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Booting producer speaks before output is ready · case 01

The announcement trace violates the stated producer-readiness contract.

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ROOT CAUSE

Fault site: if state=='booting': pending.append(e[1]) is implemented as if state=='booting': out.append(e[1])

THE FAILURE

Fault site: if state=='booting': pending.append(e[1]) is implemented as if state=='booting': out.append(e[1])

Unsuccessful approach: The attempted repair substitutes if state=='booting': pending=[e[1]] and still violates a regression oracle.

Case contract

Announcement producer has booting/ready/failed state and generation. Start increments generation, enters booting, clears deferred messages. Publish during booting queues; ready publishes directly; failed drops. Ready callback must match generation, drains queued messages FIFO, and is ignored after failure. Fail matching generation clears deferred and announces unavailable once. Retry is a start. Stop fails silently and advances generation. Report speech,state,generation,deferred.

Why this case matters

Deterministic controlled model of assistive announcement delivery.

1 / The failure

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(events):
    state='failed'; generation=0; pending=[]; out=[]
    for e in events:
        if e[0] in ('start','retry'):
            generation+=1; state='booting'; pending=[]
        elif e[0]=='stop': state='failed'; generation+=1; pending=[]
        elif e[0]=='publish':
            if state=='booting': out.append(e[1])
            elif state=='ready': out.append(e[1])
        elif e[0] in ('ready','fail'):
            if e[1]!=generation: continue
            if state!='booting': continue
            if e[0]=='ready':
                state='ready'
                out.extend(pending)
                pending.clear()
            else:
                state='failed'; pending.clear(); out.append('unavailable')
    return [out,state,generation,pending]
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
fixtures = ["[['start'],['publish','first'*N],['publish','second'],['ready',1],['publish','third']]", "[['start'],['publish','old'],['retry'],['publish','new'*N],['ready',1]]", "[['start'],['publish','deferred'*N],['fail',1],['ready',1],['publish','should-drop']]", "[['start'],['publish','deferred'*N],['stop'],['ready',1]]", "[['start'],['fail',1],['fail',1],['retry'],['publish','retry'*N],['ready',2]]", "[['publish','dropped'*N],['ready',0]]", '[]']
expected = {1: [[['first', 'second', 'third'], 'ready', 1, []], [[], 'booting', 2, ['new']], [['unavailable'], 'failed', 1, []], [[], 'failed', 2, []], [['unavailable', 'retry'], 'ready', 2, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []]], 2: [[['firstfirst', 'second', 'third'], 'ready', 1, []], [[], 'booting', 2, ['newnew']], [['unavailable'], 'failed', 1, []], [[], 'failed', 2, []], [['unavailable', 'retryretry'], 'ready', 2, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []]], 3: [[['firstfirstfirst', 'second', 'third'], 'ready', 1, []], [[], 'booting', 2, ['newnewnew']], [['unavailable'], 'failed', 1, []], [[], 'failed', 2, []], [['unavailable', 'retryretryretry'], 'ready', 2, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []]], 4: [[['firstfirstfirstfirst', 'second', 'third'], 'ready', 1, []], [[], 'booting', 2, ['newnewnewnew']], [['unavailable'], 'failed', 1, []], [[], 'failed', 2, []], [['unavailable', 'retryretryretryretry'], 'ready', 2, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []]], 5: [[['firstfirstfirstfirstfirst', 'second', 'third'], 'ready', 1, []], [[], 'booting', 2, ['newnewnewnewnew']], [['unavailable'], 'failed', 1, []], [[], 'failed', 2, []], [['unavailable', 'retryretryretryretryretry'], 'ready', 2, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []]]}[N]
for i, expression in enumerate(fixtures):
    check("trace-"+str(i+1), solve(eval(expression)), expected[i])
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
trace-1[['first', 'second', 'third'], 'ready', 1, []][['first', 'second', 'third'], 'ready', 1, []]Passed
trace-2[['old', 'new'], 'booting', 2, []][[], 'booting', 2, ['new']]Failed
trace-3[['deferred', 'unavailable'], 'failed', 1, []][['unavailable'], 'failed', 1, []]Failed
trace-4[['deferred'], 'failed', 2, []][[], 'failed', 2, []]Failed
trace-5[['unavailable', 'retry'], 'ready', 2, []][['unavailable', 'retry'], 'ready', 2, []]Passed
trace-6[[], 'failed', 0, []][[], 'failed', 0, []]Passed
trace-7[[], 'failed', 0, []][[], 'failed', 0, []]Passed

