# Evidence: Block 43 · Service (block-43)

- block type: block
- date: 2026-08-23
- resulting state: closed/verified
- story points (combined assembled cost): 24894
- execution id: 20260823.120026.215Z-156f0541

## Stories built
- Run the complete jq conformance corpus. (CONF-003) [story]

## Stacked context
- compass: COMPASS.md (SP 3420)
- implements: FEATURE-CONF-003.md (SP 305)
- context: full_test.sh (SP 189)
- context: run_conformance.py (SP 4354)
- context: exclusions.txt (SP 654)
- context: jq.test (SP 13058)
- context: ARCHITECTURE_compact.md (SP 154)
- stack: python_compact.md (SP 1534)
- stack: common_compact.md (SP 1179)

## Build directory changes
- jq_interpreter/evaluator.py
- tests/test_conf_003_abs.py

## Pre-build acceptance observation
- RED: conf-003-full-suite (FEATURE-CONF-003.md)
  intent: The supplied complete conformance suite passes with a successful exit status.
  return code: 1
  stdout:
    FAIL jq.test:2250  output mismatch
        program:  abs
        input:    "abc"
        expected: ['"abc"']
        actual:   (no output)
        stderr:   jq: runtime error: bad operand type for abs(): 'str'
    jq conformance: 536 passed, 1 failed, 0 errored, 13 skipped (corpus jq.test @ jq-1.8.2)
  stderr:
    --- drydock: values at failure ---
      result = CompletedProcess(args=['sh', 'sources/full_test.sh'], returncode=1, stdout='FAIL jq.test:2250  output mismatch\n    program:  abs\n    input:    "abc"\n    expected: [\'"abc"\']\n    actual:   (no output)\n    stderr:   jq: runtime error: bad operand type for abs(): \'str\'\njq conformance: 536 passed, 1 failed, 0 errored, 13 skipped (corpus jq.test @ jq-1.8.2)\n', stderr='')
    --- drydock: end values ---
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "conf-003-full-suite.py", line 10, in <module>
        assert result.returncode == 0
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    AssertionError

## Post-build programmatic acceptance
- PASS: conf-003-full-suite (FEATURE-CONF-003.md)
  intent: The supplied complete conformance suite passes with a successful exit status.
  target interpreter: /mnt/c/Users/barlo/projects/drydock/.venv/bin/python3
  provisioning: not required
  return code: 0
  stdout:
    jq conformance: 537 passed, 0 failed, 0 errored, 13 skipped (corpus jq.test @ jq-1.8.2)

## Build summary
RESULT: SUCCESS

FILES CHANGED:
- jq_interpreter/evaluator.py
- tests/test_conf_003_abs.py

SUMMARY:
Fixed jq `abs` behavior for non-numeric values. Full conformance passed: 537 passed, 0 failed, 0 errored, 13 skipped. Project tests passed: 183 passed.

BLOCKERS:
- None