[Cyberpradeep]

Summary

This PR enables full Windows compatibility for Harness², resolving the startup fcntl import failure and the silent tree-key rejection that causes StopIteration during multi-candidate selection at $k \ge 2$ (#151).

All changes are strictly isolated to Windows runtime paths; POSIX/Linux behavior is 100% unaffected.

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Root Causes Addressed

1. POSIX fcntl on Windows (harness2/core/schedule.py):
   _write_summary imported POSIX-only fcntl.flock to atomically merge mode results into summary.json. On Windows, this immediately crashed the test suite and CLI execution with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fcntl'.

   • Fix: Added _lock_summary(lf) and _unlock_summary(lf) branching on os.name == "nt" to use Python's standard library msvcrt.locking(lf.fileno(), ...) with an identical file descriptor locking contract.

2. Backslash Tree Keys & False Stub Mismatch (harness2/core/tree.py):
   On Windows, Path.relative_to() produces backslash separators (e.g. 'plugin\README.md', 'scripts\summarize.py').

   • Because stubs and component regexes expect forward slashes (/), rel in stubs evaluated to False.
   • As a result, harmless README stubs were categorized as unauthorized editable files (rejected), causing the engine to fail every proposed harness and fall back to the unmodified base script.
   • At $k=1$, selection was skipped as a trivial pool, masking the defect. At $k \ge 2$, selection evaluated candidate deliverables, found no signed totals, and raised StopIteration.
   • Fix: Standardized relative path key extraction in read_tree and write_tree using the existing normalize_rel() function, guaranteeing POSIX-compliant keys on all operating systems.

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Verification & Test Results

Tested on Windows 11 (Python 3.12.10, x64):

1. Unit Test Suite (python -m unittest discover -v tests):

   • Before fix: FAILED (failures=4, errors=3) due to ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fcntl'.
   • After fix: Ran 5 tests in 54.71s — OK (Failures: 0, Errors: 0).

2. Offline Deterministic Demo (harness2-demo --k 2):

   • Before fix: 0 tasks completed; 2 failed with agg: StopIteration: ; seq: StopIteration:.
   • After fix: 2 tasks completed; 0 failed — all candidate harnesses successfully evolved, executed, and produced expected signed totals (Total: 85.15).

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Execution Logs & Tracebacks

Click to expand: Unpatched Unit Test Failures (fcntl crash)

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ERROR: test_failed_selection_is_never_judged (test_workflow.WorkflowTests.test_failed_selection_is_never_judged)
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  [accounting] 1/2 exception    ledger-1  :: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fcntl'
  [accounting] 2/2 exception    ledger-2  :: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fcntl'

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FAIL: test_recursion_budget_and_resume (test_workflow.WorkflowTests.test_recursion_budget_and_resume) (k=2)
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AssertionError: Tuples differ: (0, 2) != (2, 0)
- (0, 2)
+ (2, 0)

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Ran 5 tests in 19.226s
FAILED (failures=4, errors=3)

Click to expand: Unpatched k=2 Root Cause & StopIteration Log

EXPERIMENT: RUNTIME FAILURE AT k=2 (Backslash Tree Key Rejection)
Inspecting Path handling on Windows:
Path('scripts/summarize.py'): str='scripts\\summarize.py', as_posix='scripts/summarize.py'
Keys produced by unpatched read_tree: ['scripts\\summarize.py']
'scripts/summarize.py' in tree_read? False
'scripts\\summarize.py' in tree_read? True

Running demo CLI with k=2:
  [accounting] 1/2 partial      ledger-1  :: agg: StopIteration: ; seq: StopIteration: 
  [accounting] 2/2 partial      ledger-2  :: agg: StopIteration: ; seq: StopIteration: 
Local demo: 0 tasks completed; 2 failed.

Found summary at runs\unpatched_k2_demo\runs\demo-oc-agg2\ledger-1\summary.json:
Status: partial
Errors: ['agg: StopIteration: ', 'seq: StopIteration: ']

Click to expand: Post-Fix Test Suite Output (5/5 Passing)

test_complete_evidence_and_library_prefix (test_workflow.WorkflowTests.test_complete_evidence_and_library_prefix) ... ok
test_failed_selection_is_never_judged (test_workflow.WorkflowTests.test_failed_selection_is_never_judged) ... ok
test_invalid_proposal_retries_with_feedback_and_accumulates_cost (test_workflow.WorkflowTests.test_invalid_proposal_retries_with_feedback_and_accumulates_cost) ... ok
test_no_entry_stays_out_of_library_on_resume (test_workflow.WorkflowTests.test_no_entry_stays_out_of_library_on_resume) ... ok
test_recursion_budget_and_resume (test_workflow.WorkflowTests.test_recursion_budget_and_resume) ... ok

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Ran 5 tests in 51.284s

OK

Click to expand: Post-Fix Demo Output (k=2 Passes 2/2 Tasks)

$ python -m harness2.cli.demo --output runs/final_demo_verify --k 2
  [accounting] 1/2 ok           ledger-1
  [accounting] 2/2 ok           ledger-2
Local demo: 2 tasks completed; 0 failed. D:\my-research\harness2\runs\final_demo_verify\demo.json

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