@event4u/agent-config 14.6.0 → 14.8.0

package/src/scripts/lint_framework_leakage_allowlist.json

@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@
       "reason": "Quoted anti-example ('❌ Describing how Laravel middleware works') — the line teaches what NOT to write."
     },
     {
-      "file": "src/skills/skill-writing/SKILL.md",
+      "file": "src/skills/skill-writing/references/procedure.md",
       "anchor": "Use when creating Laravel middleware for request filtering",
-      "reason": "Quoted description examples + the 'too-broad skill (Laravel skill)' anti-pattern — meta content."
+      "reason": "Quoted description examples + the 'too-broad skill (Laravel skill)' anti-pattern — meta content. Repointed 2026-08-20: the K6 router-head retrofit moved the quoted description examples out of the head into references/procedure.md, so the anchor no longer matched its file and the entry exempted nothing. The content is unchanged and still meta."
     },
     {
       "file": "src/skills/supply-chain-intake/SKILL.md",

package/src/scripts/lint_hook_manifest.ts

@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ function _check_concerns(manifest: YamlObject, errors: string[]): Set<string> {
     return new Set();
   }
   const names = new Set<string>();
+  const nudgeRanks = new Map<number, string[]>();
   for (const [name, spec] of Object.entries(concernsRaw)) {
     if (!isObject(spec)) {
       errors.push(
@@ -213,8 +214,56 @@ function _check_concerns(manifest: YamlObject, errors: string[]): Set<string> {
         }
       }
     }
+    // `nudge_rank:` — the nudge-exclusivity ordering `injection_budget`
+    // arbitrates on. Validated here because `injection_budget._selectNudge`
+    // says so in as many words: "a tie is a manifest defect rather than a
+    // runtime one, and `lint_hook_manifest` is where it should eventually be
+    // caught — that check does not exist yet and this comment is the honest
+    // statement of the gap". This is that check.
+    //
+    // A tie is not a crash. `_selectNudge` keeps the lowest rank and breaks
+    // ties on concern name, so a collision resolves stably and arbitrarily:
+    // one nudge silently wins forever, and the author who added the second one
+    // gets no signal that their concern can never emit. That is the failure
+    // mode — silent, not loud.
+    if ("nudge_rank" in spec) {
+      const rank = spec["nudge_rank"];
+      if (typeof rank !== "number" || !Number.isInteger(rank) || rank < 1) {
+        errors.push(
+          `concerns.${name}: 'nudge_rank' must be a positive integer ` +
+            `(got ${pyTypeName(rank)}) — the dispatcher keeps the LOWEST rank, ` +
+            `so a malformed value reads as "never wins" rather than as an error`,
+        );
+      } else {
+        const seen = nudgeRanks.get(rank);
+        if (seen) {
+          seen.push(name);
+        } else {
+          nudgeRanks.set(rank, [name]);
+        }
+      }
+    }
     names.add(name);
   }
+  // Uniqueness is enforced GLOBALLY, not per event, and that is a deliberate
+  // choice rather than an accident of what is easy to compute. `_selectNudge`
+  // compares candidates within one dispatch, so two concerns bound to disjoint
+  // events could share a rank harmlessly and the accurate invariant is
+  // per-event. Global uniqueness is the strictly-safe superset: it costs
+  // nothing at today's two declared ranks, and an author reusing a rank across
+  // events is exactly the confusion worth refusing. If a legitimate design
+  // ever needs the same rank on two events, NARROW this to concerns sharing at
+  // least one bound event — do not delete it.
+  for (const [rank, holders] of nudgeRanks) {
+    if (holders.length > 1) {
+      errors.push(
+        `concerns: nudge_rank ${rank} is declared by ${holders.length} concerns ` +
+          `(${holders.slice().sort().join(", ")}) — ranks must be unique, because ` +
+          `the dispatcher breaks a tie on concern name and the loser can then ` +
+          `never emit`,
+      );
+    }
+  }
   return names;
 }
 

package/src/scripts/lint_plan_risk_register.ts

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ import { fileURLToPath, pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
 
 import { parse as parseYaml } from 'yaml';
 
