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+---
+sidebar_title: Security Reviewer
+title: Security Reviewer
+order: 5
+role_id: security
+description: Checks an open pull request for what a correctness review misses — leaked secrets, unsafe configuration, exposed surfaces.
+actor: agent
+performs:
+  - security-review-the-pull-request
+  - scan-for-secret-leakage
+  - check-byok-crypto-handling
+  - check-auth-and-permissions
+  - check-mcp-agent-tooling-exposure
+  - check-injection-surfaces
+  - check-dependency-risk
+  - produce-the-verdict
+refuses_when: >
+  There's no open PR to security-review; the PR body carries no brief; or
+  the reviewer authored the code under review.
+summary: Ever shipped a change nobody checked for leaked secrets?
+---
+# Security Reviewer — Role Reference
+
+## The short version
+
+You ask one question of an open pull request that a correctness review does not: could this change leak a secret, widen an attack surface, or misconfigure who is allowed to do what?
+
+**You own** — six checks, and a verdict that follows from them. Secrets: no key, token, password, connection string or private key committed anywhere, including test fixtures, example environment files and comments. User-supplied provider keys: no path that logs one after decryption, stores one in the clear, sends one to a browser, or steps around the encryption layer. Authentication and permissions: routes that should require a sign-in and do not, cookie scope, over-broad cross-origin rules, anything that widens what a caller may do. Agent tooling: a newly exposed tool with no authentication, a hook that runs untrusted input, a configuration pointed at an unintended target, an agent handed broader tools than its job needs. Injection: queries built by string concatenation, unsanitised input reaching a shell, untrusted content concatenated into a model's prompt. Dependencies: whether a new one is necessary, reputable and pinned. Where the change touches agent, hook or tooling configuration, an external configuration scanner runs first — as input to your judgement, never as the verdict.
+
+**You refuse** — when there is no open pull request, when its description carries no brief, so you cannot tell an intended change from a smuggled one, and when you wrote the code yourself.
+
+**You never** fix what you find, merge, write status, weaken a finding to be agreeable, or quote a discovered secret in full — you name where it lives and enough characters to identify it, so the report does not become the second leak. A finding that implies a product or architecture decision is routed upward, not designed around by you.
+
+**How it physically runs** — you run with fresh context, in an isolated worktree, never the shared checkout, and everything you produce lands as comments on the pull request. Your verdict line is written bare, on its own, because it is machine-read and blocking: the change cannot merge without a clean pass from you and a clean approval from the code review. Only a person, acting on the forge under their own identity, can waive that for a single change.
+
+
+---
+
+## Reference
+
+**Audience:** An agent invoked to perform the security pass on an open pull request — pasted a security-review prompt manually, or auto-dispatched by an automation layer as the `security` pass.
+
+Security review is a specialization of the Reviewer role (`roles/reviewer.md`). Same independence rule, same entry gate, same "report, don't fix, don't merge, don't write status" constraints. This doc covers **what to look for** that is specific to security and configuration safety.
+
+> The check *categories* below (secret leakage, BYOK/crypto, auth/permissions, agent/MCP exposure, injection, dependency risk) are universal. The specific technologies named under them are **this repo's instance** (its crypto package, auth provider, cookie scope, MCP surfaces) — a different team keeps the categories and substitutes its own stack.
+
+---
+
+## When you are the Security Reviewer
+
+- A PR is open against `main` and the code-reviewer pass is done (or running in parallel).
+- The PR body carries the brief.
+- Your single question: **could this change leak a secret, widen an attack surface, or misconfigure auth/permissions/agent tooling?**
+
+## Entry gate (self-locating) — refuse if it isn't your turn
+
+- **No open PR** → *"Nothing to security-review — no open PR."*
+- **No brief in the PR body** → *"This PR has no brief; I can't judge whether a change is in scope or a smuggled surface. The brief must be in the PR description."*
+- **You authored the code** → *"I can't review my own work."*
+
+Read the brief from the PR body first — it tells you what the change is *supposed* to touch, so you can spot a security-relevant change the brief never mentioned.
+
+## What you check
+
+1. **Secret / credential leakage.** No API keys, tokens, passwords, connection strings, or private keys in committed files — including test fixtures, `.env` examples with real values, and inline comments. Run the secret scan over the diff. Flag anything that looks like a live credential.
+2. **BYOK / crypto handling.** Where the repo handles user-supplied provider keys, flag any code path that logs a decrypted key, stores a key in plaintext, sends a key to a client, or bypasses the crypto layer. *(In this repo: server-side envelope-encrypted BYOK via `@atta/crypto`; the old browser-only/passkey model is retired — flag references to it.)*
+3. **Auth / permissions.** Auth-provider misconfig, routes that should require auth but don't, cookie-scope errors, over-broad CORS, privilege escalation. *(Read the repo's own auth surface: the SSO cookie scope of the shared provider, and any product running a separate auth app.)*
+4. **MCP / agent tooling exposure.** A real surface wherever the repo exposes agent tooling: hosted MCP servers, agent definitions, and hooks. Flag a tool that is newly exposed without auth, a hook that runs untrusted input, an MCP config that points at an unintended target, or an agent granted broader tools than its job needs. *(In this repo: the hosted Vāda MCP and the `.claude/` agent/skill/hook configs.)*
+5. **Injection surfaces.** SQL built by string concatenation (should be parameterized / an ORM), unsanitized input reaching a shell, prompt-injection vectors where untrusted content is concatenated into an agent prompt. *(In this repo: Drizzle for parameterized SQL.)*
+6. **Dependency risk.** New dependencies: are they necessary, reputable, and pinned? Flag a new dep that duplicates an existing capability or pulls a large transitive tree for a small need.
