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Stacked on #557 → #556 → #555. Base is feat/governance-subject-index.

What

The multiplier the rest of the governance layer is scored by.

severity = signal × exposure × neglect × blast radius

All four factors ship in the JSON next to the product, so a reviewer can disagree with one of them rather than with the number. Nothing is gated on the score: a low rank is lower in the list, never missing from it.

Tables — ranked by live reach
  analytics.users — 19 live of 168 projects, 214 SQL blocks
  analytics.orders — 11 live of 24 projects, 61 SQL blocks

Maintenance
  3 live, 0 aging, 1 cold (3y+) notebooks · median age 28 days

Findings — ranked
   60 ✖ credential-shared
      Marketing campaigns · marketing  Credential 2d24bb7a… is hardcoded in 2 projects.
                                       Rotating it breaks all of them at once.
   49 ⚠ egress-external
      Marketing campaigns · Campaign performance  This block writes to hooks.slack.com…
   38 ⚠ pii-subject-scatter
   14 ✖ sql-null-comparison
    1 ⚠ asset-stale

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Blast radius is liveness-weighted, and both numbers are always printed. A table referenced by 168 projects sounds alarming until you notice 19 were edited in the past year. Counting references without weighting them overstates reach by most of an order of magnitude, and a report that overstates reach is ignored on its second reading. So sql-tables.ts extracts table references from every SQL block (CTEs excluded — a CTE is local, and counting one would invent a dependency between two notebooks that happen to use the same scratch name), and the inventory carries projectCount and liveProjectCount. A wrong = NULL predicate is then ranked by what reads the tables it queries.

Neglect only ever raises severity — and that is the interesting case. A credential in an abandoned notebook now ranks above one in a live notebook. The key still works, and nobody is watching the notebook that would have caught it. Exposure findings (credentials, egress, subject scatter) have a floor under their blast radius so the liveness weighting cannot score them as harmless; the discount for "nobody uses this" belongs to blast radius, measured from something else entirely. There is a test asserting exactly this ordering, because the naive version of liveness weighting gets it backwards.

An undated notebook is undated, not abandoned. An export that happens not to carry modifiedAt is an absence of evidence. Filing it as neglect would fill the ranking with findings about files nobody can date, so unknown is its own class, weighted at half, and the run says how many there were. A block's recorded executionFinishedAt counts as a touch, so a notebook that ran last week is live even if nobody edited the file.

signal and exposure are judgment, and are written as such. They are explicit constants in one table with per-code rationale, flagged in the docs as not-yet-measured, precisely so they can be argued with and replaced once someone has clicked through a ranked sample. Writing them as a hidden formula would make them unfalsifiable.

What is deliberately absent

The Wilson lower bound. It estimates a consensus share from a sample, and nothing in this PR is a sample — every count here is a census of the synced tree. It belongs with the divergence check, where consensus share is actually being estimated from partial evidence. Adding it now would be decoration, and decoration on a scoring function is how a ranking becomes unauditable.

Testing

  • 43 new tests: staleness classification (16), scoring (15), the table extractor (12), plus audit-engine and command coverage for the ranking, the table inventory, and the maintenance census.
  • The ordering claims are tested directly: a credential ranks higher when its notebook is cold; a wrong query ranks higher when live projects read the same table; the heuristic credential rule ranks below the pattern rules; a table with three abandoned readers ranks below one with two live readers.
  • Every test uses a fixed clock, so staleness is a property of the fixture rather than of the day CI runs.
  • pnpm typecheck, pnpm biome:check, pnpm prettier:check clean. pnpm test passes except the pre-existing run.test.ts interpreter-resolution failure also present on main.

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docs/deepnote-cli-audit.md gains a "How findings are ranked" section with the factor table and both counter-intuitive consequences spelled out; plus the table inventory and maintenance sections. packages/cli/README.md, skills/deepnote/references/cli-analysis.md, and the audit --help text.

What remains

SQL divergence — the last item in the plan, and the one whose precision is still unvalidated. The audit continues to refuse to run it below ~130 projects and to say so.

