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Loosening the reader lets a catastrophic pattern through;\n * tightening it breaks ordinary search, which is the pressure that would loosen it again.\n */\n\n/** Patterns a person would plausibly search a codebase with. */\nconst ordinary = [\n  \"TODO\",\n  \"TODO|FIXME|XXX\",\n  String.raw`function \\w+`,\n  \"^import .* from\",\n  String.raw`\\bclass\\s+[A-Z]\\w*`,\n  \"error|warning\",\n  String.raw`\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}`,\n  \"foo.*bar\",\n  String.raw`[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+`,\n  String.raw`export (const|function) \\w+`,\n  String.raw`\\s*//.*$`,\n  String.raw`^\\s*it\\(`,\n];\n\n/** Shapes whose failing match is super-linear, one per rule the reader implements. */\nconst catastrophic = [\n  \"(a+)+$\",\n  \"(a*)*$\",\n  \"([a-z]+)*$\",\n  String.raw`(\\w+\\s)*$`,\n  String.raw`^(\\w+\\s?)*$`,\n  \"(a?)+$\",\n  \"(a|a)+$\",\n  \"(a|ab)+$\",\n  String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`,\n  \"a+a+$\",\n];\n\ndescribe(\"patterns a search can run\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of ordinary) {\n    it(`accepts ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"accepts alternatives that decide themselves on the first character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(get|got)+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(ab|cd)+\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts two quantifiers a mandatory character keeps apart\", () => {\n    // The X pins the boundary, so neither quantifier can take the other's characters.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"a+Xa+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\d+\\s+`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+)X(a+)$\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts captures whose quantifiers cannot take each other's characters\", () => {\n    // Reading through groups must not cost the ordinary two-capture search.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\d+)-(\\d+)`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a quantifier that cannot repeat more than once\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){1}\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a lookahead over an atom, which consumes nothing to pump\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=a)b\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns that can backtrack super-linearly\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of catastrophic) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses nesting however the inner group is spelled\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?:a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<name>a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses a counted outer quantifier, which repeats just as ambiguously\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){2}\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses competing alternatives one level below the quantifier\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"((a|ab)y)+$\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * A capture is not a boundary. 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The bound therefore has to be decided\n * before the pattern runs, by reading its structure.\n *\n * What makes a failing match explode is ambiguity: more than one way for the pattern to\n * carve up the same text, so a failure at the end has to be retried against every carving.\n * Three shapes produce it, and each is refused here:\n *   - a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier: `(a+)+`, `(\\w+\\s)*`\n *   - a repeated body that can also match nothing: `(a?)+`, `(a|)*`\n *   - two variable quantifiers competing for the same character, side by side or as\n *     alternatives under one quantifier: `\\s*\\s*$`, `(a+)(a+)$`, `(a|ab)+`, `(\\w|\\d)+`\n *\n * Each rule reads the character the engine will match, not the characters the pattern is\n * spelled with, because the two differ: a digit escape is a backreference only when the\n * pattern has that many capture groups, and is otherwise a legacy octal escape, so\n * `\\141+\\141+\\141+X` is `a+a+a+X` written another way and has to be refused as one.\n *\n * This is known-shape refusal, not a proof of linear time, and it is conservative in both\n * directions: it refuses patterns that would have run fast. The gap it does have is a\n * backreference, whose ambiguity only exists at match time and so cannot be read off the\n * structure at all; the search tool's line-length cap is what bounds that one. Grouping is\n * not a gap, at any depth or in either direction: the walk carries the enclosing quantifier\n * down through groups and sequences, so `((a|ab)y)+` is refused the same as `(a|ab)+`, and\n * it reads back up through an unquantified group, so `(a+)(a+)$` is refused the same as\n * `a+a+$`, parentheses being a capture rather than a boundary. 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The bound therefore has to be decided\n * before the pattern runs, by reading its structure.\n *\n * What makes a failing match explode is ambiguity: more than one way for the pattern to\n * carve up the same text, so a failure at the end has to be retried against every carving.\n * Three shapes produce it, and each is refused here:\n *   - a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier: `(a+)+`, `(\\w+\\s)*`\n *   - a repeated body that can also match nothing: `(a?)+`, `(a|)*`\n *   - two variable quantifiers competing for the same character, side by side or as\n *     alternatives under one quantifier: `\\s*\\s*$`, `(a+)(a+)$`, `(a|ab)+`, `(\\w|\\d)+`\n *\n * Each rule reads the character the engine will match, not the characters the pattern is\n * spelled with, because the two differ: a digit escape is a backreference only when the\n * pattern has that many capture groups, and is otherwise a legacy octal escape, so\n * `\\141+\\141+\\141+X` is `a+a+a+X` written another way and has to be refused as one.\n *\n * This is known-shape refusal, not a proof of linear time, and it is conservative in both\n * directions: it refuses patterns that would have run fast. The gap it does have is a\n * backreference, whose ambiguity only exists at match time and so cannot be read off the\n * structure at all; the search tool's line-length cap is what bounds that one. Grouping is\n * not a gap, at any depth or in either direction: the walk carries the enclosing quantifier\n * down through groups and sequences, so `((a|ab)y)+` is refused the same as `(a|ab)+`, and\n * it reads back up through an unquantified group, so `(a+)(a+)$` is refused the same as\n * `a+a+$`, parentheses being a capture rather than a boundary. 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An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. 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Disjointness is the answer that lets\n * a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by default: `\\1+\\1+\\1+X` is `\\x01` three\n * times over and backtracks exactly as `a+a+a+X` does, and reading an unprobed atom as\n * matching nothing would have cleared it.\n */\nfunction charactersOverlap(left: readonly string[], right: readonly string[]): boolean {\n  return left.some((leftAtom) => {\n    const leftMatches = probeMatches(leftAtom);\n    return right.some((rightAtom) => {\n      const rightMatches = probeMatches(rightAtom);\n      return (\n        leftMatches.length === 0 ||\n        rightMatches.length === 0 ||\n        rightMatches.some((probe) => leftMatches.includes(probe))\n      );\n    });\n  });\n}\n\n/**\n * Every code unit an escape can name directly, since a hex or octal escape reaches all of\n * them, plus one character past the range so classes written over wider scripts still probe.\n */\nconst probeAlphabet: readonly string[] = [\n  ...Array.from({ length: 256 }, (_, code) => String.fromCharCode(code)),\n  \"中\",\n];\n\nconst probeCache = new Map<string, readonly string[]>();\n\nfunction probeMatches(atomSource: string): readonly string[] {\n  const cached = probeCache.get(atomSource);\n  if (cached !== undefined) {\n    return cached;\n  }\n  let matched: readonly string[];\n  try {\n    // atomSource is one single-character atom the parser above produced, a literal, an\n    // escape or a character class, never a quantifier or a group. Anchored and matched\n    // against one character at a time, it has nothing to backtrack over, so this is the\n    // one non-literal RegExp in the module that cannot be what the module exists to stop.\n    // nosemgrep: javascript.lang.security.audit.detect-non-literal-regexp.detect-non-literal-regexp\n    const atom = new RegExp(`^(?:${atomSource})$`);\n    matched = probeAlphabet.filter((probe) => atom.test(probe));\n  } catch {\n    matched = [];\n  }\n  probeCache.set(atomSource, matched);\n  return matched;\n}\n\nfunction firstRisk(\n  nodes: readonly PatternNode[],\n  check: (node: PatternNode) => BacktrackingRisk | null,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  for (const node of nodes) {\n    const risk = check(node);\n    if (risk !== null) {\n      return risk;\n    }\n  }\n  return null;\n}\n\nfunction quote(span: Span, source: string): string {\n  return source.slice(span.start, span.end);\n}\n\n// The parser: enough of the JavaScript pattern grammar to see quantifier nesting and\n// single-character atoms. Anything it does not recognise raises, and the caller refuses.\n\ninterface Cursor {\n  readonly source: string;\n  /** Decides whether a digit escape is a backreference, so it must be known before the walk. */\n  readonly captureCount: number;\n  index: number;\n}\n\nfunction parsePattern(source: string): PatternNode {\n  const cursor: Cursor = { source, captureCount: countCaptureGroups(source), index: 0 };\n  const parsed = parseAlternation(cursor);\n  if (cursor.index !== source.length) {\n    throw new PatternUnreadableError(`unexpected \"${source[cursor.index] ?? \"\"}\"`);\n  }\n  return parsed;\n}\n\n/**\n * The engine counts every capture group in the whole pattern, including ones written after\n * the escape that cites them, so this is a pass over the source rather than a running total.\n */\nfunction countCaptureGroups(source: string): number {\n  let count = 0;\n  let insideClass = false;\n  for (let index = 0; index < source.length; index += 1) {\n    const char = source[index];\n    if (char === \"\\\\\") {\n      index += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (insideClass) {\n      insideClass = char !== \"]\";\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char === \"[\") {\n      insideClass = true;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char !== \"(\") {\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (source[index + 1] !== \"?\") {\n      count += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    // A named group captures; `(?:`, `(?=`, `(?!`, `(?<=` and `(?<!` do not.\n    const afterAngle = source[index + 3];\n    if (source[index + 2] === \"<\" && afterAngle !== \"=\" && afterAngle !== \"!\") {\n      count += 1;\n    }\n  }\n  return count;\n}\n\nfunction parseAlternation(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const branches = [parseSequence(cursor)];\n  while (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"|\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    branches.push(parseSequence(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = branches[0];\n  if (branches.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"alternation\", branches, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseSequence(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const terms: PatternNode[] = [];\n  while (cursor.index < cursor.source.length) {\n    const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n    if (char === \"|\" || char === \")\") {\n      break;\n    }\n    terms.push(parseTerm(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = terms[0];\n  if (terms.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"sequence\", terms, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseTerm(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const body = parseAtom(cursor);\n  const bounds = parseQuantifier(cursor);\n  if (bounds === null) {\n    return body;\n  }\n  // A lazy quantifier backtracks over the same splits, just in the other order.\n  if (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"repeat\", body, min: bounds.min, max: bounds.max, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nconst quantifierBounds = /^\\{(\\d+)(,(\\d+)?)?\\}/;\n\nfunction parseQuantifier(cursor: Cursor): { min: number; max: number } | null {\n  const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n  if (char === \"*\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"+\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 1, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: 1 };\n  }\n  if (char !== \"{\") {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const braced = quantifierBounds.exec(cursor.source.slice(cursor.index));\n  const lower = braced?.[1];\n  if (braced === null || lower === undefined) {\n    // Not a quantifier at all: an unmatched \"{\" is a literal brace.\n    return null;\n  }\n  cursor.index += braced[0].length;\n  const min = Number(lower);\n  if (braced[2] === undefined) {\n    return { min, max: min };\n  }\n  const upper = braced[3];\n  return { min, max: upper === undefined ? 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Loosening the reader lets a catastrophic pattern through;\n * tightening it breaks ordinary search, which is the pressure that would loosen it again.\n */\n\n/** Patterns a person would plausibly search a codebase with. */\nconst ordinary = [\n  \"TODO\",\n  \"TODO|FIXME|XXX\",\n  String.raw`function \\w+`,\n  \"^import .* from\",\n  String.raw`\\bclass\\s+[A-Z]\\w*`,\n  \"error|warning\",\n  String.raw`\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}`,\n  \"foo.*bar\",\n  String.raw`[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+`,\n  String.raw`export (const|function) \\w+`,\n  String.raw`\\s*//.*$`,\n  String.raw`^\\s*it\\(`,\n];\n\n/** Shapes whose failing match is super-linear, one per rule the reader implements. */\nconst catastrophic = [\n  \"(a+)+$\",\n  \"(a*)*$\",\n  \"([a-z]+)*$\",\n  String.raw`(\\w+\\s)*$`,\n  String.raw`^(\\w+\\s?)*$`,\n  \"(a?)+$\",\n  \"(a|a)+$\",\n  \"(a|ab)+$\",\n  String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`,\n  \"a+a+$\",\n];\n\ndescribe(\"patterns a search can run\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of ordinary) {\n    it(`accepts ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"accepts alternatives that decide themselves on the first character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(get|got)+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(ab|cd)+\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts two quantifiers a mandatory character keeps apart\", () => {\n    // The X pins the boundary, so neither quantifier can take the other's characters.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"a+Xa+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\d+\\s+`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+)X(a+)$\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts captures whose quantifiers cannot take each other's characters\", () => {\n    // Reading through groups must not cost the ordinary two-capture search.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\d+)-(\\d+)`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a quantifier that cannot repeat more than once\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){1}\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a lookahead over an atom, which consumes nothing to pump\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=a)b\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns that can backtrack super-linearly\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of catastrophic) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses nesting however the inner group is spelled\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?:a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<name>a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses a counted outer quantifier, which repeats just as ambiguously\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){2}\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses competing alternatives one level below the quantifier\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"((a|ab)y)+$\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * A capture is not a boundary. This family reached a real search through the guard once,\n   * because the neighbour scan only looked at bare quantifiers and `(a+)` is a group; it is\n   * the same ambiguity as `a+a+` with parentheses drawn around it. The earlier suite tested\n   * only the bare spelling, which is why nothing caught it.\n   */\n  for (const pattern of [\n    \"(a+)(a+)$\",\n    \"(a+)(a*)$\",\n    String.raw`(\\w+)(\\w+)$`,\n    String.raw`(\\s*)(\\s*)$`,\n    \"((a+))((a+))$\",\n  ]) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, the same competition with parentheses drawn round it`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookaround rather than trusting it\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns it cannot read\", () => {\n  /** An unread pattern is one nothing bounds, so it is refused rather than run. */\n  for (const pattern of [\"(\", \"a\\\\\", \"(?#comment)a\", \"[a-z\"]) {\n    it(`refuses ${JSON.stringify(pattern)} rather than guessing`, () => {\n      const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(pattern);\n      expect(risk?.reason).toContain(\"could not be read structurally\");\n    });\n  }\n});\n\ndescribe(\"what a refusal says\", () => {\n  it(\"names the construct carrying the risk, quoted from the pattern\", () => {\n    const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(\"^prefix (a+)+ suffix$\");\n\n    expect(risk).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(risk?.construct).toBe(\"(a+)+\");\n    expect(risk?.reason.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);\n  });\n\n  it(\"quotes both quantifiers when they compete in sequence\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`)?.construct).toBe(String.raw`\\s*\\s*`);\n  });\n});\n\n/**\n * The octal normalization, the 256-code-unit probe alphabet, and the fail-closed empty\n * probe shipped together with no dedicated test. This is the lesson the grouped-spelling\n * miss already taught, written down: an untested guard spelling is the live one, and every\n * family below is a spelling of a rule the suite above already covers in ASCII.\n */\ndescribe(\"competing quantifiers spelled as octal escapes\", () => {\n  /**\n   * `\\141` is `a`, so each of these is a pattern the suite above refuses, retyped. 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Anything it does not recognise raises, and the caller refuses.\n\ninterface Cursor {\n  readonly source: string;\n  /** Decides whether a digit escape is a backreference, so it must be known before the walk. */\n  readonly captureCount: number;\n  index: number;\n}\n\nfunction parsePattern(source: string): PatternNode {\n  const cursor: Cursor = { source, captureCount: countCaptureGroups(source), index: 0 };\n  const parsed = parseAlternation(cursor);\n  if (cursor.index !== source.length) {\n    throw new PatternUnreadableError(`unexpected \"${source[cursor.index] ?? \"\"}\"`);\n  }\n  return parsed;\n}\n\n/**\n * The engine counts every capture group in the whole pattern, including ones written after\n * the escape that cites them, so this is a pass over the source rather than a running total.\n */\nfunction countCaptureGroups(source: string): number {\n  let count = 0;\n  let insideClass = false;\n  for (let index = 0; index < source.length; index += 1) {\n    const char = source[index];\n    if (char === \"\\\\\") {\n      index += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (insideClass) {\n      insideClass = char !== \"]\";\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char === \"[\") {\n      insideClass = true;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char !== \"(\") {\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (source[index + 1] !== \"?\") {\n      count += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    // A named group captures; `(?:`, `(?=`, `(?!`, `(?<=` and `(?<!` do not.\n    const afterAngle = source[index + 3];\n    if (source[index + 2] === \"<\" && afterAngle !== \"=\" && afterAngle !== \"!\") {\n      count += 1;\n    }\n  }\n  return count;\n}\n\nfunction parseAlternation(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const branches = [parseSequence(cursor)];\n  while (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"|\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    branches.push(parseSequence(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = branches[0];\n  if (branches.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"alternation\", branches, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseSequence(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const terms: PatternNode[] = [];\n  while (cursor.index < cursor.source.length) {\n    const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n    if (char === \"|\" || char === \")\") {\n      break;\n    }\n    terms.push(parseTerm(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = terms[0];\n  if (terms.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"sequence\", terms, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseTerm(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const body = parseAtom(cursor);\n  const bounds = parseQuantifier(cursor);\n  if (bounds === null) {\n    return body;\n  }\n  // A lazy quantifier backtracks over the same splits, just in the other order.\n  if (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"repeat\", body, min: bounds.min, max: bounds.max, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nconst quantifierBounds = /^\\{(\\d+)(,(\\d+)?)?\\}/;\n\nfunction parseQuantifier(cursor: Cursor): { min: number; max: number } | null {\n  const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n  if (char === \"*\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"+\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 1, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: 1 };\n  }\n  if (char !== \"{\") {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const braced = quantifierBounds.exec(cursor.source.slice(cursor.index));\n  const lower = braced?.[1];\n  if (braced === null || lower === undefined) {\n    // Not a quantifier at all: an unmatched \"{\" is a literal brace.\n    return null;\n  }\n  cursor.index += braced[0].length;\n  const min = Number(lower);\n  if (braced[2] === undefined) {\n    return { min, max: min };\n  }\n  const upper = braced[3];\n  return { min, max: upper === undefined ? 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Only the escape is consumed: any digits past it\n * are ordinary characters that carry their own quantifier, so `\\18+` repeats the `8`, and\n * leaving them for the sequence loop is what binds the quantifier where the engine binds it.\n */\nfunction parseDigitEscape(cursor: Cursor, start: number): PatternNode {\n  const digitsStart = start + 1;\n  let digitsEnd = digitsStart;\n  while (isDigit(cursor.source[digitsEnd])) {\n    digitsEnd += 1;\n  }\n  const digits = cursor.source.slice(digitsStart, digitsEnd);\n  const leading = digits[0] ?? \"\";\n  if (leading !== \"0\" && Number(digits) <= cursor.captureCount) {\n    cursor.index = digitsEnd;\n    return backreferenceFrom(cursor, start);\n  }\n\n  const consumed = legacyEscapeLength(digits);\n  cursor.index = digitsStart + consumed;\n  const code =\n    leading === \"8\" || leading === \"9\"\n      ? leading.charCodeAt(0)\n      : Number.parseInt(digits.slice(0, consumed), 8);\n  return {\n    // Written back as a hex escape rather than as the character: an octal escape can decode\n    // to a metacharacter, and `\\x2b` is what the probe below can compile where `+` is not.\n    kind: \"character\",\n    source: `\\\\x${code.toString(16).padStart(2, \"0\")}`,\n    start,\n    end: cursor.index,\n  };\n}\n\n/** How many of the digits the engine folds into one escape, per the legacy octal grammar. */\nfunction legacyEscapeLength(digits: string): number {\n  const leading = digits[0] ?? \"\";\n  if (leading === \"8\" || leading === \"9\" || !isOctalDigit(digits[1])) {\n    return 1;\n  }\n  // Only a leading 0 to 3 can carry a third digit without overflowing a byte.\n  return leading <= \"3\" && isOctalDigit(digits[2]) ? 3 : 2;\n}\n\nfunction backreferenceFrom(cursor: Cursor, start: number): PatternNode {\n  return {\n    kind: \"backreference\",\n    source: cursor.source.slice(start, cursor.index),\n    start,\n    end: cursor.index,\n  };\n}\n\nfunction consumeEscapeArgument(cursor: Cursor, marker: string): void {\n  const braced = marker === \"u\" || marker === \"p\" || marker === \"P\";\n  if (braced && cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"{\") {\n    const closed = cursor.source.indexOf(\"}\", cursor.index);\n    if (closed === -1) {\n      throw new PatternUnreadableError(\"unterminated escape\");\n    }\n    cursor.index = closed + 1;\n    return;\n  }\n  const digits = marker === \"u\" ? 4 : marker === \"x\" ? 2 : marker === \"c\" ? 1 : 0;\n  cursor.index = Math.min(cursor.index + digits, cursor.source.length);\n}\n\nfunction isDigit(char: string | undefined): boolean {\n  return char !== undefined && char >= \"0\" && char <= \"9\";\n}\n\nfunction isOctalDigit(char: string | undefined): boolean {\n  return char !== undefined && char >= \"0\" && char <= \"7\";\n}\n\n[evidence record sha256:bec2ab70651816e988c8d7aab91e3802732b56138a04bfb73a01e12f47ded31f kind tool-call:read]",
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Loosening the reader lets a catastrophic pattern through;\n * tightening it breaks ordinary search, which is the pressure that would loosen it again.\n */\n\n/** Patterns a person would plausibly search a codebase with. */\nconst ordinary = [\n  \"TODO\",\n  \"TODO|FIXME|XXX\",\n  String.raw`function \\w+`,\n  \"^import .* from\",\n  String.raw`\\bclass\\s+[A-Z]\\w*`,\n  \"error|warning\",\n  String.raw`\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}`,\n  \"foo.*bar\",\n  String.raw`[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+`,\n  String.raw`export (const|function) \\w+`,\n  String.raw`\\s*//.*$`,\n  String.raw`^\\s*it\\(`,\n];\n\n/** Shapes whose failing match is super-linear, one per rule the reader implements. */\nconst catastrophic = [\n  \"(a+)+$\",\n  \"(a*)*$\",\n  \"([a-z]+)*$\",\n  String.raw`(\\w+\\s)*$`,\n  String.raw`^(\\w+\\s?)*$`,\n  \"(a?)+$\",\n  \"(a|a)+$\",\n  \"(a|ab)+$\",\n  String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`,\n  \"a+a+$\",\n];\n\ndescribe(\"patterns a search can run\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of ordinary) {\n    it(`accepts ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"accepts alternatives that decide themselves on the first character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(get|got)+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(ab|cd)+\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts two quantifiers a mandatory character keeps apart\", () => {\n    // The X pins the boundary, so neither quantifier can take the other's characters.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"a+Xa+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\d+\\s+`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+)X(a+)$\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts captures whose quantifiers cannot take each other's characters\", () => {\n    // Reading through groups must not cost the ordinary two-capture search.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\d+)-(\\d+)`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a quantifier that cannot repeat more than once\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){1}\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a lookahead over an atom, which consumes nothing to pump\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=a)b\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns that can backtrack super-linearly\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of catastrophic) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses nesting however the inner group is spelled\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?:a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<name>a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses a counted outer quantifier, which repeats just as ambiguously\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){2}\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses competing alternatives one level below the quantifier\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"((a|ab)y)+$\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * A capture is not a boundary. This family reached a real search through the guard once,\n   * because the neighbour scan only looked at bare quantifiers and `(a+)` is a group; it is\n   * the same ambiguity as `a+a+` with parentheses drawn around it. The earlier suite tested\n   * only the bare spelling, which is why nothing caught it.\n   */\n  for (const pattern of [\n    \"(a+)(a+)$\",\n    \"(a+)(a*)$\",\n    String.raw`(\\w+)(\\w+)$`,\n    String.raw`(\\s*)(\\s*)$`,\n    \"((a+))((a+))$\",\n  ]) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, the same competition with parentheses drawn round it`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookaround rather than trusting it\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns it cannot read\", () => {\n  /** An unread pattern is one nothing bounds, so it is refused rather than run. */\n  for (const pattern of [\"(\", \"a\\\\\", \"(?#comment)a\", \"[a-z\"]) {\n    it(`refuses ${JSON.stringify(pattern)} rather than guessing`, () => {\n      const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(pattern);\n      expect(risk?.reason).toContain(\"could not be read structurally\");\n    });\n  }\n});\n\ndescribe(\"what a refusal says\", () => {\n  it(\"names the construct carrying the risk, quoted from the pattern\", () => {\n    const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(\"^prefix (a+)+ suffix$\");\n\n    expect(risk).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(risk?.construct).toBe(\"(a+)+\");\n    expect(risk?.reason.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);\n  });\n\n  it(\"quotes both quantifiers when they compete in sequence\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`)?.construct).toBe(String.raw`\\s*\\s*`);\n  });\n});\n\n/**\n * The octal normalization, the 256-code-unit probe alphabet, and the fail-closed empty\n * probe shipped together with no dedicated test. This is the lesson the grouped-spelling\n * miss already taught, written down: an untested guard spelling is the live one, and every\n * family below is a spelling of a rule the suite above already covers in ASCII.\n */\ndescribe(\"competing quantifiers spelled as octal escapes\", () => {\n  /**\n   * `\\141` is `a`, so each of these is a pattern the suite above refuses, retyped. The\n   * engine decides `\\` plus digits is an octal escape rather than a backreference by\n   * counting capture groups, so a reader that skipped the digits would see two atoms it\n   * could not compare and clear the pattern.\n   */\n  for (const [pattern, plain] of [\n    [String.raw`\\141+\\141+X`, \"a+a+X\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)+$`, \"(a+)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141|\\141)+$`, \"(a|a)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)(\\141+)$`, \"(a+)(a+)$\"],\n  ] as const) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, which is ${plain}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses a two-digit and a one-digit octal the same way\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\60+\\60+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\0+\\0+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"compares an octal atom against a literal one, not only against another octal\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+a+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The other direction, and the one that says the normalization decodes rather than\n   * refusing anything with a backslash in it: `\\141` and `\\142` are `a` and `b`, which\n   * cannot take each other's characters, so this is an ordinary search.\n   */\n  it(\"accepts two octal atoms that are genuinely disjoint\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+\\142+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * Only the escape is consumed. `\\18` is `\\x01` followed by a literal `8`, so the `+`\n   * binds to the `8` and the two `8+` runs are held apart by the `\\x01` between them.\n   * Consuming the trailing digit into the escape would bind the quantifier somewhere the\n   * engine does not.\n   */\n  it(\"leaves a digit past the escape as its own quantified character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\18+\\18+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"atoms that only match non-printable code units\", () => {\n  /**\n   * The probe alphabet runs the whole 256-code-unit range rather than the printable part\n   * of it, because a control character is a character a quantifier can pump over. An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. An atom the probe alphabet cannot decide is undecided, and undecided has to\n   * read as overlapping: reading it as matching nothing would clear the pattern on the\n   * strength of not having understood it.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom that matches nothing at all\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[^\\s\\S]+[^\\s\\S]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`([^\\s\\S]+)+$`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom outside the probed range\", () => {\n    // Fullwidth forms: no probe in the alphabet matches them, so nothing is decided.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The cost of failing closed, pinned so it stays a decision. These two atoms are\n   * genuinely disjoint and the pattern is safe, and it is refused anyway because one of\n   * them is unprobed. Refusing a safe search is the direction this is allowed to be wrong\n   * in; clearing an unsafe one is not.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses an unprobed atom beside a probed one, which is the false positive it accepts\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+a+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"limits this reader is known to have\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Ambiguity a backreference introduces is invisible to a structural read, since what the\n   * reference matches is only known at match time. Recorded so the gap is a decision rather\n   * than a surprise: the line-length cap in the search tool is what bounds this one.\n   */\n  it(\"does not see ambiguity introduced by a backreference\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\1$`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\n[evidence record sha256:251b9b0ab9ff0cc3b6c67a1261a78875d771b382b662d9c9ec6f758004c3ce12 kind tool-call:read]",