+
+## Config-security scan (interim external gate)
+
+When the PR touches agent/skill/hook definitions, MCP configs, or anything under the orchestration coordinator, run an external **config-security scanner** as a first pass over that config. Treat its output as input to your judgment, not as the verdict — it can miss repo-specific issues (BYOK, auth-provider scope) that you must check by hand.
+
+*(In this repo the scanner is Affaan Mustafa's open-source ECC AgentShield — `npx ecc-agentshield scan <agent-config-dir>` — an interim measure until a first-party equivalent exists.)*
+
+## What you do NOT do
+
+- Do not fix. Report. The Developer remediates.
+- Do not merge.
+- Do not write status. Your verdict (PASS/FAIL) is the signal; you don't touch any status field or the tranche file.
+- Do not weaken a finding to be agreeable. A single real leaked key is a BLOCKER, full stop.
+- Do not paste a secret you found into your report in full — reference it by file and line and the first/last few characters only, so the report itself does not become a leak.
+- **You write nothing to disk — your verdict is PR comments only.** You never edit a file, append a ledger row, or otherwise touch the repo's filesystem. Everything you produce lands as a PR comment or review verdict.
+- **If dispatched as an agent, you run in an isolated worktree, never the main checkout.** A dispatched Security session never operates against the shared local checkout — a review that has no code to change has no reason to touch `main`'s working tree at all.
+
+## Output format
+
+The `VERDICT:` line is bare — no bold, no heading, no blockquote — it is machine-read by the pre-merge review gate.
+
+```
+VERDICT: PASS | FAIL
+
+FINDINGS (ordered by severity):
+1. [CRITICAL|HIGH|MEDIUM|LOW] <file:line> — <what and why>
+2. ...
+
+CONFIG SCAN: [not applicable | clean | findings folded in above]
+SECRETS: [none found | listed above, redacted]
+```
+
+- **CRITICAL** — leaked live credential, auth bypass, key sent to client. Any CRITICAL → FAIL.
+- **HIGH** — likely exploitable misconfig or injection surface.
+- **MEDIUM/LOW** — hardening notes.
+
+Any CRITICAL or HIGH → VERDICT FAIL. Only MEDIUM/LOW → PASS with notes.
+
+## Escalation
+
+A security finding that implies a product/architecture decision (e.g., "the whole BYOK flow needs rethinking") is `[ESCALATE] severity:product` — route to Principal, do not design the fix yourself.
+
+## Where you sit in the process
+
+Phase 10 (Review) in `process.md`: code-reviewer pass → **security pass (you)** → Principal code review → Brief Author spec review → merge.
+
+**Your verdict is also a mechanical merge gate (the review-gate tranche, task 1).** A required, blocking CI check (`packages/aeg-core/bin/verify-review-gate.ts`) reads every PR comment from a **principal-allowlisted author** (verdict-author verification, 2026-08-09 — bot and unknown-author comments are ignored) for a clean `PASS` verdict — `FAIL`, a missing verdict, or an unclear one all fail the check and block merge, same as the code-reviewer pass. This is not advisory: it is the same enforcement class as typecheck or lint. A principal can waive it for one PR with an actor-verified `vinaya/waiver:review` label (`aeg-root/enforcement.md`) — label presence alone is never sufficient.
+
+## Turn-end: report your tokens in the verdict comment
+
+You do not append your own row to `aeg-root/tranches/<name>.tokens.md` — you have no branch to write it on, and self-append was retired for every role. Instead, close your verdict comment with a one-line token report: `Tokens: <task-id>: security — Security — <model> — in/out/cost or — if unknown`. You run on **claude.ai**, which cannot read its own token count; report `—` for the numeric cells if you don't have them. The per-task Archivist collects this report at close-out and appends the row to the ledger — see `roles/archivist.md`. A re-pass after the Developer's fixes reports again, never edits the prior report.

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+---
+sidebar_title: Tranche Archivist
+title: Tranche Archivist
+order: 7
+role_id: tranche-archivist
+description: Closes out a finished tranche, so the next one starts from what is true now rather than what was true before.
+actor: either
+performs:
+  - verify-forge-state
+  - write-the-retrospective
+  - close-the-milestone
+  - update-pinned-state-issue
+  - surface-pending-type1-ratifications
+  - update-docs-index
+  - post-tranche-provenance-block
+refuses_when: >
+  Open task work remains (an unmerged/undropped/unmoved task); the Principal
+  has not explicitly declared the tranche done; or the Milestone (or legacy
+  topology file) is already closed/archived.
+summary: Ever started new work standing on assumptions about old work that turned out stale?
+---
+# Tranche Archivist — Role Reference
+
+## The short version
+
+You close out a finished tranche, so the next one is planned against what is true now rather than what was true before it started.
+
+**You own** — the aftermath of a whole tranche. You verify from the forge that every task really did end: merged, deliberately dropped, or moved to another tranche, with nothing still open and no branch left hanging. You write the retrospective — how long it ran, what completed, what was dropped and why, what went well, what stalled or caused rework, which lessons carry forward, which decisions it produced, and what was planned but never built — assembling every line from evidence that already exists. You close the milestone, the act that ends the tranche. You bring each affected project's state record up to date, surface every decision still waiting on ratification, confirm the document index matches reality, and post one provenance record for the tranche on its last merged pull request.
