test(api-diagnostics): capture Signature B's exit status and read it from the streams that carry it

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Signature B: the mechanism, five real captures, and the diagnostics that can now read them

Root-cause acceptance level: C — narrowed to one mechanism family, exact source not established.
Signature B remains UNRESOLVED. No fix is proposed, because none is earned. Test/diagnostic
infrastructure plus the canonical record: six files — three under
packages/api/test/diagnostics/, plus docs/PROJECT_STATE.md, docs/ROADMAP.md and ADR-0140 §4.
No production code, no migration, no workflow.

CANONICAL M15 DOC SYNC COMPLETE — recorded as M15 Increment 51.
PR #42 merged as 48209e8074e00632b1f3ed29d68d3fe099eed6cf, which this branch has merged (no
rebase, no force, no conflicts). Increment 50 is preserved untouched; the evidence below is now
recorded in docs/PROJECT_STATE.md and docs/ROADMAP.md as
M15 Increment 51 — Signature B mechanism isolation and diagnostic hardening, status
UNRESOLVED — exact terminating source unproven, acceptance LEVEL C, with the narrow
follow-up added to ADR-0140 §4.

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What was already proven, and what was not

Increments up to #35 established: node --test spawns one child process per test file; the bare
test failed is Node's own fallback (ERR_TEST_FAILURE('test failed', kTestCodeFailure) with
stack: undefined) for a child that exits non-zero while no subtest failed; the spec reporter
discards the exitCode/signal that Node attaches to it, and the tap reporter does not. Three
real captures existed, all from before that parent-side work, and all showed the child log
containing only start and preload-installed.

What that left open: no real Signature B occurrence had ever had its exit code observed. The
instrumentation that could read it was built after the last capture, and Increments 47, 48 and 49
then captured nothing across their bounded runs.

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1. Architecture trace — read from Node's own source, not inferred

Node v24.15.0's internal/test_runner/runner.js and internal/test_runner/test.js were read
directly this session (process.binding('natives')). Three facts close a whole class of hypotheses:

• Each per-file child is spawned as
  spawn(process.execPath, args, { signal: t.signal, stdio: ['pipe','pipe','pipe'], env, cwd }).
• FileTest sets this.timeout = null. The parent enforces no file-level wall-clock timeout;
  --test-timeout is forwarded to the child and enforced inside it.
• In this repository's configuration (node --test --test-concurrency=1 <glob>) there is no outer
  AbortSignal and no --test-timeout. And if t.signal ever did abort, child.on('error') sets
  err first, so the runner throws that AbortError instead of the bare fallback.

Therefore the parent runner has no path, in this configuration, that kills a child and produces
the Signature B shape. The child exits non-zero on its own, or something outside the runner ends
it. Every "the runner cancelled it" hypothesis is closed.

The child's stderr is also not passed through: the runner attaches a readline interface to it and
re-emits each line as a test:stderr reporter event. That detail turns out to matter twice.

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2. Synthetic fingerprint matrix — 17 mechanisms, measured

Each mechanism was run under the real instrumentation (preload --require, spec to stdout, tap
to a file, --test-concurrency=1) and its full fingerprint recorded. Abridged:

mechanism	child exit	child log events	bare shape?
assertion failure	—	start, preload-installed, beforeExit, exit	no
module-load throw	1	…, uncaughtExceptionMonitor, exit	yes
uncaught exception	1	…, uncaughtExceptionMonitor, beforeExit, exit	no
unhandled rejection	1	…, beforeExit, exit	no
process.exit(1) / (7)	1 / 7	…, process.exit, exit	yes
process.abort()	134	…, process.abort	yes
self SIGTERM / SIGINT	1	…, process.kill	yes
external taskkill /F	1	start, preload-installed	yes¹
external Stop-Process -Force	4294967295	start, preload-installed	yes¹
unawaited subprocess failure	—	…, beforeExit, exit	no
worker-thread uncaught	1	…, uncaughtExceptionMonitor, …, process.exit	no
V8 heap OOM (bounded, 64 MB)	134	start, preload-installed	yes
--test-timeout cancel	—	…, beforeExit, beforeExit, exit	no
whole-tree taskkill /T	—	(runner died; no report)	no
control: no tests, exit 0	—	…, beforeExit, exit	no

¹ the file's own test had already reported before the kill landed; the mechanism still produces the
bare shape when the kill lands earlier.

Exactly three mechanisms reproduce the historical child-side fingerprint — [start, preload-installed] and nothing else: the two external kills and the V8 heap OOM. process.abort()
is excluded, because it is now instrumented and leaves a process.abort record.

All memory experiments are bounded by construction: a 64–80 MB heap ceiling and an allocation loop
that stops at 400 MB of intent, in a child, under a wall-clock bomb. Nothing reaches for the host's
real memory.

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3. Two blind spots, proven experimentally, then fixed

(a) The fatal markers were read from a stream that structurally cannot contain them.
run-signature-b-pass.mjs called fatalMarkersIn(result.stderr) on the parent runner's stderr.
Measured on a real bounded heap exhaustion: parent stderr = 0 bytes, TAP report = 2 markers.
Because the runner re-emits child stderr as test:stderr reporter events, a child's FATAL ERROR:
banner lands in the report and never on the parent's stderr. The one channel separating "V8 heap
exhaustion" from "something else passing the same status" was looking in the wrong place.

Fix: FATAL_MARKERS and fatalMarkersIn moved into the correlator; parseTapFailures now
attaches fatalMarkers per failure, taken from the report region between the end of the previous
test's YAML block and this failure's own point line, and counting only the # lines Node emitted as
diagnostics.

(b) The correlator merged different processes' events and then denied the hypothesis.
readChildLogs keyed on the test file path alone and concatenated event kinds across every
.jsonl in the directory. Fed a stale clean log (pid 1111, [start, preload-installed, beforeExit, exit]) and a fresh terminated log (pid 2222, [start, preload-installed]) for the same file, it
emitted the six events merged and stated:

"the child reached Node's shutdown events … which rules out an external termination and a native
fault"

— a false negative on the only hypothesis still standing. Reachable through the documented workflow:
the preload defaults SIGB_LOG_DIR to os.tmpdir()/sigb-diag, which nothing cleans.

