Scan record: name the tree the after-campaign counts hold at

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Closes #23

The scan record named one tree, and it was the before tree. Every after-state
number a campaign writes into summary therefore held at a tree the schema
never named, which is why rain.sol.codegen could commit testsAfter: 102 — a
count occurring at no commit in the range its own record covers — and no reader
and no tool had anything to check it against.

testsAfterCommit is added as the SHA the run's own output landed at:
top-level, immediately after commit, full 40 characters. Matches the record
rainlanguage/rain.sol.codegen#118 already lands, field-for-field and
position-for-position, so that record conforms to this schema on arrival.

The two open questions, decided on the org's existing records

Both were decided against every scan record that exists, not against the
template in isolation. Six repos carry audit/mutation-test-scans.json
(rain.sol.codegen, rain.deploy, raindex, rain.solmem,
rain.math.saturating, rain.math.binary), twelve records between them,
written by skill versions 0.24.0 through 0.30.0. What they show:

• Three records carry a value that is a property of a tree other than
  commit: testsAfter: 102 (rain.sol.codegen, corrected to 84 by #118),
  testsAfter: 25 (rain.math.saturating), and newFiles: [...] naming two
  test files that exist at no tree in the record (raindex, 2026-06-11).
• None of the twelve names that tree. The closest any of them gets is
  coveragePrs (rain.solmem, rain.sol.codegen), which is a pointer to the
  after tree only if you query GitHub for each PR and pick the right merge —
  which is literally the archaeology #118 had to perform to recover ae21818.
• The other nine carry no after-tree value at all: their summaries are run
  properties (mutants, killed, gapsFilled, testsAdded, filed), which
  are measured by the run and hold nowhere in particular.

Null vs equal to commit when nothing landed → equal to commit, never null,
never omitted. There is always an after tree — a campaign that landed nothing
ends at the tree it started at, so the value is always writable and the tool
always already has it. Making it nullable buys nothing and costs the field its
whole point: a reader seeing no value cannot tell "this run landed nothing" from
"this run landed something and nobody recorded where", which is the exact
ambiguity the field exists to remove. Set equal, absence has one meaning —
malformed record — and a tool can say so.

Note it must be commit specifically and not "main at run end". A campaign that
landed nothing while main moved on has after-numbers that hold at commit;
anchoring them to a later tree carrying other people's changes would make the
count drift for reasons that have nothing to do with the campaign.

Optional vs must-have → must-have, joining the existing three. These two
questions are coupled, and answering the first collapses the second: the
argument for optionality was that a run reporting no after-number has nothing to
anchor, but once the field is defined for that case (equal to commit) the
write cost is one SHA the tool is already holding. Against that, optional
reproduces the hole exactly — rain.math.saturating's testsAfter: 25 is as
unfalsifiable today as codegen's 102 was, and an optional field is one nobody
writes, because the campaign that most needs it is the one that never noticed it
was reporting an after-number. Mandatory is also what makes the field
mechanically checkable: absence becomes a defect a tool can name rather than a
silence a tool must tolerate.

Where this deviates from the issue's proposed fix

• Full 40-char SHAs, in commit too. The issue's example wrote
  "testsAfterCommit": "1f9be22cafebabe" next to the existing 15-char
  "commit": "08d547fdeadbeef". #118 lands a full SHA and argues a prefix is a
  weaker anchor that grows ambiguous — the same class of defect this field
  exists to close. That rule cannot apply to one of two SHA fields and not the
  other without being a clause narrower than its own reason, so the template's
  commit is widened to 40 characters as well and the prose states it once for
  both. This is not hypothetical: rain.solmem's committed record carries
  "commit": "b3bd859", seven characters, which is what a truncated template
  teaches.
• The example summary now carries testsBefore / testsAfter. Without an
  after-number in the example, the new field reads as decorative and the rule
  attached to it has nothing to bind to.

Where the enforcement lives

The schema is documentation, so nothing in this repo ever executed it — which is
how it shipped without the field. .github/scripts/check-scan-record-schema.sh
executes it, run by a new schema hygiene workflow. It is deliberately about
the schema, not about any consumer's record: #118 already reasoned that a
per-repo ledger validator is cheap and exact at write time and expensive and
rotting at read time, and vendoring one into each consumer leaves the next
repo's ledger just as unfalsifiable. Validating a record is the tool's job, not
a CI job in six repos; this check makes sure the schema the tool follows still
says what it must.

