@mindrian_os/cli 2.0.0-beta.29 → 2.0.0-beta.31

package/lib/core/futures/orchestrator.cjs

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+/**
+ * MindrianOS Plugin -- Futures Wheel orchestrator (Phase 156, Wave 1 shell)
+ *
+ * This is the interface-first SHELL for the /mos:futures pipeline. It owns the
+ * consequence frontmatter CONTRACT (horizon / confidence / PESTEL domain) and the
+ * bounded depth / fan-out cap CONSTANTS that the later waves build against, so
+ * Wave 2 receives the contract in-hand and never explores for it.
+ *
+ * Wave 1 scope (this file): the cap constants, the two frozen enums, and
+ * validateConsequenceFrontmatter (FW-04). ZERO graph writes, ZERO HSI surface,
+ * ZERO Larry generation loop -- those land in Waves 2-4 (clearly labeled stubs
+ * below). Canon Part 8: everything local, zero Brain egress.
+ *
+ * Pure Node.js built-ins only (zero npm deps per Phase 10 decision).
+ * Reuses opportunity-ops.parseFrontmatter for any frontmatter parsing
+ * (Part 7: do NOT hand-roll a YAML parser).
+ */
+
+'use strict';
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const { execFileSync } = require('child_process');
+const { parseFrontmatter } = require('../opportunity-ops.cjs');
+const navigation = require('../navigation.cjs');
+const { flagCausalCue } = require('./causal-cue.cjs');
+// Phase 272 D-04: the single dispatch chokepoint deciding CJS vs Python for
+// both this file's spawn sites (runHsiScan's compute-hsi.py call and
+// runRSReverseSalient's rs-engine.py call below). No other function in this
+// file decides backend selection directly.
+const rsBackendDispatch = require('../rs-backend-dispatch.cjs');
+const hsiEngine = require('../hsi-engine.cjs');
+const rsEngineCjs = require('../rs-engine.cjs');
+
+// --- Bounded caps (FW-02) ---
+// The wheel "explodes in complexity, mathematically unmanageable without
+// software" -- these caps keep it tractable. Navigator-overridable, but every
+// override is CLAMPED to the cap maximum (a navigator may shrink, never exceed).
+const FUTURES_DEPTH_CAP = 3;   // default + maximum number of rings
+const FUTURES_FANOUT_CAP = 5;  // default + maximum children per node
+
+// --- Frozen enums (FW-04) ---
+const HORIZON_ENUM = Object.freeze(['near', 'mid', 'long']);
+const PESTEL_DOMAIN_ENUM = Object.freeze([
+  'Political',
+  'Economic',
+  'Social',
+  'Technological',
+  'Environmental',
+  'Legal',
+]);
+
+/**
+ * Resolve the effective depth cap, clamping a navigator override to the maximum.
+ * A navigator may request fewer rings; never more than FUTURES_DEPTH_CAP.
+ *
+ * @param {Object} [opts]
+ * @param {number} [opts.depth] - requested ring depth
+ * @returns {number} effective depth (1..FUTURES_DEPTH_CAP)
+ */
+function resolveDepthCap(opts) {
+  opts = opts || {};
+  const requested = Number.isFinite(opts.depth) ? Math.floor(opts.depth) : FUTURES_DEPTH_CAP;
+  if (requested < 1) return 1;
+  if (requested > FUTURES_DEPTH_CAP) return FUTURES_DEPTH_CAP;
+  return requested;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolve the effective fan-out cap, clamping a navigator override to the maximum.
+ *
+ * @param {Object} [opts]
+ * @param {number} [opts.fanout] - requested per-node fan-out
+ * @returns {number} effective fan-out (1..FUTURES_FANOUT_CAP)
+ */
+function resolveFanoutCap(opts) {
+  opts = opts || {};
+  const requested = Number.isFinite(opts.fanout) ? Math.floor(opts.fanout) : FUTURES_FANOUT_CAP;
+  if (requested < 1) return 1;
+  if (requested > FUTURES_FANOUT_CAP) return FUTURES_FANOUT_CAP;
+  return requested;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Validate a consequence frontmatter object against the FW-04 contract:
+ *   - horizon is in HORIZON_ENUM
+ *   - confidence is a float in the inclusive range 0.0-1.0
+ *   - domain is in PESTEL_DOMAIN_ENUM
+ *
+ * Advisory-free: this is a hard structural validator (the contract Wave 2's
+ * generation loop writes against). It NEVER mutates the input.
+ *
+ * @param {Object} fm - the consequence frontmatter object (or a parsed string)
+ * @returns {{ valid: boolean, errors: string[] }}
+ */
+function validateConsequenceFrontmatter(fm) {
+  const errors = [];
+
+  // Accept a raw markdown/frontmatter string by reusing the shipped parser.
+  if (typeof fm === 'string') {
+    fm = parseFrontmatter(fm);
+  }
+  if (!fm || typeof fm !== 'object') {
+    return { valid: false, errors: ['frontmatter is not an object'] };
+  }
+
+  // horizon: enum
+  if (!HORIZON_ENUM.includes(fm.horizon)) {
+    errors.push(
+      'horizon must be one of ' + HORIZON_ENUM.join(' / ') + ' (got ' + String(fm.horizon) + ')'
+    );
+  }
+
+  // confidence: float in [0.0, 1.0]
+  const conf = fm.confidence;
+  if (typeof conf !== 'number' || Number.isNaN(conf)) {
+    errors.push('confidence must be a number (got ' + String(conf) + ')');
+  } else if (conf < 0 || conf > 1) {
+    errors.push('confidence must be in the inclusive range 0.0-1.0 (got ' + conf + ')');
+  }
+
+  // domain: enum
+  if (!PESTEL_DOMAIN_ENUM.includes(fm.domain)) {
+    errors.push(
+      'domain must be one of ' + PESTEL_DOMAIN_ENUM.join(' / ') + ' (got ' + String(fm.domain) + ')'
+    );
+  }
+
+  return { valid: errors.length === 0, errors };
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Wave 2 surface (FW-02 / FW-05 / FW-06)
+//
+// generateRing       -- the bounded guided-by-ring generation loop (D-01).
+// writeCascadeEdges  -- the ROOT_CAUSES / ENABLES cascade-edge writer (Part 9
+//                       chokepoint navigation.writeEdge ONLY; never raw SQL).
+// registerConsequenceArtifacts -- files each consequence as a nested .md AND
+//                       registers it as a type='Artifact' node in room.db.
+// assertArtifactCountMatchesFiled -- the LANDMINE #1 precondition guard.
+// runHsiScan         -- the ordered register->assert->compute-hsi->hsi-to-graph
+//                       ->read-back sequencer.
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+// --- Forbidden non-frozen edge types (RESEARCH landmine #2) ---
+// HSI_CONNECTION / REVERSE_SALIENT are NOT in ALLOWED_EDGE_TYPES; they go ONLY
+// through scripts/hsi-to-graph.cjs raw SQL, NEVER through navigation.writeEdge.
+// The non-frozen causal aliases (the LEADS-TO / generic-cause variants) are
+// never referenced here; only the frozen ROOT_CAUSES type is written.
+
+/**
+ * Slugify a free-text label into a filesystem-safe, lowercase, hyphenated slug.
+ * Pure ASCII transform (no em-dashes, only hyphens). Used for the nested
+ * Obsidian folder names (CLAUDE.md decision 16) under opportunity-bank/.
+ * @param {string} label
+ * @returns {string}
+ */
+function slugify(label) {
+  return String(label || '')
+    .toLowerCase()
+    .replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g, '-')
+    .replace(/^-+|-+$/g, '')
+    .slice(0, 64) || 'consequence';
+}
+
+/**
+ * Compute the room-relative Artifact id for a consequence .md path. MUST match
+ * the id convention used by lib/core/lazygraph-ops.cjs::getArtifactId AND by
+ * scripts/compute-hsi.py::discover_artifacts (room-relative path, .md stripped,
+ * forward-slashed) so the registered Artifact node id and the HSI pair endpoint
+ * id are byte-identical. Without this, hsi-to-graph silently writes zero edges.
+ * @param {string} roomDir
+ * @param {string} mdPath - absolute path to the consequence .md
+ * @returns {string}
+ */
+function consequenceArtifactId(roomDir, mdPath) {
+  const rel = path.relative(path.resolve(roomDir), path.resolve(mdPath));
+  return rel.replace(/\.md$/, '').replace(/\\/g, '/');
+}
+
+/**
+ * generateRing -- the bounded D-01 "and then what?" expansion (FW-02).