Fix: events are bucketed per process, keyed by log file and pid (a pid alone is not an
identity — Windows reuses them). A file with more than one process on record reports
ambiguous: true, candidates: N, child: null, kinds: [] rather than picking one.

(c) A third channel, added because it was measured to discriminate. --report-on-fatalerror +
--report-directory: a bounded V8 heap OOM writes exactly one report, named with the dying
child's pid (verified against that child's own preload log). process.abort(), taskkill /F and
Stop-Process -Force write none — and process.abort(), the heap OOM and a deliberate
process.exit(134) all leave exit code 134 on Windows.

Nothing else was added. --trace-exit and --trace-uncaught were considered and rejected: the
preload already patches process.exit with a caller stack and observes uncaughtExceptionMonitor,
so neither can complete the sentence "without this, mechanisms X and Y remain indistinguishable."

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4. Cross-package

The runner was hardcoded to packages/api; Signature B has been observed in packages/persistence
since Increment 46. --package was added (the preload path is now resolved from the script's own
location, and cwd from the named package). No file moved, no existing test changed, and every
existing invocation means exactly what it meant before.

node ./test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs --package ../persistence --runs 40 --max-minutes 150

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5. Five real captures — the first with an exit status ever recorded

#	arm	package	file	exit	ms	child events	markers	reports
1	API baseline	api	pg-security-ownership.integration.test.js	3221226505	641.1	start, preload-installed	lost²	n/a²
2	persistence	persistence	studies.integration.test.js	3221226505	529.5	start, preload-installed	[]	[]
3	persistence	persistence	learning.integration.test.js	3221226505	523.4	start, preload-installed	[]	[]
4	API	api	pg-security.integration.test.js	3221226505	629.2	start, preload-installed	[]	[]
5	ordered	api	auth-signin-schema.integration.test.js	3221226505	734.5	start, preload-installed	[]	[]

² Capture 1 was taken with the pre-fix harness, which read the markers off the parent's stderr and
then deleted the raw TAP. Its child stderr is unrecoverable. That is the clearest possible
demonstration that blind spot (a) was worth fixing: the first real capture in three increments lost
its decisive evidence to the harness itself.

3221226505 is 0xC0000409 — STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN, the Windows __fastfail status.
signal is null in all five (Windows reports a signal only when the parent's own handle did the
killing). Durations run 523–734 ms, spanning the historically recorded 589–703 ms band. These are
the eleventh through fifteenth distinct files observed with this symptom, across both packages.

What the five captures establish, together:

• Not process.exit, not process.exitCode, not an uncaught exception, not a fatal unhandled
  rejection — every one of those fires Node's exit event, and none fired.
• Not a JS process.abort() — instrumented since test(api): capture Signature B's mechanism, and rule out every in-repo cause #23, and it leaves 134 here, not 0xC0000409.
• Not a V8 or Node fatal error — that path prints a banner into the report and writes a
  PID-named diagnostic report, both measured; captures 2–5 have neither.
• Not a runner cancellation — no such path exists in this configuration (§1).
• The child ran no JavaScript at all beyond installing the preload.

What they do not establish: which party raised the status. 0xC0000409 is reachable as an
in-process fail-fast (a /GS stack-cookie failure, a CFG/CET violation, the MSVC CRT's
invalid-parameter path, RaiseFailFastException from a security mitigation) or as an arbitrary
value handed to TerminateProcess. The status is a 32-bit integer the terminating party chooses.

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6. Windows-specific findings

• No Windows Error Reporting record for node.exe in either checked capture window — Application
  log, System log, Defender operational log and the WER report queues. WER is enabled and recorded
  other (kernel) reports the same day, so its silence is meaningful: an in-process fail-fast normally
  produces Event ID 1000, while TerminateProcess never does. Corroboration, not proof — low memory
  or a security agent suppressing reporting can also account for it.
• The test children load no native addon. The whole tree contains two .node files, both
  @rollup/rollup-win32-* build-time binaries that no test loads. A repository dependency's native
  code is effectively excluded as the source of a fail-fast.
• A third-party AV is resident and injects into Node. SecurityCenter2 registers Avast
  Antivirus alongside Windows Defender, whose service is not running (Get-MpComputerStatus fails
  with 0x800106ba). Sampling the live node.exe processes found aswhook.dll
  (C:\Program Files\Avast Software\Avast\aswhook.dll) loaded inside one of them. node --test
  spawns one short-lived child per test file — dozens per run — which is precisely the workload that
  most exercises an AV's process-creation and injection path.
  This is a named leading candidate, measured but not proven causal. Injection is not
  causation. No exclusion was added and no security setting was changed to test it: that alters the
  machine's security posture and is the owner's call, not this task's.
• No Image File Execution Options entry for node.exe; system-wide mitigations are all at
  defaults (NOTSET).

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7. Node-version findings

Node 22.23.2 was fetched into a scratch directory (nothing installed, no version manager, no global
change) because CI's matrix is 22.x and 24.x.

• The full diagnostics suite: 57 tests, 55 pass, 0 fail, 2 skipped — identical on Node 22 and 24,
  and green on both in CI.
• Every fingerprint the discrimination rules depend on reproduces identically on Node 22:
  process.exit(1) → 1 with process.exit, exit; process.abort() → 134 with process.abort, no
  report; V8 heap OOM → 134 with start, preload-installed, one report and one fatal line in the
  report.
• The Node 22 capture arm ran 17 runs with 0 captures. That bounds nothing about a version
  difference: the Node 24 arms that captured did so under heavier concurrent load, and 17 runs at an
  unknown, evidently condition-dependent rate is not a comparison.

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8. The campaign

arm	runtime	runs	captures	wall clock
API, pre-fix instrumentation	Node 24	5	1	6 min
API, final build	Node 24	8	1	10 min
persistence #1	Node 24	2	1	1 min
persistence #2	Node 24	1	1	<1 min
persistence	Node 22	17	0	10 min
mixed/ordered (persistence → api ×3)	Node 24	6	1	8 min

39 runs, 5 captures. Every arm stops at the first capture, by construction. The ordered arm
alternates the two packages in the root test script's order; its capture came on the third cycle's
API pass, so ordering is not required to reproduce and is not implicated.

