@sema-agent/client-core 0.85.2 → 0.87.0

package/README.md

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Renamed from **`@sema-agent/wire-cc-adapter`** (0.1.x, deprecated — see *Migra
 
 ## Scope
 
-**Version:** 0.85.2
+**Version:** 0.87.0
 
 - **Today** — the adapter seam, the whole `adapt()` pipeline (all 14 A-layer arms plus the
   B/D/E tool-card layers), the notification/caps/model families, the adapter kernel (stream driver
@@ -299,25 +299,25 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 | `scripts/run-bash-benign-exit-interpretation-test.mjs` | Benign non-zero Bash exits (`returnCodeInterpretation`) stay non-errors across all three derivation arms, and the annotation transits to the card |
 | `scripts/run-sdk-floor-test.mjs` | The SDK version floor — and, more to the point, that the *installed* type declarations still carry the keys this package reads — including, from 0.80.0, the three declarations that justify the floor itself: the key naming who settled a refusal on both decision legs, and the thirteenth word in the settlement vocabulary. They are found through the syntax tree rather than by searching text, because this guard's own comment stripper blanks string contents and would have made that check permanently, silently green. From 0.84.0 the floor is 12.0.1 and the guard witnesses the declarations the package now reads: the per-session background listing method, the `background.listFace` capability bit, and the closed background-status vocabulary that the registry classification switches over exhaustively. Every installed SDK the guard can see at or above the floor must carry those declarations too, so lowering the floor to a line where they do not exist fails. |
 | `scripts/run-engine-caps-ledger-test.mjs` | A per-key disposition ledger for `GET /v1/capabilities`. The SDK's `Capabilities` grew from 74 keys to 93 in one release and nothing on the board could see it: this package consumes that table through four synchronous readers, and *nineteen new positions arriving while the package does not move* is exactly the disease shape this repo keeps logging on other axes — the fact is already on the wire, the package boundary is the cell that swallows it, and no client can read it however they write their side. So the ledger is reconciled **element-wise against the SDK interface in both directions**: a key the SDK added with no ledger row is red (someone must classify it), and a row for a key the SDK removed is red too (a registration that no longer does anything). Each row then has to survive its own claim — a `read` row names the source file, and the **code** there (comments stripped) must really mention the key, because prose asserting an alignment is the classic way these guards go hollow; a `not_read` row must have **zero** read sites in the tree, so wiring one up while the ledger still says the package ignores it is red rather than invisible. The census behind those two directions recognises five call shapes, each of which really occurs here — a reader whose base argument carries its own parentheses, a direct `caps.<key>`, a narrowing cast, an own-property read helper, and a `*_CAP` constant — and proves it on fabricated samples first, since a census that recognises one shape reports "nothing here" for the other four. What the guard deliberately does **not** judge is whether a position *ought* to be read: that is a design call, and the ledger only pins that every capability was looked at once by a person and that what they wrote down does not contradict the code |
-| `scripts/run-sql-engine-capability-test.mjs` | The SQL-posture read face and the four-state capability reader underneath it. One capability cell here carries **four different things**, and each one points an operator somewhere else: nothing has been observed yet in this process (a one-shot doctor run is always in that state), the response arrived but carries no such key (an older engine), the engine explicitly answered `null` — *this deployment has no SQL backend*, which is a **positive fact** rather than an absence — and a full reading. Fold any two together and the screen states something flatly, confidently, and wrongly, so every positive control here is paired with a control pointing the opposite way, and the four sentences the doctor row can print are checked to be pairwise distinct and non-implying. The reading itself is narrowed no tighter than the mint: `txnMode: null` is a **legal value** — two of the three engines always report it that way, and the upstream type note names reading it as "optimistic" as the error — so treating it as malformed would throw away the entire reading for ordinary deployments, which is the same disease this repo logged when a consumer's domain was narrower than the producer's. A response that cannot be parsed **clears** the cell rather than leaving the previous engine's answer in place, and a separate invalidation port exists for the case the generation latch cannot catch — a same-port respawn whose new probe never succeeded, where the stale reading would otherwise be answered as current fact. Untrusted values (the isolation string is read back from a database server variable) are sanitised and bounded before display, and the bound is applied **before** escaping so a visible escape never gets cut in half. Finally the export names are themselves a guard: the shell still carries a copy that is meant to go red on the package's same-named export and be swapped out, so renaming anything here would silently disarm that lock |
+| `scripts/run-sql-engine-capability-test.mjs` | The SQL-posture read face and the four-state capability reader underneath it. One capability cell here carries **four different things**, and each one points an operator somewhere else: nothing has been observed yet in this process (a one-shot doctor run is always in that state), the response arrived but carries no such key (an older engine), the engine explicitly answered `null` — *this deployment has no SQL backend*, which is a **positive fact** rather than an absence — and a full reading. Fold any two together and the screen states something flatly, confidently, and wrongly, so every positive control here is paired with a control pointing the opposite way, and the four sentences the doctor row can print are checked to be pairwise distinct and non-implying. The reading itself is narrowed no tighter than the mint: `txnMode: null` is a **legal value** — two of the three engines always report it that way, and the upstream type note names reading it as "optimistic" as the error — so treating it as malformed would throw away the entire reading for ordinary deployments, which is the same disease this repo logged when a consumer's domain was narrower than the producer's. A response that cannot be parsed **clears** the cell rather than leaving the previous engine's answer in place, and a separate invalidation port exists for the case the generation latch cannot catch — a same-port respawn whose new probe never succeeded, where the stale reading would otherwise be answered as current fact. Untrusted values (the isolation string is read back from a database server variable) are sanitised and bounded before display, and the bound is applied **before** escaping so a visible escape never gets cut in half. Finally the export names are themselves a guard: the shell still carries a copy that is meant to go red on the package's same-named export and be swapped out, so renaming anything here would silently disarm that lock. Current engines (≥7.106.0) moved the SQL posture under the always-present store posture (`store.sql`) and dropped the top-level key, so the reader reads two generations: a response that carries the store posture is read from `store.sql` alone (absent there means the engine reports no SQL posture, exactly as the older `sql: null` did), and an older response is read as before — only when neither place has it is the position "not reported"; the engine's own projection is replayed to prove every form it mints reads back |
 | `scripts/run-web-search-backend-capability-test.mjs` | The deployment-default WebSearch backend read face (`capabilities.webSearch.backend`, engine ≥7.82.1). Same four-state discipline as the SQL and write-protection cells, with two things that are specific here and therefore guarded: a **missing key** (an older engine) and an explicit **`"none"`** (the engine says this deployment has no default search backend) point an operator in opposite directions — "cannot tell" versus "not configured" — and must never be folded; and the `none` sentence has to say both halves of the contract at once: the default scenario mounts no WebSearch tool, **and** a caller-supplied `webSearch` setting can still mount it on a single-user lane, because the capability advertises the deployment default, not whether this request has search. The backend word is read as an **open set** — the engine's closed set is typed from its own provider tuple and grows with it, so hand-copying three words here would turn a newly configured backend into "unreadable" (the narrower-than-the-mint disease this repo already logged once). `webSearch: null` is malformed rather than `none` (the mint never emits `null`), extra members never cross, an unparseable response clears the cell, a stale probe generation is dropped, the invalidation port clears to "not observed", and the open-set word is sanitised and bounded before display |
 | `scripts/run-terminal-cause-projection-test.mjs` | The `7.64.0` wire reshape, projected. A run's ending stopped being eight parallel flat keys and became **one tagged cause** (`completed \| failed \| blocked \| paused`), and a tool call's gate stopped being four orthogonal words and became **one record** (`disposition` / `settlement?` / `origin?`). Both are read in exactly one place in this package, and this guard pins them at **two levels**, because the dangerous seam is "the reader was updated, the consumer was not": each terminal arm is checked on the reader *and* on the `subtype` / `is_error` / `errors[]` the projector actually emits. Two properties carry most of the weight. First, a terminal word this reader does not know is **never** laundered into an empty success — it lands on an `unknown` arm carrying the word verbatim, while a payload with no terminal word at all (the mock lane) keeps the success arm exactly as before, which is the one and only case the reader answers `null`. Second, the three window words (`approval_window_expired`, `denial_limit_window_expired`, `park_sla_expired`) must each be told apart by a different predicate: the previous generation collapsed all three onto one `timeout`, and re-merging them would throw away the discrimination this reshape just restored. Two byte generations are read by one reader, keyed on the discriminator upstream nailed (`"terminal" in result`): the current cause form, and the **flat** form that a current engine still emits on two lanes — replayed persisted bytes, which the service passes through verbatim rather than back-filling, and the service's own rejection envelope. A cause-form payload that also carries stale flat keys must ignore them entirely: keeping one compatibility read is what gives a single fact two sources. The same file also pins the MCP delivery verdict and HTTP status riding the wiring manifest, the four-state write-protection reading (where three of the four states mean *cannot tell*, and none of them may be printed as "there is no table"), and the park-reopen fetch identity: that predicate is asserted through the **real entry point**, since the defect being fixed was precisely a call site wired to a different predicate than the one that routed the row there. From 0.80.0 one of those three boundaries flips: the key naming **who settled a refusal** stopped being a dead byte and became part of the wire, so the check stopped scanning the build output for the word and started reading the request bodies the two decision legs actually send. A refusal attributed to the deployment's own policy carries the word; one attributed to a person, one with no attribution at all, and one carrying a word the vocabulary does not hold carry nothing — the wire has no slot for “a person decided this” other than the key's absence, so inventing one would be minting a word upstream does not have. The allow family never carries it on any of its routes, because that combination is refused before the approval is judged while the side effects of allowing have already landed, and the three refusals nobody was asked about (a card that failed, a user who walked away, an interruption) carry nothing either. A deployment that signs the bodies it accepts does not sign that word, and there is no capability bit to ask beforehand, so a refusal on exactly that ground is answered by re-sending the same decision once with that one key removed — byte-for-byte the same otherwise — rather than letting an optional note take the whole denial down with it. The guard measures that along three axes: the decision still lands and is reported as decided with the attribution handed back and a separate flag saying it never reached the wire; a caller who aborted in between gets no second request; every other refusal code, and every decision that never carried the key, send exactly once. The classification of a second failure is made from what the second body actually carried, not from what the card asked for. From engine `7.104` a synchronous submit that stops at a gate returns the engine result itself plus a three-key receipt: it now carries the tagged cause, so it reads as `paused` on the cause generation (older engines still send the flat three-key body, which keeps reading as before), and the top-level park word is looked at first, the same order the SDK documents for all three generations, so a body the server says is parked is never read as finished. A parked run row now carries its result too, and the headless reconnect path turns it into the parked terminal frame on the first attempt instead of spending its whole retry budget — both generations are pinned, including an end-to-end drive through the public reconnect entry point. |
 | `scripts/run-auto-mode-unavailable-test.mjs` | The fact behind "you are being asked because the auto-mode classifier could not run", and the one place its sentence is minted. The cause table is a **copy**, reconciled word for word in both directions against the installed engine's own bytes — it narrowed upstream, and the guard follows rather than keeping the old shape: a table checked against something nobody ships any more is the oldest way for a guard to be green and wrong. The retirement is held from both sides — the removed table must really be gone upstream, and the removed reader and word must really be gone here — while the word that left keeps arriving cleanly from an older engine, because the reader takes the cause as an **open set**: the vocabulary belongs upstream, so a copied list here would discard a legal value the day one is added, and the value discarded is precisely "this outage is a NEW kind". The reader's one exclusion is the word the engine says it never stamps here — the classifier did run and did answer, just outside its contract, so reading it as a failure would invent an event the engine denies. That exclusion used to be derived from a second table which no longer exists; the reason for it never lived in that table, so it is now stated where it actually comes from, pinned as a **named** set (a magic literal scattered through the reader reds) and cross-checked against the engine's own verdict declaration and against the reader having exactly one such comparison. One reader serves both the live ask and its durable parked twin, since the two carry the same key path and a second copy is how two ledgers drift apart. Absence is pinned as absence — most asks never consulted a classifier at all — and the sentences are checked mutually distinct, prototype-safe, and walked end to end: an unknown word reaches the sentence a person reads (the fallback that names it verbatim) and the status reading (unavailable for this round, never a fallback to "available"), with counter-controls proving neither assertion is vacuous |
-| `scripts/run-engine-notice-catalog-test.mjs` | The engine-notice catalog and its audience table. Whether a notice deserves a person's attention is not decided by whether this end happens to have a phrasing for it — that drifts with each client's build order — but by whether the engine minted the code into its own written catalog; the audience row answers the separate question of *who* the fact is for, since an operations fact pushed at an end user is noise and a user-facing fact buried in an operator log is something withheld from the person who could act on it. Both tables are reconciled against the installed engine's own artefacts in both directions and pinned in lockstep with each other, unknown codes fall back to the conservative operator side, and catalog membership is tested on the raw value so a code carrying control characters cannot impersonate a registered one after sanitizing. The reader for a dropped MCP injection keys on its own code alone and treats a missing session, server or reason as absence rather than throwing at a read site. A reverse pin enforces the upstream's single-mint contract: the engine composes those sentences from the host's facts, so a copy of them appearing in this package's source or build is a second source that would drift, and fails. From 0.84.0 it also covers the reader for the two read-directory grant notices: it recognises only those two codes, needs the tool call id to match a card, passes the rejection reason through as written, and treats only the granted notice as evidence that a directory was added; a granted notice without both the directory and the spelling the engine now holds, or with a scope other than `exact`, is not read at all, and the scope word is pinned to the engine's type at compile time. The server also mints a few notices of its own through the same channel; those codes live in a second table with their own audiences, kept apart from the engine mirror (which must stay equal to the engine's catalog) and reconciled against the server's published package when one is supplied, so a user-facing server notice is no longer filed under operations. One dispatcher returns the typed facts for every code that has a reader, discriminated by code and tagged with its audience — only the user-audience codes belong on a user surface — and the guard ties the dispatch table to the module's own exported readers in both directions, so a reader cannot be exported without a row and a row cannot be dropped without the guard failing. From 0.85.0 it also covers a third server-minted notice, the one saying that part of a session's saved history could not be read when the session was reopened: it is a user-audience notice, its two counts are read one by one and anything that is not a non-negative integer reads as `unknown` rather than zero (neither "nothing was skipped" nor "nothing is left" may be invented), and one extra sentence — the context is empty but the turn runs — is given only when the count of entries left is exactly zero. When the server package is supplied, the guard drives the server's own emitter for that notice and reads what it emits back through the dispatcher. |
-| `scripts/run-tool-roster-projection-test.mjs` | The leg's tool roster — what the engine says it actually mounted and what face each tool wears — replacing three word lists that were only ever an estimate taken from one traffic capture against one pinned engine. The reader copies the engine's own all-or-nothing discipline: a roster whose row cannot be read, or whose declared count disagrees with the rows, is dropped whole rather than handed over short, because a consumer reading a short roster concludes the missing tools are not mounted — the upstream says in as many words that this is worse than sending nothing. A malformed *face* on a row (path target, render hints) drops only that face, since a face is not an identity. Shims are built strictly from roster rows and never guessed from a tool's name, and an axis that cannot be read stays absent rather than defaulting to `false` or `never`, which would render "unknown" as "safe". For run-time changes the guard pins the one hard rule in the contract: a digest that does not match is **not** a rejection — the carried roster is the new state regardless and only the summary becomes unusable, because refusing the swap would leave the consumer holding a stale roster forever. One reading here answers a question that the terminal state structurally cannot: whether this run was assembled with any file-and-shell tools at all. The engine's terminal vocabulary says a run finished, not whether the work got done, so an orchestrator that waits for the end and then guesses has nothing to guess from — while the assembly manifest already said it at the start, one row per mounted instance with the single condition that mounted it. The reading is three-state and both folds are refused: a roster that is readable and carries no such row is the engine stating a fact, while no roster at all is not that fact — the static half of a manifest never carries one, and an older engine reports rosters without naming the mount condition at all, where an empty count would be a statement about the reader rather than about the run. Those two are kept apart in the reason the reading carries, and the wording for every unknown case is checked never to claim the run had no tools. The same roster now decides the tool list on the first line of a non-interactive run: the host holds that line until the roster arrives and lists exactly what the engine mounted at the start of the run, in mount order. The guard runs a real assembly frame through the projection into the decision, and pins that the host falls back to the estimate only once the roster is known not to be coming — a manifest without one, an unreadable one, model output or the run's end arriving first — rather than on a timer alone (model activity counts, including a model call that is still waiting or retrying; an error line the stream synthesizes when a run fails before assembly counts as the run ending), that a sub-run's manifest is never mistaken for the run's own, that an empty roster is taken as the engine's answer rather than as silence, and that the wait bound covers both sequential default budgets the engine gives an external tool server to connect and list its tools. The holding logic itself lives in the package as a small per-run gate — buffer, decide once, release the held messages in arrival order, then pass through — and the guard drives real stream output through it to pin that the release happens exactly once, at the manifest, releasing exactly the held prefix. The ordering itself also lives in the package as a stream wrapper, and the guard checks the final output a consumer reads: the first line is always the tool-list line, a message that arrives while that line is still being built comes after it, a timer firing races nothing out of order, a source that ends or fails before the decision still gets its first line and held messages out before the error, and an early exit closes the source. From 0.84.0 the roster-derived sentence source no longer throws on a value it does not recognise, including a reading of the manifest's `hands` section passed by mistake: it answers the same "not stated" sentence as the `hands` reader, from one shared source, and its six known sentences do not change. |
+| `scripts/run-engine-notice-catalog-test.mjs` | The engine-notice catalog and its audience table. Whether a notice deserves a person's attention is not decided by whether this end happens to have a phrasing for it — that drifts with each client's build order — but by whether the engine minted the code into its own written catalog; the audience row answers the separate question of *who* the fact is for, since an operations fact pushed at an end user is noise and a user-facing fact buried in an operator log is something withheld from the person who could act on it. Both tables are reconciled against the installed engine's own artefacts in both directions and pinned in lockstep with each other, unknown codes fall back to the conservative operator side, and catalog membership is tested on the raw value so a code carrying control characters cannot impersonate a registered one after sanitizing. The reader for a dropped MCP injection keys on its own code alone and treats a missing session, server or reason as absence rather than throwing at a read site. A reverse pin enforces the upstream's single-mint contract: the engine composes those sentences from the host's facts, so a copy of them appearing in this package's source or build is a second source that would drift, and fails. From 0.84.0 it also covers the reader for the two read-directory grant notices: it recognises only those two codes, needs the tool call id to match a card, passes the rejection reason through as written, and treats only the granted notice as evidence that a directory was added; a granted notice without both the directory and the spelling the engine now holds, or with a scope other than `exact`, is not read at all, and the scope word is pinned to the engine's type at compile time. The server also mints a few notices of its own through the same channel; those codes live in a second table with their own audiences, kept apart from the engine mirror (which must stay equal to the engine's catalog) and reconciled against the server's published package when one is supplied, so a user-facing server notice is no longer filed under operations. One dispatcher returns the typed facts for every code that has a reader, discriminated by code and tagged with its audience — only the user-audience codes belong on a user surface — and the guard ties the dispatch table to the module's own exported readers in both directions, so a reader cannot be exported without a row and a row cannot be dropped without the guard failing. From 0.85.0 it also covers a third server-minted notice, the one saying that part of a session's saved history could not be read when the session was reopened: it is a user-audience notice, its two counts are read one by one and anything that is not a non-negative integer reads as `unknown` rather than zero (neither "nothing was skipped" nor "nothing is left" may be invented), and one extra sentence — the context is empty but the turn runs — is given only when the count of entries left is exactly zero. When the server package is supplied, the guard drives the server's own emitter for that notice and reads what it emits back through the dispatcher. From 0.86.0 the catalog grows by six engine notices — a personal rule store that could not be read and was skipped, an auto-mode classification that could not decide and where the call went, a requested permission mode that did not take effect, a permission mode answering a question on the person's behalf, a mode release past a read-deny table, and a legacy checkpoint's mode keys being migrated — each with its own typed reader: branching words (the classifier's cause and destination, the reason a mode did not take effect) are read as closed sets, descriptive words pass through as written, and a malformed notice reads as absent; two of them are checked against notices produced by the engine's own emitters. The unresolvable-ask notice's optional remedy sentence is carried verbatim when it is a non-empty string — never trimmed, rewritten or filtered by cause — and its absence (older engines, other causes, an empty or non-string value) leaves the rest of the view unchanged; a notice without it reads byte-for-byte as before, and the engine's own mint function drives three cases through the dispatcher. |
+| `scripts/run-tool-roster-projection-test.mjs` | The leg's tool roster — what the engine says it actually mounted and what face each tool wears — replacing three word lists that were only ever an estimate taken from one traffic capture against one pinned engine. The reader copies the engine's own all-or-nothing discipline: a roster whose row cannot be read, or whose declared count disagrees with the rows, is dropped whole rather than handed over short, because a consumer reading a short roster concludes the missing tools are not mounted — the upstream says in as many words that this is worse than sending nothing. A malformed *face* on a row (path target, render hints) drops only that face, since a face is not an identity. Shims are built strictly from roster rows and never guessed from a tool's name, and an axis that cannot be read stays absent rather than defaulting to `false` or `never`, which would render "unknown" as "safe". For run-time changes the guard pins the one hard rule in the contract: a digest that does not match is **not** a rejection — the carried roster is the new state regardless and only the summary becomes unusable, because refusing the swap would leave the consumer holding a stale roster forever. One reading here answers a question that the terminal state structurally cannot: whether this run was assembled with any file-and-shell tools at all. The engine's terminal vocabulary says a run finished, not whether the work got done, so an orchestrator that waits for the end and then guesses has nothing to guess from — while the assembly manifest already said it at the start, one row per mounted instance with the single condition that mounted it. The reading is three-state and both folds are refused: a roster that is readable and carries no such row is the engine stating a fact, while no roster at all is not that fact — the static half of a manifest never carries one, and an older engine reports rosters without naming the mount condition at all, where an empty count would be a statement about the reader rather than about the run. Those two are kept apart in the reason the reading carries, and the wording for every unknown case is checked never to claim the run had no tools. The same roster now decides the tool list on the first line of a non-interactive run: the host holds that line until the roster arrives and lists exactly what the engine mounted at the start of the run, in mount order. The guard runs a real assembly frame through the projection into the decision, and pins that the host falls back to the estimate only once the roster is known not to be coming — a manifest without one, an unreadable one, model output or the run's end arriving first — rather than on a timer alone (model activity counts, including a model call that is still waiting or retrying; an error line the stream synthesizes when a run fails before assembly counts as the run ending), that a sub-run's manifest is never mistaken for the run's own, that an empty roster is taken as the engine's answer rather than as silence, and that the wait bound covers both sequential default budgets the engine gives an external tool server to connect and list its tools. The holding logic itself lives in the package as a small per-run gate — buffer, decide once, release the held messages in arrival order, then pass through — and the guard drives real stream output through it to pin that the release happens exactly once, at the manifest, releasing exactly the held prefix. The ordering itself also lives in the package as a stream wrapper, and the guard checks the final output a consumer reads: the first line is always the tool-list line, a message that arrives while that line is still being built comes after it, a timer firing races nothing out of order, a source that ends or fails before the decision still gets its first line and held messages out before the error, and an early exit closes the source. From 0.84.0 the roster-derived sentence source no longer throws on a value it does not recognise, including a reading of the manifest's `hands` section passed by mistake: it answers the same "not stated" sentence as the `hands` reader, from one shared source, and its six known sentences do not change. From 0.86.0 that first line also says where its tool list came from, in two added keys the wrapper writes onto the host's own line object in place: a source of `engine-roster`, `estimate` or `host-static`, and, only for an estimate, which of the four reasons made the roster known not to be coming. The guard checks every decision path end to end, that the host's object keeps its identity and every other key byte for byte, that stale values of the same two keys left by the host are replaced (a stale reason is removed rather than left behind), and that a host line that cannot be written is passed through untouched instead of failing the first line. |