+ *
+ * Ring 1 is generated directly from the seed; ring N>1 expands ONLY the approved
+ * parents, each into at most FUTURES_FANOUT_CAP children. ringNumber is clamped
+ * to FUTURES_DEPTH_CAP and per-parent children to FUTURES_FANOUT_CAP so the wheel
+ * cannot balloon (the guard that MUST run before the HSI O(n^2) pairing).
+ *
+ * Prose generation is Larry-driven on Desktop/Cowork; on CLI the function
+ * accepts a pre-supplied consequence batch (opts.children for ring 1, or
+ * parent.children on each parent for ring N>1) so it is unit-testable headlessly.
+ *
+ * Each returned consequence object carries: id, ring, parent_id (null for ring
+ * 1), horizon, confidence, domain, label, and a causal_cue annotation. The
+ * domain is validated via validateConsequenceFrontmatter; an invalid consequence
+ * is skipped (advisory, never throws on a single bad child).
+ *
+ * @param {string} seed - the seed label / focus (ring-1 driver)
+ * @param {number} ringNumber - requested ring (clamped to FUTURES_DEPTH_CAP)
+ * @param {Array<Object>} parents - approved parent consequence objects (ring N>1)
+ * @param {Object} [opts]
+ * @param {Array<Object>} [opts.children] - pre-supplied ring-1 children batch
+ * @param {number} [opts.fanout] - navigator fan-out override (clamped)
+ * @returns {Array<Object>} the bounded ring-N consequence objects
+ */
+function generateRing(seed, ringNumber, parents, opts) {
+  opts = opts || {};
+  // Clamp the ring number to the depth cap (FW-02: caps clamp, never error).
+  const ring = resolveDepthCap({ depth: ringNumber });
+  const fanout = resolveFanoutCap({ fanout: opts.fanout });
+
+  const out = [];
+
+  /**
+   * Normalize + validate one raw child into a consequence object. Returns null
+   * when the child fails the frontmatter contract (skip, do not throw).
+   */
+  function buildConsequence(raw, parentId) {
+    if (!raw || typeof raw !== 'object') return null;
+    const label = String(raw.label || raw.title || '').trim();
+    const fm = {
+      horizon: raw.horizon,
+      confidence: raw.confidence,
+      domain: raw.domain,
+    };
+    const v = validateConsequenceFrontmatter(fm);
+    if (!v.valid) return null;
+    const cue = flagCausalCue(label + ' ' + String(raw.body || ''));
+    return {
+      id: raw.id || (slugify(label) + '-r' + ring),
+      ring,
+      parent_id: parentId,
+      horizon: fm.horizon,
+      confidence: fm.confidence,
+      domain: fm.domain,
+      label,
+      body: typeof raw.body === 'string' ? raw.body : '',
+      causal_cue: cue.flag,
+      cue_matched: cue.matched,
+    };
+  }
+
+  if (ring === 1) {
+    // Ring 1: generated from the seed. Children clamped to the fan-out cap.
+    const batch = Array.isArray(opts.children) ? opts.children.slice(0, fanout) : [];
+    for (const raw of batch) {
+      const c = buildConsequence(raw, null);
+      if (c) out.push(c);
+    }
+    return out;
+  }
+
+  // Ring N>1: expand ONLY the approved parents, each into at most `fanout`
+  // children, stamping ring N and the parent link.
+  const parentList = Array.isArray(parents) ? parents : [];
+  for (const parent of parentList) {
+    if (!parent || typeof parent.id !== 'string') continue;
+    const rawChildren = Array.isArray(parent.children) ? parent.children.slice(0, fanout) : [];
+    for (const raw of rawChildren) {
+      const c = buildConsequence(raw, parent.id);
+      if (c) out.push(c);
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * writeCascadeEdges -- write a ROOT_CAUSES edge (source=parent CAUSE,
+ * target=child EFFECT) for every consequence carrying a non-null parent_id, via
+ * the navigation.writeEdge chokepoint ONLY (Part 9). ROOT_CAUSES is the frozen
+ * cascade edge for the parent->child causal link (added to ALLOWED_EDGE_TYPES by
+ * Phase 150.8). An explicit enabling relation requests ENABLES.
+ *
+ * NOTE (Wave 2 deviation, Rule 1): the plan and 156-RESEARCH assumed ENABLES is
+ * in the frozen ALLOWED_EDGE_TYPES set; it is NOT (only ROOT_CAUSES is). Because
+ * the Part 9 chokepoint + the orchestrator grep gate (zero raw edge-table writes)
+ * forbid raw-SQL bypassing writeEdge, an ENABLES request is routed through
+ * writeEdge and faithfully REPORTED as a failure ({reason:'invalid_edge_type'})
+ * rather than silently raw-SQL'd. ROOT_CAUSES (the actual parent->child cascade
+ * relation this wave needs) is frozen and always succeeds once both endpoints
+ * are registered Artifact nodes.
+ *
+ * Properties are enum/scalar ONLY (ring + confidence) -- never the consequence
+ * body (Part 8). The result surfaces failures so the caller / test sees them.
+ *
+ * @param {Object} db - caller-owned room.db handle (openGraph().db)
+ * @param {Array<Object>} consequences - ring consequence objects (with parent_id)
+ * @returns {{ written: number, edges: Array<Object>, failures: Array<Object> }}
+ */
+function writeCascadeEdges(db, consequences) {
+  const list = Array.isArray(consequences) ? consequences : [];
+  const edges = [];
+  const failures = [];
+  let written = 0;
+
+  for (const c of list) {
+    if (!c || typeof c.parent_id !== 'string' || c.parent_id.length === 0) continue;
+    // ROOT_CAUSES is the frozen cascade edge (parent->child). ENABLES is only
+    // attempted when explicitly requested; nothing non-frozen is ever forced.
+    const edgeType = c.edge_type === 'ENABLES' ? 'ENABLES' : 'ROOT_CAUSES';
+    const res = navigation.writeEdge(db, {
+      source_id: c.parent_id,
+      target_id: c.id,
+      edge_type: edgeType,
+      // enum/scalar ONLY (Part 8): ring number + confidence float. No body text.
+      properties: { ring: c.ring, confidence: c.confidence },
+    });
+    if (res && res.ok) {
+      written++;
+      edges.push({ source: c.parent_id, target: c.id, type: edgeType });
+    } else {
+      failures.push({ source: c.parent_id, target: c.id, type: edgeType, reason: res && res.reason });
+    }
+  }
+
+  return { written, edges, failures };
+}
+
+/**
+ * registerConsequenceArtifacts -- file each consequence as a nested Obsidian
+ * .md (CLAUDE.md decision 16: opportunity-bank/futures-<seed>/<slug>/<slug>.md)
+ * WITH an ICM Layer 0 ROOM.md per folder (CLAUDE.md decision 15), THEN register
+ * each consequence as a type='Artifact' node in room.db via the lazygraph
+ * indexing path (indexArtifact -> _indexArtifactBody -> insertNode). Both
+ * registrations are required: the .md for compute-hsi discover_artifacts, the
+ * Artifact node for hsi-to-graph's findArtifact gate.
+ *
+ * @param {string} roomDir - absolute room directory
+ * @param {Array<Object>} consequences - consequence objects (id/label/horizon/...)
+ * @param {Object} [opts]
+ * @param {string} [opts.seed] - seed label for the futures-<seed-slug> folder
+ * @returns {Promise<{ filed: Array<{id,path}>, seedDir: string }>}
+ */
+async function registerConsequenceArtifacts(roomDir, consequences, opts) {
+  opts = opts || {};
+  const lazygraph = require('../lazygraph-ops.cjs');
+  const resolvedRoom = path.resolve(roomDir);
+  const seedSlug = slugify(opts.seed || 'seed');
+  const seedDir = path.join(resolvedRoom, 'opportunity-bank', 'futures-' + seedSlug);
+  fs.mkdirSync(seedDir, { recursive: true });
+
+  // ICM Layer 0: the seed folder itself gets a ROOM.md identity file.
