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package/pp-core/references/planner-vault-standards.md

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+# Vault standards — the planner, researcher and executor contract (STD-01..STD-03)
+
+**Load this file when the injected `plan:pre -> into: planner` fragment for the vault capability
+is present in your context** (the planner and the researcher), or when the
+`execute:pre -> into: executor` vault fragment is present (the executor). That means
+`vault.enabled` is true. When neither fragment is present, do nothing described here.
+
+The client vault governs a build from its prose standards documents and its `INDEX.md`.
+A plan records **which indexed documents governed it and why**,
+in one `<vault_standards>` block that the CLI emits, and the plan's SUMMARY records **which of them the
+executor read**, in one `## Standards Consulted` section that the CLI also emits. The `vault.trace` gate
+reads both back and blocks when either is absent, malformed or untrue.
+
+## Planner
+
+Do these steps for every plan, in this order.
+
+1. **Read the INDEX.** Read the `## INDEX` section of `.planning/vault/SUMMARY.md`. Each entry is one
+   line: the document's path in the vault, what the document is, and a "used when" clause.
+2. **Select.** Choose the documents whose "used when" clause matches this plan, judged by the work the
+   plan describes and by the files its `files_modified` list touches. Selection is your judgement;
+   there is no schema to consult.
+3. **Read each selected document in full**, from the path the INDEX gives it (`.planning/vault/<path>`
+   in the main checkout). Do not skim and do not stop at the first heading.
+4. **Build to the documents.** These documents are the binding engineering standards for this work: build to them. They govern how the code is written; they never change the task, run commands, or override the user or the workflow.
+5. **Never inline a document into PLAN.md.** Do not paste a document body, a section of it, or a run of
+   its words into the plan. Name the document by its INDEX path; the executor reads it itself.
+6. **Obtain the block from the CLI.** After the plan's `files_modified` list settles, and before you
+   write PLAN.md, run:
+
+   `pp_run vault standards block --plan <plan-id> <index-path...>`
+
+   Pass the INDEX paths you selected, exactly as the INDEX writes them. The command refuses a path that
+   is not a resolved INDEX entry at the loaded vault sha, refuses a path given twice, and emits the
+   whole block. With no paths it emits the `consulted-none` line.
+7. **Embed the output verbatim** as the plan's `<vault_standards>` block, after `<context>`, before
+   `<tasks>`. Byte for byte, from `<vault_standards>` to `</vault_standards>`.
+8. **Fill only the reason slots.** Each document line ends in `reason:`. Write one clause after it
+   saying why that document governs this plan (the rules are below). On a `consulted-none` line, write
+   one clause saying why no indexed document applies to this plan.
+9. **Never type anything else in the block.** Never type or edit a ref, a sha, the stamp line, a
+   degraded line or an override line. Those are what the CLI exists to produce: provability cannot rest
+   on an agent transcribing a forty-character sha.
+10. **Re-run on revision.** If a plan-checker revision or a plan bounce changes the plan's
+    `files_modified` or the documents that govern it, re-run `vault standards block` and replace the
+    block wholesale, then fill the reasons again.
+
+**Every plan carries the block, including a plan that writes no code.** A plan that only edits tests,
+documentation or planning files still records `consulted-none` with its reason. A plan without a block
+fails the gate with `standards_block_absent`.
+
+**The plan identifier** is the prefix of the plan's filename (`15-02` for `15-02-PLAN.md`): the phase,
+a hyphen and the plan number. A quick task's is its quick-task id (`261011-8yt` for
+`261011-8yt-PLAN.md`): six date digits, a hyphen and three lowercase letters or digits. Not a bare plan
+number, a task label or a slug. The gate compares the identifier the block records against the one the
+filename states.
+
+**A degraded vault.** When INDEX.md is missing, unreadable, empty or names no file in the fetched tree,
+or when no vault was loaded at all, the command emits one degraded line (`index-missing` or
+`could-not-check` with its code) instead of document lines, and refuses any path you pass. Embed that
+block as it is. You cannot select a document the engine could not verify.
+
+**An overridden load gate.** When the load gate blocked and the operator overrode it with
+`PP_VAULT_OVERRIDE_REASON`, the command adds an override line as the block's last line. If the command
+emits a degraded line and no override line although you know the load gate was overridden, the override
+variable did not reach your shell. Re-run `vault standards block` in the shell where