Kept out of the cargo suite on purpose: the flake's src fileset excludes
README.md and skills/ so that doc churn does not rebuild the bin for every
consumer's nix run, so a cargo test reading either would fail inside
nix build .#mutation-probe. jq is added to the devShell so the committed
check runs locally exactly as CI runs it (nix develop -c sh .github/scripts/check-scan-record-schema.sh) rather than being eyeballed.

Known other instance, not touched here

rainlanguage/rain.math.saturating's record carries testsAfter: 25 with no
after-tree, and rain.solmem's carries a 7-char commit. Both are the same
defect in already-committed data in other repos, out of scope for this issue,
and reported rather than filed.

QA

• Discriminating test: .github/scripts/check-scan-record-schema.sh, run by
  the new schema hygiene workflow. It parses the README's fenced template as
  JSON, asserts the five must-haves are present, asserts testsAfterCommit sits
  immediately after commit in key order, and asserts both are 40-char
  lowercase hex. It then pins the rules, not just the field name, in the prose
  under the scan-record heading with the shortest phrase carrying each —
  _before_ / _after_ (which numbers hold at which tree), 40-character,
  equal to (a run landing nothing), never null / never omitted — and pins
  the two rules a closing run applies in SKILL.md's ## Committed scan record.
  Newlines are collapsed before matching, because deno fmt reflows both
  documents and a wrapped phrase is not a rule going missing.
• RED before GREEN: the committed script, copied unchanged into a worktree
  of origin/main (7c0809f) and run there, fails —
  template commit=08d547fdeadbeef testsAfterCommit=<absent> /
  FAIL the template is missing must-have 'testsAfterCommit', exit 1. Against
  this branch it prints five OK lines and scan record schema OK, exit 0. Both
  runs echo the template's real key list and real SHA values first, so a run
  that never reached the README could not have produced either transcript.
• Mutations applied — 15 killed, 0 survived, each a single break of exactly
  what this PR changed, applied to the committed docs and scored by the
  committed script, restored from git between runs (baseline committed first).
  Schema shape: M1 field deleted from template → missing must-have 'testsAfterCommit'; M2 field moved after publishedTag → must come immediately after commit; M3 testsAfterCommit truncated to 1f9be22 →
  must be a full 40-character lowercase hex SHA; M4 commit truncated to
  08d547fdeadbeef, the value origin/main ships → same failure on the other
  field; M5 field renamed in README prose only; M6 field renamed in SKILL.md's
  section only; M7 template JSON broken → not valid JSON. Rule statements:
  R1 _before_/_after_ stripped; R2 the full-SHA sentence; R3 the
  equal-to-commit sentence; R4 never-null/never-omitted; R5 the entire rules
  paragraph deleted while the field name survives in the must-haves sentence —
  the case the first version of this check passed; R6 SKILL.md's
  equal-to-commit rule; R7 SKILL.md's never-null rule. All exit 1, each naming
  which rule went missing.
• Two controls (the check must not just react to any diff): an unrelated
  edit inside the same template ("scope": "whole repo" →
  "scope": "the src/lib module") passes, exit 0; and a pinned phrase reflowed
  across a line break — what deno fmt does — passes, exit 0. M5/M6 and R1-R5
  vs R6-R7 prove both documents are load-bearing: each mutant leaves the other
  document correct and is still caught.
• Oracle: the twelve committed scan records across the six repos above, read
  from GitHub, not the template. They are what decided both open questions and
  what shows the failure is recurring rather than a one-off.
• Full suite in the flake shell, on a branch off origin/main (7c0809f,
  re-checked immediately before committing — no merge needed, nothing to
  conflict with): cargo fmt --all --check exit 0; cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean; cargo test 15 + 8 passed, 0 failed;
  nix build .#mutation-probe exit 0 (the flake change touches only the
  devShell, and the package build is the job that would catch it if it did not).
• Third commit answers CodeRabbit, both findings upheld: the check pinned
  the field name but not the rules (fixed as above, with R1-R7 as its mutants),
  and "Those four are the must-haves" named five fields — the clause was
  counting semicolons, and now counts fields, which is what the validator
  requires. Both threads answered and resolved.
• Second commit is the denofmt pass — the first push red-ed
  static / rs-static on markdown formatting only (_after_, not *after*,
  plus one paragraph reflow). The fix is exactly the diff
  pre-commit run --all-files printed in that job, and deno fmt --check on
  both files now exits 0 locally. It also drops an unverified "shipped for 33
  versions" claim from the check script's header: the README template was added
  at 0.31.0 and the record format predates it, so the number was never derived.
• Category check: Scan record schema has no field naming the tree its after-campaign counts describe, so testsAfter is unfalsifiable in place #23 asks for four things — the field in the README
  template, the rule stated in the prose beneath it, the matching sentence in
  SKILL.md, and a decision on each of its two open questions. All four are here,
  with the version bumped to 0.34.0 in all four places (SKILL.md frontmatter,
  plugin.json, marketplace.json, README template skillVersion).

