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Disclosure — a measured contradiction with ADR-0002, not fixed here.
On the standing real-world corpus (google-flatbuffers-bounty), read-before-init reports 78 findings. Counted, not sampled:

  • 3 true positives: python/flatbuffers/flexbuffers.py:1378/1400/1514 (Vector, TypedVector, Map). try: start = self._StartVector(); yield self; finally: self._EndVector(start, …). If _StartVector() raises, the finally raises UnboundLocalError, which masks the original exception. These are genuine latent bugs.
  • 71 false positives, correlated guards: every generated Pack method has the shape if self.x is not None: x = … … if self.x is not None: Add(builder, x). All 71 were checked mechanically: the line above each flagged read is exactly if self.<v> is not None:.
  • 4 false positives, loops over non-empty literals: for sizePrefix in [True, False]: in tests/py_test.py always runs, but the ADR's rule "the loop may run zero times" treats it as possibly empty.

ADR-0002's counter-condition paragraph says the rule's only false-positive sources are opacity and scope. That claim is false. This PR transcribes the ADR faithfully and does not add path sensitivity, which would be a design change. The follow-up is an issue (with acceptance criteria) plus an owner ruling on amending the ADR.

dead-store: 6 findings on the same corpus, all at INFO with the call-side-effect counter-condition. The two read in full are genuine: an unused result = subprocess.run(…) and an unused s = …GetRootAsStat(…).

M4 — Python CFG, dataflow, and T1 rules 9–10

This implements docs/adr/0002-t1-language-and-cfg.adoc as a transcription. Gap-fills are marked and snapshot-tested.

Commits, each reviewable on its own:

  1. Grammar probe: asserts the node kinds and field names the builder relies on, against the pinned tree-sitter-python.
  2. RuleCtx::new + shared units(): the CFG is built once per file (OnceCell) and shared by every T1 rule. This is a refactor with no behaviour change.
  3. cfg/:
    • The locals pre-pass.
    • FunctionUnit::{Analysable, Opaque}, so a rule cannot obtain a CFG for an opaque function.
    • The try model: a try_entry edge and a body-tail edge to each handler, plus raise edges from the else/handler tails into the exceptional finally.
    • finally copied once per exit.
    • 6 CFG goldens, each read by eye.
  4. dataflow.rs:
    • A generic worklist with union meet and no widening.
    • Backward liveness and forward may-unbound.
    • A dead store is reported only if it is dead in every reachable finally copy; a read is flagged if it is unbound in any.
  5. Rules:
    • dead-store: _-prefixed targets are suppressed; an RHS with a call, await, yield or walrus reports at INFO with the ADR counter-condition; otherwise WARN; never ERROR.
    • read-before-init: WARN uniformly.
    • Both are Tier::T1 → DATAFLOW, derived from the tier.

A chosen false negative, documented and pinned by a test: a walrus inside a comprehension clears may-unbound. Reporting it would fire on if any((m := p(s)) for s in xs): use(m).

Exit gate (PLAN.adoc M4)

  • Both T1 rules pass their positive/negative corpora. Every ADR-0002 corpus obligation is covered, one case per fixture file.
  • The CFG snapshot tests are green, and the try/except snapshot shows both handler edges.
  • A function containing exec( produces zero T1 findings, with a known-answer positive twin per rule that differs only in the call.
  • Module-level code is not analysed (a negative fixture per rule).
  • just check is green: fmt, clippy -D warnings, 97 + 64 + 5 + 1 tests. just e2e passes 35/35 and the exit-code contract is unchanged.

