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Problem

The repository already runs Whitaker, but the Make contract combines Rustdoc,
Clippy, and Whitaker in one leaf and relies on Whitaker's library selector
rather than declaring the Cargo package set. That makes package coverage and
failure propagation harder to prove independently.

This layer makes the gate explicit and testable across every Rust workspace
package. It is locally complete, but the estate cannot yet guarantee the
fail-closed, binary-only Whitaker installation the final layer depends on (see
"Merge blocker" below).

Changes

• split Rust linting into sequential lint-clippy and lint-whitaker leaves
  before spelling;
• bind Whitaker to cuprum-rust, cuprum-streams, and cuprum-native-io
  through fixed Cargo --package arguments after the wrapper separator;
• keep Whitaker outside the repository dev-fast configuration;
• prove an injected Whitaker executable is used and a controlled exit 73 fails
  Make;
• prevent callers from weakening the fixed package set; and
• document the package-binding and toolchain contract.

The audit boundary is Makefile-owned end to end. WHITAKER_PACKAGES, the
--package flags derived from it, and the audited flag list are all
overriden, so no caller-overridable variable reaches Whitaker after its --
separator. The lint leaves are prerequisites of their aggregate rather than
recursive sub-makes, so lint and rust-lint run inside one Make process and
a caller's -f file applies exactly once; .NOTPARALLEL: lint rust-lint
supplies the ordering.

Stack position

• Base: main at 7927e529cb7ef14bdcd31a26e618c28ca2d59901
  (rebased 2026-09-21; previously 7606b063, PR Stabilize boundary workspace link test #451).
• Predecessor: Enforce the Rust lint baseline #448 established the Rust lint baseline; Stabilize boundary workspace link test #451 supplied the
  merged boundary-workspace correction now inherited by this branch.
• This PR: final local Whitaker Make and contract layer at
  8a0abce81efd7c6cc62b69da5f7eb7e40e986cd7.
• Merge blocker: leynos/shared-actions#499
  and leynos/whitaker#403/#425.
  Whitaker's rolling release is the intended distribution model: every push to
  main publishes prebuilt lint libraries named whitaker-lints-<sha>-…, and
  the installer checksum-verifies each archive against its manifest. What is
  missing is retention and fail-closed installation: all assets live under a
  single rolling tag that is moved to the newest commit, and each publish
  deletes the superseded whitaker-lints-* archives, so only the tip's suite
  survives; --suite-version therefore forces a source build, and the
  installer falls back to compiling instead of failing. The switch that would
  forbid that fallback, --no-source-fallback, is on Whitaker's main and is
  in no release yet. The tag's publish ordering is already deliberate — PR
  Build(deps): bump the github-actions group across 1 directory with 16 updates #413 replaced a delete-then-recreate pair that left the tag and its assets
  absent for six to seven seconds per push, and a consumer resolved rolling
  inside that gap and silently fell back to a source build.

Reviewer entry points

• Whitaker leaf targets and package binding
• Make binding and failure contracts
• Developer contract

Rebase onto current main

Force-pushed with lease to harden-lint-whitaker-gate. Three commits replayed
onto 7927e529 from the exclusive boundary 7606b063 (the documented PR #451
landing, verified as an ancestor of the target), with zero conflicts.

• Old head da34172b → new head 8a0abce8
  (series d15162c9, cdd913c0, 8a0abce8).
• git range-diff reports every change unchanged; the aggregate file diff is
  identical across the replay.
• The rebased tree hash c59219c7 is byte-identical to the tree computed
  independently by git merge-tree over the same three-way inputs, so no
  silent replay corruption is present.
• Main's changes were retained throughout: all 38 target-only paths are
  byte-identical to main, including both lockfiles. The branch touches no
  lockfile, so no regeneration was required. Main's loom target, loom-smoke
  job, cfg(loom) check-cfg, and EXTENSION_TEST_TARGETS addition are intact.
• Weave did not participate: no repository or global attribute selects the
  driver for any path, so Git's built-in merge ran under zdiff3.

Review findings resolved

CodeRabbit raised two findings against 8a0abce8. Both were reproduced against
the real Makefile before being fixed. Both were wider than reported.

