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Repository hygiene and documentation for a JOSS review. No estimator behaviour changes; the only edits under precise/ are docstrings. The bug fixes for #109, #103, #104, #105 and #95 are on a separate branch and are not touched here.

Changes, one commit each

  1. Windows-safe paths. Twelve legacy scripts in research/legacy_skatervaluation/battlescriptscustom/manager_info/ were named with URL query strings (stocks?topic=stocks&n_dim=int:151&...&k=int:3.py). Git on Windows will not check out a path containing ? or :, so the repository could not be cloned on Windows, and install-smoke's windows-latest job has failed at checkout every week since August (the other five jobs pass). The scripts read their parameters from their own file names through runthis.parse_kwargs, which is not in the repository, and they import precise.skaters, which was removed at 1.0, so none of them runs. They are renamed to stocks_n_dim_<d>_n_obs_<n>_n_burn_<b>_k_<k>.py and the parameters are written into each script as a dict, so nothing is lost.
    • New tests/test_repo_paths.py fails if any tracked path has a component containing <>:"|?*\ or a control character, ends in a dot or space, or is a reserved DOS name. It fails on main and passes here.
    • New windows-checkout job in ci.yml checks the repository out on windows-latest, runs that test and imports the package.
    • install-smoke: .github/smoke.py, run locally against the PyPI wheel, passes (1.1.0, 20 estimators). Its Windows job should pass once this is on main.
  2. One release workflow. deploy.yml (twine with token secrets) and publish.yml (trusted publishing) both uploaded v1.1.0; the logs show publish.yml re-uploading the same files 28 minutes after deploy.yml. deploy.yml is deleted. Its tag-equals-version check moves into publish.yml, and twine check is now --strict. install-smoke's workflow_run trigger pointed at "deploy" and now points at "Publish to PyPI".
  3. CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md: Contributor Covenant 2.1, verbatim, with peter.cotton@microprediction.com as the enforcement contact.
  4. CONTRIBUTING.md: getting support (best effort, silently wrong results first), governance, bug reports, proposing changes, adding an estimator, dev setup, the checks CI runs, and the release process. CI now enforces a coverage floor (pytest --cov=precise --cov-fail-under=95), and pytest-cov is added to the dev extra.
  5. CITATION.cff: CFF 1.2.0 for precise 1.1.0, with author and ORCID. Validated with cffconvert --validate. The DOI line is a commented TODO(Peter) placeholder.
  6. AI_USE.md: figures taken from git history. There are 958 commits before June 2026, and none has an AI co-author trailer. Since 2026-06-01, 99 of the 103 commits on main have a Co-Authored-By: Claude trailer (Opus 4.8: 81, Opus 5: 11, Fable 5: 5, Opus 5.5: 2), all made with Claude Code. About 97% of the current lines in precise/ (3,341 of 3,448 by git blame) were last changed in those commits. The file also covers what the author decided, how the code is checked, and what SKILL.md and .claude/skills/ are.
  7. Experimental labelling. SchurCovariance, SchurLedoitWolfCovariance, SchurConditionalCovariance, the SchurLikelihood assessor and suggest() now have an "Experimental" paragraph in their docstrings, and the same label in docs/index.html and the README. The docs table said "Fourteen" estimators and omitted three. It now lists all 20.
  8. Docstrings and packaging. Adds docstrings (with doctested examples) for BaseOnlineCovariance, estimator_names and assessor_from_name. The licence is now declared PEP 639 style: license = "MIT" with license-files = ["LICENSE"]. That needs hatchling >= 1.27, and it drops the licence classifier. The wheel now records License-Expression: MIT. The sdist include patterns are anchored, so the sdist no longer includes .claude/skills/README.md. Both artefacts pass twine check --strict.
  9. README. Adds badges that resolve: PyPI, ci, coverage, Python versions and licence. The coverage badge is static and shows the floor that CI enforces. Also adds:
    • who the package is for and how it is used in research;
    • a runnable quick start;
    • all 20 estimators in the table;
    • a comparison with sklearn, river and skfolio. It credits river PR #1923, merged 2026-07-18 and shipped in river 0.26.0, and lists what precise still offers beyond river;
    • development install, contributing/support and citing sections;
    • a plain statement that portfolio construction left precise at 1.0.
  10. paper.md.
    • The river paragraph is updated for PR #1923 and gives the reasoning for building precise instead of contributing to river.
    • The river adoption is added to the research impact section.
    • The test count changes from 293 to "more than 360" (368 here).
    • The AI disclosure names the models and scope, and includes JOSS's statement that the author reviewed and validated the output and made the design decisions.
    • The "portfolio construction" tag is replaced with "online learning".
    • The body is about 1,400 words. The YAML header parses and every citation resolves in paper.bib (checked with pandoc --citeproc). Docker is not available locally, so joss-draft.yml on this push is the real compile check.
  11. CHANGELOG: an Unreleased section.

