repo-mailbox/scripts/board-selftest.sh

#!/bin/bash
# board-selftest.sh - prove board.sh end-to-end against a throwaway repo tree
# and a throwaway mailbox (never touches ~/repos or ~/.claude/coord). Re-run
# after any edit to board.sh. ASCII only, bash 3.2 safe.
#
# Multibyte STATE.md content (em-dash, the NESTE pointing-hand) is generated
# with printf octal escapes so this script's own source stays pure ASCII - a
# literal em-dash in shell source has crashed bash 3.2 under `set -u` before.
set -u
export LC_ALL=C

DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
BOARD="$DIR/board.sh"

ROOT="$(mktemp -d)"
CLAUDE_COORD_DIR="$(mktemp -d)"
export CLAUDE_COORD_DIR
cleanup() { /bin/rm -rf "$ROOT" "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR" 2>/dev/null; }
trap cleanup EXIT

PASS=0; FAIL=0
check() { if [ "$2" -eq 0 ]; then PASS=$((PASS+1)); echo "  ok   - $1"; else FAIL=$((FAIL+1)); echo "  FAIL - $1"; fi; }

# Multibyte building blocks (octal escapes keep this source ASCII).
EMDASH="$(printf '\342\200\224')"
HAND="$(printf '\360\237\221\211')"
OSLASH="$(printf '\303\270')"

mkrepo() { mkdir -p "$1" && git -C "$1" init -q 2>/dev/null; }

echo "board-selftest (root: $ROOT, mailbox: $CLAUDE_COORD_DIR)"

# --- 0. Empty root: no repos, still exits cleanly. ---
out0="$("$BOARD" --roots "$ROOT" 2>/dev/null)"; rc=$?
[ "$rc" -eq 0 ]; check "empty root exits 0" $?

# --- Fixture tree ---------------------------------------------------------

# repo-a: full board line, in-progress, cheap next step, unhandled inbox.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-a"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-a"
  echo ""
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=in-progress; blocked-on=-; next-cost=sonnet/xhigh -->"
  printf '**Lukk to MAJOR fra reviewen** %s deretter S3.3 concurrent fan-out.\n' "$EMDASH"
} > "$ROOT/repo-a/STATE.md"

# repo-b: STATE + NESTE prose but NO board line (the un-backfilled majority).
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-b"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-b"
  echo ""
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo ""
  printf '> Kj%sr forskningstema 1 headless %s hard gate for motorens arkitektur.\n' "$OSLASH" "$EMDASH"
} > "$ROOT/repo-b/STATE.md"

# repo-c: no STATE.md at all (dormant class).
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-c"

# repo-d: dirty working tree.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-d"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-d"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=deferred; blocked-on=-; next-cost=sonnet/high -->"
  echo "Parkert med vilje."
} > "$ROOT/repo-d/STATE.md"
# Commit STATE.md first, so the dirty count proves board counts UNCOMMITTED
# files only (2 junk files) rather than every file in a fresh tree.
git -C "$ROOT/repo-d" add STATE.md >/dev/null 2>&1
git -C "$ROOT/repo-d" -c user.email=t@t -c user.name=t commit -qm init >/dev/null 2>&1
: > "$ROOT/repo-d/junk1.txt"
: > "$ROOT/repo-d/junk2.txt"

# repo-e: malformed status token (must be flagged, never silently accepted).
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-e"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-e"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=aktiv; blocked-on=-; next-cost=opus/high -->"
  echo "Ugyldig token."
} > "$ROOT/repo-e/STATE.md"

# repo-g: prose containing a 'board:'-lookalike ABOVE the real board line.
# An unanchored substring grep would match 'dashboard:' first and mis-parse the
# whole repo; the board line is defined as living under the NESTE heading.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-g"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-g"
  echo "Vi bygde et dashboard: status=done ble diskutert i forrige runde."
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=planned; blocked-on=-; next-cost=opus/xhigh -->"
  echo "Ekte neste steg her."
} > "$ROOT/repo-g/STATE.md"

# repo-h: next-cost written the way the model rubric actually names the models,
# with a space and capitals ("Sonnet 5/xhigh"). This is spec-conformant
# (<modell>/<effort>) and must parse - a lowercase-only pattern silently drops
# it to "?" and hides the cost column exactly where it is needed.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-h"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-h"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=in-progress; blocked-on=-; next-cost=Sonnet 5/xhigh -->"
  echo "Neste steg her."
} > "$ROOT/repo-h/STATE.md"

# polyrepo/: NOT a git repo itself, but holds git repos one level down.
mkdir -p "$ROOT/polyrepo"
mkrepo "$ROOT/polyrepo/plug-x"
{
  echo "# STATE - plug-x"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=blocked; blocked-on=repo-a; next-cost=opus/high -->"
  printf 'Venter p%s amendment-pakken.\n' "$EMDASH"
} > "$ROOT/polyrepo/plug-x/STATE.md"