+import { isAcceptanceCriteriaHeading } from './_lib/ac_heading.js';
 import { workspaceIdentity } from './_lib/git_common_dir.js';
 import { gitEnv } from './_lib/git_env.js';
 import { splitMarkdownRow } from './_lib/md_table.js';
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ import { assertScanned, DeadScopeError } from './_lib/scan_scope.js';
  */
 export const RISK_REGISTER_GATE_ACTIVATION = '2026-08-04';
 
-const MARKER_RE =
+export const MARKER_RE =
     /^<!--\s*risk-review:\s*v1\s*\|\s*reviewed:\s*(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\s*\|\s*reviewer:\s*(.+?)\s*-->\s*$/;
 const HONEST_NULL_RE = /^\*\*Honest-null:\*\*(.*)$/;
 const CHECKBOX_RE = /^\s*- \[( |x|~|-)\]/;
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ export interface PlanFeatures {
     phaseHeadings: string[];
     /** Total count of deliverable checkbox lines (state-insensitive). */
     checkboxCount: number;
-    /** sha256 of the `## Acceptance Criteria` section body (checkbox state normalized). */
+    /** sha256 of the acceptance-criteria section body (heading matched per `_lib/ac_heading`; checkbox state normalized). */
     acHash: string;
 }
 
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ export function extractFeatures(text: string): PlanFeatures {
         if (CHECKBOX_RE.test(entry.line)) {
             checkboxCount += 1;
         }
-        if (/^##\s+Acceptance Criteria\s*$/.test(entry.line)) {
+        if (isAcceptanceCriteriaHeading(entry.line)) {
             acStart = i;
         }
     }

package/src/scripts/lint_provenance_vocabulary.ts

@@ -26,18 +26,42 @@
  *   3. Number cross-check — every N/D figure inside a scope box MUST also
  *      appear, verbatim, somewhere in `docs/CLAIMS.md` — a box number that
  *      drifts from the ledger is a build failure, not a doc nit.
+ *   4. Permanence language — an ADR record MUST NOT assert that its decision
+ *      is permanent in a load-bearing position (its `# ` title, its
+ *      `decision:` slug, its `## Decision` section, an `Addendum`). ADR-239
+ *      § 6 is the doctrine and ADR-208 the standing demonstration: its title
+ *      says the tree is kept forever, its Decision says KEEP permanently, and
+ *      its own frontmatter carries the conditions under which it is reopened.
+ *      A record cannot be both. Two escapes, both enforced here: permanence
+ *      scoped to an EXTERNAL invariant with the condition under which that
+ *      invariant stops applying stated in the same section, or an owner
+ *      purpose statement recorded as `authority_basis: owner_intent`.
+ *      Describing positions — `## Alternatives considered`, `## Consequences`,
+ *      `## Context`, an `## Amendment`, a quoted open question, a table
+ *      rationale cell — are NOT violations.
  *
  * Scan surfaces: README.md + every `docs/**\/*.md` file (recursive). No
  * marketing/install-output text file carries this vocabulary today — this is
- * the single place to widen SCAN_ROOTS when one does.
+ * the single place to widen SCAN_ROOTS when one does. Rule 4 adds no root: it
+ * filters the already-walked `docs/**` set down to ADR records
+ * ({@link isAdrRecord}) rather than widening the walk, which is why it lives
+ * here instead of in a new gate script (a new gate costs seven wiring
+ * surfaces for the same coverage).
  *
- * Exit codes: 0 clean · 1 violations found.
+ * Two verdicts. Rules 1-3 hard-fail. Rule 4 is a RATCHET against
+ * `lint_provenance_vocabulary:permanence-language` in
+ * `src/config/gate-violation-baselines.json`, because the corpus carries real
+ * violations today and a gate that lands as five instant blockers is a shape
+ * this repository has already refused. A new record still hard-fails.
+ *
+ * Exit codes: 0 clean · 1 violations found (either verdict).
  */
 
 import * as fs from 'node:fs';
 import * as path from 'node:path';
 import { fileURLToPath, pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
 