Caller-controlled Cargo options reached Whitaker. CARGO_FLAGS is
caller-overridable, and forwarding it let a caller append
--config ../tools/dev-fast/config.toml after Whitaker's -- separator,
acquiring the development fragment on a route that must stay fragment-free.
Reproduced, then closed: the audited flag list is now override-owned and
forwards no caller-overridable variable.

The reported finding did not catch an adjacent hole. WHITAKER_PACKAGES was
overriden, but WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS, derived from it, was not:
WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS=--package evil displaced all three audited packages
while the list itself still looked intact. Both are now overriden.

An included override fragment applied more than once. A caller -f file
that included a fragment containing CARGO_FLAGS += --fragment-marker left the
marker applied once at lint-clippy, twice at rust-lint, and three times at
lint: the duplication compounded per recursion level, so "applied twice"
understated the lint case.

The prescribed remedy — forward only the outer invocation's explicit -f
inputs — is not implementable. GNU Make records -f inputs and files reached
through include in the same MAKEFILE_LIST with no attribute distinguishing
them. The dedupe was built and proved insufficient: a fragment reached through
both -f and include still applies twice.

The recursion is therefore removed rather than repaired. The leaves are plain
prerequisites of their aggregate, so one Make process reads the caller's -f
file directly and nothing is forwarded. The fragment now applies exactly once
at every level. .NOTPARALLEL: lint rust-lint supplies the ordering; its
prerequisites are GNU Make 4.4-only, but the fix does not depend on them —
4.3 ignores them and serializes the whole run, 4.4 scopes them to the two named
subtrees. Both were verified against real 4.3 and 4.4 binaries, with the leaves
stable across repeated -j8 runs on each. .WAIT remains avoided for the
original 4.4-only reason.

Regression tests cover both findings, parametrized across all three lint
levels, and each was mutation-tested: restoring the injection or the recursion
makes the new tests fail.

Validation

Full sequential verification of 4067455913234f18eac414e4d959f95123e7cec5.

• make check-fmt: passed (557 Python files formatted; cargo +nightly-2026-05-28 fmt --all -- --check; mdtablefix --check 68 files unchanged);
• make lint: passed — including the branch's new Whitaker leaf running
  whitaker --all -- --package cuprum-rust --package cuprum-streams --package cuprum-native-io --all-targets --all-features --jobs 1 under
  fragment-free RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings", plus Clippy with -D warnings,
  Skylos, Ruff, pylint, and actionlint 1.7.12;
• make typecheck: passed (ty 0.0.74, all checks passed);
• make test: passed — 2469 passed, 79 skipped, 0 failed, including 19
  snapshot groups; Rust via nextest (125/125 passed across 6 binaries) plus
  doctests;
• make markdownlint: passed (0 errors, 68 files); and
• make nixie: all diagrams validated.

git status is clean and no gate dirtied a tracked file.

References

• Lody session
• Enforce the Rust lint baseline #448
• Stabilize boundary workspace link test #451
• leynos/shared-actions#499
• leynos/whitaker#403
• leynos/whitaker#425
• leynos/whitaker#413

Summary by Sourcery

Make Whitaker linting an explicit, fail-closed gate across all Rust workspace packages while keeping the lint hierarchy sequential and independently testable.

New Features:

• Bind Whitaker linting explicitly to every Rust workspace package through fixed Cargo package arguments.
• Split Rust linting into independently ordered Clippy, Whitaker, and spelling targets.

Bug Fixes:

• Prevent caller-provided Make and Cargo flags from narrowing the Whitaker package scope or introducing development configuration.
• Ensure Whitaker failures propagate directly through Make without masking or fallback guards.
• Remove recursive lint invocations so included override fragments are applied exactly once.

Enhancements:

• Add cross-platform contract coverage for lint ordering, package coverage, fragment-free execution, override resistance, and failure propagation.

Documentation:

• Document the Whitaker package-binding, fragment-free execution, rolling-suite retention, and binary-only installation limitations.

Tests:

• Add Make contract tests that derive the expected Whitaker package set from the Rust workspace manifest and verify the complete lint orchestration.