# repo-wt + wt-feature: a git WORKTREE (and a submodule) has .git as a FILE,
# not a directory. A `git worktree add <root>/feature-x` yields a sibling
# directory that can CARRY its own STATE.md. Testing discovery for a .git
# DIRECTORY only drops it silently - the same silent-loss class as the V6
# marker fix.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-wt"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-wt"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=done; blocked-on=-; next-cost=sonnet/high -->"
  printf 'Hovedtreet %s ferdig.\n' "$EMDASH"
} > "$ROOT/repo-wt/STATE.md"
git -C "$ROOT/repo-wt" add STATE.md >/dev/null 2>&1
git -C "$ROOT/repo-wt" -c user.email=t@t -c user.name=t commit -qm init >/dev/null 2>&1
git -C "$ROOT/repo-wt" -c user.email=t@t -c user.name=t \
  worktree add -q -b feature-x "$ROOT/wt-feature" >/dev/null 2>&1
# Distinct board line, so the check proves board read the STATE INSIDE the
# worktree rather than matching the source repo's row by accident.
{
  echo "# STATE - wt-feature"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=in-progress; blocked-on=-; next-cost=fable/xhigh -->"
  printf 'Arbeid i worktree %s eget neste steg.\n' "$EMDASH"
} > "$ROOT/wt-feature/STATE.md"

# repo-old: fresh STATE.md, last COMMIT 400 days old. This is the case the
# fixture tree was missing entirely: with age read off STATE.md's mtime, a repo
# whose work stopped long ago looks exactly as alive as one touched this
# morning, and no column contradicts it.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-old"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-old"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=in-progress; blocked-on=-; next-cost=Opus 5/high -->"
  echo "Ser levende ut, men ingen commit paa lenge."
} > "$ROOT/repo-old/STATE.md"
OLD_EPOCH=$(( $(date +%s) - 400 * 86400 ))
git -C "$ROOT/repo-old" add STATE.md >/dev/null 2>&1
# %ct is the COMMITTER date. `--date=` sets the AUTHOR date only and would
# leave %ct at now, so the fixture would be backdated in name only.
GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="@$OLD_EPOCH +0000" GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="@$OLD_EPOCH +0000" \
  git -C "$ROOT/repo-old" -c user.email=t@t -c user.name=t commit -qm init >/dev/null 2>&1

# repo-stale: the mirror image - STATE.md untouched since a fixed past date,
# last commit today. The pair pins that the two ages are independent readings
# and that neither of them silently became the sort key.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-stale"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-stale"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=in-progress; blocked-on=-; next-cost=Opus 5/high -->"
  echo "Gammel STATE, fersk commit."
} > "$ROOT/repo-stale/STATE.md"
git -C "$ROOT/repo-stale" add STATE.md >/dev/null 2>&1
git -C "$ROOT/repo-stale" -c user.email=t@t -c user.name=t commit -qm init >/dev/null 2>&1
touch -t 202601010000 "$ROOT/repo-stale/STATE.md"

# plain-dir/: no git repo anywhere under it - must be ignored entirely.
mkdir -p "$ROOT/plain-dir/sub"
echo "hei" > "$ROOT/plain-dir/sub/file.txt"

# Coord fixture: 3 unhandled for repo-a, 1 archived (must not be counted).
mkdir -p "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/repo-a/inbox" "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/repo-a/archive"
for n in 1 2 3; do echo "msg" > "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/repo-a/inbox/2026-msg$n-from-x.md"; done
echo "old" > "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/repo-a/archive/2026-old-from-x.md"

# repo-owes: unhandled inbox AND a route line, so the briefing can derive the
# EXACT startup command - advisor flag included - from the repo's own four
# traits instead of guessing from next-cost alone. Its NESTE runs deliberately
# past the table's 38-character column: carrying that line whole is the reason
# the briefing exists at all.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-owes"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-owes"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=in-progress; blocked-on=-; next-cost=Sonnet 5/high -->"
  echo "<!-- route: path=known; verification=strong; reversibility=cheap; scope=local; rationale=x -->"
  echo "Svar org-ops om badge-formatet, deretter bump katalogens ref og verifiser check-versions."
} > "$ROOT/repo-owes/STATE.md"
mkdir -p "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/repo-owes/inbox"
echo "msg" > "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/repo-owes/inbox/2026-msg1-from-y.md"

# repo-typo: a route line that EXISTS but carries a value outside route.sh's
# closed set. This is the case that actually occurs as route lines are written
# by hand across repos, and it is distinct from having no route line at all:
# route.sh exits 2, the command comes back empty, and the briefing must say so
# rather than print a bare "$ " that reads as a runnable command.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-typo"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-typo"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=planned; blocked-on=-; next-cost=Opus 5/high -->"
  echo "<!-- route: path=knwon; verification=strong; reversibility=cheap; scope=local; rationale=x -->"
  echo "Neste steg for repo-typo."
} > "$ROOT/repo-typo/STATE.md"
mkdir -p "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/repo-typo/inbox"
echo "msg" > "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/repo-typo/inbox/2026-msg1-from-y.md"

# --- Focus fixtures --------------------------------------------------------
# The topic marker grammar is the register's, not this repo's: a STATE.md line
# of the form `<slug>: <status-token> <emdash> prose`. board.sh only ever READS
# it, and reads it from STATE.md alone - it must never start opening
# register.md to learn the vocabulary, so the slug set is whatever the scanned
# STATE.md files declare.
#
# repo-focus-plain declares the slug in the bare form.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-focus-plain"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-focus-plain"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=in-progress; blocked-on=-; next-cost=Opus 5/high -->"
  echo "Neste steg for repo-focus-plain."
  echo ""
  printf -- '- demo-topic: in-progress %s wired at the boundary, ingen apen trad\n' "$EMDASH"
} > "$ROOT/repo-focus-plain/STATE.md"

