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  1. Task: Is this a specification error a study team could realistically make, and should the build stop on it rather than continue?
  2. Inputs: Do they trigger the failure for the reason the summary gives?
  3. Expected failure: Is this the right error, raised at the right point, and would it tell the programmer what to fix?

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Summary

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What this benchmark means
README.md

Goal: prepare subject records from definitions shared through a reusable file.

Input: demographics (DM) records identified by subject.

Variables:

No variables are requested, so no output is produced. The entry file reuses layers/parent.yaml, which points back to the entry file, so no stable set of definitions can be reached, and the run is rejected before any data is read.

How to fix

Remove the backward parents reference so that every path through the chain terminates. Keep genuinely shared definitions in one common ancestor.

Expected failure

Edit
the run is rejected; no artifact is accepted
expected/error.yaml
phase
validation
condition
inheritance_cycle
requirement
REQ-0655
expected/error.yaml
phase: validation
condition: inheritance_cycle
spec_paths:
  - parents
requirement: REQ-0655
context:
  reason: parent_chain_returns_to_entry

Inputs

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1 source file

input/dm.csv

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1 row
input/dm.csv
USUBJID

Unexpected Output

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No artifact is produced

No fixture files in this directory.

Shaded columns are derived— = missing value

Comments and assessment materials

Comments

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Mapping spec

Generated from the benchmark YAML; do not edit by hand

Variable NameVariable LabelTypeLengthControlled Terms or FormatOriginCoreConversion DefinitionVariable TypeVariable OrderComments for Define
VersionDateAuthorDescriptionReviewerSign-off
1.32026-09-29yamaa docs buildShow study codelist names, external dictionaries, and ISO 8601 formats in variable rows; list the document's codelist values and metadata
1.22026-09-29yamaa docs buildClassify ADaM copies from a declared input as Predecessor and recodes as Derived, and SDTM recodes of locally derived columns as Derived
1.12026-09-29yamaa docs buildResolve lookups into the donor record they select, and give every derivation shape a plain-language rule instead of its raw YAML
1.0yamaa docs buildInitial generation from spec.yaml