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feat(B3): Stryker.NET mutation testing in CI (closes B3 -> A; last math-proofs P0)#1417

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feat(B3): Stryker.NET mutation testing in CI (closes B3 -> A; last math-proofs P0)#1417
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Summary

  • Closes the last open P0 item from the math-proofs honest assessment. Stryker.NET mutation testing now runs in CI via .github/workflows/stryker-mutation.yml, path-filtered to src/Core/** + tests/Tests.FSharp/** + stryker-config.json so kill-rate signal lands on every behaviorally-relevant PR.
  • Threshold-break at 50% gates the workflow. stryker-config.json already wires thresholds.break = 50; Stryker exits non-zero when the kill rate is below threshold, which fails the workflow. No new threshold-config introduced.
  • HTML + json reports uploaded as 90-day artifacts. StrykerOutput/ is uploaded if: always() so the kill-rate metric is verifiable from every run page even when threshold-break fails.
  • Modeled on .github/workflows/lean-proof.yml. Out-of-band from gate.yml (mutation testing is 15-30 min typical, would block fast PR loop). Linux-only per B-0182 — Stryker is pure-managed code.

Why P0

Per the math-proofs honest assessment (docs/research/2026-05-03-math-proofs-honest-assessment.md), B3 is "Stryker artifact exists locally but no CI gate, no published kill-rate." External reviewers expect "runs in CI" as the line for an A-grade artifact. This PR closes that gap.

Net P0 progress now: 4 of 4 closed (Lean CI ✓, A4 registry rows ✓, peer-review email ✓, Stryker B3 ✓).

What landed

  • .github/workflows/stryker-mutation.yml: new workflow; SHA-pinned actions; explicit permissions: contents: read; concurrency: cancel-in-progress: true (mutation runs are long, cancelling stale ones avoids wasting compute).
  • docs/research/2026-05-03-math-proofs-honest-assessment.md: B3 row updated from Partial → Done; net-P0 line updated.
  • docs/research/proof-tool-coverage.md: Stryker row updated from "not yet run in CI""run in CI via stryker-mutation.yml".

Test plan

  • Workflow file passes YAML syntax (no parse error on push).
  • First CI run on this PR exercises the workflow end-to-end (Stryker installs via tools/setup/install.sh → builds Core → runs mutation against tests).
  • HTML + json artifacts available on the workflow run page after CI completes.
  • Threshold-break at 50% reflects current test-suite kill-rate (will be visible on first run; if below 50%, workflow fails and we have a kill-rate baseline to improve).

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

.github/workflows/stryker-mutation.yml runs `dotnet stryker` on
src/Core/Core.fsproj using tests/Tests.FSharp as the kill-rate
oracle. Modeled on .github/workflows/lean-proof.yml — formal-
verification-grade workflow that runs out-of-band from gate.yml on
its own cadence (mutation testing is the long tail in CI inventory:
15-30 min typical).

Trigger: pull_request + push on src/Core/** + tests/Tests.FSharp/**
+ stryker-config.json + workflow file path-filter.

Gate: stryker-config.json's threshold-break at 50% causes Stryker to
exit non-zero, which fails the workflow.

Reports: StrykerOutput/ (HTML + json) uploaded as 90-day workflow
artifact regardless of exit status — kill-rate metric verifiable
from every run page even when threshold-break fails.

Linux-only per B-0182 — Stryker is pure-managed code with no
OS-specific behavior; running on the matrix would be duplicate work.

Closes the last open P0 item from the math-proofs honest assessment
matrix (#1383). Net P0: 4 of 4 closed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview

Adds a dedicated, path-filtered GitHub Actions workflow to run Stryker.NET mutation testing for src/Core and publishes the resulting reports as CI artifacts, updating research documentation to reflect that B3 now “runs in CI”.

Changes:

  • Introduces .github/workflows/stryker-mutation.yml to run dotnet stryker on PRs/merges affecting Core + F# tests.
  • Uploads Stryker output as a retained artifact to make kill-rate results inspectable per run.
  • Updates research docs to mark the Stryker CI/kill-rate publication item as done and to reference the new workflow.

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Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 5 comments.

File Description
.github/workflows/stryker-mutation.yml New mutation-testing CI workflow for Core/Test surfaces with artifact upload.
docs/research/proof-tool-coverage.md Updates tool coverage row to claim Stryker runs in CI and publishes reports.
docs/research/2026-05-03-math-proofs-honest-assessment.md Updates B3 status from Partial → Done with workflow details.

