- test/test-of-test-ratchet.test.ts records the 228 free tests that import only
test/ code and fails on a new one, naming the owner test to extend instead;
a stale baseline entry fails with the remove instruction.
- test/helpers/resolve-repo-path.ts is the one specifier/literal resolver for
the ratchet and the touchfile closure invariant, with its own unit tests.
- CONTRIBUTING "Test tiers" describes the paid-failure workflow (fix, then one
row in the detector's owner test) and the ratchet; TEST_PORTFOLIO gains the
detector -> owner-test table and no longer claims an Autoplan chain eval.
- TODOS: automatic exclusion policy for chronically red periodic files (P3),
the deferred native-completion table collapse, the unused CEO payment
seeder; the PTY readiness item is narrowed to the paid runner.
- docs/test-audit-2026-09.md collects the triage, security mapping, inventories,
selection proof, behavior-commit decisions and retained false positives.