Mutants — every one killed, each naming the right file

Layer Mutant Went red
CFG builder drop the pre-statement raise (try_entry) edge a_handler_is_reached_from_try_entry_and_from_the_body_tail ("no try_entry edge")
CFG builder drop the try-body-tail → handler edge 3 dataflow corpus tests
Solver union meet → intersection 5 dataflow corpus tests
OPAQUE hatch remove exec from the triggers falsifier: dead-store/negative/opaque_exec.py
Rule 9 delete the _-prefix suppression falsifier: dead-store/negative/underscore_target.py

The falsifier caught one real error while I was writing the fixtures. My first read-before-init OPAQUE twin never assigned y, which made y a global, so the "positive control" was silent for the right reason. It was rewritten so that y is a genuine local bound on only one path.

Also in this PR

RawFinding gains read-only getters (tier, severity, location, counter_condition) so that rule tests can pin a severity rather than only a count. There are no setters. The honesty invariant, under which rule_id and evidence are never set by a rule, is untouched.

Real-world scan: 590 files, 119 findings, 2.0 s (release build).

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M4 Step 0. ADR-0002 names node kinds and field names in prose, and prose is
not a measurement. This probe parses one corpus exercising every construct in
the ADR's table and asserts the kinds and fields the CFG builder will depend
on, so a grammar bump that renames or removes one fails here, naming the thing
that moved, rather than silently turning a CFG edge into a no-op.

Running it overturned two claims the builder would otherwise have been written
against. Both came from reading the grammar's generated `node-types.json`
during planning rather than from parsing:

* `except*` does NOT produce an error node. tree-sitter-python 0.25.0 accepts
  PEP 654 syntax and demotes the `*` to an anonymous child, leaving a named
  tree shape identical to plain `except`. `has_error()` is false, so the
  planned OPAQUE trigger does not cover it — and misreading a group handler as
  an ordinary one is worse than refusing the function, since the two have
  genuinely different control flow. Hence `is_except_group`, a structural
  detector, with both arms asserted and two mutants killed against it.

* The `except E as e` binding is NOT `except_clause.alias`, despite
  `node-types.json` advertising exactly that field. The parser emits
  `value: (as_pattern (identifier) alias: (as_pattern_target ...))`, one level
  down. A builder written from the schema would have got `None`, never bound
  `e`, and turned every aliased handler into a `read-before-init` false
  positive on `e`.

Also asserted, each with a paired control so no leg can pass vacuously:
try/with/delete expose no fields the builder could use, so their parts must be
matched by kind; `while/else` exists though the ADR table omits it; a bare
annotation `x: int` carries `type` but no `right` and so binds nothing.

No builder code yet beyond the one detector the measurements forced.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WRvDivYwLSeVCJUrfjic3f
No behaviour change. All nine struct-literal sites (the engine, the
falsifier, and seven T0 test helpers) now go through one constructor. A
later commit can then add a private, lazily-built per-file CFG shared by
every T1 rule without touching each site again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WRvDivYwLSeVCJUrfjic3f
Lowers every function_definition to a FunctionUnit, per ADR-0002:

- Analysable(FunctionCfg) with private fields, or Opaque{reason}; a T1 rule
  cannot obtain a CFG for a function it must not analyse. Triggers: parse
  error, exec/eval/locals/globals/vars in the own body, except*, module
  wildcard import, frame introspection, >4096 locals.
- Locals pre-pass (scope.rs): global/nonlocal excluded, bare annotations
  local, comprehension targets not leaked but walrus targets are, match
  captures precise (class names and keyword attribute names are not locals).
- try: a try_entry block and per-statement blocks give both handler edges
  ADR-0002 needs; else/handler tails raise to the exceptional finally;
  finally is copied per exit (normal, exceptional, each jump) — gap-fill.
- while/else, while True with no false edge, match arms — gap-fills.
- RuleCtx::units() builds once per file, lazily, Python only.

Six CFG snapshots (three ADR-mandated, three gap-fills), each read before
blessing; a mutant dropping the pre-statement raise edge is killed by the
direct try-edge test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WRvDivYwLSeVCJUrfjic3f
One worklist solver over a union meet, generic in direction, and the two
ADR-0002 problems transcribed from its equations. Block-level solutions are
replayed per event; dead_stores / unbound_reads combine the per-exit copies
of a finally per source location (dead only if dead in every copy;
may-unbound if in any), skipping unreachable blocks.

