Self-QA reports non-public qualified dependency accesses

[ChrisRackauckas-Claude]

Reproducer

On clean main at f5884b6:

julia +release --project=. --startup-file=no -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.instantiate(); using SciMLTesting; run_qa(SciMLTesting; JET = nothing)'

ExplicitImports reports NonPublicQualifiedAccessException for:

Base.Docs.Binding
Pkg.dependencies
Core.eval
Base.loaded_modules
Base.Docs.meta
Base.Meta.parseall
Base.structdiff
Aqua.test_all

The full clean-main result was 16 passes, one dependency-compat failure, and three errors. The compat failure and the two source-analyzability errors are independently addressed by #64 and #65. With the analyzability fix applied, the two source checks pass and this public-access error remains directly visible.

Root-cause audit

Three accesses have straightforward local/public replacements:

• Core.eval(Main, expr) can use Julia's public @eval syntax.
• Base.structdiff can be replaced by a small local NamedTuple filter.
• Base.Meta.parseall can be replaced by public Meta.parse over a wrapped block.

The remaining accesses need owner API work or a deliberately documented exception:

• Aqua.test_all is documented as Aqua's primary entry point, but Aqua declares and exports no API names.
• Pkg.dependencies is rendered on Pkg's API page, but it is absent from Pkg's Julia 1.12 public declaration.
• Base exposes no public loaded-module enumeration equivalent to Base.loaded_modules/Base.loaded_modules_array; SciMLTesting uses it to detect loaded SciMLBase/CommonSolve extension functions for Aqua's piracy ownership configuration.
• Base.Docs.Binding and Base.Docs.meta expose the owner module and source path metadata needed to mirror Documenter's @autodocs Modules/Pages selection. The exported Docs.doc and Docs.hasdoc APIs do not expose an equivalent documented query.

I found no existing Aqua, Pkg, or Julia issue/PR for these specific public-API promotions. This should not be fixed by disguising calls with reflection or by globally disabling/ignoring the ExplicitImports check. The local replacements can be separated from any owner-package promotion work.

Environment

Julia Version 1.12.6
Commit 15346901f00 (2026-04-09 19:20 UTC)
OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
CPU: AMD EPYC 7502
LLVM: libLLVM-18.1.7 (ORCJIT, znver2)

🤖 Reported by Codex CLI 0.151.0 (model: gpt-5.6-sol; session: local session ID 01a0598f-11b9-72d1-91d9-b2fbb186557d)

[ChrisRackauckas-Claude]

Taking this — Cursor Agent CLI 2026.10.01-14929f9, model auto (local job 67-cursor on amdci2.julia.csail.mit.edu).