An independent reviewer found it and the claim was verified by measurement
before being accepted, not taken on trust.
test_portfolio_scripted_pass_makes_no_real_client raised from the patched
_default_factory to prove the scripted portfolio pass never builds a production
client. It cannot: the factory is called inside run_project's coroutine, and
run_portfolio gathers with return_exceptions=True, so the AssertionError was
collected into a RunFailure and never escaped. Measured directly -- with BOTH
the client_factory wiring and the rc rule detached, the blade stayed GREEN. It
was going red on rc alone, which means it was testing defect B while claiming
to test defect A. The original seven-mutation sweep did not catch this because
each mutation was applied singly, and dropping the wiring alone still flips rc.
Replaced with a call sentinel: a list appended inside the factory and asserted
in the test body, which the wave handler cannot swallow. Re-measured -- red on
the wiring detach alone, and red on both detaches together.
The docstring now also states what the sweep could not: blades 1 and 8 are
environment-conditional. The local profile points at loopback, so on a machine
running a local model server the wiring detach would make real calls and could
complete the pass. Their red was real on the machine it was measured on and is
not portable; blade 2's is.
Separately, the budget-stop print is marked as defensive and currently
unreachable from main(), because main() never constructs a PortfolioMeter and
every write to budget_stop is gated on one -- the strict=True precedent
directly above says untested future-proofing must be labelled as such. The
README claim that a portfolio pass reports a cap stop is corrected to say the
cap has no CLI flag yet. Noted for whoever wires that door: BudgetRefused is a
RuntimeError and the existing except clause would not catch it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0118noV9rCfrdREH26XqZB5z
Walking --portfolio end-to-end as a downloader would -- which no session had
done -- surfaced two defects of a class this repo already legislates against.
(A) --scripted-replies was silently DROPPED in portfolio mode. main()'s
portfolio dispatch returned before the block that builds the scripted client
factory, and the flag was absent from the single_only refusal set: neither
honoured nor refused. Measured against the shipped reference portfolio: no
banner, four real model calls attempted, four APIConnectionError. The previous
session joined this flag to the --report allowlist and missed the portfolio
partition. Resolved by WIRING rather than refusing -- run_portfolio already
exposes the same client_factory seam, and refusing would have left portfolio
mode with no offline door at all for an adopter without a model budget. The
scripted block is hoisted above the dispatch; the single-project required-arg
and semantic-retrieval refusals are hoisted with it so an incomplete argv is
still refused BEFORE the honesty banner could claim a scripted run happened,
and the refusal order within single-project mode is unchanged.
(B) A portfolio pass reported one of its four outcome channels. failures
(S3.3 collect-and-continue) and budget_stop (S3.4 global cap) never reached the
operator and rc was unconditionally 0, so the four-failure pass above printed
NOTHING and exited 0 -- silence read as success. BudgetStop is a separate field
precisely so exhaustion can be told from success; the CLI showed neither.
Failures now print to stderr with project id, error type and message; the
budget stop prints its four numbers; rc is 1 iff something raised. A budget
stop alone stays rc 0: exhaustion is a structured stop the operator asked for
by setting a cap, not a crash. Completed runs still print, so the non-zero rc
does not undo collect-and-continue.
Load-bearing MEASURED against the whole 662-test suite, seven mutations all
red, including both controls: detach the client_factory wiring - make the
banner a single-project courtesy again - detach the failure print - revert rc
to 0 - detach the budget-stop print - print the failure line unconditionally
(control) - print the budget-stop line unconditionally (control).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0118noV9rCfrdREH26XqZB5z
