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package/README.md

@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ explanation rather than guessed at, because per ECMAScript an offset-less
 date-time string is *local* time while the date-only form is UTC — so the
 same spec would mean different instants on two machines.
 
+`RuleScore` adds points as exact decimals, not binary floats, so `0.7 + 0.1`
+is `0.8` and meets a band at `0.8`, and the total does not depend on the
+order the rules are declared in.
+
 An epoch outside the ±8.64e15 ms a `Date` can represent is rejected by name
 for the same reason: the field that parsed it is the only place that still
 knows which of a spec's several instants was the bad one, and left to reach a
@@ -137,6 +141,12 @@ Two details worth knowing:
   `capacity`, which is retryable in general — but that particular one
   resolves to `escalate`, and a caller reading the boolean would otherwise
   re-run the identical command and be killed identically.
+- **A `Retry-After` date is read only with its zone written.** The RFC 9110
+  HTTP-date forms (GMT by definition), an RFC 5322 date with its zone
+  (`+0200`, `UTC`, `-0000`, `PDT`), and an ISO-8601 instant with an offset
+  (`T` or a space before the time) are the same instant on every machine; a
+  date with no zone is not read at all, rather than read as the host's local
+  time. A date that does not exist (30 February, hour 24) is not read either.
 - **Message matching uses substrings, not regular expressions.** That text
   comes from a remote server, and a pattern with nested quantifiers there is
   a denial of service waiting to happen. Caller-supplied rules may use a
@@ -146,33 +156,32 @@ Exit code `1` is deliberately unclassified. It is the generic "it failed" and
 says nothing about why, so claiming a class for it would be inventing
 information.
 
-## A known limitation: regex denial of service
-
-The `matches` and `notMatches` ops compile a caller-supplied pattern and run
-it against caller-supplied text. JavaScript's regex engine backtracks, so a
-pattern with nested quantifiers against text that *nearly* matches can take
-seconds of CPU:
-
-```
-^(([a-z])+.)+[A-Z]([a-z])+$   against 60 lowercase letters   ~2.7s
-```
-
-This is a property of the shared check grammar in `@crewhaus/tool-schema`,
-not of this package — the `Assert` tool has the same exposure, and both are
-reachable with operator-written or model-written patterns matched against
-text a harness fetched from somewhere else.
-
-Two things reduce it, neither of which is a fix:
-
-- `ErrorClassify` matches `message` and `code` **separately** rather than
-  joining them. A pattern anchored with `$` against a joined string can never
-  match, and a pattern that can never match is precisely the worst case for a
-  backtracking engine — joining the fields manufactured that for free.
-- `ErrorClassify`'s builtin packs use substrings, never patterns, so the
-  default path compiles no regex at all.
-
-A real fix has to live in the shared evaluator: reject nested-quantifier
-patterns before compiling them, or match with an engine that does not
-backtrack. Until then, treat `matches` as trusted-pattern-only, and prefer
-`contains`, `startsWith` and `endsWith` — which are linear — where they will
-do.
+## Caller patterns: off the thread, and never a guessed miss
+
+The `matches` and `notMatches` ops, and an `ErrorClassify` rule's `matches`,
+run a caller-supplied pattern against caller-supplied text. JavaScript's regex
+engine backtracks, so a synchronous match can hold the whole process
+(`a*a*a*a*b` against 200 letters: 3.7 s; against 400: 108 s), and when the
+engine gives up on a match it answers "no match".
+
+So no tool here runs one on the caller's thread. Before evaluating, each tool
+asks every pattern its arms, rows, rules, owners or steps will test, answers
+them all in one `@crewhaus/tool-safety` regex worker under a five-second
+deadline, and then evaluates with the answers (the shared machinery is in
+`@crewhaus/tool-schema`). A pattern the screen refuses (a shape that
+backtracks exponentially, such as `(a+)+`) fails its check as an invalid
+regex does, and an `ErrorClassify` rule with one is an invalid rule. A pattern
+that cannot be run to an answer (the deadline, the engine giving up, which
+includes a no-match slower than 100 ms) decides nothing:
+
+- `Branch` takes no arm, and not `otherwise`, and says which arm was undecided;
+- `DecisionTable` gives no outputs when the undecided row could change them;
+- `RuleScore` gives a null score and band, and lists the undecided rules;
+- `LeadAssign` refuses, as it does for an owner missing a load;
+- `SequenceRun` holds the step in `undetermined`, and the flow is `blocked`;
+- `ErrorClassify` answers class `unknown`, action `escalate`, source
+  `undetermined`, never a later rule's or a builtin pack's answer.
+
+`ErrorClassify` still matches `message` and `code` separately (a pattern
+anchored with `$` against a joined string could never match), and its
+builtin packs still use substrings, never patterns.