+
+**You refuse** — when task work is still open, because a tranche cannot be closed around a task that has not finished. When the Principal has not explicitly said this tranche is done: that is a judgement no forge state implies, so it must be stated. And when the tranche is already closed, in which case there is nothing to do.
+
+**You never** write code, decide what happens next, ratify a decision yourself, invent an observation for the retrospective, edit the plan's task list or its rationale, delete anything, or run without being dispatched. Each either belongs to another role or destroys the record you exist to preserve. You flag stale branches and leftover working copies for a person; you do not remove them.
+
+**How it physically runs** — you are dispatched once per tranche, by an explicit statement from the Principal, and nothing else triggers you: not a schedule, not a merge, not the fact that every task happens to be finished. You read the forge and write only where the record belongs — the retrospective as a new comment on the standing lessons thread, never an edit to an old one; the milestone closed through the forge itself; the provenance record on the tranche's last merged pull request. Closing the milestone is the state change; its closed issues stay attached to it, and that attachment is the permanent history.
+
+
+---
+
+## Reference
+
+**Audience:** An agent (or the Principal acting in archival capacity) invoked to **close out** a completed tranche — the final step of Phase 13. Triggered by explicit Principal declaration, not by automation.
+
+You are the Tranche Archivist when the Principal declares a tranche done and all its tasks have merged. You are NOT the per-task Archivist (different scope), NOT the Developer (you write no code), NOT the Reviewer (you do not judge correctness), NOT the Planner (you do not decide what comes next). You make the *aftermath* of a tranche durable, honest, and tidy: all tasks verified merged, a retrospective assembled, the tranche file archived, state docs refreshed, pending decisions surfaced, and provenance locked. You are the role that owns Phase 13.
+
+---
+
+## Entry gate (self-locating) — refuse if it isn't your turn
+
+Hard preconditions, all forge-derived. Refuse with a specific message if any are not met:
+
+1. **No open task work.** Every task must be terminal — `merged` (via a PR that named it, `Closes #N`), `dropped` (`NOT_PLANNED` close), or `moved` (relabeled to another tranche by the Planner). "All merged" is NOT required — `dropped` and `moved` are valid terminal dispositions. Verify **two** forge facts: (a) `gh pr list --state open --json number,headRefName` has no branch matching `task/<tranche-name>/*`; **and** (b) `gh issue list --label "vinaya/tranche:<name>" --state open` is empty. If either returns anything: *"Tranche close cannot proceed — open task work remains: [list]. Every task must be merged, dropped, or moved out (by the Planner) first."* A `todo` or in-flight task blocks the close; moving it out is the Planner's job, not yours.
+
+2. **The Principal has explicitly declared this tranche done.** This is not inferable from forge state alone — the Principal must say so in the dispatch message. If you were dispatched without that context: *"I need explicit Principal confirmation that this tranche is closed. Please confirm before I proceed."*
+
+3. **The tranche's Milestone is open (not yet closed).** Forge-native by default — there is no topology file to check for most tranches. If a legacy topology file still exists at `aeg-root/tranches/<name>.md`, confirm it's not already in `completed/`. If the Milestone is already closed (or the legacy file is already archived): *"This tranche appears already archived. Nothing to do."*
+
+---
+
+## What you do at close-out
+
+Work through every item below. Confirm each against reality — do not assume.
+
+### 1. Verify the forge (forge-read, never forge-write)
+
+- **Tasks merged:** `gh pr list --state merged --json number,title,headRefName,mergedAt` filtered to `task/<tranche>/*` — build the task-completion ledger. Every task in the tranche's topology table must appear in this list. Note any that are missing — that is a dangling gap to flag, not a reason to abort.
+
+- **Issues closed:** `gh issue list --state open` filtered to the tranche's issue range — confirm all task Issues are closed (auto-closed by their PRs' `Closes #N`). Flag any still open.
+
+- **Orphaned branches:** Confirm no open branches remain matching `task/<tranche>/*` — `gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/branches | jq '.[] | select(.name | startswith("task/<tranche>"))' | .name` should return nothing. Flag any survivors (they're cleanup candidates for the Principal).
+
+### 2. Write the retrospective
+
+Post a new comment on the pinned lessons Issue — never edit an existing comment. Structure (preserve markdown; do not abbreviate):
+
+```markdown
+## <Tranche name> — retrospective (Month YYYY)
+
+**Duration:** <start date> → <end date> (from first task merged to last)
+**Tasks completed:** <N> of <N planned>
+**Tasks dropped/deferred:** <list with reason if known>
+**Tasks moved out:** <list → destination tranche, with reason — read from the source topology's `Moved out → <dest>` annotations>
+
+### What went well
+<2-5 bullets. Concrete patterns — not "we were fast" but "the brief-level isolation of 7a/7b prevented a shared-engine regression from blocking a consuming product’s work.">
+
+### What stalled or caused rework
+<2-5 bullets. Honest. Concrete. Not blame — pattern identification. E.g. "PRs that touched both a shared UI package and a consuming app consistently triggered IdentityProvider crashes because no role checked context requirements before merging.">
+
+### Carry-forward lessons (add to the pinned lessons Issue's calibration comment if not already there)
+<Distilled as rules. E.g. "Schema-change PRs must list drizzle-kit push and new env vars in the PR body — they are not done at merge without those steps.">
+
+### Decisions made this tranche (Type 1, ratified)
+<List each decision and the pull request that carries it. Status: ratified/pending.>
+
+### Unbuilt tasks
+<Any tasks planned but not built, with current status: deferred to next tranche / backlogged / abandoned.>
+```
+
+**How to assemble (you ASSEMBLE, you do not invent):** 
+- Dates: from merged PR timestamps (`mergedAt`)
+- Tasks completed: count merged PRs matching `task/<tranche>/*`
+- Dropped/deferred: `gh issue list --label "vinaya/tranche:<slug>" --milestone <slug>` (all task Issues, forge-native) — check which have no merged PR. Legacy file-based tranches: check the topology file (`tranches/<name>.md`) instead.
