Guard-discrimination gate: re-run declared guard tests against a broken variant of what they guard - #3196
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…s guard tests that cannot fail on the defect they name. Includes monkeypatch detection (pure-AST, no execution), heuristic checks for holder/token references, and specific known NON-DISCRIMINATING cases. Changelog fragment added.
… it tests
The earlier push of scripts/check_non_discriminating.py decided by test NAME:
a table mapping name fragments to guessed function names, a hardcoded list
of known-bad test names, and a grep for "holder"/"Bearer" in the test body.
It had no tests, and any renamed or reworded test would fool it. Replaced.
How the gate decides now (mechanical, execution-based):
- A guard test declares what it guards:
@pytest.mark.guards("module:function", replace=[(correct, defective)])
or must_kill=[generated mutant ids], or neither (then at least one
generated mutant must kill it).
- The checker runs the test once against the real code (it must pass; calls
into the guarded function are counted), then against each broken variant.
A variant is compiled from the function's own source and swapped in via
func.__code__, so decorator-registered routes and from-imports run it too,
while a test that monkeypatched the function keeps its stub and cannot see
the defect. A required variant that survives = NON-DISCRIMINATING, exit 1.
An uncheckable guard (baseline red, bad declaration) = ERROR, exit 2.
- Ad-hoc mode (--guard/--target/--replace/--root) checks an undecorated test
in any repo or branch state.
Applied here:
- test_release_does_not_free_another_holders_lease (card instance 3) now
declares the #2988 defect verbatim (identity="@operator" -> identity=holder)
and was rewritten to cross that branch: an agent a2a: lease plus a
node-scoped release with holder=<victim>, in addition to the scheduler
lease it already covered.
- test_an_admin_cannot_take_ownership_of_an_agent_lease_by_holder declares
the same defect and is the discriminating control.
- guards marker registered in pyproject; new non-required workflow
guard-discrimination-gate.yml; CONTRIBUTING note; changelog fragment.
Card instances: 3 caught on this repo (below); 1 (taosmd #478, monkeypatched
can_read) caught in ad-hoc mode with no declaration beyond the target
(below); 2 (taosmd #485) guards a method defined inside the _make_handler
closure, which module:qualname cannot address, so it is not reachable yet
(the same shape is covered by the synthetic tests); 4 (#2976, routes with
no test at all) is a coverage question this gate does not answer.
RED, the gate on the unfixed test (declaration only, test body as on dev):
```
NON-DISCRIMINATING: tests/test_routes_a2a_gpu_lease.py::TestClusterLeaseIntegration::test_release_does_not_free_another_holders_lease
target: tinyagentos.routes.a2a_gpu_lease:_resolve_actor
mutants: replace#1=survived
guarded function calls in baseline run: 1
survived the named defect: replace#1 ('identity="@operator"' -> 'identity=holder')
OK: tests/test_routes_a2a_gpu_lease.py::TestClusterLeaseIntegration::test_an_admin_cannot_take_ownership_of_an_agent_lease_by_holder
target: tinyagentos.routes.a2a_gpu_lease:_resolve_actor
mutants: replace#1=killed
guarded function calls in baseline run: 9
guard-discrimination: 2 guard(s) checked, 1 non-discriminating, 0 error(s), 935 refusal-named test(s) undeclared, 26.5s
exit=1
```
RED, card instance 1 (taosmd PR #478 head e65f498a), ad-hoc mode:
```
NON-DISCRIMINATING: tests/test_a2a_mentions.py::test_a2a_mentions_feed_gates_through_can_read
target: taosmd.service:can_read
mutants: return-true=survived, return-false=survived, return-none=survived, negate-if@1221=survived, flip-cmp@1221=survived, negate-if@1223=survived, flip-cmp@1223=survived, negate-if@1225=survived, flip-cmp@1225=survived, negate-if@1227=survived, flip-cmp@1227=survived
guarded function calls in baseline run: 0
no mutant of the guarded function makes it fail: return-true, return-false, return-none, negate-if@1221, flip-cmp@1221, negate-if@1223, flip-cmp@1223, negate-if@1225, flip-cmp@1225, negate-if@1227, flip-cmp@1227; the guarded function was never executed by this test (replaced by a stub, or not reached)
guard-discrimination: 1 guard(s) checked, 1 non-discriminating, 0 error(s), 0 refusal-named test(s) undeclared, 1.7s
exit=1
```
RED, the new self-tests against the previous (heuristic) script:
```
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_every_weak_guard_is_flagged
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_every_strong_guard_passes
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_monkeypatched_guard_is_reported_as_never_executing_the_target
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_named_defect_is_reported_by_its_source_edit
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_gate_exits_0_when_only_discriminating_guards_remain
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_adhoc_mode_checks_an_undecorated_test
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_bad_declaration_is_an_error[@pytest.mark.guards("nd_product:can_read", replace=[("no such text", "x")])-found 0 times]