+  writeRoomMd(seedDir, 'Futures Wheel: ' + (opts.seed || seedSlug),
+    'Seed folder for the Futures Wheel consequence rings. Each child folder is one consequence artifact.');
+
+  const list = Array.isArray(consequences) ? consequences : [];
+  const filed = [];
+
+  // 1. File every consequence .md (and its ROOM.md) on disk FIRST.
+  const plan = [];
+  for (const c of list) {
+    if (!c || typeof c.label !== 'string') continue;
+    const slug = slugify(c.label) + (c.ring ? '-r' + c.ring : '');
+    const folder = path.join(seedDir, slug);
+    fs.mkdirSync(folder, { recursive: true });
+    // ICM Layer 0: each consequence folder gets a ROOM.md (decision 15).
+    writeRoomMd(folder, c.label, 'Consequence artifact (ring ' + c.ring + ', ' + c.domain + ').');
+    const mdPath = path.join(folder, slug + '.md');
+    const artifactId = consequenceArtifactId(resolvedRoom, mdPath);
+    // GAP FIX (live-UAT on formation, 2026-06-15): stamp the registered
+    // (path-derived) Artifact-node id back onto the consequence object so the
+    // downstream writeCascadeEdges targets the id that actually exists as a node.
+    // Before this, generateRing's short slug id (slug-rN) never matched the
+    // registered node id -> ROOT_CAUSES edges silently failed (0 written).
+    c.id = artifactId;
+    const fmBody = renderConsequenceMd(c);
+    fs.writeFileSync(mdPath, fmBody, 'utf-8');
+    plan.push({ artifactId, mdPath });
+    filed.push({ id: artifactId, path: mdPath });
+  }
+
+  // 2. Register each consequence as an Artifact node in room.db (the gate for
+  //    hsi-to-graph). indexArtifact derives the SAME id from the .md path.
+  const graph = await lazygraph.openGraph(resolvedRoom);
+  try {
+    for (const p of plan) {
+      await lazygraph.indexArtifact(graph.conn, resolvedRoom, p.mdPath);
+    }
+  } finally {
+    await lazygraph.closeGraph(graph.db);
+  }
+
+  return { filed, seedDir };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Render a consequence object to a frontmatter + body markdown string. Body is
+ * >50 chars so compute-hsi.py::discover_artifacts does not skip it as near-empty.
+ */
+function renderConsequenceMd(c) {
+  const lines = [];
+  lines.push('---');
+  lines.push('horizon: ' + c.horizon);
+  lines.push('confidence: ' + c.confidence);
+  lines.push('domain: ' + c.domain);
+  lines.push('ring: ' + c.ring);
+  if (c.parent_id) lines.push('parent_id: ' + c.parent_id);
+  lines.push('causal_cue: ' + (c.causal_cue || 'cue-thin'));
+  lines.push('review_status: proposed');
+  lines.push('---');
+  lines.push('');
+  lines.push('# ' + c.label);
+  lines.push('');
+  lines.push(c.body && c.body.length > 0 ? c.body
+    : 'Consequence in the ' + c.domain + ' domain at the ' + c.horizon
+      + ' horizon. This artifact records a ring ' + c.ring
+      + ' consequence of the Futures Wheel seed for cross-domain HSI analysis.');
+  lines.push('');
+  return lines.join('\n');
+}
+
+/**
+ * Write an ICM Layer 0 ROOM.md identity file into a folder (CLAUDE.md decision
+ * 15: every directory in the Data Room gets a ROOM.md). Idempotent overwrite.
+ */
+function writeRoomMd(dir, title, description) {
+  const body = [
+    '# ' + title,
+    '',
+    description,
+    '',
+    '_ICM Layer 0 identity file (Futures Wheel)._',
+    '',
+  ].join('\n');
+  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'ROOM.md'), body, 'utf-8');
+}
+
+/**
+ * assertArtifactCountMatchesFiled -- the LANDMINE #1 precondition (RESEARCH risk
+ * 1). SELECTs COUNT(*) of type='Artifact' nodes whose id is in the filed set and
+ * asserts it equals the filed count. runHsiScan MUST call this and HARD-FAIL if
+ * the counts differ -- preventing hsi-to-graph's silent zero-edge false-success.
+ *
+ * @param {Object} db - caller-owned room.db handle
+ * @param {Array<string>} filedConsequenceIds - the filed Artifact ids
+ * @returns {{ ok: boolean, artifactCount: number, filedCount: number, missing: string[] }}
+ */
+function assertArtifactCountMatchesFiled(db, filedConsequenceIds) {
+  const ids = Array.isArray(filedConsequenceIds) ? filedConsequenceIds.filter((x) => typeof x === 'string') : [];
+  const filedCount = ids.length;
+  if (filedCount === 0) {
+    return { ok: false, artifactCount: 0, filedCount: 0, missing: [] };
+  }
+  const stmt = db.prepare("SELECT id FROM nodes WHERE id = ? AND type = 'Artifact'");
+  let artifactCount = 0;
+  const missing = [];
+  for (const id of ids) {
+    const row = stmt.get(id);
+    if (row) artifactCount++;
+    else missing.push(id);
+  }
+  return { ok: artifactCount === filedCount, artifactCount, filedCount, missing };
+}
+
+/**
+ * runHsiScan -- the FW-06 deterministic file-then-scan sequencer:
+ *   (1) assertArtifactCountMatchesFiled -- HARD-FAIL (return {ok:false}) if
+ *       counts differ; do NOT proceed to compute-hsi (the landmine guard).
+ *   (2) python3 scripts/compute-hsi.py <roomDir> --tier 1  -> .hsi-results.json
+ *   (3) node scripts/hsi-to-graph.cjs <roomDir>  -> HSI_CONNECTION edges (raw SQL)
+ *   (4) read back the HSI_CONNECTION edges and rank the cross-domain bridges
+ *       (cross-domain = the two endpoints carry different PESTEL domains).
+ *
+ * Tri-Polar: detects python3 absence and degrades cleanly to a Tier 0 fallback
+ * (returns { degraded:true, tier:0 }) rather than crashing on Desktop/Cowork.
+ * This command OWNS the sequence; no hidden async.
+ *
+ * NEVER routes HSI_CONNECTION / REVERSE_SALIENT through navigation.writeEdge
+ * (they are not frozen) -- step (3) is the raw hsi-to-graph.cjs path.
+ *
+ * @param {string} roomDir
+ * @param {Array<string>} filedConsequenceIds
+ * @param {Object} [opts]
+ * @param {string} [opts.pluginRoot] - root holding scripts/ (default: repo root)
+ * @returns {Promise<Object>} result with { ok, guard, degraded?, tier, hsiEdgeCount, bridges[] }}
+ */
+async function runHsiScan(roomDir, filedConsequenceIds, opts) {
+  opts = opts || {};
+  const lazygraph = require('../lazygraph-ops.cjs');
+  const resolvedRoom = path.resolve(roomDir);
+  const pluginRoot = opts.pluginRoot || path.resolve(__dirname, '..', '..', '..');
+  const computeHsi = path.join(pluginRoot, 'scripts', 'compute-hsi.py');
+  const hsiToGraph = path.join(pluginRoot, 'scripts', 'hsi-to-graph.cjs');
+
+  // --- Step 1: LANDMINE #1 precondition. Hard-fail BEFORE compute-hsi. ---
+  let guard;
+  {
+    const graph = await lazygraph.openGraph(resolvedRoom);
+    try {
+      guard = assertArtifactCountMatchesFiled(graph.db, filedConsequenceIds);
+    } finally {
+      await lazygraph.closeGraph(graph.db);
+    }
+  }
+  if (!guard.ok) {
+    return {
+      ok: false,
+      reason: 'artifact_count_mismatch',
+      guard,
+      hsiEdgeCount: 0,
+      bridges: [],
+    };
+  }
+
+  // --- Step 2: compute-hsi (backend-dispatched) <room> --tier 1  -> .hsi-results.json ---
+  const hsiBackend = rsBackendDispatch.resolveBackend();
+  if (hsiBackend === 'python') {
+    // --- Tri-Polar python3 detection: degrade to Tier 0 fallback if absent. ---
+    const python = resolvePython3();
+    if (!python) {
+      return {
+        ok: true,
+        degraded: true,
+        tier: 0,
+        reason: 'python3_absent_tier0_fallback',
+        guard,
+        hsiEdgeCount: 0,
+        bridges: [],
+      };
+    }
+    try {
+      execFileSync(python, [computeHsi, resolvedRoom, '--tier', '1'], {
+        stdio: 'pipe',
+        cwd: pluginRoot,
+      });
+    } catch (e) {
+      // python3 present but the HSI deps (numpy/sklearn) missing -> Tier 0 degrade.