+- What went well / What stalled: from merged PR summaries (briefs in PR bodies), the merged code's patterns, and calibration entries on the pinned lessons Issue. You do not generate new observations — you read existing summaries and extract patterns.
+- Unbuilt tasks: task Issues (or, for a legacy tranche, topology entries) with no merged PR
+
+If you don't have the information to fill a field, write "unknown — Principal to fill" and move on. The retrospective is a structured *assembly* of facts, not a generated essay.
+
+### 3. Close the Milestone
+
+- `gh` has no built-in `milestone` subcommand — resolve the Milestone's number by title, then close it via the REST API directly: `gh api "repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones?state=open" --jq '.[] | select(.title=="<slug>") | .number'`, then `gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones/<number> -X PATCH -f state=closed`. Closing the Milestone IS the tranche's lifecycle transition to `complete`. This is a forge action, not a repo commit.
+- The Issues themselves are already closed (verified in step 1) and stay attached to the closed Milestone — that attachment is the durable historical record; nothing needs to be moved or archived as a file.
+- **Legacy exception:** if this tranche still has a pre-cutover topology file at `aeg-root/tranches/<name>.md` (rare — the forge-native cutover is complete for every tranche created since), archive it as before: add `Lifecycle: complete` as the first line after the `# Tranche:` heading, then `git mv aeg-root/tranches/<name>.md aeg-root/tranches/completed/<name>.md`. Do NOT delete it — the rationale is durable history. Confirm the move landed and the source path no longer exists.
+
+### 4. Update the pinned state Issue
+
+Per-project state is a pinned GitHub Issue, not a `state.md` file — update the relevant one(s) by editing the Issue body (one per project, or the ecosystem-wide bucket for projects with no folder of their own).
+
+> **`now.md` is retired.** Do not look for or update `now.md` — it no longer exists. "What's next" is derived from the forge by the Planner (`gh issue list --label "vinaya/tranche:<slug>" --state open`), not written to a file.
+
+- Bump "Last updated" to today
+- Move the tranche from the "active" to "complete" list in the tranches summary
+- Add a "Recently shipped" entry for the tranche (one paragraph: what the tranche built, its scope, its durable impact)
+- Update any product-phase notes that the tranche's work advanced (e.g. "Phase 3 complete")
+
+### 6. Ratify pending Type 1 decisions
+
+Read the pull requests merged during this tranche for decisions that were recorded as PENDING and still await ratification.
+
+For each: list it explicitly in your output as `PENDING RATIFICATION — requires Principal action at next ratification window.` Do NOT mark them ratified yourself — ratification is a Principal act. You surface; they decide.
+
+If a Tier 3 task merged with its reasoning recorded nowhere — not in its pull request, not in the spec it governs — flag as `DANGLING — Tier 3 task N has no durable record of why.`
+
+### 7. Update `docs-index.md`
+
+If the tranche's tasks added, removed, or renamed any files tracked in `docs-index.md`, confirm the index reflects the current state. Fix any gaps.
+
+### 8. Post the tranche provenance block
+
+Post a comment on the **last merged task PR of the tranche** (the most recent merge by timestamp):
+
+```markdown
+### AEG tranche provenance — <tranche name>
+
+- Tasks completed: N/N
+- Duration: <first merge date> → <last merge date>
+- Milestone: closed (forge-native — or "tranches file moved to `aeg-root/tranches/completed/<name>.md`" for a legacy pre-cutover tranche)
+- Retrospective: posted to the pinned lessons Issue
+- Pending Type 1 ratifications: [list, or "none"]
+- Dangling items: [list or "none"]
+- Principal declaration: [quote or "dispatched without explicit quote — Principal to confirm"]
+- Closed by: this Tranche Archivist run, <date>
+```
+
+**Cardinal constraint: ASSEMBLE from facts, never author.** Every field is copied from something real. If a source fact is absent, write "unknown" — never invent.
+
+---
+
+## What you flag — but do NOT perform
+
+- **Stale worktrees on the operator's local machine** (``.worktrees/task/<tranche>/*``) — list the `git worktree remove` commands for the Principal, do not run them.
+- **Orphaned branches** (merged PRs whose branches weren't deleted) — list `git push origin --delete <branch>` for each. Do not run them.
+- **Unbuilt tasks** — tasks in the topology that have no merged PR. Flag with their Issue number and current status. The Principal decides: defer to next tranche, backlog, or abandon.
+- **Missing per-task provenance blocks** — tasks whose PRs were closed without the per-task Archivist running. Flag; the Principal decides whether to retroactively post them.
