Tests on main had drifted from intentional substrate changes that
weren't propagated to their fixtures or pinned values. Categories:
1. PackMutationProposal missing source= arg (3 tests across
test_mutation_proposal_type, test_provenance, test_expert_demo_runnable):
add ProposalSource(kind="operator", source_id="", emitted_at_revision="test")
to the shared fixture. test_expert_demo_runnable also retargets the
"unpromoted domain" example from systems_software (now promoted) to
arithmetic (real but unpromoted).
2. Pack content grew (test_en_core_meta_v1_pack 73→77 entries, 49→53 verbs;
test_en_core_spatial_v1_pack 24→25 entries adding "places" plural surface):
bump expected counts; allow new provenance shapes from the
adr-0085-style-v2 review (including the seed:core_meta/seed:core_spatial
author-time typos on two entries each — documented inline rather than
masked).
3. Registry self-documenting "add names to the set" failures
(test_lane_sha_verifier: add curriculum_loop_closure;
test_register_runtime_threading: add gloss_aware_cause_surface,
pack_grounded_unknown_surface, teaching_grounded_surface_transitive).
4. Gloss content was seeded where tests pinned None
(test_pack_resolver_glosses TestMissingGlossesIsBackCompat): switch
the no-glosses pack from en_core_relations_v1 (since glossed) to
en_minimal_v1 (still gloss-free); narrow resolve_gloss probe to that
pack so other packs' glosses can't shadow.
5. Entry-id renumber from cognition-pack expansion
(test_language_pack_cache): en-core-cog-085 → en-core-cog-091.
6. Holdout tests fail without CORE_HOLDOUT_KEY or local plaintext
(test_eval_holdout_split + test_transitive_surface): add
_requires_holdout skip-marker mirroring _decrypt_holdout's contract;
gate the transitive_surface holdout iteration on the same check.
7. Byte-identity surface guards regressed after the gloss-aware
composer landed (test_realizer_guard_holdout, test_prompt_diversity_runner,
test_register_substantive_consumption): re-pin to current surfaces
("Light is a visible medium that reveals truth." replaces "Light is a
source of revelation that makes things knowable.", etc.). The guard's
regression-catching role is preserved by pinning current output going
forward; the new gloss-driven phrasings are visibly more grounded.
Touched 14 test files: 176 passed, 4 skipped (holdout-gated), 0 failed
on a targeted re-run. No production code touched.
Strict superset of ADR-0062's depth-1 composer. `max_depth` is the
number of follow-up hops appended beyond the initial chain:
max_depth=0 → byte-identical to single-chain surface
max_depth=1 → byte-identical to ADR-0062 composed
max_depth=2 → byte-identical to ADR-0062 when no second hop
survives, strict superset when one does
The composer surfaces content the realizer was silently dropping
from chains already ratified in `cognition_chains_v1`. Example
live lift on `"Why does light exist?"`:
composed: "light reveals truth, which grounds knowledge."
transitive(2): "...which grounds knowledge, which requires evidence."
Cycle-safe at every depth via a single visited-set; single-corpus
traversal in v1 (cross-corpus transitive deferred to a follow-up
ADR alongside ADR-0064's cross-pack model).
Both flags default False — every existing surface is preserved
byte-identically. When both `composed_surface` and
`transitive_surface` are True, transitive wins.
Implementation:
- `core/config.py`: `transitive_surface: bool = False`,
`transitive_max_depth: int = 2`.
- `chat/teaching_grounding.py`: `_resolve_followup` shared helper
refactored out of the depth-1 composer (no behavioural change),
plus new `teaching_grounded_surface_transitive(subject,
intent_tag, *, max_depth)`.
- `chat/runtime.py`: dispatch order — transitive > composed > single.
Verification:
- tests/test_transitive_surface.py: 16 new tests covering pure-fn
contract, visited-set cycle guard at every depth, runtime
integration, and the cognition-lane null-drop invariant at
`max_depth=2` (public + holdout splits).
- tests/test_composed_surface.py: 11/11 pass after the helper
refactor (ADR-0062 behaviour preserved).
- `core test --suite smoke`: 67 pass.
- `core test --suite cognition`: 120 pass, 1 skipped.
- `core test --suite teaching`: 17 pass.
- `core eval cognition`: 100 / 91.7 / 100 / 100 (byte-identical).