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_bad_declaration_is_an_error[@pytest.mark.guards("nd_product:can_read", must_kill=["negate-if@999"])-unknown mutant]
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_bad_declaration_is_an_error[@pytest.mark.guards("nd_product:nope")-no attribute]
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_bad_declaration_is_an_error[@pytest.mark.guards("no_such_module:f")-cannot import]
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_failing_baseline_is_an_error
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_undeclared_refusal_named_tests_are_counted_not_checked
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_mutant_of_a_closure_keeps_its_free_variables
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_mutant_of_a_method_using_super
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_decorated_target_resolves_to_the_wrapped_function
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_async_mutant_stays_a_coroutine
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_generator_gets_no_constant_return_mutants
17 failed, 1 passed in 172.20s (0:02:52)
```
GREEN, the gate after the test fix:
```
OK: tests/test_routes_a2a_gpu_lease.py::TestClusterLeaseIntegration::test_release_does_not_free_another_holders_lease
target: tinyagentos.routes.a2a_gpu_lease:_resolve_actor
mutants: replace#1=killed
guarded function calls in baseline run: 10
OK: tests/test_routes_a2a_gpu_lease.py::TestClusterLeaseIntegration::test_an_admin_cannot_take_ownership_of_an_agent_lease_by_holder
target: tinyagentos.routes.a2a_gpu_lease:_resolve_actor
mutants: replace#1=killed
guarded function calls in baseline run: 9
guard-discrimination: 2 guard(s) checked, 0 non-discriminating, 0 error(s), 935 refusal-named test(s) undeclared, 35.5s
exit=0
```
GREEN, tests:
```
$ python -m pytest tests/test_routes_a2a_gpu_lease.py tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py -q
77 passed in 101.32s (0:01:41)
```
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds a pytest marker for guard tests and a checker that evaluates guarded tests against function variants. It adds a pull-request workflow, documentation, and GPU lease release tests with guard declarations. ChangesGuard discrimination gate
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Checker as check_non_discriminating.py
participant Pytest as Child pytest
participant Plugin as Pytest plugin
participant Test as Guarded test
participant Target as Target function
Checker->>Pytest: Run test with guard plugin
Pytest->>Plugin: Load guard specification
Plugin->>Test: Run against baseline and mutant
Test->>Target: Call target function
Plugin->>Test: Rerun unmutated control
Test->>Target: Call unmutated target function
Plugin-->>Checker: Return guard result
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This adds a check that tests actually detect declared defects. In a few edge cases, the check can report success when it should not, such as with order-dependent tests or a pytest failure after guard results are recorded. The workflow is not required and production code is unchanged, so the merge risk is low. These gaps are worth fixing soon. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change strengthens checks for a lease-ownership regression without showing a change to the live release endpoint. The new check is not yet required for merging, and its result against the declared defect has not been independently established here. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 19.70% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 66 functions across 3 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)
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WARNING: Decorator detection is too strict - only @pytest.mark.guards(...) is recognized.
The isinstance(node.value, ast.Attribute) check requires the marker to be accessed as pytest.mark.guards. Common aliases like @mark.guards(...) (with from pytest import mark) produce node.value = ast.Name(id="mark"), which fails this check and is silently skipped. Guard tests written with that alias would not be checked.
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WARNING: json.loads on child output is unhandled.
If the child pytest process is killed or the output file is truncated, json.loads raises JSONDecodeError and the gate crashes instead of reporting an error or continuing with an empty result set.
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Review folds on the guard-discrimination gate:
- A kill is now only evidence if the UNMUTATED test still passes when re-run
in the same process. A test that leaks state (a module-level counter, a
registry that refuses re-registration) fails every rerun whatever code is
swapped in, and was read as a kill and reported OK. It is now ERROR (exit
2, uncheckable). One extra run per killed guard.
- The child pytest runs with -p no:timeout. The repo's pytest-timeout (120 s,
thread method, os._exit) could kill the slower profiled baseline before any
result was written; the driver already bounds the child at 900 s.
- A placeholder record is written before each guard is checked, so a child
that dies mid-guard names the guard ("child pytest died while checking this
guard" plus the child log tail) instead of "collection error?".
