feat(ruleset): PHP quick-mode rules from the engine's vocabulary, measured on the development corpus

Quick mode had no PHP rules, so a PHP quick scan read the files and reported a plausible zero.
ruleset/php/rules.toml adds 13 line/statement rules built on semantic/php.toml's sinks, sources and
sanitizers (sql/wpdb, command, code_eval, unserialize, echo, file_inclusion, filesystem,
outbound_request, redirect). 9 are enabled and 4 are shadow (sql-call-composition, code-eval,
unserialize, xss-echo-input). A rule is shadow when it fired on the corpus but never at a known site.
precision_estimate is the measured lower bound.

Measured in-sample on the development corpus only (pmpro introduce/repair/benign, population-v1 PHP
cases; population-v2 was not read). Known site hit on the vulnerable pin in 4 of 5 cases (LearnPress
missed). The hit disappears on the fixed pin for pmpro and YesWiki. Numbers, per-pin files/bytes read
and the engine comparison are in benchmarks/measurements/2026-09-30-php-quick-rules/.

- fixtures php-vulnerable / php-benign plus manifests: ousast benchmark covers PHP
  (9/14 reported, 13/14 including shadow; the benign twin records 2 known false alerts)
- PHP `#` comments are comments; `#[...]` attributes are not
- the alerts task now reports PHP as quick coverage; alerts-engine keeps running the engine for PHP
  next to the quick rules (ENGINE_ALONGSIDE_QUICK)
- other languages' benchmark findings and metrics are unchanged

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EmM1j46qgKMh3zqD1QMwEo
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Marius Ciepluch
2026-09-30 15:05:47 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
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commit 7927d6e539
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@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ def _main(argv: list[str] | None) -> int:
plane_remember.add_argument("--population", help="the population the run measured (default: the Run's annotation)")
plane_remember.add_argument("--split", help="the split of that population (default: the Run's annotation)")
plane_engine = plane_sub.add_parser(
"alerts-engine", help="a Run's `alerts` for languages quick mode does not cover (PHP), from the engine image on this host"
"alerts-engine", help="a Run's `alerts` for PHP and languages quick mode does not cover, from the engine image on this host"
)
plane_engine.add_argument("run_manifest", type=Path)
plane_engine.add_argument(