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+"""
+Generic single-module profile smoke test.
+
+For every real module.yaml under modules/ (and modules-experimental/, if
+present), this builds a minimal profile that references only that module in
+isolation -- no other modules, no dependsOn, no contract bindings supplied by
+a sibling module -- and runs it through cli.validator.validate_profile.
+
+Modules that `consumes` a required contract (e.g. a database) cannot resolve
+that binding on their own, so validate_profile is expected to report an
+"unresolved contract binding" diagnostic (E030/E041/E042) for those. That is
+correct, expected behavior, not a bug: it proves the module correctly
+declares its external dependency. Any other diagnostic code (E001, E010,
+E011, E020, E021, E022, ...) indicates a genuine problem with the module's
+own definition -- e.g. invalid YAML, a schema violation in module.yaml
+itself, or a malformed consumes/provides entry -- and fails the test.
+"""
+import tempfile
+import unittest
+import unittest.mock
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import yaml
+
+from cli.validator import validate_profile
+
+_REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
+_MODULE_ROOTS = ("modules", "modules-experimental")
+
+# Codes expected when a module runs standalone (no sibling modules, no config
+# supplied) instead of wired into a real profile:
+#   E030 - config-schema violation (fires because we pass config: {}, so any
+#          module with required config fields reports them missing)
+#   E041 - a required `consumes` binding could not be resolved (no producer
+#          module exists in the standalone profile)
+#   E042 - contract kind mismatch on a consumed binding
+_EXPECTED_UNBOUND_CODES = {"E030", "E041", "E042"}
+
+
+def _discover_modules() -> list[tuple[str, Path]]:
+    """Returns (source, module_yaml_path) pairs for every real module."""
+    discovered = []
+    for root_name in _MODULE_ROOTS:
+        root = _REPO_ROOT / root_name
+        if not root.is_dir():
+            continue
+        for module_yaml in sorted(root.glob("*/*/module.yaml")):
+            source = str(module_yaml.parent.relative_to(root))
+            discovered.append((source, module_yaml))
+    return discovered
+
+
+class StandaloneModuleProfileTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Builds a throwaway single-module profile per module and validates it."""
+
+    def test_every_module_forms_a_valid_standalone_profile(self):
+        modules = _discover_modules()
+        self.assertTrue(modules, "expected to discover at least one module.yaml")
+
+        for source, module_yaml in modules:
+            module_root = module_yaml.parents[2]  # .../modules
+            with self.subTest(module=source):
+                profile = {
+                    "apiVersion": "cds/v1alpha1",
+                    "kind": "Profile",
+                    "metadata": {"name": "standalone-smoke", "environment": "local"},
+                    "spec": {
+                        "runtime": {"type": "docker-compose"},
+                        "modules": [
+                            {
+                                "id": "under-test",
+                                "source": source,
+                                "version": "0.0.0",
+                                "enabled": True,
+                                "config": {},
+                            }
+                        ],
+                    },
+                }
+
+                with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp:
+                    profile_path = Path(tmp) / "profile.yaml"
+                    profile_path.write_text(yaml.safe_dump(profile))
+
+                    with unittest.mock.patch.dict(
+                        "os.environ", {"CDS_MODULE_PATH": str(module_root)}, clear=False
+                    ):
+                        diagnostics = validate_profile(str(profile_path))
+
+                unexpected = [
+                    d for d in diagnostics if d.level == "error" and d.code not in _EXPECTED_UNBOUND_CODES
+                ]
+                self.assertEqual(
+                    unexpected,
+                    [],
+                    f"module {source} failed standalone validation with unexpected "
+                    f"diagnostics: {[d.format() for d in unexpected]}",
+                )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()