The gate now runs pytest as well, so one command answers whether the code
base is broken: syntax, protocol imports, the 125 core tests, then the lab
functional suites. It fails when a test fails, verified by feeding it a
deliberately broken test.
Two leftovers from moving the labs into experiments/ are fixed: the lab
command still pointed at tests/, and the hook only watched protocol and
tests, so edits under experiments/ and tools/ triggered nothing.
Profiling the 3.6 s gate: 0.24 s syntax, 0.12 s imports, 0.61 s pytest,
2.7 s lab functional suites, of which Lab042's software loopback is 1.14 s
because it pushes a whole image through the chain. The pytest addition is
the small part. prepare_jpeg is now cached, since six checks call it and
each call re-encoded the image at several qualities.
README described the gate without the tests it now runs.
The tests/ directory held 50 laboratory programs and no tests. They model
channels, run hundreds of repetitions and write CSV, PNG and reports;
calling that a test suite blocked introducing a real one, because any
pytest run would have collected the labs and re-executed every
experiment.
- move all 50 lab programs to experiments/ with git mv, preserving history
- rewrite the 38 cross-imports between labs from tests.labNNN to
experiments.labNNN
- leave tests/ empty for actual fast checks of protocol/
- point quick_gate and the hook at the new layout and add experiments/ to
the syntax sweep
- update the paths quoted in the Lab042 specification and the verifier
agent definition
This also defuses the import-time work finding without touching 41 files:
the labs still create directories and write files on import, but nothing
imports them now except the gate, which does so deliberately.
Gate passes: syntax clean, protocol imports, 15 lab modules import, 2
functional suites run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Introduce tools/quick_gate.py: a one-second check that parses every file
in protocol, tests and tools, imports each protocol module, and runs the
functional tests of the labs that need no experiment data.
Wire it to a PostToolUse hook so edits under protocol or tests are checked
automatically, and add two read-only review agents with slash commands that
drive them: verifier for independent re-derivation of results, adversary for
unsafe-state hunting in control, failsafe, session and reset code.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