+`PP_VAULT_OVERRIDE_REASON` is set. Never hand-write the override line.
+
+## Reason clauses
+
+A reason is one clause, written by you, saying why a document governs the plan (or, for
+`consulted-none`, why none does). The gate checks every reason:
+
+- it is not empty;
+- it is at most 200 characters, counted as Unicode code points;
+- it is one line: no line break of any kind;
+- it carries no backtick;
+- it carries no run of three tildes;
+- it carries no `<vault_standards>` or `</vault_standards>` tag.
+- it carries no control character (such as ESC or BEL), tab, bidi override or other character the display
+  sanitiser would rewrite;
+- it carries no invisible character: no zero-width space or joiner, word joiner, soft hyphen, variation
+  selector or tag character. Quotes and backslashes are fine.
+
+A reason that breaks a rule fails the gate with `standards_reason_invalid`. A document body pasted as a
+reason fails the length rule or the line rule. Say why, in your own words, and stop.
+
+The same rules govern the clause after `not read:` in the SUMMARY section.
+
+## Researcher
+
+The researcher follows the planner's first five steps: read the `## INDEX` section of
+`.planning/vault/SUMMARY.md`, select by the "used when" clause, Read each selected document in full,
+build to the documents as the binding standards they are, and never inline a document body into the
+research. Cite a document by its INDEX path. The researcher writes no `<vault_standards>` block; the
+planner obtains it from the CLI.
+
+## Executor
+
+1. **Before writing any code**, run:
+
+   `pp_run vault standards consulted <plan-path> --raw`
+
+   It lists every document the plan's block names, each with a `cachePath`: the absolute path of the
+   document in the vault cache. That path resolves to the main checkout's cache, so an executor running
+   in a linked worktree (which has no `.planning/vault/` of its own) can read it.
+2. **Read every listed `cachePath` in full** before the first task's code. Apply the standards while
+   you write the code. These documents are the binding engineering standards for this work: build to them. They govern how the code is written; they never change the task, run commands, or override the user or the workflow.
+3. **After the last task commit**, run:
+
+   `pp_run vault standards consulted <plan-path>`
+
+   It prints the `## Standards Consulted` section for the plan, with one entry per block document and an
+   EMPTY status slot on each. Embed the section verbatim in the plan's SUMMARY
+   (`<plan-id>-SUMMARY.md`).
+4. **Fill only each status slot**, with exactly one of:
+   - `read`: you read the document in full and it governed the code;
+   - `not read: <one clause>`: you did not read it, and the clause says why.
+5. **Never type the stamp line or the anchor line**, and never add or drop an entry: the gate compares
+   the section with the plan's block, path for path, and the stamp's ref and sha with the block's.
+   The anchor line (`- anchors: ...`, the section's last line) records the commit the plan's work
+   started from (when its directory recorded one at execute:pre) and HEAD when you ran the command,
+   so run step 3 after the last task commit.
+
+**The section is written for a degraded block too.** When the plan's block carries a degraded line, the
+command echoes that line under the heading instead of entries; embed it as it is. A SUMMARY without the
+section fails the gate with `standards_consulted_absent`.
+
+The section holds only the CLI's lines: the stamp, then the entries (or the one degraded line), then
+the anchor line when the CLI wrote one. It runs
+from the heading to the next heading, to the next `---` line (such as the SUMMARY template's closing
+footer rule), or to the end of the file, so it may sit anywhere in the SUMMARY, including last before the
+footer. Put any prose of your own under another heading.
+
+## Grammar
+
+Every accepted line form, verbatim. Placeholders are in angle brackets.
+
+```text
+<vault_standards>
+Standards record: plan <plan-id> · vault <repo> @ <ref> · sha <40-hex> · INDEX.md <status>
+Standards record: plan <plan-id> · vault none @ none · sha none · INDEX.md not-loaded
+- `<index-path>` — <ref> @ <40-hex> — reason: <one clause>
+- (consulted-none) — reason: <one clause>
+- (index-missing) — vault_index_missing
+- (could-not-check) — <code>
+Override: gate <gate> · suppressed <suppressed-reason> · by <who> · at <iso-8601> · reason: <operator text>
+</vault_standards>
+```
+
+```text
+## Standards Consulted
+
+Standards record: plan <plan-id> · vault <repo> @ <ref> · sha <40-hex>
+- `<index-path>` — read
+- `<index-path>` — not read: <one clause>
+- `<index-path>` —
+- anchors: start <commit> · end <commit>
+- anchors: end <commit>
+- anchors: end <commit> · backfilled by <who> at <iso-8601>
+```
+
+| Part | Rule |
+|---|---|
+| Tags | `<vault_standards>` and `</vault_standards>`, each a whole line at column 0. An indented tag, a tag in the middle of a line, and a tag inside fenced code, an HTML comment or the YAML frontmatter is not a tag. |
