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Adds an opt-in --semantic pass to cfs spec-coverage that wires the advisory semantic-coverage engine (utils/eval_semantic.py, landed in #105) into the command. It builds the engine's pairings from the real marked code blocks and their resolved requirements, runs the advisory assess, and attaches a semantic section to the JSON report plus a one-line human summary.

Off by default; nothing changes unless --semantic is passed.

Why

Structural spec-coverage scores marker density — a file can read fully covered while a block implements the wrong behaviour. This pass adds the advisory signal density can't reach: does a marked block actually implement the requirement it cites? (covered / partial / wrong / unjudgeable).

Advisory — never gates

The section is attached after the structural status and exit code are computed, so a semantic verdict can never change them. Enforced structurally and tested:

  • A forced wrong verdict leaves status/exit byte-for-byte unchanged.
  • The pass is exception-isolated: any failure inside it (imports, context, the pass itself) is swallowed, logged, and recorded as {"advisory": true, "error": …} — it can never crash the run.
  • With no judge wired, weak links are unjudgeable (never a silent zero); no model is called.
  • Pairing paths are project-relative POSIX, matching the report's own scope arrays.

Design notes

  • Requirement granularity is per-algo (a block's id is its algo id; the feature-doc requirement is scoped to that id).
  • Scope (excluded / whole_file_claims) is read from the coverage report and tolerated absent (degrades to an empty scope, never an error).
  • Library-level logic in utils/semantic_coverage.py, CPT-traced; the command wiring is a thin resolver.

Testing

  • 14 unit tests: pairing construction, the no-judge default, honest serialisation, scope consumption, the advisory-never-gates invariant (including a raising pass), relative-path emission, and human/JSON rendering.
  • Gates green: cfs validate 223/223 (0 errors), spec-coverage thresholds met (granularity 0.4616 ≥ 0.46 floor), pylint, vulture, full suite (4865 passed), per-file coverage (semantic_coverage.py 100%, spec_coverage.py ≥90%).

Follows the DCO + conventional-commit conventions in CONTRIBUTING.md; single signed-off commit.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an optional semantic coverage check for the spec-coverage command, enabled with --semantic.
    • Reports now include semantic assessments, requirement-to-code findings, identified gaps, and a concise summary.
    • Semantic coverage is available in both JSON and human-readable output, including when no files are found.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Semantic findings and processing errors remain advisory and do not change structural coverage results or command exit status.
  • Documentation

    • Updated spec-coverage documentation to describe the optional semantic assessment and its non-gating behavior.

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The spec-coverage command now supports an optional --semantic pass. It resolves requirements, assesses marked code blocks, adds advisory JSON and human-readable results, and preserves the existing status and exit code.

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Semantic coverage advisory

Layer / File(s) Summary
Semantic coverage contract
architecture/features/spec-coverage.md, skills/studio/scripts/studio/commands/spec_coverage.py
Documents and exposes the optional --semantic pass and its advisory report behavior.
Pairing and assessment engine
skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/semantic_coverage.py, skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/eval_semantic.py
Resolves declarations, creates code-block pairings, runs assessment, and serializes findings and counts.
Advisory wiring and validation
skills/studio/scripts/studio/commands/spec_coverage.py, tests/test_semantic_coverage.py
Attaches results after structural status calculation, renders summaries, records failures as advisory errors, and tests pairing, serialization, path handling, empty scopes, and gating invariants.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 07aed

The change is merge-ready after normal review; the only remaining issue is a minor documentation follow-up to include --semantic in the documented command syntax.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant SpecCoverage
  participant SemanticCoverage
  participant EvalSemantic
  User->>SpecCoverage: Run with --semantic
  SpecCoverage->>SemanticCoverage: Build semantic report
  SemanticCoverage->>EvalSemantic: Assess marked blocks
  EvalSemantic-->>SemanticCoverage: Return findings and counts
  SemanticCoverage-->>SpecCoverage: Attach advisory semantic section
  SpecCoverage-->>User: Print report without changing status or exit code
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In `@skills/studio/scripts/studio/commands/spec_coverage.py`:
- Around line 443-445: Update the empty-scope return path around
_empty_coverage_result so it first builds the report, invokes
_attach_semantic_section when --semantic is enabled, and then returns the report
with the existing status code. Preserve the current empty coverage counts and
non-semantic behavior.
- Line 616: Update _attach_semantic_section’s human-rendering path to check for
and render the recorded data["semantic"] advisory error before importing or
calling summary_line, so semantic_coverage import failures cannot raise after
structural status is computed. Add a regression test covering the import-failure
case and verifying human output still returns the expected exit code.
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"""Advisory semantic-coverage pass — wire the semantic engine into ``spec-coverage``.

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excluded/whole_file_claims scoping never activates on a real coverage report

Severity: Major

Problem
eval_semantic.py's coverage_scope() reads report.get("excluded") and report.get("whole_file_claims"), expecting each to be a list of {"path": ...} dicts, to implement the documented behavior "files a human declared excluded are skipped; files flagged whole_file_claims are prioritised." But the real report producer, generate_report() in utils/coverage.py, never emits either key in that name or shape — it only produces summary["files_excluded"] (an integer count) and flagged_files (a list of plain path strings). Since the reader tolerates a missing/malformed key by returning an empty list, coverage_scope() always falls back to an empty scope in every real invocation — only exercised in tests via a hand-constructed report dict that stubs a shape the real code never produces.

How to reproduce

  1. Run spec-coverage --semantic on any real project (no test doubles).
  2. Inspect the coverage_report dict passed into run_semantic_pass.
  3. Confirm coverage_report.get("excluded") is None and coverage_report.get("whole_file_claims") is None.
  4. Trace into coverage_scope() — both lookups return [], yielding an empty scope regardless of what files are actually excluded or scope-only.

