Stop the 3.7 Bootstrap Probes From Reading as This Repo's Python Floor - #920
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spec/host-tools.json's python3 target floor is 3.13, but repo-config/configure.sh's resolve_description.py probe (PEP 563, 3.7+) sat next to it with no cross-reference, reading as a second, lower floor for this repo's own spec/ code rather than what it actually is: the oldest interpreter that one script happens to parse and run on. - repo-config/configure.sh: reword the probe's comment and failure message so they state the real floor (3.13, enforced by scripts/host_gate.py) instead of implying 3.7 is a supported target. - spec/host-tools.json: cross-reference configure.sh and the skills_install.sh / install-skills.* bootstrap scripts from the python3 entry's why, so a reader who hits either script's 3.7 language finds the real floor documented beside it. - python-codestyle skill (code-style.md, hand-authored in .agents/skills/, dist regenerated via scripts/build_dist.py): state the 3.13 floor explicitly under Type hints, so modern syntax (X | None, match, ...) needs no quoting or __future__ guard on version-compat grounds alone, and name the two bootstrap-script exceptions. - .github/copilot-instructions.md: delete a Disproved Claims entry whose subject moved out from under it. It was proved against install.py's interpreter floor at 3.7 (dbd1cdc); PR #644 raised that floor to 3.11 without touching this entry, so it now states a fact about install.py that is no longer true. Per this file's own rule, an entry whose subject moves is deleted rather than edited to look current. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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PR Summary by QodoClarify repo Python floor as 3.13 (keep 3.7+ bootstrap probes explicitly scoped)
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The changes are consistent, accurate against the referenced scripts/files, and do not introduce behavioral risk beyond clarified messaging and documentation.
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Clarifies that this repository’s supported Python floor is 3.13 (per spec/host-tools.json / pyproject.toml) while preserving the intentional 3.7+ bootstrap probes used by early-install scripts, so readers don’t misinterpret those probes as the repo-wide floor.
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- Rewords
repo-config/configure.sh’s Python probe comment and failure message to distinguish the bootstrap probe (3.7+) from the repo floor (3.13). - Cross-references the bootstrap exceptions from
spec/host-tools.json’spython3“why” text. - Updates the Python codestyle guidance (and regenerated skill distributions) to explicitly justify modern type-hint syntax via the 3.13 floor, while naming the two 3.7+ bootstrap exceptions.
- Removes a stale “Disproved Claims” entry from
.github/copilot-instructions.mdper its own governance rule.
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| File | Description |
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| spec/host-tools.json | Adds explicit cross-reference from the Python floor rationale to the intentional 3.7+ bootstrap probes. |
| repo-config/configure.sh | Clarifies the local Python probe’s purpose and updates the failure message to point to the repo’s 3.13 target. |
| .github/skills/python-codestyle/references/code-style.md | Documents that modern typing syntax is supported because the repo targets Python 3.13, with named bootstrap exceptions. |
| .github/copilot-instructions.md | Removes a stale Disproved Claims entry whose subject is no longer true. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/python-codestyle/references/code-style.md | Regenerated distribution copy reflecting the updated python-codestyle reference text. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digest | Updates the source digest for the regenerated Claude plugin distribution. |
| .agents/skills/python-codestyle/references/code-style.md | Regenerated distribution copy reflecting the updated python-codestyle reference text. |
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CodeRabbit (PR #920) is right that the prior wording overclaimed: 'spec/ code is written to 3.13 without hedging for anything older' isn't quite true of spec/resolve_description.py itself, which is what repo-config/configure.sh's own 3.7+ bootstrap probe actually invokes, and which carries from __future__ import annotations for exactly that reason. Name it as a third exception alongside scripts/skills_install.sh and the install-skills.* scripts, in both configure.sh's comment and the python-codestyle skill (regenerated dist copies included). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The updated comments/docs assert spec/resolve_description.py is runnable on Python 3.7+, but it currently uses 3.10+ syntax (X | None), and configure.sh’s probe would select too-old interpreters and fail with a SyntaxError.
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spec/host-tools.json:90
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whytext saysrepo-config/configure.sh“accepts 3.7+ because … resolve_description.py happens to run on (PEP 563)”, butspec/resolve_description.pycurrently usesX | Noneandlist[...]type hints, so it cannot parse on 3.7 (or 3.8/3.9). This makes the cross-reference incorrect and reinforces the same wrong minimum the PR is trying to avoid.
