docs(readability): cite the v0.6.2-pinned 412-pair / 37.4% proxy number - #321
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--readability's UNVALIDATED caveat (src/cli.h, mirrored in README.md) cited 484 pairs / 30.2% right-direction. That figure came from bench/readability_refactor_pairs.py walking `git log --all`, which sweeps every branch in this clone's shared .git, so the population moved whenever an unrelated lane was pushed and the number does not reproduce. PR #313 (9aecbc9) pins the script to the v0.6.2 tag by default; on that pinned population the result is 412 pairs, 154 right-direction, 37.4%, still worse than chance. Both surfaces now cite it and say it is pinned, so the next reader knows it cannot drift. Also: the --quality-delta help named its tenth kind `reuse-decline`, but the binary emits kind="new-clone-of-reused-helper" (src/quality.h; the same name the verb's own legend and docs/EVALS.md list). They are one kind under two names. The help now names the emitted string, and the EVALS.md note on abbreviations says `reuse-decline` is an older name for it. docs/COMMANDS.md regenerated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…; re-pin help_all
readmedriftcheck (B) counts every distinct --long token in --help, so the
phrase `git log --all` read as a 184th flag. Reworded in cli.h and README.
printffmtparitycheck: red set was exactly {help_all} (a deliberate help
edit, not a conversion); that one manifest row re-pinned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThe pull request updates readability evaluation figures and pins the measurement population to Documentation and CLI updates
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Fix the --quality-delta help sentence before regenerating the documentation.
The expanded description is concatenated to the short description without a sentence boundary. This produces across 10 kinds agent self-check... in both surfaces.
src/cli.h#L1640-L1640: add punctuation or remove the duplicate lead-in in the source help string.docs/COMMANDS.md#L2834-L2834: regenerate the command documentation from the corrected source string.
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Closing this as superseded — with thanks, because it found the right problem independently and fast. It caught the same defect train 16 fixed: shipped What landed instead, in #322, is the same fix with the mechanism attached: the pinned figure is 412 pairs at Since then the ordering claim has gone further than either of us proposed. We tested whether the ordering predicts anything actionable — whether a low-scoring function gets fixed later — on our own history. Raw and tercile-stratified it looked strong (RR 2.87), but in narrow token bands 8 of 10 deciles show no effect at all, so the apparent signal is residual size measured in the lens's own units. So this branch's help wording ("worse than chance, may run backwards") is superseded twice over — once by the token-count explanation, and again by the withdrawal. The one thing here that had no counterpart in #322 is its CHANGELOG entry, and that is being carried into the pending Nothing wasted: two independent confirmations of the same defect is worth more than one. |
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Superseded by #322 (merged). See the note above; the CHANGELOG entry is being carried forward. |
…lias Owner decision 2026-09-22: the ordering claim is withdrawn (the flag orders by Halstead volume/token count, not readability), so the NAME was the last thing overclaiming. --biggest-first promises almost nothing and delivers exactly that. - kBoolFlags row renamed to --biggest-first (same Config::readability member; the field itself is not renamed). --readability becomes a hand-written alias (deprecatedReadabilityFlag, same one-shot-per-run stderr shape as deprecatedOrderFlag's --stable/--most-important-last/ --no-auto-order): it still works, is dropped from --help, and prints "ripwire: --readability is deprecated -- use --biggest-first instead" to STDERR exactly once. stdout is byte-identical between the two spellings (proved for the default map, --json and --legend=compact; new gate arm H in test/readabilitycheck.sh, RED on the base binary, GREEN on this one). kHandWrittenFlagArms 22->23, kTotalFlagArms 212->213. - Coordinator-flagged defect in the base lane (readability-withdraw- ordering @ 47725a7): that lane rewrote the one-line --help summary to drop the ordering claim but left the detail body ("LEAST readable first") and the Config field comment asserting it, directly contradicting the same entry's own WITHDRAWN paragraph. Fixed here (src/cli.h ~194/~1383, src/verbs_quality.h dispatch comment, skills/ripwire-fresh-eyes/SKILL.md, the showcase caption) to