""" greencheck.core — the discriminability test. Central claim of this package: A reported number is not a measurement until it has been observed to take *different* values on inputs that are known to differ. Everything else here is machinery for making that claim checkable. Two levels of testing are provided, and they answer different questions: 1. `discriminate()` — behavioural. You hand it a callable and a set of probe pairs that are known to differ. It reports how many pairs the callable actually separates. A callable that collapses every pair is not measuring the thing its name implies. 2. `audit_ledger()` — historical. You hand it a ledger of already-collected samples (what an instrument wrote to disk in production). It reports which of the known failure signatures are present *without* re-running anything. This is the level at which silent instrumentation dies: the callable may be fine while the recorded series is a constant, a bare zero, or a single bit wearing a score's clothing. Neither level requires trust in the instrument's own self-report. That is the point: the instrument is the thing under test, so its opinion of itself is not admissible evidence. """ from __future__ import annotations import json import math import os from dataclasses import dataclass, field, asdict from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Iterable, List, Optional, Sequence, Tuple # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Verdicts # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- #: The probe callable separated known-different inputs. No signature found. PASS = "PASS" #: Zero variance across every sample. The series cannot be distinguished from #: a constant by any downstream consumer. CONSTANT = "CONSTANT" #: The callable returns the same value for a real input and for a degenerate #: input (empty / missing / contradictory). It is therefore measuring whether #: the input *exists*, not the property it claims to measure. IDENTITY = "IDENTITY" #: `n = 0` and `n > 0 with zero hits` produce the same output. The zero is #: ambiguous, so a consumer cannot tell "nothing was examined" from #: "everything was examined and nothing matched". BARE_ZERO = "BARE_ZERO" #: All variance in the delivered score traces to a single boolean input. #: The score is a liveness indicator in a score's clothing. LIVENESS_BIT = "LIVENESS_BIT" #: A guard/assertion exists, records itself as healthy, and has never been #: observed to fire on an input that is known to be positive. Not a defence; #: an ornament. DEAD_GATE = "DEAD_GATE" #: Nothing was audited. An empty ledger is not a passing ledger: an audit with #: no data has not succeeded, it has not happened. Reported explicitly because #: the default of returning PASS here would reproduce the exact failure this #: package exists to catch. NO_DATA = "NO_DATA" ALL_VERDICTS = (PASS, CONSTANT, IDENTITY, BARE_ZERO, LIVENESS_BIT, DEAD_GATE, NO_DATA) @dataclass class Finding: """One detected signature, with the evidence that produced it.""" verdict: str subject: str detail: str evidence: Dict[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict) def to_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]: return asdict(self) @dataclass class AuditResult: """Outcome of auditing one recorded series.""" subject: str n_samples: int verdicts: List[str] findings: List[Finding] stats: Dict[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict) @property def ok(self) -> bool: return self.verdicts == [PASS] def to_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]: d = asdict(self) d["ok"] = self.ok return d # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Level 1 — behavioural discriminability # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- @dataclass class ProbePair: """Two inputs that are known to differ, plus which dimension they differ in. `dimension` is the part that makes this a test rather than a gesture. An instrument that separates inputs differing in *quantity* (long text vs short text) has shown nothing about whether it measures *content*. Only separation along the dimension the instrument claims to measure counts. """ name: str left: Any right: Any dimension: str = "general" note: str = "" def discriminate( fn: Callable[[Any], Any], pairs: Sequence[ProbePair], subject: str = "", tolerance: float = 0.0, claimed_dimensions: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None, ) -> AuditResult: """Run `fn` over each probe pair and count how many it separates. A pair is *separated* when the two outputs differ by more than `tolerance`. The verdict is per claimed dimension. If `claimed_dimensions` is given, the callable must separate at least one pair within **each** named dimension. A callable that collapses every pair inside a dimension