The code cited its plan instead of saying why: `E28 review J4`, `(R6 S3b)`, `S1 justified…`,
`deep-review round 5`. That plan lives in the private ops repo, so for every reader of this one the
citation was noise, and a sentence whose subject was the plan step ("round 2 showed…") hid its
lesson behind an id. Each one is gone and the "why" kept: a bare citation is deleted, a sentence
carrying a lesson is reworded around it ("a later attempt showed…").
Measured (`scripts/audit_metrics.py`, product code): 652 lines in 270 files carried an epic code by
the definition the next commit holds (507 / 241 by the old, two-digit-only one) -> 0. Across all
code, tests, scripts and configs: ~1100 epic-code lines plus ~320 sprint/round ids.
Behaviour unchanged, checked mechanically: every changed .py file has the same AST once docstrings
are blanked; css/sh/toml/yml/json files are identical once comments are stripped; the only
non-comment changes in TS/JS are test titles, one description string in a contract table, and five
ESLint messages, whose text is all the gates snapshot diff holds. Not touched: Markdown (docs and
the changelog keep their history), Alembic migrations, TV episode notation (`S2 · E5`), DESIGN.md
ids (`C1`, `B4`, `S3h`), tracker ids (`SEC-16`, `DX-17`).
One stale claim fixed on the way: test_hls_reaper's docstring said the player checkpoints "every
10 s whether or not it is playing", which plex/stream.py calls wrong; it now says what the code does.
The Gitea Actions gate repeated, after the merge, what a release already runs
before it, and its runner shared the git host's container: one run there
starved Gitea of memory until it stopped answering. The lanes now live in
scripts/check.sh, run the same by the release dispatcher and by hand, and the
gate-contract test holds its lines (the ruff and pip-audit checks read it
instead of the workflow). The two audits only CI ran join the gate: pip-audit
over the lock (pinned in the test image, blocking at any severity) and npm
audit of the production dependencies. The engine contracts drop the CI
containers; the register records that pushes have no server-side gate.
0.93.2 shipped a week's worth of confusion about which Node this repo
runs on; the Python side had the identical shape and nobody had looked.
Prod (Dockerfile), the test image (Dockerfile.test) and CI (check.yml)
each spelled 3.12 as an independent literal, there was no
`.python-version`, no `requires-python`, and ruff had no target-version
so it judged our syntax against some other interpreter. The dev machine
had no 3.12 installed at all — only 3.13 and 3.14 — so every ad-hoc host
script ran two majors ahead of production.
`.python-version` is now the single source of truth, and the contract is
held by tests rather than by prose. It is split in two because no single
runner can see every link: the pytest suite runs inside the test image,
which mounts backend/ alone and cannot read the repo-root Dockerfile or
the workflow.
test_python_engine_contract.py : running interpreter == pyrightconfig
== ruff.toml
pythonEngine.contract.test.ts : .python-version == pyrightconfig ==
ruff.toml == Dockerfile ==
Dockerfile.test == check.yml
Together they close the loop, and the backend half carries the assertion
that pays — that the interpreter running the suite is the pinned one. A
green suite on another minor does not mean the shipped image is green;
it means they have drifted and nobody has noticed yet.
peter