18 corpus cases, each "no finding" beside one that reports. Mutants killed:
intersection meet (5 tests red), dropped try-body-tail edge (3 red). A
walrus inside a comprehension clearing may-unbound is a chosen, documented
false negative.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WRvDivYwLSeVCJUrfjic3f
Rule 9 `dead-store` and rule 10 `read-before-init`, transcribed from
ADR-0002 over `RuleCtx::units()` and `pons_core::dataflow`. Both are
Tier::T1 (DATAFLOW, derived from the tier), Python only, and never see an
OPAQUE function: `FunctionUnit::Opaque` carries no CFG.

dead-store: `_`/`_`-prefixed targets suppressed; an RHS with a call,
await, yield or walrus reports at INFO with the ADR's counter-condition;
otherwise WARN. Never ERROR. read-before-init: WARN uniformly.

Registered after the T0 catalogue; the ordered-id test is widened and
renamed. RawFinding gains read-only getters so rule tests can pin a
severity and counter-condition, not only a count. No setters.

Fixtures carry every ADR-0002 corpus obligation, one case per file, plus
an `exec(` negative with a known-answer positive twin per rule, and a
module-level negative.

Mutants killed: dropping `exec` from the OPAQUE triggers turns
dead-store/negative/opaque_exec.py red; deleting the `_` suppression
turns dead-store/negative/underscore_target.py red.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WRvDivYwLSeVCJUrfjic3f
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Review comments at @crates/pons-core/src/cfg/builder.rs:
- Around line 659-692: Update Builder::with_ so a body exception suppressed by
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without adding a normal CFG successor; a conservative WeakDef for those bindings
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- Around line 11-16: Update the Rule 10 documentation in read_before_init.rs to
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fixtures/read-before-init/negative/opaque_exec.py

[error] 2-2: The use of exec can be insecure
Context: exec("y = 1")
Note: [CWE-94] Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection').

(no-exec)

fixtures/dead-store/negative/opaque_exec.py

[error] 3-3: The use of exec can be insecure
Context: exec("print(x)")
Note: [CWE-94] Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection').

(no-exec)

🪛 LanguageTool
crates/pons-core/tests/golden/cfg_match.txt

[grammar] 13-13: Articles like ‘a’ are rarely followed by punctuation. A word may be missing after ‘a’, or the punctuation mark may not be necessary.
Context: ...r = b {use b, def! r} b4 -> [b2] L5 case [a, *rest] if a: {use
a, use
rest, weak ...

(THE_PUNCT)


[grammar] 13-13: Articles like ‘a’ are rarely followed by punctuation. A word may be missing after ‘a’, or the punctuation mark may not be necessary.
Context: ...[b2] L5 case [a, *rest] if a: {use
a, use
rest, weak a, weak rest, use a} ...

(THE_PUNCT)


[grammar] ~13-~13: Articles like ‘a’ are rarely followed by punctuation. A word may be missing after ‘a’, or the punctuation mark may not be necessary.
Context: ... *rest] if a:{use~ a, use~ rest, weak a, weak rest, use a} L6r = a` {use a, ...

(THE_PUNCT)


[grammar] ~14-~14: Articles like ‘a’ are rarely followed by punctuation. A word may be missing after ‘a’, or the punctuation mark may not be necessary.
Context: ... a, weak rest, use a} L6 r = a {use a, def! r} b5 -> [b2] L7 case _: {} ...

