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+# Milestone 2 Close-Out Audit — Baseline Tests, Benchmarks, CI/CD, Project Board
+
+**Date:** 2026-09-22
+**Audit type:** Close-out verification of issue #15. Claims were re-run against the repository rather than read back from the milestone document.
+**Auditor:** Agentic audit; commands and their output are quoted so each verdict is reproducible.
+**Revision audited:** `main` @ `22d228f5`
+
+## Verdict
+
+All four of #15's acceptance criteria hold: the test suite and its pathways are
+documented, the benchmarks exist and run, CI is extended and green on `main`, and the
+board is linked. Two claims in
+`docs/milestones/02-baseline-tests-benchmarks.md` no longer described what the
+repository does, and both are corrected in the same PR as this audit:
+
+1. the ">10% regression gate fails CI" claim (frontend **and** Julia) — the gate was
+   deliberately superseded by an informational comparison, with measured reasoning;
+2. the test-suite figures, which had drifted upward as tests were added.
+
+Neither correction invalidates the milestone: the first is a decision the owner took
+after the document was written and is recorded in `ci.yml`; the second is a snapshot
+that has aged in the safe direction.
+
+## What was run
+
+| Command | Where |
+| --- | --- |
+| `bun test` / `bun test --coverage` | `frontend/` |
+| `ls test/unit/*.jl \| wc -l`, `cat test/unit/*.jl \| wc -l` | repository root |
+| `ls bench/`, `ls frontend/bench/` | repository root |
+| `grep` over `ci.yml`, `README.md`, `bench/**`, `frontend/bench/baseline.json` | repository root |
+| `GET /actions/runs?branch=main&status=success` | GitHub API |
+
+## Claims, evidence, verdicts
+
+### Frontend test suite
+
+**Claimed** (doc, local run 2026-09-18): 581 pass, 5 todo, 0 fail, 3350 expects,
+586 tests across 16 files, 415 ms.
+
+**Measured** (2026-09-22): 599 pass, 5 todo, 0 fail, 3368 expects, 604 tests across
+16 files, 461 ms.
+
+**Verdict: holds, grown by 18 tests.** The shape is unchanged — the same 5 todos, the
+same 16 files, no failures. The todo count is the interesting one: it has not moved,
+so the DOM-lane debt the document records is still exactly that debt and has not
+silently grown.
+
+### Frontend coverage
+
+**Claimed:** 40.19% functions, 47.53% lines (issue: "40% funcs, 47% lines").
+No gate, by policy.
+
+**Measured:** 40.23% functions, 47.50% lines.
+
+**Verdict: holds.** Regenerated independently; the difference is rounding.
+Under-covered files remain the DOM-only ones (`DataTable.tsx` 0.00/0.93,
+`CardActions.tsx` 0.00/3.51, `NameDialog.tsx` 0.00/2.38), which is the documented
+consequence of the unit lane being DOM-less rather than a regression. The e2e lane is
+where those files are exercised — see #32, whose dialog specs run in real Chromium.
+
+### Julia test suite
+
+**Claimed:** 27 unit test files, 6830 lines.
+
+**Measured:** 30 unit test files, 8310 lines.
+
+**Verdict: holds, grown by 3 files and 1480 lines.** Reproducible with the two
+commands above.
+
+### Benchmarks
+
+**Claimed:** `table_loading`, `epistemic_parsing`, `duckdb_aggregation`,
+`permanova_nmds`, `tree_rendering`, plus a comprehensive runner; frontend harness
+with 7 workloads.
+
+**Measured:** all five `bench/<category>/benchmark.jl` present, plus
+`bench/comprehensive_benchmark.jl` and `bench/analysis_config/benchmark.jl`; every
+category has a committed `baseline.json`. `frontend/bench/baseline.json` holds
+exactly 7 workloads: `run-table-json-parse`, `figure-colour-overrides`,
+`table-loading-sample-columns`, `epistemic-parsing`, `duckdb-aggregation`,
+`permanova-nmds`, `tree-rendering-clade-cumulus`.
+
+**Verdict: holds.** The 7 names match the document one-for-one.
+
+### The >10% regression gate — superseded
+
+**Claimed:** "Regression gate: >10% fail in CI"; frontend Node script fails on
+>10% delta; each Julia `bench/*.jl` fails on >10% when `ENV["CI"] == "true"`.
+
+**Measured: not what the repository does.** `ci.yml` states the deltas are
+"REPORTED, never gated" and gives the measurement behind that decision: two
+consecutive runs of *identical* benchmark code on a hosted runner produced
+per-workload deltas between **-16% and +52%**, flapping in both directions, because
+the harness workloads import no application code at all — a delta measures the runner,
+not the commit. `bench/table_loading/benchmark.jl` agrees: a >10% delta prints
+`NOTE`, emits `@warn "…(informational)"`, and carries the comment "Never gates in
+CI."