Host free memory ranged 718–1533 MB of 16077 MB — below the ~2.5 GB recorded at the historical
captures, which is the one environmental condition that has correlated with this defect across every
increment.

Disclosed confounder. Capture 1 occurred while bounded synthetic heap-exhaustion experiments were
running about 33 seconds away, and captures 2–5 occurred with other campaign arms running
concurrently. Concurrent load is representative — every historical capture also happened alongside
other agents' processes — but it is a condition of these observations, not a controlled variable.

A discarded arm, reported rather than hidden: an earlier 9-run API hunt is excluded from the
table because I was recompiling dist-test while it ran. Its subject changed under it, so it is not
a clean experiment and none of its runs are counted.

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9. False-attribution tests

The correlator suite grows 41 → 57 tests (55 pass, 2 pre-existing POSIX-only skips, 0 fail). Every
new test was proven RED before its implementation, except the two-failure attribution test, whose
power is proven by mutation instead (§10). New coverage:

• a stale log from a prior run is never merged into a later run's evidence;
• two runs that reused one pid are not merged into a single process;
• a fatal banner from an earlier file is not attributed to a later file's failure;
• a marker inside an earlier failure's own report body is not attributed to the next file, and a
  bare line Node never emitted as a diagnostic is not a banner;
• a banner printed by the file that then failed is attributed to it;
• markers are recoverable from the report Node routes them to; an empty or absent stream names
  nothing;
• a capture keeps the fatal markers that name the mechanism;
• a diagnostic report separates a real V8 fatal from a status that merely looks like one, and is
  named after the pid that died;
• exit 134 alone names nothing — a real bounded heap exhaustion and a deliberate
  process.exit(134) run end to end through the pass runner and are separated by the two channels;
• in a run with two failures, the report goes to the child that faulted and the other record does
  not inherit it;
• a relative --out belongs to the caller, not to the package being run, and nothing is left inside
  that package;
• no report body is retained in the artifacts;
• a reused --out cannot lend one pass a previous pass's diagnostic report;
• no report body survives a run, on the capture path or the clean one;
• an --out that already holds a capture is refused, not quietly reused, and the capture is left
  exactly as it was found;
• --package points a pass at another workspace package, and the run is proven to have executed
  (runner exit status and collection error asserted, which is what catches a preload the run could no
  longer resolve).

Already covered before this change and still passing: same-basename files in different directories,
malformed/truncated final log line, signed vs unsigned NTSTATUS, an ordinary assertion failure
(subtestsFailed) never counting as a capture, a file that legitimately exits 1, runner-timeout
handling, and an experiment that runs nothing being refused rather than reported clean.

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10. Falsification — 13 of 14 mutants killed, the survivor reported

Killed: reading markers off the parent's stderr again · scanning the whole run instead of the failing
file's region · counting any text as a banner rather than only Node's diagnostics · attributing a
file with several processes to one of them anyway · bucketing by pid alone so a reused pid re-merges
two runs · removing --report-on-fatalerror · resolving the preload from the working directory ·
running every pass in packages/api whatever package was asked for · leaving a relative --out
ambiguous between two processes · recording reports per run instead of per failure · creating a run's
artifact directories without emptying them · keeping the report bodies once their names are read ·
reusing an --out that already holds a capture.

Survivor — M4: ending each marker region at the point line instead of at the end of the previous
test's YAML block. It is an equivalent mutant under the reachable TAP grammar: Node indents
report bodies, so no line inside one can start with # , and the diagnostic-line filter already
excludes them. The stricter boundary is kept because it is the correct one; no test distinguishes it
and none is claimed to.

Every mutated source was restored and verified byte-identical by SHA-256.

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11. What review and CI found in this PR

Reported because it is part of the evidence, not despite it.

• CI failed the first push on all three test jobs. Two new tests asserted exit code 134 for a V8
  heap exhaustion — which is how Windows reports it. POSIX raises SIGABRT and leaves the exit
  code null, so both failed on Linux while passing on the machine they were written on. They now
  assert the fault rather than one platform's encoding of it. CI is green at the final HEAD on both
  Node 22 and Node 24.
• Qodo reported 3 bugs; all three were real and all three are fixed (relative --out meaning two
  different directories once --package is in play; diagnostic reports recorded per run rather than
  per failure; report bodies retained even though they contain every environment variable, this
  suite's DATABASE_URL password included). Each fix landed with a regression test, and each of the
  three is now killed as a mutation.
• Falsification caught a powerless test of my own. The first report-attribution test asserted a
  distinction it could not make: with one failure in the run, per-record and per-run attribution are
  the same list, and the mutant survived. It was replaced with a two-failure run in which only one
  child faults.
• A second review round found 2 more, and both were the same class of mistake this PR set out to
  fix. A run's artifact directories were created but not emptied, so a reused --out lent the new
  run an interrupted pass's report — the very staleness the correlator refuses on the child-log side,
  reproduced in my own artifact directory. And report bodies were deleted only on the capture and
  clean paths, so an unreadable run or a SIGINT left a file of environment variables on disk. Both
  are fixed, both carry regression tests, and both are killed as mutations.
• A third round found one more, caused by the second round's own fix. Emptying each run's child
  logs stopped one run lending another its evidence, and created the mirror problem across passes: a
  second pass given the same --out would delete the logs the first pass captured while leaving its
  capture.json behind. The runner now refuses such an --out rather than destroying the rarest
  artifact this diagnostic produces.
• The one CI failure is not mine, and it has now happened twice. postgres integration (persistence) failed on two live instances racing a cold position both compute it — a race test
  in packages/api/test/analysis-cache-durable.integration.test.ts, the Increment 49 durable-cache
  suite, a file this PR does not touch and which passed on two previous HEADs with identical code.
  First locally on Windows during this work, then again in CI on Linux, with the same assertion:
  cross-process single-flight does not exist, expected: 2, actual: 1, ERR_ASSERTION at
  analysis-cache-durable.integration.test.js:385. It passes on rerun, which does not resolve
  it: two occurrences on two operating systems make it a real intermittent defect rather than local
  noise. The canonical docs in this PR now say exactly that. It is not Signature B — a full stack
  and a named assertion, not a bare file-level termination — and it is not a finding against this
  branch.

