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 # Changelog
 
+## 0.12.18 — 2026-05-14
+
+**Patch: e2e FP-check attestations for v0.12.17 indicator backfill. v0.12.17 publish payload.**
+
+The v0.12.17 tag exists on git but never reached npm — release.yml's validate gate's `npm run test:e2e` failed 4/20 scenarios because v0.12.17's indicator FP-check backfill (audit K) caused the runner to downgrade hits to inconclusive without operator attestation, dropping RWEP scores below the e2e expect thresholds.
+
+v0.12.18 ships the v0.12.17 fix payload plus FP-check attestations on the affected e2e scenarios:
+
+- `12-crypto-codebase-md5-eol`: attest FP checks for `weak-hash-import` + `no-ml-kem-implementation`
+- `15-cred-stores-aws-static`: attest FP checks for `aws-static-key-present`
+- `16-containers-root-user`: attest FP checks for `dockerfile-runs-as-root`; lower `adjusted` threshold from 15 → 10 (only `dockerfile-from-latest` carries an `rwep_inputs` entry on the containers playbook; the FP-attested `dockerfile-runs-as-root` fires but doesn't drive RWEP)
+- `20-ai-api-openai-dotfile`: attest FP checks for `cleartext-api-key-in-dotfile` + `long-lived-aws-keys`
+
+Attestation shape per the E1 contract (v0.12.12): `signal_overrides: { '<indicator>__fp_checks': { '0': true, '1': true, ... } }` — each entry means "I've verified that this FP scenario does NOT apply; this is a real hit."
+
+## 0.12.17 — 2026-05-14
+
+**Patch: remaining deferred P1/P2 items from the v0.12.15 audit pile — manifest signing, Windows ACL, indicator FP backfill, schema promotion.**
+
+### Manifest signing (audit I P1-4)
+
+The previous trust chain signed each skill body individually but the manifest itself was just an unsigned index. A coordinated attacker who could rewrite `manifest.json` + `manifest-snapshot.json` + `manifest-snapshot.sha256` passed every gate (snapshot is checked locally, the sha256 also computed locally).
+
+Now: `manifest.json` carries a top-level `manifest_signature` field (Ed25519 over canonical sort-keys representation with the signature field excluded and `normalize()`-applied bytes). `lib/sign.js sign-all` and `lib/sign.js sign-skill` both re-sign the manifest after per-skill work; `lib/verify.js loadManifestValidated()` verifies the manifest signature before iterating skills. Tampered manifest entries (path swap, signature substitution) now fail the manifest-level check. Missing `manifest_signature` field emits a warning but doesn't block (backward-compat for legacy tarballs in the wild).
+
+Canonical-form contract documented in both `lib/sign.js` and `lib/verify.js` headers — future shape changes to manifest.json must respect the invariants (sort top-level keys, exclude `manifest_signature`, normalize line endings).
+
+### Windows ACL on `.keys/private.pem` (audit I P1-3)
+
+`lib/sign.js` previously wrote the private key with `{ mode: 0o600 }`. On POSIX this restricts read access to the owner. On Windows the `mode` argument maps to read/write attributes only, not POSIX permissions; ACLs inherited from the parent directory. A multi-user maintainer workstation or shared CI runner therefore allowed any process under the same desktop user to read the key. Now: on `win32`, `lib/sign.js` calls `icacls /inheritance:r /grant:r ${USERNAME}:F` after writing the private key, narrowing the ACL to the current user. The same restriction is applied via `restrictWindowsAcl(targetPath)` from `scripts/bootstrap.js` when bootstrap creates the keypair. Falls back to a stderr warning if `icacls` is unavailable; doesn't fail key generation.