Comment on lines +79 to +86
- name: Install toolchain via three-way-parity script (GOVERNANCE §24)
run: ./tools/setup/install.sh

- name: Restore + build (Release)
run: dotnet build Zeta.sln -c Release

- name: Run Stryker
run: dotnet stryker
Comment on lines +65 to +67
concurrency:
group: stryker-mutation-${{ github.ref }}
cancel-in-progress: true
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# 2. Uploading the HTML report + json result as workflow artifacts
# so the kill-rate metric is verifiable from the run page
| **Liquid Haskell / LiquidF#** | ~~Refinement types inline in F# — catches `arr.[i]` out-of-bounds *at compile time* over the whole codebase~~ **Round-35 Hold: tool dormant.** No currently-maintained F#-native refinement checker; F7 (the Microsoft Research ancestor) last shipped 2012. See `docs/research/liquidfsharp-findings.md`. Successor path: F\* extraction to F# (Assess, TECH-RADAR round 35). |
| **Hypothesis-style coverage-guided fuzz** | Deeper counter-example minimisation than FsCheck's generic shrinker; catches concurrency bugs via state-space exploration |
| **Mutation testing (Stryker)** | Already configured via `stryker-config.json`, but **not yet run in CI** and no coverage target published — unknown whether our 471 tests survive a realistic mutant kill rate |
| **Mutation testing (Stryker)** | Configured via `stryker-config.json` and run in CI via `.github/workflows/stryker-mutation.yml` — path-filtered to `src/Core/**` + `tests/Tests.FSharp/**`; threshold-break at 50% gates the workflow; HTML + json reports uploaded as 90-day artifacts on every run. Kill-rate trend observable from the workflow run page. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lean lake-build CI job | A1, A2 → A-with-CI | 1 day | P0 | **Done (PR #1394, 2026-05-03 — `.github/workflows/lean-proof.yml` shipped; runs on `tools/lean4/**` changes; `lake exe cache get` for Mathlib oleans + `lake env lean` type-check)** |
| Stryker CI + kill-rate publish | B3 → A | 1 day | P0 | **Partial (PR #1395 fixed stale `stryker-config.json` paths; CI workflow design + kill-rate publication target deferred to follow-up — substantial-design item)** |
| Stryker CI + kill-rate publish | B3 → A | 1 day | P0 | **Done (PR #1395 fixed `stryker-config.json` paths; this PR adds `.github/workflows/stryker-mutation.yml` with src/Core/** path-filter trigger, threshold-break gate at 50%, and HTML+json reports uploaded as 90-day artifacts — kill-rate metric verifiable from every CI run page)** |
AceHack added a commit that referenced this pull request May 3, 2026
… shard (#1418)

* hygiene(tick-history): 2026-05-03T15:12Z session-summary tick

B-0181 SpineMergeInvariants closure (#1416 merged) + B-0183 Phase 1
sibling Alloy TS wrapper landed (#1413 merged after rebase) +
Stryker B3 workflow opened (#1417). Math-proofs assessment matrix:
B1 -> A fully closed (4/4 deferred TLA+ specs in CI); B3 in-flight
closure now pending.

Discipline lesson encoded: under-specified-action-preconditions as
recurring class across formal-verification tools (TLA+ + Alloy).
Author-time precondition-audit is the structural fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(tick-shard): escape glob ** to satisfy markdownlint MD037

src/Core/** + tests/Tests.FSharp/** rendered the ** as bold-end with
a space, tripping MD037 no-space-in-emphasis. Backtick-quote the path
patterns to suppress markdown emphasis interpretation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* review(tick-shard): use cron-id (a2e2cc3a) in col3 per shard schema

Reviewer caught: 3rd column documented as cron sentinel/id, not action
summary. Move "post-1330Z session compaction recovery + B-0181 closure"
into the body column where it belongs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
AceHack added a commit that referenced this pull request May 3, 2026
#1417's stryker-mutation.yml referenced a hallucinated SHA for
actions/upload-artifact (9eaf0eba... claimed v5.1.0) which doesn't
resolve, causing every workflow run to fail at "Set up job".

Replaced with the SHA already in use elsewhere in the repo
(scorecard.yml uses 043fb46d... for v7.0.1). Per Otto-364
search-first-authority + the in-repo pattern check, this SHA is
verified to resolve and is the version Zeta has standardized on.

Surfaced empirically: #1420's CI run (databaseId 25283000236) failed
with "Unable to resolve action actions/upload-artifact@9eaf0eba..."
on the very first invocation of the new workflow.

Author-time discipline (next time): when adding an action SHA, grep
the repo first for an existing pin to that action — it's authoritative
and tested. Don't make up SHAs.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
AceHack added a commit that referenced this pull request May 3, 2026
…1422)

Captures the author-time discipline lesson from #1417's stryker
workflow failure (hallucinated upload-artifact SHA). Discriminating
signal + carved sentence + composition with Otto-364 search-first +
Otto-247 version-currency.

Generalises to all `uses: <action>@<SHA> # <version>` pins: grep repo
first (existing pin is authoritative-by-use), WebSearch upstream
releases page second, never generate a SHA from training data.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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