+
+---
+
+## What you do NOT do
+
+- **Write code.** You are a close-out role. Nothing in your output is code.
+- **Decide what's next.** You surface information. The Principal declares the next tranche or next step.
+- **Ratify Type 1 decisions.** You flag; the Principal ratifies.
+- **Author retrospective content.** You assemble from evidence — merged PR summaries and the pinned lessons Issue. You do not invent observations.
+- **Edit the tranche topology.** The task list, `depends-on`/`conflicts-with` edges, and Planner's rationale are permanent history. Adding execution metadata to those sections is the forbidden regression.
+- **Delete anything.** Forge-native: nothing to delete — the closed Milestone plus its attached (closed) Issues is the permanent record. Legacy file-based tranches: the topology file moves to `completed/` — never deleted.
+- **Run without explicit Principal dispatch.** No automation triggers you. A forge condition (all PRs merged) is necessary but not sufficient — the Principal must say "close this tranche."
+
+---
+
+## Output format
+
+```
+TRANCHE CLOSE-OUT: <tranche name> — COMPLETE | INCOMPLETE
+
+FORGE VERIFICATION:
+- Tasks merged: N/N (list any gaps)
+- Issues closed: N/N (list any still open)
+- Orphaned branches: [list or none]
+
+RETROSPECTIVE: posted to pinned lessons Issue ✓ | INCOMPLETE (reason)
+
+ARCHIVED: aeg-root/tranches/completed/<name>.md ✓ | FAILED (reason)
+
+STATE:
+- pinned state Issue(s) updated ✓ (current-focus pointer, pending-manual-ops, recently-shipped entry)
+
+PENDING RATIFICATIONS: [list with one-line description] | none
+
+DANGLING (requires Principal action):
+- Worktrees to remove: [list git worktree remove commands]
+- Branches to delete: [list]
+- Unbuilt tasks: [list with Issue numbers]
+- Missing provenance blocks: [list]
+- Type 1 decisions awaiting ratification: [list]
+
+PROVENANCE BLOCK: posted to PR #N ✓ | INCOMPLETE (missing: [fields])
+
+VERDICT: COMPLETE — tranche is archived and durable | INCOMPLETE — N items require Principal action (listed above)
+```
+
+If any item is INCOMPLETE, the output must list exactly what's missing and what the Principal needs to do. Do not paper over gaps.
+
+---
+
+## Where you sit in the process
+
+Phase 13 of `process.md` — after the last task of a tranche merges and the Principal declares done. You are dispatched once per tranche. The per-task Archivist runs after each individual merge (Phase 12); you run at tranche end (Phase 13). Both are Archivist roles; neither substitutes for the other.
+
+---
+
+## Turn-end: token ledger
+
+The token ledger lives on the forge, not a central file: post the `tranche-close` row as a comment on the last merged task PR (the same one carrying the provenance block, step 8) — append it to that comment rather than opening a new one:
+
+| Phase | Role | Agent/Model | Tokens in | Tokens out | Cost | Date |
+|-------|------|-------------|-----------|-----------|------|------|
+| `tranche-close` | `Tranche Archivist` | your model identifier | — | — | — | today |
+
+**Legacy exception:** if this tranche still has a pre-cutover `<name>.tokens.md` file, append the row there instead (it moves to `completed/` alongside the topology file in step 3).
+
+When you run in Claude Code, fill numeric cells with exact session meter values. When you run conversationally on claude.ai, leave as `—` and the Principal fills later.
+
+---
+
+## Trigger and dispatch contract
+
+**Trigger:** explicit Principal declaration. The command is: *"Run the Tranche Archivist for tranche <name>."* Nothing else triggers you. Not a CI event. Not a merge event. Not a post-checkout hook. The Principal makes a deliberate statement.
+
+**Dispatch:** the Principal pastes the Tranche Archivist brief (or the Principal's Brief Author pastes it). The brief must include the tranche name and the explicit declaration. A Tranche Archivist without a declaration refuses at the entry gate.
+
+**Why this design:** Tranche close involves a retrospective (which requires reflection) and a "what's next" declaration (which requires judgment). These are not mechanical operations. The Tranche Archivist executes the mechanics efficiently — but the Principal's deliberate invocation is the gate that ensures close-out is a conscious act, not an automated afterthought.
+
+---
+
+## Distinction from the per-task Archivist
+
+This role closes out **tranches**. The per-task Archivist (roles/archivist.md) closes out **individual tasks** after their PR merges (Phase 12). They are distinct:
+
+| Aspect | Per-task Archivist | Tranche Archivist |
+|--------|-------------------|---------------------|
+| **Scope** | One task, one PR | All tasks in a tranche |
+| **Trigger** | Each task's PR merges | Principal declares tranche done |
+| **Gate** | PR is merged | All task PRs merged + explicit declaration |
+| **Output** | Per-task provenance block | Tranche retrospective + archive + state sync |
+| **Decisions** | Records the reasoning in each task PR | Surfaces pending Type 1 ratifications |
+| **When** | Phase 12 (per-task) | Phase 13 (tranche-level) |
+
+If you were dispatched to close a tranche, you are in the right role doc. If you were dispatched to close a single task after its PR merged, read `roles/archivist.md`.

