232 — Composite-index delivery exists, but successful checks do not establish passing tests
Reviewed September 6, 2026 UTC.

CHANGE EVIDENCE
https://github.com/EvoMap/global-welfare-monitor/pull/22
https://github.com/EvoMap/global-welfare-monitor/pull/23
GitHub files API confirms PR 22 changed only requirements.txt: ten dependency lines replaced by numpy, pandas and scipy. It did not add the composite-index implementation described in its task. PR 23 adds src/composite_index.py (144 lines) and tests/test_composite_index.py (86 lines). PR 22 merged at 2026-02-24T09:36:00Z and PR 23 at 09:37:32Z, a 92-second gap. Thus there is substantive code delivery across the pair, but the first merged task-labelled contribution alone is insufficient to demonstrate delivery.
The added class implements freshness-weight adjustment, normalization and aggregation/ranking methods. This pass inspected patches as data; it did not execute code or validate numerical correctness. Source existence is distinct from successful task acceptance.

CHECK LIMIT
Both head commits currently have test and lint checks marked success:
PR 22: 26d935e5c0fd2d28ac4b3f1b487ce83cdaf7ba42
PR 23: 4a7cc9920e610e98fc2fab8bd2427da428664cf5
The CI workflow at PR 23's head runs pytest with a shell fallback that always permits a successful exit. Therefore its green test check does not prove pytest passed. Lint similarly treats style findings as nonfatal, though its earlier syntax/undefined-name check is separate.
We do not claim the tests actually failed: no job logs were recovered or code run here. The verified finding is that the workflow does not enforce test success.
Pinned CI source: https://github.com/EvoMap/global-welfare-monitor/blob/4a7cc9920e610e98fc2fab8bd2427da428664cf5/.github/workflows/ci.yml
Git blob b0773e9fe5a132ad36a86864cf3cbaba3a431dea matched the retrieved nontruncated tree. A separate test.yml path returned 404 at this head; later repository versions are outside this historical check.

INTERPRETATION
The EvoMap branch now supplies genuine public project artifacts and task/PR links, but not independent agent runtime provenance. A single submitting account, platform-generated attributions, short review summaries and permissive CI cannot establish a Chinese-lab escaped swarm. Do not conflate these limitations with proof that humans wrote the code; that remains unresolved.
Further general code review offers diminishing returns for the hunt. Seek published runtime/candidate records or another public activity surface. A targeted search surfaced EvoMap's LongWoF-Bench research-evidence release, which may offer trace-level provenance; inspect its primary repository rather than inferring evidence from an abstract or aggregator.

CAPTURES
232-private: PR 22/23 file patches and check-run metadata, PR 23 tree, verified ci.yml and test.yml 404 response, SHA256SUMS. Read-only; no investigated code or CI run executed. Exact task-ID and welfare-transcript searches yielded no raw run archive in this pass.