RED, the gate on a probe whose test leaks a module counter and guards an
unrelated function (before this change):
```
OK: tests/test_probe.py::test_second_run_fails
target: prod:unrelated
mutants: return-true=killed
guarded function calls in baseline run: 1
guard-discrimination: 1 guard(s) checked, 0 non-discriminating, 0 error(s), 0 refusal-named test(s) undeclared, 17.0s
exit=0
```
RED, the four new self-tests against the previous script:
```
/tmp/claude-1000/-home-jay-Development-tinyagentos/c77aafca-dee2-45c8-baa9-dd4101225bcb/scratchpad/opus/decyiy/wt-tsk-decyiy/tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py:294: AssertionError: {
E AssertionError: {'nodeid': 'tests/test_guards.py::test_dies_cannot_read', 'target': None, 'verdict': 'ERROR', 'reason': 'declared guard never reached the checker (collection error?)
'}
assert ('ERROR' == 'ERROR'
ERROR and 'died while checking this guard' in 'declared guard never reached the checker (collection error?)\n')
/tmp/claude-1000/-home-jay-Development-tinyagentos/c77aafca-dee2-45c8-baa9-dd4101225bcb/scratchpad/opus/decyiy/wt-tsk-decyiy/tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py:313: AssertionError: {'nodeid': 'tests/test_guards.py::test_dies_cannot_read', 'target': None, 'verdict': 'ERROR', 'reason': 'declared guard never reached the checker (collection error?)
=========================== short test summary info ============================
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_kill_by_a_test_that_fails_any_rerun_is_an_error_not_ok
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_stable_test_still_passes_its_control_run
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_repo_per_test_timeout_does_not_kill_the_checker
FAILED tests/test_check_non_discriminating.py::test_child_death_mid_guard_names_the_guard
4 failed, 18 deselected in 80.26s (0:01:20)
```
GREEN, the same probe:
```
ERROR: tests/test_probe.py::test_second_run_fails
target: prod:unrelated
mutants: return-true=killed
guarded function calls in baseline run: 1
control run (unmutated, after a kill): failed
control run (unmutated, re-run in process) failed: the test is not stable across in-process reruns, so its kills are not evidence; make it independent of state left by an earlier run
guard-discrimination: 1 guard(s) checked, 0 non-discriminating, 1 error(s), 0 refusal-named test(s) undeclared, 2.4s
exit=2
```
GREEN, tests (22 self-tests + tests/test_routes_a2a_gpu_lease.py):
```
......... [100%]
81 passed in 152.36s (0:02:32)
```
GREEN, the gate on this repo:
```
OK: tests/test_routes_a2a_gpu_lease.py::TestClusterLeaseIntegration::test_release_does_not_free_another_holders_lease
target: tinyagentos.routes.a2a_gpu_lease:_resolve_actor
mutants: replace#1=killed
guarded function calls in baseline run: 10
control run (unmutated, after a kill): passed
OK: tests/test_routes_a2a_gpu_lease.py::TestClusterLeaseIntegration::test_an_admin_cannot_take_ownership_of_an_agent_lease_by_holder
target: tinyagentos.routes.a2a_gpu_lease:_resolve_actor
mutants: replace#1=killed
guarded function calls in baseline run: 9
control run (unmutated, after a kill): passed
guard-discrimination: 2 guard(s) checked, 0 non-discriminating, 0 error(s), 936 refusal-named test(s) undeclared, 50.9s
exit=0
```
A replace that raises on entry, or default mode's return-none, is killed by any test that merely calls the function. State that in CONTRIBUTING and the contributor skill: the reviewer checks that the replace pair reproduces the real defect, and a default-mode OK only proves the test reaches the function. Docs-Reviewed: this commit is the doc change (CONTRIBUTING.md and the contributor skill)
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- Around line 231-232: Correct the `return-none` example so it only describes a
mutant as killed when the test asserts the function’s return value or uses it in
behavior that differs when it returns `None`; merely calling the function and
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In @scripts/check_non_discriminating.py:
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Correct the return-none example.
A test that only calls the function and ignores its return value still passes when the mutant returns None. The mutant survives; it is not killed. State that the test must assert or use behavior affected by the mutant.
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Correct the `return-none` example so it only describes a mutant as killed when
the test asserts the function’s return value or uses it in behavior that differs
when it returns `None`; merely calling the function and ignoring the result does
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Compare the mutant with an unmutated run in equivalent state.
The control run does not rule out failures caused by run order. A test can call the guarded function but assert only that a module counter is odd. The baseline passes on run 1, the mutant fails on run 2, and this control passes on run 3. The gate then reports OK although the assertion ignores the function’s result. Run the mutant and its control from equivalent fresh state, and add a regression test for this pass/fail/pass case.