Checks

  • pytest: 368 passed (353 on main, plus 15 path tests). Coverage is 95.57%, which clears the new 95% floor.
  • With numpy as the only dependency: 366 passed, 2 skipped.
  • ruff check precise tests research: clean. mypy precise: clean.

Still for Peter

  • Zenodo DOI. Connect the repository to Zenodo, archive a release, then put the concept DOI in CITATION.cff (the TODO(Peter) line) and add a DOI badge.
  • Affiliation in papers/joss/paper.md. The line is unchanged and has a TODO(Peter): affiliation comment beside it.
  • Funding and conflict-of-interest statements for the paper. JOSS requires both, and there is a TODO(Peter) comment under Acknowledgements.
  • Confirm the AI disclosure. AI_USE.md and the paper state, in JOSS's words, that you reviewed, edited and validated all AI-assisted output and made the core design decisions. Only you can confirm that.
  • Python 3.9. It is still supported and tested, though it reached end of life in October 2025. Dropping it, and adding 3.10 and 3.14 to the CI matrix, is your decision. Nothing here changes it.
  • Delete the unused secrets. PYPI_USERNAME and PYPI_PASSWORD are no longer used by any workflow.
  • Coverage margin. It is 95.57% against a 95% floor. If the bug-fix branch lowers it, either add tests or lower the floor and the badge together.
  • Possible conflict. BaseOnlineCovariance gains a class docstring just above __init__ in precise/base.py. If the bug-fix branch edits those lines, expect a small, easy merge conflict.

Not done here, though the readiness notes mention them: a generated API reference, a worked tutorial, triage of open issues, removing the docs extra (mkdocs is listed but not used), and untracking the LaTeX build outputs in papers/.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation

    • Expanded setup, contribution, citation, AI-use, and estimator guidance.
    • Clarified that Schur estimators, SchurLikelihood, and suggest() are experimental, may change, and have validation limitations; documented established alternatives.
    • Updated estimator listings and release information.
  • Reliability

    • Added Windows compatibility checks and Windows CI coverage; renamed research scripts to support Windows checkouts.
    • Raised the CI coverage requirement to 95%.
    • Added strict package validation and release-tag checks to the publishing workflow.

microprediction and others added 11 commits October 5, 2026 19:10
Twelve scripts in research/legacy_skatervaluation/battlescriptscustom/manager_info/ were named
with URL query strings (stocks?topic=stocks&n_dim=int:151&...&k=int:3.py). Git on Windows refuses
a path containing ? or :, so the repository could not be cloned there, and install-smoke's
windows-latest job has failed at the checkout step every week since August (its other five
jobs pass).

The scripts read their parameters from their own file names through runthis.parse_kwargs, a
module that is not in the repository; they also import the precise.skaters modules removed at
1.0, so none of them runs today. Rather than delete reference code, each is renamed to
stocks_n_dim_<d>_n_obs_<n>_n_burn_<b>_k_<k>.py and the parameters its old name encoded are
written into the script as a dict, so no information is lost.

To stop it recurring:
- tests/test_repo_paths.py fails if any tracked path has a component containing <>:"|?*\ or a
  control character, ends in a dot or space, or is a reserved DOS device name. It runs in every
  CI test job.
- a new windows-checkout job in ci.yml checks the repository out on windows-latest, runs that
  test and imports the package.

install-smoke installs from PyPI and only checks out .github/smoke.py, but the checkout still
reads the whole tree, which is why the bad names broke it. Run locally against the PyPI wheel,
smoke.py passes (precise 1.1.0, 20 estimators).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two workflows uploaded every release to PyPI: deploy.yml (on release "created", twine with the
PYPI_USERNAME/PYPI_PASSWORD secrets) and publish.yml (on release "published", trusted publishing).
For v1.1.0 both ran: deploy.yml uploaded the wheel and sdist at 04:13, and publish.yml uploaded the
identical files again at 04:41, which PyPI accepted as duplicates. Trusted publishing therefore
already works, and deploy.yml adds nothing but a second copy of the upload and a long-lived token.