package/dist/index.d.ts

@@ -12,3 +12,9 @@ export declare const sequenceRun: RegisteredTool;
 /** Every tool this package registers, in the order a catalog should list them. */
 export declare const FLOW_TOOLS: ReadonlyArray<RegisteredTool>;
 export type { Check };
+/**
+ * The strict RFC 9110 HTTP-date reader ErrorClassify uses, for any package
+ * that turns a Retry-After or an Expires header into an instant: it never
+ * reads a zone-less date as the host's local time.
+ */
+export { parseHttpDate } from "./lib/http-date";

package/dist/index.js

@@ -21,14 +21,14 @@
  * operator learns one grammar.
  */
 import { buildTool } from "@crewhaus/tool-builder";
-import { ASSERT_OPS } from "@crewhaus/tool-schema";
+import { ASSERT_OPS, RegexAnswers, askCheckPatterns, regexRunContext, } from "@crewhaus/tool-schema";
 import { z } from "zod";
 import { ASSIGN_STRATEGIES, assignOwner } from "./lib/assign";
 import { evaluateBranches } from "./lib/branch";
 import { VOTE_MODES, tallyVotes } from "./lib/consensus";
 import { checkDeadline } from "./lib/deadline";
 import { HIT_POLICIES, evaluateTable } from "./lib/decision";
-import { ERROR_CLASSES, NEXT_ACTIONS, classifyError } from "./lib/errors";
+import { ERROR_CLASSES, NEXT_ACTIONS, askErrorPatterns, classifyError, } from "./lib/errors";
 import { scoreValue } from "./lib/score";
 import { planSequence } from "./lib/sequence";
 import { detectStall } from "./lib/stall";
@@ -102,6 +102,21 @@ function parseInstant(value, field) {
     return parsed;
 }
 const instantField = z.union([z.string(), z.number()]);
+/**
+ * Answer every `matches` pattern the given check lists will test against
+ * `value`, in the regex worker, before any of them is evaluated. The
+ * evaluators then read the answers and never run a caller's pattern on this
+ * thread; a pattern with no answer leaves its arm, row, rule, owner or step
+ * undetermined rather than unmatched.
+ */
+async function answerChecks(value, lists, ctx) {
+    const regex = new RegexAnswers();
+    for (const list of lists)
+        if (list !== undefined)
+            askCheckPatterns(value, list, regex);
+    await regex.resolve(regexRunContext(ctx));
+    return regex;
+}
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 export const branch = buildTool({
     name: "Branch",
@@ -128,16 +143,17 @@ export const branch = buildTool({
     }),
     readOnly: true,
     concurrencySafe: true,
-    execute: async (input) => {
-        const outcome = evaluateBranches(input.value, input.arms, {
-            otherwise: input.otherwise,
-        });
+    execute: async (input, ctx) => {
+        const arms = input.arms;
+        const regex = await answerChecks(input.value, arms.map((arm) => arm.when), ctx);
+        const outcome = evaluateBranches(input.value, arms, { otherwise: input.otherwise, regex });
         const body = {
             matched: outcome.matched,
             name: outcome.name,
             index: outcome.index,
             fallback: outcome.fallback,
             result: outcome.result,
+            ...(outcome.undetermined === undefined ? {} : { undetermined: outcome.undetermined }),
             ...(input.verbose ? { evaluated: outcome.evaluated } : {}),
         };
         return json(body);
@@ -164,7 +180,11 @@ export const decisionTable = buildTool({
     }),
     readOnly: true,
     concurrencySafe: true,
-    execute: async (input) => json(evaluateTable(input.value, input)),
+    execute: async (input, ctx) => {
+        const table = input;
+        const regex = await answerChecks(input.value, table.rows.map((row) => row.when), ctx);
+        return json(evaluateTable(input.value, table, { regex }));
+    },
 });
 export const errorClassify = buildTool({
     name: "ErrorClassify",
@@ -181,7 +201,7 @@ export const errorClassify = buildTool({
