The scan followed many shapes and called the rest unread, but each shape it learned opened a silent
branch: a parameter rebound in the body, a second visit of a followed helper, an `import app.x`, a name
bound twice or under an `if`, a spread or a store that replaces the code, a detail rebuilt from its
variable, a None reason. It now reads only what the app writes and reports everything else: a
branch the app never takes is gone (an `or`, a default, a base class's attribute, string and union
annotations, a bare module constant), a spread is clean only from an untouched `**kwargs` no call puts
a `code` in, and the detail's variable may only grow by `|=` or `["reason"]`. The real tree reads
exactly as before; every exit and every kept branch has a self-test that a mutant of it fails.
The detail test also fails a dict without a `code`, a JSONResponse sentence and a detail-less
HTTPException; the two that are no refusal (the setup gate's 503, an unmatched api path's 404) are
listed with why. The contract's assertion that compared the reason map with itself is gone.
The contract read Python with regexes, and each guard added for a missed shape had shapes of its own
it missed: a reason after another key, a status passed by name, a second `e.reason` handler with the
same text, a pin naming a type nothing checked.
backend/tests/refusal_sites.py (stdlib `ast`, run by the contract on the host's Python) reads every
`{"code": ...}` detail and follows each reason to its values: literals, both arms of a conditional,
module constants, the `Literal` on the parameter or attribute it travels in (on the class an `except`
catches), every call of a `str` helper with its defaults, a map's values with its keys held to the
index's type. What it cannot follow fails the contract, unless no screen shows that code; no pins.
The reason attributes are typed with their Literal, so a subclass or an assignment cannot widen
them; InvalidSetting takes a SettingReason, and the settings map is held to it (a reason the map
lacked was a 500). The per-family reverse checks are one check by prefix (the admin actions
included), and the leaf-key filter applies only to the suffixed sign-in family.
peter