+      return {
+        ok: true,
+        degraded: true,
+        tier: 0,
+        reason: 'compute_hsi_unavailable_tier0_fallback',
+        detail: String((e && e.message) || '').slice(0, 160),
+        guard,
+        hsiEdgeCount: 0,
+        bridges: [],
+      };
+    }
+  } else {
+    // 'cjs' backend (D-04 default): in-process hsi-engine.cjs, no python3
+    // resolution check needed on this branch -- degrades to the SAME Tier 0
+    // graceful-degradation shape the Python branch already returns on any
+    // failure, rather than throwing.
+    try {
+      const result = await hsiEngine.runTier1(resolvedRoom, { tier: 1 });
+      if (result && result.success === false) {
+        return {
+          ok: true,
+          degraded: true,
+          tier: 0,
+          reason: 'compute_hsi_unavailable_tier0_fallback',
+          detail: String(result.detail || result.error || '').slice(0, 160),
+          guard,
+          hsiEdgeCount: 0,
+          bridges: [],
+        };
+      }
+    } catch (e) {
+      return {
+        ok: true,
+        degraded: true,
+        tier: 0,
+        reason: 'compute_hsi_unavailable_tier0_fallback',
+        detail: String((e && e.message) || '').slice(0, 160),
+        guard,
+        hsiEdgeCount: 0,
+        bridges: [],
+      };
+    }
+  }
+
+  // --- Step 3: hsi-to-graph.cjs <room>  -> HSI_CONNECTION edges (raw SQL). ---
+  execFileSync(process.execPath, [hsiToGraph, resolvedRoom], { stdio: 'pipe', cwd: pluginRoot });
+
+  // --- Step 4: read back HSI_CONNECTION edges, rank cross-domain bridges. ---
+  const bridges = [];
+  let hsiEdgeCount = 0;
+  const graph = await lazygraph.openGraph(resolvedRoom);
+  try {
+    const rows = graph.db.prepare(
+      "SELECT source, target, properties FROM edges WHERE type = 'HSI_CONNECTION'"
+    ).all();
+    hsiEdgeCount = rows.length;
+    for (const r of rows) {
+      let score = 0;
+      try { score = JSON.parse(r.properties || '{}').hsi_score || 0; } catch (_e) { score = 0; }
+      const srcDomain = domainOfArtifact(resolvedRoom, r.source);
+      const tgtDomain = domainOfArtifact(resolvedRoom, r.target);
+      const crossDomain = !!srcDomain && !!tgtDomain && srcDomain !== tgtDomain;
+      bridges.push({ source: r.source, target: r.target, hsi_score: score, crossDomain });
+    }
+  } finally {
+    await lazygraph.closeGraph(graph.db);
+  }
+  bridges.sort((a, b) => b.hsi_score - a.hsi_score);
+
+  return { ok: true, tier: 1, guard, hsiEdgeCount, bridges };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Read the PESTEL domain of a consequence Artifact for cross-domain bridge
+ * detection. The Artifact id is the room-relative path stem; reconstruct the
+ * .md path and parse its frontmatter domain. Returns '' when unavailable (no
+ * cross-domain claim). LOCAL filesystem read only (Part 8).
+ * @param {string} roomDir - absolute room directory
+ * @param {string} artifactId - room-relative path stem (the node id)
+ * @returns {string} PESTEL domain or ''
+ */
+function domainOfArtifact(roomDir, artifactId) {
+  try {
+    const mdPath = path.join(path.resolve(roomDir), artifactId + '.md');
+    if (!fs.existsSync(mdPath)) return '';
+    const fm = parseFrontmatter(fs.readFileSync(mdPath, 'utf-8'));
+    return fm && typeof fm.domain === 'string' ? fm.domain : '';
+  } catch (_e) {
+    return '';
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolve a usable python3 executable, or null when none is available
+ * (Tri-Polar: Desktop/Cowork may lack python3 -> Tier 0 degrade).
+ */
+function resolvePython3() {
+  const candidates = ['python3', 'python'];
+  for (const exe of candidates) {
+    try {
+      execFileSync(exe, ['--version'], { stdio: 'pipe' });
+      return exe;
+    } catch (_e) {
+      // try next
+    }
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Wave 3 surface (FW-07 / FW-08 / FW-09 / FW-10)
+//
+// surfaceBridgesAtGate  -- the per-ring batch tri-context Decision Gate (D-02):
+//                          present the ring's proposed consequences + the top-N
+//                          cross-domain HSI bridges the navigator did NOT draw,
+//                          via the Shape F.1 selector (APPROVE / REJECT / DEFER).
+// confirmRingDecisions  -- promote APPROVE consequences proposed->confirmed via
+//                          the navigation.confirmNode chokepoint with a human
+//                          byUser (Part 9); REJECT writes a REJECTED_BECAUSE
+//                          reason edge; DEFER writes a DEFERRED edge (Part 4).
+// bankCandidateWithProvenance -- bank an approved candidate via
+//                          opportunity-ops.bankOpportunity with an additive
+//                          provenance field tracing to a source edge (FW-08/09).
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+// The closed tri-context Decision Gate verb set for the per-ring batch (D-02).
+// Drawn from the Canon Part 3 / Shape F.1 vocabulary -- APPROVE promotes,
+// REJECT captures the reason as graph data, DEFER queues for milestone audit.
+const RING_GATE_VERBS = Object.freeze(['APPROVE', 'REJECT', 'DEFER']);
+
+/**
+ * surfaceBridgesAtGate -- assemble the per-ring batch tri-context Decision Gate
+ * (D-02). Returns a structured gate descriptor the command / Larry layer renders
+ * through the Shape F.1 AskUserQuestion selector (the only choice primitive,
+ * Part 3). This function does the LOCAL assembly; it never renders the gate
+ * itself (the HITL checkpoint is the navigator's, not the agent's).
+ *
+ * The surfaced bridges are the CROSS-DOMAIN HSI_CONNECTION bridges from
+ * runHsiScan whose endpoints span two different PESTEL domains and that are NOT
+ * a direct ROOT_CAUSES ring parent->child link -- the "do what a human cannot"
+ * surfaced ripple (the invisible cross-domain effect a linear mind misses).
+ *
+ * @param {string} roomDir - absolute room directory (LOCAL context source)
+ * @param {Array<Object>} bridges - ranked bridge objects from runHsiScan
+ *   (each carries { source, target, hsi_score, crossDomain })
+ * @param {Array<Object>} ringConsequences - the ring's proposed consequences
+ * @param {Object} [opts]
+ * @param {number} [opts.topN] - cap on surfaced bridges (default 5)
+ * @param {Set<string>} [opts.ringParentLinks] - set of 'parent->child' id pairs
+ *   that ARE direct ROOT_CAUSES ring links (excluded from the surfaced bridges)
+ * @returns {{ ring: (number|null), verbs: string[], surface: string,
+ *   consequences: Array<Object>, bridges: Array<Object>, contexts: Object }}
+ */
+function surfaceBridgesAtGate(roomDir, bridges, ringConsequences, opts) {
+  opts = opts || {};
+  const topN = Number.isFinite(opts.topN) ? opts.topN : 5;
+  const ringParentLinks = opts.ringParentLinks instanceof Set ? opts.ringParentLinks : new Set();
+  const cons = Array.isArray(ringConsequences) ? ringConsequences : [];
+  const bridgeList = Array.isArray(bridges) ? bridges : [];
+
+  // Surfaced bridges = cross-domain AND not a direct ring parent->child link.
+  const surfaced = bridgeList
+    .filter((b) => b && b.crossDomain === true)
+    .filter((b) => !ringParentLinks.has(b.source + '->' + b.target)
+      && !ringParentLinks.has(b.target + '->' + b.source))
+    .slice(0, topN);
+
+  // The ring number is taken from the batch (all share one ring); null if empty.
+  const ring = cons.length && Number.isFinite(cons[0].ring) ? cons[0].ring : null;
+
+  return {
+    ring,
+    // Shape F.1 selector vocabulary (the tri-context Decision Gate; Part 3).