         retryAfter: z
             .string()
             .optional()
-            .describe("the raw Retry-After header: seconds or an HTTP-date"),
+            .describe("the raw Retry-After header: seconds or an HTTP-date (always GMT); a date with no zone is not read"),
         attempt: z.number().int().positive().optional().describe("1-based attempt number"),
         maxAttempts: z.number().int().positive().optional(),
         now: instantField
@@ -204,9 +224,14 @@ export const errorClassify = buildTool({
     }),
     readOnly: true,
     concurrencySafe: true,
-    execute: async (input) => {
+    execute: async (input, ctx) => {
         const nowMs = input.now === undefined ? Date.now() : parseInstant(input.now, "now");
-        return json(classifyError(input, { rules: input.rules, nowMs }));
+        const rules = input.rules;
+        // The caller rules' patterns run in the worker, against the error text.
+        const regex = new RegexAnswers();
+        askErrorPatterns(input, rules ?? [], regex);
+        await regex.resolve(regexRunContext(ctx));
+        return json(classifyError(input, { rules, nowMs, regex }));
     },
 });
 export const deadlineCheck = buildTool({
@@ -341,8 +366,10 @@ export const ruleScore = buildTool({
     }),
     readOnly: true,
     concurrencySafe: true,
-    execute: async (input) => {
-        const result = scoreValue(input.value, input);
+    execute: async (input, ctx) => {
+        const model = input;
+        const regex = await answerChecks(input.value, model.rules.map((rule) => rule.when), ctx);
+        const result = scoreValue(input.value, model, { regex });
         if (input.includeMissed)
             return json(result);
         const { missed: _missed, ...rest } = result;
@@ -391,8 +418,10 @@ export const leadAssign = buildTool({
     }),
     readOnly: true,
     concurrencySafe: true,
-    execute: async (input) => {
-        const { considered, ...rest } = assignOwner(input.value, input);
+    execute: async (input, ctx) => {
+        const roster = input;
+        const regex = await answerChecks(input.value, roster.owners.map((owner) => owner.when), ctx);
+        const { considered, ...rest } = assignOwner(input.value, roster, { regex });
         return json(input.verbose ? { ...rest, considered } : rest);
     },
 });
@@ -433,7 +462,7 @@ export const sequenceRun = buildTool({
     }),
     readOnly: true,
     concurrencySafe: true,
-    execute: async (input) => {
+    execute: async (input, ctx) => {
         const nowMs = input.now === undefined ? Date.now() : parseInstant(input.now, "now");
         // Each `after` is parsed here and dropped, so the planner can only read
         // the parsed number: a step can never end up gated on an offset-less
@@ -444,7 +473,8 @@ export const sequenceRun = buildTool({
             afterMs: after === undefined ? undefined : parseInstant(after, `step "${step.id}" after`),
             when: step.when,
         }));
-        return json(planSequence(input.value, { version: input.version, steps }, { nowMs, completed: input.completed, failed: input.failed }));
+        const regex = await answerChecks(input.value, steps.map((step) => step.when), ctx);
+        return json(planSequence(input.value, { version: input.version, steps }, { nowMs, completed: input.completed, failed: input.failed }, { regex }));
     },
 });
 /** Every tool this package registers, in the order a catalog should list them. */
@@ -459,3 +489,9 @@ export const FLOW_TOOLS = Object.freeze([
     sequenceRun,
     stallDetect,
 ]);
+/**
+ * The strict RFC 9110 HTTP-date reader ErrorClassify uses, for any package
+ * that turns a Retry-After or an Expires header into an instant: it never
+ * reads a zone-less date as the host's local time.
+ */
+export { parseHttpDate } from "./lib/http-date";

