {fix}")
            print()
        else:
            print(f"INFO  {desc} — {fpath}")
            print(f"      Note: {note}")
            print()

# --- Scan for any file with source_keys ---

def emit_unreadable(rel, exc):
    """Report a file this script cannot decode. Never a silent skip."""
    emit_fail(
        f"File is {exc}",
        rel,
        f"'{rel}' cannot be decoded, so its frontmatter — and any source_keys in it — "
        f"cannot be read. This used to be swallowed by a bare 'except Exception: return False', "
        f"which reported the unreadable file as having no source_keys and therefore as clean.",
        f"Re-save '{rel}' as UTF-8."
    )

def file_has_source_keys(fpath, rel):
    try:
        content = read_text(fpath)
    except EncodingError as exc:
        emit_unreadable(rel, exc)
        return False
    fm, _ = parse_frontmatter(content)
    if fm is None:
        return False
    return bool(parse_source_keys(fm))

def find_files_with_source_keys():
    """Return list of (relative_path, abs_path) for all skill files with source_keys."""
    results = []
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(skill_dir):
        # Skip hidden dirs
        dirs[:] = [d for d in dirs if not d.startswith('.')]
        for fname in sorted(files):
            if fname.endswith('.md'):
                abs_path = os.path.join(root, fname)
                rel = os.path.relpath(abs_path, skill_dir)
                if file_has_source_keys(abs_path, rel):
                    results.append((rel, abs_path))
    return results

sources_md_exists = os.path.isfile(sources_md_path)
files_with_source_keys = find_files_with_source_keys()

# Early exit: nothing to validate. The scan itself can raise a finding — an
# unreadable file — so print before leaving; the clean case still prints
# nothing and exits 0.
if not sources_md_exists and not files_with_source_keys:
    print_findings()
    sys.exit(1 if has_fail else 0)

# Load sources.md if it exists
sources_content = None
if sources_md_exists:
    try:
        sources_content = read_text(sources_md_path)
    except EncodingError as exc:
        emit_unreadable("references/sources.md", exc)
        print_findings()
        sys.exit(1)
    sources_slugs = set(parse_h2_slugs(sources_content))
else:
    sources_slugs = set()

# --- Check 0: source_keys without sources.md ---
if not sources_md_exists:
    for rel, abs_path in files_with_source_keys:
        emit_fail(
            f"source_keys declared but references/sources.md is absent",
            rel,
            "source_keys references research provenance that has no sources index to validate against.",
            "Create references/sources.md with an H2 entry for each slug referenced by source_keys."
        )
    print_findings()
    sys.exit(1)

# --- Check 1: FILL IN: placeholders in sources.md ---
for line in sources_content.splitlines():
    if PLACEHOLDER_RE.search(line):
        emit_fail(
            "Unfilled FILL IN: placeholder",
            "references/sources.md",
            "sources.md contains an unfilled placeholder, meaning provenance is incomplete.",
            "Replace all 'FILL IN:' values in references/sources.md with real content."
        )
        break

# --- Check 2: source_keys in SKILL.md → slug exists in sources.md ---
skill_md_path = os.path.join(skill_dir, "SKILL.md")
if os.path.isfile(skill_md_path):
    try:
        skill_content = read_text(skill_md_path)
    except EncodingError as exc:
        emit_unreadable("SKILL.md", exc)
        skill_content = ""
    skill_fm, _ = parse_frontmatter(skill_content)
    skill_source_keys = parse_source_keys(skill_fm)
    for slug in skill_source_keys:
        if slug not in sources_slugs:
            emit_fail(
                f"source_keys slug '{slug}' not found in sources.md",
                "SKILL.md",
                f"SKILL.md declares '{slug}' as a source but there is no '## {slug}' heading in references/sources.md.",
                f"Add '## {slug}' entry to references/sources.md or remove '{slug}' from SKILL.md source_keys."
            )

