Bug: raw-evidence-paths-tracked-on-main-unowned

[drmoisan]

• Work Mode: full-bug

Summary

main carries a large number of tracked raw evidence paths - raw coverage-collector documents (*.cobertura.xml and similar) and raw test-platform documents (*.trx) committed under feature folders' evidence/ trees. CLAUDE.md now carries a ## Committed Test Evidence Format section (line 412) that prohibits committing either document type in any form, including under a feature folder's evidence tree, because both carry absolute host paths and machine-specific identifiers. The repository does not conform to its own policy, and the sweep that was meant to remediate it has no current owner.

Environment

• OS/version: Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
• Python version: not applicable; this is a repository-hygiene defect spanning committed Markdown/XML/TRX artifacts
• Command/flags used: git ls-files -- 'docs/features/**/*.trx', git ls-files -- 'docs/features/**/*.coverage' 'docs/features/**/*cobertura*.xml', run against main (HEAD e6d86049e)
• Data source or fixture: tracked files under docs/features/active/**/evidence/** on main

Steps to Reproduce

1. Check out main (or any worktree at the same HEAD, e.g. e6d86049e).
2. Run git ls-files -- 'docs/features/**/*.trx'. This independently returned 333 tracked .trx paths under feature evidence trees (verified 2026-09-13).
3. Run git ls-files -- 'docs/features/**/*.coverage' 'docs/features/**/*cobertura*.xml'. This independently returned a large additional set of tracked raw Cobertura documents under feature evidence trees (e.g. docs/features/active/2026-08-07-efcviewer-missing-lineage-and-segment-navigation-439/evidence/baseline/issue-439-baseline.cobertura.xml).
4. Compare against CLAUDE.md line 412, ## Committed Test Evidence Format: "A raw coverage collector document and a raw test-platform document are both prohibited. Neither may be added to git in any form, including under a feature folder's evidence tree."
5. Item 743's own measurement (referenced by this filing) independently found 572 tracked raw evidence paths at its own HEAD and 572 on main, a set difference of zero, meaning no in-flight item added any of them - all 572 predate the policy.

Expected Behavior

main should carry zero raw coverage-collector documents and zero raw test-platform documents under any feature folder's evidence tree. Only the two permitted projections (a package-level JaCoCo projection of the post-processed Cobertura document, and the one-line first-party coverage summary) and the trx-derived test-result summary should be committed.

Actual Behavior

main carries hundreds of raw .trx files and raw .cobertura.xml files under docs/features/active/**/evidence/**, predating the CLAUDE.md policy that now prohibits them. This was the job of issue 602 (Repository-wide host-identifier leakage: absolute user-profile paths, account and host names in tracked files - the same class of defect, since these evidence documents also carry absolute host paths and machine-specific identifiers). Item 602 was withdrawn from the parallel run bugs-2026-09-11 before execution (confirmed 2026-09-13 in docs/features/parallel/bugs-2026-09-11/parallel-status.md on the parallel/bugs-2026-09-11-plan branch: row | 602 | docs/features/active/2026-09-12-host-identifier-leakage-sweep-602 | - | C3 | opus | withdrawn | not_started | - | - |). No other item in that run or elsewhere has since picked up the sweep, so it currently has no owner.

Logs / Screenshots

• Attached minimal logs or screenshot
• Snippet: git ls-files -- 'docs/features/**/*.trx' against chor/defect-filings-2026-09-13 (HEAD e6d86049e, same as main) returned 333 lines, first entry docs/features/active/2026-08-24-breadcrumb-coordinator-hub-defects-501/evidence/baseline/trx/p0-t17/p0-t17.trx. A second query for *.coverage/*cobertura*.xml returned dozens more raw Cobertura documents across multiple feature folders (efcviewer-missing-lineage-...-439, breadcrumb-coordinator-hub-defects-501, breadcrumb-router-navigation-defects-498, qfc-collection-controller-defects-468, quickfiler-bug-family-446, webview2-host-initializer-defects-476, and others).

Impact / Severity

• Blocker
• High
• Medium
• Low

High because the repository is provably out of compliance with its own committed-evidence policy at scale (hundreds of files), the tracked files carry absolute host paths and machine-specific identifiers as the policy itself notes, and there is currently no owner driving remediation after item 602's withdrawal.

Source

From: docs/features/potential/2026-09-13-raw-evidence-paths-tracked-on-main-unowned.md

[drmoisan]

The following sections were present and filled in the promoted potential-bug entry (docs/features/potential/promoted/2026-09-13-raw-evidence-paths-tracked-on-main-unowned.md) but were dropped by potential_to_issue when this issue was created. Reposting them here per the known promotion-fidelity defect tracked in issue #887.

Suspected Cause / Notes

The ## Committed Test Evidence Format policy in CLAUDE.md is recent; the raw evidence predates it and was never sweep-cleaned because the one item scoped to do the sweep (602, host-identifier-leakage-sweep) was withdrawn from bugs-2026-09-11 before it ran. No replacement item currently owns this scope. This is a documentation/process gap (no owner), not a code defect in any single feature's evidence.

Proposed Fix / Validation Ideas

• Unit coverage areas: not applicable (documentation/evidence hygiene, not source code)
• Integration scenario to retest: a repository-wide sweep that (a) converts remaining raw .trx/.cobertura.xml evidence to the permitted JaCoCo/summary projections where the underlying figures are still needed, or (b) deletes the raw documents where the feature is already archived and the figures are preserved elsewhere, then verifies git ls-files -- 'docs/features/**/*.trx' 'docs/features/**/*.cobertura.xml' returns zero.
• Manual verification notes: re-run the same git ls-files queries after the sweep and confirm a zero count; also confirm no new raw evidence is introduced going forward (this should already be caught by the existing feature-review policy-audit process for new work).

Next Step

• Promote to GitHub issue (bug-report template)
• Move to active fix folder / branch

[drmoisan]

Consolidated into #927, which removes the tracked raw evidence (332 .trx and 248 *cobertura*.xml on main at 177b6d7), sweeps host identifiers, and adds a CI guard so the count cannot grow again. Closing in favour of #927.