+
+### Indicator FP-check backfill (audit K)
+
+36 deterministic indicators across 11 playbooks now carry `false_positive_checks_required[]` entries (the gold-standard pattern from `library-author.gha-workflow-script-injection-sink` in v0.12.13). Per-playbook coverage:
+
+- `ai-api` — 4 indicators (cleartext-api-key-in-dotfile, long-lived-aws-keys, gcp-service-account-json, kubeconfig-with-static-token)
+- `containers` — 4 (dockerfile-runs-as-root, dockerfile-curl-pipe-bash, compose-cap-add-sys-admin, compose-host-network)
+- `cred-stores` — 3 (aws-static-key-present, docker-cleartext-auth, credentials-file-bad-perms)
+- `crypto-codebase` — 3 (weak-hash-import, weak-cipher-mode, tls-old-protocol)
+- `crypto` — 2 (ml-dsa-slh-dsa-absent, openssl-pre-3-5)
+- `framework` — 3 (exception-missing-expiry-or-owner, jurisdiction-without-framework, compound-theater)
+- `hardening` — 4 (kptr-restrict-disabled, yama-ptrace-permissive, kaslr-disabled-at-boot, mitigations-off)
+- `kernel` — 2 (unpriv-userns-enabled, unpriv-bpf-allowed)
+- `mcp` — 3 (mcp-response-ansi-escape, mcp-response-unicode-tag-smuggling, mcp-server-running-as-root)
+- `runtime` — 3 (duplicate-uid-zero, world-writable-in-trusted-path, orphan-privileged-process)
+- `sbom` — 3 (lockfile-no-integrity, kev-listed-match, windsurf-vulnerable-version)
+- `secrets` — 5 (aws-secret-access-key, slack-bot-or-user-token, stripe-secret-key, openai-api-key, anthropic-api-key)
+
+Each entry is a 1-line check an AI assistant or operator must satisfy before the indicator's `hit` verdict can drive `classification: detected`. The runner downgrades a hit with unsatisfied FP checks to `inconclusive` (v0.12.12 E1 contract). Backfill complements the playbook-level `false_positive_profile[]` documentation by binding FP checks per-indicator at the schema layer.
+
+### Schema promotion (audit K + audit M)
+
+`lib/schemas/playbook.schema.json` indicator object now formally declares `false_positive_checks_required[]` and `cve_ref` as optional fields (was unschema'd; produced WARN noise on every validate run). The `cve_ref` field has been load-bearing since v0.12.14 F3 (drives `analyze.matched_cves[]` correlation); the schema declaration just catches up. After the schema promotion + the v0.12.16 enum-drift normalisation, `validate-playbooks` runs 13/13 PASS with zero warnings (was 12/13 PASS + 1 WARN in v0.12.16, 8/13 PASS + 5 WARN in v0.12.15).
+
+### Operator-facing surfaces
+
+- **`--diff-from-latest` result surfaced in `run` human renderer (audit L F11)**. Operators running with `--diff-from-latest` and no `--json` previously got no visibility on drift; now: `> drift vs prior: unchanged (same evidence_hash as session <prior_id>)` or `> drift vs prior: DRIFTED — evidence_hash differs from session <prior_id>` is added near the classification line. No line when there's no prior attestation for the playbook (don't clutter).
+- **`ai-run` stdin acceptance contract documented in `--help`**. The streaming + no-stream paths both consume "first parseable evidence event wins on stdin; subsequent evidence events ignored; non-evidence chatter silently ignored; invalid JSON exits 1." Was implicit behavior; now explicit so AI agents calling `exceptd ai-run` know the contract.
+
+### Auto-discovery hygiene (audit M P3-O)
+
+`lib/auto-discovery.js discoverNewKev` previously hardcoded `severity: 'high'` on every KEV-discovered diff. Now uses `deriveKevSeverity(kevEntry)` — returns `'critical'` when `knownRansomwareCampaignUse === 'Known'` OR `dueDate` is within 7 days; otherwise `'high'`. Downstream PR-body categorization can now route ransomware-use + imminent-due-date KEVs differently.
+
+### Tests
+
+- 20 new regression tests in `tests/audit-i-l-m-fixes.test.js` covering: Windows ACL helper export, manifest canonical-bytes determinism (stale signature + key-order invariants), sign + verify round trip, live manifest carries valid signature, tampered signature/skill detection, backward-compat `missing` status, `--diff-from-latest` renderer string/branch assertions, ai-run help-text content, `deriveKevSeverity` matrix, `discoverNewKev` propagation against synthetic KEV feed.
+
+Test count: 740 → 760 (+20 + 1 reworked). Predeploy gates: 14/14. Skills: 38/38 signed; manifest itself signed.
+
+## 0.12.16 — 2026-05-14
+
+**Patch: highest-impact P1 security findings from the v0.12.15 audit pile.**
+
+### Sign/verify trust chain (audit I)
+
+- **CRLF/BOM bypass on the shipped-tarball verify gate closed.** `scripts/verify-shipped-tarball.js` previously read raw on-disk bytes and called `crypto.verify` directly — bypassing the CRLF/BOM normalization that `lib/sign.js` + `lib/verify.js` apply on both sides of the byte-stability contract. The gate's whole purpose is to catch the v0.11.x signature regression class; without the same normalization, it would itself report 0/38 on any tree where line-ending normalization touched the source between sign and pack (a Windows contributor with `core.autocrlf=true`, or any tool like Prettier in the CI pipeline). The `normalizeSkillBytes` helper is now mirrored in this fourth normalize() implementation.