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Anything it does not recognise raises, and the caller refuses.\n\ninterface Cursor {\n  readonly source: string;\n  /** Decides whether a digit escape is a backreference, so it must be known before the walk. */\n  readonly captureCount: number;\n  index: number;\n}\n\nfunction parsePattern(source: string): PatternNode {\n  const cursor: Cursor = { source, captureCount: countCaptureGroups(source), index: 0 };\n  const parsed = parseAlternation(cursor);\n  if (cursor.index !== source.length) {\n    throw new PatternUnreadableError(`unexpected \"${source[cursor.index] ?? \"\"}\"`);\n  }\n  return parsed;\n}\n\n/**\n * The engine counts every capture group in the whole pattern, including ones written after\n * the escape that cites them, so this is a pass over the source rather than a running total.\n */\nfunction countCaptureGroups(source: string): number {\n  let count = 0;\n  let insideClass = false;\n  for (let index = 0; index < source.length; index += 1) {\n    const char = source[index];\n    if (char === \"\\\\\") {\n      index += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (insideClass) {\n      insideClass = char !== \"]\";\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char === \"[\") {\n      insideClass = true;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char !== \"(\") {\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (source[index + 1] !== \"?\") {\n      count += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    // A named group captures; `(?:`, `(?=`, `(?!`, `(?<=` and `(?<!` do not.\n    const afterAngle = source[index + 3];\n    if (source[index + 2] === \"<\" && afterAngle !== \"=\" && afterAngle !== \"!\") {\n      count += 1;\n    }\n  }\n  return count;\n}\n\nfunction parseAlternation(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const branches = [parseSequence(cursor)];\n  while (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"|\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    branches.push(parseSequence(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = branches[0];\n  if (branches.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"alternation\", branches, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseSequence(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const terms: PatternNode[] = [];\n  while (cursor.index < cursor.source.length) {\n    const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n    if (char === \"|\" || char === \")\") {\n      break;\n    }\n    terms.push(parseTerm(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = terms[0];\n  if (terms.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"sequence\", terms, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseTerm(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const body = parseAtom(cursor);\n  const bounds = parseQuantifier(cursor);\n  if (bounds === null) {\n    return body;\n  }\n  // A lazy quantifier backtracks over the same splits, just in the other order.\n  if (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"repeat\", body, min: bounds.min, max: bounds.max, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nconst quantifierBounds = /^\\{(\\d+)(,(\\d+)?)?\\}/;\n\nfunction parseQuantifier(cursor: Cursor): { min: number; max: number } | null {\n  const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n  if (char === \"*\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"+\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 1, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: 1 };\n  }\n  if (char !== \"{\") {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const braced = quantifierBounds.exec(cursor.source.slice(cursor.index));\n  const lower = braced?.[1];\n  if (braced === null || lower === undefined) {\n    // Not a quantifier at all: an unmatched \"{\" is a literal brace.\n    return null;\n  }\n  cursor.index += braced[0].length;\n  const min = Number(lower);\n  if (braced[2] === undefined) {\n    return { min, max: min };\n  }\n  const upper = braced[3];\n  return { min, max: upper === undefined ? 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An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. 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Anything it does not recognise raises, and the caller refuses.\n\ninterface Cursor {\n  readonly source: string;\n  /** Decides whether a digit escape is a backreference, so it must be known before the walk. */\n  readonly captureCount: number;\n  index: number;\n}\n\nfunction parsePattern(source: string): PatternNode {\n  const cursor: Cursor = { source, captureCount: countCaptureGroups(source), index: 0 };\n  const parsed = parseAlternation(cursor);\n  if (cursor.index !== source.length) {\n    throw new PatternUnreadableError(`unexpected \"${source[cursor.index] ?? \"\"}\"`);\n  }\n  return parsed;\n}\n\n/**\n * The engine counts every capture group in the whole pattern, including ones written after\n * the escape that cites them, so this is a pass over the source rather than a running total.\n */\nfunction countCaptureGroups(source: string): number {\n  let count = 0;\n  let insideClass = false;\n  for (let index = 0; index < source.length; index += 1) {\n    const char = source[index];\n    if (char === \"\\\\\") {\n      index += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (insideClass) {\n      insideClass = char !== \"]\";\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char === \"[\") {\n      insideClass = true;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char !== \"(\") {\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (source[index + 1] !== \"?\") {\n      count += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    // A named group captures; `(?:`, `(?=`, `(?!`, `(?<=` and `(?<!` do not.\n    const afterAngle = source[index + 3];\n    if (source[index + 2] === \"<\" && afterAngle !== \"=\" && afterAngle !== \"!\") {\n      count += 1;\n    }\n  }\n  return count;\n}\n\nfunction parseAlternation(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const branches = [parseSequence(cursor)];\n  while (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"|\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    branches.push(parseSequence(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = branches[0];\n  if (branches.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"alternation\", branches, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseSequence(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const terms: PatternNode[] = [];\n  while (cursor.index < cursor.source.length) {\n    const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n    if (char === \"|\" || char === \")\") {\n      break;\n    }\n    terms.push(parseTerm(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = terms[0];\n  if (terms.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"sequence\", terms, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseTerm(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const body = parseAtom(cursor);\n  const bounds = parseQuantifier(cursor);\n  if (bounds === null) {\n    return body;\n  }\n  // A lazy quantifier backtracks over the same splits, just in the other order.\n  if (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"repeat\", body, min: bounds.min, max: bounds.max, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nconst quantifierBounds = /^\\{(\\d+)(,(\\d+)?)?\\}/;\n\nfunction parseQuantifier(cursor: Cursor): { min: number; max: number } | null {\n  const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n  if (char === \"*\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"+\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 1, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: 1 };\n  }\n  if (char !== \"{\") {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const braced = quantifierBounds.exec(cursor.source.slice(cursor.index));\n  const lower = braced?.[1];\n  if (braced === null || lower === undefined) {\n    // Not a quantifier at all: an unmatched \"{\" is a literal brace.\n    return null;\n  }\n  cursor.index += braced[0].length;\n  const min = Number(lower);\n  if (braced[2] === undefined) {\n    return { min, max: min };\n  }\n  const upper = braced[3];\n  return { min, max: upper === undefined ? 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Anything it does not recognise raises, and the caller refuses.\n\ninterface Cursor {\n  readonly source: string;\n  /** Decides whether a digit escape is a backreference, so it must be known before the walk. */\n  readonly captureCount: number;\n  index: number;\n}\n\nfunction parsePattern(source: string): PatternNode {\n  const cursor: Cursor = { source, captureCount: countCaptureGroups(source), index: 0 };\n  const parsed = parseAlternation(cursor);\n  if (cursor.index !== source.length) {\n    throw new PatternUnreadableError(`unexpected \"${source[cursor.index] ?? \"\"}\"`);\n  }\n  return parsed;\n}\n\n/**\n * The engine counts every capture group in the whole pattern, including ones written after\n * the escape that cites them, so this is a pass over the source rather than a running total.\n */\nfunction countCaptureGroups(source: string): number {\n  let count = 0;\n  let insideClass = false;\n  for (let index = 0; index < source.length; index += 1) {\n    const char = source[index];\n    if (char === \"\\\\\") {\n      index += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (insideClass) {\n      insideClass = char !== \"]\";\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char === \"[\") {\n      insideClass = true;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char !== \"(\") {\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (source[index + 1] !== \"?\") {\n      count += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    // A named group captures; `(?:`, `(?=`, `(?!`, `(?<=` and `(?<!` do not.\n    const afterAngle = source[index + 3];\n    if (source[index + 2] === \"<\" && afterAngle !== \"=\" && afterAngle !== \"!\") {\n      count += 1;\n    }\n  }\n  return count;\n}\n\nfunction parseAlternation(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const branches = [parseSequence(cursor)];\n  while (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"|\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    branches.push(parseSequence(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = branches[0];\n  if (branches.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"alternation\", branches, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseSequence(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const terms: PatternNode[] = [];\n  while (cursor.index < cursor.source.length) {\n    const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n    if (char === \"|\" || char === \")\") {\n      break;\n    }\n    terms.push(parseTerm(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = terms[0];\n  if (terms.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"sequence\", terms, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseTerm(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const body = parseAtom(cursor);\n  const bounds = parseQuantifier(cursor);\n  if (bounds === null) {\n    return body;\n  }\n  // A lazy quantifier backtracks over the same splits, just in the other order.\n  if (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"repeat\", body, min: bounds.min, max: bounds.max, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nconst quantifierBounds = /^\\{(\\d+)(,(\\d+)?)?\\}/;\n\nfunction parseQuantifier(cursor: Cursor): { min: number; max: number } | null {\n  const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n  if (char === \"*\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"+\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 1, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: 1 };\n  }\n  if (char !== \"{\") {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const braced = quantifierBounds.exec(cursor.source.slice(cursor.index));\n  const lower = braced?.[1];\n  if (braced === null || lower === undefined) {\n    // Not a quantifier at all: an unmatched \"{\" is a literal brace.\n    return null;\n  }\n  cursor.index += braced[0].length;\n  const min = Number(lower);\n  if (braced[2] === undefined) {\n    return { min, max: min };\n  }\n  const upper = braced[3];\n  return { min, max: upper === undefined ? 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Otherwise the engine reads the digits as a legacy octal escape (`\\141` is\n * `a`), or, for `8` and `9`, as the digit itself, and the rules above have to see the\n * character that will actually be matched. Only the escape is consumed: any digits past it\n * are ordinary characters that carry their own quantifier, so `\\18+` repeats the `8`, and\n * leaving them for the sequence loop is what binds the quantifier where the engine binds it.\n */\nfunction parseDigitEscape(cursor: Cursor, start: number): PatternNode {\n  const digitsStart = start + 1;\n  let digitsEnd = digitsStart;\n  while (isDigit(cursor.source[digitsEnd])) {\n    digitsEnd += 1;\n  }\n  const digits = cursor.source.slice(digitsStart, digitsEnd);\n  const leading = digits[0] ?? \"\";\n  if (leading !== \"0\" && Number(digits) <= cursor.captureCount) {\n    cursor.index = digitsEnd;\n    return backreferenceFrom(cursor, start);\n  }\n\n  const consumed = legacyEscapeLength(digits);\n  cursor.index = digitsStart + consumed;\n  const code =\n    leading === \"8\" || leading === \"9\"\n      ? leading.charCodeAt(0)\n      : Number.parseInt(digits.slice(0, consumed), 8);\n  return {\n    // Written back as a hex escape rather than as the character: an octal escape can decode\n    // to a metacharacter, and `\\x2b` is what the probe below can compile where `+` is not.\n    kind: \"character\",\n    source: `\\\\x${code.toString(16).padStart(2, \"0\")}`,\n    start,\n    end: cursor.index,\n  };\n}\n\n/** How many of the digits the engine folds into one escape, per the legacy octal grammar. */\nfunction legacyEscapeLength(digits: string): number {\n  const leading = digits[0] ?? \"\";\n  if (leading === \"8\" || leading === \"9\" || !isOctalDigit(digits[1])) {\n    return 1;\n  }\n  // Only a leading 0 to 3 can carry a third digit without overflowing a byte.\n  return leading <= \"3\" && isOctalDigit(digits[2]) ? 3 : 2;\n}\n\nfunction backreferenceFrom(cursor: Cursor, start: number): PatternNode {\n  return {\n    kind: \"backreference\",\n    source: cursor.source.slice(start, cursor.index),\n    start,\n    end: cursor.index,\n  };\n}\n\nfunction consumeEscapeArgument(cursor: Cursor, marker: string): void {\n  const braced = marker === \"u\" || marker === \"p\" || marker === \"P\";\n  if (braced && cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"{\") {\n    const closed = cursor.source.indexOf(\"}\", cursor.index);\n    if (closed === -1) {\n      throw new PatternUnreadableError(\"unterminated escape\");\n    }\n    cursor.index = closed + 1;\n    return;\n  }\n  const digits = marker === \"u\" ? 4 : marker === \"x\" ? 2 : marker === \"c\" ? 1 : 0;\n  cursor.index = Math.min(cursor.index + digits, cursor.source.length);\n}\n\nfunction isDigit(char: string | undefined): boolean {\n  return char !== undefined && char >= \"0\" && char <= \"9\";\n}\n\nfunction isOctalDigit(char: string | undefined): boolean {\n  return char !== undefined && char >= \"0\" && char <= \"7\";\n}\n\n[evidence record sha256:bec2ab70651816e988c8d7aab91e3802732b56138a04bfb73a01e12f47ded31f kind tool-call:read]",
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Loosening the reader lets a catastrophic pattern through;\n * tightening it breaks ordinary search, which is the pressure that would loosen it again.\n */\n\n/** Patterns a person would plausibly search a codebase with. */\nconst ordinary = [\n  \"TODO\",\n  \"TODO|FIXME|XXX\",\n  String.raw`function \\w+`,\n  \"^import .* from\",\n  String.raw`\\bclass\\s+[A-Z]\\w*`,\n  \"error|warning\",\n  String.raw`\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}`,\n  \"foo.*bar\",\n  String.raw`[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+`,\n  String.raw`export (const|function) \\w+`,\n  String.raw`\\s*//.*$`,\n  String.raw`^\\s*it\\(`,\n];\n\n/** Shapes whose failing match is super-linear, one per rule the reader implements. */\nconst catastrophic = [\n  \"(a+)+$\",\n  \"(a*)*$\",\n  \"([a-z]+)*$\",\n  String.raw`(\\w+\\s)*$`,\n  String.raw`^(\\w+\\s?)*$`,\n  \"(a?)+$\",\n  \"(a|a)+$\",\n  \"(a|ab)+$\",\n  String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`,\n  \"a+a+$\",\n];\n\ndescribe(\"patterns a search can run\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of ordinary) {\n    it(`accepts ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"accepts alternatives that decide themselves on the first character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(get|got)+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(ab|cd)+\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts two quantifiers a mandatory character keeps apart\", () => {\n    // The X pins the boundary, so neither quantifier can take the other's characters.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"a+Xa+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\d+\\s+`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+)X(a+)$\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts captures whose quantifiers cannot take each other's characters\", () => {\n    // Reading through groups must not cost the ordinary two-capture search.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\d+)-(\\d+)`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a quantifier that cannot repeat more than once\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){1}\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a lookahead over an atom, which consumes nothing to pump\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=a)b\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns that can backtrack super-linearly\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of catastrophic) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses nesting however the inner group is spelled\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?:a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<name>a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses a counted outer quantifier, which repeats just as ambiguously\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){2}\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses competing alternatives one level below the quantifier\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"((a|ab)y)+$\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * A capture is not a boundary. This family reached a real search through the guard once,\n   * because the neighbour scan only looked at bare quantifiers and `(a+)` is a group; it is\n   * the same ambiguity as `a+a+` with parentheses drawn around it. The earlier suite tested\n   * only the bare spelling, which is why nothing caught it.\n   */\n  for (const pattern of [\n    \"(a+)(a+)$\",\n    \"(a+)(a*)$\",\n    String.raw`(\\w+)(\\w+)$`,\n    String.raw`(\\s*)(\\s*)$`,\n    \"((a+))((a+))$\",\n  ]) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, the same competition with parentheses drawn round it`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookaround rather than trusting it\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns it cannot read\", () => {\n  /** An unread pattern is one nothing bounds, so it is refused rather than run. */\n  for (const pattern of [\"(\", \"a\\\\\", \"(?#comment)a\", \"[a-z\"]) {\n    it(`refuses ${JSON.stringify(pattern)} rather than guessing`, () => {\n      const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(pattern);\n      expect(risk?.reason).toContain(\"could not be read structurally\");\n    });\n  }\n});\n\ndescribe(\"what a refusal says\", () => {\n  it(\"names the construct carrying the risk, quoted from the pattern\", () => {\n    const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(\"^prefix (a+)+ suffix$\");\n\n    expect(risk).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(risk?.construct).toBe(\"(a+)+\");\n    expect(risk?.reason.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);\n  });\n\n  it(\"quotes both quantifiers when they compete in sequence\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`)?.construct).toBe(String.raw`\\s*\\s*`);\n  });\n});\n\n/**\n * The octal normalization, the 256-code-unit probe alphabet, and the fail-closed empty\n * probe shipped together with no dedicated test. This is the lesson the grouped-spelling\n * miss already taught, written down: an untested guard spelling is the live one, and every\n * family below is a spelling of a rule the suite above already covers in ASCII.\n */\ndescribe(\"competing quantifiers spelled as octal escapes\", () => {\n  /**\n   * `\\141` is `a`, so each of these is a pattern the suite above refuses, retyped. The\n   * engine decides `\\` plus digits is an octal escape rather than a backreference by\n   * counting capture groups, so a reader that skipped the digits would see two atoms it\n   * could not compare and clear the pattern.\n   */\n  for (const [pattern, plain] of [\n    [String.raw`\\141+\\141+X`, \"a+a+X\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)+$`, \"(a+)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141|\\141)+$`, \"(a|a)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)(\\141+)$`, \"(a+)(a+)$\"],\n  ] as const) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, which is ${plain}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses a two-digit and a one-digit octal the same way\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\60+\\60+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\0+\\0+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"compares an octal atom against a literal one, not only against another octal\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+a+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The other direction, and the one that says the normalization decodes rather than\n   * refusing anything with a backslash in it: `\\141` and `\\142` are `a` and `b`, which\n   * cannot take each other's characters, so this is an ordinary search.\n   */\n  it(\"accepts two octal atoms that are genuinely disjoint\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+\\142+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * Only the escape is consumed. `\\18` is `\\x01` followed by a literal `8`, so the `+`\n   * binds to the `8` and the two `8+` runs are held apart by the `\\x01` between them.\n   * Consuming the trailing digit into the escape would bind the quantifier somewhere the\n   * engine does not.\n   */\n  it(\"leaves a digit past the escape as its own quantified character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\18+\\18+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"atoms that only match non-printable code units\", () => {\n  /**\n   * The probe alphabet runs the whole 256-code-unit range rather than the printable part\n   * of it, because a control character is a character a quantifier can pump over. An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. An atom the probe alphabet cannot decide is undecided, and undecided has to\n   * read as overlapping: reading it as matching nothing would clear the pattern on the\n   * strength of not having understood it.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom that matches nothing at all\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[^\\s\\S]+[^\\s\\S]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`([^\\s\\S]+)+$`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom outside the probed range\", () => {\n    // Fullwidth forms: no probe in the alphabet matches them, so nothing is decided.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The cost of failing closed, pinned so it stays a decision. These two atoms are\n   * genuinely disjoint and the pattern is safe, and it is refused anyway because one of\n   * them is unprobed. Refusing a safe search is the direction this is allowed to be wrong\n   * in; clearing an unsafe one is not.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses an unprobed atom beside a probed one, which is the false positive it accepts\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+a+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"limits this reader is known to have\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Ambiguity a backreference introduces is invisible to a structural read, since what the\n   * reference matches is only known at match time. Recorded so the gap is a decision rather\n   * than a surprise: the line-length cap in the search tool is what bounds this one.\n   */\n  it(\"does not see ambiguity introduced by a backreference\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\1$`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\n[evidence record sha256:251b9b0ab9ff0cc3b6c67a1261a78875d771b382b662d9c9ec6f758004c3ce12 kind tool-call:read]",
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Anything it does not recognise raises, and the caller refuses.\n\ninterface Cursor {\n  readonly source: string;\n  /** Decides whether a digit escape is a backreference, so it must be known before the walk. */\n  readonly captureCount: number;\n  index: number;\n}\n\nfunction parsePattern(source: string): PatternNode {\n  const cursor: Cursor = { source, captureCount: countCaptureGroups(source), index: 0 };\n  const parsed = parseAlternation(cursor);\n  if (cursor.index !== source.length) {\n    throw new PatternUnreadableError(`unexpected \"${source[cursor.index] ?? \"\"}\"`);\n  }\n  return parsed;\n}\n\n/**\n * The engine counts every capture group in the whole pattern, including ones written after\n * the escape that cites them, so this is a pass over the source rather than a running total.\n */\nfunction countCaptureGroups(source: string): number {\n  let count = 0;\n  let insideClass = false;\n  for (let index = 0; index < source.length; index += 1) {\n    const char = source[index];\n    if (char === \"\\\\\") {\n      index += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (insideClass) {\n      insideClass = char !== \"]\";\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char === \"[\") {\n      insideClass = true;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char !== \"(\") {\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (source[index + 1] !== \"?\") {\n      count += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    // A named group captures; `(?:`, `(?=`, `(?!`, `(?<=` and `(?<!` do not.\n    const afterAngle = source[index + 3];\n    if (source[index + 2] === \"<\" && afterAngle !== \"=\" && afterAngle !== \"!\") {\n      count += 1;\n    }\n  }\n  return count;\n}\n\nfunction parseAlternation(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const branches = [parseSequence(cursor)];\n  while (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"|\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    branches.push(parseSequence(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = branches[0];\n  if (branches.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"alternation\", branches, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseSequence(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const terms: PatternNode[] = [];\n  while (cursor.index < cursor.source.length) {\n    const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n    if (char === \"|\" || char === \")\") {\n      break;\n    }\n    terms.push(parseTerm(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = terms[0];\n  if (terms.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"sequence\", terms, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseTerm(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const body = parseAtom(cursor);\n  const bounds = parseQuantifier(cursor);\n  if (bounds === null) {\n    return body;\n  }\n  // A lazy quantifier backtracks over the same splits, just in the other order.\n  if (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"repeat\", body, min: bounds.min, max: bounds.max, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nconst quantifierBounds = /^\\{(\\d+)(,(\\d+)?)?\\}/;\n\nfunction parseQuantifier(cursor: Cursor): { min: number; max: number } | null {\n  const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n  if (char === \"*\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"+\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 1, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: 1 };\n  }\n  if (char !== \"{\") {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const braced = quantifierBounds.exec(cursor.source.slice(cursor.index));\n  const lower = braced?.[1];\n  if (braced === null || lower === undefined) {\n    // Not a quantifier at all: an unmatched \"{\" is a literal brace.\n    return null;\n  }\n  cursor.index += braced[0].length;\n  const min = Number(lower);\n  if (braced[2] === undefined) {\n    return { min, max: min };\n  }\n  const upper = braced[3];\n  return { min, max: upper === undefined ? 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Otherwise the engine reads the digits as a legacy octal escape (`\\141` is\n * `a`), or, for `8` and `9`, as the digit itself, and the rules above have to see the\n * character that will actually be matched. Only the escape is consumed: any digits past it\n * are ordinary characters that carry their own quantifier, so `\\18+` repeats the `8`, and\n * leaving them for the sequence loop is what binds the quantifier where the engine binds it.\n */\nfunction parseDigitEscape(cursor: Cursor, start: number): PatternNode {\n  const digitsStart = start + 1;\n  let digitsEnd = digitsStart;\n  while (isDigit(cursor.source[digitsEnd])) {\n    digitsEnd += 1;\n  }\n  const digits = cursor.source.slice(digitsStart, digitsEnd);\n  const leading = digits[0] ?? \"\";\n  if (leading !== \"0\" && Number(digits) <= cursor.captureCount) {\n    cursor.index = digitsEnd;\n    return backreferenceFrom(cursor, start);\n  }\n\n  const consumed = legacyEscapeLength(digits);\n  cursor.index = digitsStart + consumed;\n  const code =\n    leading === \"8\" || leading === \"9\"\n      ? leading.charCodeAt(0)\n      : Number.parseInt(digits.slice(0, consumed), 8);\n  return {\n    // Written back as a hex escape rather than as the character: an octal escape can decode\n    // to a metacharacter, and `\\x2b` is what the probe below can compile where `+` is not.\n    kind: \"character\",\n    source: `\\\\x${code.toString(16).padStart(2, \"0\")}`,\n    start,\n    end: cursor.index,\n  };\n}\n\n/** How many of the digits the engine folds into one escape, per the legacy octal grammar. */\nfunction legacyEscapeLength(digits: string): number {\n  const leading = digits[0] ?? \"\";\n  if (leading === \"8\" || leading === \"9\" || !isOctalDigit(digits[1])) {\n    return 1;\n  }\n  // Only a leading 0 to 3 can carry a third digit without overflowing a byte.\n  return leading <= \"3\" && isOctalDigit(digits[2]) ? 3 : 2;\n}\n\nfunction backreferenceFrom(cursor: Cursor, start: number): PatternNode {\n  return {\n    kind: \"backreference\",\n    source: cursor.source.slice(start, cursor.index),\n    start,\n    end: cursor.index,\n  };\n}\n\nfunction consumeEscapeArgument(cursor: Cursor, marker: string): void {\n  const braced = marker === \"u\" || marker === \"p\" || marker === \"P\";\n  if (braced && cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"{\") {\n    const closed = cursor.source.indexOf(\"}\", cursor.index);\n    if (closed === -1) {\n      throw new PatternUnreadableError(\"unterminated escape\");\n    }\n    cursor.index = closed + 1;\n    return;\n  }\n  const digits = marker === \"u\" ? 4 : marker === \"x\" ? 2 : marker === \"c\" ? 1 : 0;\n  cursor.index = Math.min(cursor.index + digits, cursor.source.length);\n}\n\nfunction isDigit(char: string | undefined): boolean {\n  return char !== undefined && char >= \"0\" && char <= \"9\";\n}\n\nfunction isOctalDigit(char: string | undefined): boolean {\n  return char !== undefined && char >= \"0\" && char <= \"7\";\n}\n\n[evidence record sha256:bec2ab70651816e988c8d7aab91e3802732b56138a04bfb73a01e12f47ded31f kind tool-call:read]",
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Loosening the reader lets a catastrophic pattern through;\n * tightening it breaks ordinary search, which is the pressure that would loosen it again.\n */\n\n/** Patterns a person would plausibly search a codebase with. */\nconst ordinary = [\n  \"TODO\",\n  \"TODO|FIXME|XXX\",\n  String.raw`function \\w+`,\n  \"^import .* from\",\n  String.raw`\\bclass\\s+[A-Z]\\w*`,\n  \"error|warning\",\n  String.raw`\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}`,\n  \"foo.*bar\",\n  String.raw`[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+`,\n  String.raw`export (const|function) \\w+`,\n  String.raw`\\s*//.*$`,\n  String.raw`^\\s*it\\(`,\n];\n\n/** Shapes whose failing match is super-linear, one per rule the reader implements. */\nconst catastrophic = [\n  \"(a+)+$\",\n  \"(a*)*$\",\n  \"([a-z]+)*$\",\n  String.raw`(\\w+\\s)*$`,\n  String.raw`^(\\w+\\s?)*$`,\n  \"(a?)+$\",\n  \"(a|a)+$\",\n  \"(a|ab)+$\",\n  String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`,\n  \"a+a+$\",\n];\n\ndescribe(\"patterns a search can run\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of ordinary) {\n    it(`accepts ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"accepts alternatives that decide themselves on the first character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(get|got)+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(ab|cd)+\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts two quantifiers a mandatory character keeps apart\", () => {\n    // The X pins the boundary, so neither quantifier can take the other's characters.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"a+Xa+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\d+\\s+`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+)X(a+)$\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts captures whose quantifiers cannot take each other's characters\", () => {\n    // Reading through groups must not cost the ordinary two-capture search.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\d+)-(\\d+)`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a quantifier that cannot repeat more than once\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){1}\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a lookahead over an atom, which consumes nothing to pump\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=a)b\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns that can backtrack super-linearly\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of catastrophic) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses nesting however the inner group is spelled\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?:a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<name>a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses a counted outer quantifier, which repeats just as ambiguously\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){2}\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses competing alternatives one level below the quantifier\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"((a|ab)y)+$\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * A capture is not a boundary. This family reached a real search through the guard once,\n   * because the neighbour scan only looked at bare quantifiers and `(a+)` is a group; it is\n   * the same ambiguity as `a+a+` with parentheses drawn around it. The earlier suite tested\n   * only the bare spelling, which is why nothing caught it.\n   */\n  for (const pattern of [\n    \"(a+)(a+)$\",\n    \"(a+)(a*)$\",\n    String.raw`(\\w+)(\\w+)$`,\n    String.raw`(\\s*)(\\s*)$`,\n    \"((a+))((a+))$\",\n  ]) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, the same competition with parentheses drawn round it`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookaround rather than trusting it\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns it cannot read\", () => {\n  /** An unread pattern is one nothing bounds, so it is refused rather than run. */\n  for (const pattern of [\"(\", \"a\\\\\", \"(?#comment)a\", \"[a-z\"]) {\n    it(`refuses ${JSON.stringify(pattern)} rather than guessing`, () => {\n      const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(pattern);\n      expect(risk?.reason).toContain(\"could not be read structurally\");\n    });\n  }\n});\n\ndescribe(\"what a refusal says\", () => {\n  it(\"names the construct carrying the risk, quoted from the pattern\", () => {\n    const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(\"^prefix (a+)+ suffix$\");\n\n    expect(risk).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(risk?.construct).toBe(\"(a+)+\");\n    expect(risk?.reason.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);\n  });\n\n  it(\"quotes both quantifiers when they compete in sequence\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`)?.construct).toBe(String.raw`\\s*\\s*`);\n  });\n});\n\n/**\n * The octal normalization, the 256-code-unit probe alphabet, and the fail-closed empty\n * probe shipped together with no dedicated test. This is the lesson the grouped-spelling\n * miss already taught, written down: an untested guard spelling is the live one, and every\n * family below is a spelling of a rule the suite above already covers in ASCII.\n */\ndescribe(\"competing quantifiers spelled as octal escapes\", () => {\n  /**\n   * `\\141` is `a`, so each of these is a pattern the suite above refuses, retyped. The\n   * engine decides `\\` plus digits is an octal escape rather than a backreference by\n   * counting capture groups, so a reader that skipped the digits would see two atoms it\n   * could not compare and clear the pattern.\n   */\n  for (const [pattern, plain] of [\n    [String.raw`\\141+\\141+X`, \"a+a+X\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)+$`, \"(a+)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141|\\141)+$`, \"(a|a)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)(\\141+)$`, \"(a+)(a+)$\"],\n  ] as const) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, which is ${plain}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses a two-digit and a one-digit octal the same way\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\60+\\60+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\0+\\0+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"compares an octal atom against a literal one, not only against another octal\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+a+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The other direction, and the one that says the normalization decodes rather than\n   * refusing anything with a backslash in it: `\\141` and `\\142` are `a` and `b`, which\n   * cannot take each other's characters, so this is an ordinary search.\n   */\n  it(\"accepts two octal atoms that are genuinely disjoint\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+\\142+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * Only the escape is consumed. `\\18` is `\\x01` followed by a literal `8`, so the `+`\n   * binds to the `8` and the two `8+` runs are held apart by the `\\x01` between them.\n   * Consuming the trailing digit into the escape would bind the quantifier somewhere the\n   * engine does not.\n   */\n  it(\"leaves a digit past the escape as its own quantified character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\18+\\18+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"atoms that only match non-printable code units\", () => {\n  /**\n   * The probe alphabet runs the whole 256-code-unit range rather than the printable part\n   * of it, because a control character is a character a quantifier can pump over. An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. An atom the probe alphabet cannot decide is undecided, and undecided has to\n   * read as overlapping: reading it as matching nothing would clear the pattern on the\n   * strength of not having understood it.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom that matches nothing at all\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[^\\s\\S]+[^\\s\\S]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`([^\\s\\S]+)+$`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom outside the probed range\", () => {\n    // Fullwidth forms: no probe in the alphabet matches them, so nothing is decided.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The cost of failing closed, pinned so it stays a decision. These two atoms are\n   * genuinely disjoint and the pattern is safe, and it is refused anyway because one of\n   * them is unprobed. Refusing a safe search is the direction this is allowed to be wrong\n   * in; clearing an unsafe one is not.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses an unprobed atom beside a probed one, which is the false positive it accepts\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+a+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"limits this reader is known to have\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Ambiguity a backreference introduces is invisible to a structural read, since what the\n   * reference matches is only known at match time. Recorded so the gap is a decision rather\n   * than a surprise: the line-length cap in the search tool is what bounds this one.\n   */\n  it(\"does not see ambiguity introduced by a backreference\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\1$`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\n[evidence record sha256:251b9b0ab9ff0cc3b6c67a1261a78875d771b382b662d9c9ec6f758004c3ce12 kind tool-call:read]",