(THE_PUNCT)


[style] ~17-~17: Using many exclamation marks might seem excessive (in this case: 3 exclamation marks for a text that’s 431 characters long)
Context: ...] L7 case _: {} L8 r = None {def! r} b6 (unreachable) -> [b1]

(EN_EXCESSIVE_EXCLAMATION)

crates/pons-core/tests/golden/cfg_try_except_finally.txt

[uncategorized] ~9-~9: Se é uma abreviatura, falta um ponto. Se for uma expressão, coloque entre aspas.
Context: ...a} b3 -> [b2 b8] L5 except E as e: {def e} b4 -> [b3 b2 b5] b5 -> [b3 b2 b6] ...

(ABREVIATIONS_PUNCTUATION)


[uncategorized] ~12-~12: Se é uma abreviatura, falta um ponto. Se for uma expressão, coloque entre aspas.
Context: ...b2 b5] b5 -> [b3 b2 b6] L3 a = g() {def!* a} b6 -> [b3 b2 b7] L4 b = a {use...

(ABREVIATIONS_PUNCTUATION)


[uncategorized] ~14-~14: Se é uma abreviatura, falta um ponto. Se for uma expressão, coloque entre aspas.
Context: ...} b6 -> [b3 b2 b7] L4 b = a {use a, def! b} b7 -> [b2 b9] L8 c = 1 {def! c}...

(ABREVIATIONS_PUNCTUATION)


[uncategorized] ~16-~16: Se é uma abreviatura, falta um ponto. Se for uma expressão, coloque entre aspas.
Context: ... a, def! b} b7 -> [b2 b9] L8 c = 1 {def! c} b8 -> [b2 b9] L6 print(e, a) {u...

(ABREVIATIONS_PUNCTUATION)

🪛 Ruff (0.16.6)
fixtures/read-before-init/positive/aug_assign_unbound.py

[error] 2-2: Undefined name count

(F821)

fixtures/dead-store/positive/rhs_call.py

[warning] 4-4: Unnecessary assignment to entry before return statement

Remove unnecessary assignment

(RET504)

fixtures/dead-store/negative/underscore_target.py

[error] 2-2: Undefined name g

(F821)

fixtures/read-before-init/positive/opaque_control.py

[error] 4-4: Undefined name run

(F821)

fixtures/read-before-init/negative/module_level.py

[error] 2-2: Undefined name y

(F821)

fixtures/dead-store/positive/redefined_before_use.py

[error] 3-3: Undefined name parse

(F821)


[warning] 4-4: Unnecessary assignment to config before return statement

Remove unnecessary assignment

(RET504)

fixtures/read-before-init/negative/global_name.py

[warning] 2-2: Using the global statement to update count is discouraged

(PLW0603)

fixtures/read-before-init/positive/for_target_after_loop.py

[warning] 2-2: Loop control variable item not used within loop body

(B007)

fixtures/read-before-init/negative/bound_on_every_path.py

[warning] 2-5: Use ternary operator y = 1 if c else 2 instead of if-else-block

Replace if-else-block with y = 1 if c else 2

(SIM108)

fixtures/dead-store/positive/plain.py

[warning] 4-4: Unnecessary assignment to result before return statement

Remove unnecessary assignment

(RET504)

fixtures/dead-store/negative/read_only_in_except.py

[error] 5-5: Undefined name step

(F821)


[error] 7-7: Undefined name log

(F821)

fixtures/dead-store/positive/opaque_control.py

[error] 5-5: Undefined name run

(F821)


[warning] 7-7: Unnecessary assignment to x before return statement

Remove unnecessary assignment

(RET504)

fixtures/read-before-init/negative/opaque_exec.py

[error] 3-3: Use of exec detected

(S102)

fixtures/dead-store/negative/loop_var_after_loop.py

[warning] 3-3: Loop control variable last not used within loop body

(B007)

fixtures/read-before-init/positive/handler_reads_try_name.py

[error] 3-3: Undefined name connect

(F821)

fixtures/read-before-init/negative/comprehension_var_shadow.py

[warning] 2-2: Unnecessary list comprehension (rewrite using list())

Rewrite using list()

(C416)

fixtures/dead-store/negative/opaque_exec.py

[error] 4-4: Use of exec detected

(S102)


[warning] 6-6: Unnecessary assignment to x before return statement

Remove unnecessary assignment

(RET504)

🔇 Additional comments (25)
crates/pons-core/src/dataflow/tests.rs (1)

1-204: LGTM!

crates/pons-core/src/engine.rs (1)

3-9: LGTM!