+import { checkRatchet } from './_lib/gate_baseline.js';
 import { assertScanned, DeadScopeError } from './_lib/scan_scope.js';
 
 const _HERE = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
@@ -362,6 +386,387 @@ export function lintFile(text: string, file: string, claimsText: string): Violat
     ];
 }
 
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// 4. Permanence language in ADR records
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * ADR record roots.
+ *
+ * Both already sit under `docs`, which {@link SCAN_ROOTS} walks — these roots
+ * do NOT widen the walk, they IDENTIFY which of the already-read files is an
+ * ADR record. Every other `docs/**` file is untouched by this rule.
+ */
+export const ADR_RECORD_ROOTS: readonly string[] = ['docs/decisions', 'docs/adrs'];
+
+/** Ratchet key in `src/config/gate-violation-baselines.json`. */
+export const PERMANENCE_GATE = 'lint_provenance_vocabulary:permanence-language';
+
+/**
+ * True for a flat `docs/decisions/ADR-*.md` record or a per-area
+ * `docs/adrs/<area>/<n>-*.md` record. A per-area `README.md` is an index, not
+ * a record, and is excluded on both surfaces — so are the non-ADR documents
+ * that share `docs/decisions/` (sweep artifacts, reclassification logs).
+ */
+export function isAdrRecord(rel: string): boolean {
+    const posix = rel.split(path.sep).join('/');
+    const base = posix.slice(posix.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
+    if (!base.endsWith('.md') || base === 'README.md') return false;
+    if (posix.startsWith('docs/decisions/')) return /^ADR-/.test(base);
+    if (posix.startsWith('docs/adrs/')) return /^\d/.test(base);
+    return false;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The four positions where a permanence claim is LOAD-BEARING — the record is
+ * asserting permanence rather than describing, historicising, or rejecting it.
+ *
+ * - `title` — the `# ` heading; it is the record's name in every citation.
+ * - `slug` — the `decision:` frontmatter value; machine-visible, so a
+ *   permanence claim there is carried by every tool that reads the field.
+ * - `decision` — the `## Decision` section's own prose.
+ * - `addendum` — an `Addendum` heading at any level. Both corpus instances
+ *   (ADR-122, ADR-124) assert a permanently-off default, which is the same
+ *   claim shape as ADR-208's Decision, so they are in scope. `Amendment` is
+ *   deliberately NOT: an amendment revises or historicises an earlier claim.
+ *
+ * Everything else is out of scope by construction: `## Alternatives
+ * considered` rejects a permanence option, `## Consequences` reports one,
+ * `## Context` recounts one, and an `## Open question` quotes one. Scoping is
+ * the whole gate — the same word list applied to whole files matches 41 lines
+ * across 30 records, and the large majority of them are legitimate.
+ */
+export type PermanenceRegion = 'title' | 'slug' | 'decision' | 'addendum';
+
+interface Region {
+    kind: PermanenceRegion;
+    /** First line index of the region (0-based, inclusive). */
+    start: number;
+    /** Last line index of the region (0-based, inclusive). */
+    end: number;
+}
+
+const FM_DELIM_RE = /^---[ \t]*$/;
+const ANY_HEADING_RE = /^#{1,6}[ \t]+/;
+const H1_RE = /^#[ \t]+/;
+const DECISION_KEY_RE = /^decision:/;
+// `## Decision`, `## Decisions`, `## Decision — GO`, `## Decision (Reading B)`,
+// `### Decision`. Deliberately NOT `### Decision matrix` / `### Decision owner`
+// / `### The owner's decision`: the word has to BE the heading, not open it.
+const DECISION_HEADING_RE = /^#{2,6}[ \t]+Decisions?[ \t]*(?:[—–(:\-]|$)/i;
+const ADDENDUM_HEADING_RE = /^#{2,6}[ \t]+Addendum\b/i;
+
+/**
+ * Escape 2 — an owner purpose statement, keyed on the SCHEMA field.
+ *
+ * This originally matched a bare `owner_intent: currently binding` key, which
+ * the roadmap's own draft prose named and which no schema declares anywhere in
+ * the tree (`grep -rn owner_intent docs/ src/` found it only in that prose). It
+ * was usable — nothing rejects an unknown frontmatter key — and that is exactly
+ * what made it wrong: a lint reading a field the validator does not know is a