SHA-256 / e72db7c7349a8ba3700e6abbec9eccfc0cee2f3b3d5176adf5953207ed59a599

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(events):
    state='failed'; generation=0; pending=[]; out=[]
    for e in events:
        if e[0] in ('start','retry'):
            generation+=1; state='booting'; pending=[]
        elif e[0]=='stop': state='failed'; generation+=1; pending=[]
        elif e[0]=='publish':
            if state=='booting': pending=[e[1]]
            elif state=='ready': out.append(e[1])
        elif e[0] in ('ready','fail'):
            if e[1]!=generation: continue
            if state!='booting': continue
            if e[0]=='ready':
                state='ready'
                out.extend(pending)
                pending.clear()
            else:
                state='failed'; pending.clear(); out.append('unavailable')
    return [out,state,generation,pending]
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
fixtures = ["[['start'],['publish','first'*N],['publish','second'],['ready',1],['publish','third']]", "[['start'],['publish','old'],['retry'],['publish','new'*N],['ready',1]]", "[['start'],['publish','deferred'*N],['fail',1],['ready',1],['publish','should-drop']]", "[['start'],['publish','deferred'*N],['stop'],['ready',1]]", "[['start'],['fail',1],['fail',1],['retry'],['publish','retry'*N],['ready',2]]", "[['publish','dropped'*N],['ready',0]]", '[]']
expected = {1: [[['first', 'second', 'third'], 'ready', 1, []], [[], 'booting', 2, ['new']], [['unavailable'], 'failed', 1, []], [[], 'failed', 2, []], [['unavailable', 'retry'], 'ready', 2, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []]], 2: [[['firstfirst', 'second', 'third'], 'ready', 1, []], [[], 'booting', 2, ['newnew']], [['unavailable'], 'failed', 1, []], [[], 'failed', 2, []], [['unavailable', 'retryretry'], 'ready', 2, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []]], 3: [[['firstfirstfirst', 'second', 'third'], 'ready', 1, []], [[], 'booting', 2, ['newnewnew']], [['unavailable'], 'failed', 1, []], [[], 'failed', 2, []], [['unavailable', 'retryretryretry'], 'ready', 2, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []]], 4: [[['firstfirstfirstfirst', 'second', 'third'], 'ready', 1, []], [[], 'booting', 2, ['newnewnewnew']], [['unavailable'], 'failed', 1, []], [[], 'failed', 2, []], [['unavailable', 'retryretryretryretry'], 'ready', 2, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []]], 5: [[['firstfirstfirstfirstfirst', 'second', 'third'], 'ready', 1, []], [[], 'booting', 2, ['newnewnewnewnew']], [['unavailable'], 'failed', 1, []], [[], 'failed', 2, []], [['unavailable', 'retryretryretryretryretry'], 'ready', 2, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []], [[], 'failed', 0, []]]}[N]
for i, expression in enumerate(fixtures):
    check("trace-"+str(i+1), solve(eval(expression)), expected[i])
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
trace-1[['second', 'third'], 'ready', 1, []][['first', 'second', 'third'], 'ready', 1, []]Failed
trace-2[[], 'booting', 2, ['new']][[], 'booting', 2, ['new']]Passed
trace-3[['unavailable'], 'failed', 1, []][['unavailable'], 'failed', 1, []]Passed
trace-4[[], 'failed', 2, []][[], 'failed', 2, []]Passed
trace-5[['unavailable', 'retry'], 'ready', 2, []][['unavailable', 'retry'], 'ready', 2, []]Passed
trace-6[[], 'failed', 0, []][[], 'failed', 0, []]Passed
trace-7[[], 'failed', 0, []][[], 'failed', 0, []]Passed

SHA-256 / 2f11f784784d804cae91582a094a11be267aacf5b2286410ec5716336fa398f2

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Verification & scope

Stipulated bounded policy, not a browser, speech engine, platform API, or standards conformance claim. This reproducer isolates one failure mechanism. Results cover the supplied fixtures. Variants within a family share a test contract and should remain grouped when constructing evaluation splits. Related mechanisms with a shared evaluation_group must also remain together; these controlled models are not independent production incidents.

Observations recorded using Python 3.12.14 at 2026-09-29T14:40:31.202176+00:00.

Case digest / a48d4177b4abcc334c10f75daa4b8c51c6c12446815bf7a81b1c717713e39021