+
+**Verdict: claim no longer true; the deviation is deliberate, evidenced, and now
+documented.** A hard gate below the noise floor would block at random, which is worse
+than no gate — and worse for the repository's own philosophy, since a gate that fails
+for reasons the commit cannot influence teaches people to ignore it. The document has
+been corrected to describe the informational comparison, the measured noise floor,
+and what still holds for real: checksum hard-fails, the workload freeze policy, and
+deltas plus machine factor shipped as artifacts for review.
+
+### CI/CD extension
+
+**Claimed:** tests and benchmarks on every push/PR, artifacts, and the new categories
+`analysis-config` and `cladistic-explorer`.
+
+**Measured:** frontend `bun test --coverage`, typecheck, build and the benchmark
+harness are CI steps; the Julia side runs all five categories plus
+`bench/analysis_config/benchmark.jl` and `bench/comprehensive_benchmark.jl`;
+`test/unit/test_analysis_config.jl` runs as a step of its own; artifacts
+`frontend-tests-benchmarks` (junit.xml, lcov.info, results.json, baseline.json),
+`julia-coverage-lcov` (lcov.info) and `julia-benchmarks-comprehensive` are declared.
+For the cladistics category the repository carries `frontend/src/components/
+CladeCumulus.tsx` and the `tree-rendering-clade-cumulus` workload; a
+`test_clade_cumulus.jl` does **not** exist, which is what the document already says
+("future, will test…"). The accepted reading is that the *benchmark category* exists
+and the *unit category* remains future work, and the document is precise on that.
+
+**Verdict: holds**, with the naming clarified above.
+
+### Codecov and gitar
+
+**Claimed:** Codecov removed (config deleted, README badge removed, upload replaced by
+a local artifact); gitar absent (`grep -i gitar` returns 0).
+
+**Measured:** no `codecov.yml`; no Codecov badge or slug in `README.md`; `ci.yml`
+uploads coverage as a local artifact named `julia-coverage-lcov` with the step
+comment "Codecov removed per Milestone 2"; `grep -rin gitar` over the tree returns
+nothing.
+
+**Verdict: holds.** Note that the older
+`docs/audit/type-system-reconnaissance.md` still *mentions* a Codecov slug pointing
+at the parent repository — that document records a state that has since been
+remediated, and it is a historical audit, not a current claim.
+
+### CI runtime
+
+**Claimed:** 15–20 minutes.
+
+**Measured:** the last four successful `main` runs took 29:18, 14:12, 15:17 and
+22:21 (median ≈ 19 minutes).
+
+**Verdict: holds as a range, with a caveat worth recording.** The variance is
+dominated by the renv restore — 79 R packages built from source, resumable from a
+cache, and the single largest cost in the workflow. A cold cache is the 29-minute
+case.
+
+### Local sandbox RAM
+
+**Claimed in the document:** the local sandbox is memory-blocked
+("876Mi vs 2.5GB required").
+
+**Corroborated incidentally:** this audit's own environment could not precompile
+`DataFrames` or `XLSX` — the two heaviest direct dependencies — and the memory ceiling
+is the plausible explanation; `MetaManifold` itself precompiled in 116 s once the
+lighter tree was built. The audit therefore ran its Julia-side verification through a
+harness that mounts the real `Provenance` module (whose only sibling dependency is
+`RRuntime`) rather than the whole package. The claim is consistent with what the
+environment does.
+
+### Project board
+
+**Claimed:** https://github.com/users/hyperpolymath/projects/45 — "Analysis Layer &
+Cladistics Development", 11 items, PRs #11–#14 linked.
+
+**Measured: not verifiable with the credentials available to this audit.** The board
+is a user-level Projects v2 board; reading it needs the `read:project` scope, which is
+granted per-token, and the token in use during this audit carries `repo` and
+`workflow` only.
+
+**Verdict: unverified, and recorded as such rather than assumed.** Everything else on
+this page was re-derived from the repository or the API. The link and the board's own
+existence are the owner's to confirm; nothing in the codebase depends on it.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- `docs/milestones/02-baseline-tests-benchmarks.md` carries dated audit notes beside
+  the figures it recorded, and its regression-gate section now describes the
+  informational comparison that replaced the gate.
+- No code change is implied by this audit. The tests, the benchmarks and the CI
+  wiring are as the milestone describes them, except where noted above.
+- Two things are deliberately left as they are: `test_clade_cumulus.jl` is still
+  future work, and the benchmark comparison is still informational. Both are
+  decisions, not oversights, and both are now written down where a reader will find
+  them.

docs/milestones/02-baseline-tests-benchmarks.md

@@ -40,8 +40,20 @@ SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Jonathan D.A. Jewell (hyperpolymath) <j.d.a.jewell@
 Ran 586 tests across 16 files. [415.00ms] first run, [340.00ms] with --coverage
 ```
 
+> **Audited 2026-09-22 (#15).** Re-run on `main` @ `22d228f5`: 599 pass, 5 todo,
+> 0 fail, 3368 expects, **604 tests across 16 files** [461 ms]. Grown by 18 tests;
+> the file count and the todo count are unchanged, so the DOM-lane debt recorded
+> above has not silently grown. Full audit:
+> `docs/audit/milestone-2-close-out.md`.