- Delete deploy.yml.
- Move its one useful check into publish.yml: on a release, refuse to publish when the tag is not
  v<pyproject version>. Make twine check --strict, as deploy.yml had it.
- Point install-smoke's workflow_run trigger at "Publish to PyPI"; it named "deploy", so it would
  otherwise stop validating releases.

The PYPI_USERNAME and PYPI_PASSWORD repository secrets are no longer used and can be deleted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Contributor Covenant 2.1, verbatim from contributor-covenant.org, with the enforcement contact
set to peter.cotton@microprediction.com. JOSS reviewers check for community guidelines, and
GitHub's community profile for the repository listed no code of conduct.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
JOSS asks for guidelines on how to contribute, how to report problems and how to seek support,
and for a single-author project it counts a CONTRIBUTING file and stated support or governance
expectations among the signs of open practice. The repository had none.

CONTRIBUTING.md covers: where to ask questions and who answers (the maintainer, best effort, with
silently wrong results first); governance (one maintainer, decisions made in the open, a route to
co-maintainership); what a bug report needs; how to propose a change, and how to add an
estimator; the development setup; the checks CI runs; and the release process.

To make the coverage figure something CI enforces rather than a local measurement:
- the ci test job now runs pytest --cov=precise --cov-fail-under=95 (local coverage is 96%);
- pytest-cov is added to the dev extra.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Citation File Format 1.2.0 metadata for precise 1.1.0 (released 2026-09-13): author Peter Cotton
with ORCID, MIT licence, repository and documentation URLs, abstract and keywords. GitHub turns it
into a "Cite this repository" entry. Validated with cffconvert 2.0.0.

The Zenodo DOI does not exist yet. A commented TODO(Peter) line marks where the concept DOI goes
once a release has been archived; it is commented out so the file stays valid until then.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
JOSS requires an AI usage disclosure naming the tools and versions, where they were used and the
nature of the help. The paper had a short version; the repository had none.

The figures are from git history on main:
- 958 commits before June 2026, none with an AI co-author trailer;
- 99 of the 103 commits since 2026-06-01 carry a Co-Authored-By: Claude trailer (Claude Opus
  4.8: 81, Claude Opus 5: 11, Claude Fable 5: 5, Claude Opus 5.5: 2), all via Claude Code;
- about 97% of the lines now in precise/ (3,341 of 3,448 by git blame) were last changed in
  those commits.

The file also states what the author decided and is responsible for, what SKILL.md and
.claude/skills/ are (instructions for agents using the package, not a disclosure), the checks the
code must pass, and which methods are new and marked experimental. It lists the commands that
reproduce the counts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
These are new methods introduced with this package, not established ones from the literature:
SchurCovariance, SchurLedoitWolfCovariance, SchurConditionalCovariance, the SchurLikelihood
assessor (the subject of an unrefereed working paper) and the suggest() recommender. Reviewers
are asked to judge established, vetted methods, so the package should say plainly which parts are
not.

- Docstrings: each of the five now opens with an "Experimental" paragraph saying it is new, not
  peer-reviewed or validated outside the package, and may change between minor releases, and
  pointing to an established alternative. suggest()'s note also repeats the package's own
  finding that per-data-set choice is close to, and sometimes worse than, one good fixed
  estimator except when variables approach observations.
- docs/index.html: the estimator table marks the three Schur estimators experimental and adds
  the three registered estimators it omitted (BlockCovariance, SchurLedoitWolfCovariance,
  SchurConditionalCovariance); its count said fourteen, and twenty are registered. The
  recommender and Schur pseudo-likelihood sections carry the same label.

No behaviour changes: only docstrings and HTML are edited.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… way

Docstrings. 31 of the 34 names in precise.__all__ had docstrings; these three did not:
- BaseOnlineCovariance: what a subclass implements, and the interface every estimator inherits
  (fitting, fitted attributes, scoring, checkpointing, get/set_params), with an example;
- estimator_names: what it returns, with an example;
- assessor_from_name: parameter, KeyError, and an example.
The examples pass under doctest (with ELLIPSIS for the estimator repr).