+- **`keys/EXPECTED_FINGERPRINT` pin now consulted at every public-key load site.** Previously only `lib/verify.js` + `scripts/verify-shipped-tarball.js` checked the pin. `lib/refresh-network.js` and `bin/exceptd.js attest verify` both loaded `keys/public.pem` and trusted it without the cross-check. A coordinated attacker who tampered with `keys/public.pem` on the operator's host (e.g. via a prior compromised refresh) passed every check because the local↔tarball fingerprints matched each other. Now the pin is the external trust anchor at all four load sites. Honors `KEYS_ROTATED=1` env to allow legitimate rotation without re-bootstrap; missing pin file degrades to warn-and-continue.
+
+### CI workflow security (audit N)
+
+- **`atlas-currency.yml` script-injection sink closed (CWE-1395).** `${{ steps.currency.outputs.report }}` was interpolated directly into a github-script template literal; the `report` value is unescaped output of `node orchestrator/index.js currency`. A skill author who landed a string containing a backtick followed by `${process.exit(0)}` (or worse, an exfil to a webhook with `${process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN}`) got arbitrary JS execution inside the github-script runtime with the workflow's token. Now routed via `env.REPORT_TEXT` and read inside the script body as `process.env.REPORT_TEXT`.
+- **`refresh.yml` shell-injection from `workflow_dispatch` input closed (CWE-78).** `${{ inputs.source }}` was interpolated directly into a bash `run:` block. An operator passing `kev; rm -rf /; #` got shell injection inside the runner. Now routed via `env.SOURCE_INPUT` and validated against `^[a-z,]+$` (the documented `kev,epss,nvd,rfc,pins` allowlist shape) before passing to the CLI.
+- `actions/checkout` SHA comments aligned across `ci.yml`/`release.yml`/`scorecard.yml` (no SHA change; comment-only).
+- `secret-scan` job declares explicit `permissions: contents: read` (survives a future repo visibility flip).
+- `gitleaks` resolver now has a hardcoded fallback version + non-fatal failure path so a GitHub API HTML-error response doesn't block every CI run.
+- New `tests/workflows-security.test.js` enforces: no `${{ steps.*.outputs.* }}` inside github-script template literals; no `${{ inputs.* }}` inside bash `run:` blocks; every third-party action is SHA-pinned; every workflow declares `permissions:`.
+
+### CLI hardening (audit L)
+
+- **`--block-on-jurisdiction-clock` now honored on `cmdRun`.** Previously the flag was registered + documented but only `cmdCi` consumed it; `run --block-on-jurisdiction-clock` exited 0 even when an NIS2 24h clock had started. Now both verbs exit 5 (`CLOCK_STARTED`) when any notification action has a non-null `clock_started_at` and an unacked operator consent.
+- **`cmdIngest` auto-detects piped stdin.** Mirrors the `cmdRun` shape — `echo '{...}' | exceptd ingest` now works without an explicit `--evidence -`.
+- **`--vex` validates document shape before applying.** Previously any malformed JSON (SARIF, SBOM, CSAF advisory by mistake) resulted in a silent empty filter; now CycloneDX (`vulnerabilities[]` or `bomFormat: 'CycloneDX'`) or OpenVEX (`statements[]` + `@context` on openvex.dev) shape required before the filter is consumed.
+- **`cmdReattest` verifies the `.sig` sidecar** before consuming the prior attestation. A tampered attestation is no longer silently consumed for the drift verdict. `--force-replay` available for legitimate ack-of-divergence.
+- **`--operator <name>` validated**: rejects ASCII control chars + newlines; caps length at 256; rejects all-whitespace. Closes the "multi-line operator forgery" surface in CSAF / attest export rendering.
+- **`--diff-from-latest` result surfaced in human renderer**: operators running with `--diff-from-latest` and no `--json` now see a `> drift vs prior: <status>` line.
+- **Cross-playbook jurisdiction clock rollup** in `cmdRunMulti` / `cmdCi`: deduped by `(jurisdiction, regulation, obligation, window_hours)`, `triggered_by_playbooks[]` lists contributors. Operators running 13 playbooks no longer draft 8 separate NIS2 24h notifications.
+- `--block-on-jurisdiction-clock` exit code split from `FAIL` (exit 2) → `CLOCK_STARTED` (exit 5). CI gates can distinguish "detected" from "clock fired".
+- `cmdReattest --since` validated as parseable ISO-8601.
+
+### Scoring math hardening (audit J)
+
+- `scoreCustom` now treats `active_exploitation: 'unknown'` as `0.25 × weight` (was 0) — aligning with `playbook-runner._activeExploitationLadder` semantics so catalog-side and runtime-side scoring agree.
