Close the inner-attribute bypass of the environment-access policy (#694)

[leynos]

Summary

Adds a contract test that fails when a compiled source suppresses the
environment-access policy, closing the bypass in #694.

clippy.toml disallows the process-environment entry points and the workspace
denies clippy::disallowed_methods, but neither observes that a source opted
out. An inner attribute at the top of a file — #![allow(clippy::disallowed_methods, reason = "…")] —
switches the lint off for everything below it and passes make lint with every
other contract green: clippy.toml still lists the methods, the workspace still
denies the lint, and the lint target still runs across the workspace. Each
asserts a true statement about something else. A green tick meant the gate ran,
not that it was allowed to see anything.

Clippy cannot close this itself. clippy::allow_attributes does not fire on
inner attributes — I read allow_attributes::check in Clippy to confirm its
four guards before writing any code — so the seam taxonomy's "an #[expect]
carrying a reason, never an allow" rule had no mechanical enforcement there.
The assertion is therefore about source text, which is normally the wrong shape
for a contract, but an attribute is source text: there is no execution to
model, and "this file does not opt out" is exactly a statement about what the
file says.

What it adds

• tests/env_access_suppressions.rs scans every compiled source the workspace
  lints (src, build_l10n_audit, test_support/src, tests, benches,
  examples, plus build.rs) and fails on any allow of the policy lint, its
  group, warnings, or the two guard lints.
• tests/env_access_suppressions/mask.rs blanks comments and string or char
  literals first, so quoted text never reaches the matcher.
• scanner.rs matches an attribute by its tokens rather than by the shape of
  the line, and policy.rs decides which names are an offence, with a scoped
  exemption for the three derive-isolation modules.
• A coverage invariant fails if any Rust source in the workspace sits outside
  the scanned roots, so a misspelled or renamed root reports itself by name
  instead of silently excusing its sources.
• tests/env_access_suppressions/roots.rs holds the root list, the skip list,
  and both walks, since they are one rule: the scan reads what the roots name and
  the invariant checks that the roots name everything.

Why token-wise, and why the ban list looks like that

Both are measured rather than reasoned, and the measurements are recorded in the
code and in the developers' guide:

• Spelling. A line anchor assumed rustfmt normalizes an attribute's
  spelling and make check-fmt enforces it, so an unreachable spelling could not
  reach the compiler. That is false: #[rustfmt::skip] freezes the very
  spelling rustfmt would normalize, and raw identifiers need no skip attribute
  at all. Six shapes compile, silence the policy (exit 0 where the same file
  exits 101), and passed the anchored scan. Each is now pinned by a test.
• Aliases. clippy::disallowed_method and the bare disallowed_methods
  still select the policy lint. Alone they are harmless because
  renamed_and_removed_lints is denied; allow that enabler too and the alias
  suppresses the policy in silence. The enabler and both aliases are banned.
• warn is deliberately not matched. A warn of the policy lint does
  lower it (bare cargo clippy exits 0), but every lint and test target passes
  -D warnings, which re-promotes it. Twelve probed spellings all exit 101
  under the gate's flags. Reporting a shape that cannot pass a gate would be a
  rule the code cannot justify — the reasoning that also leaves unknown_lints
  out.
• warnings is banned, but not for the reason I first wrote. The
  warnings group is the set of lints currently at warn, not a parent of
  clippy::all; because Cargo passes [workspace.lints] as command-line
  denies, #![allow(warnings)] alone leaves the policy lint firing. It stays
  in the set because it is half of the one measured way past the gate's flags:
  #![warn(clippy::disallowed_methods)] lowers the lint into the group and
  #![allow(warnings)] then suppresses it, exit 0 under RUSTFLAGS=-D warnings
  in either order. Neither half escapes alone, and the scan catches the pair on
  the allow half. Probing this corrected a rationale the code had wrong.

What review caught in this work, and what it cost

The contract is right; the code that enforces it was wrong seven times, and each
correction is a commit of its own — including the tests that enforce it, which
were wrong four times over:

• The skip list's own justification was false. The walk skips machine-local
  directories on the argument that git will not track them. That held for
  fourteen names and not for .netsuke, which is netsuke's own runtime state and
  was the one sibling cache missing from .gitignore — so a .rs file placed
  there would have been tracked, compiled, skipped by the walk, and reported by
  nobody. Silent non-coverage arriving through the list rather than the walk,
  which is the exact failure the invariant exists to catch. The name is now in
  .gitignore, and a self-test requires every skipped name to be one git would
  not track.
• That self-test asked the wrong tree. It queried the working tree, which
  answers with more than the repository's rules: ruff writes a .gitignore
  holding * into .ruff_cache as a side effect of running, so the test passed
  on a machine where ruff had run and would have failed on a fresh clone — and
  make test can precede make lint, so the answer depended on gate order.
  .ruff_cache was the same missing-entry defect as .netsuke one level down.
  The test now copies .gitignore into a scratch repository and asks there, with
  the machine's own git configuration pinned off so the answer comes from the
  repository alone.
• The enforcing crate broke its own policy. make lint failed on the new
  test reading CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR through std::env::var, which clippy.toml
  disallows and the workspace denies. It is read at compile time now, as the
  tests beside it already did.
• And the fix for that carried a false claim of its own. The first version
  pinned two config keys, core.excludesFile and core.excludesPath, asserting
  the pair was needed. There is no core.excludesPath; git's config
  documentation defines only the first, and the second flag is a no-op —
  written into the comment explaining the fix, which is the same
  asserted-not-measured defect this branch exists to remove. One flag is
  sufficient for both a configured path and the default ~/.config/git/ignore.
• I refused a correct finding, twice, and the refusal was itself the defect
  this branch exists to remove. Review asked to add clippy::restriction to
  the ban list. I measured that allowing it leaves the policy lint firing, and
  declined on that basis. The measurement was right and the criterion was
  wrong: the list does not exist only to protect the policy lint. It also
  protects the two guard lints, because nothing else reports a crate that has
  silenced the reporter — and clippy::restriction is their group. One
  crate-level attribute therefore takes a guard-lint-violating file from exit
  101 to exit 0, and the item-level allow below it passes unreported. I had
  banned two members of a group while declining to ban the group, and the
  reasoning I used to decline would also have deleted those two members. The
  reviewer's rebuttal was correct; the entry is now in, with a test row that
  fails when it is removed. The unknown_lints rationale, which stated the
  criterion in the form that produced the error, is corrected in all four
  places it appeared.
• A pin the walk test relied on was not the closure it looked like. The
  scratch repository's global-ignore pin closes the config route, but a
  GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR template seeds info/exclude in the new repository and
  check-ignore reads it — so a contributor with a template set could still
  get a false pass. Measured both ways: with a template supplying the rule and
  the name absent from .gitignore, the shipped test fails naming the
  directory, and the same test with only --template= removed passes
  vacuously. -c init.templateDir= does not close it (GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR
  outranks it), and the flag has to be on git init rather than on
  check-ignore because the file is written at init time. The device-path
  /dev/null became an empty value at the same time, since that spelling is
  Unix-only and the test runs on the Windows lane.
• I refused a second correct finding, and the reasoning was the same shape as
  the first. Review asked that the scan skip the machine-local names, as the
  coverage walk beside it already did. I measured that a machine-local name
  inside a scanned root is reported, not hidden, and declined: nothing escapes.
  The measurement was right again and the criterion was wrong again. The defect
  was never that the source escapes; it is that the failure is not reproducible.
  tests/.uv-cache is machine state, so a vendored source there carrying the
  banned allow turned the gate red on a machine where a tool had run and green
  on a fresh clone — and the path is git-ignored, so it appears in no diff and in
  no git status for anyone trying to work out what happened. A red gate a
  contributor cannot reproduce is worse than a green one that says less. Both
  findings were correct, and in both cases I had answered the question I had
  already asked instead of the one that mattered — once "does this reach the
  policy lint", once "does this escape the scan". The new self-test asserts on
  collect_rust_sources, the function that actually read the cache; asserting on
  collect_all_sources would have passed before the fix, since that walk was
  already the one behaving correctly.