# repo-focus-bold: the SAME declaration wrapped in bold and backticks. This is
# the class the register's own grep loses, and it was the most consequential
# find in the measurement that produced the decision - a heavy consumer made
# invisible by two asterisks. A reader that only accepts the bare form
# reproduces that defect.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-focus-bold"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-focus-bold"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=planned; blocked-on=-; next-cost=Sonnet 5/high -->"
  echo "Neste steg for repo-focus-bold."
  echo ""
  printf -- '- **`demo-topic`**: planned %s pin bumpet, ikke startet\n' "$EMDASH"
} > "$ROOT/repo-focus-bold/STATE.md"

# repo-focus-mentions: names the slug in prose and declares NOTHING. This is
# the held-back class the report exists for. It is in-progress with a live
# next step, so the cutoff genuinely removes a repo that would otherwise be a
# tab - which is what makes silence about it a lie rather than a rounding.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-focus-mentions"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-focus-mentions"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=in-progress; blocked-on=-; next-cost=Opus 5/high -->"
  echo "Vi pinner demo-topic i byggefila, men har aldri skrevet en markorlinje."
} > "$ROOT/repo-focus-mentions/STATE.md"

# repo-focus-other: declares a DIFFERENT slug sharing one hyphen-part, so
# "topic" resolves to two slugs and "demo" to one. Ambiguity must widen the
# answer and say so, never silently pick a winner.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-focus-other"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-focus-other"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=planned; blocked-on=-; next-cost=Sonnet 5/high -->"
  echo "Neste steg for repo-focus-other."
  echo ""
  printf -- '- other-topic: planned %s ikke startet\n' "$EMDASH"
} > "$ROOT/repo-focus-other/STATE.md"

OUT="$("$BOARD" --roots "$ROOT" 2>/dev/null)"

# --- 1. Discovery ---------------------------------------------------------
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -q 'repo-a'; check "discovers top-level git repo" $?
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -q 'plug-x'; check "discovers nested polyrepo git repo (depth 2)" $?
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -q 'repo-c'; check "lists git repo without STATE.md" $?
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -q 'plain-dir'; [ $? -ne 0 ]; check "ignores non-git directory tree" $?
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -q 'polyrepo'; [ $? -ne 0 ]; check "polyrepo container itself is not listed as a repo" $?
# Guard the fixture itself: if git ever stops writing a .git FILE for
# worktrees, the next two checks would pass for the wrong reason.
[ -f "$ROOT/wt-feature/.git" ]; check "fixture: worktree .git is a FILE, not a dir" $?
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -q 'wt-feature'; check "discovers git worktree (.git is a file)" $?
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -qE 'wt-feature.*fable/xhigh'
check "reads STATE.md from inside the worktree, not the source repo" $?

# --- 2. Board line parsing (the B field) ----------------------------------
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -q 'in-progress'; check "parses status token from board line" $?
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -q 'sonnet/xhigh'; check "parses next-cost from board line" $?
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -qE 'repo-h.*Sonnet 5/xhigh'
check "next-cost accepts spaces and capitals (rubric model names)" $?
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -qE 'plug-x.*repo-a'
check "blocked repo names its blocker on its own row" $?
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -q 'deferred'; check "distinguishes deferred from blocked" $?

# --- 3. Malformed input is flagged, not swallowed -------------------------
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -qi 'malformed\|ugyldig\|invalid'; check "malformed status token is flagged" $?

# A 'dashboard:' lookalike earlier in the file must not win over the real line.
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -qE 'repo-g.*planned.*opus/xhigh'
check "board-line parse ignores 'board:' lookalikes in prose" $?

# --- 4. Heuristic fallback when board line is absent -----------------------
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -q 'repo-b'; check "repo without board line still listed" $?
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -qi 'forskningstema\|headless'; check "shows NESTE excerpt when board line absent" $?
# Markdown noise must be stripped: a blockquoted NESTE line renders as prose.
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -qE 'repo-b.*[[:space:]]>'; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "blockquote marker stripped from NESTE excerpt" $?

# --- 5. Git + coord signals ------------------------------------------------
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -qE 'repo-d.*[^0-9]2([^0-9]|$)'; check "reports dirty file count" $?
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -qE 'repo-a.*[^0-9]3([^0-9]|$)'; check "reports unhandled coord inbox count (archive excluded)" $?

# --- 6. Bucketing ----------------------------------------------------------
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -qi 'blocked'; check "blocked repo surfaced" $?
printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -qiE 'dormant|sovende|uten STATE'; check "STATE-less repos bucketed separately" $?

# --- 7. Robustness ---------------------------------------------------------
# Multibyte prose must not crash the reader nor emit split-character garbage.
[ -n "$OUT" ]; check "produces output over multibyte STATE prose" $?
printf '%s' "$OUT" | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 >/dev/null 2>&1
check "output is valid UTF-8 (no split multibyte truncation)" $?

# A STATE.md with a NESTE heading and nothing after it must not hang or crash.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-f"
{ echo "# STATE - repo-f"; printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"; } > "$ROOT/repo-f/STATE.md"
"$BOARD" --roots "$ROOT" >/dev/null 2>&1; check "empty NESTE block does not crash" $?

"$BOARD" --help >/dev/null 2>&1; check "--help exits 0" $?

# Unreadable root is a no-op, not a crash.
"$BOARD" --roots "$ROOT/does-not-exist" >/dev/null 2>&1; check "missing root is a clean no-op" $?