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Summary

• Split Rust linting into sequential lint-clippy, lint-whitaker, and spelling leaves.
• Bind Whitaker to cuprum-rust, cuprum-streams, and cuprum-native-io with protected Makefile-owned Cargo flags.
• Keep Whitaker fragment-free and outside dev-fast.
• Preserve caller-supplied Makefiles during recursive lint execution.
• Add contract tests for package binding, override protection, execution order, and exit-code propagation.
• Document the toolchain and package-binding contracts in AGENTS.md and docs/developers-guide.md.

Keep the PR in draft status until the immutable, checksummed binary-only Whitaker suite distribution is available through shared-actions#499, whitaker#403, and whitaker#425.

Validation

The supplied results confirm the Makefile routing and Whitaker contract tests. The PR summary also reports successful formatting, linting, type checking, tests, Markdown linting, and diagram validation.

Walkthrough

Split Rust linting into Clippy and Whitaker targets. Pass fixed workspace package flags to Whitaker. Run aggregate lint stages sequentially through recursive Make calls. Update contract tests and developer documentation.

Changes

Lint orchestration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Whitaker and Rust lint path Makefile, AGENTS.md, docs/developers-guide.md, cuprum/unittests/test_whitaker_make_contract.py	Pass fixed package flags to Whitaker. Separate Clippy and Whitaker execution. Document the updated lint and installation behaviour. Test argument forwarding and failure status propagation.
Aggregate lint flow Makefile, cuprum/unittests/test_dev_fast_contract.py, cuprum/unittests/test_skylos_lint_contract.py, cuprum/unittests/test_workflow_lint.py	Run lint stages through recursive Make calls without .WAIT. Preserve Makefile arguments and verify the required execution order.

Suggested labels: Issue

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8a0ab

Custom lint invocations can bypass the intended Whitaker boundary or run with duplicated configuration. Correct the Make orchestration before merging.

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❌ Failed checks (1 error)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Testing (Overall)	❌ Error	The added tests are substantive for command construction, lint ordering, fragment isolation, recursive Make propagation, and Whitaker exit-code propagation. They do not fully guard the claimed caller-…	Make WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS Makefile-owned with override, or derive the final flags without a caller-overridable intermediate. Extend the contract tests to inject WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS and WHITAKER_CARGO_FLAGS, then assert the exac…

✅ Passed checks (14 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 14 functions across 4 files. (3 skipped: 3…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
User-Facing Documentation	✅ Passed	Pass this check. The pull request changes the contributor-facing make lint and Whitaker development workflow, not Cuprum behaviour for API consumers or end users. The diff changes no public entities…
Developer Documentation	✅ Passed	Pass the documentation check. The pull request updates docs/developers-guide.md with the new lint-clippy, lint-whitaker, and spelling sequence; the three fixed Cargo packages; Whitaker's -- se…
Module-Level Documentation	✅ Passed	Pass the module-level documentation check. Every changed Python module has a module docstring. The new test_whitaker_make_contract.py documents its purpose as exercising the fail-closed Whitaker Mak…
Testing (Unit And Behavioural)	✅ Passed	Pass the testing check. Verify the changed Make boundary with subprocess-based tests: assert the exact three Cargo packages and argument placement, reject caller package overrides, enforce fragment-fr…
Testing (Property / Proof)	✅ Passed	The change introduces small, finite Makefile contracts. It fixes three package names and one leaf order, so a reader can audit the complete table directly. The added tests assert exact package forward…
Testing (Compile-Time / Ui)	✅ Passed	PASS — The pull request changes only Makefile orchestration, documentation, and Python contract tests. It changes no Rust or TypeScript source or compile-time behaviour, so a trybuild or equivalent co…
Unit Architecture	✅ Passed	Pass the Unit Architecture check. The change is limited to Make orchestration, documentation, and boundary tests; it does not add domain units or hidden state. Make separates lint, rust-lint, `lin…
Domain Architecture	✅ Passed	Pass. The pull request changes only Makefile lint orchestration, lint contract tests, and developer guidance. It does not modify domain models, commands, repositories, adapters, transport code, persis…
Observability	✅ Passed	Pass the observability check. The authoritative diff changes only Makefile lint orchestration, development guidance, and contract tests. It changes no production code, service boundary, deployment sur…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately identifies the main change: binding Whitaker to every Rust workspace package. No roadmap or issue number is required by the provided context.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the Whitaker package binding, lint orchestration, tests, documentation, validation, and known merge blockers.

