research: publish canonical pilot v1 repeat stability snapshot

[ErenAri]

Summary

Publish the successful post-collection repeat-stability evidence as a versioned,
verifiable repository snapshot and close the repeat-run publication gate.

Canonical repeat collection

• workflow run: 35445834557
• source commit: d2a78e05178ea6dd82ead9684f5eedf49066903f
• Actions artifact: 10584409793
• artifact SHA-256:
  895fd41dae147c592d5cdec91bbd99150f9dd14c35afadf72bc14954a192a0e5
• planned attempts: 21
• observed attempts: 21
• stable on the same exact environment: 21
• environment drift: 0
• same-environment verdict instability: 0

This is a purposeful post-collection stability sample, not a population-wide
nondeterminism estimate.

Repository snapshot

Adds:

• research/repeat/v1/repeat-dataset-manifest.json
• research/repeat/v1/data/stability-summary.json
• research/repeat/v1/data/repeat-provenance.json
• research/repeat/v1/data/raw-report-checksums.json
• repeat-only manifest projection metadata
• generated repeat RESULTS.md
• scripts/research/verify-repeat-snapshot-v1.py

The row-level repeat-executions.jsonl, raw reports, projection YAMLs, and VM
logs remain in the content-addressed Actions artifact for later DOI archival
instead of being duplicated into Git history.

Integrity gate

The new verifier checks, fail-closed:

• canonical pilot run binding;
• canonical repeat run and artifact identity;
• 21/21 collection accounting;
• repeat provenance SHA binding;
• frozen sample/study-plan/profile-lock hashes;
• CLI, validator, Cilium loader, and Falco loader identities;
• all 21 raw-report paths/hashes;
• tuple-level 3/3 stability accounting;
• projection metadata against frozen source manifest Git blobs;
• deterministic regeneration of each repeat-only manifest projection.

The repeat workflow PR preflight now runs this verifier whenever the committed
repeat snapshot exists.

Publication docs

• mark the repeat stability roadmap gate complete;
• bind the canonical repeat evidence in research/ARCHIVAL.md;
• update the research README;
• populate preprint Table 4 with the observed repeat result;
• add the bounded repeat result to the draft abstract.

Diagnostic failed run

Manual run 35443831085 remains explicitly diagnostic only. It exposed the
singleton-matrix/frozen-manifest scheduling mismatch fixed by PR #154 and is not
part of the repeat dataset.

Next gate

After this PR merges, pilot-v1 collection, deterministic RQ1–RQ4 analysis, and
bounded repeat stability are all frozen. The next research gate is deterministic
final paper figures/tables followed by the archival manifest/research release.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added automated verification for the committed repeat-stability evidence and its associated checksums, provenance, and reproducibility records.
  • Added a complete repeat-stability dataset covering 21 attempts across seven study cases.

• Documentation

  • Updated research documentation and the preprint to record the completed study: 21/21 stable runs, zero environment drift, and zero same-environment verdict instability.
  • Documented the canonical run, evidence artifacts, provenance, and manifest projections used by the study.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change records a completed 21-attempt repeat-stability snapshot, adds a verifier for its evidence and provenance, validates manifest projections, and runs the verifier in the research workflow.

Changes

Repeat snapshot verification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Canonical repeat snapshot evidence research/repeat/v1/*, research/ARCHIVAL.md, research/README.md, research/ROADMAP.md, research/paper/PREPRINT.md	The repository records 21 planned and observed attempts, 21 stable results, zero environment drift, and zero same-environment verdict instability. It adds provenance, report checksums, projection metadata, and canonical run identifiers. Research documentation now describes the completed snapshot.
Snapshot identity and collection checks scripts/research/verify-repeat-snapshot-v1.py	The verifier checks input schemas, workflow and artifact identities, collection totals, provenance hashes, and materialized tool and loader identities.
Report and projection validation scripts/research/verify-repeat-snapshot-v1.py	The verifier checks all raw report bindings and tuple summaries, validates projection metadata, regenerates libbpf projections, and verifies the artifact evidence checksum.
Workflow verification integration .github/workflows/research-repeat-v1.yml	The workflow compiles the verifier and runs it during preflight when the repeat dataset manifest exists. It also tracks verifier changes in pull-request path filters.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PullRequest
  participant ResearchWorkflow
  participant SnapshotVerifier
  participant RepeatSnapshot
  PullRequest->>ResearchWorkflow: change verifier or repeat snapshot
  ResearchWorkflow->>SnapshotVerifier: compile and run preflight verification
  SnapshotVerifier->>RepeatSnapshot: load manifests, summaries, provenance, and checksums
  SnapshotVerifier->>SnapshotVerifier: validate identities, reports, tuples, and projections
  SnapshotVerifier-->>ResearchWorkflow: PASS or prefixed failure