# --- Check 3: source_keys in references/*.md → slug exists in sources.md (INFO if no source_keys) ---
# os.walk, not os.listdir: find_files_with_source_keys() above already walks
# references/ recursively, so a source_keys-bearing file in
# references/<subdir>/ was collected there — and then never validated here,
# because the flat listdir could not see it. The two halves of the same check
# disagreed about which files exist.
if os.path.isdir(refs_dir):
    ref_paths = []
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(refs_dir):
        dirs[:] = sorted(d for d in dirs if not d.startswith('.'))
        for fname in sorted(files):
            if not fname.endswith('.md'):
                continue
            fpath = os.path.join(root, fname)
            if os.path.relpath(fpath, refs_dir) == "sources.md":
                continue
            ref_paths.append(fpath)
    for fpath in ref_paths:
        rel = os.path.relpath(fpath, skill_dir)
        try:
            ref_content = read_text(fpath)
        except EncodingError as exc:
            emit_unreadable(rel, exc)
            continue
        ref_fm, _ = parse_frontmatter(ref_content)
        ref_keys = parse_source_keys(ref_fm)
        if not ref_keys:
            # An explicit `source_keys: []` is a deliberate declaration that
            # the file is house-authored, and passes silently. The INFO is for
            # files that never said either way.
            if declares_empty_source_keys(ref_fm):
                continue
            emit_info(
                f"No source_keys frontmatter",
                rel,
                "This references file has no source_keys — provenance cannot be verified. "
                "Add source_keys frontmatter listing the slugs from references/sources.md that informed this file, "
                "or declare an explicit 'source_keys: []' if the file is house-authored and has no external source."
            )
        else:
            for slug in ref_keys:
                if slug not in sources_slugs:
                    emit_fail(
                        f"source_keys slug '{slug}' not found in sources.md",
                        rel,
                        f"'{rel}' declares '{slug}' as a source but there is no '## {slug}' heading in references/sources.md.",
                        f"Add '## {slug}' entry to references/sources.md or remove '{slug}' from {rel} source_keys."
                    )

# --- Checks 4, 5, 6, 7, 8: Per-slug checks in sources.md ---

repo_root = find_repo_root(skill_dir)

# Collect all research doc paths we'll check (for Check 8)
research_docs_seen = {}  # abs_path → (rel_path, slugs referencing it, content)

# Every per-slug parser below — parse_contributing_files, parse_research_docs,
# parse_status — locates its block with pattern.search(), so a slug written
# twice resolves to the FIRST block every time. Iterating the raw heading list
# therefore checked the first block's fields twice and the second block's
# never: a duplicated slug is half-validated, and looked fully validated. The
# duplicate is announced and the repeat visit dropped.
all_slugs = parse_h2_slugs(sources_content)
unique_slugs = []
for _slug in all_slugs:
    if _slug in unique_slugs:
        continue
    unique_slugs.append(_slug)
    _count = all_slugs.count(_slug)
    if _count > 1:
        emit_info(
            f"Duplicate '## {_slug}' entry in sources.md — only the first block is checked",
            f"references/sources.md (## {_slug})",
            f"'## {_slug}' appears {_count} times. Every field parser here takes the first match, so the "
            f"second and later blocks' Contributing files, Research doc and Status are never validated — "
            f"checks 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 did not run for them. "
            f"Merge the blocks into one entry, or give each a distinct slug and reference it from source_keys."
        )