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12. Validation

Re-measured at this HEAD, after merging origin/main
48209e8074e00632b1f3ed29d68d3fe099eed6cf. Host preparation followed Increment 50's now-canonical
contract: npm ci 0, npm run build 0, npm ci --prefix services/gateway 0.

npm run lint 0 · npm test exit 0 — 19 workspaces, 3320 tests, 3292 pass, 0 fail, 28
skipped, with 0 suites self-skipping for a missing DATABASE_URL · npm run test:counts
exit 0 — 3336 tests, 33 skipped (19 root workspaces plus the standalone gateway) ·
test:scripts, check:ci-parity, check:adr-claims, check:variant-parity,
check:engine-pin-parity, check:observability, check:build-order, check:deploy-gates,
test:load-harness — each 0 · services/gateway build 0, lint 0, test 0 (16 tests,
11 passed, 5 skipped) · diagnostics correlator suite 57 tests / 55 pass / 0 fail / 2 skipped,
identical on Node 24.15.0 and Node 22.23.2 · git diff --check clean.

DATABASE_URL pointed at a dedicated PostgreSQL 16 + pgvector container created for this
validation and removed afterwards. REDIS_URL was unset, so Redis-backed testing was NOT RUN —
skips are not passes.

Signature B occurred twice during this validation, and neither is dismissed for passing on
rerun. auth-signin-schema.integration.test.js (618.7 ms) and cookie-auth.test.js (707.0 ms),
both on Node 24.15.0, both showing the documented bare file-level 'test failed' with no assertion,
no stack and none of the file's own tests reported. Both occurred on the plain spec-reporter path
with no TAP destination and no preload — exactly the blind spot this PR's instrumentation exists to
close — so neither has exit-status, lifecycle, marker or report evidence, and neither narrows
Level C. A bounded instrumented pass of 3 further runs over the same package, taken immediately
after the first, produced 0 captures; at that size it bounds nothing and is reported only so the
attempt is on the record. The host was under heavy memory pressure from unrelated concurrent work —
699 MB free of 16077 MB at the first occurrence, against 1384–1428 MB during the instrumented
pass that saw nothing. An earlier attempt at the same full-repository run died differently, with
npm reporting 3221225794 (0xC0000142, STATUS_DLL_INIT_FAILED) for the whole
packages/api command — a process that failed to start, not a file that failed to run. That is
not Signature B and is not counted as one; it is recorded because it is the same host condition,
and leaving it out would make the memory-pressure correlation look cleaner than it is.

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13. Leak and cleanup proof

Each pass empties its artifact directories before a run and deletes a clean run's child logs and raw
TAP; a capture keeps the logs, records the report names and deletes the bodies, as does every other
exit path. The final full-repository run left 0 test_db_* databases and 0 orphaned runners. Campaigns were
stopped through the session's own task control rather than by killing PIDs, so no unrelated Node
process — several other agents' runtimes are live on this host — was touched. No orphaned node --test runner and no orphaned per-file child remained. Both PostgreSQL containers this task started
were removed.

Two honest wrinkles:

• One test_db_* database remained at the first teardown, consistent with my having stopped the
  Node 22 arm mid-run — a killed persistence suite cannot drop its disposable database. It went with
  the container. I did not record its name before removing the container, so it is reported as one
  leaked database of unrecorded identity rather than as a clean sweep.
• A full-repository npm test failed once in learning.integration.test.js with duplicate key value violates unique constraint "users_handle_key" (usr-alice-01a0716c), because a capture
  campaign was running the same persistence suite against the same database concurrently. Not a
  regression — the clean re-run on the final code is the one reported in §12 — but a real reminder
  that these campaigns need a database of their own.

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14. Root-cause level, argued rather than assumed

Level C. The mechanism family is: an out-of-band termination of the per-file child carrying the
Windows fail-fast status 0xC0000409, roughly half a second after spawn, with no JavaScript executed
beyond preload installation and no Node or V8 fatal-error path taken. Five captures, two packages,
five distinct files, one exit status. The JS-level mechanisms and the V8-fatal mechanism are now
excluded by positive measurement rather than by absent instrumentation.

The exact source within that family is not established: an in-process __fastfail and an
external TerminateProcess(h, 0xC0000409) remain compatible with every field captured.

Recorded dissent. The adversarial review argued for Level D, on the ground that those two
possibilities are themselves two families rather than one. It reviewed capture 1 alone, before
captures 2–5 and before the marker and report channels had spoken; but the disagreement is real and
is recorded rather than resolved in my favour. A reader who counts "internal fault" and "external
kill" as separate families should read this as D.

What no capture will settle with the instrumentation available. If 0xC0000409 recurs, the new
channels will not separate the two remaining sources — a fail-fast bypasses Node's report handler
exactly as TerminateProcess does. The missing channel, stated plainly:

Without a kernel-level process-termination trace (ETW Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Process / Sysmon
Event 5) or post-mortem dumps via WER LocalDumps, an in-process native __fastfail and an
external TerminateProcess(h, 0xC0000409) remain indistinguishable.

Neither is implemented here. Both require changing the machine's configuration — a registry policy or
an ETW session — which is outside a test-infrastructure PR and is the owner's decision.

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Changed files

• packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.cjs — per-file fatal-marker attribution,
  per-process event bucketing, fatalMarkersIn moved here and exported
• packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs — markers from the report, PID-attributed
  diagnostic reports with their bodies discarded on every exit path, artifact directories emptied
  before each run, absolute artifact paths, --package, preload resolved from its own location
• packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts — 41 → 57 tests
• docs/PROJECT_STATE.md — M15 Increment 51, status UNRESOLVED / Level C, above the preserved
  Increment 50
• docs/ROADMAP.md — the Increment 51 tracked entry, and the standing Signature B item extended
  with the five captures and the mechanism family
• docs/adr/0140-harness-ephemeral-port-acquisition.md — a narrow §4 follow-up: the five captures,
  0xC0000409, the two decisive diagnostic channels, and the remaining in-process-fail-fast versus
  external-termination ambiguity

Signature B status: UNRESOLVED. Five captures narrow it to one mechanism family and exclude every
JavaScript-level and V8-level cause by measurement. The terminating party is not identified, no fix
is proposed, and none is invented.

