Let a baseline entry say who excused it and why - #76
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#71 asked where a condition a matcher finds exactly but cannot judge should live, and proposed a new `disposition` on `Rule` that would emit a review finding at exit 0. Building it turned up `files.baseline`, which already does the mechanical half: path-scoped suppression, plus a stale-entry finding when an entry stops describing the tree. Shipping a second suppression concept beside that is the duplication #50 measured across 77 repositories, so the proposal is withdrawn and this is what was missing instead. WHAT A BASELINE COULD NOT SAY. It holds two different things and the format could express one: debt eight modules awaiting the same migration. One reason at the top of the file covers every entry, and the header is the right place exceptions the places a rule is simply wrong. `.ljust(` building a five-column table should take the declared dependency; `.ljust(` building a two-column key/value list is correct and a table reads worse. No pattern separates those For the second, the entry excusing it has to carry the judgement -- and the whole line was the path, so the judgement had nowhere to go but a comment nothing associates with an entry. An entry may now be signed: src/cli/top.py | alice | a two-column key/value list; a table reads worse `|` as the separator, because whitespace already separates the size baseline's count and a path may hold it, and `#` at line start already means a comment. `baselines_signed = true` at the top of the policy requires it. Off by default, which is not neutrality -- it is what every existing baseline file already is, and the two in this fleet stay green. A repository turns it on when its baselines stop being one homogeneous debt. Policy-level rather than per-rule, because "may an exemption be anonymous" is one answer a repository gives once; per rule it would be a setting every new baseline has to remember, which is the same as not having it. Unsigned entries report at the tier stale ones do, and for the same reason: both are a baseline that has stopped recording a decision somebody made. A signature is an addition to that record and not a way out of it -- a signed entry still goes stale, which is its own test. 554 tests pass, clippy and fmt clean, every lefthook pre-commit command run directly.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe policy adds ChangesSigned baseline enforcement
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds policy-controlled signed baseline entries, but the setting is silently ignored in bundled or inherited policy files, allowing unsigned entries despite an apparent requirement. Merge should wait until those files are rejected or the setting’s behavior is explicitly defined and implemented. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PolicyLoad
participant load_path_baseline
participant Baseline
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PolicyLoad->>RuleChecks: pass baselines_signed
RuleChecks->>load_path_baseline: load baseline file
load_path_baseline->>Baseline: parse paths and metadata
Baseline-->>RuleChecks: paths and unsigned entries
RuleChecks->>Baseline: validate signatures and stale paths
Baseline-->>RuleChecks: baseline failures
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In `@src/config.rs`:
- Around line 1483-1499: Restrict baselines_signed to the root policy parsed by
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inherit.paths files instead of silently discarding it during the root-value copy
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| /// Whether every path-baseline entry must say who excused it and why. | ||
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| /// Off by default, and the default is not neutrality -- it is what every | ||
| /// existing baseline file already is. A repository turns it on when its | ||
| /// baselines stop being one homogeneous debt with a header explaining all | ||
| /// of it, and start holding entries that differ from each other. The | ||
| /// `.ljust(` case is the shape: one call site should take the dependency | ||
| /// and another is correct as it stands, and no pattern separates them, so | ||
| /// the entry that excuses the second has to carry the judgement or the | ||
| /// judgement is nowhere. | ||
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| /// Policy-level rather than per-rule, because "may an exemption be | ||
| /// anonymous" is one answer a repository gives once. Per-rule it would be a | ||
| /// setting every new baseline has to remember, which is the same as not | ||
| /// having it. | ||
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Reject baselines_signed outside the root policy.
PolicyFile is also parsed for bundled sets and inherit.paths files. Line 2107 copies only the root file value, so baselines_signed = true in a shared policy file is silently discarded. Consumers can then accept unsigned baseline entries while the shared file appears to require them.
Reject this field in bundled and inherited files, or define and implement explicit merge semantics.