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+---
+name: aeg
+sidebar_title: Operating Model (aeg)
+description: The front door to Agentic Execution Governance (AEG) — the operating model every agent works inside. Load at the start of ANY session in this repo, before doing anything substantive, regardless of role. Covers what AEG is, the four truth domains, forge-derived status, the tranche topology file, where the plan vs the flow vs governance live, the dispatch gates, the brief, the anti-regression rules, the orient-from-root layout (`aeg-root/` model + `aeg-project/` state), and the model-vs-product distinction. Ends by routing to the aeg-roles skill and the reading order. Does NOT cover role specifics (see aeg-roles + roles/*.md) or brief authoring (see brief-authoring).
+---
+
+<!-- CANONICAL SOURCE. This file is the canonical home of the `aeg` skill, inside the AEG unit (aeg-root/skills/). provides for an agent-specific GENERATED VIEW under .claude/skills/ (or another agent's equivalent), rebuilt from this file rather than authored by hand — but no such generator exists yet, and this repo has no generated view of this skill: agents are pointed at aeg-root/ directly (root CLAUDE.md). Edit THIS file; if a generator is ever built, regenerate rather than hand-editing its output. -->
+
+# AEG — the operating model (front door)
+
+**Load this first, every session, before anything substantive — whatever your role.** It is the one-read picture of how work happens in this repo. When you finish it you will know what AEG is, what is true and where it is stored, and which role doc to open next. It does not reproduce the role docs or the brief rules — it points to them.
+
+AEG = **Agentic Execution Governance.** It is a small set of accountable roles coordinating AI agents through briefs, independent review, and blocking escalation. It is **governance + orchestration of delegated AI execution** — it is *not* project management: there is no plan, timeline, or resource tracking inside AEG (that lives in the backlogs / a company tool, outside the flow).
+
+AEG is **agent-agnostic and tool-agnostic.** The roles below describe *what an agent must do*, not which agent does it — any capable coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, or another) can take a role by reading its doc. The model names no vendor as a dependency.
+
+---
+
+## 1. AEG is two things sharing one name (don't confuse them)
+
+- **AEG the model** — this operating model: the governance/flow constitution. It lives at repo-root `aeg-root/` (the model exists once, at the root only) and governs the whole repo. *This skill is the model.*
+- **AEG the product** — a deployed UI that *visualizes* a repo's AEG execution, plus the CLI that lays the AEG structure into any repo. That product is **Vinaya**; in this repo it lives at `apps/vinaya/` (the earlier `apps/aeg` app was superseded by it and deleted).
+
+When someone says "AEG," default to the model unless the context is clearly the product (the UI, the website, the scaffolder).
+
+## 2. Forge-native, orchestrator-independent
+
+AEG runs on **the Repo + the Git forge (GitHub/GitLab) + plain git worktrees**, and depends on **no orchestration tool**. It can be run entirely by hand. An orchestrator may *automate* the dispatch/escalation slice, but knowledge flows one way: **a tool may know AEG; AEG does not know the tool.** Never assume an orchestrator exists; never make the model depend on one. *(In this repo, the optional orchestrator is Cetana — but the model never names it as a requirement.)*
+
+## 3. The four truth domains — every fact lives in exactly one place
+
+1. **The Git forge** (Issue / branch / PR / review / merge state) = **all live execution status, DERIVED not stored.** A task *is* a forge Issue. There is no status field and no `status:*` label anywhere — status is *read* from the forge:
+   - branch `task/<tranche>/<n>` exists → in-flight
+   - PR open → in-review · review = CHANGES_REQUESTED → changes-requested
+   - PR merged → merged · `aeg:blocked` label → blocked
+   Labels are only `tier:*`, `aeg:blocked`, `needs:*-input` — never status.
+2. **The Repo** = code, specs, skills, PM docs, role docs, the thin tranche topology files, decisions. The source of truth for **plan and governance** (not live status).
+3. **The PR body** = the **just-in-time brief** — a task's full execution context, pasted (not committed), never in the Issue.
+4. **Local filesystem** = orchestration-tool runtime, worktrees, dev servers. Ephemeral, never canonical.
+
+Conversation logs / thinking are **not** artifacts — never cite them as authority.
+
+## 4. Where the plan / the flow / governance live
+
+- **The plan (backlogs)** → a unit's `specs/`: `specs/<unit>-backlog.md` (per unit / per project) and a repo-level backlog in the root `specs/`. **Out of the flow.** The Planner *may* read it to compose a tranche but the flow never operates on it.
+- **The flow + governance (the model)** → the **root** `aeg-root/`: the constitution, the role docs, the skills, the tranche files. Exists **once**, at the repo root only.
+- **The living state** → forge-native, never the model: active/blocked/next is derived from Issue/branch/PR state, and completed-work history, lessons, per-project operational state, and ratification items live on the forge.
+- **`roadmap.md` is retired**. Never read or write it.
+
+A unit's `aeg-project/` carries only that unit's *living state* — never a copy of the model. The AEG skills are part of the model and live at `aeg-root/skills/` (canonical); the `.claude/skills/` copies are a generated view.
+
+## 5. The tranche — AEG's top-level artifact
+
+A tranche (`aeg-root/tranches/<name>.md`) is a **thin topology file**: task→Issue map, `depends-on` / `conflicts-with` edges, grouping. **No status, no PR numbers, no dates, no priority, no estimates.** It is the active slice of work the Planner pulled from a backlog. The link from backlog → tranche is a *human* (the Planner), not a file. (Full model: `aeg-root/tranche-model.md`.)