+- New `deriveRwepFromFactors(factors)` helper exported; detects whether `rwep_factors` is in Shape A (boolean inputs to `scoreCustom`) or Shape B (numeric weighted contributions) and produces a consistent score. Documents the dual-semantics so the rename can land cleanly in v0.13.0.
+- `validateFactors` NaN/Infinity diagnostics now use `Number.isFinite` with dedicated messages (was misleading "expected number, got number (null)").
+- `validateFactors` flags unknown factor keys ("unknown factor: X (ignored)").
+- `scoreCustom(factors, {collectWarnings: true})` returns `_rwep_raw_unclamped` so operators see deduction magnitude even when the floor clamp absorbs negative weights.
+- `compare()` "broadly aligned" band tightened from ±20 to ±10. The Copy Fail RWEP-vs-CVSS divergence (delta 12) now correctly surfaces as "significantly higher than CVSS equivalent."
+- `Math.floor(20/2)` arithmetic replaced with `RWEP_WEIGHTS.active_exploitation * 0.5` (no behavior change today; closes a future odd-weight asymmetry).
+
+### Curation + auto-discovery + prefetch (audit M)
+
+- **Hidden second scoring path in `lib/cve-curation.js` closed.** The apply path previously derived `rwep_score` via `Object.values(rwep_factors).reduce(sum, 0)` — bypassing `scoring.js` entirely. Replaced with `deriveRwepFromFactors()`.
+- **Auto-discovery RWEP divergence closed.** `lib/auto-discovery.js` previously stored `rwep_factors` with null values for poc_available/ai_*/reboot_required while calling `scoreCustom` with `true` defaults; stored factors and stored score were inconsistent and `scoring.validate()` always flagged it. New `buildScoringInputs(kev, nvd)` is the single source of truth.
+- **`lib/prefetch.js` GITHUB_TOKEN now reaches the request.** The auth lookup keyed off source name `"github"` but the registered source is `"pins"` — anonymous rate-limit applied even when `GITHUB_TOKEN` was set. Fixed.
+- **`lib/prefetch.js` docs corrected**: header comment + `printHelp()` no longer reference non-existent source names `ietf` and `github`.
+- **`readCached` no longer returns stale data as fresh** when `fetched_at` is missing/corrupt (the `NaN > maxAgeMs === false` short-circuit was treating undefined-age entries as eternally-fresh).
+
+### Playbook quality (audit K)
+
+- **Mutex reciprocity validator** in `lib/validate-playbooks.js`: walks every `_meta.mutex` entry, emits WARNING per asymmetric edge. Reciprocity backfilled across 7 mutex relationships (secrets↔library-author, kernel↔hardening, containers↔library-author, etc.).
+- **`containers → sbom` feeds_into edge** added (container-image-layer SBOM matching against KEV-listed CVEs is a primary v0.12.x use case but wasn't declared).
+- **Domain CVE refs backfilled** where threat_context cited CVEs without referencing them: `runtime.cve_refs += CVE-2026-31431`, `ai-api.cve_refs += CVE-2026-30615`. `containers` threat_context's stale `CVE-2024-21626` (not in catalog) stripped.
+- **ATLAS refs backfilled**: `cred-stores.atlas_refs += AML.T0055` (Unsecured Credentials), `containers.atlas_refs += AML.T0010` (ML Supply Chain).
+- **Artifact type enum drift normalized**: 19 occurrences across crypto-codebase / crypto / library-author / mcp / sbom of `"file_path"` and `"log_pattern"` rewritten to the schema enum (`"file"` / `"log"`).
+- **Indicator type enum drift normalized**: 3 occurrences in `library-author` of `"api_response"` rewritten to `"api_call_sequence"`.
+- **FP-check backfill** on library-author indicators (publish-workflow-action-refs-mutable + tag-protection-absent) — gold-standard pattern from `gha-workflow-script-injection-sink` extended to two more high-confidence indicators.
+
+### Repository
+
+- `data/cve-catalog.json` synthetic test-pollution entry (`CVE-9999-99999`) removed (left by a test run that used the real catalog path).
+- 29 new RWEP vector regression tests in `tests/scoring-vectors.test.js`.
+- 8 new workflow-security regression tests in `tests/workflows-security.test.js`.
+- `validate-playbooks.js` now reports 12/13 PASS + 1 WARN (was 8 PASS + 5 WARN before normalization).
+
+Test count: 701 → 738 (+37: 29 scoring vectors + 8 workflow-security). Predeploy gates: 14/14. Skills: 38/38 signed and verified.
+
 ## 0.12.15 — 2026-05-14
 
 **Patch: e2e RWEP factor-scaling fix + audit-surfaced silent-disable regressions. v0.12.14 publish payload.**