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In @scripts/check_non_discriminating.py around lines 414 - 415, Update the
mutant/control execution flow around _run_once so each run starts from
equivalent fresh state, preventing run order or persistent module state from
hiding a non-discriminating test. Add a regression test for the pass/fail/pass
counter scenario and verify the gate rejects it.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve the child pytest exit status.
If pytest writes OK guard records and then fails during pytest_sessionfinish, _run_child discards its exit status. main therefore returns success from those records despite the child failure. Return the exit status with the records and report a nonzero child exit as an error. Pytest provides a session-finish hook and distinct failure exit codes. (docs.pytest.org)
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In @scripts/check_non_discriminating.py at line 596, Update _run_child to return
the child pytest exit status alongside the records and log, then update main to
report an error and return failure whenever that status is nonzero, even if the
records contain OK guard results.
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Summary
The earlier push of scripts/check_non_discriminating.py decided by test NAME:
a table mapping name fragments to guessed function names, a hardcoded list
of known-bad test names, and a grep for "holder"/"Bearer" in the test body.
It had no tests, and any renamed or reworded test would fool it. Replaced.
How the gate decides now (mechanical, execution-based):
@pytest.mark.guards("module:function", replace=[(correct, defective)])
or must_kill=[generated mutant ids], or neither (then at least one
generated mutant must kill it).
into the guarded function are counted), then against each broken variant.
A variant is compiled from the function's own source and swapped in via
func.code, so decorator-registered routes and from-imports run it too,
while a test that monkeypatched the function keeps its stub and cannot see
the defect. A required variant that survives = NON-DISCRIMINATING, exit 1.
An uncheckable guard (baseline red, bad declaration) = ERROR, exit 2.
in any repo or branch state.
Applied here:
declares the feat(a2a): GPU lease protocol over the coordination bus (#893) #2988 defect verbatim (identity="@operator" -> identity=holder)
and was rewritten to cross that branch: an agent a2a: lease plus a
node-scoped release with holder=, in addition to the scheduler
lease it already covered.
the same defect and is the discriminating control.
guard-discrimination-gate.yml; CONTRIBUTING note; changelog fragment.
Card instances: 3 caught on this repo (below); 1 (taosmd #478, monkeypatched
can_read) caught in ad-hoc mode with no declaration beyond the target
(below); 2 (taosmd #485) guards a method defined inside the _make_handler
closure, which module:qualname cannot address, so it is not reachable yet
(the same shape is covered by the synthetic tests); 4 (#2976, routes with
no test at all) is a coverage question this gate does not answer.
RED, the gate on the unfixed test (declaration only, test body as on dev):
RED, card instance 1 (taosmd PR #478 head e65f498a), ad-hoc mode:
RED, the new self-tests against the previous (heuristic) script:
GREEN, the gate after the test fix:
GREEN, tests:
Mutation: reverted the test fix in tests/test_routes_a2a_gpu_lease.py (declaration kept, body as on dev) and the gate went RED, exit 1 (first block above); restored it and the gate is GREEN, exit 0. Swapping the previous heuristic script back in makes 17 of the 18 new self-tests fail (third block).
Runtime
Only declared guards execute: one pytest process per test file that has any, one baseline run plus one run per required variant each. Here: 2 guards in 1 file, 26-94s measured across runs (dominated by the app fixture), job capped at 15 min. It does not grow with the suite, only with declarations.
For the lead
gate-integrity-allowlabel.guardsare checked. The gate counts 935 refusal-named tests with no declaration and lists them with--undeclared, but does not guess their targets. Declaring them is follow-up work that could be carded._make_handlerclosure) cannot be targeted yet.Summary by CodeRabbit
Review folds (b2cd667, 32c28b4)
OK, return-true=killed(exit 0) toERROR ... control run failed(exit 2).-p no:timeout(the driver bounds it at 900 s), and a placeholder record written before each guard means a child that dies mid-guard is reported by the guard's name.replacepair; a default-mode OK only proves the test reaches the function.Known limits (follow-up card)
__defaults__/__kwdefaults__) is not carried by the__code__swap, so it survives by mechanism and reads as NON-DISCRIMINATING.functools.lru_cachetarget: the baseline fills the cache and the mutant never runs, so it survives by mechanism.must_killids are absolute file line numbers, so an edit above the function rotates them (exit 2 on unrelated PRs). Ids should be relative to the def line or ordinal per kind._own_scopealso walks decorators and argument defaults, which inflates the mutant list in default mode.X = f()) cannot be reached by any__code__swap.paths:filter would leave non-matching PRs waiting on "expected".