test(teach): verify reading-track docs against rendered HTML

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Goal

Close the last gap in the teaching-doc drift guard, so no documented output in the curriculum can silently drift from what the tool actually produces.

Problem

The guard replays every documented command and asserts the docs' output blocks match real CLI output. It covered 10 exercises and 2 labs, but skipped pm-01-reading-a-report.md and pm-02-reading-drift.md.

Those two are the reading track for PMs and reviewers — the audience least able to spot a wrong number. They don't quote stdout; they quote figures rendered into the HTML dashboard (Pass rate 61.5% Passed 8/13 New failures 4), and their steps say open index.html. A stdout-based guard cannot check either, so both were verified only by hand.

Hand verification does not survive contact with a busy repo. Every drift found so far was in a doc someone had already read.

Changes

Adds an HTML assertion mode to scripts/verify-teaching-docs.ts. verifyDoc takes a source of 'stdout' or 'html'; in HTML mode it replays the doc's own commands, reads back the report they rendered, reduces it to visible text, and matches documented figures against that.

Three details that matter:

• open ... is rewritten to a no-op, so CI never launches a browser.
• <script> and <style> bodies are stripped before matching. The report embeds its own data as JSON; without this a figure could satisfy an assertion by existing in the page data while being absent from what a reader sees.
• Whitespace is collapsed. The renderer splits Passed 8/13 across elements, which becomes Passed 8 /13 once tags are removed.

Why this is better

Coverage goes from 73 to 77 asserted lines and 10 to 12 exercises — the whole curriculum is now machine-checked. The reading track is the part most likely to be quoted in a release review, and it was the part with no guard.

Verification

pnpm teach:verify   # 77 lines across 12 exercises and 2 labs, exit 0
pnpm typecheck      # exit 0
pnpm test           # 47 files, 388 tests passing

Proven to fail, not just to pass. Injecting a wrong pass rate into both files (61.5% -> 55.5%, 92.3% -> 99.9%) produced two failures with exact file:line and exit 1; restoring returned it to green with the docs byte-identical.

The script-stripping false-pass case was tested directly: a figure present only inside <script> does not match, while the visible figure does.

Note for maintainers

examples/report-power-artifacts/report/index.html regenerates dirty on main, independent of this PR. Verified by stashing this change and running the repo's own pnpm artifacts:report-power on pristine HEAD. The committed fixture is stale relative to the current renderer (unreleased 4F.13 client-side-compare markup), so CI's git diff --exit-code artifact guard will fail until it is regenerated and committed. Not addressed here — it belongs to the change that introduced it.

Summary by CodeRabbit

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  • Expanded teaching-document verification to cover reading-track materials and HTML-rendered exercises.
  • Validation now checks the visible text presented in generated HTML, including documented figures.
  • Shell replay verification now handles browser-opening commands consistently.
  • Completion reporting includes the full set of verified HTML exercises.

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The teaching-document verifier now covers two reading-track documents. It replays their exercises without opening a browser, reads generated index.html files, and compares documented figures with normalized visible HTML text.

Changes

HTML teaching document verification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
HTML exercise setup scripts/verify-teaching-docs.ts	The verifier adds the two reading-track documents to HTML_EXERCISES. Shell replay replaces open commands with :.
Generated HTML validation scripts/verify-teaching-docs.ts	verifyDoc can validate generated HTML. It removes script and style content, strips tags, decodes entities, normalizes whitespace, and checks documented figures. The verifier copies examples/ to a temporary directory and includes the HTML exercises in the completion count.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant verifyDoc
  participant runShellBlock
  participant index.html
  verifyDoc->>runShellBlock: Replay the HTML exercise
  runShellBlock->>index.html: Generate the report
  verifyDoc->>index.html: Read visible text
  verifyDoc->>verifyDoc: Compare normalized documented figures

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A statistic rendered in the wrong dashboard can still pass documentation verification. Associate assertions with their individual reports before relying on this coverage.

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- Around line 202-232: Update the HTML handling in the verification flow around
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Good catch — this was a real hole, and I confirmed it before fixing: swapping pm-02's two header strips (good run <-> red run) passed verification on the previous commit. For a doc whose entire lesson is telling those two runs apart, that is exactly the drift the guard exists to catch.

Fixed in 6036e4a. Rather than invent new syntax, the guard now uses the attribution the docs already carry — each block inherits the report named just above it in the prose (eval-dashboard-red/index.html:) and is asserted against that report alone. Reports are kept as separate texts rather than joined. Blocks with no named report still match against all rendered output, so pm-01 and future single-report docs are unaffected.

Failure messages name the report checked:

docs/teach-exercises/pm-02-reading-drift.md:31
  documented : Pass rate 61.5%   Passed 8/13   New failures 4   ...
  real output (tail):
    (asserted against eval-dashboard-good/index.html)

Verified both directions: the swap now fails with both lines flagged, restoring returns to green with the docs byte-identical, and the original wrong-value case (61.5% -> 55.5%) is still caught. 388 tests, typecheck clean.

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Follow-up after an independent proofreading pass — the earlier fix was incomplete. Two further holes, both allowing a false pass, now closed in a880065.

1. Attribution leaked out of code fences. The match ran against every line, including the open <report>/index.html commands inside the ```sh block. Those are instructions to the reader, not attributions, so every later block silently inherited one. A block could therefore be matched against a report it did not come from. Only prose naming a report on its own line counts now.

2. Unattributed blocks fell back to the union. When a doc rendered several reports and a block named none of them, matching widened to all of them — the exact hole this work set out to close. That is now a failure. Docs rendering a single report (pm-01) still need no attribution, since there is nothing to confuse. A block naming a report that was never rendered now fails too, rather than silently widening the haystack.

Reproduction that passed before and fails now: strip the two eval-dashboard-good/index.html`: / eval-dashboard-red/index.html`: lines from pm-02 and the figures verify against the union — previously exit 0, now exit 1.

Verified four ways, each mutation applied and reverted with the tree confirmed clean:

• unattributed block in a multi-report doc → exit 1
• good/red figures swapped → exit 1, both lines flagged
• block attributed to a report never rendered → exit 1
• plain wrong value (61.5% → 55.5%) → exit 1
• untouched docs → exit 0, 77 lines across 12 exercises and 2 labs

Rebased onto current main (678314f). 405 tests pass, typecheck clean.