@sema-agent/client-core 0.89.0 → 0.91.0

package/README.md

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Renamed from **`@sema-agent/wire-cc-adapter`** (0.1.x, deprecated — see *Migra
 
 ## Scope
 
-**Version:** 0.89.0
+**Version:** 0.91.0
 
 - **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
@@ -289,11 +289,11 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 
 | Suite | What it guards |
 |---|---|
-| `scripts/run-client-core-pure-test.mjs` | Consumer-view behaviour of every moved-in module; segment floors (B1–B8 + C) that only move up |
+| `scripts/run-client-core-pure-test.mjs` | Consumer-view behaviour of every moved-in module; segment floors (B1–B8 + C) that only move up The non-throwing attachments verdict names a retired key, and gives its reason and way out, from the retirement rule itself; a negative control plants a second retired key in a copy of the build and checks that it is reported by its own name. |
 | `scripts/run-client-core-portability-test.mjs` | Kernel / A-layer / index import closures, the runtime-dependency equality gate, barrel reachability, and a real esbuild `--platform=browser` bundle |
 | `scripts/run-client-core-diff-test.mjs` | Differential equivalence against the CLI reference bridge + replay-id invariant + ledger round-trip |
 | `scripts/run-seat-contract-keys-test.mjs` | The seat IPC contract: verb list ↔ SPEC ↔ types, element-wise. Since 0.83.4 the seat approval request also carries the four card bits that say whether an approval must be asked and where it came from (`mandated`, `mandate`, `ruleOffersAbsence` — the parked-row form of mandated, so the seat and the card give the same `approvalIsMandated` answer — and `origin`, which the resident-posture predicate reads), and they reach the seat through `toolPermissionRequestAskBits`, which reads them exactly as the card request does — a strict own `true`, one of the closed mandate words byte for byte, a non-empty own string — so for a host that builds the seat request through that crossing an off-list word, an empty string or an inherited key never lands on the seat; the seat validator does not become a second judge that could drop a safety ask over one bit, which leaves a host that builds the request by hand to apply the same narrow read itself |
-| `scripts/run-approval-frame-keys-test.mjs` | The tool-approval frame key mirror, element-wise against the SDK's runtime anchor (one carve-out: AHEAD_OF_ANCHOR entries — keys the server already emits but the SDK anchor has not caught up to — may lead by one generation; the gate turns red the day the SDK catches up, forcing the entry's removal — the register is occupied again — this time by the bit that says a saved allow rule cannot retire a given approval card, carrying both the release that minted it and the byte coordinates that prove it, so the lead is a dated record rather than an exemption; its predecessor left the register the other way, by being retired upstream rather than by the anchor catching up). Beside the key mirror it now guards three further faces of that bit: the closed word table the durable leg reads it through must be **the very array object the SDK exports**, not a same-looking copy — reference identity, because an equal-contents check still permits a second table that diverges the day upstream adds a member; the one predicate a client is meant to call answers over both legs — the live card's bit and the parked row's absence word, which is all the row carries, since the row has no such bit at all — and answers `false` for a malformed value exactly as its presence-only siblings do, a strictness the upstream mint shares; and the one sentence minted for it must never point the reader at writing a rule, since a rule written in answer to a mandated question can never take effect where it was written. The same bit's key also has to reach the card request itself, which the SDK's card anchor does not list — a fact that arrives at the package boundary and stops there is the shape of defect this file's guards exist to catch. Since 0.83.2 the frame also mirrors `mandate` (the word a mandated question stands on) ahead of the SDK anchor, with its own exit condition; the released server carries it from 7.102.0, so the allowance for the server fixture was removed by its own exit condition. The installed engine must declare the member with the six-word closed type, and the key must reach the card request. |
+| `scripts/run-approval-frame-keys-test.mjs` | The tool-approval frame key mirror, element-wise against the SDK's runtime anchor (one carve-out: AHEAD_OF_ANCHOR entries — keys the server already emits but the SDK anchor has not caught up to — may lead by one generation; the gate turns red the day the SDK catches up, forcing the entry's removal — the register is occupied again — this time by the bit that says a saved allow rule cannot retire a given approval card, carrying both the release that minted it and the byte coordinates that prove it, so the lead is a dated record rather than an exemption; its predecessor left the register the other way, by being retired upstream rather than by the anchor catching up). Beside the key mirror it now guards three further faces of that bit: the closed word table the durable leg reads it through must be **the very array object the SDK exports**, not a same-looking copy — reference identity, because an equal-contents check still permits a second table that diverges the day upstream adds a member; the one predicate a client is meant to call answers over both legs — the live card's bit and the parked row's absence word, which is all the row carries, since the row has no such bit at all — and answers `false` for a malformed value exactly as its presence-only siblings do, a strictness the upstream mint shares; and the one sentence minted for it must never point the reader at writing a rule, since a rule written in answer to a mandated question can never take effect where it was written. The same bit's key also has to reach the card request itself, which the SDK's card anchor does not list — a fact that arrives at the package boundary and stops there is the shape of defect this file's guards exist to catch. Since 0.83.2 the frame also mirrors `mandate` (the word a mandated question stands on) ahead of the SDK anchor, with its own exit condition; the released server carries it from 7.102.0, so the allowance for the server fixture was removed by its own exit condition. The installed engine must declare the member with the six-word closed type, and the key must reach the card request. Since 0.91.0 the frame also mirrors `probeReason` ahead of the development SDK anchor, with the same exit condition, and the probe-tree comparison reads the newest configured SDK first. |
 | `scripts/run-segment-authority-single-source-test.mjs` | The authoritative-segment replacement verdict, single-sourced. `text_end.content` and the `text_delta` stream stopped being byte-identical the day the engine started redacting the former through the same filter as the result, so every consumer now has to decide six ways what to do with the segment it has half-emitted — and until this release that decision existed **twice**: once here for the transcript lane, once in the shell for the print lane, hot-fixed a version apart. The verdict is now one pure function both lanes call, and the guard pins it on the quantity that actually decides the outcome: whether the authoritative text still *starts with* the bytes that already left, not whether a flush has happened — the latter is a precondition, and anchoring on it withholds a perfectly ordinary answer. Each of the six forms is checked with its counter-case, the prefix length is pinned to UTF-16 code units against a non-ASCII sample whose UTF-8 byte count differs (slicing by bytes leaves the very thing being redacted on screen), and the withheld-segment ledger is compared by normalised equality rather than substring, because a short redaction marker quoted in an unrelated later answer would otherwise suppress that answer entirely. The same file pins the session-level memory-capture declaration to one mint point — the wire value is a single-member closed set, and a consumer that spells it wrong gets a loud refusal rather than a silently dropped privacy request — and pins the SDK URL/health transit to be the **same function reference**, since wrapping it would discard the one guarantee the transit exists for. A last section strips comments with the TypeScript parser and asserts the second expression has not grown back |
 | `scripts/run-print-bash-iserror-test.mjs` | The print lane's Bash `is_error` authority (structured over regex). A second section pins where the denial classification word lands on this lane: on the message envelope, never inside the tool-result block, because that block is forwarded verbatim to the provider on compaction and a self-minted key there is the shape of an old, real defect. A word outside the upstream table — or an empty string, a non-string, or nothing at all — mints no key rather than a guess, and the word never moves the error flag, because attribution does not decide anything |
 | `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 |
@@ -301,12 +301,12 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 | `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. 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-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. When the caller passes the failure's error carrier and it is a session-history tool_use mismatch, the edit-and-resend reading yields to the recovery sentence that line already carries; the carrier is handed to the same mismatch classifier, so the reading and the classifier never disagree on a carrier, whatever its shape; without a carrier the reading is compared byte for byte with the previous release's package. |
 | `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. 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. A fourth server-minted code, the user-facing notice that a model endpoint could not be connected to, is registered with its audience and has its own reader: the failure code, the endpoint, the remedy sentence and the session are required, the name of the proxy variable is optional, the code and remedy pass through as written, and the server's sentences are never copied into the package. With server fixtures, the server's own decorator mints the notice for a direct and a proxied connection and for every connect-failure code it knows, and stays silent when a response arrived or the call did not end in error; the audience table is reconciled against both fixture generations, a row newer than the older fixture being required to be absent there. From 0.88.0 the catalog grows by one operator notice — a provider request whose tool turn broke the pairing rules was repaired on its way out — with a typed reader: each repair's form word passes through as written (the engine does not publish that word list from its entry point and has announced more words), the call ids are read as a non-empty list, any malformed entry makes the whole notice read as absent, and notices produced by the engine's own repair law and emitter read back field for field. The model-unreachable reader reads only the notice detail's own properties, like the other server-minted readers. From 0.89.0 the engine's own catalog registers those server-minted codes as well — each code carries an audience and a record of who mints it — so the package's separate table for them is retired and both the membership check and the audience lookup answer from the engine's tables alone, the four codes keeping the audiences they had; the guard reconciles the engine's record of server-minted codes against the published server's stream allow-list on the newer server generation and against the older server's own table on the older one, and the generator refuses an engine whose minter table is not in lockstep with its catalog. Two user-facing notices gain typed readers: an incomplete tool turn (cause, count, session and run are required, the call ids are optional and copied, and a cause word the package does not know passes through as written) and user input a run may not have used — one reader for the steer and follow-up codes, the kind decided by the code, the count required, the cause passed through as written and never filled in when absent — plus one user-facing sentence that names only the count, does not claim the input went unused when the server could not tell, and falls back to a cautious sentence for any cause it does not recognise. Notices produced by the engine's and the server's own emitters read back field for field, and every reader answers the same for frozen and unfrozen input. Every reader and the by-code entry point read a notice's code and detail as own properties only: a notice whose code or detail sits on its prototype, or on a polluted global prototype, reads as nothing through all three doors alike. |
+| `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. A fourth server-minted code, the user-facing notice that a model endpoint could not be connected to, is registered with its audience and has its own reader: the failure code, the endpoint, the remedy sentence and the session are required, the name of the proxy variable is optional, the code and remedy pass through as written, and the server's sentences are never copied into the package. With server fixtures, the server's own decorator mints the notice for a direct and a proxied connection and for every connect-failure code it knows, and stays silent when a response arrived or the call did not end in error; the audience table is reconciled against both fixture generations, a row newer than the older fixture being required to be absent there. From 0.88.0 the catalog grows by one operator notice — a provider request whose tool turn broke the pairing rules was repaired on its way out — with a typed reader: each repair's form word passes through as written (the engine does not publish that word list from its entry point and has announced more words), the call ids are read as a non-empty list, any malformed entry makes the whole notice read as absent, and notices produced by the engine's own repair law and emitter read back field for field. The model-unreachable reader reads only the notice detail's own properties, like the other server-minted readers. From 0.89.0 the engine's own catalog registers those server-minted codes as well — each code carries an audience and a record of who mints it — so the package's separate table for them is retired and both the membership check and the audience lookup answer from the engine's tables alone, the four codes keeping the audiences they had; the guard reconciles the engine's record of server-minted codes against the published server's stream allow-list on the newer server generation and against the older server's own table on the older one, and the generator refuses an engine whose minter table is not in lockstep with its catalog. Two user-facing notices gain typed readers: an incomplete tool turn (cause, count, session and run are required, the call ids are optional and copied, and a cause word the package does not know passes through as written) and user input a run may not have used — one reader for the steer and follow-up codes, the kind decided by the code, the count required, the cause passed through as written and never filled in when absent — plus one user-facing sentence that names only the count, does not claim the input went unused when the server could not tell, and falls back to a cautious sentence for any cause it does not recognise. Notices produced by the engine's and the server's own emitters read back field for field, and every reader answers the same for frozen and unfrozen input. Every reader and the by-code entry point read a notice's code and detail as own properties only: a notice whose code or detail sits on its prototype, or on a polluted global prototype, reads as nothing through all three doors alike. From 0.90.0 the catalog is eighty-five notices: the engine retired the notice for the one-off migration of old parked rows, so the catalog, audience and minter tables lose a row, its fact reader and named type are gone from the public surface, and the code is treated like any code outside the catalog (the dispatcher answers nothing, the catalog check answers false, the audience stays the conservative default). The unused-input reader also reads the child-session field carried by the copy a parent session receives when a sub-agent ends with inputs unused — taken from the engine's real minting site — and the user-facing sentence says so for the two definite shapes, with no identifier in it; every malformed form of the field drops only that field. |
 | `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`, 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-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 words for **how a wait ended** (thirteen from 0.80.0, fourteen from 0.90.0), 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 words through all five named predicates and checking which word makes which one speak, rather than what any predicate returns. Two of them 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. From 0.90.0 the settlement table carries `policy_allowed` (a machine allow, listed before `policy_refused`) and the mirror is checked against the installed engine byte for byte, in order; the installed SDK (12.x) predates the word, so its list is compared as "the engine's list minus one registered lagging word", and every SDK witness at 16.0.0 or later must carry exactly the engine's set of words. The party that settled is the engine's five-word set, read open (any word, including an unknown one, comes back as written); a policy allow is no person's approval and no refusal (all five named predicates stay silent on it, and it files no denial class in the transcript), and the refusal word reads the same under both party spellings of the two server generations. The one lagging word that loosens the compile-time check against the installed SDK is itself guarded: it must stay a non-empty union of string literals (widening it to `string` compiles cleanly, so only this check catches it), the check's declared type must stay exactly as written, the word list must equal the list this check registers, and every lagging word must be absent from the SDK at the peer floor yet present in the newest witness SDK and in the installed engine's list. |
 | `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. |
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 | `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 |
-| `scripts/run-core-value-ports-test.mjs` | The port-injection seam for ten **engine value-level** facilities (autonomous-loop prompt assembly, permission-rule loosening, tool-policy composition, protocol/retired-name/grammar lookups, rule compilation, the discussion workflow name). This package cannot re-export them (the engine barrel drags Node built-ins into the browser bundle), so it declares the ports and honest-absence readers; a Node host installs the engine's own functions verbatim. The guard pins: every reader returns `undefined` when nothing is installed (never a fabricated empty array or default policy), arguments and results pass through by reference, engine errors propagate unchanged, partial installs read partially, restore functions unwind to the previous bag, and the module source has zero engine imports |
