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Problem

panic-attack adjudicate <reports...> printed verdict: pass (processed 0, failed 1) and exited 0 when a report was missing or unrecognised.

Fix (fail-closed)

  • New verdict error: zero processed reports, or any report failed to load/parse. Failures are listed in the JSON notes, echoed to stderr, and a high-priority finding is added.
  • Verdict precedence: fail > error > warn > pass (a real fail from a loaded report is still reported as fail).

Exit-code contract (owner ruling 2026-11-13)

Exit Meaning
2 Incomplete input (zero processed, or any report failed to load), whatever the verdict. Wins over everything. Same as assail --fail-on-incomplete; also clap usage errors.
1 All reports loaded and verdict is fail (previously exited 0).
0 All reports loaded and verdict is pass or warn.

Documented in CHANGELOG.adoc and man/panic-attack.1.

Callers

  • chapel/src/MassPanic.chpl::runAdjudicatePass only parsed the verdict on exit 0, so a fail would now have been dropped; it now parses on 0 or 1 and records error on exit 2.
  • No other in-repo code, script, workflow or test invokes adjudicate.
  • External note: gitbot-fleet panicbot (bots/panicbot/src/scanner.rs::run_to_report) bails on any non-zero exit, so it will treat exit 1 as a tool failure rather than a valid fail verdict. Needs a follow-up there.

Tests

tests/adjudicate_cli.rs (runs the binary): missing file, unrecognised file, good+bad mix (with a good-only control), zero arguments, complete pass (0), complete warn (0), complete fail (1), and fail+missing report (verdict fail, exit 2). Plus a unit test in src/adjudicate/mod.rs.

cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --all-features -- -D warnings, cargo test --all-features pass.

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…e failed to load

`adjudicate` printed "verdict: pass (processed 0, failed 1)" and exited 0 for a
missing or unrecognised report. Add an `error` verdict (fail-closed) for zero
processed or any failed report, record failures in notes and stderr, and exit 2
(same as assail --fail-on-incomplete). A real `fail` still dominates `error`.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Adjudication now reports an error verdict when no reports are processed or any report fails to load. Incomplete runs exit with status 2, even if a loaded report has a fail verdict.
    • Complete runs exit with status 1 for fail, and status 0 for pass or warn. Verdict precedence is fail > error > warn > pass.
    • Adjudication displays report notes and failure counts for incomplete runs.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified adjudication verdicts and exit statuses.

Adjudication assigns an error verdict when reports are not processed or any report fails to load, unless a loaded report produces fail. Incomplete runs exit with status 2. Complete fail runs exit with status 1; complete pass and warn runs exit with status 0.

Changes: Adjudication result and CLI

Layer / File(s) Summary
Incomplete adjudication result
src/adjudicate/mod.rs
A run is incomplete when no reports are processed or any report fails to load. Incomplete runs use the error verdict unless a loaded report produces fail. They include a high-priority finding and, when no reports were processed, a note.
CLI output and integration
src/main.rs, tests/adjudicate_cli.rs, man/panic-attack.1, CHANGELOG.adoc, chapel/src/MassPanic.chpl
The CLI prints report notes and incomplete-run counts to stderr, then uses the report exit status. Tests cover incomplete and complete inputs, verdict precedence, and exit codes. The manual and changelog describe these rules. MassPanic sets its verdict to error for exit code 2 and extracts report fields for exit codes 0 and 1.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 9c326

When --findingsOnly is used, the Chapel mass scan can silently omit a repository whose adjudication was incomplete. That undercuts the PR's goal of never treating incomplete input as a pass. Propagate the error or keep "error" verdicts in the filter before merging.

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Title check Passed The title names the adjudicate command and the fail-closed change: a run no longer passes when no report was processed or a report failed to load. It matches the changeset, which adds the error verdic…
Description check Passed The description states the problem (adjudicate printed pass and exited 0 for a missing or unrecognised report), the fix (the new error verdict and precedence), the exit-code contract, the Chapel calle…
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The title names the adjudicate command and the fail-closed change: a run no longer passes when no report was processed or a report failed to load. It matches the changeset, which adds the error verdict, exit codes, and the caller updates. It is specific and concise, so it passes.

