24 skeleton-validation tests skip because `quire` is not a dependency — and the skip message blames the wrong thing

[kreneskyp]

Found while adding the FR-035 manifest gate (#8, PR #9).

The measurement

make test reports:

121 passed, 24 skipped

Every one of the 24 is tests/test_skeletons_and_validate.py, skipping with:

SKIPPED [23] tests/test_skeletons_and_validate.py:220: quire wheel lacks validate_document
SKIPPED  [1] tests/test_skeletons_and_validate.py:230: quire wheel lacks validate_document

The message is wrong. quire is not a dependency of this repository at all:

$ poetry run python -c "import quire"
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'quire'

So the guard reads "the installed wheel is too old" when the truth is "the package was never installed." Anyone reading the output would go looking for a version bump.

Why it matters

This module ships 23 skeletons. They are the authoring templates every consumer starts from, and validate_document is what proves a filled skeleton satisfies its own object type's contract.

All 23 are validated by nothing, and the suite reports green.

This is the same defect shape as #8 — a gate that does not run, reporting success — on a different surface. #8 was the manifest; this is the skeletons.

Work

1. Add quire as a dev dependency, from internal-pypi, at a version exposing validate_document (quire-rs has shipped it since the FR-032 work; v0.30.1 is current).
2. Run the 24. Expect them to fire. That is the point — 23 unvalidated skeletons is not a state that arrives clean.
3. Every failure is a real finding about a skeleton or an object type's data_schema, to be fixed rather than skipped around.
4. Correct the guard's message so a genuinely-old wheel and an absent package are distinguishable. If the intent is that this suite requires quire, the guard should be removed entirely rather than reworded — a dev dependency that is declared is present.

Not a reason to soften anything

Per CLAUDE.md's check-quality rule: a large number of newly-failing tests here would be a bad corpus result, not a bad check. The skeletons have never been validated; whatever they turn up is real.

Related

• This module's manifest runs no FR-035 schema gate: 23 object types validated by nothing #8 / PR test: FR-035 module-manifest gate, and two lexicon definitions it catches (#8) #9 — the FR-035 manifest gate, same shape
• spec-artifacts-iso#15 — where the "skip reports green" pattern was deleted upstream for cause
• Parent epic: Epic: ADR-0011 verification program — method catalog, test-plan advisor, obligations, evidence store quire-rs#81