+    verbs: RING_GATE_VERBS.slice(),
+    surface: 'F.1',
+    consequences: cons.map((c) => ({ id: c.id, label: c.label, domain: c.domain, ring: c.ring })),
+    bridges: surfaced,
+    // Tri-context panels: LOCAL (the room's ring batch) + BRAIN (generic
+    // methodology handle only, never room content; Part 8) + SIGNAL (none this
+    // turn -- no external sweep in the wheel gate).
+    contexts: {
+      local: { roomDir: path.resolve(roomDir), ringConsequenceCount: cons.length },
+      brain: { methodology: 'Futures Wheel', note: 'generic framework handle only (Part 8)' },
+      signal: { note: 'none this turn' },
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * confirmRingDecisions -- apply the navigator's per-ring batch decisions.
+ *
+ * For each decision:
+ *   - APPROVE: resolve the navigator identity via navigation.resolveByUser
+ *     (NEVER an agent identity -- a poisoned USER.md coerces to 'navigator')
+ *     and call navigation.confirmNode(db, id, byUser) to promote the consequence
+ *     proposed -> confirmed (Part 9 chokepoint; truth-claim nodes only).
+ *   - REJECT: write a REJECTED_BECAUSE edge via navigation.writeEdge carrying the
+ *     reason as a SCALAR reason-code property (Part 4 reason becomes graph data;
+ *     Part 8 no body text on the edge).
+ *   - DEFER: write a DEFERRED edge via navigation.writeEdge.
+ *
+ * The promotion routes through confirmNode ONLY (never promoteNodeStatus or a
+ * raw UPDATE on review_status). REJECT / DEFER edges target a stable
+ * 'futures:gate' decision node so the reason is graph-local data.
+ *
+ * @param {Object} db - caller-owned room.db handle (openGraph().db)
+ * @param {string} roomDir - room directory (for resolveByUser USER.md lookup)
+ * @param {Array<Object>} decisions - [{ id, verb, reason? }] per consequence
+ * @returns {{ confirmed: Array<Object>, rejected: Array<Object>,
+ *   deferred: Array<Object>, byUser: string, failures: Array<Object> }}
+ */
+function confirmRingDecisions(db, roomDir, decisions) {
+  const list = Array.isArray(decisions) ? decisions : [];
+  const byUser = navigation.resolveByUser(roomDir);
+  const confirmed = [];
+  const rejected = [];
+  const deferred = [];
+  const failures = [];
+
+  // Stable decision-gate node id the REJECT/DEFER reason edges point at. The
+  // edges are graph-local (Part 8); the reason rides as a scalar property.
+  const GATE_NODE = 'futures:gate';
+
+  for (const d of list) {
+    if (!d || typeof d.id !== 'string') continue;
+    const verb = String(d.verb || '').toUpperCase();
+
+    if (verb === 'APPROVE') {
+      // Promote proposed -> confirmed via the chokepoint with a HUMAN byUser.
+      const res = navigation.confirmNode(db, d.id, byUser);
+      if (res && res.ok) {
+        confirmed.push({ id: d.id, byUser });
+      } else {
+        failures.push({ id: d.id, verb, reason: res && res.reason });
+      }
+    } else if (verb === 'REJECT') {
+      // REJECTED_BECAUSE edge -- reason as a SCALAR reason-code (Part 4 + Part 8).
+      const res = navigation.writeEdge(db, {
+        source_id: d.id,
+        target_id: GATE_NODE,
+        edge_type: 'REJECTED_BECAUSE',
+        properties: { reason: scalarReasonCode(d.reason) },
+      });
+      if (res && res.ok) {
+        rejected.push({ id: d.id, reason: scalarReasonCode(d.reason) });
+      } else {
+        failures.push({ id: d.id, verb, reason: res && res.reason });
+      }
+    } else if (verb === 'DEFER') {
+      const res = navigation.writeEdge(db, {
+        source_id: d.id,
+        target_id: GATE_NODE,
+        edge_type: 'DEFERRED',
+        properties: { reason: scalarReasonCode(d.reason) },
+      });
+      if (res && res.ok) {
+        deferred.push({ id: d.id });
+      } else {
+        failures.push({ id: d.id, verb, reason: res && res.reason });
+      }
+    } else {
+      failures.push({ id: d.id, verb, reason: 'unknown_verb' });
+    }
+  }
+
+  return { confirmed, rejected, deferred, byUser, failures };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Coerce a free-text rejection reason into a short SCALAR reason-code so the
+ * consequence body never lands on the edge (Part 8). Accepts a known enum
+ * code verbatim; otherwise maps to 'other'. Closed enum mirrors the F.0
+ * REJECTED_BECAUSE reason-code idiom.
+ * @param {string} reason
+ * @returns {string}
+ */
+function scalarReasonCode(reason) {
+  const known = new Set(['low_evidence', 'off_topic', 'duplicate', 'out_of_scope', 'low_confidence', 'other']);
+  const r = String(reason || 'other').toLowerCase();
+  return known.has(r) ? r : 'other';
+}
+
+/**
+ * The source-edge types a banked opportunity's provenance may trace to (FW-09).
+ * A candidate with no traceable source edge is NOT bankable.
+ */
+const PROVENANCE_EDGE_TYPES = Object.freeze(['HSI_CONNECTION', 'REVERSE_SALIENT', 'ROOT_CAUSES']);
+
+/**
+ * bankCandidateWithProvenance -- bank an approved opportunity candidate via the
+ * shipped opportunity-ops.bankOpportunity engine (FW-08), adding an ADDITIVE
+ * `provenance` frontmatter field that names the source edge the candidate traces
+ * to: an HSI_CONNECTION / REVERSE_SALIENT / ROOT_CAUSES edge id or source-target
+ * pair (FW-09). bankOpportunity passes the provenance frontmatter through and
+ * preserves problem_hash dedup.
+ *
+ * A candidate WITHOUT a traceable source edge is refused (returns an error;
+ * nothing is banked) -- this prevents banking an opportunity with fabricated
+ * lineage (threat T-156-01).
+ *
+ * @param {string} roomDir - absolute room directory
+ * @param {Object} candidate - { problem (required), confidence, evidence,
+ *   domain?, provenance: { edge_type, source, target } | string }
+ * @returns {{ banked: boolean, updated: boolean, path: string, error?: string,
+ *   provenance?: string }}
+ */
+function bankCandidateWithProvenance(roomDir, candidate) {
+  const oppOps = require('../opportunity-ops.cjs');
+
+  if (!candidate || typeof candidate !== 'object') {
+    return { banked: false, updated: false, path: '', error: 'Invalid candidate object' };
+  }
+  if (!candidate.problem) {
+    return { banked: false, updated: false, path: '', error: 'Candidate missing required field: problem' };
+  }
+
+  // Resolve + validate the provenance source edge (FW-09; refuse if absent).
+  const provenance = formatProvenance(candidate.provenance);
+  if (!provenance) {
+    return {
+      banked: false,
+      updated: false,
+      path: '',
+      error: 'Candidate has no traceable source edge (HSI_CONNECTION / REVERSE_SALIENT / ROOT_CAUSES); not bankable',
+    };
+  }
+
+  // Build the opportunity object with the ADDITIVE provenance field. The
+  // shipped bankOpportunity passes unknown frontmatter fields through.
+  const opportunity = {
+    problem: candidate.problem,
+    confidence: candidate.confidence,
+    evidence: candidate.evidence,
+    domain: candidate.domain,
+    source_framework: candidate.source_framework || 'Futures Wheel',
+    provenance,
+  };
+
+  const res = oppOps.bankOpportunity(roomDir, opportunity);
+  return Object.assign({}, res, { provenance });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Format a candidate provenance descriptor into a single scalar string naming
+ * the source edge (Part 8 scalar; no body text). Returns '' when the descriptor
+ * names no valid source edge type. Accepts either an object
+ * { edge_type, source, target } or a pre-formatted 'TYPE:source->target' string.
