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  • Define one versioned, 12-item conformance checklist for oracle-test reviews.
  • Give every requirement an explicit trigger, obligation, acceptance evidence, and non-requirement.
  • Make fixed-seed, seedless-random, and seed-plus-path replay lanes normative for important generated properties.
  • Clarify that the five responsibilities, nine-question comparison, review card, state-minimality exercise, second formulation, and production mutants do not imply universal file-format requirements.
  • Clarify that AggregateError may preserve separate cleanup diagnostics.

Recent audits derived incompatible requirement sets from the same guide. Advice such as “useful audit instrument,” “ask,” and “when a model might share the bug” was sometimes scored as a universal checked-in requirement. That made audit totals incomparable and confused missing documentation with missing test behavior.

This change makes the guide mechanically interpretable without changing any product contract. The numbered checklist is the complete oracle-tests.md conformance surface; repository policies such as AGENTS.md and the coverage map still apply separately.

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  • pnpm prettier --check docs/contributing/oracle-tests.md
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  • I have tested this code locally with pnpm test. (Not run; this is a docs-only change.)
  • I have run the focused documentation and formatting checks listed above.

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  • Documentation
    • Reframed the oracle testing guide as a conformance checklist, clarifying requirement triggers, obligations, acceptance evidence, and when requirements do not apply.
    • Clarified which oracle responsibilities and refinement checks must be visible in the oracle or directly named companion modules.
    • Updated guidance on valid witnesses, test campaigns and replay, formulation comparisons, cleanup outcomes, and requirement keywords.
    • Explained that review cards are optional and that verdict-critical evidence outside the oracle must be tied to the exact reviewed version.
    • Expanded glossary and coverage guidance for refinement checks, review records, and oracle completeness.
  • Tests
    • Adjusted FIFO retry test seed selection for replay-path campaigns.

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Walkthrough

The guide defines twelve oracle-test conformance requirements and revises related guidance. It clarifies oracle responsibilities, evidence locations, campaign requirements, and the meanings of a refinement check and a versioned review record. The FIFO retry property test selects campaign seeds based on whether a replay path is configured.

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Oracle test guide

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define conformance requirements
docs/contributing/oracle-tests.md
Defines ORC-001 through ORC-012, including their triggers, obligations, acceptance evidence, and exclusions. Requires five oracle responsibilities to be visible in the oracle file or directly named companion modules.
Align guidance and replay campaigns
docs/contributing/oracle-tests.md, packages/offline-transactions/tests/fifo-retry.property.test.ts
Cites the requirements in existing guidance. Clarifies evidence-card status, grammar controls, fixed and random campaigns, stateful-model evidence, conditional formulation comparisons, and cleanup diagnostics. Selects campaign seeds based on whether a replay path is configured.
Align related definitions and instructions
AGENTS.md, docs/contributing/glossary.md, docs/contributing/oracle-coverage.md
Updates oracle-structure instructions and the coverage criterion, including the LIKE semantics evaluator. Defines refinement check and versioned review record in the glossary.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d3927

Reviewers may apply conflicting rules to otherwise conforming oracle tests. Align the two documents; the replay change does not present a separate merge risk.

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35-36: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Allow directly named companion modules.

The guide permits the five responsibilities in companion modules that the executable file names directly. This criterion requires them in the executable file, so the documents define conflicting conformance rules. Align this criterion with the guide.

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