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    • Audit reports summarize notebook maintenance, including age counts, median age, and notebooks without usable timestamps. They flag notebooks untouched for three years or more.
    • Findings are scored and ranked by severity, with low-ranked findings still included. The --issues option lists individual findings in score order and adds file paths when needed to distinguish locations; the default view groups findings by check and shows top scores and finding counts.
    • Reports inventory SQL table usage by live and total project reach.
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    • Updated audit help and guides to explain scoring, ranking, maintenance categories, table reporting, CTE exclusions, and undated notebooks.

Update: one table identity, shared with the divergence anchors

The tables section keyed a table by the name as written, so FROM analytics.users and FROM users became two rows with two separate reach counts — while the join anchors on #559, which fold to the short name, treated them as one table. The same tool answered "what is this table" two different ways in two sections.

That is not cosmetic here: reach is the liveness-weighted multiplier the entire severity ranking rests on, so the split under-counted and mis-ranked everything downstream of it.

Both now go through canonicalTableKey.

Which rule applied, and what it still conflates

Folding to the short name globally would conflate a users in one warehouse with a users in another, which are not the same table by any reading. The key is therefore scoped by integration: a block's sql_integration_id, or an unknown bucket that is never pooled with a declared one. #559's scoping is what made that available.

What integration scoping does not resolve is analytics.users and staging.users behind a single integration, which still merge. Telling those apart needs to know which schema an unqualified users resolved to, and that is a property of the warehouse search path rather than of the query text. Merging under-counts rather than invents, which is the safer direction — and every qualified spelling observed is kept in qualifiedNames so the conflation is visible on the row rather than silent. The text output qualifies a short name with its integration whenever the same name appears behind more than one.

Fixture cases cover both directions: bare and qualified references to one table merge; same-named tables in two schemas behind two integrations do not; and a block declaring no integration stays out of a declared one's bucket.

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🟡 Minor · Key notebook ages by notebook id, not by name. · audit.ts:588-610

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Key notebook ages by notebook id, not by name.

Line 289 stores notebookAges under ${project.id}:${notebook.name}. Notebook names can repeat inside one project. subject-index.ts keys on notebook id for this reason. If two notebooks share a name, the later one overwrites the earlier one's age. The result has three effects:

  • The staleness counts and medianAgeDays miss one notebook.
  • The undated note reports the wrong total.
  • This loop reads the overwritten age twice. It can emit two asset-stale findings with the same age, or it can skip a notebook that is actually cold.

Use notebook.id for the census and for this loop. Keep the lookup by name in ageFor only, because issues carry no notebook id.

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-      notebookAges.set(`${project.id}:${notebook.name}`, assetAge(notebookLastTouchedAt(notebook), now))
+      const age = assetAge(notebookLastTouchedAt(notebook), now)
+      notebookAgesById.set(`${project.id}:${notebook.id}`, age)
+      notebookAges.set(`${project.id}:${notebook.name}`, age)
-      const age = notebookAges.get(`${project.id}:${notebook.name}`)
+      const age = notebookAgesById.get(`${project.id}:${notebook.id}`)
-  const notebookAgeList = [...notebookAges.values()]
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Both fixed. Both were on the inputs to the ranking rather than the ranking itself, which is where a scoring bug does the most damage — the number still looks plausible.

FROM inside a function was read as a table introducer. EXTRACT(YEAR FROM o.created_at) contributed a table called o.created_at; TRIM(BOTH ' ' FROM name) contributed one called name. Table reach is the blast-radius multiplier the whole ranking rests on, so an invented table both inflates its own row and dilutes every real one.

Fixed by naming the functions whose grammar actually uses FROM as a separator — extract, trim, btrim/ltrim/rtrim, substring, overlay — rather than treating every function parenthesis as opaque. The general rule would have been simpler but loses real tables: array(SELECT id FROM users) reads users, and that is a genuine dependency. Regression cases added for function syntax, CTEs that read other CTEs, nested subqueries and unions, as asked.

credential-shared counted live projects workspace-wide and clamped to the credential's own project count, so a key shared by three abandoned projects scored as if all three were live whenever the workspace had three live projects anywhere in it. The finding now carries the holding project ids and reach is measured over those. Note the regression test had to use five holders rather than two: credential-shared has a deliberate exposure floor of 0.6, and at two holders both the fixed and unfixed paths sit on it, so a two-holder test passes either way.