 | `scripts/run-permission-rule-issue-codes-test.mjs` | The rule-lint refusal codes an engine reports when it will not compile a permission rule. The SDK publishes neither a schema nor a type for them, so the package mints the table from the engine's own bytes and the guard pays the cost of that copy instead of leaving it to somebody remembering: it parses the codes the engine actually mints and reconciles them against the table in both directions, so a code added upstream (the user would see a bare code) and a code only the package believes in (a branch that can never fire) both fail. It also reconciles the table plus a small retired ledger against the engine's declared union, which is deliberately not the same set — one member was renamed and its old name is still declared — so reviving a code the engine will never mint again is impossible and a future stale member shows up immediately. Sentences are pinned one per code, mutually distinct, and split by family: a rule that is wrong and a rule that is legal but unsupported on this lane are different next steps and may not share a sentence. The engine's own message rides along as prose — sanitized and capped after escaping, never matched on |
-| `scripts/run-gate-vocabulary-test.mjs` | The two gate vocabularies — who denied a call (`DeniedBy`, ten words) and who asked about it (`AskOrigin`, eleven) — together with the one place their sentences are minted, so the same denial does not read three different ways across three clients. The tables are copies, not opinions: the gate parses the members straight out of the installed SDK's declarations and reconciles them against the package's tables in both directions, so a word added upstream (nobody renders it, the user sees a bare code) and a word only the package believes in (a branch that can never fire) both fail. Every word must carry its own literal sentence and no two may collide, including the sibling pairs the upstream deliberately split apart — an organization store and a personal rule store being unreadable send you to different people, and the two tighten origins exist precisely to name which layer of engine logic asked. The two fallbacks are pinned distinct because an unknown word means different things in each: a denial layer this build does not know may have been added by a newer engine or may come from a damaged record, so its sentence says it cannot tell which instead of asserting damage; the asker vocabulary is genuinely open (the server only checks for a non-empty string, so an unknown word just means the client is older than the engine). Alongside them sits an **uplift anchor** rather than a third table: the reason a call was decided the way it was is a distinct semantic face from who denied it and who asked, one upstream has not mirrored into the SDK at all, and one whose newest member — a shell command allowed because it only reads — has no sentence anywhere yet. Minting the union here would create the second drifting source the day upstream publishes it, so the guard instead asserts the **absence** from both ends: the SDK declarations carry no such union near that word, and the installed engine’s own list does not carry the word either. The engine end fires first, on the batch that raises the dependency, which is exactly when the ownership question should be answered; the SDK end fires when the mirror lands. Either red is the work order to mint the sentence, never a reason to delete the anchor. A fourth mint now sits beside the three tables and is not a table at all: a single presence-only fact — that no saved rule and no standing posture can retire this question — earns one sentence, taking no argument precisely so a caller cannot mistake it for a second kind of mandate, pinned distinct from every sentence the tables mint, pinned never to point at rule-writing, and pinned not to overclaim the stronger neighbouring demand that a person rather than a configuration must answer; it must not say the question is asked every time — an answer for this one call may come from the person, a hook or an automatic check the deployment runs — and its wording is checked against the engine package's own description of the mandate. A fifth table joins them from 0.80.0: the thirteen words for **how a wait ended**, mirrored in both directions from the engine's own declarations — the table's owner — with the wire SDK's copy held alongside as a second witness that must match it word for word and in order, so the day the SDK falls a generation behind, that is what turns red rather than the mirror silently following the wrong source. The newest of them says a deployment's own policy answered the card — not a person, and not “nobody could be asked” — so the guard pins it apart from both neighbours by behaviour, feeding every one of the thirteen words through all five named predicates and checking which word makes which one speak, rather than what any predicate returns. Two of the thirteen also decide how a refusal is filed in the session transcript; that mapping is minted once and reused by both of the package's own entry points, and anything outside those two words yields nothing rather than a guess. Since 0.83.2 a sixth list covers the word a mandated question stands on (`APPROVAL_MANDATE_WORDS`, six words): it must equal the engine's own list word for word and in order, membership is exact, the card reader `readApprovalMandate` answers only for an own key holding one of the six words, and each word has one fixed sentence explaining why the question must be confirmed — six distinct sentences that never point the reader at writing a rule, never promise a question every time, never claim only a person may answer, and repeat no other sentence the package mints. The list is also pinned against the engine's type at compile time in both directions, while the published build references no engine package at all: every `.js` and `.d.ts` file in the build is scanned, and the same scan is first shown to fire on references planted in a scratch directory. |
+| `scripts/run-gate-vocabulary-test.mjs` | The two gate vocabularies — who denied a call (`DeniedBy`, eleven words across two engine generations) and who asked about it (`AskOrigin`, eleven) — together with the one place their sentences are minted, so the same denial does not read three different ways across three clients. The tables are copies, not opinions: the asker table is reconciled in both directions against the lists the installed SDK and engine packages publish, and the denier table is the installed engine's own list followed by the one word only older engines still send, checked so that every word the SDK declares is present, the retired word really was a word of an earlier generation, and every word ahead of the SDK comes from the engine — a word added upstream (nobody renders it, the user sees a bare code) and a word only the package believes in (a branch that can never fire) both fail. Every word must carry its own literal sentence and no two may collide, including the sibling pairs the upstream deliberately split apart — an organization store and a personal rule store being unreadable send you to different people, and the two tighten origins exist precisely to name which layer of engine logic asked. The two fallbacks are pinned distinct because an unknown word means different things in each: a denial layer this build does not know may have been added by a newer engine or may come from a damaged record, so its sentence says it cannot tell which instead of asserting damage; the asker vocabulary is genuinely open (the server only checks for a non-empty string, so an unknown word just means the client is older than the engine). Alongside them sits an **uplift anchor** rather than a third table: the reason a call was decided the way it was is a distinct semantic face from who denied it and who asked, one upstream has not mirrored into the SDK at all, and one whose newest member — a shell command allowed because it only reads — has no sentence anywhere yet. Minting the union here would create the second drifting source the day upstream publishes it, so the guard instead asserts the **absence** from both ends: the SDK declarations carry no such union near that word, and the installed engine’s own list does not carry the word either. The engine end fires first, on the batch that raises the dependency, which is exactly when the ownership question should be answered; the SDK end fires when the mirror lands. Either red is the work order to mint the sentence, never a reason to delete the anchor. A fourth mint now sits beside the three tables and is not a table at all: a single presence-only fact — that no saved rule and no standing posture can retire this question — earns one sentence, taking no argument precisely so a caller cannot mistake it for a second kind of mandate, pinned distinct from every sentence the tables mint, pinned never to point at rule-writing, and pinned not to overclaim the stronger neighbouring demand that a person rather than a configuration must answer; it must not say the question is asked every time — an answer for this one call may come from the person, a hook or an automatic check the deployment runs — and its wording is checked against the engine package's own description of the mandate. A fifth table joins them from 0.80.0: the thirteen words for **how a wait ended**, mirrored in both directions from the engine's own declarations — the table's owner — with the wire SDK's copy held alongside as a second witness that must match it word for word and in order, so the day the SDK falls a generation behind, that is what turns red rather than the mirror silently following the wrong source. The newest of them says a deployment's own policy answered the card — not a person, and not “nobody could be asked” — so the guard pins it apart from both neighbours by behaviour, feeding every one of the thirteen words through all five named predicates and checking which word makes which one speak, rather than what any predicate returns. Two of the thirteen also decide how a refusal is filed in the session transcript; that mapping is minted once and reused by both of the package's own entry points, and anything outside those two words yields nothing rather than a guess. Since 0.83.2 a sixth list covers the word a mandated question stands on (`APPROVAL_MANDATE_WORDS`, six words): it must equal the engine's own list word for word and in order, membership is exact, the card reader `readApprovalMandate` answers only for an own key holding one of the six words, and each word has one fixed sentence explaining why the question must be confirmed — six distinct sentences that never point the reader at writing a rule, never promise a question every time, never claim only a person may answer, and repeat no other sentence the package mints. The list is also pinned against the engine's type at compile time in both directions, while the published build references no engine package at all: every `.js` and `.d.ts` file in the build is scanned, and the same scan is first shown to fire on references planted in a scratch directory. |
 | `scripts/run-engine-identity-test.mjs` | The engine generation anchors on `/health` (`pid`, `instanceId`, `startedAt`; engine >=7.67.0). `/health` is the one unauthenticated door and its heartbeat is always green, so "another host restarted the shared engine" used to be discoverable only by having some authenticated request hit a 401 first — a path that misreads a restart as a network fault. The reader narrows each anchor independently (one malformed field never hides the other two) and always hands back a reading object rather than an absence, because the caller is asking which anchors answered, not whether there was a response. The comparison is a three-word verdict, not a boolean: `unknown` when the two readings share no comparable anchor at all — an empty intersection means nothing could be compared, never that nothing changed — and the boolean convenience is pinned so that only `true` is an assertion. Any comparable anchor differing decides `changed`, so a reading whose `startedAt` matches while its `instanceId` does not cannot be waved through as the same life; precedence only decides which anchor gets named in the diagnosis |
 | `scripts/run-posture-knob-projection-test.mjs` | The three deployment knobs on the operator face (`serverGates.durableApproval` / `streamAskWindowMs` / `sessionAutoTitle`, engine >=7.67.0), each read as a value **plus who set it plus one operator-facing pointer** rather than a bare value — a bare boolean cannot answer why this particular machine is on this setting or how to pin it back, and a default that flips with the deployment shape is invisible without that. A worker too old to report readings still sends a bare boolean; the reader folds it into the same shell so consumers keep one branch, but raises a `legacy` bit, answers `undefined` from the machine-readable source accessor, and mints a sentence that contains no source word at all — claiming a source nobody reported is worse than admitting the worker cannot say. The other two knobs are honestly absent on such a worker rather than defaulted, a malformed side knob drops only itself while the anchor knob drops the whole reading, and the four sentences are pinned literally distinct so an operator can tell "not observed" from "not reported" from a real value. The last leg reads the installed SDK's `openapi.yaml` and `types.d.ts` directly, including a pin that exactly one knob on this face is numeric — the premise the millisecond-to-prose rendering rests on |
 | `scripts/run-terminal-facts-projection-test.mjs` | The four unconsumed terminal-receipt facts: `TaskResult.effectiveReasoning` / `effectiveMemoryScopes` are narrowed into `_sema_effective_reasoning` / `_sema_effective_memory_scopes` on the CC-shaped `result` (success and error envelopes alike; a malformed value mints nothing, never a default tier), the resume **reopen** family (`resume.env_failed` / `tool_unavailable` / `tool_contract_mismatch`) is a frozen closed set with a reader and three-sentence copy that is disjoint from the refusal and retry-later sets, and `routePairingVerdict` reads `ModelInfo.routePairing` as ok / broken / unknown without policing the open set. A fifth section pins the structured-output key on the success result: the CC-spelled `structured_output` is the only home for the value the wire calls `structuredOutput`. The camelCase spelling this package used to mint on its own — a misspelling of the CC field, not an additive field of our own — rode alongside it for exactly one release (0.79.1) and is **absent from 0.80.0 on**, pinned both by own-key and by `in`, so a consumer still reading the old name sees `undefined` rather than a stale copy. The wire position is read exactly once, so a value-changing accessor is only ever asked for its first answer; absence stays absence; a wire key that is present but `undefined` mints nothing, since a key whose value is `undefined` makes a consumer that tests presence read "the engine produced nothing" as "the engine produced an empty result"; falsy-but-present values such as `null`, `0`, `""` and `false` are still minted, and so are shapes that are not records at all — an empty array, a populated array, a string, a number, a boolean — each carried through by the same reference, because the shape of that value is decided by the caller's own schema and the package does not get to filter it; and the error envelope carries no such key, because the CC error arm has no such field. Which spelling CC itself declares is witnessed from the mirror's own syntax tree rather than a constant copied into the guard, so the day that field is renamed upstream the guard says so. |
-| `scripts/run-export-liveness-test.mjs` | Every runtime export in the public baseline must be **alive**: referenced by some gate, or explicitly registered in `scripts/export-liveness.json` as `contract` (consumed by a client with no gate yet), `internal` (an internal helper amplified onto the public surface by `export *`), `candidate` (with ticket + retire-by) or `retire` (dead; retire-by version). Registration is accounting, not exemption: a row for a name a gate already references is stale and must go, a row for a name no longer exported is red, `retire`/`candidate` rows go red the moment `package.json` reaches their retire-by version, and the row count only ratchets down. When the client repositories are on disk the consumption evidence is checked by name, from committed history and never from a working tree: each client's `origin/main` (or its HEAD when there is no such ref), the checked-out HEAD however old it is, and every local branch head committed within the last 14 days, so an import that so far exists only on an unmerged branch still blocks the retirement. Two readings are kept apart. The registry states facts, so a `contract` row's claimed consumers must equal the clients that really bind the name — a named import from the package or one of its subpaths, a re-export from it, a member read on a namespace or dynamically imported module object, a destructured dynamic import — and an `internal` name that a client binds must be re-registered as `contract`; a client-side declaration that merely shares the name is not consumption. The retirement check asks only whether removing the name could break a client, so it also counts a plain identifier match in any file importing the package, and, when a client re-exports the whole package, any appearance of the name in that client's sources; the guard prints both counts. The guard prints the ref, commit and commit date of everything it read, and it shares one repository reader with the same-name shadow guard, so both guards judge the same snapshot of a client. A client that is absent or is not a git repository is reported as a skipped section, never as a client with no consumers, and a dangling or unreadable branch ref is a fault rather than a branch quietly left out. The reader proves itself on a throwaway repository: an import on a recent branch that is not checked out must be found and attributed to its branch and line, while one on a branch older than the window, in an uncommitted file, or outside the scanned folders must not count. Names that have already left the surface are kept in a per-version `removed` ledger: they must never reappear in the baseline or the registry, and the ledger's versions must not run ahead of the changelog. A name may come back only through a separate `revived` ledger that names it, the version it left in, the version it returns in (later than the one it left in and not ahead of the changelog), a ticket and a reason, and only if it is really back in the baseline; the `removed` ledger itself is never rewritten, and the documentation freshness check reads the same `revived` ledger so a returned name is no longer treated as retired. The `removed` ledger is also checked against history: compared with the same file at the tag of the expected previous release (the newest released version in the documentation freshness check's frozen ledger), every version it listed must still be there, with every name it listed still under that same version — entries can only be added. Only that tag is used: outside a git checkout, when that tag is not present locally, or when it does not carry the ledger, the check is reported as skipped rather than passed, never run against some other tag. |
-| `scripts/run-wire-refusal-copy-test.mjs` | Two wire refusals read the same way on every client: a cancel's 409 carries one of two codes with opposite dispositions (`conflict.approval_settled` — someone else already decided, go read the result; `conflict.run_not_running` — nothing changed, send the cancel again), an unrecognised or codeless 409 is reported as such rather than guessed, and the submit-side 429 `usage.window_exhausted` is read as a waitable refusal whose wait is stated only when the engine supplied one. `ControlRouter.cancel` raises a distinct safety code for the retry-directly case. A third family covers the refusals that a deny's *settler note* can draw: a deployment that signs the decisions it accepts but does not sign that note, a body whose decision and note contradict each other, and a word the engine does not recognise. All three are refused **before** the approval is judged, so each sentence states plainly that nothing was decided and the approval is still waiting, and each names a different next step — none of them “send it again unchanged”, which would simply be refused again. Two of the three codes already mean something else in this package: one is shared with the plan-review leg, so the reader refuses to claim it unless the caller states that the note really was sent, and the other is split by the field the engine names, because without that field the same code means a review outcome was rejected for its content. The third sentence deliberately does not say the word was misspelled: upstream mints that same field for at least four different reasons, so the only thing it proves is that the engine would not take the settlement details and named which part — which is what the sentence says, and where it points. The three sentences are pinned verbatim rather than by keyword, because a keyword check passes a sentence that tells the reader to send the same body again unchanged, which is the one next step that is certainly wrong. The field itself is read from the bag the SDK keeps additional response keys in, not off the top of the error, since only the hand-built shapes a test would write carry it there. Both decision legs hand the reading back on their outcome, and a leg that never sent the note claims nothing. When a decision fails because the engine cannot read a stored row, the row the engine names is read (from the error's top level, or from the SDK's bag of additional response keys where the real SDK puts it) and carried into the failure reason on all three decision legs, escaped for display. |
+| `scripts/run-export-liveness-test.mjs` | Every runtime export in the public baseline must be **alive**: referenced by some gate, or explicitly registered in `scripts/export-liveness.json` as `contract` (consumed by a client with no gate yet), `internal` (an internal helper amplified onto the public surface by `export *`), `candidate` (with ticket + retire-by) or `retire` (dead; retire-by version). Registration is accounting, not exemption: a row for a name a gate already references is stale and must go, a row for a name no longer exported is red, `retire`/`candidate` rows go red the moment `package.json` reaches their retire-by version, and the row count only ratchets down. When the client repositories are on disk the consumption evidence is checked by name, from committed history and never from a working tree: each client's `origin/main` (or its HEAD when there is no such ref), the checked-out HEAD however old it is, and every local branch head committed within the last 14 days, so an import that so far exists only on an unmerged branch still blocks the retirement. Two readings are kept apart. The registry states facts, so a `contract` row's claimed consumers must equal the clients that really bind the name — a named import from the package or one of its subpaths, a re-export from it, a member read on a namespace or dynamically imported module object, a destructured dynamic import — and an `internal` name that a client binds must be re-registered as `contract`; a client-side declaration that merely shares the name is not consumption. The retirement check asks only whether removing the name could break a client, so it also counts a plain identifier match in any file importing the package, and, when a client re-exports the whole package, any appearance of the name in that client's sources; the guard prints both counts. The guard prints the ref, commit and commit date of everything it read, and it shares one repository reader with the same-name shadow guard, so both guards judge the same snapshot of a client. A client that is absent or is not a git repository is reported as a skipped section, never as a client with no consumers, and a dangling or unreadable branch ref is a fault rather than a branch quietly left out. The reader proves itself on a throwaway repository: an import on a recent branch that is not checked out must be found and attributed to its branch and line, while one on a branch older than the window, in an uncommitted file, or outside the scanned folders must not count. Names that have already left the surface are kept in a per-version `removed` ledger: they must never reappear in the baseline or the registry, and the ledger's versions must not run ahead of the changelog. A name may come back only through a separate `revived` ledger that names it, the version it left in, the version it returns in (later than the one it left in and not ahead of the changelog), a ticket and a reason, and only if it is really back in the baseline; the `removed` ledger itself is never rewritten, and the documentation freshness check reads the same `revived` ledger so a returned name is no longer treated as retired. The `removed` ledger is also checked against history: compared with the same file at the tag of the expected previous release (the newest released version in the documentation freshness check's frozen ledger), every version it listed must still be there, with every name it listed still under that same version — entries can only be added. Only that tag is used: outside a git checkout, when that tag is not present locally, or when it does not carry the ledger, the check is reported as skipped rather than passed, never run against some other tag. Names cannot leave the public surface unrecorded either: every name in the baseline at that same previous-release tag that is no longer in today's baseline must be listed in the `removed` ledger, under the version of the topmost changelog section or under an earlier version as long as it is not a name that has since returned; the check compares the two sets of names rather than their counts, and it is reported as skipped, never passed, under the same conditions. |
+| `scripts/run-wire-refusal-copy-test.mjs` | Two wire refusals read the same way on every client: a cancel's 409 carries one of two codes with opposite dispositions (`conflict.approval_settled` — someone else already decided, go read the result; `conflict.run_not_running` — nothing changed, send the cancel again), an unrecognised or codeless 409 is reported as such rather than guessed, and the submit-side 429 `usage.window_exhausted` is read as a waitable refusal whose wait is stated only when the engine supplied one. `ControlRouter.cancel` raises a distinct safety code for the retry-directly case. A third family covers the refusals that a deny's *settler note* can draw: a deployment that signs the decisions it accepts but does not sign that note, a body whose decision and note contradict each other, and a word the engine does not recognise. All three are refused **before** the approval is judged, so each sentence states plainly that nothing was decided and the approval is still waiting, and each names a different next step — none of them “send it again unchanged”, which would simply be refused again. Two of the three codes already mean something else in this package: one is shared with the plan-review leg, so the reader refuses to claim it unless the caller states that the note really was sent, and the other is split by the field the engine names, because without that field the same code means a review outcome was rejected for its content. The third sentence deliberately does not say the word was misspelled: upstream mints that same field for at least four different reasons, so the only thing it proves is that the engine would not take the settlement details and named which part — which is what the sentence says, and where it points. The three sentences are pinned verbatim rather than by keyword, because a keyword check passes a sentence that tells the reader to send the same body again unchanged, which is the one next step that is certainly wrong. The field itself is read from the bag the SDK keeps additional response keys in, not off the top of the error, since only the hand-built shapes a test would write carry it there. Both decision legs hand the reading back on their outcome, and a leg that never sent the note claims nothing. When a decision fails because the engine cannot read a stored row, the row the engine names is read (from the error's top level, or from the SDK's bag of additional response keys where the real SDK puts it) and carried into the failure reason on all three decision legs, escaped for display.. A billed request refused because the deployment enforces budgets fail-closed and could not confirm the caller's budget with its quota service (`fleet.lease_unavailable`, 503, engine ≥7.106.0) is recognised by its code alone and gets its own sentence instead of the generic server-failure line: the budget could not be confirmed, the request was not accepted and is not at fault, each known cause adds its own clause, and the wait is stated only when the engine supplied one; the turn-error classifier marks the same case, and the engine's own refusal mapping is replayed through the real SDK to prove every cause reads back |
 | `scripts/run-tool-disclosure-progress-projection-test.mjs` | The two wire arms sdk 9.6.0 adds — `tool_disclosure` (name-only tool census: open-set `policy`, `thresholdPercent` absent ≠ default, `deferred`/`activated` full snapshots) and `tool_progress` (one frame, two beats: Bash ticks carry an output tail with `totalLines`/`totalBytes` that come and go together; other tools carry only `elapsedSeconds`) — project to neutral internal arms plus chrome arms. Required keys missing ⇒ `malformed`; bad optional keys drop only themselves; the sub-flow three-key gate keeps child frames off the leader lane; both arms are `required: false` in the arm table with duties stated (the output tail is untrusted raw and must never be fed back to the model). |
 | `scripts/run-mcp-panel-projection-test.mjs` | The `GET /v1/sessions/:id/mcp` panel reader (`projectMcpPanel`; server >=7.77.0 adds the optional `lastLegMcp` key) and the single wording mint for its "last leg" line. Absence of `lastLegMcp` is one literal sentence that never blames the engine version (a new session, a leg outside the retention window, a leg without a manifest and an older engine all look the same on the wire); a key that is present but unreadable is a different sentence plus a `lastLegMcpUnreadable: true` mark, never folded into absence. The `mcp[]` roster goes through the same reader as the live `wiring_manifest` third section, so a replayed roster and a live one have one shape. The two faces of the panel (`servers[]` and the last-leg roster) may legitimately differ, so the view carries no agreement flag and none of the five sentences mentions `servers`. Required keys are pinned to the SDK `openapi.yaml` component bytes **0.69.0:** `fetchMcpPanel` fetches the panel through the SDK client's own `sessions.mcp` call (same transport and auth as every other read) and projects it; transport failure, an unreadable body and an empty session id all come back as `undefined`, never as a fabricated empty panel 0.71.0 adds section K: `mcpEngineLegPresence(view)` — the engine-side MCP presence tri-state read only off the panel view (`unknown` when the view could not be read, never rendered as "no MCP configured") |
