#!/usr/bin/env python3 """trials — what the players said, and where (CB-WP-0027 T04). **Surfacing is the deliverable, not storage.** ADR-0014 D6: a commentary feature that stores comments and shows them nowhere would be this project's signature failure in a new medium — after the message that sat unread for four days and the ten rulings that arrived and were never collected. So this reports every note from every trial log, with its position and its age, and flags the ones whose position can no longer be reached. Reuses `design.py`'s parsing shape because the trial log deliberately reuses `FindingRegister.md`'s idiom: a table between HTML-comment markers inside a readable Markdown file. """ import os, re, sys, glob, datetime ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))) TRIALS = os.path.join(ROOT, "trials") BEGIN = "" END = "" # GameDesign §3.1's figure, shared rather than reinvented: a note that # cannot expire ages into an apparent finding. NOTE_EXPIRY_DAYS = 30 def parse(text): """Rows between the markers. A log without the block is an error, not an empty log — silently reporting zero notes for a file full of them is precisely the failure this tool exists to prevent.""" if BEGIN not in text or END not in text: raise ValueError("no trial-log block") block = text.split(BEGIN)[1].split(END)[0] rows = [] for line in block.splitlines(): line = line.strip() if not line.startswith("|") or line.startswith("|---"): continue cells = [c.strip() for c in line.strip("|").split("|")] if len(cells) != 5 or cells[0] == "n": continue rows.append(dict(zip(("n", "round", "step", "state_hash", "comment"), cells))) return rows def logs(root=TRIALS): """Every trial log, with its recording beside it if there is one.""" out = [] for path in sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(root, "*.md"))): try: rows = parse(open(path).read()) except ValueError: print(f" WARN {os.path.basename(path)}: no trial-log block — not a trial log?") continue recording = os.path.splitext(path)[0] + ".yaml" out.append((path, rows, recording if os.path.exists(recording) else None)) return out def reachability(row, recording): """Can this note's position be reached? One of three answers. **"No recording" and "the hash is not in the recording" are different states and must not be one number.** A note written mid-game is pending — the recording is only written when the game ends — while a note whose hash is absent from a recording that *exists* means the position moved. Collapsing them makes every live session report orphans, and a metric that cries wolf is one nobody reads, which is the failure this whole pass is about. Orphans are reported, never deleted (ADR-0014 D3): a moved position is worth knowing, by the same reasoning that rewrote `gr-e01` rather than retiring it. """ if not recording: return "pending" return "ok" if row["state_hash"] in open(recording).read() else "orphan" def age_days(path, today): """Dated from the log's filename (`YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md`), falling back to mtime — the name is the intent, the mtime is what happened.""" m = re.match(r"(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})", os.path.basename(path)) if m: try: return (today - datetime.date.fromisoformat(m.group(1))).days except ValueError: pass return (today - datetime.date.fromtimestamp(os.path.getmtime(path))).days def report(root=TRIALS, today=None): today = today or datetime.date.today() if not os.path.isdir(root): print("trials — no trials/ directory yet\n") print(" Play one: cb-play --serve 0 --record trials/-.yaml \\") print(" --trial trials/-.md") return 0 found = logs(root) print("trials — what the players said, and where\n") total, orphans, pending, expired = 0, 0, 0, 0 for path, rows, recording in found: name = os.path.basename(path) age = age_days(path, today) print(f" {name} ({len(rows)} note(s), {age}d" f"{', recording not written yet' if not recording else ''})") for r in rows: total += 1 state = reachability(r, recording) orphans += state == "orphan" pending += state == "pending" expired += age > NOTE_EXPIRY_DAYS mark = {"orphan": "orphan", "pending": " .. ", "ok": " "}[state] print(f" {mark} r{r['round']:<2} {r['step']:<8} {r['state_hash']:<12} " f"{r['comment'][:70]}") print() print(f" trial logs {len(found)}") print(f" notes {total}") print(f" positions unreachable {orphans} target 0" + (" <-- the recording exists but the position moved" if orphans else "")) if pending: print(f" awaiting a recording {pending}" " (normal during a live session; the recording lands at game end)") print(f" notes past {NOTE_EXPIRY_DAYS} days {expired} target 0") if total and not orphans: print("\n Every note points at a position a reader can reach.") print("\n Raw notes stay in this repo (ADR-0014 D4). A note reaches" "\n ground-game only by being promoted to a register finding, by a" "\n human, with the wording chosen then.") return 0 def self_test(): """Positive controls, including for the REPORTING path. `design-baseline.py` had a green self-test and an unexercised reporting path, and the reporting path is where it rotted (ADR-0012 D8). So this runs `report` against a fixture and checks what it says. """ import tempfile, io, contextlib ok = True def check(name, cond, detail=""): nonlocal ok ok = ok and bool(cond) print(f" [{'ok ' if cond else 'FAIL'}] {name}" + (f" — {detail}" if detail else "")) good = (f"# Trial log\n\n{BEGIN}\n\n" "| n | round | step | state_hash | comment |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n" "| 1 | 3 | Select | abc123def456 | why is SOLVE doing nothing |\n" f"\n{END}\n") check("a trial log parses", len(parse(good)) == 1) check("the header row is not a note", all(r["n"] != "n" for r in parse(good))) try: parse("# Trial log\n\nno block here\n") check("a file with no block is an error, not an empty log", False) except ValueError: check("a file with no block is an error, not an empty log", True, "silently reporting zero is the failure this tool prevents") with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as d: open(os.path.join(d, "2026-08-06-x.md"), "w").write(good) # No .yaml beside it → the position cannot be reached. rows = parse(good) check("a note with no recording is PENDING, not orphaned", reachability(rows[0], None) == "pending", "a live session must not report orphans") rec = os.path.join(d, "2026-08-06-x.yaml") open(rec, "w").write("state_hash: abc123def456\n") check("a note whose hash is in the recording is reachable", reachability(rows[0], rec) == "ok", "without this the check could always say orphan") open(rec, "w").write("state_hash: something-else\n") check("a note whose hash is absent from a REAL recording is an orphan", reachability(rows[0], rec) == "orphan", "the position moved \u2014 the case the flag exists for") # THE control design-baseline.py lacked: exercise the reporting # path and assert on what it printed. buf = io.StringIO() with contextlib.redirect_stdout(buf): report(d, datetime.date(2026, 8, 6)) out = buf.getvalue() check("the reporting path runs and names the note", "why is SOLVE doing nothing" in out, "not just the parser") check("the reporting path counts", "notes 1" in out) print("trials self-test (positive control)") return 0 if ok else 1 if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(self_test() if "--self-test" in sys.argv else report())