DO NOT MERGE — the repository owner merges manually.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved diagnostic reporting across working directories and package locations.
  • Correctly attributed reports and fatal markers to the processes that produced them.
  • Improved detection of heap exhaustion and other fatal failures across platforms.
  • Prevented stale, ambiguous, or unrelated logs and reports from being combined.
  • Included diagnostic report counts in run summaries.
  • Cleaned up temporary artifacts after inspection and interrupted runs.
  • Prevented reuse of output directories containing existing capture data.

• Documentation

  • Updated project status, roadmap, and architecture records with the latest diagnostic findings and validation results.

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PR Summary by Qodo

Harden Signature B capture correlation and fatal-error evidence

🐞 Bug fix 🧪 Tests ✨ Enhancement 🕐 40+ Minutes

AI Description

• Reads per-failure fatal markers from TAP diagnostics instead of the parent runner’s stderr.
• Isolates lifecycle evidence per process and marks stale or PID-reused logs ambiguous.
• Supports cross-package captures and records Node fatal diagnostic report presence.

Diagram

graph TD
  Runner["Pass Runner"] --> Node["Node Test Runner"] --> Child["Test Child"]
  Child -->|stderr events| TAP[("TAP Report")] --> Correlator["Failure Correlator"] --> Capture[("Capture JSON")]
  Child -->|lifecycle events| Logs[("Child Logs")] --> Correlator
  Child -->|fatal fault| Reports[("Diagnostic Reports")] --> Capture

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High-Level Assessment

The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Custom structured reporter

• ➕ Could consume test events directly without parsing TAP regions.
• ➕ Could preserve explicit file-to-stderr attribution in structured records.
• ➖ Adds custom reporter code coupled to Node test-runner event behavior.
• ➖ Increases maintenance and may complicate preservation of standard human-facing output.

2. Run each test file separately

• ➕ Makes output, reports, and lifecycle logs inherently attributable to one child.
• ➕ Eliminates inter-file TAP region boundary logic.
• ➖ Requires test discovery and substantially increases process startup overhead.
• ➖ Changes the experiment from the repository’s normal serial test-runner configuration.

Recommendation: Keep the PR’s dual-reporter and per-process correlation approach. It preserves the real serial suite configuration and standard spec output while collecting exit status through Node’s supported TAP reporter; explicit ambiguity handling is safer than guessing when stale logs prevent attribution.

Files changed (3) +536 / -54

Bug fix (1) +139 / -13

signature-b-correlate.cjsAttribute fatal markers and isolate lifecycle evidence by process +139/-13

Attribute fatal markers and isolate lifecycle evidence by process

• Extracts whitelisted fatal markers from per-file TAP diagnostic regions. Child logs are bucketed by log file and PID so stale runs and reused PIDs become explicit ambiguity rather than merged evidence that could produce false-negative conclusions.

packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.cjs

Tests (1) +346 / -0

signature-b-correlate.test.tsCover fatal streams, reports, package selection, and stale logs +346/-0

Cover fatal streams, reports, package selection, and stale logs

• Adds integration and regression coverage for TAP-carried fatal banners, per-failure attribution, Node fatal reports, equal exit statuses from different mechanisms, cross-package execution, stale lifecycle logs, and PID reuse.

packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts

Other (1) +51 / -41

run-signature-b-pass.mjsCapture fatal evidence from the correct diagnostic channels +51/-41

Capture fatal evidence from the correct diagnostic channels

• Reads child fatal markers from each correlated TAP failure instead of the parent runner’s stderr. Enables Node fatal diagnostic reports, records report filenames without exposing report contents, supports selecting another workspace package, and cleans report artifacts after clean runs.

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs

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Signature B now extracts fatal markers from TAP diagnostics, isolates child-process evidence by PID, supports selected packages and absolute output paths, and captures correlated Node diagnostic report filenames while removing report bodies.

Changes

Signature B diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
TAP and child-log correlation packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.cjs, packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts	The correlator extracts whitelisted fatal markers, assigns them to failure regions, separates log records by file and PID, and reports ambiguous matches without merging stale evidence. Tests cover fault termination, marker attribution, stale logs, and PID reuse.
Pass execution and report capture packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs, packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts	The pass resolves package and output paths absolutely, rejects reused captures, enables Node fatal reports, associates report filenames with child PIDs, removes report directories after capture, and tests cross-package execution and report cleanup.
Investigation records docs/PROJECT_STATE.md, docs/ROADMAP.md, docs/adr/0140-harness-ephemeral-port-acquisition.md	The documentation records Signature B captures, diagnostic results, excluded termination paths, validation results, and the remaining unresolved causes.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

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This improves Signature B diagnostic attribution and artifact handling without changing production behavior. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PassRunner
  participant NodeChild
  participant TAP
  participant SignatureBCorrelator
  participant ReportDirectory
  PassRunner->>NodeChild: run selected package with absolute report path
  NodeChild->>TAP: emit fatal diagnostics
  PassRunner->>SignatureBCorrelator: correlate TAP and child logs
  SignatureBCorrelator-->>PassRunner: return process evidence and fatal markers
  NodeChild->>ReportDirectory: write diagnostic report
  PassRunner->>ReportDirectory: retain filenames and remove report bodies

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1. Stale reports misattribute faults ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness

Description

reports-run<N> is reused without being emptied, and attribution accepts every filename containing
the current PID. After an interrupted pass leaves a report and the OS reuses that PID, a later
deliberate exit can inherit the stale report and be falsely classified as a native fault.

