The register said two things about plugins. §7 had listed "Plugin API"
as deferred since the first draft, in a bare row; §3.10 then specified
it in 23 clauses that counted against coverage. Twenty-one of them had
no implementation of any kind, and could not have: no crate loads
anything at runtime. The coverage figure was measuring the contradiction.
Decided 2026-09-19: §7 is right. §3.10 stays as the design of record,
each of its clauses is marked "(post-v1)" on its defining line, and
NFR-SEC-6 — which exists only for plugins — goes with them, as does D16.
The traceability tool learns the marker. A deferred requirement is still
defined, so a tag naming it is not an orphan, but it leaves the
denominator and is listed in its own table rather than under "not yet
tagged". The marker must sit on the definition line; a mention of
"post-v1" in prose changes nothing, and where an ID is defined twice the
deferral on either line wins. Both are tested. Coverage moves from 72.2%
of 194 to 80.6% of 170 without a line of application code changing,
which is the honest figure: it now measures what v1 owes.
The module doc said an extractor keyed on string literals would "lose six
genuine tags to save two false ones". The six is right — `schema.rs` carries
that many `-- TRACES:` lines inside Rust literals — but the two undercounted
the false ones, which were R1 twice, FR-CAT-1 twice, FR-CAT-2, NFR-P1, one in
`gestures.rs` and two emitted by `dr-pipeline/build.rs`. The comparison it was
drawing does not need a number on that side to hold.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
NFR-OPS-1 asks for structured levelled logging to a rotating, size-capped
on-disk log in the XDG state or Android app directory, automatic redaction of
credentials and tokens, and a one-click diagnostics bundle with an explicit
preview-and-consent step. Its two tags were on `compute_coverage` and on the
traceability tool's gesture extractor.
Neither is diagnostics under any reading. One computes a ratio and the other
generates a markdown document; neither writes a log, and no rotating on-disk
log exists anywhere in the tree — logging goes to stderr and to logcat.
These were real tags, not the fixtures the extractor was just taught to
ignore, which makes them the more instructive case: the tool was correct and
the tags were wrong. NFR-OPS-1 is untagged again, and outstanding.md §9 now
says what is actually missing rather than that the requirement is covered.
`gestures.rs` keeps its FR-UI-4 tag, which is a separate claim and unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The traceability tool scans `tools/`, which is its own source, and a line was
taken for a tag whenever `TRACES:` appeared anywhere on it. Its unit-test
fixtures are therefore tags. R1 — cross-platform output within a bounded
tolerance, the requirement with no acceptance criterion at all — was reported
implemented on the strength of two string literals in
`context_looks_forward_then_backward`.
R1 was only the visible case because it had no other coverage. The same
fixtures also contributed sites to FR-CAT-1, FR-CAT-2 and NFR-P1, `gestures.rs`
contributed one to FR-UI-4 from a `push_str`, and `dr-pipeline/build.rs`
contributed FR-DEV-3a and FR-DEV-3c from the tag it *emits* into generated
code. Those four requirements keep real tags elsewhere, so nothing but noise is
lost by dropping them.
The rule is about position, not about string literals. It cannot be about
string literals: `schema.rs` writes six genuine tags inside Rust string
literals, because the SQL it embeds is commented with `--`, and an extractor
that refused those would lose more than it saved. What separates the two is
where on the line the tag is. A tag written to be read is the first word of its
comment; a tag quoted inside an expression never is. So `tag_body` asks for a
comment opener at the start of the line and `TRACES:` immediately after it.
That closes every shape but one: a multi-line literal whose lines really do
begin with `///`, which no line-oriented reader can tell from source. There is
one such fixture and its ids are now UT and IT, which `is_requirement` already
excludes from coverage — the mechanism existed and was simply never used on
the tool itself. `this_crates_own_fixtures_cannot_reach_the_register` enforces
that: any requirement id below `mod tests` in this crate fails the test and
says to use a UT- or IT- id instead. Tagging the tool's real code is still
allowed.
On `SOURCE_SUFFIXES`, which cannot reach `AndroidManifest.xml`, the Flatpak
manifest, the Dockerfile or the CI workflows: it is deliberately left alone,
and the reasoning is recorded beside it. A tag on a manifest asserts that a
comment exists next to a line nothing checks, which is the weak form
CONTRIBUTING.md warns about. The convention already in the tree — a Rust test
that `include_str!`s the file and asserts what must be in it, with the tag on
the test — is what a tag is supposed to mean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three holes, all found by the gate catching itself out.
**Prose that mentions the tag was read as a tag.** `dr-ui`'s module list
carries a comment saying where the generated table comes from, and it
names `GESTURE:` in passing; the scan extracted that sentence fragment as
a gesture with no place and no way to perform it. A tag must now *open*
its comment. A line that merely mentions it is describing the mechanism,
not declaring a member of it, and position is the only thing that tells
the two apart — which also makes the string-literal guard fall out for
free rather than being a special case.
**Neither artefact was regenerated on commit.** They cite line numbers,
so they go stale on anything that moves a line — the sheet commit made
the document wrong about every gesture in `library.slint` without
touching a single one. The pre-commit hook that already keeps the matrix
in step now keeps these too, and unlike the matrix it *fails* rather than
shrugging when the scan does: a matrix that will not build leaves a stale
one in place, where a malformed gesture block means a user about to be
told the wrong thing.