 | `scripts/run-absence-fold-census-test.mjs` | A package-wide census of the "absence folded into a positive outcome" defect shape, so that fixing the six sites this release does not merely move the shape somewhere else. The defect is defined by position, not syntax: a fallback position (the unconditional tail return, the `default:` arm, the literal minted when there is nothing to pass on, the value returned from an error path) may only say `unknown` or stay absent, never a positive word. Detection walks the syntax tree of every source file, so comments, strings and multi-line spellings cannot hide or fake a hit, and covers five forms: the right arm of `??` / `\|\|`, the else arm of a ternary, the first return of an explicit `default:`, a `catch` block or `.catch(() => …)` arrow returning a healthy value, and a function whose last statement returns a positive word after other returns. Every remaining hit must be registered with a written reason, an unregistered hit fails the gate naming the file and line, the registered count must equal the real count so a cleared site cannot leave a spare allowance behind, and the gate proves its own teeth behind a fence (a failed self-proof refuses to report any count): each form injected into an in-memory copy must add exactly one hit, two correct spellings are pinned as non-hits, and samples inside comments or strings do not count. It also pins the headline site: the fleet panel projection no longer mints an `end` with `isError: false` on absence |
 | `scripts/run-device-executor-management-capability-test.mjs` | The engine's device-management self-description (`capabilities.deviceExecutor.management`, engine ≥7.88.0), read the same four-state way as its five sibling capability readers: an absent `management` key is reported as not reported (never folded into `false`; an older engine really ships the lane object without it), an absent `deviceExecutor` key is likewise not reported, `deviceExecutor: false` is the lane being absent, presence is judged by own-property not truthiness, the value must be a strict boolean, the tee never throws and drops stale generations, and the package owns the verdict on whether the `/v1/devices` management verbs are usable (`yes` only when present and true, `no` when present-false or lane-absent, otherwise `unknown`) |
 | `scripts/run-run-cancel-context-test.mjs` | The run record's `cancelContext` side-note (engine ≥7.87.3) read structurally, and the cause of a `turn_aborted{engine_error}` classified from machine-readable evidence only: `cancelled` (code `cancelled`, with the cancel-time context when present) / `engine_error` (any other failure code, passed through verbatim) / `run_still_live` (the record is not terminal — a dropped stream is a client-side fact, not the run's cause) / `unknown` (never guessed). An absent `cancelContext` reads as *not reported*, never as "not cancelled"; `elapsedMs` is never folded to 0. |
-| `scripts/run-suspended-reopen-projection-test.mjs` | The durable `suspended` event's `reopened` key read as three distinct states — `reopened` (with the engine's code, verbatim), `not_reopened` (an explicit `null`), `unstated` (key absent or unreadable) — and carried on the HITL bridge's active gate (`currentGateReopen()`), re-read on every `suspended` and cleared with the gate. |
+| `scripts/run-suspended-reopen-projection-test.mjs` | The durable `suspended` event's `reopened` key read as three distinct states — `reopened` (with the engine's code, verbatim), `not_reopened` (an explicit `null`), `unstated` (key absent or unreadable) — and carried on the HITL bridge's active gate (`currentGateReopen()`), re-read on every `suspended` and cleared with the gate. The stream driver also turns a `suspended` frame that reads `reopened` into the chrome arm `suspended_reopened` (the reading, the single-source reopen sentence when the code is in the reopen family, the frame's event id, and the run id only when the frame itself carries one), pinned end to end: one notice per event id on a stream, emitted in stream order on a replay from the first frame, nothing for a cursor that starts after it, and an unchanged transcript when the host has no chrome sink or the sink fails. |
 | `scripts/run-panel-identity-normalization-test.mjs` | One background subagent has two ids on the wire — the fleet row id tail and the `task_progress` task id (its transcript id). Every panel event goes through one funnel that rewrites the `tick` / `end` task id onto the fleet row's id once a `fleet-row` has registered the key (`transcriptId` first, `parentToolCallId` as the fallback), carrying the original as `wireTaskId` and marking `taskIdOrigin`; an unbound tick whose row has not arrived yet waits one beat (bounded) and is released verbatim on the next tick / `end`, when the buffer is full, or after `MAX_HELD_WIRE_TICK_BEATS` other fleet-row / end / sweep events (a `sweep` itself leaves it alone: there is no row to settle yet); a normalized `end` that carries no cycle identity borrows the registering row's, so a late close of a revived task is recognized as stale; the key table is an LRU (a task that keeps ticking is never evicted by newer registrations); the residency mark migrates with the id and both keys are cleared on settle — except that a stale (previous-cycle) terminal never clears the revived row's mark — so the notification lane can clear it. Once a tick has been delivered verbatim under its UUID, that UUID is the subagent's key: later fleet rows and fleet-side ends are rewritten onto it (the tail kept in `wireTaskId`), so a consumer sees one row in every arrival order; a late tick from a previous cycle is dropped rather than folded into the revived row. |
 | `scripts/run-prompt-assembled-projection-test.mjs` | The `prompt_assembled` frame (one prepare's prompt-assembly manifest) projected to an internal arm and then to the additive `prompt_assembled` chrome event — the per-section / per-block **character** counts, the mounted tool names and `totalChars`, each key present only when the engine really sent it (the frame's `constitution` is deliberately not carried: no consumer asks for it today, and every published key is a contract to keep). The manifest carries **no token counts** anywhere upstream, so this projection mints none: a token figure derived from characters would be an invented number, and the engine's own estimate lives on `context_usage.sections[].tokens` (same id wordlist, joinable). Bad rows are dropped one by one, and a face that loses every row reads as an absent key rather than an empty array — so an absent face means only "this event carries no readable view of it" (an absent upstream key, an empty array and a fully filtered list all land on the same shape) and is never reported as a diagnosis about the engine. `blocks[].id` and `sections[].id` are two different wordlists with a many-to-one relation, and the token join against `context_usage.sections[].tokens` only holds when both sides carry a section view. A frame with no readable composition key at all is malformed, ids and slots are read as an open set, one chrome event per frame with zero transcript rows, several prepares per task are all handed over (de-duplication — "take the last one" — is the host's move), and the lane is told honestly (`parentToolCallId` ⇒ subagent lane; a frame attributable only by `sourceTaskId` / `bgAgentId` is not surfaced on the main lane). Both entry points obey the same rule: the adapt layer rebuilds every row too, so a host pipeline (or a replayed transcript) that feeds the raw frame straight into `adapt()` cannot smuggle extra keys (`tokens`, digests, aliases), a negative `chars` or a `null` row into the chrome payload, an empty array does not count as a composition face, the identity keys are snapshotted once on both paths (read exactly once each, a throwing accessor rejects the whole frame — reading one twice is what lets an accessor frame land on a different lane on each path), and the two paths are compared verbatim so the two readers cannot drift. |
 | `scripts/run-compaction-outcome-projection-test.mjs` | The `compaction_outcome` frame (a compaction that did **not** end as compacted: mooted by the task ending, failed, …) projected to an internal arm and then to the additive `compaction_outcome` chrome event — `outcome` required and verbatim (open set), `trigger` / `reason` present only when the engine sent a non-empty string, malformed frames dropped, zero transcript rows, the lane told honestly (`parentToolCallId` ⇒ subagent lane; a frame attributable only by `sourceTaskId` / `bgAgentId` is not surfaced on the main lane). |
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 | `scripts/run-workflow-size-warning-test.mjs` | The **workflow size warning** verdict shared by every host footer / panel: a three-state result (`warn` / `ok` / `unknown`) read off the optional fleet view keys, where an unknown size is never reported as a normal one (absent `totalCount` / `tokens` without positive over-cap evidence is `unknown`, naming the missing keys), positive evidence on either axis wins regardless of absent keys, the per-agent denominator uses the engine's started count only when it is not below done+failed (a smaller value is a stale reading), otherwise falls back to the done+failed lower bound only when both keys are present — and a lower-bound denominator only yields an upper bound of the projection, which can prove *within cap* (`ok`, flagged) but never *over cap* (`unknown`, with the upper bound exposed) — and the prior is used only when the engine itself reports zero started agents; cap precedence env > explicit guideline > default, prototype keys never act as a guideline, the env reader is pure and does not fall through to the second name on a bad first value; caps, guideline table, env names and the three copy variants are single-sourced |
 | `scripts/run-approvals-stream-live-capability-test.mjs` | The engine's live-approval-push self-description (`capabilities.approvalsStreamLive`, engine ≥7.87.1), read the same four-state way as its four sibling capability readers: an absent key is reported as not reported (never folded into `false`), the value must be a strict boolean, and the one decision the feed consumer needs — whether it must keep pulling suspended asks itself — is answered by `livePendingNeedsReconcile`, which only says no when the engine explicitly says it pushes. |
 | `scripts/run-model-facing-anchors-test.mjs` | Five places where model-facing engine text is parsed back into card slots: the task-output cursor semantics machine-readable key wins over the spool marker text (and its absence is never read as `full`), the `--- result (…) ---` line accepts a parenthesised note, the bash header accepts the engine's exit-note and image variants and carries the note into the same benign-exit slot the structured path uses, the notification seed scan treats both producers' terminal words as terminal, and the parked background-task phrase is recognised. |
-| `scripts/run-execution-lane-capability-test.mjs` | The deployment execution-lane self-description (`capabilities.executionLane`, engine ≥7.86.0), read the same four-state way as its three sibling capability readers. An absent key is reported as "not reported" and never as "tools do not run on this host": on an older engine the client keeps inferring the lane the way it did before, because reading absence as `false` would silently stop every host deployment from sending skill `baseDir`. The implication is one-way (`toolsOnThisHost: false` means `baseDir` is never sent; `true` is only a necessary condition), `provider` is read as an open non-empty string rather than a hand-copied closed set and is sanitised and bounded before display, `toolsOnThisHost` must be a strict boolean, extra members never cross, the tee never throws, stale generations are dropped whole, and the single "do tools run here" predicate uses the bit when it is present and the caller's own inference, unchanged, when it is not |
+| `scripts/run-execution-lane-capability-test.mjs` | The deployment execution-lane self-description (`capabilities.executionLane`, engine ≥7.86.0), read the same four-state way as its three sibling capability readers. An absent key is reported as "not reported" and never as "tools do not run on this host": on an older engine the client keeps inferring the lane the way it did before, because reading absence as `false` would silently stop every host deployment from sending skill `baseDir`. The implication is one-way (`toolsOnThisHost: false` means `baseDir` is never sent; `true` is only a necessary condition), `provider` is read as an open non-empty string rather than a hand-copied closed set and is sanitised and bounded before display, `toolsOnThisHost` must be a strict boolean, extra members never cross, the tee never throws, stale generations are dropped whole, and the single "do tools run here" predicate uses the bit when it is present and the caller's own inference, unchanged, when it is not. Current engines (≥7.106.0) also say whether the lane's tools sit behind an OS isolation boundary (`isolated`, present only when the lane has tools of its own); the reading carries it when it is a strict boolean and otherwise records which of three absences it is — a lane without tools on a current engine, an older engine, or a value that cannot be read (including a current engine that says tools run on this host yet omits the flag it must then send) — none of which is ever read as `false`, and an unreadable value never costs the rest of the lane reading. The single "no OS sandbox on this machine" predicate (`isolated` false and tools on this host) answers yes, no or unknown under three-valued logic, one sentence goes with the yes answer, the operator diagnostics segment is read by the same rule, and the engine's own projection for every lane is replayed: only the host lane answers yes |
 | `scripts/run-live-pending-ask-test.mjs` | Suspended in-stream asks (the `livePending` section of `GET /v1/approvals`): an absent key reads as not reported (never an empty list or a zero count), an unreadable section leaves the previous snapshot in place, rows are narrow-read (malformed rows dropped and counted, optional flags only-if-true, extra members never cross), the feed digest covers the section so an ask appearing or settling produces a snapshot, the host-gated reconcile cadence re-lists while the push leg is connected and backs off when nothing changes, the tracker surfaces each `approvalId` once and reports it gone once, and the decision runs through the same respond chain as the in-stream frame leg — with the card stating that the tool arguments are not visible and edits on that card never forwarded. Since 0.73.4 a push-side fetch that did not get a readable body (thrown, or an unreadable `livePending` section) is owed a look: it is retried with doubling back-off until one fetch succeeds (never abandoned by count), cancelled by any successful fetch, cleared on stop, and switchable off. |
 | `scripts/run-leader-conflict-test.mjs` | The leader-run terminal `needs_human` + `result.conflict` (engine ≥7.83.0), read once for all three shells. A `result` without a `conflict` key is reported as `none` and worded as "no conflict details" rather than "no conflict": on the wire it is indistinguishable from an older engine that never reports one, and the reader does not pick a side. A `conflict` that is present but unreadable is a third word, never folded into `none`, because a tree that carries conflict markers must not be rendered as clean. `filesTruncated` is honoured only as `true` (absent means the list is complete; any other value makes the section unreadable), `workers[].applied` is passed through as the boolean fact it is, `salvaged[].patch` is handed to the save path byte-for-byte (an artifact, not screen text; a malformed row is dropped alone, and a salvage list that is present but cannot be fully read is flagged rather than rendered as "no patches"), and `rejHead` — the one on-screen diagnostic — is escaped and bounded before display. The record never throws on hostile input, extra members do not cross, arrays are fresh copies, and the single sentence minted here names the base, the files, which branches landed and which did not, and how many patches can be saved, without ever suggesting a retry: `needs_human` is a run waiting for a person, and the no-details sentence says plainly that it is not proof of a merge |
 | `scripts/run-mcp-reconnect-test.mjs` | The in-session MCP re-dial verb (`POST /v1/sessions/:id/mcp/reconnect`, engine ≥7.85.0), consumed. The single discriminant is `outcome` and all three answers are HTTP 200, so the reader branches on the word and never on the status; the `unsupported` answer carries exactly five keys and the reader refuses to invent a zero or an empty list for the four fields the engine did not produce, while `accepted` / `refused` treat those four as required and go malformed when one is missing. The tool roster follows the **presence** of `toolNames` (absent = untouched, empty = withdrawn), the connection record passes `errorCode` through as an open set, and every remote-authored string is sanitised and bounded before display. Failures are classified by `errorCode` alone, a missing code is reported as unknown rather than guessed, the verb never throws, and the request-side guard (non-empty name, ≤190 chars) stops a call that the contract would reject anyway. The capability bit reads absent as "cannot tell" rather than "unavailable", and the one sentence the contract insists every UI carries — that re-dialing is a transaction, not a refresh — is minted here once |
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 | `scripts/run-display-body-test.mjs` | The engine wraps text it hands a model in a fence — an opening marker naming the payload, the payload itself, and a closing marker — so the model reads it as data and not as instructions. That fence is minted and read in one place here, which makes stripping it for a human reader this package's job rather than each shell's: a shell that renders the envelope verbatim is showing a person a defence that was written for a model. The reader answers with a discriminated union — fenced, with the label and the payload, or not fenced, with the text as it came in — and it reaches that answer through the **same** matcher the mint side registers, never a second copy of it; the guard proves that by walking the syntax tree of every source file and requiring exactly one literal carrying the marker text, and by requiring the reader's own body to contain no matcher of its own. Eighteen shapes are run through both entry points and required to agree line for line. Anything the package does not recognise — a near-miss in the wording, a hyphen where the marker has a dash, a different case, an opening marker with no close, a close before an open, a truncated close, or any non-whitespace byte outside the pair — comes back unfenced with the input returned **verbatim**: no guessing, no trimming, no repair, because a half-stripped envelope puts a sentence on screen that nobody wrote. Only the outermost layer is removed, so a nested fence, or one forged inside the payload, survives byte-for-byte in the body — those bytes are part of what the engine said, not part of this protocol. Nothing else is washed: control characters, leading and trailing whitespace and a twenty-thousand-character payload all pass through untouched, and so does the label, because sanitising and length-capping belong to the mint point that puts a string on a screen and a passage of text must not have two launderers. A value that is not text is answered with **nothing at all** rather than with an empty payload: the reader never stringifies it, never calls its `toString`, and never emits `[object Object]`, and it does not hand back a body of zero length either — an empty payload is a real reading (a fence can legitimately wrap nothing, and an empty string is an empty string), so folding "there was no readable text" into it would leave a caller unable to show a degraded line at all. Those three stay apart: no text yields nothing, an empty string yields an unfenced empty payload, and an empty fenced payload yields a fenced one with its label. The `fenced` discriminator is always present on a reading, and the label key exists only on the fenced arm, so a missing label is never rendered as an empty one. One shape needed more than the whole-string match this started with. When the engine reports back from a delegated run, the fence is only **one section** of the report: ahead of it sit a frame header, a handful of optional field lines and a section label, behind it a closing instruction addressed to the model, an optional internal identifier and a usage block. A matcher anchored to both ends of the input answers *not fenced* on that, and the whole scaffold - written for a model - goes on screen. The reader therefore also locates the fence **inside** a recognised report frame, using four anchors that are always present and always byte-for-byte fixed, and hands the located slice back to the same single matcher rather than a second one; the guard assembles its corpus from the engine package actually installed (the fence from that package's own constructor, the frame lines read structurally out of the minting file and then compared byte-for-byte with what this package registers), so a rewording or a reordering upstream turns the guard red the day it lands. Three readings are pinned one cell each: a fenced result section yields the payload the delegate actually wrote; a partial-findings section yields that text and says which of the two it is, with the prefix line kept out of the payload; and a section the engine filled with its own no-text sentinel yields an empty payload with a reason, which stays distinguishable from an input that was simply an empty string. Whatever surrounded the fence is returned alongside rather than dropped - the bytes before it, the slice itself and the bytes after it reassemble into the input exactly - and the payload never contains a line of the frame. The criterion deliberately does **not** enumerate the lines outside the fence: several of those field lines carry interpolated untrusted text and cannot be told apart from prose, so requiring every one of them to be recognised would mean that a single new field line upstream sends every failed report back to being unreadable, and a failed report is exactly when a person most needs to read what the delegate said. Fourteen negative shapes hold the line against the easy widening, strip anything that looks like a fence: a fence sitting in ordinary text, a missing frame header, a different sentence where the closing instruction belongs, a report with no closing instruction at all while the fence sits at the very end, a header and label in the wrong order, mismatched open and close tags, an open with no close, a bare unfenced section, a stray line between the label and the fence or between the fence and the closing instruction, an entirely absent section, a no-text sentinel with another line after it, a partial-findings prefix followed by something that is not a fence, and the whole report in carriage-return line endings all come back unfenced with the input verbatim and no frame at all. Above all, **provenance is not in the text**: locating a fence inside a frame happens only when the caller states where the bytes came from, because four anchors can only recognise a shape and never prove an origin. The default reading is byte-for-byte what it was before, so a passage of ordinary prose that happens to quote a report - with real warnings on either side of the quoted part - is returned untouched and those warnings stay on screen; a caller that does state the origin gets the located reading, and even then every surrounding byte comes back alongside. Twenty-three malformed origin values fall back to the narrower default without throwing: a near-miss in case, a camel-cased spelling, the right word padded with spaces or tabs or a newline or a zero-width character, a string wrapper object, an object whose `toString` or `valueOf` reports the right word, and an object whose converters both throw. The guard compares the caller’s argument for **exact equality** and nothing else — no trimming, no stringifying, no calling the value’s own converters, because that would let a value of unknown provenance choose its own lane — and a source-level cell requires that the argument reach the comparison unreassigned and unnormalised, with its own two-way check that those patterns speak. The two accepted words are read off the published type rather than copied into the guard; adding a third word later is a type-compatibility change for any caller that switches exhaustively on them. Each of the three anchors must also be **unique** in the text, and ambiguity means the reader declines. The reason is not hypothetical: the frame header interpolates the task's own description verbatim, and the engine only requires that description to be a string, so it can carry newlines and a complete set of protocol lines. Any rule that picks one candidate out of several can therefore be made to pick the planted one, hiding the real result among the surrounding bytes - a guard cell reproduces exactly that, with a planted section and a real one, and requires the reader to decline and the real text to stay on screen. Two reports back to back are the same ambiguity and are declined the same way, with both payloads left visible; a delegate that quotes any one of the three anchor lines inside its own answer also falls back to the input verbatim, which is the registered cost of the rule, and a discrimination cell shows the same corpus reads cleanly once the quoted line is gone. The two legs are not the same shape either: the forked one ends at its closing instruction with no trailing bytes at all, and that real shape has its own cell. The witness arm reads each leg only inside its own array of lines, decodes every extracted literal to its **runtime** value rather than trusting the spelling in the source, and fails loudly if it cannot - an escape rewrite upstream leaves the runtime label unchanged while the spelling diverges, and since that same extracted value builds the corpus and serves as the expectation, trusting the spelling would close a self-proving loop. The two payload labels are therefore also pinned in the guard and compared against what was extracted, so an equivalent rewrite stays green while a real rename turns red the day it lands. A delegate that quotes the frame lines inside its own answer does not move the location, and those quoted lines survive in the payload byte-for-byte |
 | `scripts/run-display-cap-order-test.mjs` | The order in which untrusted text is sanitised and length-capped, across every mint point that puts an engine- or database-supplied string on a screen. The sanitiser rewrites each invisible character as a six-character escape, so capping the **raw** string first and escaping afterwards hands the screen six times the width that was budgeted — a forty-character allowance becomes two hundred and forty. The guard does not hardcode that allowance, because each mint point wraps its field in different fixed prose and the prose moves: it anchors on the deciding quantity instead, feeding one benign and one control-character input of the same length through the same mint and requiring the second not to come out longer. That criterion is immune to wording changes and stays sensitive to the expansion, and it is `<=` rather than `==` on purpose — a correct escape-then-cap backs the cut off a partially-consumed escape token, so the control-character line is legitimately the shorter of the two, and demanding equality would score that avoidance as a regression. Each mint is bracketed by two positive controls (the input really reaches the screen; the cap really engages) and the expansion predicate is shown to turn red against a deliberately cap-then-escape reference, so an all-green run cannot mean the guard simply measured nothing. The shared mint point is checked directly for the two avoidances it owes — never splitting an escape token in half, which would leave something on screen that looks like the beginning of a complete answer, and never splitting a legal surrogate pair, which would manufacture the very lone surrogate the sanitiser exists to catch |
 | `scripts/run-seat-task-request-origin-test.mjs` | Where every field of the seat lane's send-message payload comes from, and whether it actually lands anywhere. The seat payload is a closed interface this package mints itself, and most of its fields are meant to ride verbatim onto the engine's request body — two facts nothing used to connect, so both directions could drift in silence. A seat field could be named after a request position that does not exist, in which case a client writes to it, the wire carries it, the engine ignores the whole key, and the screen shows a switch that does nothing; conversely a new request position could arrive with no seat to sit in, which is **structural** absence — the closed set *is* the carrier, so a decision missing from it has nowhere to be put at all, the same shape logged when the effort dial had no seat. The guard turns each field's origin into data: either it names the request position it forwards to, or it is declared seat-local with a written reason, and the two are mutually exclusive. Forwarding claims are then checked against the **installed** SDK's type declarations, parsed rather than restated — a hand-copied list of position names would only ever prove that two transcriptions agree. The parser is held to reading top-level positions only, since a nested option object's inner keys would otherwise be mistaken for positions of the request itself, and it proves that discrimination on synthetic input before any verdict is given. The two subagent fields carry a standing regression pin, and the retention window's inner keys are read from the declaration the same way, so a seat that offers a tunable window cannot offer one the wire has no room for |
-| `scripts/run-wire-auth-source-test.mjs` | **When** the outbound credential is read. A literal string is consumed at construction — the transport captures it in a closure and every later request reuses that one copy — so once the engine is replaced by another session and the credential rotates, a long-lived client keeps presenting the old one and the only way out is to rebuild the client along with everything hanging off it. The credential position now also accepts a getter that is called **once per outbound request**. The guard anchors on the deciding quantity, which is not "was the getter called" — reading once at construction and reusing the result would satisfy that too, and is exactly the shape being removed — but *which read produced the value on the wire*: it changes the getter's answer between two requests through the same client and requires the second request to carry the new one, and it requires construction to read the getter **zero** times. The three-state credential semantics are replayed per request rather than assumed: on loopback an unavailable credential sends **no** authorization header at all rather than a fabricated one, off loopback it sends the fail-closed anonymous identity so the deployment answers with an honest 401, and the guard shows a single client moving between those states across successive requests. A getter that throws is fail-soft — the request still goes out under the no-credential branch, because a broken credential port should not take the whole wire down, and the exception may itself carry credential material. The same-origin relay form is checked to stay out of the getter path entirely, and every request is checked to keep the credential in the authorization header only — never in the URL, never in another header |