Also in this branch: the illustrative project counts in the staleness and scoring docs were drawn from an unpublished internal measurement. Replaced with a round illustrative figure and the principle stated instead — this is a public repository.

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Both round-1 items are confirmed still fixed in the current tree (EXTRACT(… FROM …) no longer invents tables; credential-shared reach is scoped to holders). CHANGES_REQUESTED here is stale — re-requesting review.

One addition: the holder-scoped reach logic is now extracted as holderReach, because the same bug recurred on #560's dependency-drift. The shape is easy to write again for any "N projects share this" check — count live projects for the workspace, clamp to the finding's own count — and blast radius is the multiplier the whole ranking rests on.

holderReach is now the only place a finding's project list becomes {live, total}. A finding that names no holders is scored as having no live reach rather than assumed to have some: understating an unknown is the failure this tool can survive, inventing reach is not. No scores change on this branch; the extraction is behaviour-identical and has its own tests, including the trap case (three cold holders in a workspace with two live projects elsewhere → {live: 0, total: 3}).

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Round-2 review items — both confirmed and fixed. Both distort liveness, which is the multiplier every other finding is scored by, so they are worth more than their "minor" label.

Unparseable timestamps. Confirmed. latest started as notebook.modifiedAt and every comparison against a malformed value is false — Date.parse(executed) > NaN never holds — so a valid executionFinishedAt could never replace it. A notebook that ran last week reported as undated. Unparseable values are skipped rather than carried now.

One correction to the report: the second half ("if latest is undefined and the first executionFinishedAt is invalid, that invalid value becomes the baseline") is real but not observable — assetAge rejects an unparseable date downstream, so the outcome is unknown either way. I kept the Number.isNaN guard and said in the comment that that half is defense in depth. I wrote a test for it, found it passed against the unfixed code, and deleted it rather than keep a test that cannot fail.

Notebook ages keyed by name. Confirmed — the same bug class as notebookCount on #557, which is a decent argument that notebook identity should never be a name anywhere in this code. Two notebooks sharing a name collapsed into one: the staleness summary counted one too few, and the stale check read one notebook's age for both, able to report a live notebook as stale or miss a cold one.

Ages are keyed by notebook id now. For ageFor, which only receives a name, I did not thread a notebook id through every finding — a shared name resolves to the project's age instead. Which notebook a finding sits in is genuinely unknown at that point, and borrowing whichever was read last is how a multiplier stops meaning anything. Test asserts two same-named notebooks of different ages yield two dated notebooks, one cold, one live, and exactly one asset-stale.

Also on this branch: holderReach is extracted here, since #560's dependency-drift recurred the workspace-wide-live-count bug. Details in the earlier comment.

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audit.ts — credential-shared live reach counts the whole workspace Already fixed; goes through holderReach, which counts live projects among the holders only
sql-tables.ts — FROM inside function syntax parsed as a table Already fixed; EXTRACT(… FROM …), TRIM(… FROM …) and SUBSTRING(… FROM …) are excluded, with regression cases for function syntax, CTEs and nested subqueries
docs/…audit.md — sample counts inconsistent Fixed in this push (below)
audit.ts — skip invalid timestamps when picking the latest touch Already fixed; Number.isNaN guard, so one malformed modifiedAt no longer makes a notebook that ran last week read as undated
audit.ts — key notebook ages by id, not name Already fixed; notebookAges is keyed by notebook.id

The sample, in this push. It declared a 4-project workspace and then reported analytics.users — 12 live of 100 projects, 180 SQL blocks. Both figures were hand-written illustrations. It is now generated from test-fixtures/workspace-audit, and the live-versus-raw illustration moves into the prose beside it where it reads as the example it always was.

Regenerating surfaced a second disagreement between docs and code: the prose claimed both counts are "always shown", but the renderer collapses them to one when they are equal — which is exactly what the fixture produces, since no table there has a cold reader. The prose now says when each form appears.