+| `scripts/run-core-value-ports-test.mjs` | The port-injection seam for ten **engine value-level** facilities (autonomous-loop prompt assembly, permission-rule loosening, tool-policy composition, protocol/retired-name/grammar lookups, rule compilation, the discussion workflow name). This package cannot re-export them (the engine barrel drags Node built-ins into the browser bundle), so it declares the ports and honest-absence readers; a Node host installs the engine's own functions verbatim. The guard pins: every reader returns `undefined` when nothing is installed (never a fabricated empty array or default policy), arguments and results pass through by reference, engine errors propagate unchanged, partial installs read partially, restore functions unwind to the previous bag, and the module source has zero engine imports From 0.90.0 the mirror of the allow/deny policy options is also compared with the engine's own declaration, both ways: the same set of option keys (the engine added an optional `scope` — whether an allow-list hit is a stated grant or only a bound on which tools a lane may see), with `scope` optional and its two-word union and the invalid-name union spelled identically; the value handed to the installed function is passed through untouched. |
 | `scripts/run-read-face-posture-projection-test.mjs` | The operator-face `readFace: ReadFacePosture` reader (server >=7.65.0). Three ways of "can't say" are pinned to three different, literal sentences, and none of them may read as "nothing is pinned" — that statement belongs to exactly one case, `face: null`, which is a positive fact reported by the engine, not an absence: not having read an operator response yet, having read one from an engine too old to report the key, and the engine actually saying nothing is pinned are three different next steps for an operator and must not collapse into each other. `source` is read as an open set (the server's closed four words plus an escape hatch) rather than narrowed to an enum, so a new word added upstream is not silently turned into a bad reading. The free-text `note` is sanitized and length-capped before it is ever rendered. A companion pure function flags disagreement between this face and the tenant-facing `capabilities.readFace` — silent only when the two actually agree, honest-absent when either side cannot be read at all, never asserting agreement as a fact. The gate's last leg reads the installed SDK's own `openapi.yaml` directly rather than restating the schema in prose, so the package's leniency cannot quietly drift from the real contract |
 | `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 |
@@ -351,20 +351,20 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 | `scripts/run-usage-verbatim-channel-test.mjs` | The two complementary usage disciplines (core 3.0.0 metering semantics): the CC `ModelUsage` mirror stays pure (five pinned keys, `totalInputTokens` has no seat), while the sema-owned channel forwards the engine `turn_end.usage` object **verbatim** (six keys, incl. `totalInputTokens`) via `last_turn_usage.engineUsage` / `handle.latestEngineUsage` — honest absence on pre-3.0.0 engines, no fabricated zeros |
 | `scripts/run-plan-review-decide-verify-test.mjs` | `decidePlanReview`'s post-decide honesty ([2315]/[2316], engine RB-471 family): a 2xx from the decide endpoint is **not** a terminal — the wire re-pulls the task status and words the outcome by the real shape (still-locked / legal new gate / genuinely left park / unverified), never claiming success it hasn't earned; when the engine answers that the session's stored resume context cannot be read, the outcome names the unreadable row and says the decision was not applied. Driven against a real fake-engine HTTP server through the shipped dist. The outcome queue item also carries a machine-readable `_sema_planReviewOutcome` (task id, a package-minted dispatch number, decision, effect) so a host can tell which in-flight decision an outcome belongs to without searching the prose; the prose is byte-identical, the number is minted only for a decision the in-flight latch admits, and a caller that passes no metadata gets no key. |
 | `scripts/run-shell-gate-durable-allow-test.mjs` | #110: the durable approval leg for **shell** gates. The tool_end HOLD/REJECT predicate must cover Bash the same way park detection already does (otherwise the park poison frame `Operation aborted` hits the transcript, `endedCalls` swallows the real replayed result, and the user who pressed Yes watches a command that really ran be reported as aborted); a replayed, already-decided park must resume reading the stream instead of being reported as a failed turn; `lastEventId` must track numeric `seq` too. Mutation-proven: each of the three fixes reverted turns the gate red |
-| `scripts/run-hitl-gate-honesty-test.mjs` | [2393] the four HITL disciplines that a passing type-check cannot see. (1) The park predicate and the `tool_end` predicate must cover the **same** set — the park side admits a first-class `kind:'tool_approval'` gate for *any* tool name, and a `tool_end` frame carries no `kind`, so the frame-level judge falls back to the engine's exact abort marker; otherwise the poison frame hits the transcript and `markEnded` swallows the real replayed result (the #110 disease, reopened on kind-only gates). (2) The already-decided identity criterion is **one-shot**: its two inputs are monotonic, so without consumption one successful decide makes every later park failure — including a real `approvals.list` outage — read as "already resolved" until the 24-hop budget runs out and reports a cause that has nothing to do with what happened. (3) A `plan_review` card dismissed without an answer must be re-presentable: the idempotent re-arm short-circuit re-publishes the still-armed card, and a stale armed id (responder gone) re-arms from scratch rather than presenting a card nobody can answer. (4) `HitlSafetyError` is a safety signal — the `remember` fallback arm must re-raise it instead of auto-retrying the decide, while a plain unknown-key 400 still falls back. (5) The polling leg reschedules after an escaping throw and flips `mode()` to `idle` once it consistently fails, so the honesty surface stops reporting a dead feed as live. (6) The live-frame leg carries the fact behind "you are being asked because the auto-mode classifier could not run" all the way to the card port. Transit narrows on SHAPE only — a non-empty cause string is taken verbatim, an open set, because the word table's owner is the engine and re-checking a closed table at the package boundary would drop a legal value the day a new cause word appears, which is exactly the information worth keeping. A malformed carrier degrades to absence rather than half-minting, and absence stays absence: it covers "the classifier answered", "this ask never qualified" and "this deployment has no classifier" at once, so nothing may render it as reassurance. The guard also pins the division of labour that makes the open set safe — the same word that transits is judged again by the public display reader, which narrows to the availability axis, so a word the engine says it never stamps on this fact renders no sentence while still being visible on the card for triage. A later section pins the split this release introduced on the deny close-out frame. Until now every denied tool call was stamped with the same sentence — the one that says *the user* does not want to proceed — including the calls denied automatically on a lane that has no approval surface at all, where nobody was ever asked. The guard drives all three shapes (a person pressed No, a rule settled it, nobody said which) through both close-out arms and the durable park leg, and pins that the third shape is byte-identical to the previous release: an attribution nobody supplied is not evidence for either answer. The rule-settled shape carries the shell's own reason on a second line when there is one and stands alone when there is not, because a blank line where a reason should be reads worse than no line at all. The attribution is read from own data properties only, so neither a polluted prototype nor a getter can make an automatic denial claim a person made it — and the getter case is pinned to never run at all. The transcript classification word is minted only on the two paths where the upstream transcript format really carries one; the three classifier words and the two abort words are left absent, with the abort words pinned against the strings this package actually normalises interruptions to, which are different strings. A final section pins the decide-operation observer: one `start` in the same tick as the first request and exactly one `end` after the last attempt has settled, across success, retried timeouts, exhausted transient failures, semantic refusal, binding mismatch and both kinds of caller abort, with nothing between retries; an observer that throws or rejects — even when logging that fault fails — never changes what is sent or returned, and the stream-level dependency reaches both durable park legs. A package-internal re-delivery of the same decision (plain approve after an older server rejects the session-scope flag, or a re-send without the attribution key) is reported as one operation with a single start and end. An operation handle only groups sends for the same session and bound call — a send for another gate through the same handle is its own operation — and closing a handle while a send is still in flight defers the end until that send settles. When a person picks "allow for this session" on a parked card and the grant is known not to have been stored — the server answers so, which newer servers do for the gates they can recognise from the parked row as needing a person each time, or the server refuses the session-wide grant with one of the refusal codes that are fixed by the row or the deployment and the package falls back to a plain approval — the parked path now says so with the same line the live path uses, and the receipt carries the server's bit for hosts that call that path directly; an answer without the bit, or any other failure — including a conflict that an internal retry can hit after an earlier send already stored the grant — is treated as unknown and says nothing, a plain approval that never asked for the grant says nothing, and a host logger that throws after a successful decision, on either card path or in the bridge's retry step, can no longer turn it into a second send or a failure. From 0.83.0 it also pins approval cards whose arguments are not the tool's real input: a live frame whose arguments were omitted over the size cap or never sent (the card holds at most a path recovered from the question), and a parked approval whose stored input is missing or replaced by the upstream size marker. On every such card an edited approval sends nothing at all — no respond, no decide, no session-grant attempt — ends as edit-refused, raises the same notice once and flags the card so hosts do not offer editing; both production entry points are driven end to end, and the parked path neither mistakes it for an already-decided gate nor reconnects. The explanatory line is pinned word for word in its four forms: a recovered path is the only thing it claims to have recovered, an unrecoverable one says nothing was recovered, neither claims a reconstructed diff, and the parked forms each say which of the two gaps it is, with near-miss shapes of the size marker still rendered as ordinary input. Real input on the stream, the frame or the record keeps edits flowing, and plain approvals and denials are untouched. Since 0.83.2 the live frame's `mandate` word reaches the card only when it is one of the six known words, read back identically by `readApprovalMandate`; it 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. The frame's `origin` is read from its own keys only, so a value inherited through the prototype chain never reaches the card. |
+| `scripts/run-hitl-gate-honesty-test.mjs` | [2393] the four HITL disciplines that a passing type-check cannot see. (1) The park predicate and the `tool_end` predicate must cover the **same** set — the park side admits a first-class `kind:'tool_approval'` gate for *any* tool name, and a `tool_end` frame carries no `kind`, so the frame-level judge falls back to the engine's exact abort marker; otherwise the poison frame hits the transcript and `markEnded` swallows the real replayed result (the #110 disease, reopened on kind-only gates). (2) The already-decided identity criterion is **one-shot**: its two inputs are monotonic, so without consumption one successful decide makes every later park failure — including a real `approvals.list` outage — read as "already resolved" until the 24-hop budget runs out and reports a cause that has nothing to do with what happened. (3) A `plan_review` card dismissed without an answer must be re-presentable: the idempotent re-arm short-circuit re-publishes the still-armed card, and a stale armed id (responder gone) re-arms from scratch rather than presenting a card nobody can answer. (4) `HitlSafetyError` is a safety signal — the `remember` fallback arm must re-raise it instead of auto-retrying the decide, while a plain unknown-key 400 still falls back. (5) The polling leg reschedules after an escaping throw and flips `mode()` to `idle` once it consistently fails, so the honesty surface stops reporting a dead feed as live. (6) The live-frame leg carries the fact behind "you are being asked because the auto-mode classifier could not run" all the way to the card port. Transit narrows on SHAPE only — a non-empty cause string is taken verbatim, an open set, because the word table's owner is the engine and re-checking a closed table at the package boundary would drop a legal value the day a new cause word appears, which is exactly the information worth keeping. A malformed carrier degrades to absence rather than half-minting, and absence stays absence: it covers "the classifier answered", "this ask never qualified" and "this deployment has no classifier" at once, so nothing may render it as reassurance. The guard also pins the division of labour that makes the open set safe — the same word that transits is judged again by the public display reader, which narrows to the availability axis, so a word the engine says it never stamps on this fact renders no sentence while still being visible on the card for triage. A later section pins the split this release introduced on the deny close-out frame. Until now every denied tool call was stamped with the same sentence — the one that says *the user* does not want to proceed — including the calls denied automatically on a lane that has no approval surface at all, where nobody was ever asked. The guard drives all three shapes (a person pressed No, a rule settled it, nobody said which) through both close-out arms and the durable park leg, and pins that the third shape is byte-identical to the previous release: an attribution nobody supplied is not evidence for either answer. The rule-settled shape carries the shell's own reason on a second line when there is one and stands alone when there is not, because a blank line where a reason should be reads worse than no line at all. The attribution is read from own data properties only, so neither a polluted prototype nor a getter can make an automatic denial claim a person made it — and the getter case is pinned to never run at all. The transcript classification word is minted only on the two paths where the upstream transcript format really carries one; the three classifier words and the two abort words are left absent, with the abort words pinned against the strings this package actually normalises interruptions to, which are different strings. A final section pins the decide-operation observer: one `start` in the same tick as the first request and exactly one `end` after the last attempt has settled, across success, retried timeouts, exhausted transient failures, semantic refusal, binding mismatch and both kinds of caller abort, with nothing between retries; an observer that throws or rejects — even when logging that fault fails — never changes what is sent or returned, and the stream-level dependency reaches both durable park legs. A package-internal re-delivery of the same decision (plain approve after an older server rejects the session-scope flag, or a re-send without the attribution key) is reported as one operation with a single start and end. An operation handle only groups sends for the same session and bound call — a send for another gate through the same handle is its own operation — and closing a handle while a send is still in flight defers the end until that send settles. When a person picks "allow for this session" on a parked card and the grant is known not to have been stored — the server answers so, which newer servers do for the gates they can recognise from the parked row as needing a person each time, or the server refuses the session-wide grant with one of the refusal codes that are fixed by the row or the deployment and the package falls back to a plain approval — the parked path now says so with the same line the live path uses, and the receipt carries the server's bit for hosts that call that path directly; an answer without the bit, or any other failure — including a conflict that an internal retry can hit after an earlier send already stored the grant — is treated as unknown and says nothing, a plain approval that never asked for the grant says nothing, and a host logger that throws after a successful decision, on either card path or in the bridge's retry step, can no longer turn it into a second send or a failure. From 0.83.0 it also pins approval cards whose arguments are not the tool's real input: a live frame whose arguments were omitted over the size cap or never sent (the card holds at most a path recovered from the question), and a parked approval whose stored input is missing or replaced by the upstream size marker. On every such card an edited approval sends nothing at all — no respond, no decide, no session-grant attempt — ends as edit-refused, raises the same notice once and flags the card so hosts do not offer editing; both production entry points are driven end to end, and the parked path neither mistakes it for an already-decided gate nor reconnects. The explanatory line is pinned word for word in its four forms: a recovered path is the only thing it claims to have recovered, an unrecoverable one says nothing was recovered, neither claims a reconstructed diff, and the parked forms each say which of the two gaps it is, with near-miss shapes of the size marker still rendered as ordinary input. Real input on the stream, the frame or the record keeps edits flowing, and plain approvals and denials are untouched. Since 0.83.2 the live frame's `mandate` word reaches the card only when it is one of the six known words, read back identically by `readApprovalMandate`; it 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. The frame's `origin` is read from its own keys only, so a value inherited through the prototype chain never reaches the card. The already-resolved verdict a decision leg uses (`isAlreadyResolvedFailure`: the closed failure code first; codes that say the gate is still standing or failed to start never fall through to the wording check; the moved-gate codes by code; then the four-word wording fallback) is exported from the root entry as the same function the package calls, and a malformed or hostile input answers `false` without throwing, since a `true` would let a caller silently re-attach. The same section compares it, input by input, with the copy a client kept of the same combination, and requires every disagreement to come from one of the four extra checks that copy adds. It also replays the documented replacement order (the closed failure code first, answered by this function; then the copy's extra checks; then this function) and requires it to reproduce the copy's answers on every input, while moving the extra checks ahead of the closed code must disagree somewhere. A refusal that says the stored form of a parked gate cannot be continued while the gate is still pending is classified by its code and its `retriable` bit as a gate that is still standing, so failure text that happens to contain words from the wording fallback no longer makes the leg re-attach; both decision legs carry the bit on their failure outcome. |