# --- 8. The documented next-cost form IS the convention --------------------
# The cost field is free text on purpose: the parser reads to ';' or '-->' so
# the rubric's spacing survives, and the fixtures above deliberately vary the
# spelling to pin that leniency. But leniency on the read side means the ONLY
# thing holding the field uniform is what --help prescribes, and --help once
# prescribed a versionless `sonnet/xhigh` while the global rubric spelled
# `Sonnet 5 / xhigh`. Two specs for one field: measured across the real tree,
# not one board line used ours, and eight distinct strings were in circulation.
# Pinned here because cleaning the DATA cannot fix that - a spec that
# contradicts the rubric regenerates the divergence every session.
HELP="$("$BOARD" --help 2>/dev/null)"
printf '%s' "$HELP" | grep -q 'next-cost=Sonnet 5/xhigh'
check "--help prescribes the canonical next-cost form" $?
# The versionless form is what the rubric does NOT use; no example may show it.
if printf '%s' "$HELP" | grep -qE '(sonnet|opus|fable)/(high|xhigh)'; then rc=1; else rc=0; fi
check "--help shows no versionless model example" "$rc"

# --- 9. SISTE: last commit, read for EVERY repo ----------------------------
# One column, one meaning. ALDER answers "when was the plan last touched" and
# is blank where there is no plan; SISTE answers "when did anything last land"
# and is read for every repo. Before this, a single ALDER column carried both
# readings depending on which branch a repo fell into, so a repo with a STATE.md
# could go a year without a commit and show nothing at all.
[ "$(git -C "$ROOT/repo-old" log -1 --format=%ct 2>/dev/null)" = "$OLD_EPOCH" ]
check "fixture: repo-old's COMMITTER date is actually backdated" $?

printf '%s' "$OUT" | grep -q 'SISTE'; check "table has a SISTE column" $?

printf '%s\n' "$OUT" | grep -qE '^repo-old .*[[:space:]]0d[[:space:]]+40[01]d[[:space:]]'
check "fresh STATE.md + old commit: ALDER stays 0d, SISTE shows the 400 days" $?

printf '%s\n' "$OUT" | grep -qE '^repo-stale .*[[:space:]][1-9][0-9]*d[[:space:]]+0d[[:space:]]'
check "old STATE.md + fresh commit: the two ages read independently" $?

# A repo with no commits has no last commit to report. A day count there would
# be a fabricated reading, and the pre-existing -1d was exactly that.
# The -n guard is load-bearing: an absent row would leave crow empty, and an
# empty string trivially contains no day count - the check would pass by
# finding nothing rather than by reading the row.
crow="$(printf '%s\n' "$OUT" | grep '^repo-c ')"
if [ -n "$crow" ] && ! printf '%s' "$crow" | grep -qE '[0-9]+d'; then rc=0; else rc=1; fi
check "repo with no commits reports no day count in either age column" "$rc"

# The four ranking rules stay four: SISTE is evidence the operator reads, never
# an input to the order. If it had become the sort key, repo-old (400d) would
# fall behind repo-stale (0d) instead of ahead of it.
n_old="$(printf '%s\n' "$OUT" | grep -n '^repo-old ' | cut -d: -f1)"
n_stale="$(printf '%s\n' "$OUT" | grep -n '^repo-stale ' | cut -d: -f1)"
[ -n "$n_old" ] && [ -n "$n_stale" ] && [ "$n_old" -lt "$n_stale" ]
check "SISTE is evidence, not a ranking input (order still follows ALDER)" $?

# --- 8. Briefing rendering (--brief) --------------------------------------
# A second rendering of the SAME scan, never a second scan: the briefing
# answers "who is waiting on me and what does answering cost", where the table
# answers "what is the state of every repo".
BRIEF="$("$BOARD" --roots "$ROOT" --brief 2>/dev/null)"

printf '%s' "$BRIEF" | grep -q 'repo-owes'
check "brief includes a repo with an unhandled inbox" $?

printf '%s' "$BRIEF" | grep -q 'repo-b'; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "brief excludes a repo that owes nothing" $?

# The table cuts NESTE at 38 characters. The briefing carries the whole line,
# so the tail past the cut is the thing being proved here.
printf '%s' "$BRIEF" | grep -q 'check-versions'
check "brief prints the full NESTE line, not the 38-char table excerpt" $?

# Derived by CALLING route.sh with the repo's own four traits - deliberately
# not spelled out in board.sh - so the rubric keeps exactly one copy. Row 1
# carries the advisor, which is what makes the quota fallback safe to take.
printf '%s' "$BRIEF" | grep -q 'claude --model sonnet --effort high --advisor opus'
check "brief derives the exact startup command from the repo's route line" $?

# The command must start its OWN line. `fold` copies its input's missing
# trailing newline, which ran the command onto the tail of the NESTE prose and
# produced a briefing whose commands could not be copied - caught by eye
# against the real tree, which is exactly what a check is for.
printf '%s' "$BRIEF" | grep -qE '^    \$ claude --model'
check "startup command starts on its own line, not appended to NESTE prose" $?

# A route line that parses to a value route.sh rejects must degrade the same
# way a missing one does. Silence here would print a bare '$ ' - the shape of a
# runnable command, carrying nothing - which is worse than an absent command
# because it looks copied-and-pasteable.
printf '%s' "$BRIEF" | grep -A4 'repo-typo' | grep -qi 'route'
check "unparseable route line degrades to a marker, not to an empty command" $?

printf '%s' "$BRIEF" | grep -A4 'repo-typo' | grep -qE '^    \$ claude'; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "unparseable route line never emits a command line at all" $?

# repo-a owes 3 messages and has no route line. A fabricated command would be
# worse than none: it would read as authoritative while being a guess.
printf '%s' "$BRIEF" | grep -A4 'repo-a' | grep -qi 'route'
check "repo owing mail but lacking a route line is marked, never guessed at" $?

