feat(measurements): check a report's timings against the run's own

[gnanam1990]

Split out of #829 — independent package

Fourth piece of the split @Vasanthdev2004 asked for. Not stacked on #891/#897 — it builds and tests against current main on its own.

What it is for

A measured run finished a benchmark and reported a table of test timings that no command in the session had produced:

• the same test read 0.86s in one paste and 4.20s in the next, with nothing said about the difference
• a -race overhead moved from +3.7% to +133% between two tellings of the same result
• the column summed to an exact total no real transcript lands on

Why a prompt rule is not the fix

"Re-run every command before you paste it" is the obvious answer and the weak one: a model willing to write numbers it did not measure is equally willing to say it re-ran them. The check has to live somewhere the model cannot assert its way past.

The harness qualifies. Every command's output passed through this process and was written to the session log, so the run's real numbers are already there — this package reads them back and compares them against what the answer claims.

Deliberately loose

Timings vary for honest reasons: a loaded machine, a warm cache, a different -count. The tolerance is a 50% band, which lets ordinary variation through and still catches 0.86s reported as 4.20s.

That asymmetry is on purpose. A tripwire that cries wolf gets turned off, and then it catches nothing; a false negative costs one uncaught number. So it errs firmly toward silence.

Note on importers

None in this PR, by design — internal/agent and internal/specialist adopt it with the orchestration work, the same shape as internal/pathjail arriving in #891 ahead of its adopters.

gofmt, go vet, go build ./..., go test ./internal/measurements/ — clean on current main.

Part of #829.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Detects discrepancies between reported and observed Go test durations.
  • Supports hour-based, compound, and other common timing formats.
  • Compares measurements within individual test runs and across runs.
  • Generates correction prompts with conflicting values and execution context.

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevents duplicate reports and false matches for similarly named tests.
  • Ignores malformed, unsupported, benchmark, cached, or unrelated timing data.

• Tests

  • Added comprehensive coverage for parsing, concurrency, deduplication, duration matching, and run-specific measurements.

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Walkthrough

The new measurements package parses Go test timings, stores observations by run provenance in a concurrency-safe ledger, detects inconsistent duration claims, suppresses duplicates, and renders correction prompts. Tests cover parsing, tolerance handling, run isolation, cross-run checks, nil safety, concurrency, and formatting.

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Measurement tracking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse Go test timings internal/measurements/measurements.go, internal/measurements/measurements_test.go	Adds measurement and run structures. Parses package and test output with hour, minute, second, and millisecond durations. Ignores malformed, cached, benchmark, and unsupported timings.
Record timings and detect conflicts internal/measurements/measurements.go, internal/measurements/measurements_test.go	Adds run-grouped concurrent ledger storage, tolerance matching, clause-local duration extraction, boundary-aware name matching, cross-run validation, deterministic conflicts, duplicate suppression, nil-ledger handling, and run-isolation tests.
Render correction prompts internal/measurements/measurements.go, internal/measurements/measurements_test.go	Adds run-labeled singular and plural Nudge messages with claimed and recorded durations. Tests cover correction text and empty output.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7acb3

The package can falsely reject truthful decimal timings, panic when a Ledger is constructed without its helper, and currently has two failing CI checks for unreachable functions; these bounded correctness and merge-readiness issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TestRunner
  participant Ledger
  participant ParseGoTest
  participant Conflicts
  participant Nudge
  TestRunner->>Ledger: Record run output
  Ledger->>ParseGoTest: Parse timings
  ParseGoTest-->>Ledger: Return measurements
  TestRunner->>Conflicts: Submit duration claim
  Conflicts-->>TestRunner: Return conflicts
  TestRunner->>Nudge: Format conflicts
  Nudge-->>TestRunner: Return correction prompt

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[gnanam1990]

@Vasanthdev2004 @anandh8x — review please, whenever suits.

Companion to #908; together they are item 3 from Vasanth's suggested order on #829. 414 lines, new package, independent of the #891/#897 stack — builds and tests against current main on its own.

Two things worth your eye specifically:

The 50% tolerance is a deliberate under-catch. A tripwire that cries wolf gets switched off and then catches nothing, so it errs toward silence: ordinary run-to-run variation passes, 0.86s reported as 4.20s does not. If you think the band is in the wrong place, that is the number to argue about.

No importers in this PR, by design — internal/agent and internal/specialist adopt it with the orchestration work. Same shape as internal/pathjail arriving in #891 ahead of its adopters, so if that pattern bothered either of you there, it applies here too and I would rather hear it now.

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[Vasanthdev2004]

Reviewed at fa682a34. Thanks for pulling this out of #829, it is exactly the shape I was asking for and it reviews in one sitting.

The idea is good and the package doc argues its own case well, including the line that decides the severity below: a tripwire that cries wolf gets turned off, and then it catches nothing. That is the failure mode here.

An honest report gets flagged as a fabrication when one name is a prefix of another

claimedSecondsFor locates the ledger name with strings.Index(line, name), a raw substring search with no boundary check, and takes the first duration after it. go test -v always prints the parent line above its subtests and ParseGoTest records both, so the ledger routinely holds a name that is a strict prefix of another.

Ran all three of these against the real Ledger:

honest subtest claim  -> [{Name:TestZZParent Claimed:0.02 Recorded:[1.22]}]
honest package claim  -> [{Name:.../internal/agent Claimed:1.66 Recorded:[35.58]}]
honest "1m10s" claim  -> [{Name:TestSlow Claimed:10 Recorded:[70]}]

The first is a subtest reporting its own recorded duration and being told it made the number up. The second needs no subtests at all: internal/agent is a prefix of internal/agentinit, and this repo has several such pairs (providers and providerio, and others). The third is the separate 1m10s problem below.

A boundary check on both sides of the match, preferring the longest ledger name that matches, fixes the first two.

A duration with a minute component is read as its seconds remainder

claimedDuration is ([0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?)\s*(ms|s)\b with no minute unit, and nothing anchors the match to the start of the token. So 1m10s fails on 1m, the scan advances, and 10s wins. A truthful restatement of a recorded 70 seconds is reported as a conflict, and worse, the nudge then quotes 10s back at the model, a number its answer never contained. Anything over a minute is common in this repo's own suite.