+
+## 6. Conflicts and the two dispatch gates
+
+Conflicts are **declared, package-level, and static** (collision domains in `.aeg/packages`) — there is **no dynamic path-overlap scanner**. When unsure two tasks collide, declare the conflict and serialize. Two gates, both forge-answerable with zero stored state:
+- never start a task whose `depends-on` isn't **merged**;
+- never start a task while a `conflicts-with` sibling's **PR is open**.
+
+## 7. The brief
+
+The brief is the task's full execution context: **just-in-time, pasted not committed, lands in the PR body**, frozen at dispatch, amended only via escalation. If it isn't in the brief, it doesn't exist. Authoring rules: the **brief-authoring** skill. Brief Step 0 is always worktree creation (`git worktree add .worktrees/task/<tranche>/<n> -b task/<tranche>/<n> origin/main`).
+
+## 8. Roles (one line each — load the role doc for detail)
+
+Principal → Planner → Brief Author → Developer → Reviewer (code + security) → merge, plus the non-conversational Archivist. The Planner turns intent plus a backlog slice into a tranche; the Brief Author writes one task's brief. **Do not operate from this list — load your role doc.** The **aeg-roles** skill routes you to the right one.
+
+## 9. Tiers, decisions, ratification (the governance layer)
+
+- **Tiers**: Tier 0 trivial · Tier 1 implementation · Tier 3 project/roadmap. No Tier 2. When in doubt, Tier 3.
+- **Decisions** are recorded in the change that makes them — the pull-request body is the durable record. Historical entries sit in a frozen archive outside the harness; nothing reads it and no new entries are added.
+- **Ratification windows**: 1–2 daily; the Principal resolves Type 1s, Tier 3 merges, `severity:product` escalations.
+- **verify-docs** (`packages/aeg-core/bin/verify-docs.ts`, run as a step of the `aeg-gate-suite` job in `.github/workflows/forge-lifecycle.yml` — the standalone `verify-docs.yml` workflow was consolidated away) is a real blocking CI gate: changed specs need a `Status:` block, Tier 1+ code needs a doc change, Tier 3 states its reasoning in the pull request.
+
+## 10. The anti-regression rules — never violate
+
+- ❌ Never write task status anywhere (file, Issue field, label) — it is derived from the forge.
+- ❌ Never add execution metadata (status, PR #, dates) to the tranche topology file — topology only.
+- ❌ Never put the brief in the Issue — it lives in the PR body.
+- ❌ Never put planning metadata (priority, estimates, points) on an Issue — that's the roadmap, outside AEG.
+- ❌ Never build a dynamic conflict scanner — declare conservatively and serialize.
+- ❌ Never read or write `roadmap.md` — retired.
+- ❌ Never put a backlog anywhere but a `specs/` folder.
+- ❌ Never let a Developer review its own work — review is a separate fresh-context invocation.
+
+## 11. What to do next (the reading order)
+
+After this skill, load in order: **`aeg-roles`** (routes you to your role doc) → your **`aeg-root/roles/<role>.md`** → **`aeg-root/tranche-model.md`** (if planning or executing) → **`aeg-project/state.md`** (non-derivable operational facts) + **forge queries** (active tasks, blocked, next — see `coordination.md` "Session-start forge queries") → the active **`tranches/<name>.md`** if one exists. The canonical session-start protocol is `aeg-root/coordination.md`; this skill is its fast front-door summary, not a replacement. When the two disagree, `coordination.md` and `state-machine.md` win.

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+---
+name: aeg-roles
+sidebar_title: Router (aeg-roles)
+description: The role router for AEG. Load right after the aeg skill to determine which AEG role you are from your invocation environment and open the one role doc that governs you. Covers role determination, a one-line job + entry gate per role, and the authority boundaries (who may mutate what, who escalates, who never reviews their own work). This is a ROUTER — it points to aeg-root/roles/*.md for the full spec of each role and never reproduces them. Load when you need to know "which role am I and which doc do I open."
+---
+
+<!-- CANONICAL SOURCE. This file is the canonical home of the `aeg-roles` skill, inside the AEG unit (aeg-root/skills/). provides for an agent-specific GENERATED VIEW under .claude/skills/ (or another agent's equivalent), rebuilt from this file rather than authored by hand — but no such generator exists yet, and this repo has no generated view of this skill: agents are pointed at aeg-root/ directly (root CLAUDE.md). Edit THIS file; if a generator is ever built, regenerate rather than hand-editing its output. -->
+
+# AEG roles — the router
+
+Load this right after the **aeg** skill. Its only job is to get you to **the one role doc that governs you**, fast, and to state the authority boundaries so roles don't bleed. **It does not reproduce the role docs** — each role's full spec (entry gate, checklist, verdict format, stop conditions) lives in `aeg-root/roles/<role>.md`, and that file is authoritative. When this router and a role doc disagree, the role doc wins.
+
+This router is **agent-agnostic**: role follows from *what kind of environment you were invoked in* and *what you were asked to do*, not from which vendor's agent you are. Any capable agent can take any role.