# Read-only by construction, and the briefing must not erode it. Reading IS
# delivering in this engine, so a survey that consumed a backlog would be
# precisely the defect the whole design forbids.
snap() { find "$1" -type f -exec stat -f '%N %m %z' {} \; 2>/dev/null | sort; }
b4="$(snap "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR")"
"$BOARD" --roots "$ROOT" --brief >/dev/null 2>&1
[ "$b4" = "$(snap "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR")" ]
check "brief writes nothing to the mailbox (reading is delivering)" $?

# A mailbox can carry a name the repo scan will NEVER produce: a declared
# non-git surface (CLAUDE_COORD_REPO, e.g. ~/repos itself) or a checkout
# outside the scan roots. board.sh discovers git repos, so such a mailbox is
# invisible to every column it prints - and the briefing exists to answer "who
# is waiting on you", where dropping one silently is the loss-wearing-the-
# shape-of-normal class this engine keeps naming. Measured against the real
# mailbox before this check existed: 11 repos / 21 messages in the briefing
# against 12 mailboxes / 22 pending in coord-count.
mkdir -p "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/orphan-surface/inbox"
echo "msg" > "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/orphan-surface/inbox/2026-msg1-from-z.md"
BRIEF2="$("$BOARD" --roots "$ROOT" --brief 2>/dev/null)"

printf '%s' "$BRIEF2" | grep -q 'orphan-surface'
check "brief surfaces a pending mailbox that has no repo in the scan tree" $?

# It must be reported as its own class, not silently folded in among repos the
# scan actually found - there is no STATE.md behind it and so no next step.
printf '%s' "$BRIEF2" | grep -qi 'utenfor repo-skannen\|uten repo'
check "orphan mailbox is reported as its own class, not as a scanned repo" $?

# --- 9. brief-nightly.sh: the only writer, and it writes atomically -------
# board.sh stays read-only, so the file write lives in a separate wrapper.
# Unattended overwrite must never expose a half-written briefing: the wrapper
# renders to a temp file in the same directory and renames it into place.
NIGHTLY="$DIR/brief-nightly.sh"
OUTFILE="$ROOT/briefing.md"
CLAUDE_BRIEF_FILE="$OUTFILE" BOARD_ROOTS="$ROOT" bash "$NIGHTLY" >/dev/null 2>&1
check "brief-nightly exits 0" $?

[ -f "$OUTFILE" ] && grep -q 'repo-owes' "$OUTFILE"
check "brief-nightly writes the briefing to CLAUDE_BRIEF_FILE" $?

ls "$OUTFILE".tmp.* >/dev/null 2>&1; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "brief-nightly leaves no temp file behind" $?

# An EMPTY render is a failed render, and must leave the previous briefing
# standing rather than truncating it to nothing - the failure mode a plain
# `> file` redirect has, and the reason the temp-then-rename exists. A repo
# tree where nobody owes anything is NOT this case: that renders a valid,
# non-empty briefing saying so, and is written normally.
echo "FORRIGE BRIEFING" > "$OUTFILE"
CLAUDE_BRIEF_FILE="$OUTFILE" BOARD_ROOTS="$ROOT/does-not-exist" \
  bash "$NIGHTLY" >/dev/null 2>&1
grep -q 'FORRIGE BRIEFING' "$OUTFILE"
check "empty render never overwrites the previous briefing" $?

# --- 10. Day-plan rendering (--plan) ---------------------------------------
# A THIRD rendering of the same scan, on exactly the argument --brief was built
# on. The table answers "what is the state of every repo"; the briefing answers
# "who is waiting on me"; the plan answers "which repos do I open a tab for
# today, in what order, with which command". It has TWO consumers - the operator
# pasting commands, and a separate driver repo consuming the plan - which is why
# it renders key=value blocks rather than prose: prose would make the FORMAT an
# API that no test in this repo could hold stable.
#
# repo-blocked-owes: blocked AND owing mail. The exclusion of `blocked` is about
# a repo's OWN next step, which by definition cannot be moved; answering a
# message is a different axis, and is often precisely what unblocks it. Without
# this fixture the debt-first rule and the status exclusion never meet, and
# whichever one was written second would silently win.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-blocked-owes"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-blocked-owes"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=blocked; blocked-on=repo-a; next-cost=Opus 5/high -->"
  printf 'Venter p%s repo-a, men skylder to svar.\n' "$EMDASH"
} > "$ROOT/repo-blocked-owes/STATE.md"
mkdir -p "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/repo-blocked-owes/inbox"
for n in 1 2; do
  echo "msg" > "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/repo-blocked-owes/inbox/2026-msg$n-from-w.md"
done

# repo-done-owes: done AND owing mail. Same rule as repo-blocked-owes, but this
# is the shape that actually occurs - measured on the real tree at 0.16.0, two
# of the 26 planned repos were `done` with an unhandled inbox, and none were
# blocked-with-debt. A repo whose own work is finished can still owe an answer.
mkrepo "$ROOT/repo-done-owes"
{
  echo "# STATE - repo-done-owes"
  printf '## %s NESTE %s START HER\n' "$HAND" "$EMDASH"
  echo "<!-- board: status=done; blocked-on=-; next-cost=Sonnet 5/high -->"
  printf 'Arbeidet er ferdig %s men innboksen er ikke gjort opp.\n' "$EMDASH"
} > "$ROOT/repo-done-owes/STATE.md"
mkdir -p "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/repo-done-owes/inbox"
echo "msg" > "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/repo-done-owes/inbox/2026-msg1-from-w.md"

PLAN="$("$BOARD" --roots "$ROOT" --plan 2>/dev/null)"; rc=$?
check "--plan exits 0" "$rc"

printf '%s' "$PLAN" | grep -q '^# PLAN '
check "plan carries a header naming what it is" $?