Why the tests do not see either

The fixture at measurements_test.go:9-17 has --- PASS: TestNested/subcase (0.02s) with no parent line above it, which is not a shape go test -v ever emits. Add the parent line that git would really print and the honest sub-centisecond case at line 77 starts failing. That one omission is what hides the whole class.

Whatever else changes, a test here needs to be built from output a real go test -v run produced, not from a hand-trimmed sample, because the trimming is where the bug lives.

One coordination note

internal/measurements/measurements.go and its test are byte-identical in this PR and in #908, and neither branch is an ancestor of the other. Whichever lands second conflicts, and a squash merge could quietly duplicate or revert. Either base #908 on this one, or drop the two files from it.

Scope, in your favour

I checked before weighting any of the above: nothing imports internal/measurements yet. So none of this is hurting anyone today, and I would not have blocked a live regression this politely. Getting it right before the orchestration work adopts it is the cheap moment.

[gnanam1990]

Pushed 9e965364. Both reproductions confirmed and fixed, and you were right that the fixture was hiding them.

The prefix collision

Reproduced first, verbatim:

honest subtest claim  -> [{Name:TestZZParent Claimed:0.02 Recorded:[1.22]}]
honest "1m10s" claim  -> [{Name:TestSlow Claimed:10 Recorded:[70]}]

claimedSecondsFor now requires a token boundary on both sides of the match, treating /, ., - and _ as continuations so TestNested does not match inside TestNested/subcase and internal/agent does not match inside internal/agentinit. It also keeps scanning further occurrences on the line rather than giving up after the first.

The minute component

parseClaimedDuration tries the compound form first — ([0-9]+)m(?:([0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?)s)? — so 1m10s reads as 70 and a bare 2m as 120. Falls back to the ms/s pattern otherwise.

Both directions checked, because a tripwire that stops crying wolf by going deaf is no better:

honest  "TestNested/subcase took 0.01s"  -> []                                    ✓
honest  "TestSlow took 1m10s"            -> []                                    ✓
FABRICATED "TestNested/subcase 4.20s"    -> [{Name:TestNested/subcase Claimed:4.2}] ✓
FABRICATED "TestSlow took 5m00s"         -> [{Name:TestSlow Claimed:300}]           ✓

Note the fabricated subtest is now attributed to TestNested/subcase rather than to its parent, which it was not before.

The fixture

You were right that this is where the bug lived. I generated real go test -v output for a parent with a subtest and used its actual shape:

--- PASS: TestNested (0.03s)
    --- PASS: TestNested/subcase (0.01s)

The old fixture had the subtest with no parent above it, so no ledger name was ever a strict prefix of another and the substring match looked correct. I left a comment on the fixture saying the parent line is not optional, so nobody trims it back out.

Both fixes mutation-verified — removing the boundary check reproduces your internal/agent output exactly, and removing minute parsing reproduces the Claimed:10 Recorded:[70] line.

Coordination

Resolved from the other side: internal/measurements was in #908 by accident (left in the working tree when I cut that branch, and I did not check its diff before opening). It is removed there, so this PR owns the package and there is nothing to conflict.

The scope note is fair and I would rather have it now than after the orchestration adopts it.

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The latest update fixes whole-token matching and compound minute durations, but two correctness issues still undermine the measurement check:

1. [P1] Preserve measurement provenance/variant. Ledger.Record accepts only output text and stores map[name][]seconds, losing command, arguments, cwd, and run variant. Timings from ordinary, -race, benchmark, or otherwise different invocations are therefore interchangeable; a report can swap/misattribute columns and still pass because Conflicts accepts a claim matching any recorded value. Record enough provenance to associate a claimed result with the run it describes, or explicitly represent/report distinct variants instead of pooling them.

2. [P2] Do not permanently suppress every later contradiction for a name. After the first conflict, raised[name] prevents all future checks for that measurement—even a distinct incorrect correction. I reproduced recording TestFoo 0.10s, checking a 4.20s claim, then checking a 9.90s correction: the second call returned no conflict. Dedupe the specific (name, claimed value) warning (or bound retries at the caller) rather than permanently disabling validation for that name.

The package tests pass under the race detector on 9e96536.

[gnanam1990]

@Vasanthdev2004 @anandh8x — re-review please. All findings closed, CI green, and each fix is mutation-verified (revert it, the test fails).

Across the three PRs this round you found six real bugs and I have not argued with any of them:

PR	Findings	Head
#897 memory	listing discarded partial success; a project failure hid the local note; unbounded description	c93f08d0
#908 edit fix	RecordEdit branched on the flag not the derivation; countLines off-by-one; my accidental measurements duplication	6f0cd6c4
#909 measurements	prefix names accused honest reports; 1m10s read as 10s; the fixture was hiding both	9e965364

Two things worth reading before the code, because they are the ones I would want a second opinion on:

#909's fixture. You were right that the trimming was where the bug lived. I regenerated it from a real go test -v run rather than editing the old sample, and left a comment saying the parent line is not optional — but the general lesson (a fixture has to be output some tool actually produced) applies to more of this repo's tests than just that one, and I have not gone looking.

#897's error handling. Both findings there came from my earlier fix for "errors reported as absence" overshooting. The corrected shape is: absence is silent, failures are carried, and neither is allowed to destroy a readable result. If that principle is wrong anywhere else in these tools, it will be wrong the same way, so it is worth checking against your own sense of it rather than just the three call sites.

No rush on any of them — #908 and #909 are independent of the stack, and all three are still unreferenced by any caller, so nothing here is live.

[Vasanthdev2004]

Re-reviewed at 00d307fc. All three are closed and closed properly.

The prefix collision is gone, and I checked both shapes that bit before: an honest subtest claim and an honest internal/agentinit claim against a recorded internal/agent both come back with no conflicts, while a genuinely fabricated subtest claim is still caught. 1m10s reads as 70 seconds. And the fixture now carries the parent line above the indented subtest, which is the shape go test -v actually emits and whose absence was hiding the whole class.

One new thing, from the fix for the minute unit.

A minute figure later on the line beats the seconds figure next to the name

parseClaimedDuration runs the minute pattern over the whole tail first and returns on any hit, only falling through to the s/ms pattern when the tail holds no minute form anywhere. So it does not read "the first duration in tail" the way its comment says; it reads the first minute-form duration anywhere in the tail.

