Rectify: POSIX-ERE Dialect Immunity + Cross-Cycle Fix-Budget Reset#4195
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…ation) Add forward-looking immunity against POSIX bracket expressions ([[:space:]], [[:alnum:]], etc.) that are silently mis-parsed by Python re. Three-layer guard: 1. Structural test test_no_posix_char_class_in_bash_blocks parametrize over every skill and fail-fast on POSIX classes. 2. Semantic rule posix-char-class-in-skill fires at recipe load time. 3. FutureWarning escalation in pyproject.toml filterwarnings converts re.compile on POSIX classes into test errors. Mirrors existing grep-bre-alternation-in-skill guard (Layer 1 + Layer 2 + FutureWarning-as-second-net equivalent).
Adds failing (xfail) tests for the cross-cycle fix-budget isolation defect: when an audit-remediation cycle re-enters the implementation sub-cycle, test_fix_loop_count must be reset. - test_check_loop_iteration_cross_cycle_budget_starvation: unit test documenting the counter persistence / init_counter interaction. - 3 structural pin tests in test_rules_integration_predicate.py verifying a reset step exists on the path from check_audit_remediation_loop to remediate (or pre_remediation_merge for remediation.yaml). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes the cross-cycle fix-budget starvation defect: when an audit- remediation cycle re-enters the implementation sub-cycle, the test_fix_loop_count must be reset, otherwise the prior cycle's remaining budget immediately exhausts the new cycle. implementation.yaml + implementation-groups.yaml: insert reset_test_fix_counter between check_audit_remediation_loop and remediate; routes to remediate on success/failure. remediation.yaml: same insert but routes to pre_remediation_merge (to preserve the worktree-merge step before a new remediation cycle). test_fix_max_retries description aligned to N-1 documentation style matching audit_remediation_max_retries. New semantic rule loop-counter-not-reset-on-outer-cycle (ERROR): multi-hop BFS walk from each outer check_loop_iteration's non- max_exceeded route; fires when the path to an inner guard lacks a step that captures the inner counter. Diagrams re-rendered with updated SHA-256 hashes and the new reset_test_fix_counter step in the audit-remediate flow. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…unters The loop-counter-not-reset-on-outer-cycle rule was firing on every outer/inner guard pair across all recipes, including pre-existing cases (merge_fix → merge_rebase, ci_post_queue → queue_stall, etc.) that have their own reset mechanisms or are out of scope for this fix. Narrow the rule to only consider outer guards whose counter variable indicates an audit-remediation cycle (audit_remediation_count). This matches the defect scope: when the audit-remediation outer loop re-enters the implementation sub-cycle, test_fix_loop_count (and similar inner counters) must be reset. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The loop-counter-not-reset-on-outer-cycle rule correctly detects that multiple inner guards (merge_fix, ref_push, etc.) accumulate counters across audit-remediation cycles without reset steps. However, only test_fix_loop_count is addressed by this plan — the others are pre-existing issues with their own resolution paths. Downgrading to WARNING severity lets the rule surface the additional cases for future remediation without blocking this plan's implementation. The unit test test_check_loop_iteration_cross_cycle_budget_starvation and the 3 recipe structural pin tests still validate the test_fix_loop_count fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… counter strings guard_steps[inner_name] returns a counter variable string (e.g. "test_fix_loop_count") while audit_outer_guards is a set of step names. These namespaces never overlap, making the condition always False. Use inner_name directly for the membership check. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When non_exit_target IS the reset step itself, excluding it from the scan caused has_reset to stay False, producing a spurious finding. Only inner_name needs to be excluded since it is the target being checked. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The reset-detection loop iterated all BFS-reachable nodes from non_exit_target, so a reset step on an unrelated branch could suppress the finding. Now intersect forward reachability from non_exit_target with backward reachability from inner_name to check only nodes on actual paths between the two. Also adds non_exit_target itself to the scan set (bfs_reachable excludes its start node). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Rectify: POSIX-ERE Dialect Immunity + Cross-Cycle Fix-Budget Reset
Summary
Two independent architectural weaknesses compounded to terminally fail a pipeline run:
connect[[:space:]_-]+failure(valid POSIX ERE for grep), which the implementer faithfully tested with Pythonre.search(). Pythonresilently mis-parses POSIX bracket expressions, making three test witnesses fail by construction. The existinggrep-bre-alternation-in-skillguard covers\|but not[[:class:]].test_fix_loop_countpersists across audit-remediation cycles without reset. Earlier cycles consumed fix attempts on unrelated failures, leaving zero budget for the cycle that introduced the broken tests.Part A delivers: (a) a structural test banning POSIX character classes in SKILL.md bash blocks, mirroring the existing BRE
\|guard; (b) a semantic rule enforcing the same ban at recipe validation time; (c)FutureWarningescalation in pytest to catch anyre.compileon POSIX-class patterns; (d) the immediate SKILL.md fix on the feature branch ([ _-]replacing[[:space:]_-]).Part B will cover the cross-cycle fix-budget reset (recipe counter reset step, semantic rule for nested-loop counter isolation,
test_fix_max_retriesdescription alignment, cross-cycle budget tests, and AGENTS.md updates for the new rule).Part B delivers cross-cycle fix-budget isolation: resetting
test_fix_loop_countwhen the audit-remediation loop re-enters the implementation sub-cycle, a semantic rule enforcing that inner-loop counters are reset on outer-loop re-entry, description alignment fortest_fix_max_retries, and tests covering the cross-cycle accumulation scenario.Part A covered the POSIX character class dialect guard (semantic rule, test, FutureWarning escalation, compose-pr SKILL.md fix).
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/home/talon/projects/autoskillit-runs/remediation-20260706-130844-716303/.autoskillit/temp/rectify/rectify_posix_ere_dialect_and_cross_cycle_budget_2026-07-06_131500_part_a.md/home/talon/projects/autoskillit-runs/remediation-20260706-130844-716303/.autoskillit/temp/rectify/rectify_posix_ere_dialect_and_cross_cycle_budget_2026-07-06_131500_part_b.mdCloses #4192
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loop-counter-not-reset-on-outer-cycleships atWARNINGseverity instead of the plan-specifiedERROR. The plan's ERROR spec was empirically unachievable: at ERROR severity the rule fires on 28–31 pre-existing findings across the bundled recipes (verified in.autoskillit/temp/investigate/investigation_4192_remediation_pipeline_failure_2026-07-06_163023.mdin the main repo). Interim regression protection is provided by the three pin tests intests/recipe/test_rules_integration_predicate.py:301-322. Promotion to ERROR severity is tracked in follow-up issue #4194.