An external review found the evidence record honest and the gates real, but raised three
concrete defects. Each is fixed at its cause rather than at its symptom, and the reasoning
is recorded in docs/tool-verification/REPO-DECISIONS.md.
build_scripts.py -- the audit reported 37 findings, most of them noise
It matched any `X:\...` literal, so `C:\Program Files\...`, `C:\Python314\...` and literal
placeholders all counted as machine-specific leftovers. A gate whose output is mostly noise
stops being read -- the same failure scan_leaks.py names when it refuses to exempt the
RFC 5737 ranges. Two explicit exemption families are added instead of a looser regex:
GENERIC_PATH_PREFIXES (install locations that exist on every host of that platform) and
`_leaks_nothing()` (also exempts an already-redacted path, since a placeholder or an
ellipsis means a normalisation pass already ran).
Two traps surfaced only because the change was tested rather than merely run. BARE_ABS stops
at whitespace, so `C:\Program Files\...` arrives truncated as `C:\Program` and a one-way
`startswith` misses the exemption; the comparison is now bidirectional under a minimum
length. And with a lookahead of only `[a-z0-9]` the optional `\\?` backtracks to empty, the
next character is the separator, it passes, and a real personal path is swallowed -- the
lookahead has to exclude the separator as well. Both were caught by the case table, not by
the audit run.
Result: 37 -> 0 findings, exit 2 -> exit 0. The real hits (`E:\apk-reverse\...`,
`E:\agb_apktool.jar`) were fixed in the documents, not by widening the list.
Three absolute paths on the published surface
EXTENSION-desensitization.md, EXTENSION-extraction-shell-bench.md and EXTENSION-vmp-diff.md
quoted a workbench root, a tool jar and an SDK location absolutely.
docs/tool-verification/ already states the rule -- a record may say a run happened at a
`tools/...` path, written relatively -- so the three files were made to match the rule they
were already under. The tool-jar and SDK cases are rephrased rather than placeholder-ised,
so no reader has to learn a new token.
check_budget.py -- blind to the half of the problem it was not measuring
The gate budgets the always-loaded part and could not see the corpus, where a new reference
costs exactly one index line: the corpus can double while the narrative count stays green.
Two note-level thresholds now report it. Notes, not failures -- a large corpus is a choice,
a growth nobody measured is the defect. The first run reports 47 references + 55 scripts =
102 files, 31,423 lines.
A cross-tool inconsistency this pass ran into, recorded rather than papered over
build_scripts.py now exempts any `<...>` placeholder; scan_leaks.py recognises a fixed token
list. An invented placeholder in a source comment passed the first and was read by the
second as the very personal name its `user_path_windows` rule exists to catch, turning
check_repo.py red. That is by design -- a strict list is what stops a real name hiding
behind a plausible-looking placeholder -- but the two tools disagree about what "already
redacted" means, and the disagreement stays invisible until someone writes a new token.
Rephrased here; a future pass may want one shared list.
Verification
- build_scripts.py: 37 -> 0 findings on a clean clone, exit 0.
- An 18-case table pins both directions, 0 failures: generic and already-redacted paths are
exempt, while a real workbench path, a real personal name after `C:\Users\`, a real POSIX
home and a real project path still report. It found two defects in the first
implementation.
- All four gates pass: check_repo 0 problem, check_refs 0 dangling / 0 warning,
check_budget 0 failure / 0 warning / 3 notes, build_scripts 0 findings.
Public targets under the existing routes, recorded per row in tests/benchmark.md with each row's own strength label: the MASTG crackmes (equal-length patch -> repack -> re-sign with a zero-change control, and the anti-debug race with its time-to-death baseline), DexPatcher's ezAndroid sample, two real split APK sets, and a self-built extraction-skeleton set. Hardening-shape discrimination now separates Java2C from an extraction shell, a VMP and JNI sinking.
New: java2c_probe.py and java2c-and-jni-sinking.md; split-apk.md with repack.py growing set inventory, unified re-signing and merge; protobuf_decode_raw.py cross-checked against the official runtime; vmp_diff_harness.py and its cost table; kernelsu_syscall_mask.py with three kernel-side templates; stalker_trace.js gains Stalker.exclude() and a zero-event warning.
Corrections, each because a measurement contradicted a recorded conclusion: the trivial-body ratio is bimodal rather than a threshold and the old threshold claim was deleted; a Dex-VMP verdict was withdrawn after dexdump contradicted a hand-written opcode table; the assumption that Stalker.exclude() fixes zero-event delivery is disproved (it keeps the process alive, nothing more); and a repack.py signing-path claim expired mid-pass when a second writer added one.
Emulated and kernel-side routes are labelled unverified where no toolchain or device could run them; each evidence file states what was not run.
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