The third review round

A second review pass, on the pushed head, found four more things worth fixing —
two in the code, two in the tests — each its own commit:

• A raw string's closing hashes were left in the masked text.
  blank_raw_string blanked the body and returned at the closing quote,
  leaving the delimiter's # sitting directly before a [. That pair is
  token-for-token the opening of an attribute, and &r#"abc"#[allow(warnings)]
  is the literal r#"abc"# indexed by a call to a function named allow —
  code that compiles and runs, reported at one false finding. The delimiter is
  blanked with the body now, and the pair of rows that pins it includes a real
  attribute after a raw string, so blanking one token too many fails rather
  than passes. The escaped form has no equivalent hazard, which is measured
  rather than assumed: a # there can only sit inside a body that is already
  blanked.
• The read set was named by an extension the language does not require.
  Both walks filtered on .rs, but the compiler reaches a module through
  whatever #[path = "..."] names, with no extension test of its own. Measured
  on a probe crate: #[path = "suppressed.inc"] mod suppressed; with an inner
  policy allow at the top compiles to an rlib, where the same file without
  the attribute exits 101. Such a file was under a scanned root, so the
  coverage invariant called it governed, and it was never read — neither
  scanned nor reported unscanned. The read set is now every file under a
  scanned root that is not dot-prefixed, because the two mistakes are not
  symmetric: reading a file that is never compiled costs a failure message
  naming a real file, while failing to read one that is compiled hides the
  suppression this contract exists to catch. Bounded and measured at 216 extra
  files across the roots, none carrying a finding. A file that will not decode
  is declined rather than fatal; every other read error still propagates,
  because a file that is text and could not be read is a source that went
  unscanned. That distinction has its own test, and it reads a directory to get
  it: the first version asserted the predicate's output only, and replacing the
  guard with a catch-all left all 57 tests green.
• The property dimension was a real gap, and it was in the masking module.
  Masking has to be an in-place edit — same length, same newlines, only comment
  and literal bytes replaced — and the whole scan depends on it. No row of the
  spelling table could see a violation, because every row pins a finding, and
  a drifted offset surfaces only as some other shape's answer changing. Two
  generated properties now search that invariant over the spellings masking has
  to classify. They are liveness-checked, not asserted: making blank_byte
  overwrite a newline fails both and leaves the other 57 tests green, which
  is the gap stated as a measurement. proptest shrank that counterexample to
  ["/*", "\n"]. The regression seeds the mutation run produced are
  deliberately not committed — a seed whose provenance is a deliberate defect
  would replay it for everyone.
• The scan's read set and the governed set could come apart unobserved. The
  scan asserts that what it was handed holds no findings, which is true and
  worthless if it was handed almost nothing; the coverage invariant is a
  statement about the root list, not about the walk that reads it. A
  collect_rust_sources that never recursed left both green. They are compared
  directly now, with a non-vacuity floor on the governed side and a per-path
  re-read so a walk that paired a path with another file's contents is caught
  too. Against that mutation the new test fails naming over a hundred omitted
  sources.

The added tests pushed walk_tests.rs to 441 lines, past the 400-line cap at
AGENTS.md:31, so the file was split at the seam it already had rather than
the cap argued away: read_tests.rs holds which sources the scan reads,
walk_tests.rs keeps which names the walk skips. The split is what exposed the
false pass in the last bullet above — the test looked pinned and was not.

The CodeScene refactors, and what measurement changed about them

Four functions carried a "Bumpy Road Ahead" diagnostic: mask::escape_end,
scanner::read_attribute_body, roots::collect_all_sources, and
mask::blank_block_comment. Each was restructured rather than suppressed, and
each is its own commit. The restructurings are behaviour-preserving, which is
the one claim here that needs evidence rather than assertion, so each was
measured:

