`selftest_checks-402` — a count of checks that exist — carried
BADGE-STATIC-CLAIM through censuses 03, 05 and 06 because `tests?`
matched the letters inside "selfTESTs". repo-mailbox disputed it every
round; org-ops measured and concluded the finding was false (coord,
2026-08-12).
Their proposed test was renaming the visible label to "Checks". Measured
here first: that does NOT clear it, because the URL slug is scanned too.
The rule was reading claim words as substrings anywhere in either.
Matching word by word fixes it. Splitting on every non-alphanumeric run
rather than leaning on `\b` is what avoids the opposite defect —
shields.io writes a space as `_`, so `\btests\b` would have gone quiet on
the genuine claim `tests-402_passing`. Both directions are pinned.
Measured across all 19 local clones: 20 badge findings before, 20 after,
exactly one converted (repo-mailbox WARN -> OK). No other repo moved.
The count-vs-result split org-ops proposed is deliberately NOT built: the
one measured case is fully explained by the substring bug, and a rule for
`tests-402` that no repo has produced would be speculation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lb7XmJGLnFSX9U7tgS7fKk
Kjell Tore Guttormsen
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