Features for the next six months (accessible HTML export, paperpack and
Lode on packages, the personal bundle):
- Zipped packages: the oracle writes and reads `.sct.zip` archives under
the rules of spec/12 §12.2; validate.py and load.py accept them; a
byte-identical zip of the tiny package joins the fixtures, and two
broken archives (traversal, symbolic link) join fixtures/invalid.
- The target set of targeted F3 (spec/08 §8.10) is computed by the
oracle and pinned by vectors/targets.jsonl under each digit rule; the
rule now covers cells as well as sentences and the leaves of anchored
containers, and defines a node's section.
- scienting-checklist/1 (provisional): a conformance check of an export,
covered by a receipt as ["checklist", id, hash] (spec/08 §8.11), with a
WCAG 2.1 AA fixture and its receipt.
- QA reports are signed like receipts (spec/08 §8.9).
- A `description` annotation body with role alt or long, so an
accessible export can find a confirmed figure description; the layer
fixture carries one, and the store's body-kind constraint allows it.
- scienting-spot-check/1, the seed payload, is registered with a schema.
- exercise, submission and grade are provisional until a course has
used them.
Audit fixes, each with a vector or a broken package where one was
missing:
- Folder packages: symbolic links are refused on validate and load,
manifest paths must not collide under case folding, listed files are
matched by exact name, files are hashed in chunks under a size limit.
- Files are compared byte for byte, so CR LF, a byte order mark, NaN,
a lone surrogate or invalid UTF-8 is refused instead of translated;
integers beyond 2^53 are read as doubles, as canonical JSON writes them.
- Receipts: signature.key must equal by and the key must be valid when
signed; a qa receipt's nodes must be the sample at the original's
hashes, its scope must name qa.of, its errors must be sampled nodes;
statuses are computed once, iteratively, so chains of spot-checks
hundreds deep settle; Base64 and manifest shape errors become refusals
instead of tracebacks; counts and the fidelity of roster-less packages
are recomputed.
- The gate enforces rule 11 of spec/11 §11.4: changed nodes are
validated against the node schema and the references between nodes
are checked, so a set to a bad value, an insert with unknown
properties or a delete of a referenced header cell is refused; a
relabel to null drops the label; a reclassify drops foreign
attributes; a split strips whitespace across runs; ids.jsonl order
follows spec/04 §4.4 in every state; a move after itself is refused.
- Anchors: the relabel rule requires that nothing else changed below the
node; an alias chain ending in a deletion no longer crashes resolve.
- Notation: a script after an empty group applies to the previous atom
({}^{14}C); letters are defined by Unicode block in spec/05 §5.4 and
the oracle; \left) is complex.
- Page fingerprints delete whitespace before folding, so "10 -20" and
"10-20" fold alike (spec/07 §7.1).
- Grades are summed with exact decimals; the reviewer error bound is
computed with integer arithmetic.
- receipts and revocations are keyed by (doc_key, id) in SQL, since one
revocation may be carried by several packages.
Checking:
- tools/stress.py: seeded randomized property tests over canonical JSON,
normalization, notation, random correction walks, anchor resolution,
Merkle roots, spot-check samples, error bounds, fingerprints, mutated
archives and packages, rights and spot-check chains; CI runs it.
- check.py verifies every count and version the prose states against
the repository, the zipped fixture and crafted archives, the checklist
coverage, and nine more broken packages.
- CONTRIBUTING.md gains a release checklist.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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22. Conformance
22.1 The suite
| Path | Holds | A conforming implementation |
|---|---|---|
vectors/*.jsonl |
Inputs and expected outputs, one case per line. | Computes every expected output from its input. |
fixtures/packages/ |
Valid packages: a converted chemistry paper with corrections, receipts, a multi-level-header table and a dataset; its checks-only export; an open-access paper with two witnesses; a Typst draft; a tiny document, as a folder and as the zip of 12.2. | Accepts each, and recomputes every value it contains. |
fixtures/records/ |
A valid record of every other format that is a JSON file of its own; the stage requirements and stamp rules are in registry/, and a bundle is built by tools/load.py --bundle. |
Accepts each. |
fixtures/invalid/ |
Invalid packages, each with expect.json naming the rule it breaks. |
Refuses each, and SHOULD name that rule. |
fixtures/keys/ |
The test keys that signed the fixtures and the team secret of the checks-only export. | Never uses them for anything else. |
All fixture text is synthetic and dedicated to the public domain; license fields inside fixtures describe the fictional works. Each part's CI runs this suite against its own implementation, so the parts cannot drift apart silently.
22.2 Validating a package
A validator checks, in order, and reports each failure as path:line: rule: message:
- The manifest: present, valid, sorted, every listed file present with its hash and size, nothing unlisted, paths safe and no symbolic links, required files present.
- Every file in canonical form, byte for byte, and every record against its schema.
- The tree (3), runs and references between nodes, and the counts.
- The policy and hashing scheme (12.5).
- The five values of every node, the root and
meta_hash, when the text is present and the key, if any, is known. - The ID table, the corrections, the witnesses, pages, locations and references, and every file's order.
- Receipts: IDs, roots, documents, node order, signatures against the package's roster, spot-check keys, seeds and samples, and the fidelity distribution.
22.3 Schemas
Schemas use draft 2020-12, restricted to the keywords $schema, $id, $ref, $defs, $comment, title, description, examples, default, deprecated, type, enum, const, properties, required, additionalProperties, patternProperties, propertyNames, minProperties, maxProperties, dependentRequired, items, prefixItems, minItems, maxItems, uniqueItems, contains, minLength, maxLength, pattern, format, minimum, maximum, exclusiveMinimum, exclusiveMaximum, oneOf, anyOf, allOf, not, if, then and else.
Patterns avoid \d, \w, \s, \b and lookbehind, whose meaning differs between regular-expression dialects.
A schema checks shape; the chapters' rules, such as the five values, are checked by validators.
22.4 Rules
registry/rules.json lists every rule ID with its meaning. Rule IDs are stable: a rule's meaning never changes, and a retired rule's ID is never reused.
| Prefix | Covers |
|---|---|
package. |
The manifest, paths, files and schemas. |
doc.tree., doc.node., doc.run., doc.table. |
The tree, node content and runs. |
doc.hash. |
The five values, the root and the metadata hash. |
doc.id., doc.order. |
The ID table and file order. |
doc.policy. |
Text policies and keyed hashing. |
doc.correction., correction. |
A package's corrections, and the gate. |
doc.receipt., doc.qa., doc.fidelity. |
Receipts, spot-checks and levels. |
doc.witness., doc.page., doc.location., doc.reference. |
Witnesses and geometry. |
grade. |
Grading. |
22.5 Stability
Within a major version of a format, a valid file stays valid, and every value the chapters define is computed the same way.
Rule IDs, enumeration values and format identifiers are never reused with another meaning.
A candidate format changes only with a recorded reason and a new or changed vector; a provisional one may change more freely, and says so in registry/formats.json.