Notes
Short essays on the design decisions inside these instruments — each one grounded in a public repository you can read.
Nothing here asks to be believed. Every note names the repository whose code makes the argument.
A skipped step is not a pass
Why a test run with an unexecuted step must fail, and how quietly reporting unknowns as passes is the exact failure a test tool exists to prevent.
Byte-identical logs are a test tool
When the same scenario produces the same CSV down to the byte, diff becomes a regression harness — no framework required.
The empty spec/ folder is the feature
Three NOKTRA tools ship refusing to compute until a human transcribes the standard, with a citation. Why shipping 'less' is the honest design.