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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR changes mutation-run cancellation and result reporting, but a deadline or interrupt can still produce the wrong outcome, lose the planned mutant count, or fail to clearly report a run stopped before any mutant was processed. These bounded reporting and correctness risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MutationCLI
participant MutationRunner
participant StaticEvaluation
participant TestEvaluation
participant MutationSummary
MutationCLI->>MutationRunner: provide run-wide deadline
MutationRunner->>StaticEvaluation: evaluate mutants with shared abort signal
StaticEvaluation->>TestEvaluation: evaluate static survivors
MutationRunner->>MutationRunner: abort when deadline expires
MutationRunner->>MutationSummary: report unfinished run without scoring
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Every mutant had ten seconds for everything: a lint, a type-check, waiting its turn behind other mutants, and only then the tests. Whatever was left when the clock ran out was recorded as "timed out" — and a timed-out mutant counted as caught. So a file whose type-check is slow scored well for the wrong reason. On the ledger readers, 35 of 52 mutants never reached a test at all and the file still reported 100%. The score was measuring the machine, not the tests. Gates and tests now run to completion. A mutant is killed when a gate rejects it or a test fails, survives when nothing does, and there is no third answer. Nothing about how long it took can stand in for a verdict. One clock remains, and it never judges a mutant: --deadline stops a whole run that is still going after an hour, on the assumption something is stuck — a mutant that makes a test loop forever being the usual cause. It fails the run and reports nothing rather than scoring what happened to finish. The status a cancelled run produces is now called "cancelled", which is what it always meant once the timeouts were gone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXUnTqyoPzb4VPSsyLwk69
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In `@AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 1633-1636: Update the deadline description in AGENTS.md to state
that exceeding --deadline produces no score or normal mutation summary, while
still printing the deadlineReport with tested and remaining mutants. Preserve
the surrounding explanation of the whole-run guard and its default duration.
In `@scripts/mutation/runner.ts`:
- Around line 292-293: Update the baseline early-return path in the runner to
check deadline expiry before returning baseline.code; when the deadline was hit,
invoke unfinishedRunExit with zero tested mutants, return exit code 1, and
ensure no score is produced. Add a regression test covering deadline expiry
before establishBaseline completes.
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The guard ends a run by aborting it, so by the time anything asks, the run looks interrupted too. Whichever check came first won — and during the baseline the interrupt check came first, so a run the guard had stopped reported someone pressing Ctrl-C and exited 130. Wrong code, wrong story, and no word about the deadline it had just passed. Both endings now come from one place that asks about the guard first, and both early exits go through it — the one after the mutants, and the one during the baseline, where nothing has been tested yet and the report says so rather than claiming "0 of 0". Raised by CodeRabbit on #2097. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXUnTqyoPzb4VPSsyLwk69
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350-354: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winHandle cancellation after a static gate exits.
If the deadline aborts a static gate,
isUnmutatedTargetDirty()treats its non-zero exit as a dirty target. The direct return at line 298 then bypassesunfinishedRunExit(). The command reports a gate failure instead of the deadline report. An operator interrupt can also exit with code 1 instead of 130.Check
unfinishedRunExit()after the gate call and before handling the dirty result. Add a regression test for a static gate stopped by the deadline.Proposed fix
- if (await isUnmutatedTargetDirty(plan, gates, gateSignal)) return 1; + const dirty = await isUnmutatedTargetDirty(plan, gates, gateSignal); + const early = unfinishedRunExit(opts, results.length, plans); + if (early !== null) return early; + if (dirty) return 1;Based on learnings, all early exits must use
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In `@scripts/mutation/summary.ts`:
- Around line 124-127: Update the conditional report selection in the mutation
summary to check tested === 0 instead of total === 0, so runs that expire before
any mutant is tested use the before-testing message even when mutants exist;
retain the existing partial-run message for runs with tested mutants.
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In `@scripts/mutation/runner.ts`:
- Around line 350-354: Update the static-gate handling around
isUnmutatedTargetDirty() to call unfinishedRunExit() immediately after the gate
returns and before processing the dirty result, ensuring deadline and operator
cancellation take precedence over gate failures. Add a regression test covering
a static gate stopped by the deadline and verify unfinishedRun preserves
hitDeadline precedence over aborted.
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Before mutating a file the runner probes its gates unmutated, so it can tell a mutation's diagnostic from one that was already there. A gate stopped part-way exits non-zero like any other failure — so pressing Ctrl-C, or the guard firing, during that probe printed "the unmutated <file> does not pass the lint gate" and exited 1. It sent you to fix a file that was never the problem, and it hid the real reason the run ended. A stopped probe now says nothing about the file, and how the run ended is decided before anything the probe reported. Raised by CodeRabbit on #2097. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXUnTqyoPzb4VPSsyLwk69
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Two findings from the last review — taking one, declining the other. Taken: a stopped gate probe read as a dirty source file (31aa1f0)Correct, and worse than the exit code. Before mutating a file the runner probes its gates unmutated, so it can tell a mutation's diagnostic from one already there. A gate stopped part-way exits non-zero like any other failure — so pressing Ctrl-C, or the guard firing, during that probe printed "the unmutated Fixed at both layers: a stopped probe now says nothing about the file, and how the run ended is decided before anything the probe reported. The per-file step moved into its own function so that ordering is stated once. Declined:
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145-148: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReport the planned mutant count during baseline cancellation.
unfinishedRunExit(opts, 0, [])at Line 147 computestotalfrom an empty plan list.runMutantshas already builtplansbefore baseline execution. A deadline during baseline is therefore reported as if no mutants were planned, even when mutants remain.Pass
plansor an explicit total intoestablishBaseline, while keepingtestedat0.Based on learnings,
total === 0means no mutant was planned, while a planned run withtested === 0is a different case.Proposed fix
-const establishBaseline = async (opts: RunMutantsOptions) => { +const establishBaseline = async ( + opts: RunMutantsOptions, + plans: readonly FileMutationPlan[], +) => { ... - const stopped = unfinishedRunExit(opts, 0, []); + const stopped = unfinishedRunExit(opts, 0, plans); ... - const baseline = await establishBaseline(opts); + const baseline = await establishBaseline(opts, plans);🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@scripts/mutation/runner.ts`:
- Around line 187-192: Update the gate execution flow around gate.exit and
gateSignal so a local baseline timeout is detected separately from the run-wide
signal and causes the mutation run to fail before runFileMutants or any mutant
scoring. Preserve the existing handling for ordinary run-wide aborts, and add a
regression test covering a gate exceeding BASELINE_TIMEOUT.