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Anything it does not recognise raises, and the caller refuses.\n\ninterface Cursor {\n  readonly source: string;\n  /** Decides whether a digit escape is a backreference, so it must be known before the walk. */\n  readonly captureCount: number;\n  index: number;\n}\n\nfunction parsePattern(source: string): PatternNode {\n  const cursor: Cursor = { source, captureCount: countCaptureGroups(source), index: 0 };\n  const parsed = parseAlternation(cursor);\n  if (cursor.index !== source.length) {\n    throw new PatternUnreadableError(`unexpected \"${source[cursor.index] ?? \"\"}\"`);\n  }\n  return parsed;\n}\n\n/**\n * The engine counts every capture group in the whole pattern, including ones written after\n * the escape that cites them, so this is a pass over the source rather than a running total.\n */\nfunction countCaptureGroups(source: string): number {\n  let count = 0;\n  let insideClass = false;\n  for (let index = 0; index < source.length; index += 1) {\n    const char = source[index];\n    if (char === \"\\\\\") {\n      index += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (insideClass) {\n      insideClass = char !== \"]\";\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char === \"[\") {\n      insideClass = true;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char !== \"(\") {\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (source[index + 1] !== \"?\") {\n      count += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    // A named group captures; `(?:`, `(?=`, `(?!`, `(?<=` and `(?<!` do not.\n    const afterAngle = source[index + 3];\n    if (source[index + 2] === \"<\" && afterAngle !== \"=\" && afterAngle !== \"!\") {\n      count += 1;\n    }\n  }\n  return count;\n}\n\nfunction parseAlternation(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const branches = [parseSequence(cursor)];\n  while (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"|\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    branches.push(parseSequence(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = branches[0];\n  if (branches.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"alternation\", branches, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseSequence(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const terms: PatternNode[] = [];\n  while (cursor.index < cursor.source.length) {\n    const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n    if (char === \"|\" || char === \")\") {\n      break;\n    }\n    terms.push(parseTerm(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = terms[0];\n  if (terms.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"sequence\", terms, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseTerm(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const body = parseAtom(cursor);\n  const bounds = parseQuantifier(cursor);\n  if (bounds === null) {\n    return body;\n  }\n  // A lazy quantifier backtracks over the same splits, just in the other order.\n  if (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"repeat\", body, min: bounds.min, max: bounds.max, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nconst quantifierBounds = /^\\{(\\d+)(,(\\d+)?)?\\}/;\n\nfunction parseQuantifier(cursor: Cursor): { min: number; max: number } | null {\n  const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n  if (char === \"*\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"+\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 1, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: 1 };\n  }\n  if (char !== \"{\") {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const braced = quantifierBounds.exec(cursor.source.slice(cursor.index));\n  const lower = braced?.[1];\n  if (braced === null || lower === undefined) {\n    // Not a quantifier at all: an unmatched \"{\" is a literal brace.\n    return null;\n  }\n  cursor.index += braced[0].length;\n  const min = Number(lower);\n  if (braced[2] === undefined) {\n    return { min, max: min };\n  }\n  const upper = braced[3];\n  return { min, max: upper === undefined ? 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Otherwise the engine reads the digits as a legacy octal escape (`\\141` is\n * `a`), or, for `8` and `9`, as the digit itself, and the rules above have to see the\n * character that will actually be matched. Only the escape is consumed: any digits past it\n * are ordinary characters that carry their own quantifier, so `\\18+` repeats the `8`, and\n * leaving them for the sequence loop is what binds the quantifier where the engine binds it.\n */\nfunction parseDigitEscape(cursor: Cursor, start: number): PatternNode {\n  const digitsStart = start + 1;\n  let digitsEnd = digitsStart;\n  while (isDigit(cursor.source[digitsEnd])) {\n    digitsEnd += 1;\n  }\n  const digits = cursor.source.slice(digitsStart, digitsEnd);\n  const leading = digits[0] ?? \"\";\n  if (leading !== \"0\" && Number(digits) <= cursor.captureCount) {\n    cursor.index = digitsEnd;\n    return backreferenceFrom(cursor, start);\n  }\n\n  const consumed = legacyEscapeLength(digits);\n  cursor.index = digitsStart + consumed;\n  const code =\n    leading === \"8\" || leading === \"9\"\n      ? leading.charCodeAt(0)\n      : Number.parseInt(digits.slice(0, consumed), 8);\n  return {\n    // Written back as a hex escape rather than as the character: an octal escape can decode\n    // to a metacharacter, and `\\x2b` is what the probe below can compile where `+` is not.\n    kind: \"character\",\n    source: `\\\\x${code.toString(16).padStart(2, \"0\")}`,\n    start,\n    end: cursor.index,\n  };\n}\n\n/** How many of the digits the engine folds into one escape, per the legacy octal grammar. */\nfunction legacyEscapeLength(digits: string): number {\n  const leading = digits[0] ?? \"\";\n  if (leading === \"8\" || leading === \"9\" || !isOctalDigit(digits[1])) {\n    return 1;\n  }\n  // Only a leading 0 to 3 can carry a third digit without overflowing a byte.\n  return leading <= \"3\" && isOctalDigit(digits[2]) ? 3 : 2;\n}\n\nfunction backreferenceFrom(cursor: Cursor, start: number): PatternNode {\n  return {\n    kind: \"backreference\",\n    source: cursor.source.slice(start, cursor.index),\n    start,\n    end: cursor.index,\n  };\n}\n\nfunction consumeEscapeArgument(cursor: Cursor, marker: string): void {\n  const braced = marker === \"u\" || marker === \"p\" || marker === \"P\";\n  if (braced && cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"{\") {\n    const closed = cursor.source.indexOf(\"}\", cursor.index);\n    if (closed === -1) {\n      throw new PatternUnreadableError(\"unterminated escape\");\n    }\n    cursor.index = closed + 1;\n    return;\n  }\n  const digits = marker === \"u\" ? 4 : marker === \"x\" ? 2 : marker === \"c\" ? 1 : 0;\n  cursor.index = Math.min(cursor.index + digits, cursor.source.length);\n}\n\nfunction isDigit(char: string | undefined): boolean {\n  return char !== undefined && char >= \"0\" && char <= \"9\";\n}\n\nfunction isOctalDigit(char: string | undefined): boolean {\n  return char !== undefined && char >= \"0\" && char <= \"7\";\n}\n\n[evidence record sha256:bec2ab70651816e988c8d7aab91e3802732b56138a04bfb73a01e12f47ded31f kind tool-call:read]",
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Loosening the reader lets a catastrophic pattern through;\n * tightening it breaks ordinary search, which is the pressure that would loosen it again.\n */\n\n/** Patterns a person would plausibly search a codebase with. */\nconst ordinary = [\n  \"TODO\",\n  \"TODO|FIXME|XXX\",\n  String.raw`function \\w+`,\n  \"^import .* from\",\n  String.raw`\\bclass\\s+[A-Z]\\w*`,\n  \"error|warning\",\n  String.raw`\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}`,\n  \"foo.*bar\",\n  String.raw`[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+`,\n  String.raw`export (const|function) \\w+`,\n  String.raw`\\s*//.*$`,\n  String.raw`^\\s*it\\(`,\n];\n\n/** Shapes whose failing match is super-linear, one per rule the reader implements. */\nconst catastrophic = [\n  \"(a+)+$\",\n  \"(a*)*$\",\n  \"([a-z]+)*$\",\n  String.raw`(\\w+\\s)*$`,\n  String.raw`^(\\w+\\s?)*$`,\n  \"(a?)+$\",\n  \"(a|a)+$\",\n  \"(a|ab)+$\",\n  String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`,\n  \"a+a+$\",\n];\n\ndescribe(\"patterns a search can run\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of ordinary) {\n    it(`accepts ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"accepts alternatives that decide themselves on the first character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(get|got)+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(ab|cd)+\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts two quantifiers a mandatory character keeps apart\", () => {\n    // The X pins the boundary, so neither quantifier can take the other's characters.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"a+Xa+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\d+\\s+`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+)X(a+)$\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts captures whose quantifiers cannot take each other's characters\", () => {\n    // Reading through groups must not cost the ordinary two-capture search.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\d+)-(\\d+)`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a quantifier that cannot repeat more than once\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){1}\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a lookahead over an atom, which consumes nothing to pump\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=a)b\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns that can backtrack super-linearly\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of catastrophic) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses nesting however the inner group is spelled\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?:a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<name>a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses a counted outer quantifier, which repeats just as ambiguously\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){2}\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses competing alternatives one level below the quantifier\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"((a|ab)y)+$\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * A capture is not a boundary. This family reached a real search through the guard once,\n   * because the neighbour scan only looked at bare quantifiers and `(a+)` is a group; it is\n   * the same ambiguity as `a+a+` with parentheses drawn around it. The earlier suite tested\n   * only the bare spelling, which is why nothing caught it.\n   */\n  for (const pattern of [\n    \"(a+)(a+)$\",\n    \"(a+)(a*)$\",\n    String.raw`(\\w+)(\\w+)$`,\n    String.raw`(\\s*)(\\s*)$`,\n    \"((a+))((a+))$\",\n  ]) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, the same competition with parentheses drawn round it`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookaround rather than trusting it\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns it cannot read\", () => {\n  /** An unread pattern is one nothing bounds, so it is refused rather than run. */\n  for (const pattern of [\"(\", \"a\\\\\", \"(?#comment)a\", \"[a-z\"]) {\n    it(`refuses ${JSON.stringify(pattern)} rather than guessing`, () => {\n      const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(pattern);\n      expect(risk?.reason).toContain(\"could not be read structurally\");\n    });\n  }\n});\n\ndescribe(\"what a refusal says\", () => {\n  it(\"names the construct carrying the risk, quoted from the pattern\", () => {\n    const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(\"^prefix (a+)+ suffix$\");\n\n    expect(risk).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(risk?.construct).toBe(\"(a+)+\");\n    expect(risk?.reason.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);\n  });\n\n  it(\"quotes both quantifiers when they compete in sequence\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`)?.construct).toBe(String.raw`\\s*\\s*`);\n  });\n});\n\n/**\n * The octal normalization, the 256-code-unit probe alphabet, and the fail-closed empty\n * probe shipped together with no dedicated test. This is the lesson the grouped-spelling\n * miss already taught, written down: an untested guard spelling is the live one, and every\n * family below is a spelling of a rule the suite above already covers in ASCII.\n */\ndescribe(\"competing quantifiers spelled as octal escapes\", () => {\n  /**\n   * `\\141` is `a`, so each of these is a pattern the suite above refuses, retyped. The\n   * engine decides `\\` plus digits is an octal escape rather than a backreference by\n   * counting capture groups, so a reader that skipped the digits would see two atoms it\n   * could not compare and clear the pattern.\n   */\n  for (const [pattern, plain] of [\n    [String.raw`\\141+\\141+X`, \"a+a+X\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)+$`, \"(a+)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141|\\141)+$`, \"(a|a)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)(\\141+)$`, \"(a+)(a+)$\"],\n  ] as const) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, which is ${plain}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses a two-digit and a one-digit octal the same way\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\60+\\60+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\0+\\0+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"compares an octal atom against a literal one, not only against another octal\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+a+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The other direction, and the one that says the normalization decodes rather than\n   * refusing anything with a backslash in it: `\\141` and `\\142` are `a` and `b`, which\n   * cannot take each other's characters, so this is an ordinary search.\n   */\n  it(\"accepts two octal atoms that are genuinely disjoint\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+\\142+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * Only the escape is consumed. `\\18` is `\\x01` followed by a literal `8`, so the `+`\n   * binds to the `8` and the two `8+` runs are held apart by the `\\x01` between them.\n   * Consuming the trailing digit into the escape would bind the quantifier somewhere the\n   * engine does not.\n   */\n  it(\"leaves a digit past the escape as its own quantified character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\18+\\18+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"atoms that only match non-printable code units\", () => {\n  /**\n   * The probe alphabet runs the whole 256-code-unit range rather than the printable part\n   * of it, because a control character is a character a quantifier can pump over. An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. An atom the probe alphabet cannot decide is undecided, and undecided has to\n   * read as overlapping: reading it as matching nothing would clear the pattern on the\n   * strength of not having understood it.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom that matches nothing at all\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[^\\s\\S]+[^\\s\\S]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`([^\\s\\S]+)+$`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom outside the probed range\", () => {\n    // Fullwidth forms: no probe in the alphabet matches them, so nothing is decided.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The cost of failing closed, pinned so it stays a decision. These two atoms are\n   * genuinely disjoint and the pattern is safe, and it is refused anyway because one of\n   * them is unprobed. Refusing a safe search is the direction this is allowed to be wrong\n   * in; clearing an unsafe one is not.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses an unprobed atom beside a probed one, which is the false positive it accepts\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+a+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"limits this reader is known to have\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Ambiguity a backreference introduces is invisible to a structural read, since what the\n   * reference matches is only known at match time. Recorded so the gap is a decision rather\n   * than a surprise: the line-length cap in the search tool is what bounds this one.\n   */\n  it(\"does not see ambiguity introduced by a backreference\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\1$`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\n[evidence record sha256:251b9b0ab9ff0cc3b6c67a1261a78875d771b382b662d9c9ec6f758004c3ce12 kind tool-call:read]",
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The gap it does have is a\n * backreference, whose ambiguity only exists at match time and so cannot be read off the\n * structure at all; the search tool's line-length cap is what bounds that one. Grouping is\n * not a gap, at any depth or in either direction: the walk carries the enclosing quantifier\n * down through groups and sequences, so `((a|ab)y)+` is refused the same as `(a|ab)+`, and\n * it reads back up through an unquantified group, so `(a+)(a+)$` is refused the same as\n * `a+a+$`, parentheses being a capture rather than a boundary. A pattern the parser\n * below cannot read is refused rather than run, since an unread pattern is one nothing\n * bounds. `regex-safety.test.ts` pins both directions.\n */\n\n/** Why a pattern was refused, phrased so the caller can rewrite it. */\nexport interface BacktrackingRisk {\n  readonly reason: string;\n  /** The sub-pattern carrying the risk, so the message points at something concrete. */\n  readonly construct: string;\n}\n\nexport function findBacktrackingRisk(pattern: string): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  let parsed: PatternNode;\n  try {\n    parsed = parsePattern(pattern);\n  } catch (cause) {\n    return {\n      reason: `could not be read structurally (${describeCause(cause)}), so nothing bounds how it backtracks`,\n      construct: pattern,\n    };\n  }\n  return inspect(parsed, null, pattern);\n}\n\ninterface Span {\n  readonly start: number;\n  readonly end: number;\n}\n\ntype PatternNode =\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"alternation\"; readonly branches: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"sequence\"; readonly terms: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | RepeatNode\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"group\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"lookaround\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"character\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"zeroWidth\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"backreference\"; readonly source: string });\n\ninterface RepeatNode extends Span {\n  readonly kind: \"repeat\";\n  readonly body: PatternNode;\n  readonly min: number;\n  readonly max: number;\n}\n\nclass PatternUnreadableError extends Error {\n  constructor(detail: string) {\n    super(detail);\n    this.name = \"PatternUnreadableError\";\n  }\n}\n\nfunction describeCause(cause: unknown): string {\n  return cause instanceof Error ? cause.message : String(cause);\n}\n\n// The walk: every rule below needs the enclosing repeat, not just a depth, so a refusal\n// can quote the whole construct rather than the fragment that tripped it.\n\nfunction inspect(\n  node: PatternNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\": {\n      const competing = repeatedAlternativesRisk(node.branches, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return (\n        competing ?? firstRisk(node.branches, (branch) => inspect(branch, enclosingRepeat, source))\n      );\n    }\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const competing = findCompetingNeighbours(node.terms, source);\n      return competing ?? firstRisk(node.terms, (term) => inspect(term, enclosingRepeat, source));\n    }\n    case \"repeat\": {\n      if (!repeatsMoreThanOnce(node)) {\n        return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      }\n      const risk = repeatRisk(node, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return risk ?? inspect(node.body, node, source);\n    }\n    case \"group\":\n      return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n    case \"lookaround\":\n      // A lookaround consumes nothing, so no enclosing quantifier can pump what is inside\n      // it. Its own contents are still read on their own terms.\n      return inspect(node.body, null, source);\n    default:\n      return null;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction repeatRisk(\n  repeat: RepeatNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  // A body that consumes nothing cannot be pumped: the engine stops the loop on the first\n  // empty iteration, so no amount of repetition multiplies the work.\n  if (!consumesCharacters(repeat.body)) {\n    return null;\n  }\n\n  if (enclosingRepeat !== null && varyingLength(repeat)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier, so one input has exponentially many ways to be split between them\",\n      construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  if (matchesEmpty(repeat.body)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a body that can also match nothing, so each iteration has two ways to cover the same position\",\n      construct: quote(repeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  return null;\n}\n\n/**\n * Alternatives that can both match at the same position are decided by trying one and\n * coming back for the other, and a quantifier around them multiplies that choice by every\n * iteration: `(a|ab)+` has to try every way to cut the input into `a` and `ab` pieces.\n */\nfunction repeatedAlternativesRisk(\n  branches: readonly PatternNode[],\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  if (enclosingRepeat === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const competing = findCompetingAlternatives(branches);\n  if (competing === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  return {\n    reason: `repeats alternatives that can both match at the same position (${competing}), so the same text can be carved up more than one way`,\n    construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n  };\n}\n\n/**\n * Two variable quantifiers reachable from one another over nullable terms both compete for\n * the run of characters between them: `\\s*\\s*$` retries every split of that run. The scan\n * stops at the first term that must consume something, since that term pins the boundary.\n */\nfunction findCompetingNeighbours(\n  terms: readonly PatternNode[],\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  const sequence = flattenTransparentGroups(terms);\n  for (const [index, left] of sequence.entries()) {\n    const leftRepeat = competingQuantifier(left.node);\n    if (leftRepeat === null) {\n      continue;\n    }\n    for (const right of sequence.slice(index + 1)) {\n      const rightRepeat = competingQuantifier(right.node);\n      if (\n        rightRepeat !== null &&\n        charactersOverlap(leadingCharacters(leftRepeat.body), leadingCharacters(rightRepeat.body))\n      ) {\n        return {\n          reason:\n            \"puts two variable quantifiers over the same characters in sequence, so every split of a run between them is retried\",\n          construct: `${quote(left.span, source)}${quote(right.span, source)}`,\n        };\n      }\n      if (!matchesEmpty(right.node)) {\n        break;\n      }\n    }\n  }\n  return null;\n}\n\n/** A quantifier that can take a variable number of characters from its neighbour. */\nfunction competingQuantifier(node: PatternNode): RepeatNode | null {\n  if (node.kind !== \"repeat\" || !varyingLength(node) || !consumesCharacters(node.body)) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  return node;\n}\n\n/** A term of a sequence, with the text a refusal should quote it as. */\ninterface SequenceTerm {\n  readonly node: PatternNode;\n  readonly span: Span;\n}\n\n/**\n * A group without a quantifier on it is transparent to matching: it captures, and nothing\n * else, so `(a+)(a+)` splits a run of characters exactly as ambiguously as `a+a+` does. The\n * neighbour scan therefore reads through such groups, at any nesting depth, rather than\n * seeing one opaque term where two quantifiers stand side by side. A lookaround is not\n * transparent and a quantified group is a repeat, so neither is spliced here.\n */\nfunction flattenTransparentGroups(terms: readonly PatternNode[]): readonly SequenceTerm[] {\n  return terms.flatMap((term) =>\n    term.kind === \"group\" ? spliceGroup(term.body, term) : [{ node: term, span: term }],\n  );\n}\n\nfunction spliceGroup(body: PatternNode, group: Span): readonly SequenceTerm[] {\n  const inner = flattenTransparentGroups(body.kind === \"sequence\" ? body.terms : [body]);\n  const only = inner[0];\n  // A group holding one term stands for that term, so the parentheses are what to quote.\n  return inner.length === 1 && only !== undefined ? 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Disjointness is the answer that lets\n * a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by default: `\\1+\\1+\\1+X` is `\\x01` three\n * times over and backtracks exactly as `a+a+a+X` does, and reading an unprobed atom as\n * matching nothing would have cleared it.\n */\nfunction charactersOverlap(left: readonly string[], right: readonly string[]): boolean {\n  return left.some((leftAtom) => {\n    const leftMatches = probeMatches(leftAtom);\n    return right.some((rightAtom) => {\n      const rightMatches = probeMatches(rightAtom);\n      return (\n        leftMatches.length === 0 ||\n        rightMatches.length === 0 ||\n        rightMatches.some((probe) => leftMatches.includes(probe))\n      );\n    });\n  });\n}\n\n/**\n * Every code unit an escape can name directly, since a hex or octal escape reaches all of\n * them, plus one character past the range so classes written over wider scripts still probe.\n */\nconst probeAlphabet: readonly string[] = [\n  ...Array.from({ length: 256 }, (_, code) => String.fromCharCode(code)),\n  \"中\",\n];\n\nconst probeCache = new Map<string, readonly string[]>();\n\nfunction probeMatches(atomSource: string): readonly string[] {\n  const cached = probeCache.get(atomSource);\n  if (cached !== undefined) {\n    return cached;\n  }\n  let matched: readonly string[];\n  try {\n    // atomSource is one single-character atom the parser above produced, a literal, an\n    // escape or a character class, never a quantifier or a group. Anchored and matched\n    // against one character at a time, it has nothing to backtrack over, so this is the\n    // one non-literal RegExp in the module that cannot be what the module exists to stop.\n    // nosemgrep: javascript.lang.security.audit.detect-non-literal-regexp.detect-non-literal-regexp\n    const atom = new RegExp(`^(?:${atomSource})$`);\n    matched = probeAlphabet.filter((probe) => atom.test(probe));\n  } catch {\n    matched = [];\n  }\n  probeCache.set(atomSource, matched);\n  return matched;\n}\n\nfunction firstRisk(\n  nodes: readonly PatternNode[],\n  check: (node: PatternNode) => BacktrackingRisk | null,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  for (const node of nodes) {\n    const risk = check(node);\n    if (risk !== null) {\n      return risk;\n    }\n  }\n  return null;\n}\n\nfunction quote(span: Span, source: string): string {\n  return source.slice(span.start, span.end);\n}\n\n// The parser: enough of the JavaScript pattern grammar to see quantifier nesting and\n// single-character atoms. 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Disjointness is the answer that lets\n * a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by default: `\\1+\\1+\\1+X` is `\\x01` three\n * times over and backtracks exactly as `a+a+a+X` does, and reading an unprobed atom as\n * matching nothing would have cleared it.\n */\nfunction charactersOverlap(left: readonly string[], right: readonly string[]): boolean {\n  return left.some((leftAtom) => {\n    const leftMatches = probeMatches(leftAtom);\n    return right.some((rightAtom) => {\n      const rightMatches = probeMatches(rightAtom);\n      return (\n        leftMatches.length === 0 ||\n        rightMatches.length === 0 ||\n        rightMatches.some((probe) => leftMatches.includes(probe))\n      );\n    });\n  });\n}\n\n/**\n * Every code unit an escape can name directly, since a hex or octal escape reaches all of\n * them, plus one character past the range so classes written over wider scripts still probe.\n */\nconst probeAlphabet: readonly string[] = [\n  ...Array.from({ length: 256 }, (_, code) => String.fromCharCode(code)),\n  \"中\",\n];\n\nconst probeCache = new Map<string, readonly string[]>();\n\nfunction probeMatches(atomSource: string): readonly string[] {\n  const cached = probeCache.get(atomSource);\n  if (cached !== undefined) {\n    return cached;\n  }\n  let matched: readonly string[];\n  try {\n    // atomSource is one single-character atom the parser above produced, a literal, an\n    // escape or a character class, never a quantifier or a group. Anchored and matched\n    // against one character at a time, it has nothing to backtrack over, so this is the\n    // one non-literal RegExp in the module that cannot be what the module exists to stop.\n    // nosemgrep: javascript.lang.security.audit.detect-non-literal-regexp.detect-non-literal-regexp\n    const atom = new RegExp(`^(?:${atomSource})$`);\n    matched = probeAlphabet.filter((probe) => atom.test(probe));\n  } catch {\n    matched = [];\n  }\n  probeCache.set(atomSource, matched);\n  return matched;\n}\n\nfunction firstRisk(\n  nodes: readonly PatternNode[],\n  check: (node: PatternNode) => BacktrackingRisk | null,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  for (const node of nodes) {\n    const risk = check(node);\n    if (risk !== null) {\n      return risk;\n    }\n  }\n  return null;\n}\n\nfunction quote(span: Span, source: string): string {\n  return source.slice(span.start, span.end);\n}\n\n// The parser: enough of the JavaScript pattern grammar to see quantifier nesting and\n// single-character atoms. Anything it does not recognise raises, and the caller refuses.\n\ninterface Cursor {\n  readonly source: string;\n  /** Decides whether a digit escape is a backreference, so it must be known before the walk. */\n  readonly captureCount: number;\n  index: number;\n}\n\nfunction parsePattern(source: string): PatternNode {\n  const cursor: Cursor = { source, captureCount: countCaptureGroups(source), index: 0 };\n  const parsed = parseAlternation(cursor);\n  if (cursor.index !== source.length) {\n    throw new PatternUnreadableError(`unexpected \"${source[cursor.index] ?? \"\"}\"`);\n  }\n  return parsed;\n}\n\n/**\n * The engine counts every capture group in the whole pattern, including ones written after\n * the escape that cites them, so this is a pass over the source rather than a running total.\n */\nfunction countCaptureGroups(source: string): number {\n  let count = 0;\n  let insideClass = false;\n  for (let index = 0; index < source.length; index += 1) {\n    const char = source[index];\n    if (char === \"\\\\\") {\n      index += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (insideClass) {\n      insideClass = char !== \"]\";\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char === \"[\") {\n      insideClass = true;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char !== \"(\") {\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (source[index + 1] !== \"?\") {\n      count += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    // A named group captures; `(?:`, `(?=`, `(?!`, `(?<=` and `(?<!` do not.\n    const afterAngle = source[index + 3];\n    if (source[index + 2] === \"<\" && afterAngle !== \"=\" && afterAngle !== \"!\") {\n      count += 1;\n    }\n  }\n  return count;\n}\n\nfunction parseAlternation(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const branches = [parseSequence(cursor)];\n  while (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"|\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    branches.push(parseSequence(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = branches[0];\n  if (branches.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"alternation\", branches, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseSequence(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const terms: PatternNode[] = [];\n  while (cursor.index < cursor.source.length) {\n    const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n    if (char === \"|\" || char === \")\") {\n      break;\n    }\n    terms.push(parseTerm(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = terms[0];\n  if (terms.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"sequence\", terms, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseTerm(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const body = parseAtom(cursor);\n  const bounds = parseQuantifier(cursor);\n  if (bounds === null) {\n    return body;\n  }\n  // A lazy quantifier backtracks over the same splits, just in the other order.\n  if (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"repeat\", body, min: bounds.min, max: bounds.max, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nconst quantifierBounds = /^\\{(\\d+)(,(\\d+)?)?\\}/;\n\nfunction parseQuantifier(cursor: Cursor): { min: number; max: number } | null {\n  const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n  if (char === \"*\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"+\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 1, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: 1 };\n  }\n  if (char !== \"{\") {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const braced = quantifierBounds.exec(cursor.source.slice(cursor.index));\n  const lower = braced?.[1];\n  if (braced === null || lower === undefined) {\n    // Not a quantifier at all: an unmatched \"{\" is a literal brace.\n    return null;\n  }\n  cursor.index += braced[0].length;\n  const min = Number(lower);\n  if (braced[2] === undefined) {\n    return { min, max: min };\n  }\n  const upper = braced[3];\n  return { min, max: upper === undefined ? 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Loosening the reader lets a catastrophic pattern through;\n * tightening it breaks ordinary search, which is the pressure that would loosen it again.\n */\n\n/** Patterns a person would plausibly search a codebase with. */\nconst ordinary = [\n  \"TODO\",\n  \"TODO|FIXME|XXX\",\n  String.raw`function \\w+`,\n  \"^import .* from\",\n  String.raw`\\bclass\\s+[A-Z]\\w*`,\n  \"error|warning\",\n  String.raw`\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}`,\n  \"foo.*bar\",\n  String.raw`[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+`,\n  String.raw`export (const|function) \\w+`,\n  String.raw`\\s*//.*$`,\n  String.raw`^\\s*it\\(`,\n];\n\n/** Shapes whose failing match is super-linear, one per rule the reader implements. */\nconst catastrophic = [\n  \"(a+)+$\",\n  \"(a*)*$\",\n  \"([a-z]+)*$\",\n  String.raw`(\\w+\\s)*$`,\n  String.raw`^(\\w+\\s?)*$`,\n  \"(a?)+$\",\n  \"(a|a)+$\",\n  \"(a|ab)+$\",\n  String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`,\n  \"a+a+$\",\n];\n\ndescribe(\"patterns a search can run\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of ordinary) {\n    it(`accepts ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"accepts alternatives that decide themselves on the first character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(get|got)+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(ab|cd)+\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts two quantifiers a mandatory character keeps apart\", () => {\n    // The X pins the boundary, so neither quantifier can take the other's characters.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"a+Xa+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\d+\\s+`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+)X(a+)$\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts captures whose quantifiers cannot take each other's characters\", () => {\n    // Reading through groups must not cost the ordinary two-capture search.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\d+)-(\\d+)`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a quantifier that cannot repeat more than once\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){1}\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a lookahead over an atom, which consumes nothing to pump\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=a)b\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns that can backtrack super-linearly\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of catastrophic) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses nesting however the inner group is spelled\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?:a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<name>a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses a counted outer quantifier, which repeats just as ambiguously\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){2}\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses competing alternatives one level below the quantifier\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"((a|ab)y)+$\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * A capture is not a boundary. This family reached a real search through the guard once,\n   * because the neighbour scan only looked at bare quantifiers and `(a+)` is a group; it is\n   * the same ambiguity as `a+a+` with parentheses drawn around it. The earlier suite tested\n   * only the bare spelling, which is why nothing caught it.\n   */\n  for (const pattern of [\n    \"(a+)(a+)$\",\n    \"(a+)(a*)$\",\n    String.raw`(\\w+)(\\w+)$`,\n    String.raw`(\\s*)(\\s*)$`,\n    \"((a+))((a+))$\",\n  ]) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, the same competition with parentheses drawn round it`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookaround rather than trusting it\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns it cannot read\", () => {\n  /** An unread pattern is one nothing bounds, so it is refused rather than run. */\n  for (const pattern of [\"(\", \"a\\\\\", \"(?#comment)a\", \"[a-z\"]) {\n    it(`refuses ${JSON.stringify(pattern)} rather than guessing`, () => {\n      const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(pattern);\n      expect(risk?.reason).toContain(\"could not be read structurally\");\n    });\n  }\n});\n\ndescribe(\"what a refusal says\", () => {\n  it(\"names the construct carrying the risk, quoted from the pattern\", () => {\n    const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(\"^prefix (a+)+ suffix$\");\n\n    expect(risk).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(risk?.construct).toBe(\"(a+)+\");\n    expect(risk?.reason.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);\n  });\n\n  it(\"quotes both quantifiers when they compete in sequence\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`)?.construct).toBe(String.raw`\\s*\\s*`);\n  });\n});\n\n/**\n * The octal normalization, the 256-code-unit probe alphabet, and the fail-closed empty\n * probe shipped together with no dedicated test. This is the lesson the grouped-spelling\n * miss already taught, written down: an untested guard spelling is the live one, and every\n * family below is a spelling of a rule the suite above already covers in ASCII.\n */\ndescribe(\"competing quantifiers spelled as octal escapes\", () => {\n  /**\n   * `\\141` is `a`, so each of these is a pattern the suite above refuses, retyped. 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Anything it does not recognise raises, and the caller refuses.\n\ninterface Cursor {\n  readonly source: string;\n  /** Decides whether a digit escape is a backreference, so it must be known before the walk. */\n  readonly captureCount: number;\n  index: number;\n}\n\nfunction parsePattern(source: string): PatternNode {\n  const cursor: Cursor = { source, captureCount: countCaptureGroups(source), index: 0 };\n  const parsed = parseAlternation(cursor);\n  if (cursor.index !== source.length) {\n    throw new PatternUnreadableError(`unexpected \"${source[cursor.index] ?? \"\"}\"`);\n  }\n  return parsed;\n}\n\n/**\n * The engine counts every capture group in the whole pattern, including ones written after\n * the escape that cites them, so this is a pass over the source rather than a running total.\n */\nfunction countCaptureGroups(source: string): number {\n  let count = 0;\n  let insideClass = false;\n  for (let index = 0; index < source.length; index += 1) {\n    const char = source[index];\n    if (char === \"\\\\\") {\n      index += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (insideClass) {\n      insideClass = char !== \"]\";\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char === \"[\") {\n      insideClass = true;\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (char !== \"(\") {\n      continue;\n    }\n    if (source[index + 1] !== \"?\") {\n      count += 1;\n      continue;\n    }\n    // A named group captures; `(?:`, `(?=`, `(?!`, `(?<=` and `(?<!` do not.\n    const afterAngle = source[index + 3];\n    if (source[index + 2] === \"<\" && afterAngle !== \"=\" && afterAngle !== \"!\") {\n      count += 1;\n    }\n  }\n  return count;\n}\n\nfunction parseAlternation(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const branches = [parseSequence(cursor)];\n  while (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"|\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    branches.push(parseSequence(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = branches[0];\n  if (branches.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"alternation\", branches, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseSequence(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const terms: PatternNode[] = [];\n  while (cursor.index < cursor.source.length) {\n    const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n    if (char === \"|\" || char === \")\") {\n      break;\n    }\n    terms.push(parseTerm(cursor));\n  }\n  const only = terms[0];\n  if (terms.length === 1 && only !== undefined) {\n    return only;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"sequence\", terms, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nfunction parseTerm(cursor: Cursor): PatternNode {\n  const start = cursor.index;\n  const body = parseAtom(cursor);\n  const bounds = parseQuantifier(cursor);\n  if (bounds === null) {\n    return body;\n  }\n  // A lazy quantifier backtracks over the same splits, just in the other order.\n  if (cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n  }\n  return { kind: \"repeat\", body, min: bounds.min, max: bounds.max, start, end: cursor.index };\n}\n\nconst quantifierBounds = /^\\{(\\d+)(,(\\d+)?)?\\}/;\n\nfunction parseQuantifier(cursor: Cursor): { min: number; max: number } | null {\n  const char = cursor.source[cursor.index];\n  if (char === \"*\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"+\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 1, max: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY };\n  }\n  if (char === \"?\") {\n    cursor.index += 1;\n    return { min: 0, max: 1 };\n  }\n  if (char !== \"{\") {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const braced = quantifierBounds.exec(cursor.source.slice(cursor.index));\n  const lower = braced?.[1];\n  if (braced === null || lower === undefined) {\n    // Not a quantifier at all: an unmatched \"{\" is a literal brace.\n    return null;\n  }\n  cursor.index += braced[0].length;\n  const min = Number(lower);\n  if (braced[2] === undefined) {\n    return { min, max: min };\n  }\n  const upper = braced[3];\n  return { min, max: upper === undefined ? 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Otherwise the engine reads the digits as a legacy octal escape (`\\141` is\n * `a`), or, for `8` and `9`, as the digit itself, and the rules above have to see the\n * character that will actually be matched. Only the escape is consumed: any digits past it\n * are ordinary characters that carry their own quantifier, so `\\18+` repeats the `8`, and\n * leaving them for the sequence loop is what binds the quantifier where the engine binds it.\n */\nfunction parseDigitEscape(cursor: Cursor, start: number): PatternNode {\n  const digitsStart = start + 1;\n  let digitsEnd = digitsStart;\n  while (isDigit(cursor.source[digitsEnd])) {\n    digitsEnd += 1;\n  }\n  const digits = cursor.source.slice(digitsStart, digitsEnd);\n  const leading = digits[0] ?? \"\";\n  if (leading !== \"0\" && Number(digits) <= cursor.captureCount) {\n    cursor.index = digitsEnd;\n    return backreferenceFrom(cursor, start);\n  }\n\n  const consumed = legacyEscapeLength(digits);\n  cursor.index = digitsStart + consumed;\n  const code =\n    leading === \"8\" || leading === \"9\"\n      ? leading.charCodeAt(0)\n      : Number.parseInt(digits.slice(0, consumed), 8);\n  return {\n    // Written back as a hex escape rather than as the character: an octal escape can decode\n    // to a metacharacter, and `\\x2b` is what the probe below can compile where `+` is not.\n    kind: \"character\",\n    source: `\\\\x${code.toString(16).padStart(2, \"0\")}`,\n    start,\n    end: cursor.index,\n  };\n}\n\n/** How many of the digits the engine folds into one escape, per the legacy octal grammar. */\nfunction legacyEscapeLength(digits: string): number {\n  const leading = digits[0] ?? \"\";\n  if (leading === \"8\" || leading === \"9\" || !isOctalDigit(digits[1])) {\n    return 1;\n  }\n  // Only a leading 0 to 3 can carry a third digit without overflowing a byte.\n  return leading <= \"3\" && isOctalDigit(digits[2]) ? 3 : 2;\n}\n\nfunction backreferenceFrom(cursor: Cursor, start: number): PatternNode {\n  return {\n    kind: \"backreference\",\n    source: cursor.source.slice(start, cursor.index),\n    start,\n    end: cursor.index,\n  };\n}\n\nfunction consumeEscapeArgument(cursor: Cursor, marker: string): void {\n  const braced = marker === \"u\" || marker === \"p\" || marker === \"P\";\n  if (braced && cursor.source[cursor.index] === \"{\") {\n    const closed = cursor.source.indexOf(\"}\", cursor.index);\n    if (closed === -1) {\n      throw new PatternUnreadableError(\"unterminated escape\");\n    }\n    cursor.index = closed + 1;\n    return;\n  }\n  const digits = marker === \"u\" ? 4 : marker === \"x\" ? 2 : marker === \"c\" ? 1 : 0;\n  cursor.index = Math.min(cursor.index + digits, cursor.source.length);\n}\n\nfunction isDigit(char: string | undefined): boolean {\n  return char !== undefined && char >= \"0\" && char <= \"9\";\n}\n\nfunction isOctalDigit(char: string | undefined): boolean {\n  return char !== undefined && char >= \"0\" && char <= \"7\";\n}\n\n[evidence record sha256:bec2ab70651816e988c8d7aab91e3802732b56138a04bfb73a01e12f47ded31f kind tool-call:read]",
