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After #18 and #20 both landed, two modules published different "advisor reach" numbers for the same front door — 5 from capability_activation_audit.advisor_reach, 7 from capability_advisor.reachable_set() — with no statement of which population each covered.

Why they disagreed, and why the reason expired

#18 deliberately excluded offload from the reach baseline, with a sound rationale:

offload is deliberately NOT in the baseline: it is reachable only through a hardcoded map, and a hardcode cannot shrink quietly — deleting it IS a diff.

That was true when written. #20 replaced the hardcode with capability_advisor.direct_entry(), derived from dispatcher.TASK_TYPE_CAPABILITY. Derived reach can shrink silently — drop an entry from the dispatcher's map and the front door narrows with no diff in either module. The exemption that was correct for a literal is exactly wrong for a derivation, and I'm the one who invalidated it.

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runtime-ac-checks is the case that proves the point: the dispatcher has routed runtime_ac to it all along while the advisor named deliberate-break-verifier for the same work, and nothing reported the disagreement because neither side measured the other.

Break→revert

  • Patching direct_entry() to return {} must regress the derived baseline — asserted.
  • Neutering direct_entry_regressed to [] fails the new assertion.

verify.py: 366 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, 81/81 selftests, 5/5 gates. No new test, so the floor is unchanged.

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  • New Features

    • Reach reporting now includes direct-entry targets alongside matcher-based reach.
    • Combined reach totals and direct-entry regression details are now available, including for unreadable advisor results.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected the ownership reference used for reach-regression validation.
    • Added checks to detect reductions in direct-entry coverage and mapping inconsistencies.

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Two modules were publishing different "advisor reach" figures for the same front
door — `capability_activation_audit.advisor_reach` said 5, `capability_advisor`
said 7 — with no statement of which population each covered. Two disagreeing
inventories of the same thing is how a parallel inventory starts, which is the
defect both modules were written to prevent.

They disagreed for a good reason that had just expired. #18 excluded `offload`
from the reach baseline with an explicit rationale: it was reachable only through
a HARDCODED map inside `advise()`, and "a hardcode cannot shrink quietly —
deleting it IS a diff." That was correct when written. #20, merged the same day,
replaced the hardcode with `capability_advisor.direct_entry()` DERIVED from
`dispatcher.TASK_TYPE_CAPABILITY` — so dropping an entry from the dispatcher's
map now narrows the front door with no diff in either module. The exemption that
was right for a literal is exactly wrong for a derivation.

* `advisor_reach` now reads the direct-entry map from `capability_advisor` — one
  source, consumed by both, instead of a second list here.
* The derived set gets its OWN baseline (`ADVISOR_DIRECT_ENTRY_BASELINE`), so it
  can grow freely and cannot shrink without appearing in a diff. Declared and
  derived reach stay separate, because #18's reasoning for separating them holds;
  only the "no baseline needed" part died.
* `total_reachable_count` publishes 7 next to declared 5 and direct-only 2, so
  the numbers reconcile in the output rather than in someone's head.
* Fixed a pointer in `capability_advisor.py` that named
  `capability_firing_monitor.advisor_reach`; it lives in
  `capability_activation_audit`. A comment pointing at a symbol that does not
  exist is the rot #18 spent four citations cleaning up.

Break->revert: emptying `direct_entry()` must regress the derived baseline (it
does, asserted with the map patched out); neutering `direct_entry_regressed`
fails the new assertion.

verify.py: 366 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, 81/81 selftests, 5/5 gates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Advisor reach auditing now separates matcher reach from direct-entry reach. It reports direct-entry targets, regressions, and combined totals, adds exception-safe fallback fields, and validates mapping consistency and shrinkage. A related self-test reference now points to the audit module.

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Advisor reach auditing

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Reach contract and direct-entry loading
capability_activation_audit.py
The audit defines a direct-entry baseline and loads direct-entry targets with an exception-safe fallback.
Reach reporting and validation
capability_activation_audit.py, capability_advisor.py
The audit reports direct-entry mappings, direct-only capabilities, regressions, and combined reach totals. Self-tests validate these results, and the reach-regression reference points to capability_activation_audit.advisor_reach.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to cca3a

The PR reconciles the published reach counts and adds regression protection for derived direct-entry reach. The only remaining issue is a trivial lint cleanup, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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- Line 1221: Replace the lambda used as the direct_entry side effect in the
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[warning] 1221-1221: Prefer dict over useless lambda

Replace with lambda with dict

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# dispatcher.TASK_TYPE_CAPABILITY and the front door narrows in silence), which is why the
# derived set has its own baseline. Simulate the shrink: an empty map must regress.
import unittest.mock as _mock
with _mock.patch.object(capability_advisor, "direct_entry", lambda: {}):

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Replace the useless lambda.

At Line 1221, replace lambda: {} with dict. Both create a new empty mapping for each direct_entry() call. This removes Ruff PIE807. Run the configured Ruff check after the change.

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-    with _mock.patch.object(capability_advisor, "direct_entry", lambda: {}):
+    with _mock.patch.object(capability_advisor, "direct_entry", dict):
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In `@capability_activation_audit.py` at line 1221, Replace the lambda used as the
direct_entry side effect in the capability_advisor mock with the dict
constructor, preserving a fresh empty mapping on each call and resolving the
Ruff PIE807 finding.

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