Full details: Testing (Overall)

Explanation

The added tests are substantive for command construction, lint ordering, fragment isolation, recursive Make propagation, and Whitaker exit-code propagation. They do not fully guard the claimed caller-protection behaviour. Makefile line 81 defines WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS without override, while line 82 derives the protected WHITAKER_CARGO_FLAGS from it. A caller can therefore pass WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS=--package other and replace the audited package set. The only override test passes WHITAKER_PACKAGES=other (test_whitaker_make_contract.py:74-81), so this plausible incorrect implementation is not detected.

Resolution

Make WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS Makefile-owned with override, or derive the final flags without a caller-overridable intermediate. Extend the contract tests to inject WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS and WHITAKER_CARGO_FLAGS, then assert the exact three-package argument list remains unchanged. Keep the existing execution and failure-propagation tests.

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Reviewer's Guide

The PR makes Whitaker a distinct, sequential Rust lint leaf and explicitly binds it to every workspace package through Make-owned Cargo flags, with contract tests covering scope protection, ordering, and failure propagation; documentation also records the current fragment-free behavior and the unresolved immutable suite-distribution dependency.

Sequence diagram for Whitaker package-bound linting

sequenceDiagram
    participant Make
    participant Whitaker
    participant Cargo
    Make->>Whitaker: Run --all -- WHITAKER_CARGO_FLAGS
    Whitaker->>Cargo: Pass --package cuprum-rust
    Whitaker->>Cargo: Pass --package cuprum-streams
    Whitaker->>Cargo: Pass --package cuprum-native-io
    Cargo-->>Whitaker: Lint results
    Whitaker-->>Make: Exit status

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Flow diagram for sequential Rust linting

flowchart LR
    rust_lint[rust-lint] --> lint_clippy[lint-clippy]
    lint_clippy --> lint_whitaker[lint-whitaker]
    lint_whitaker --> spelling[spelling]

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File-Level Changes

Change	Details	Files
Split the Rust lint gate into ordered, independently testable leaves.	Separate documentation/Clippy, Whitaker, and spelling recipes. Enforce sequential execution with .WAIT at the aggregate lint boundaries. Update lint contract fixtures for the new leaf targets.	Makefile AGENTS.md cuprum/unittests/test_skylos_lint_contract.py cuprum/unittests/test_workflow_lint.py
Make Whitaker coverage explicit and caller-resistant across all Rust packages.	Define the audited package list in Make and generate fixed Cargo --package flags. Forward package flags after Whitaker's -- separator while retaining --all, existing Cargo flags, and single-job execution. Prevent command-line variable overrides from weakening the package scope.	Makefile cuprum/unittests/test_whitaker_make_contract.py
Add fail-closed behavioral coverage for the Whitaker boundary.	Verify exact package coverage and fragment-free invocation. Verify direct failure propagation using an injected executable with exit status 73. Verify Clippy, Whitaker, and spelling ordering.	cuprum/unittests/test_whitaker_make_contract.py
Document the local Whitaker binding and its reproducibility limitations.	Document the sequential lint flow, package binding, and separator semantics. Record that the gate remains fragment-free and fail-closed. Call out the dependency on an immutable binary-only suite resolver and related upstream issues.	docs/developers-guide.md AGENTS.md

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Make the lint-order tests use the platform's Cargo route

On macOS or Windows, DEV_FAST_HOST_IS_LINUX is empty and rust-lint correctly emits probe-cargo clippy without the Linux-only --config fragment, so this index() raises ValueError whenever the full unit suite is run there. The same Linux-specific literal was added to test_portable_lint_orchestration_preserves_leaf_order; force the Linux selector explicitly or locate the platform-neutral Clippy invocation in both tests.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L242-L247

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Confirmed and fixed in b3e9d05 — thank you, this was a real defect and my earlier OS=Windows_NT check had been a false negative.

