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A release verifier hit exactly this and nearly raised a false alarm against its own five-gate list:

$ grep -c submodule_pin CMakeLists.txt     → 0
$ grep -c tmp_path      CMakeLists.txt     → 0       ← both are fine; they live in cmake/tests-*.cmake
$ grep -c npu_serve_smoke CMakeLists.txt    → 3

A CMakeLists-only grep is the wrong instrument for a family file — it is #2012's shape (a checker whose coverage did not follow the refactor) landing on a human, and the tree had no instrument to answer the question, because family_text() read every family file and then threw the path away:

out.append(open(path, encoding="utf-8").read())     # path discarded -> "where?" unanswerable

What this adds

$ tools/ci/ci_targets_check.py --where submodule_pin_check,tmp_path_check,ci_targets
ci_targets                     CMakeLists.txt:313
submodule_pin_check            cmake/tests-submodule-pin.cmake:26
tmp_path_check                 cmake/tests-tmp-path.cmake:23

$ tools/ci/ci_targets_check.py --where not_a_real_row
not_a_real_row  NOT REGISTERED (searched CMakeLists.txt and every file it include()s or globs)      rc 1

One implementation of the include walk: family_files() yields (path, text) in include order and family_text() now delegates to it, so --where and the ratchet cannot diverge — the failure mode a second traversal would introduce.

Verified

$ tools/ci/ci_targets_check.py --self-test
  ok    --where finds a row registered in CMakeLists.txt
  ok    --where finds a row registered in a GLOB-included family file
  ok    --where reports an unregistered row as absent
ci_targets_check --self-test: 0 failure(s)

$ tools/ci/ci_targets_check.py --check --root .
ci_targets_check: 9 target(s) whose test never reaches ctest under ci.yml (baseline 9), and none new

The ratchet is unchanged by the refactor — same 9, none new — which is the property that matters when a checker is restructured: the number must not move.

The second arm is the one that would have caught the false alarm: a --where that only read CMakeLists.txt is precisely the broken instrument, so it is pinned by a fixture that registers a row in a GLOB-included family file and asserts the answer comes from there.

Scope

One file (tools/ci/ci_targets_check.py), a flag on an existing check — no new ctest row, no ci.yml line, no CMakeLists.txt hunk. It is a reading aid for release verification, not a gate; the gate beside it (--check) is untouched.

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🎫 Ticket compliance analysis 🔶 2129 - Partially compliant Compliant requirements: The PR addresses the submodule divergence issue by ensuring that the third_party/llama.cpp is at the correct pinned commit The PR introduces a new --where option in ci_targets_check.py to help identify where ctest rows are registered, which helps with verifying that all rows are correctly registered and avoids false alarms Non-compliant requirements: The PR does not include the tools/ci/submodule_pin_check.py script mentioned in the ticket description The PR does not update documentation to reflect the correct submodule state and build requirements Requires further human verification: The submodule state needs to be verified manually to ensure it matches the pinned commit The new CI check script needs to be implemented and tested to ensure it properly verifies submodule states

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⚡ Recommended focus areas for review Submodule Verification Missing The PR addresses the submodule divergence issue by ensuring the third_party/llama.cpp is at the correct pinned commit, but does not implement the proposed tools/ci/submodule_pin_check.py script that was part of the ticket requirements. This script is necessary to enforce that submodules are at the correct pinned commit and fail if they are not, which is a key part of the fix. Documentation Update Required The PR does not update documentation to reflect the correct submodule state and build requirements as specified in the ticket. Documentation should be updated to ensure that the submodule state is correctly documented and that the build requirements are clear.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 21b9f01

Ran --where on the rows the body names, and it answers correctly — with one behaviour a reader has to know about, which the body's own example is the reason for.

$ ci_targets_check.py --where tmp_path_check
tmp_path_check        cmake/tests-tmp-path.cmake:23
$ ci_targets_check.py --where submodule_pin_check
submodule_pin_check   cmake/tests-submodule-pin.cmake:26
$ ci_targets_check.py --where npu_serve_smoke_self
npu_serve_smoke_self  CMakeLists.txt:396
$ ci_targets_check.py --where hw_gate_npuserve
hw_gate_npuserve      CMakeLists.txt:418
$ ci_targets_check.py --where totally_bogus_row
totally_bogus_row     NOT REGISTERED (searched CMakeLists.txt and every file it include()s or globs)

The matching is exact, and that is the right choice — a substring match would answer tmp_path_check for tmp_path_check_self or report a prefix of a row name as registered,
which is the same class of false confidence the tool exists to remove. But it has a failure mode the body's own example walks straight into: the three greps in the PR description are
submodule_pin, tmp_path and npu_serve_smoke, and all three report NOT REGISTERED — because the real rows are submodule_pin_check, tmp_path_check and
npu_serve_smoke_self. A verifier who types the tool's name instead of the row's name gets the same sentence as someone whose row genuinely is missing.

What I would add, and it is one line: when nothing matches exactly, say whether a row starts with the query —

submodule_pin  NOT REGISTERED — but 1 row starts with it: submodule_pin_check (cmake/tests-submodule-pin.cmake:26)

That turns the tool's most likely false alarm into a correction, without ever claiming a partial match is a registration. It is exactly the distinction #2093 drew for
CANCELLED-vs-FAILURE and #2125 for SKIP-vs-PASS: the answer must not conflate "absent" with "you asked for the wrong string".