"TestChattyChild took 0.86s (package total 1m20s)"
  -> [{Name:TestChattyChild Claimed:80 Recorded:[0.86]}]

That is a truthful sentence. TestChattyChild really did take 0.86s and the package really did take 1m20s, and the nudge now tells the model its answer said 80s about a test its answer said 0.86s about. Same failure class as the one just fixed: the tripwire cries wolf, and a tripwire that cries wolf gets turned off.

Picking whichever pattern matches earliest, rather than minute-first, fixes it. FindStringSubmatchIndex on both and prefer the minute form only when it starts no later than the seconds form. I checked that keeps the legitimate cases, including 1m10s (was 65s) where the minute form genuinely comes first.

Being precise about the reach, because I checked rather than assumed: of the three shapes I tried, only the parenthetical-total one reproduces through Conflicts. A table row and a two-clause sentence both came back clean, so this is narrower than it first looks. It is still the most natural way anyone writes a per-test timing next to a package total.

TestAMinuteDurationIsReadWhole only exercises minute-first tails, which is why the suite is green. A case with an s/ms figure ahead of a minute figure is what would have caught it.

Scope, unchanged from last time

Nothing imports internal/measurements yet, so none of this is firing in the product. Same reason I am raising it now rather than after the orchestration work adopts it.

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@Vasanthdev2004 @anandh8x — fixed, head 66fcdca3, CI green.

Your read was exact. Trying the minute pattern over the whole tail first let it reach past a nearer figure:

"TestChattyChild took 0.86s (package total 1m20s)"
  -> [{Name:TestChattyChild Claimed:80 Recorded:[0.86]}]

The claim is the test's own 0.86s; the 1m20s is the package total go test prints after it. That invents a conflict against a number the model got right, then quotes it back as a correction — worse than the miss it was fixing, because a missed conflict is silence while this is a confident wrong accusation.

Both patterns are now located with FindStringSubmatchIndex and position decides: the minute form wins only when it starts no later than the seconds form. Group 2 is optional, so a bare 1m reports index -1 rather than an empty span — hence the >= 0 check rather than a string test.

You were also right about why CI stayed green: every case in TestAMinuteDurationIsReadWhole puts the minute figure first. Mutation-checked — with the old ordering restored that test still passes while the new one fails on both a trailing package total and a trailing budget ("450ms, well under the 2m budget" -> 120).

CodeRabbit separately caught that the assertion table carried TestNested/subcase but not TestNested, leaving the parent side of the prefix-trimming unpinned. Added and mutation-checked.

[Vasanthdev2004]

Re-reviewed at 66fcdca3. The minute-ordering problem is closed, and I checked the three shapes that produced it plus the two that had to keep working:

"TestChattyChild took 0.86s (package total 1m20s)"   -> []
"| TestChattyChild | 0.86s | 1m20s total |"          -> []
"TestChattyChild took 0.86s, TestSlow took 1m20s."   -> []
"TestSlow took 1m10s."                               -> []
"TestSlow took 1m10s (was 65s)"                      -> []

The earlier prefix collision stays closed at the same time, both for a subtest against its parent and for internal/agentinit against a recorded internal/agent, and a genuinely fabricated claim is still caught. That last check is the one worth keeping, since every fix in this package moves in the direction of accusing less.

Also good: the follow-up test now asserts the parent's own duration rather than only the subtest's, which was the vacuous half I mentioned but did not block on.

Approving. This package is going to be load-bearing for whether a report can be trusted, and it now behaves like something that has been argued with.

[anandh8x]

The latest parent-fixture, prefix-boundary, minute-duration, and nearest-duration fixes are correct. Three correctness issues remain:

1. [P1] Bound each parsed duration to its own measurement clause. claimedSecondsFor scans the entire remainder of a line after a matched name. I recorded TestFoo=0.10s and TestBar=4.20s, then checked the truthful line TestFoo passed; TestBar took 4.20s; it produced a fabricated conflict for TestFoo by borrowing TestBar's duration.

2. [P1] Preserve run provenance/variant. Record accepts only output text and pools values in map[name][]seconds, losing command, arguments, cwd, and variants such as ordinary versus -race. A claim labelled as the normal run can silently borrow a race-run value because matching any pooled value is accepted.

3. [P2] Do not permanently disable validation after one warning. raised[name] suppresses every later contradiction for that name. Recording TestFoo=0.10s, checking 4.20s, then checking the distinct bad correction 9.90s reports only the first conflict. Dedupe the specific warning/value, or bound retries at the caller.

The package tests pass under the race detector on 66fcdca.

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internal/measurements/measurements.go (1)

287-306: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

A parent name can take its subtest's duration, and the fixture that should catch it cannot fail. clauseEnd is called with from = end, so an occurrence of TestNested/subcase that begins before end never bounds the TestNested clause; the guarding test then compares a 0.03s recording against a 0.01s claim, which the 0.05s tolerance floor accepts either way.

• internal/measurements/measurements.go#L287-L306: bound the clause using the matched occurrence's own start offset, so a longer recorded name overlapping the match terminates the shorter name's clause; confirm whether nameBoundary treats / as a boundary after TestNested.
• internal/measurements/measurements_test.go#L194-L200: change the recorded parent duration to a value far from the subtest value, for example TestNested (5.00s) with TestNested/subcase (0.01s), so the assertion fails when the parent borrows the subtest's number.

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In `@internal/measurements/measurements.go` around lines 287 - 306, Update
claimedSecondsFor in internal/measurements/measurements.go:287-306 to pass the
matched occurrence’s start offset to clauseEnd, ensuring overlapping longer
names bound shorter-name clauses; verify nameBoundary handles “/” correctly
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internal/measurements/measurements_test.go (1)

171-186: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Run tests with the race detector in CI.

The CI Test step runs go test ./... without -race. Invoke make test or use go test ./... -race -count=1 so the concurrent ledger test detects races.

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internal/measurements/measurements.go (2)

236-243: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Note the quadratic cost of conflict detection.

For every recorded name, claimedSecondsFor scans the whole claim, and clauseEnd then scans the line again for every other recorded name. With N recorded names and a claim of length L, the work is roughly O(N² · L). A full go test ./... run records thousands of names, and Conflicts runs on each answer.

If this lands on a request path, restrict the outer loop to names that actually appear in the claim first. One pass over the claim can collect candidate names, and only those need clause resolution.

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Remove the unused Ledger.runs field and its write. The repository has no reads of Ledger.runs; Record only writes it, so it is dead state that grows for each distinct run.