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Loosening the reader lets a catastrophic pattern through;\n * tightening it breaks ordinary search, which is the pressure that would loosen it again.\n */\n\n/** Patterns a person would plausibly search a codebase with. */\nconst ordinary = [\n  \"TODO\",\n  \"TODO|FIXME|XXX\",\n  String.raw`function \\w+`,\n  \"^import .* from\",\n  String.raw`\\bclass\\s+[A-Z]\\w*`,\n  \"error|warning\",\n  String.raw`\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}`,\n  \"foo.*bar\",\n  String.raw`[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+`,\n  String.raw`export (const|function) \\w+`,\n  String.raw`\\s*//.*$`,\n  String.raw`^\\s*it\\(`,\n];\n\n/** Shapes whose failing match is super-linear, one per rule the reader implements. */\nconst catastrophic = [\n  \"(a+)+$\",\n  \"(a*)*$\",\n  \"([a-z]+)*$\",\n  String.raw`(\\w+\\s)*$`,\n  String.raw`^(\\w+\\s?)*$`,\n  \"(a?)+$\",\n  \"(a|a)+$\",\n  \"(a|ab)+$\",\n  String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`,\n  \"a+a+$\",\n];\n\ndescribe(\"patterns a search can run\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of ordinary) {\n    it(`accepts ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"accepts alternatives that decide themselves on the first character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(get|got)+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(ab|cd)+\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts two quantifiers a mandatory character keeps apart\", () => {\n    // The X pins the boundary, so neither quantifier can take the other's characters.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"a+Xa+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\d+\\s+`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+)X(a+)$\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts captures whose quantifiers cannot take each other's characters\", () => {\n    // Reading through groups must not cost the ordinary two-capture search.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\d+)-(\\d+)`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a quantifier that cannot repeat more than once\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){1}\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a lookahead over an atom, which consumes nothing to pump\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=a)b\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns that can backtrack super-linearly\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of catastrophic) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses nesting however the inner group is spelled\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?:a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<name>a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses a counted outer quantifier, which repeats just as ambiguously\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){2}\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses competing alternatives one level below the quantifier\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"((a|ab)y)+$\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * A capture is not a boundary. This family reached a real search through the guard once,\n   * because the neighbour scan only looked at bare quantifiers and `(a+)` is a group; it is\n   * the same ambiguity as `a+a+` with parentheses drawn around it. The earlier suite tested\n   * only the bare spelling, which is why nothing caught it.\n   */\n  for (const pattern of [\n    \"(a+)(a+)$\",\n    \"(a+)(a*)$\",\n    String.raw`(\\w+)(\\w+)$`,\n    String.raw`(\\s*)(\\s*)$`,\n    \"((a+))((a+))$\",\n  ]) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, the same competition with parentheses drawn round it`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookaround rather than trusting it\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns it cannot read\", () => {\n  /** An unread pattern is one nothing bounds, so it is refused rather than run. */\n  for (const pattern of [\"(\", \"a\\\\\", \"(?#comment)a\", \"[a-z\"]) {\n    it(`refuses ${JSON.stringify(pattern)} rather than guessing`, () => {\n      const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(pattern);\n      expect(risk?.reason).toContain(\"could not be read structurally\");\n    });\n  }\n});\n\ndescribe(\"what a refusal says\", () => {\n  it(\"names the construct carrying the risk, quoted from the pattern\", () => {\n    const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(\"^prefix (a+)+ suffix$\");\n\n    expect(risk).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(risk?.construct).toBe(\"(a+)+\");\n    expect(risk?.reason.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);\n  });\n\n  it(\"quotes both quantifiers when they compete in sequence\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`)?.construct).toBe(String.raw`\\s*\\s*`);\n  });\n});\n\n/**\n * The octal normalization, the 256-code-unit probe alphabet, and the fail-closed empty\n * probe shipped together with no dedicated test. This is the lesson the grouped-spelling\n * miss already taught, written down: an untested guard spelling is the live one, and every\n * family below is a spelling of a rule the suite above already covers in ASCII.\n */\ndescribe(\"competing quantifiers spelled as octal escapes\", () => {\n  /**\n   * `\\141` is `a`, so each of these is a pattern the suite above refuses, retyped. The\n   * engine decides `\\` plus digits is an octal escape rather than a backreference by\n   * counting capture groups, so a reader that skipped the digits would see two atoms it\n   * could not compare and clear the pattern.\n   */\n  for (const [pattern, plain] of [\n    [String.raw`\\141+\\141+X`, \"a+a+X\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)+$`, \"(a+)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141|\\141)+$`, \"(a|a)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)(\\141+)$`, \"(a+)(a+)$\"],\n  ] as const) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, which is ${plain}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses a two-digit and a one-digit octal the same way\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\60+\\60+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\0+\\0+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"compares an octal atom against a literal one, not only against another octal\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+a+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The other direction, and the one that says the normalization decodes rather than\n   * refusing anything with a backslash in it: `\\141` and `\\142` are `a` and `b`, which\n   * cannot take each other's characters, so this is an ordinary search.\n   */\n  it(\"accepts two octal atoms that are genuinely disjoint\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+\\142+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * Only the escape is consumed. `\\18` is `\\x01` followed by a literal `8`, so the `+`\n   * binds to the `8` and the two `8+` runs are held apart by the `\\x01` between them.\n   * Consuming the trailing digit into the escape would bind the quantifier somewhere the\n   * engine does not.\n   */\n  it(\"leaves a digit past the escape as its own quantified character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\18+\\18+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"atoms that only match non-printable code units\", () => {\n  /**\n   * The probe alphabet runs the whole 256-code-unit range rather than the printable part\n   * of it, because a control character is a character a quantifier can pump over. An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. An atom the probe alphabet cannot decide is undecided, and undecided has to\n   * read as overlapping: reading it as matching nothing would clear the pattern on the\n   * strength of not having understood it.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom that matches nothing at all\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[^\\s\\S]+[^\\s\\S]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`([^\\s\\S]+)+$`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom outside the probed range\", () => {\n    // Fullwidth forms: no probe in the alphabet matches them, so nothing is decided.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The cost of failing closed, pinned so it stays a decision. These two atoms are\n   * genuinely disjoint and the pattern is safe, and it is refused anyway because one of\n   * them is unprobed. Refusing a safe search is the direction this is allowed to be wrong\n   * in; clearing an unsafe one is not.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses an unprobed atom beside a probed one, which is the false positive it accepts\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+a+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"limits this reader is known to have\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Ambiguity a backreference introduces is invisible to a structural read, since what the\n   * reference matches is only known at match time. Recorded so the gap is a decision rather\n   * than a surprise: the line-length cap in the search tool is what bounds this one.\n   */\n  it(\"does not see ambiguity introduced by a backreference\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\1$`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\n[evidence record sha256:251b9b0ab9ff0cc3b6c67a1261a78875d771b382b662d9c9ec6f758004c3ce12 kind tool-call:read]",
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An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. 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An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. 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The bound therefore has to be decided\n * before the pattern runs, by reading its structure.\n *\n * What makes a failing match explode is ambiguity: more than one way for the pattern to\n * carve up the same text, so a failure at the end has to be retried against every carving.\n * Three shapes produce it, and each is refused here:\n *   - a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier: `(a+)+`, `(\\w+\\s)*`\n *   - a repeated body that can also match nothing: `(a?)+`, `(a|)*`\n *   - two variable quantifiers competing for the same character, side by side or as\n *     alternatives under one quantifier: `\\s*\\s*$`, `(a+)(a+)$`, `(a|ab)+`, `(\\w|\\d)+`\n *\n * Each rule reads the character the engine will match, not the characters the pattern is\n * spelled with, because the two differ: a digit escape is a backreference only when the\n * pattern has that many capture groups, and is otherwise a legacy octal escape, so\n * `\\141+\\141+\\141+X` is `a+a+a+X` written another way and has to be refused as one.\n *\n * This is known-shape refusal, not a proof of linear time, and it is conservative in both\n * directions: it refuses patterns that would have run fast. The gap it does have is a\n * backreference, whose ambiguity only exists at match time and so cannot be read off the\n * structure at all; the search tool's line-length cap is what bounds that one. Grouping is\n * not a gap, at any depth or in either direction: the walk carries the enclosing quantifier\n * down through groups and sequences, so `((a|ab)y)+` is refused the same as `(a|ab)+`, and\n * it reads back up through an unquantified group, so `(a+)(a+)$` is refused the same as\n * `a+a+$`, parentheses being a capture rather than a boundary. 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This is the lesson the grouped-spelling\n * miss already taught, written down: an untested guard spelling is the live one, and every\n * family below is a spelling of a rule the suite above already covers in ASCII.\n */\ndescribe(\"competing quantifiers spelled as octal escapes\", () => {\n  /**\n   * `\\141` is `a`, so each of these is a pattern the suite above refuses, retyped. The\n   * engine decides `\\` plus digits is an octal escape rather than a backreference by\n   * counting capture groups, so a reader that skipped the digits would see two atoms it\n   * could not compare and clear the pattern.\n   */\n  for (const [pattern, plain] of [\n    [String.raw`\\141+\\141+X`, \"a+a+X\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)+$`, \"(a+)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141|\\141)+$`, \"(a|a)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)(\\141+)$`, \"(a+)(a+)$\"],\n  ] as const) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, which is ${plain}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses a two-digit and a one-digit octal the same way\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\60+\\60+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\0+\\0+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"compares an octal atom against a literal one, not only against another octal\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+a+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The other direction, and the one that says the normalization decodes rather than\n   * refusing anything with a backslash in it: `\\141` and `\\142` are `a` and `b`, which\n   * cannot take each other's characters, so this is an ordinary search.\n   */\n  it(\"accepts two octal atoms that are genuinely disjoint\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+\\142+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * Only the escape is consumed. `\\18` is `\\x01` followed by a literal `8`, so the `+`\n   * binds to the `8` and the two `8+` runs are held apart by the `\\x01` between them.\n   * Consuming the trailing digit into the escape would bind the quantifier somewhere the\n   * engine does not.\n   */\n  it(\"leaves a digit past the escape as its own quantified character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\18+\\18+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"atoms that only match non-printable code units\", () => {\n  /**\n   * The probe alphabet runs the whole 256-code-unit range rather than the printable part\n   * of it, because a control character is a character a quantifier can pump over. An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. An atom the probe alphabet cannot decide is undecided, and undecided has to\n   * read as overlapping: reading it as matching nothing would clear the pattern on the\n   * strength of not having understood it.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom that matches nothing at all\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[^\\s\\S]+[^\\s\\S]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`([^\\s\\S]+)+$`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom outside the probed range\", () => {\n    // Fullwidth forms: no probe in the alphabet matches them, so nothing is decided.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The cost of failing closed, pinned so it stays a decision. These two atoms are\n   * genuinely disjoint and the pattern is safe, and it is refused anyway because one of\n   * them is unprobed. Refusing a safe search is the direction this is allowed to be wrong\n   * in; clearing an unsafe one is not.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses an unprobed atom beside a probed one, which is the false positive it accepts\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+a+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"limits this reader is known to have\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Ambiguity a backreference introduces is invisible to a structural read, since what the\n   * reference matches is only known at match time. Recorded so the gap is a decision rather\n   * than a surprise: the line-length cap in the search tool is what bounds this one.\n   */\n  it(\"does not see ambiguity introduced by a backreference\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\1$`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\n[evidence record sha256:f67dbca4a8ced68e804eac2154cebef2b70e0386d3dcb7015c2f6b01fd65b6e3 kind tool-call:read]",
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            "output": "/**\n * Structural refusal of search patterns that can backtrack super-linearly.\n *\n * A search pattern is model output, and `RegExp.prototype.test` runs on the main thread\n * with no step budget: `(a+)+$` against thirty characters already takes seconds, and V8\n * offers no way to interrupt a match once it starts. The bound therefore has to be decided\n * before the pattern runs, by reading its structure.\n *\n * What makes a failing match explode is ambiguity: more than one way for the pattern to\n * carve up the same text, so a failure at the end has to be retried against every carving.\n * Three shapes produce it, and each is refused here:\n *   - a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier: `(a+)+`, `(\\w+\\s)*`\n *   - a repeated body that can also match nothing: `(a?)+`, `(a|)*`\n *   - two variable quantifiers competing for the same character, side by side or as\n *     alternatives under one quantifier: `\\s*\\s*$`, `(a+)(a+)$`, `(a|ab)+`, `(\\w|\\d)+`\n *\n * Each rule reads the character the engine will match, not the characters the pattern is\n * spelled with, because the two differ: a digit escape is a backreference only when the\n * pattern has that many capture groups, and is otherwise a legacy octal escape, so\n * `\\141+\\141+\\141+X` is `a+a+a+X` written another way and has to be refused as one.\n *\n * This is known-shape refusal, not a proof of linear time, and it is conservative in both\n * directions: it refuses patterns that would have run fast. The gap it does have is a\n * backreference, whose ambiguity only exists at match time and so cannot be read off the\n * structure at all; the search tool's line-length cap is what bounds that one. Grouping is\n * not a gap, at any depth or in either direction: the walk carries the enclosing quantifier\n * down through groups and sequences, so `((a|ab)y)+` is refused the same as `(a|ab)+`, and\n * it reads back up through an unquantified group, so `(a+)(a+)$` is refused the same as\n * `a+a+$`, parentheses being a capture rather than a boundary. A pattern the parser\n * below cannot read is refused rather than run, since an unread pattern is one nothing\n * bounds. `regex-safety.test.ts` pins both directions.\n */\n\n/** Why a pattern was refused, phrased so the caller can rewrite it. */\nexport interface BacktrackingRisk {\n  readonly reason: string;\n  /** The sub-pattern carrying the risk, so the message points at something concrete. */\n  readonly construct: string;\n}\n\nexport function findBacktrackingRisk(pattern: string): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  let parsed: PatternNode;\n  try {\n    parsed = parsePattern(pattern);\n  } catch (cause) {\n    return {\n      reason: `could not be read structurally (${describeCause(cause)}), so nothing bounds how it backtracks`,\n      construct: pattern,\n    };\n  }\n  return inspect(parsed, null, pattern);\n}\n\ninterface Span {\n  readonly start: number;\n  readonly end: number;\n}\n\ntype PatternNode =\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"alternation\"; readonly branches: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"sequence\"; readonly terms: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | RepeatNode\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"group\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"lookaround\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"character\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"zeroWidth\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"backreference\"; readonly source: string });\n\ninterface RepeatNode extends Span {\n  readonly kind: \"repeat\";\n  readonly body: PatternNode;\n  readonly min: number;\n  readonly max: number;\n}\n\nclass PatternUnreadableError extends Error {\n  constructor(detail: string) {\n    super(detail);\n    this.name = \"PatternUnreadableError\";\n  }\n}\n\nfunction describeCause(cause: unknown): string {\n  return cause instanceof Error ? cause.message : String(cause);\n}\n\n// The walk: every rule below needs the enclosing repeat, not just a depth, so a refusal\n// can quote the whole construct rather than the fragment that tripped it.\n\nfunction inspect(\n  node: PatternNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\": {\n      const competing = repeatedAlternativesRisk(node.branches, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return (\n        competing ?? firstRisk(node.branches, (branch) => inspect(branch, enclosingRepeat, source))\n      );\n    }\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const competing = findCompetingNeighbours(node.terms, source);\n      return competing ?? firstRisk(node.terms, (term) => inspect(term, enclosingRepeat, source));\n    }\n    case \"repeat\": {\n      if (!repeatsMoreThanOnce(node)) {\n        return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      }\n      const risk = repeatRisk(node, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return risk ?? inspect(node.body, node, source);\n    }\n    case \"group\":\n      return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n    case \"lookaround\":\n      // A lookaround consumes nothing, so no enclosing quantifier can pump what is inside\n      // it. Its own contents are still read on their own terms.\n      return inspect(node.body, null, source);\n    default:\n      return null;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction repeatRisk(\n  repeat: RepeatNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  // A body that consumes nothing cannot be pumped: the engine stops the loop on the first\n  // empty iteration, so no amount of repetition multiplies the work.\n  if (!consumesCharacters(repeat.body)) {\n    return null;\n  }\n\n  if (enclosingRepeat !== null && varyingLength(repeat)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier, so one input has exponentially many ways to be split between them\",\n      construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  if (matchesEmpty(repeat.body)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a body that can also match nothing, so each iteration has two ways to cover the same position\",\n      construct: quote(repeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  return null;\n}\n\n/**\n * Alternatives that can both match at the same position are decided by trying one and\n * coming back for the other, and a quantifier around them multiplies that choice by every\n * iteration: `(a|ab)+` has to try every way to cut the input into `a` and `ab` pieces.\n */\nfunction repeatedAlternativesRisk(\n  branches: readonly PatternNode[],\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  if (enclosingRepeat === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const competing = findCompetingAlternatives(branches);\n  if (competing === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  return {\n    reason: `repeats alternatives that can both match at the same position (${competing}), so the same text can be carved up more than one way`,\n    construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n  };\n}\n\n/**\n * Two variable quantifiers reachable from one another over nullable terms both compete for\n * the run of characters between them: `\\s*\\s*$` retries every split of that run. The scan\n * stops at the first term that must consume something, since that term pins the boundary.\n */\nfunction findCompetingNeighbours(\n  terms: readonly PatternNode[],\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  const sequence = flattenTransparentGroups(terms);\n  for (const [index, left] of sequence.entries()) {\n    const leftRepeat = competingQuantifier(left.node);\n    if (leftRepeat === null) {\n      continue;\n    }\n    for (const right of sequence.slice(index + 1)) {\n      const rightRepeat = competingQuantifier(right.node);\n      if (\n        rightRepeat !== null &&\n        charactersOverlap(leadingCharacters(leftRepeat.body), leadingCharacters(rightRepeat.body))\n      ) {\n        return {\n          reason:\n            \"puts two variable quantifiers over the same characters in sequence, so every split of a run between them is retried\",\n          construct: `${quote(left.span, source)}${quote(right.span, source)}`,\n        };\n      }\n      if (!matchesEmpty(right.node)) {\n        break;\n      }\n    }\n  }\n  return null;\n}\n\n/** A quantifier that can take a variable number of characters from its neighbour. */\nfunction competingQuantifier(node: PatternNode): RepeatNode | null {\n  if (node.kind !== \"repeat\" || !varyingLength(node) || !consumesCharacters(node.body)) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  return node;\n}\n\n/** A term of a sequence, with the text a refusal should quote it as. */\ninterface SequenceTerm {\n  readonly node: PatternNode;\n  readonly span: Span;\n}\n\n/**\n * A group without a quantifier on it is transparent to matching: it captures, and nothing\n * else, so `(a+)(a+)` splits a run of characters exactly as ambiguously as `a+a+` does. The\n * neighbour scan therefore reads through such groups, at any nesting depth, rather than\n * seeing one opaque term where two quantifiers stand side by side. A lookaround is not\n * transparent and a quantified group is a repeat, so neither is spliced here.\n */\nfunction flattenTransparentGroups(terms: readonly PatternNode[]): readonly SequenceTerm[] {\n  return terms.flatMap((term) =>\n    term.kind === \"group\" ? spliceGroup(term.body, term) : [{ node: term, span: term }],\n  );\n}\n\nfunction spliceGroup(body: PatternNode, group: Span): readonly SequenceTerm[] {\n  const inner = flattenTransparentGroups(body.kind === \"sequence\" ? body.terms : [body]);\n  const only = inner[0];\n  // A group holding one term stands for that term, so the parentheses are what to quote.\n  return inner.length === 1 && only !== undefined ? [{ node: only.node, span: group }] : inner;\n}\n\nfunction findCompetingAlternatives(branches: readonly PatternNode[]): string | null {\n  for (const [index, left] of branches.entries()) {\n    for (const right of branches.slice(index + 1)) {\n      if (alternativesCompete(left, right)) {\n        return `${describeBranch(left)} and ${describeBranch(right)}`;\n      }\n    }\n  }\n  return null;\n}\n\n/**\n * Distinct literals that are not prefixes of one another decide themselves on the first\n * character that differs, so `(get|got)+` is unambiguous. Anything else falls back to\n * asking whether the two branches can start on the same character.\n */\nfunction alternativesCompete(left: PatternNode, right: PatternNode): boolean {\n  const leftLiteral = literalText(left);\n  const rightLiteral = literalText(right);\n  if (leftLiteral !== null && rightLiteral !== null) {\n    return leftLiteral.startsWith(rightLiteral) || rightLiteral.startsWith(leftLiteral);\n  }\n  return charactersOverlap(leadingCharacters(left), leadingCharacters(right));\n}\n\nfunction describeBranch(node: PatternNode): string {\n  const literal = literalText(node);\n  return literal === null ? leadingCharacters(node).join(\"\") : literal;\n}\n\n// Shape questions the rules ask of a node.\n\nfunction repeatsMoreThanOnce(repeat: RepeatNode): boolean {\n  return repeat.max >= 2;\n}\n\nfunction varyingLength(repeat: RepeatNode): boolean {\n  return repeat.max > repeat.min || varyingBodyLength(repeat.body);\n}\n\nfunction varyingBodyLength(node: PatternNode): boolean {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.some(varyingBodyLength) || !allBranchesFixedWidth(node.branches);\n    case \"sequence\":\n      return node.terms.some(varyingBodyLength);\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.max > node.min || varyingBodyLength(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return varyingBodyLength(node.body);\n    case \"backreference\":\n      return true;\n    default:\n      return false;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction allBranchesFixedWidth(branches: readonly PatternNode[]): boolean {\n  const widths = new Set(branches.map((branch) => literalText(branch)?.length ?? -1));\n  return widths.size === 1 && !widths.has(-1);\n}\n\nfunction consumesCharacters(node: PatternNode): boolean {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.some(consumesCharacters);\n    case \"sequence\":\n      return node.terms.some(consumesCharacters);\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.max >= 1 && consumesCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return consumesCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"character\":\n      return true;\n    default:\n      return false;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction matchesEmpty(node: PatternNode): boolean {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.some(matchesEmpty);\n    case \"sequence\":\n      return node.terms.every(matchesEmpty);\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.min === 0 || matchesEmpty(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return matchesEmpty(node.body);\n    case \"character\":\n      return false;\n    default:\n      // Anchors, lookarounds and backreferences can all cover a position without consuming it.\n      return true;\n  }\n}\n\n/** The exact text a node must match, when it is one, or null when it can vary. */\nfunction literalText(node: PatternNode): string | null {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"character\":\n      return node.source.length === 1 && node.source !== \".\" ? node.source : null;\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const parts = node.terms.map(literalText);\n      return parts.every((part) => part !== null) ? parts.join(\"\") : null;\n    }\n    case \"group\":\n      return literalText(node.body);\n    default:\n      return null;\n  }\n}\n\n/** Sources of the single-character atoms a match here can begin with. */\nfunction leadingCharacters(node: PatternNode): readonly string[] {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.flatMap(leadingCharacters);\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const leading: string[] = [];\n      for (const term of node.terms) {\n        leading.push(...leadingCharacters(term));\n        if (!matchesEmpty(term)) {\n          break;\n        }\n      }\n      return leading;\n    }\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.max === 0 ? [] : leadingCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return leadingCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"character\":\n      return [node.source];\n    default:\n      return [];\n  }\n}\n\n/**\n * Whether two atoms can match one and the same character. Decided by probing, over an\n * alphabet rather than by set algebra: each atom is a single character matcher, so\n * compiling it costs nothing and can itself never backtrack.\n *\n * An atom no probe matches is undecided, not disjoint. Disjointness is the answer that lets\n * a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by default: `\\1+\\1+\\1+X` is `\\x01` three\n * times over and backtracks exactly as `a+a+a+X` does, and reading an unprobed atom as\n * matching nothing would have cleared it.\n */\nfunction charactersOverlap(left: readonly string[], right: readonly string[]): boolean {\n  return left.some((leftAtom) => {\n    const leftMatches = probeMatches(leftAtom);\n    return right.some((rightAtom) => {\n      const rightMatches = probeMatches(rightAtom);\n      return (\n        leftMatches.length === 0 ||\n        rightMatches.length === 0 ||\n        rightMatches.some((probe) => leftMatches.includes(probe))\n      );\n    });\n  });\n}\n\n/**\n * Every code unit an escape can name directly, since a hex or octal escape reaches all of\n * them, plus one character past the range so classes written over wider scripts still probe.\n */\nconst probeAlphabet: readonly string[] = [\n  ...Array.from({ length: 256 }, (_, code) => String.fromCharCode(code)),\n  \"中\",\n];\n\nconst probeCache = new Map<string, readonly string[]>();\n\nfunction probeMatches(atomSource: string): readonly string[] {\n  const cached = probeCache.get(atomSource);\n  if (cached !== undefined) {\n    return cached;\n  }\n  let matched: readonly string[];\n  try {\n    // atomSource is one single-character atom the parser above produced, a literal, an\n    // escape or a character class, never a quantifier or a group. 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The\n   * engine decides `\\` plus digits is an octal escape rather than a backreference by\n   * counting capture groups, so a reader that skipped the digits would see two atoms it\n   * could not compare and clear the pattern.\n   */\n  for (const [pattern, plain] of [\n    [String.raw`\\141+\\141+X`, \"a+a+X\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)+$`, \"(a+)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141|\\141)+$`, \"(a|a)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)(\\141+)$`, \"(a+)(a+)$\"],\n  ] as const) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, which is ${plain}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses a two-digit and a one-digit octal the same way\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\60+\\60+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\0+\\0+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"compares an octal atom against a literal one, not only against another octal\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+a+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The other direction, and the one that says the normalization decodes rather than\n   * refusing anything with a backslash in it: `\\141` and `\\142` are `a` and `b`, which\n   * cannot take each other's characters, so this is an ordinary search.\n   */\n  it(\"accepts two octal atoms that are genuinely disjoint\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+\\142+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * Only the escape is consumed. `\\18` is `\\x01` followed by a literal `8`, so the `+`\n   * binds to the `8` and the two `8+` runs are held apart by the `\\x01` between them.\n   * Consuming the trailing digit into the escape would bind the quantifier somewhere the\n   * engine does not.\n   */\n  it(\"leaves a digit past the escape as its own quantified character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\18+\\18+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"atoms that only match non-printable code units\", () => {\n  /**\n   * The probe alphabet runs the whole 256-code-unit range rather than the printable part\n   * of it, because a control character is a character a quantifier can pump over. An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. An atom the probe alphabet cannot decide is undecided, and undecided has to\n   * read as overlapping: reading it as matching nothing would clear the pattern on the\n   * strength of not having understood it.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom that matches nothing at all\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[^\\s\\S]+[^\\s\\S]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`([^\\s\\S]+)+$`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom outside the probed range\", () => {\n    // Fullwidth forms: no probe in the alphabet matches them, so nothing is decided.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The cost of failing closed, pinned so it stays a decision. These two atoms are\n   * genuinely disjoint and the pattern is safe, and it is refused anyway because one of\n   * them is unprobed. Refusing a safe search is the direction this is allowed to be wrong\n   * in; clearing an unsafe one is not.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses an unprobed atom beside a probed one, which is the false positive it accepts\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+a+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"limits this reader is known to have\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Ambiguity a backreference introduces is invisible to a structural read, since what the\n   * reference matches is only known at match time. Recorded so the gap is a decision rather\n   * than a surprise: the line-length cap in the search tool is what bounds this one.\n   */\n  it(\"does not see ambiguity introduced by a backreference\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\1$`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\n[evidence record sha256:f67dbca4a8ced68e804eac2154cebef2b70e0386d3dcb7015c2f6b01fd65b6e3 kind tool-call:read]",