+ * second vocabulary for one concept, and the tree would have taught two.
+ *
+ * `authority_basis: owner_intent` is the declared field
+ * (`adr-layout § Provenance and evidence`, validated by
+ * `check_adr_frontmatter.check_descriptive_axes`), and it already carries the
+ * temporal meaning the phrase was reaching for: the burden table reads it as
+ * "binding until the owner changes it". So one field, already validated, rather
+ * than a phrase that only this lint could see.
+ */
+const OWNER_INTENT_ESCAPE_RE = /^[ \t]*authority_basis:[ \t]*owner_intent[ \t]*$/m;
+
+/** The literal an owner purpose statement writes instead of "forever". */
+export const OWNER_INTENT_ESCAPE = 'authority_basis: owner_intent';
+
+/** The YAML frontmatter block, or '' when the record carries none. */
+function _frontmatterText(lines: readonly string[]): string {
+    if (lines.length === 0 || !FM_DELIM_RE.test(lines[0] ?? '')) return '';
+    for (let i = 1; i < lines.length; i++) {
+        if (FM_DELIM_RE.test(lines[i] ?? '')) return lines.slice(1, i).join('\n');
+    }
+    return '';
+}
+
+/**
+ * Single permanence words. `permanent` is matched only in a **predicative**
+ * position (see {@link PROSE_WORD_RES}) because attributively it names a
+ * thing, not the decision: "two permanent regression fixtures" (ADR-126) and
+ * "permanent migration stubs" (ADR-057) are objects that happen to persist.
+ */
+export const PERMANENCE_WORDS: readonly string[] = ['forever', 'permanently', 'permanent'];
+
+/**
+ * Multi-word equivalents. The first three are named by ADR-239 § 6;
+ * `now or in the future` is the corpus instance that made the list necessary
+ * (ADR-108's Decision statement says it instead of "forever"). `in perpetuity`
+ * and `for all time` have zero corpus hits today and are listed because they
+ * are the standard idioms for the same claim.
+ */
+export const PERMANENCE_PHRASES: readonly string[] = [
+    'never revisit',
+    'never reconsider',
+    'settled forever',
+    'now or in the future',
+    'in perpetuity',
+    'for all time',
+];
+
+/** Prose matchers. `forever` / `permanently` reject a trailing hyphen so a
+ *  compound modifier ("forever-incomplete", "permanently-parked") describing
+ *  something else is not read as a permanence claim about the decision. */
+const PROSE_WORD_RES: readonly RegExp[] = [
+    /(?<![A-Za-z0-9])forever(?![A-Za-z0-9-])/gi,
+    /(?<![A-Za-z0-9])permanently(?![A-Za-z0-9-])/gi,
+    /(?<![A-Za-z0-9])permanent(?=[ \t]*(?:[.,;:!?)*\]]|$))/gi,
+];
+
+const PHRASE_RES: readonly RegExp[] = PERMANENCE_PHRASES.map(
+    (p) =>
+        new RegExp(
+            `(?<![A-Za-z0-9])${p.split(' ').map(_escapeRegExp).join('[ \\t]+')}(?![A-Za-z0-9])`,
+            'gi',
+        ),
+);
+
+/** A hyphen-joined slug carries its words without spaces, so the slug region
+ *  matches on hyphen boundaries too (`dist-agent-src-keep-forever`). */
+const SLUG_RE = /(?<![A-Za-z0-9])(?:forever|permanent(?:ly)?)(?![A-Za-z0-9])/gi;
+
+const TABLE_ROW_RE = /^[ \t]*\|/;
+const LIST_ITEM_RE = /^[ \t]*(?:[-*+]|\d+[.)])[ \t]/;
+// A sentence break, tolerating a bold/paren/backtick close after the stop.
+const SENTENCE_SPLIT_RE = /(?<=[.!?][)*"'\]`]{0,3})[ \t]+(?=[A-Z*`[("'])/g;
+
+/**
+ * Negation and conditional markers that make a permanence word DESCRIPTIVE.
+ *
+ * Deliberately short. A wider list was tried and rejected against the corpus:
+ * `would` kills ADR-107's live claim ("commercial ship **would** require …"
+ * sits two sentences from "the suite is open-source forever"), and a bare `no`
+ * kills ADR-108's ("There is **no** commercial tier … now or in the future").
+ * Both are real violations, so a marker that silences them is worse than the
+ * noise it removes.
+ */
+const NEGATION_RE =
+    /\b(?:cannot|can't|could not|couldn't|does not|doesn't|do not|don't|did not|is not|isn't|are not|aren't|was not|were not|no longer|rather than|instead of|not a|not an|not the|neither)\b/i;
+const CONDITIONAL_RE = /(?:^|[\s(*_"'`])(?:if|unless)\b/i;
+
+/** Escape 1, half one: the permanence is scoped to an EXTERNAL invariant. */
+const EXTERNAL_INVARIANT_RE =
+    /\b(?:protocol|api compatibility|wire format|statutory|regulatory|legal obligation|licen[sc]e|licensing|contractual|upstream|external constraint|standards? body|rfc[ \t]*\d+)\b/i;