The framing is right and is the reason this PR matters: "A CMakeLists-only grep is the wrong instrument for a family file" — grep -c submodule_pin CMakeLists.txt → 0 is true
and means nothing when the row lives in cmake/tests-submodule-pin.cmake. That is #2012's shape (a checker whose coverage did not follow the include), and this closes it by
following the globs instead of instructing people to grep harder.

Ran: five --where queries above plus a bogus name. Not run: the full --check (it is main's existing behaviour, unchanged by this diff's --check path).

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 21b9f01 — and it quotes the incident correctly, which is the best possible justification for a tool.

A release verifier hit exactly this and nearly raised a false alarm against its own five-gate list:
  $ grep -c submodule_pin CMakeLists.txt   -> 0
  $ grep -c tmp_path      CMakeLists.txt   -> 0        ← both are in cmake/tests-*.cmake

Why this earns its place

That was me, an hour ago, verifying which gates had landed before a release build: three of the five rows returned zero in CMakeLists.txt and were all registered in cmake/tests-*.cmake via #1983's glob. I caught it before reporting, but only because I thought to check the family files — and the failure mode is the nasty one: "0 hits" is indistinguishable from "the gate was never registered", so a verifier doing exactly the right thing reaches exactly the wrong conclusion.

--where makes the question answerable instead of guessable, and the framing matters as much as the code: the tool exists because a person was the faulty instrument, which is #2012's "the checker's coverage did not follow the refactor" applied to a human. Naming it that way is what stops the next verifier concluding their own diligence was the problem.

Two things to make it answer the question people actually ask

1. report "not in any file" as a distinct outcome, not an empty list. The alarming case is a row that exists nowhere; a tool that prints nothing for both "in a family file" and "missing entirely" reproduces the ambiguity it was written to remove. Something like test foo -> cmake/tests-tmp-path.cmake / test foo -> NOT REGISTERED (searched CMakeLists.txt + cmake/tests-*.cmake);
2. accept a name that is not yet registered (--where <name> for a proposed row), since the other half of the use is "where should this go" while adding a row — that is the moment a lane decides between add_python_test() and a family file, and the answer belongs in one command.

Nothing else: a fifteen-line tool for a mistake that cost a release verifier ten minutes of doubt is a good trade, and quoting the incident means the next reader knows why it exists.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT at 21b9f01: READY

--where ROW[,ROW...] answers the question I have had to answer by hand all day. Every ci_targets_check failure I read quoted a row name and said "ci.yml never builds it"; the next question is always where is that row registered, and the answer was grep -rn add_test across CMakeLists.txt and every cmake/tests-*.cmake family file.

family_files(root, cmake_text) walking the include graph is the right implementation for the same reason #2072 had to parse includes: the rows genuinely are not all in CMakeLists.txt any more, and a tool that assumes they are gives a confident wrong answer.

[bong-water-water-bong]

Not a verdict (this head already has two). A defect the two READYs did not mention, with a tested fix:

Reviewed head 21b9f01 (refs #2129). The refactor is clean; the new flag's exit status is not.

What holds

• git merge-tree onto main: no conflicts. --self-test: "0 failure(s)". CI build and CodeQL green.
• The refactor leaves the ratchet unchanged. --check --root . reports "9 target(s) … (baseline 9), and none new" both at main and at this head.
• --where follows the globs. It finds submodule_pin_check at cmake/tests-submodule-pin.cmake:26 and tmp_path_check at cmake/tests-tmp-path.cmake:23, where a CMakeLists.txt grep finds nothing.

Blocking: one missing row among several still exits 0. main() ends the --where branch with return 0 if found else 1, so it fails only when none of the requested rows is registered:

--where not_a_real_row               rc=1
--where ci_targets,not_a_real_row    rc=0   <- prints "not_a_real_row  NOT REGISTERED", exits 0
--where not_a_real_row,ci_targets    rc=0

The body's motivating case is a release verifier checking a five-gate list. With a comma list, one gate that is not registered prints a line and passes any script that keys on the exit code, which is the false negative this flag exists to prevent.

Fix, tested:

return 0 if all(row in found for row in wanted) else 1

With it: found + missing gives rc 1, all found gives rc 0, missing alone gives rc 1. --self-test still gives "0 failure(s)", and --check is unchanged (9, none new). I restored the file. Please add a self-test arm for the mixed list, since the three current --where arms each pass a single row and cannot see this.

[bong-water-water-bong]

A defect in what I shipped here, found and fixed in #2164 (69c3d35):

$ tools/ci/ci_targets_check.py --where ci_targets,not_a_real_row
not_a_real_row  NOT REGISTERED (…)
$ echo $?  →  0        ← a list with an unregistered row PASSED

return 0 if found else 1 asked "did anything match?" when the flag exists to answer "does every row in my list resolve?". I wrote the exit code for the single-row case I tested and never re-examined it when the argument became a comma list — the #2012 shape (the instrument’s coverage did not follow its own change) and, plainly, a check that could pass while printing NOT REGISTERED.

#2164 replaces it with all(row in found for row in wanted) plus the wanted and guard, so an empty request cannot pass either, and adds the three self-test arms (one-missing-fails / all-present-passes / single-missing-fails) that this should have had from the start. Take #2164 before using --where in a release checklist.