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EMIT-COST-QUAL-0: qualify the production Rust emitter's copy/share behavior over a derived permutation population -- CloneMinimality x CopyRealizationCost axes, production source->emission path, sharded execution, calibration matrix falsifiers, findings blocking; no production repairs - #9843

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…ved permutation population

The emitter decides at every value use site whether to copy or to share, and
nothing in the corpus could say what a given copy COSTS or whether it was
NEEDED. A single ".clone() is present" observation collapses those two
questions onto one bit, and the bit that survives decides neither.

gunbc.emit_copy_qualification declares the two axes and derives the population
from their product -- three receiver shapes by three use positions, nine cells,
none authored and none excluded, each fixture rendered from its cell. Both
expectations are derived: clone presence from a semantic oracle grounded in
executed rustc receipts, receiver realization from measurement. So the check
compares the emitter to a ground rather than to its own output.

Measured through the production source->emission path
(compile_dag_rust_emit_check, reaching v1.compiler.emit_rust as
`gunbc compile --target rust` does; the v2 wrap_decision_gate is not compiled
into the binary and is not qualified here):

  - the copy decision tracks the position oracle exactly on all nine cells,
    and is independent of the receiver shape
  - Widget and FreeMonoid<Widget> both realize Rc<...>, Int realizes bare, so
    every non-scalar copy emitted here is a refcount increment

No redundant clone and no realized deep copy exists in this population, so the
witness defends that behavior rather than reporting a defect. No production
repairs.

Sharded by receiver shape so a failure localizes to a realization arm. Four
calibration falsifiers each invert exactly one derived expectation over the
identical path and are asserted red, so the greens cannot be explained by an
inert harness.

Two limits are stated rather than closed: CopyRealizationCost's
DeepAggregateCopy arm is uninhabited by this population, which therefore cannot
see the fourteen bare field occurrences the R1 census measures; and minimality
is established differentially rather than by a delete-and-rebuild experiment,
which on the scalar row could not decide anything anyway (the Copy trap), so
that cell is typed undecidable rather than reported minimal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AgFJsTnRPCQ5NJA33J4rNg
… required clone on Copy receivers

Both findings from review 57920 share one root and one fix.

The model typed the scalar cells CloneEmittedUndecidable and the witness went on
enforcing a present .clone() there anyway -- which asserts the clone is
REQUIRED, a stronger result than the instrument can decide, since rustc copies
an i64 with or without it. Three separate coproduct-to-Bool predicates are what
allowed that: "does this position require a copy", "is minimality decidable
here" and "is this receiver a shared handle" were answered independently, so
nothing stopped a caller from consuming one and ignoring another.

Folding once onto CloneMinimality makes the contradiction unwritable. There is
one answer per cell, the undecidable arm is one of its states rather than a flag
a caller may ignore, and the clone expectation is derived from that answer.

The undecidable cell is WITHHELD, NOT EXCLUDED: it still runs, still asserts its
structural anchor, and still asserts both arms of the cost axis. Only the one
question the instrument cannot answer goes unasserted.

Three rows pin the disposition at cell identity so withholding cannot become a
way to buy a green -- undecidable_cells_withhold_clone_assertion names the two
cells that withhold, and decidable_cells_still_assert_clone_presence is the
control that the other four still enforce it. Without the pair, a future change
could widen undecidability across the population and every shard would still
pass while asserting nothing about copy behavior at all.

The header's "no redundant clone in this population" is corrected to scope to
the six cells where minimality is decidable; the two scalar clones are reported
undecided rather than clean.

All 10 rows re-run green on a branch-built gunbc; the four calibration
falsifiers were each re-observed returning false.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AgFJsTnRPCQ5NJA33J4rNg
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test fn sp_dup_pick_wclone_w() -> Bool { sp(position: PositionDuplicatedArgument, spelling: "cell_pick(w.clone(), w)") }
test fn sp_dup_wclone() -> Bool { sp(position: PositionDuplicatedArgument, spelling: "w.clone()") }
test fn sp_dup_both_clone() -> Bool { sp(position: PositionDuplicatedArgument, spelling: "cell_pick(w.clone(), w.clone())") }

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P1 Badge Remove the deliberately false spelling probe

For the duplicated-argument fixture that this change qualifies as emitting cell_pick(w.clone(), w), this test instead requires the nonexistent spelling cell_pick(w.clone(), w.clone()). compile_dag_rust_emit_check returns false when an included spelling is absent, so this un-negated test fn fails when the emitter exhibits the expected behavior; because the module is under the required floor's discovered dag/test/claim/*_test.dag tree and is not enrolled as an expected red, it makes the witnesses lane fail.

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Closing. This PR was opened automatically when its session closed out, and it carries work its own author deliberately declined to push.

Context. session/wise-boar-30 and #9781 were dispatched the same work-item brief, verbatim, and each ADDed the same two paths — dag/gunbc/emit_copy_qualification.dag and dag/test/claim/emit_copy_qualification_witness_test.dag — neither of which is on main, and neither head an ancestor of the other. That is a §3 fork produced by dispatch, not by either lane. I ruled #9781 the owner: it is the fuller construction, and on both findings codex raised against #9834 it is the stronger one. #9834 was closed by its own author at 20:37Z after they verified the ruling independently rather than taking it on report.

Why this specific head must not proceed. The commit here (de426e6ab5, "WIP") is the rework answering codex's two findings, sitting on top of the last vouchable commit 152e84042b. Its author stated plainly at close-out that it was never verified — their verification dispatch returned zero rows before the ruling arrived — and that they were leaving it unpushed on purpose, because pushing to a closed duplicate would only re-fork the authority. That is exactly what has now happened by automation. So this head is both (a) a second authority for a module #9781 owns, and (b) carrying an unproven fix for two findings that are still live in the commit beneath it.

Anyone reading this later: do not resurrect this branch believing the codex findings were fixed and proven. They were fixed and not proven.

Where the value went, so nothing is lost. The two genuinely additive items from this lane were handed to #9781 and are recorded durably there (#9781, issuecomment-5484263785): a second, structural ground for CloneNecessityUnjudgeable — the observation runs and is uninformative on a Copy carrier, which is a different state from the observation being unavailable, and collapsing them is a §4b rung-honesty defect — and a measured instrument defect, that a cost-axis probe spelled as a bare Rc< reports a shared handle on an i64 receiver because the returned-closure cell realizes the closure as Rc<dyn Fn...>.

The duplicated work was my dispatch defect, not this lane's. Cancelling the CI run too, since the fleet is saturated and this run cannot lead to a merge.

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