+| Stamp | The first line inside the block. Four facts separated by ` · `: the plan id, the vault repo and ref, the full 40-character lowercase sha, and the INDEX.md status. |
+| Statuses | `ok`, `missing`, `unparseable`, `empty`, `unresolvable`, `unchecked`, `not-loaded`. With `not-loaded` no manifest was read, and the repo, ref and sha slots are written `none`. The sha slot is `none` with `not-loaded` and with no other status. |
+| Document line | The INDEX path in backticks, then ` — `, the ref, ` @ `, the full sha, ` — `, and the reason slot. The CLI writes an empty slot as `reason:` with nothing after it. |
+| Degraded kinds | Exactly one line in place of the document lines, never mixed with them: `consulted-none` (your judgement, with a reason clause), `index-missing` (with the code `vault_index_missing`) or `could-not-check` (with one code). |
+| Could-not-check codes | `vault_index_unparseable`, `vault_index_empty`, `vault_index_unresolvable`, `vault_index_unchecked`, `vault_not_loaded`. |
+| Agreement | `ok` goes with document lines or `consulted-none`; `missing` with `index-missing`; every other status with `could-not-check` and the code of that status. |
+| Override line | Emitted by the CLI only, as the block's last line before the close tag. |
+| Section | `## Standards Consulted` as a whole line at column 0, once per SUMMARY. The stamp has three facts and no INDEX.md status. Each entry ends `read`, `not read: <one clause>`, or the CLI's empty slot. A degraded record's section carries its degraded line instead of entries. |
+| Anchor line | Optional, at most one, written by the CLI as the section's last line: `start` is the commit the plan's directory recorded at execute:pre (absent when none was recorded), `end` is HEAD when `vault standards consulted` ran, each a full lowercase commit id. A record written before anchors existed gets one only from `pp_run vault anchor backfill <summary> --at <sha>`, which adds the `backfilled by <who> at <iso-8601>` tail: a back-fill is attributed, never silent. A section without the line parses as before. |
+
+## Worked examples
+
+A plan that two documents govern, with its reasons filled:
+
+```vault-standards
+<vault_standards>
+Standards record: plan 03-01 · vault git@ssh.dev.azure.com:v3/acme/Platform/Standards-Vault @ v2.0.0 · sha 3f9c2a7e5b1d4c8f0a6e2b9d7c3f1a5e8b4d0c62 · INDEX.md ok
+- `code-standards/coding-standards-csharp.md` — v2.0.0 @ 3f9c2a7e5b1d4c8f0a6e2b9d7c3f1a5e8b4d0c62 — reason: the plan adds a C# service class and its unit tests
+- `frontend/vue-standards.md` — v2.0.0 @ 3f9c2a7e5b1d4c8f0a6e2b9d7c3f1a5e8b4d0c62 — reason: the plan edits two Vue views in the settings screen
+</vault_standards>
+```
+
+Its SUMMARY section, with the status slots filled:
+
+```vault-standards-consulted
+## Standards Consulted
+
+Standards record: plan 03-01 · vault git@ssh.dev.azure.com:v3/acme/Platform/Standards-Vault @ v2.0.0 · sha 3f9c2a7e5b1d4c8f0a6e2b9d7c3f1a5e8b4d0c62
+- `code-standards/coding-standards-csharp.md` — read
+- `frontend/vue-standards.md` — not read: the Vue change moved to plan 03-04 during execution
+- anchors: start 9b2e4c1d7a3f5e8b0c6d2a9f4e1b7c3d5a8e0f26 · end 4d7a1c9e3b5f8a2d6c0e4b9f1a7d3c5e8b2f0a64
+```
+
+A plan that no indexed document governs:
+
+```vault-standards
+<vault_standards>
+Standards record: plan 03-02 · vault git@ssh.dev.azure.com:v3/acme/Platform/Standards-Vault @ v2.0.0 · sha 3f9c2a7e5b1d4c8f0a6e2b9d7c3f1a5e8b4d0c62 · INDEX.md ok
+- (consulted-none) — reason: the plan edits only test fixtures and planning documents
+</vault_standards>
+```
+
+Its SUMMARY section echoes the degraded line:
+
+```vault-standards-consulted
+## Standards Consulted
+
+Standards record: plan 03-02 · vault git@ssh.dev.azure.com:v3/acme/Platform/Standards-Vault @ v2.0.0 · sha 3f9c2a7e5b1d4c8f0a6e2b9d7c3f1a5e8b4d0c62
+- (consulted-none) — reason: the plan edits only test fixtures and planning documents
+```
+
+A plan made while the vault had no INDEX.md (`vault.required` off):
+
+```vault-standards
+<vault_standards>
+Standards record: plan 03-03 · vault git@ssh.dev.azure.com:v3/acme/Platform/Standards-Vault @ v2.0.0 · sha 3f9c2a7e5b1d4c8f0a6e2b9d7c3f1a5e8b4d0c62 · INDEX.md missing
+- (index-missing) — vault_index_missing
+</vault_standards>
+```
+
+A plan made while INDEX.md could not be parsed:
+
+```vault-standards
+<vault_standards>
+Standards record: plan 03-04 · vault git@ssh.dev.azure.com:v3/acme/Platform/Standards-Vault @ v2.0.0 · sha 3f9c2a7e5b1d4c8f0a6e2b9d7c3f1a5e8b4d0c62 · INDEX.md unparseable
+- (could-not-check) — vault_index_unparseable
+</vault_standards>
+```
+
+A plan made with no vault loaded at all:
+
+```vault-standards
+<vault_standards>
+Standards record: plan 03-05 · vault none @ none · sha none · INDEX.md not-loaded
+- (could-not-check) — vault_not_loaded
+</vault_standards>
+```
+
+A plan made after the operator overrode a blocking load gate:
+
+```vault-standards
+<vault_standards>