+| `scripts/run-wire-auth-source-test.mjs` | **When** the outbound credential is read. A literal string is consumed at construction — the transport captures it in a closure and every later request reuses that one copy — so once the engine is replaced by another session and the credential rotates, a long-lived client keeps presenting the old one and the only way out is to rebuild the client along with everything hanging off it. The credential position now also accepts a getter that is called **once per outbound request**. The guard anchors on the deciding quantity, which is not "was the getter called" — reading once at construction and reusing the result would satisfy that too, and is exactly the shape being removed — but *which read produced the value on the wire*: it changes the getter's answer between two requests through the same client and requires the second request to carry the new one, and it requires construction to read the getter **zero** times. The three-state credential semantics are replayed per request rather than assumed: on loopback an unavailable credential sends **no** authorization header at all rather than a fabricated one, off loopback it sends the fail-closed anonymous identity so the deployment answers with an honest 401, and the guard shows a single client moving between those states across successive requests. A getter that throws is fail-soft — the request still goes out under the no-credential branch, because a broken credential port should not take the whole wire down, and the exception may itself carry credential material. The same-origin relay form is checked to stay out of the getter path entirely, and every request is checked to keep the credential in the authorization header only — never in the URL, never in another header. The same getter form is also accepted by two further entry points, and each is judged by its end result. For the workflow activity ledger, connection identity now follows the credential's *source* rather than the value read from it: a string is compared by value, a getter by reference, the same-origin relay declaration by its mode, and a change of form counts as a new source. The guard rotates the getter's answer between two warm-up calls and requires that no second stream opens and that the ledger keeps every frame it had already collected — before, a host could only pass a freshly read string, so each rotation looked like a different connection and the ledger was replaced by an empty one. A reconnect of that same ledger and the monitor's detail reads must then carry the rotated value, and the getter must be read exactly as many times as requests go out, so comparing identities never reads the credential. As the negative control, a different getter returning the same value opens its own stream, replaces the ledger, and the monitor holding the previous getter stands down instead of taking the slot back. For the detach cancel fallback, arming with a getter reads it zero times; the pick-up the host calls on its signal path reads it at that moment and still hands out only the two established forms, so an unchanged copy of the host's cancel leg sends the credential that is current at send time. The three-state semantics match the wire client (no authorization header on loopback when nothing is available, the anonymous identity elsewhere), a throwing getter never makes the pick-up throw, and string or loopback arms are handed back as the very same object. The widened inputs are checked with the compiler: the getter form is assignable, every previous form still is, the pick-up still narrows to the two forms, and illegal forms are rejected |
 | `scripts/run-subagent-durable-divert-test.mjs` | The side-channel that keeps a **sub-agent's** content out of the leader's transcript, on the replay leg. A content frame stamped with a parent tool-call id belongs to a child, and rendering a child's tokens as the leader's own text is the pollution this divert exists to prevent — but the predicate only listed the four **live** frame shapes, while the durable leg replays the same segment in its **aggregated** form. Those frames fell straight through onto the main projection path, which is how a reconnect or a resumed session ended up with the child's answer printed as the leader's. The anchor is unchanged and shared: the parent tool-call id is what says whose frame this is, and whether the frame is an increment or a whole segment has nothing to do with whose it is — judging the two shapes separately is exactly how one of them got missed. Folding the aggregate into a synthetic increment would have been the smaller diff and the wrong one: an increment means *append*, so a segment that already streamed live and then replays whole would be counted **twice**. The two are kept distinct and the aggregate absorbs instead — a whole segment whose prefix is what the buffer already holds replaces it, which also makes a redelivery of the same frame idempotent, and a prefix that does not match falls back to appending both rather than deciding on the engine's behalf which version counts. Segment boundaries stay with the tool frames rather than moving into the aggregate arm, since closing there would turn a second replay of one segment into a second entry, and the increment arm is pinned to keep appending so a token run that happens to be a prefix of the next does not silently lose characters. When the host declares the non-interactive lane, a sub-agent's tool calls and results are also forwarded into the main output with their parent tool-use id (the sub-agent's text and thinking still stay out, as in the reference CLI); without that declaration the output is unchanged. |
 | `scripts/run-subagent-content-budget-test.mjs` | The **byte** budget on the sub-agent transcript ledger. It used to be bounded only by *counts* — so many entries per child, so many children — and a count is not a budget when a single entry has no ceiling of its own: one tool result carrying an inlined attachment, or one long model answer, and a single slot sits on tens of megabytes. The guard anchors on how many bytes are **still held** after over-filling, not on whether truncation fired, because an implementation that flags the overflow without actually dropping anything satisfies the second and not the first. Dropping is required to leave a record — how much went and where the retained content now starts — and that record has to reach the render plan, because content that vanishes with no marker gives the reader a transcript shorter than what happened with nothing to say so; the record is one per child, updated in place, pinned to the front, and excluded from the budget it describes. Order matters and is checked: oldest entries go first and the live tail is trimmed only as a last resort, since taking the text the user is watching stream while older history survives is the wrong end. The total budget evicts a whole least-recently-used child rather than shaving every child, and the configuration surface is fail-loud on zero, negatives, non-finite and non-integer values — a silently ignored budget is the exact failure this exists to remove — with the rejection proven atomic so a bad second field cannot leave half a configuration behind. The defaults are checked to be a magnitude that can really be reached, since a number too large to hit is a field rather than a budget |
 | `scripts/run-subagent-usage-projection-test.mjs` | Per-subagent usage, split by task. The engine's final accounting carries the delegated spend as **one total** — tokens, turns, task count — and no per-task breakdown, while every sub-flow turn on the stream carries its own usage. This package used to fold that away at the leader/sub-flow divide (a child's output tokens must never reconcile the leader's response length), so a client showing a subagent's detail pane had nothing to print. The split table can therefore only be accumulated from the stream, and this guard pins what that costs. The two existing leader-only arms stay **byte-for-byte unchanged** — the new arm is additive and always carries the sub-flow's own lane proof, so a host cannot mistake a child's numbers for the session window. Attribution is by the engine's own originating-task id — deliberately not a second `taskId`, which the event identity does not carry and whose absence would silently collapse every child under one parent call — falling back to the parent call id; a turn that answers neither is dropped rather than filed under an invented row, because merging two children's ledgers is worse than missing one. Cache-read tokens are read from the **engine's own shape** rather than the mirrored one, since the mirror fills that member with zero when the wire omits it and reading it there would erase the difference between *not reported* and *no cache hit*. A turn that reported no usage at all still counts as a turn and still adds its zeros — the numbers are a lower bound, and dropping the round would make the bound less true, so the honesty bit rides on the row instead and is never spelled `false`; such a round still emits its live arm, because the frame that says "this round has no account" is the one a real-time consumer most needs and the easiest one to drop. The same honesty bit also survives a terminal that carries no statistics at all: what the stream observed is unioned with what the final record says, so a run that already reported an unmeasured round cannot come out the other end looking like an exact zero. Finally the table says whether it is **partial**, and that verdict is anchored on the quantity that actually decides it: the engine's own totals. Turn count and row count must both reconcile before the table claims to cover the whole run; anything else — including totals that cannot be read — marks it partial, so the failure direction is always the safe one (a complete table called partial, never the reverse). The two accounts are kept separate and are never added together or used to correct each other. One more thing the totals cannot settle: the row key has **two namespaces** — the originating-task id and the parent call id it falls back to — and nothing upstream promises they are disjoint, so the same literal can name one child's identity and another child's parent call. Accumulation therefore keys on the origin as well as the id; the delivered table still keys on the bare id, and a cross-namespace clash is merged into one row that says so, with the partial verdict forced, because a row count and a turn count can both reconcile while the attribution behind them is wrong. The table itself is likewise a **per-stream snapshot** handed to the terminal projector by value rather than left on the caller's context: the three terminal projectors are public, so a host may drive one run through the stream and project another's terminal directly on the same context, and a table left behind would be attributed to whoever projects next — silently called complete whenever that run's own totals happen to match. Without a snapshot, both table keys are simply absent |
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 | `scripts/run-abortable-sleep-test.mjs` | The shared `abortableSleep(ms, signal)` leaf (consumed by `workflowClient.ts` and `agentSession/backgroundView.ts`'s poll backoff): normal timeout resolution, immediate wake-up on `abort` mid-wait, `clearTimeout` really firing on that path, and a post-resolve late abort staying a no-op |
 | `scripts/run-durable-card-display-keys-test.mjs` | The durable approval row's two display keys survive the row→card recast in `surfaceFsApprovalAndDecide`: `governanceForced` stamps on strict `true` only (absence is "no evidence", never `false`), the row's rule offers (`ruleOffers`, or the older `ruleSuggestions` key that earlier servers send) pass through the same shape-narrowing reader as the live-frame leg and land on the **read-only** card key `ruleOffersReadOnly` — plus a standing pin that the durable leg never stamps the redeemable `ruleOffers` card position (the `/decide` body has no rule slot; offering a "don't ask again" option there would be an affordance nothing can honour), and a section for the parked twin of the classifier-unavailable fact: the upstream declares that key on the parked action itself, verbatim and under the same name as the synchronous ask, so this leg reads it rather than guessing a carrier name the way the deliberately unprojected keys must. The guard drives both legs with the same cause and asserts the card ends up byte-identical either way — the observable consequence of one reader serving two key paths, and the thing that silently diverges the day someone writes a second copy. Its own reach is printed rather than implied: what is proven is the package-boundary promise "on the row ⇒ on the card", not that today's engine flattens that key onto the pending row. A further section covers the two display facts the recast had been dropping for far longer. One of them the row has carried all along under a DIFFERENT NAME than the live frame uses — the frame puts it at the top level, the row nests it under the risk descriptor — and that difference in name is exactly why it went unnoticed; unlike the keys this leg deliberately refuses to project, its carrier is witnessed in the engine's own artefact rather than guessed. Neither is decoration: the shell's stand-aside arm reads them, so a call that matched a remembered allow rule which could NOT silence it looked like an ordinary ask on the durable path and was auto-approved with no card at all. Both land on the SAME card slot the live leg uses (one shape for the ends), verbatim bytes, present only when non-blank, never folded into an empty string — and the guard pins the discipline in both directions, including that a top-level key the upstream row does not actually have must still not grow this position. The security-class approval bit (`requiresRealApproval`) rides a parked row's card when the row carries it at top level, on strict `true` only, while look-alike nested carriers are ignored; this is pinned with a constructed row, because today's pending list does not carry the bit yet. A second, separate bit (`irreversibleParkGate`) marks a parked card whose row sits on the irreversible-ask gate kind — a gate-kind fact that covers asks the engine flagged for real approval at the first decision plus safety-tightened gates, with a known engine gap for approval demands raised only on a storage recheck — on the park path only, on the exact gate word only, and never in place of the real bit. Since 0.83.2 the recast also carries the row's ask origin (`origin`) exactly as the live-frame leg does — a non-empty string, verbatim, open vocabulary, never invented or defaulted — and the word a mandated question stands on (`mandate`), accepted only when it is one of the six known words and read back through `readApprovalMandate`; a word outside that set, or a malformed value, leaves the card without it. The word never adds the separate mandated key to the card, but a known word on its own makes `approvalIsMandated` answer true, because the engine only sends the word as the whole reason for that bit. An `origin` inherited through the row's prototype chain is not read, and since 0.83.4 neither is an inherited `mandated` on either leg — both legs stamp it from an own strict `true`, the same reading the seat crossing uses; the single judge `approvalIsMandated` reads `mandated` and `ruleOffersAbsence` the same way, so an inherited key no longer makes it answer true. |
 | `scripts/run-session-memory-status-test.mjs` | The session **memory-status** read face (S-53): the two judgements three clients would otherwise each get wrong. First, *same status, different code* — this route's 404 carries two unrelated meanings (`not_found.session` = unknown or non-owned session; `not_found.route` = a pre-7.53 server that has no such route at all), so dispatching on the **status** would report "your deployment lacks this surface" as "your session does not exist". The verdict is anchored on `errorCode`, the two 404s are pinned to **different** verdicts, and — the load-bearing negative control — a 404 carrying **no** code falls to `failed` rather than guessing either way, since a wrong guess in either direction is a false statement a user would act on. 501 is allowed a codeless fallback because both of its arms mean the same thing here, and `capability.*` stays split from `feature.*` because those two share a status while their dispositions are opposite. Second, *absence means something different per key*: `optOutSource` and `lastCaptureAt` are legitimately absent on a **healthy** session (a zero-history session really is `{captureOptedOut:false, committedCount:0, foldedCount:0}` with no degradation at all), so reading absence as "off/none/0" asserts something unprovable. Two combined readers are pinned: capture opt-out is read from **both** its keys (a record-store fault yields `indeterminate`, never `active` — the difference between "your conversation is being remembered" and "nobody knows"), and last-capture is a **three-state** read whose discriminator is the *other* key, because `lastCaptureAt`'s absence alone covers both "ledger unreadable" and "genuinely no contributions" and therefore decides nothing; the two shapes are pinned to different verdicts so a single-key read turns red. The thin wrapper is the only IO: it never throws, drops malformed keys to absence rather than trusting them (an unreadable value must answer "don't know", never render as truth), refuses to spend a request on an empty `sessionId`, and passes `signal` through untouched |
-| `scripts/run-crash-converged-projection-test.mjs` | The `crashConverged` read face on `GET /v1/approvals` (L-38): what the *previous life* of a crashed local engine left behind, projected for every client. Three judgements are pinned. First, **absence is not an empty list** — a missing key (an older server, deps not present, or a carrier that is not an array at all) returns `undefined`, and the client renders nothing; an empty array returns a present zero-count object, which is the server actually saying "none". Folding the first into `{total:0}` would have the client assert "nothing was left behind" on a surface a person uses to decide whether it is safe to re-run something — the worst possible direction for a false statement — so the two cases are pinned to different **return shapes** and a test asserts the two verdicts are unequal. Second, bucketing is a **four-term conjunction**: `orphanState === 'pending'` *and* `resumeSafe === true` *and* both approval-evidence keys (`originalDecision`, `decidedAtMs`) absent. A fifth term rejects any row carrying an **accessor**, and accessors are never invoked at all — reading one means synchronously running someone else's code, and `catch` catches throwing, not *never returning*, so a looping getter would pin the startup thread forever (the row cap does nothing against that shape). The same rule covers the three untrusted reads outside the row as well — the envelope's `crashConverged` key, the carrier's `length`, and every numeric index are read as own property *descriptors* and only data descriptors are used, so accessors and prototype entries read as absent and are never invoked. Such a key is treated as absent: if it was a required field the row is counted as dropped, if it was optional or additive the row survives without it. That also closes the ordering attack, since spreading runs getters in property order and an earlier one could `delete` the approval evidence before it is ever copied (measured before the fix: such a row reached the resume-safe bucket), and the check therefore moves ahead of the read, onto the property descriptors — from which the snapshot is then built directly, because checking descriptors and *then* spreading is two independent observations of the same row, and a non-throwing proxy can make the two `ownKeys` calls disagree (first showing `originalDecision: 'approve'` so the row reads as plain data, then omitting that configurable key so the snapshot loses the evidence; measured before the fix: the dangerous row reached the resume-safe bucket after exactly two enumerations, and after it, one). Keys are written with `Object.defineProperty` rather than plain assignment, because `'__proto__'` is a legal own enumerable key and `o['__proto__'] = x` does not store a value — it calls the prototype setter, letting a row whose own properties are all plain data (so the accessor gate never fires) inject a prototype whose `sessionId` getter deletes the approval evidence from the snapshot during validation; `defineProperty` fires no setter, so the key survives as ordinary additive data and the snapshot keeps `Object.prototype`. A row that simply arrives with a custom prototype is treated the same way, since the snapshot only enumerates own properties: approval evidence sitting on the prototype would never reach it, and a perfectly ordinary object with no proxy and no accessors could otherwise be called safe to re-run — real bodies come from `JSON.parse` and always carry `Object.prototype`, so nothing genuine trips it). Validation itself runs on a **null-prototype** dictionary and the bucketing verdict is carried out of that same pass rather than re-read from the delivered row, because every property lookup on an ordinary `{}` reaches `Object.prototype`: a polluted `sessionId` getter there would delete the approval evidence from the snapshot mid-validation and send the row to the safe bucket (measured before the fix). The row handed to the client is still an ordinary object — the null prototype is an implementation detail of the check, not of the value) — real JSON bodies are all data properties, so only a middle-layer-synthesised payload ever trips it, and it too lands in the human bucket rather than being dropped. The `decided` arm means the human had already approved and side effects may be half-landed, so it always goes to the human bucket, as does `resumeSafe === false` and — the last two terms — any row whose own fields contradict each other, since `pending` claims nothing ran while that evidence says somebody pressed approve. Deciding "not safe" costs one extra question (recoverable); deciding "safe" wrongly has somebody re-run work that already partly happened (not). A 2x2 truth table pins that exactly one cell is resume-safe, so reading either key alone turns red, and the contradictory rows are routed to the human bucket rather than dropped — they are real orphans, and the ones most worth showing. Third, unreadable rows are **dropped and counted**, never thrown and never passed through: the product is declared as `CrashConvergedRow`, so letting a row missing a required field — or carrying one of the wrong type — past would be a lie at the type level, and the closed literal discriminators (`decision` / `cause` / `orphanState`) decide family membership rather than being an open vocabulary. The measuring stick stops at the **type** floor, though: degenerate-but-well-typed values (`ts: NaN`, an empty `toolName`) are kept, because swallowing a real orphan over a decorative field is the worse direction, and the one deliberate exception is `approvalId`, which must be non-empty to be a row identity at all. `dropped` is kept separate from `total` so unreadable rows never inflate "N approvals were affected"; each row is a **one-shot snapshot** — every own enumerable key is read exactly once, and validation, bucketing and the handed-back value all read that same snapshot, so additive upstream keys survive while a **non-idempotent** getter (one that never throws, just answers differently on a second read) can no longer erase the approval evidence between the check and the bucketing (measured before the fix: such a row landed in the resume-safe bucket while its checked value was `"approve"`). Hostile carriers are counted rather than allowed to reject: **every** touch of the carrier is guarded — envelope property reads, `Array.isArray` itself (it throws on a revoked proxy), the `length` read, each indexed read and each row's property reads — and a traversal that dies halfway returns absence rather than a half-counted total. A row that cannot be read never takes the batch with it: its own shape check is inside its own guard, so one revoked-proxy row costs a `dropped` tick rather than collapsing the whole projection to absence — which a client would have read as "this deployment does not offer the surface". Traversal goes by **numeric index, never the carrier's own iterator protocol**, because `for...of` hands the carrier the question of which rows exist: an array carrying an overridden `Symbol.iterator` can yield nothing (measured before the fix: a real orphan became `{total:0}`, which a client reads as "the server said there are none") or swap a dangerous `decided` row for a safe-looking one (measured: `fake-safe` was returned in place of `real-danger`). Row count is capped at 100000 and the cap is checked **before** the walk: requiring only a non-negative integer `length` does not stop a proxy trap reporting a billion, and this surface runs on the startup / `--resume` path, where a synchronous spin freezes the thread (measured before the cap: twenty million rows took 18.3 seconds and twenty million index reads; a billion does not come back). The honest boundary is stated rather than overclaimed — a proxy can still lie in its `length` or index traps, which is the same thing as a host injecting a lying transport — and the widening of `ApprovalsResourceLike.list()` is proven **additive** by really running tsc over a legacy `{ pending }` mock *and* over the real `AgentClient` path — the projector takes `unknown` precisely because a parameter shaped as "an object with an optional `crashConverged`" is a TypeScript weak type that the installed SDK's own `list()` return shape shares no property with, which only a real-client compile would have caught — with a known-red control so a clean run means the checker spoke |
+| `scripts/run-crash-converged-projection-test.mjs` | The `crashConverged` read face on `GET /v1/approvals` (L-38): what the *previous life* of a crashed local engine left behind, projected for every client. Three judgements are pinned. First, **absence is not an empty list** — a missing key (an older server, deps not present, or a carrier that is not an array at all) returns `undefined`, and the client renders nothing; an empty array returns a present zero-count object, which is the server actually saying "none". Folding the first into `{total:0}` would have the client assert "nothing was left behind" on a surface a person uses to decide whether it is safe to re-run something — the worst possible direction for a false statement — so the two cases are pinned to different **return shapes** and a test asserts the two verdicts are unequal. Second, bucketing is a **four-term conjunction**: `orphanState === 'pending'` *and* `resumeSafe === true` *and* both approval-evidence keys (`originalDecision`, `decidedAtMs`) absent. A fifth term rejects any row carrying an **accessor**, and accessors are never invoked at all — reading one means synchronously running someone else's code, and `catch` catches throwing, not *never returning*, so a looping getter would pin the startup thread forever (the row cap does nothing against that shape). The same rule covers the three untrusted reads outside the row as well — the envelope's `crashConverged` key, the carrier's `length`, and every numeric index are read as own property *descriptors* and only data descriptors are used, so accessors and prototype entries read as absent and are never invoked. Such a key is treated as absent: if it was a required field the row is counted as dropped, if it was optional or additive the row survives without it. That also closes the ordering attack, since spreading runs getters in property order and an earlier one could `delete` the approval evidence before it is ever copied (measured before the fix: such a row reached the resume-safe bucket), and the check therefore moves ahead of the read, onto the property descriptors — from which the snapshot is then built directly, because checking descriptors and *then* spreading is two independent observations of the same row, and a non-throwing proxy can make the two `ownKeys` calls disagree (first showing `originalDecision: 'approve'` so the row reads as plain data, then omitting that configurable key so the snapshot loses the evidence; measured before the fix: the dangerous row reached the resume-safe bucket after exactly two enumerations, and after it, one). Keys are written with `Object.defineProperty` rather than plain assignment, because `'__proto__'` is a legal own enumerable key and `o['__proto__'] = x` does not store a value — it calls the prototype setter, letting a row whose own properties are all plain data (so the accessor gate never fires) inject a prototype whose `sessionId` getter deletes the approval evidence from the snapshot during validation; `defineProperty` fires no setter, so the key survives as ordinary additive data and the snapshot keeps `Object.prototype`. A row that simply arrives with a custom prototype is treated the same way, since the snapshot only enumerates own properties: approval evidence sitting on the prototype would never reach it, and a perfectly ordinary object with no proxy and no accessors could otherwise be called safe to re-run — real bodies come from `JSON.parse` and always carry `Object.prototype`, so nothing genuine trips it). Validation itself runs on a **null-prototype** dictionary and the bucketing verdict is carried out of that same pass rather than re-read from the delivered row, because every property lookup on an ordinary `{}` reaches `Object.prototype`: a polluted `sessionId` getter there would delete the approval evidence from the snapshot mid-validation and send the row to the safe bucket (measured before the fix). The row handed to the client is still an ordinary object — the null prototype is an implementation detail of the check, not of the value) — real JSON bodies are all data properties, so only a middle-layer-synthesised payload ever trips it, and it too lands in the human bucket rather than being dropped. The `decided` arm means the human had already approved and side effects may be half-landed, so it always goes to the human bucket, as does `resumeSafe === false` and — the last two terms — any row whose own fields contradict each other, since `pending` claims nothing ran while that evidence says somebody pressed approve. Deciding "not safe" costs one extra question (recoverable); deciding "safe" wrongly has somebody re-run work that already partly happened (not). A 2x2 truth table pins that exactly one cell is resume-safe, so reading either key alone turns red, and the contradictory rows are routed to the human bucket rather than dropped — they are real orphans, and the ones most worth showing. Third, unreadable rows are **dropped and counted**, never thrown and never passed through: the product is declared as `CrashConvergedRow`, so letting a row missing a required field — or carrying one of the wrong type — past would be a lie at the type level, and the closed literal discriminators (`decision` / `cause` / `orphanState`) decide family membership rather than being an open vocabulary. The measuring stick stops at the **type** floor, though: degenerate-but-well-typed values (`ts: NaN`, an empty `toolName`) are kept, because swallowing a real orphan over a decorative field is the worse direction, and the one deliberate exception is `approvalId`, which must be non-empty to be a row identity at all. `dropped` is kept separate from `total` so unreadable rows never inflate "N approvals were affected"; each row is a **one-shot snapshot** — every own enumerable key is read exactly once, and validation, bucketing and the handed-back value all read that same snapshot, so additive upstream keys survive while a **non-idempotent** getter (one that never throws, just answers differently on a second read) can no longer erase the approval evidence between the check and the bucketing (measured before the fix: such a row landed in the resume-safe bucket while its checked value was `"approve"`). Hostile carriers are counted rather than allowed to reject: **every** touch of the carrier is guarded — envelope property reads, `Array.isArray` itself (it throws on a revoked proxy), the `length` read, each indexed read and each row's property reads — and a traversal that dies halfway returns absence rather than a half-counted total. A row that cannot be read never takes the batch with it: its own shape check is inside its own guard, so one revoked-proxy row costs a `dropped` tick rather than collapsing the whole projection to absence — which a client would have read as "this deployment does not offer the surface". Traversal goes by **numeric index, never the carrier's own iterator protocol**, because `for...of` hands the carrier the question of which rows exist: an array carrying an overridden `Symbol.iterator` can yield nothing (measured before the fix: a real orphan became `{total:0}`, which a client reads as "the server said there are none") or swap a dangerous `decided` row for a safe-looking one (measured: `fake-safe` was returned in place of `real-danger`). Row count is capped at 100000 and the cap is checked **before** the walk: requiring only a non-negative integer `length` does not stop a proxy trap reporting a billion, and this surface runs on the startup / `--resume` path, where a synchronous spin freezes the thread (measured before the cap: twenty million rows took 18.3 seconds and twenty million index reads; a billion does not come back). The honest boundary is stated rather than overclaimed — a proxy can still lie in its `length` or index traps, which is the same thing as a host injecting a lying transport — and the widening of `ApprovalsResourceLike.list()` is proven **additive** by really running tsc over a legacy `{ pending }` mock *and* over the real `AgentClient` path — the projector takes `unknown` precisely because a parameter shaped as "an object with an optional `crashConverged`" is a TypeScript weak type that the installed SDK's own `list()` return shape shares no property with, which only a real-client compile would have caught — with a known-red control so a clean run means the checker spoke Every row in the `needsHuman` bucket also carries a closed-set `needsHumanReason` (`approved_then_interrupted` / `pending_unsafe` / `unstable_row` / `contradictory`) derived from the same single read that bucketed it; `resumeSafe` rows never carry it, a same-named key on the supplied row is overwritten or removed, and the bucketing itself is unchanged. |