Packaging.
- license = "MIT" with license-files = ["LICENSE"] replaces the deprecated
  license = { text = "MIT" } table, as the Python Packaging Guide and PEP 639 recommend. The
  wheel now records License-Expression: MIT (PyPI showed license_expression: None) and ships
  LICENSE under dist-info/licenses/. PEP 639 deprecates licence classifiers alongside an
  expression, so the "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License" classifier is dropped. This
  needs hatchling >= 1.27, now the build requirement.
- The sdist include patterns are anchored to the root ("/README.md" rather than "README.md"),
  so it no longer picks up .claude/skills/README.md and
  papers/online_spectral_calibration/README.md.
Both artefacts build and pass twine check --strict.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…support, citing

- Badges that resolve: PyPI version, the ci workflow, Python versions from PyPI, MIT licence, and
  a coverage badge that states the floor ci.yml enforces (pytest --cov-fail-under=95), so it
  stays true while main is green without a third-party coverage service.
- "Who it is for": the target audience, and research uses so far (the author's working papers,
  with reproduction scripts in research/, and the river integration).
- The Use example now defines its stream, so it runs as pasted.
- The estimator table lists all twenty registered estimators; it lacked DiagonalCovariance,
  BlockCovariance and the three Schur estimators, which are added and marked experimental, with
  a note on what experimental means. suggest() and the Schur pseudo-likelihood are labelled the
  same way.
- "Comparison with other packages": sklearn.covariance (batch only), river.covariance and
  skfolio/PyPortfolioOpt. river PR #1923 (merged 2026-07-18, shipped in river 0.26.0) ported
  EwaCovariance, LedoitWolfCovariance, OASCovariance and ShrunkCovariance into river.covariance,
  crediting precise, and added EwaPrecision. The README says to use river's versions when already
  in river, and lists what precise still offers: the estimators river does not have (nonlinear
  shrinkage, robust, DCC and composed models, factor, partial moments, adaptive, geodesic,
  block, Schur), one contract and registry across all twenty, dict state for checkpointing,
  assessors and a recommender, and keyed adapters for changing universes.
- Development install, Contributing and support, and Citing sections, linking CONTRIBUTING.md,
  CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, AI_USE.md and CITATION.cff by absolute URL so the links work on PyPI too.
- The portfolio-construction note now says plainly that it moved out of precise at 1.0.

The README still renders on PyPI (twine check --strict passes).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…io tag

- State of the field: the river paragraph said river.covariance had only empirical covariance,
  empirical precision and an exponentially weighted variant. Since river PR #1923 (merged
  2026-07-18, shipped in river 0.26.0) it also has four estimators ported from precise. The
  paragraph now says so, says the port followed the author's offer to river's maintainers, and
  gives the build-versus-contribute reasoning JOSS asks for: river admits only estimators that
  never invert on read, and precise keeps the rest.
- Research impact: adds the river adoption, the one use of the package outside the author's
  own work.
- Summary: says which parts are new methods and marked experimental.
- Quality control: "two hundred and ninety-three tests" is now "more than 360" (368 on this
  branch), and mentions the numpy-only run and the 95% coverage floor.
- AI usage disclosure: names the models (Claude Opus 4.8, Opus 5, Fable 5, Opus 5.5, via Claude
  Code), the scope (about 97% of the lines in precise/; the pre-1.0 releases without AI), the
  kinds of help, and JOSS's required statement that the author reviewed, edited and validated
  the output and made the core design decisions; points to AI_USE.md.
- Tags: "portfolio construction" becomes "online learning"; portfolio construction left precise
  at 1.0.
- Date: 5 October 2026.
- The affiliation is left as it is, with a TODO(Peter) comment beside it (a YAML comment, so the
  header still parses), and a TODO(Peter) HTML comment under Acknowledgements for the funding and
  conflict-of-interest statements JOSS requires.

Body is about 1,400 words (JOSS asks for 750-1750). The YAML header parses, and every citation key
resolves in paper.bib (pandoc --citeproc, no warnings; no unused entries). Docker is not
available here, so the JOSS draft action was not run locally; joss-draft.yml runs it on push.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… changes

Records, for the next release, the experimental labelling, the packaging and release-workflow
changes, the new community and citation files, the three new docstrings, the new CI checks, and
the Windows clone fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This change adds Windows path validation and CI checks, consolidates release publishing, updates package metadata, and renames research scripts to use Windows-safe filenames and explicit parameters. It also expands project guidance, method descriptions, and API docstrings.