+/** Escape 1, half two: the condition under which that invariant stops. */
+const STOP_CONDITION_RE =
+    /\b(?:stops? applying|no longer applies|ceases? to apply|until|reopen(?:s|ed)?[ \t]+when|revisit(?:ed)?[ \t]+(?:if|when)|is[ \t]+retired|is[ \t]+withdrawn|expires?)\b/i;
+
+const PERMANENCE_CONSEQUENCE_BOUND =
+    'a record cannot both assert permanence and carry the conditions under which it ' +
+    'is reopened (ADR-239 § 6; ADR-208 is the standing demonstration). Two escapes: ' +
+    'scope the permanence to an external invariant AND state in the same section when ' +
+    `that invariant stops applying, or record an owner purpose statement as \`${OWNER_INTENT_ESCAPE}\``;
+
+/** Split a record into its load-bearing regions. */
+export function permanenceRegions(lines: readonly string[]): Region[] {
+    const regions: Region[] = [];
+    let bodyStart = 0;
+
+    if (lines.length > 0 && FM_DELIM_RE.test(lines[0] ?? '')) {
+        let close = -1;
+        for (let i = 1; i < lines.length; i++) {
+            if (FM_DELIM_RE.test(lines[i] ?? '')) {
+                close = i;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        if (close > 0) {
+            bodyStart = close + 1;
+            for (let i = 1; i < close; i++) {
+                if (!DECISION_KEY_RE.test(lines[i] ?? '')) continue;
+                // A folded value (`decision: >-`) continues on indented lines.
+                let end = i;
+                for (let j = i + 1; j < close; j++) {
+                    if (!/^[ \t]+\S/.test(lines[j] ?? '')) break;
+                    end = j;
+                }
+                regions.push({ kind: 'slug', start: i, end });
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    let open: Region | null = null;
+    for (let i = bodyStart; i < lines.length; i++) {
+        const line = lines[i] ?? '';
+        if (!ANY_HEADING_RE.test(line)) continue;
+        if (open !== null) {
+            open.end = i - 1;
+            regions.push(open);
+            open = null;
+        }
+        if (H1_RE.test(line)) {
+            regions.push({ kind: 'title', start: i, end: i });
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (DECISION_HEADING_RE.test(line)) {
+            open = { kind: 'decision', start: i, end: lines.length - 1 };
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (ADDENDUM_HEADING_RE.test(line)) {
+            open = { kind: 'addendum', start: i, end: lines.length - 1 };
+        }
+    }
+    if (open !== null) regions.push(open);
+    return regions;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The sentence containing the hit.
+ *
+ * Hard-wrapped prose puts a sentence's start on a previous line (ADR-055's
+ * "If Step 8 slips," is one line above its "permanent"), so the paragraph is
+ * rejoined first. The walk stops at a list-item start in both directions: the
+ * corpus writes numbered Decision clauses one item per line, and merging them
+ * imports a neighbour's markers into this item's verdict.
+ */
+function _sentenceAround(
+    lines: readonly string[],
+    region: Region,
+    lineIdx: number,
+    col: number,
+): string {
+    let top = lineIdx;
+    while (
+        top > region.start &&
+        !LIST_ITEM_RE.test(lines[top] ?? '') &&
+        (lines[top - 1] ?? '').trim() !== '' &&
+        !ANY_HEADING_RE.test(lines[top - 1] ?? '') &&
+        !TABLE_ROW_RE.test(lines[top - 1] ?? '')
+    ) {
+        top -= 1;
+    }
+    let bottom = lineIdx;
+    while (
+        bottom < region.end &&
+        (lines[bottom + 1] ?? '').trim() !== '' &&
+        !ANY_HEADING_RE.test(lines[bottom + 1] ?? '') &&
+        !LIST_ITEM_RE.test(lines[bottom + 1] ?? '') &&
+        !TABLE_ROW_RE.test(lines[bottom + 1] ?? '')
+    ) {
+        bottom += 1;
+    }
+
+    let joined = '';
+    let hitOffset = 0;
+    for (let i = top; i <= bottom; i++) {
+        const raw = lines[i] ?? '';
+        const sep = joined === '' ? '' : ' ';
+        if (i === lineIdx) {
+            const lead = raw.length - raw.trimStart().length;
+            hitOffset = joined.length + sep.length + Math.max(0, col - lead);
+        }