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            "output": "/**\n * Structural refusal of search patterns that can backtrack super-linearly.\n *\n * A search pattern is model output, and `RegExp.prototype.test` runs on the main thread\n * with no step budget: `(a+)+$` against thirty characters already takes seconds, and V8\n * offers no way to interrupt a match once it starts. The bound therefore has to be decided\n * before the pattern runs, by reading its structure.\n *\n * What makes a failing match explode is ambiguity: more than one way for the pattern to\n * carve up the same text, so a failure at the end has to be retried against every carving.\n * Three shapes produce it, and each is refused here:\n *   - a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier: `(a+)+`, `(\\w+\\s)*`\n *   - a repeated body that can also match nothing: `(a?)+`, `(a|)*`\n *   - two variable quantifiers competing for the same character, side by side or as\n *     alternatives under one quantifier: `\\s*\\s*$`, `(a+)(a+)$`, `(a|ab)+`, `(\\w|\\d)+`\n *\n * Each rule reads the character the engine will match, not the characters the pattern is\n * spelled with, because the two differ: a digit escape is a backreference only when the\n * pattern has that many capture groups, and is otherwise a legacy octal escape, so\n * `\\141+\\141+\\141+X` is `a+a+a+X` written another way and has to be refused as one.\n *\n * This is known-shape refusal, not a proof of linear time, and it is conservative in both\n * directions: it refuses patterns that would have run fast. The gap it does have is a\n * backreference, whose ambiguity only exists at match time and so cannot be read off the\n * structure at all; the search tool's line-length cap is what bounds that one. Grouping is\n * not a gap, at any depth or in either direction: the walk carries the enclosing quantifier\n * down through groups and sequences, so `((a|ab)y)+` is refused the same as `(a|ab)+`, and\n * it reads back up through an unquantified group, so `(a+)(a+)$` is refused the same as\n * `a+a+$`, parentheses being a capture rather than a boundary. A pattern the parser\n * below cannot read is refused rather than run, since an unread pattern is one nothing\n * bounds. `regex-safety.test.ts` pins both directions.\n */\n\n/** Why a pattern was refused, phrased so the caller can rewrite it. */\nexport interface BacktrackingRisk {\n  readonly reason: string;\n  /** The sub-pattern carrying the risk, so the message points at something concrete. */\n  readonly construct: string;\n}\n\nexport function findBacktrackingRisk(pattern: string): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  let parsed: PatternNode;\n  try {\n    parsed = parsePattern(pattern);\n  } catch (cause) {\n    return {\n      reason: `could not be read structurally (${describeCause(cause)}), so nothing bounds how it backtracks`,\n      construct: pattern,\n    };\n  }\n  return inspect(parsed, null, pattern);\n}\n\ninterface Span {\n  readonly start: number;\n  readonly end: number;\n}\n\ntype PatternNode =\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"alternation\"; readonly branches: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"sequence\"; readonly terms: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | RepeatNode\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"group\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"lookaround\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"character\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"zeroWidth\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"backreference\"; readonly source: string });\n\ninterface RepeatNode extends Span {\n  readonly kind: \"repeat\";\n  readonly body: PatternNode;\n  readonly min: number;\n  readonly max: number;\n}\n\nclass PatternUnreadableError extends Error {\n  constructor(detail: string) {\n    super(detail);\n    this.name = \"PatternUnreadableError\";\n  }\n}\n\nfunction describeCause(cause: unknown): string {\n  return cause instanceof Error ? cause.message : String(cause);\n}\n\n// The walk: every rule below needs the enclosing repeat, not just a depth, so a refusal\n// can quote the whole construct rather than the fragment that tripped it.\n\nfunction inspect(\n  node: PatternNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\": {\n      const competing = repeatedAlternativesRisk(node.branches, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return (\n        competing ?? firstRisk(node.branches, (branch) => inspect(branch, enclosingRepeat, source))\n      );\n    }\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const competing = findCompetingNeighbours(node.terms, source);\n      return competing ?? firstRisk(node.terms, (term) => inspect(term, enclosingRepeat, source));\n    }\n    case \"repeat\": {\n      if (!repeatsMoreThanOnce(node)) {\n        return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      }\n      const risk = repeatRisk(node, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return risk ?? inspect(node.body, node, source);\n    }\n    case \"group\":\n      return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n    case \"lookaround\":\n      // A lookaround consumes nothing, so no enclosing quantifier can pump what is inside\n      // it. Its own contents are still read on their own terms.\n      return inspect(node.body, null, source);\n    default:\n      return null;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction repeatRisk(\n  repeat: RepeatNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  // A body that consumes nothing cannot be pumped: the engine stops the loop on the first\n  // empty iteration, so no amount of repetition multiplies the work.\n  if (!consumesCharacters(repeat.body)) {\n    return null;\n  }\n\n  if (enclosingRepeat !== null && varyingLength(repeat)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier, so one input has exponentially many ways to be split between them\",\n      construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  if (matchesEmpty(repeat.body)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a body that can also match nothing, so each iteration has two ways to cover the same position\",\n      construct: quote(repeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  return null;\n}\n\n/**\n * Alternatives that can both match at the same position are decided by trying one and\n * coming back for the other, and a quantifier around them multiplies that choice by every\n * iteration: `(a|ab)+` has to try every way to cut the input into `a` and `ab` pieces.\n */\nfunction repeatedAlternativesRisk(\n  branches: readonly PatternNode[],\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  if (enclosingRepeat === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const competing = findCompetingAlternatives(branches);\n  if (competing === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  return {\n    reason: `repeats alternatives that can both match at the same position (${competing}), so the same text can be carved up more than one way`,\n    construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n  };\n}\n\n/**\n * Two variable quantifiers reachable from one another over nullable terms both compete for\n * the run of characters between them: `\\s*\\s*$` retries every split of that run. The scan\n * stops at the first term that must consume something, since that term pins the boundary.\n */\nfunction findCompetingNeighbours(\n  terms: readonly PatternNode[],\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  const sequence = flattenTransparentGroups(terms);\n  for (const [index, left] of sequence.entries()) {\n    const leftRepeat = competingQuantifier(left.node);\n    if (leftRepeat === null) {\n      continue;\n    }\n    for (const right of sequence.slice(index + 1)) {\n      const rightRepeat = competingQuantifier(right.node);\n      if (\n        rightRepeat !== null &&\n        charactersOverlap(leadingCharacters(leftRepeat.body), leadingCharacters(rightRepeat.body))\n      ) {\n        return {\n          reason:\n            \"puts two variable quantifiers over the same characters in sequence, so every split of a run between them is retried\",\n          construct: `${quote(left.span, source)}${quote(right.span, source)}`,\n        };\n      }\n      if (!matchesEmpty(right.node)) {\n        break;\n      }\n    }\n  }\n  return null;\n}\n\n/** A quantifier that can take a variable number of characters from its neighbour. */\nfunction competingQuantifier(node: PatternNode): RepeatNode | null {\n  if (node.kind !== \"repeat\" || !varyingLength(node) || !consumesCharacters(node.body)) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  return node;\n}\n\n/** A term of a sequence, with the text a refusal should quote it as. */\ninterface SequenceTerm {\n  readonly node: PatternNode;\n  readonly span: Span;\n}\n\n/**\n * A group without a quantifier on it is transparent to matching: it captures, and nothing\n * else, so `(a+)(a+)` splits a run of characters exactly as ambiguously as `a+a+` does. The\n * neighbour scan therefore reads through such groups, at any nesting depth, rather than\n * seeing one opaque term where two quantifiers stand side by side. A lookaround is not\n * transparent and a quantified group is a repeat, so neither is spliced here.\n */\nfunction flattenTransparentGroups(terms: readonly PatternNode[]): readonly SequenceTerm[] {\n  return terms.flatMap((term) =>\n    term.kind === \"group\" ? spliceGroup(term.body, term) : [{ node: term, span: term }],\n  );\n}\n\nfunction spliceGroup(body: PatternNode, group: Span): readonly SequenceTerm[] {\n  const inner = flattenTransparentGroups(body.kind === \"sequence\" ? body.terms : [body]);\n  const only = inner[0];\n  // A group holding one term stands for that term, so the parentheses are what to quote.\n  return inner.length === 1 && only !== undefined ? [{ node: only.node, span: group }] : inner;\n}\n\nfunction findCompetingAlternatives(branches: readonly PatternNode[]): string | null {\n  for (const [index, left] of branches.entries()) {\n    for (const right of branches.slice(index + 1)) {\n      if (alternativesCompete(left, right)) {\n        return `${describeBranch(left)} and ${describeBranch(right)}`;\n      }\n    }\n  }\n  return null;\n}\n\n/**\n * Distinct literals that are not prefixes of one another decide themselves on the first\n * character that differs, so `(get|got)+` is unambiguous. Anything else falls back to\n * asking whether the two branches can start on the same character.\n */\nfunction alternativesCompete(left: PatternNode, right: PatternNode): boolean {\n  const leftLiteral = literalText(left);\n  const rightLiteral = literalText(right);\n  if (leftLiteral !== null && rightLiteral !== null) {\n    return leftLiteral.startsWith(rightLiteral) || rightLiteral.startsWith(leftLiteral);\n  }\n  return charactersOverlap(leadingCharacters(left), leadingCharacters(right));\n}\n\nfunction describeBranch(node: PatternNode): string {\n  const literal = literalText(node);\n  return literal === null ? leadingCharacters(node).join(\"\") : literal;\n}\n\n// Shape questions the rules ask of a node.\n\nfunction repeatsMoreThanOnce(repeat: RepeatNode): boolean {\n  return repeat.max >= 2;\n}\n\nfunction varyingLength(repeat: RepeatNode): boolean {\n  return repeat.max > repeat.min || varyingBodyLength(repeat.body);\n}\n\nfunction varyingBodyLength(node: PatternNode): boolean {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.some(varyingBodyLength) || !allBranchesFixedWidth(node.branches);\n    case \"sequence\":\n      return node.terms.some(varyingBodyLength);\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.max > node.min || varyingBodyLength(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return varyingBodyLength(node.body);\n    case \"backreference\":\n      return true;\n    default:\n      return false;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction allBranchesFixedWidth(branches: readonly PatternNode[]): boolean {\n  const widths = new Set(branches.map((branch) => literalText(branch)?.length ?? -1));\n  return widths.size === 1 && !widths.has(-1);\n}\n\nfunction consumesCharacters(node: PatternNode): boolean {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.some(consumesCharacters);\n    case \"sequence\":\n      return node.terms.some(consumesCharacters);\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.max >= 1 && consumesCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return consumesCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"character\":\n      return true;\n    default:\n      return false;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction matchesEmpty(node: PatternNode): boolean {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.some(matchesEmpty);\n    case \"sequence\":\n      return node.terms.every(matchesEmpty);\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.min === 0 || matchesEmpty(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return matchesEmpty(node.body);\n    case \"character\":\n      return false;\n    default:\n      // Anchors, lookarounds and backreferences can all cover a position without consuming it.\n      return true;\n  }\n}\n\n/** The exact text a node must match, when it is one, or null when it can vary. */\nfunction literalText(node: PatternNode): string | null {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"character\":\n      return node.source.length === 1 && node.source !== \".\" ? node.source : null;\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const parts = node.terms.map(literalText);\n      return parts.every((part) => part !== null) ? parts.join(\"\") : null;\n    }\n    case \"group\":\n      return literalText(node.body);\n    default:\n      return null;\n  }\n}\n\n/** Sources of the single-character atoms a match here can begin with. */\nfunction leadingCharacters(node: PatternNode): readonly string[] {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.flatMap(leadingCharacters);\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const leading: string[] = [];\n      for (const term of node.terms) {\n        leading.push(...leadingCharacters(term));\n        if (!matchesEmpty(term)) {\n          break;\n        }\n      }\n      return leading;\n    }\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.max === 0 ? [] : leadingCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return leadingCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"character\":\n      return [node.source];\n    default:\n      return [];\n  }\n}\n\n/**\n * Whether two atoms can match one and the same character. Decided by probing, over an\n * alphabet rather than by set algebra: each atom is a single character matcher, so\n * compiling it costs nothing and can itself never backtrack.\n *\n * An atom no probe matches is undecided, not disjoint. Disjointness is the answer that lets\n * a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by default: `\\1+\\1+\\1+X` is `\\x01` three\n * times over and backtracks exactly as `a+a+a+X` does, and reading an unprobed atom as\n * matching nothing would have cleared it.\n */\nfunction charactersOverlap(left: readonly string[], right: readonly string[]): boolean {\n  return left.some((leftAtom) => {\n    const leftMatches = probeMatches(leftAtom);\n    return right.some((rightAtom) => {\n      const rightMatches = probeMatches(rightAtom);\n      return (\n        leftMatches.length === 0 ||\n        rightMatches.length === 0 ||\n        rightMatches.some((probe) => leftMatches.includes(probe))\n      );\n    });\n  });\n}\n\n/**\n * Every code unit an escape can name directly, since a hex or octal escape reaches all of\n * them, plus one character past the range so classes written over wider scripts still probe.\n */\nconst probeAlphabet: readonly string[] = [\n  ...Array.from({ length: 256 }, (_, code) => String.fromCharCode(code)),\n  \"中\",\n];\n\nconst probeCache = new Map<string, readonly string[]>();\n\nfunction probeMatches(atomSource: string): readonly string[] {\n  const cached = probeCache.get(atomSource);\n  if (cached !== undefined) {\n    return cached;\n  }\n  let matched: readonly string[];\n  try {\n    // atomSource is one single-character atom the parser above produced, a literal, an\n    // escape or a character class, never a quantifier or a group. 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[];\n    expect(landings.filter((landing) => landing.landed)).toHaveLength(1);\n\n    const rejected = landings.find((landing) => !landing.landed);\n    expect(rejected?.reason).toBe(\"merge-conflict\");\n    expect(rejected?.feedback).toMatch(/src\\/alpha\\.js/);\n    expect(rejected?.feedback).toMatch(/integration branch/);\n  }, 120_000);\n\n  it(\"never leaves the repository the user is sitting in touched\", async () => {\n    const headBefore = (await git(repository, \"rev-parse\", \"HEAD\")).trim();\n    const branchBefore = (await git(repository, \"rev-parse\", \"--abbrev-ref\", \"HEAD\")).trim();\n\n    await parallel(sameModule);\n\n    expect((await git(repository, \"rev-parse\", \"HEAD\")).trim()).toBe(headBefore);\n    expect((await git(repository, \"rev-parse\", \"--abbrev-ref\", \"HEAD\")).trim()).toBe(branchBefore);\n    expect((await git(repository, \"status\", \"--porcelain\")).trim()).toBe(\"\");\n    expect(await readFile(join(repository, \"src/alpha.js\"), \"utf8\")).toBe(alpha);\n  }, 120_000);\n\n  it(\"stops the integration branch at the merge that was accepted\", async () => {\n    const result = await parallel(sameModule);\n\n    const landed = result.queue?.landings.find((landing) => landing.landed);\n    expect(result.headCommit).toBe(landed?.commit);\n  }, 120_000);\n\n  it(\"puts the reason in the rejected worker's own chain\", async () => {\n    const result = await parallel(sameModule);\n\n    const rejected = result.workers.find(\n      (worker) => worker.workerId === result.queue?.landings.find((one) => !one.landed)?.workerId,\n    );\n    const attempts = rejected?.evidence.records().filter((entry) => entry.type === \"merge-attempt\");\n    expect(attempts).toHaveLength(1);\n  }, 120_000);\n});\n\ndescribe(\"a worker that cannot even start\", () => {\n  it(\"says so on its own chain, so its bundle is not simply empty\", async () => {\n    let workerEvidence: EvidenceRecorder | null = null;\n    const result = await runInParallel({\n      repositoryRoot: repository,\n      baseRef: \"HEAD\",\n      tasks: [\"add a shout to alpha\"],\n      runId: \"run1\",\n      scratchRoot: join(scratch, \"worktrees\"),\n      coordinator,\n      createWorkerSession: async (workerId) => {\n        workerEvidence = await openEvidenceSession({\n          root: join(scratch, \"sessions\"),\n          sessionId: workerId,\n          clock,\n        });\n        return workerEvidence;\n      },\n      createModel: () => {\n        throw new Error('provider \"anthropic\" is not configured');\n      },\n      clock,\n      random: createFixedRandom(),\n      emit: () => {},\n      maxSteps: 8,\n      attempts: 0,\n      gateOptions: { commandOverrides: gateOverrides },\n      abortSignal: new AbortController().signal,\n    });\n\n    expect(result.workers[0]?.green).toBe(false);\n    expect(result.workers[0]?.detail).toMatch(/not configured/);\n\n    const records = (workerEvidence as EvidenceRecorder | null)?.records() ?? 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Loosening the reader lets a catastrophic pattern through;\n * tightening it breaks ordinary search, which is the pressure that would loosen it again.\n */\n\n/** Patterns a person would plausibly search a codebase with. */\nconst ordinary = [\n  \"TODO\",\n  \"TODO|FIXME|XXX\",\n  String.raw`function \\w+`,\n  \"^import .* from\",\n  String.raw`\\bclass\\s+[A-Z]\\w*`,\n  \"error|warning\",\n  String.raw`\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}`,\n  \"foo.*bar\",\n  String.raw`[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+`,\n  String.raw`export (const|function) \\w+`,\n  String.raw`\\s*//.*$`,\n  String.raw`^\\s*it\\(`,\n];\n\n/** Shapes whose failing match is super-linear, one per rule the reader implements. */\nconst catastrophic = [\n  \"(a+)+$\",\n  \"(a*)*$\",\n  \"([a-z]+)*$\",\n  String.raw`(\\w+\\s)*$`,\n  String.raw`^(\\w+\\s?)*$`,\n  \"(a?)+$\",\n  \"(a|a)+$\",\n  \"(a|ab)+$\",\n  String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`,\n  \"a+a+$\",\n];\n\ndescribe(\"patterns a search can run\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of ordinary) {\n    it(`accepts ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"accepts alternatives that decide themselves on the first character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(get|got)+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(ab|cd)+\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts two quantifiers a mandatory character keeps apart\", () => {\n    // The X pins the boundary, so neither quantifier can take the other's characters.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"a+Xa+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\d+\\s+`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+)X(a+)$\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts captures whose quantifiers cannot take each other's characters\", () => {\n    // Reading through groups must not cost the ordinary two-capture search.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\d+)-(\\d+)`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a quantifier that cannot repeat more than once\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){1}\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a lookahead over an atom, which consumes nothing to pump\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=a)b\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns that can backtrack super-linearly\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of catastrophic) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses nesting however the inner group is spelled\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?:a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<name>a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses a counted outer quantifier, which repeats just as ambiguously\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){2}\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses competing alternatives one level below the quantifier\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"((a|ab)y)+$\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * A capture is not a boundary. This family reached a real search through the guard once,\n   * because the neighbour scan only looked at bare quantifiers and `(a+)` is a group; it is\n   * the same ambiguity as `a+a+` with parentheses drawn around it. The earlier suite tested\n   * only the bare spelling, which is why nothing caught it.\n   */\n  for (const pattern of [\n    \"(a+)(a+)$\",\n    \"(a+)(a*)$\",\n    String.raw`(\\w+)(\\w+)$`,\n    String.raw`(\\s*)(\\s*)$`,\n    \"((a+))((a+))$\",\n  ]) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, the same competition with parentheses drawn round it`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookaround rather than trusting it\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookbehind the same way\", () => {\n    // A lookbehind is read the same as a lookahead: its contents are inspected on their\n    // own terms, so a quantifier nested inside it is still caught.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns it cannot read\", () => {\n  /** An unread pattern is one nothing bounds, so it is refused rather than run. */\n  for (const pattern of [\"(\", \"a\\\\\", \"(?#comment)a\", \"[a-z\"]) {\n    it(`refuses ${JSON.stringify(pattern)} rather than guessing`, () => {\n      const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(pattern);\n      expect(risk?.reason).toContain(\"could not be read structurally\");\n    });\n  }\n});\n\ndescribe(\"what a refusal says\", () => {\n  it(\"names the construct carrying the risk, quoted from the pattern\", () => {\n    const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(\"^prefix (a+)+ suffix$\");\n\n    expect(risk).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(risk?.construct).toBe(\"(a+)+\");\n    expect(risk?.reason.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);\n  });\n\n  it(\"quotes both quantifiers when they compete in sequence\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`)?.construct).toBe(String.raw`\\s*\\s*`);\n  });\n});\n\n/**\n * The octal normalization, the 256-code-unit probe alphabet, and the fail-closed empty\n * probe shipped together with no dedicated test. This is the lesson the grouped-spelling\n * miss already taught, written down: an untested guard spelling is the live one, and every\n * family below is a spelling of a rule the suite above already covers in ASCII.\n */\ndescribe(\"competing quantifiers spelled as octal escapes\", () => {\n  /**\n   * `\\141` is `a`, so each of these is a pattern the suite above refuses, retyped. The\n   * engine decides `\\` plus digits is an octal escape rather than a backreference by\n   * counting capture groups, so a reader that skipped the digits would see two atoms it\n   * could not compare and clear the pattern.\n   */\n  for (const [pattern, plain] of [\n    [String.raw`\\141+\\141+X`, \"a+a+X\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)+$`, \"(a+)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141|\\141)+$`, \"(a|a)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)(\\141+)$`, \"(a+)(a+)$\"],\n  ] as const) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, which is ${plain}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses a two-digit and a one-digit octal the same way\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\60+\\60+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\0+\\0+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"compares an octal atom against a literal one, not only against another octal\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+a+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The other direction, and the one that says the normalization decodes rather than\n   * refusing anything with a backslash in it: `\\141` and `\\142` are `a` and `b`, which\n   * cannot take each other's characters, so this is an ordinary search.\n   */\n  it(\"accepts two octal atoms that are genuinely disjoint\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+\\142+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * Only the escape is consumed. `\\18` is `\\x01` followed by a literal `8`, so the `+`\n   * binds to the `8` and the two `8+` runs are held apart by the `\\x01` between them.\n   * Consuming the trailing digit into the escape would bind the quantifier somewhere the\n   * engine does not.\n   */\n  it(\"leaves a digit past the escape as its own quantified character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\18+\\18+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"atoms that only match non-printable code units\", () => {\n  /**\n   * The probe alphabet runs the whole 256-code-unit range rather than the printable part\n   * of it, because a control character is a character a quantifier can pump over. An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. An atom the probe alphabet cannot decide is undecided, and undecided has to\n   * read as overlapping: reading it as matching nothing would clear the pattern on the\n   * strength of not having understood it.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom that matches nothing at all\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[^\\s\\S]+[^\\s\\S]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`([^\\s\\S]+)+$`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom outside the probed range\", () => {\n    // Fullwidth forms: no probe in the alphabet matches them, so nothing is decided.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The cost of failing closed, pinned so it stays a decision. These two atoms are\n   * genuinely disjoint and the pattern is safe, and it is refused anyway because one of\n   * them is unprobed. Refusing a safe search is the direction this is allowed to be wrong\n   * in; clearing an unsafe one is not.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses an unprobed atom beside a probed one, which is the false positive it accepts\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+a+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"limits this reader is known to have\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Ambiguity a backreference introduces is invisible to a structural read, since what the\n   * reference matches is only known at match time. Recorded so the gap is a decision rather\n   * than a surprise: the line-length cap in the search tool is what bounds this one.\n   */\n  it(\"does not see ambiguity introduced by a backreference\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\1$`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\n[evidence record sha256:f67dbca4a8ced68e804eac2154cebef2b70e0386d3dcb7015c2f6b01fd65b6e3 kind tool-call:read]",
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            "output": "/**\n * Structural refusal of search patterns that can backtrack super-linearly.\n *\n * A search pattern is model output, and `RegExp.prototype.test` runs on the main thread\n * with no step budget: `(a+)+$` against thirty characters already takes seconds, and V8\n * offers no way to interrupt a match once it starts. The bound therefore has to be decided\n * before the pattern runs, by reading its structure.\n *\n * What makes a failing match explode is ambiguity: more than one way for the pattern to\n * carve up the same text, so a failure at the end has to be retried against every carving.\n * Three shapes produce it, and each is refused here:\n *   - a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier: `(a+)+`, `(\\w+\\s)*`\n *   - a repeated body that can also match nothing: `(a?)+`, `(a|)*`\n *   - two variable quantifiers competing for the same character, side by side or as\n *     alternatives under one quantifier: `\\s*\\s*$`, `(a+)(a+)$`, `(a|ab)+`, `(\\w|\\d)+`\n *\n * Each rule reads the character the engine will match, not the characters the pattern is\n * spelled with, because the two differ: a digit escape is a backreference only when the\n * pattern has that many capture groups, and is otherwise a legacy octal escape, so\n * `\\141+\\141+\\141+X` is `a+a+a+X` written another way and has to be refused as one.\n *\n * This is known-shape refusal, not a proof of linear time, and it is conservative in both\n * directions: it refuses patterns that would have run fast. The gap it does have is a\n * backreference, whose ambiguity only exists at match time and so cannot be read off the\n * structure at all; the search tool's line-length cap is what bounds that one. Grouping is\n * not a gap, at any depth or in either direction: the walk carries the enclosing quantifier\n * down through groups and sequences, so `((a|ab)y)+` is refused the same as `(a|ab)+`, and\n * it reads back up through an unquantified group, so `(a+)(a+)$` is refused the same as\n * `a+a+$`, parentheses being a capture rather than a boundary. A pattern the parser\n * below cannot read is refused rather than run, since an unread pattern is one nothing\n * bounds. `regex-safety.test.ts` pins both directions.\n */\n\n/** Why a pattern was refused, phrased so the caller can rewrite it. */\nexport interface BacktrackingRisk {\n  readonly reason: string;\n  /** The sub-pattern carrying the risk, so the message points at something concrete. */\n  readonly construct: string;\n}\n\nexport function findBacktrackingRisk(pattern: string): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  let parsed: PatternNode;\n  try {\n    parsed = parsePattern(pattern);\n  } catch (cause) {\n    return {\n      reason: `could not be read structurally (${describeCause(cause)}), so nothing bounds how it backtracks`,\n      construct: pattern,\n    };\n  }\n  return inspect(parsed, null, pattern);\n}\n\ninterface Span {\n  readonly start: number;\n  readonly end: number;\n}\n\ntype PatternNode =\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"alternation\"; readonly branches: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"sequence\"; readonly terms: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | RepeatNode\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"group\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"lookaround\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"character\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"zeroWidth\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"backreference\"; readonly source: string });\n\ninterface RepeatNode extends Span {\n  readonly kind: \"repeat\";\n  readonly body: PatternNode;\n  readonly min: number;\n  readonly max: number;\n}\n\nclass PatternUnreadableError extends Error {\n  constructor(detail: string) {\n    super(detail);\n    this.name = \"PatternUnreadableError\";\n  }\n}\n\nfunction describeCause(cause: unknown): string {\n  return cause instanceof Error ? cause.message : String(cause);\n}\n\n// The walk: every rule below needs the enclosing repeat, not just a depth, so a refusal\n// can quote the whole construct rather than the fragment that tripped it.\n\nfunction inspect(\n  node: PatternNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\": {\n      const competing = repeatedAlternativesRisk(node.branches, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return (\n        competing ?? firstRisk(node.branches, (branch) => inspect(branch, enclosingRepeat, source))\n      );\n    }\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const competing = findCompetingNeighbours(node.terms, source);\n      return competing ?? firstRisk(node.terms, (term) => inspect(term, enclosingRepeat, source));\n    }\n    case \"repeat\": {\n      if (!repeatsMoreThanOnce(node)) {\n        return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      }\n      const risk = repeatRisk(node, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return risk ?? inspect(node.body, node, source);\n    }\n    case \"group\":\n      return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n    case \"lookaround\":\n      // A lookaround consumes nothing, so no enclosing quantifier can pump what is inside\n      // it. Its own contents are still read on their own terms.\n      return inspect(node.body, null, source);\n    default:\n      return null;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction repeatRisk(\n  repeat: RepeatNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  // A body that consumes nothing cannot be pumped: the engine stops the loop on the first\n  // empty iteration, so no amount of repetition multiplies the work.\n  if (!consumesCharacters(repeat.body)) {\n    return null;\n  }\n\n  if (enclosingRepeat !== null && varyingLength(repeat)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier, so one input has exponentially many ways to be split between them\",\n      construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  if (matchesEmpty(repeat.body)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a body that can also match nothing, so each iteration has two ways to cover the same position\",\n      construct: quote(repeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  return null;\n}\n\n/**\n * Alternatives that can both match at the same position are decided by trying one and\n * coming back for the other, and a quantifier around them multiplies that choice by every\n * iteration: `(a|ab)+` has to try every way to cut the input into `a` and `ab` pieces.\n */\nfunction repeatedAlternativesRisk(\n  branches: readonly PatternNode[],\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  if (enclosingRepeat === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const competing = findCompetingAlternatives(branches);\n  if (competing === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  return {\n    reason: `repeats alternatives that can both match at the same position (${competing}), so the same text can be carved up more than one way`,\n    construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n  };\n}\n\n/**\n * Two variable quantifiers reachable from one another over nullable terms both compete for\n * the run of characters between them: `\\s*\\s*$` retries every split of that run. The scan\n * stops at the first term that must consume something, since that term pins the boundary.\n */\nfunction findCompetingNeighbours(\n  terms: readonly PatternNode[],\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  const sequence = flattenTransparentGroups(terms);\n  for (const [index, left] of sequence.entries()) {\n    const leftRepeat = competingQuantifier(left.node);\n    if (leftRepeat === null) {\n      continue;\n    }\n    for (const right of sequence.slice(index + 1)) {\n      const rightRepeat = competingQuantifier(right.node);\n      if (\n        rightRepeat !