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🟡 Minor · Scope tablesByBlock by project, not by block ID alone. · audit.ts:480-483

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Scope tablesByBlock by project, not by block ID alone.

tablesByBlock is workspace-wide and keyed by block.id only. The comment at Lines 407-411 says forked projects share notebook IDs. Forked projects probably share block IDs too. If two projects share a block ID, the later set overwrites the earlier entry. scoreIssue then scores the original project's SQL finding against the fork's tables. If the fork edited the query or changed its integration, that finding gets the wrong blast radius and the wrong rank. This is the same collision notebookAgeKey fixed for notebook ages.

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-          tablesByBlock.set(
-            block.id,
+          tablesByBlock.set(
+            JSON.stringify([project.id, block.id]),
             referenced.map(reference => canonicalTableKey(reference.shortName, integrationId))
           )

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-      const tableNames = context.tablesByBlock.get(issue.blockId) ?? []
+      const tableNames = context.tablesByBlock.get(JSON.stringify([issue.projectId, issue.blockId])) ?? []
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Adds the multiplier the rest of the governance layer is scored by:

  severity = signal × exposure × neglect × blast radius

All four factors ship in the JSON next to the product, so a reviewer can
disagree with one of them rather than with the number. Nothing is gated on the
result — a low score is lower in the list, never missing from it.

Blast radius is liveness-weighted, which is the point. A table referenced by
168 projects sounds alarming until you notice 19 of them were edited in the
past year; counting references without weighting them overstates reach by most
of an order of magnitude, and a report that overstates reach is ignored on its
second reading. So the audit now extracts table references from every SQL block
and inventories them with both counts, always printing both.

Neglect cuts the other way and is deliberately one-directional: it never
lowers a score. A credential in an abandoned notebook now ranks *above* one in
a live notebook — the key still works, and nobody is watching the notebook that
would have caught it. Exposure findings are floored so the liveness weighting
cannot score them as harmless. The discount for "nobody uses this" belongs to
blast radius, which is measured from something else entirely.

Also new: asset-stale for a notebook untouched for three years, and a
maintenance census (live / aging / cold / undated, median age). A notebook with
no modifiedAt is reported as undated, never as abandoned: an export that
happens not to carry a timestamp is an absence of evidence, and filing it as
neglect would fill the ranking with findings about files nobody can date. A
block's recorded execution counts as a touch, so a notebook that ran last week
is live even if nobody edited the file.

What is deliberately absent: the Wilson lower bound. It estimates a consensus
share from a sample, and there is no consensus being estimated here — every
count in this PR is a census. It belongs with the divergence check, and adding
it now would be decoration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…redential reach

Two review findings, both on the inputs to the ranking rather than on the ranking
itself — which is where a scoring bug does the most damage, because the number
still looks plausible.

**`FROM` inside a function was read as a table introducer.** `EXTRACT(YEAR FROM
o.created_at)` contributed a table called `o.created_at`, and `TRIM(BOTH ' ' FROM
name)` one called `name`. Table reach is the blast-radius multiplier the whole
ranking rests on, so an invented table both inflates its own row and dilutes every
real one. The fix is keyed on the functions whose grammar actually uses `FROM` as a
separator — extract, trim, btrim/ltrim/rtrim, substring, overlay — rather than
treating every function parenthesis as opaque, because a genuine subquery can sit
inside a function call and the tables it reads are real. Regression cases added for
function syntax, CTEs that read other CTEs, nested subqueries and unions.

**`credential-shared` counted live projects across the whole workspace** and then
clamped to the credential's own project count, so a key shared by three abandoned
projects scored as if all three were live whenever the workspace had three live
projects anywhere in it. The finding now carries the holding project ids and reach
is measured over those.