"why": "Every script here is standard library only, so a bare interpreter is enough and no package floor exists. The floor is the toolchain target rather than a measured breakage one version below it, which is the one entry here that reads that way and says so rather than implying a defect nobody found. pyproject.toml sets ruff target-version to py313 and mypy python_version to 3.13, so what those tools report describes 3.13 and describes no other interpreter, and a run below the floor is unverified rather than known broken. Both tools run in CI through uvx at their latest releases, beside the doc linters, the registry and spec validation, the script self-tests under coverage, and the repo and prose gates. That run judges the code rather than any host, so this floor is still a configuration choice rather than an enforced result, and a host failing it has no CI failure to point at. Two hard requirements are measured, both sit lower, and they fail differently. str.removeprefix and str.removesuffix need 3.9, and each is called where the tree actually calls it: removeprefix in scripts/prose_lint.py and spec/audit.py, removesuffix in spec/audit.py alone. An older interpreter starts, runs, and raises AttributeError when it reaches one. datetime.UTC needs 3.11 and arrives through a module-level from datetime import UTC in spec/audit.py, scripts/pr_review.py and its tests, so an older interpreter raises ImportError before any of those modules run at all. Which mode a host sees is decided by the script it runs rather than by the interpreter alone: spec/audit.py carries both and fails at import, scripts/pr_review.py carries only the import and fails the same way, and scripts/prose_lint.py carries only the call and therefore starts, runs, and fails partway through. The name rather than the version is what differs per platform, which the second probe covers. Two scripts outside this gate probe a lower number on purpose rather than by drift: repo-config/configure.sh accepts 3.7+ because that is the oldest interpreter resolve_description.py happens to run on (PEP 563), not a second floor for this repo, and scripts/skills_install.sh / host-setup/*/install-skills.* accept 3.7+ because they must run on whatever a host already has before this floor's own toolchain exists to install one; neither is evidence that spec/ or scripts/ code should hedge for anything older than 3.13.",
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In @.agents/skills/python-codestyle/references/code-style.md:
- Around line 57-59: Clarify the Python codestyle policy in
.agents/skills/python-codestyle/references/code-style.md lines 57-59 so the
prohibition targets compatibility-motivated hedging while preserving valid
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CodeRabbit round 2 on PR #920: 'That floor' in the preceding sentence read as referring back to the probe's 3.7 minimum rather than the 3.13 repository floor the sentence itself states. Name it explicitly, and say 'any other spec/ code' rather than 'spec/ code in general' to scope the no-hedging rule unambiguously around the one named exception. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Re the suppressed finding on spec/host-tools.json:90 ('the why text says configure.sh accepts 3.7+ because resolve_description.py happens to run on it (PEP 563), but resolve_description.py uses X | None and list[...] type hints, so it cannot parse on 3.7'): declined, same premise as the identical findings on this PR's other threads. spec/resolve_description.py contains no 'list[...]' anywhere (its only annotations are 'registry: dict', 'name: str', '-> str | None', '-> int'), and 'str | None' does not fail to parse pre-3.10: 'X | Y' is the ordinary bitwise-or BinOp, syntactically legal in every CPython version - PEP 604 (3.10) made type.or evaluate it to a real union at runtime, it added no new grammar. With from future import annotations (PEP 563, present at the top of the file) the annotation is never evaluated at all. CodeRabbit's own ast.parse(..., feature_version=(3, 7)) run earlier in this PR confirmed the file parses under 3.7 grammar with no newer-only AST nodes. No change made. |
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The updated text still claims a 3.7+ bootstrap floor for resolve_description.py even though it currently uses 3.10+ syntax (X | None), which can make the probe select an interpreter that cannot parse the script.
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spec/host-tools.json:90
- The python3 "why" text says repo-config/configure.sh/resolve_description.py accept Python 3.7+, but spec/resolve_description.py uses
str | Nonetype hints which require Python 3.10+ to parse. This should be updated to avoid documenting a floor that the code does not actually support.