• escape_end. The Unicode arm moved out to unicode_escape_end and the
  function became one flat match. What the reader returns turned out to be
  worth less than it looks: char_literal_end accepts the offset only when a
  closing quote sits exactly there, so an offset that is too small, too large,
  or found from the wrong brace makes it return None — the literal is left
  unblanked and its contents become inert text the matcher finds nothing in.
  Four mutations of the helper, including one that hunts the last } in the
  whole input, left every test passing, where disabling masking outright fails
  three. The literal's boundary is what the scan depends on, so the new rows
  pin that: a '\u{61}' and a '\x61' literal, and the attribute behind each.
  The doc comment says this in the code, because the coverage the tests can
  offer is the boundary and claiming the offset would be a claim no row could
  falsify.
• read_attribute_body. The quoted-string handling became a StringState
  enum whose consume is one flat match. That commit claimed the loop then
  held one question per byte, and CodeScene said otherwise: the loop still
  carried two decisions — if consumed { continue; } screening the match —
  and the diagnostic was still standing after the rewrite at the same 9.54 the
  function scored before it, while mask.rs and roots.rs cleared in the
  same run. A fifth commit folds the flag into the patterns,
  match (*byte, consumed), and the diagnostic goes. The lesson is the one
  this branch keeps teaching: a restructure is not measured by reading it. The
  rewrite keeps the string tracking — the function documents and preserves
  standalone correctness even though mask_non_code blanks literals first.
  That same masking is why no table row can pin the rule: measured, the masked
  form of reason = "before \" after" is
  reason = " ", the escaped quote and both its neighbours
  replaced by spaces, so a scan-level row would have been vacuous. The suite
  lacked the escaped-quote case and now has it, asserted against
  read_attribute_body directly in an inline module where the raw text reaches
  it. The loop is live in its final shape, not merely green: naming _
  instead of false in the paren arms fails both direct string-state tests,
  dropping the depth increment fails the nested, cfg_attr-wrapped, and
  unterminated cases, and making every byte string text fails most of the
  table.
• collect_all_sources. The per-entry work moved into
  collect_source_entry, reducing the walk to open, iterate, delegate. The
  behaviours are statement-for-statement what they were, including all four
  anyhow::Context messages, checked by diffing the message set before and
  after. One signature differs from the sketch: entry takes a reference,
  because in cap-std 4.0.3 both file_name and file_type take &self, so a
  by-value parameter is never consumed and the workspace's
  needless_pass_by_value denies it — verified in the registry source rather
  than assumed from the signature. collect_all_sources and
  collect_rust_sources stay separate, as their output contracts differ and
  the walk tests depend on the two agreeing.
• blank_block_comment. The nested close-delimiter conditional became a
  flat match (*byte, next) in a loop that runs until depth reaches zero, with
  depth -= 1 in place of saturating_sub. The loop invariant is what makes
  that safe, and nesting is what keeps the change honest: a differential probe
  over four shapes — /* /* */ */ before an attribute, /**/, a nested pair
  whose inner close is followed by code, and an unterminated comment — returned
  the same masked text and the same findings as the pre-change algorithm, with
  /* /* */ */ blanking exactly its eleven bytes. The /**/ row is live:
  starting the scan a byte late fails that case and nothing else.

Codegraph complexity after the five commits, measured on the reindexed tree:
above_threshold: 0 in all three files, with maxima of 7, 6, and 9 against the
threshold of 9 — read_attribute_body itself now reads 6, down from 7. The
local CodeScene CLI is the oracle both before and after, and it reproduces the
server's verdict on the earlier file exactly: same function, same rule, same
score. Across the head, all four "Bumpy Road Ahead" diagnostics that CodeScene
raised are gone, and none was suppressed. Two modules read 10.00 (mask.rs,
policy.rs); one reads 9.68 on String Heavy Function Arguments, which is an
advisory rather than a critical rule — scanner.rs, where it predates this
branch.

roots.rs briefly read the same 9.68, and that one was mine, so it is worth
recording how it was found rather than only how it was fixed. The rule computes a
file-wide ratio of string arguments over every function in the module, and the
#[path] fix below added three helpers to a file already sitting just under the
threshold: two more string arguments took it to 53.3% against a 39% rule. The
server's advisory gate had passed with one module over the ratio and failed with
two, naming roots.rs — so the check went red on this branch, and the PR carried
a paragraph asserting it was green. That paragraph was written from the status of
an earlier commit and never re-measured against the head, which is the same
asserted-not-measured defect this branch exists to remove, arriving in the write-up
rather than the code.

The fix is the one the rule was pointing at, not a suppression: those parameters
are paths, and read_dir already takes AsRef<Utf8Path>, so the walk's four
&str spellings became &Utf8Path. No behaviour changes — Utf8Path::new does
not normalise and Display renders the same bytes — and the module's string-argument
ratio falls back under the threshold. The local CLI then reports exactly the state
the server last passed: scanner.rs alone at 9.68, and no finding for roots.rs.
Suppressing it with a .codescene override was rejected; the whole point of these
commits is that a diagnostic is fixed by restructuring.

Verification

Every gate green at a frozen tip, and the walk's own reach is pinned by tests
against a synthetic tree rather than inferred from a clean run over sources that
happen to be clean. The new rules were mutation-tested rather than assumed:
removing the warnings entry fails three independent test rows; making the
directory skip root-only fails the depth test; deleting the .ruff_cache line
fails the scratch-repository test while the live tree still reports that name as
ignored, which is what proves the old form was passing vacuously; and removing
clippy::restriction fails the row that pins it. The four routes by which the
scratch repository could answer from something other than the repository's own
.gitignore — a nested tool's ignore file, the machine's global ignore, a
template directory, and git's own GIT_DIR and friends — were each shown to
produce a false pass before the fix and a correct failure after it, rather than
assumed closed because the obvious case now passed. For the last of them the
suite staying green proved nothing, since a false pass is also a pass: the
decisive check was adding a name that .gitignore does not cover and confirming
the test fails naming it under a hostile GIT_DIR, where without the pin that
same environment hid it.

Closes #694

References

• https://lody.ai/leynos/sessions/8f67e34d-babd-41e5-8045-a04c7ee88ae6

Summary by Sourcery

Enforce the environment-access policy against source-level suppressions and guarantee that every compiled workspace source is covered by the contract scan.

New Features:

• Add a source-level contract test that detects compiled Rust sources suppressing the environment-access policy or its guard lints.
• Add coverage checks ensuring all relevant workspace Rust sources are included while machine-local and generated directories are excluded consistently.

Bug Fixes:

• Close inner-attribute, cfg_attr, alias, group, and alternate-spelling bypasses that could disable environment-access policy enforcement without failing the lint gate.

Enhancements:

• Introduce token-aware scanning that ignores comments and literals and supports multiline, raw-identifier, and nested attribute forms.
• Document the suppression contract, measured lint-policy rationale, scoped exemptions, and workspace coverage rules for developers.

Documentation:

• Expand the developers' guide with the environment-access suppression contract and its enforcement rationale.

Tests:

• Add comprehensive scanner, spelling, malformed-input, workspace-walk, cache, and ignore-rule self-tests.

Chores:

• Align the workspace ignore configuration with the directories excluded from source coverage checks.