Expected behavior
A file a human excluded from structural coverage should be skipped by the semantic pass, and a file flagged as scope-only should be prioritized for judging, in every real invocation.

Actual behavior
The scoping logic never activates on a real coverage report; the excluded-count is always 0 and prioritization is always empty in production.

generate_report() actually emits:              eval_semantic.coverage_scope() expects:
{ summary: { files_excluded: <int> }, ... }    report["excluded"]        = [{"path": ...}, ...]
{ flagged_files: ["a.py", "b.py"] }            report["whole_file_claims"] = [{"path": ...}, ...]
       (no "excluded" key)                            ^ never matches -> always []
       (no "whole_file_claims" key)                    ^ never matches -> always []
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                                                        v
                                        CoverageScope(excluded=set(), prioritised=[])
                                        every real run -- documented skip/prioritize is a no-op

Impact
Files a maintainer explicitly excluded from spec-coverage still get semantically judged (wasted judge budget and potentially confusing findings on code deliberately opted out of), and files whose green coverage is most likely to be hiding wrong code are not prioritized as intended — undermining the pass's stated purpose.

Suggested correction
Either update generate_report() to emit excluded and whole_file_claims in the shape coverage_scope() expects, or change coverage_scope() to read the shape the report actually produces today. Add an integration test that runs the semantic pass against real generate_report() output.

How to verify
After the fix, run spec-coverage --semantic against a fixture with one excluded and one whole-file-scope-only file; confirm the excluded-skip count matches and the scope-only file's blocks are ranked ahead of others.

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You're right it's inert on real reports today — and that's intentional and safe: coverage_scope degrades to an empty scope (judge everything, prioritise nothing), and the excluded[]/whole_file_claims[] schema is frozen bilaterally with the producer, whose catch-up is tracked in #107. I've softened the module docstring to say the scoping activates once the producer emits those keys (citing #107), so it no longer reads as active-today. Deliberately NOT retro-fitting the consumer to today's flagged_files shape, since that shape is slated to change under the frozen schema.

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Acknowledged — deferring the scope-activation to #107 with an honest docstring is a reasonable interim call given it's advisory-only and the current behavior (judge everything, prioritize nothing) is the safe default. Leaving this thread open until #107 lands.

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Thanks for the thorough review, @ainetx — sharp catches, several on the parts I'd just changed. All 12 are addressed in the latest push; per-thread replies have the specifics. Summary:

Code

  • Dedup files before pairing (dict.fromkeys) so a doubly-registered file no longer double-counts its blocks.
  • The out-of-project path fallback now emits a relative path (never absolute) — pairing.path is interpolated into the judge prompt, so this closes a real absolute-local-path leak. A bare-name fallback covers the Windows cross-drive case so one off-drive file can't sink the whole advisory section.

Docs / prompt

Logging

  • Warn on duplicate cpt definitions (keeping the first), warn on unparseable files before skipping, and debug-log the outside-root path fallback.

Tests (+6)

  • --semantic never-gates on a structurally-failing run (exit 2), an unmocked end-to-end pass, dedup, duplicate-def warning, path-never-absolute, and the cross-drive fallback.

Two by design (replies on those threads): the scope arrays being empty on today's real reports is intentional and safe (empty-scope = judge everything; the schema is frozen with the producer, catch-up tracked in #107); the deeper scope-matching lands with #107 rather than coupling to today's shape.

All gates green: cfs validate 223/223, spec-coverage thresholds met, pylint, vulture, full suite, per-file coverage. (One note: the rubric + docstring touches reached eval_semantic.py since they were raised in this PR's context.)

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76-76: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document --semantic in the command syntax.

Line 76 defines the accepted command form but omits [--semantic]. Add the option there so the primary actor flow documents the new supported invocation.

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In `@architecture/features/spec-coverage.md` at line 76, Update the primary user
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--semantic flag alongside the existing options, preserving the current command
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Wire the semantic-coverage engine into cfs spec-coverage behind a --semantic
opt-in flag: build pairings from marked code blocks + their resolved requirements,
run the advisory engine, and attach a semantic report section plus one human line.
The section is attached AFTER the structural status/exit are computed, so a semantic
verdict can never gate — the headline test forces a wrong verdict and asserts the
build is unchanged. Library-level pass in utils/semantic_coverage.py, CPT-traced;
scope degrades gracefully when the report lacks the frozen fields.

Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Solanki <sanjeev.solanki@constructor.tech>
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Also addressed CodeRabbit's outside-diff note on architecture/features/spec-coverage.md (line 76): the primary invocation syntax in step 1 now includes [--semantic] alongside the existing flags.

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Deep Review complete — 56 checks across 6 phases (22 required project-config rules + 34 LLM-suggested), 12 findings posted as inline comments.

11/12 verified fixed on 1e8ed1a and resolved:

  • Doc output shape fully documented (incl. error shape)
  • --semantic now tested against a structurally-failing run (exit 2)
  • --help names the verdict categories
  • Judge prompt now carries a covered/partial/wrong rubric
  • Duplicate file registrations deduped
  • Path-relativization fallback no longer leaks an absolute path (fixes both the scope-matching bug and the judge-prompt PII leak)
  • Duplicate cpt definitions now logged, not silently dropped
  • Swallowed exception now logged
  • Parse failures now logged instead of silently discarded
  • New unmocked end-to-end test closes the "only mocked tests" CI blind spot

1 remains open by design: excluded/whole_file_claims scoping doesn't activate on real reports yet — deliberately deferred to #107 with a safe default (judge everything, prioritize nothing) and an honest docstring. Agreed this is a reasonable interim call.

All CI green, no Critical or unaddressed Major findings remain. Approving.

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