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.github/workflows/ci.yml, tests/test_repo_paths.py, research/README.md, research/.../manager_info/stocks*, CHANGELOG.md
Research battle scripts now use Windows-safe filenames and explicit parameters. A new test checks tracked paths, and a Windows CI job runs the path check and verifies package imports and estimator names.
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.github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/deploy.yml, .github/workflows/publish.yml, .github/workflows/install-smoke.yml, pyproject.toml, CONTRIBUTING.md, CHANGELOG.md
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README.md, docs/index.html, papers/joss/paper.md, precise/assessment/*, precise/base.py, precise/recommend.py, precise/registry.py, precise/schur*.py, CHANGELOG.md
Project materials describe estimator coverage, experimental methods, recommender qualifications, package comparisons, and portfolio scope. API docstrings describe base-class and registry behavior. The JOSS paper updates its method and package descriptions.
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AI_USE.md, CITATION.cff, CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, README.md, papers/joss/paper.md
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Limit release smoke runs to successful PyPI publications.

completed also starts this workflow after a failed publish or a Test PyPI publish. The smoke job then installs from PyPI and can pass against an older release. That result does not validate the release named in the workflow comment. Gate the smoke job on a successful upstream conclusion and exclude Test PyPI runs.

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[error] 10-20: use of fundamentally insecure workflow trigger (dangerous-triggers): workflow_run is almost always used insecurely

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Review comment at @.github/workflows/install-smoke.yml at line 19:
Update the upstream workflow trigger and smoke job condition in the install
smoke workflow so runs proceed only after a successful “Publish to PyPI”
publication and are excluded for Test PyPI runs.

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if: github.event_name == 'release'
run: |
VERSION=$(python -c "import tomllib; print(tomllib.load(open('pyproject.toml','rb'))['project']['version'])")
TAG="${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}"

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Detected with Advanced Tier | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Injection

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-78 — Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Pass the release tag through an environment variable.

If an actor can create a release with a crafted tag, ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }} inserts that tag into the shell script before the shell runs. A tag such as v1.1.0$(id) executes the substitution before the version check rejects the tag. Pass the value through env: and read it as "$TAG" in the script.

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[warning] 20-45: overly broad permissions (excessive-permissions): default permissions used due to no permissions: block

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Review comment at @.github/workflows/publish.yml at line 31:
Update the release workflow step that assigns TAG so the release tag is passed
via the step’s env configuration instead of interpolated into the shell script;
read it as "$TAG" in the script so crafted tag values are treated as data.

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Comment thread precise/base.py
* checkpointing: ``get_state()`` / ``set_state(state)``, with a JSON-friendly state;
* sklearn-style ``get_params()`` / ``set_params(**params)``.

Reading a fitted attribute before any data has been seen raises :class:`NotFittedError`.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the pre-fit attribute contract.

Before fitting, n_samples_ returns 0 and n_features_in_ is None. Neither raises NotFittedError. Name the attributes that do raise the error, or state these two exceptions.

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Review comment at @precise/base.py at line 45:
Update the fitted-attribute documentation near the `n_samples_` and
`n_features_in_` descriptions to state that these attributes return `0` and
`None`, respectively, before fitting; do not include them among attributes that
raise `NotFittedError`.

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Comment thread tests/test_repo_paths.py
REPO = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent

ILLEGAL_CHARS = re.compile(r'[<>:"|?*\\\x00-\x1f]')
RESERVED = re.compile(r"^(CON|PRN|AUX|NUL|COM[0-9]|LPT[0-9])(\..*)?$", re.IGNORECASE)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject superscript device names.

Windows reserves COM¹, COM², COM³, LPT¹, LPT², and LPT³, including names with extensions. The current regex accepts COM¹.txt. If someone tracks that file on Linux, the path test passes but Windows checkout fails. Extend RESERVED and add a rejection case. (learn.microsoft.com)

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Review comment at @tests/test_repo_paths.py at line 22:
Update the RESERVED regex to reject Windows-reserved COM and LPT device names
ending in superscript ¹, ², or ³, including names with extensions. Add a
rejection case covering a superscript name such as COM¹.txt.

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microprediction merged commit b6b983c into main Oct 6, 2026
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