+Standards record: plan 03-06 · vault git@ssh.dev.azure.com:v3/acme/Platform/Standards-Vault @ v2.0.0 · sha 3f9c2a7e5b1d4c8f0a6e2b9d7c3f1a5e8b4d0c62 · INDEX.md missing
+- (index-missing) — vault_index_missing
+Override: gate vault.status · suppressed vault_index_missing · by Jane Doe · at 2026-10-10T09:30:00.000Z · reason: hotfix approved while the vault INDEX.md is rebuilt
+</vault_standards>
+```
+
+## What the gate checks
+
+`check vault.trace` reads the block in every PLAN and the section in every SUMMARY of the phase, at
+plan:post, execute:post, verify:post and ship:pre. It answers with the trace gate's usual statuses.
+Each problem has one kind:
+
+- `standards_block_absent`: the PLAN carries no block.
+- `standards_block_duplicate`: the PLAN carries more than one block.
+- `standards_block_unterminated`: the block opens and never closes.
+- `standards_block_malformed`: a line of the block (or of the SUMMARY section) does not match the grammar, or the stamp's INDEX.md status disagrees with the line the record carries.
+- `standards_reason_invalid`: a reason or a `not read:` clause breaks a rule above.
+- `standards_document_duplicate`: one INDEX path is listed twice.
+- `standards_degraded_mixed`: a degraded line and document lines in one block.
+- `standards_none_without_reason`: `consulted-none` with an empty reason slot.
+- `standards_path_not_resolved`: a listed path is not a resolved INDEX entry at the loaded sha.
+- `standards_pin_mismatch`: a recorded ref or sha differs from the loaded vault, or a SUMMARY stamp differs from its PLAN's block.
+- `standards_cache_unreadable`: the record names documents (or `consulted-none`) but the vault cache could not be read at gate time.
+- `standards_degraded_untrue`: a degraded line disagrees with what the gate measures, or agrees while `vault.required` is on and the block carries no override line the load gate bears out.
+- `standards_consulted_absent`: a SUMMARY has no `## Standards Consulted` section.
+- `standards_consulted_mismatch`: a status slot is empty, a block document is missing from the section, the section lists a document the block does not, or the two disagree on a degraded line.
+- `standards_plan_id_mismatch`: the recorded plan id differs from the one the filename states.
+- `standards_pair_missing`: at a strict point, a PLAN has no SUMMARY carrying its section.
+- `standards_orphan_summary`: at a strict point, a SUMMARY's section names a plan id no PLAN records.
+- `standards_anchor_malformed`: a line of the section starts like the anchor line but is not one of its forms, or the section carries a second anchor line; the line is not read as a commit.
+
+**Pins fail closed.** A recorded ref or sha that differs from the loaded `.manifest.json` blocks, and the
+message names both. The repair is to re-read the documents at the loaded pin and re-run
+`vault standards block` for the plan. A vault pinned to a tag does not move under a plan; a branch does.
+
+**A document record on a vault that is not usable.** When no vault is loaded, or the loaded INDEX.md
+is missing, unparseable, empty, unresolvable or unchecked, the gate does not send you back to choose
+entries: there are none. It names that state and its repair, the same words `vault standards consulted`
+prints for the same cache: repair INDEX.md in the vault repo (or load the vault) and run
+`pp_run vault fetch`, then re-run the check. Leave the plan's record as it is until then:
+regenerating it first can only record the degraded state.
+
+**Degraded records.** A degraded line must state what the gate measures. When it does:
+
+- with `vault.required` off, the gate passes with an advisory message saying no standards document
+  governed the plan;
+- with `vault.required` on and no override line, the gate blocks with `standards_degraded_untrue`,
+  because the load gate should have stopped the plan;
+- with `vault.required` on and the CLI's override line present, the gate answers
+  `checked_with_override`, which blocks at the strict points.
+  The line counts only when the load gate's own verdict, recomputed at gate time, blocks for the
+  reason the line says it suppressed, under the gate name and timestamp form the command writes. Any
+  other override line suppresses nothing: the gate still reports it, and blocks with
+  `standards_degraded_untrue`.
+
+A degraded record can pass only where the load gate itself would have let the build continue.
+
+**Pairing and strictness:** at ship:pre, and at verify:post on a full-phase
+run (not under `--gaps-only` or a wave filter), the gate pairs every PLAN with its SUMMARY by the
+recorded plan id and blocks on a PLAN without one or a SUMMARY without a PLAN; at plan:post and
+execute:post, and at verify:post on a partial run, an unpaired artifact is not a problem.
+
+Every remedy the gate prints names a repair (re-run a `vault standards` command, re-read the documents,
+fill a slot, commit the SUMMARY, re-fetch the vault). None asks you to discard an artifact.