 | `scripts/run-self-orchestration-denial-test.mjs` | The three judgements behind a **denied self-orchestration request** (server 7.57.0), each of which all three clients would otherwise get wrong on their own. First, whether to retry at all is a **conjunction that may not be loosened**: HTTP 501 *and* an `errorCode` that is **exactly** `capability.self_orchestration_required`. That code shares its shape with every other `capability.*` 501, so dispatching on the prefix would drag "some other capability is not wired up" into the retry arm — those requests do not become acceptable once the two keys are gone, so the client would spend a request and then tell the user the wrong reason. Negative controls cover all four directions: a sibling `capability.*` code, a truncated or suffixed variant of the right one, a codeless 501 (it decides nothing, so it decides nothing — no guessing), and the right code under 500 / 400 / 503 or a string `"501"`. The classifier reads structurally rather than by `instanceof` (a host may inject its own transport; across realms or duplicate SDK instances an understandable error would read as unreadable), so a class instance, a bare `{status, errorCode}` literal and an error carrying those fields on its **prototype** all reach the same verdict — and a hostile proxy or a throwing getter yields `null` instead of throwing, because this classifier runs inside a `catch` block where anything it throws escapes the caller's own guard. Second, removing the intent is a **structural** operation, not wording: `selfOrchestration` sits at the top level while `ultracode` sits under `settings` — two different stamping legs — and a client hand-writing `delete` will miss the second one, which costs the user the same failure twice. The single stripper is pinned to touch exactly those two: other `settings` sub-keys and their values survive byte for byte, `deferTools` is left alone (pulling `Workflow` out would be a behaviour change, not a removal of intent), additive unknown keys survive at both levels, the input object is never mutated, `settings` is only dropped entirely when `ultracode` was really there and nothing else remains (an already-empty one is left as is), a non-object `settings` is not touched at all, an `ultracode` that only exists on the prototype does not count, and the whole thing is idempotent. The end-to-end leg runs a real `buildTaskRequest` product through it and asserts the stripped body still passes the registration gate key by key. Third, on the capabilities body, **absence is not "switched off"**: a pre-7.57 server has no `workflowsGate` key at all, so reading absence as "the engine says no" asserts something the server never said, and the mirror-image disease is folding an **unrecognised** `denial` into `null`, which would have the client render "nothing was denied" when the truth is "denied, for a reason I do not recognise". Five shapes are pinned — caps unreadable, gate absent, closed-set member, unknown value, accessor — with the unknown arm carrying the raw token (or an empty one when the value is not even a string) and never collapsing to `null`. All four untrusted reads go through own **data descriptors** only, and the guard pins the getter invocation count at zero, since `catch` catches throwing but not *never returning*; a descriptor trap that throws and a revoked proxy both yield honest absence rather than an exception — though *what* absence means differs by field, and the guard pins that split rather than a blanket rule: an accessor on `workflows`, `workflowsGate` or `engineCan` reads as absent, while an accessor on `denial` reads as `{unknown:''}`, because a key that is **not there** is the gate saying "nothing was denied" whereas a key that is there but cannot be read is "denied, and I could not read why" — folding the second into the first is exactly the false statement this face exists to prevent. Two further pins came out of an adversarial review. The exported retry list is **frozen at runtime**, not merely `as const`: the verdict hands out that same reference, so any consumer splicing it once would poison every later verdict in the process — the guard asserts `Object.isFrozen`, that four different mutation attempts leave it byte-identical, and that a verdict issued *after* those attempts still carries the original two entries. And the classifier reads `denial` only **after** both criteria have passed, since it is not a criterion but an extra field on the verdict: the guard pins the getter invocation count at zero for any error that does not match and at most one for an error that does. The scope line is drawn explicitly rather than overclaimed — "no getter ever runs" holds for `projectWorkflowsGate`, which reads **wire JSON** where every field is an own data property by definition, but not for the classifier, which reads a **thrown value** that may well be an SDK `APIError` class instance carrying `status` and `errorCode` on its prototype; insisting on own data descriptors there would report a perfectly readable error as unreadable, so that side promises only that it never throws. A final pin covers the **integration document's own worked example** rather than the library: the shipped SDK's `tasks.stream()` is an `async` generator, so calling it issues no request at all — the POST happens inside `streamRaw` on the first iteration, and a `try` wrapped around the `stream(...)` call itself can never catch the 501. A client following a submit-shaped recipe on the streaming leg would never run the classifier, and the whole strip-and-retry path would silently do nothing. The guard drives the **real** `TasksResource` against a fake transport, offline, and pins both halves: the synchronous leg is in flight the moment it is called, the streaming leg has issued zero requests after the call and raises on the first `next()` — and it does so through the **real** error path, with `openStream` returning an actual 501 `Response` that the SDK's own `errorFromResponse` turns into the typed error, pinning the `openStream`→`errorFrom` call order so a transport that stops minting `errorCode` cannot pass. The documented recipe is then **executed** rather than keyword-counted: exactly one retry, a second body that really lost both keys while every other setting survives byte for byte, the caller's own request object left untouched, one disclosure and only one, a second 501 propagating with the request count still at two, and — after the first 501 — an abort leaving the count at one with nothing disclosed. A last leg is type-level: `stripSelfOrchestrationIntent` carries an SDK `TaskRequest` overload, because the wide `Record<string, unknown>` form erases the caller's type and the document's "strip and resubmit" line would not compile without an unsafe cast; a real tsc run over a virtual file proves both the narrow and the wide path, with a known-red control — and it compiles the document's two recipes **verbatim**, extracted from the section itself, because a recipe that does not compile is a recipe that was never given: `{ transientOk: true, signal }` is a TS2379 under `exactOptionalPropertyTypes`, which no amount of prose review had caught. The last thing pinned is the one that would have been quietest of all: the SDK's `stream()` returns only on a `done` or `failed` frame, so a stream truncated mid-run — or yielding nothing at all — ends the `for await` just as normally as a completed one. The documented `runOnce` therefore tracks whether it ever saw a terminal frame and raises when it did not, the guard's success fixture emits a real terminal and asserts the handler received it, and a truncated-stream control asserts that shape is reported as a failure with no retry and nothing disclosed. That terminal-frame rule then needed one more turn of its own: the underlying reader returns *normally* when the signal is aborted, so the check as first written rewrote a user's cancellation into a generic stream fault — a client keying off `AbortError` to suppress the error would instead have shown a failure, or resubmitted. Cancellation is therefore checked first, a real-SDK case aborts from inside the handler and asserts the original `AbortError` survives with no retry and nothing disclosed, and the document is checked for that ordering. The harness runs the documented `handle` and `transcript.note` as real spies rather than pushing frames itself, the drive loop rethrows exactly as the document does, and the disclosure ledger is proven to be the caller's own array by a positive identity assertion — without which the cancellation leg's "nothing disclosed" would have been vacuously true. Each recipe is compiled **on its own**, with a preamble that declares only what a host supplies and injects no library symbol, since compiling them together let the second one borrow the first one's imports, and the preamble's own types are decoupled from what the recipes import so the "remove the imports and it must fail" control fails for the right reason — which is checked by attribution, not merely by redness. Ordering is the last thing to get right: the cancellation check must come before the truncation error but **both** must sit behind the terminal-frame test, because a cancellation that lands after the run already reported `done` would otherwise overwrite a real outcome — one that may have already had effects — with "cancelled", and a person reading that will run it again. Aborting from inside `handle(done)` and `handle(failed)` are both pinned to still report success, and the ordering assertion is anchored inside the streaming `runOnce` body rather than the section, since the section's first `throwIfAborted` belongs to the synchronous recipe and would have made a reversed streaming recipe pass — and that ordering check is now anchored on the TypeScript AST rather than on text, since a comment reproducing the two statements in the right order let a genuinely reversed body pass. One more timing fact had to be written into the recipe: a single SSE read buffers several frames and the SDK yields them back to back, so checking the signal only after the loop lets a cancelled run keep consuming the rest of the chunk — measured, an abort inside `handle(turn_start)` still swallowed the `done` that followed and reported success. The recipe therefore re-checks after every non-terminal frame. Finally, the behavioural matrix is no longer run against a copy of the recipe: both recipes are extracted from the document, transpiled, and **executed** with injected host objects, so the disclosure assertion really exercises the document's own `transcript.note(disclose(...))` line, and the synchronous leg gets the same full matrix the streaming one does |
 | `scripts/run-package-hygiene-test.mjs` | Everything `package.json` `files` ships — dist JS/typings and the Markdown docs — is screened line-by-line against a deny-list of strings that must never reach a public tarball (internal hostnames, codenames, person names, collaboration-process words, other repos' ledger ids and repo names; opaque ticket ids `CC-nnn` and post numbers `[nnnn]` are allowed as traceability references). Since 0.77.2 the build strips comments (`removeComments`; enforced by `run-dist-comments-test.mjs`), so what this gate screens in dist is code, string literals and type-level text. Markdown docs are enforced forward-only (CHANGELOG from 0.77.2, the integration doc from §81) because published sections are frozen.
 | `scripts/run-integration-doc-freshness-test.mjs` | The **integration contract** (`docs/INTEGRATION-CLIENTS.md`) and the **changelog** (`CHANGELOG.md`) checked against the code, because a document with no guard rots — this one had a whole nest of drift found on it within a day of being written. Five directions, each a claim a machine can actually evaluate. (1) *Counting discipline*: the version-anchor row for the guard count may no longer carry a hand-copied number at all — it changes every time a guard is added, and writing it down is planting a timer; the export counts that are still hand-copied (the surface total, the test-hook count, the sentence describing the surface's internal composition, the sum of the sixteen domain rows, and the three sub-counts) are each compared against a value **derived** from `public-export-baseline.json`, which is the drift a human reviewer caught last time. (2) *Coordinates alive*: every `src/` `scripts/` `docs/` path the doc quotes must be on disk **and tracked by git** — on disk is not in the repo, and a doc that points readers at a file living only in its author's working tree sends every clone to nothing. A file landing in the same commit takes a named carve-out that **stops applying** the moment the file is really tracked (it can no longer let anything through, and the guard prints a line asking for it to be deleted) — deliberately not a red, since turning red on the very commit that lands the file would just manufacture a break that only a follow-up commit could clear. (3) *Arm tables*: the `hitl_out_of_slice` row and the `not_in_slice` fenced list must equal, name for name and in **both** directions, the case labels that really fall into those two buckets — read through the **TypeScript AST**, since which bucket an arm lands in is decided by the argument to `nothing(...)` and by nothing a comment says. The extractor is anchored to the one production projector: exactly one function named `eventToSdkMessage`, exactly one `switch (ev.type)` inside it, and no repeated case label — anything else is a broken anchor rather than a verdict, because a second same-shaped switch elsewhere in the file would otherwise overwrite the real one's conclusions and leave the doc agreeing with a switch nobody runs. The list is delimited by a machine-readable fence rather than by section headings, because the same section also names the terminal arms as a counter-example and prose boundaries cannot tell a member from a foil. (4) *Released sections are frozen*: an **append-only ledger** carries every version ever published — its number, the commit it was published from, and the sha256 of its section — and each one is checked, not just the current release, since pinning only the latest would set every earlier version free the moment the next one ships. The ledger cannot vouch for itself either: each recorded hash is **re-derived from that release commit** through git, so editing an old section and its constant together no longer passes — and the commit the row names is in turn checked against the `gitHead` npm recorded at publish time, which is the one value this repository cannot rewrite, so pointing an old version at a freshly written commit does not pass either. The *set* of versions that must be frozen comes from the registry too, so deleting an old row together with its section — which would otherwise remove that version from every set the guard looks at — is red rather than invisible. A failed registry call is classified rather than swallowed, and the classification consults the registry's own status code *before* it considers connection-level symptoms, so an auth refusal whose body happens to mention the network is still red rather than a skip. The version set is compared as full SemVer including prereleases — matching only `x.y.z` would silently drop a published `0.30.0-beta.1` and reopen the very hole this direction closes — and section headings are matched on a whole-version boundary so a stable release cannot bind itself to the release-candidate section sitting above it. Publishing itself is a two-phase protocol rather than a paradox: before a release, exactly one row may be marked pending and must name the current `package.json` version, exempt from the checks whose inputs do not exist yet; once the registry has that version the row must be promoted, so the temporary state cannot survive its own release. And because the pending exemption rests entirely on "this version is not out yet," it is refused outright when the registry cannot be reached to confirm that — an unverifiable premise is not a licence. Three reverse directions close the rest: a section claiming to be released but absent from the ledger, a ledger entry whose section has vanished, and a `package.json` version that was never frozen. Publishing appends a row; it never rewrites one. (6) *Sentinels*: the readers §5a hands hosts for "is this port installed" are checked against what the source actually declares it returns — `hasXxx()` is a `boolean`, the card port / HITL surface / wire target return `T \| null`, the `installHost` family returns `T \| undefined`. Testing a `null`-returning reader for `!== undefined` is *always true*, and a self-check that passes whether or not the port is installed is worse than none, because hosts retire their own fallback on the strength of it. Both directions are red: an implementation that changes its sentinel without the doc following, and a doc that names the wrong one. The roster covers the zero-argument readers and their `*For` variants alike — a multi-session host reads the variants, so leaving them off would let exactly the surface desktop depends on drift unwatched — and the §5a table and the §8-B checklist line are each checked against the source, because hosts tick the checklist, and a guard that only watches the prose table misses the line people actually follow. (5) *Packaging*: the README ships with the package and opens by pointing hosts at the integration doc, and the checklist names two more files as required reading before an upgrade — all three must really appear in the `npm pack` manifest, or an npm consumer follows a relative link that npmjs rewrites onto a private repository. Missing tooling never takes the whole verdict down with it: when git, npm or the registry is unreachable those legs print the `SKIPPED-SECTION` marker and the rest still judges, while a release commit the ledger names but git cannot resolve is red rather than skipped. The guard says in its own header what it does **not** do: it judges counts, coordinates, arm sets, released bytes and the packing list — whether a sentence is *right* is still for review and for the hosts to report (7) *Retired names*: every name in the per-version `removed` ledger of `scripts/export-liveness.json` may appear in the live sections of the integration doc only where a retirement note follows the name inside the same clause (or the table row's label cell is itself a retirement label); the scan is by identifier boundary after invisible text (HTML comments, link targets, reference-link labels, tag attributes) has been stripped, so a signature line in a code block, an inline `NAME = 4096`, a hidden note, or a note that belongs to a neighbouring name all count as a bare recommendation and go red. Frozen sections (a numbered section whose heading carries a version already recorded as released) are historical and never rewritten, so a retired name there is allowed only if the live retirement catalog has a row for it: a retirement label, the name, the version it left in (matching the ledger) and what to use instead, next to the sentence stating that frozen sections are historical records and the catalog is authoritative. A section whose version cannot be read, or is not yet released, is judged as live. |
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 | `scripts/run-decide-receipt-test.mjs` | What a decision verb actually **answered** — and, more importantly, what it did not. A success response on the newest lane is only an acknowledgement that the decision was accepted for delivery: the approval is still pending, and a client that clears the card on it shows either a ghost card that was already approved or a card that vanished while the decision was lost. So the package deliberately has **no** "was it resolved" predicate — nothing in that body can answer it — only the opposite one, whose `false` is likewise not evidence of resolution; resolution is only ever the next running arm on the stream. The guard pins that inversion in the product source too: the success path must no longer clear the latched gate, while the stream-observing path that really clears it must still be there. The body has four shapes with **no** key common to all of them, so every position is read as honestly absent, and the handoff handle — which run to watch from here on — requires **two** facts together, since either one alone would either point the stream at the run it already had or mint an empty handle. The record of what finally happened to an already-decided action is read through the **same** reader as every other gate record rather than a second copy, and its absence means **unknown**, never *it was allowed* — the two can even contradict each other, so the card says nothing at all when it is missing. The three refusals on that lane each get one distinct sentence and a disposition taken from **why** each was refused rather than from severity: one cannot be helped by re-sending at all, one waits on the host, one just drops an option — and none of them carries a countdown, because the server never mints a wait for them. Recognition is a **closed set**: an unrecognised code on the same prefix returns nothing rather than a guess, since that prefix also houses a safety signal whose whole rule is never to retry automatically, and the recovery handle is read as absent when unreadable rather than substituted from a different identifier that no longer appears on that lane **0.68.3 (core 7.18.0):** `gate.disposition.classifier` is read key by key into a named view (requested model, model that answered, and the ladder fallback when one happened); a half-shaped record yields no classifier at all rather than a half view, and absence stays "unknown", never "the seat answered itself" |
 | `scripts/run-approval-frame-chrome-arms-test.mjs` | The two in-stream approval frames finally reaching every host through the shared pipeline instead of one shell's private branch — the shape of a layering defect: hosts that only consume the package could not rebuild their pending cards after a reconnect, and did not clear a card the engine had withdrawn. The payload is deliberately carried as the **envelope** the upstream types declare rather than the first-version card: the stream parser applies no predicate, so narrowing here would let a legitimately newer frame pass as the older shape and invite consumers to read keys a newer card never promised. The guard therefore pins that every open key survives untouched, that an unknown version still passes through, and that narrowing is left to the host's own predicates — with the fallback being a generic card and a person, **never** an automatic denial. A frame whose version cannot be read at all is reported as malformed rather than dropped in silence, because both frames carry user-visible decisions and state changes. Both arms are registered as **required** host duties, and their duty text names the load-bearing rules a host would otherwise have to rediscover: which predicate to narrow with, that the reconnect preamble — not a replayed historical frame — is the authority on which cards exist, and that a withdrawal frame can be lost entirely. Unlike the sibling arms, these carry **no** sub-stream cutoff: an approval raised under a delegated call still has to reach a person, and filtering it by ownership is the host's job, not a reason to discard it. Finally the upstream bytes that justify the envelope discipline are checked to still be there, since the whole design rests on them |
 | `scripts/run-terminal-status-vocabulary-test.mjs` | One place that decides whether a run has **ended** and whether it ended badly — written because that judgement had already been hand-copied three times, so the day the engine added a word for *the agent itself reported it cannot continue*, every copy missed it and a panel settled a self-reported failure as a success. The distinction the table exists for is pinned from both sides: that word belongs in it, while the two words meaning *waiting for a person to decide* deliberately do **not** — reading those as endings would bury a run that is actively waiting on the reader. A word this client does not know answers *no*, and the guard states plainly that *no* is not evidence of success: proving success means reading the positive side, so negating this predicate is the very mistake that caused two earlier incidents. The fleet lane gets the same treatment from the other direction: a workflow parked on a durable approval used to fall through to *running*, leaving the person with no hint that a card was waiting, and it now lands on the same rendered word the task lane already used — same fact, same word, checked end to end on a real row. Why the word was added directly rather than carried as a private superset key is checked mechanically against the upstream declaration being open, so the day it closes this reds and the decision gets revisited. The residue sweep is the point: the source tree must contain **no** further inlined copy of the judgement, each of the three former sites is checked to really read the single predicate, and the one reviewed exemption carries its reason **and** a liveness assertion, so an exemption whose justification expires cannot quietly keep standing |
-| `scripts/run-terminal-word-source-test.mjs` | Two tables of ending words, kept apart by **who owns them** — because they used to be one. The engine's own closed set of reasons a run ended, and the server's set of row states a run can finish in, overlap in three words but not in all of them: one word for *something outside stopped it* exists only on the server side, and one for *it paused and can be resumed* exists only on the engine side and means very nearly the opposite of an ending. Merged into a single list, those two sources became indistinguishable, so a new word on either side looked the same as a new word on the other, and the safest-looking move — folding the unknown word into a known one — is the exact mistake that has caused incidents here before. The engine-owned table is checked as a **copy, not an opinion**: it is reconciled word-for-word and in order against the installed engine package, read from both its declaration and its runtime bytes with the two required to agree, so the day upstream adds a fifth reason this reds before anything ships. The two dividing words are each pinned from both sides, including against the upstream declaration directly rather than only against this package's own list. Why the table is copied rather than re-exported is itself an assertion with an expiry: the day upstream publishes the set as a value, this guard reds and the decision gets revisited. The renamed tables leave **no alias** behind, since an alias would let a reader keep consuming the merged list and the split would have bought nothing |
+| `scripts/run-terminal-word-source-test.mjs` | Two tables of ending words, kept apart by **who owns them** — because they used to be one. The engine's own closed set of reasons a run ended, and the server's set of row states a run can finish in, overlap in three words but not in all of them: one word for *something outside stopped it* exists only on the server side, and one for *it paused and can be resumed* exists only on the engine side and means very nearly the opposite of an ending. Merged into a single list, those two sources became indistinguishable, so a new word on either side looked the same as a new word on the other, and the safest-looking move — folding the unknown word into a known one — is the exact mistake that has caused incidents here before. The engine-owned table is checked as a **copy, not an opinion**: it is reconciled word-for-word and in order against the installed engine package, read from both its declaration and its runtime bytes with the two required to agree, so the day upstream adds a fifth reason this reds before anything ships. The two dividing words are each pinned from both sides, including against the upstream declaration directly rather than only against this package's own list. Why the table was copied rather than re-exported was itself an assertion with an expiry, and it has expired: the engine package now publishes the set as a value, and since the package still may not import the engine at run time, the table is generated at build time from that published value — the guard checks that the package's table is that generated object and matches the engine's published keys in order. The renamed tables leave **no alias** behind, since an alias would let a reader keep consuming the merged list and the split would have bought nothing |
 | `scripts/run-terminal-table-provenance-test.mjs` | Several tables answering *has this ended*, which until now only asserted their own current wording rather than that the wording was right — a snapshot equality passes forever even the day upstream adds a word this package never learns about. Each is reconciled against a named upstream source instead, one comparator shared across all of them rather than one copy per table: a notification's terminal words are the engine's own closed set minus its one live word; a sub-agent tick's terminal words are the engine's own inline status literal minus *running*; a run row's terminal words must **cover every** engine reason a run can end — missing one is the exact failure mode that once let a client retry a connection until its budget ran out while the ending sat unread in the row the whole time — plus one explicitly named legacy word the engine's current declaration no longer carries — kept on purpose to read rows stored before that word was retired, since retiring a word the engine writes does not remove rows already stored with it; a fleet row's terminal words are pinned to **exact equality** with the transport's own status set minus its known non-terminal words (an adversarial pass found the earlier one-directional form let a real terminal word be quietly deleted from this side and still pass), and separately pinned against that set's current member count so the day it changes a person has to look. A sixth table, a workflow's terminal words, has two upstream producers and is pinned to **exact equality** with their union minus the one live word: the stored run record's status set, and the statuses the in-process task registry gives a workflow handle (read from the engine's own source; it emits *cancelled* when a workflow without a store is stopped — a version of this table reconciled against the first producer alone dropped that word, so a stopped workflow was never marked delivered and its completion could be delivered twice). The table is separately checked against every non-terminal word gathered — including one meaning *durably paused*, sourced from the engine's own outcome vocabulary rather than any of the other unions, after the same adversarial pass found a caller-documented non-terminal word this boundary had missed — and a behavioral regression drives the installed engine's real task registry through *stop* then *read the output*, feeds that result through both projection paths, and requires each to mark the run delivered and clear it from the waiting count. A seventh pair, found by the same pass sweeping the whole tree for the same shape of hand-copied table, answers a related but distinct question — whether a session's claim on a run has been released or is still held — and is pinned as two complementary halves of one upstream set: released-minus-one-named-legacy-word and held must partition the transport's status set exactly, so a real state going missing from either side is caught the same way a fabricated one would be. Every extraction in this guard parses real syntax rather than pattern-matching quoted text, so a comment mentioning a word never counts as that word being present, and single- and double-quoted members are read identically |