package/dist/lib/assign.d.ts

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
  *   "Nobody is eligible" and "I could not work out who is" are different
  *   answers, and only the first one uses `fallback`.
  */
-import { type Check } from "@crewhaus/tool-schema";
+import { type Check, type RegexAnswers } from "@crewhaus/tool-schema";
 import type { MatchMode } from "./branch";
 /** How the winner is picked from the owners that are eligible. */
 export declare const ASSIGN_STRATEGIES: readonly ["first", "specific", "least_loaded", "round_robin"];
@@ -119,4 +119,6 @@ export type AssignResult = {
  *   it false and so reads as the lowest load in the roster. A cursor that is
  *   not a whole position goes the same way.
  */
-export declare function assignOwner(value: unknown, roster: Roster): AssignResult;
+export declare function assignOwner(value: unknown, roster: Roster, options?: {
+    readonly regex?: RegexAnswers;
+}): AssignResult;

package/dist/lib/assign.js

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
  *   "Nobody is eligible" and "I could not work out who is" are different
  *   answers, and only the first one uses `fallback`.
  */
-import { runChecks } from "@crewhaus/tool-schema";
+import { checksVerdict, runChecks } from "@crewhaus/tool-schema";
 /** How the winner is picked from the owners that are eligible. */
 export const ASSIGN_STRATEGIES = ["first", "specific", "least_loaded", "round_robin"];
 /**
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ const specificityOf = (owner) => (owner.match ?? "all") === "all" ? owner.when.l
  *   it false and so reads as the lowest load in the roster. A cursor that is
  *   not a whole position goes the same way.
  */
-export function assignOwner(value, roster) {
+export function assignOwner(value, roster, options = {}) {
     if (roster.owners.length === 0)
         throw new Error("the roster has no owners");
     const seen = new Set();
@@ -84,11 +84,22 @@ export function assignOwner(value, roster) {
     /** Facts the strategy needs and the roster did not supply; see below. */
     const undetermined = [];
     for (const [index, owner] of roster.owners.entries()) {
-        const report = runChecks(value, owner.when);
-        const passes = (owner.match ?? "all") === "all" ? report.ok : report.passed > 0;
+        const report = runChecks(value, owner.when, options.regex === undefined ? {} : { regex: options.regex });
+        const verdict = checksVerdict(report, owner.match ?? "all");
+        const passes = verdict === "pass";
         const out = (reason) => {
             considered.push({ id: owner.id, eligible: false, reason, matched: report.passed });
         };
+        // A territory whose pattern had no answer is neither in nor out, like an
+        // owner missing a fact the strategy needs, and the answer refuses rather
+        // than hand the lead to someone else.
+        if (verdict === "undetermined") {
+            const why = report.failures.find((f) => f.undetermined === true)?.reason ?? "";
+            const reason = `owner "${owner.id}" could not be decided: ${why}`;
+            undetermined.push(reason);
+            considered.push({ id: owner.id, eligible: null, reason, matched: report.passed });
+            continue;
+        }
         if (!passes) {
             out(report.failures[0]?.reason ?? "no condition held");
             continue;

package/dist/lib/branch.d.ts

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * here: an operator who learns `startsWith` from Assert gets the same
  * operator, with the same semantics, in a branch.
  */
-import { type Check } from "@crewhaus/tool-schema";
+import { type Check, type RegexAnswers } from "@crewhaus/tool-schema";
 /** Whether every check must hold, or any one of them. */
 export type MatchMode = "all" | "any";
 /** One arm of the branch. `when` is never empty — see {@link evaluateBranches}. */
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ export type ArmReport = {
     readonly failed: number;
     /** The first failing check's reason; empty when the arm matched. */
     readonly reason: string;
+    /** Set when the arm could not be decided: a pattern had no answer. */
+    readonly undetermined?: true;
 };
 export type BranchOutcome = {
     readonly matched: boolean;
@@ -39,6 +41,12 @@ export type BranchOutcome = {
     readonly fallback: boolean;
     /** Every arm evaluated, in order, up to and including the winner. */
     readonly evaluated: ReadonlyArray<ArmReport>;
+    /**
+     * Why no route was taken, when an arm could not be decided: its pattern
+     * had no answer. Later arms and `otherwise` are not tried, because the
+     * undecided arm might have been the one that matched.
+     */
+    readonly undetermined?: string;
 };
 export type BranchOptions = {
     /** Used when no arm matches. Without it, a miss returns `matched: false`. */
@@ -46,6 +54,8 @@ export type BranchOptions = {
         readonly name: string;
         readonly result?: unknown;
     };
+    /** Answers for the arms' `matches` patterns, resolved by the caller in the worker. */
+    readonly regex?: RegexAnswers;
 };
 /**
  * Evaluate `rules` against `value` in order and return the first match.

package/dist/lib/branch.js

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * here: an operator who learns `startsWith` from Assert gets the same
  * operator, with the same semantics, in a branch.
  */
-import { runChecks } from "@crewhaus/tool-schema";
+import { checksVerdict, runChecks } from "@crewhaus/tool-schema";
 /**
  * Evaluate `rules` against `value` in order and return the first match.
  *
@@ -41,16 +41,36 @@ export function evaluateBranches(value, rules, options = {}) {
     const evaluated = [];
     for (const [index, rule] of rules.entries()) {
         const mode = rule.match ?? "all";
-        const report = runChecks(value, rule.when);
-        const ok = mode === "all" ? report.ok : report.passed > 0;
+        const report = runChecks(value, rule.when, options.regex === undefined ? {} : { regex: options.regex });
+        const verdict = checksVerdict(report, mode);
+        const ok = verdict === "pass";
+        const undecided = report.failures.find((f) => f.undetermined === true);
         evaluated.push({
             name: rule.name,
             index,
             ok,
             passed: report.passed,
             failed: report.failed,
-            reason: ok ? "" : (report.failures[0]?.reason ?? ""),
+            reason: ok
+                ? ""
+                : ((verdict === "undetermined" ? undecided?.reason : undefined) ??
+                    report.failures[0]?.reason ??
+                    ""),
+            ...(verdict === "undetermined" ? { undetermined: true } : {}),
         });
+        if (verdict === "undetermined") {
+            // A router that fell through here would take a later arm, or the
+            // default, on the strength of an answer it never got.
+            return {
+                matched: false,
+                name: null,
+                index: null,
+                result: undefined,
+                fallback: false,
+                evaluated,
+                undetermined: `arm "${rule.name}" could not be decided: ${undecided?.reason ?? "a check had no answer"}`,
+            };
+        }
         if (ok) {
             return {
                 matched: true,