ESP32-family app and bootloader images (magic 0xE9) had no reader, so open_binary refused OTA downloads, app partitions and bootloaders. Add the esp-image container format behind inspect_artifact and extract_artifact. A pure decoder reads each byte once and keeps only fixed-size fields. Derived facts cover the chip, from a table cited to ESP-IDF v6.1; segment classification as ESP-IDF's should_map and should_load; checksum and appended SHA-256 results; app and bootloader descriptors; Secure Boot v2 signature blocks, observed and unverified; and undescribed trailing byte ranges. Truncation and undescribed bytes make coverage unknown. ESP8266 images are refused with a specific reason, and ciphertext stays unrecognized. Add the format to every target, Evidence, snapshot, live-summary and artifact vocabulary, document it, and add an optional verify:esp-images lane that compares esptool-built images with esptool image-info and espsecure signature-info-v2. Refs #3615
Source-built conformance fixtures
These sources are deliberately small semantic oracles for REA providers. Run
npm run verify:fixtures on macOS or Linux to compile them into the ignored
build/conformance/ directory, emit a hash-and-toolchain manifest, and verify
their platform-native symbols and strings with local command-line tools. The
portable C, version, and large-inventory fixtures build as Mach-O on macOS and
ELF on Linux; Objective-C, Swift, and N-API-like fixtures remain macOS-only.
Only source files are versioned. Generated binaries, generated large-fixture
source, debug information, and manifests must remain under build/.
ghidra/inventory.c is also compiled into temporary Linux ELF debug and
stripped variants by npm run verify:ghidra. It fixes local functions, external
puts linkage, defined strings, and writable/executable memory needed to prove
the read-only Ghidra inventory contracts without committing a binary.
scripts/create-ghidra-windows-fixture.mjs separately emits a deterministic,
ignored native x86-64 PE application for the controlled Windows Ghidra P0 lane.
The generator and fixed SHA-256 are versioned; the .exe is never committed or
executed. npm run verify:ghidra:windows uses it to verify the admitted read-only operation inventory,
digest linkage, transport, and cleanup on the self-hosted real-Ghidra runner.
The C fixture fixes a known call chain and strings. The version pair fixes an added symbol, changed string, and changed call relationship. The generated large fixture contains 1,205 uniquely named functions and strings to verify that providers return complete inventories. Objective-C, Swift, and N-API-like fixtures provide metadata-oriented inputs without package or network dependencies.
readiness/ adds source-only generated JavaScript CLI and Electron fixtures for
the repository's reconstruction-readiness verifier. npm run verify:readiness
inspects the compiled native fixture through CLI and checks JavaScript/Electron
static-analysis Evidence identity through CLI and MCP. It does not execute the
fixture applications. The development-owned evaluator under readiness/report/
separately checks synthetic report conformance; its nine stages do not describe
observed runtime journeys. The report keeps these scopes separate as documented
in docs/reconstruction-readiness.md.