 | `scripts/run-workflow-park-truth-projection-test.mjs` | The read face for *which approvals a workflow run left parked* — and the credential that must never ride along with it. Upstream strips the redemption token from that response, and this package's reader is built so the token **cannot** come back: each row is assembled field by field from the three identity keys, never copied wholesale, so an extra key appearing upstream is structurally unable to reach anything this package hands a UI. The guard proves that rather than asserting it — a poisoned row carrying a secret is read, and the secret is searched for across the **entire** serialized result, with the same search proven to find it in the input so a blind search cannot pass; renaming the credential key does not help it through, because the rule is *only these three*, not a blocklist; and the reader's own source is checked to contain no object spread, since one such line would quietly void all of it. The other half is an absence distinction with opposite consequences: a record with **no** parks field at all was written by an older engine and proves nothing about whether approvals are waiting, while an empty list is a positive statement that none are — collapsing those two would let a run whose parked approvals cannot be proven be resumed anyway, so they are kept literally distinguishable, and a payload whose rows are all unreadable answers *unknown* rather than *none*. The four refusal codes for this family are checked code by code against the engine's real bytes, never matched by name prefix, and the older umbrella code they were split out of is asserted to still be **alive** — treating the whole code as retired would make a family of real refusals vanish silently **0.68.3 (core 7.18.0):** two more keys ride the same projection duty as `parks` itself: `originUnconfirmed: true` on a row (never `false`; absence is the confirmed state) and `resumeAdmissionIncomplete: true` on the run (presence means "not a resume base"). Dropping either would turn a refused record back into an admissible one, so the guard pins both, including that neither folds into the other **0.69.1 (CC-12):** both keys now also ride the projected `WorkflowRunState`, so a host that only sees the projection can render them |
 | `scripts/run-retired-vocabulary-census-test.mjs` | Whether a retirement really happened. When upstream removes a family, a downstream package can cut it out or keep a courteous alias — and the alias is the worse outcome: three clients keep writing branches for something nobody emits, and a status line advertises a state it can never reach. Choosing the clean cut only means something if a guard holds it, since a comment saying *retired* is not an exit code. Each registered entry is held two ways: the name must be gone from **code positions** in this package (comments stripped first, because the explanation is supposed to stay) and off the published surface, and — the half that keeps this from being self-congratulation — it must really be gone **upstream**, since that is the entire reason it was removed here; if it comes back, the disposition deserves reconsideration rather than silence. The scanner proves it can speak by finding a symbol that is genuinely present before any absence is believed, and distinguishes a mention inside a comment from one in a string literal, which is exactly the form being cleared. A closing check runs the other way: the retirement **story** must remain in the comments, including a promise this package made earlier and has now had to withdraw — deleting the history alongside the code is a bad way to satisfy *zero hits*, and leaves the next reader with code that has no reason |
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 | `scripts/run-memory-verbs-wire-test.mjs` | The five memory-governance verbs as call ports — entry provenance, compliance erasure, the external-origin listing, the clearance ledger and the un-mark valve — on top of the readers above. One failure judge serves all five, and its first question is **provenance, not status**: the engine stamps a machine code on every refusal it mints, so a 501, 405, 409, 404 or 400 that carries **no code** proves nothing about who answered — a proxy or gateway returning the same status may well have passed the request on first — and every such answer is reported as "no verdict" rather than as "nothing happened". Twenty-one coded refusals each get their own arm, branched on the code alone: the status cannot tell them apart (nine different operator actions ride the same 409 here), and conjoining the status would silently demote a refusal the day the engine moved it. A coded 5xx, a coded answer with no status at all, and a coded 4xx this version does not recognise all land in the "cannot tell" arm, because on a non-idempotent verb the default for "could not classify" must be "do not know", never "did not happen". The judge is called from catch blocks, so each of its own property reads is guarded: an error object whose accessors throw is classified, not re-thrown. The capability gate runs before the call and reads the two bits the engine keeps deliberately separate (one for provenance and erasure, one for the origin faces); only an engine that positively says the face is off stops the request, while "this binary does not report that bit" and "this process never saw a capabilities body" both still send — folding "cannot say" into "is not there" is the dishonest-absence shape this package refuses, and these routes answer the capability gate before touching anything. A missing capability reading is a named, explainable error rather than a silent default that would answer for whichever engine happens to be installed. Each verb returns its own discriminated union whose success arm, refusal arm and cannot-tell arm share no keys, so a consumer cannot express "could not read it" as "it worked". The two write legs reuse the erasure and clearance receipt readers rather than minting a second copy, which keeps "this call erased nothing", "a 200 with an empty body" and "a body that could not be read" three separate things here too; the provenance account is narrowed only to its envelope and discriminants and otherwise passes through verbatim, and an account stamped with a newer envelope version is refused rather than reinterpreted. All three receipt-bearing verbs additionally reconcile identity — the account id, the attestation request id and the clearance receipt entry id must be the ones that were sent — because a readable receipt is not yet a receipt about this call. The origin listing carries the server's own echo of the scopes it actually audited, the type has no store-wide arm, and the coverage port takes a mandatory second argument and has no "clean" arm at all: the strongest thing it will say is which scopes were audited. Neither write leg is ever retried, including the refusal whose documented recovery is to send again, because that resend completes whichever clearance row is already open and the audit attribution on it is a person's signature. Request bodies are handed over verbatim — the degraded-erasure authorization is never injected — while the scope list is sent as the snapshot this port validated, so an array that reports one length while being read and another afterwards cannot make "the list I checked" and "the list I sent" two different things. |
 | `scripts/run-dist-orphan-test.mjs` | Every `.js` / `.d.ts` under `dist/` must have a same-named source under `src/`, and every source must have its build output — because the compiler only writes and never deletes, so a module removed from the sources keeps shipping from the previous build (the whole `dist/` directory is on the publish whitelist) while the public-surface gate only looks at what the barrel exports and the hygiene gate only looks at forbidden words. Orphans are named one by one; the pre-publish posture is a clean rebuild, and this gate is the check that the posture was actually followed. |
 | `scripts/run-dist-comments-test.mjs` | **dist ships zero comments.** Since 0.77.2 the build strips comments (`removeComments`); this gate walks every shipped `dist/**/*.js` / `*.d.ts` and counts comment trivia with the TypeScript scanner (string literals containing `//` and generator methods are not comments), failing on the first one (`DIST-COMMENT-FAIL`). Source comments are an internal surface; what still ships is code, string literals and type-level text, which the hygiene gate screens. Negative control: one plain comment appended to `dist/index.js` turns it red. |
-| `scripts/run-task-request-omission-receipt-test.mjs` | Where every key a client hands to the request constructor ends up. The constructor used to answer "not stamped" the same way for four different reasons — value absent, no such row, wrong lane, live gate closed — and a key it had never heard of did not even get that: an unattended run could pass a system prompt, an output schema and a spend cap and receive a body holding the objective and the session id, with nothing anywhere saying what was left out or why. The guard pins the three answers apart. **Seated** keys reach the body verbatim on the unattended lane. Keys the package **knows but did not carry** never throw, never reach the body, and each gets a receipt row with one word from a frozen cause list — every present key is on the body or on the receipt, never both and never neither, checked across both lanes with the live gate open and closed against a key-by-key table written independently of the package's own routing. Keys the package **does not know** are refused loudly and are a separate cell, not a fourth cause: the cause list has no word that could hold them, and the seat reader answers `unknown`, not `none`. The cause list is bitten from both sides (exact, every word producible, nothing produced outside it, the judge table's keys read from source through the TypeScript parser) and no second hand-copied list may exist in `src/`. Upstream claims are read straight off the installed SDK typings: a key seated in this release must be a named request field, a key registered as having no upstream counterpart must not be — the day it appears the guard turns red — and the index signature counts as evidence for nothing. The per-run file-history opt-out word is covered the same way: seated on the two user lanes behind the live gate and absent from the side-channel lane, stamped only for its one legal word, refused loudly for any other value, and read after every existing declaration so that it cannot erase them. The wording shown to end users is pinned alongside the wording for integrators: a second sentence table, keyed by the same frozen cause list and exhaustive over it at compile time (the check sits on the table literal itself), gives each cause one plain sentence that says the item was not sent and why (the integrator table now carries the same literal-level check — before, a missing sentence failed the build but an extra one did not), with no integrator vocabulary and no claim about whether anything took effect; every sentence differs from the others and from the integrator wording and passes the published-text hygiene list, and an unknown word, a non-string, a throwing object or a prototype-chain name gets one honest generic sentence instead of a throw, an echo or an invented cause. When a consuming client's own copy of the cause table is on disk, the guard also checks that every word in it is one of the package's causes, with no word listed twice (a word only the client's table has fails; a word only the package has is reported, not judged), and reports that check as skipped rather than passed when the table is not there. |
+| `scripts/run-task-request-omission-receipt-test.mjs` | Where every key a client hands to the request constructor ends up. The constructor used to answer "not stamped" the same way for four different reasons — value absent, no such row, wrong lane, live gate closed — and a key it had never heard of did not even get that: an unattended run could pass a system prompt, an output schema and a spend cap and receive a body holding the objective and the session id, with nothing anywhere saying what was left out or why. The guard pins the three answers apart. **Seated** keys reach the body verbatim on the unattended lane. Keys the package **knows but did not carry** never throw, never reach the body, and each gets a receipt row with one word from a frozen cause list — every present key is on the body or on the receipt, never both and never neither, checked across both lanes with the live gate open and closed against a key-by-key table written independently of the package's own routing. Keys the package **does not know** are refused loudly and are a separate cell, not a fourth cause: the cause list has no word that could hold them, and the seat reader answers `unknown`, not `none`. The cause list is bitten from both sides (exact, every word producible, nothing produced outside it, the judge table's keys read from source through the TypeScript parser) and no second hand-copied list may exist in `src/`. Upstream claims are read straight off the installed SDK typings: a key seated in this release must be a named request field, a key registered as having no upstream counterpart must not be — the day it appears the guard turns red — and the index signature counts as evidence for nothing. The per-run file-history opt-out word is covered the same way: seated on the two user lanes behind the live gate and absent from the side-channel lane, stamped only for its one legal word, refused loudly for any other value, and read after every existing declaration so that it cannot erase them. The wording shown to end users is pinned alongside the wording for integrators: a second sentence table, keyed by the same frozen cause list and exhaustive over it at compile time (the check sits on the table literal itself), gives each cause one plain sentence that says the item was not sent and why (the integrator table now carries the same literal-level check — before, a missing sentence failed the build but an extra one did not), with no integrator vocabulary and no claim about whether anything took effect; every sentence differs from the others and from the integrator wording and passes the published-text hygiene list, and an unknown word, a non-string, a throwing object or a prototype-chain name gets one honest generic sentence instead of a throw, an echo or an invented cause. When a consuming client's own copy of the cause table is on disk, the guard also checks that every word in it is one of the package's causes, with no word listed twice (a word only the client's table has fails; a word only the package has is reported, not judged), and reports that check as skipped rather than passed when the table is not there. A retired request key the engine now refuses by name is refused at construction on every lane, in every live state and through both doors, with a sentence of its own that names the key, says it never authorized anything and points to the permission mode for anyone who wants the engine to release asks; an undefined or null value is read as absence, the seat reader answers unknown, the wire-side judge names it, and a getter on it runs after every declaration so it cannot erase one. |
 | `scripts/run-session-policy-wire-test.mjs` | The per-session tool-rule face: the capability bit that says whether an engine keeps such rules at all, and the narrow read plus tightening orchestration built on it. The bit is read the same four-state way as its sibling capability readers — an absent key is not reported (this binary predates the position itself, which says nothing about whether the face exists), `true` is present, `false` is a positive absent (this deployment keeps no per-session rules), any non-boolean value is unreadable and drops the cell rather than being folded into "absent", and a capabilities body that is not an object at all (an array included) is unreadable rather than "not reported". Its single-source verdict answers whether to show the tightening entry: only an engine that says yes is `yes`, both a positive no and a binary too old to answer are `no`, and never having observed a capabilities body is `unknown`. Whether to put a request on the wire is deliberately a **different** question with a different answer for that last state, and lives with the orchestration. The read narrows three ways that must not collapse into each other: a record that really is empty (present, version zero — what an engine answers for a session no rules were ever written for), a record that cannot be read, and a call that failed with a typed disposition. A half-bad record — one rule bucket well-formed and another the wrong shape — counts as unreadable in full, because the write verb replaces the whole record: dropping the bad bucket and writing the rest back would empty it, which relaxes the rules while the caller sees a 200. An unreadable version stamp is never filled in with a zero, a bucket that reports an implausible number of entries is unreadable rather than walked or truncated, each array's length and each of its indices are read exactly once, and a throwing accessor is unreadable rather than propagated. Every load-bearing key is read as an own property — the envelope, the version stamp, each of the five buckets and each array index — because a prototype lookup would let a polluted prototype put a bucket into the reading that the wire never carried, and since the write replaces the whole record the union would then write that invented restriction back as a real one; a guard pollutes the object and array prototypes in place and proves all four shapes stay out. Because the write replaces the whole record, adding a restriction means writing "what is already there, plus the new entries": the union only ever adds, de-duplicates verbatim, keeps a bucket that is present but empty (present-and-empty and absent are opposite meanings, and dropping it would relax the rules), mints no bucket neither side had, copies entry bytes as they came (no trimming, sorting or path rewriting — those judgements belong to the engine), and takes its bucket names from the engine's own type surface rather than a hand-copied list, so a new bucket upstream is a compile error instead of a silently dropped one. Which differences count as relaxing is the engine's judgement and is never re-implemented here: a refusal on those grounds is reported verbatim, never swallowed and never retried. The orchestration is guarded on three axes. Timing: when the record moves between the read and the write, it re-reads and re-writes **exactly once** — two reads and two writes, no more — and the second attempt's union carries the other writer's entries, which is the entire point of re-reading; a second collision is reported rather than retried a third time, and an uncontended write makes exactly one round trip. Concurrency: an explicit barrier holds both orchestrations first reads at the same version before either may write, and the criterion is how many times the store actually rejected a stale version rather than how many writes it saw — the latter is equally true of two serial successes, so it would stop detecting contention the day the interleaving changed. Under real contention the store rejects exactly once, both writers land on strictly different versions, both writers entries survive in the final record, and the round trips are exactly three reads and three writes; the same two orchestrations run serially are asserted to reject zero times in two reads and two writes, which is what proves those numbers are discriminating. On a store where every write loses the race both report a collision having written exactly twice each. Failure classification: a relaxation refusal, a refusal to stamp a version the store cannot establish (the same status code as the relaxation refusal but a different machine code, and folding it into that arm would send the caller off to edit entries that are not the problem), a missing session, a deployment without the face, an ownerless session, a collision code, a bare conflict with no machine code, a rejected body and an unauthorized call each land on their own arm — the collision arm is matched on the machine code verbatim rather than on the status, because two different situations share that status and only one of them is worth retrying. The remaining split is not "which code is this" but "did the engine answer at all": an answered client-side refusal is allowed to say nothing was written, because every such refusal on this endpoint is emitted before the record is touched, while a throw with no answer at all — a dropped connection, a timeout, a response body the transport itself could not decode, a server fault — can only say "unknown", since that throw may well have happened after the record was already saved. Two guards prove that is not theoretical: a write whose receipt cannot be read, and a write that throws after the fixture store has committed, both leave the record changed. Neither is success nor failure: the only honest answer is "unknown", it carries no version, and it is never retried. The direction of the change is likewise never claimed. The engine’s tighten-only rule is an identity gate, not a field gate — for a principal the deployment treats as an operator it does not run at all, so a union that adds a name to an existing allowlist is accepted and really does widen it. This package does not mint a second copy of that rule, so what it reports is the fact it can stand behind: the record now holds what it already had plus the entries sent here. The sentence for a saved write is pinned to contain no claim of tightening, narrowing or restriction, and a guard reproduces the operator case to prove the widening is real while the wording stays honest. Every sentence the module mints is checked pairwise distinct, with the receipt-unreadable one required to keep its "may already be in effect" and the record-unreadable one required to say nothing was written. |
 | `scripts/run-persisted-rule-write-test.mjs` | The **single-step tightening write** for persisted permission rules — the dual of the revoke surface, and the half where a hopeful reading is expensive. The two behaviours this entry accepts are **derived** from the three-state vocabulary by subtracting the widening one, never hand-copied: the guard bites in both directions (every word in the derived table is really accepted; every constructed outsider — casing variants, trailing whitespace, the widening word itself — is refused before a single round trip), keeps a word-count canary against the parent table, and pins that the source file contains **exactly one** array literal carrying two or more behaviour words, so a second hand-written table shows up as a boundary failure rather than as drift nobody reads. A standing approval is minted by answering a permission question or by importing settings; this entry is not a third route, and the widening word is unspellable in the type. The outcome is a discriminated union whose two failure arms are **not** interchangeable: ten refusal causes each promise the same single thing — not one byte reached the store — while three separate words say the opposite, that the outcome could not be read at all. The service's own "I cannot tell" (a write that could not be confirmed as standing: store wobble, a redemption leg with no decidable ending, or a write that landed and was revoked concurrently before the read-back) stays in the second group, because announcing "nothing was written" invites a clean retry that is not clean, and announcing success misreports a tightening that may already be gone. Anything the shared failure classifier does not recognise defaults to the same place — this is a non-idempotent verb, so "unclassified" must mean "unknown", never "no write": a 500 can happen after the store commits. A 2xx whose body cannot be read is pinned in the same direction and from both sides: it reads as unknown, and the unknown arm carries **neither** the revision nor the written row, so a consumer cannot even spell the shape that would let "unreadable" pass for "written". `persisted` is guarded against the reading everyone reaches for first: it says *this call wrote*, not *a new rule now exists* — an equivalent rule already in the store still mints a fresh causal point, so the lane honestly reports `persisted`, and the material for judging whether the **logical** rule is new (the approval ledger on the returned row) is handed to the caller rather than folded into the discriminant, since the package does not have the one fact that judgement needs. The returned row goes through the **same single narrower** the listing surface uses — proven by running one row corpus through both legs and asserting the two verdicts agree entry for entry (an adversarial pass that forks the listing leg back into an inline copy reds here immediately), plus a source pin that the predicate is defined once and called from exactly the two legs. That sharing is what keeps a row whose behaviour cell is unreadable **visible in both places** rather than hidden by one of them — and the shared narrower is deliberately followed by a second, *different* question only the write leg can ask: is the row that came back **the rule that was just sent**? A rule's identity is a triple, so a receipt missing its behaviour cell, carrying the sibling state, carrying the widening one, or naming another text or another scope is not evidence that the requested tightening is standing; it reads as unknown with its own word, kept distinct from "unreadable" so the two stay tellable apart, while display and derived cells may vary freely. An adversarial pass found both of the gaps this pins: the receipt check that only looked at whether the row was renderable, and a subtler one — pulling the verb off the injected port and calling it bare drops the receiver, so a host that hands over a real resource object (a class instance whose verbs reach the transport through `this`) would see every write throw and be reported as "could not tell", retry after retry, while the package's three other ports call their verbs as methods and work fine. Both are pinned from the failing side: a shorthand-method facade and a class-instance facade must reach the transport and return a real outcome, with the bare-call throw proven to be a real failure mode first. A 405 is split in two, because only the engine's own bare code is evidence about **the engine**: with it, the path exists and this verb does not, so this worker predates the verb; without it — an absent, empty, or foreign code, which is what a proxy or gateway blocking the method typically returns as HTML or an empty body — what was seen is that the verb was refused, while **who** refused it and **at which hop** is unknown, so it lands in the unreadable-outcome arm with its own word rather than sending someone to upgrade a worker that is fine, hiding an entry that is live, or — the part a second adversarial pass insisted on — promising that nothing was written. That promise is what the refusal group means, and a middlebox is free to forward the request and only then answer 405 on its own policy, so a caller who skipped reconciliation on that word would leave behind a standing refusal the user believes never took effect; the guard pins exactly that shape, with a double that writes the rule and *then* answers 405, and with the engine's own bare code still landing in the refusal group beside it. (The same passes caught the naive status-only reading and the asymmetry where an empty-string code fell through to a different bucket.) The documented recovery for an unreadable outcome — retry, then reconcile — is pinned to be **ledger-safe** rather than merely asserted: against a double that models the engine's own "is this identity already standing?" question, re-sending the same identity comes back as a no-op with the approval ledger and the bucket revision both unmoved, however many times it is repeated, while two concurrent writers each landing a causal point are both honestly reported as having written. Finally the four local gates are pinned to be free: a missing write verb on the injected port, an unwritable direction, an unreadable identity pair, and a principal key that is present but cannot name anyone all refuse **without sending anything** — the last of those because silently degrading a blank target into absence would land a tightening aimed at someone else in the caller's own bucket and return a 200 |
 | `scripts/run-registrar-tables-test.mjs` | The four registrar table bodies — this Guards table and the three census tables in the repository's negative-control record — are **generated** from `scripts/gates-manifest.json`, the one file that describes a suite. Every row's text must equal what the generator emits, the manifest's suite set must equal the suites on disk, each entry must declare how it is negative-controlled (rehearsed, blind, or behavioural, with the census taker itself declared as such since it does not appear in its own tables), and each row's outward prose is scanned against the published-surface word list — the same list the packaging-hygiene guard uses, shared rather than copied — before the generator may write it into this file. Adding a guard is therefore one manifest entry plus one generator run instead of six hand edits across three files, and a description that drifts in one place and not the others stops being expressible. The row count is no longer what is compared: the earlier arrangement checked the census tables by **length**, so rows naming the wrong suites reconciled green. Positive controls run entirely on in-memory copies — a changed description, a dropped entry, an added entry, a changed class and a hand-edited row on disk each have to make the same judgement speak — and the quieter halves are pinned too: nothing outside a table body may move, a line inside one that is not a recognisable row makes the generator refuse rather than drop it, byte equality is backed by a column-count check (a cell holding a bare pipe splits a row into extra columns, and a code span does not protect it), and the malformed rows kept byte-for-byte as they are found are registered individually, so the registration turns red the day it stops being needed rather than outliving its reason — audited in both directions, since a registration pointing at a row that is no longer malformed and one pointing at a guard that was reclassified or deleted are both exemptions nobody reads |