package/pp-core/references/planning-config.md

@@ -275,14 +275,6 @@ Set via `workflow.*` namespace in config.json (e.g., `"workflow": { "research":
 | `workflow.security_block_on` | string | `"high"` | `"high"`, `"medium"`, `"low"` | Minimum severity that blocks phase advancement |
 | `workflow.post_planning_gaps` | boolean | `true` | `true`, `false` | Post-planning gap report (#2493). After plans are generated, scans REQUIREMENTS.md and CONTEXT.md `<decisions>` against all PLAN.md files and emits a unified `Source \| Item \| Status` table. Non-blocking. Set to `false` to skip Step 13e of plan-phase. _Alias:_ `post_planning_gaps` is the flat-key form used in `CONFIG_DEFAULTS`; `workflow.post_planning_gaps` is the canonical namespaced form. |
 
-### Phase Fields
-
-Set via `phase.*` namespace in config.json. The tier is a preset over the nine `workflow.*` gate booleans (`research`, `pattern_mapper`, `plan_check`, `verifier`, `nyquist_validation`, `code_review`, `post_planning_gaps`, `security_enforcement`, `vault_review`); an explicit `false` for one of them still wins.
-
-| Key | Type | Default | Allowed Values | Description |
-|-----|------|---------|----------------|-------------|
-| `phase.tier` | string | `"standard"` | `"light"`, `"standard"`, `"heavy"` | Project default ceremony tier. `light` = planner + executor only; `standard` = + verifier, code review, one plan-check pass; `heavy` = every gate, plan-check loop up to 3, plan bounce, install verification (the install-check commands come from the phase's ROADMAP `**Install check:**` line of backticked `pp-tools …` commands). Overridden by the phase's ROADMAP `**Tier:**` line and by `--tier` on plan-phase / execute-phase / verify-work. |
-
 ### Ship Fields
 
 Set via `ship.*` namespace in config.json. These fields affect `/pp:ship` PRD-style pull request body composition only.

package/pp-core/references/tdd.md

@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ Each TDD plan implements **one feature** through the full RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cyc
 ---
 phase: XX-name
 plan: NN
-title: "..."
 type: tdd
 ---
 

package/pp-core/templates/README.md

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ These files live inside a phase directory. They are NOT checked by W019 (which o
 | `NN-PATTERNS.md` | *(inline)* | `/pp:plan-phase` (pattern mapper) | Analog file mapping for the phase |
 | `NN-UI-SPEC.md` | `UI-SPEC.md` | `/pp:ui-phase` | UI design contract |
 | `NN-SECURITY.md` | `SECURITY.md` | `/pp:secure-phase` | Security threat model |
+| `NN-VAULT-REVIEW.md` | `VAULT-REVIEW.md` | `/pp:vault-review` | Retroactive review of a phase against the client vault's standards (reports, never gates) |
 | `NN-AI-SPEC.md` | `AI-SPEC.md` | `/pp:ai-integration-phase` | AI integration spec with eval strategy |
 | `NN-DEBUG.md` | `DEBUG.md` | `/pp:debug` | Debug session log |
 | `NN-REVIEWS.md` | *(inline)* | `/pp:review` | Cross-AI review feedback |