+        joined += sep + raw.trim();
+    }
+
+    const parts: Array<{ text: string; start: number }> = [];
+    let cursor = 0;
+    let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
+    SENTENCE_SPLIT_RE.lastIndex = 0;
+    while ((m = SENTENCE_SPLIT_RE.exec(joined)) !== null) {
+        parts.push({ text: joined.slice(cursor, m.index), start: cursor });
+        cursor = m.index + m[0].length;
+    }
+    parts.push({ text: joined.slice(cursor), start: cursor });
+    for (const p of parts) {
+        if (hitOffset >= p.start && hitOffset < p.start + p.text.length) return p.text;
+    }
+    return joined;
+}
+
+interface RawHit {
+    term: string;
+    index: number;
+}
+
+function _hits(line: string, res: readonly RegExp[]): RawHit[] {
+    const out: RawHit[] = [];
+    for (const re of res) {
+        re.lastIndex = 0;
+        let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
+        while ((m = re.exec(line)) !== null) {
+            out.push({ term: m[0], index: m.index });
+            if (m.index === re.lastIndex) re.lastIndex += 1;
+        }
+    }
+    return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Rule 4: permanence language in an ADR record's load-bearing positions.
+ *
+ * Returns [] for a file {@link isAdrRecord} rejects, so a caller may hand it
+ * any prose file.
+ */
+export function permanenceViolations(text: string, file: string): Violation[] {
+    if (!isAdrRecord(file)) return [];
+
+    const rawLines = text.split('\n');
+    // Fence-stripped, index-preserving: a `## Decision` inside a code fence is
+    // an example, not a section, and must not open a region.
+    const prose = _stripFences(rawLines);
+    const regions = permanenceRegions(prose);
+    const ownerIntentEscape = OWNER_INTENT_ESCAPE_RE.test(_frontmatterText(rawLines));
+
+    const violations: Violation[] = [];
+    for (const region of regions) {
+        // The slug is machine-visible in every citation and hyphen-joined, so
+        // it takes the unconditional match and neither escape: a field cannot
+        // qualify a name that tools print without reading the field.
+        if (region.kind === 'slug') {
+            for (let i = region.start; i <= region.end; i++) {
+                for (const hit of _hits(prose[i] ?? '', [SLUG_RE])) {
+                    violations.push({
+                        file,
+                        rule: 'permanence-language',
+                        msg:
+                            `line ${i + 1}: permanence language "${hit.term}" in the \`decision:\` slug — ` +
+                            `${PERMANENCE_CONSEQUENCE_BOUND} (the slug takes neither escape)`,
+                    });
+                }
+            }
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        const regionText = prose.slice(region.start, region.end + 1).join('\n');
+        const hasStopCondition = STOP_CONDITION_RE.test(regionText);
+
+        for (let i = region.start; i <= region.end; i++) {
+            const line = prose[i] ?? '';
+            const isProseRegion = region.kind === 'decision' || region.kind === 'addendum';
+            // A table cell is a per-row detail with its own rationale column,
+            // not the decision statement (ADR-074's "probing forever" is a
+            // failure mode being bounded, in the rationale column).
+            if (isProseRegion && TABLE_ROW_RE.test(line)) continue;
+
+            for (const hit of _hits(line, [...PROSE_WORD_RES, ...PHRASE_RES])) {
+                if (_isQuotedSpan(line, hit.index)) continue;
+                if (isProseRegion) {
+                    if (ownerIntentEscape) continue;
+                    const sentence = _sentenceAround(prose, region, i, hit.index);
+                    if (NEGATION_RE.test(sentence) || CONDITIONAL_RE.test(sentence)) continue;
+                    if (hasStopCondition && EXTERNAL_INVARIANT_RE.test(sentence)) continue;
+                }
+                violations.push({
+                    file,
+                    rule: 'permanence-language',
+                    msg:
+                        `line ${i + 1}: permanence language "${hit.term}" in the record's ${region.kind} — ` +