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In `@scripts/mutation/runner.ts`:
- Around line 145-148: Update the baseline-cancellation path in
establishBaseline to pass the already-built plans or their explicit count to
unfinishedRunExit, while keeping tested at 0. Preserve the distinction between
total === 0 for no planned mutants and a nonzero planned total with no mutants
tested.
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The probe ran under the run's abort signal combined with a two-minute one of its own. Last commit taught it that a stopped probe says nothing about the file — but it could not tell which of those two had stopped it. So a gate that merely ran long was read as "not stopped by anything real", the file was called clean, and its mutants were scored without the probe that exists to tell a mutation's diagnostic from one already there. The probe now runs under the run's signal alone, so a stopped probe means the run was stopped and nothing else. A gate that genuinely hangs is the whole-run guard's business, and it reports that properly — which is the same reasoning as the rest of this branch: one guard, and no other clock deciding anything. Also gives the baseline's stop report the mutants already planned, so it says "0 of N tested" rather than claiming there had been none to test. Raised by CodeRabbit on #2097. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXUnTqyoPzb4VPSsyLwk69
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Both taken — the first was a regression my previous commit introduced. Fixed in 719072c. The gate probe could score a file it never actually probedThe probe ran under The probe now runs under the run's signal alone, so a stopped probe means the run was stopped and nothing else. A gate that genuinely hangs is the whole-run guard's business, and it reports that properly. That is the same reasoning as the rest of this branch, and I should have applied it here in the first place: one guard, and no other clock deciding anything. Removing the local timeout was the fix, not tracking it separately. The baseline's stop report claimed nothing was plannedAlso correct, and it follows from the distinction I defended when declining the earlier Nice catch on both. 502 tooling tests, lint and types are green; full precommit re-running. Generated by Claude Code |
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BASELINE_TIMEOUT gave the unmutated baseline two minutes, and a baseline that ran past it was reported as "Baseline tests did not pass. Fix the tests" — sending the operator to fix nothing. Two minutes is an ordinary length for a --harness run over integration tests or a specs Feature, so a green suite could be called broken for being slow. That is the same defect this branch exists to remove, at its last site: 719072c took the constant off the gate probe, this takes it off the baseline run. The baseline now runs under the run's own signal, so --deadline really is the only clock, as AGENTS.md already claimed. Only the guard or an interrupt can cancel a baseline now, and both are caught above the failure message, so "did not pass" reports tests that really failed. Also pins the boundary the report draws between a run with no mutant planned and one stopped mid-first-mutant: "0 of 1 mutants tested" names the mutant that hung. The test fails if that branch is keyed on `tested` instead of `total`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXUnTqyoPzb4VPSsyLwk69
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Mutation testing tells us whether our tests would notice the code being broken. It was answering partly from a stopwatch, and counting that as a pass.
What was happening
Each mutant got ten seconds for everything: a lint, a type-check, waiting its turn behind other mutants, and only then the tests. When the ten seconds ran out the mutant was recorded as "timed out" — and a timed-out mutant counted as caught.
So a file whose type-check happens to be slow scored well for a reason that has nothing to do with its tests. On the ledger readers that meant 35 of 52 mutants never reached a test at all, and the file still reported a perfect score. The number was measuring the machine.
The change
Gates and tests now run to completion. A mutant is killed when a gate rejects it or a test fails, and survives when nothing objects. There is no third answer, and nothing about how long it took can stand in for one.
Two more two-minute clocks turned up behind that one, and both are gone as well. One cut off the check that the unmutated file is clean before its mutants run — when it fired, the file was scored without that check ever finishing. The other cut off the baseline test run, and a baseline that merely ran long was reported as "Baseline tests did not pass. Fix the tests." Two minutes is an ordinary length for a run over integration tests or a feature file, so a perfectly green suite could be called broken for being slow.
One clock remains, and it never judges anything:
--deadlineends a whole run that is still going after an hour, on the assumption something is stuck — a mutant that makes a test loop forever being the usual cause. When it fires the run fails with no score and no summary, printing only how far it got and where to look, rather than publishing a number built from whichever mutants happened to finish. It is deliberately generous, because it is a guard against a hang and not a budget for a slow run;--deadlinetunes it.The status a cancelled run produces is now called
cancelled, which is all it ever meant once the timeouts were gone.What this will do to your scores
Scores will go down, and files that passed the gate may now fail it. That is the change working. Every mutant that used to time out was being counted as caught without any test ever running against it; now each one gets a real answer, and some of those answers are "nothing noticed".
A first run against
src/shared/dates.tsturned up 20 survivors in the first 110 mutants. Those are gaps that were there all along.Tests
--timeoutis gone from the command line and replaced by--deadline, with its parsing and validation covered.The three runner fixes ship without direct tests: nothing imports
runner.ts, and pulling that effectful module into the test graph broke this branch's coverage once already. The decisions they depend on were moved intosummary.ts, which is covered.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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