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Summary

• Add a source-level contract test for environment-access lint suppressions.
• Scan compiled Rust sources across all workspace targets.
• Detect direct, nested, aliased, grouped and cfg_attr-wrapped policy suppressions.
• Ignore comments and string or character literals.
• Preserve scoped exemptions for sanctioned derive-isolation modules.
• Enforce complete workspace source coverage and deterministic traversal.
• Add scanner, masking, policy and traversal regression tests.
• Document the contract in docs/developers-guide.md.
• Refactor CodeScene-flagged functions without suppressing diagnostics.
• Link the contract to issue #694 and ADR-008.

Testing

• Cover multiline attributes, nested groups, malformed input, aliases, lint groups, cache exclusions and machine-local directories.
• Verify Git configuration, templates, environment variables and ignore files do not affect traversal tests.

Walkthrough

Add a source-level contract that detects forbidden environment-access lint suppressions. The contract scans compiled sources, verifies workspace coverage, handles Rust syntax safely, validates ignore-directory rules, and documents the enforcement model.

Changes

Environment suppression contract

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Suppression scanner and policy tests/env_access_suppressions/mask.rs, tests/env_access_suppressions/policy.rs, tests/env_access_suppressions/scanner.rs	Mask comments and literals, parse direct and nested attributes, canonicalise lint names, and enforce scoped exemptions.
Source discovery and contract enforcement tests/env_access_suppressions.rs, tests/env_access_suppressions/roots.rs, .gitignore	Discover compiled and workspace Rust sources, enforce scan coverage, report all findings, and ignore machine-local directories.
Contract validation and documentation tests/env_access_suppressions/scanner_tests.rs, tests/env_access_suppressions/spelling_tests.rs, tests/env_access_suppressions/walk_tests.rs, docs/developers-guide.md	Test attribute spellings, malformed input, nested traversal, Git ignore behaviour, and document the suppression contract.

Suggested labels: Issue

Priority: ➖ Normal

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 33d8f

The contract remains usable, but failures may list sources inconsistently across machines. This is a bounded, straightforward issue that does not block merging.

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❌ Failed checks (1 error, 2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Testing (Overall)	❌ Error	The new scanner and parser tests are substantive, but the source-collection contract is not fully guarded. compiled_sources() is used only by `compiled_sources_never_suppress_the_environment_policy(…	Add a non-vacuous path-set assertion. Collect the expected governed paths with collect_all_sources(), filter them with the same standalone/root rules, and compare the sorted expected paths with the paths returned by compiled_sources(), …
Testing (Property / Proof)	⚠️ Warning	The change introduces broad input invariants in a source lexer/parser and recursive workspace walk, but the PR adds only fixed rstest cases. The scanner must handle arbitrary nesting, whitespace, es…	Add focused Rust property tests with proptest for the new parser and masking invariants. Generate bounded balanced parentheses, nested cfg_attr forms, whitespace, escaped and raw literals, comments, and malformed delimiters. Assert that…
Testing (Compile-Time / Ui)	⚠️ Warning	The pull request adds compile-time policy behaviour, but it tests only the source scanner. tests/env_access_suppressions.rs scans repository text, and the parameterised tests in scanner_tests.rs a…	Add a Rust compile-time/UI test for the policy behaviour. Use trybuild or the repository's direct compiler/UI harness, and invoke Clippy when checking clippy::disallowed_methods. Add at least a control fixture that fails under the polic…

✅ Passed checks (12 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Accept the implementation for #694. tests/env_access_suppressions.rs scans compiled sources and fails on any finding or empty discovery. scanner.rs detects direct, nested, wrapped, aliased, groupe…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Accept the change set as in scope for #694. The scanner, policy, traversal code, tests, and developer documentation implement or verify the source contract. The .gitignore entries support determinis…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 56 functions across 8 files. (2 skipped: 2…
User-Facing Documentation	✅ Passed	The pull request adds an internal Rust contract test and developer guidance for lint-suppression detection. It does not add or change a user-facing CLI, manifest, API, or runtime behaviour. The existi…
Developer Documentation	✅ Passed	Pass the Developer documentation check. The pull request adds a detailed docs/developers-guide.md section for the new suppression contract. It documents the scanned roots, build.rs, workspace cove…
Module-Level Documentation	✅ Passed	Pass. Inspect the reviewed range: all eight added Rust module files begin with //! documentation that explains purpose, utility, and component relationships. The only inline module, scanner::tests…
Testing (Unit And Behavioural)	✅ Passed	The change is itself a testable integration contract. The added top-level test reads the repository's compiled Rust sources and enforces the source-suppression policy, rather than only testing private…
Unit Architecture	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request adds test-only source scanning and coverage checks; it does not change production units. Scanner and policy functions use explicit text inputs and return values without I/O or e…
Domain Architecture	✅ Passed	Treat the change as test infrastructure, not domain logic. The reviewed diff changes only .gitignore, documentation, and files under tests/env_access_suppressions/; no production Rust or domain mo…
Observability	✅ Passed	Pass the observability check. The PR changes only test-time enforcement, documentation, and .gitignore; it does not alter production services, storage, queues, network paths, retries, or runtime rel…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately describes closing the inner-attribute bypass and references issue #694, which is linked in the description.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the source-level contract test, its coverage, the bypass addressed, and the related implementation and verification work.

Full details: Testing (Overall)

Explanation

The new scanner and parser tests are substantive, but the source-collection contract is not fully guarded. compiled_sources() is used only by compiled_sources_never_suppress_the_environment_policy(), which checks only that the result is non-empty and that its returned contents have no findings (tests/env_access_suppressions.rs:79-91). The separate coverage test calls collect_all_sources() and is_scanned() (tests/env_access_suppressions.rs:113-145); it does not compare those paths with the paths returned by compiled_sources(). Therefore, a plausible incomplete implementation that reads only src/lib.rs, or stops collect_rust_sources() after the first level, can leave the suite green while omitting nested files. The workspace currently contains hundreds of nested Rust sources, while the tests only assert a minimum of 100 paths for the independent walk. An omitted nested source could still contain the forbidden allow and bypass the new contract.

Resolution

Add a non-vacuous path-set assertion. Collect the expected governed paths with collect_all_sources(), filter them with the same standalone/root rules, and compare the sorted expected paths with the paths returned by compiled_sources(), while also asserting the source contents correspond to the expected files. Add a synthetic collect_rust_sources() case containing a normal nested .rs file and assert that it is read, not only that nested cache directories are skipped. Keep the existing scanner, masking, policy, and cache tests.