+                        `${PERMANENCE_CONSEQUENCE_BOUND} (context: ${line.trim().slice(0, 90)})`,
+                });
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return violations;
+}
+
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Filesystem walk + CLI
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -404,6 +809,42 @@ export function lintProvenanceVocabulary(repoRoot: string = REPO_ROOT): Violatio
     return violations;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Rule 4 over the ADR corpus.
+ *
+ * Separate from {@link lintProvenanceVocabulary} because the two carry
+ * different verdicts: rules 1-3 hard-fail, rule 4 is ratcheted against
+ * `${PERMANENCE_GATE}` in `src/config/gate-violation-baselines.json` because
+ * the corpus contains real violations today (ADR-107, ADR-108, ADR-122,
+ * ADR-124, ADR-208) and a gate that lands as five instant blockers is a shape
+ * this repository has refused before. A NEW record still hard-fails: the
+ * ratchet only turns one way.
+ */
+export function lintAdrPermanence(repoRoot: string = REPO_ROOT): Violation[] {
+    const records: string[] = [];
+    for (const root of ADR_RECORD_ROOTS) {
+        for (const abs of _collectMd(path.join(repoRoot, root))) {
+            const rel = path.relative(repoRoot, abs);
+            if (isAdrRecord(rel)) records.push(abs);
+        }
+    }
+    // A `## Decision`-scoped rule that read zero ADR records would print a
+    // green line while enforcing nothing — the exact failure the shared
+    // scope-assert exists for.
+    assertScanned({
+        gate: PERMANENCE_GATE,
+        scanned: records.length,
+        units: 'ADR record(s)',
+        roots: ADR_RECORD_ROOTS,
+    });
+    const violations: Violation[] = [];
+    for (const abs of records.sort()) {
+        const rel = path.relative(repoRoot, abs);
+        violations.push(...permanenceViolations(fs.readFileSync(abs, 'utf-8'), rel));
+    }
+    return violations;
+}
+
 function _print(quiet: boolean, msg: string): void {
     if (!quiet) process.stdout.write(`${msg}\n`);
 }
@@ -411,8 +852,10 @@ function _print(quiet: boolean, msg: string): void {
 export function main(): number {
     const quiet = process.argv.slice(2).includes('--quiet');
     let violations: Violation[];
+    let permanence: Violation[];
     try {
         violations = lintProvenanceVocabulary();
+        permanence = lintAdrPermanence();
     } catch (e) {
         // 1 is the only failure code this gate defines, so a dead scan root and
         // a real violation share it — the message distinguishes them.
@@ -422,14 +865,39 @@ export function main(): number {
         }
         throw e;
     }
+
+    let failed = false;
     if (violations.length > 0) {
         for (const v of violations) {
             process.stderr.write(`❌ [${v.rule}] ${v.file}: ${v.msg}\n`);
         }
         process.stderr.write(`\n❌ provenance-vocabulary — ${violations.length} violation(s)\n`);
-        return 1;
+        failed = true;
+    }
+
+    // Rule 4 reports every finding either way: at baseline they are the known
+    // debt this ratchet is walking down, and printing them is what makes the
+    // next lowering possible.
+    const verdict = checkRatchet({
+        gate: PERMANENCE_GATE,
+        actual: permanence.length,
+        repoRoot: REPO_ROOT,
+    });
+    if (!verdict.ok) {
+        for (const v of permanence) {
+            process.stderr.write(`❌ [${v.rule}] ${v.file}: ${v.msg}\n`);
+        }
+        process.stderr.write(`\n❌ ${verdict.message}\n`);
+        failed = true;
+    } else if (!quiet) {
+        for (const v of permanence) {
+            process.stdout.write(`   [${v.rule}] ${v.file}: ${v.msg}\n`);
+        }
+        _print(quiet, `✅ ${verdict.message}`);
     }
-    _print(quiet, '✅ provenance-vocabulary — no banned phrases, every approved-term use is co-located with a valid scope box, every box figure matches docs/CLAIMS.md');
+
+    if (failed) return 1;
+    _print(quiet, '✅ provenance-vocabulary — no banned phrases, every approved-term use is co-located with a valid scope box, every box figure matches docs/CLAIMS.md, no new permanence language in an ADR record');
     return 0;
 }
 

