Evidence: Block 35 · Service (block-35)

• block type: block
• date: 2026-08-22
• resulting state: closed/verified
• story points (combined assembled cost): 53782
• execution id: 20260823.045149.005Z-117c6dab

Stories built

• Implement string manipulation builtins. (TEXT-001) [story]

Acceptance tooling authorization

• FEATURE-TEXT-001.md#text-001-conformance: executable=python3; scope=test; authorization=existing Target environment

Stacked context

• compass: COMPASS.md (SP 3420)
• implements: FEATURE-TEXT-001.md (SP 474)
• context: builtin.jq (SP 2408)
• context: jq-manual.txt (SP 32696)
• context: jq.test (SP 13058)
• context: ARCHITECTURE_compact.md (SP 154)
• stack: python_compact.md (SP 1534)

Build directory changes

• jq_interpreter/evaluator.py
• jq_interpreter/parser.py
• tests/test_text_001_string_builtins.py

Pre-build acceptance observation

• RED: text-001-conformance (FEATURE-TEXT-001.md)

intent: The string manipulation slice executes matching corpus cases and passes all selected cases. return code: 1 stdout: { "candidate": [ "/mnt/c/Users/barlo/projects/drydock/uat/jq/runs/20260822.044627/build/jq/jq" ], "corpus": "jq.test", "summary": { "pass": 28, "fail": 2, "error": 0, "skip": 1 }, "cases": [ { "line": 1516, "program": "split(\"\")", "status": "fail", "detail": "output mismatch", "expect_failure": false, "expected": [ "[\"a\",\"b\",\"c\"]" ], "actual": [] }, { "line": 1823, "program": "ascii_upcase", "status": "fail", "detail": "program did not compile: jq: compile error: unknown filter", "expect_failure": false, "expected": [ "\"USEFUL BUT NOT FOR \u00e9\"" ], "actual": [] }, { "line": 1912, "program": "import \"data\" as $e; import \"data\" as $d; [$d[].this,$e[].that,$d::d[].this,$e::e[].that]|join(\";\")", "status": "skip", "detail": "declared in exclusions.txt", "expect_failure": false, "expected": [ "\"is a test;is too;is a test;is too\"" ], "actual": [] } ] } stderr: --- drydock: progress --- cases: pass=28 fail=2 error=0 skip=1 total=31 from=summary --- drydock: end progress --- --- drydock: values at failure --- summary = {'pass': 28, 'fail': 2, 'error': 0, 'skip': 1} --- drydock: end values --- Traceback (most recent call last): File "text-001-conformance.py", line 18, in <module> assert summary["fail"] == 0 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AssertionError

Post-build programmatic acceptance

• PASS: text-001-conformance (FEATURE-TEXT-001.md)

intent: The string manipulation slice executes matching corpus cases and passes all selected cases. target interpreter: /mnt/c/Users/barlo/projects/drydock/.venv/bin/python3 provisioning: not required return code: 0 stdout: { "candidate": [ "/mnt/c/Users/barlo/projects/drydock/uat/jq/runs/20260822.044627/build/jq/jq" ], "corpus": "jq.test", "summary": { "pass": 30, "fail": 0, "error": 0, "skip": 1 }, "cases": [ { "line": 1912, "program": "import \"data\" as $e; import \"data\" as $d; [$d[].this,$e[].that,$d::d[].this,$e::e[].that]|join(\";\")", "status": "skip", "detail": "declared in exclusions.txt", "expect_failure": false, "expected": [ "\"is a test;is too;is a test;is too\"" ], "actual": [] } ] }

Build summary

Implemented TEXT-001 string builtins.

• Added ASCII case conversion and parser registration.
• Fixed empty-string splitting and strict string validation.
• Added focused regression tests.
• pytest -q: 156 passed.
• Scoped conformance: 30 passed, 0 failed, 0 errored, 1 skipped.

RESULT: SUCCESS

FILES CHANGED:

• jq_interpreter/parser.py
• jq_interpreter/evaluator.py
• tests/test_text_001_string_builtins.py

SUMMARY: String manipulation builtins now satisfy the declared scoped conformance suite.

BLOCKERS:

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