* test: focus assertions on behavioral evidence
Prune redundant and wording-coupled checks while retaining diagnostic, parser, recovery, and cleanup coverage.
* refactor: remove test-only wrappers and duplicate checks
Exercise production operations through test fixtures, remove unused adapters, and keep managed-member uncertainty guidance under its existing owner.
* test: focus process validation on diagnostic facts
* refactor: remove test-only runtime helpers
Move semantic evidence fixture setup out of runtime and remove unused Windows settle recovery helpers while checking configured defaults independently.
* test: focus artifact diagnostics on format facts
* test: verify retained cleanup guidance delivery
Return the validated descriptor and its original metadata from regular-file
admission. Propagate that contract through owned reads, hashes, snapshots,
artifact inventory and provider file workflows instead of replacing initial
facts with another stat. Keep arbitrary output-handle operations separate.
Preserve final descriptor/path identity proofs, borrowed-source verification,
BigInt precision, cancellation provenance and failed-close ownership. Remove
the obsolete source and owned-ZIP baseline stages and update their consumers
and regressions. Tie read completion faults to actual reads instead of the
retired duplicate stat; instrument real handles without fake handle wrappers.
Validation: fresh runtime/catalog build; focused source, lifecycle, filesystem,
CLI/MCP and authored provider-fixture tests; full static checks; docs checks;
test discovery; duplication check. Platform-specific cases remain skipped on
macOS. No installed provider or device behavior was verified.
Normalize only the exact aborted signal reason, retaining unrelated failures and descriptor ownership after cleanup failures.
Refs: #3197, #3265
Co-authored-by: SII-YDD <38822679+SII-YDD@users.noreply.github.com>
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