Code

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[R337-339]

+  for (const record of records) {
+    const pid = record.child?.pid ?? null;
+    record.reportFiles = pid === null ? [] : reportFiles.filter((name) => name.includes(`.${pid}.`));

Relevance

●●● Strong

Recent diagnostics precedents accept stale-process isolation and cross-run attribution fixes; PID
reuse is a closely matching correctness defect.

PR-#35
PR-#33

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

The runner creates reports-run<N> recursively rather than exclusively, reads all existing names,
and associates them solely through PID text. The added test documents that Windows can reuse PIDs
and that the log filename—not the PID—is required to distinguish process instances; report
attribution currently lacks an equivalent run identity.

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[293-301]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[327-340]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts[1509-1516]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
A reused output directory can contain reports from an earlier invocation. Matching reports using only the current child PID can attribute a stale native-fault report to a different process after PID reuse.

## Issue Context
The codebase's new PID-reuse test explicitly establishes that a PID is not a process identity. Create a fresh report directory for each invocation/run, or clear the directory before spawning while preserving safe cleanup behavior.

## Fix Focus Areas
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[293-301]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[327-340]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts[1509-1516]

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2. Error paths retain credential reports ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ⛨ Security

Description

Report cleanup runs only after a successful capture or clean run; collection failures and
SIGINT/SIGTERM exit without deleting reports-run<N>. Those persistent diagnostic reports contain
command-line and environment credentials, defeating the new guarantee that report bodies are never
retained.

Code

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[R386-389]

+    // Same treatment, same reason: every report name is recorded above, and a report body is a file
+    // of credentials. Windows cannot be given the POSIX mode this directory was created with, so
+    // leaving one behind would rest on ACLs this script does not control.
+    fs.rmSync(reportDir, { recursive: true, force: true });

Relevance

●●● Strong

The team recently accepted cleanup of sensitive diagnostic artifacts and signal-path process
cleanup; credential reports require equivalent guarantees.

PR-#33
PR-#23

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

The code explicitly identifies report bodies as containing environment credentials, but the signal
handler exits directly and the collection-error branch breaks before the focused cleanup call.
Therefore either path can leave the report directory and its sensitive files behind.

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[220-225]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[323-326]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[365-389]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
Diagnostic-report bodies are deleted only on normal capture and clean-run paths. Collection failures and signal handlers can exit while credential-bearing reports remain on disk.

## Issue Context
Node reports include command-line arguments and environment variables. The current SIGINT/SIGTERM handler exits immediately, while the collection-error branch breaks before reaching either report-directory cleanup call.

## Fix Focus Areas
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[220-225]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[323-326]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[365-389]

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3. Relative artifacts use wrong directory ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness

Description

With --package ../persistence --out diagnostics, the runner creates and later reads
diagnostics/... relative to its own cwd, but the spawned test process resolves its TAP
destination, report directory, and SIGB_LOG_DIR relative to packageDir. The TAP destination's
parent does not exist in the package, so the report cannot be collected; any child logs/reports that
are created are also left beneath the selected package rather than the requested artifact directory.

Code

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[240]

+        cwd: packageDir,

Relevance

●●● Strong

Accepted precedent requires child-relative artifacts to resolve under the child cwd; this is the
same path-resolution defect.

PR-#23

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

An explicit --out value is retained as-is, whereas the new package directory is absolute. The
parent creates and reads the artifact paths itself, but the added cwd: packageDir makes Node
resolve the same relative strings from the selected package. The current package test covers only an
absolute output path, so it cannot expose the divergent resolution.

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[112-125]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[222-241]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[287-313]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts[1276-1300]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
Make artifact paths independent of the selected package's working directory. A relative `--out` is currently interpreted by the parent relative to its launcher cwd but by the spawned test runner relative to `packageDir`.

## Issue Context
`tapPath`, `logDir`, and `reportDir` are derived from `outDir` and passed into a child with a different cwd when `--package` is supplied. Normalize the explicit output path to an absolute path before deriving these paths (while retaining the already-absolute `mkdtemp` default).

## Fix Focus Areas
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[112-125]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[222-241]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts[1276-1300]

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4. Prior capture evidence is orphaned ✗ Dismissed 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness ⭐ New

Description

Clearing child-logs-run<N> on every new pass deletes logs retained by an earlier capture using the
same --out, while a clean or failed replacement pass leaves the old capture.json untouched. The
directory then contains stale capture metadata referencing evidence the new cleanup destroyed.

Code

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[313]

+  fs.rmSync(logDir, { recursive: true, force: true });

Relevance

●●● Strong

Accepted stale-artifact findings in this runner; reused output must not leave capture metadata
referencing deleted logs.

PR-#33

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

The new cleanup unconditionally removes each run's child-log directory before execution. Captures
retain those logs, but capture.json is only written when the replacement run captures a failure;
clean and collection-error paths therefore leave an earlier capture file after deleting its
supporting logs.

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[305-317]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[395-417]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
Reusing `--out` deletes a previous capture's child logs but can leave its old `capture.json`, producing stale and incomplete evidence.

## Issue Context
Captured runs deliberately retain their child-log directory. The new per-run cleanup removes that directory before knowing whether the replacement pass will produce a capture, while only a new capture overwrites `capture.json`.

## Fix Focus Areas
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[305-317]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[395-417]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts[1685-1735]

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5. Reports lack failure attribution ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness

Description

The runner stores every diagnostic-report filename as one run-level list, so when multiple Signature
B records occur it cannot determine which child produced each report. This defeats the report
channel's stated purpose of distinguishing a native fatal from a deliberately chosen status for each
captured failure.

Code

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[R319-322]

+  let reportFiles = [];
+  try {
+    reportFiles = fs.readdirSync(reportDir);
+  } catch {

Relevance

●●● Strong

Recent correlation precedents favor preventing cross-process evidence merging and preserving
per-failure attribution.

PR-#33

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

The spawned test run can produce per-child reports, and correlated records retain each unambiguous
child's PID. However, the runner reads the report directory as an undifferentiated list and stores
that list beside, rather than within or mapped to, the individual records.