it claims to measure is reported as IDENTITY for that dimension, even if it separates pairs in some other dimension (that is the classic shape: quantity moves, content does not). """ rows = [] by_dim: Dict[str, List[bool]] = {} separated = 0 for p in pairs: try: lv = fn(p.left) except Exception as exc: # a crash is information, not a pass lv = f"" try: rv = fn(p.right) except Exception as exc: rv = f"" differs = _differs(lv, rv, tolerance) separated += 1 if differs else 0 by_dim.setdefault(p.dimension, []).append(differs) rows.append( { "pair": p.name, "dimension": p.dimension, "left": lv, "right": rv, "separated": differs, "note": p.note, } ) dims = list(claimed_dimensions) if claimed_dimensions else list(by_dim) dead_dims = [d for d in dims if by_dim.get(d) and not any(by_dim[d])] verdicts: List[str] = [] findings: List[Finding] = [] if dead_dims: verdicts.append(IDENTITY) findings.append( Finding( verdict=IDENTITY, subject=subject, detail=( f"0/{len(by_dim[dead_dims[0]])} probe pairs separated within the " f"claimed dimension {dead_dims[0]!r}" + (f" (also dead: {', '.join(dead_dims[1:])})" if len(dead_dims) > 1 else "") + ". The instrument responds to something other than what it claims " "to measure." ), evidence={"dead_dimensions": dead_dims, "pairs": rows}, ) ) elif separated == 0 and pairs: verdicts.append(IDENTITY) findings.append( Finding( verdict=IDENTITY, subject=subject, detail=f"0/{len(pairs)} known-different probe pairs were separated.", evidence={"pairs": rows}, ) ) else: verdicts.append(PASS) return AuditResult( subject=subject, n_samples=len(pairs), verdicts=verdicts, findings=findings, stats={ "pairs_separated": separated, "pairs_total": len(pairs), "separated_by_dimension": {d: sum(v) for d, v in by_dim.items()}, "pairs": rows, }, ) def _differs(a: Any, b: Any, tolerance: float) -> bool: if isinstance(a, (int, float)) and isinstance(b, (int, float)): if math.isnan(float(a)) and math.isnan(float(b)): return False return abs(float(a) - float(b)) > tolerance return a != b # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Level 2 — historical ledger audit # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- def audit_ledger( records: Iterable[Dict[str, Any]], field: str = "value", subject: Optional[str] = None, count_field: Optional[str] = None, fresh_field: Optional[str] = None, ) -> AuditResult: """Audit an already-recorded series for known failure signatures. Parameters ---------- records: Iterable of dicts, one per sample, as written by the instrument. field: Key holding the reported value. subject: Label for the report. count_field: Optional key holding the number of items examined for this sample (e.g. `sampled`, `n`, `attempts`). Enables BARE_ZERO detection. fresh_field: Optional key holding a boolean flag thought to be an input (e.g. `fresh`). Enables LIVENESS_BIT attribution. Returns ------- AuditResult with every signature found, not just the first. Instruments tend to be wrong in more than one way at once. """ rows = [r for r in records if isinstance(r, dict) and field in r] subject = subject or field n = len(rows) if n == 0: return AuditResult( subject=subject, n_samples=0, verdicts=[NO_DATA], findings=[ Finding( verdict=NO_DATA, subject=subject, detail=( f"0 samples matched the requested field {field!r}. An audit with " "no data has not passed; it has not happened. Reporting this as " "OK would reproduce the failure the audit exists to catch." ), evidence={"field": field}, ) ], stats={"note": "empty ledger; nothing to audit", "distinct_values": 0}, ) values = [r.get(field) for r in rows] verdicts: List[str] = [] findings: List[Finding] = [] stats: Dict[str, Any] = {"n_samples": n} # --- CONSTANT ------------------------------------------------------- distinct = _distinct(values) stats["distinct_values"] = distinct stats["value_counts"] = _value_counts(values) if distinct == 1: verdicts.append(CONSTANT) findings.append( Finding( verdict=CONSTANT, subject=subject, detail=( f"{n}/{n} samples report the identical value {values[0]!r}. " "Zero variance over the observed window." ), evidence={"value": values[0], "n": n}, ) ) # --- BARE_ZERO ------------------------------------------------------ if count_field: counts = [r.get(count_field) for r in rows] zero_val = _modal_zero_value(values) if zero_val is not None: bare = [ i for i, (v, c) in enumerate(zip(values, counts)) if c == 0 and v == zero_val ] nonzero = [i for i, c in enumerate(counts) if c not in (0, None)] if bare and nonzero: same = all(values[i] == values[j] for i in bare for j in nonzero if values[j] == zero_val) all_bare_same = len({values[i] for i in bare}) == 1 if same and all_bare_same: verdicts.append(BARE_ZERO) findings.append( Finding( verdict=BARE_ZERO, subject=subject, detail=( f"{len(bare)} of {n} samples examined nothing " f"({count_field}=0) yet reported {zero_val!r} — the same " f"value produced by samples that examined {min(counts[i] for i in nonzero)}+ " "items and matched none. The zero is ambiguous: a consumer " "cannot distinguish 'not examined' from 'examined, no hits'." ), evidence={ "zero_count_rows": len(bare), "zero_count_value": zero_val, "min_examined": min(counts[i] for i in nonzero), }, ) ) # --- LIVENESS_BIT --------------------------------------------------- if fresh_field and distinct > 1: attrib = _variance_attribution(rows, field, fresh_field) stats["variance_explained_by"] = {fresh_field: attrib} if attrib is not None and attrib >= 0.999: verdicts.append(LIVENESS_BIT) findings.append( Finding( verdict=LIVENESS_BIT, subject=subject, detail=( f"100% of the variance in {field!r} is accounted for by the " f"boolean {fresh_field!r} alone. Every other input is constant " "across the ledger, so the score is a liveness indicator, not a " "measurement of the property in its name." ), evidence={"attribution": attrib, "n": n}, ) ) if not verdicts: verdicts.append(PASS) return AuditResult( subject=subject, n_samples=n, verdicts=verdicts, findings=findings, stats=stats, ) # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Level 3 — gate audit (never-fired assertions) # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- def audit_gate( events: Iterable[Dict[str, Any]], event_field: str = "event", fire_event: str = "block_issued", subject: str = "", ) -> AuditResult: """Check whether an assertion has ever actually fired, from raw events. An assertion that has recorded itself as healthy N times and has never once fired on an input known to be positive is not a defence. The count of self-reported health is not evidence; the count of firings is. Callers are expected to pair this with a positive control (see `docs/METHOD.md`): the firing count only becomes meaningful once someone has shown the gate fires *when it should*. For aggregated logs, use `audit_gate_counts` instead. """ total = 0 fired = 0 registered = 0 for e in events: if not isinstance(e, dict): continue total += 1 ev = e.get(event_field) if ev == fire_event: fired += 1 if ev in ("registered", "self_change", "logged"): registered += 1 return audit_gate_counts( total_events=total, firings=fired, health_events=registered, subject=subject, ) def looks_like_daily_aggregate(rows: Sequence[Any]) -> bool: """True if these rows count days rather than events. The two are easy to confuse and the confusion is silent: reading daily rows as event rows turns a sixteen-day window into "16 samples", which is a confident number that means nothing. The published dataset in this repository is daily, so a tool that cannot read its own published data has a defect any reader would hit in the first minute. """ if not rows: return False first = rows[0] if not isinstance(first, dict): return False return ( "date" in first and "events" in first and "firings" in first and "event" not in first ) def audit_gate_daily( rows: Sequence[Dict[str, Any]], fire_event: str = "block_issued", subject: str = "", health_event: str = "self_change", ) -> Tuple[AuditResult, AuditResult]: """Audit a per-day aggregate log, in both windows that matter. Returns ``(before_first_fire, whole_window)``. The first is the interesting one and the second is the control. Both are the same guard: the first covers only the whole days that ended with zero firings and before any firing happened, the second covers everything. The same code reads DEAD_GATE for the first and PASS for the second, which is the point — what changed between them is not the guard but whether anyone had ever built it an input it had to reject. Whole days rather than timestamps, deliberately. A count of "events before the first firing" needs event-level rows to recompute, and only aggregates are published here, so that number would be checkable by nobody. Day granularity costs one day of precision and buys the reader a for-loop. """ days = [r for r in rows if isinstance(r, dict)] if not days: raise ValueError("no daily rows to audit") # The window that ends before any firing happened at all. Only whole days: # the day of the first firing is partly silent and is excluded. leading = [] for row in days: if row.get("firings", 0) > 0: break leading.append(row) def _totals(window: Sequence[Dict[str, Any]]): events = sum(int(r.get("events", 0)) for r in window) firings = sum(int(r.get("firings", 0)) for r in window) health = sum(int((r.get("by_event") or {}).get(health_event, 0)) for r in window) return events, firings, health lead_events, _, lead_health = _totals(leading) all_events, all_firings, all_health = _totals(days) n_leading = len(leading) before = audit_gate_counts( total_events=lead_events, firings=0, health_events=lead_health, subject=f"{subject} — {n_leading} full days with zero firings", window=[leading[0]["date"], leading[-1]["date"]] if leading else None, silent_days_before_first_fire=n_leading or None, note=( f"Window: {leading[0]['date']} to {leading[-1]['date']}, whole days only." if leading else "" ), ) whole = audit_gate_counts( total_events=all_events, firings=all_firings, health_events=all_health, subject=f"{subject} — full window ({len(days)} days)", note=( f"The path fired {all_firings} times, the first on " f"{next((r['date'] for r in days if r.get('firings', 0) > 0), 'n/a')}. " "That first firing came from a positive control written specifically " "to exercise the path, not from ordinary traffic." ), ) return before, whole def audit_gate_counts( total_events: int, firings: int, health_events: int = 0, subject: str = "", first_fire: Optional[str] = None, window: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None, silent_days_before_first_fire: Optional[int] = None, note: str = "", ) -> AuditResult: """The aggregate form of `audit_gate`. Takes counts rather than events so that a guard log can be audited without the log itself being published — the counts support the claim, the raw lines carry whatever the operator's environment contained. A window with zero firings is reported DEAD_GATE regardless of how many times the guard recorded itself healthy. Health is self-reported; firing is observed. """ verdicts: List[str] = [] findings: List[Finding] = [] if firings == 0 and total_events > 0: verdicts.append(DEAD_GATE) span = "" if silent_days_before_first_fire: span = f" across {silent_days_before_first_fire} days" elif window and all(window): span = f" between {window[0]} and {window[1]}" findings.append( Finding( verdict=DEAD_GATE, subject=subject, detail=( f"{total_events:,} events recorded{span}, of which " f"{health_events:,} were the guard reporting itself healthy, and the " f"denial path fired 0 times. The assertion has never been observed " "to fire. Its existence is documented; its behaviour is not." ), evidence={ "total_events": total_events, "health_events": health_events, "firings": 0, "note": note, }, ) ) else: verdicts.append(PASS) if note: findings.append( Finding( verdict=PASS, subject=subject, detail=note, evidence={"total_events": total_events, "firings": firings}, ) ) return AuditResult( subject=subject, n_samples=total_events, verdicts=verdicts, findings=findings, stats={ "total_events": total_events, "health_events": health_events, "firings": firings, "first_fire": first_fire, "silent_days_before_first_fire": silent_days_before_first_fire, }, ) # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # helpers # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- def _distinct(values: Sequence[Any]) -> int: seen = [] for v in values: if not any(v == s for s in seen): seen.append(v) return len(seen) def _value_counts(values: Sequence[Any]) -> Dict[str, int]: out: Dict[str, int] = {} for v in values: out[str(v)] = out.get(str(v), 0) + 1 return out def _modal_zero_value(values: Sequence[Any]) -> Optional[float]: """The numeric value the series reports when nothing matched, if any.""" for v in values: if isinstance(v, (int, float)) and float(v) == 0.0: return v return None def _variance_attribution( rows: List[Dict[str, Any]], field: str, bool_field: str ) -> Optional[float]: """Fraction of variance in `field` explained by the boolean `bool_field`. Computed as the between-group variance ratio (eta-squared) for a two-level grouping. Returns None when the field is not numeric. """ vals = [] for r in rows: v = r.get(field) if isinstance(v, (int, float)) and not math.isnan(float(v)): vals.append((float(v), bool(r.get(bool_field)))) if len(vals) < 2: return None ys = [v for v, _ in vals] mean = sum(ys) / len(ys) total = sum((y - mean) ** 2 for y in ys) if total == 0: return 0.0 groups: Dict[bool, List[float]] = {} for v, b in vals: groups.setdefault(b, []).append(v) between = 0.0 for b, g in groups.items(): gm = sum(g) / len(g) between += len(g) * (gm - mean) ** 2 return between / total def load_jsonl(path: str) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]: """Read a JSON-lines file, skipping blanks and unparseable lines.""" out = [] with open(path, "r", encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") as fh: for line in fh: line = line.strip() if not line: continue try: obj = json.loads(line) except json.JSONDecodeError: continue if isinstance(obj, dict): out.append(obj) return out def get_path(record: Dict[str, Any], dotted: str) -> Any: """Fetch `a.b.c` out of a nested dict, returning None if absent.""" cur: Any = record for part in dotted.split("."): if not isinstance(cur, dict) or part not in cur: return None cur = cur[part] return cur