 | `scripts/run-park-hop-progress-test.mjs` | L-80: the park re-attach loop budgets **stalled** rounds, not parks. A turn where the model keeps hitting gates and every one of them is really decided (a card was answered, the engine really moved on) must never be cut off by the hop budget — the budget counts consecutive rounds that produced no progress, and "the engine revived and immediately parked again on the same coordinates" is not progress. The three non-progress arms (already-resolved, decide-transport-exhausted, and a re-scan that was adopted but led nowhere) share one same-cause limit instead of one arm having a limit and the others having none, and every non-progress re-attach is announced once through the host callback rather than only to the debug log. When the limit is spent the resolver reads the approval queue once more and puts whatever is decidable in front of the user before it gives up; only when there is genuinely nothing to show does it fail soft, and the terminal message then carries the real cause and a real way out instead of a sentence about a budget. On the self-heal side, a reopen verdict that reports `decidedWithoutCard` — the chain settled the gate by rule, so there was no card to present — is progress, not a reopen failure, and the user is not told their message was NOT sent. Negative control: a genuinely empty queue with a run that never moves still fails soft |
 | `scripts/run-notif-fleet-honesty-test.mjs` | [2393] the five notification/fleet disciplines a green type-check cannot see, each proven by reverting the fix. (1) The workflow-side dedup `return` keeps a count and a trace — without it "suppressed by design" and "a real completion swallowed because the runId minting changed" are the same observation. (2) `seq` normalisation has exactly one mint point, so a 0-based or fractional wire `seq` cannot make the watcher lane and the frame lane key the same completion differently (which would feed the model twice). (3) The TTL sweep defers to a probe arm that is still inside its own deadline — an entry recorded as "abandoned" must not be delivered a moment later — while an arm that has outlived its deadline never blocks the sweep, so the headless exit gate keeps its liveness. (4) The reset hook really clears every ledger it claims to (the sticky `prompt` ledger leaked across cases). (5) The fleet ledger counts all three drop paths (malformed / unknown frame type / isolation drop), and the panel projection's settled recycling is anchored on the settle instant and skips still-present rows, so the dedup token is never carried off with the entry (which would re-emit `end`) |
-| `scripts/run-public-surface-test.mjs` | The outward promises: the npm export surface baseline (an **exact set**, both directions — a new export that never entered the baseline is one nobody watched leave, and deleting it later would not be red), the peer floor witness, and this README's claims |
+| `scripts/run-public-surface-test.mjs` | The outward promises: the npm export surface baseline (an **exact set**, both directions — a new export that never entered the baseline is one nobody watched leave, and deleting it later would not be red), the peer floor witness, and this README's claims. The floor witnesses are a list since 0.90.0 (the installed SDK plus the 15.x and 16.0.0 probe trees); every listed SDK is checked for the value-level symbols and the cost field, and a missing 16.0.0 witness is reported as a skipped section rather than as green. |
 | `scripts/run-client-core-message-branching-test.mjs` | §B8 (branching on error **text**) and §B10 (truthiness standing in for existence when the value can be `0`). AST + type-checker census over `src/`, a named ALLOW list carrying owner and expiry, a known-site floor, and two fixed corpora with a known verdict judged by the same classifier on every run |
 | `scripts/run-registry-test.mjs` | Every ratchet number the suites compare against lives in exactly one place, `scripts/registry.json`: each cell must be a finite non-negative integer, and each one carries a dated ledger of every change (`from` / `to` / `when` / `why`) whose last entry for that cell must equal the number in force — a number moved without an entry, or an entry written without moving the number, is red in both directions. Every suite that reads it is checked to read it: no ratchet name may sit next to a numeric literal in their own source (an AST check, so an accounting comment or a test string mentioning the number is fine), each names the cell it reads, and each keeps the step-down channel — when a measurement comes in *under* a ceiling the suite prints one `RATCHET-SLACK` line instead of passing in silence, so slack cannot quietly accumulate under a ceiling nobody lowered. Negative control: a cell rewritten as a string, a fractional or negative cell, a missing cell, a cell with no ledger entry, a ledger entry missing a field, and a ledger tail that disagrees with the number in force each have to make the check speak. The ledger is append-only twice over: against the previous commit, and against the last release tag, so an entry inserted before older ones cannot pass once it has been committed |
 | `scripts/run-client-core-failloud-test.mjs` | §C1/§C2: an empty `catch` with no comment anywhere inside it, a pure-swallow `catch` nobody reasoned about, and `void <write>` that really returns a Promise with no `.catch`. The exemption instrument is a comment saying why *this* failure may die; the documented-swallow count is a ratchet that only goes down |
 | `scripts/run-client-core-typeshape-test.mjs` | Type discipline as a guard rather than a build side effect: the set of enabled strict knobs (one silently switched off is red), `tsc --noEmit`, and export-surface ratchets for inline anonymous shapes (≥3 members), `unknown` leaving the surface, and bare `unknown` returns — zero slack in either direction |
 | `scripts/run-client-core-singleton-test.mjs` | Module-level singletons ⇄ `docs/refactor/p1-scan/singleton-manifest.json`, **both directions**: an unregistered singleton is red (registering it forces someone to answer "what if this got duplicated"), a stale entry is red, and the `dupRisk: high` count only goes down |
 | `scripts/run-catalog-loader-gates-test.mjs` | The model-catalog candidate chain (`loadCatalogWithSources`) and the provider device-code seam: offline ⇒ `bundled` with an honest `online.reason`, a good source ⇒ `online` plus a cache write, a second offline run ⇒ `cacheHit`; the three hostile source shapes (malformed JSON, `schemaVersion: 99`, off-domain `http`) each fall through to the bundled table, and an off-allowlist target is **never dialled** — including a `302` to another host, proven by a real loopback server's hit counter staying at zero; a one-byte edit to `catalog.sha256` drops that source while an unavailable sidecar only warns; and the device-code poller's `pending → ok` / `expired` arms run against a real loopback HTTP server with an injected clock |
-| `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-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. Since 0.91.0 it is exported from the root entry, and the guard pins that the root export is the very function the package's own loops call rather than a second copy |
 | `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 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. The `cause` discriminant is a closed set of two words — a crash, or an orderly shutdown that cut an unfinished step off — and neither the bucket nor the reason ever reads it: every combination buckets identically under both words, a word outside the set still drops the row, and the row reaches the client with its word unchanged and no sentence attached. An exhaustive switch over `cause` that only knows the older word fails to compile, by design. When server fixtures are present, rows minted by the server's own audit store are projected for both generations: the newer one yields the shutdown rows and an untracked step's pending orphan that is no longer marked safe to re-run, the older one yields neither. |
+| `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. The `cause` discriminant is a closed set of two words — a crash, or an orderly shutdown that cut an unfinished step off — and neither the bucket nor the reason ever reads it: every combination buckets identically under both words, a word outside the set still drops the row, and the row reaches the client with its word unchanged and no sentence attached. An exhaustive switch over `cause` that only knows the older word fails to compile, by design. When server fixtures are present, rows minted by the server's own audit store are projected for both generations: the newer one yields the shutdown rows and an untracked step's pending orphan that is no longer marked safe to re-run, the older one yields neither. The one line a person reads about those leftovers is minted here too, by a single speaker: `crashConvergedNotice(projection)` takes the projection as it is (a host that drops rows it has already disclosed passes the two buckets back with `total` recomputed) and produces one English line — how many approvals were still waiting with the recorded cause codes repeated verbatim, then either one sentence per needs-human reason in a fixed order (`NEEDS_HUMAN_REASON_ORDER`, deliberately not the union's declaration order, which is the bucketing priority) with a fallback sentence last and the "check them by hand" closing said exactly once, or the "based on what was recorded" re-run sentence, then "sema has not re-run anything" and a note for unreadable records. It never re-judges a row (bucket membership is taken from the projection as given), it says nothing for an absent, empty or unreadable projection — including one whose buckets do not add up to its `total`, so a host that filtered rows without recounting gets silence rather than self-contradicting numbers — and a row whose reason cannot be read only falls into the fallback sentence. `crashConvergedNeedsHumanSentence(reason, n, total)` gives the per-reason sentence, or `undefined` for anything outside the four words or a bad count. The order constant is pinned at compile time to be a permutation of the reason union, and the pin is proven to sit on the thing it guards: the guard edits the source in memory and requires the line of the matching pin to fail when a member is removed from either side or duplicated. When the terminal's source tree is present, the same 9432 projections also run through the terminal's own sentence table and assembly, extracted by syntax tree, and must match byte for byte. |
 | `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. From 0.88.0 every shipped file is also scanned in full, frozen sections included, for merge-conflict markers at the start of a line (`<<<<<<< `, a bare `=======`, `>>>>>>> `, and the seven-bar base marker of three-way conflicts). From 0.88.0 a short local list of release-process phrasings (integration-branch and review-round wording) is screened as well, forward-only from the 0.88.0 sections.
 | `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. (9) *Known-limits tables*: every row of every table in `docs/KNOWN-LIMITS.md` must split into as many cells as its header — a pipe character inside inline code still splits a Markdown table cell unless it is escaped, which silently shifts the trigger and upgrade columns. |
@@ -373,13 +373,13 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 | `scripts/run-park-decision-layer-test.mjs` | The decision layer behind the "stuck behind a card" family, shared by every client. A pending row that is **not in the queue** is three states, not one: a bounded, interruptible re-probe loop distinguishes *a decidable row*, *not born yet* (no positive evidence that anything settled — an empty queue proves nothing) and *settled elsewhere*, always probes at least once so a zero budget keeps the pre-fix semantics verbatim, cuts a hung read face off at the window rather than only noticing afterwards, and reports the honest failure when the window is spent instead of inventing a decision. The decision-note reader is likewise three-state: an explicit `noteRecorded: false` outranks an echoed note body, absence renders **no line at all**, and untrusted note text is flattened and bounded before it ever reaches a renderer. Row routing anchors on the deciding quantity — a row carrying `gateKind: "human"` with `toolName: "Write"` is a tool gate, because `human` is the engine's *generic* "someone must decide", not a synonym for a question — and the queue scan refuses to surface a row it cannot positively prove belongs to this session. A chain that fails after the row vanished is split by whether a card was ever presented: decided-elsewhere, or not-its-turn-yet. A row-level single-flight makes "at most one card per pending item" structural rather than incidental. The resume three-way card pins the option **order** (the zero-effect choice sits at index 0, because the frame carries no default-focus field and a stray Enter must not attach or cancel), renders only options the wired verbs can honour, collapses every ambiguous answer to zero action, omits the liveness line entirely when the engine gave no evidence, and — when there is no card lane at all — prints three real routes and exits on a dedicated code rather than reporting success |
 | `scripts/run-selfheal-reopen-test.mjs` | The 409 active-run self-heal decision chain: `governanceForced` narrows on strict `true` only; triage prefers the wire's `pendingGate.kind` and falls back to the status table (an off-table kind is never guessed into a card arm — hands-off plus the honest wording); a first-sight card makes zero closed/reopened claims and a host presentation receipt of `presented: false` demotes the outcome to reopen-failed; park-row ownership is a fail-closed positive proof (own-run ledger or session id — unprovable is not owned); the three gate-identity key literals live in exactly one mint (`hitl/gateIdentity.ts`, AST string-token scan); the armed-gate presentation ledger is per-session; and the `plan_review` reopen arm shares the arm arm's card body, three-state verdict and delivery pipe, consuming the presentation history once a decision is delivered. The same chain also carries the `running` three-way card: both plan-family gate kinds route to the plan arm and all four ask-family kinds to the ask arm (an off-table kind still never gets guessed into either); the card is offered only for verbs that can actually be honoured and a missing presenter means zero action rather than a silent cancel; a steer is sent **exactly once** with its three delivery outcomes worded apart (a `queued` receipt is the wire correcting the triage input, so the named park word decides which card gets reopened, and an unrecognised park word drives neither arm), and a steer failure is split into *provably not delivered* (4xx) and *delivery unknown*, because telling a user to resend a non-idempotent instruction that may already have landed is how duplicates get made. After a user-chosen cancel, "the session is free" is asserted only from a whitelist of terminal states — park states hold the claim, an unrecognised state word is not a release, a failed read is *unknown* rather than a release, and only a 404 counts as one — and the honest timeout line quotes how long it really waited. The two "card could not be reopened" rows can carry a host-declared way to keep the conversation, which says the card comes back on resume only if it is still waiting: it is placed before the route that abandons it, never offered for an injected submission, while a decision is still on its way, or once the pending approval has been proven gone (the outcome then carries a flag saying so; the proof only counts before the cleanup card is shown, so a fallback after the card carries no flag unless a fresh read finds the run finished, and a recheck that finds the approval back clears it), the host function is not even called in those cases, and it is treated as unavailable when it throws or returns an empty value; a host can also switch off the engine decide route on the interactive rows while the cancel route stays, and with neither given all four rows are pinned byte-for-byte to the text the previous release produced. When the plan reopen refuses because the user closed that card (`dismissedByUser`), the outcome carries the flag and one package-owned line says so — you closed it, a message brings it back — in the typed, the injected and the queued-steer forms, with no way-to-keep and no engine decide route; the reopen port receives `{ trigger }` mapped from the submission origin (typed ⇒ `user`, injected ⇒ `automatic`, absent ⇒ the old single-argument call). When the reopen refuses because no view is subscribed to question frames for that session (`_sema_noPresentationSurface`), the plan and ask outcomes carry `noPresentationSurface`, and the five lines that talk about the card not coming back — both arms' typed line, the queued-steer typed and injected lines, and the injected not-delivered line — add one package-owned clause saying the session has no view that can show decision cards, byte-identical to the plain refusal otherwise; loose values and the other refusals (answer in flight, user-closed card, plain refusal) carry neither the flag nor the clause. For a host that reopens under its own session key with a presentation receipt, the suite drives the whole sequence end to end: subscribing for that key, reopening, and registering the receipt through the per-session call `registerArmedGateFromQuestionIdFor` gives `reopened: true` with the right first-sight reading, a second reopen reads as seen before, a decisive answer (with no extra bookkeeping from the host) makes the next reopen read as first sight again, and a dismissal does not; registering through the default-session call instead leaves the receipt window to run out with `{ reopened: false }`. Every bit the package reads off a host's reopen verdict is read once, inside the guard: a bit whose getter throws (or a proxy that throws) is treated as absent, so the self-heal still settles — with exactly the outcome it would give if that bit were missing — and the rows never throw, including for an outcome the host built itself; a plain verdict lands in the queued-steer outcome byte for byte, key order and any extra keys the host added included, a key whose getter throws is the only one left out, and an own key literally named `__proto__` is copied as a key rather than changing the copy's prototype; symbol keys are copied too and a verdict with a null prototype stays one (compared key by key, value by value and by prototype, not through JSON); and an outcome whose `reopened` property itself cannot be read is phrased as if it had none. The two reopen-failed outcomes carry `errorCode` only when the reopen gave up because a request failed — the outer wire code of that request (a folded policy code is read through `blockedBy`), taken from a reopen port that threw, from the host verdict's `_sema_errorCode`, or from the stale-park arm's own three requests; a later request that changed what the reopen gave up on (the poll finally answered, the row appeared), a failure with no wire code, a reopen port that failed after the caller had already aborted, and the three judgment refusals (answer in flight, user-closed card, no view) all leave it absent, while a read that only confirms (the row is still pending after a failed decision) keeps it; only a request that failed counts, never a field that cannot be read on a record that did come back; and every row is byte-identical with or without it. The error objects the self-heal leg reads (thrown by the run lookup, the steer and the cancel) are read inside the guard too: a `status` or `message` whose getter throws, or a proxy that throws on any read, is treated as absent, so the self-heal still settles instead of rejecting, and the at-most-once failure class reads such an error as delivery unknown; the same goes for the run record a successful lookup returns — when its `status` cannot be read, the self-heal treats it as a record without a status rather than rejecting — and for a steer receipt, whose two readers answer `null` for a field they cannot read. When the delivery of a steer is missing, unreadable or an unknown word, the injected-submission line says the message was accepted but its delivery was not reported and to watch that reply before deciding whether anything needs sending again, instead of the handed-over wording, and it never says nothing is needed, with or without a follow declaration. |