Full details: Testing (Property / Proof)

Explanation

The change introduces broad input invariants in a source lexer/parser and recursive workspace walk, but the PR adds only fixed rstest cases. The scanner must handle arbitrary nesting, whitespace, escapes, comments, literals, and malformed text. The masking code also relies on length/newline preservation, and the two walks must agree for arbitrary directory shapes. The new tests contain 28 and 17 parameterized cases plus 19 malformed inputs, but the PR adds no proptest, Kani, or other generative test. The repository already has proptest as a development dependency. A small table cannot confidently cover these input ranges.

Resolution

Add focused Rust property tests with proptest for the new parser and masking invariants. Generate bounded balanced parentheses, nested cfg_attr forms, whitespace, escaped and raw literals, comments, and malformed delimiters. Assert that masking preserves byte length and newline positions, that quoted/commented policy attributes are never reported, that valid code attributes remain detectable, and that balanced attribute bodies are read to the matching delimiter. Add a generated synthetic-tree property, or equivalent bounded model, to assert that collect_rust_sources and collect_all_sources apply the same machine-local directory rule and that every governed source satisfies is_scanned. Keep the existing rstest rows for named policy spellings and explicit exemptions.

Full details: Testing (Compile-Time / Ui)

Explanation

The pull request adds compile-time policy behaviour, but it tests only the source scanner. tests/env_access_suppressions.rs scans repository text, and the parameterised tests in scanner_tests.rs and spelling_tests.rs assert (path, lint) vectors from synthetic strings. The changed files add no trybuild or UI fixture, and they do not invoke rustc, cargo clippy, or an equivalent compiler harness. The claimed real compiler measurements exist only in comments. This does not satisfy the required compile-time test. The repository already demonstrates a suitable equivalent in tests/kani_cfg_ui_tests.rs, which compiles pass and fail fixtures and checks the result.

Resolution

Add a Rust compile-time/UI test for the policy behaviour. Use trybuild or the repository's direct compiler/UI harness, and invoke Clippy when checking clippy::disallowed_methods. Add at least a control fixture that fails under the policy and a fixture with the inner allow bypass that verifies the observed compiler outcome. Keep the scanner tests for parser coverage. For the structured findings, retain the current focused semantic assertions or add a small stable snapshot; redact paths or other machine-dependent values if a snapshot is used.

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_{Guard every lint gate.
Mask the words that are not code.
Walk each source root.
Let hidden allows meet daylight.
Keep the contract green.}

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Reviewer's Guide

Closes the inner-attribute environment-policy bypass with a source-text contract test that scans every compiled workspace source, uses token-aware parsing and masking to resist evasive spellings, verifies complete and reproducible coverage, and documents the measured policy and exemptions.

Flow diagram for the environment-access suppression contract

flowchart TD
    A[Workspace Rust sources] --> B[Collect governed roots]
    B --> C[Skip named machine-local directories]
    C --> D[Mask comments and string or char literals]
    D --> E[Token-aware attribute scanner]
    E --> F[Policy matcher]
    F --> G{Banned suppression found?}
    G -->|Yes| H[Contract test fails]
    G -->|No| I[Contract passes]
    B --> J[Coverage walk]
    J --> K{Every Rust source covered?}
    K -->|No| H
    K -->|Yes| I

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File-Level Changes

Change	Details	Files
Added a source-level contract test that detects environment-policy suppressions across all compiled workspace Rust sources.	Scans configured source roots plus build.rs and reports forbidden allow attributes. Adds a workspace coverage invariant to detect Rust files outside the scanned set. Exempts only the documented derive-isolation modules and only the two required guard lints.	tests/env_access_suppressions.rs tests/env_access_suppressions/policy.rs tests/env_access_suppressions/roots.rs
Implemented a token-aware suppression scanner robust to formatting, nesting, and quoted text.	Masks comments and string/character literals before scanning. Recognizes split attributes, raw identifiers, cfg_attr-wrapped allows, nested parentheses, aliases, and lint groups. Defines and tests the measured forbidden-lint set, including warnings, guard-lint groups, and renamed aliases while excluding warn and unknown-lint cases.	tests/env_access_suppressions/mask.rs tests/env_access_suppressions/scanner.rs tests/env_access_suppressions/scanner_tests.rs tests/env_access_suppressions/spelling_tests.rs
Hardened source-walk behavior and made machine-local directory handling reproducible.	Skips named caches at any depth consistently in both walks. Validates skip names against a scratch repository containing only the repository's .gitignore. Pins Git configuration, templates, and repository environment variables to prevent false passes.	tests/env_access_suppressions/roots.rs tests/env_access_suppressions/walk_tests.rs .gitignore
Documented the bypass, enforcement contract, measured lint membership, scanner design, exemptions, and walk invariants.	Explains why Clippy cannot enforce inner allow attributes and why source-text inspection is used. Records the formatting, alias, warnings, guard-lint, cache, and Git-environment edge cases. Documents the sanctioned exemptions and required follow-up when derive workarounds are removed.	docs/developers-guide.md

Assessment against linked issues

Issue	Objective	Addressed	Explanation
#694	Prevent crate- or module-level inner allow attributes, as well as equivalent item-level suppressions, from disabling the environment-access policy without being detected.	✅
#694	Add a source-based contract test that scans all compiled Rust sources and detects policy-disabling lint suppressions, including multiline, nested cfg_attr, raw-identifier, alias, group, and blanket-lint spellings while ignoring comments, literals, unrelated allows, and documented exemptions.	✅
#694	Ensure the contract's source coverage remains complete and reproducible as workspace roots and machine-local directories evolve, and document the suppression rule and its rationale for developers.	✅

Possibly linked issues

• Inner attributes bypass the environment-access ban with every contract green #694: The PR directly closes issue Inner attributes bypass the environment-access ban with every contract green #694 by adding comprehensive source scanning and coverage tests for environment-policy suppression bypasses.

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@coderabbitai Please suggest a fix for this issue and supply a prompt for an AI coding agent to enable it to apply the fix. Include the file and symbol names indicated in the issue at the head of your response. Ensure that this is validated against the current version of the codegraph.