+
 **Coverage (informational, no gate by policy per docs/testing/infrastructure.md):**
 - All files 40.19% funcs, 47.53% lines
+
+> **Audited 2026-09-22 (#15).** Regenerated: All files **40.23% funcs, 47.50% lines** —
+> unchanged within rounding. The least-covered files are still the DOM-only ones
+> (`DataTable.tsx`, `CardActions.tsx`, `NameDialog.tsx`), which is the documented
+> consequence of a DOM-less unit lane rather than a regression; the e2e lane is where
+> those are exercised.
 - src/api/client.ts 15% funcs 57% lines (many uncovered: config, analysis, etc — API client not fully tested via unit, but via integration)
 - src/api/errorMessage.ts 100%
 - src/components/CardActions.tsx 0% funcs 3.51% lines (UI not DOM-tested)
@@ -58,6 +70,11 @@ Ran 586 tests across 16 files. [415.00ms] first run, [340.00ms] with --coverage
 **Command:** `julia --project=. -t 2 --code-coverage=user test/runtests.jl` (unit always, --integration opt-in, --server opt-in)
 
 **Pathways (27 unit test files, 6830 lines total):**
+
+> **Audited 2026-09-22 (#15).** Measured on `main` @ `22d228f5`: **30 unit test files,
+> 8310 lines**. The list below is the Milestone 2 snapshot and remains an accurate
+> description of the files it names; of the current files, only `test_execution.jl`
+> is not named below. Full audit: `docs/audit/milestone-2-close-out.md`.
 - `test_diversity.jl` (87 lines): richness (5), shannon (6), simpson (6), Normalisation rarefy (1), normalise_counts (1) — total 19 tests
 - `test_merge_taxa.jl` (311): merge_taxa join, tagging, max_x, category_sets
 - `test_config.jl` (62): config cascade, defaults, overrides
@@ -118,7 +135,8 @@ Ran 586 tests across 16 files. [415.00ms] first run, [340.00ms] with --coverage
    - taxonomy_levels (distinct ranks)
    - taxon_column (rank resolution)
    - Baseline: baseline.json with median seconds per op (5 reps)
-   - Regression gate: >10% fail in CI
+   - Baseline comparison: **informational** — see "Regression Gate" below, which was
+     corrected on audit 2026-09-22 (#15)
 
 2. **bench/epistemic_parsing/benchmark.jl**
    - Mock epistemic types mirroring future src/core/epistemic.jl: EpistemicStatus enum present_in_every/present_in_some/absent/unknown/sans_fibre, MockCandidate observation/residual/witness, MockCase candidates
@@ -156,7 +174,7 @@ Ran 586 tests across 16 files. [415.00ms] first run, [340.00ms] with --coverage
 
 6. **bench/comprehensive_benchmark.jl**
    - Runner for all 5 categories, writes bench/results/comprehensive_results.json
-   - Fails on >10% regression when CI=true
+   - Reports deltas against each committed baseline; does not gate (see below)
 
 **Baselines:**
 - Each category has baseline.json committed with placeholder medians (will be overwritten on first CI run that succeeds)
@@ -202,9 +220,25 @@ Ran 586 tests across 16 files. [415.00ms] first run, [340.00ms] with --coverage
 - julia-coverage-lcov: lcov.info
 - julia-benchmarks-comprehensive: bench/*/baseline.json, bench/results/comprehensive_results.json, bench/**/baseline.json
 
-**Regression Gate:** >10% fail
-- Frontend: Node script in CI fails if any workload median delta >10% vs baseline.json
-- Julia: Each bench/*.jl checks baseline.json and fails if delta >10% when ENV["CI"]=="true" (via exit(1) and ::error:: annotation)
+**Regression Gate:** none, deliberately — deltas are reported, never gated
+
+> **Corrected 2026-09-22 (#15).** This section previously recorded a hard
+> ">10% fail" gate for both the frontend script and each `bench/*.jl`. That is not
+> what the repository does, and it was changed on purpose after the gate was built.
+> `ci.yml` carries the measurement: two consecutive runs of *identical* benchmark
+> code on a hosted runner produced per-workload deltas between **-16% and +52%**,
+> flapping in both directions, because the harness workloads import no application
+> code — a delta therefore measures the runner, not the commit. `bench/table_loading/
+> benchmark.jl` agrees: a >10% delta prints `NOTE` and emits
+> `@warn "…(informational)"`, with the comment "Never gates in CI."
+>
+> A gate below the noise floor blocks at random, and a gate that fails for reasons a
+> commit cannot influence teaches people to ignore it. What still holds for real: the
+> harness checksums hard-fail, the workload freeze policy requires re-cutting the
+> baseline (visible in review), and deltas plus the machine factor are printed and
+> shipped as artifacts for human review. Revisiting a same-runner A/B gate is left open
+> once the harness exists on the base branch. Full audit:
+> `docs/audit/milestone-2-close-out.md`.
 
 **New Test Categories:**
 - analysis-config: test_analysis_config.jl (AnalysisConfig creation, validation, BH mandatory, DANGER token, DOI bundle, epistemic, cloud sizing) — 21 files 5276 insertions in feature branches