for slug in unique_slugs:
    # Checks 4 and 5: Contributing files exist, and back-reference the slug.
    # `[]` and None are NOT the same answer here. `[]` is the author writing
    # "(none)" — there is nothing to check and the skip is correct. None is a
    # Contributing-files block this parser cannot read, and skipping THAT
    # silently disables both checks on the one entry least likely to be right,
    # which is the failure mode parse_contributing_files' own docstring warns
    # about. Say so out loud instead, the same way an unresolvable Research doc
    # value does.
    cf_files = parse_contributing_files(sources_content, slug)
    if cf_files is None:
        emit_info(
            f"Contributing-file checks skipped for '{slug}' — the Contributing files block could not be parsed",
            f"references/sources.md (## {slug})",
            f"The '## {slug}' entry has no Contributing files list this parser can read — a missing field, a bare heading, '*' bullets, a numbered list, or prose all read as unparsable rather than as an empty declaration. "
            f"Checks 4 and 5 did not run for this slug, so nothing verified that its contributing files exist or name it back. "
            f"Write the value as '- **Contributing files:** <comma-separated paths>', or as a '**Contributing files:**' heading followed by '- ' bullets — "
            f"or record '(none)' if this source contributed no files."
        )
    elif cf_files:
        for cf_rel in cf_files:
            cf_abs = os.path.join(skill_dir, cf_rel)
            if not os.path.isfile(cf_abs):
                emit_fail(
                    f"Contributing file '{cf_rel}' does not exist",
                    f"references/sources.md (## {slug})",
                    f"sources.md claims '{cf_rel}' was contributed to by slug '{slug}' but the file does not exist.",
                    f"Create '{cf_rel}' relative to the skill directory, or correct the path in sources.md."
                )
            else:
                # Check 5: Bidirectional — file should list slug in its source_keys
                # Skip sources.md itself
                if cf_rel == "references/sources.md":
                    continue
                try:
                    cf_content = read_text(cf_abs)
                except EncodingError as exc:
                    emit_unreadable(cf_rel, exc)
                    continue
                cf_fm, _ = parse_frontmatter(cf_content)
                cf_keys = parse_source_keys(cf_fm)
                if slug not in cf_keys:
                    emit_fail(
                        f"Contributing file '{cf_rel}' does not list '{slug}' in its source_keys",
                        f"references/sources.md (## {slug})",
                        f"sources.md says '{cf_rel}' was informed by '{slug}', but '{cf_rel}' does not declare '{slug}' in its source_keys frontmatter.",
                        f"Add '{slug}' to the source_keys frontmatter of '{cf_rel}'."
                    )