+ * @param {Object|string} prov
+ * @returns {string}
+ */
+function formatProvenance(prov) {
+  if (typeof prov === 'string' && prov.length > 0) {
+    const t = prov.split(':')[0];
+    return PROVENANCE_EDGE_TYPES.includes(t) ? prov : '';
+  }
+  if (prov && typeof prov === 'object') {
+    const type = String(prov.edge_type || '');
+    if (!PROVENANCE_EDGE_TYPES.includes(type)) return '';
+    const src = String(prov.source || '');
+    const tgt = String(prov.target || '');
+    if (!src && !tgt) return type;
+    return type + ':' + src + '->' + tgt;
+  }
+  return '';
+}
+
+/**
+ * Wave 3 alias retained for the Wave-1/2 surface contract. The real per-ring
+ * gate is now surfaceBridgesAtGate + confirmRingDecisions (FW-10). Kept as a
+ * thin pointer so any prior caller gets a clear redirect rather than a throw.
+ */
+function runRingGate(db, roomDir, gate) {
+  const decisions = gate && Array.isArray(gate.decisions) ? gate.decisions : [];
+  return confirmRingDecisions(db, roomDir, decisions);
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Wave 4 surface (FW-11 / FW-12 / FW-13)
+//
+// surfaceChainingHandoffs -- the top-3-of-N ranked foresight-web chaining
+//                            surfacer (D-04). EVERY handoff target resolves
+//                            through the Phase 122 command-resolver
+//                            (commandsForFramework / composeWorkflow); NEVER a
+//                            hardcoded /mos: command string (FW-12).
+// runRSReverseSalient     -- the RS handoff: invoke the shipped
+//                            scripts/rs-engine.py over the consequence set so
+//                            >=1 REVERSE_SALIENT edge is written via the
+//                            rs-engine raw path (NOT writeEdge; REVERSE_SALIENT
+//                            is not frozen).
+// runSignalResearch / seedGrounding / perRingResearch -- the FW-13 SIGNAL leg:
+//                            two fire points, cache-first (30-day TTL), generic
+//                            domain handles ONLY (Part 8).
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+// The 8 foresight-web partners (FW-12). Each is named ONLY by its FRAMEWORK
+// HANDLE -- the command-resolver maps the framework name to its /mos: command
+// at runtime against data/command-registry.json. This table carries ZERO
+// hardcoded /mos: command strings (the FW-12 grep gate); the partner's command
+// is resolved through commandsForFramework / composeWorkflow only. A registry
+// miss degrades to a manual "run X" line (never a crash, never a fabricated
+// command -- the resolver's degrade contract).
+//
+// `kind` is the local trigger this partner answers (used for ranking):
+//   rs            -- a cross-domain HSI bridge wants the reverse-salient lens
+//   causal_loop   -- a causal ring structure wants the systems-thinking lens
+//   branch        -- co-occurring consequence branches want scenario planning
+//   far_horizon   -- a long-horizon consequence wants trends / S-curve timing
+//   banked        -- a banked candidate wants the Mullins seven-domains screen
+//   reformulate   -- a tangled consequence set wants problem-definition diagnose
+const FORESIGHT_WEB_PARTNERS = Object.freeze([
+  { id: 'reverse-salient',  framework: 'Reverse Salient Analysis',                    kind: 'rs' },
+  { id: 'systems-thinking', framework: 'Systems Thinking',                            kind: 'causal_loop' },
+  { id: 'scenario-plan',    framework: 'Scenario Planning',                           kind: 'branch' },
+  { id: 'explore-trends',   framework: 'S-Curve Analysis',                            kind: 'far_horizon' },
+  { id: 'analyze-timing',   framework: 'S-Curve Analysis',                            kind: 'far_horizon' },
+  { id: 'dominant-designs', framework: 'Dominant Design',                             kind: 'far_horizon' },
+  { id: 'diagnose',         framework: 'Problem Definition Transformation Framework', kind: 'reformulate' },
+  { id: 'mullins',          framework: 'Mullins Model',                               kind: 'banked' },
+  { id: 'explore-futures',  framework: 'Scenario Planning',                           kind: 'branch' },
+]);
+
+// D-04: surface the TOP-3-of-N (mirror the 150.x dial top-3-of-N).
+const CHAINING_HANDOFF_TOP_N = 3;
+
+// The reverse "open as a futures wheel?" hook is reachable from these partner
+// surfaces (FW-12 mutual handoff): the RS and systems-thinking surfaces declare
+// it so an RS finding / a systems-thinking loop can be re-opened AS a wheel.
+const REVERSE_OPEN_AS_WHEEL_SURFACES = Object.freeze(['reverse-salient', 'systems-thinking']);
+
+/**
+ * Detect which foresight-web triggers a consequence set fires, ranking each
+ * partner by a LOCAL signal only (zero Brain egress; Part 8):
+ *   - rs          : >=1 cross-domain bridge (two endpoints, different domains)
+ *   - causal_loop : >=1 parent->child cascade (a causal ring exists)
+ *   - branch      : >=2 consequences co-occur in one domain (a fork to cluster)
+ *   - far_horizon : >=1 long-horizon consequence
+ *   - banked      : >=1 high-confidence consequence (a bankable candidate)
+ *   - reformulate : a tangled set (>= depth-cap rings present) wants a re-frame
+ *
+ * @param {Array<Object>} consequences - ring consequence objects
+ * @param {Object} [opts]
+ * @param {Array<Object>} [opts.bridges] - cross-domain bridges from runHsiScan
+ * @returns {Object} score-by-kind map (higher = stronger trigger)
+ */
+function detectChainingTriggers(consequences, opts) {
+  opts = opts || {};
+  const cons = Array.isArray(consequences) ? consequences : [];
+  const bridges = Array.isArray(opts.bridges) ? opts.bridges : [];
+
+  const crossDomainBridges = bridges.filter((b) => b && b.crossDomain === true).length;
+  const cascadeLinks = cons.filter((c) => c && typeof c.parent_id === 'string' && c.parent_id.length > 0).length;
+
+  // Domain co-occurrence: any domain carrying >=2 consequences is a fork.
+  const byDomain = {};
+  for (const c of cons) {
+    if (c && typeof c.domain === 'string') byDomain[c.domain] = (byDomain[c.domain] || 0) + 1;
+  }
+  const branchForks = Object.values(byDomain).filter((n) => n >= 2).length;
+
+  const farHorizon = cons.filter((c) => c && c.horizon === 'long').length;
+  const bankable = cons.filter((c) => c && typeof c.confidence === 'number' && c.confidence >= 0.6).length;
+  const ringSpan = new Set(cons.map((c) => c && c.ring).filter((r) => Number.isFinite(r))).size;
+
+  return {
+    rs: crossDomainBridges,
+    causal_loop: cascadeLinks,
+    branch: branchForks,
+    far_horizon: farHorizon,
+    banked: bankable,
+    reformulate: ringSpan >= FUTURES_DEPTH_CAP ? 1 : 0,
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * surfaceChainingHandoffs -- the FW-12 top-3-of-N ranked foresight-web chaining
+ * surfacer at the F.1 gate (D-04, mirror the 150.x dial top-3-of-N).
+ *
+ * Ranks the 8 foresight-web partners by their detected LOCAL trigger, resolves
+ * EACH surviving partner's command through the Phase 122 command-resolver
+ * (commandsForFramework -> composeWorkflow), and returns the top-3. A registry
+ * miss degrades to a manual "run X" line (manual:true, command:null) -- never a
+ * crash, never a fabricated command string (FW-12 acceptance).
+ *
+ * The reverse "open as a futures wheel?" hook is attached to the RS and
+ * systems-thinking handoffs (REVERSE_OPEN_AS_WHEEL_SURFACES) so the mutual
+ * handoff is reachable from those surfaces (FW-12 reverse handoff).
+ *
+ * NO hardcoded /mos: command strings live in this function: every command comes
+ * BACK from the resolver. The grep gate
+ *   grep -ciE "'/mos:(systems-thinking|scenario-plan|...)'"
+ * over orchestrator.cjs is 0.
+ *
+ * @param {string} roomDir - absolute room directory (LOCAL context source)
+ * @param {Array<Object>} consequences - the ring's consequence objects
+ * @param {Object} [opts]
+ * @param {Array<Object>} [opts.bridges] - cross-domain bridges from runHsiScan
+ * @param {Object} [opts.resolver] - injected command-resolver (default: the shipped one)
+ * @param {number} [opts.topN] - override the top-N cap (default CHAINING_HANDOFF_TOP_N)
+ * @returns {{ surface: string, handoffs: Array<Object>, reverseHook: Object }}
+ */
+function surfaceChainingHandoffs(roomDir, consequences, opts) {
+  opts = opts || {};
+  const resolver = opts.resolver || require('../../workflow/command-resolver.cjs');
+  const topN = Number.isFinite(opts.topN) ? opts.topN : CHAINING_HANDOFF_TOP_N;
+  const triggers = detectChainingTriggers(consequences, opts);
+
+  // Score each partner by its trigger; keep only fired partners (score > 0).