# Machine-readable by construction: the driver repo reads these keys.
printf '%s' "$PLAN" | grep -q '^tab=1$'
check "plan numbers tabs starting at 1" $?

# Debt outranks everything, most-owed first. repo-a owes 3, repo-blocked-owes 2,
# repo-owes and repo-typo 1 each.
[ "$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -A1 '^tab=1$' | grep '^repo=' | cut -d= -f2)" = "repo-a" ]
check "the repo owing the most messages is tab 1" $?

n_a="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -n '^repo=repo-a$' | cut -d: -f1)"
n_bo="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -n '^repo=repo-blocked-owes$' | cut -d: -f1)"
n_ow="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -n '^repo=repo-owes$' | cut -d: -f1)"
[ -n "$n_a" ] && [ -n "$n_bo" ] && [ -n "$n_ow" ] \
  && [ "$n_a" -lt "$n_bo" ] && [ "$n_bo" -lt "$n_ow" ]
check "debt group is ordered by message count, descending" $?

# The status exclusion is about a repo's own next step, never about its debt.
printf '%s' "$PLAN" | grep -q '^repo=repo-blocked-owes$'
check "a BLOCKED repo that owes mail is still planned (debt is the other axis)" $?

printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -A4 '^repo=repo-blocked-owes$' | grep -q '^why=inbox:2$'
check "a blocked repo in the plan says debt, not status, is why it is there" $?

# Debt before live work: repo-h is in-progress and owes nothing.
n_h="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -n '^repo=repo-h$' | cut -d: -f1)"
[ -n "$n_h" ] && [ "$n_ow" -lt "$n_h" ]
check "every repo owing mail is planned before any that owes none" $?

# repo-a is BOTH in-progress and owing. It must appear exactly once - a repo
# listed twice is two tabs for one repo, which is the plan failing at its job.
[ "$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -c '^repo=repo-a$')" -eq 1 ]
check "a repo qualifying under two rules is planned exactly once" $?

printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -A3 '^repo=repo-a$' | grep -q '^why=inbox:3$'
check "why= names the rule that put the repo in the plan" $?

# in-progress outranks planned among the repos owing nothing.
n_g="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -n '^repo=repo-g$' | cut -d: -f1)"
[ -n "$n_g" ] && [ "$n_h" -lt "$n_g" ]
check "live work (in-progress) is planned before merely planned work" $?

# Excluded classes. A tab for a done or deferred repo is noise; a tab for a
# blocked repo that owes nothing cannot be moved at all.
printf '%s' "$PLAN" | grep -q '^repo=repo-wt$'; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "plan excludes a done repo that owes nothing" $?

# ...but the exclusion is conditional on owing nothing, and the header says so.
# Read the other way, the plan's own header would call these entries a bug.
printf '%s' "$PLAN" | grep -q '^repo=repo-done-owes$'
check "a DONE repo that owes mail is still planned" $?
printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -A4 '^repo=repo-done-owes$' | grep -q '^status=done$'
check "a done repo in the plan still reports its real status" $?
printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -m1 '^# Utelatt' | grep -q 'skylder svar'
check "the header states the exclusions are conditional on owing nothing" $?
printf '%s' "$PLAN" | grep -q '^repo=repo-d$'; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "plan excludes a deferred repo" $?
printf '%s' "$PLAN" | grep -q '^repo=plug-x$'; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "plan excludes a blocked repo that owes nothing" $?
printf '%s' "$PLAN" | grep -q '^repo=repo-c$'; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "plan excludes a repo with no STATE.md and no debt" $?

# A repo with no board line has no declared next step, but dropping it SILENTLY
# is what the table's own MERK line exists to prevent. It is planned last and
# labelled, never omitted.
printf '%s' "$PLAN" | grep -q '^repo=repo-b$'
check "a repo lacking a board line is planned, not silently dropped" $?
printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -A3 '^repo=repo-b$' | grep -q '^why=uavklart$'
check "a repo with unknown status is labelled uavklart, not guessed into a rule" $?
n_b="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -n '^repo=repo-b$' | cut -d: -f1)"
[ -n "$n_b" ] && [ "$n_g" -lt "$n_b" ]
check "uavklart repos rank below every repo that declared a status" $?

# The command comes from route.sh, same single copy of the rubric the briefing
# uses - advisor flag included, since that is a property of the ROW.
printf '%s' "$PLAN" | grep -q '^command=claude --model sonnet --effort high --advisor opus$'
check "plan derives the exact startup command from the repo's route line" $?

# Both no-command causes must degrade to a marker. A bare `command=` would be
# the shape of a runnable command carrying nothing - worse than none, because a
# driver reading `^command=` would type an empty line into a live pane.
printf '%s' "$PLAN" | grep -q '^command=$'; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "plan never emits an empty command= line" $?

printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -A6 '^repo=repo-typo$' | grep -q '^command_missing='
check "unparseable route line degrades to command_missing=, not to a guess" $?
printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -A6 '^repo=repo-a$' | grep -q '^command_missing='
check "repo owing mail but lacking a route line is marked, never guessed at" $?

# Same argument as the briefing: the 38-char cut is the TABLE column's property.
printf '%s' "$PLAN" | grep -q '^neste=.*check-versions'
check "plan prints the full NESTE line, not the 38-char table excerpt" $?