== null &&\n        charactersOverlap(leadingCharacters(leftRepeat.body), leadingCharacters(rightRepeat.body))\n      ) {\n        return {\n          reason:\n            \"puts two variable quantifiers over the same characters in sequence, so every split of a run between them is retried\",\n          construct: `${quote(left.span, source)}${quote(right.span, source)}`,\n        };\n      }\n      if (!matchesEmpty(right.node)) {\n        break;\n      }\n    }\n  }\n  return null;\n}\n\n/** A quantifier that can take a variable number of characters from its neighbour. */\nfunction competingQuantifier(node: PatternNode): RepeatNode | null {\n  if (node.kind !== \"repeat\" || !varyingLength(node) || !consumesCharacters(node.body)) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  return node;\n}\n\n/** A term of a sequence, with the text a refusal should quote it as. */\ninterface SequenceTerm {\n  readonly node: PatternNode;\n  readonly span: Span;\n}\n\n/**\n * A group without a quantifier on it is transparent to matching: it captures, and nothing\n * else, so `(a+)(a+)` splits a run of characters exactly as ambiguously as `a+a+` does. The\n * neighbour scan therefore reads through such groups, at any nesting depth, rather than\n * seeing one opaque term where two quantifiers stand side by side. A lookaround is not\n * transparent and a quantified group is a repeat, so neither is spliced here.\n */\nfunction flattenTransparentGroups(terms: readonly PatternNode[]): readonly SequenceTerm[] {\n  return terms.flatMap((term) =>\n    term.kind === \"group\" ? spliceGroup(term.body, term) : [{ node: term, span: term }],\n  );\n}\n\nfunction spliceGroup(body: PatternNode, group: Span): readonly SequenceTerm[] {\n  const inner = flattenTransparentGroups(body.kind === \"sequence\" ? body.terms : [body]);\n  const only = inner[0];\n  // A group holding one term stands for that term, so the parentheses are what to quote.\n  return inner.length === 1 && only !== undefined ? [{ node: only.node, span: group }] : inner;\n}\n\nfunction findCompetingAlternatives(branches: readonly PatternNode[]): string | null {\n  for (const [index, left] of branches.entries()) {\n    for (const right of branches.slice(index + 1)) {\n      if (alternativesCompete(left, right)) {\n        return `${describeBranch(left)} and ${describeBranch(right)}`;\n      }\n    }\n  }\n  return null;\n}\n\n/**\n * Distinct literals that are not prefixes of one another decide themselves on the first\n * character that differs, so `(get|got)+` is unambiguous. Anything else falls back to\n * asking whether the two branches can start on the same character.\n */\nfunction alternativesCompete(left: PatternNode, right: PatternNode): boolean {\n  const leftLiteral = literalText(left);\n  const rightLiteral = literalText(right);\n  if (leftLiteral !== null && rightLiteral !== null) {\n    return leftLiteral.startsWith(rightLiteral) || rightLiteral.startsWith(leftLiteral);\n  }\n  return charactersOverlap(leadingCharacters(left), leadingCharacters(right));\n}\n\nfunction describeBranch(node: PatternNode): string {\n  const literal = literalText(node);\n  return literal === null ? leadingCharacters(node).join(\"\") : literal;\n}\n\n// Shape questions the rules ask of a node.\n\nfunction repeatsMoreThanOnce(repeat: RepeatNode): boolean {\n  return repeat.max >= 2;\n}\n\nfunction varyingLength(repeat: RepeatNode): boolean {\n  return repeat.max > repeat.min || varyingBodyLength(repeat.body);\n}\n\nfunction varyingBodyLength(node: PatternNode): boolean {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.some(varyingBodyLength) || !allBranchesFixedWidth(node.branches);\n    case \"sequence\":\n      return node.terms.some(varyingBodyLength);\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.max > node.min || varyingBodyLength(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return varyingBodyLength(node.body);\n    case \"backreference\":\n      return true;\n    default:\n      return false;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction allBranchesFixedWidth(branches: readonly PatternNode[]): boolean {\n  const widths = new Set(branches.map((branch) => literalText(branch)?.length ?? -1));\n  return widths.size === 1 && !widths.has(-1);\n}\n\nfunction consumesCharacters(node: PatternNode): boolean {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.some(consumesCharacters);\n    case \"sequence\":\n      return node.terms.some(consumesCharacters);\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.max >= 1 && consumesCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return consumesCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"character\":\n      return true;\n    default:\n      return false;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction matchesEmpty(node: PatternNode): boolean {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.some(matchesEmpty);\n    case \"sequence\":\n      return node.terms.every(matchesEmpty);\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.min === 0 || matchesEmpty(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return matchesEmpty(node.body);\n    case \"character\":\n      return false;\n    default:\n      // Anchors, lookarounds and backreferences can all cover a position without consuming it.\n      return true;\n  }\n}\n\n/** The exact text a node must match, when it is one, or null when it can vary. */\nfunction literalText(node: PatternNode): string | null {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"character\":\n      return node.source.length === 1 && node.source !== \".\" ? node.source : null;\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const parts = node.terms.map(literalText);\n      return parts.every((part) => part !== null) ? parts.join(\"\") : null;\n    }\n    case \"group\":\n      return literalText(node.body);\n    default:\n      return null;\n  }\n}\n\n/** Sources of the single-character atoms a match here can begin with. */\nfunction leadingCharacters(node: PatternNode): readonly string[] {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.flatMap(leadingCharacters);\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const leading: string[] = [];\n      for (const term of node.terms) {\n        leading.push(...leadingCharacters(term));\n        if (!matchesEmpty(term)) {\n          break;\n        }\n      }\n      return leading;\n    }\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.max === 0 ? 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Disjointness is the answer that lets\n * a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by default: `\\1+\\1+\\1+X` is `\\x01` three\n * times over and backtracks exactly as `a+a+a+X` does, and reading an unprobed atom as\n * matching nothing would have cleared it.\n */\nfunction charactersOverlap(left: readonly string[], right: readonly string[]): boolean {\n  return left.some((leftAtom) => {\n    const leftMatches = probeMatches(leftAtom);\n    return right.some((rightAtom) => {\n      const rightMatches = probeMatches(rightAtom);\n      return (\n        leftMatches.length === 0 ||\n        rightMatches.length === 0 ||\n        rightMatches.some((probe) => leftMatches.includes(probe))\n      );\n    });\n  });\n}\n\n/**\n * Every code unit an escape can name directly, since a hex or octal escape reaches all of\n * them, plus one character past the range so classes written over wider scripts still probe.\n */\nconst probeAlphabet: readonly string[] = [\n  ...Array.from({ length: 256 }, (_, code) => String.fromCharCode(code)),\n  \"中\",\n];\n\nconst probeCache = new Map<string, readonly string[]>();\n\nfunction probeMatches(atomSource: string): readonly string[] {\n  const cached = probeCache.get(atomSource);\n  if (cached !== undefined) {\n    return cached;\n  }\n  let matched: readonly string[];\n  try {\n    // atomSource is one single-character atom the parser above produced, a literal, an\n    // escape or a character class, never a quantifier or a group. 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Loosening the reader lets a catastrophic pattern through;\n * tightening it breaks ordinary search, which is the pressure that would loosen it again.\n */\n\n/** Patterns a person would plausibly search a codebase with. */\nconst ordinary = [\n  \"TODO\",\n  \"TODO|FIXME|XXX\",\n  String.raw`function \\w+`,\n  \"^import .* from\",\n  String.raw`\\bclass\\s+[A-Z]\\w*`,\n  \"error|warning\",\n  String.raw`\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}`,\n  \"foo.*bar\",\n  String.raw`[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+`,\n  String.raw`export (const|function) \\w+`,\n  String.raw`\\s*//.*$`,\n  String.raw`^\\s*it\\(`,\n];\n\n/** Shapes whose failing match is super-linear, one per rule the reader implements. */\nconst catastrophic = [\n  \"(a+)+$\",\n  \"(a*)*$\",\n  \"([a-z]+)*$\",\n  String.raw`(\\w+\\s)*$`,\n  String.raw`^(\\w+\\s?)*$`,\n  \"(a?)+$\",\n  \"(a|a)+$\",\n  \"(a|ab)+$\",\n  String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`,\n  \"a+a+$\",\n];\n\ndescribe(\"patterns a search can run\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of ordinary) {\n    it(`accepts ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"accepts alternatives that decide themselves on the first character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(get|got)+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(ab|cd)+\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts two quantifiers a mandatory character keeps apart\", () => {\n    // The X pins the boundary, so neither quantifier can take the other's characters.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"a+Xa+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\d+\\s+`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+)X(a+)$\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts captures whose quantifiers cannot take each other's characters\", () => {\n    // Reading through groups must not cost the ordinary two-capture search.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\d+)-(\\d+)`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a quantifier that cannot repeat more than once\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){1}\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a lookahead over an atom, which consumes nothing to pump\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=a)b\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns that can backtrack super-linearly\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of catastrophic) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses nesting however the inner group is spelled\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?:a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<name>a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses a counted outer quantifier, which repeats just as ambiguously\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){2}\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses competing alternatives one level below the quantifier\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"((a|ab)y)+$\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * A capture is not a boundary. This family reached a real search through the guard once,\n   * because the neighbour scan only looked at bare quantifiers and `(a+)` is a group; it is\n   * the same ambiguity as `a+a+` with parentheses drawn around it. The earlier suite tested\n   * only the bare spelling, which is why nothing caught it.\n   */\n  for (const pattern of [\n    \"(a+)(a+)$\",\n    \"(a+)(a*)$\",\n    String.raw`(\\w+)(\\w+)$`,\n    String.raw`(\\s*)(\\s*)$`,\n    \"((a+))((a+))$\",\n  ]) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, the same competition with parentheses drawn round it`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookaround rather than trusting it\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookbehind the same way\", () => {\n    // A lookbehind is read the same as a lookahead: its contents are inspected on their\n    // own terms, so a quantifier nested inside it is still caught.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns it cannot read\", () => {\n  /** An unread pattern is one nothing bounds, so it is refused rather than run. */\n  for (const pattern of [\"(\", \"a\\\\\", \"(?#comment)a\", \"[a-z\"]) {\n    it(`refuses ${JSON.stringify(pattern)} rather than guessing`, () => {\n      const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(pattern);\n      expect(risk?.reason).toContain(\"could not be read structurally\");\n    });\n  }\n});\n\ndescribe(\"what a refusal says\", () => {\n  it(\"names the construct carrying the risk, quoted from the pattern\", () => {\n    const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(\"^prefix (a+)+ suffix$\");\n\n    expect(risk).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(risk?.construct).toBe(\"(a+)+\");\n    expect(risk?.reason.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);\n  });\n\n  it(\"quotes both quantifiers when they compete in sequence\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`)?.construct).toBe(String.raw`\\s*\\s*`);\n  });\n});\n\n/**\n * The octal normalization, the 256-code-unit probe alphabet, and the fail-closed empty\n * probe shipped together with no dedicated test. This is the lesson the grouped-spelling\n * miss already taught, written down: an untested guard spelling is the live one, and every\n * family below is a spelling of a rule the suite above already covers in ASCII.\n */\ndescribe(\"competing quantifiers spelled as octal escapes\", () => {\n  /**\n   * `\\141` is `a`, so each of these is a pattern the suite above refuses, retyped. The\n   * engine decides `\\` plus digits is an octal escape rather than a backreference by\n   * counting capture groups, so a reader that skipped the digits would see two atoms it\n   * could not compare and clear the pattern.\n   */\n  for (const [pattern, plain] of [\n    [String.raw`\\141+\\141+X`, \"a+a+X\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)+$`, \"(a+)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141|\\141)+$`, \"(a|a)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)(\\141+)$`, \"(a+)(a+)$\"],\n  ] as const) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, which is ${plain}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses a two-digit and a one-digit octal the same way\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\60+\\60+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\0+\\0+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"compares an octal atom against a literal one, not only against another octal\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+a+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The other direction, and the one that says the normalization decodes rather than\n   * refusing anything with a backslash in it: `\\141` and `\\142` are `a` and `b`, which\n   * cannot take each other's characters, so this is an ordinary search.\n   */\n  it(\"accepts two octal atoms that are genuinely disjoint\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+\\142+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * Only the escape is consumed. `\\18` is `\\x01` followed by a literal `8`, so the `+`\n   * binds to the `8` and the two `8+` runs are held apart by the `\\x01` between them.\n   * Consuming the trailing digit into the escape would bind the quantifier somewhere the\n   * engine does not.\n   */\n  it(\"leaves a digit past the escape as its own quantified character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\18+\\18+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"atoms that only match non-printable code units\", () => {\n  /**\n   * The probe alphabet runs the whole 256-code-unit range rather than the printable part\n   * of it, because a control character is a character a quantifier can pump over. An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. An atom the probe alphabet cannot decide is undecided, and undecided has to\n   * read as overlapping: reading it as matching nothing would clear the pattern on the\n   * strength of not having understood it.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom that matches nothing at all\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[^\\s\\S]+[^\\s\\S]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`([^\\s\\S]+)+$`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom outside the probed range\", () => {\n    // Fullwidth forms: no probe in the alphabet matches them, so nothing is decided.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The cost of failing closed, pinned so it stays a decision. These two atoms are\n   * genuinely disjoint and the pattern is safe, and it is refused anyway because one of\n   * them is unprobed. Refusing a safe search is the direction this is allowed to be wrong\n   * in; clearing an unsafe one is not.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses an unprobed atom beside a probed one, which is the false positive it accepts\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+a+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"limits this reader is known to have\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Ambiguity a backreference introduces is invisible to a structural read, since what the\n   * reference matches is only known at match time. Recorded so the gap is a decision rather\n   * than a surprise: the line-length cap in the search tool is what bounds this one.\n   */\n  it(\"does not see ambiguity introduced by a backreference\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\1$`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\n[evidence record sha256:f67dbca4a8ced68e804eac2154cebef2b70e0386d3dcb7015c2f6b01fd65b6e3 kind tool-call:read]",
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            "output": "/**\n * Structural refusal of search patterns that can backtrack super-linearly.\n *\n * A search pattern is model output, and `RegExp.prototype.test` runs on the main thread\n * with no step budget: `(a+)+$` against thirty characters already takes seconds, and V8\n * offers no way to interrupt a match once it starts. The bound therefore has to be decided\n * before the pattern runs, by reading its structure.\n *\n * What makes a failing match explode is ambiguity: more than one way for the pattern to\n * carve up the same text, so a failure at the end has to be retried against every carving.\n * Three shapes produce it, and each is refused here:\n *   - a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier: `(a+)+`, `(\\w+\\s)*`\n *   - a repeated body that can also match nothing: `(a?)+`, `(a|)*`\n *   - two variable quantifiers competing for the same character, side by side or as\n *     alternatives under one quantifier: `\\s*\\s*$`, `(a+)(a+)$`, `(a|ab)+`, `(\\w|\\d)+`\n *\n * Each rule reads the character the engine will match, not the characters the pattern is\n * spelled with, because the two differ: a digit escape is a backreference only when the\n * pattern has that many capture groups, and is otherwise a legacy octal escape, so\n * `\\141+\\141+\\141+X` is `a+a+a+X` written another way and has to be refused as one.\n *\n * This is known-shape refusal, not a proof of linear time, and it is conservative in both\n * directions: it refuses patterns that would have run fast. The gap it does have is a\n * backreference, whose ambiguity only exists at match time and so cannot be read off the\n * structure at all; the search tool's line-length cap is what bounds that one. Grouping is\n * not a gap, at any depth or in either direction: the walk carries the enclosing quantifier\n * down through groups and sequences, so `((a|ab)y)+` is refused the same as `(a|ab)+`, and\n * it reads back up through an unquantified group, so `(a+)(a+)$` is refused the same as\n * `a+a+$`, parentheses being a capture rather than a boundary. A pattern the parser\n * below cannot read is refused rather than run, since an unread pattern is one nothing\n * bounds. `regex-safety.test.ts` pins both directions.\n */\n\n/** Why a pattern was refused, phrased so the caller can rewrite it. */\nexport interface BacktrackingRisk {\n  readonly reason: string;\n  /** The sub-pattern carrying the risk, so the message points at something concrete. */\n  readonly construct: string;\n}\n\nexport function findBacktrackingRisk(pattern: string): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  let parsed: PatternNode;\n  try {\n    parsed = parsePattern(pattern);\n  } catch (cause) {\n    return {\n      reason: `could not be read structurally (${describeCause(cause)}), so nothing bounds how it backtracks`,\n      construct: pattern,\n    };\n  }\n  return inspect(parsed, null, pattern);\n}\n\ninterface Span {\n  readonly start: number;\n  readonly end: number;\n}\n\ntype PatternNode =\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"alternation\"; readonly branches: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"sequence\"; readonly terms: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | RepeatNode\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"group\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"lookaround\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"character\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"zeroWidth\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"backreference\"; readonly source: string });\n\ninterface RepeatNode extends Span {\n  readonly kind: \"repeat\";\n  readonly body: PatternNode;\n  readonly min: number;\n  readonly max: number;\n}\n\nclass PatternUnreadableError extends Error {\n  constructor(detail: string) {\n    super(detail);\n    this.name = \"PatternUnreadableError\";\n  }\n}\n\nfunction describeCause(cause: unknown): string {\n  return cause instanceof Error ? cause.message : String(cause);\n}\n\n// The walk: every rule below needs the enclosing repeat, not just a depth, so a refusal\n// can quote the whole construct rather than the fragment that tripped it.\n\nfunction inspect(\n  node: PatternNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\": {\n      const competing = repeatedAlternativesRisk(node.branches, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return (\n        competing ?? firstRisk(node.branches, (branch) => inspect(branch, enclosingRepeat, source))\n      );\n    }\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const competing = findCompetingNeighbours(node.terms, source);\n      return competing ?? firstRisk(node.terms, (term) => inspect(term, enclosingRepeat, source));\n    }\n    case \"repeat\": {\n      if (!repeatsMoreThanOnce(node)) {\n        return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      }\n      const risk = repeatRisk(node, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return risk ?? inspect(node.body, node, source);\n    }\n    case \"group\":\n      return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n    case \"lookaround\":\n      // A lookaround consumes nothing, so no enclosing quantifier can pump what is inside\n      // it. Its own contents are still read on their own terms.\n      return inspect(node.body, null, source);\n    default:\n      return null;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction repeatRisk(\n  repeat: RepeatNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  // A body that consumes nothing cannot be pumped: the engine stops the loop on the first\n  // empty iteration, so no amount of repetition multiplies the work.\n  if (!consumesCharacters(repeat.body)) {\n    return null;\n  }\n\n  if (enclosingRepeat !== null && varyingLength(repeat)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier, so one input has exponentially many ways to be split between them\",\n      construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  if (matchesEmpty(repeat.body)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a body that can also match nothing, so each iteration has two ways to cover the same position\",\n      construct: quote(repeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  return null;\n}\n\n/**\n * Alternatives that can both match at the same position are decided by trying one and\n * coming back for the other, and a quantifier around them multiplies that choice by every\n * iteration: `(a|ab)+` has to try every way to cut the input into `a` and `ab` pieces.\n */\nfunction repeatedAlternativesRisk(\n  branches: readonly PatternNode[],\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  if (enclosingRepeat === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const competing = findCompetingAlternatives(branches);\n  if (competing === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  return {\n    reason: `repeats alternatives that can both match at the same position (${competing}), so the same text can be carved up more than one way`,\n    construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n  };\n}\n\n/**\n * Two variable quantifiers reachable from one another over nullable terms both compete for\n * the run of characters between them: `\\s*\\s*$` retries every split of that run. The scan\n * stops at the first term that must consume something, since that term pins the boundary.\n */\nfunction findCompetingNeighbours(\n  terms: readonly PatternNode[],\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  const sequence = flattenTransparentGroups(terms);\n  for (const [index, left] of sequence.entries()) {\n    const leftRepeat = competingQuantifier(left.node);\n    if (leftRepeat === null) {\n      continue;\n    }\n    for (const right of sequence.slice(index + 1)) {\n      const rightRepeat = competingQuantifier(right.node);\n      if (\n        rightRepeat !== null &&\n        charactersOverlap(leadingCharacters(leftRepeat.body), leadingCharacters(rightRepeat.body))\n      ) {\n        return {\n          reason:\n            \"puts two variable quantifiers over the same characters in sequence, so every split of a run between them is retried\",\n          construct: `${quote(left.span, source)}${quote(right.span, source)}`,\n        };\n      }\n      if (!matchesEmpty(right.node)) {\n        break;\n      }\n    }\n  }\n  return null;\n}\n\n/** A quantifier that can take a variable number of characters from its neighbour. */\nfunction competingQuantifier(node: PatternNode): RepeatNode | null {\n  if (node.kind !== \"repeat\" || !varyingLength(node) || !consumesCharacters(node.body)) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  return node;\n}\n\n/** A term of a sequence, with the text a refusal should quote it as. */\ninterface SequenceTerm {\n  readonly node: PatternNode;\n  readonly span: Span;\n}\n\n/**\n * A group without a quantifier on it is transparent to matching: it captures, and nothing\n * else, so `(a+)(a+)` splits a run of characters exactly as ambiguously as `a+a+` does. The\n * neighbour scan therefore reads through such groups, at any nesting depth, rather than\n * seeing one opaque term where two quantifiers stand side by side. A lookaround is not\n * transparent and a quantified group is a repeat, so neither is spliced here.\n */\nfunction flattenTransparentGroups(terms: readonly PatternNode[]): readonly SequenceTerm[] {\n  return terms.flatMap((term) =>\n    term.kind === \"group\" ? spliceGroup(term.body, term) : [{ node: term, span: term }],\n  );\n}\n\nfunction spliceGroup(body: PatternNode, group: Span): readonly SequenceTerm[] {\n  const inner = flattenTransparentGroups(body.kind === \"sequence\" ? body.terms : [body]);\n  const only = inner[0];\n  // A group holding one term stands for that term, so the parentheses are what to quote.\n  return inner.length === 1 && only !== undefined ? [{ node: only.node, span: group }] : inner;\n}\n\nfunction findCompetingAlternatives(branches: readonly PatternNode[]): string | null {\n  for (const [index, left] of branches.entries()) {\n    for (const right of branches.slice(index + 1)) {\n      if (alternativesCompete(left, right)) {\n        return `${describeBranch(left)} and ${describeBranch(right)}`;\n      }\n    }\n  }\n  return null;\n}\n\n/**\n * Distinct literals that are not prefixes of one another decide themselves on the first\n * character that differs, so `(get|got)+` is unambiguous. Anything else falls back to\n * asking whether the two branches can start on the same character.\n */\nfunction alternativesCompete(left: PatternNode, right: PatternNode): boolean {\n  const leftLiteral = literalText(left);\n  const rightLiteral = literalText(right);\n  if (leftLiteral !== null && rightLiteral !== null) {\n    return leftLiteral.startsWith(rightLiteral) || rightLiteral.startsWith(leftLiteral);\n  }\n  return charactersOverlap(leadingCharacters(left), leadingCharacters(right));\n}\n\nfunction describeBranch(node: PatternNode): string {\n  const literal = literalText(node);\n  return literal === null ? leadingCharacters(node).join(\"\") : literal;\n}\n\n// Shape questions the rules ask of a node.\n\nfunction repeatsMoreThanOnce(repeat: RepeatNode): boolean {\n  return repeat.max >= 2;\n}\n\nfunction varyingLength(repeat: RepeatNode): boolean {\n  return repeat.max > repeat.min || varyingBodyLength(repeat.body);\n}\n\nfunction varyingBodyLength(node: PatternNode): boolean {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.some(varyingBodyLength) || !allBranchesFixedWidth(node.branches);\n    case \"sequence\":\n      return node.terms.some(varyingBodyLength);\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.max > node.min || varyingBodyLength(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return varyingBodyLength(node.body);\n    case \"backreference\":\n      return true;\n    default:\n      return false;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction allBranchesFixedWidth(branches: readonly PatternNode[]): boolean {\n  const widths = new Set(branches.map((branch) => literalText(branch)?.length ?? -1));\n  return widths.size === 1 && !widths.has(-1);\n}\n\nfunction consumesCharacters(node: PatternNode): boolean {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.some(consumesCharacters);\n    case \"sequence\":\n      return node.terms.some(consumesCharacters);\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.max >= 1 && consumesCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return consumesCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"character\":\n      return true;\n    default:\n      return false;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction matchesEmpty(node: PatternNode): boolean {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.some(matchesEmpty);\n    case \"sequence\":\n      return node.terms.every(matchesEmpty);\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.min === 0 || matchesEmpty(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return matchesEmpty(node.body);\n    case \"character\":\n      return false;\n    default:\n      // Anchors, lookarounds and backreferences can all cover a position without consuming it.\n      return true;\n  }\n}\n\n/** The exact text a node must match, when it is one, or null when it can vary. */\nfunction literalText(node: PatternNode): string | null {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"character\":\n      return node.source.length === 1 && node.source !== \".\" ? node.source : null;\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const parts = node.terms.map(literalText);\n      return parts.every((part) => part !== null) ? parts.join(\"\") : null;\n    }\n    case \"group\":\n      return literalText(node.body);\n    default:\n      return null;\n  }\n}\n\n/** Sources of the single-character atoms a match here can begin with. */\nfunction leadingCharacters(node: PatternNode): readonly string[] {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.flatMap(leadingCharacters);\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const leading: string[] = [];\n      for (const term of node.terms) {\n        leading.push(...leadingCharacters(term));\n        if (!matchesEmpty(term)) {\n          break;\n        }\n      }\n      return leading;\n    }\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.max === 0 ? 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Disjointness is the answer that lets\n * a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by default: `\\1+\\1+\\1+X` is `\\x01` three\n * times over and backtracks exactly as `a+a+a+X` does, and reading an unprobed atom as\n * matching nothing would have cleared it.\n */\nfunction charactersOverlap(left: readonly string[], right: readonly string[]): boolean {\n  return left.some((leftAtom) => {\n    const leftMatches = probeMatches(leftAtom);\n    return right.some((rightAtom) => {\n      const rightMatches = probeMatches(rightAtom);\n      return (\n        leftMatches.length === 0 ||\n        rightMatches.length === 0 ||\n        rightMatches.some((probe) => leftMatches.includes(probe))\n      );\n    });\n  });\n}\n\n/**\n * Every code unit an escape can name directly, since a hex or octal escape reaches all of\n * them, plus one character past the range so classes written over wider scripts still probe.\n */\nconst probeAlphabet: readonly string[] = [\n  ...Array.from({ length: 256 }, (_, code) => String.fromCharCode(code)),\n  \"中\",\n];\n\nconst probeCache = new Map<string, readonly string[]>();\n\nfunction probeMatches(atomSource: string): readonly string[] {\n  const cached = probeCache.get(atomSource);\n  if (cached !== undefined) {\n    return cached;\n  }\n  let matched: readonly string[];\n  try {\n    // atomSource is one single-character atom the parser above produced, a literal, an\n    // escape or a character class, never a quantifier or a group. 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Loosening the reader lets a catastrophic pattern through;\n * tightening it breaks ordinary search, which is the pressure that would loosen it again.\n */\n\n/** Patterns a person would plausibly search a codebase with. */\nconst ordinary = [\n  \"TODO\",\n  \"TODO|FIXME|XXX\",\n  String.raw`function \\w+`,\n  \"^import .* from\",\n  String.raw`\\bclass\\s+[A-Z]\\w*`,\n  \"error|warning\",\n  String.raw`\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}`,\n  \"foo.*bar\",\n  String.raw`[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+`,\n  String.raw`export (const|function) \\w+`,\n  String.raw`\\s*//.*$`,\n  String.raw`^\\s*it\\(`,\n];\n\n/** Shapes whose failing match is super-linear, one per rule the reader implements. */\nconst catastrophic = [\n  \"(a+)+$\",\n  \"(a*)*$\",\n  \"([a-z]+)*$\",\n  String.raw`(\\w+\\s)*$`,\n  String.raw`^(\\w+\\s?)*$`,\n  \"(a?)+$\",\n  \"(a|a)+$\",\n  \"(a|ab)+$\",\n  String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`,\n  \"a+a+$\",\n];\n\ndescribe(\"patterns a search can run\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of ordinary) {\n    it(`accepts ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"accepts alternatives that decide themselves on the first character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(get|got)+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(ab|cd)+\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts two quantifiers a mandatory character keeps apart\", () => {\n    // The X pins the boundary, so neither quantifier can take the other's characters.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"a+Xa+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\d+\\s+`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+)X(a+)$\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts captures whose quantifiers cannot take each other's characters\", () => {\n    // Reading through groups must not cost the ordinary two-capture search.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\d+)-(\\d+)`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a quantifier that cannot repeat more than once\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){1}\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a lookahead over an atom, which consumes nothing to pump\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=a)b\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns that can backtrack super-linearly\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of catastrophic) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses nesting however the inner group is spelled\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?:a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<name>a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses a counted outer quantifier, which repeats just as ambiguously\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){2}\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses competing alternatives one level below the quantifier\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"((a|ab)y)+$\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * A capture is not a boundary. This family reached a real search through the guard once,\n   * because the neighbour scan only looked at bare quantifiers and `(a+)` is a group; it is\n   * the same ambiguity as `a+a+` with parentheses drawn around it. The earlier suite tested\n   * only the bare spelling, which is why nothing caught it.\n   */\n  for (const pattern of [\n    \"(a+)(a+)$\",\n    \"(a+)(a*)$\",\n    String.raw`(\\w+)(\\w+)$`,\n    String.raw`(\\s*)(\\s*)$`,\n    \"((a+))((a+))$\",\n  ]) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, the same competition with parentheses drawn round it`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookaround rather than trusting it\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookbehind the same way\", () => {\n    // A lookbehind is read the same as a lookahead: its contents are inspected on their\n    // own terms, so a quantifier nested inside it is still caught.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns it cannot read\", () => {\n  /** An unread pattern is one nothing bounds, so it is refused rather than run. */\n  for (const pattern of [\"(\", \"a\\\\\", \"(?#comment)a\", \"[a-z\"]) {\n    it(`refuses ${JSON.stringify(pattern)} rather than guessing`, () => {\n      const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(pattern);\n      expect(risk?.reason).toContain(\"could not be read structurally\");\n    });\n  }\n});\n\ndescribe(\"what a refusal says\", () => {\n  it(\"names the construct carrying the risk, quoted from the pattern\", () => {\n    const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(\"^prefix (a+)+ suffix$\");\n\n    expect(risk).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(risk?.construct).toBe(\"(a+)+\");\n    expect(risk?.reason.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);\n  });\n\n  it(\"quotes both quantifiers when they compete in sequence\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`)?.construct).toBe(String.raw`\\s*\\s*`);\n  });\n});\n\n/**\n * The octal normalization, the 256-code-unit probe alphabet, and the fail-closed empty\n * probe shipped together with no dedicated test. This is the lesson the grouped-spelling\n * miss already taught, written down: an untested guard spelling is the live one, and every\n * family below is a spelling of a rule the suite above already covers in ASCII.\n */\ndescribe(\"competing quantifiers spelled as octal escapes\", () => {\n  /**\n   * `\\141` is `a`, so each of these is a pattern the suite above refuses, retyped. The\n   * engine decides `\\` plus digits is an octal escape rather than a backreference by\n   * counting capture groups, so a reader that skipped the digits would see two atoms it\n   * could not compare and clear the pattern.\n   */\n  for (const [pattern, plain] of [\n    [String.raw`\\141+\\141+X`, \"a+a+X\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)+$`, \"(a+)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141|\\141)+$`, \"(a|a)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)(\\141+)$`, \"(a+)(a+)$\"],\n  ] as const) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, which is ${plain}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses a two-digit and a one-digit octal the same way\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\60+\\60+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\0+\\0+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"compares an octal atom against a literal one, not only against another octal\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+a+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The other direction, and the one that says the normalization decodes rather than\n   * refusing anything with a backslash in it: `\\141` and `\\142` are `a` and `b`, which\n   * cannot take each other's characters, so this is an ordinary search.\n   */\n  it(\"accepts two octal atoms that are genuinely disjoint\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+\\142+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * Only the escape is consumed. `\\18` is `\\x01` followed by a literal `8`, so the `+`\n   * binds to the `8` and the two `8+` runs are held apart by the `\\x01` between them.\n   * Consuming the trailing digit into the escape would bind the quantifier somewhere the\n   * engine does not.\n   */\n  it(\"leaves a digit past the escape as its own quantified character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\18+\\18+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"atoms that only match non-printable code units\", () => {\n  /**\n   * The probe alphabet runs the whole 256-code-unit range rather than the printable part\n   * of it, because a control character is a character a quantifier can pump over. An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. An atom the probe alphabet cannot decide is undecided, and undecided has to\n   * read as overlapping: reading it as matching nothing would clear the pattern on the\n   * strength of not having understood it.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom that matches nothing at all\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[^\\s\\S]+[^\\s\\S]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`([^\\s\\S]+)+$`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom outside the probed range\", () => {\n    // Fullwidth forms: no probe in the alphabet matches them, so nothing is decided.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The cost of failing closed, pinned so it stays a decision. These two atoms are\n   * genuinely disjoint and the pattern is safe, and it is refused anyway because one of\n   * them is unprobed. Refusing a safe search is the direction this is allowed to be wrong\n   * in; clearing an unsafe one is not.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses an unprobed atom beside a probed one, which is the false positive it accepts\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+a+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"limits this reader is known to have\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Ambiguity a backreference introduces is invisible to a structural read, since what the\n   * reference matches is only known at match time. Recorded so the gap is a decision rather\n   * than a surprise: the line-length cap in the search tool is what bounds this one.\n   */\n  it(\"does not see ambiguity introduced by a backreference\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\1$`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\n[evidence record sha256:f67dbca4a8ced68e804eac2154cebef2b70e0386d3dcb7015c2f6b01fd65b6e3 kind tool-call:read]",
