Every reference to the Driver in internal/ is reworded the same way as in
library/: the reason stays, the speaker and the quote go, an open decision
reads "provisional, pending a product decision", and agent names and decision-
sheet rows are dropped. Where a gate printed the word, its message now names
the reviewer or the ruling instead.
Three spots were code, not comments, and changed with their callers:
- the element census's allowlist field `driver` is now `ruling`, in the gate
and both presets (same validation: match, ruling, date and card required);
- check:i18n-never-translated's DRIVER-GATED marker is DECISION-PENDING, in
the entries and in the regex that counts them (its output is otherwise
byte-identical);
- the package.json description of the census says "ruling".
public-hygiene-check keeps its two patterns for the word: they are what keep
it out of the served folder.
Only the browser seat runs browsers, and only inside internal/browser-slot.sh.
That rule was remembered, not enforced: an agent ran a gate it took for a
headless source check and it launched Chromium outside the slot.
internal/lib/playwright-guarded.mjs is now the one way a repo file reaches
playwright: its launch(), launchPersistentContext(), launchServer(), connect()
and connectOverCDP() exit 75 (NOT MEASURED) with a message naming
browser-slot.sh unless DOXA_BROWSER_SLOT is set, and browser-slot.sh exports it
for the command it runs, so a bash -c grandchild inherits it. All 72 files that
imported playwright switch to it (internal/lib/browser.mjs and 64 internal gates;
plugin-designs scripts: doxa-research-map 3, my-upg-100-list 2,
research-map-plus-grid 2, research-dashboard 1): a mechanical import swap.
check:browser-gates-guarded (gates:pre) fails a direct import;
bun run browser-gates lists the 97 scripts that launch a browser. isBrowserGate
moves to internal/lib/browser-gates.mjs so the runner and the check share it.
About thirty browser gates could pass while describing another worktree's build.
This machine runs several checkouts and a default port belongs to whichever
server started first — measured 2026-09-24, :4173 was another worktree's, and an
hour of probing reported confidently on code nobody here had touched. check:sri
cannot see it: a stale tree and its stale leaf agree perfectly.
Twenty gates now call requireThisTree() right after they resolve their target and
exit 75 on a mismatch — EX_TEMPFAIL, the code this repo already uses for "not
measured", which the wave runner reports as ⊘ rather than ✗. Exiting 1 would turn
a mis-pointed probe into a red product gate, which is the failure this whole
family of checks exists to prevent.
★ NARROWER THAN THE PROBLEM STATEMENT, ON PURPOSE. Three classes do NOT get it,
because there it would be wrong rather than missing:
self-serving gates start their own server on an OS-assigned port
file:// gates read this checkout directly — no server to be wrong about
remote targets verify-map-paint defaults to the LIVE site, and "does
production match what we built" is a deploy question asked
deliberately. MEASURED mid-rollout: it reported NOT
MEASURED against the live host, which was the guard being
wrong, not the gate. It now enforces on localhost only.
TWO THINGS THE ROLLOUT TAUGHT, both caught by running rather than reading:
· node --check passes a file that will die on ReferenceError. Adding a ROOT
constant to sixteen gates that do not import resolve/dirname/fileURLToPath
parsed perfectly and crashed on first run — the same shape that broke
check-locale-reachable twice. The imports are added under aliased names so
they cannot collide with a gate's own.
· Five gates take their URL from argv with no default and are left for a
per-file pass rather than patched blind.
CONTROLS: against another worktree's server a guarded gate prints NOT MEASURED
naming the mismatch and exits 75; against this checkout's server it runs and
reports normally; against the live site it proceeds.
Gates the client-side poster fallback, and it measures PIXELS rather than
bytes — because the failure mode here is silent and total.
⚠ An SVG loaded through <img> is an ISOLATED DOCUMENT. It cannot see the host
page's CSS, so every var() falls back to its initial value, and `fill`'s initial
value is BLACK. A poster that loses its stylesheet downloads as a black
rectangle with no error, no exception, and a perfectly normal file size. The
prayer packet shipped exactly that bug once already (660 of 661 map elements
painting black, nothing in the console).
So the gate asserts mean luminance and colour variety, not "did it produce
bytes", and it checks the stylesheet actually travelled into the inlined SVG.
Confirmed to FAIL on the real regression before being accepted: with the
<style> block stripped, luminance drops 229 -> 13 and distinct colours 54 -> 2,
and all three assertions fire.
Passing: laos rasterises to 3000x4000, 725 KB, stylesheet inline, luminance 229,
54 distinct colours.