As per coding guidelines, “A constraint becomes machine enforcement only when it is expressed as a decidable predicate over an observable subject, bound to a condition that fires it and to evidence it emits when it fires.”
Also applies to: 2107-2107
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In `@src/config.rs` around lines 1483 - 1499, Restrict baselines_signed to the
root policy parsed by PolicyFile; reject or otherwise report it when encountered
in bundled sets or inherit.paths files instead of silently discarding it during
the root-value copy around line 2107. Ensure shared policy files cannot appear
to require signed baselines while consumers enforce the default false value.
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A `[[shim]]` named one `text_flags` for a whole command, and a command's flags do not all mean one thing. On `gh`, `-c` is a boolean on `pr review` and takes a value on `issue close`; naming it once for the table reads one of the two wrong, and either way the mistake is a false negative in the seam that exists to prevent one. `[[shim.verbs]]` lets the verbs whose grammar differs say so. The entry's lists replace the table's for those verbs rather than adding to them -- the rule `allowed_scripts` already follows, because a union would mean a vocabulary nobody wrote. `target_flags` stays table-wide: a per-verb answer to which repository something is going to would be a way to publish somewhere the table did not expect. Also in this release, from #76 and #78: a baseline entry may be signed `path | owner | reason` and required to be, and a baseline line that does not parse is refused rather than skipped -- the skip removed a ratchet silently, and the staleness check could not see it because a dropped entry was never listed. #79 refuses two shim tables naming one command, which used to drop one of them. TAKING IT. Nothing existing changes shape: a policy written for 1.7.0 resolves to exactly the rules it resolved to before, and no default changed. But a policy that USES `[[shim.verbs]]` cannot be read by an older binary, and the installed binary is the shim -- so a tree whose policy adopts the field before its shims are reinstalled has every git command failing closed. Bump the pin, reinstall, then adopt. Documented pins move to v1.8.0 in README.md and hooks/lefthook.yml.
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Closes #71, by withdrawing what #71 proposed.
What the research found
#71 proposed a
disposition = "review"onRule, emitting a finding at exit 0 for a condition a matcher finds exactly but cannot judge. Building it turned upfiles.baseline, which already does the mechanical half -- path-scoped suppression and a stale-entry finding when an entry stops describing the tree.Shipping a second suppression concept beside that is the duplication #50 measured across 77 repositories. So the proposal is withdrawn, and what was actually missing is much smaller.
Two other reasons it was wrong, both on the codebase's own terms:
0clean,1violations,2the check could not be made. There is no fourth." A finding that prints and exits 0 is a fourth outcome wearing exit 0's clothes.uphold_check.pyforbids in as many words: "a mode that cannot read the policy cannot disagree with the loader about which rules run."What a baseline could not say
The second is #71's actual case.
.ljust(building a five-column table should take the declared dependency;.ljust(building a two-column key/value list is correct and a table reads worse. No pattern separates them, so the entry excusing the second has to carry the judgement -- and it had nowhere to go but a comment nothing associates with an entry.The change
|as the separator: whitespace already separates the size baseline's count and a path may hold it;#at line start already means a comment.baselines_signed = trueat the top of the policy requires it. Off by default, which is not neutrality -- it is what every existing baseline file already is. Policy-level rather than per-rule, because "may an exemption be anonymous" is one answer a repository gives once; per rule it is a setting every new baseline has to remember, which is the same as not having it.Blast radius
Two policies in the surveyed workspace use a path baseline. Both scanned with the built binary: 0 unsigned-baseline findings, because the flag is off and every existing baseline file is already the shape the default describes.
Verification
cargo test-- 554 pass, 0 fail (551 + 3)cargo clippy --all-targets,cargo fmt --check-- cleandocs/REFERENCE.mddocuments the format, the switch, and that a signature is an addition to the record rather than a way out of itNew tests: an unsigned entry is reported and names the file to edit; signing it passes and still suppresses; an unsigned entry is fine where the policy does not ask; and a signed entry still goes stale.
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path | owner | reasonmetadata.Documentation