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            "output": "/**\n * Structural refusal of search patterns that can backtrack super-linearly.\n *\n * A search pattern is model output, and `RegExp.prototype.test` runs on the main thread\n * with no step budget: `(a+)+$` against thirty characters already takes seconds, and V8\n * offers no way to interrupt a match once it starts. The bound therefore has to be decided\n * before the pattern runs, by reading its structure.\n *\n * What makes a failing match explode is ambiguity: more than one way for the pattern to\n * carve up the same text, so a failure at the end has to be retried against every carving.\n * Three shapes produce it, and each is refused here:\n *   - a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier: `(a+)+`, `(\\w+\\s)*`\n *   - a repeated body that can also match nothing: `(a?)+`, `(a|)*`\n *   - two variable quantifiers competing for the same character, side by side or as\n *     alternatives under one quantifier: `\\s*\\s*$`, `(a+)(a+)$`, `(a|ab)+`, `(\\w|\\d)+`\n *\n * Each rule reads the character the engine will match, not the characters the pattern is\n * spelled with, because the two differ: a digit escape is a backreference only when the\n * pattern has that many capture groups, and is otherwise a legacy octal escape, so\n * `\\141+\\141+\\141+X` is `a+a+a+X` written another way and has to be refused as one.\n *\n * This is known-shape refusal, not a proof of linear time, and it is conservative in both\n * directions: it refuses patterns that would have run fast. The gap it does have is a\n * backreference, whose ambiguity only exists at match time and so cannot be read off the\n * structure at all; the search tool's line-length cap is what bounds that one. Grouping is\n * not a gap, at any depth or in either direction: the walk carries the enclosing quantifier\n * down through groups and sequences, so `((a|ab)y)+` is refused the same as `(a|ab)+`, and\n * it reads back up through an unquantified group, so `(a+)(a+)$` is refused the same as\n * `a+a+$`, parentheses being a capture rather than a boundary. A pattern the parser\n * below cannot read is refused rather than run, since an unread pattern is one nothing\n * bounds. `regex-safety.test.ts` pins both directions.\n */\n\n/** Why a pattern was refused, phrased so the caller can rewrite it. */\nexport interface BacktrackingRisk {\n  readonly reason: string;\n  /** The sub-pattern carrying the risk, so the message points at something concrete. */\n  readonly construct: string;\n}\n\nexport function findBacktrackingRisk(pattern: string): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  let parsed: PatternNode;\n  try {\n    parsed = parsePattern(pattern);\n  } catch (cause) {\n    return {\n      reason: `could not be read structurally (${describeCause(cause)}), so nothing bounds how it backtracks`,\n      construct: pattern,\n    };\n  }\n  return inspect(parsed, null, pattern);\n}\n\ninterface Span {\n  readonly start: number;\n  readonly end: number;\n}\n\ntype PatternNode =\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"alternation\"; readonly branches: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"sequence\"; readonly terms: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | RepeatNode\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"group\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"lookaround\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"character\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"zeroWidth\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"backreference\"; readonly source: string });\n\ninterface RepeatNode extends Span {\n  readonly kind: \"repeat\";\n  readonly body: PatternNode;\n  readonly min: number;\n  readonly max: number;\n}\n\nclass PatternUnreadableError extends Error {\n  constructor(detail: string) {\n    super(detail);\n    this.name = \"PatternUnreadableError\";\n  }\n}\n\nfunction describeCause(cause: unknown): string {\n  return cause instanceof Error ? cause.message : String(cause);\n}\n\n// The walk: every rule below needs the enclosing repeat, not just a depth, so a refusal\n// can quote the whole construct rather than the fragment that tripped it.\n\nfunction inspect(\n  node: PatternNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\": {\n      const competing = repeatedAlternativesRisk(node.branches, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return (\n        competing ?? firstRisk(node.branches, (branch) => inspect(branch, enclosingRepeat, source))\n      );\n    }\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const competing = findCompetingNeighbours(node.terms, source);\n      return competing ?? firstRisk(node.terms, (term) => inspect(term, enclosingRepeat, source));\n    }\n    case \"repeat\": {\n      if (!repeatsMoreThanOnce(node)) {\n        return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      }\n      const risk = repeatRisk(node, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return risk ?? inspect(node.body, node, source);\n    }\n    case \"group\":\n      return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n    case \"lookaround\":\n      // A lookaround consumes nothing, so no enclosing quantifier can pump what is inside\n      // it. Its own contents are still read on their own terms.\n      return inspect(node.body, null, source);\n    default:\n      return null;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction repeatRisk(\n  repeat: RepeatNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  // A body that consumes nothing cannot be pumped: the engine stops the loop on the first\n  // empty iteration, so no amount of repetition multiplies the work.\n  if (!consumesCharacters(repeat.body)) {\n    return null;\n  }\n\n  if (enclosingRepeat !== null && varyingLength(repeat)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier, so one input has exponentially many ways to be split between them\",\n      construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  if (matchesEmpty(repeat.body)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a body that can also match nothing, so each iteration has two ways to cover the same position\",\n      construct: quote(repeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  return null;\n}\n\n/**\n * Alternatives that can both match at the same position are decided by trying one and\n * coming back for the other, and a quantifier around them multiplies that choice by every\n * iteration: `(a|ab)+` has to try every way to cut the input into `a` and `ab` pieces.\n */\nfunction repeatedAlternativesRisk(\n  branches: readonly PatternNode[],\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  if (enclosingRepeat === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const competing = findCompetingAlternatives(branches);\n  if (competing === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  return {\n    reason: `repeats alternatives that can both match at the same position (${competing}), so the same text can be carved up more than one way`,\n    construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n  };\n}\n\n/**\n * Two variable quantifiers reachable from one another over nullable terms both compete for\n * the run of characters between them: `\\s*\\s*$` retries every split of that run. The scan\n * stops at the first term that must consume something, since that term pins the boundary.\n */\nfunction findCompetingNeighbours(\n  terms: readonly PatternNode[],\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  const sequence = flattenTransparentGroups(terms);\n  for (const [index, left] of sequence.entries()) {\n    const leftRepeat = competingQuantifier(left.node);\n    if (leftRepeat === null) {\n      continue;\n    }\n    for (const right of sequence.slice(index + 1)) {\n      const rightRepeat = competingQuantifier(right.node);\n      if (\n        rightRepeat !== null &&\n        charactersOverlap(leadingCharacters(leftRepeat.body), leadingCharacters(rightRepeat.body))\n      ) {\n        return {\n          reason:\n            \"puts two variable quantifiers over the same characters in sequence, so every split of a run between them is retried\",\n          construct: `${quote(left.span, source)}${quote(right.span, source)}`,\n        };\n      }\n      if (!matchesEmpty(right.node)) {\n        break;\n      }\n    }\n  }\n  return null;\n}\n\n/** A quantifier that can take a variable number of characters from its neighbour. */\nfunction competingQuantifier(node: PatternNode): RepeatNode | null {\n  if (node.kind !== \"repeat\" || !varyingLength(node) || !consumesCharacters(node.body)) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  return node;\n}\n\n/** A term of a sequence, with the text a refusal should quote it as. */\ninterface SequenceTerm {\n  readonly node: PatternNode;\n  readonly span: Span;\n}\n\n/**\n * A group without a quantifier on it is transparent to matching: it captures, and nothing\n * else, so `(a+)(a+)` splits a run of characters exactly as ambiguously as `a+a+` does. The\n * neighbour scan therefore reads through such groups, at any nesting depth, rather than\n * seeing one opaque term where two quantifiers stand side by side. A lookaround is not\n * transparent and a quantified group is a repeat, so neither is spliced here.\n */\nfunction flattenTransparentGroups(terms: readonly PatternNode[]): readonly SequenceTerm[] {\n  return terms.flatMap((term) =>\n    term.kind === \"group\" ? spliceGroup(term.body, term) : [{ node: term, span: term }],\n  );\n}\n\nfunction spliceGroup(body: PatternNode, group: Span): readonly SequenceTerm[] {\n  const inner = flattenTransparentGroups(body.kind === \"sequence\" ? body.terms : [body]);\n  const only = inner[0];\n  // A group holding one term stands for that term, so the parentheses are what to quote.\n  return inner.length === 1 && only !== undefined ? [{ node: only.node, span: group }] : inner;\n}\n\nfunction findCompetingAlternatives(branches: readonly PatternNode[]): string | null {\n  for (const [index, left] of branches.entries()) {\n    for (const right of branches.slice(index + 1)) {\n      if (alternativesCompete(left, right)) {\n        return `${describeBranch(left)} and ${describeBranch(right)}`;\n      }\n    }\n  }\n  return null;\n}\n\n/**\n * Distinct literals that are not prefixes of one another decide themselves on the first\n * character that differs, so `(get|got)+` is unambiguous. Anything else falls back to\n * asking whether the two branches can start on the same character.\n */\nfunction alternativesCompete(left: PatternNode, right: PatternNode): boolean {\n  const leftLiteral = literalText(left);\n  const rightLiteral = literalText(right);\n  if (leftLiteral !== null && rightLiteral !== null) {\n    return leftLiteral.startsWith(rightLiteral) || rightLiteral.startsWith(leftLiteral);\n  }\n  return charactersOverlap(leadingCharacters(left), leadingCharacters(right));\n}\n\nfunction describeBranch(node: PatternNode): string {\n  const literal = literalText(node);\n  return literal === null ? leadingCharacters(node).join(\"\") : literal;\n}\n\n// Shape questions the rules ask of a node.\n\nfunction repeatsMoreThanOnce(repeat: RepeatNode): boolean {\n  return repeat.max >= 2;\n}\n\nfunction varyingLength(repeat: RepeatNode): boolean {\n  return repeat.max > repeat.min || varyingBodyLength(repeat.body);\n}\n\nfunction varyingBodyLength(node: PatternNode): boolean {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.some(varyingBodyLength) || !allBranchesFixedWidth(node.branches);\n    case \"sequence\":\n      return node.terms.some(varyingBodyLength);\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.max > node.min || varyingBodyLength(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return varyingBodyLength(node.body);\n    case \"backreference\":\n      return true;\n    default:\n      return false;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction allBranchesFixedWidth(branches: readonly PatternNode[]): boolean {\n  const widths = new Set(branches.map((branch) => literalText(branch)?.length ?? -1));\n  return widths.size === 1 && !widths.has(-1);\n}\n\nfunction consumesCharacters(node: PatternNode): boolean {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.some(consumesCharacters);\n    case \"sequence\":\n      return node.terms.some(consumesCharacters);\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.max >= 1 && consumesCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return consumesCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"character\":\n      return true;\n    default:\n      return false;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction matchesEmpty(node: PatternNode): boolean {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.some(matchesEmpty);\n    case \"sequence\":\n      return node.terms.every(matchesEmpty);\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.min === 0 || matchesEmpty(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return matchesEmpty(node.body);\n    case \"character\":\n      return false;\n    default:\n      // Anchors, lookarounds and backreferences can all cover a position without consuming it.\n      return true;\n  }\n}\n\n/** The exact text a node must match, when it is one, or null when it can vary. */\nfunction literalText(node: PatternNode): string | null {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"character\":\n      return node.source.length === 1 && node.source !== \".\" ? node.source : null;\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const parts = node.terms.map(literalText);\n      return parts.every((part) => part !== null) ? parts.join(\"\") : null;\n    }\n    case \"group\":\n      return literalText(node.body);\n    default:\n      return null;\n  }\n}\n\n/** Sources of the single-character atoms a match here can begin with. */\nfunction leadingCharacters(node: PatternNode): readonly string[] {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\":\n      return node.branches.flatMap(leadingCharacters);\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const leading: string[] = [];\n      for (const term of node.terms) {\n        leading.push(...leadingCharacters(term));\n        if (!matchesEmpty(term)) {\n          break;\n        }\n      }\n      return leading;\n    }\n    case \"repeat\":\n      return node.max === 0 ? [] : leadingCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"group\":\n      return leadingCharacters(node.body);\n    case \"character\":\n      return [node.source];\n    default:\n      return [];\n  }\n}\n\n/**\n * Whether two atoms can match one and the same character. Decided by probing, over an\n * alphabet rather than by set algebra: each atom is a single character matcher, so\n * compiling it costs nothing and can itself never backtrack.\n *\n * An atom no probe matches is undecided, not disjoint. 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        "text": "The task was: Add a case to src/tools/regex-safety.test.ts covering a quantifier inside a lookbehind, and assert what findBacktrackingRisk currently returns for it.\n\nA quality gate is failing. This is attempt 1 of 3.\nFix the cause. Do not weaken the tests: removing a test, removing an assertion, adding a\nskip marker, or lowering coverage of the lines you changed will have the attempt rejected\nand will still cost you the attempt.\n\ngate tests (tests (npm run test)) FAILED: the runner reported: 1 failed | 1010 passed (1011)\nevidence record: sha256:a20e39932a968f93818c9ff149471cd66b3d83943bbbf9227e7780599ba6c6a6 kind gate-run:tests\nstdout:\nRUN  v4.1.10 /private/tmp/shakedown-05-testfix-lookbehind\n\n ❯ src/workers/acceptance.test.ts (9 tests | 1 failed) 7530ms\n     × leaves the integration branch carrying both changes 827ms\n\n Test Files  1 failed | 81 passed (82)\n      Tests  1 failed | 1010 passed (1011)\n   Start at  09:36:02\n   Duration  7.80s (transform 1.98s, setup 0ms, import 4.59s, tests 39.99s, environment 4ms)\nstderr:\n⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Failed Tests 1 ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯\n\n FAIL  src/workers/acceptance.test.ts > two tasks that touch different modules > leaves the integration branch carrying both changes\nAssertionError: expected 'package.json\\nsrc/alpha.js\\nsrc/base.…' to contain 'src/alpha-shout.test.js'\n\n- Expected\n+ Received\n\n- src/alpha-shout.test.js\n+ package.json\n+ src/alpha.js\n+ src/base.test.js\n+ src/beta-shout.test.js\n+ src/beta.js\n+\n\n ❯ src/workers/acceptance.test.ts:211:18\n    209|     expect(result.headCommit).not.toBe(result.baseCommit);\n    210|     const tree = await git(repository, \"ls-tree\", \"-r\", \"--name-only\",…\n    211|     expect(tree).toContain(\"src/alpha-shout.test.js\");\n       |                  ^\n    212|     expect(tree).toContain(\"src/beta-shout.test.js\");\n    213|   }, 120_000);\n\n⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯[1/1]⎯"
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            "output": "import { describe, expect, it } from \"vitest\";\nimport { findBacktrackingRisk } from \"./regex-safety.ts\";\n\n/**\n * The refusal is a security boundary: the search tool runs a model-supplied pattern per\n * line on the main thread, and a match already in flight cannot be interrupted. So both\n * directions are pinned here. Loosening the reader lets a catastrophic pattern through;\n * tightening it breaks ordinary search, which is the pressure that would loosen it again.\n */\n\n/** Patterns a person would plausibly search a codebase with. */\nconst ordinary = [\n  \"TODO\",\n  \"TODO|FIXME|XXX\",\n  String.raw`function \\w+`,\n  \"^import .* from\",\n  String.raw`\\bclass\\s+[A-Z]\\w*`,\n  \"error|warning\",\n  String.raw`\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}`,\n  \"foo.*bar\",\n  String.raw`[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+`,\n  String.raw`export (const|function) \\w+`,\n  String.raw`\\s*//.*$`,\n  String.raw`^\\s*it\\(`,\n];\n\n/** Shapes whose failing match is super-linear, one per rule the reader implements. */\nconst catastrophic = [\n  \"(a+)+$\",\n  \"(a*)*$\",\n  \"([a-z]+)*$\",\n  String.raw`(\\w+\\s)*$`,\n  String.raw`^(\\w+\\s?)*$`,\n  \"(a?)+$\",\n  \"(a|a)+$\",\n  \"(a|ab)+$\",\n  String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`,\n  \"a+a+$\",\n];\n\ndescribe(\"patterns a search can run\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of ordinary) {\n    it(`accepts ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"accepts alternatives that decide themselves on the first character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(get|got)+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(ab|cd)+\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts two quantifiers a mandatory character keeps apart\", () => {\n    // The X pins the boundary, so neither quantifier can take the other's characters.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"a+Xa+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\d+\\s+`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+)X(a+)$\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts captures whose quantifiers cannot take each other's characters\", () => {\n    // Reading through groups must not cost the ordinary two-capture search.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\d+)-(\\d+)`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a quantifier that cannot repeat more than once\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){1}\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a lookahead over an atom, which consumes nothing to pump\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=a)b\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns that can backtrack super-linearly\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of catastrophic) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses nesting however the inner group is spelled\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?:a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<name>a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses a counted outer quantifier, which repeats just as ambiguously\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){2}\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses competing alternatives one level below the quantifier\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"((a|ab)y)+$\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * A capture is not a boundary. This family reached a real search through the guard once,\n   * because the neighbour scan only looked at bare quantifiers and `(a+)` is a group; it is\n   * the same ambiguity as `a+a+` with parentheses drawn around it. The earlier suite tested\n   * only the bare spelling, which is why nothing caught it.\n   */\n  for (const pattern of [\n    \"(a+)(a+)$\",\n    \"(a+)(a*)$\",\n    String.raw`(\\w+)(\\w+)$`,\n    String.raw`(\\s*)(\\s*)$`,\n    \"((a+))((a+))$\",\n  ]) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, the same competition with parentheses drawn round it`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookaround rather than trusting it\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookbehind the same way\", () => {\n    // A lookbehind is read the same as a lookahead: its contents are inspected on their\n    // own terms, so a quantifier nested inside it is still caught.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns it cannot read\", () => {\n  /** An unread pattern is one nothing bounds, so it is refused rather than run. */\n  for (const pattern of [\"(\", \"a\\\\\", \"(?#comment)a\", \"[a-z\"]) {\n    it(`refuses ${JSON.stringify(pattern)} rather than guessing`, () => {\n      const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(pattern);\n      expect(risk?.reason).toContain(\"could not be read structurally\");\n    });\n  }\n});\n\ndescribe(\"what a refusal says\", () => {\n  it(\"names the construct carrying the risk, quoted from the pattern\", () => {\n    const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(\"^prefix (a+)+ suffix$\");\n\n    expect(risk).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(risk?.construct).toBe(\"(a+)+\");\n    expect(risk?.reason.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);\n  });\n\n  it(\"quotes both quantifiers when they compete in sequence\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`)?.construct).toBe(String.raw`\\s*\\s*`);\n  });\n});\n\n/**\n * The octal normalization, the 256-code-unit probe alphabet, and the fail-closed empty\n * probe shipped together with no dedicated test. This is the lesson the grouped-spelling\n * miss already taught, written down: an untested guard spelling is the live one, and every\n * family below is a spelling of a rule the suite above already covers in ASCII.\n */\ndescribe(\"competing quantifiers spelled as octal escapes\", () => {\n  /**\n   * `\\141` is `a`, so each of these is a pattern the suite above refuses, retyped. The\n   * engine decides `\\` plus digits is an octal escape rather than a backreference by\n   * counting capture groups, so a reader that skipped the digits would see two atoms it\n   * could not compare and clear the pattern.\n   */\n  for (const [pattern, plain] of [\n    [String.raw`\\141+\\141+X`, \"a+a+X\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)+$`, \"(a+)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141|\\141)+$`, \"(a|a)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)(\\141+)$`, \"(a+)(a+)$\"],\n  ] as const) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, which is ${plain}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses a two-digit and a one-digit octal the same way\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\60+\\60+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\0+\\0+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"compares an octal atom against a literal one, not only against another octal\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+a+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The other direction, and the one that says the normalization decodes rather than\n   * refusing anything with a backslash in it: `\\141` and `\\142` are `a` and `b`, which\n   * cannot take each other's characters, so this is an ordinary search.\n   */\n  it(\"accepts two octal atoms that are genuinely disjoint\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+\\142+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * Only the escape is consumed. `\\18` is `\\x01` followed by a literal `8`, so the `+`\n   * binds to the `8` and the two `8+` runs are held apart by the `\\x01` between them.\n   * Consuming the trailing digit into the escape would bind the quantifier somewhere the\n   * engine does not.\n   */\n  it(\"leaves a digit past the escape as its own quantified character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\18+\\18+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"atoms that only match non-printable code units\", () => {\n  /**\n   * The probe alphabet runs the whole 256-code-unit range rather than the printable part\n   * of it, because a control character is a character a quantifier can pump over. An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. An atom the probe alphabet cannot decide is undecided, and undecided has to\n   * read as overlapping: reading it as matching nothing would clear the pattern on the\n   * strength of not having understood it.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom that matches nothing at all\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[^\\s\\S]+[^\\s\\S]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`([^\\s\\S]+)+$`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom outside the probed range\", () => {\n    // Fullwidth forms: no probe in the alphabet matches them, so nothing is decided.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The cost of failing closed, pinned so it stays a decision. These two atoms are\n   * genuinely disjoint and the pattern is safe, and it is refused anyway because one of\n   * them is unprobed. 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The bound therefore has to be decided\n * before the pattern runs, by reading its structure.\n *\n * What makes a failing match explode is ambiguity: more than one way for the pattern to\n * carve up the same text, so a failure at the end has to be retried against every carving.\n * Three shapes produce it, and each is refused here:\n *   - a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier: `(a+)+`, `(\\w+\\s)*`\n *   - a repeated body that can also match nothing: `(a?)+`, `(a|)*`\n *   - two variable quantifiers competing for the same character, side by side or as\n *     alternatives under one quantifier: `\\s*\\s*$`, `(a+)(a+)$`, `(a|ab)+`, `(\\w|\\d)+`\n *\n * Each rule reads the character the engine will match, not the characters the pattern is\n * spelled with, because the two differ: a digit escape is a backreference only when the\n * pattern has that many capture groups, and is otherwise a legacy octal escape, so\n * `\\141+\\141+\\141+X` is `a+a+a+X` written another way and has to be refused as one.\n *\n * This is known-shape refusal, not a proof of linear time, and it is conservative in both\n * directions: it refuses patterns that would have run fast. The gap it does have is a\n * backreference, whose ambiguity only exists at match time and so cannot be read off the\n * structure at all; the search tool's line-length cap is what bounds that one. Grouping is\n * not a gap, at any depth or in either direction: the walk carries the enclosing quantifier\n * down through groups and sequences, so `((a|ab)y)+` is refused the same as `(a|ab)+`, and\n * it reads back up through an unquantified group, so `(a+)(a+)$` is refused the same as\n * `a+a+$`, parentheses being a capture rather than a boundary. A pattern the parser\n * below cannot read is refused rather than run, since an unread pattern is one nothing\n * bounds. `regex-safety.test.ts` pins both directions.\n */\n\n/** Why a pattern was refused, phrased so the caller can rewrite it. */\nexport interface BacktrackingRisk {\n  readonly reason: string;\n  /** The sub-pattern carrying the risk, so the message points at something concrete. */\n  readonly construct: string;\n}\n\nexport function findBacktrackingRisk(pattern: string): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  let parsed: PatternNode;\n  try {\n    parsed = parsePattern(pattern);\n  } catch (cause) {\n    return {\n      reason: `could not be read structurally (${describeCause(cause)}), so nothing bounds how it backtracks`,\n      construct: pattern,\n    };\n  }\n  return inspect(parsed, null, pattern);\n}\n\ninterface Span {\n  readonly start: number;\n  readonly end: number;\n}\n\ntype PatternNode =\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"alternation\"; readonly branches: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"sequence\"; readonly terms: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | RepeatNode\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"group\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"lookaround\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"character\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"zeroWidth\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"backreference\"; readonly source: string });\n\ninterface RepeatNode extends Span {\n  readonly kind: \"repeat\";\n  readonly body: PatternNode;\n  readonly min: number;\n  readonly max: number;\n}\n\nclass PatternUnreadableError extends Error {\n  constructor(detail: string) {\n    super(detail);\n    this.name = \"PatternUnreadableError\";\n  }\n}\n\nfunction describeCause(cause: unknown): string {\n  return cause instanceof Error ? cause.message : String(cause);\n}\n\n// The walk: every rule below needs the enclosing repeat, not just a depth, so a refusal\n// can quote the whole construct rather than the fragment that tripped it.\n\nfunction inspect(\n  node: PatternNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\": {\n      const competing = repeatedAlternativesRisk(node.branches, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return (\n        competing ?? firstRisk(node.branches, (branch) => inspect(branch, enclosingRepeat, source))\n      );\n    }\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const competing = findCompetingNeighbours(node.terms, source);\n      return competing ?? firstRisk(node.terms, (term) => inspect(term, enclosingRepeat, source));\n    }\n    case \"repeat\": {\n      if (!repeatsMoreThanOnce(node)) {\n        return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      }\n      const risk = repeatRisk(node, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return risk ?? inspect(node.body, node, source);\n    }\n    case \"group\":\n      return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n    case \"lookaround\":\n      // A lookaround consumes nothing, so no enclosing quantifier can pump what is inside\n      // it. Its own contents are still read on their own terms.\n      return inspect(node.body, null, source);\n    default:\n      return null;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction repeatRisk(\n  repeat: RepeatNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  // A body that consumes nothing cannot be pumped: the engine stops the loop on the first\n  // empty iteration, so no amount of repetition multiplies the work.\n  if (!consumesCharacters(repeat.body)) {\n    return null;\n  }\n\n  if (enclosingRepeat !== null && varyingLength(repeat)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier, so one input has exponentially many ways to be split between them\",\n      construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  if (matchesEmpty(repeat.body)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a body that can also match nothing, so each iteration has two ways to cover the same position\",\n      construct: quote(repeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  return null;\n}\n\n/**\n * Alternatives that can both match at the same position are decided by trying one and\n * coming back for the other, and a quantifier around them multiplies that choice by every\n * iteration: `(a|ab)+` has to try every way to cut the input into `a` and `ab` pieces.\n */\nfunction repeatedAlternativesRisk(\n  branches: readonly PatternNode[],\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  if (enclosingRepeat === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const competing = findCompetingAlternatives(branches);\n  if (competing === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  return {\n    reason: `repeats alternatives that can both match at the same position (${competing}), so the same text can be carved up more than one way`,\n    construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n  };\n}\n\n/**\n * Two variable quantifiers reachable from one another over nullable terms both compete for\n * the run of characters between them: `\\s*\\s*$` retries every split of that run. 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        "text": "The task was: Add a case to src/tools/regex-safety.test.ts covering a quantifier inside a lookbehind, and assert what findBacktrackingRisk currently returns for it.\n\nA quality gate is failing. This is attempt 1 of 3.\nFix the cause. Do not weaken the tests: removing a test, removing an assertion, adding a\nskip marker, or lowering coverage of the lines you changed will have the attempt rejected\nand will still cost you the attempt.\n\ngate tests (tests (npm run test)) FAILED: the runner reported: 1 failed | 1010 passed (1011)\nevidence record: sha256:a20e39932a968f93818c9ff149471cd66b3d83943bbbf9227e7780599ba6c6a6 kind gate-run:tests\nstdout:\nRUN  v4.1.10 /private/tmp/shakedown-05-testfix-lookbehind\n\n ❯ src/workers/acceptance.test.ts (9 tests | 1 failed) 7530ms\n     × leaves the integration branch carrying both changes 827ms\n\n Test Files  1 failed | 81 passed (82)\n      Tests  1 failed | 1010 passed (1011)\n   Start at  09:36:02\n   Duration  7.80s (transform 1.98s, setup 0ms, import 4.59s, tests 39.99s, environment 4ms)\nstderr:\n⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Failed Tests 1 ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯\n\n FAIL  src/workers/acceptance.test.ts > two tasks that touch different modules > leaves the integration branch carrying both changes\nAssertionError: expected 'package.json\\nsrc/alpha.js\\nsrc/base.…' to contain 'src/alpha-shout.test.js'\n\n- Expected\n+ Received\n\n- src/alpha-shout.test.js\n+ package.json\n+ src/alpha.js\n+ src/base.test.js\n+ src/beta-shout.test.js\n+ src/beta.js\n+\n\n ❯ src/workers/acceptance.test.ts:211:18\n    209|     expect(result.headCommit).not.toBe(result.baseCommit);\n    210|     const tree = await git(repository, \"ls-tree\", \"-r\", \"--name-only\",…\n    211|     expect(tree).toContain(\"src/alpha-shout.test.js\");\n       |                  ^\n    212|     expect(tree).toContain(\"src/beta-shout.test.js\");\n    213|   }, 120_000);\n\n⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯[1/1]⎯"