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- Around line 171-186: The CI Test step currently runs Go tests without race
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- Around line 287-306: Update claimedSecondsFor in
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- Around line 236-243: Optimize conflict detection around the loop over observed
names by first scanning the claim once to collect only recorded names that
actually appear in it, then resolve clauses only for those candidates. Update
the claimedSecondsFor/clauseEnd flow to avoid repeatedly scanning the full claim
for every observed name while preserving existing conflict results.
- Around line 138-147: Remove the unused runs field from Ledger and delete the
corresponding write in Record. Leave the observed and raised state and their
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[gnanam1990]

@anandh8x @Vasanthdev2004 — all three fixed, head 67847b9f, CI green 6/6. Each reproduced first.

1. A duration belongs to the name beside it. Exactly your case: TestFoo passed; TestBar took 4.20s produced [{Name:TestFoo Claimed:4.2 Recorded:[0.1]}]. Every word of that claim is true. Same failure as reading a package total as a test's own timing, reached through the name binding instead of the pattern order. The clause now ends where the next recorded name begins — the ledger knows those names, so they are passed in rather than guessed at from punctuation.

2. Provenance. Record and Conflicts now take the Run (command, args, cwd), and the ledger is keyed by run first, so a future caller cannot reintroduce the pooling by forgetting to pass it. This forced an API change, and it is worth saying where that landed: this branch has no caller, but #829 wires the package into internal/agent/loop.go and internal/specialist/plan_runner.go, and both have the real command in hand at the point they read the output — the specialist even has the cwd. So provenance now comes from the actual caller rather than being invented.

It also needed a second entry point, and I want your view on the split. A final answer summarises several commands, so the loop cannot say which run any number came from; holding each to one run would accuse the model of inventing a figure another of its own commands really printed. So Conflicts(run, claim) is strict per-run for callers that know the command, and ConflictsAcrossRuns(claim) is what the two real callers use. Two functions rather than a flag, because the difference is how much the caller knows — a flag would let a caller that knows the run quietly ask the weaker question. The cross-run form does not close your borrow case; it is the honest question for a caller that cannot name the run, and the strict form is there for one that can.

3. Repeated validation. Keyed on the claimed value too, so a second, differently wrong number is reported while re-reading the same answer still says nothing — which is all the dedupe was for.

All three mutation-checked: unbinding the clause, pooling the runs, and suppressing by name alone each fail the test that covers them.

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[gnanam1990]

@jatmn — three of the six are closed at the root, at 35855513. Two are not, and I want to be direct about which rather than implying six.

Closed

Whole-token durations. Three unanchored regexes with no shared left boundary, so a failed outer match restarted inside the same token. All five of your cases were fabricated corrections against honest claims — .86s→86s, .5m→300s, 1,200ms→0.2s, 1m10ms→0.01s, 1h1m500ms→0.5s. One scanner now reads a token whole or refuses it, and both callers use it, so the parser and the clause scan can no longer disagree about what a duration is.

Every timed mention. Extraction returns every value and the caller compares, so later needs no special case. Per-value dedupe applies within a call too: repeated equivalent spellings are one finding, two distinct wrong values are two.

Packages as subjects. Both name classes now live in one subject layer, so an unrecorded package bounds a clause exactly as an unrecorded test-shaped name already did.

Not closed — threshold ownership

TestQuick stayed under the 10s timeout and completed in 0.86s still reports 10s.

A two-duration clause is now ambiguous, which fixes the wordings where both figures share one — well under the 10s budget and against a 5s baseline are silent. It does not fix yours, because " and " is already a clause separator, so the two figures land in different clauses and the first clause owns the threshold before any ambiguity rule sees it.

Fixing it means deciding the clause boundary and the ownership model together — which is the single model you asked for, and more than this change carries. I would rather say that than patch around it.

Not closed — postfix qualifiers, and this one I tried

I implemented your suggestion: recognise a subject rather than any letter, using the same measurement-name layer. It reopened the case that check exists for. All six following-subject tests failed — TestFoo passed; 4.20s was the whole suite. went straight back to charging the suite's figure to the test. That is a false accusation where the current behaviour is only a miss, so I reverted it.

the whole suite and elapsed are both ordinary words. Separating them by vocabulary is the qualifier allowlist you ruled out, and it reopens at the next synonym. Closing this needs an ownership model that reads structure rather than words, and I do not have one that survives those six. The code now says so where the check lives, so the next reader does not mistake the miss for coverage.

Six symbols died with the three regexes and are removed — and I ran make lint-static before pushing this time, which is what I failed to do on #911. 0 issues.

[jatmn]

I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Overall guidance

These are not four unrelated edge cases, and I do not think another round of four character- or phrase-specific patches is the safest way to close them. The remaining failures come from two shared contracts that are still represented lossily.

1. Measurement identity is not preserved end to end. The raw evidence has structure: a run has a command, argv and cwd; a per-test observation belongs to a package and test. The implementation keeps some of that structure for lookup and then flattens it before the last consumer: package ownership disappears before comparison, while cwd and argv boundaries disappear before the correction is rendered. Once either projection has happened, the comparison/renderer cannot reconstruct which package or execution produced the value. Preserve a structured identity through parse → record → merge → compare → render, and only format it at the final display boundary. If raw output cannot establish package ownership reliably, silence is safer than pooling values under a bare test name.

2. Claim recognition still uses several local ASCII boundary heuristics instead of one lexical model. Duration scanning, bare-unit ambiguity and measurement-name boundaries independently decide where a token starts and ends. That is why each local repair leaves a symmetric spelling elsewhere: a digit after - can be re-entered as a fresh duration, a count is rejected after a space but accepted after a tab or count hyphen, and a UTF-8 letter ends a name even though Go treats it as part of the identifier. Use one Unicode-aware tokenizer that enumerates complete typed spans—measurement names, supported durations and unsupported/ambiguous numeric expressions—and reuse those exact spans for boundary checks and claim association. A span should either be consumed completely under the supported grammar or rejected completely; later logic should not rediscover an inner suffix.

The concrete strings below are regression cases, not a requested allowlist for -, tabs, hyphens or É. A completion-oriented regression matrix should cross the relevant dimensions instead:

• one and several packages, including equal test names with separated timings;
• one run and several runs, including distinct cwd values and argv containing whitespace;
• ASCII and valid Unicode test names, including strict prefixes;
• supported standalone/compound duration tokens and unsupported signed, ranged, grouped, leading-decimal and count-like expressions;
• a truthful control and a fabricated control for every shape.