Also applies to: 21-48, 186-186

crates/pons-core/src/finding.rs (1)

248-265: LGTM!

crates/pons-core/src/lib.rs (1)

3-4: LGTM!

crates/pons-rules/src/lib.rs (1)

5-5: LGTM!

crates/pons-rules/src/registry.rs (1)

13-14: LGTM!

Also applies to: 33-34, 44-44, 56-58

crates/pons-rules/src/t1/mod.rs (1)

1-35: LGTM!

crates/pons-rules/src/t0/constant_condition.rs (1)

135-135: LGTM!

crates/pons-rules/src/t0/empty_effect_loop.rs (1)

147-147: LGTM!

crates/pons-rules/src/t0/self_assignment.rs (1)

139-139: LGTM!

crates/pons-rules/src/t0/string_concat_in_loop.rs (1)

372-372: LGTM!

crates/pons-rules/src/t0/swallowed_error.rs (1)

155-155: LGTM!

crates/pons-rules/src/t0/unreachable_after_jump.rs (1)

141-141: LGTM!

crates/pons-rules/src/t0/while_true_no_break.rs (1)

194-194: LGTM!

crates/pons-rules/tests/falsifier.rs (1)

69-69: LGTM!

crates/pons-core/src/cfg/mod.rs (1)

1-387: LGTM!

crates/pons-core/src/cfg/scope.rs (1)

1-342: LGTM!

crates/pons-core/src/cfg/builder.rs (1)

1-658: LGTM!

Also applies to: 693-921

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fn with_(&mut self, node: Node<'t>) {
let mut ev = Vec::new();
let mut header_end = node.start_byte();
let mut cursor = node.walk();
let children: Vec<_> = node.named_children(&mut cursor).collect();
for clause in children.iter().filter(|c| c.kind() == "with_clause") {
header_end = clause.end_byte();
let mut cc = clause.walk();
let items: Vec<_> = clause.named_children(&mut cc).collect();
for item in items.into_iter().filter(|i| i.kind() == "with_item") {
let Some(value) = item.child_by_field_name("value") else {
continue;
};
if value.kind() == "as_pattern" {
if let Some(expr) = value.named_child(0) {
self.expr(expr, &mut ev, true);
}
if let Some(alias) = value.child_by_field_name("alias") {
let mut ac = alias.walk();
let targets: Vec<_> = alias.named_children(&mut ac).collect();
for t in targets {
self.bind_target(t, None, &mut ev);
}
}
} else {
self.expr(value, &mut ev, true);
}
}
}
self.emit(node.start_byte(), header_end, ev);
if let Some(body) = node.child_by_field_name("body") {
self.block(body);
}
}

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Model exception suppression in with_ for dead-store liveness.

Builder::with_ appends the body as straight-line code and has no successor for an exception that __exit__ suppresses. With contextlib.suppress(KeyError), x = d[k] can raise and execution can continue to return x, which returns the earlier x = None.

The backward liveness transfer treats a normal Def as a kill. The CFG therefore treats the first store as overwritten, and dead_stores can report x = None as a WARN because its RHS has no call or other side effect.

Model a suppressed-exception path for liveness only, or conservatively emit WeakDef for a name already stored before the with body. Do not add a normal CFG successor, because that would make read-before-init report valid bindings that only occur when the body completes normally. Add the contextlib.suppress example to the negative dead-store corpus.

ADR-0002 explicitly defines with as linear and says that its body is linearly appended. Its note that __exit__ cannot rebind analysed locals does not document exception suppression as an accepted dead-store false positive.