 | `scripts/run-terminal-identity-copy-test.mjs` | Terminal-state **identity**, in both lanes where a stop gets a name. A run stopped by this deployment's own governance knobs — the open-set `limits.*` family, `output.invalid`, and the `blocked` contract terminal a ReportBlocked agent produces — is not a provider failure, and labelling it `API Error:` sends the reader to check the network, the key and the quota when the handle is the `--max-turns` they passed themselves. Those terminals now render a neutral row; the reverse direction is guarded just as hard, because asserting "this is *not* an API error" on a code the package does not recognise is the same misfiling pointed the other way — a real `gateway HTTP 502`, a `conflict.session_active_run` and any unknown code all keep the `API Error:` prefix, and the row keeps its `_sema_api_error_message` class flag (spelled `isApiErrorMessage` before 0.83.0) so brief-mode visibility filtering does not silently drop it. The second half is who the rejected submission belonged to: the self-heal copy told every caller "Your message was NOT sent … send it again", which is three separate untruths for a system injection (a plan-review outcome, a cron wake-up, a task notification) — not the user's message, and not re-sendable, since a host queue marks those non-editable and non-recallable. The injected form says so instead, and the one sentence that promises re-delivery is pinned to the single disposition that earns it: `selfHealSubmissionDisposition` is the same function the host consults before putting the item back on its queue, so the promise and the behaviour cannot drift apart, and the arms where no card could be surfaced state plainly that nothing was delivered and nothing will retry. Since 0.72.6 the same gate pins the **follow intent** after a steer (): a message handed to a live run only pays off if someone tails that run's own event stream, so `steerFollowIntent` decides from the delivery word whether to tail now, after the pending decision, or only after a wake — and the "watch that run" sentence ("watch that reply" on the rows about follow-up messages sema sent on its own) turns into a factual "sema is following that run" ("… that reply") **only** when the host declares it attached that tail, so a shell that did not wire it can never claim it did. Since 0.83.0 the rows about follow-up messages sema sent on its own carry no engine-internal words and say what happened per delivery shape, promising a resend or "nothing for you to do" only where the code guarantees it |
-| `scripts/run-additive-key-passthrough-test.mjs` | The one disease shape behind two legs: a **closed whitelist / flattening arm** dropping a fact that is already on the wire, while both sides of the seam look correct. (1) The `task_progress` projection carries a registered **key ledger** — a frame populated with every key the service really projects is pushed through the shipped `eventToSdkMessage`, and the set of wire keys that survive must equal the registered pass-through list **name for name in both directions**, so quietly forwarding one more key is as red as quietly dropping one. `model` (the child run's model id, minted by core as `prepared.model.id` and projected by the server since 7.52.1) is the key this batch adds, with the same conditional the server itself applies: a non-empty string or no key at all — an empty string is neither a model id nor "unknown". The ledger is also checked against the fenced list in `docs/INTEGRATION-CLIENTS.md` §3d, so a doc that still says seven keys while the code forwards eight is red rather than merely stale. (2) The decide-failure arms carry the server's S-02 `currentPending` pointer key from a 409 `approval_stale` refusal onto the outcome the host reads. The reader is structural rather than `instanceof`, because the client is host-injected and the class identity is not this package's to assume; a half triple never mints (half a pointer cannot relocate anything), an empty string is not presence, and `checkpointToken` never transits. Both the allow and the deny leg are driven end to end through the real durable approval path — as is the accept-session leg, where a refusal carrying the pointer key must now re-raise instead of silently re-sending the human's answer for the **old** card as a plain approve (one decide call, pointer preserved), while a legacy 400 still falls back exactly as before — and all three flattening points must call the one shared reader — the same-shape residue check that makes "fixed one arm and left the twin" red instead of invisible. (3) The same disease growing on the REQUEST side: the `.mcp.json` → server-spec projection rebuilds each server key by key, and the settings schema deliberately leaves some keys parse-transparent — whatever JSON the file carries reaches the engine untouched, because validating them where the whole domain parses all-or-nothing would let one bad declaration take every server down silently. The whitelist had no row for the newest of them, so an operator's per-tool declarations — the ones the write fence reads — were stripped at the package boundary while both sides looked correct. The criterion is not "is that key handled" but the transparent-key table read out of the INSTALLED schema at runtime, reconciled name-for-name against this leg's ledger, so the day upstream adds a third one this turns red and forces an explicit decision. Behaviour is pinned on both transports, by object identity rather than deep equality (a rebuild would be a second judge), and malformed values must transit UNCHANGED rather than be refused here — the engine refuses them loudly and names the server, whereas a package-side judge can only swallow a declared protection quietly. Absence still mints no key, unknown keys still never reach the wire (the fix is the dropped key, not the gate), and the one transparent key this leg deliberately does not forward is a ledger entry with its own exit condition: it belongs to the deployment plane, and the day the request-plane type declares it the entry's premise is gone and the gate says so |
+| `scripts/run-additive-key-passthrough-test.mjs` | The one disease shape behind two legs: a **closed whitelist / flattening arm** dropping a fact that is already on the wire, while both sides of the seam look correct. (1) The `task_progress` projection carries a registered **key ledger** — a frame populated with every key the service really projects is pushed through the shipped `eventToSdkMessage`, and the set of wire keys that survive must equal the registered pass-through list **name for name in both directions**, so quietly forwarding one more key is as red as quietly dropping one. `model` (the child run's model id, minted by core as `prepared.model.id` and projected by the server since 7.52.1) is the key this batch adds, with the same conditional the server itself applies: a non-empty string or no key at all — an empty string is neither a model id nor "unknown". The ledger is also checked against the fenced list in `docs/INTEGRATION-CLIENTS.md` §3d, so a doc that still says seven keys while the code forwards eight is red rather than merely stale. (2) The decide-failure arms carry the server's S-02 `currentPending` pointer key from a 409 `approval_stale` refusal onto the outcome the host reads. The reader is structural rather than `instanceof`, because the client is host-injected and the class identity is not this package's to assume; a half triple never mints (half a pointer cannot relocate anything), an empty string is not presence, and `checkpointToken` never transits. Both the allow and the deny leg are driven end to end through the real durable approval path — as is the accept-session leg, where a refusal carrying the pointer key must now re-raise instead of silently re-sending the human's answer for the **old** card as a plain approve (one decide call, pointer preserved), while a legacy 400 still falls back exactly as before — and all three flattening points must call the one shared reader — the same-shape residue check that makes "fixed one arm and left the twin" red instead of invisible. (3) The same disease growing on the REQUEST side: the `.mcp.json` → server-spec projection rebuilds each server key by key, and the settings schema deliberately leaves some keys parse-transparent — whatever JSON the file carries reaches the engine untouched, because validating them where the whole domain parses all-or-nothing would let one bad declaration take every server down silently. The whitelist had no row for the newest of them, so an operator's per-tool declarations — the ones the write fence reads — were stripped at the package boundary while both sides looked correct. The criterion is not "is that key handled" but the transparent-key table read out of the INSTALLED schema at runtime, reconciled name-for-name against this leg's ledger, so the day upstream adds a third one this turns red and forces an explicit decision. Behaviour is pinned on both transports, by object identity rather than deep equality (a rebuild would be a second judge), and malformed values must transit UNCHANGED rather than be refused here — the engine refuses them loudly and names the server, whereas a package-side judge can only swallow a declared protection quietly. Absence still mints no key, unknown keys still never reach the wire (the fix is the dropped key, not the gate), and the one transparent key this leg deliberately does not forward is a ledger entry with its own exit condition: it belongs to the deployment plane, and the day the request-plane type declares it the entry's premise is gone and the gate says so The prose probe reason on approval asks (`probeReason`: live frames from server 7.115.0, and the durable pending row's risk descriptor) lands on the same card field from both legs, byte for byte, never as an empty string, read from own keys only. A display field that throws when read (a getter or a proxy trap) is treated as absent: the card is still shown and the decision is still sent. |
 | `scripts/run-esc-halt-plan-test.mjs` | The Esc stop decision every client shares: fire the **turn-level** halt first, and escalate to a **run-level** cancel in exactly two cases — the engine itself answered with a 409 from the closed code set (it is saying "there is no in-flight turn here; use cancel for a run-level stop"), or that shot came back with no verdict at all *and* the shell can independently prove a permission card was on screen. Everything else does not escalate. The asymmetry is the whole point and every negative control guards the same direction — deciding *not* to escalate costs the user one more choice on a busy-session card (recoverable), deciding to escalate wrongly tears down a run that was alive and takes every in-flight tool with it (not). So: the closed code set is a **frozen** value, not a `ReadonlySet` — type-level immutability does not stop a consumer's `.add()`, and the guard proves it by really trying to mutate the exported value and then checking the verdict did not drift; the escalation gate is the **conjunction** of that closed set and the 409 status, since honouring the code alone lets a 500 that merely quotes it drive a destructive call; `interrupt.not_held` and `steering.not_running` are deliberately outside the set (the first means *this replica* has no live face — the run may be perfectly alive on another); an unreadable code falls to the no-escalation side; a `parked` flag never overrides a verdict the engine did give, and only strict `true` counts when it did not. The first shot is unconditional by construction — it does not consult `parked`, because the 409 it earns is exactly the verdict the gate wants — and the verdict itself is a closed machine-readable reason word, not display copy. A third escalating case was added once tearing the stream stopped reaping the run: with detach armed, a shot that never lands leaves the run going all the way to the end of the turn, so the Esc the user pressed has no effect at all and nothing on screen says so — the old behaviour had a silent backstop (tearing the stream ended the run) and that backstop is gone. The new fact is held to the same three disciplines as `parked`: it is read only where the engine gave no verdict, it is judged **after** `parked` so an existing host's reason word does not change under it, and only strict `true` counts. Absence is proven to be a no-op rather than asserted — the guard carries its own reference implementation of the previous version's table, runs the full grid through both, requires zero divergence when the new field is omitted, and first shows the comparison really does report a difference on the one cell where the two versions are meant to differ |
 | `scripts/run-peer-frame-projection-test.mjs` | The three engine-injected lanes design/385 puts on the **one** `task_notification` carrier, which are not the same kind of thing at all: a delegated child's uplink (`agentMessage`), another session's message drained from this session's own box (`crossSessionMessage`), and a receipt about one of *this* session's own outbound messages (`crossSessionNotice`). The engine renders none of them inside a `<task-notification>` shell, so a client that projects them as the generic completion card shows "background task finished" while the model read a colleague's sentence — two faces describing different events. The discriminator is pinned to the **typed carrier being present**, never to the `summary` text: those carriers can only be minted by the engine's injection legs (the external `notify()` input is a strict subset of the payload and can wear none of them), while `summary` is filled by every notification there is — so anchoring on text would let any background task impersonate a colleague's message by writing `<agent-message from="…">` into its own summary, and a positive control asserts exactly that payload still projects as the generic card. Fail-closed has two tiers rather than one: a broken **required** field (empty `from`, a non-string `body`, a notice `kind` outside the closed set) returns absence so the caller falls back to the generic card — an honest downgrade where the user still sees the notification — while a broken **optional** field drops only itself, because losing an attribution note and losing a colleague's whole message are not the same magnitude. The provenance side record is **required and must agree on four points** (`kind` matches the lane; `from`/`taskId`/`seq` are present and equal the carrier/payload — each equality is anchored on a core mint site and pinned by the cli wire-anchor A-K24), so a carrier signed with a trusted name but a disagreeing provenance falls back to the generic card; peer bodies pass the same authority-envelope neutralization core applies (`<task-notification>` etc. are defused) so a colleague's text can never seed the resume dedup ledger. Lane precedence copies the engine renderer's own order, because the model already read the frame in that order and a client ordering of its own would put a card on screen that disagrees with the frame the model saw. Rendering and parsing of the transcript line live in the same module and are round-tripped in both directions, including a body carrying a forged closing tag (a parser fooled there hands half a message to the next row) and a quote inside the sender label (which must not forge a second attribute); the notice lane is deliberately kept **out** of the parser, since recognising it would mean anchoring the `[Cross-session …]` prefix and a user typing that same line would be rendered as engine speech. Hostile carriers are read as own **data** descriptors only and accessors are never invoked at all — `catch` catches throwing, not never returning — proven by a counting getter that must stay at zero calls, alongside a revoked proxy and a prototype-only carrier; and four legacy payload shapes assert the no-carrier path is byte-identical to before, which is the executable form of "zero difference for an older host". A re-supplied cross-session message — same task id, status and sequence as the first delivery, handed to the model again after compaction — is not rendered a second time, because the first delivery is still on the user's screen; a record with the next sequence number still renders |