If further refinement to address this finding would be deleterious, please supply a clear explanatory one to two paragraph markdown message in a code block that I can paste into the CodeScene web ui's diagnostic suppression function so this diagnostic can be silenced.

tests/env_access_suppressions/mask.rs

Comment on lines +69 to +91

fn blank_block_comment(bytes: &[u8], masked: &mut [u8], start: usize) -> usize {
    let mut depth = 0_usize;
    let mut index = start;
    while let Some(byte) = bytes.get(index) {
        let next = bytes.get(index + 1).copied();
        if *byte == b'/' && next == Some(b'*') {
            depth += 1;
            blank_span(masked, index, index + 2);
            index += 2;
        } else if *byte == b'*' && next == Some(b'/') {
            depth = depth.saturating_sub(1);
            blank_span(masked, index, index + 2);
            index += 2;
            if depth == 0 {
                return index;
            }
        } else {
            blank_byte(masked, index);
            index += 1;
        }
    }
    index
}

❌ New issue: Bumpy Road Ahead
blank_block_comment has 2 blocks with nested conditional logic. Any nesting of 2 or deeper is considered. Threshold is 2 blocks per function

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tests/env_access_suppressions/mask.rs

Comment on lines +239 to +264

fn escape_end(bytes: &[u8], start: usize) -> Option<usize> {
    match bytes.get(start)? {
        b'u' => {
            let mut index = start + 1;
            if bytes.get(index) != Some(&b'{') {
                return None;
            }
            index += 1;
            while let Some(byte) = bytes.get(index) {
                if *byte == b'}' {
                    return Some(index + 1);
                }
                index += 1;
            }
            None
        }
        b'x' => {
            let digits = bytes.get(start + 1..start + 3)?;
            digits
                .iter()
                .all(u8::is_ascii_hexdigit)
                .then_some(start + 3)
        }
        _ => Some(start + 1),
    }
}

❌ New issue: Bumpy Road Ahead
escape_end has 2 blocks with nested conditional logic. Any nesting of 2 or deeper is considered. Threshold is 2 blocks per function

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tests/env_access_suppressions/scanner.rs

Comment on lines +181 to +209

fn read_attribute_body(source: &str, open: usize) -> Option<String> {
    let mut depth = 0_usize;
    let mut in_string = false;
    let mut escaped = false;
    for (offset, byte) in source.as_bytes().iter().enumerate().skip(open) {
        if in_string {
            if escaped {
                escaped = false;
            } else if *byte == b'\\' {
                escaped = true;
            } else if *byte == b'"' {
                in_string = false;
            }
            continue;
        }
        match byte {
            b'"' => in_string = true,
            b'(' => depth += 1,
            b')' => {
                depth = depth.checked_sub(1)?;
                if depth == 0 {
                    return source.get(open + 1..offset).map(str::to_owned);
                }
            }
            _ => {}
        }
    }
    None
}

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read_attribute_body has 2 blocks with nested conditional logic. Any nesting of 2 or deeper is considered. Threshold is 2 blocks per function

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//! Detection of `allow` attributes that switch off a policy-carrying lint.

❌ New issue: String Heavy Function Arguments
In this module, 75.0% of all arguments to its 9 functions are strings. The threshold for string arguments is 39.0%

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tests/env_access_suppressions/roots.rs

Comment on lines +197 to +224

pub(super) fn collect_all_sources(
    root: &Dir,
    directory: &str,
    found: &mut Vec<String>,
) -> Result<()> {
    for entry_result in root
        .read_dir(directory)
        .with_context(|| format!("read `{directory}`"))?
    {
        let entry = entry_result.with_context(|| format!("read an entry of `{directory}`"))?;
        let name = entry
            .file_name()
            .with_context(|| format!("read an entry name in `{directory}`"))?;
        if MACHINE_LOCAL_DIRECTORIES.contains(&name.as_str()) {
            continue;
        }
        let path = join_path(directory, &name);
        let file_type = entry
            .file_type()
            .with_context(|| format!("read the file type of `{path}`"))?;
        if file_type.is_dir() {
            collect_all_sources(root, &path, found)?;
        } else if is_rust_source(&name) {
            found.push(path);
        }
    }
    Ok(())
}

❌ New issue: Complex Method
collect_all_sources has a cyclomatic complexity of 9, threshold = 9

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Blank raw-string closing hashes before scanning

When a raw string is immediately indexed, its closing delimiter can form the exact #[allow(...)] token sequence that the scanner searches for because the closing hashes remain unmasked. For example, valid Rust such as &r#"abc"#[allow(warnings)] is reported as an allow(warnings) attribute even though allow is merely a function in the index expression, causing the contract test to reject harmless compiled code. Blank the complete raw-string delimiter, not only its body.

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printf '\n--- relevant implementations ---\n'
rg -n -A35 -B8 '^\s*fn (blank_raw_string|closes_raw_string)\b|^\s*pub\(super\) fn mask_non_code\b' tests/env_access_suppressions/mask.rs

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printf '\n--- current revision ---\n'
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@leynos, the latest commit resolves the finding.

blank_raw_string calls blank_span(masked, index, index + hashes + 1) at Line 162. This blanks the closing " and every closing # byte. The scanner cannot form #[allow(...)] from the raw-string delimiter.

spelling_tests.rs also contains the regression case raw_string_closing_hashes_before_an_index. It scans &r#"abc"#[allow(warnings)] and requires no finding.

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Learning: In `tests/env_access_suppressions/mask.rs`, raw-string masking must blank the complete closing delimiter, including all closing `#` bytes. Otherwise a closing hash directly before `[` can form a false `#[allow(...)]` token sequence in masked source.

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Scan modules whose source lacks an .rs extension

Rust permits #[path = "suppressed.inc"] mod suppressed;, and that module can begin with #![allow(clippy::disallowed_methods)]; Clippy compiles it while clippy::allow_attributes still ignores the inner attribute. Because both the scan and its coverage invariant recognize only .rs filenames, such a compiled module is neither inspected nor reported as unscanned, leaving the environment-access policy bypass open. Either reject non-.rs module paths or include explicitly referenced module sources in the scan.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L390-L396

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@coderabbitai All three inline findings, and all three pre-merge checks, have now been
verified against the current code and adjudicated. This is the disposition of each, with
the measurement behind it. Every claim below was re-derived on the tree at a4f820c1,
which is the head this comment is written against. No further review is requested.

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1. roots.rs L60-L118 — "Sort the directory entries, or correct the doc comment"

Premise true, consequence false. Disposition: the doc comment corrected, no sort added.

Dir::read_dir does not promise an order, so the old "in order" was wrong and is gone.
But the consequence the finding asserts — that diagnostics are therefore unstable — does
not follow, because nothing consumes the walk's order. The assertion over the result is
about the set of findings, and each source is read in full.

The one place order was observable was the failure message, and it was already the case
that the same findings could render in a different sequence between machines. That is
fixed, though not by sorting the traversal: build_error_message now sorts its input, so
the message is stable whatever order the walk reports. The doc comment on
collect_rust_sources states the order contract and points at that function.