Make each regression prove both sides of the contract: removing an ownership/boundary guard must accuse a truthful claim, while removing the intended detection must let a fabricated claim through. That cross-product is more likely to end the review loop than adding one exception per reproduction.

Findings

• [P1] Preserve package ownership for per-test observations
  internal/measurements/measurements.go:251
ParseGoTest runs the package-line and case-line regexes independently over the complete output and emits every case as Measurement{Name, Seconds}. Record then stores those cases under observed[run][name], so the order and package block that could distinguish equal test names have already been discarded before comparison. A normal go test -v ./... run can therefore put pkg/a's TestSame=1s and pkg/b's TestSame=9s in the same slice; the package-qualified claim pkg/a TestSame took 9s passes by borrowing package B's value. I reproduced that failure from real two-package Go output at this head. The latest package-subject change only recognizes a neighbouring package as a clause boundary; it does not attach package ownership to a per-test observation. Please make package part of the recorded measurement identity through comparison, or conservatively decline package-specific case validation when the output cannot establish ownership. Preserve repeated observations of the same test within the same package/run, since matching any genuinely recorded repetition is still correct.

• [P1] Reject signed, ranged and count expressions as complete contexts
  internal/measurements/measurements.go:128
internal/measurements/measurements.go:937
  The authoritative scanner starts at a digit whose preceding byte looks like a boundary, while bareUnitFollowedByWord separately recognizes a count only after literal spaces. Those local rules discard the lexical context that determines whether the digits are a runtime at all. At this head, changed by -9.9s is treated as a positive 9.9-second runtime; after 1 fails in 1-200ms range, scanning resumes at 200ms; and both 5m\trows and 5m-row corpus are accepted as 300-second timings. Each truthful statement can therefore receive the fabricated correction the whole-token rewrite was intended to prevent. Please make the scanner return the complete source span and reject the entire signed/ranged/count expression instead of restarting at an inner number. Do not fix only these separators: preserve valid unsigned standalone and compound Go durations, and add inverse controls proving unsupported contexts stay unreadable while real fabricated durations remain detectable.

• [P2] Match measurement names using Go/Unicode-aware boundaries
  internal/measurements/measurements.go:875
goTestCaseLine accepts non-ASCII test names, but nameBoundary defines continuation with ASCII bytes only. Go accepts Unicode identifiers: real output containing TestFoo=0.10s and TestFooÉ=0.90s is parsed successfully, yet the honest claim TestFooÉ took 0.90s also passes the shorter TestFoo boundary because the first UTF-8 byte of É is not classified as a continuation. With separated timings, the value is then falsely charged to TestFoo. The root issue is that extraction accepts a wider name grammar than matching. Please enumerate whole measurement-name spans once using Go/Unicode-aware identifier rules, or otherwise make parsing and matching share one grammar. Keep the existing protections for parent/subtest names, package prefixes, hyphens and ordinary ASCII names, and test both shorter-prefix and exact-name controls.

• [P3] Keep structured run identity through rerun rendering
  internal/measurements/measurements.go:80
Run.key correctly distinguishes cwd and preserves argv boundaries with separators, but Run.Label projects that identity to Command + " " + strings.Join(Args, " ") and drops Dir. Two go test ./... runs in different worktrees therefore render identically, while an argument such as ./pkg with space renders like several arguments. The comparison remains grouped correctly, but the final nudge gives the reader an ambiguous execution to reproduce. Please format the already-structured Run at the display boundary so cwd and argument boundaries remain distinguishable; do not round-trip through an unquoted flat command string. Preserve the intentional empty label for a zero Run and the session-level fallback for a conflict merged from several runs.

[Vasanthdev2004]

Re-checked everything I raised, on the current head rather than standing on the August review. All of it is closed.

The nil raised map. ensureMaps allocates all three now and runs at the top of Record, Conflicts and ConflictsAcrossRuns. I drove a declared-not-constructed Ledger through both conflict entry points with a claim that disagrees, so the write loop is actually reached, and neither panics. Deleting the raised allocation panics my probe and also fails your own TestAZeroValueLedgerSurvivesAContradiction, so the test is pinning it now rather than passing because out was empty.

The determinism assertion. TestTheReportIsIdenticalBetweenIdenticalPasses pins the whole rendered report string across 200 fresh ledgers, with TestShared recorded by both runs so there is a fourth distinct rendering for an ordering bug to get wrong. The fresh-ledger-per-pass note is the right catch, since a reused one would assert on empty after the first attempt. And the comment above the old assertion explains why it was vacuous first by accident and then by construction, which is more than I asked for.

The two I marked non-blocking. Both behave now:

"45s was TestAlpha"           -> none
"it took 45s for TestAlpha"   -> none
"TestMem used 512m of memory" -> none
"TestMem allocated 4m objects"-> none

The subject rule now declines to charge a number to a name that follows it, and a non-duration m is no longer read as minutes. Declining is the right direction for this: a tripwire that cries wolf gets turned off, and then it catches nothing.

gofmt clean, go vet clean, package green including -race -count=2, CI green. Eight commits behind main and the package does not exist on main, so there is nothing to conflict with.

Good work on this one. It went from a tripwire I would have muted to one I would leave armed.

[jatmn]

I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Overall guidance

This package is trying to protect a high-trust boundary: it feeds a correction back to the model and can therefore turn a parsing or provenance mistake into a confident instruction to replace a truthful result. The repeated findings are not unrelated polish items. They fall into two root causes:

1. Ownership is being inferred from punctuation and nearby tokens rather than represented as an unambiguous relationship. The current implementation has accumulated special handling for separators, sentence ends, test-shaped names, package paths, ambiguous units, and multiple durations. Each rule can close one phrase while shifting ownership incorrectly in another. Before adding another delimiter exception, write down the supported report grammar and make the parser distinguish a result assertion from a threshold, budget, suite total, or adjacent subject. For ambiguous prose, retain the stated fail-silent policy rather than guessing. Add adversarial, mutation-capable tests for each grammar decision: duplicate displayed subtest names, repeated named clauses, thresholds followed by an actual result, and neighboring package/test subjects.