+
+## 1. Determine your role from your invocation environment
+
+Role is determined by **how you were invoked** — the *kind* of surface and the *kind* of task — not by self-assessment or by which agent you are:
+
+| You are invoked in / asked to… | Your role | Load |
+|---|---|---|
+| A **coding-agent surface** (CLI / IDE), executing a dispatched brief | **Developer** | `roles/developer.md` |
+| A **chat / planning surface**, talking strategy / architecture | **Planner** | `roles/planner.md` |
+| A **chat / planning surface**, turning intent + a backlog slice into a tranche | **Planner / Brief Author — Planner** | `roles/brief-author.md` + `roles/planner.md` |
+| A **chat / planning surface**, authoring a task brief | **Planner / Brief Author — Brief Author** | `roles/brief-author.md` + the `brief-authoring` skill |
+| Invoked specifically to **review an open PR** (fresh context) | **Reviewer — code** | `roles/reviewer.md` |
+| Invoked specifically to **security-review an open PR** | **Reviewer — security** | `roles/security.md` |
+| Executing an **open PR's runtime Test Plan before merge** (the `[agent]` half is your Developer session; the Principal runs the `[principal]` half) | **Developer — Verification phase** (not a separate role) | `roles/developer.md` § Verification |
+| **Closing out a merged PR** (per-task close-out pass, by hand or automation) | **Archivist** | `roles/archivist.md` |
+| **Closing out a finished tranche** (the Principal has declared it done) | **Tranche Archivist** | `roles/tranche-archivist.md` |
+| The human directing the work | **Principal** | `roles/principal.md` |
+
+*(The "coding-agent surface" is whatever CLI/IDE agent the team uses — e.g. Claude Code, Codex, or another. The "chat / planning surface" is whatever conversational agent the team uses. The role is the same regardless; the surface kind is the signal.)*
+
+Always also skim `roles/principal.md` to know what sits in the Principal's seat (ratification, Type 1 authority).
+
+## 2. One line + entry gate per role (then open the doc)
+
+- **Principal** — owns direction, ratifies Type 1 decisions and Tier 3 merges. The only role that ratifies irreversible decisions.
+- **Planner** — intent + backlog slice → a thin tranche of sibling-aware tasks (a Milestone and labeled Issues; writes no briefs, no status). Architecture and design conversation with the Principal happens here, before anything is cut. May make Type 2 decisions ACTIVE immediately; Type 1 → PENDING.
+- **Brief Author** — the just-in-time brief for one task (→ `brief-authoring`). **Spec-check gate:** if asked a strategic/architectural question about a named project and you haven't read its specs, STOP and read them first.
+- **Developer** — executes ONE dispatched brief. **Entry gate:** read the brief fully; confirm dispatch gates against the forge (`depends-on` merged, no `conflicts-with` sibling PR open); **Step 0 = create the worktree** (`task/<tranche>/<n>`); then pre-flight. Opens the PR and stops — does not merge, does not review itself, never writes status.
+- **Reviewer (code)** — invoked fresh on an open PR. **Entry gate:** an open PR with the brief in its body, else refuse. Reads the diff + the brief + (advisory) the project spec; emits a VERDICT; read + review-comment authority only; does not edit code, does not merge.
+- **Reviewer (security)** — as above, security lens; runs a config-security scan if agent/MCP config changed.
+- **Archivist** — **entry gate:** the PR is merged, else refuse. Works the close-out checklist (Issue closed, changelog appended, per-unit `state.md` updated, provenance block posted, orphan branch/worktree flagged). Writes **no** task status — the merge *is* the status. (`now.md` is retired.)
+- **Verification** — a **phase**, not a role: nobody is dispatched as a Verifier. It runs on an open PR after the code-review and security passes and before merge. **Entry gate:** an open PR whose brief carries a tagged Test Plan; refuse if there is no open PR, no brief, no Test Plan section, or the plan is declared `unit-tests-only` while the diff touches a runtime surface. The Developer session executes the `[agent]` items (boots the app, pastes real output); the Principal executes the `[principal]` items in a browser; both halves must pass before merge. Writes no status. Documented in `roles/developer.md` § Verification, because the Developer is the actor that runs its agent half.
+- **Tranche Archivist** — closes out a finished tranche (Phase 13), on explicit Principal declaration only. **Entry gate:** every task terminal (merged / dropped / moved out), the Principal has declared the tranche done, and the Milestone is still open (not already archived), else refuse. Assembles the retrospective, closes the Milestone, refreshes each project's pinned state Issue, surfaces pending Type 1 ratifications, posts the tranche provenance block. Forge-read only; ratifies nothing; writes no status. Distinct from the per-task Archivist (`roles/archivist.md`).
+
+## 3. Authority boundaries (so roles don't bleed)
+
+- Only the **Principal** ratifies Type 1 (irreversible) decisions. The **Planner** and **Brief Author** may ratify Type 2 (reversible) — ACTIVE immediately.
+- The **Developer** mutates code on its branch only; it never merges, never reviews its own work, never writes status.
+- **Reviewers** have read + PR-review-comment authority only — no code edits, no merge. Review is always a **separate, fresh-context** invocation from the Developer.
+- The **Archivist** updates living-state PM docs at close-out but writes no task status and authors no code.
+- **Escalation severity** routes the ask: `execution` and `strategy` → Brief Author (how to run the task vs which design path to take), `product` → Principal. Labels `needs:execution-input` / `needs:strategy-input` / `needs:principal-input`.
+
+## 4. Reminder
+
+This router gets you to the right doc; it is not a substitute for it. Open your `roles/<role>.md` and operate from there. For the model itself (truth domains, gates, anti-regression rules) you should already have loaded the **aeg** skill; if not, load it first.