no-mistakes(review): Gate wrapper checks on executed infisical; scope liveness guide

docs/AUTHORING-GUIDE.md

@@ -222,14 +222,23 @@ optional. The 2026-09-09 probe-drift rounds cost three false `DEGRADED` reports
 because a stale consumer probed the wrong port and nothing in the report said
 where it ran.
 
-Pair it with the **any-HTTP-response liveness rule**: a probe is ALIVE on ANY
-HTTP status — including `301` redirects and `401`/`403` auth challenges. A bare
-`200` is not required and must never be a pass condition for an auth-gated
-endpoint. **DOWN = connection refused (`000`) or timeout only.**
+Pair it with the **scoped any-HTTP-response liveness rule**: for unauthenticated
+or auth-gated endpoints — where any HTTP answer proves a listener is up (the
+PVE API's `401`, LiteLLM health's `301` redirect) — a probe is ALIVE on ANY HTTP
+status, including `301` redirects and `401`/`403` auth challenges. **DOWN =
+connection refused (`000`) or timeout only.**
+
+Probes whose success condition is specifically a bare `200` are NOT covered by
+the any-HTTP rule. On those — authenticated probes such as the Zulip message
+POST and the router `/health` — an unexpected status (`401`/`403` from a bad or
+missing credential, `5xx`, or anything other than the expected `200`) is an
+**ALERT**, not "alive".
 
 ```markdown
 **Report format**: Begin every report with the absolute execution path
-(`pwd -P` / script path). Alive = ANY HTTP status; DOWN = `000`/timeout only.
+(`pwd -P` / script path). On auth-gated endpoints, alive = ANY HTTP status and
+DOWN = `000`/timeout only; on probes whose expected result is `200`, any other
+status is an alert.
 ```
 
 The lint pipeline enforces the provenance clause: any contract with a

docs/probe-drift-round2-evidence.md

@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ The health script prints `📍 executed from: script=… cwd=…` and includes
 $ pwd -P
 /root/.treehouse/prose-contracts-9ce5f3/3/prose-contracts
 $ python3 -m pytest -q
-22 passed
+23 passed
 $ shellcheck scripts/prose-lint.sh
 (clean)
 ```

scripts/agent-health-check.py

@@ -546,13 +546,14 @@ def check_wrapper_integrity():
         # /usr/bin/infisical, just past line 20 — false-failed as "path may be
         # wrong". Read the full body, accept a no-infisical wrapper, and verify
         # the absolute infisical path(s) the wrapper actually invokes. Only
-        # executed invocation lines count: a comment or dead prose mentioning a
-        # removed path (litellm-api-keys.prose.md documents
-        # `rm -f /usr/local/bin/infisical`) must not false-fail a wrapper whose
-        # real invocation works.
+        # executed (non-comment) lines count: a comment or dead prose mentioning
+        # a removed path (litellm-api-keys.prose.md documents
+        # `rm -f /usr/local/bin/infisical`) must neither produce a dangling path
+        # nor trigger the PATH check — it is not an invocation.
         wrapper_body = ssh(host, "cat /root/.local/bin/hermes 2>/dev/null", user=user) or ""
+        wrapper_code = "\n".join(line.split("#", 1)[0] for line in wrapper_body.splitlines())
         invoked_paths = _infisical_invocation_paths(wrapper_body)
-        if "infisical" in wrapper_body:
+        if "infisical" in wrapper_code:
             if invoked_paths:
                 missing = []
                 for _p in invoked_paths:

tests/test_probe_drift.py

@@ -231,6 +231,20 @@ def test_comment_mentioning_removed_infisical_path_is_not_failed(ahc, monkeypatc
     assert "wrapper infisical path OK" in out
 
 
+def test_comment_only_infisical_mention_does_not_reach_path_check(ahc, monkeypatch, capsys):
+    # A comment-only mention of a removed infisical path on a healthy .env-based
+    # wrapper is not an invocation: it must not fall through to the `command -v`
+    # PATH check and false-FAIL `wrapper-no-infisical`.
+    _stub_wrapper_ssh(ahc, monkeypatch,
+                      "#!/bin/bash\n# migrated from /usr/local/bin/infisical\n"
+                      "source ~/.hermes/.env\nexec hermes-real \"$@\"\n",
+                      test_x_result="MISS", command_v=None)
+    ahc.check_wrapper_integrity()
+    out = capsys.readouterr().out
+    assert ahc.FAIL == []
+    assert "wrapper resolves creds without infisical" in out
+
+
 # ── item 4: prose-lint enforces report provenance (real consumer) ─────
 
 GOOD_CONTRACT = textwrap.dedent("""\