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Brief: P3a, the test runner’s discovery and verdicts of project.rs into Nikaia (Part #125)

Score: self-hosting lane (docs/priorities.md, owner’s direction 2026-10-27: moves first, largest Rust files first; project.rs is the largest, 4,533 lines). Plan row P3 (docs/selfhosting-plan.md, Large files) is ~720 lines, too large for one run (M1’s first run was cut by the driver’s 30-minute limit), so it is split: P3a now (discovery, comparison, verdict texts, ~330 lines), P3b later (the run loop: run_tests, outcome_of, run_program_test, bless, bless_program, Blessed, explain_output). S=2, C~4-6 M (comparable: S2, 9826a9e, 221 lines in one run). Prerequisite of P3 (the std::fs bytes probe) is built: 070b9c7.

Facts

To build

  1. Run the converter on a scratch file holding exactly the moved Rust (rs2nika --profile check --file), report --score under Rs2nika:. Move the listed functions into project_tests.nika with their doc comments (they carry the ADR references); project.rs calls the lowered functions; the moved Rust is deleted. lower-std: only the new lowered file and its index lines change; add the file to scripts/self_hosting.py as S2 did.
  2. In docs/selfhosting-plan.md split row P3 into P3a (built, project_tests.nika) and P3b (the run loop, as named above, prerequisite P3a); report the self-hosting % under Tests:.

A lowering defect met is fixed in the compiler as its own commit with a test (Fix, do not work around, CLAUDE.md); if it is more than one step, stop and report it under Needs:. Known open checker defect, not yours: #909 (a lent loop element moved into a tuple literal passes the checker); write .clone() where rustc asks for it and name it in Body:.

Done when

nikaia test tests/compiler --both-settings (it runs the runner you moved: every test passes, the count as before); it tests filtered on output_test program_test bless test_runner refusal plus the guard set of .claude/agents/builder.md; clippy clean; lower-std fixpoint. Commit project: the test runner's discovery and verdicts into Nikaia (P3a), Part: #125. Changelog: none (a move).

Stop and report if

An open design choice beyond the one left above; a .stderr or a runner message that would change; an error in another agent’s file.

Read docs/builder-facts.md.

Rules (CLAUDE.md; this block is pasted into every brief, also a fix-forward)

Report (at most 15 lines, to exactly /home/user/Nikaia/docs/briefs/p3a-project-tests.md.report.md)

Fields of docs/architect.md, Briefs and reports: Result: done|noop|partial|blocked (the bare word alone on that line: Result: done, never a summary after it, which cuts the batch, b869a 2026-10-27; Owner: is a question for the owner or none, never a role), Files, Commit, Body (optional, one paragraph for the commit message), Fixes, Pushed, Tests, Gate (green|red), Deviation, Found, Needs, Changelog, Owner, Disk freed, and for a move Rs2nika: (the kept N of M lines of rs2nika --score, then the three costliest hand edits; none for a task that moves no Rust). none where nothing, and then the bare word: Deviation: none (a note) cuts the batch (batch.nika compares exactly); a note goes into the commit message. Found: is only for a defect outside your change (it cuts the batch); a converter draft that came out wrong is no Found:, it is one of the costliest edits under Rs2nika:, which the converter lane reads (e12-4b 2026-10-27); how you solved your own step goes into the commit message. Deviation: is only a step of the brief built otherwise than written or not built (a choice the brief left to you, such as keep what X needs and say so, is no deviation: it goes into the commit message; nor is building two steps in one commit when every step is built, e12-3a 2026-10-27, nor a step another commit on develop already built, shown by your test failing with that commit’s change reverted, b889 2026-10-27: name the commit in Body:); how you verified (e.g. a test not run against the unfixed compiler) goes under Tests:. A noop says why under Tests: (what was probed), not under Deviation:. Final answer, one line: done <sha>, report <path> (or BLOCKED: ... / PUSH REJECTED ...).

Attribution: Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 noreply@anthropic.com Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GFeMqxRbtUMiGVyDMxsvEq

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