-| `scripts/run-wiring-manifest-projection-test.mjs` | The two end-user facts carried on the engine's `wiring_manifest` frame (`modelGate`: which tools this run's model gate removed and the verbatim restore hint; `autoMode`: whether auto mode is actually armed and the engine's own reason word). Projection: both sections ride as `_sema_`-prefixed superset keys, verbatim, and no SDK-named key is minted; a frame where neither section is well-formed projects to `none/not_in_slice` (no empty arm); `modelGate` needs all three keys and treats `removed: []` as a bad value rather than a reading; `autoMode` needs a boolean plus a non-empty reason that agrees with it, and the reason word is never mapped onto the capabilities vocabulary; the frame is flat (a nested `manifest:{}` wrapper is not a supply); `eventId` rides like every other arm. Adapter: exactly one chrome event on the main lane, a sub-flow frame (any `parentToolCallId`, `null` included) yields nothing, and an absent `eventId` leaves the key absent. Added at receiving time because the shell-side gate could not see this package's behaviour: two mutations (empty `removed` accepted, sub-flow gate removed) had passed the package suite untouched 0.71.0 adds sections F–I: the fourth/fifth/sixth manifest sections (`tools` via the roster reader, `hooks[]` rows dropped one by one when malformed, `lsp` absent unless `mounted` is a boolean), the `tool_roster_delta` arm (narrowed `delta`, `malformed` when `fromDigest`/`roster` cannot be read, host applies it against its own digest), the `context_usage` arm (finite-gated scalars plus `sections[]` rows dropped one by one), and the `WiringManifestMcpEntryView` rename with `MAX_AGENT_SKILLS` gone from the surface From 0.84.0 the `hands` section (whether this leg was assembled with the engine's built-in file and shell tools) is projected as well: a strict boolean `mounted` plus the engine's reason word passed through as written, absence kept as "not reported" rather than folded to either answer; a three-state reader and one sentence source share their opening and closing with the roster-derived sentence, whose bytes do not change. The sentence source answers the not-reported sentence for anything it does not recognise, including a roster-derived reading, and never throws. From 0.88.0 the `fileHistory` section (whether this leg records file history; `on` / `disabled` today, passed through as written for unknown words) is projected as well: present only as a non-empty own string, absence kept as "not reported" rather than folded to `disabled`, malformed values dropped like the server drops them, the same view on the non-streaming submit receipt, and a leg built and published by an installed server package checked end to end when one is available. A `fileHistory` value that throws when read leaves only that section absent; the other sections of the same frame are still delivered on both the streaming and the submit-receipt paths. The server-minted `instructions` section (which instruction file the leg loaded) is projected verbatim as a frozen copy, an explicit empty selection stays an empty list, absence stays absent, a malformed section is dropped without touching its siblings, and a frame carrying only this section still becomes an event. |
+| `scripts/run-wiring-manifest-projection-test.mjs` | The two end-user facts carried on the engine's `wiring_manifest` frame (`modelGate`: which tools this run's model gate removed and the verbatim restore hint; `autoMode`: whether auto mode is actually armed and the engine's own reason word). Projection: both sections ride as `_sema_`-prefixed superset keys, verbatim, and no SDK-named key is minted; a frame where neither section is well-formed projects to `none/not_in_slice` (no empty arm); `modelGate` needs all three keys and treats `removed: []` as a bad value rather than a reading; `autoMode` needs a boolean plus a non-empty reason that agrees with it, and the reason word is never mapped onto the capabilities vocabulary; the frame is flat (a nested `manifest:{}` wrapper is not a supply); `eventId` rides like every other arm. Adapter: exactly one chrome event on the main lane, a sub-flow frame (any `parentToolCallId`, `null` included) yields nothing, and an absent `eventId` leaves the key absent. Added at receiving time because the shell-side gate could not see this package's behaviour: two mutations (empty `removed` accepted, sub-flow gate removed) had passed the package suite untouched 0.71.0 adds sections F–I: the fourth/fifth/sixth manifest sections (`tools` via the roster reader, `hooks[]` rows dropped one by one when malformed, `lsp` absent unless `mounted` is a boolean), the `tool_roster_delta` arm (narrowed `delta`, `malformed` when `fromDigest`/`roster` cannot be read, host applies it against its own digest), the `context_usage` arm (finite-gated scalars plus `sections[]` rows dropped one by one), and the `WiringManifestMcpEntryView` rename with `MAX_AGENT_SKILLS` gone from the surface From 0.84.0 the `hands` section (whether this leg was assembled with the engine's built-in file and shell tools) is projected as well: a strict boolean `mounted` plus the engine's reason word passed through as written, absence kept as "not reported" rather than folded to either answer; a three-state reader and one sentence source share their opening and closing with the roster-derived sentence, whose bytes do not change. The sentence source answers the not-reported sentence for anything it does not recognise, including a roster-derived reading, and never throws. From 0.88.0 the `fileHistory` section (whether this leg records file history; `on` / `disabled` today, passed through as written for unknown words) is projected as well: present only as a non-empty own string, absence kept as "not reported" rather than folded to `disabled`, malformed values dropped like the server drops them, the same view on the non-streaming submit receipt, and a leg built and published by an installed server package checked end to end when one is available. A `fileHistory` value that throws when read leaves only that section absent; the other sections of the same frame are still delivered on both the streaming and the submit-receipt paths. The server-minted `instructions` section (which instruction file the leg loaded) is projected verbatim as a frozen copy, an explicit empty selection stays an empty list, absence stays absent, a malformed section is dropped without touching its siblings, and a frame carrying only this section still becomes an event. The `fleet.subagentTranscripts` statement (from server 7.115.0: how long delegated sub-agent conversations survive) is passed through verbatim as an open word in a frozen `fleet` section; absence stays absent and is never read as `none`, and a malformed value drops only that section. |
 | `scripts/run-submit-wiring-manifest-test.mjs` | The non-streaming submit receipt can carry the run's opening wiring manifest (`TaskResult.wiringManifest`, additive on newer servers). `readSubmitWiringManifest` answers one of three: the key is absent on the receipt itself (older server, or a deployment whose engine never produced that frame) — not the same as unreadable; the key is present but cannot be read (not an object, or none of the twelve sections survive); or a manifest view. The view is the same shape the streaming lane's chrome event carries (minus its two envelope keys) and is assembled by the same code path, so both lanes agree byte for byte on the same object. Liveness fields ride through untouched — this reader never mints a liveness verdict — and an operator-shaped receipt with extra governance sections reads to the same view as a tenant-shaped one. A zero-tool roster is a real reading, not an absence. A receipt carrying only the `instructions` section reads as a manifest, an explicit empty selection is kept, and absence or a malformed section leaves the key out. |
 | `scripts/run-rule-offers-reader-test.mjs` | The narrowing reader behind the "don't ask again" options, now a public entry point rather than a card-port-only one. Hosts that render the frame themselves (a browser has no three-way terminal card) previously had to rebuild this reader on their side, and what it carries is a **redemption-safety** judgement, not a convenience: the batch arm is redeemed by **index**, so a reader that compacts the array after dropping a malformed entry makes the k-th option a person clicked and the k-th rule the server writes two different rules. So: a bad entry is dropped **on its own** (one bad option must not make a real one disappear) while every surviving entry keeps its **original wire index** — pinned from both ends, with the bad entries leading and trailing. A batch's *members* are the opposite: any malformed member drops the whole batch, because a conjunctive batch is one "yes" to all of them and a batch missing a member is a different grant; its honest-remainder count is a reading, not decoration, so a non-integer or negative value drops the batch rather than rendering a fabricated zero. An empty array, a non-array, an over-cap array and an all-bad array all read as **absence** rather than an empty list, because an empty list renders as "there is an option lane with nothing in it". The two wire generations are ordered by a rule, not a preference: the newer key wins outright, a newer key that is **present but unreadable** does not fall back to the retired key (borrowing the older material would pass someone else's options off as this request's), and a `null` newer key reads as absence so a relaying layer that serialises "missing" as null cannot delete the whole lane on older engines. The public entry is finally reconciled against **both** card-port legs on the same material, byte for byte, so the exported reader and the one the card sees can never become two. Two upstream vocabularies used to be **hand-copied** here, and both had fallen behind: a match word outside the copied pair dropped an otherwise valid option outright, and a batch carrying a directory-read member — a member kind the copy did not know — dropped the whole batch. Both tables now come from one place upstream and are re-exported verbatim, pinned in both directions: every word in the table must be accepted (a narrower copy reds on the words it never learned) and a word constructed to be outside it must still be refused (a reader widened to "any string" reds too), with the retired-key normalising leg sharing the same narrowing so the fix cannot land on one leg only. A member whose kind is genuinely unknown still drops **the whole batch and only that batch** — never one member, because a conjunctive batch one member short renders "yes to N" as "yes to N−1", and never the card, because the honest single beside it is intact — while a member from before the discriminant existed normalises to the historical kind rather than being refused. The additive per-segment reasons ride through verbatim, drop only the row that is malformed, and stay **absent rather than empty** when nothing survives, since an empty list would read as "confirmed nothing uncovered" while the count remains the only source of truth |
-| `scripts/run-resume-refusal-copy-test.mjs` | The **words** a client says when a resume is refused, minted once here instead of three times. The facts behind them already lived in this package; the sentences did not, so each client wrote its own — and those sentences answer a safety question (was my decision consumed, can this token still be redeemed), which is exactly the kind of answer that must not vary by client. Two closed sets meet here and the guard pins their relationship in both directions, because it is a premise rather than a coincidence: one set answers *can waiting help* (the codes the server mints a wait on), the other answers *what should a person be told*, they **intersect in exactly one code**, and each keeps a member the other must not have — a placement mismatch is never waitable no matter what arrives on the response, since its remedy is a changed argument rather than elapsed time, and a full governance window needs no prose because "you can wait" is the whole message. The overlapping code delegates its wait and its disposition to the existing reading rather than judging again: nine shapes of input drive both entry points and the two readings must agree byte for byte, the absent case included, because two judges always diverge somewhere. The wait is narrowed to the domain the server mints it in, which is **stricter than the shell's own copy was** — a zero now reads as no window rather than as "retry now", and the wake-up it would retry is an at-most-once action with real side effects. The third sentence is chosen by the disposition, never by the engine's prose: rewriting the message to either upstream branch's exact wording, with the window untouched, must leave all three sentences unchanged, while adding a window must change the third one and only the third one. The engine's folded resume refusal (`resume_blocked_by_policy`) gets its own reading — the original code as named, absent or unreadable — and a wording that neither claims nothing was consumed nor predicts whether a retry would pass. From engine `7.104` a folded admission refusal always names a code: when the underlying refusal carried none, the server fills in the generic code for its HTTP status. Those generic codes are not a specific check, so the sentence says the refusal did not name a more specific check (and shows the generic code in brackets) instead of presenting it as the check that refused the resume; the generic-code list is compared word for word, in both directions, with the server dispatcher that mints them. |
+| `scripts/run-resume-refusal-copy-test.mjs` | The **words** a client says when a resume is refused, minted once here instead of three times. The facts behind them already lived in this package; the sentences did not, so each client wrote its own — and those sentences answer a safety question (was my decision consumed, can this token still be redeemed), which is exactly the kind of answer that must not vary by client. Two closed sets meet here and the guard pins their relationship in both directions, because it is a premise rather than a coincidence: one set answers *can waiting help* (the codes the server mints a wait on), the other answers *what should a person be told*, they **intersect in exactly one code**, and each keeps a member the other must not have — a placement mismatch is never waitable no matter what arrives on the response, since its remedy is a changed argument rather than elapsed time, and a full governance window needs no prose because "you can wait" is the whole message. The overlapping code delegates its wait and its disposition to the existing reading rather than judging again: nine shapes of input drive both entry points and the two readings must agree byte for byte, the absent case included, because two judges always diverge somewhere. The wait is narrowed to the domain the server mints it in, which is **stricter than the shell's own copy was** — a zero now reads as no window rather than as "retry now", and the wake-up it would retry is an at-most-once action with real side effects. The third sentence is chosen by the disposition, never by the engine's prose: rewriting the message to either upstream branch's exact wording, with the window untouched, must leave all three sentences unchanged, while adding a window must change the third one and only the third one. The engine's folded resume refusal (`resume_blocked_by_policy`) gets its own reading — the original code as named, absent or unreadable — and a wording that neither claims nothing was consumed nor predicts whether a retry would pass. From engine `7.104` a folded admission refusal always names a code: when the underlying refusal carried none, the server fills in the generic code for its HTTP status. Those generic codes are not a specific check, so the sentence says the refusal did not name a more specific check (and shows the generic code in brackets) instead of presenting it as the check that refused the resume; the generic-code list is compared word for word, in both directions, with the server dispatcher that mints them, item by item and in order with the same-named list the SDK exports from 16.0.0, and word for word with the table in the server's wire contract. The SDK comparison reads the probe trees named by `SEMA_SDK16_ROOT`, `SEMA_SDK15_ROOT` and `SEMA_SDK15_ROOT_OLD` plus the installed SDK; when the full fixture set is required, having no SDK at 16.0.0 or later among them fails the check. Otherwise a comparison is reported as skipped only when its source is not configured or the server source predates the contract section; a configured source that is missing, unreadable or lacks the contract document fails the check. From server 7.115.0 the continue-only-an-existing-conversation refusals carry their own codes (404, and a 422 field conflict) and the reader takes the code first, falling back to the status-derived code plus the trailing marker only for older servers. A parked task the server can no longer continue in its stored form (409 `checkpoint.unsupported_version` with `retriable: true`) has its own reader and sentence, shaped like the reopen family and reading `retriable` the same single way: the sentence says the work is still waiting without promising that resending will continue it, and its way out depends on the parked kind and run id the caller supplies; the plan-review decision and the decide-failure note read this code the same way. For a plan review refused this way, the closing instruction no longer says the plan is still waiting for a decision; it says deciding again will not take effect and points to the way forward, and it comes from the same tail function as every other outcome. |
 | `scripts/run-resume-retry-later-test.mjs` | The two resume refusals that carry a **wait quantity** — the only members of that refusal family that do, which is the whole reason they form a closed set. Carrying a wait is not the same as being the only ones worth waiting on: a sibling refusal in the same family clears on its own and the engine says so in words, it just cannot put a number on it, so *not recognised here* must never be read as *waiting will not help*. One of the two also has a *terminal* upstream branch that arrives under the same code with the distinguishing detail only in prose, so recognition alone is not permission to say "try again": the disposition is decided by **positive evidence** and pinned from both directions — the quota-window code is evidence in itself, the preflight code counts only when the server really supplied a wait (an upstream fact, not a convention: the terminal branch throws with no detail at all, so a wait value cannot reach the client on that path), and a preflight refusal with no wait reads as *undecidable* (say what is true of both branches — nothing was consumed — and leave redeemability to the engine's own line) rather than being rendered as either a retry or an ending. Every other member means waiting will not help (change a setting, relaunch, the retained session is gone), so the recognition is a **closed set of two codes**: widening it to a family prefix would tell half the users to wait and the other half to keep waiting for something that will never arrive, and the negative controls drive exactly those codes through it, plus a same-named code on a different door (the submission-side quota refusal), the two underscore-form siblings, and a code merely quoted inside a message body. The wait value is narrowed to the same domain the server mints it in (a whole number of seconds, at least one): zero, a negative, a fraction and a non-number all read as **no window given** rather than as zero, because a zero tells the caller to retry immediately and the wake-up it would retry is an at-most-once action with real side effects. Reading is structural rather than `instanceof`, since the client is host-injected and the same class name across two bundles is two classes, and a null-prototype plain object must still be recognised. The failure classifier gains this one disposition without any existing one moving, an unknown code still falls to the honest open-set arm and its wait value is **not** believed, and an end-to-end call proves the disposition and the window reach the host while the call itself is still attempted exactly once. The recognised code set is a **frozen array**, not a type-level readonly set: the latter is a plain mutable collection at runtime and the decision reads the same instance, so one `.add` from any consumer would turn a refusal that waiting cannot fix into one that claims it can — the guard proves it by really trying to mutate the exported value and then checking the verdict did not drift |
