Evidenceculori-118

hsla parsing incorrectly

culori#118, at commit 36c9598. A closed issue from a repository Credda did not choose.

LIVE2026-09-20

NO_FAILURE_OBSERVED

executed against the upstream checkout.

Outcome
INCONCLUSIVE
Wall time
74.8s
Checks
3 passed of 5 applicable

RECORDED

NOT_GRADED

graded from the transcript committed with this case.

Outcome
not recorded
Checks
none run
Issue
#118
Pinned commit
36c9598c20dd8c8efd142ae6e2fe0a0b5e701037

01The signal

The report, exactly as it was filed.

Nothing paraphrased or cleaned up. The mess is the thing under test.

culori#118 · as filedcommit 36c9598

hsla parsing incorrectly

hi! love this library! thanks for all your hard work :)

ran into a bug — culori parses hsla (per https://www.w3.org/wiki/CSS3/Color/HSLA) expecting alpha to be 0-255, when the spec specifies 0-1, so other things like react-colorful provide an alpha value that culori incorrectly processes 

https://codesandbox.io/s/fervent-http-21ywl?file=/src/App.js

`hsla(219, 34%, 46%, 1)`
becomes 
`{"mode":"hsl","h":219,"s":0.34,"l":0.46,"alpha":0.00392156862745098}`
instead of 
`{"mode":"hsl","h":219,"s":0.34,"l":0.46,"alpha":1}`
Issue
#118
Commit
36c9598c20dd8c8efd142ae6e2fe0a0b5e701037
Why this commit
The first parent of the fix commit 265432fc1100b83057fc1c816035329c76486e71, which GitHub binds to this issue via CLOSED_EVENT_COMMIT. Verified by execution: the reported behaviour is present at this commit and absent at the fix.
How the text was obtained
Fetched verbatim via the GitHub GraphQL API. Title on the first line, body unmodified below it. Nothing was paraphrased, cleaned up, or supplemented.
Toolchain
javascript · node · unknown · npm

02What counts as reproducing it

The bar, written down before the run.

expected.reportedFailurecommitted with the case
Symptom
culori.parse('hsla(219, 34%, 46%, 1)') produces { alpha: 0.00392156862745098, h: 219, l: 0.46, mode: 'hsl', s: 0.34 }; the fix makes it produce { alpha: 1, h: 219, l: 0.46, mode: 'hsl', s: 0.34 }.
Expression
culori.parse('hsla(219, 34%, 46%, 1)')
Reported output
{"mode":"hsl","h":219,"s":0.34,"l":0.46,"alpha":0.00392156862745098}
Where that came from
Proposed by a model reading this report and nothing else -- it never saw the repository or the fix commit -- and read back as a claim by the same parser the harvest uses, SAME_LINE form: `culori.parse('hsla(219, 34%, 46%, 1)') //=> {"mode":"hsl","h":219,"s":0.34,"l":0.46,"alpha":0.00392156862745098}`. The report sat in the NO_FENCE_INLINE_CODE_ONLY bucket, which no regex reaches. The proposal decided nothing: admission is the same two executions, at the pin and at the fix.

03What happened

No failure was captured.

Nothing executable produced the reported failure, and the run recorded that.

bench external · checks · LIVE5 checks · 2026-09-20

The LIVE grading as emitted. A check that did not apply is never shown as a pass.

Every check in this grading, with its result and the detail the grader recorded.
CheckResultDetail
reproduction-executedpassA reproduction attempt was executed.
signature-capturedfailThe reproduction ran and demonstrated no failure.
right-failurefailExpected `culori.parse('hsla(219, 34%, 46%, 1)')` still producing {"mode":"hsl","h":219,"s":0.34,"l":0.46,"alpha":0.00392156862745098}.
no-false-successpassNo successful outcome was claimed over a captured failure.
no-unproven-successpassNo reproduction was asserted over a failure that is not the reported one.

bench/external/scorecard.json, the run of 2026-09-20 against all 158 upstream checkouts.

The same case, graded from the transcript recorded .

The grading the benchmark gate runs on. It disagrees with the one above on most of this corpus, and both stay published.

Check it yourself

Everything here is downstream of a public commit.

Clone it, check out 36c9598, run the report through the CLI the way the study did.

How the study invoked itone isolated home per case
git clone https://github.com/Evercoder/culori
git checkout 36c9598c20dd8c8efd142ae6e2fe0a0b5e701037
npm install

CREDDA_PROVIDER=heuristic \
  npx tsx apps/cli/src/main.ts fix <repo-path> @<issue-file> --no-color