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src/adjudicate/mod.rs: 1

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HoTT-stuff and others added 2 commits November 13, 2026 12:24
…ete input

Exit contract: 0 pass/warn, 1 complete fail, 2 incomplete or error (zero
processed or any report failed to load; wins over everything). Verdict
precedence stays fail > error > warn > pass. CLI tests for each code, man page
and CHANGELOG updated, and the Chapel MassPanic adjudicate pass reads exit 1 as
a valid fail verdict instead of dropping it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… not scanRepo

4b7d268 put the exit-code branch in scanRepo, which runs the main scan
and has no adjResult, so chapel-multilocale failed to compile
(MassPanic.chpl:849 'adjResult' undeclared). scanRepo is restored to
main; runAdjudicatePass now reads a verdict on exit 0 or 1 and records
'error' on exit 2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0136P7ZkERqsQWMogHRpM2z8
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- Line 1054: Keep incomplete adjudication results in findings-only output by
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// adjudicate exit contract: 0 pass/warn, 1 complete fail (a valid
// verdict), 2 incomplete input or error (no verdict is trustworthy).
if sub.exitCode == 2 {
adjResult.verdict = "error";

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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Keep incomplete adjudication results in findings-only output.

If the preceding scan has zero weak points and an empty result.error, exit status 2 now sets only result.verdict to "error". scanRepo copies that verdict at Lines 865–870 but leaves result.error empty. With --findingsOnly, the filter at Lines 183–185 then removes the repository before report and image generation.

Propagate the adjudication failure into RepoResult.error, or update the filter to retain the "error" verdict. An incomplete result must remain visible.

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Keep incomplete adjudication results in findings-only output by updating the `--findingsOnly` filter to retain repositories whose `RepoResult.verdict` is `"error"`, even when `RepoResult.error` is empty. Preserve the existing filtering behavior for other results.

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## Why

CodeRabbit raised this on #292 (comment 4563915280) after it had merged.
Since #292, an untrustworthy adjudication (exit 2) sets the Chapel
`RepoResult.verdict` to `"error"` but leaves `RepoResult.error` empty.
The `--findingsOnly` filter in `MassPanic.chpl` kept only results with
`weakPointCount > 0 || error != ""`. A repository with no weak points
and an incomplete adjudication was therefore dropped before reporting,
so an incomplete result vanished from the output. That contradicts
#292's purpose.

## What

- **Chapel.** A new `hasFindings(r)` in `chapel/src/Protocol.chpl` keeps
any result with weak points, a scan error, or an adjudication verdict
other than `pass` (`error`, `fail`, `warn`). `--findingsOnly` drops only
clean results. `MassPanic.chpl`'s filter now uses this predicate.
- CodeRabbit asked only for `error` to be kept. A `fail` or `warn`
verdict with zero weak points is also something to report, so the rule
is "drop only what's clean".
- **Rust.** `assemblyline --findings-only` had the same kind of hole. It
kept only `weak_point_count > 0`, so repositories whose scan failed
(`error: Some(..)`) vanished. It now keeps those too, via
`has_findings()`, matching the Chapel side. Rust has no adjudication
verdict, so that case doesn't arise there.

## Tests

- `chapel/smoke/two_repo_smoke.chpl` checks `hasFindings` for every
case:
  - dropped: no verdict, `pass`;
  - kept: `error`, `fail`, `warn`, weak points, scan error.
- New Rust unit test
`findings_only_keeps_failed_scans_and_drops_clean_ones`.
- Run locally: `cargo fmt --check`, `cargo clippy --all-targets -D
warnings`, assemblyline unit tests (4) and `tests/assemblyline_tests.rs`
(6) all pass.
- **Not run locally:** there is no Chapel compiler in this environment.
The Chapel parse, build and smoke run are left to `chapel-ci.yml`.
- **Not covered:** no test drives `MassPanic --findingsOnly` end to end
with a real exit-2 adjudication. The smoke test covers the predicate,
and the filter is a one-line call to it.

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