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 | `scripts/run-websearch-verdict-test.mjs` | The per-request web-search configuration a host puts on the wire. Newer servers refuse the whole request when that section is malformed — and a missing or misspelled search provider now counts as malformed, because the section names where the searches go and an unknown destination is refused rather than silently swapped for the deployment's own backend. The old readers in this package dropped such a section without a word, which let the server swap destinations after all. The guard pins the new three-way verdict (absent, honoured, malformed with the field that is wrong) against the server's own judge, vector by vector, whenever that judge is available next to this package; it pins that a half-configured environment is malformed rather than ignored, that a malformed environment never falls back to the settings file (that would change the destination too), and that neither the sentence shown to the user nor the recorded reason repeats an endpoint, a key, or a search-parameter name or value — an unrecognised provider is never echoed either (the sentence lists the valid words instead), so a URL or key pasted into the wrong field does not come back out, even when it happens to be all letters. A host's key store is plugged in through a callback the package calls only after the provider has been recognised, so the precedence between environment and settings stays inside the package. Since 0.83.0 an endpoint that carries a user name or password is malformed as well (the server judges the same way from 7.101.0), the reason sentences match the server's own word for word, and the three older readers that dropped a misspelled provider are gone. |
 | `scripts/run-hooks-merged-disable-projection-test.mjs` | The fourth governance leg of the hooks projection: `disableAllHooks` set in a non-managed settings source. The value that counts is the **merged** one, read from the host through the optional `SettingsPort.mergedDisableAllHooks()`, because a per-source approximation ("any source says true") reads user `true` with local `false` backwards — the merged value there is `false` and every source's hooks ship. When the merged value is `true`, only managed-settings hooks are sent to the engine: non-managed settings can switch off their own hooks, never the managed ones, and a managed `disableAllHooks` is still judged first and sends nothing at all. A full matrix over the four sources, each true, false or absent, is merged with the reference rule (later sources override earlier ones, managed settings last) and every cell's projection is asserted. The reader is the only authority: per-source values never second-guess it, and only a strict `true` counts. A host that does not implement it keeps the previous behaviour and gets exactly one warning per installed settings port, never one per request, and none on paths where the reader would not have been consulted; a reader that throws is treated as `true`, so managed hooks still ship. The session goal's Stop hook and the final-verification yield rule, which reads the projected hooks, follow the same verdict, and the trust gate and the three managed gates are evaluated before the reader is ever called. The last leg pins the member's declared shape in the built declarations: optional, no parameters, returning a boolean or `undefined`. The flag settings source (a settings file or inline settings given at startup) is projected after the local source, and settings hooks stay concatenated managed first (managed → user → project → local → flag): the engine runs hooks in request order, and three of its budgets go to whoever comes first — the per-event wall-clock budget, the per-event cap on model-backed entries, and the total cap on added context — so a managed hook placed after the others could be crowded out and silently not run. The flag source moves with user, project and local under every managed or merged gate; its exec-form entries are dropped and warned about like any other settings source, and the not-run notice names it `Flag settings`. An optional leg feeds the request body to an installed server's hook runner and requires the managed deny, block and context to take effect while non-managed hooks exhaust each of those budgets, and pins the known cost of that order: a non-managed `PreToolUse` hook placed after the managed one can still rewrite the input after the managed check allowed it. Without an installed server the leg reports that it did not run. Safe and bare mode: the host reports its startup mode through the optional `SettingsPort.hooksStartupMode()`, which both the plain and the plan path read and which answers `'safe'` or `'bare'`; the flag already carried by the plugin hooks reading, which only the plan path reads and which cannot tell the two modes apart, counts as safe mode unless the reader named a mode. In either mode only managed-settings hooks are sent from the settings sources: bare mode is handled like safe mode, so managed hooks are still sent, also under the managed-only gates. In both modes plugin hooks are excluded as before and the session goal's Stop hook is still sent. Only the two exact words count; a host that does not implement the reader, returns `undefined`, returns any other value or throws keeps the previous request byte for byte, checked for every such reply, both flag states, both paths and with or without a session goal; any other value and a throw each leave one debug line, and so does a reader written as a property instead of a method, which narrows nothing. The reader is called at most once per request and not at all when hooks are already switched off entirely. The optional server leg requires the left-out sources' hooks not to run while the managed ones still run and still deny, in either mode. A hook written in more than one settings place is sent once: entries on the same event, in groups that are identical apart from their hooks (same matcher), with the same identity — command, shell, arguments and condition for command hooks; type, prompt and condition for prompt and agent hooks; URL for HTTP hooks; server, tool and input for MCP tool hooks — are sent once, at the position of their first occurrence in the concatenation order and with the fields of the copy from the highest-precedence source (managed, then flag, local, project, user; within one source the later copy), so a managed copy keeps both its place and its values and a user copy duplicated in flag settings keeps its place but uses the flag copy's timeout; the other entries keep their order, groups without duplicates are sent as they were, and a group left empty is not sent. Different matchers, events, a one-byte command difference, a different condition, an absent versus explicit shell, different types or extra group keys are not merged; malformed entries and entries whose identity cannot be computed are left alone; plugin groups and the session goal hook do not take part, and hooks removed by safe or bare mode never come back. The optional server leg requires such a duplicate to run once with its added context appearing once, and a user copy with a one-second timeout duplicated by a flag copy with a ten-second timeout to run to completion on a two-second command. |
 | `scripts/run-memory-saved-projection-test.mjs` | Engine memory writes (a successful `Remember` tool call) moved off the transcript onto the additive `memory_saved` chrome event, driven through the real pipeline: zero transcript rows for the write (the transcript is byte-identical to the same frames with the write reported as not successful), exactly one event whose `notes` carry the note text verbatim (notes, not file paths) and whose key set is exactly kind / laneProof / id / notes; no event for a missing, empty or non-string note, a non-`true` `ok`, a tool error, a missing result or another tool name; two writes give two events in order with distinct ids; a sub-agent write rides the sub-agent lane and an empty parent id emits nothing rather than falling back to the main lane; the `id` is derived from the write's wire key (the tool-end event id, else the tool-start event id, else the call id; empty ids count as absent), so projecting the same wire events twice gives the same id, and it never collides with the tool result row of the same or another call; the event sits right after the tool result row; the arm is registered as required. |
-| `scripts/run-result-frame-projection-test.mjs` | Result frames and the synthesized terminal rows. The CC key `terminal_reason` is minted on result frames only where it follows from what the engine reported: `completed` on success, `max_turns`, `budget_exhausted` and `structured_output_retry_exhausted` for the three matching engine codes, on both the done-frame path and the failed-event path. Every other outcome leaves the key absent as an own property rather than present with an undefined value: wall-clock and token-budget limits, the classifier denial limit, cancellation, unknown codes, blocked, paused, unreadable or missing terminal records, and the busy-session refusal. The public reader `terminalReasonForResult` shares the minting predicate and is checked to agree with the minted key on every frame the gate produces. Both the minted key and the reader derive the word from the frame's CC subtype (success with `is_error` strictly false, and the three limit subtypes), not from the error code, so a replayed row whose status is paused, blocked or unrecognised never carries a word that contradicts its subtype. The four words are checked against the mirrored CC union, and the minting file is checked to hold no hand-copied code literals. The renamed superset keys (`_sema_error_code`, `_sema_salvaged_result`, `_sema_model_degraded`, `_sema_selected_model`, and the row flag `_sema_api_error_message`) are driven through the real stream pipeline. Each must be present under its new name, the old name must be absent, and every frame the gate saw is swept for old names. The selected model appears on error envelopes whenever the terminal record carries it, and never on a failed event, which has no record. It stays separate from the provider-reported model name. The two in-package readers still work: the interactive result arm reads the salvaged text under its new name (and old-shape frames under the old one), and the print init gate treats the renamed flag as the run having ended. |
+| `scripts/run-result-frame-projection-test.mjs` | Result frames and the synthesized terminal rows. The CC key `terminal_reason` is minted on result frames only where it follows from what the engine reported: `completed` on success, `max_turns`, `budget_exhausted` and `structured_output_retry_exhausted` for the three matching engine codes, on both the done-frame path and the failed-event path. Every other outcome leaves the key absent as an own property rather than present with an undefined value: wall-clock and token-budget limits, the classifier denial limit, cancellation, unknown codes, blocked, paused, unreadable or missing terminal records, and the busy-session refusal. The public reader `terminalReasonForResult` shares the minting predicate and is checked to agree with the minted key on every frame the gate produces. Both the minted key and the reader derive the word from the frame's CC subtype (success with `is_error` strictly false, and the three limit subtypes), not from the error code, so a replayed row whose status is paused, blocked or unrecognised never carries a word that contradicts its subtype. The four words are checked against the mirrored CC union, and the minting file is checked to hold no hand-copied code literals. The renamed superset keys (`_sema_error_code`, `_sema_salvaged_result`, `_sema_model_degraded`, `_sema_selected_model`, and the row flag `_sema_api_error_message`) are driven through the real stream pipeline. Each must be present under its new name, the old name must be absent, and every frame the gate saw is swept for old names. The selected model appears on error envelopes whenever the terminal record carries it, and never on a failed event, which has no record. It stays separate from the provider-reported model name. The two in-package readers still work: the interactive result arm reads the salvaged text under its new name, and the print init gate treats the renamed flag as the run having ended. Since 0.86.0 the result arm no longer reads `result` on an error envelope, meaning a frame whose subtype is a string starting with `error_`, including error subtypes it does not recognise yet; a compile-time check pins that every CC error subtype carries that prefix. Such an envelope that carries the salvaged text only under the old `result` key yields no answer row, no appended suffix and no divergence event; when both names are present, or the new one is present but not a string, the old one is never read. Everything else reads `result` exactly as before, in all three producing cases (whole answer, missing suffix, divergence): success frames, a success frame flagged `is_error: true` (checked equal to the same frame with `is_error: false`), and frames whose subtype is a string without that prefix (empty, unrecognised, `Success`, a bare `error`), absent, or not a string (each checked equal to the same frame with subtype `success`). |
 | `scripts/run-layering-shadow-export-test.mjs` | Same-name shadows across the first-party clients that consume this package (terminal, desktop, web and the admin console). Each client's product sources are read at the local clone's `origin/main` (or its HEAD when there is no such ref), without fetching, and parsed with the TypeScript parser; every top-level runtime export the client declares itself is compared with this package's public runtime exports. The guard prints which ref, commit and commit date it read for each client, and warns (without failing) when that commit is more than seven days old, because the result then only describes that older snapshot. A client-side declaration carrying the name of a package export means a piece of shared logic now lives in two places and can drift apart. It fails the guard unless it is listed in `scripts/layering-shadow-exemptions.json`, and a listed row must carry a retire-by version no more than three minor lines ahead (it fails once the package reaches it). It also fails once the client has removed the shadow and the row still stands. Every row also names what kind of duplicate it is, and carries the evidence that kind requires. A client copy that is this package's own function object behind a type assertion, or a thin wrapper that only passes the client's own dependencies into this package's function, must be proven so on every run by reading the client's syntax tree; such rows are due for review within two minor versions, and the guard fails as soon as the proof no longer holds. A wrapper whose extra logic the client has confirmed to be host-specific carries that confirmation (the client's own wording and where it was stated) together with a pinned review record that is due within two minor versions. A wrapper that adds its own decisions, or a same-name function that does something else, carries a review record pinned to a hash of the normalized client declaration (comments and formatting do not count); once the client's copy changes, the guard fails until it is reviewed again. A second implementation of the same logic carries a semantic diff: the client's copy is taken from the commit being read, the named declarations and the client modules they import are extracted with the TypeScript parser, transpiled and run in memory against this package's build on the same inputs, and any disagreement outside the classes registered on that row fails the guard (each class is a fixed predicate over both answers). A row can follow a client-side rename to a new name, and can be registered ahead of a client change for a limited number of versions before the client code exists. Re-exports of this package's own exports are the intended form and never count. A client tree that is not present is reported as a skipped section, not as a pass. The ruler proves itself on an in-memory fake client (planted shadows must be caught, legal forms must not), on a throwaway repository (a missing `origin/main` falls back to HEAD, a broken one is a fault rather than a silent fallback), and refuses to report zero on a client whose scan surface is empty. |
 | `scripts/run-session-policy-deliverable-test.mjs` | Which of a batch of user-written permission rules can be written into a session’s own rule record without changing their meaning, and why each of the others cannot. The record holds whole tool names and command names only, so exactly one class maps across losslessly: a deny rule that names one tool with no qualifier. Everything else is withheld with one word from a closed seven-word list — an ask rule (the record has no ask tier), a deny rule with a parenthesised qualifier (recording just the name could block more), a rule that names a server or agent peer without naming one of its tools (for every protocol namespace the engine knows, checked against the engine package's own table) or contains a wildcard (*) anywhere (an engine that compares exact names would block nothing), an entry that is not a tool name, and a name the engine refuses at the start of every run — a retired tool name, or one containing "__" without a protocol prefix, where the prefix check is case-sensitive (once such a name is in the record, every later run of the session fails at startup until that entry is removed; the retired-name list is checked entry by entry against the engine package's own list, and a withheld retired name carries its current name when the engine says it was renamed), and — only when the caller passes the tool roster of a run — a name that roster does not list as a tool name or alias, compared exactly with letter case counted (recorded as it is it would block nothing on that deployment) — and each word has one sentence, which never echoes the rule itself; asking for the sentence never throws, even with a value that throws when turned into a string. A name with leading or trailing whitespace counts as not a tool name: the record compares exact bytes, so it would block nothing. The guard pins the batch semantics: the deliverable part is either the whole batch or empty, never a subset, so a caller cannot send half a change and report it as saved. An end-to-end check runs the engine package itself: every batch this function would deliver — the recorded vectors and a fixed-seed sample of generated names — is written into an in-memory session rule store and the next run must get past its start-up checks and reach the model, while every name withheld as refused — every retired name included — must indeed make that run fail at start-up, and every string literal in the judgement source that it withholds as refused must be one the engine package's own tables refuse. It also checks that malformed input never throws and never delivers anything (non-arrays, non-string entries, holes, a polluted array prototype, a length or index that throws, a changing index read once), that a batch which cannot be read at all is marked `unreadable: true` while an empty batch is not, so the two stay tellable apart, that each word is produced by some vector and nothing outside the list is produced, and — when a checkout of the previous in-client implementation is present — that this function gives the same answer on every recorded vector and on tens of thousands of generated rules and pairs, except for four deliberately stricter classes (whitespace-padded names; rules with a wildcard anywhere, which the previous implementation sent as exact names unless the wildcard was the whole tool part of a server rule; peer-wide rules outside the MCP namespace, which it did not recognise; and names the engine refuses at start-up, which it sent as ordinary names), whose disagreements are counted per class and must match an independent count exactly. The optional roster only ever withholds more: with no roster, or an absent or null one, every answer is byte-identical to the previous release, checked against that release's published file over tens of thousands of inputs; a name withheld without a roster stays withheld with the same word, and the same current name, when the roster lists it as a name or an alias; a name delivered without a roster is withheld as not in the roster exactly when the roster lacks it; the engine's own namespace-covering forms keep their word; and a roster or options value that cannot be read marks the whole batch unreadable instead of falling back to no roster, while a readable empty roster is a roster. An end-to-end check takes the roster from a real run of the engine package that mounts a tool with an alias: every name delivered with that roster passes the engine's start-up name audit without being reported, and every name withheld as not in the roster is one that audit reports as matching no mounted tool. When the previous in-client implementation carries its own roster check, the two are compared under a given roster and may differ only for an alias (delivered here, withheld there) and for a refused name that the roster lists (withheld here, delivered there). |
 | `scripts/run-plugin-hooks-projection-test.mjs` | Plugin hooks: each command hook an enabled plugin declares is decided one by one as running in the engine, running in this client, or not running at all, and the page of hooks sent with a request is built from the same per-turn plan the client uses to skip its own copies, so one hook never runs in two places. Governance is judged first and always wins — a managed hooks switch-off, an untrusted workspace, safe or bare mode, or a governance read that fails sends no plugin hook and does not list it as a gap; managed-hooks-only (set directly, or through a merged non-managed hooks switch-off) keeps only managed plugins; the plugin-only customization lock does not touch plugin hooks. A hook reaches the engine only when this client started the engine on this machine, the engine reports plugin-hook support, the entry is a command, the plugin declares no sensitive option, and the event still fits the engine's per-event limits; the gate walks that matrix cell by cell, including the limit boundaries and a session goal hook counting toward them. A fact that was never read is reported as not known rather than as a fact: a host that does not say where the engine runs gets a "not known whether this client started the engine" reason, an engine whose capabilities have not been read yet gets a "not known yet whether it supports plugin hooks" reason, and the plan's two engine facts are null in those cases, not false. Events the engine never fires run only if the client says it fires them itself, and hooks the upstream behaviour itself refuses (option references in a shell-form command, an unset option in exec form, malformed entries) run nowhere. Exec-form arguments are passed element by element with only saved non-sensitive option references filled in; path placeholders are left for the executor. Sensitive option values never reach the request: with a host that wrongly supplies one, every string in the plan, the request body, the notice, the labels and the log is searched for it across eight cells. A host without the plugin reader keeps the previous request body and gets exactly one warning per settings port; plugin data that throws while it is being read (a throwing getter, a revoked proxy) is treated like a failing reader — no plugin hooks this turn, settings hooks still sent, nothing thrown; the not-running notice names the plugin and events, never a command or an option value, and escapes control characters in names. Command hooks from settings that carry arguments (a non-empty `args` array, which is the exec form, or any other non-null value) are removed from the request until the engine reports support for arguments, because the engine would otherwise drop the arguments and run the bare command through a shell; an empty `args` array is not treated as carrying arguments when the command is made only of letters, digits and `_ . / : + -` (the shell runs the same executable), so such a guard still reaches the engine, while an empty array on a command with spaces or shell characters is removed; `args` on a prompt or http entry, a null `args`, or an entry with no type is left alone, and those go out unchanged. MCP tool hooks, which the engine cannot parse, are removed only from a request built from a plan, whose not-running notice the host shows; a request built without a plan still carries them on engine-fired events, so the engine rejects the whole request loudly instead of a guard hook silently not running — the gate checks both request bodies against the engine's own hooks schema. Without a plan, every removed hook of that kind on an engine-fired event produces one warning per settings port, event and reason. Malformed entries still pass through for the engine to reject loudly, and passing null where the options object goes behaves like passing nothing; a `plan` option that is not a plan is ignored rather than turning the whole page into nothing, and a plan passed directly in place of the options object is recognised and used. A `plugin` key written by hand on a settings hook is stripped before sending (even when its value is undefined), because only hooks that come from the plugin reader may carry plugin context; the settings document itself is left untouched and a debug line records the count. The two hand-copied tables, the engine-fired event list and the engine limits, are checked against their owners. |
@@ -439,14 +439,23 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 | `scripts/run-plan-review-injected-wire-test.mjs` | The plan-review orchestration accepts a host-supplied engine client, so a browser host behind a same-origin relay — which cannot install a token-bearing engine target — runs the package's own decision path instead of rebuilding it. With a client injected, the decision, its in-flight latch, the resend-once-without-the-key handling of a `request.field_conflict` refusal, the post-decide status re-pull, the six-state effect classification and the outcome text are byte-for-byte what the installed-target path produces, proven against a real relay-form SDK client and a fake engine while the installed target points at a different fake engine that must receive nothing. The engine-version evidence behind the three-choice card is read only under the cache key the host names, never from the installed target; every request of the relay-form client leaves without an `authorization` header, checked beside a token-bearing client on the same spy so the absence is not the spy's blindness; and a planted token never reaches a log line, an outcome sentence, a queue item or the host callback on any of the failure paths. A decision may carry a `reason` (trimmed, dropped when blank, capped at the server's limit), an `onOutcome` callback hands the outcome back to hosts that have no model-prompt queue (called once per admitted decision, never for a latched duplicate, and its own failure never affects delivery), a reopen with an injected client no longer needs a host delivery function on a non-default session, and the two capability probes take the same injected client with a bounded wait. A decision that the injected client's own time limit cuts off is reported as sent without an answer within the time limit (it may have taken effect), in the same sentence the installed-target path uses when its limit is reached, while a connection that cannot be made is still reported as unreachable and one that drops after the decision went out is reported as possibly applied (the same no-answer judgement the background-agent verbs use); a client built with the documented decision budget answers a slow approval exactly as the installed target does, and a client whose namespaces are callable functions is accepted as before. The package's own reads through an injected client — the two probes and the post-decide re-pull — settle at their deadlines even while the client sleeps through a retry back-off, and abort the request underneath; a malformed injected connection is reported as not sent, never thrown. |
 | `scripts/run-session-policy-refused-removal-test.mjs` | The way out for a session that already carries a tool name the engine refuses. The engine refuses to start a run when any rule applied to it names a retired tool, or a name containing "__" without a protocol prefix, so a session whose own rule record holds such a name fails at startup on every run. The guard pins three pieces. First, the refusal test itself: it is compared name by name, in both directions, with an independent reading of the installed engine's own tables (retired names and protocol prefixes) over a corpus that includes padded, wildcard and parenthesised forms, and it is shown to be wider than the verdict used before a write — a padded or wildcard form is withheld there for another reason yet still refuses the run, so a removal driven by that verdict would leave the session broken. Every corpus name is then written alone into the deny list and into the allow list of a real engine run: the test says "refused" exactly when the run fails at startup with the refusal code and the model is never called, while the same shapes in the command lists are not audited at all. Second, the removal verb: it takes only the refused entries out of those two lists and leaves every other entry, list and ordering byte-for-byte, keeping an emptied allow list as a present empty list; after it runs, the same session's next real engine run gets past startup, for every refused name in the corpus and in both lists. Against the installed engine as an ordinary caller, taking a deny entry out is refused as a loosening — reported as such, written exactly once, the record unchanged and the next run still refused, never a false success — while an allow-list-only removal, which narrows, succeeds; against a model of the newer contract the engine has announced, the removal succeeds, and the same model still refuses a removal of anything else. A concurrent writer causes exactly one re-read, judged again on the other writer's record, and a second collision is reported rather than retried; read failures, coded write refusals and unconfirmed writes (no verdict, a receipt that cannot be read, or a receipt that does not account for the removal, including one that still holds a removed entry) each land in their own arm, and running the verb again after an unconfirmed write reports nothing left to remove. Third, the wording: one sentence per outcome; the loosening refusal names operators and says the record is unchanged, the unconfirmed one says the change may already be in effect, and none carries a rule string or engine text. The startup-failure sentence answers to that one code only, lists every place the entry can be set without naming who may remove it, and a real run with the name in the caller's own policy rather than in the session record yields the same code — which is why the sentence may not claim the entry is in the session record. The verb also requires the tool roster reported by a run on the deployment: a name listed there, as a tool name or an alias and compared exactly as the engine compares it, is left in place even when it is a retired name, because the engine accepts that rule — with a real engine run that mounts a deployment tool under a retired name (or with that name as an alias), the removal keeps the deny rule and the next run still starts. Without a roster, or with one that cannot be read, nothing is read or written and the outcome says why; a readable empty roster is still a roster. The removal sentence speaks separately about names taken out of the deny list and out of the allow list. |