+  // Stable de-dup by framework so two partners sharing a framework (e.g.
+  // explore-futures + scenario-plan both -> Scenario Planning) do not both
+  // occupy a slot with the identical resolved command.
+  const seenFramework = new Set();
+  const ranked = FORESIGHT_WEB_PARTNERS
+    .map((p) => ({ partner: p, score: triggers[p.kind] || 0 }))
+    .filter((r) => r.score > 0)
+    .sort((a, b) => b.score - a.score)
+    .filter((r) => {
+      if (seenFramework.has(r.partner.framework)) return false;
+      seenFramework.add(r.partner.framework);
+      return true;
+    })
+    .slice(0, topN);
+
+  // Resolve each surviving partner's command through the resolver ONLY.
+  const handoffs = ranked.map((r) => {
+    const workflow = resolver.composeWorkflow([r.partner.framework]);
+    const step = workflow.length > 0 ? workflow[0] : { command: null, optional: true };
+    const command = step.command || null;
+    const handoff = {
+      id: r.partner.id,
+      framework: r.partner.framework,
+      trigger: r.partner.kind,
+      score: r.score,
+      // command came BACK from the resolver (FW-12); manual when the registry
+      // has no command for the framework (degrade, do not fabricate).
+      command,
+      manual: command === null,
+    };
+    if (REVERSE_OPEN_AS_WHEEL_SURFACES.includes(r.partner.id)) {
+      handoff.reverse_open_as_wheel = true;
+    }
+    return handoff;
+  });
+
+  return {
+    surface: 'F.1',
+    handoffs,
+    // The reverse hook descriptor: the "open as a futures wheel?" mutual handoff
+    // declared for the RS + systems-thinking surfaces (FW-12).
+    reverseHook: {
+      verb: 'open-as-futures-wheel',
+      reachableFrom: REVERSE_OPEN_AS_WHEEL_SURFACES.slice(),
+      note: 'A reverse-salient finding or a systems-thinking loop can be re-opened AS a Futures Wheel seed.',
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * runRSReverseSalient -- the RS handoff. When the navigator accepts the RS
+ * chaining handoff, invoke the SHIPPED scripts/rs-engine.py (Mode A internal)
+ * over the room so it writes >=1 REVERSE_SALIENT edge into room.db via the
+ * rs-engine RAW path (properties.source='rs-engine'). REVERSE_SALIENT is NOT in
+ * the frozen ALLOWED_EDGE_TYPES, so it MUST NOT route through navigation.writeEdge
+ * (that path rejects it). The rs-engine raw writer is the canonical path (mirrors
+ * the Wave 2 HSI_CONNECTION raw-path decision).
+ *
+ * Tri-Polar: python3 absence degrades cleanly to a Tier 0 no-op (no crash on
+ * Desktop/Cowork). Part 8: rs-engine reads LOCAL room artifacts only; zero Brain
+ * egress (Mode A internal scan; no --topic, no external corpus).
+ *
+ * @param {string} roomDir - absolute room directory
+ * @param {Object} [opts]
+ * @param {string} [opts.pluginRoot] - root holding scripts/ (default: repo root)
+ * @returns {Promise<{ ok: boolean, degraded?: boolean, reason?: string, reverseSalientEdges: number }>}
+ */
+async function runRSReverseSalient(roomDir, opts) {
+  opts = opts || {};
+  const resolvedRoom = path.resolve(roomDir);
+  const pluginRoot = opts.pluginRoot || path.resolve(__dirname, '..', '..', '..');
+  const rsEngine = path.join(pluginRoot, 'scripts', 'rs-engine.py');
+
+  // Phase 272 D-04: backend-dispatched. 'python' keeps the existing
+  // execFileSync call and its Tri-Polar graceful-degradation contract
+  // UNCHANGED. 'cjs' calls rs-engine.cjs::runModeInternal directly, in
+  // process -- no python3 resolution check needed on this branch, since the
+  // resolvePython3() guard only ever gated the Python leg. On failure it
+  // maps to the SAME { ok:true, degraded:true, tier:0,
+  // reason:'rs_engine_unavailable_tier0_fallback', reverseSalientEdges:0 }
+  // shape the Python branch already returns -- this function's whole design
+  // is Tri-Polar graceful degradation, and the CJS branch must degrade
+  // exactly as gracefully, not throw.
+  const rsBackend = rsBackendDispatch.resolveBackend();
+  if (rsBackend === 'python') {
+    const python = resolvePython3();
+    if (!python) {
+      return { ok: true, degraded: true, tier: 0, reason: 'python3_absent_tier0_fallback', reverseSalientEdges: 0 };
+    }
+
+    // Mode A internal scan: LOCAL room only, no external corpus (Part 8).
+    try {
+      execFileSync(python, [rsEngine, '--mode', 'internal', '--room', resolvedRoom], {
+        stdio: 'pipe',
+        cwd: pluginRoot,
+      });
+    } catch (e) {
+      return {
+        ok: true,
+        degraded: true,
+        tier: 0,
+        reason: 'rs_engine_unavailable_tier0_fallback',
+        detail: String((e && e.message) || '').slice(0, 160),
+        reverseSalientEdges: 0,
+      };
+    }
+  } else {
+    // Mode A internal scan, in-process: LOCAL room only, no external corpus (Part 8).
+    try {
+      await rsEngineCjs.runModeInternal(resolvedRoom, { mode: 'internal' });
+    } catch (e) {
+      return {
+        ok: true,
+        degraded: true,
+        tier: 0,
+        reason: 'rs_engine_unavailable_tier0_fallback',
+        detail: String((e && e.message) || '').slice(0, 160),
+        reverseSalientEdges: 0,
+      };
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Read back the REVERSE_SALIENT edges the rs-engine raw path wrote, via the
+  // SAME lazygraph handle the rest of the orchestrator uses (node:sqlite under
+  // the hood; no better-sqlite3 dependency).
+  let reverseSalientEdges = 0;
+  const dbPath = path.join(resolvedRoom, '.mindrian', 'room.db');
+  if (fs.existsSync(dbPath)) {
+    const lazygraph = require('../lazygraph-ops.cjs');
+    const graph = await lazygraph.openGraph(resolvedRoom);
+    try {
+      const row = graph.db.prepare("SELECT COUNT(*) AS n FROM edges WHERE type = 'REVERSE_SALIENT'").get();
+      reverseSalientEdges = (row && row.n) || 0;
+    } catch (_e) {
+      reverseSalientEdges = 0;
+    } finally {
+      await lazygraph.closeGraph(graph.db);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return { ok: true, tier: 1, reverseSalientEdges };
+}
+
+// --- FW-13 SIGNAL research: two fire points, cache-first, generic handles ---
+
+// The default external corpus source for the SIGNAL leg. openalex is a public
+// academic source (no API key needed) so seed grounding works out of the box.
+const SIGNAL_DEFAULT_SOURCE = 'openalex';
+const SIGNAL_DEFAULT_LIMIT = 5;
+
+/**
+ * Coerce a free-text concept/domain into a GENERIC search handle (Part 8). The
+ * handle carries ONLY a domain/concept keyword -- NEVER a consequence body or
+ * any room artifact text. We strip to a short lowercased keyword phrase (the
+ * same generic-handle discipline the brain-cypher adapter uses), bounded to a
+ * few words so a long artifact body cannot smuggle itself through as a "handle".
+ *
+ * @param {string} handle - the seed concept or a ring domain keyword
+ * @returns {string} a bounded generic handle (or '' when nothing generic remains)
+ */
+function genericDomainHandle(handle) {
+  const s = String(handle == null ? '' : handle).toLowerCase();
+  // Keep word characters + spaces only; collapse whitespace; cap at 6 words so
+  // a consequence sentence cannot ride through as a "handle".
