fix(verify-pr): budget evidence capture in scope selection

.qwen/skills/verify-pr/SKILL.md

@@ -104,6 +104,13 @@ secondary claims. Budget by value:
 1. **A/B load-bearing proof of the central claim** (always, ~half the budget).
 2. **One or two wire-oracle harnesses** on the changed surface.
 3. **Targeted gates**: tests/typecheck of the affected workspace(s) only.
+4. **Capture the A/B and the matrix as they print** (~5 minutes, whenever
+   `QWEN_VERIFY_CHROMIUM=1`). This is a budget line, not an afterthought:
+   two live runs with the browser installed and working produced **zero**
+   images, because the instruction lived in the artifact contract while the
+   plan the agent follows is this list. Decide here how many captures the
+   round needs — normally two, at most a handful — and reserve the time.
+   See the artifact contract for the mechanics and the naming rule.
 
 Everything else is explicitly out of scope — and is **listed as not covered**
 in the report. Never let breadth eat the A/B: one proven load-bearing claim
@@ -572,6 +579,8 @@ central claim from being tested — say why.
    them. Cite the tables below by name instead of restating their numbers in
    prose: a number written twice is a number that can disagree with itself.
 3. **Central claim + A/B table** (cells, oracles, head vs control counts).
+   Reference the capture of those cells here by its filename — a table with
+   no witness beside it is the shape every report has had so far.
 4. **Corrections**, when an earlier review round or bot comment described
    the code inaccurately (a wrong ARIA role, a wrong mechanism, a
    misattributed cause). State the correct fact with its evidence and label

scripts/tests/qwen-triage-workflow.test.js

@@ -3382,6 +3382,36 @@ describe('qwen-triage verify round-3 hardening', () => {
     expect(soft).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(Math.floor(agentMinutes * 0.8));
   });
 
+  // Third instance of one structural bug: an instruction placed outside the
+  // flow the agent actually follows. #7917 buried the /verify recommendation
+  // in a "local invocation ONLY" section; #8016 marked captures "Optionally";
+  // and captures still came out ZERO on two live runs (#7975, #8066) where
+  // the browser installed fine — because the plan the agent executes is the
+  // Scope-selection budget list, and that list had no capture line at all.
+  it('budgets evidence capture in scope selection, not only in the contract', () => {
+    const scope = verifySkill.slice(
+      verifySkill.indexOf('## Scope selection'),
+      verifySkill.indexOf('## Method'),
+    );
+    // A numbered budget item alongside the A/B, harnesses and gates.
+    expect(scope).toMatch(/^4\. \*\*Capture/m);
+    expect(scope).toContain('QWEN_VERIFY_CHROMIUM=1');
+    // Time reserved, and the failure that motivated it named — a rule
+    // stated without its failure reads as advice and gets skipped.
+    expect(scope).toContain('~5 minutes');
+    expect(scope).toContain('produced **zero**');
+    // Bounded: the cap exists so "budget it" does not become eight images.
+    expect(scope).toMatch(/normally two, at most a handful/);
+
+    // And the report has somewhere to put it, or a produced capture has no
+    // referent and the naming rule means nothing.
+    const structure = verifySkill.slice(
+      verifySkill.indexOf('### report.md structure'),
+      verifySkill.indexOf('## Hard rules'),
+    );
+    expect(structure).toContain('Reference the capture of those cells here');
+  });
+
   // Cleanups must never descend through a PR-writable parent, and an
   // outward-resolving hooks entry must be removed rather than reported.
   it('survives symlink escapes in the workspace cleanup', () => {