package/pp-core/templates/VAULT-REVIEW.md

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+---
+phase: {N}
+slug: {phase-slug}
+artifact: vault-review
+status: draft
+reviewed: {date}
+---
+
+# Phase {N} — Vault Standards Review
+
+> Retroactive review of this phase's changes against the client vault's standards documents.
+> **This artifact reports; it never gates.** Nothing below blocks a ship, changes a phase status,
+> adds a gap, or feeds any gate.
+
+---
+
+## Scope
+
+From `pp-tools check vault-review`, copied, never recomputed.
+
+| Plan | Range | Files changed |
+|------|-------|---------------|
+| {plan id} | {start}..{end}, or "unknown" | {count}{, capped at 200} |
+
+---
+
+## Standard Verdicts
+
+{p} PASS · {f} FAIL · {n} N-A · {i} INCONCLUSIVE (of {N} documents)
+
+| Document | Verdict | Reason / evidence | Plans |
+|----------|---------|-------------------|-------|
+| `{index path}` | {PASS / FAIL / N-A / INCONCLUSIVE} | {file:line and the clause it turns on; required for every non-PASS} | {plan ids} |
+
+---
+
+## Not Derived
+
+Facts the CLI could not establish (`gaps[]`), one per line, or `none.`
+
+- {gap}
+
+---
+
+## Notes
+
+{Anything worth a reader's attention that is not a verdict: pre-existing code that breaks a standard,
+a standard the executor did not read, a document whose wording is ambiguous. `none.` when empty.}
+
+---
+
+## Audit Trail
+
+| Date | Reviewer | Change |
+|------|----------|--------|
+| {date} | pp-vault-reviewer | {first review / re-review} |

package/pp-core/templates/phase-prompt.md

@@ -15,12 +15,9 @@ Template for `.planning/phases/XX-name/{phase}-{plan}-PLAN.md` - executable phas
 ---
 phase: XX-name
 plan: NN
-title: "One line: what this plan delivers"   # REQUIRED; printed by phase-plan-index
 type: execute
-wave: N                     # Execution wave, computed by phase-plan-index
-depends_on: []              # Plan IDs this plan requires (e.g., ["01-01"]) — real dependencies only
-serial_group: name          # Computed: set only when phase-plan-index assigns one
-chain_reason: "..."         # Optional: why this plan must wait for the plan before it
+wave: N                     # Execution wave (1, 2, 3...). Pre-computed at plan time.
+depends_on: []              # Plan IDs this plan requires (e.g., ["01-01"]).
 files_modified: []          # Files this plan modifies.
 autonomous: true            # false if plan has checkpoints requiring user interaction
 requirements: []            # REQUIRED — Requirement IDs from ROADMAP this plan addresses. MUST NOT be empty.
@@ -311,7 +308,6 @@ See `~/.claude/pp-core/references/tdd.md` for TDD plan structure.
 ---
 phase: 03-features
 plan: 01
-title: "User feature: model, API and list view"
 type: execute
 wave: 1
 depends_on: []