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Walkthrough

The scan record schema now includes testsAfterCommit, full commit SHAs, and before/after test counts. A shell validator checks the documentation, and GitHub Actions runs it on pushes and pull requests. The development shell now includes jq.

Changes

Scan record schema hygiene

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scan record contract and version alignment README.md, skills/adversarial-mutation-test/SKILL.md, .claude-plugin/marketplace.json, .claude-plugin/plugin.json	The scan record requires testsAfterCommit and full 40-character SHAs. The documentation defines before and after measurement trees. Plugin and skill versions are updated to 0.34.0.
Schema validation script .github/scripts/check-scan-record-schema.sh	The script validates the README JSON template, required keys, field order, SHA formats, README prose, and the committed-record section in SKILL.md.
CI and local validation wiring .github/workflows/schema-hygiene.yaml, flake.nix	GitHub Actions runs the schema validator on pushes and pull requests. The development shell includes jq for local validation.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c65ba

The PR adds schema hygiene for scan records, but the current validator does not enforce the documented after-tree semantics, so ambiguous records can still pass validation. Merge should wait for those checks or explicit owner acceptance.

Possibly related issues

• rainlanguage/rain.sol.codegen issue 86: It addresses the same missing tree identifier for post-campaign test counts.

Possibly related PRs

• rainlanguage/adversarial-mutation-test#1: Updates the same plugin manifests and SKILL.md, but implements different changes.
• rainlanguage/adversarial-mutation-test#4: Updates the plugin version in the same manifest files.
• rainlanguage/adversarial-mutation-test#16: Updates the plugin version and modifies SKILL.md workflow documentation.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes implement all coding objectives in issue #23, including the required testsAfterCommit field and its documentation.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The schema validation, CI workflow, jq dependency, documentation, and version updates directly support the stated objectives.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: naming the tree associated with after-campaign scan counts.

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In @.github/scripts/check-scan-record-schema.sh:
- Around line 67-87: Extend the README prose and SKILL.md committed-record
validation in the schema-check script beyond checking testsAfterCommit; require
text documenting that it represents after-state counts, equals the commit count
when nothing lands, and is never null or omitted. Keep the existing section and
field-presence checks, and fail with targeted messages when any invariant is
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In `@README.md`:
- Around line 149-152: Update the must-have field count in the README
description from “four” to “five,” keeping the listed fields and surrounding
wording unchanged.
- Around line 154-159: Update the SHA format descriptions for commit and
testsAfterCommit in README.md lines 154-159 and
skills/adversarial-mutation-test/SKILL.md lines 204-209 to consistently require
full 40-character lowercase hexadecimal SHAs, preserving the existing
distinction between before and after measurements.

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lens source@afe795d928a01e9da3182c85079b400982054d6d + audit skill invoked at pr:24
Reviewed afe795d: ready — Closes #23 — testsAfterCommit lands immediately after commit in the README template, before/after-tree rule stated in README prose and SKILL.md, both open questions decided (equal-to-commit when nothing landed, never null/omitted; must-have) and enforced by the new schema-hygiene script; both SHA fields full 40-hex. LOW hardening notes only: SKILL.md pins are asymmetric (never-omitted/40-char/must-have phrases unpinned there, so a partial weakening of SKILL.md survives the check) and the 119-line checker has no negative-fixture test of its own failure branches.
cost 337 — new CI shell check + schema docs