Sorting the traversal was considered and rejected. It would add an allocation and a
per-entry name read to every directory of every gate run to make an intermediate vector
ordered, when the only consumer that cared has been made order-independent directly.

2. mask.rs L139-L140 — "Blank raw-string closing hashes before scanning"

Confirmed as a real defect at b49cf5ac. Disposition: already fixed, at 6daf2a69.

The finding is correct about the code it read. At b49cf5ac, blank_raw_string blanked
the body and returned at the closing ", leaving the delimiter's # in the masked text
directly before a [ — token-for-token the opening of an attribute. &r#"abc"#[allow(warnings)]
is the literal r#"abc"# indexed by a call to a function named allow; it compiles and
runs, and the scan reported it at one false finding.

Fixed by blanking the whole delimiter: blank_span(masked, index, index + hashes + 1).
Three spelling_tests.rs rows now pin it —
raw_string_closing_hashes_before_an_index (must be silent),
escaped_string_before_an_index (the escaped form carries no equivalent hazard, measured
rather than assumed), and real_attribute_after_a_raw_string, which fails if the fix
blanks one token too many. A false pass is also a pass, so the pair is asserted together.

3. roots.rs L122-L125 — "Scan modules whose source lacks an .rs extension"

Confirmed as a real defect. Disposition: fixed.

The finding's technical core is right and was measured before acting: #[path = "suppressed.inc"] mod suppressed; with #![allow(clippy::disallowed_methods)] at the top compiles to an
rlib, where the same file without the attribute exits 101. Both walks filtered on the exact
rs extension, so the file was neither scanned nor reported unscanned — is_scanned would
have said it was governed, it was simply never asked.

The read set is now every file under a scanned root that is not dot-prefixed. A dot-file
under a source root is tooling state — .gitignore, .editorconfig, .rustfmt.toml —
rather than anything a #[path] names, so that rule can only narrow files that were never
Rust sources. (That fix also introduced the CodeScene regression recorded at the end of
this comment, which a4f820c1 then repaired — noted here so the two are not read as
unrelated.)

The asymmetry is the reason to prefer reading too much over reading too little: a file read
but never compiled costs a failure message naming a real file, while a file compiled but
not read hides a suppression, which is the failure this contract exists to prevent. Reading
extra is bounded and was measured — 216 non-.rs files across the scanned roots, none
of them carrying a finding.

On the AGENTS.md citation: AGENTS.md L390-L396 does not say anything about file
extensions. It is the environment-mutation rule — the EnvLock/CwdGuard retirement, the
mockable::Env injection guidance, and the subprocess exemption. The extension claim is not
sourced from it, so the finding stands on its own measurement, which is what was acted on.

Two related rules are now pinned by tests rather than left to inspection. A file that will
not decode is declined rather than fatal; every other read error still propagates, because a
file that is text and could not be read is a source that went unscanned. And a new test
compares the governed set against what the scan really read, re-reading each path from disk
so a walk that paired a path with another file's contents is caught too.

---

Mutation evidence

Every new rule was shown able to see a defect before being trusted, since a false pass is
also a pass. Against the frozen tip:

Mutation	Result
.rs-only filter restored (the finding-3 defect)	Fails a_source_without_an_rs_extension_is_still_read
Dot-file exclusion dropped	Fails the same test
Walk stops descending	Fails only the governed-set comparison, over 100 named paths
Catch-all error filter at the read site	Fails only_a_file_that_is_not_text_may_be_passed_over
is_not_text predicate widened to true	Fails the same test

The catch-all row is worth singling out. It survived the first form of that test, which
asserted the predicate's own output — the predicate was intact, so a caller that swallowed
everything went unnoticed. The test now takes the read through read_source and reads a
directory, which really does fail with IsADirectory on every machine. A
permissions-based version was written and rejected: it fails spuriously when the suite runs
as root, which is how a container lane runs it, and mode bits are Unix-only.

---

The three pre-merge checks

Testing (Overall) — real, and fixed. The finding's mechanism is exactly right, and it
was reproduced before being fixed: making collect_rust_sources return early instead of
descending left both tests green. The scan was green because it read almost nothing, and the
coverage invariant is a different function that still enumerated the tree correctly, so
neither could see the other's blind spot. the_scan_reads_every_governed_source compares
them directly now, with a non-vacuity floor on the governed side and a per-path re-read so a
walk that paired a path with another file's contents is caught too. Against that mutation it
fails naming over a hundred omitted sources. The finding also asked for a synthetic case
asserting that a nested .rs file is read rather than only that nested caches are skipped;
a_source_without_an_rs_extension_is_still_read covers that tree, and
a_cache_inside_a_scanned_root_is_skipped_by_the_scan asserts both walks agree on it.

Testing (Property/Proof) — the specific gap was real, and is closed. The finding named
one invariant worth generating over, and it was correct: masking must be an in-place edit —
same length, same newlines, only comment and literal bytes replaced. The whole module
depends on that, and no row of the table could see it, because every row pins a
finding, and an offset that drifted surfaces only as some other shape's answer changing.

That is now a generated search over the spellings masking has to classify. It is
liveness-checked rather than assumed: making blank_byte overwrite a newline fails both new
properties and leaves the other 57 tests green — measured, which is exactly the gap.
proptest shrank that counterexample to ["/*", "\n"].

The generator is deliberately a fragment alphabet rather than arbitrary bytes: random input
would be dominated by text that is not Rust, and the property would pass on it for the wrong
reason, since masking never panics on a byte it does not recognise. The seeds the mutation
run produced are deliberately not checked in — a seed whose provenance is a deliberate
defect would replay that defect at everyone who ran the suite.

proptest was already a dev-dependency, so this added no manifest change.

The resolution also asked for a generated synthetic-tree property asserting that the two
walks apply the same machine-local rule. That one is deliberately not added, and the
reason is that the property it describes is already asserted completely and more cheaply by
a table: the skip list is fifteen names, so a_cache_inside_a_scanned_root_is_skipped_by_the_scan
compares the two walks' outputs on a tree holding a nested cache, a nested target, and a
kept source, and a_machine_local_name_is_skipped_at_any_depth asserts the same rule at a
nested depth. A generated tree would draw from the same fifteen names the table already
enumerates exhaustively, so it would add runtime and no coverage. The generated search went
where a table provably could not reach — the masking invariant, where no row can observe the
property at all.