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Review comment at @crates/pons-core/src/cfg/builder.rs around lines 659 - 692:
Update Builder::with_ so a body exception suppressed by the context manager
preserves liveness for bindings stored before the with body, without adding a
normal CFG successor; a conservative WeakDef for those bindings is sufficient.
Add a contextlib.suppress case to the negative dead-store corpus where an
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Reproduced with the release build — x = None is flagged WARN though suppress can resume at return x. Valid, but ADR-0002 defines with as linear and this PR is a transcription of that ADR (owner ruling: land M4 as transcribed, amend the ADR in a follow-up). Tracked as #48 with acceptance criteria, including the paired read-before-init control you describe so the fix cannot leak into may-unbound.

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@hyperpolymath Thanks for the guidance. I accept the owner ruling to land M4 as transcribed from ADR-0002 and defer the correction to #48.

The finding remains valid but deferred. The paired read-before-init control must confirm that the liveness fix does not change may-unbound results.


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🤖 Completed: Generate docstrings for PR #46 — View commit 2ed317d

- grammar probe: assert the 10 further fields the builder reads
  (elif/else/with_item/decorated_definition/attribute/keyword_argument/
  default_parameter, plus guard/superclasses/with-as alias found by shape);
  a mutant renaming `value` and `guard` turned both tests red.
- dead-store description now transcribes ADR-0002's firing condition
  ("never read before it is redefined or the function ends"); the old
  string described only the overwrite case.
- read-before-init doc no longer claims opacity and scope are the only
  false-positive sources — the infeasible-path classes are #47.

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CodeRabbit (#46) correctly noted my d172272 reply was wrong: scope.rs and
mod.rs read further fields — import_statement/import_from_statement.name,
aliased_import.alias, (typed_)default_parameter.name, class_definition.name,
assignment.left/right, call.function. All now asserted; a mutant renaming
aliased_import.alias turned the probe red.

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Superseded by #49 — identical tree (git diff bf96065 <#49 head> is empty), every commit signed so main's required_signatures rule is satisfied. CodeRabbit's docstring commit 2ed317d is carried over with its authorship, re-signed by the maintainer. Review history stays here.

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…init (#49)

> **Supersedes #46.** Same tree, byte-identical to #46 head `bf96065`
(`git diff` empty), re-landed because main's `required_signatures` rule
blocked #46 on CodeRabbit's unsigned docstring commit `2ed317d`. Here
every commit is signed; that commit keeps CodeRabbit as author and is
re-signed by the maintainer. Review history and resolved threads live on
#46.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> **Disclosure — a measured contradiction with ADR-0002, not fixed
here.**
> On the standing real-world corpus (`google-flatbuffers-bounty`),
`read-before-init` reports **78** findings. Counted, not sampled:
> - **3 true positives**:
`python/flatbuffers/flexbuffers.py:1378/1400/1514` (`Vector`,
`TypedVector`, `Map`). `try: start = self._StartVector(); yield self;
finally: self._EndVector(start, …)`. If `_StartVector()` raises, the
`finally` raises `UnboundLocalError`, which masks the original
exception. These are genuine latent bugs.
> - **71 false positives, correlated guards**: every generated `Pack`
method has the shape `if self.x is not None: x = …` … `if self.x is not
None: Add(builder, x)`. All 71 were checked mechanically: the line above
each flagged read is exactly `if self.<v> is not None:`.
> - **4 false positives, loops over non-empty literals**: `for
sizePrefix in [True, False]:` in `tests/py_test.py` always runs, but the
ADR's rule "the loop may run zero times" treats it as possibly empty.
>
> ADR-0002's counter-condition paragraph says the rule's *only*
false-positive sources are opacity and scope. That claim is false. This
PR transcribes the ADR faithfully and does **not** add path sensitivity,
which would be a design change. The follow-up is an issue (with
acceptance criteria) plus an owner ruling on amending the ADR.
>
> `dead-store`: 6 findings on the same corpus, all at `INFO` with the
call-side-effect counter-condition. The two read in full are genuine: an
unused `result = subprocess.run(…)` and an unused `s =
…GetRootAsStat(…)`.