 | `scripts/run-fixture-flat-done-ratchet-test.mjs` | Test fixtures that feed the engine's terminal `done` frame are kept in the shape the live engine actually sends. Since the terminal record became a tagged cause (`result.terminal`), the older flat shape (`result.status` plus loose keys) reaches a client only in two ways: a stored row replayed verbatim from before the upgrade, and the server's own refusal envelope — so a fixture written in the flat shape tests the replay path while claiming to test the live one. The suite finds every `{ type: 'done', result }` literal under `scripts/`, follows `result` to the object literal it really comes from (in place, through a variable, through a helper's parameter at each of its call sites, through a spread, or through the rows of an iterated array) and counts the flat ones that carry no one-line note saying they model a replayed row or a refusal envelope. That count may only go down: it is a ceiling kept in the ratchet registry, and a count under the ceiling prints a step-down line instead of passing in silence. A planted corpus with a known number of flat, noted and cause-shaped frames in each of those forms must be counted exactly, and a note that sits inside a string or gives no reason does not count |
-| `scripts/run-authority-envelope-mirror-test.mjs` | The authority-envelope tags that a peer's message body is defused against before it is written into a transcript line. Tags the engine uses to speak with its own authority (reminders, completion notices and the like) must never survive inside a body a peer wrote, or a forged completion notice could be read back on resume as a real one and poison the dedup ledger. The package keeps its own copy of the engine's list, so the copy is reconciled against the installed engine package in both directions: a tag the engine treats as authority and the package lacks is red, and so is a tag the package defuses that the engine does not, since that rewrites ordinary text in a peer's message. The engine does not export this list from its package entry yet, so the check reads it from the engine's own module by path and says so; it also confirms the list is still derived from the engine's envelope registry. At the rendered output, every engine authority tag placed in a body (opening, closing, with attributes, upper case) comes out defused on all three peer lanes, and the engine's non-authority envelope tags come out untouched |
-| `scripts/run-upstream-tables-test.mjs` | Engine facts the package may not import at run time (the notice code register and its audience table, the reasons an injected MCP server is dropped, the protocol namespace prefixes and the retired tool names with their current names) are generated at build time from the installed engine package's own public entry point into plain literal modules, which are committed. The generated files must be byte-identical to what the installed engine produces today, no other file may sit beside them, each names the generator and the engine version it came from, none imports anything, and the package's public names are the generated objects themselves. The generator refuses rather than guesses: a table that is missing or empty, a notice code without an audience row (or the reverse), a third audience value, or a retirement note in a shape it does not know all stop generation instead of producing an empty or partial table, and it reads only the engine package installed in this package's own dependency folder. Two word lists the SDK already exports as values (who asked a question, and which word a mandated approval stands on) are now the SDK's own arrays rather than copies; because those arrays are not frozen, the package's own decisions are shown not to change when they are modified in place. Inside the package, the thinking-level and permission-mode vocabularies, the tier words, the rejection sentence and the cancelled code each exist exactly once in the source; until the next engine or SDK upgrade, the values of every table touched are also checked element by element, in order, against the previous release |
+| `scripts/run-authority-envelope-mirror-test.mjs` | The authority-envelope tags that a peer's message body is defused against before it is written into a transcript line. Tags the engine uses to speak with its own authority (reminders, completion notices and the like) must never survive inside a body a peer wrote, or a forged completion notice could be read back on resume as a real one and poison the dedup ledger. The package's list is generated at build time from the engine package's public entry point, and the guard checks that the source binds that generated list rather than a hand-written copy and that it matches the installed engine package in both directions: a tag the engine treats as authority and the package lacks is red, and so is a tag the package defuses that the engine does not, since that rewrites ordinary text in a peer's message. It also confirms the published list is the engine module's own value and is still derived from the engine's envelope registry, which it reads from the engine's module by path because the registry itself is not published. At the rendered output, every engine authority tag placed in a body (opening, closing, with attributes, upper case) comes out defused on all three peer lanes, and the engine's non-authority envelope tags come out untouched |
+| `scripts/run-upstream-tables-test.mjs` | Engine facts the package may not import at run time (the notice code register and its audience table, the reasons an injected MCP server is dropped, the protocol namespace prefixes and the retired tool names with their current names) are generated at build time from the installed engine package's own public entry point into plain literal modules, which are committed. The generated files must be byte-identical to what the installed engine produces today, no other file may sit beside them, each names the generator and the engine version it came from, none imports anything, and the package's public names are the generated objects themselves. The generator refuses rather than guesses: a table that is missing or empty, a notice code without an audience row (or the reverse), a third audience value, or a retirement note in a shape it does not know all stop generation instead of producing an empty or partial table, and it reads only the engine package installed in this package's own dependency folder. Two word lists the SDK already exports as values (who asked a question, and which word a mandated approval stands on) are now the SDK's own arrays rather than copies; because those arrays are not frozen, the package's own decisions are shown not to change when they are modified in place. Inside the package, the thinking-level and permission-mode vocabularies, the tier words, the rejection sentence and the cancelled code each exist exactly once in the source. A second batch covers engine fact tables that newer engine packages publish from their entry point (the notice cause and source lists, the run-ending reasons, the reserved control-verb names, the workflow size caps, the authority envelope tags, the denial layers, the reasons a requested permission mode did not take effect, and the structured tool-card types): each is generated the same way and bound where it is used, no hand-written copy of any generated table may remain in the source, and an engine package too old to publish them makes the generator stop and name every missing export rather than fall back to reading private files. A third batch covers the closed set of codes the engine refuses a declared caller tool with: it is generated the same way and folded into the package's configuration-refusal recognition set, which must contain every one of those codes; the set only recognises them (no code path branches on them), an unexpected code shape stops generation, and an engine package that does not yet publish the set makes the generator stop and name it |
 | `scripts/run-retirement-ledger-test.mjs` | Transitional code whose retirement condition used to live only in a comment now has a machine-readable trigger. `scripts/retirement-ledger.json` lists each piece (a compatibility read, a mirrored table, a normalizer inside the differential check) with an anchor into its own code, the retirement condition quoted from the source comment, and one of three trigger kinds: this package's version reaching a retire-by version; the installed upstream package reaching a version, exporting a name from its entry, or declaring a member on a given type (read with the TypeScript checker); or the reference client tree used by the differential check having moved to a given version of this package. The check fails when a trigger has fired and the transitional code is still there, when a row's anchor can no longer be found (the code is gone but the row stayed), when the quoted condition no longer matches the source comment, when a row has no machine trigger at all, when a retire-by version sits more than three minor lines ahead, and when the anchor of an already retired piece reappears. A reading that cannot be taken is reported as skipped when the absence is legitimate (no reference tree on disk, an upstream declared only as a peer and not installed) and is a harness fault otherwise. Before giving any verdict the judge proves itself on in-memory fixtures and on one known-present and one known-absent name in the installed upstream types. |
 | `scripts/run-plan-review-decision-ledger-test.mjs` | The plan-review reopen path refuses on one decision ledger shared by every delivery path, not only the package's own POST window: a decision the host reports as handed over (before the card's answer reaches the package, or on the host's own delivery path) counts as in flight until it settles; a pending-row read that started before a decision settled is a stale snapshot of the gate just answered, so a reopen carrying that read mark refuses; and a decision proven not to have taken effect (nothing sent, a refusal that by contract changed nothing, or the engine proven to still hold the very same gate instance — a status alone does not prove it, since a run that moved on to a new plan gate reports the same status) neither counts as in flight nor makes such a snapshot stale, so a failed decision does not consume a legitimate reopen. The ledger's capacity bound never evicts the package's own in-flight decisions, so a duplicate approval stays latched however many decisions are in flight. The package's own in-flight window now runs from the POST to the moment the outcome is emitted (settlement happens before the outcome is queued, so a read the host starts from the queue port is not stale), while the duplicate-delivery latch keeps its POST-only window. A handed-over decision the package's delivery path then sends is the same ledger entry (the host's early settle does not release it); two decisions on one run each settle on their own; positive evidence that the run left the gate settles what is open without releasing the latch; bad inputs neither throw nor record. The ledger is checked against the terminal's current implementation vector by vector when that tree is on disk |
 | `scripts/run-subagent-injected-wire-test.mjs` | The background-agent verbs — the child report read, the live tail, the task-handle output read and stop, steer, the resume assembly, manual compaction with its capability warm-up, and the delegated-prompt read — accept a host-supplied engine client, and the plan-review orchestration now resolves its client through the same single construction point, so a browser host behind a same-origin relay runs every one of these paths without an installed engine target. With a client injected, each entry sends only through it: proven against a real relay-form SDK client and a fake engine while the installed target (default and keyed slots alike) points at a different fake engine that must receive nothing, with the row's own session parameter carried, no `authorization` header on any request (checked beside a token-bearing client on the same spy), and a planted token never reaching a log line, a return value or a failure detail on the injected, installed-target and unreachable paths. The capability evidence behind the task-handle verbs and the row stop gate is read only under the key the host names, never from the installed target; the report, tail and compaction warm-up cache their own probe under that key and re-probe when it is absent. A malformed injected client or connection lands on each entry's existing cannot-send outcome (`null`, `no-wire`, `unavailable`, `offline`, `unreadable`) with zero requests, never a throw or an unhandled rejection. Every request through an injected client settles at the package's own deadline even while the client sleeps through a retry back-off and aborts the request underneath; the caller's own signal still applies, and the old signatures answer as before apart from the no-answer outcomes described next. A steer, resume or stop that may have reached the engine but got no answer — the package's own deadline on an injected client, the client's per-request limit on either path, or a transport failure that cannot be shown to have happened before anything was sent (the connection dropped after the request went out) — is reported with a machine-readable `unconfirmed: true` beside the unchanged `reason`, so a host can say it may have taken effect instead of calling it a failure; a cancellation by the caller after the request went out is reported the same way (only the wait was cancelled), while a real 4xx or 5xx answer, a connection that could not be made at all, a verb that threw before returning a promise, and a cancellation already in place before the call (nothing is sent) carry no such key. An installed target is copied by value when a call resolves it, so a delayed or retried compaction still goes to the engine and credentials it was resolved against even if the host's target object changes meanwhile, and a verb that throws synchronously is classified exactly like one that rejects. The resume failure classifier that hosts reuse for their own direct calls makes the same judgement from the same single source, so every client renders it the same way. |
 | `scripts/run-session-background-stop-test.mjs` | The session-level stop for background work (`stopEngineSessionBackground`): one call asks the engine to stop the background tasks of a session, with `includeRetained` passed through as the required true / false choice. It resolves its client through the same single construction point as the other engine verbs (a host-supplied client, or the installed engine target for the chosen session slot) and sends nothing unless the engine has declared the stop face (`background.exitFaces` strictly `true`) under the capability key that applies: evidence that is missing or unread, an older engine without the face, a malformed flag, a flag found only on the prototype chain, or evidence recorded for a different deployment all end in `unavailable` with zero requests. The request body on the wire is exactly `{"includeRetained": <boolean>}` whatever object the caller passes. A 200 answer returns the receipts verbatim (identifier and outcome word; a row whose word it does not recognise is kept with that word as it is, so the host can still name it and the companion below sorts it as may still be running), counts rows whose identifier or word it cannot read instead of inventing them, and leaves the receipt list absent rather than empty when the body cannot be read. Refusals are sorted by machine code before HTTP status (missing service credential, no ownership face, unknown session versus missing route on the same 404, request shape, not permitted, rate limited with the server's wait hint, anything else), a server failure is an `error`, and each call sends exactly one request even through a client configured to retry. A request that may have reached the engine but got no answer — a time limit, a connection that dropped after the request went out, or a cancellation by the caller after the request went out — carries `unconfirmed: true`, while a real answer, a connection that never opened, or a cancellation already in place before the call (nothing is sent) does not. Malformed arguments, options, connections, clients, capability records, answer bodies and error objects never throw and never leave an unhandled rejection, and a planted token never reaches a log line or a result. A pure companion (`engineSessionBackgroundReceiptReadingOf`, with the frozen state list `ENGINE_SESSION_BACKGROUND_RECEIPT_STATES` derived from its wording table) sorts each receipt word into stopped, still running (kept on purpose) or may still be running, with one fixed sentence per state so every client says the same thing: each of the four words lands in its state, while any word it does not recognise — a future word, a different letter case, stray whitespace, a near spelling, a prototype-chain name — lands in may still be running with the word carried back verbatim, and non-string input (boxed strings and objects with their own `toString` included) lands there too without being coerced and without throwing; it never reports stopped for anything it cannot confirm. The three sentences differ, the two that are not stopped never use the word stop, and the state list and the states actually produced match in both directions. |
 | `scripts/run-sealed-key-capability-test.mjs` | The engine's sealed-key discovery segment (`capabilities.sealedKey`), read the same four-state way as the other capability readers: exactly three non-empty strings (`alg`, `publicKeyId`, `publicKey`) make a usable reading and are passed through as they are; an absent key means *do not seal* (an older engine, or an engine that could not set up its key custody — the same action either way) and is never treated as a key; a present but malformed segment is dropped rather than turned into a half reading; and anything the segment carries beyond the three public fields — a private key, a creation time, anything else — never reaches the reading, so this reader cannot become a credential channel. The reading is checked against the projection a `7.104` engine package actually mints, both with a key store and without one. |
 | `scripts/run-session-integrity-refusal-test.mjs` | Three refusals a session can meet on newer servers, read the same way on every client. When a session's saved history cannot be read, the server answers with one code whether the refusal arrives as an HTTP error, as the failure recorded at the end of a streamed run, or on the background run's record; one predicate decides it for all three carriers, it keys on the code alone — never on the status or on the engine's wording — and one sentence explains it: the history is damaged, retrying will not help, whoever operates the engine has to repair it, and meanwhile a new session works. The package's own end-of-run error line and the error of the result frame both carry that sentence, identically, and nothing changes for any other code. When a delete is refused because background agents the session started are still running somewhere this server cannot stop them, the refusal is read with the ids it names — each id checked on its own, a bad entry dropped rather than invented, and a list with no usable entry reported as absent rather than as an empty list, which would read as "no agents left"; a refusal because a run is still in progress is read with that run's id, and any other conflict falls back to a sentence that does not guess. When a decision reaches an approval that moved in the meantime (stopped, decided elsewhere, parked again, claimed by another decision, or — newly — belonging to a session that was deleted), the package reads the code rather than the error class, says the decision was not applied and that the pending approvals should be fetched again, and the approval legs treat it as "the approval is no longer where it was" and keep reading the run, instead of letting the wording of the server's sentence decide. When the server package is supplied, the guard drives the server's own code for each of these answers and pushes the result through the SDK's error mapping before the package reads it. |
+| `scripts/run-mode-release-projection-test.mjs` | The permission-mode fields on a tool call's gate record. Newer engines record, on an allowed call, that a permission mode answered a question nobody was asked (which mode, which question class, the whole class set, and the origin and mandate words the card would have shown), and on a refused call that the session's permission mode itself refused it (which mode and which question class). The package's gate reader carries both into its view — the allowed-call account whole or not at all, the refusal fields one by one, unfamiliar mode or class words passed through as written — and exposes a named reader for the allowed-call account. Absence is not a negative: an older engine, or a server that does not forward these fields, produces a record without them, so the reader answers `undefined` rather than claiming no mode was involved; when a server package is supplied, the guard runs the same records through that server's own projection to show exactly that. The fixtures are first passed through the engine's own record screen, the view's fields are checked against the engine's declared shapes in both directions, the fields survive the projection onto the transcript arm unchanged, and a mode refusal is filed in the transcript as a permission-rule denial. |
+| `scripts/run-read-credential-refusal-projection-test.mjs` | The read-credential refusal on the engine's pre-gate read routes (workflow reads and the live fleet stream), projected as a named state instead of a silent retry loop or a generic failure. On a deployment that requires a service credential, these reads now answer 401 when the client presents none it accepts, and before this change the workflow monitor kept reporting "still loading" and retried every few seconds forever, while the background view folded the refusal into "unavailable". The guard drives the real monitor through a scripted transport: a 401 with the unauthorized code, or with no code, on either the detail read or the list read, yields the new `unauthorized` state carrying the last error and — when the run had been live — the last snapshot; the loop then waits on a long back-off (the timer values it schedules are recorded) rather than the short one, opens no activity stream, and returns to live once the credential is accepted. A 403, a 407 and the two other 401 codes (a missing principal, an unverifiable signed principal) do not enter this state, and for every other status and for connection errors the outcome is compared, case by case, with the previous judgement frozen inside the guard — a deployment without a service credential never reaches the new state. The background view's fleet source gets the matching `unauthorized` health word for both 401 shapes, keeps its rows out of the view, leaves the assistant source untouched and recovers to `ok`; every other failure shape is again compared with the frozen previous judgement, and the assistant source's own 401 staying `unavailable` is pinned as a documented limit. One exported sentence serves both places: it says the engine requires a credential the client did not present, and never that there is nothing to show or that the engine is down. |
+| `scripts/run-rules-legacy-tool-name-projection-test.mjs` | The session rule write refusal for tool names the engine would refuse at run startup, projected as a named outcome. A session rule write whose tool-name lists carry a retired tool name, or a name containing "__" without a protocol prefix, is refused before anything is stored, with a dedicated code and the offending list and name at the top of the error body. The guard pins the new code constant and its family predicate (an open prefix test shaped like the configuration family's, false for anything that is not a string of that family), then feeds the failure classifier the error exactly as two SDK generations deliver it — a plain API error on the older one, a bad-request error on the newer one — and requires both to land in the named arm by code, ahead of the status. The list and name are read only from the body slot the SDK provides, narrowed to the two tool-name lists and a non-empty name, and never from the error object's own `name`, which is its class name. An unknown member of the same family lands in the generic answered-refusal arm rather than being folded into the named one or described as a malformed body. Against a model of the refusing write gate that uses the installed engine's own tables and order, the tightening flow reports the named outcome, writes exactly once and leaves the stored record untouched — both when a host sends such a name directly and when the stored record already holds one from before the gate existed (the outcome then says so), and when this package's mirror of the retired-name table is older than the engine's. The removal verb, which deliberately keeps a name the supplied roster mounts, gets the same named outcome when the gate refuses to store that name. One sentence covers the tightening outcome and the code lookup; it shares its description of the two name classes with the startup-refusal sentence and its fix with the before-write sentence, word for word, carries no rule text, and differs from every other outcome sentence. |
+| `scripts/run-store-center-wiring-capability-test.mjs` | The two cloud-mode capability positions (engine ≥7.106.0), read the same four-state way as the other capability readers. The store posture (`capabilities.store`: declared backend, assembled backend, whether it is durable, an optional degradation reason, and the SQL engine seat) is always present on a current engine, so an absent key means an older engine and is never read as “not durable”; words are carried as reported rather than folded into known ones, the SQL seat is judged by the very same rule as the SQL-posture reader, and one malformed seat discards the whole reading. The center wiring (`capabilities.centerWiring`) is present only when the engine is connected to a configuration center: with no quota lease configured its three lease-dependent keys are legitimately absent, and an absent key is split by the same response — a current engine (it carries the store posture) is reported as not connected, an older one as not reported. Two predicates live in the package (does this replica persist; is the caller's budget lease-enforced — known words matched exactly, everything else unknown), and each reader has one table of doctor sentences in which no two states read alike, the older-engine sentence never claims “not durable” or “not connected”, the two failure postures cannot be said the wrong way round, and unrecognised words are shown escaped and bounded. Both are checked against the engine's own projections: every form they mint reads back exactly, every word in their vocabularies lands on a known arm, and the member lists the engine declares for these two positions equal the reading's own keys. |
+| `scripts/run-inherit-env-wire-test.mjs` | The request field that lets the model-driven shell inherit this machine's whole environment (`"all"`) or keep the default scrubbed environment (`"scrub"`). Both words go out exactly as given on the two user lanes, an absent value is never filled in, and any other value (including a list of variable names) is refused before anything is sent. The value reaches a request only through a helper that checks the engine's version: an engine too old to know the field, or one whose version cannot be read, gets nothing, and the caller receives the reason plus one sentence saying what the run's shell gets instead, including that leaving the field out also clears an earlier whole-environment choice on engines that know it. An invalid-field refusal of a request that asked for `"all"` is read by code with one conditionally worded sentence, because the same code has other causes. |
+| `scripts/run-submit-refusal-projection-test.mjs` | Four kinds of refusal that mean the request itself needs fixing, read by code with one sentence each. Permission rule lists that are too long or hold a bad entry are named precisely (which list, how many entries against the limit, or which entry by position) for a new request and, with different wording, when parked work cannot continue with the request stored for it; the same sentence is appended to a decision that fails for that reason. A tool declaration the engine refuses at the start of a run is read by its code rather than its HTTP status, so a status that looks like a temporary outage is not presented as one: the sentence says the same request will be refused the same way. A deployment refusing a single-user-only setting is attributed from the request the caller sent (the whole-environment shell setting, bypassPermissions, both, or unknown) and always says nothing ran and the local settings are not at fault. A body-shape refusal exposes its two lists of unrecognized and unsupported keys exactly as sent (only well-formed lists are read; a missing list is not treated as empty), with a three-way check of whether any listed key is a settings path. |
+| `scripts/run-mandated-card-values-test.mjs` | Approval cards that newer servers mark as mandatory for four kinds of question (a deployment command policy, an operator's never-auto list, an exhausted durable budget, and supervisor routing) are built with the server's own code and fed through both card paths: the card carries the mandatory mark and the matching reason word, the shared check reports it as mandatory, no mandate word is invented, and a session-wide allow that the server declines to remember produces the single not-remembered notice. An ordinary approval-list card stays non-mandatory and remembered, and the older card shapes are shown to read the other way. This check needs an installed server package to run and reports itself as skipped otherwise. |
+| `scripts/run-park-failed-reason-projection-test.mjs` | The fail-soft true cause when a parked approval cannot be decided and the engine's own `done{suspended}` terminal is the one handed back: that terminal is still returned as-is (no second terminal), but it carries `_sema_park_failed_reason` — the same sentence, byte for byte, that the durable leg puts on its synthesized terminal — and the result frame carries it through with credentials washed the same way `errors[]` is (value only; same sentence as the durable leg after washing). The key is left off when this host has no decision surface at all (no approval card port, a port installed under another session key, or no question overlay): that sentence's way out is to decide on the card, which such a host never shows. Pinned with a policy-fold refusal on decide, both stall exits, a host-retracted card, credential samples through the full bridge on both legs, the no-decision-surface forms, and the absent forms (user interrupt, malformed values, ordinary terminals). |
+| `scripts/run-tool-history-mismatch-projection-test.mjs` | When a provider rejects every request of a session because a tool call in the conversation history no longer pairs up with its result, the terminal error row carries a machine-readable key naming the kind of mismatch and the first tool call id the provider named; a host that offers the rewind command gets the same recovery sentence CC shows (unless that host names the engine and the engine reports it cannot rewind the conversation), plus a count from the second time in a row, while the print and utility lanes, hosts without that command, and the result frame's error text stay unchanged. Only the run's own failure is read, never assistant text, and only when the provider sentence opens the provider's message: other statuses, other 400s and quoted copies do not match. The count is per session and per run, ignores replays, resets on any other outcome and never overstates when it cannot tell; the row-resolving helper that finds the prompt to go back before is checked for the target, the first-turn case and every undecidable case. The check also feeds outcomes built and published by an installed server package when one is available and reports that part as skipped otherwise. |
 
 Each suite carries a floor that only moves up — a refactor that stops executing a group of
 assertions is a failure, not a quieter pass. Guards anchor on the **installed artefact's content**