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+"""Tests for the 2026-07-02 directive scavenge lift.
+
+The scavenge pass lifted 15 new directives from previously-unscanned markdown
+(MMA_Support, nagent_review, intent_dsl_survey, docs/handoffs). These tests
+encode the structural contract for those new directives:
+
+  - every new directive has both a v1.md and a meta.md file
+  - every new directive's v1.md body starts with a '# ' imperative heading
+  - every new directive's meta.md has the ## v1 section + Source/Lifted lines
+  - every new directive is referenced in conductor/directives/presets/current_baseline.md
+  - the total directive count grew from 66 to 81
+
+These tests are additive to tests/test_aggregate_directives.py (the existing
+contract tests for the aggregator script). The new tests here pin the
+scavenge-pass output so a future agent can verify the lift was complete.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
+DIRECTIVES_DIR = REPO_ROOT / "conductor" / "directives"
+PRESET = REPO_ROOT / "conductor" / "directives" / "presets" / "current_baseline.md"
+
+SCAVENGE_DIRECTIVES: list[str] = [
+ "tier1_orchestrator_no_implementation",
+ "tier3_worker_amnesia",
+ "tier4_qa_compressed_fix",
+ "token_firewall_prevents_bloat",
+ "stub_before_implement",
+ "subagent_returns_artifact_not_transcript",
+ "parse_failure_visible_to_conversation",
+ "state_visible_at_the_right_layer",
+ "file_id_stable_across_rename",
+ "decompose_or_isolate_never_offload",
+ "intent_signal_postfix_not_xml",
+ "pipeline_immediate_mode_no_object",
+ "dsl_uses_first_class_spans_for_errors",
+ "search_all_call_sites_after_signature_change",
+ "run_full_tier_after_phase_refactor",
+]
+
+
+def _read(path: Path) -> str:
+ return path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def test_scavenge_lift_count_matches_expected() -> None:
+ assert len(SCAVENGE_DIRECTIVES) == 15, "scavenge pass lifted 15 directives; SCAVENGE_DIRECTIVES list must stay in sync"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("directive_name", SCAVENGE_DIRECTIVES)
+def test_scavenge_directive_has_v1_file(directive_name: str) -> None:
+ path = DIRECTIVES_DIR / directive_name / "v1.md"
+ assert path.is_file(), "missing v1.md for scavenge-lifted directive: " + directive_name
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("directive_name", SCAVENGE_DIRECTIVES)
+def test_scavenge_directive_has_meta_file(directive_name: str) -> None:
+ path = DIRECTIVES_DIR / directive_name / "meta.md"
+ assert path.is_file(), "missing meta.md for scavenge-lifted directive: " + directive_name
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("directive_name", SCAVENGE_DIRECTIVES)
+def test_scavenge_v1_starts_with_imperative_heading(directive_name: str) -> None:
+ path = DIRECTIVES_DIR / directive_name / "v1.md"
+ first_line = _read(path).splitlines()[0]
+ assert first_line.startswith("# "), (
+ directive_name + " v1.md first line is not a '# ' imperative heading: " + first_line
+ )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("directive_name", SCAVENGE_DIRECTIVES)
+def test_scavenge_meta_has_required_sections(directive_name: str) -> None:
+ path = DIRECTIVES_DIR / directive_name / "meta.md"
+ body = _read(path)
+ assert "## v1" in body, directive_name + " meta.md missing '## v1' section"
+ assert "**Source:**" in body, directive_name + " meta.md missing **Source:** line"
+ assert "**Lifted:**" in body, directive_name + " meta.md missing **Lifted:** line"
+
+
+def test_scavenge_directives_listed_in_current_baseline_preset() -> None:
+ preset_body = _read(PRESET)
+ for name in SCAVENGE_DIRECTIVES:
+  assert name in preset_body, (
+ "current_baseline.md does not reference scavenge-lifted directive: " + name
+ )
+
+
+def test_total_directive_count_at_least_81() -> None:
+ v1_files = sorted(DIRECTIVES_DIR.glob("*/v1.md"))
+ assert len(v1_files) >= 81, (
+ "expected >= 81 directives after scavenge pass (66 baseline + 15 scavenge); found "
+ + str(len(v1_files))
+ )
+
+
+def test_baseline_preset_size_grew() -> None:
+ preset_body = _read(PRESET)
+ assert preset_body.count("\n- ") >= 81, (
+ "current_baseline.md should have >= 81 directive lines after scavenge pass"
+ )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("directive_name", SCAVENGE_DIRECTIVES)
+def test_scavenge_v1_first_line_is_complete_sentence(directive_name: str) -> None:
+ path = DIRECTIVES_DIR / directive_name / "v1.md"
+ first_line = _read(path).splitlines()[0].lstrip("# ").strip()
+ assert len(first_line) > 20, (
+ directive_name + " v1.md first-line statement is too short to be a complete imperative: "
+ + first_line
+ )
+ assert first_line[0].isupper() or first_line.startswith(("Tier", "Sub-", "Parse", "State", "File", "Decompose", "Intent", "DSL", "Search", "Run")), (
+ directive_name + " v1.md first-line statement should start with a capitalized verb/noun: "
+ + first_line
+ )
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