A root that fails its check is removed while sdp generate writes the others

outcome

Execute the check rule of the all-roots verb over five current roots, one of which holds a page its publisher would not write.

assumptions

• The world writes the extraction root of the generate example, runs sdp generate on it so every root is current, since each publisher alone would leave only its own root, then plants one stale page in the census root. It runs sdp generate --check-clean on the root, then checks that the census root is gone and that each other root's files equal the files its own publisher writes when run alone on a copy of the same root. Lists of roots read as in the generate example.

Examples

Given an extraction root holding two authored Specs and {roots: "five current projection roots, one stale page planted in the census root"}
When the command {command: "sdp generate --check-clean"} runs at that root
Then the command exits {exitCode: 1}
Then the stale pages survive: {staleSurvive: false}
Then the roots holding the current pages for those Specs are {currentRoots: "design-review, mermaid, gherkin, spec-studio"}
Then the absent projection roots are {absentRoots: "census"}

Verifier bindings

• test:protocol.command-line.generate-check-failure · anchored · test anchor binding present · test/self-hosting-command-line.test.ts:186

  External run evidence from test/self-hosting-command-line.test.ts

  Test anchors: test:protocol.command-line.generate-check-failure, test:protocol.command-line.generate-writes-every-root, test:protocol.command-line.verb-help-touches-nothing. Specs verified by those bindings: spec:consumers.command-line, spec:consumers.command-line.generate-check-failure, spec:consumers.command-line.generate-writes-every-root, spec:consumers.command-line.verb-help-touches-nothing.

  Run 1: external run evidence from vitest 4.1.10

  Build: CI 391 · Branch: cursor/media-plan-and-articles-09b1 · Commit: 076cd4f1f85640d8236e5cca1bffffa68ab79a33 · Start: 2026-10-31T15:32:20.471Z · Stop: 2026-10-31T15:34:02.073Z

  Name	Suite	Result	Duration
  executes the bound example against a fresh world	One run of sdp generate leaves all five roots current (spec:consumers.command-line.generate-writes-every-root)	passed	122.72 ms
  executes the bound example against a fresh world	A root that fails its check is removed while sdp generate writes the others (spec:consumers.command-line.generate-check-failure)	passed	81.13 ms
  executes the bound example against a fresh world	A publisher's --help prints its help and touches no root (spec:consumers.command-line.verb-help-touches-nothing)	passed	2.44 ms

Requirement drawing

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