2. A Run has two inconsistent representations. Run.key is the authoritative provenance identity used for lookup, but retained Run data and Label are a mutable and lossy presentation form. A result can therefore be looked up under one identity and corrected as though it came from another. Establish one immutable run snapshot at record time and derive both lookup and display from it. Its rendering should preserve the working directory and argument boundaries without asking the reader to infer shell quoting. Test identity, storage, cross-run attribution, and nudge rendering as one end-to-end contract.

The practical review bar for follow-up changes should be: for every new parser/provenance rule, demonstrate both directions—a real bad claim is caught, and a truthful statement with the nearest competing syntax remains silent. The existing test suite has repeatedly passed while a new branch was unexercised or an adjacent grammar shape bypassed it; tests should target the exact boundary that would fail if the proposed fix were removed.

Findings

• [P2] Do not treat a conjunction-separated threshold as the test result
  internal/measurements/measurements.go:494-529, 553-600
clauseEnd treats and as a clause separator before claimedSecondsAllFor checks whether a clause contains more than one duration. Consequently, with TestQuick recorded at 0.86s, TestQuick stayed under the 10s timeout and completed in 0.86s is split into a TestQuick clause ending after 10s; the ambiguity guard never sees the later 0.86s, and the ledger emits a conflict claiming the test reported 10 seconds. This is an honest threshold-plus-result statement receiving the exact false correction the package is intended to avoid; the PR discussion also identifies this current-head behavior as unresolved. Address the ownership model at this boundary so a threshold separated only by a conjunction is not assigned to the preceding test, while preserving the documented choice to stay silent for ownership the parser cannot establish. Add a regression that proves the threshold/result wording is silent and that a genuinely wrong unambiguous result remains detected.

• [P2] Treat Go’s generated duplicate-subtest suffix as part of a test name
  internal/measurements/measurements.go:875-891
nameBoundary rejects slash, dot, dash, underscore, letters, and digits as continuations, but omits #. Go disambiguates duplicate sibling t.Run names in verbose output by appending #NN. If TestParent/sub and TestParent/sub#01 are both recorded with different durations, an honest TestParent/sub#01 claim is also accepted as a claim for the unsuffixed TestParent/sub; the first comparison can then issue a false conflict before the suffixed entry agrees. This is the same prefix-attribution class the existing slash-subtest tests are meant to prevent. Define the boundary in terms of displayed Go test-name grammar (at minimum preserving the generated suffix) rather than only the currently enumerated examples, and add a fixture with both names whose timings are outside tolerance. The fixture should prove the honest suffixed value is silent and an incorrect suffixed value is still reported against the suffixed name.

• [P2] Snapshot run arguments before retaining command provenance
  internal/measurements/measurements.go:373-390, 1015-1067
Record derives key := run.key() from the arguments at record time, then retains run in l.runs[key]. Because Run.Args is a slice, this copies only its header and aliases caller-owned backing storage. A caller can record output for go test ./a, reuse the argument slice as go test ./b, and later receive a cross-run Conflict whose values are still indexed under ./a but whose Run and Nudge name ./b. The correction then tells the model to rerun a command that did not produce the cited timing. Take an immutable provenance snapshot at the record boundary—copy argument contents before both identity/storage decisions—and use that snapshot for all later conflict attribution. Add a regression that mutates the original slice after Record and verifies the lookup, Conflict, and Nudge continue to name the original command.

• [P2] Render enough run identity for the correction to be reproducible
  internal/measurements/measurements.go:74-85, 1095-1100
  The ledger correctly treats Dir and each individual argument as part of run identity, but Label drops Dir and flattens arguments with strings.Join(args, " "). Nudge presents that label as the command the model should rerun. Therefore go test ./... from two directories is displayed identically even though it executes different test sets, and Args: ["test", "a b"] is displayed exactly like Args: ["test", "a", "b"] even though copying the displayed text invokes the latter. Do not make the presentation layer less precise than the identity layer: render an unambiguous, safely quoted command plus its working directory (or otherwise make the full run identity actionable), while retaining the existing session-only wording for deliberately merged multi-run conflicts. Cover same command/different directory and space-containing argument cases end to end through Nudge.

[gnanam1990]

Addressed the current-head review and refreshed the branch onto current main.

• Threshold-plus-result clauses now keep a conjunction-separated threshold and actual result together, so ambiguous ownership fails silent instead of charging the threshold to the test.
• Go's generated duplicate-subtest #NN suffix is part of the measurement name boundary.
• Record snapshots caller-owned argv before deriving and retaining provenance.
• Run labels now preserve working directory and argument boundaries, including space-containing arguments.

The four new regressions fail on prior head 35855513 for the demonstrated reasons and pass on the new head under -race. Focused measurement race tests, formatting, vet, build, smoke, static lint, govulncheck, and diff hygiene pass. Repository-wide tests have only the two existing internal/cli doctor failures reproduced on current main; all other packages pass. No PR-owned dependency or third-party integration change was introduced.

@jatmn please re-review the current head.

[jatmn]

I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

• [P1] Keep test-process stdout out of the timing evidence
  internal/measurements/measurements.go:137
  The goTestCaseLine expression accepts any indented --- PASS: TestFoo (99.00s) line. Under go test -v, test-process stdout shares the output stream with runner diagnostics, so a test can emit that shape before the runner later prints the real --- PASS line. ParseGoTest returns both entries, Record appends both under TestFoo, and Conflicts accepts a claimed 99s whenever it matches any recorded value. That lets a test-controlled string make an invented timing look session-measured and suppress the correction this package is intended to send. The root cause is treating an unstructured, mixed-origin text stream as authoritative runner data. Please admit case/package timings only from an origin that distinguishes runner events from test output (for example, structured go test -json events), or otherwise establish and enforce an equivalent trusted-input boundary before values reach the ledger. Add a regression that includes a timing-shaped line from test stdout plus a different real runner timing, and verifies that the fabricated value cannot satisfy a claim.

• [P2] Do not let strict conflict provenance retain the caller’s mutable argv backing array
  internal/measurements/measurements.go:507
Record deliberately calls run.snapshot() before retaining a run because command builders can reuse their args slice. The strict path then breaks that invariant: it looks up the stored observations by run.key() but constructs Conflict{Run: run} from the caller-owned value. If that slice is reused after Conflicts returns and before Nudge renders the result, the correction says the later command reported timings that actually came from the earlier command. The root cause is preserving the snapshot for storage but bypassing it at the reporting boundary. Please have strict conflicts carry immutable provenance for the matching stored run (or take an equivalent independent snapshot before returning); preserve the existing per-run lookup and cross-run attribution behavior. Add a regression that mutates the original args slice after conflict detection and verifies the rendered nudge still names the command that produced the timing.

