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`no-inplace-perl-rewrite-of-source`

Name: rabadon
Author: Damla Su Bilge

In-place perl/sed rewrites of tracked .rs files silently mutate logic outside the editor's tracking and produce phantom test failures.

in the goose guard

perl\s+(-\S*\s+)*-[a-zA-Z]*i[a-zA-Z]*\b.*\.rs\b

field	value
project	goose
kind	bash
census verdict	fires
probe	`perl -i -pe s/a/b/ x.rs`
probe tool	Bash
gate exit on the probe	2
refused by	`no-inplace-perl-rewrite-of-source`

No record in the published field dataset (field.jsonl, 778 records, 2026-07-27 to 2026-08-26) carries this id.

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