The exact-source broader audit suite exposed ENOEXEC differences in the direct Python exec path. Retain the former Bash executable-script fallback with a fixed exec program and literal argv, including whitespace and shell metacharacters in the executable path. Isolate the two path-lookalike fixtures so each still asserts its own one-commit guard result.
Contract-Neutral: Restore the existing Bash command compatibility within the new audit process group; audit classification, retry rules, dependency graphs, command arguments and external authority are unchanged.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Both required CI and the local gate must treat the new subprocess owner as audit runtime, not an unchanged dependency graph. Carry the actual helper into the isolated local-gate fixture and test positive findings, missing results, large change lists and exact-path lookalikes through both consumers.
Contract-Neutral: Extend the existing strict audit-runtime path classification to its new owned helper; advisory rules, dependency graphs, public runtime, credentials and external permissions are unchanged.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
The browser gate now uses the shared repository I/O module. Exercise its
real dependency in the prepush fixture so smoke tests reach qualification
checks instead of failing during import.
Contract-Neutral: Test fixture dependency only, no application or contract behavior changes.
Exercise a receipt-only follow-up over unverified outgoing source rather than an unchanged source range, explicitly retain the CI skip when only metadata changes, and compare receipt tree identities across a merge instead of Git display headings. The existing range guard and receipt admission policy are unchanged.
Contract-Neutral: Test-only corrections establish the existing local and CI browser admission semantics without changing production or contract behaviour.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Reproduce the local pre-push gap with real disposable Git histories and the existing browser receipt guard: missing, stale, partial, wrongly parented and nonpassing proof must not receive a local green verdict. Valid own-parent receipts and merges must remain usable without rebinding; upstream-only changes are not outgoing work.
Contract-Neutral: Test-only local delivery admission controls; no runtime, browser receipt rules or protected delivery policy change.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Run the existing bounded strict audit before expensive local checks when frontend manifests or its audit runner change. Fail missing frontend dependencies rather than print a passing pre-push verdict after a skipped type-check. Preserve per-commit contract binding, CI gates and the inherited-advisory policy; execute real disposable Git and canned-provider orchestration controls without an external advisory query.
Contract-Neutral: Local developer preflight now reports incomplete checks honestly; no runtime, API, dependency graph or protected CI policy changes.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
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