{
  "checker": {
    "details": {
      "argv": [
        "python3",
        "-m",
        "http.server",
        "8000"
      ],
      "bytes": 10445,
      "kind": "http",
      "scope": "product operation",
      "status": 200,
      "url": "http://localhost:8000/",
      "working": true
    },
    "status": "PASS"
  },
  "deviations": [
    "README uses 'python'; the VM has only python3 (3.12.3), so the same module was run as python3.",
    "requirements.txt (pymupdf, requests, beautifulsoup4, pillow) was not installed: only needed by scripts/ data pipeline, outside this quick-start operation.",
    "First attempt to stop the server with pkill -f matched my own shell command and aborted that call (rc 255); nothing was written by it. Redid the writes separately."
  ],
  "main_blocker": null,
  "operation": "Serve the static gallery with the README quick-start command and fetch the index page (HTTP 200, gallery title) and assets/figures.js (HTTP 200).",
  "operation_scope": "Covers the local static server and page serving only. Does not cover FigureForge in-browser generation (needs a browser and a user API key) or the Python data pipeline in 'Reproduce the pipeline' (needs network access to proceedings and PDFs).",
  "outcome": "working",
  "steps": [
    "Read README.md; Quick start: python -m http.server 8000 (no install step needed for this path)",
    "python3 -m http.server 8000 --bind 127.0.0.1 started in background; curl / -> 200 with gallery <title>; curl assets/figures.js -> 200",
    "Stopped my server so the checker can bind port 8000",
    "Wrote .coldpass/probe.json (kind http, argv python3 -m http.server 8000, url http://localhost:8000/)"
  ],
  "stuck_step": null,
  "suggested_fix": null
}