 | `scripts/run-model-capability-probe-test.mjs` | Whether a model on the OpenAI-completions lane **thinks**, and whether that thinking can be **turned off** — a question nobody can answer by looking at a model name, and one whose wrong answer costs every later call. The probe is judgement only: the network half arrives as an injected port, so the package mints no URL, reads no credential and never calls `fetch` — pinned by a source-level assertion, because a package that reaches the network once has changed what every host must trust it with. The seven dialect words are a **copy**, reconciled element-wise against the installed engine’s own bytes in both directions, since the words belong upstream and a private table drifts the day a dialect is added; the settings package deliberately declines to restate them, so the table cannot be imported from there and this guard is what stands in for the import. The **order** the dialects are tried in is a public promise rather than an implementation detail — each extra attempt is real money and real latency against someone’s gateway — so the guard pins the exact call sequence a stub records, and reversing it reds on the wasted round trip; the template-parameter spelling leads because an observed gateway keeps thinking, and answers with an empty body, when handed the top-level switch instead. That observation is also why an empty answer is **not** accepted as *thinking is off*: a knob that deletes the reply is not a knob that disabled reasoning, and accepting it would write a spelling into the catalogue that the gateway does not honour. Two dialect words whose request bytes are identical to another’s do not each burn an attempt. The two verdicts that look alike are held apart from both directions: *tried everything, still thinking* requires at least one attempt to have **cleanly answered**, and when every attempt was refused the verdict is *could not tell* instead — and on the unanswerable path the result carries **no** thinking flag at all rather than a fabricated `false`, while the pure write-back returns the very same entry object untouched. A verdict that reasoning cannot be disabled **removes** a previously declared spelling rather than leaving it, since a refuted spelling keeps the engine sending bytes the gateway ignores while the catalogue still renders it as already off. Evidence is lengths, finish positions and status codes only — a planted secret in both the answer and the reasoning channel must appear nowhere in the result, so the record can go into a log or a ticket whole. One cross-package premise is checked by really running the other package’s parser rather than quoting its documentation: everything this probe writes eventually passes through the settings schema on its way into a catalogue, and that field is declared parse-transparent precisely so the vocabulary can live on the consuming side. If it ever narrows, the spelling is stripped **silently** — indistinguishable from the probe never having run — so the guard feeds the probe’s real output through the real parser, checks the compat object comes back key for key, and checks a dialect word this client has never heard of survives too. Two shapes that must be rejected really are rejected, since otherwise the survival checks would hold on a parser that accepts anything, and a bare entry is asserted valid first, because the first run of this section reddened on a space in a fixture’s name — a fixture that cannot pass would disguise the real alarm as already having fired |
 | `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" |
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 | `scripts/run-assistant-arm-identity-test.mjs` | The identity keys on an assistant row, and an explicit account of the two that are **deliberately not** there. What the renderer received was a bare role-and-content object, so a dozen consumer sites downstream were each estimating what the message envelope should have told them. The id is taken from the engine's own event id rather than minted locally, because it has to be **the same value** on the live leg and on a durable replay — a freshly minted one would make a replayed message look new to a host's dedup and to rewind — and when the wire carries none the key is simply absent rather than filled with a random stand-in wearing an identity it does not have; it is also kept distinct from the envelope's own local render key, which is a different identity. The model name comes from what the host pinned when it opened the stream (the request was the host's to build) and is never guessed, since a wrong model name is worse than none once a billing or capability face looks it up. Usage and stop reason are **not** minted on this arm, and the reason is frame order rather than effort: content arms arrive before the turn's closing frame, so at the moment the arm is emitted the engine has not yet said what the round cost — anything put there would be an estimate, which is the very thing this work exists to remove — and synthesising a follow-up assistant update when the real figure lands is also refused, because that shape does not exist upstream and would place a message in the transcript the engine never sent. Their real values leave through the turn's own neutral arm as two superset keys, the usage one reusing the **same single mint point** the footer rollup already folds so the two faces cannot diverge, and the stop reason passed through verbatim as an open set — the machine signal for *was this turn cut short*, previously blind on both the stream and the trace. The existing behaviours beside them are pinned too: no arm at all when usage is wholly absent, and the sub-flow cut-out that keeps a child's turn from driving the leader's face |
 | `scripts/run-text-segment-authority-test.mjs` | The **authoritative segment replacement** on `text_end` (server >=7.75.3). `text_end.content` now goes through the same redactor as `result` and the ledger while `text_delta` stays verbatim, so the two **may differ** — an answer that quoted a credential used to be committed to the local transcript in its unredacted form, because the arm only forwarded the boundary signal. Six timing shapes are pinned, two of which an adversarial review reproduced against the installed engine's real bytes and which the first design got wrong in both directions: a second boundary in the same turn (the per-block case on one provider lane) used to make the first segment's prose vanish, and a boundary that arrives *after* the tool card (the other lane emits it at finalize) used to be read as "this package never handled that segment" and reported nothing at all. Three additive keys, all never-false; the two shapes that look alike are told apart by the second one, because the host's action in them is the opposite. The end-to-end legs drive the real pipeline without hand-inserting a segment commit — doing so is exactly what hid the first defect. A second review round then found two combination timings on top of the first fix — a tool card followed by *more* deltas in the same segment, and a byte count that had been documented as a message count — and both are pinned here too. A third round caught a length that the prose called bytes while the code returned UTF-16 units — harmless in ASCII, and on CJK text enough to leave the credential on screen — plus a backfill ledger that had to be kept in step, so the terminal frame does not re-render the segment a second time — kept in step only where the whole stretch sits in one message, because those ledgers are per-message and a fourth round showed that writing across them charges one message's prose to another. A fifth round settled the whole class into one invariant the guard now checks against the previous release's behaviour: this package only rewrites bytes it is still holding in the current message — once a segment has crossed a package-side boundary it emits the three keys and changes nothing else **0.68.2 (CC-01):** the segment identity is now minted here, not by the host: every committed assistant text row carries a top-level `_sema_segment_id` (stamped once at the `adapt()` exit, so the durable whole-message leg and the streamed-segment leg are covered alike; thinking blocks, tool_use-tailed rows and chrome events are left byte-for-byte), `text_segment_end` carries the same value as `segmentId` before rotating, subagent boundaries never rotate, and a replayed stream yields the same identities. Three mutations (no rotation / no stamping / stamping tool_use rows) each turn the guard red **0.69.0 (CC-02):** the same authority replacement now covers the reasoning face (`reasoning_end`, server >=7.77.0): a thinking block still buffered is swapped whole and its live tail recomputed; one already committed at a boundary (the usual timing, since the first text delta commits it) is left untouched and the host is told the row to replace by its uuid, never re-emitted. Subagent boundaries are ignored and the text-segment identity does not rotate **0.69.1 (CC-09):** the run-stream replay guard still drops a frame whose event id was already seen, but it now reports the drop through the host's dropped-frame sink as `duplicate_seq` instead of vanishing silently (server 7.77.0 reuses the first reasoning delta's id for `reasoning_end`, so that authoritative segment is lost on the print lane until 7.78.1); the interactive adapter has no such guard and keeps receiving it **0.69.1 (CC-10/CC-11):** subagent segment-end frames are fenced on all three identity keys (a frame carrying only `sourceTaskId` no longer masquerades as the leader's), and a reasoning segment that spans tool cards now hands the host every committed row it covers (`committedUuids`) so nothing unredacted is left behind |
 | `scripts/run-gate-negative-controls-test.mjs` | Whether the registry-shaped guards among the suites above actually turn red when the material they check really breaks — a census found the ones clean enough to rehearse safely (closed sets, mirrors, baselines, floors, a type-shape ratchet) without touching any judgement code. Each is exercised by tampering a disk copy of the real material, spawning the guard's own unmodified script, asserting it exits non-zero and names the disease, then restoring the file byte-for-byte. The guards of the same shape that are too costly to rehearse, and the behaviour/projection suites that red on their own assertions, are catalogued rather than rehearsed — see `docs/GATE-NEGATIVE-CONTROLS.md` for the three tables (all generated from `gates-manifest.json`, which carries each suite's classification), the reasons, and a one-minute manual replay recipe for each blind one. The suite reconciles its case list against that classification by name in both directions, so a case quietly dropped from the array without the manifest following is itself an undeclared blind guard. The backup that makes the restore possible is taken by **exclusive create**: checking for it and then copying are otherwise two steps, and two instances can pass the check together — the later one overwrites the only clean copy with material the earlier one has already tampered, and the rehearsal that promises to leave no trace leaves a permanently corrupted file instead. That interleaving is rehearsed too, in a throwaway directory of its own. A run that is interrupted — by the suite runner's time limit, by Ctrl-C or by its terminal closing — restores what it was in the middle of tampering with before it exits: the rehearsed guard's whole process group is stopped first, so nothing that guard started can write the tampered state back afterwards; the file is restored byte-for-byte from its backup and the backup removed only once the bytes match; the build output is regenerated from the restored sources within the grace period the runner allows (a rebuild that would overrun it is cut short, its compiler stopped, and the run says the build output was not regenerated); and the run exits with 128 plus the signal number rather than passing. Before the first rehearsal the suite also looks for backups left behind by an earlier run that could not clean up — in the trees its targets live in, following a symlinked dependency directory — and if it finds one it refuses to start, names the file and how to check and restore it, and leaves the backup untouched rather than overwriting what may be the only clean copy. |
-| `scripts/run-engine-cap-reader-factory-test.mjs` | The one shared implementation behind every capability reader's four ports (cache, generation gate, probe tee, invalidation), exercised as a table: every reader in the table runs the *same* criteria (the table length is the source of truth, and a roster check fails the gate if any source file calls the factory without having a row) — the four states, a throwing projection treated exactly like an unreadable one (and never escaping the tee), the generation rules (a stale generation is dropped before the projection even runs; a projection that changes the generation mid-flight cannot overwrite the newer value, whether it returns or throws; the caller's `opts` is snapshotted once; and omitting the generation still writes, because that supply is additive and this refactor does not quietly tighten it), the top-level key's getter being read exactly once, a freshly minted "unobserved" reading on every miss (two misses are never the same object, so a consumer that mutates one cannot taint another base URL), one independent table per reader that never take each other down, invalidating one base URL leaving every other base URL's reading untouched, `forget`/tee being no-ops on an empty or non-string base URL, the read anchor being resolved dynamically, and the deliberate split in how presence is judged per reader. |
+| `scripts/run-engine-cap-reader-factory-test.mjs` | The one shared implementation behind every capability reader's four ports (cache, generation gate, probe tee, invalidation), exercised as a table: every reader in the table runs the *same* criteria (the table length is the source of truth, and a roster check fails the gate if any source file calls the factory without having a row) — the four states, a throwing projection treated exactly like an unreadable one (and never escaping the tee), the generation rules (a stale generation is dropped before the projection even runs; a projection that changes the generation mid-flight cannot overwrite the newer value, whether it returns or throws; the caller's `opts` is snapshotted once; and omitting the generation still writes, because that supply is additive and this refactor does not quietly tighten it), the top-level key's getter being read exactly once, a freshly minted "unobserved" reading on every miss (two misses are never the same object, so a consumer that mutates one cannot taint another base URL), one independent table per reader that never take each other down, invalidating one base URL leaving every other base URL's reading untouched, `forget`/tee being no-ops on an empty or non-string base URL, the read anchor being resolved dynamically, and the deliberate split in how presence is judged per reader. A stored reading is frozen at every level, whether it reports a value or reports that the position was not reported, so a consumer that writes to the object a reader hands out changes nothing for later readers (a strict-mode write throws); an unobserved reading is minted fresh on every read, and the capabilities body passed in is never frozen. |
 | `scripts/run-mcp-liveness-test.mjs` | The engine's **liveness observation** about each MCP server it hosts (`wiring_manifest.mcp[].liveness`, engine-side from core 7.24.3 / server 7.91.2): one reader, one word list, one leg-level verdict. The cell answers *can this server still be reached* — it is not the connect-time verdict beside it, which the engine deliberately freezes (a server that died mid-run still reads `connected`), and it is not a re-dial's judgement either, so `status: "failed"` next to `liveness.state: "reachable"` is a **real row**: the server answered the handshake and answered with a protocol error — up, and misconfigured. The three words are read as a closed set (an exchange completed / it was lost in transport or the clock / what came back does not answer the question), and a word outside it is malformed rather than rendered, because a word nobody upstream has defined is not a sentence worth putting on screen. **Absence is the fourth reading and is not one of the words**: it means *no liveness record is available*, which on the wire covers a server this leg never reached, a declaration that could not be dialled, an older engine, and a record the projection ahead of us dropped — all indistinguishable, so it is never read as "we looked and could not tell" (a strictly stronger claim), never as healthy and never as off. The failure-class footnote rides the unreachable word only, and one that turns up anywhere else, or that is malformed, loses **just the footnote** while the word and its timestamp stay: the honest reading is then "cannot be reached, reason not given", not "this record is broken". Malformed never becomes healthy: a cell that is present but unreadable marks its row and pulls the leg-level verdict back to *cannot tell*, since letting it sit beside a reachable row would report a leg as reachable on the strength of a record that may well have said the opposite. The verdict takes the worst fact first rather than a majority or the newest reading, carries no server count — so there is no fabricated zero to be read as "no problems" — and its timestamp belongs to **that leg's** observation, not to now: the engine runs no probe and adds no traffic of its own, so this is a per-leg snapshot rather than a heartbeat. The replayed roster on the session panel and the live leg go through the same reader, and the panel's own deployment-side rows carry no liveness position today, so the verdict does not borrow a word from that face. The word list is bitten in both directions where an installed witness exists and the absence of one is itself asserted against the installed engine's version, so the day it ships the comparison starts on its own; since sdk 11.2.0 the wire types declare the cell, and the word list and the presence test are pinned to those types at compile time in both directions, so the two can never drift apart |
 | `scripts/run-peer-lane-rules-write-capability-test.mjs` | Two more engine self-descriptions read the same four-state way as their seven sibling capability readers (`capabilities.peerLane`, `capabilities.permissionRulesWrite`): an absent key is not reported (an older engine that predates the position, never folded into `false`), `true` is present, `false` is a positive absent (the cross-session lane not being mounted on this deployment, or this particular call not being able to reach the tightening-direction write entry), and anything else is unreadable and drops the cell. Each carries its own single-source verdict (`peerLaneAvailable` returns `yes`/`no`/`unknown`; `permissionRulesWriteAvailable` collapses to a plain boolean, present being the only `true`). The write-entry position pairs with a boolean convenience port in the persisted-rules module, and this guard pins that port to derive from nothing but this one reader's own reading — never a conjunction with the lane-reachable position, and never a second read of the deployment-level existence signal the revoke surface uses (the two are documented as reading differently on purpose): a deployment where the lane answers true but the write entry's key is simply absent (an older binary) must still come back `false`, a deployment where the write entry answers true while the lane key is entirely unseen must still come back `true` (proving no silent conjunction crept in), seeding only the general capabilities cache — never this reader's own feed — must still come back `false` (proving the convenience port cannot be satisfied by the wrong table), and passing an explicit `undefined` base URL must still come back `false` even while a different, already-installed engine target answers `true` for the same position (an adversarial pass found the naive forward of that parameter falls through to the reader's own convenience default, silently answering for whichever engine happens to be installed rather than the caller's absent target — the fix routes an explicit absence through the same empty-string path the reader treats as unobserved). |
