Merge nucleic/olive-jade-civet-rznt into dev

build.ps1

@@ -25,11 +25,12 @@
 
 .PARAMETER Target
     protocol — the wire layer only (the required CI leg; needs no SQLite).
-    core     — NucleicCore, the full Windows manifest. Builds green as of the §12 item-9
-               shims; a failure here IS a regression. With -Test it instead runs
-               NucleicCarbonTests, which builds every declared target (nucleic-hostd,
-               NucleicProtocolC, nucleic-smoke) — those are §12 items 10+ and may still
-               fail; that output is what's left of the M0 gap list.
+    core     — NucleicCore, the full Windows manifest. With -Test it builds EVERY declared
+               target (nucleic-hostd, NucleicProtocolC, nucleic-smoke) and runs
+               NucleicCarbonTests. Both build and test are green on Windows 11 amd64 as of
+               2026-07-29, so a failure here is a REGRESSION, not a gap — this leg used to
+               be reported as expected-to-fail and that wording is exactly what let a real
+               `git` spawn bug read as an items-10+ gap for a day.
     broker   — the C# nucleic-brokerd contract tests (no Swift involved).
     all      — all three, continuing past a failing leg.
 
@@ -208,7 +209,7 @@ function Build-Protocol([hashtable]$sql) {
 function Build-Core([hashtable]$sql) {
     Write-Step 'core: building NucleicCore (full Windows manifest)'
     if ($Test) {
-        Write-Note '-Test builds EVERY target (hostd, NucleicProtocolC, smoke) — §12 items 10+ may still fail.'
+        Write-Note '-Test builds EVERY target (hostd, NucleicProtocolC, smoke) and runs NucleicCarbonTests.'
     }
     # NucleicCore only EXISTS when NUCLEIC_WINDOWS_PROTOCOL_ONLY is absent: with it set,
     # Package.swift narrows the manifest to [NucleicProtocol, NucleicProtocolTests] and this
@@ -255,18 +256,15 @@ try {
 
     Write-Host ''
     Write-Step 'Summary'
+    # No leg is excused any more. Every one of them has been green on Windows at least once,
+    # so a red leg is a regression to look at — not a status quo to scroll past.
     foreach ($k in $results.Keys) {
         $ok = $results[$k] -eq 0
-        # `core -Test` still reaches unported targets (§12 items 10+), so only that
-        # combination is reported as an expected gap rather than a red build.
-        $gap = ($k -eq 'core') -and $Test
-        $label = if ($ok) { 'PASS' } elseif ($gap) { 'FAIL (expected — items 10+ gap list)' } else { 'FAIL' }
-        $color = if ($ok) { 'Green' } elseif ($gap) { 'Yellow' } else { 'Red' }
-        Write-Host ("    {0,-9} {1}" -f $k, $label) -ForegroundColor $color
+        Write-Host ("    {0,-9} {1}" -f $k, $(if ($ok) { 'PASS' } else { 'FAIL' })) `
+            -ForegroundColor $(if ($ok) { 'Green' } else { 'Red' })
     }
 
-    $hard = @($results.Keys | Where-Object {
-        $results[$_] -ne 0 -and -not (($_ -eq 'core') -and $Test) })
+    $hard = @($results.Keys | Where-Object { $results[$_] -ne 0 })
     if ($hard.Count -gt 0) { exit 1 }
     exit 0
 } finally {