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[224-237]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[317-323]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[355-363]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.cjs[571-583]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
Diagnostic report filenames are collected only at run scope. If a run contains multiple captured failures and only one child writes a report, `capture.json` cannot identify which record suffered the native fatal.

## Issue Context
Child logs already expose a PID when correlation is unambiguous, and default Node diagnostic-report filenames contain the process PID. Reports that cannot be matched should remain explicitly unassociated rather than being treated as evidence for every record.

## Fix Focus Areas
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[317-363]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.cjs[547-583]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts[1405-1453]

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6. Reports expose environment secrets ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ⛨ Security

Description

Captured Node diagnostic reports are deliberately retained even though they contain every
environment variable, while existing Windows output directories receive no ACL validation or
hardening. Running with a shared or permissive --out directory can therefore expose credentials
and connection strings to other ACL principals.

Code

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[R317-318]

+  // Names only. A report body carries the whole command line and every environment variable, so
+  // the file stays on disk for a reader who wants it and never reaches an artifact this prints.

Relevance

●● Moderate

Privacy hardening is accepted, but no close precedent specifically requires ACL validation for
retained Node reports.

PR-#23

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

The code explicitly documents that reports carry the whole command line and environment, retains
them after capture, and separately states that Windows ACL protection is not provided. The preload's
redaction applies only to its JSONL logs and cannot sanitize Node's reports.

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[127-154]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[317-323]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[355-369]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-preload.cjs[52-72]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
The newly retained diagnostic reports contain the complete process environment. On Windows, the runner explicitly does not verify or restrict the ACL of an existing `--out` directory, allowing sensitive report contents to be exposed through a permissive destination.

## Issue Context
The diagnostic only needs report existence and PID attribution to distinguish mechanisms; it does not need environment contents. Use Node's environment-exclusion option where supported and either remove raw reports after extracting required metadata or refuse destinations whose privacy cannot be established.

## Fix Focus Areas
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[127-157]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[224-241]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[317-369]

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1. Relative artifacts use wrong directory ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness

Description

With --package ../persistence --out diagnostics, the runner creates and later reads
diagnostics/... relative to its own cwd, but the spawned test process resolves its TAP
destination, report directory, and SIGB_LOG_DIR relative to packageDir. The TAP destination's
parent does not exist in the package, so the report cannot be collected; any child logs/reports that
are created are also left beneath the selected package rather than the requested artifact directory.

Code

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[240]

+        cwd: packageDir,

Relevance

●●● Strong

Accepted precedent requires child-relative artifacts to resolve under the child cwd; this is the
same path-resolution defect.

PR-#23

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

An explicit --out value is retained as-is, whereas the new package directory is absolute. The
parent creates and reads the artifact paths itself, but the added cwd: packageDir makes Node
resolve the same relative strings from the selected package. The current package test covers only an
absolute output path, so it cannot expose the divergent resolution.

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[112-125]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[222-241]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[287-313]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts[1276-1300]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
Make artifact paths independent of the selected package's working directory. A relative `--out` is currently interpreted by the parent relative to its launcher cwd but by the spawned test runner relative to `packageDir`.

## Issue Context
`tapPath`, `logDir`, and `reportDir` are derived from `outDir` and passed into a child with a different cwd when `--package` is supplied. Normalize the explicit output path to an absolute path before deriving these paths (while retaining the already-absolute `mkdtemp` default).

## Fix Focus Areas
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[112-125]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[222-241]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts[1276-1300]

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2. Reports lack failure attribution ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness

Description

The runner stores every diagnostic-report filename as one run-level list, so when multiple Signature
B records occur it cannot determine which child produced each report. This defeats the report
channel's stated purpose of distinguishing a native fatal from a deliberately chosen status for each
captured failure.

Code

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[R319-322]

+  let reportFiles = [];
+  try {
+    reportFiles = fs.readdirSync(reportDir);
+  } catch {

Relevance

●●● Strong

Recent correlation precedents favor preventing cross-process evidence merging and preserving
per-failure attribution.

PR-#33

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

The spawned test run can produce per-child reports, and correlated records retain each unambiguous
child's PID. However, the runner reads the report directory as an undifferentiated list and stores
that list beside, rather than within or mapped to, the individual records.

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[224-237]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[317-323]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[355-363]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.cjs[571-583]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
Diagnostic report filenames are collected only at run scope. If a run contains multiple captured failures and only one child writes a report, `capture.json` cannot identify which record suffered the native fatal.

## Issue Context
Child logs already expose a PID when correlation is unambiguous, and default Node diagnostic-report filenames contain the process PID. Reports that cannot be matched should remain explicitly unassociated rather than being treated as evidence for every record.

## Fix Focus Areas
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[317-363]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.cjs[547-583]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts[1405-1453]

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3. Reports expose environment secrets ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ⛨ Security

Description

Captured Node diagnostic reports are deliberately retained even though they contain every
environment variable, while existing Windows output directories receive no ACL validation or
hardening. Running with a shared or permissive --out directory can therefore expose credentials
and connection strings to other ACL principals.

Code

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[R317-318]

+  // Names only. A report body carries the whole command line and every environment variable, so
+  // the file stays on disk for a reader who wants it and never reaches an artifact this prints.

Relevance

●● Moderate

Privacy hardening is accepted, but no close precedent specifically requires ACL validation for
retained Node reports.

PR-#23

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

The code explicitly documents that reports carry the whole command line and environment, retains
them after capture, and separately states that Windows ACL protection is not provided. The preload's
redaction applies only to its JSONL logs and cannot sanitize Node's reports.

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[127-154]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[317-323]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[355-369]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-preload.cjs[52-72]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
The newly retained diagnostic reports contain the complete process environment. On Windows, the runner explicitly does not verify or restrict the ACL of an existing `--out` directory, allowing sensitive report contents to be exposed through a permissive destination.

## Issue Context
The diagnostic only needs report existence and PID attribution to distinguish mechanisms; it does not need environment contents. Use Node's environment-exclusion option where supported and either remove raw reports after extracting required metadata or refuse destinations whose privacy cannot be established.