 | `scripts/run-lane-proof-identity-test.mjs` | The **instance identity of a lane proof**: the main-lane proof is minted fresh on every emission. Previously a single module-level constant object was handed both to `laneOf(an unregistered task id)` and to some fifty main-lane emission points, so two unrelated consumers — across adapter instances, across streams, across turns — held the same object: writing a card id onto one of them was readable on the other, and the four opening main-lane events changed together. Nothing in this package writes to a lane proof and the known consumers only read it, so this is an **aliasing hazard on a published output surface** rather than an observed corruption — a consumer that uses the proof as an identity key, for dedup, or as a view-layer identity would conflate two unrelated rows without writing a single byte, which is precisely the half that freezing the object would not solve. The gate therefore anchors on instance identity: two independent adapter instances, two rows inside one instance, the same id read twice, and two arms in one beat are each distinct references; mutating one leaves the others byte-identical; and the subagent lane, which already minted fresh, is the control that proves the criterion discriminates. The main-lane **value** is unchanged — an unregistered id still answers `{lane:"main"}` with exactly one own key and still emits its events, so absence is not turned into a second kind of absence — with ordering pinned three ways (registered-then-read, read-then-registered with no retroactive edit of an already delivered proof, the same id twice) and the id failure classes pinned four ways (unregistered, empty string, absent, non-string, the last two emitting no panel event at all rather than an ownerless proof). Where one row emits **two** events — the terminal-tick and card-close legs, which each yield a lifecycle stop and a panel end — the attribution is decided once (a consumer binding a card between the two yields must not split one row across two lanes) while each event still gets its own proof, so a host consuming them one at a time cannot poison the second before it is even yielded. The run stream leg is covered as the same shape, and a syntax-tree check forbids reintroducing a module-level lane-proof object literal or a module-level `LaneProof`-annotated binding (judged on the type node, not on text, so a compile-time pin tuple that merely mentions the type is not miscaught), backed by a type-checker pass that also catches an un-annotated module-level cache such as `const x = mainLane()` while letting the callable factory itself through, while the module-private three-state sentinels of the untrusted read are frozen instead — only `Object.freeze` counts, never `Object.seal`, which still permits writes to existing keys — their exposure being confined to one module |
@@ -407,12 +407,12 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 | `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 a two-column table literal — a lead-in plus a reason clause — from which the full sentences are derived), 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. The reason clause on its own is available for clients that already print their own "was not sent" line: the full sentences and the generic fallback stay byte-identical to the previous release, every clause starts lower-case with no closing full stop, an unreadable cause gets the generic clause, and no full sentence may appear as a literal anywhere in the source. 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-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. When a read comes back without a usable record, one sentence per failure kind and per unreadable position says so in plain words, never naming internal codes, never saying the record is empty, and falling back to one general sentence for anything it does not recognise. |
 | `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 |
 | `scripts/run-mcp-probe-face-test.mjs` | The engine's **run-free MCP status face** (server ≥7.93.0, sdk 11.2.0): the `capabilities.mcpProbe` bit read the same four-state way as its eleven sibling capability readers, and two call ports on top of it — read the deployment's own declared servers, or probe a caller-supplied list. Presence of the bit is carried by the engine version, so an **absent key means an older engine** (that route answers a coded 404) and is read as *not reported*, never as *no*; an explicit `false` is the engine's own no and is reported without inventing a reason (whether caller-supplied declarations are accepted is a different bit's question); a non-boolean is malformed and is dropped rather than folded into a no. The availability verdict answers only *should this call go on the wire*: an explicit no means zero requests, and both kinds of *cannot tell* are sent anyway, so an older engine answers with its own coded refusal instead of being silently skipped. One failure judge serves both ports and asks **provenance before status**: a 4xx, 501 or 503 that carries no machine code proves nothing about who answered and is reported as *no verdict*; twelve coded refusals each get their own arm (three identity codes, one of which sits outside the `auth.` family so a prefix fallback would miss it; three different treatments ride the same 400), and a coded answer this version does not recognise lands in *cannot tell*, never in *this engine has no such face*. Retry-after seconds ride 429 and 503 and are absent rather than 0 when the engine gave none. The 200 body is narrowed through the **same per-row narrower** as the streaming `wiring_manifest.mcp[]` leg and the session panel's replay leg, liveness cell included; on this face rows are paired with the submitted declarations **by index**, so a dropped row makes the whole answer unreadable rather than a half table, a row count that differs from the submitted count is reported as misaligned, and an honest empty `servers: []` is kept apart from *non-empty but nothing readable*. `probedAt` and `ttlSec` pass through untouched — this package mints no freshness verdict — the declaration list is handed over as-is with its length snapshotted once, a list that serialises itself differently from what was counted is refused locally with zero requests, and no port ever retries a dial. |
 | `scripts/run-sdk-wire-transit-test.mjs` | The package's pass-through of a few SDK names (`sdkWireTransit`), pinned: every value re-export is the **same reference** as the SDK's own (a client class the host recognises with `instanceof`, the two approval-frame predicates, the three session-bundle calls and the SDK error class), not a look-alike wrapper — wrapping would discard the one anti-drift guarantee a pass-through has; every type re-export is present by name in the emitted declaration file; the gate's list and the source file's export lists are compared in both directions so a name added to one without the other turns red; and a name the SDK does not export must fail the same test, so the gate is not vacuously green. |
-| `scripts/run-sdk-registry-transit-test.mjs` | The package's cloud control-plane surface (`sdkRegistryTransit`), which lives behind its own `./registry` subpath entry point rather than on the root barrel, and this guard holds both halves of that decision. Upstream publishes the same surface behind a subpath of its own, because the subject differs: the engine-wire surface speaks for one engine's service credential, this one for a person's rotating token, and their refresh and error semantics were deliberately never merged. Keeping it behind a second entry point means a client that never touches the control plane neither resolves nor type-checks it. Every value re-export is therefore read from the file the subpath entry actually resolves to, and must be the **same reference** as upstream's own (the control-plane client class, the three config reads, the health probe, the feedback call, the auth-path constant, the content-address helper, and the two typed error classes a host recognises with `instanceof`); every type re-export is compared with the emitted declaration file in both directions; the gate's list and the source file's export lists are likewise compared both ways; and the root entry is checked to carry none of these names, with the root barrel's own source checked to reference the entry file nowhere — a name leaking onto the root would put the cost of this surface back on clients that never asked for it. The subpath is then verified end to end: the installed SDK must really publish its own `./registry` entry and declare every transited name inside it, and this package's own `exports` must point that subpath at exactly the files the gate just judged. Portability is two checks rather than one, done with a parser rather than a text search: the upstream subpath's emitted JavaScript, walked recursively, must contain neither a `node:` specifier (static, side-effect, dynamic, `require` and re-export forms all exercised) nor a Node **global** — because the same package's third entry point is a Node-only surface that imports nothing at all and reaches for the `Buffer` global, so a specifier check alone would pass it as isomorphic, while a byte-level search of it reports two `node:` hits that live entirely inside a documentation example. A text scanner that merely strips comments first gets both directions wrong on ordinary JavaScript — a regular-expression literal containing a slash pair swallows the rest of its line, and the word in a string reads as a reference — so both scanners run off the syntax tree and are checked against fixtures for each failure direction as well as against that real material — including a dynamic import written with a template literal, which a check that accepts only quoted strings misses entirely, and a dynamic import whose target cannot be determined statically, which is refused rather than read as no edge at all. Zero-processing is likewise enforced with a syntax-tree allowlist rather than a keyword search: every top-level statement must be a named re-export carrying that one specifier, so an import followed by an in-place edit of the upstream prototype is refused with a file and line — that shape leaves the name lists untouched and even keeps the same-reference check green, since both sides are then the one object that was damaged. The last section measures, rather than merely notes, one declaration-level gap: two of the upstream subpath's declaration files reference a package the SDK lists only among its own dev dependencies. Moving such a check to a scratch directory is not isolation, because package resolution walks the ancestor directories, so the gate builds a sandbox served by a restricted compiler host and proves the isolation both ways — a decoy copy of the missing package placed one level above the sandbox must silence the errors for an unrestricted host and must not silence them for the restricted one. Then it installs this package into that same sandbox as a real consumer would, and pins the two readings that justify the entry-point split: a consumer that imports only from the root sees no unresolved-module errors at all, while a consumer that imports the subpath sees exactly the two, reported honestly rather than swallowed by this layer. The day upstream ships those declarations, that section turns red; the registered count is then updated and the section stays as a guard against a regression. The separation itself rests on the root closure being computed correctly, so the portability guard that computes it was extended in the same change: a template-literal dynamic import is followed like any other edge, and an edge whose target cannot be resolved statically is refused on every one of the four graphs — without that, a single line in a third file already reachable from the root would put this surface back into the root runtime while every guard stayed green. Since 0.84.0 the upstream subpath ships those declarations itself: the measured count is now zero, the section stays as a guard (a new missing declaration package turns it red again), the isolation proof uses a synthetic probe that imports only the decoy, and the gate also checks that no upstream subpath declaration references the missing package any more. |
+| `scripts/run-sdk-registry-transit-test.mjs` | The package's cloud control-plane surface (`sdkRegistryTransit`), which lives behind its own `./registry` subpath entry point rather than on the root barrel, and this guard holds both halves of that decision. Upstream publishes the same surface behind a subpath of its own, because the subject differs: the engine-wire surface speaks for one engine's service credential, this one for a person's rotating token, and their refresh and error semantics were deliberately never merged. Keeping it behind a second entry point means a client that never touches the control plane neither resolves nor type-checks it. Every value re-export is therefore read from the file the subpath entry actually resolves to, and must be the **same reference** as upstream's own (the control-plane client class, the three config reads, the health probe, the feedback call, the auth-path constant, the content-address helper, the two typed error classes a host recognises with `instanceof`, and — since 0.90.0 — the five sign-in and scope calls: device-code request, polling until approved, token refresh, scope listing and scope switch); every type re-export is compared with the emitted declaration file in both directions; the gate's list and the source file's export lists are likewise compared both ways; and the root entry is checked to carry none of these names, with the root barrel's own source checked to reference the entry file nowhere — a name leaking onto the root would put the cost of this surface back on clients that never asked for it. The subpath is then verified end to end: the installed SDK must really publish its own `./registry` entry and declare every transited name inside it, and this package's own `exports` must point that subpath at exactly the files the gate just judged. Portability is two checks rather than one, done with a parser rather than a text search: the upstream subpath's emitted JavaScript, walked recursively, must contain neither a `node:` specifier (static, side-effect, dynamic, `require` and re-export forms all exercised) nor a Node **global** — because the same package's third entry point is a Node-only surface that imports nothing at all and reaches for the `Buffer` global, so a specifier check alone would pass it as isomorphic, while a byte-level search of it reports two `node:` hits that live entirely inside a documentation example. A text scanner that merely strips comments first gets both directions wrong on ordinary JavaScript — a regular-expression literal containing a slash pair swallows the rest of its line, and the word in a string reads as a reference — so both scanners run off the syntax tree and are checked against fixtures for each failure direction as well as against that real material — including a dynamic import written with a template literal, which a check that accepts only quoted strings misses entirely, and a dynamic import whose target cannot be determined statically, which is refused rather than read as no edge at all. Zero-processing is likewise enforced with a syntax-tree allowlist rather than a keyword search: every top-level statement must be a named re-export carrying that one specifier, so an import followed by an in-place edit of the upstream prototype is refused with a file and line — that shape leaves the name lists untouched and even keeps the same-reference check green, since both sides are then the one object that was damaged. The last section measures, rather than merely notes, one declaration-level gap: two of the upstream subpath's declaration files reference a package the SDK lists only among its own dev dependencies. Moving such a check to a scratch directory is not isolation, because package resolution walks the ancestor directories, so the gate builds a sandbox served by a restricted compiler host and proves the isolation both ways — a decoy copy of the missing package placed one level above the sandbox must silence the errors for an unrestricted host and must not silence them for the restricted one. Then it installs this package into that same sandbox as a real consumer would, and pins the two readings that justify the entry-point split: a consumer that imports only from the root sees no unresolved-module errors at all, while a consumer that imports the subpath sees exactly the two, reported honestly rather than swallowed by this layer. The day upstream ships those declarations, that section turns red; the registered count is then updated and the section stays as a guard against a regression. The separation itself rests on the root closure being computed correctly, so the portability guard that computes it was extended in the same change: a template-literal dynamic import is followed like any other edge, and an edge whose target cannot be resolved statically is refused on every one of the four graphs — without that, a single line in a third file already reachable from the root would put this surface back into the root runtime while every guard stayed green. Since 0.84.0 the upstream subpath ships those declarations itself: the measured count is now zero, the section stays as a guard (a new missing declaration package turns it red again), the isolation proof uses a synthetic probe that imports only the decoy, and the gate also checks that no upstream subpath declaration references the missing package any more. Since 0.90.0 the five sign-in, token-rotation and scope calls are re-exported as well, with the same untouched re-export form, and the declaration file of the re-export is compared with the gate's value list in both directions. The problem that once kept those five out lived in the type surface, and reference equality holds just as well for a function whose result type has silently collapsed to `any`, so the gate reads each of three upstream generations separately (the installed one plus two probe trees named by environment variables): the five names must be functions in the generation's emitted JavaScript and value-level named exports in its declaration entry; the closure of relative edges (imports, re-exports, import types and path references) from the declaration files that declare them, including a hop out of the registry directory, must contain no bare module specifier; the re-export file, loaded in a scratch directory where the package resolves to that generation, must expose the same function objects as upstream and exactly the gate's list of names, with the neighbours upstream really exports beside them (logout, the grant-type constant, the in-memory token store, the admin class and the like) absent; and a typed probe in the clean-install sandbox must see real return and parameter types, using suppression comments that stay valid only if there is a genuine error to suppress. A missing name in any generation fails the gate rather than skipping; only an unset probe tree is reported as a skipped section, and a set one that does not resolve stops the gate as broken material. The three generations must also be three distinct versions, each at least the major its slot is named for: one SDK filled into two slots, or an older one into a newer slot, stops the gate as broken material instead of counting as extra coverage. Synthetic fixtures (a generation missing a name, a bare specifier in the declaring file and one a hop away, a path reference that points at nothing or pulls in a file with a bare specifier, a wrapper function, one name too many, an export entry pointing at nothing, the generation registry itself) prove the reader answers each case. |