"why": "Every script here is standard library only, so a bare interpreter is enough and no package floor exists. The floor is the toolchain target rather than a measured breakage one version below it, which is the one entry here that reads that way and says so rather than implying a defect nobody found. pyproject.toml sets ruff target-version to py313 and mypy python_version to 3.13, so what those tools report describes 3.13 and describes no other interpreter, and a run below the floor is unverified rather than known broken. Both tools run in CI through uvx at their latest releases, beside the doc linters, the registry and spec validation, the script self-tests under coverage, and the repo and prose gates. That run judges the code rather than any host, so this floor is still a configuration choice rather than an enforced result, and a host failing it has no CI failure to point at. Two hard requirements are measured, both sit lower, and they fail differently. str.removeprefix and str.removesuffix need 3.9, and each is called where the tree actually calls it: removeprefix in scripts/prose_lint.py and spec/audit.py, removesuffix in spec/audit.py alone. An older interpreter starts, runs, and raises AttributeError when it reaches one. datetime.UTC needs 3.11 and arrives through a module-level from datetime import UTC in spec/audit.py, scripts/pr_review.py and its tests, so an older interpreter raises ImportError before any of those modules run at all. Which mode a host sees is decided by the script it runs rather than by the interpreter alone: spec/audit.py carries both and fails at import, scripts/pr_review.py carries only the import and fails the same way, and scripts/prose_lint.py carries only the call and therefore starts, runs, and fails partway through. The name rather than the version is what differs per platform, which the second probe covers. Two scripts outside this gate probe a lower number on purpose rather than by drift: repo-config/configure.sh accepts 3.7+ because that is the oldest interpreter resolve_description.py happens to run on (PEP 563), not a second floor for this repo, and scripts/skills_install.sh / host-setup/*/install-skills.* accept 3.7+ because they must run on whatever a host already has before this floor's own toolchain exists to install one; neither is evidence that spec/ or scripts/ code should hedge for anything older than 3.13.",
repo-config/configure.sh:77
- resolve_description.py currently uses Python 3.10+ syntax (
def resolve_description(...) -> str | None), so this 3.7+ probe/comment is inaccurate and can select an interpreter that will immediately hit a SyntaxError when running spec/resolve_description.py.
# The probe checks 3.7+ (PEP 563, from __future__ import annotations) because that is the oldest interpreter resolve_description.py happens to parse and run on, not because 3.7 is this repo's supported floor.
# The repository floor is 3.13 (spec/host-tools.json's python3 target, enforced on the host by scripts/host_gate.py); resolve_description.py's own from __future__ import annotations is what lets it stay parseable below that, not a license for any other spec/ code to hedge for anything older.
# A too-old interpreter fails here with a clear message instead of a bare traceback from the script.
if python3 -c "from __future__ import annotations" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
py_cmd=(python3)
.agents/skills/python-codestyle/references/code-style.md:57
- This section says repo-config/configure.sh accepts spec/resolve_description.py down to Python 3.7, but spec/resolve_description.py currently uses
str | Nonewhich requires Python 3.10+ to parse. The exception/floor should match what the code actually supports.
one, and `spec/resolve_description.py`, which `repo-config/configure.sh`'s own bootstrap probe
accepts down to 3.7 for the same reason, and which carries `from __future__ import annotations`
for exactly that purpose rather than out of habit. No other `spec/` code has a reason to hedge,
.github/skills/python-codestyle/references/code-style.md:57
- This section says repo-config/configure.sh accepts spec/resolve_description.py down to Python 3.7, but spec/resolve_description.py currently uses
str | Nonewhich requires Python 3.10+ to parse. The exception/floor should match what the code actually supports.
one, and `spec/resolve_description.py`, which `repo-config/configure.sh`'s own bootstrap probe
accepts down to 3.7 for the same reason, and which carries `from __future__ import annotations`
for exactly that purpose rather than out of habit. No other `spec/` code has a reason to hedge,
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/python-codestyle/references/code-style.md:57
- This section says repo-config/configure.sh accepts spec/resolve_description.py down to Python 3.7, but spec/resolve_description.py currently uses
str | Nonewhich requires Python 3.10+ to parse. The exception/floor should match what the code actually supports.