say what the order IS -- largest Halstead volume/token-count/length first, a size proxy, never a readability order. caught-by: review (train 17 builder), site src/cli.h help block. - Renamed the FLAG only. Left untouched, and confirmed unchanged in the gates that pin them: the emitted XML root <readability>, schema="ripwire.readability/v1", compactlegend.h's rootTag/key/onTag/ onKey, every emitted attribute, and src/lintcatalog.h's unrelated cat="readability" (--lint rule category). --ensemble's and --quality-panel's own emitted legend wording ("readability lens/rank") is unchanged -- it describes the still-unrenamed XML tag, so leaving it is consistent rather than a skip. - README.md, docs/COMMANDS.md (regenerated from this binary), the COMMANDS_showcase_2026-09-14.md caption/heading (hand-edited in place, never re-recorded), present/deck5_ripwire_build.js, skills/ripwire- fresh-eyes/SKILL.md and test/showcase_capture.py updated to the new name; test/deckcheck_allowlist.txt and test/flagsurfacecheck.sh's/ test/helpbudgetcheck.sh's deprecated-alias exemption lists gained a --readability row mirroring --stable's. - CHANGELOG.md [Unreleased]: the rename; PR redhat-et#321's carried-forward entry on the construct-validity caveat's retracted proxy number (closed unmerged, superseded before it shipped); and train 16's three lanes (PR redhat-et#322, merged 2026-09-22, ships in the next release) -- that section was never written. - test/printf_parity.manifest: re-pinned help/help_all only (UPDATE_ GOLDEN=1; confirmed via diff that exactly those two rows moved, twice). Both rows hash the FULL --help/--help=all text, so they move on any wording change to this block regardless of a per-flag entry -- the base lane's own commit re-pinned the same two rows for its own addition to this entry, for the same reason. - Gates naming readability, plus readmedriftcheck/deckcheck/docscommands check/ripwirepubliccheck/dispatchordercheck/helpbudgetcheck/printffmt paritycheck/mcpcontractcheck/gatecountcheck and the mandatory source- grep sweep over this change's file list: green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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--readability'sUNVALIDATED (t14-cleanup #8)caveat insrc/cli.hand the matching README paragraph both cited 484 pairs / 30.2%. That number came frombench/readability_refactor_pairs.pywalkinggit log --all. In this clone that reads every branch in the shared.git, so the pair population changed whenever an unrelated lane was pushed, and the number does not reproduce.#313 (9aecbc9) pins the script to the
v0.6.2tag. On that pinned population the same method (80 refactor/simplify/cleanup commits, ≤400 changed lines each) gives 154 of 412 pairs, 37.4% right-direction. That is still worse than chance, so the caveat's conclusion is unchanged. Both surfaces now cite the pinned figure and say it is pinned to the tag.Naming fix. The
--quality-deltahelp called its tenth kindreuse-decline. The binary emitskind="new-clone-of-reused-helper"(src/quality.h:7776), and the verb's own legend anddocs/EVALS.mduse the same name. They are one kind under two names. The help now uses the emitted string, and the EVALS.md abbreviation note listsreuse-declineas an older name.Changes
src/cli.h: updated the readability caveat and renamed the quality-delta kindREADME.md: same number in the matching paragraphdocs/COMMANDS.md: regenerated withdocs/docs_commands_build.pydocs/EVALS.md: updated the abbreviation noteCHANGELOG.md: added an UnreleasedFixedentrytest/printf_parity.manifest: re-pinned thehelp_allrow only. I ran the gate before touching the manifest, and exactly one row was red:help_all. This is a deliberate help edit, not a printf conversion.Verification (local, macOS dev build)
These gates pass: printffmtparitycheck, readmedriftcheck, deckclaimcheck, docscommandscheck, helpbudgetcheck, mcpattrparitycheck, mcptranchecheck, readmeexamplecheck, crossrefcheck, docdriftcheck and manifestcheck.
--quality-delta=origin/mainshows 0 regressions and 0 gating.A first draft wrote
git log --allin the help. readmedriftcheck (B) and deckclaimcheck read that--allas a 184th flag, so the prose now says "a walk of every branch in the clone" instead.Not changed
src/quality.hcomments and a few test-script comments still say "reuse-decline kind" informally. I left them alone so this lane stays docs-only and does not wake gateexitcheck or churn findings.reuse-decline fired on…is a released entry, so I left it as written.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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--readabilityhelp text, README, and evaluation documentation with the revised measurement.--quality-deltaterminology to usenew-clone-of-reused-helper.