Why the simulation was wrong: DEV_FAST_HOST_IS_LINUX is computed from $(shell uname -s), not from OS, so overriding OS never reached the branch under test. Forcing the variable directly reproduces exactly what you describe:

$ make --dry-run -s -f Makefile CARGO=probe-cargo WHITAKER=probe-whitaker \
    MAKEFLAGS= DEV_FAST_HOST_IS_LINUX= rust-lint | grep -c 'clippy --all-targets'
1
$ make ... | grep -c 'probe-cargo --config ../tools/dev-fast/config.toml clippy'
0

The leaf is still emitted; only the --config fragment disappears. So index() on that literal raises ValueError on any non-Linux host.

Fix: both sites now locate the platform-neutral leaf. _CLIPPY_LEAF = " clippy --all-targets" is defined in test_whitaker_make_contract.py and test_dev_fast_contract.py, and I verified it appears exactly once on both routes (Linux and forced non-Linux, at rust-lint and at lint), so index() stays unambiguous either way.

One thing I did beyond the report: the second site, test_portable_lint_orchestration_preserves_leaf_order, was still asserting the order only on the Linux route. Rather than just make it portable, I added test_leaf_order_is_identical_on_both_cargo_routes, which drives DEV_FAST_HOST_IS_LINUX=yes and ="" and asserts the full python-lint < clippy < whitaker < spelling < workflow_lint order on each. Ordering is a property of the prerequisite graph, not the toolchain in front of it, so a change reordering only the stable route now fails too.

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Validate the fixed package list against the workspace

When another member is added to rust/Cargo.toml, this independent hard-coded list remains unchanged, so lint-whitaker silently skips the new package while test_whitaker_target_covers_the_exact_workspace_packages still passes because its _PACKAGES tuple duplicates the same stale three names. Compare this list with Cargo workspace metadata in the contract test, or derive the arguments from that metadata, so the promised every-target lint gate cannot drift.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L219-L220

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Confirmed and fixed in b3e9d05. This one I could reproduce exactly as described, and the pre-fix result is worth recording because it is the whole finding:

# workspaces members -> 4, ahead of the fix (HEAD~1 test file, literal _PACKAGES)
$ uv run ... pytest cuprum/unittests/test_whitaker_make_contract.py -q
11 passed          # <-- the drift was invisible

So a fourth member added to rust/Cargo.toml left lint-whitaker skipping it while every contract test still passed, because the test's _PACKAGES duplicated the same three names. The test was checking the Makefile against a copy of itself.

Fix: _workspace_packages() reads rust/Cargo.toml with tomllib (already a stdlib import in this tree) and returns the manifest's members. _expected_cargo_arguments() builds the expected --package … list from that, and all four assertions that previously compared against the literal now compare against the manifest. I chose to read the manifest in the test rather than derive the Makefile value from Cargo at build time: the Makefile must not shell out to Cargo to decide what to lint, and an independent reader in the test is what makes the two lists able to disagree.

Same mutation, after the fix:

$ sed -i 's/"cuprum-native-io"\]/"cuprum-native-io", "cuprum-extra"]/' rust/Cargo.toml
$ uv run ... pytest cuprum/unittests/test_whitaker_make_contract.py -q
5 failed, 7 passed   # every-package promise is now checkable

The guide sentence at docs/developers-guide.md:412 that named only WHITAKER_PACKAGES is updated to record both the full override chain and the manifest-backed check.

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In `@Makefile`:
- Line 82: Update the WHITAKER_CARGO_FLAGS definition to exclude
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caller-supplied CARGO_FLAGS and verify lint-whitaker still emits the unchanged
default CI command while custom invocations cannot pass options through
Whitaker’s separator.
- Line 147: Update the RECURSIVE_MAKE definition to capture and forward only
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The two findings from your review of 8a0abce8 are fixed in 40674559, and your own pre-merge walkthrough independently identified the same third defect (see below). Requesting a fresh review of 40674559.

One clarification, since your two replies answered by trying to verify a revision in leynos/whitaker: this PR changes only cuprum. The whitaker references in my replies are the external lint tool's repository, cited as context — there is no whitaker revision to verify here. Nothing in this diff touches that repo.

What changed:

1. Caller CARGO_FLAGS reaching Whitaker — closed. The audited flag list is override-owned end to end and forwards no caller-overridable variable. Verified: make --dry-run CARGO_FLAGS='--all-targets --config ../tools/dev-fast/config.toml' lint-whitaker emitted --config before, none after. The default command is byte-identical.

2. WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS not overriden — this is the same defect your pre-merge walkthrough reported separately ("Makefile line 81 defines WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS without override"). Your prescribed remedy was "Make WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS Makefile-owned with override", and that is exactly what 40674559 does. A contract test injects WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS=--package evil and asserts the exact three-package list survives.

3. An included override fragment applied more than once — fixed, though not by the prescribed remedy, which is not implementable. GNU Make records -f inputs and files reached through include in the same MAKEFILE_LIST with no attribute distinguishing them, so "forward only explicit -f inputs" cannot be expressed; the dedupe was built and proved insufficient. The recursion is removed instead: the leaves are now plain prerequisites of their aggregate, so one Make process reads the caller's -f file directly. Measured with a caller fragment doing CARGO_FLAGS += --fragment-marker, the marker went from 1/2/3 occurrences at lint-clippy/rust-lint/lint to 1/1/1.

Ordering is supplied by .NOTPARALLEL: lint rust-lint. Its prerequisites are GNU Make 4.4-only, but the fix does not depend on them: 4.3 ignores them and serializes the whole run, 4.4 scopes them to the two named subtrees. Both were verified against real 4.3 and 4.4 binaries, with leaves stable across repeated -j8 runs on each.

All regression tests were mutation-tested: restoring the injection or the recursion makes them fail. Full local gates pass (check-fmt, markdownlint, lint, typecheck, test, nixie) and CI is green on 40674559.

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Closing the Testing (Overall) ❌ row and re-requesting review at b3e9d05a.

This row evaluated 8a0abce8, which is now an ancestor of HEAD — it is stale, not outstanding.

$ git merge-base --is-ancestor 8a0abce81efd7c6cc62b69da5f7eb7e40e986cd7 HEAD && echo stale
stale
$ git show HEAD:Makefile | grep -n '^override WHITAKER'
80:override WHITAKER_PACKAGES := cuprum-rust cuprum-streams cuprum-native-io
85:override WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS := $(foreach package,$(WHITAKER_PACKAGES),--package $(package))
91:override WHITAKER_CARGO_FLAGS := $(WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS) \

Prescribed remedy (first half), already applied and now extended. WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS is overriden at line 85 — your own pre-merge analysis independently reached the same conclusion earlier and I applied it at 40674559. What was still genuinely untested at 8a0abce8 was the last variable in the chain, so test_caller_cargo_flag_variable_cannot_reach_whitaker now injects WHITAKER_CARGO_FLAGS too.

Second half: inject both variables and assert the exact flags. The module now covers all three injection points, each asserting the full argument list rather than a substring:

Test	Injects	Asserts
test_whitaker_package_scope_cannot_be_caller_overridden	WHITAKER_PACKAGES	list survives
test_caller_package_flags_cannot_displace_audited_packages	WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS	exact flags survive
test_caller_cargo_flag_variable_cannot_reach_whitaker	WHITAKER_CARGO_FLAGS	exact flags survive

The "exact flags" comparisons now come from _workspace_packages(), which reads rust/Cargo.toml via tomllib, so the assertion is against Cargo's own metadata rather than a duplicated literal. That also answers the separate chatgpt-codex-connector finding on the package list, and makes this row's concern and that one the same fix.

Mutation evidence — un-overrideing either variable fails the suite:

$ sed -i 's/^override WHITAKER_CARGO_FLAGS :=/WHITAKER_CARGO_FLAGS :=/' Makefile
$ pytest cuprum/unittests/test_whitaker_make_contract.py -q
1 failed, 11 passed   # test_caller_cargo_flag_variable_cannot_reach_whitaker
$ sed -i 's/^override WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS :=/WHITAKER_PACKAGE_FLAGS :=/' Makefile
$ pytest ... -q
1 failed, 11 passed   # test_caller_package_flags_cannot_displace_audited_packages

All six commit gates pass at b3e9d05a: check-fmt, markdownlint, lint (ruff, pylint, df12-lints, skylos, rustdoc+clippy, Whitaker across all three packages, typos, yamllint, actionlint), typecheck, test (408 pytest + 125 nextest + doctests, 0 failures), nixie.

Re-review requested. Note the scope question you raised earlier still stands: this PR changes only cuprum, and does not request verification of any leynos/whitaker revision.