## M4 — Python CFG, dataflow, and T1 rules 9–10

This implements `docs/adr/0002-t1-language-and-cfg.adoc` as a
transcription. Gap-fills are marked and snapshot-tested.

Commits, each reviewable on its own:
1. **Grammar probe**: asserts the node kinds and field names the builder
relies on, against the pinned `tree-sitter-python`.
2. **`RuleCtx::new` + shared `units()`**: the CFG is built once per file
(`OnceCell`) and shared by every T1 rule. This is a refactor with no
behaviour change.
3. **`cfg/`**:
   - The locals pre-pass.
- `FunctionUnit::{Analysable, Opaque}`, so a rule *cannot* obtain a CFG
for an opaque function.
- The try model: a `try_entry` edge **and** a body-tail edge to each
handler, plus raise edges from the else/handler tails into the
exceptional `finally`.
   - `finally` copied once per exit.
   - 6 CFG goldens, each read by eye.
4. **`dataflow.rs`**:
   - A generic worklist with union meet and no widening.
   - Backward liveness and forward may-unbound.
- A dead store is reported only if it is dead in **every** reachable
`finally` copy; a read is flagged if it is unbound in **any**.
5. **Rules**:
- `dead-store`: `_`-prefixed targets are suppressed; an RHS with a call,
`await`, `yield` or walrus reports at `INFO` with the ADR
counter-condition; otherwise `WARN`; never `ERROR`.
   - `read-before-init`: `WARN` uniformly.
   - Both are `Tier::T1` → `DATAFLOW`, derived from the tier.

A chosen false negative, documented and pinned by a test: a walrus
inside a comprehension clears may-unbound. Reporting it would fire on
`if any((m := p(s)) for s in xs): use(m)`.

## Exit gate (PLAN.adoc M4)
- [x] Both T1 rules pass their positive/negative corpora. Every ADR-0002
corpus obligation is covered, one case per fixture file.
- [x] The CFG snapshot tests are green, and the try/except snapshot
shows both handler edges.
- [x] **A function containing `exec(` produces zero T1 findings**, with
a known-answer positive twin per rule that differs only in the call.
- [x] Module-level code is not analysed (a negative fixture per rule).
- [x] `just check` is green: fmt, clippy `-D warnings`, 97 + 64 + 5 + 1
tests. `just e2e` passes 35/35 and the exit-code contract is unchanged.

## Mutants — every one killed, each naming the right file
| Layer | Mutant | Went red |
|---|---|---|
| CFG builder | drop the pre-statement raise (`try_entry`) edge |
`a_handler_is_reached_from_try_entry_and_from_the_body_tail` ("no
try_entry edge") |
| CFG builder | drop the try-body-tail → handler edge | 3 dataflow
corpus tests |
| Solver | union meet → intersection | 5 dataflow corpus tests |
| OPAQUE hatch | remove `exec` from the triggers | falsifier:
`dead-store/negative/opaque_exec.py` |
| Rule 9 | delete the `_`-prefix suppression | falsifier:
`dead-store/negative/underscore_target.py` |

The falsifier caught one real error while I was writing the fixtures. My
first `read-before-init` OPAQUE twin never assigned `y`, which made `y`
a global, so the "positive control" was silent for the right reason. It
was rewritten so that `y` is a genuine local bound on only one path.

## Also in this PR
`RawFinding` gains **read-only** getters (`tier`, `severity`,
`location`, `counter_condition`) so that rule tests can pin a severity
rather than only a count. There are no setters. The honesty invariant,
under which `rule_id` and `evidence` are never set by a rule, is
untouched.

Real-world scan: 590 files, 119 findings, 2.0 s (release build).

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