    # Check 6: Research doc field required
    rd_values = parse_research_docs(sources_content, slug)
    if len(rd_values) > 1:
        emit_info(
            f"Multiple '- **Research doc:**' lines for '{slug}' — only the first is used",
            f"references/sources.md (## {slug})",
            f"The '## {slug}' entry has {len(rd_values)} Research doc lines; checks 7 and 8 ran against the first "
            f"('{rd_values[0]}') and never looked at the rest. "
            f"Keep one Research doc line per entry — if a slug genuinely came from two documents, split it into two slugs, "
            f"or name the extra document inside the first value's annotation where it is at least visible."
        )
    rd_value = rd_values[0] if rd_values else None
    if rd_value is None:
        emit_fail(
            f"Research doc field missing",
            f"references/sources.md (## {slug})",
            f"The '## {slug}' entry in sources.md has no '- **Research doc:**' line.",
            f"Add '- **Research doc:** <path-or-(none)>' to the '## {slug}' entry in references/sources.md."
        )
    elif rd_value == "" or PLACEHOLDER_RE.search(rd_value):
        emit_fail(
            f"Research doc field is empty or placeholder",
            f"references/sources.md (## {slug})",
            f"The '## {slug}' entry has an unfilled Research doc value.",
            f"Set '- **Research doc:**' to a real path relative to repo root, or '(none)' if not applicable."
        )
    elif not research_doc_is_none(rd_value):
        # Check 7: Upstream forward — slug should appear in research doc.
        # Every path out of here that does NOT run the check says so out loud.
        rd_path = strip_research_doc_annotation(rd_value)
        if not repo_root:
            emit_info(
                f"Upstream checks skipped for '{slug}' — no repo root above the skill directory",
                f"references/sources.md (## {slug})",
                f"'{rd_value}' is a path relative to the repo root, but no ancestor of the skill directory contains a .git entry, "
                f"so it cannot be resolved. Checks 7 and 8 did not run for this slug. "
                f"Run this script against a skill inside a checkout."
            )
        elif not rd_path:
            emit_info(
                f"Upstream checks skipped for '{slug}' — Research doc value names no path",
                f"references/sources.md (## {slug})",
                f"The Research doc value '{rd_value}' is entirely annotation — stripping the section marker leaves no path. "
                f"Checks 7 and 8 did not run for this slug. "
                f"Give the value a file path relative to the repo root, or record '(none)' if no research doc backs this entry."
            )
        else:
            rd_abs = os.path.join(repo_root, rd_path)
            if not os.path.isfile(rd_abs):
                emit_info(
                    f"Upstream checks skipped for '{slug}' — research doc '{rd_path}' does not exist",
                    f"references/sources.md (## {slug})",
                    f"'{rd_value}' resolves to '{rd_path}' relative to the repo root and no file is there. "
                    f"Checks 7 and 8 did not run for this slug, so nothing verified that the research doc still backs it. "
                    f"Point the value at one existing file — a brace expansion, a comma-separated list of paths, or a bare section title does not resolve — "
                    f"or record '(none)' if no research doc backs this entry."
                )
            elif os.path.basename(rd_path) != "sources.md":
                # Checks 7 and 8 both assume the Research doc is a research
                # SOURCE INDEX — a sources.md whose H2 headings ARE source
                # slugs. 30 of the 121 corpus entries point instead at a TOPIC
                # DOCUMENT (remotes.md, gitflow.md, api-reference.md), whose
                # H2s are headings like '## Core Philosophy'. A slug can never
                # match one, so check 7 reported all 30 as "slug not found" —
                # every one a false positive — and check 8, aimed at documents
                # that carry no '- **Status:**' line at all, was saved from a
                # matching flood of false FAILs only by an UNANNOUNCED skip on
                # that missing status. The premise, not the corpus, was wrong.
                #
                # A topic-document reference is a legitimate, useful value; it
                # just is not something these two checks can verify. Say that
                # once, out loud, instead of failing 30 entries for it.
                emit_info(
                    f"Upstream checks not applicable for '{slug}' — research doc '{rd_path}' is a topic document, not a source index",
                    f"references/sources.md (## {slug})",
                    f"Checks 7 and 8 match slugs against the H2 headings of a research source index — a file named 'sources.md', "
                    f"where each H2 IS a source slug. '{os.path.basename(rd_path)}' is a topic document, so its H2s are section "
                    f"headings and no slug will ever match one. Checks 7 and 8 did not run for this slug. "
                    f"This needs no fix: point the value at the research corpus's own sources.md only if you want the "
                    f"provenance link machine-verified."
                )
            else:
                try:
                    rd_content = read_text(rd_abs)
                except EncodingError as exc:
                    emit_info(
                        f"Upstream checks skipped for '{slug}' — research doc '{rd_path}' is {exc}",
                        f"references/sources.md (## {slug})",
                        f"'{rd_path}' could not be decoded, so checks 7 and 8 did not run for this slug. "
                        f"Re-save the research doc as UTF-8."
                    )
                    continue
                rd_slugs = set(parse_h2_slugs(rd_content))
                if slug not in rd_slugs:
                    emit_info(
                        f"Slug '{slug}' not found as H2 in research doc '{rd_path}'",
                        f"references/sources.md (## {slug})",
                        f"The research doc '{rd_path}' does not have a '## {slug}' heading. "
                        f"The provenance link may be imprecise — the slug name in sources.md may differ from the research doc's heading."
                    )
                # Track for Check 8. The content is carried with the entry so
                # check 8 reuses this read rather than decoding the file a
                # second time, with a second chance to fail differently.
                if rd_abs not in research_docs_seen:
                    research_docs_seen[rd_abs] = (rd_path, set(), rd_content)
                research_docs_seen[rd_abs][1].add(slug)