# paste= is the operator's line and command= is the driver's. Both are kept
# because they answer different questions: a driver cd's the pane itself and
# would choke on a compound line, while the operator needs ONE thing to copy.
# Assembling it by hand from two fields is where a tab lands in the wrong repo.
printf '%s' "$PLAN" | grep -q "^paste=cd $ROOT/repo-owes && claude --model sonnet --effort high --advisor opus\$"
check "paste= is the whole line: cd into the repo, then the startup command" $?

printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -A7 '^repo=repo-typo$' | grep -q '^paste='; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "a repo with no usable route line gets no paste line either" $?

# The driver cds into this, so a relative or missing path lands a session in the
# wrong repo - constraint 2 of the Ghostty measurement, in field form.
pdir="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -m1 '^dir=' | cut -d= -f2-)"
[ -n "$pdir" ] && [ -d "$pdir" ] && [ "${pdir#/}" != "$pdir" ]
check "dir= is an absolute path that exists" $?

# Every block must be complete: a driver that reads a block missing dir= or
# command= has no safe default, and guessing one types into a live pane.
n_tab="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -c '^tab=')"
n_rep="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -c '^repo=')"
n_dir="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -c '^dir=')"
n_why="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -c '^why=')"
n_sta="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -c '^status=')"
n_nes="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -c '^neste=')"
n_cmd="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -c '^command=')"
n_cms="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -c '^command_missing=')"
[ "$n_tab" -gt 0 ] && [ "$n_rep" -eq "$n_tab" ] && [ "$n_dir" -eq "$n_tab" ] \
  && [ "$n_why" -eq "$n_tab" ] && [ "$n_sta" -eq "$n_tab" ] \
  && [ "$n_nes" -eq "$n_tab" ] && [ $(( n_cmd + n_cms )) -eq "$n_tab" ]
check "every planned block carries every field exactly once" $?

# paste= is one per command=, never one per block: a repo with no command has
# nothing to paste, and `paste=cd X && ` would run the cd and then a bare
# newline - putting the operator in the right repo with no session started.
n_pst="$(printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -c '^paste=')"
[ "$n_pst" -eq "$n_cmd" ]
check "paste= appears exactly where command= does, never beside command_missing" $?

# Numbering must be dense: a driver opening tab 4 of 3 is a real failure mode.
seq_ok=0
printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep '^tab=' | cut -d= -f2 > "$ROOT/tabs.txt"
# An empty tab list satisfies "every number is its index" vacuously, which is
# the check passing by finding nothing rather than by reading the numbering.
[ -s "$ROOT/tabs.txt" ] || seq_ok=1
i=0; while read -r t; do i=$((i+1)); [ "$t" = "$i" ] || seq_ok=1; done < "$ROOT/tabs.txt"
check "tab numbers are dense and consecutive" "$seq_ok"

# Read-only, same as every other rendering. Reading IS delivering in this
# engine, so a plan that consumed a backlog would be the core defect.
p4="$(snap "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR")"
"$BOARD" --roots "$ROOT" --plan >/dev/null 2>&1
[ "$p4" = "$(snap "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR")" ]
check "plan writes nothing to the mailbox (reading is delivering)" $?

# The scan and the mailbox are two populations. An orphan mailbox has no repo to
# cd into, so it cannot BE a tab - but dropping it makes the plan claim a
# completeness it knows it lacks. It is reported as commentary.
printf '%s' "$PLAN" | grep -q 'orphan-surface'
check "plan surfaces a pending mailbox with no repo in the scan tree" $?
printf '%s' "$PLAN" | grep -q '^repo=orphan-surface$'; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "orphan mailbox is commentary, never a tab block (there is no dir to cd to)" $?

# Comment lines are '#'-prefixed so a consumer can drop them with one rule.
printf '%s\n' "$PLAN" | grep -vE '^#|^$|^[a-z_]+=' | grep -q .; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "every plan line is a comment, a blank, or a key=value pair" $?

printf '%s' "$PLAN" | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 >/dev/null 2>&1
check "plan output is valid UTF-8" $?

"$BOARD" --help 2>/dev/null | grep -q '\-\-plan'
check "--help documents --plan" $?

# --- 11. Focused day plan (--focus) ---------------------------------------
# --focus is the first CUTOFF the plan has ever had, and every check here
# exists because a cutoff is exactly what the plan format promised it was not.
# The filter alone is half the feature; the other half is the run saying what
# it held back, and they ship together or not at all.
FPLAIN="$("$BOARD" --roots "$ROOT" --plan 2>/dev/null)"
FDEMO="$("$BOARD" --roots "$ROOT" --plan --focus demo 2>/dev/null)"

n_all="$(printf '%s\n' "$FPLAIN" | grep -c '^repo=')"
n_focus="$(printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep -c '^repo=')"

# The operator's instruction, as a test: prove it NARROWS. Every other check
# in this section passes trivially against a no-op filter, which is precisely
# the state the argument was in before this feature - swallowed by the unknown
# argument fallback, full plan returned, no crash. "It did not crash" is not
# evidence of a filter.
[ "$n_focus" -lt "$n_all" ] && [ "$n_focus" -gt 0 ]
check "focused plan is strictly smaller than the full plan, and not empty" $?

printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep -q '^repo=repo-focus-plain$'
check "a repo declaring the slug survives the focus" $?

printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep -q '^repo=repo-focus-bold$'
check "a bold/backtick declaration counts as declared (the register's grep loses it)" $?

printf '%s\n' "$FPLAIN" | grep -q '^repo=repo-a$'
printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep -q '^repo=repo-a$'; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "an off-topic repo is in the full plan and gone from the focused one" $?

printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep -q '^repo=repo-focus-other$'; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "a repo declaring a DIFFERENT slug is not swept in" $?