+  const words = s.replace(/[^a-z0-9 ]+/g, ' ').replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim().split(' ').filter(Boolean);
+  return words.slice(0, 6).join(' ');
+}
+
+/**
+ * runSignalResearch -- the bounded SIGNAL leg (FW-13), cache-first:
+ *   getCached(roomDir, source, handle) -> if a fresh hit, return it (no fetch)
+ *   else fetchCorpus({ source, query: handle, limit }) -> putCached -> return
+ *
+ * The `query` passed to fetchCorpus is ALWAYS a GENERIC DOMAIN HANDLE
+ * (genericDomainHandle), NEVER a consequence body or room artifact text (Part 8).
+ * The 30-day cache (research-cache) bounds external calls: a second call within
+ * the TTL window is a cache hit (isFresh true), so this is NOT always-on.
+ *
+ * @param {string} roomDir - absolute room directory (cache location)
+ * @param {string} query - the seed concept / a ring domain keyword (generic)
+ * @param {Object} [opts]
+ * @param {string} [opts.source] - corpus source (default SIGNAL_DEFAULT_SOURCE)
+ * @param {number} [opts.limit] - result cap (default SIGNAL_DEFAULT_LIMIT)
+ * @param {Object} [opts.corpus] - injected research-corpus (default: shipped)
+ * @param {Object} [opts.cache] - injected research-cache (default: shipped)
+ * @param {Object} [opts.cacheOpts] - passed to getCached/isFresh (now/ttlMs seam)
+ * @returns {Promise<{ handle: string, cacheHit: boolean, results: Array, count: number }>}
+ */
+async function runSignalResearch(roomDir, query, opts) {
+  opts = opts || {};
+  const corpus = opts.corpus || require('../research-corpus.cjs');
+  const cache = opts.cache || require('../research-cache.cjs');
+  const source = opts.source || SIGNAL_DEFAULT_SOURCE;
+  const limit = Number.isFinite(opts.limit) ? opts.limit : SIGNAL_DEFAULT_LIMIT;
+  const cacheOpts = opts.cacheOpts || {};
+
+  // The ONLY thing that crosses the boundary: a generic domain/concept handle.
+  const handle = genericDomainHandle(query);
+  if (!handle) {
+    return { handle: '', cacheHit: false, results: [], count: 0 };
+  }
+
+  // Cache-first: a fresh entry short-circuits the external call (30-day TTL).
+  const cached = cache.getCached(roomDir, source, handle, cacheOpts);
+  if (cached !== null) {
+    return { handle, cacheHit: true, results: cached, count: cached.length };
+  }
+
+  // Miss / stale: fetch with the GENERIC HANDLE ONLY, then cache the result.
+  const results = await corpus.fetchCorpus({ source, query: handle, limit });
+  const list = Array.isArray(results) ? results : [];
+  cache.putCached(roomDir, source, handle, list, cacheOpts);
+  return { handle, cacheHit: false, results: list, count: list.length };
+}
+
+/**
+ * seedGrounding -- FW-13 fire point (a): called ONCE up front to ground ring-1
+ * generation. Fetches >=1 public source (cache hit or live) for the seed
+ * concept (a generic handle) so ring-1 is grounded in real signal, not guesses.
+ *
+ * @param {string} roomDir
+ * @param {string} seed - the seed concept (a generic domain/concept handle)
+ * @param {Object} [opts] - forwarded to runSignalResearch
+ * @returns {Promise<{ grounded: boolean, handle: string, cacheHit: boolean, sources: Array, count: number }>}
+ */
+async function seedGrounding(roomDir, seed, opts) {
+  const res = await runSignalResearch(roomDir, seed, opts);
+  return {
+    grounded: res.count > 0,
+    handle: res.handle,
+    cacheHit: res.cacheHit,
+    sources: res.results,
+    count: res.count,
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * perRingResearch -- FW-13 fire point (b): the navigator fires research over a
+ * ring's consequences ON DEMAND. The query is the ring's GENERIC DOMAIN keyword
+ * (the PESTEL domain handle), NEVER a consequence body (Part 8). Each pass
+ * either:
+ *   - corroborates a consequence's confidence (raises evidence tier; returns a
+ *     `confidenceAdjustments` list naming each consequence + a delta), OR
+ *   - proposes >=1 signal-derived consequence (tagged signal_derived:true).
+ *
+ * The corroborate-vs-propose decision is LOCAL and bounded: if the ring already
+ * has a consequence in the researched domain, the finding corroborates it;
+ * otherwise the finding proposes a new signal-derived consequence in that domain.
+ * Findings wire as typed LOCAL evidence via the evidence-claim path (Part 5) when
+ * a db handle is supplied; with no db this returns the structured deltas the
+ * caller (Larry) wires at the gate.
+ *
+ * @param {string} roomDir
+ * @param {Array<Object>} ringConsequences - the ring's consequence objects
+ * @param {string} domainHandle - the GENERIC domain keyword to research
+ * @param {Object} [opts] - forwarded to runSignalResearch
+ * @returns {Promise<{ handle: string, cacheHit: boolean, sourceCount: number,
+ *   confidenceAdjustments: Array, signalDerived: Array }>}
+ */
+async function perRingResearch(roomDir, ringConsequences, domainHandle, opts) {
+  opts = opts || {};
+  const cons = Array.isArray(ringConsequences) ? ringConsequences : [];
+  const res = await runSignalResearch(roomDir, domainHandle, opts);
+
+  const confidenceAdjustments = [];
+  const signalDerived = [];
+
+  if (res.count > 0) {
+    const handleDomain = genericDomainHandle(domainHandle);
+    // Find a consequence whose domain matches the researched handle to corroborate.
+    const target = cons.find((c) => c
+      && typeof c.domain === 'string'
+      && genericDomainHandle(c.domain) === handleDomain);
+    if (target) {
+      // Corroborate: a cited public source raises this consequence's confidence.
+      confidenceAdjustments.push({
+        id: target.id,
+        confidence_adjust: 0.1,
+        evidence_tier: 'Academic',
+        source: res.results[0] && res.results[0].id ? res.results[0].id : 'signal',
+      });
+    } else {
+      // Propose a signal-derived consequence in the researched domain.
+      const top = res.results[0] || {};
+      signalDerived.push({
+        id: slugify((top.title || domainHandle) + '-signal') + '-signal',
+        domain: matchPestelDomain(domainHandle),
+        horizon: 'mid',
+        confidence: 0.4,
+        label: 'Signal-derived consequence in ' + domainHandle,
+        signal_derived: true,
+        source: top.id || 'signal',
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  return {
+    handle: res.handle,
+    cacheHit: res.cacheHit,
+    sourceCount: res.count,
+    confidenceAdjustments,
+    signalDerived,
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Map a free-text domain handle to its PESTEL enum member (default Social when
+ * no match). Keeps a signal-derived consequence inside the frozen domain enum.
+ */
+function matchPestelDomain(handle) {
+  const h = String(handle || '').toLowerCase();
+  for (const d of PESTEL_DOMAIN_ENUM) {
+    if (h.includes(d.toLowerCase())) return d;
+  }
+  return 'Social';
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  // caps (FW-02)
+  FUTURES_DEPTH_CAP,
+  FUTURES_FANOUT_CAP,
+  resolveDepthCap,
+  resolveFanoutCap,
+  // enums (FW-04)
+  HORIZON_ENUM,
+  PESTEL_DOMAIN_ENUM,
+  // validator (FW-04)
+  validateConsequenceFrontmatter,
+  // generation + cascade (FW-02 / FW-05)
+  generateRing,
+  writeCascadeEdges,
+  slugify,
+  consequenceArtifactId,
+  // Artifact registration + HSI sequencer (FW-06)
+  registerConsequenceArtifacts,
+  assertArtifactCountMatchesFiled,
+  runHsiScan,
+  // Wave 3 Decision Gate + confirm + bank (FW-07 / FW-08 / FW-09 / FW-10)
+  surfaceBridgesAtGate,
+  confirmRingDecisions,
+  bankCandidateWithProvenance,
+  RING_GATE_VERBS,
+  PROVENANCE_EDGE_TYPES,
+  runRingGate,
+  // Wave 4 chaining handoffs (FW-12)
+  surfaceChainingHandoffs,
+  detectChainingTriggers,
+  runRSReverseSalient,
+  FORESIGHT_WEB_PARTNERS,
+  CHAINING_HANDOFF_TOP_N,
+  REVERSE_OPEN_AS_WHEEL_SURFACES,
+  // Wave 4 SIGNAL research (FW-13)
+  runSignalResearch,
+  seedGrounding,
+  perRingResearch,
+  genericDomainHandle,
+};