## Fix Focus Areas
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[127-157]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[224-241]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[317-369]

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1. Stale reports misattribute faults ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness

Description

reports-run<N> is reused without being emptied, and attribution accepts every filename containing
the current PID. After an interrupted pass leaves a report and the OS reuses that PID, a later
deliberate exit can inherit the stale report and be falsely classified as a native fault.

Code

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[R337-339]

+  for (const record of records) {
+    const pid = record.child?.pid ?? null;
+    record.reportFiles = pid === null ? [] : reportFiles.filter((name) => name.includes(`.${pid}.`));

Relevance

●●● Strong

Recent diagnostics precedents accept stale-process isolation and cross-run attribution fixes; PID
reuse is a closely matching correctness defect.

PR-#35
PR-#33

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

The runner creates reports-run<N> recursively rather than exclusively, reads all existing names,
and associates them solely through PID text. The added test documents that Windows can reuse PIDs
and that the log filename—not the PID—is required to distinguish process instances; report
attribution currently lacks an equivalent run identity.

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[293-301]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[327-340]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts[1509-1516]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
A reused output directory can contain reports from an earlier invocation. Matching reports using only the current child PID can attribute a stale native-fault report to a different process after PID reuse.

## Issue Context
The codebase's new PID-reuse test explicitly establishes that a PID is not a process identity. Create a fresh report directory for each invocation/run, or clear the directory before spawning while preserving safe cleanup behavior.

## Fix Focus Areas
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[293-301]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[327-340]
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts[1509-1516]

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2. Error paths retain credential reports ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ⛨ Security

Description

Report cleanup runs only after a successful capture or clean run; collection failures and
SIGINT/SIGTERM exit without deleting reports-run<N>. Those persistent diagnostic reports contain
command-line and environment credentials, defeating the new guarantee that report bodies are never
retained.

Code

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[R386-389]

+    // Same treatment, same reason: every report name is recorded above, and a report body is a file
+    // of credentials. Windows cannot be given the POSIX mode this directory was created with, so
+    // leaving one behind would rest on ACLs this script does not control.
+    fs.rmSync(reportDir, { recursive: true, force: true });

Relevance

●●● Strong

The team recently accepted cleanup of sensitive diagnostic artifacts and signal-path process
cleanup; credential reports require equivalent guarantees.

PR-#33
PR-#23

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Evidence

The code explicitly identifies report bodies as containing environment credentials, but the signal
handler exits directly and the collection-error branch breaks before the focused cleanup call.
Therefore either path can leave the report directory and its sensitive files behind.

packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[220-225]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[323-326]
packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[365-389]

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## Issue description
Diagnostic-report bodies are deleted only on normal capture and clean-run paths. Collection failures and signal handlers can exit while credential-bearing reports remain on disk.

## Issue Context
Node reports include command-line arguments and environment variables. The current SIGINT/SIGTERM handler exits immediately, while the collection-error branch breaks before reaching either report-directory cleanup call.

## Fix Focus Areas
- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[220-225]
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- packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs[365-389]

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packages/api/test/diagnostics/signature-b-correlate.test.ts (1)

66-66: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add pidCount to the readChildLogs declaration.

readChildLogs now returns entries that carry pidCount, and single reads that field to decide ambiguity. This declaration still describes only pid and kinds. The other three declarations in this block were updated in this PR to track the producer, so this one is now the only stale entry.

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+  readChildLogs(dir: string): Map<string, { pidCount: number; pid: number | null; kinds: string[] }>;

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Separate process.abort() from the exit-event claim.

Line 404 states that each excluded path "leaves a lifecycle record and fires Node's exit event". process.abort() does not emit Node's exit event. The same document already states this at lines 243-246. The evidence that excludes an instrumented process.abort() is the preload wrapper record written before delegation, not the exit event.

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-**What the four fully-instrumented captures exclude, by positive measurement:** `process.exit` and
-`process.exitCode`, an ordinary uncaught exception, a fatal unhandled rejection and an instrumented
-JS `process.abort()` — each of which leaves a lifecycle record and fires Node's `exit` event, and
-none did; the measured V8/Node fatal path including heap OOM — which produces fatal stderr
+**What the four fully-instrumented captures exclude, by positive measurement:** `process.exit` and
+`process.exitCode`, an ordinary uncaught exception and a fatal unhandled rejection — each of which
+leaves a lifecycle record and fires Node's `exit` event, and none did; an instrumented JS
+`process.abort()` — which terminates without emitting `exit`, but which the preload wraps and
+records before delegating, and no such record exists; the measured V8/Node fatal path including
+heap OOM — which produces fatal stderr

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Fixed in 530e701. The exclusion list in ADR-0140 grouped an instrumented process.abort() with the paths that leave a lifecycle record and fire Node's exit event. process.abort() fires no exit event at all — which section 4 of the same ADR already establishes — so the sentence contradicted the document it sits in.

Abort is now stated as the separate case it is, excluded by the record the preload writes synchronously before delegating to the original binding. docs/PROJECT_STATE.md already described it that way; the ADR now matches. No evidence, conclusion or acceptance level changes: Signature B stays UNRESOLVED at Level C.

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Note on the one Qodo finding still listed as open — "Prior capture evidence is orphaned" (finding 4).

It was fixed in 1a96adc and its unreachability proven in 4a05be2. The finding's own text, cited hunk and evidence are byte-identical to the pre-fix version and do not mention the guard that closes it, so it is carrying forward across refreshes rather than being re-derived.

The evidence, at the current HEAD:

• packages/api/test/diagnostics/run-signature-b-pass.mjs:171-173 refuses any --out that already contains capture.json, via usageError, immediately after ensurePrivateDirectory(outDir) — before any directory is created and before any process is spawned.
• The fs.rmSync(logDir, ...) the finding cites is at line 308, inside the per-run loop, which that refusal never reaches.
• Two regression tests pin it: one asserts the refusal exits 2, writes no summary.json, and leaves the existing capture.json byte-identical; the other asserts the capture's own child-logs-run1 survives untouched, which is the exact evidence the finding says would be destroyed.
• Falsification mutation M15 removes the guard and is killed by those tests.

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