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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 4f747

The publication gate can report success without the canonical snapshot or authenticated raw-report bindings, so the evidence-integrity checks should be fixed before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5 | ❌ 3

❌ Failed checks (3 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 1 files. (15 skipped: 1…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Code Quality Regression	⚠️ Warning	The new snapshot verifier has a fail-open correctness gap. At scripts/research/verify-repeat-snapshot-v1.py:102-104, each required collection field is checked only when the field exists in summary…	Require every key in expected_collection to exist and equal its expected value, for example by replacing the conditional with if summary.get(key) != value: fail(...). Add explicit required-field and type checks for the summary schema be…
Missing Regression Tests	⚠️ Warning	The PR adds observable verification behavior without adding a regression test. The new scripts/research/verify-repeat-snapshot-v1.py has 251 lines of fail-closed checks, but no self-test or test fix…	Add an automated fixture-based regression test for verify-repeat-snapshot-v1.py. It should first assert the canonical fixture passes, then mutate representative bound fields or files (for example, the repeat run SHA, a raw-report checksum…

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: publishing the canonical pilot v1 repeat-stability snapshot.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Security Regression	✅ Passed	No security regression is introduced. The workflow keeps permissions: contents: read, uses the existing pinned checkout with persist-credentials: false, and adds no write, secret, or OIDC permissi…

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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 1 files. (15 skipped: 15 unsupported.)

Full details: Code Quality Regression

Explanation

The new snapshot verifier has a fail-open correctness gap. At scripts/research/verify-repeat-snapshot-v1.py:102-104, each required collection field is checked only when the field exists in summary. A committed stability-summary.json can therefore omit planned_attempts, observed_attempts, or stability totals and still pass, because the verifier checks the manifest and tuple rows but does not require those summary fields. The base workflow had mandatory shape assertions for the sample, and the new workflow adds this verifier as an integrity gate. The current snapshot values match, but the new implementation does not reliably verify the declared summary contract.

Resolution

Require every key in expected_collection to exist and equal its expected value, for example by replacing the conditional with if summary.get(key) != value: fail(...). Add explicit required-field and type checks for the summary schema before validating its values. Add a regression test or self-test that removes each required field and confirms that verification fails.

Full details: Missing Regression Tests

Explanation

The PR adds observable verification behavior without adding a regression test. The new scripts/research/verify-repeat-snapshot-v1.py has 251 lines of fail-closed checks, but no self-test or test fixture covers its failure paths. The workflow only compiles the script and runs it once against the valid committed snapshot. The changed-file inventory contains no test file. Existing repository patterns use dedicated negative-path tests for verification scripts, so the new verifier's drift, checksum, projection, and artifact-binding checks are currently unprotected by regression tests.

Resolution

Add an automated fixture-based regression test for verify-repeat-snapshot-v1.py. It should first assert the canonical fixture passes, then mutate representative bound fields or files (for example, the repeat run SHA, a raw-report checksum, a provenance digest, and projection metadata) and assert that the verifier exits non-zero with the expected failure message. Run this test in research-repeat-v1.yml.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/research-repeat-v1.yml:
- Line 90: Remove the conditional hashFiles guard from the “Verify committed
repeat snapshot” workflow step so scripts/research/verify-repeat-snapshot-v1.py
runs unconditionally and reports missing snapshot artifacts as failures.

In `@scripts/research/verify-repeat-snapshot-v1.py`:
- Around line 152-159: Update the snapshot verification flow around the
raw-report checks in the verifier to download and validate the pinned artifact,
then compute each listed raw report’s SHA-256 digest and size and compare them
with the manifest values before accepting the snapshot. Preserve the existing
uniqueness, digest-format, and positive-size validations, and use the existing
pinned-artifact and report-path symbols where available.

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• .github/workflows/research-repeat-v1.yml
• research/ARCHIVAL.md
• research/README.md
• research/ROADMAP.md
• research/paper/PREPRINT.md
• research/repeat/v1/README.md
• research/repeat/v1/data/RESULTS.md
• research/repeat/v1/data/projection-metadata/inconclusive-oracle-environment.json
• research/repeat/v1/data/projection-metadata/negative-ringbuf-boundary.json
• research/repeat/v1/data/projection-metadata/positive-controlled-modern.json
• research/repeat/v1/data/projection-metadata/positive-ringbuf-backport.json
• research/repeat/v1/data/raw-report-checksums.json
• research/repeat/v1/data/repeat-provenance.json
• research/repeat/v1/data/stability-summary.json
• research/repeat/v1/repeat-dataset-manifest.json
• scripts/research/verify-repeat-snapshot-v1.py

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