# --- Check 8: Upstream reverse ---
for rd_abs, (rd_rel, known_slugs, rd_content) in research_docs_seen.items():
    for rd_slug in parse_h2_slugs(rd_content):
        # Parse this slug's Contributing files and Status in the research doc
        rd_cf = parse_contributing_files(rd_content, rd_slug)
        rd_status = parse_status(rd_content, rd_slug)
        # Skip if the research doc explicitly records no contributing files
        if rd_cf == []:
            continue
        # Skip if status is not `extracted` — and say so when the skip is what
        # kept the slug out of the FAIL below. A status of `referenced` or
        # `no content extracted` is a real reason not to demand the slug, but
        # it was applied in silence, so an entry that should have been in
        # sources.md and a status line nobody had updated produced the same
        # output: nothing. Only a MATERIAL skip is announced; when the slug is
        # already in sources.md the check passes either way and there is no
        # fail-open to disclose.
        if rd_status != "extracted":
            if rd_slug not in sources_slugs:
                shown = f"`{rd_status}`" if rd_status else "absent"
                emit_info(
                    f"Check 8 skipped for research-doc slug '{rd_slug}' — its Status is {shown}, not `extracted`",
                    f"{rd_rel} (## {rd_slug})",
                    f"'{rd_rel}' has '## {rd_slug}' with contributing files but Status {shown}, and this skill's "
                    f"sources.md has no '## {rd_slug}' entry. Check 8 only demands an entry for an `extracted` slug, "
                    f"so it did not run here. If that status is stale — the content was extracted and the line was never "
                    f"updated — this skill is missing a source entry; if it is accurate, nothing needs doing."
                )
            continue
        # This slug should be in sources.md
        if rd_slug not in sources_slugs:
            emit_fail(
                f"Research doc slug '{rd_slug}' missing from skill sources.md",
                f"references/sources.md",
                f"The research doc '{rd_rel}' has '## {rd_slug}' with status `extracted` and contributing files, "
                f"but this skill's sources.md has no '## {rd_slug}' entry.",
                f"Add '## {rd_slug}' to references/sources.md or mark it as '(none)' in the research doc's Contributing files."
            )

# --- Check 9: Description / Contributing files changed since --base-ref ---
# A structural fact — the field's TEXT differs from an earlier revision — is
# all git can tell us. Whether the (possibly stronger) new wording is still
# TRUE is a semantic question no parser here can answer; that is what sent
# the earlier literal-text approaches (flagging a named-but-missing filename)
# to 3/3 false positives against the real corpus without even catching the
# bug that motivated this check. So check 9 does the one thing git reliably
# can: detect the change, and hand the auditor the slug and field to go read,
# never a verdict on the claim itself. Always INFO, never FAIL.
if repo_root is None:
    emit_info(
        "Check 9 skipped — no repo root above the skill directory",
        "references/sources.md",
        "No ancestor of the skill directory contains a .git entry, so there is no git history to diff "
        "references/sources.md against. Check 9 did not run for any slug in this skill. "
        "Run this script against a skill inside a checkout to get this check."
    )
else:
    resolved_base_ref = base_ref_override.strip()
    resolve_error = None
    if not resolved_base_ref:
        rc, mb_out, mb_err = run_git(["merge-base", "HEAD", "origin/main"], repo_root)
        if rc == 0 and mb_out.strip():
            resolved_base_ref = mb_out.strip()
        else:
            resolve_error = (
                "`git merge-base HEAD origin/main` could not resolve a base ref"
                + (f" ({mb_err.strip()})" if mb_err.strip() else "")
                + " — there may be no origin/main remote, HEAD may be detached, or the clone may be shallow."
            )
    elif not ref_exists(resolved_base_ref, repo_root):
        resolve_error = f"--base-ref value '{resolved_base_ref}' does not resolve to a commit in this repository."