# The precondition. A repo that mentions the slug without declaring it is
# neither kept nor dropped silently: it is named. Enumerating this class - not
# reasoning about it - is what found the heaviest consumer in the real tree.
printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep -q '^fokus_utenfor='
check "the run reports the repos it held back" $?

printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep '^fokus_utenfor=' | grep -q 'repo-focus-mentions'
check "the held-back report NAMES the repo, not just a count" $?

printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep -q '^repo=repo-focus-mentions$'; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "a mention without a marker line does not become a tab" $?

# Wording is load-bearing: board.sh reads text, and has no grounds whatever
# for a claim about relevance. It says what it FOUND.
printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep '^fokus_utenfor=' | grep -q 'nevner'
check "the held-back line says 'nevner' (a fact about text found)" $?

printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep '^fokus_utenfor=' | grep -qi 'dekker'; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "the held-back line never claims a repo 'dekker' the topic" $?

# It states its own reach: 27 STATE.md, not "the tree". One repo in the real
# measurement has its strongest evidence in a README the scan never opens.
printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep -q '^fokus_rekkevidde=.*STATE.md'
check "the run states its reach (N STATE.md searched, live-counted)" $?

n_state="$(printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | sed -n 's/^fokus_rekkevidde=sokt i \([0-9]*\) STATE.md.*/\1/p')"
# Both depths, because that is what board SCANS. The register's own roll-up
# greps ~/repos/*/STATE.md and so cannot see a polyrepo child; the reach line
# must state the population board actually searched, not the register's.
real_state="$(ls "$ROOT"/*/STATE.md "$ROOT"/*/*/STATE.md 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')"
[ -n "$n_state" ] && [ "$n_state" = "$real_state" ]
check "the reach count is measured, never a constant" $?

printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep -q '^fokus=demo-topic$'
check "the run names the slug the prose resolved to" $?

# Per-block evidence: a focused run must say why each surviving block survived.
# This is the need that closed topics= - relocated from all 27 blocks every
# day into the focused run, where it is actually evidence.
n_blocks="$(printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep -c '^repo=')"
n_ev="$(printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep -c '^fokus_treff=')"
[ "$n_ev" -eq "$n_blocks" ] && ev_ok=0 || ev_ok=1
check "every surviving block carries its own evidence (fokus_treff=)" "$ev_ok"

printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep '^fokus_treff=' | grep -q 'demo-topic'
check "the per-block evidence names the slug and its declared status" $?

# Ambiguity widens and is named. "topic" is a hyphen-part of two declared
# slugs; picking one silently would be the cutoff lying about its own size.
FBOTH="$("$BOARD" --roots "$ROOT" --plan --focus topic 2>/dev/null)"
printf '%s\n' "$FBOTH" | grep '^fokus=' | grep -q 'demo-topic'
printf '%s\n' "$FBOTH" | grep '^fokus=' | grep -q 'other-topic'
check "ambiguous prose resolves to the union, with every slug named" $?

printf '%s\n' "$FBOTH" | grep -q '^repo=repo-focus-other$'
check "the union actually includes the second slug's repo" $?

# No match: the full plan, plus a line saying the focus was not applied. An
# empty plan would be the worst outcome of all - the driver forwards operator
# prose verbatim, so a typo would silently produce a morning with no tabs.
FNONE="$("$BOARD" --roots "$ROOT" --plan --focus kaffe 2>/dev/null)"
n_none="$(printf '%s\n' "$FNONE" | grep -c '^repo=')"
[ "$n_none" -eq "$n_all" ]
check "prose matching no declared slug returns the FULL plan, never an empty one" $?

printf '%s\n' "$FNONE" | grep -q '^fokus_ikke_brukt='
check "a focus that was not applied says so" $?

# Format invariant: --focus adds fields, it does not change the shape two
# declared consumers parse.
printf '%s\n' "$FDEMO" | grep -vE '^#|^$|^[a-z_]+=' | grep -q .; [ $? -ne 0 ]
check "focused plan is still comments, blanks and key=value only" $?

printf '%s' "$FDEMO" | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 >/dev/null 2>&1
check "focused plan output is valid UTF-8" $?

# The read-only invariant holds for the new path too: reading is delivering,
# and a plan that consumed a backlog would be the core defect of the engine.
before_inbox="$(ls "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/repo-a/inbox" 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')"
"$BOARD" --roots "$ROOT" --plan --focus demo >/dev/null 2>&1
after_inbox="$(ls "$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/repo-a/inbox" 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')"
[ "$before_inbox" = "$after_inbox" ]
check "--focus writes nothing to the mailbox" $?

# bash 3.2: `shift 2` past the end loops forever. A flag whose value is missing
# must not hang the driver that forwards it - and it refuses loudly, exactly as
# --roots does, rather than degrading into "no focus" and printing a full plan
# that looks like a focused one.
"$BOARD" --roots "$ROOT" --plan --focus >/dev/null 2>&1
[ $? -eq 2 ]
check "--focus with no value exits 2, like every other flag missing its value" $?

"$BOARD" --help 2>/dev/null | grep -q '\-\-focus'
check "--help documents --focus" $?

echo ""
echo "board-selftest: $PASS passed, $FAIL failed"
[ "$FAIL" -eq 0 ] || exit 1
exit 0