Also genericises the illustrative project counts in the staleness and scoring
documentation. The figure was drawn from an unpublished internal measurement and
this is a public repository; the principle — reach weighted by liveness can
overstate by close to an order of magnitude — is what the text needed to say, and
it now says that with a round illustrative number instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Scoring credential-shared stopped counting live projects across the whole
workspace, but the shape that made it wrong — reach for the workspace, then
clamp to the finding's own count — is easy to write again for any "N
projects share this" check, and blast radius is the multiplier the whole
ranking rests on.

holderReach is now the only place that turns a finding's project list into
{live, total}. A finding that names no holders is scored as having no live
reach rather than assumed to have some. No scores change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both of these corrupt the multiplier every other finding is scored by.

`notebookLastTouchedAt` carried an unparseable `modifiedAt` as its baseline,
and every later comparison against it is false — `Date.parse(x) > NaN` never
holds — so a valid execution time could never replace it. A notebook that
ran last week reported as undated. Unparseable values are now skipped rather
than carried.

Notebook ages were keyed by `projectId:name`, and notebook names are not
unique within a project — the same thing already fixed for `notebookCount`
on #557. Two notebooks sharing a name collapsed into one, so the staleness
summary counted one too few and the stale check read one notebook's age for
both, able to report a live notebook as stale or miss a cold one. Ages are
keyed by notebook id now. For findings that record only a notebook name, a
shared name resolves to the project's age rather than to whichever notebook
happened to be read last: which one a finding sits in is genuinely unknown,
and borrowing an answer is how a multiplier stops meaning anything.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sample declared a 4-project workspace and then reported
`analytics.users — 12 live of 100 projects, 180 SQL blocks` in the table beneath
it. Both numbers were hand-written illustrations, not output, and the sample is
the first thing a reader checks the tool against.

It is now generated from `test-fixtures/workspace-audit`, so every row comes from
the run the header describes. The live-versus-raw illustration moves into the prose
beside it, where it reads as the example it always was.

Regenerating surfaced a second disagreement: the prose claimed both counts are
"always shown", but the renderer collapses them to one when they are equal — which
is what the fixture produces, since no table there has a cold reader. The prose now
says when each form appears.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ranked list printed `projectName · notebookName || path`, so the path only
appeared when the notebook had no name. One project can hold several `.deepnote`
files — the loader merges them by project id — and two of those files can each
contain a notebook called "Daily". Both findings then printed the same location
string and a reader could act on neither.

Verified end to end rather than argued: two files under one project id produce one
project with two notebooks, both named "Daily", and before this change the two rows
were byte-identical.

The path is now appended only where the readable location repeats among the listed
findings. Printing it on every row would bury the part worth reading under a column
of directories, and the ambiguity is rare.

The grouping key is JSON-encoded rather than joined on a separator, because a
notebook name is arbitrary text and any separator chosen for it is a separator
somebody can type.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…e identity

The `tables` section keyed a table by the name as written, so
`FROM analytics.users` and `FROM users` became two rows with two separate
reach counts — while the join anchors, which already fold to the short name,
treated them as one table. The same tool answered "what is this table" two
different ways in two sections, and reach is the liveness-weighted
multiplier the entire severity ranking rests on, so the split under-counted
and mis-ranked everything downstream of it.

Both now go through `canonicalTableKey`. Folding to the short name globally
would conflate a `users` in one warehouse with a `users` in another, so the
key is scoped by integration: a block's `sql_integration_id`, or an
`unknown` bucket that is never pooled with a declared one.

What integration scoping does not resolve is `analytics.users` and
`staging.users` behind a *single* integration, which still merge. Telling
those apart needs to know which schema an unqualified `users` resolved to,
which is a property of the warehouse search path rather than of the query
text, and merging under-counts rather than invents. Every qualified spelling
observed is kept in `qualifiedNames` so the conflation is visible on the
row, and the text output qualifies a short name with its integration
whenever the same name appears behind more than one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…le notebook

`notebookAges` was keyed by notebook id, which is unique only *within* a
project — while the map spans the workspace. Two projects sharing a
notebook id, which is what forking a project produces, had the later read
overwrite the earlier.

Both consequences lose findings rather than add them: the fork's fresh age
hid the original's `asset-stale` finding entirely, and the maintenance
summary counted one notebook where there were two. `agesByName` was already
project-qualified; this brings the id map in line with it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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