All three L1 tests now declare `conformance.home.k3s/scope: "whole-repo"`.
ci/l1.sh has passed --include-scope whole-repo since it was written, with a
comment saying no L1 test declared the scope yet and it was wired ahead of time
so the next whole-repo invariant "at any layer" would be picked up by annotation
alone. Nothing ever declared it. The consequence is that the entire L1 rendering
layer only ran when a touched path happened to attribute R-PLAT-02, R-NET-01 or
R-NET-05/06/07 — a fail-open hole for every other change in the repo.
The coupling requirement-scoped selection cannot see is that all three tests
exercise ONE code path: catalog/render.py against
schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json. Anything that changes rendered output
invalidates these goldens no matter which requirement the touched path maps to.
The 2026-09-04 external-dns merge is the proof, measured rather than asserted.
ci/touched-requirements.sh attributes platform/externaldns/helmrelease.yaml to
R-ENV-02, R-OBS-01/02/04, R-STATE-03 and R-TEST-01/02/03/04 — none of the
rendering requirements — yet that change added
external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/controller: none
to the rendered output of all three goldens. Via --print-selection:
requirement-scoped only (the 2026-09-04 behaviour): 0 L1 tests selected
with --include-scope whole-repo (how ci/l1.sh runs): 3 L1 tests selected
So the merge gated GREEN while leaving every rendering golden stale, and the
staleness surfaced only on a later full run.
Also corrects the now-false comment in ci/l1.sh that said no L1 test declares the
scope, and records why the annotation is load-bearing there.
Verified: offline l0,l1,meta --include-scope whole-repo in the pinned toolbox —
25 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors, exit 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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