**CI did not check them at all.** It does now, blocking. The matrix is
read; the gesture table is *shown to somebody using the application*, and
a stale one tells them to perform a gesture that no longer exists — from
which they will conclude the application is broken rather than the page.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every gesture the application has was documented in the comment beside
the `TouchArea` that implements it. Excellent comments, and unreachable
by anyone not reading the source — which is the FR-UI-4 failure in a
different costume: a gesture nobody can find is a feature only its author
knows about.
Writing them out again in a hand-kept help page is the failure this
avoids. Two descriptions of one gesture drift, and it is always the prose
that drifts: the code is exercised every time somebody uses the
application and the page is exercised never. A help screen confidently
describing a double tap the grid stopped honouring last week is worse
than no help screen — and the grid did stop honouring one, in the commit
before this.
So the comment beside the implementation stays the only copy, and a
`GESTURE:` block beside it is scanned into two artefacts: `docs/gestures.md`
for a reader, and a Rust table for the application to draw a help sheet
from. Both committed, both gated, so neither can quietly stop describing
the code.
It lives in the traceability crate because it is the same operation on
the same input — walk the tree, pull structured tags out of comments,
render, fail if the committed artefact has moved. Only the vocabulary is
new. It scans `ui` and `apps` alone: a gesture needs an interface to be
performed on, and excluding `tools` is also what stops the scanner
extracting its own worked examples as broken gestures.
Fifteen gestures so far, across the library grid and the People screen.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`platform` was missing from the traceability scanner's source roots, so
every TRACES tag in `dr-plat` — the secret store, volume discovery, and
now display-profile acquisition — was invisible to the matrix. The
FR-PLAT-* family is exactly what that crate exists to satisfy, so the
omission understated coverage by the requirements it was meant to
count.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An operation was, in the overwhelming majority of cases, four facts: what
its parameters are, what uniforms they compute, what WGSL those uniforms
drive, and where it sits in the chain. Written in Rust those four facts
arrived wrapped in ninety lines of trait implementation — a match on
parameter id to a struct field, another match back, an is_active comparing
each field to its default, a Vec<Uniform> built by hand. All mechanical,
and each one a place to make a silent mistake: a param() arm returning the
wrong field reads perfectly and breaks the sidecar round-trip.
So the four facts are the file now. core/dr-pipeline/ops/<id>.yaml is a
node, build.rs compiles it into the same Operation impl as before, and the
result lands in OUT_DIR — the same reasoning as style.yaml -> theme.slint,
including why it does not land beside the sources it would look exactly
like. Nothing downstream can tell a declared node from a hand-written one:
same &'static OpDescriptor, same fused-shader composition, same sidecar.
Nine nodes moved: exposure, white_balance, contrast, highlights_shadows,
blacks_whites, brilliance, vibrance, saturation, and the shared WGSL
helper registry. Their prose came with them, and so did their tests —
set/expect/expect_active/expect_wgsl in the declaration compile to real
#[test]s, so a node file carries its own proof rather than leaving it
behind in a file that no longer exists.
Two stayed in Rust and say so with `rust:`. The tone curve's neutral is a
relationship between five interpolated points rather than a set of values;
the colour mixer generates thirty-six faceted parameters from twelve
computed hue bands. A schema stretched to cover either would be a worse
language than Rust aimed at one caller. They still declare their position
here, because the chain's *order* is the one thing a reader comes to this
directory to learn, and an order written half in YAML and half in Rust
would be worse than either alone. default_chain() is generated from it.
Uniforms are derived by a small expression language — exp2(exposure),
blacks / 100 * 0.02 — compiled to Rust rather than interpreted, so an
unknown name or a wrong arity is a build error naming the file and the key
and the arithmetic costs nothing at runtime. The build script refuses a
duplicate order, a filename disagreeing with its id, a default outside its
own range, a test value the graph would clamp before the node saw it, a
helper that does not define the function it names, and a declared node
colliding with a file in src/ops.
Verified by adding a scratch node and removing it again: one file, no
other edit, and it joined the chain at its declared order with its test
running. 237 tests pass in dr-pipeline, clippy and fmt clean.
.yaml joins the traceability tool's scanned suffixes, because a node's
Rust now lives in OUT_DIR where a tag could never be linked from the
report. Coverage 47.7% -> 48.3%.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ports JellyTau's traceability tooling to Rust, carrying across the bug it
was repaired for. That gate divided a traced count by frozen literal
denominators; the requirements file outgrew them and it reported 158%
coverage, so it could never fail its own threshold.
Two rules, both enforced by the extractor's own tests:
- denominators parsed from docs/requirements.md at run time
- coverage is |traced ∩ defined| / |defined|, never a raw traced count
The gate additionally fails hard on a misconfigured run — zero
requirements parsed or zero files scanned — rather than reporting a
plausible 0%, and on any orphan tag naming a requirement that does not
exist.
Adapted for DarkRoom: IDs are FR-CAT-1 / NFR-P13 / FR-DEV-3a shapes
rather than JellyTau's fixed three digits, and decisions (D), spikes (S),
milestone items (M) and test ids remain taggable while being excluded
from the denominator — counting them inflated it by 25.
Also adds dr-sync: the RemoteBackend trait and capability model, so the
Nextcloud connector is one implementation rather than the only shape the
engine understands. No mature Nextcloud crate exists (reqwest_dav is too
thin), so the connector will be hand-rolled over reqwest per D7.
Gitea workflows follow the same style: containerised, commented with the
reasoning, desktop and Android on every push, plus a CI check that no
core/ crate depends on the UI toolkit (ARCH §6.5a).
Coverage today: 13.3% (19/143). 50 tests passing.
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