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            "output": "import { describe, expect, it } from \"vitest\";\nimport { findBacktrackingRisk } from \"./regex-safety.ts\";\n\n/**\n * The refusal is a security boundary: the search tool runs a model-supplied pattern per\n * line on the main thread, and a match already in flight cannot be interrupted. So both\n * directions are pinned here. Loosening the reader lets a catastrophic pattern through;\n * tightening it breaks ordinary search, which is the pressure that would loosen it again.\n */\n\n/** Patterns a person would plausibly search a codebase with. */\nconst ordinary = [\n  \"TODO\",\n  \"TODO|FIXME|XXX\",\n  String.raw`function \\w+`,\n  \"^import .* from\",\n  String.raw`\\bclass\\s+[A-Z]\\w*`,\n  \"error|warning\",\n  String.raw`\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}`,\n  \"foo.*bar\",\n  String.raw`[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+`,\n  String.raw`export (const|function) \\w+`,\n  String.raw`\\s*//.*$`,\n  String.raw`^\\s*it\\(`,\n];\n\n/** Shapes whose failing match is super-linear, one per rule the reader implements. */\nconst catastrophic = [\n  \"(a+)+$\",\n  \"(a*)*$\",\n  \"([a-z]+)*$\",\n  String.raw`(\\w+\\s)*$`,\n  String.raw`^(\\w+\\s?)*$`,\n  \"(a?)+$\",\n  \"(a|a)+$\",\n  \"(a|ab)+$\",\n  String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`,\n  \"a+a+$\",\n];\n\ndescribe(\"patterns a search can run\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of ordinary) {\n    it(`accepts ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"accepts alternatives that decide themselves on the first character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(get|got)+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(ab|cd)+\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts two quantifiers a mandatory character keeps apart\", () => {\n    // The X pins the boundary, so neither quantifier can take the other's characters.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"a+Xa+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\d+\\s+`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+)X(a+)$\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts captures whose quantifiers cannot take each other's characters\", () => {\n    // Reading through groups must not cost the ordinary two-capture search.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\d+)-(\\d+)`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a quantifier that cannot repeat more than once\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){1}\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a lookahead over an atom, which consumes nothing to pump\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=a)b\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns that can backtrack super-linearly\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of catastrophic) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses nesting however the inner group is spelled\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?:a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<name>a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses a counted outer quantifier, which repeats just as ambiguously\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){2}\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses competing alternatives one level below the quantifier\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"((a|ab)y)+$\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * A capture is not a boundary. This family reached a real search through the guard once,\n   * because the neighbour scan only looked at bare quantifiers and `(a+)` is a group; it is\n   * the same ambiguity as `a+a+` with parentheses drawn around it. The earlier suite tested\n   * only the bare spelling, which is why nothing caught it.\n   */\n  for (const pattern of [\n    \"(a+)(a+)$\",\n    \"(a+)(a*)$\",\n    String.raw`(\\w+)(\\w+)$`,\n    String.raw`(\\s*)(\\s*)$`,\n    \"((a+))((a+))$\",\n  ]) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, the same competition with parentheses drawn round it`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookaround rather than trusting it\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookbehind the same way\", () => {\n    // A lookbehind is read the same as a lookahead: its contents are inspected on their\n    // own terms, so a quantifier nested inside it is still caught.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns it cannot read\", () => {\n  /** An unread pattern is one nothing bounds, so it is refused rather than run. */\n  for (const pattern of [\"(\", \"a\\\\\", \"(?#comment)a\", \"[a-z\"]) {\n    it(`refuses ${JSON.stringify(pattern)} rather than guessing`, () => {\n      const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(pattern);\n      expect(risk?.reason).toContain(\"could not be read structurally\");\n    });\n  }\n});\n\ndescribe(\"what a refusal says\", () => {\n  it(\"names the construct carrying the risk, quoted from the pattern\", () => {\n    const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(\"^prefix (a+)+ suffix$\");\n\n    expect(risk).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(risk?.construct).toBe(\"(a+)+\");\n    expect(risk?.reason.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);\n  });\n\n  it(\"quotes both quantifiers when they compete in sequence\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`)?.construct).toBe(String.raw`\\s*\\s*`);\n  });\n});\n\n/**\n * The octal normalization, the 256-code-unit probe alphabet, and the fail-closed empty\n * probe shipped together with no dedicated test. This is the lesson the grouped-spelling\n * miss already taught, written down: an untested guard spelling is the live one, and every\n * family below is a spelling of a rule the suite above already covers in ASCII.\n */\ndescribe(\"competing quantifiers spelled as octal escapes\", () => {\n  /**\n   * `\\141` is `a`, so each of these is a pattern the suite above refuses, retyped. The\n   * engine decides `\\` plus digits is an octal escape rather than a backreference by\n   * counting capture groups, so a reader that skipped the digits would see two atoms it\n   * could not compare and clear the pattern.\n   */\n  for (const [pattern, plain] of [\n    [String.raw`\\141+\\141+X`, \"a+a+X\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)+$`, \"(a+)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141|\\141)+$`, \"(a|a)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)(\\141+)$`, \"(a+)(a+)$\"],\n  ] as const) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, which is ${plain}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses a two-digit and a one-digit octal the same way\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\60+\\60+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\0+\\0+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"compares an octal atom against a literal one, not only against another octal\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+a+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The other direction, and the one that says the normalization decodes rather than\n   * refusing anything with a backslash in it: `\\141` and `\\142` are `a` and `b`, which\n   * cannot take each other's characters, so this is an ordinary search.\n   */\n  it(\"accepts two octal atoms that are genuinely disjoint\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+\\142+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * Only the escape is consumed. `\\18` is `\\x01` followed by a literal `8`, so the `+`\n   * binds to the `8` and the two `8+` runs are held apart by the `\\x01` between them.\n   * Consuming the trailing digit into the escape would bind the quantifier somewhere the\n   * engine does not.\n   */\n  it(\"leaves a digit past the escape as its own quantified character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\18+\\18+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"atoms that only match non-printable code units\", () => {\n  /**\n   * The probe alphabet runs the whole 256-code-unit range rather than the printable part\n   * of it, because a control character is a character a quantifier can pump over. An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. An atom the probe alphabet cannot decide is undecided, and undecided has to\n   * read as overlapping: reading it as matching nothing would clear the pattern on the\n   * strength of not having understood it.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom that matches nothing at all\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[^\\s\\S]+[^\\s\\S]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`([^\\s\\S]+)+$`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom outside the probed range\", () => {\n    // Fullwidth forms: no probe in the alphabet matches them, so nothing is decided.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The cost of failing closed, pinned so it stays a decision. These two atoms are\n   * genuinely disjoint and the pattern is safe, and it is refused anyway because one of\n   * them is unprobed. 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The bound therefore has to be decided\n * before the pattern runs, by reading its structure.\n *\n * What makes a failing match explode is ambiguity: more than one way for the pattern to\n * carve up the same text, so a failure at the end has to be retried against every carving.\n * Three shapes produce it, and each is refused here:\n *   - a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier: `(a+)+`, `(\\w+\\s)*`\n *   - a repeated body that can also match nothing: `(a?)+`, `(a|)*`\n *   - two variable quantifiers competing for the same character, side by side or as\n *     alternatives under one quantifier: `\\s*\\s*$`, `(a+)(a+)$`, `(a|ab)+`, `(\\w|\\d)+`\n *\n * Each rule reads the character the engine will match, not the characters the pattern is\n * spelled with, because the two differ: a digit escape is a backreference only when the\n * pattern has that many capture groups, and is otherwise a legacy octal escape, so\n * `\\141+\\141+\\141+X` is `a+a+a+X` written another way and has to be refused as one.\n *\n * This is known-shape refusal, not a proof of linear time, and it is conservative in both\n * directions: it refuses patterns that would have run fast. The gap it does have is a\n * backreference, whose ambiguity only exists at match time and so cannot be read off the\n * structure at all; the search tool's line-length cap is what bounds that one. Grouping is\n * not a gap, at any depth or in either direction: the walk carries the enclosing quantifier\n * down through groups and sequences, so `((a|ab)y)+` is refused the same as `(a|ab)+`, and\n * it reads back up through an unquantified group, so `(a+)(a+)$` is refused the same as\n * `a+a+$`, parentheses being a capture rather than a boundary. A pattern the parser\n * below cannot read is refused rather than run, since an unread pattern is one nothing\n * bounds. `regex-safety.test.ts` pins both directions.\n */\n\n/** Why a pattern was refused, phrased so the caller can rewrite it. */\nexport interface BacktrackingRisk {\n  readonly reason: string;\n  /** The sub-pattern carrying the risk, so the message points at something concrete. */\n  readonly construct: string;\n}\n\nexport function findBacktrackingRisk(pattern: string): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  let parsed: PatternNode;\n  try {\n    parsed = parsePattern(pattern);\n  } catch (cause) {\n    return {\n      reason: `could not be read structurally (${describeCause(cause)}), so nothing bounds how it backtracks`,\n      construct: pattern,\n    };\n  }\n  return inspect(parsed, null, pattern);\n}\n\ninterface Span {\n  readonly start: number;\n  readonly end: number;\n}\n\ntype PatternNode =\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"alternation\"; readonly branches: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"sequence\"; readonly terms: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | RepeatNode\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"group\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"lookaround\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"character\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"zeroWidth\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"backreference\"; readonly source: string });\n\ninterface RepeatNode extends Span {\n  readonly kind: \"repeat\";\n  readonly body: PatternNode;\n  readonly min: number;\n  readonly max: number;\n}\n\nclass PatternUnreadableError extends Error {\n  constructor(detail: string) {\n    super(detail);\n    this.name = \"PatternUnreadableError\";\n  }\n}\n\nfunction describeCause(cause: unknown): string {\n  return cause instanceof Error ? cause.message : String(cause);\n}\n\n// The walk: every rule below needs the enclosing repeat, not just a depth, so a refusal\n// can quote the whole construct rather than the fragment that tripped it.\n\nfunction inspect(\n  node: PatternNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\": {\n      const competing = repeatedAlternativesRisk(node.branches, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return (\n        competing ?? firstRisk(node.branches, (branch) => inspect(branch, enclosingRepeat, source))\n      );\n    }\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const competing = findCompetingNeighbours(node.terms, source);\n      return competing ?? firstRisk(node.terms, (term) => inspect(term, enclosingRepeat, source));\n    }\n    case \"repeat\": {\n      if (!repeatsMoreThanOnce(node)) {\n        return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      }\n      const risk = repeatRisk(node, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return risk ?? inspect(node.body, node, source);\n    }\n    case \"group\":\n      return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n    case \"lookaround\":\n      // A lookaround consumes nothing, so no enclosing quantifier can pump what is inside\n      // it. Its own contents are still read on their own terms.\n      return inspect(node.body, null, source);\n    default:\n      return null;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction repeatRisk(\n  repeat: RepeatNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  // A body that consumes nothing cannot be pumped: the engine stops the loop on the first\n  // empty iteration, so no amount of repetition multiplies the work.\n  if (!consumesCharacters(repeat.body)) {\n    return null;\n  }\n\n  if (enclosingRepeat !== null && varyingLength(repeat)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier, so one input has exponentially many ways to be split between them\",\n      construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  if (matchesEmpty(repeat.body)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a body that can also match nothing, so each iteration has two ways to cover the same position\",\n      construct: quote(repeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  return null;\n}\n\n/**\n * Alternatives that can both match at the same position are decided by trying one and\n * coming back for the other, and a quantifier around them multiplies that choice by every\n * iteration: `(a|ab)+` has to try every way to cut the input into `a` and `ab` pieces.\n */\nfunction repeatedAlternativesRisk(\n  branches: readonly PatternNode[],\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  if (enclosingRepeat === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const competing = findCompetingAlternatives(branches);\n  if (competing === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  return {\n    reason: `repeats alternatives that can both match at the same position (${competing}), so the same text can be carved up more than one way`,\n    construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n  };\n}\n\n/**\n * Two variable quantifiers reachable from one another over nullable terms both compete for\n * the run of characters between them: `\\s*\\s*$` retries every split of that run. 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        "text": "The task was: Add a case to src/tools/regex-safety.test.ts covering a quantifier inside a lookbehind, and assert what findBacktrackingRisk currently returns for it.\n\nA quality gate is failing. This is attempt 1 of 3.\nFix the cause. Do not weaken the tests: removing a test, removing an assertion, adding a\nskip marker, or lowering coverage of the lines you changed will have the attempt rejected\nand will still cost you the attempt.\n\ngate tests (tests (npm run test)) FAILED: the runner reported: 1 failed | 1010 passed (1011)\nevidence record: sha256:a20e39932a968f93818c9ff149471cd66b3d83943bbbf9227e7780599ba6c6a6 kind gate-run:tests\nstdout:\nRUN  v4.1.10 /private/tmp/shakedown-05-testfix-lookbehind\n\n ❯ src/workers/acceptance.test.ts (9 tests | 1 failed) 7530ms\n     × leaves the integration branch carrying both changes 827ms\n\n Test Files  1 failed | 81 passed (82)\n      Tests  1 failed | 1010 passed (1011)\n   Start at  09:36:02\n   Duration  7.80s (transform 1.98s, setup 0ms, import 4.59s, tests 39.99s, environment 4ms)\nstderr:\n⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Failed Tests 1 ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯\n\n FAIL  src/workers/acceptance.test.ts > two tasks that touch different modules > leaves the integration branch carrying both changes\nAssertionError: expected 'package.json\\nsrc/alpha.js\\nsrc/base.…' to contain 'src/alpha-shout.test.js'\n\n- Expected\n+ Received\n\n- src/alpha-shout.test.js\n+ package.json\n+ src/alpha.js\n+ src/base.test.js\n+ src/beta-shout.test.js\n+ src/beta.js\n+\n\n ❯ src/workers/acceptance.test.ts:211:18\n    209|     expect(result.headCommit).not.toBe(result.baseCommit);\n    210|     const tree = await git(repository, \"ls-tree\", \"-r\", \"--name-only\",…\n    211|     expect(tree).toContain(\"src/alpha-shout.test.js\");\n       |                  ^\n    212|     expect(tree).toContain(\"src/beta-shout.test.js\");\n    213|   }, 120_000);\n\n⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯[1/1]⎯"
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            "output": "import { describe, expect, it } from \"vitest\";\nimport { findBacktrackingRisk } from \"./regex-safety.ts\";\n\n/**\n * The refusal is a security boundary: the search tool runs a model-supplied pattern per\n * line on the main thread, and a match already in flight cannot be interrupted. So both\n * directions are pinned here. Loosening the reader lets a catastrophic pattern through;\n * tightening it breaks ordinary search, which is the pressure that would loosen it again.\n */\n\n/** Patterns a person would plausibly search a codebase with. */\nconst ordinary = [\n  \"TODO\",\n  \"TODO|FIXME|XXX\",\n  String.raw`function \\w+`,\n  \"^import .* from\",\n  String.raw`\\bclass\\s+[A-Z]\\w*`,\n  \"error|warning\",\n  String.raw`\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}`,\n  \"foo.*bar\",\n  String.raw`[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+`,\n  String.raw`export (const|function) \\w+`,\n  String.raw`\\s*//.*$`,\n  String.raw`^\\s*it\\(`,\n];\n\n/** Shapes whose failing match is super-linear, one per rule the reader implements. */\nconst catastrophic = [\n  \"(a+)+$\",\n  \"(a*)*$\",\n  \"([a-z]+)*$\",\n  String.raw`(\\w+\\s)*$`,\n  String.raw`^(\\w+\\s?)*$`,\n  \"(a?)+$\",\n  \"(a|a)+$\",\n  \"(a|ab)+$\",\n  String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`,\n  \"a+a+$\",\n];\n\ndescribe(\"patterns a search can run\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of ordinary) {\n    it(`accepts ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"accepts alternatives that decide themselves on the first character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(get|got)+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(ab|cd)+\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts two quantifiers a mandatory character keeps apart\", () => {\n    // The X pins the boundary, so neither quantifier can take the other's characters.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"a+Xa+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\d+\\s+`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+)X(a+)$\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts captures whose quantifiers cannot take each other's characters\", () => {\n    // Reading through groups must not cost the ordinary two-capture search.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\d+)-(\\d+)`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a quantifier that cannot repeat more than once\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){1}\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a lookahead over an atom, which consumes nothing to pump\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=a)b\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns that can backtrack super-linearly\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of catastrophic) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses nesting however the inner group is spelled\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?:a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<name>a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses a counted outer quantifier, which repeats just as ambiguously\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){2}\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses competing alternatives one level below the quantifier\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"((a|ab)y)+$\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * A capture is not a boundary. This family reached a real search through the guard once,\n   * because the neighbour scan only looked at bare quantifiers and `(a+)` is a group; it is\n   * the same ambiguity as `a+a+` with parentheses drawn around it. The earlier suite tested\n   * only the bare spelling, which is why nothing caught it.\n   */\n  for (const pattern of [\n    \"(a+)(a+)$\",\n    \"(a+)(a*)$\",\n    String.raw`(\\w+)(\\w+)$`,\n    String.raw`(\\s*)(\\s*)$`,\n    \"((a+))((a+))$\",\n  ]) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, the same competition with parentheses drawn round it`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookaround rather than trusting it\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"reads inside a lookbehind the same way\", () => {\n    // A lookbehind is read the same as a lookahead: its contents are inspected on their\n    // own terms, so a quantifier nested inside it is still caught.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<=(a+)+)b\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns it cannot read\", () => {\n  /** An unread pattern is one nothing bounds, so it is refused rather than run. */\n  for (const pattern of [\"(\", \"a\\\\\", \"(?#comment)a\", \"[a-z\"]) {\n    it(`refuses ${JSON.stringify(pattern)} rather than guessing`, () => {\n      const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(pattern);\n      expect(risk?.reason).toContain(\"could not be read structurally\");\n    });\n  }\n});\n\ndescribe(\"what a refusal says\", () => {\n  it(\"names the construct carrying the risk, quoted from the pattern\", () => {\n    const risk = findBacktrackingRisk(\"^prefix (a+)+ suffix$\");\n\n    expect(risk).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(risk?.construct).toBe(\"(a+)+\");\n    expect(risk?.reason.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);\n  });\n\n  it(\"quotes both quantifiers when they compete in sequence\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`)?.construct).toBe(String.raw`\\s*\\s*`);\n  });\n});\n\n/**\n * The octal normalization, the 256-code-unit probe alphabet, and the fail-closed empty\n * probe shipped together with no dedicated test. This is the lesson the grouped-spelling\n * miss already taught, written down: an untested guard spelling is the live one, and every\n * family below is a spelling of a rule the suite above already covers in ASCII.\n */\ndescribe(\"competing quantifiers spelled as octal escapes\", () => {\n  /**\n   * `\\141` is `a`, so each of these is a pattern the suite above refuses, retyped. The\n   * engine decides `\\` plus digits is an octal escape rather than a backreference by\n   * counting capture groups, so a reader that skipped the digits would see two atoms it\n   * could not compare and clear the pattern.\n   */\n  for (const [pattern, plain] of [\n    [String.raw`\\141+\\141+X`, \"a+a+X\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)+$`, \"(a+)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141|\\141)+$`, \"(a|a)+$\"],\n    [String.raw`(\\141+)(\\141+)$`, \"(a+)(a+)$\"],\n  ] as const) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}, which is ${plain}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses a two-digit and a one-digit octal the same way\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\60+\\60+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\0+\\0+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"compares an octal atom against a literal one, not only against another octal\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+a+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The other direction, and the one that says the normalization decodes rather than\n   * refusing anything with a backslash in it: `\\141` and `\\142` are `a` and `b`, which\n   * cannot take each other's characters, so this is an ordinary search.\n   */\n  it(\"accepts two octal atoms that are genuinely disjoint\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\141+\\142+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * Only the escape is consumed. `\\18` is `\\x01` followed by a literal `8`, so the `+`\n   * binds to the `8` and the two `8+` runs are held apart by the `\\x01` between them.\n   * Consuming the trailing digit into the escape would bind the quantifier somewhere the\n   * engine does not.\n   */\n  it(\"leaves a digit past the escape as its own quantified character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\18+\\18+X`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"atoms that only match non-printable code units\", () => {\n  /**\n   * The probe alphabet runs the whole 256-code-unit range rather than the printable part\n   * of it, because a control character is a character a quantifier can pump over. An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. An atom the probe alphabet cannot decide is undecided, and undecided has to\n   * read as overlapping: reading it as matching nothing would clear the pattern on the\n   * strength of not having understood it.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom that matches nothing at all\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[^\\s\\S]+[^\\s\\S]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`([^\\s\\S]+)+$`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses quantifiers over an atom outside the probed range\", () => {\n    // Fullwidth forms: no probe in the alphabet matches them, so nothing is decided.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+[\\uFF01-\\uFF5E]+X\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * The cost of failing closed, pinned so it stays a decision. These two atoms are\n   * genuinely disjoint and the pattern is safe, and it is refused anyway because one of\n   * them is unprobed. 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The bound therefore has to be decided\n * before the pattern runs, by reading its structure.\n *\n * What makes a failing match explode is ambiguity: more than one way for the pattern to\n * carve up the same text, so a failure at the end has to be retried against every carving.\n * Three shapes produce it, and each is refused here:\n *   - a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier: `(a+)+`, `(\\w+\\s)*`\n *   - a repeated body that can also match nothing: `(a?)+`, `(a|)*`\n *   - two variable quantifiers competing for the same character, side by side or as\n *     alternatives under one quantifier: `\\s*\\s*$`, `(a+)(a+)$`, `(a|ab)+`, `(\\w|\\d)+`\n *\n * Each rule reads the character the engine will match, not the characters the pattern is\n * spelled with, because the two differ: a digit escape is a backreference only when the\n * pattern has that many capture groups, and is otherwise a legacy octal escape, so\n * `\\141+\\141+\\141+X` is `a+a+a+X` written another way and has to be refused as one.\n *\n * This is known-shape refusal, not a proof of linear time, and it is conservative in both\n * directions: it refuses patterns that would have run fast. The gap it does have is a\n * backreference, whose ambiguity only exists at match time and so cannot be read off the\n * structure at all; the search tool's line-length cap is what bounds that one. Grouping is\n * not a gap, at any depth or in either direction: the walk carries the enclosing quantifier\n * down through groups and sequences, so `((a|ab)y)+` is refused the same as `(a|ab)+`, and\n * it reads back up through an unquantified group, so `(a+)(a+)$` is refused the same as\n * `a+a+$`, parentheses being a capture rather than a boundary. A pattern the parser\n * below cannot read is refused rather than run, since an unread pattern is one nothing\n * bounds. `regex-safety.test.ts` pins both directions.\n */\n\n/** Why a pattern was refused, phrased so the caller can rewrite it. */\nexport interface BacktrackingRisk {\n  readonly reason: string;\n  /** The sub-pattern carrying the risk, so the message points at something concrete. */\n  readonly construct: string;\n}\n\nexport function findBacktrackingRisk(pattern: string): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  let parsed: PatternNode;\n  try {\n    parsed = parsePattern(pattern);\n  } catch (cause) {\n    return {\n      reason: `could not be read structurally (${describeCause(cause)}), so nothing bounds how it backtracks`,\n      construct: pattern,\n    };\n  }\n  return inspect(parsed, null, pattern);\n}\n\ninterface Span {\n  readonly start: number;\n  readonly end: number;\n}\n\ntype PatternNode =\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"alternation\"; readonly branches: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"sequence\"; readonly terms: readonly PatternNode[] })\n  | RepeatNode\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"group\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"lookaround\"; readonly body: PatternNode })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"character\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"zeroWidth\"; readonly source: string })\n  | (Span & { readonly kind: \"backreference\"; readonly source: string });\n\ninterface RepeatNode extends Span {\n  readonly kind: \"repeat\";\n  readonly body: PatternNode;\n  readonly min: number;\n  readonly max: number;\n}\n\nclass PatternUnreadableError extends Error {\n  constructor(detail: string) {\n    super(detail);\n    this.name = \"PatternUnreadableError\";\n  }\n}\n\nfunction describeCause(cause: unknown): string {\n  return cause instanceof Error ? cause.message : String(cause);\n}\n\n// The walk: every rule below needs the enclosing repeat, not just a depth, so a refusal\n// can quote the whole construct rather than the fragment that tripped it.\n\nfunction inspect(\n  node: PatternNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  switch (node.kind) {\n    case \"alternation\": {\n      const competing = repeatedAlternativesRisk(node.branches, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return (\n        competing ?? firstRisk(node.branches, (branch) => inspect(branch, enclosingRepeat, source))\n      );\n    }\n    case \"sequence\": {\n      const competing = findCompetingNeighbours(node.terms, source);\n      return competing ?? firstRisk(node.terms, (term) => inspect(term, enclosingRepeat, source));\n    }\n    case \"repeat\": {\n      if (!repeatsMoreThanOnce(node)) {\n        return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      }\n      const risk = repeatRisk(node, enclosingRepeat, source);\n      return risk ?? inspect(node.body, node, source);\n    }\n    case \"group\":\n      return inspect(node.body, enclosingRepeat, source);\n    case \"lookaround\":\n      // A lookaround consumes nothing, so no enclosing quantifier can pump what is inside\n      // it. Its own contents are still read on their own terms.\n      return inspect(node.body, null, source);\n    default:\n      return null;\n  }\n}\n\nfunction repeatRisk(\n  repeat: RepeatNode,\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  // A body that consumes nothing cannot be pumped: the engine stops the loop on the first\n  // empty iteration, so no amount of repetition multiplies the work.\n  if (!consumesCharacters(repeat.body)) {\n    return null;\n  }\n\n  if (enclosingRepeat !== null && varyingLength(repeat)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a variable-length quantifier inside another quantifier, so one input has exponentially many ways to be split between them\",\n      construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  if (matchesEmpty(repeat.body)) {\n    return {\n      reason:\n        \"repeats a body that can also match nothing, so each iteration has two ways to cover the same position\",\n      construct: quote(repeat, source),\n    };\n  }\n\n  return null;\n}\n\n/**\n * Alternatives that can both match at the same position are decided by trying one and\n * coming back for the other, and a quantifier around them multiplies that choice by every\n * iteration: `(a|ab)+` has to try every way to cut the input into `a` and `ab` pieces.\n */\nfunction repeatedAlternativesRisk(\n  branches: readonly PatternNode[],\n  enclosingRepeat: RepeatNode | null,\n  source: string,\n): BacktrackingRisk | null {\n  if (enclosingRepeat === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  const competing = findCompetingAlternatives(branches);\n  if (competing === null) {\n    return null;\n  }\n  return {\n    reason: `repeats alternatives that can both match at the same position (${competing}), so the same text can be carved up more than one way`,\n    construct: quote(enclosingRepeat, source),\n  };\n}\n\n/**\n * Two variable quantifiers reachable from one another over nullable terms both compete for\n * the run of characters between them: `\\s*\\s*$` retries every split of that run. 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Loosening the reader lets a catastrophic pattern through;\n * tightening it breaks ordinary search, which is the pressure that would loosen it again.\n */\n\n/** Patterns a person would plausibly search a codebase with. */\nconst ordinary = [\n  \"TODO\",\n  \"TODO|FIXME|XXX\",\n  String.raw`function \\w+`,\n  \"^import .* from\",\n  String.raw`\\bclass\\s+[A-Z]\\w*`,\n  \"error|warning\",\n  String.raw`\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}`,\n  \"foo.*bar\",\n  String.raw`[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+`,\n  String.raw`export (const|function) \\w+`,\n  String.raw`\\s*//.*$`,\n  String.raw`^\\s*it\\(`,\n];\n\n/** Shapes whose failing match is super-linear, one per rule the reader implements. */\nconst catastrophic = [\n  \"(a+)+$\",\n  \"(a*)*$\",\n  \"([a-z]+)*$\",\n  String.raw`(\\w+\\s)*$`,\n  String.raw`^(\\w+\\s?)*$`,\n  \"(a?)+$\",\n  \"(a|a)+$\",\n  \"(a|ab)+$\",\n  String.raw`\\s*\\s*$`,\n  \"a+a+$\",\n];\n\ndescribe(\"patterns a search can run\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of ordinary) {\n    it(`accepts ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"accepts alternatives that decide themselves on the first character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(get|got)+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(ab|cd)+\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts two quantifiers a mandatory character keeps apart\", () => {\n    // The X pins the boundary, so neither quantifier can take the other's characters.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"a+Xa+\")).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\d+\\s+`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+)X(a+)$\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts captures whose quantifiers cannot take each other's characters\", () => {\n    // Reading through groups must not cost the ordinary two-capture search.\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)`)).toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`(\\d+)-(\\d+)`)).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a quantifier that cannot repeat more than once\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){1}\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"accepts a lookahead over an atom, which consumes nothing to pump\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?=a)b\")).toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"patterns that can backtrack super-linearly\", () => {\n  for (const pattern of catastrophic) {\n    it(`refuses ${pattern}`, () => {\n      expect(findBacktrackingRisk(pattern)).not.toBeNull();\n    });\n  }\n\n  it(\"refuses nesting however the inner group is spelled\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?:a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(?<name>a+)+\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses a counted outer quantifier, which repeats just as ambiguously\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"(a+){2}\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses competing alternatives one level below the quantifier\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(\"((a|ab)y)+$\")).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * A capture is not a boundary. 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This is the lesson the grouped-spelling\n * miss already taught, written down: an untested guard spelling is the live one, and every\n * family below is a spelling of a rule the suite above already covers in ASCII.\n */\ndescribe(\"competing quantifiers spelled as octal escapes\", () => {\n  /**\n   * `\\141` is `a`, so each of these is a pattern the suite above refuses, retyped. 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An\n   * alphabet that started at 0x20 would read every atom here as matching nothing.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control character\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\x01+\\x01+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  it(\"refuses two quantifiers over the same control-character class\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`[\\x00-\\x08]+[\\x00-\\x08]+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n\n  /**\n   * `\\1` with no capture group to refer to is the octal escape `\\x01`, so this is\n   * `\\x01+\\x01+\\x01+X`: the case the disjointness comment names, and one that needs the\n   * octal decode and the non-printable probe together to be seen at all.\n   */\n  it(\"refuses a backreference-shaped octal repeated over itself\", () => {\n    expect(findBacktrackingRisk(String.raw`\\1+\\1+\\1+X`)).not.toBeNull();\n  });\n});\n\ndescribe(\"an atom no probe matches fails closed\", () => {\n  /**\n   * Disjointness is the answer that lets a pattern run, so it is never the answer given by\n   * default. 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        "text": "This test passes in isolation, so it may be a flaky/order-dependent failure unrelated to my change. Let's run the full suite to check.",
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        "text": "This test passes in isolation, so it may be a flaky/order-dependent failure unrelated to my change. Let's run the full suite to check.",
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        "text": "The test suite passes fully (1011/1011) on this attempt. My change to regex-safety.test.ts is unrelated to the flaky acceptance test. Let me file the claim against this passing run.",
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