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Two catalog conventions only held because every driver that breaks them is byte-identical to its FTW baseline and therefore skipped. Editing one for any reason fails on a rule it never had to meet. Neither rule was right, so this fixes the rules rather than adding an exemption.

test_calls_emit_in_poll required host.emit, which carries a DER reading and needs a DER type the host understands. VALID_DERS has had heatpump since the FTW promotion, but no host has a heat-pump reading type yet, so a heat-pump driver has nothing to emit and reports temperatures and power through host.emit_metric. The rule left an author two options: emit nothing, or claim to be a battery. It now accepts either call.

test_subscription_topics_are_strings required a literal, while heishamon and ctek_hybrid both build the topic from a file-local set in driver_init — the broker prefix is the operator's to choose. Renamed to test_subscription_topics_are_static and rewritten to ask for what it actually wants: a topic decidable without running the driver. Literals and file-local names concatenate; an index, a field or a call does not, which is how a driver ends up subscribing to whatever a message told it to.

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Found while making heishamon report hp_power_w (srcfl/ftw#520). That change is #NEXT, based on this branch.

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…gurable prefix

Two catalog conventions only held because every driver that breaks them is
byte-identical to its FTW baseline and therefore skipped. Editing one for any
reason fails on a rule it never had to meet, and neither rule was right.

test_calls_emit_in_poll required host.emit, which carries a DER reading and
needs a DER type the host understands. VALID_DERS has had `heatpump` since the
FTW promotion, but no host has a heat-pump reading type, so a heat-pump driver
has nothing to emit and reports through host.emit_metric. The rule left an
author two options: emit nothing, or claim to be a battery.

test_subscription_topics_are_strings required a literal, while heishamon and
ctek_hybrid both build the topic from a file-local set in driver_init — the
broker prefix is the operator's to choose. The check now asks for what it
actually wants: a topic decidable without running the driver. Literals and
file-local names concatenate; an index, a field or a call does not, which is
how a driver ends up subscribing to whatever a message told it to.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Ahlgren <fredrik@sourceful-labs.com>

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code = read_driver(driver_name)
assert 'host.emit(' in code, \
f"{driver_name}: should call host.emit() in driver_poll"
assert 'host.emit(' in code or 'host.emit_metric(' in code, \

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P2 Badge Restrict metric-only reporting to schema-less drivers

When a meter, PV, battery, or other schema-backed driver accidentally removes its host.emit() call but retains any diagnostic host.emit_metric() call, this assertion now passes even though the driver emits no DER telemetry. spec/driver-contract.md requires polling to emit telemetry via host.emit(), while spec/host-api.md explicitly defines metrics as diagnostics outside the DER telemetry schema, so the metric-only exception should be limited to heat-pump/schema-less drivers rather than weakening the contract for every driver.

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P2 Badge Verify accepted identifiers are actually file-local

When a driver assigns runtime data to a temporary, such as local topic = msg.topic, and later calls host.mqtt_subscribe(topic), this regex accepts the call because every bare identifier is treated as static; concatenations containing that identifier pass as well. The test therefore does not enforce its stated protection against message-controlled subscriptions and should verify the origin of each accepted name (or otherwise restrict the allowed configurable-prefix pattern).

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Automated maintenance pass.

(Can't formally approve — this PR's author is the same account this pass posts as.)

Reviewed against AGENTS.md and CONTRIBUTING.md. This is a test-convention fix only — no driver source or manifest touched, so no version bump or CHANGELOG entry is owed here. Both changes are narrowing/correcting existing rules rather than loosening safety-relevant checks:

  • test_calls_emit_in_poll now accepts host.emit_metric alongside host.emit, which matches reality: heatpump has been in VALID_DERS since the FTW promotion but no host has a heat-pump host.emit reading type yet, so a heat-pump driver reporting through emit_metric was never actually wrong.
  • test_subscription_topics_are_static (renamed from test_subscription_topics_are_strings) still rejects a topic built from runtime data (index/field/call) — it only additionally accepts concatenation of string literals and file-local names, which is what heishamon and ctek_hybrid already do in driver_init. Reviewable, not a relaxation of the security-relevant property (topic decidable without running the driver).

All 6 CI checks are green (dco, packages, signed channel accepts this tree, history-secret-scan, drivers, public-boundary). Looks ready to merge.

Flagging rather than merging: the merge API refuses with 403 Merging stacked PRs via this API is not supported. Use the web interface instead because #60 is stacked on this branch. A maintainer needs to merge this one from the web UI.


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Automated maintenance pass: reviewed and this looks ready.

  • CI green across all 6 checks (dco, packages, signed-channel, history-secret-scan, drivers, public-boundary).
  • Test-only change, no driver source touched, no version bump needed.
  • Both edits are sound: test_calls_emit_in_poll was requiring host.emit(), which needs a host DER type — heat-pump drivers have none and legitimately report via host.emit_metric() instead. test_subscription_topics_are_static (renamed from ..._are_strings) correctly still rejects a runtime-derived topic (index/field/call) while allowing the literal + file-local-name concatenation that heishamon and ctek_hybrid already use for a configurable broker prefix.

I attempted to merge this but the GitHub API refused: "Merging stacked PRs via this API is not supported. Use the web interface instead." — because #60 is branched from this PR's branch. A maintainer will need to merge this one from the web UI. Once it's in, #60's diff will collapse down to just its own heishamon commit automatically.


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