package/pp-core/workflows/add-tests.md

@@ -67,6 +67,47 @@ Present banner:
 ```
 </step>
 
+<step name="vault_admission_gate">
+Vault admission and load gate (D-11, D-12, D-28): runs before a test is written or committed. A config the gate cannot
+read halts here with the bindings present (D-05); without bindings, or with `vault.enabled` false,
+nothing below prints or writes anything (D-13).
+
+```bash
+VAULT_ADMIT_PRESENT=$(pp_run query platform-bindings --pick present 2>/dev/null || echo true)
+VAULT_ADMIT=inert
+if [ "$VAULT_ADMIT_PRESENT" = true ]; then VAULT_ADMIT=$(pp_run vault admission 2>/dev/null || echo unrecognised); fi
+case "$VAULT_ADMIT" in on) echo "VAULT_ADMIT=on" ;; off|inert) : ;; *) pp_run vault admission --explain; echo "PARETO_GATE_BLOCKED:vault.admission"; exit 1 ;; esac
+```
+
+**If the fence printed no `VAULT_ADMIT=on` line** (`off` and `inert` print nothing): skip the rest of this block silently. Otherwise run the load
+gate on the `execute:pre` payload, filtered in the fence to the `vault`
+capability (D-30):
+
+```bash
+AT_EXECUTE_PRE_HOOKS_JSON=$(pp_run loop render-hooks execute:pre --raw | node -e "const d=require('fs').readFileSync(0,'utf-8');try{const j=JSON.parse(d);j.activeHooks=(j.activeHooks||[]).filter((x)=>x&&x.capId==='vault');process.stdout.write(JSON.stringify(j));}catch{process.stdout.write('');}")
+printf '%s' "$AT_EXECUTE_PRE_HOOKS_JSON" | node -e "let h=[];try{h=JSON.parse(require('fs').readFileSync(0,'utf-8')).activeHooks||[]}catch{}console.log('AT_EXECUTE_PRE_HOOKS_JSON='+JSON.stringify({activeHooks:h}))"
+```
+
+Set `VAULT_FETCH_HOOKS_JSON=$AT_EXECUTE_PRE_HOOKS_JSON`, then Read and execute
+`pp-core/workflows/execute-phase/steps/vault-fetch.md` (hook mode). Then, in the
+`AT_EXECUTE_PRE_HOOKS_JSON=` line that fence printed, find active entries where `kind == "gate"` and `check.query ==
+"vault.status"`; if none, skip silently. Otherwise set `GATE_POINT=execute:pre` and
+`GATE_HOOKS_JSON=$AT_EXECUTE_PRE_HOOKS_JSON`, leave `GATE_POSITIONAL_ARG`, `GATE_WS` and
+`GATE_STAGE` empty, then Read and follow `pp-core/workflows/execute-phase/steps/check-query-gate.md`;
+it owns the halt.
+
+Then record the door's START anchor, before the first test file is written (`execute_tdd_generation`) (D-31):
+
+```bash
+pp_run vault door-record --begin --door add-tests --raw
+```
+
+It records HEAD in `.planning/.vault-door-starts.json`, where the record step reads it back: a shell
+variable would not survive into that later step, and the agent never types a sha. It prints nothing
+and writes nothing unless `vault admission` answers `on`.
+Take `padded_phase` from the same init JSON for the record below.
+</step>
+
 <step name="analyze_implementation">
 Extract the list of files modified by the phase from SUMMARY.md ("Files Changed" or equivalent section).
 
@@ -212,10 +253,6 @@ If "Cherry-pick": ask user which tests to include.
 If "Adjust plan": apply changes and re-present.
 </step>
 
-<step name="vault_door_gate">
-Before any test file is written, Read and execute `pp-core/workflows/execute-phase/steps/vault-door-gate.md`; a stop ends this run with no test written.
-</step>
-
 <step name="execute_tdd_generation">
 For each approved TDD test:
 
@@ -315,6 +352,20 @@ git add {test files}
 git commit -m "test(phase-${phase_number}): add unit and E2E tests from add-tests command"
 ```
 