Review guidance

This is not feedback to expand the PR’s scope or to request the deferred agent/specialist integration. The recurring findings are concentrated in the package’s central promise: it must turn session evidence into a correction without ever inventing, misattributing, or silently accepting evidence. That is a high-sensitivity boundary: parser inputs, ownership/snapshotting, and rendered provenance are all parts of one end-to-end contract rather than independent helpers.

The most effective way to finish this package without another sequence of narrow follow-ups is to review it by trust boundary and lifecycle, not by the latest individual parser case:

1. Define evidence provenance at ingestion. Identify exactly which bytes are produced by the Go runner and which may be produced by the tested program, dependencies, or ordinary logs. Do not let a textual resemblance to a runner line establish authority. Decide what trusted event/source is admitted, reject or segregate everything else, and write regression fixtures where untrusted text deliberately imitates every accepted timing shape.
2. Make provenance immutable at every handoff. Treat a Run as retained evidence, not an input convenience type. Once a command result is recorded, every map key, result object, dedupe key, and nudge must derive from one immutable representation of the executed command. Exercise mutation both before and after lookup, and before rendering, because copying only at storage time leaves a later reporting boundary exposed.
3. Test the whole decision path, not only helpers. For each parser/attribution rule, construct a minimal end-to-end case: raw command output → Record → answer claim → Conflicts/ConflictsAcrossRuns → Nudge. Include adversarial fixtures in which a value looks valid but has the wrong origin, owner, run, or lifetime. Assert both that genuine fabrications are caught and that truthful values from another source/run are not accepted or accused.
4. Use invariant-oriented test tables. The package already correctly favors silence over a false accusation in ambiguous language. Apply the same discipline to provenance: values should be accepted only when the code can establish (trusted producer, exact run, exact measurement subject) together. Table cases should vary one element at a time—source, name, run, value, and mutation timing—so a regression proves the invariant being protected rather than merely a particular string pattern.
5. Keep the next review focused on these invariants. Before requesting another pass, audit every parser entry point and every Conflict construction/rendering path against the two properties above, then run the relevant focused/race tests and add a small integration-style test for each root cause. This should reduce drip review because it checks the shared failure class across all existing special cases instead of fixing whichever spelling was noticed last.

The requested changes remain deliberately narrow: establish trusted timing ingestion and immutable strict-conflict provenance. The guidance explains how to validate those shared contracts; it does not ask for a broader rewrite, different product behavior, or adoption work outside this PR.

[gnanam1990]

@jatmn The two current-head provenance findings are addressed at 6159a2d.

Trust boundary

• ParseGoTest now admits only structured go test -json pass/fail/skip events.
• Plain mixed-origin go test -v lines are no longer evidence.
• Test stdout is represented as an output event and is ignored even when its payload imitates a PASS timing.
• The end-to-end regression records a spoofed 99s stdout line plus the genuine 1s runner event and proves that a 99s claim is still rejected.

Immutable strict provenance

• Conflicts now carries the Run snapshot retained by Record for the matching key, rather than the caller-owned query Run.
• The regression detects a conflict, mutates the original argv backing slice, then verifies Nudge still names the recorded ./a command and never ./b.

Validation

• Old current head fails the new trust/provenance regression behavior.
• internal/measurements tests and race: PASS.
• fmt, vet, build-all, release smoke, static analysis, govulncheck, diff check: PASS.
• Full repository suite: every package passes except the same two internal/cli doctor tests that reproduce on clean current main 1b5db17.

Merged current main. No dependency or third-party integration change. Please rereview the current head.

[jatmn]

I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

• [P1] Preserve package identity for per-test observations
  internal/measurements/measurements.go:307
go test -json supplies both Package and Test for a test-result event, but ParseGoTest stores only Test whenever it is non-empty. Record subsequently appends each timing into observed[run][name], so two events such as Package: example/a, Test: TestFoo, Elapsed: 1 and Package: example/b, Test: TestFoo, Elapsed: 9 become one TestFoo value set for that run. If a response identifies the first package and reports 9s, Conflicts accepts it because the second package emitted 9s. This defeats the package purpose at this high-trust boundary: a correction is suppressed even though the stated result does not belong to the reported package/test observation.

  The root cause is projecting structured runner evidence into a bare display name before comparison. Keep a structured measurement identity—at least package plus test, scoped by the existing run identity—through parse, record, and comparison, and render it only at the final nudge boundary. If the answer grammar cannot establish which package an unqualified test name refers to, fail silent for that claim rather than borrowing a same-named test from another package. Please add a regression with identical test names from two packages in one JSON stream and assert both directions: the wrong package value is rejected, while the owning package value remains accepted.

• [P2] Encode run identity without collapsing empty argv values
  internal/measurements/measurements.go:74
Run.key concatenates fields using NUL separators and strings.Join(r.Args, "\x00"). That representation is not injective: Run{Command: "tool", Args: nil} and Run{Command: "tool", Args: []string{""}} produce the same key even though an explicit empty argument is a valid, distinct argv value. Recording different timings for those runs pools them in the same observed[key] map. A later strict Conflicts call for the no-argument command can then accept a timing emitted only by the empty-argument command; because runs[key] is retained only for the first record, its correction can also name the wrong command.

  The root cause is using a delimiter-based serialization as an internal identity format without preserving field and element cardinality. Make the key injective over directory, command, and every argument—for example with length-prefixed fields or a structured encoding—while retaining the existing snapshot-at-record-time behavior and human-readable Label behavior. Cover the explicit-empty-argument collision with a strict-run regression that records divergent timings under both runs and proves neither can satisfy the other. The same representation should also safely handle arbitrary Go string contents rather than relying on NUL being absent.

[gnanam1990]

@jatmn The two new structured-identity findings are addressed at fd32005.

Measurement identity

• Runner observations now retain a structured package/test identity through parse, record, strict comparison, and cross-run comparison.
• A test name is accepted unqualified only when it has one package owner in the relevant evidence set.
• Same-named tests from multiple packages require the rendered qualified form package.Test; ambiguous unqualified claims fail silent.
• Regression records example/a.TestFoo=1s and example/b.TestFoo=9s, proves example/a at 9s is rejected, example/a at 1s is accepted, and bare TestFoo borrows neither package.