one, and `spec/resolve_description.py`, which `repo-config/configure.sh`'s own bootstrap probe
accepts down to 3.7 for the same reason, and which carries `from __future__ import annotations`
for exactly that purpose rather than out of habit. No other `spec/` code has a reason to hedge,
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Re the round-3 suppressed batch (5 comments, spec/host-tools.json:90, repo-config/configure.sh:77, and the three code-style.md copies:57), all restating that spec/resolve_description.py's '-> str | None' needs Python 3.10+ to parse and so the 3.7+ bootstrap probe/exception is wrong: this is the identical claim already answered and resolved on this same head's earlier threads (see the resolved discussions on this PR). Repeating it: 'X | Y' is ordinary bitwise-or BinOp grammar, legal in every CPython version - PEP 604 (3.10) only made type.or evaluate it to a real union at runtime, it added no new syntax - and from future import annotations (PEP 563, top of the file) defers the annotation from ever being evaluated at all, on any interpreter. CodeRabbit's own ast.parse(..., feature_version=(3, 7)) run earlier in this PR already confirmed the file parses under 3.7 grammar. No change made. |
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qodo-code-review on PR #921 (the develop-to-main promotion of #920): the no-semicolon-in-agent-authored-prose rule applies to shell comments and JSON 'why' strings too, not just Markdown, and PR #920 left two semicolons behind that prose_lint.py's semicolon check does not scan for (it is Markdown-only, same known gap as its dash/comment-wrap checks). Recast as two sentences in repo-config/configure.sh's comment and error message, and in spec/host-tools.json's python3 why. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Follow-up to #920: qodo-code-review caught, on the develop-to-main promotion PR (#921), that the no-semicolon-in-agent-authored-prose rule applies to shell comments and JSON `why` strings too, not just Markdown, and #920 left two semicolons behind that `scripts/prose_lint.py`'s semicolon check doesn't scan for (Markdown-only, the same known gap as its dash/comment-wrap checks). - `repo-config/configure.sh`: recast the comment and the failure message as two sentences each. - `spec/host-tools.json`: recast the `python3` tool's `why` the same way. Verified locally: `scripts/prose_lint.py` clean, `bash -n` clean, JSON valid, `pytest scripts/tests/test_host_gate.py scripts/tests/test_prose_lint.py scripts/tests/test_repo_gate.py` all pass (392 passed). 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Promotes #920 (Stop the 3.7 Bootstrap Probes From Reading as This Repo's Python Floor) from develop to main. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Documentation** * Clarified Python 3.13 as the repository-wide baseline for type hints and modern syntax. * Documented intentional lower-version exceptions and guidance for future imports and legacy typing. * Expanded interpreter compatibility details and improved setup-tool error guidance. * Removed an outdated Copilot review instruction record. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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The repo's Python floor is 3.13 (
spec/host-tools.json'spython3target,pyproject.toml'starget-version/python_version), but that wasn't visible from every place a reader could hit alower number first, which invites review comments that treat ordinary 3.10+ syntax (
X | None,etc.) as needing pre-3.10 hedging.
repo-config/configure.sh: itsresolve_description.pyprobe accepts 3.7+ (PEP 563), which isreal but was worded as if it were this repo's floor rather than one script's parse minimum.
Reworded the comment and the failure message to name 3.13 as the actual floor.
spec/host-tools.json: cross-referencedconfigure.shand theskills_install.sh/install-skills.*bootstrap scripts from thepython3entry'swhy, so a reader who lands oneither script's 3.7 language finds the real floor next to it instead of a second number.
python-codestyleskill (.agents/skills/python-codestyle/references/code-style.md, thehand-authored source;
.github/skills/and.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/regenerated viascripts/build_dist.py): the Type hints section already says to use modern syntax, but didn'tsay a 3.13 floor is why no hedging is needed. Added that, naming the two deliberate bootstrap
exceptions.
.github/copilot-instructions.md: deleted aDisproved Claimsentry that had gone stale. Itwas proved against
install.py's interpreter floor at 3.7 (dbd1cdc); Take the Auto-Fixable Ruff Findings, and Declare the Python Floor They Turn On #644 raised that floor to3.11 without updating this entry, so it now asserts something about
install.pythat isn't trueanymore. Its own governing rule says a stale-subject entry is deleted rather than patched to look
current.
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scripts/prose_lint.pyclean,scripts/build_dist.py --checkclean,scripts/repo_gate.pyclean,pytest scripts/tests/test_host_gate.py scripts/tests/test_prose_lint.py scripts/tests/test_repo_gate.pyall pass (392 passed).🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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