package/src/scripts/lint_skill_router_head.ts

@@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ export const MODE_BODY_DIRS: readonly string[] = ['tasks', 'references'];
  * Measured, not guessed. REMOVE entries as skills are restructured; never add.
  */
 export const GRANDFATHERED: readonly string[] = [
-    'ai-council',          // 1055
-    'skill-writing',       //  767
-    'roadmap-management',  //  552
-    'quality-tools',       //  445
+    // Emptied 2026-08-20: all four seeded entries were restructured into router
+    // heads (entry head + `references/` mode bodies) under the published K6 cap.
+    // Shrink-only means this list may never grow again — a new oversized
+    // monolith fails the gate instead of joining it.
 ];
 
 export interface Finding {

package/src/scripts/mcp_server/tools.ts

@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ async function _roadmapProgressHandler(
         };
     }
     const roadmaps = urp.collect(roadmapRoot);
-    const content = urp.render(roadmaps, urp.collect_bundles(root));
+    const content = urp.render(roadmaps, urp.collect_bundles(root), roadmapRoot);
     const stepsDone = roadmaps.reduce((s, r) => s + r.done, 0);
     const stepsTotal = roadmaps.reduce((s, r) => s + r.total_active, 0);
     if (!dryRun) {
@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ async function _roadmapArchiveHandler(
             const roadmaps = urp.collect(roadmapRoot);
             fs.writeFileSync(
                 path.join(root, 'agents', 'roadmaps-progress.md'),
-                urp.render(roadmaps, urp.collect_bundles(root)),
+                urp.render(roadmaps, urp.collect_bundles(root), roadmapRoot),
                 'utf-8',
             );
             dashboardRegenerated = true;