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@@ -474,6 +474,68 @@ If a workflow's behaviour genuinely depends on a feature only present from a
 particular commit onwards, express that as a comment or a changelog note, not
 as a test assertion on the SHA string.
 
+## Mutation-testing workflow contract tests
+
+This repository runs scheduled, informational mutation testing through a thin
+caller workflow, [`.github/workflows/mutation-testing.yml`](../.github/workflows/mutation-testing.yml),
+which delegates to the shared reusable workflow
+`leynos/shared-actions/.github/workflows/mutation-mutmut.yml`. The heavy
+lifting — running `mutmut` and summarizing survivors — lives in
+`shared-actions`; this repository carries only declarative configuration. The
+run is **informational only**: it never gates a pull request. Survivors are
+reported through the job summary and downloadable artefacts so they can be
+triaged into tests, not enforced as a blocking check. The mutation targets and
+test selection themselves are configured in `[tool.mutmut]` in
+`pyproject.toml` (`source_paths`, `do_not_mutate`,
+`pytest_add_cli_args_test_selection`).
+
+The workflow runs in two modes. A **daily schedule** fires a change-scoped run
+that mutates only the source files touched within the detection window, so
+quiet days are cheap no-ops. A **manual dispatch** (the Actions "Run workflow"
+control) mutates the whole package; select a branch in that control to
+exercise a feature branch.
+
+The caller passes two configuration inputs:
+
+- `paths` — set to `hooks/`, the change-detection glob bounding scheduled runs
+  to the repository's only importable product code (the Stop-hook script and
+  its co-located tests).
+- `module-prefix-strip` — set to `""`, because the flat `hooks/` layout means
+  changed-file paths already map to module globs unaltered, with no package
+  prefix to strip.
+
+The repository does not set `exclude-globs` or `extra-args`; both default in
+the shared workflow.
+
+The `uses:` reference pins the shared workflow to a full 40-character commit
+SHA rather than a branch or tag, so a force-push upstream cannot silently
+change what runs here. The contract test asserts only that the pin is a full
+commit SHA, not a particular value, so Dependabot bumps it automatically
+without any accompanying test edit.
+
+Because the caller is configuration rather than code, `tests/test_workflow_contract.py`
+pins the shape it must uphold, failing the pull request when the caller drifts
+— repointing the pin at a branch, widening the token scope, or dropping a
+configuration input — rather than letting the breakage surface only in a
+scheduled run. The test module self-skips when the workflow file is absent
+(`pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(not WORKFLOW_PATH.exists(), ...)`), because
+`mutmut` copies sources into a `mutants/` sandbox that omits `.github/`, and
+the contract test would otherwise fail there for the wrong reason. Run it
+locally with
+`uv run --group dev python -m pytest tests/test_workflow_contract.py -v`, or
+as part of the full suite via `make test`. The test validates:
+
+- the `uses:` reference targets `mutation-mutmut.yml` pinned to a full commit
+  SHA;
+- the `with:` block carries exactly `paths: hooks/` and
+  `module-prefix-strip: ""`, nothing more and nothing less;
+- job permissions are least-privilege (`contents: read`, `id-token: write`)
+  and the workflow-level default token scope is empty;
+- `concurrency` serializes runs per ref (`mutation-testing-${{ github.ref }}`)
+  without cancelling one in progress; and
+- the triggers keep the daily schedule (`50 12 * * *`) and a plain
+  `workflow_dispatch` with no inputs.
+
 ## Validation expectations
 
 When changing bootstrap behaviour in this repository, replay the usual