findings: a registry, because the codes had already drifted
A finding code is the stable half of a result - what a dashboard groups by and
what someone greps a year of archived runs for. That only holds if a code means
exactly one thing forever, which fifteen ad-hoc string literals cannot promise.
By the time this was written the failure had happened twice:
- Two emitters independently produced connectivity.downstream_loss and
connectivity.loss_downstream for the same claim. Nothing objected. Anyone
aggregating either would have silently seen half their data.
- Two codes sat under nat.* while being declared Category.CONNECTIVITY.
nat.udp_unreachable is not about NAT, and the prefix decides the category,
which decides which verdict light the finding rolls up into. Renamed while
that is still cheap.
Codes are now typed FindingSpecs carrying category and default severity;
emitters reference the spec rather than retyping the string, so a typo is a
compile error and two call sites cannot disagree about a finding's category.
docs/findings-registry.md is the contract and a test reads it, failing when the
document and the code disagree on which codes exist or how severe they are.
Documentation that drifts from its implementation is worse than none, because it
still looks authoritative. The check reads table rows only, so the prose can go
on explaining which codes were retired and why.
Closes open item 1 of measurement-schema.md section 9.
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## 9. Open items
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1. Findings registry document — start alongside the first implemented tests.
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1. ~~Findings registry document~~ — done: `findings-registry.md`, kept in step with
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`FindingRegistry.kt` by a test that fails when the two disagree.
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2. Whether Shizuku raw-dump excerpts (dumpsys/ip output) are embedded in `evidence` verbatim (auditable, but large and hard to anonymize) or parsed-only with an optional "attach raw dumps" toggle. Proposal: toggle, default on for local archive, default off for export.
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3. Peer-mode documents: each device produces its own run; the coordinator embeds the peer's findings summary and cross-references by `run.id`. Full merge format deferred.
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4. Size guardrails: soft cap 20 MB uncompressed per run; trains beyond that downsample evidence (keep aggregates + first/last N + all anomalies) and record `"evidence_truncated": true`.
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