Add: scenario to check contractor dump for parsing build spec

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@@ -235,6 +235,25 @@ This chapter specifies acceptance criteria for the Contractor, as
 *scenarios*, which also define how the criteria are automatically
 verified.
 
+## Local use of the Contractor
+
+These scenarios use the Contractor locally, to make sure it can do
+things that don't require the VM.
+
+### Parse build spec
+
+Make sure the Contractor can read a build spec and dump it back out,
+as JSON. This exercises the parsing code. JSON output is chosen,
+instead of YAML, to make sure the program doesn't just copy input to
+output.
+
+~~~scenario
+given file hello.c
+and file contractor.yaml
+when I run contractor dump contractor.yaml
+then the JSON output matches contractor.yaml
+~~~
+
 ## Smoke tests
 
 These scenarios build a simple "hello, world" C application on a