    if resolve_error:
        emit_info(
            "Check 9 skipped — no base ref could be resolved",
            "references/sources.md",
            resolve_error + " Check 9 did not run for any slug in this skill. "
            "Pass --base-ref=<ref>, or set the VALIDATE_PROVENANCE_BASE_REF environment variable, "
            "to compare against something other than origin/main."
        )
    else:
        sources_md_relpath = os.path.relpath(sources_md_path, repo_root)
        rc, old_sources_content, show_err = run_git(
            ["show", f"{resolved_base_ref}:{sources_md_relpath}"], repo_root
        )
        if rc != 0:
            # The base ref resolved fine but `git show <ref>:<path>` did not.
            # That single return code covers two situations this check cannot
            # tell apart, and only one of them is harmless:
            #
            #   the file genuinely did not exist at the base ref — the whole
            #   sources.md is new, every entry in it is a creation, and there
            #   is nothing check 9 could have flagged;
            #
            #   the path is not TRACKED under that name at the base ref — a
            #   renamed skill directory, or a copy of the skill living
            #   somewhere untracked or gitignored (an installed .claude/skills
            #   tree is the everyday case).
            #
            # Treating both as "creation, nothing to flag" made the second one
            # a silent, whole-skill skip: the same directory audited at its
            # authoring path reported changed claims and at its deployed path
            # reported nothing, with no way to tell that from a clean run.
            # That is the exact fail-open this script's own header forbids —
            # "never a silent skip" — so announce it once for the whole check
            # and hand over git's own stderr, which is the only diagnostic
            # that separates the two cases.
            detail = show_err.strip().splitlines()
            detail = detail[0] if detail else "git gave no reason"
            emit_info(
                f"Check 9 skipped — '{sources_md_relpath}' is not tracked at {resolved_base_ref}",
                "references/sources.md",
                f"`git show {resolved_base_ref}:{sources_md_relpath}` failed ({detail}). "
                f"Either the file did not exist at that ref — in which case every entry is a "
                f"creation and there was nothing to flag — or this path is not tracked under "
                f"that name there: a renamed skill directory, or an untracked or gitignored copy "
                f"of the skill such as a deployed .claude/skills/ tree. "
                f"Check 9 did not run for any slug in this skill. "
                f"Re-run against the tracked authoring path, or pass --base-ref=<ref> naming a "
                f"commit where this path exists."
            )
            old_sources_content = None

        if old_sources_content is not None:
            for slug in unique_slugs:
                changed_fields = []
                removed_fields = []
                for field_name in ("Description", "Contributing files"):
                    old_value = parse_field_raw(old_sources_content, slug, field_name)
                    new_value = parse_field_raw(sources_content, slug, field_name)
                    if old_value is None and new_value is None:
                        continue
                    if old_value is None:
                        # No earlier claim to compare against — a brand-new
                        # entry, or a field that did not exist yet at the
                        # base ref. That is a creation, not a change, and is
                        # never flagged.
                        continue
                    if new_value is None:
                        # The field existed at the base ref and is gone now.
                        # This was folded into the creation skip above, which
                        # justified only the other half: deleting a whole
                        # '- **Description:**' line left NO finding anywhere —
                        # no other check in this script requires the field, so
                        # a claim could be removed as invisibly as it could be
                        # strengthened. Announce it; the auditor decides
                        # whether the removal was intended.
                        removed_fields.append(field_name)
                        continue
                    if normalize_field_text(old_value) != normalize_field_text(new_value):
                        changed_fields.append(field_name)
                if removed_fields:
                    removed_list = " and ".join(removed_fields)
                    emit_info(
                        f"'{removed_list}' removed for '{slug}' since {resolved_base_ref}",
                        f"references/sources.md (## {slug})",
                        f"The '## {slug}' entry had {removed_list} at {resolved_base_ref} and has "
                        f"none now. Nothing else in this script requires the field, so the removal "
                        f"is otherwise invisible. Confirm it was deliberate — a provenance claim "
                        f"withdrawn is as much a change to the chain as one rewritten — and "
                        f"restore the field if it was lost to an edit."
                    )
                if changed_fields:
                    field_list = " and ".join(changed_fields)
                    emit_info(
                        f"'{field_list}' changed for '{slug}' since {resolved_base_ref}",
                        f"references/sources.md (## {slug})",
                        f"The '## {slug}' entry's {field_list} text differs from the version at "
                        f"{resolved_base_ref}. This script can confirm the entry is internally "
                        f"consistent, but it cannot verify whether the claim itself is still true — a "
                        f"retrofit once turned an honest hedge into an unsupported confident claim and "
                        f"every structural check here passed it silently. Re-read the upstream research "
                        f"doc named in this entry's Research doc field and the Contributing files it "
                        f"lists, and confirm by hand that the wording still holds."
                    )

print_findings()
sys.exit(1 if has_fail else 0)
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