Briefs: Hands reports every consuming test project with counts; Soul checks the list against the project files

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

references/briefs.md

@@ -296,6 +296,18 @@ one head (SKILL.md, step 3); keep it fitting:
   1,500-line map instead of given only their cut. So state the scope as one
   deliverable, and say the budget is sufficient for it. The hand-back clause is
   for a head that is actually full, not for a job that looks big.
+- **Run every consuming test project, and report each count.** Before
+  reporting, list every test project that references an assembly, package or
+  crate the cut changed, found from the project files rather than from memory.
+  Run each one at the head, and put one evidence line per project in the
+  report: its name and its pass, fail and skip counts. "Did not build" is a
+  result and must appear as one. A project you could not run is listed in
+  `undone`. Scars from 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-02:
+  - An earlier Soul hold on C2a covered a range in which a Caching test was
+    already red.
+  - The R1 merge into C2a was reported green while GameCult.Mesh.Tests did not
+    compile at any commit of the range. That broken build hid a High finding:
+    Mesh's own zero-byte reader.
 
 Long jobs: wait for them and finish, and never end your turn before your
 report. Each turn end reaches Self as a notification and costs a read of its
@@ -377,6 +389,9 @@ below. Admit one verdict and its findings, and nothing else.
 - Use a temporary detached worktree for other checkouts, and remove it
   afterwards.
 - Do not run <expensive runtime> unless told.
+- Check the report's per-project test counts against the project files
+  yourself. A consuming test project missing from the report is a finding,
+  and you run it.
 - Long jobs: wait for them and finish, and never end your turn before your
   report. Run the job as one background shell with `SUMMARY=<scratchpad>/<job>.log`
   in front of `tools/stopgap/ygg-verify.sh` (a fresh log path per job), and wait

references/changelog.md

@@ -1336,3 +1336,11 @@ campaigns that day, Self put the single-file store's write model (carry foreign
 tree) to the operator from first principles. SQLite, LMDB and log-structured stores had not been surveyed, and
 neither had the literature. SKILL.md step 2 now requires an Eyes prior-art pass before a nontrivial question
 reaches the operator.
+
+## 2026-10-02: every consuming test project, counted
+Evidence: the R1 merge into C2a was reported green, yet GameCult.Mesh.Tests did not compile at any commit of the
+range. Git auto-merged a main test that uses a type C2a deleted. That broken build hid a High finding: CultMesh's own
+single-file reader read zero bytes as an empty store. Earlier, the C2a F2 Soul hold covered a range where a Caching
+test was already red. The Hands template now requires one evidence line per consuming test project (found from the
+project files), with "did not build" reported as a result. The Soul template checks the list against the project
+files and runs anything missing.