Run identity

• Run keys are now length-prefixed and include argv cardinality.
• No arguments, one explicit empty argument, embedded NUL content, and multiple arguments remain distinct.
• Strict regression records divergent timings under no-argv and empty-argv runs and proves neither satisfies the other.

Validation

• internal/measurements and race: PASS.
• fmt, vet, release build, smoke, static analysis, govulncheck, diff check: PASS.
• Full repository suite: every package passes except the same two internal/cli doctor tests reproducible on clean current main.

Current main is contained. No dependency or third-party integration change. Please rereview the current head.

[jatmn]

I found an issue that needs to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

• [P2] Preserve Unicode test-name boundaries
  internal/measurements/measurements.go:1041
claimedSecondsAllFor uses strings.Index to locate each recorded measurement name, then relies on nameBoundary to reject prefix matches. That boundary helper recognizes only ASCII letters and digits as continuations. Go test functions may use Unicode identifier characters, so with TestFoo recorded, a truthful report such as TestFooΩ took 9s treats the start of TestFooΩ as a complete TestFoo mention. The later duration is then compared to TestFoo's recorded value and can emit a correction claiming an honest report invented its timing.

  The existing regression coverage already establishes the intended rule for ASCII subtests and package-name prefixes: a longer subject must never be attributed to its shorter prefix. Address the root cause by making name-token boundaries Unicode-aware, or by conservatively treating any non-ASCII continuation as part of a name, on both sides of the match. Add a direct regression that records TestFoo, reports a distinct Unicode-suffixed test name with a different duration, and verifies no conflict; retain the companion assertion that a wrong duration for the exact TestFoo name is still caught. This keeps the check's deliberate fail-silent behavior for uncertain ownership without weakening detection for exact names.

[gnanam1990]

@jatmn Fixed the current-head Unicode boundary finding in 40ac694e.

nameBoundary now decodes the adjacent UTF-8 rune on both sides of a byte-indexed match. ASCII Go-name continuations retain the existing rules; any non-ASCII rune (including malformed input decoded as RuneError) is conservatively treated as a continuation, so uncertain ownership fails silent.

The regression demonstrates the pre-fix failure: with only TestFoo = 1s recorded, TestFooΩ took 9s was incorrectly reported as a TestFoo conflict. Current head accepts both Unicode-suffixed and Unicode-prefixed longer names without attribution, while an exact TestFoo took 9s claim is still caught.

Validation:

• full internal/measurements race run passes
• formatting, vet, release build, smoke, static analysis (0 issues), vulnerability scan, and diff hygiene pass
• full suite passes except the same two current-main internal/cli doctor failures

No dependency or third-party module changes. Please rereview current head 40ac694e.

[jatmn]

I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

• [P2] Do not interpret signed timing deltas as elapsed-time claims
  internal/measurements/measurements.go:195
  The duration scanner considers - a valid token boundary. As a result, a statement such as TestFoo improved by -4.20s is scanned from the 4 and classified as a positive 4.20s elapsed-time claim for TestFoo. If the recorded test result differs, Conflicts emits a correction even though the answer was reporting a delta rather than asserting that the test took 4.20 seconds. This violates the package's stated fail-silent rule for ambiguous text and can make a truthful report look fabricated.

  Address the root cause in the shared token-boundary/scanning logic rather than special-casing one sentence form: a numeric component that is part of a signed numeric expression must not be admitted as an unsigned elapsed-duration token. Keep legitimate unsigned duration forms and the existing conservative behavior for unsupported or ambiguous tokens intact, and add a regression through the public conflict path for negative deltas.

• [P2] Do not collapse package identities and qualified test identities into the same claim name
  internal/measurements/measurements.go:487
measurementDisplayNames renders duplicate test names as Package + "." + Test, but renders a package-level measurement as its package path. Those are not disjoint namespaces: a valid package result named example/a.TestFoo has exactly the same rendered name as TestFoo from example/a when another package also reports TestFoo. For a claim such as example/a.TestFoo took 9s, both IDs are processed separately; seenThisCall is scoped to each ID and raised is populated only after output is assembled, so the same text can produce two conflicts with different recorded values. The nudge then makes incompatible corrections for an inherently ambiguous name.

  Fix the identity-to-claim-name mapping at its source so each externally matchable name resolves to at most one measurement identity, or treat collisions as ambiguous and fail silent. Preserve the distinction between package results and same-named tests, and cover both Conflicts and ConflictsAcrossRuns with a collision regression so future formatting changes cannot recreate the overlap.

• [P3] Make the compound-millisecond regression verify the duration it claims to cover
  internal/measurements/measurements_test.go:1286
  The fixture describes TestQ took 1m10ms as an honest restatement of 70.01s, but 1m10ms is 60.01 seconds (one minute plus ten milliseconds). The test passes only because tolerance(60.01, 70.01) permits a difference up to 35.005 seconds. It therefore does not demonstrate that the scanner reads the compound token correctly, despite claiming to guard against the previous partial-tail parse.

  Correct the test's expected measurement and add an exact parser-level assertion for this compound form (or equivalent exact coverage) before relying on tolerance-based conflict behavior. Keep the deliberately loose product tolerance for genuine run-to-run timing variation; the regression needs to validate token semantics independently of that policy.

[gnanam1990]

Addressed all three current-head findings in 55dbc9c.

• Duration scanning now rejects digits belonging to ASCII +/− signed expressions (including Unicode minus), so deltas cannot be reinterpreted as positive elapsed-time claims. Public per-run and across-run regressions cover the failure and retain unsigned detection.
• Display-name construction now detects collisions between package identities and package-qualified test identities. Ambiguous rendered names fail silent instead of pooling values or producing contradictory corrections; both Conflicts paths are covered, with a non-colliding control proving enforcement remains active.
• Corrected 1m10ms to 60.01s and added an exact parser-level assertion so loose conflict tolerance cannot hide token-semantic errors.

Validation: gofmt, diff check, go vet ./..., go test ./internal/measurements, race test, and go build ./... pass. Repo-wide tests passed outside the same two machine-local doctor tests caused by the real user config; those pass with an isolated config root. No dependency or third-party integration changes. Please re-review current head.

[jatmn]

LGTM