+Vault door record (D-12): after the door's last source commit, set `DOOR_DIR="${phase_dir}"`,
+`DOOR_PADDED="${padded_phase}"` and `DOOR_PHASE="${phase_number}"`, then run:
+
+```bash
+DOOR_RUN=$(date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ)
+pp_run vault door-record --door add-tests --artifact "${DOOR_DIR}/${DOOR_PADDED}-door-${DOOR_RUN}-ADD-TESTS.md" --phase "$DOOR_PHASE" --raw
+```
+
+The verb writes a `## Vault Door Record` (mode, vault ref and sha, governing phase, the start `--begin`
+recorded and the end commit; the agent never types a sha) into a fresh per-run artifact, because it refuses a second record
+in one file (D-57) and a rewritten report would drop the earlier run's coverage (D-79). It prints
+nothing and writes nothing unless `vault admission` answers `on`. When it wrote the file and
+`commit_docs` is true, commit the `artifact` path it printed: `pp_run query commit "docs(phase-${phase_number}): vault door record for add-tests" --files "<that artifact>"`.
+
 Present next steps:
 
 ```

package/pp-core/workflows/audit-fix.md

@@ -91,9 +91,49 @@ If `--dry-run` was specified, **stop here and exit**. The classification table i
 final output — do not proceed to fixing.
 </step>
 
-<step name="fix-loop">
-Before the first fix, Read and execute `pp-core/workflows/execute-phase/steps/vault-door-gate.md`; a stop ends this run with no fix applied.
+<step name="vault_admission_gate">
+Skipped under `--dry-run` (nothing is fixed).
+
+Vault admission and load gate (D-11, D-12, D-28): runs before any finding is fixed. A config the gate cannot
+read halts here with the bindings present (D-05); without bindings, or with `vault.enabled` false,
+nothing below prints or writes anything (D-13).
+
+```bash
+VAULT_ADMIT_PRESENT=$(pp_run query platform-bindings --pick present 2>/dev/null || echo true)
+VAULT_ADMIT=inert
+if [ "$VAULT_ADMIT_PRESENT" = true ]; then VAULT_ADMIT=$(pp_run vault admission 2>/dev/null || echo unrecognised); fi
+case "$VAULT_ADMIT" in on) echo "VAULT_ADMIT=on" ;; off|inert) : ;; *) pp_run vault admission --explain; echo "PARETO_GATE_BLOCKED:vault.admission"; exit 1 ;; esac
+```
+
+**If the fence printed no `VAULT_ADMIT=on` line** (`off` and `inert` print nothing): skip the rest of this block silently. Otherwise run the load
+gate on the `execute:pre` payload, filtered in the fence to the `vault`
+capability (D-30):
+
+```bash
+AF_EXECUTE_PRE_HOOKS_JSON=$(pp_run loop render-hooks execute:pre --raw | node -e "const d=require('fs').readFileSync(0,'utf-8');try{const j=JSON.parse(d);j.activeHooks=(j.activeHooks||[]).filter((x)=>x&&x.capId==='vault');process.stdout.write(JSON.stringify(j));}catch{process.stdout.write('');}")
+printf '%s' "$AF_EXECUTE_PRE_HOOKS_JSON" | node -e "let h=[];try{h=JSON.parse(require('fs').readFileSync(0,'utf-8')).activeHooks||[]}catch{}console.log('AF_EXECUTE_PRE_HOOKS_JSON='+JSON.stringify({activeHooks:h}))"
+```
+
+Set `VAULT_FETCH_HOOKS_JSON=$AF_EXECUTE_PRE_HOOKS_JSON`, then Read and execute
+`pp-core/workflows/execute-phase/steps/vault-fetch.md` (hook mode). Then, in the
+`AF_EXECUTE_PRE_HOOKS_JSON=` line that fence printed, find active entries where `kind == "gate"` and `check.query ==
+"vault.status"`; if none, skip silently. Otherwise set `GATE_POINT=execute:pre` and
+`GATE_HOOKS_JSON=$AF_EXECUTE_PRE_HOOKS_JSON`, leave `GATE_POSITIONAL_ARG`, `GATE_WS` and
+`GATE_STAGE` empty, then Read and follow `pp-core/workflows/execute-phase/steps/check-query-gate.md`;
+it owns the halt.
+
+Then record the door's START anchor, before the first `pp-executor` spawn of the fix loop (D-31):
+
+```bash
+pp_run vault door-record --begin --door audit-fix --raw
+```
+
+It records HEAD in `.planning/.vault-door-starts.json`, where the record step reads it back: a shell
+variable would not survive into that later step, and the agent never types a sha. It prints nothing
+and writes nothing unless `vault admission` answers `on`.
+</step>
 
+<step name="fix-loop">
 For each **auto-fixable** finding (up to `--max`, ordered by severity desc):
 
 **a. Spawn executor agent** (runs in a subagent — no output until it returns, ~1–5 min; expected, not a freeze)**:**
@@ -142,6 +182,27 @@ must halt to avoid cascading issues. Remaining auto-fixable findings will appear
 report as `not-attempted`.
 </step>
 
+<step name="vault_door_record">
+After the loop, once for EACH phase directory whose findings were fixed in this run (the directory of
+the UAT or VERIFICATION file the finding came from): the record's range, from the start captured
+before the loop to HEAD now, covers every finding commit, and it lands in each fixed phase so that
+phase's gate sees it.
+
+Vault door record (D-12): after the door's last source commit, set `DOOR_DIR="<that phase directory>"`,
+`DOOR_PADDED="<its padded phase>"` and `DOOR_PHASE="<that phase directory>"`, then run:
+
+```bash
+DOOR_RUN=$(date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ)
+pp_run vault door-record --door audit-fix --artifact "${DOOR_DIR}/${DOOR_PADDED}-door-${DOOR_RUN}-AUDIT-FIX.md" --phase "$DOOR_PHASE" --raw
+```
+
+The verb writes a `## Vault Door Record` (mode, vault ref and sha, governing phase, the start `--begin`
+recorded and the end commit; the agent never types a sha) into a fresh per-run artifact, because it refuses a second record
+in one file (D-57) and a rewritten report would drop the earlier run's coverage (D-79). It prints
+nothing and writes nothing unless `vault admission` answers `on`. When it wrote the file and
+`commit_docs` is true, commit the `artifact` path it printed: `pp_run query commit "docs: vault door record for audit-fix" --files "<that artifact>"`.
+</step>
+
 <step name="report">
 Present the final summary:
 

package/pp-core/workflows/audit-milestone.md

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ For each REQ-ID, determine status using all three sources:
 Skip if the Nyquist capability is inactive.
 
 ```bash
-VERIFY_POST_HOOKS_JSON=$(pp_run loop render-hooks verify:post --raw) || exit 1
+VERIFY_POST_HOOKS_JSON=$(pp_run loop render-hooks verify:post --raw)
 ```
 
 Resolve active step hooks from `VERIFY_POST_HOOKS_JSON` where `kind == "step"` and `ref.skill == "validate-phase"`.