Testing (Compile-Time/Ui) — not a defect, no change, and the finding is falsified.

The dimension already has a test, and it runs: tests/clippy_env_policy_ui_tests.rs,
merged to main in d1f1ce25 and present at this head, where both of its cases pass
(observed in this branch's own make test run). It asserts that both clippy.toml files
disallow all three process-global environment mutations (std::env::set_var, remove_var,
set_current_dir) and that the Clippy gate covers every workspace target and feature — by
reading the Makefile rather than a copy of its flags, so the answer comes from the
configuration actually in force. That is the compile-time question asked of the compile-time
configuration, which is the dimension the finding is about.

Two things follow, and both are measurements rather than readings. First, the finding says
the compile-time behaviour "is tested only by the source scanner", but this branch does not
grow the configuration in that dimension: git diff --name-only origin/main...HEAD is
.gitignore, docs/developers-guide.md, and the tests/env_access_suppressions* files. No
clippy.toml, no Cargo.toml, no .cargo/, no build.rs, no Makefile — so there is no
new compile-time surface for a fixture to exercise, and the existing test still describes the
unchanged configuration exactly. Second, the resolution asks for a fixture that "invok[es]
Clippy when checking clippy::disallowed_methods", which would duplicate make lint-clippy:
that target already runs cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings over every target in the repository, on every gate run and every CI job.

A diagnostic-pinning fixture is also against this repository's stated practice, in its own
words — from tests/command_env_ui_tests.rs, on this exact family of environment APIs:

There is deliberately no compile-fail case for the removed APIs (EnvMut, PathGuard,
prepend_dir_to_path, override_ninja_env): the workspace build already rejects any
revived call site, and pinning rustc's diagnostic wording for a missing item would make
the suite fail on compiler upgrades without guarding anything extra.

The proposed fixture — a control that fails under the policy plus an inner-allow case
whose compiler outcome is asserted — would pin exactly that kind of wording. The measured
outcomes it wants recorded (exit 101 with the policy firing, exit 0 with an inner allow)
are already recorded as measurements, in the guide's rationale and in the doc comments beside
the rows that encode each spelling. Re-recording them as compiler output would trade a stable
assertion for one that breaks on toolchain upgrades, while guarding nothing the workspace
build does not already guard.

If the dimension was aimed at something else — the .cargo/config build flags or the Clippy
policy file itself — the branch touches neither, and the test above is the one that answers
for both.

On the AGENTS.md 400-line cap

The added tests pushed walk_tests.rs to 441 lines, past the cap at AGENTS.md:31.
Rather than argue the cap away, the file was split at the seam it already had:
read_tests.rs now holds which sources the scan reads, and walk_tests.rs keeps which
names the walk skips. All files under tests/env_access_suppressions/ are now under 400
lines. That split is also what exposed the false pass in the catch-all row above — the test
looked pinned and was not.

CodeScene

This was a real regression, introduced by this branch, and it is now fixed. The
earlier draft of this comment said the check was green on the head. That was false,
and it is worth stating plainly why: the claim was carried over from the status of an
earlier commit (b49cf5ac, "Quality Gate Passed / 6 Quality Gates Passed") and never
re-measured against the head. The check was in fact failing at c8d23287 and
0e05cf51 — the only red check on the PR — on the advisory rule String Heavy Function Arguments, naming tests/env_access_suppressions/roots.rs.

The cause was mine and it was measured, not guessed. The rule computes a file-wide
ratio of string arguments over every function in the module, and the #[path] fix
(finding 3 above) added three helpers to a file already sitting under the threshold:
two more string arguments took roots.rs from clear to 53.3% against the rule's 39%.
The server's advisory gate passed with scanner.rs over the ratio (it predates this
branch) and failed once a second module joined it. Local CLI reproduces the server's
verdict exactly at each commit, which is what made the cause findable:

commit	local CLI	server
b49cf5ac	scanner.rs only	passed
994b78de → 0e05cf51	roots.rs + scanner.rs	failed, naming roots.rs

It is fixed by the change the rule was pointing at, in commit a4f820c1: those
parameters are paths, and read_dir already takes AsRef<Utf8Path>, so the walk's
four &str spellings became &Utf8Path, with the call sites in the three test modules
following. Behaviour is unchanged — Utf8Path::new does not normalise and Display
renders the same bytes for these inputs — and the focused target passes 59 tests. The
local CLI now reports exactly the state the server last passed: scanner.rs alone at
9.68, no finding for roots.rs.

A .codescene override was rejected. The refactor work on this branch explicitly
forbade suppressing the diagnostic, and trading a red gate for a rule the code cannot
justify is the defect this branch is about. The two remaining 10.00 modules
(mask.rs, policy.rs) carry no finding at all.

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Keep traversal order unspecified. Sort only the diagnostic input in build_error_message.

Keep raw-string closing delimiters fully masked, including the closing hashes.

Scan every non-dot file below each scanned root. Do not restrict the source contract to .rs files. Skip only files that are not text. Propagate all other read errors.

Keep the direct scan-versus-governed-set test and the masking properties. These tests cover the documented mutation failures.

Keep &Utf8Path for path arguments in tests/env_access_suppressions/roots.rs. Do not add a .codescene override for the resolved roots.rs string-argument diagnostic.

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Learnt from: wafflecat-df12
URL: https://github.com/leynos/netsuke/pull/744

Timestamp: 2026-09-20T16:43:57.941Z
Learning: In `tests/env_access_suppressions/roots.rs`, directory enumeration order is intentionally unspecified. `collect_rust_sources` must document that contract, and `build_error_message` must sort findings when diagnostic order is observable. Do not sort traversal entries solely to stabilize diagnostics.

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Learnt from: wafflecat-df12
URL: https://github.com/leynos/netsuke/pull/744

Timestamp: 2026-09-20T16:43:57.941Z
Learning: The environment-access suppression contract scans every non-dot file below configured source roots, not only files with a `.rs` extension. Rust modules can use `#[path = "..."]` with a non-`.rs` filename. Ignore only files that fail text decoding, and propagate other read errors so scanned-source coverage cannot silently decrease.

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Learnt from: wafflecat-df12
URL: https://github.com/leynos/netsuke/pull/744

Timestamp: 2026-09-20T16:43:57.941Z
Learning: In `tests/env_access_suppressions/mask.rs`, raw-string masking must blank the complete closing delimiter, including all closing `#` bytes. Otherwise a closing hash directly before `[` can form a false `#[allow(...)]` token sequence in masked source.

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