 | `scripts/run-rule-removal-consequence-test.mjs` | The one sentence a rule-removal confirmation surface shows for what removing the rule will actually do: one line per behaviour the rule could have been enforcing, plus a neutral line for when that behaviour cannot be read back, so a caller that hits an out-of-set or missing value never falls back to a specific claim it cannot support. The guard compares the actual output against frozen text rather than merely checking that some string came back, so a dropped word or a swapped clause is caught the day it lands, and the four sentences are pinned pairwise distinct. The line for a rule that was denying something is pinned to say the removal widens what can run rather than echoing the wording used for a rule that asks again — the two are opposite directions, and sharing a sentence between them would tell the person confirming the removal the opposite of what is about to happen. The neutral line is checked from the other side for the same reason: it must not contain a word that belongs to only one of the three behaviours, because that would answer on behalf of a state the caller was unable to determine. The lookup that turns a raw stored or transmitted value into one of the three behaviours reads by strict equality only, proven with a fully trapped proxy and a counting getter to show it never touches a property on whatever it is handed, so a value with a legitimate-looking word sitting on its prototype chain is rejected exactly like any other out-of-set value rather than being unwrapped. A closing self-check mutates one character out of each frozen sentence and asserts the exact-match comparison actually fails on it, so the guard cannot pass by checking only that a string of some kind came back |
 | `scripts/run-mcp-engine-leg-test.mjs` | The two legs behind one row on the MCP detail card. In a two-process setup the servers are hosted by the **engine**, while the Status cell on the card reports **this client's own** connection to them, and the two are independent truths: this client failing to connect does not mean the server's tools are unavailable, and the engine leg on the same screen may be saying it completed an exchange moments ago. Two mints share the work. The first reads one server's liveness off the engine leg as six readings, and its load-bearing distinctions are three. **No roster that could be read end to end** (`null`, `undefined`, anything that is not an array, a length that is not a non-negative integer, a length beyond the scan bound, or rows that could not be read at all with nothing matched) is **not** the same as an **empty** roster, which is the engine leg's positive statement that it declared no servers; the same narrower that feeds this reader answers `undefined` when a non-empty section yields no readable row, so *I could not read it* never turns into *I know it is zero*, and a roster that was not read to the end never produces *this server is not on it*. **Could not be read is not the same as absent**: absence means only that the row carries no liveness key of its own, while a record that is present but unintelligible — a cell that is not an object, a word that is not a non-empty string, or a read that fails outright — is reported as unreadable and is decided before the observation beside it, since a record that may well have said the opposite is no evidence of reachability. **An ambiguous name is answered as ambiguous**: when a roster that was read end to end matches a name more than once, the reader reports the match count instead of picking one, because the upstream contract for the sibling MCP face states that names are not guaranteed unique, and picking optimistically would contradict the worst-fact-first verdict shown on the same screen. When a row's identity could not be read at all the reader makes **no claim about that name whatsoever**, not even a count, since the row it could not read may well be a second one carrying the same name — a row that is plainly not a row, such as a hole in a sparse array, is a different matter and leaves the roster complete. The observed word is passed through **verbatim as an open set**, so a fourth word one day arrives at consumers untouched. The second mint is the one sentence that goes under Status, and it appears **only** when this client's own connection really did fail — the other Status values already tell the truth, and a sentence on top of them would only muddy the verbatim health vocabulary. **The liveness observation outranks the tool roster, and having heard from the engine includes hearing that it could not tell, and hearing something unreadable**: a word meaning *looked and could not tell*, a word this version does not recognise, and a record that arrived but could not be read each get their own sentence rather than falling back to the roster, because falling back would say this client holds nothing at all while the diagnostics page shows that very record. A value that is not a reading at all is a different case and does fall back, since nothing then establishes that the engine sent anything. Only when liveness genuinely cannot speak does the roster get a turn, and the roster itself has four answers — tools were listed, nothing was said, the engine reported zero, and the count could not be read — because **unreadable, absent and zero are three different facts**. No sentence claims that nothing at all has been seen about the server, because on two of the readings that reach the roster the engine has plainly listed it; the sentence for a silent roster states only what this client holds. The nine sentences are pairwise distinct, each one names the engine leg, and **none of them renders the liveness word itself**. Membership of the word list is decided by the one shared predicate rather than a second copy, and the branch over the known words is pinned so that a new word upstream fails the build instead of silently taking the *not recognised* sentence. Neither mint ever throws, whatever a host hands it: every value is taken through one reader that accepts **own properties only** — an inherited key is not a wire fact, and one on a shared prototype could otherwise manufacture an engine observation or suppress a real one — reads each key exactly once, and keeps a read that fails apart from a value that is absent. The roster is walked by index rather than through the array's own `find`, the array test is guarded because it can throw on its own, and a length that overstates itself would otherwise spin forever |
 | `scripts/run-cc-message-key-census-test.mjs` | The one rule behind CC-shaped messages this package emits: every top-level key on a `user` / `assistant` / `result` / `system` message must be a member the CC SDK mirror (`@sema-agent/agent-types`) declares for that same arm, or one of this package's `_sema_`-prefixed additive keys, or a row in a dated transition table that goes red the day its retire version arrives. Mint sites are found syntactically (identifier, quoted and computed `type` names alike) and their key sets are resolved syntactically too — inline literals, both branches of a conditional, the nullish-coalescing and logical or/and operators, `const` initializers and every `return` of a helper — so a type assertion, a `Partial<Pick<…>>` narrowing or a computed name cannot launder a key past the check, while a spread the tool cannot follow (a parameter, a `let`, a member access) fails the tool, never the product. Arms that carry a `subtype` discriminator are checked against that subtype's own member set, so a key declared only for another subtype does not pass on the strength of the arm-wide union. The runtime section drives the real adapter pipeline and pins the tool-result record's SDK-spelled `tool_use_result` (the transitional camelCase twin rides along by reference until 0.83.0). A second runtime section feeds the same tool-result frame to both the interactive adapter and the non-interactive frame builder and requires the structured-result key and the no-output marker to be present together, absent together and equal on the two outputs, while the transitional camelCase name stays on the transcript record only; a static section checks a per-key routing table for the internal tool-result frame against the key sets resolved at the three mint sites, in both directions, and requires the non-interactive frame's structured-result value to trace back to the very same syntax node the transcript record uses — so recomputing or copying that logic on the non-interactive path fails even when the values happen to agree. |
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 | `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 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-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 one due-by version no more than three minor lines ahead (it fails once the package reaches it; that single field is the only one the guard reads for expiry, and the older retire-by and review-by fields that still sit on the rows for one more version are only checked to agree with 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 separate register lists same-meaning copies that carry a different name (a name-based comparison cannot see those): each row names the client declaration and the package export it duplicates, and fails when it is malformed, past its due-by version, or when the client no longer declares that name; the register only records and checks liveness and expiry, it does not scan for such copies. 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. Since 0.89.0 the same per-turn decision also gives every settings hook on an engine-fired event exactly one executor: a command, HTTP, prompt or agent hook from settings goes to the engine when the engine reports that it runs hooks sent with requests and either this client started the engine on this machine or this client cannot run that hook itself; otherwise this client runs it and the hook is left out of the request. A hook the engine is known to skip (a PowerShell command, or hooks the engine ignores entirely) that this client cannot run either is listed as not running; one the engine may or may not reach (capabilities not read yet, or a prompt or agent hook after the fourth one on an event) is still sent and not listed. The client learns which of its own settings hooks to skip from `settingsHooksKeptLocally`, which matches hooks by content against the request body only, returns the same array when nothing is skipped, and for the two compaction events follows whether the engine actually compacted. When the prompt was not written by the user, prompt-submit hooks from settings and plugins are left out on both sides. A host that reports events must also report which hook types its own executor runs on each event: with that table, a plugin hook it cannot run is reported as not running rather than as running in this client; without it, prompt and agent hooks from settings on engine events are treated as hooks the client cannot run and stay in the request for the engine. A settings hook whose required field is unusable (a command, URL or prompt that is not a non-empty string) is not assigned to either side and is sent unchanged, so the service still rejects it; malformed rows in a plan handed back by the host never make the not-running notice throw and never authorise skipping a hook; and a missing, empty or `*` matcher counts as the same match-all matcher when the client decides what to skip. A matrix over source, event, hook type, capability, engine ownership, host shape, prompt origin and compaction outcome checks that every hook runs at most once and exactly once whenever either side can run it, while the print lane and hosts without a local executor keep the previous request byte for byte. An optional leg runs the request body through an installed server's hook runner, current and previous release, together with the client-side skip, and counts one run per prompt. A plan in the previous release's six-key shape is read the same way by the request side and the skip side, so every hook it sends runs once; the client side of the skip reads groups and entries the way the client's executor does (class instances and inherited getters included); and on the two compaction events a prompt or agent hook past the engine's per-event limit runs in the client when the client can run it. |
-| `scripts/run-display-untrusted-projection-test.mjs` | The single display-safety outlet (`displayUntrusted`) and the credential wash on the end-of-run rows this package mints. The outlet composes two credential nets (URL structure: userinfo, every query value, the fragment, path parameters and path segments that start with a known secret prefix; key/value words such as `Authorization: Bearer ...`, `Authorization: token ...` or `api_key=...`, plus well-known secret literals that appear without a label, such as `sk-...`, `ghp_...`, `AKIA...`, JWTs and the body of a PEM private key) with three character nets (control characters, bidirectional and format characters, whitespace folding). The credential nets match on a view of the text with ANSI sequences, format characters, control characters and the outlet's own escape tokens stripped, and map the result back onto the original, so colouring or an invisible character wedged between a label, its separator and its value cannot hide the value, and no stray marker is left behind. Whitespace of any length around the separator is accepted. Hosts, ports, paths, query key names and surrounding prose stay byte-for-byte, clean text comes back unchanged, the result is idempotent (also with a length cap), a length cap never splits an escape token or a surrogate pair, an invalid cap means no cap, and every net can be switched off on its own. A few narrow shapes are left alone because they name something rather than carry a value (a plain English word after `bearer` or `basic`, a back-quoted credential variable name, a plain integer after `tokens:`, a list of key names after `keys:`), each with a counter-example that is still washed. Regional flag emoji built from tag characters are kept whole. The existing single-line helpers (`escapeDisplayControlChars`, `collapseLabel`, `capForDisplay`, peer sender names and the hook failure banner) now run on the same engine and are held byte-identical to their previous output over every BMP code unit plus random strings. The approval decision-note echo, the subagent resume receipt (and its failure debug line) and the startup list of plugin hooks that will not run now also drop bidirectional and format characters (and, for the receipt, C1 controls); a note that is empty after cleaning is treated as absent. The synthetic end-of-run rows (`API Error:`, `Run stopped:`, `Model output error:`, `Outcome unknown:`) and the result frame's `errors[]` pass both credential nets before they leave the package, on the print lane and on the interactive lane (which also keeps the row-class flag); this covers a blocked reason whoever wrote it, while assistant text rows, a successful `result` and salvaged output are never touched, and a non-string `errors[]` entry is passed through unchanged. The known-secret-prefix check is a local copy of the configuration package's detector and is compared with the installed one entry by entry. Since 0.83.5 the outlet has two opt-in switches and a position read-out. `escapeBackslashes` (escape form only) writes every literal backslash as a pair, so each output decodes back to exactly one input (a real invisible character and its literal six-character spelling no longer look alike); a reference decoder round-trips thousands of random strings, the output is byte-identical to the default when the input has no backslash, a length cap is measured on the paired output and keeps the longest fitting prefix, credentials are washed exactly as in the default, and the switch is not idempotent by design (use it only at the final render). Zero-width joiners and non-joiners are kept only inside emoji sequences drawn as emoji (so not between symbols such as © or ™ that display as text) and between letters of scripts where they change the shaping (joining scripts such as Arabic, and the Brahmic family), each listed script checked both ways; the one other place a joiner is kept is right after a virama at the end of a word, the older spelling still found in Malayalam and Bengali text. Next to Latin, Cyrillic, CJK and other letters, next to modifier letters shared across scripts, at the start of a word, at the end of a word without a virama before it, or on their own they are now marked. `blanks` marks characters that look like a space but are not an ASCII space (no-break and other width spaces, the ideographic space, Hangul fillers, the blank Braille pattern) before whitespace folding, for names that must never look alike. `displayUntrustedMarks` returns the same text plus the position of every character mark; its text is compared with the outlet over thousands of inputs. With both credential nets off, the character face stays byte-identical to the previous release for input without joiners. The credential nets read escape sequences the way a terminal would when one is cut short: an unfinished colouring or character-set sequence interrupted by another one is dropped as a whole, a sequence never takes the `@` of an address as its final character, and a final character that starts a well-known secret literal (`sk-`, `ghp_`, `AKIA`, a JWT) is also read as the start of that literal; escape tokens this outlet writes are read as one unit, while look-alike text it never writes (an upper-case `\U`, or a code point it never marks) is read as plain text. A URL is cut before a run of non-ASCII blanks followed by a credential label or scheme word, Hangul fillers and the blank Braille pattern count as spaces around a label's separator, and a value that itself starts with a quoted label (`token= "password":"..."`) is left to that inner label. With `blanks` on, a blank written as an escape token right after a label is read as a blank when the value is judged, so `password:` followed by a no-break space and `missing` stays unmasked and an empty value gets no marker; the credential nets also read the text the way it looks after default whitespace folding and combine what each reading masks, so whatever the default form masks stays masked with `blanks` on (checked over a seeded corpus for the escape form, with paired backslashes and without folding; the exceptions are text that itself contains a literal six-character blank escape, which cannot be told apart from one the outlet wrote, and the dot and space marks, which cannot tell a marked blank from a real dot or space). A lone surrogate wedged between a label, its separator and its value no longer hides the value: the credential nets treat it exactly like a format character, in the machine-readable wash, in a single pass of the display outlet, and on the end-of-run rows and the result frame's `errors[]` on both lanes, while lone surrogates anywhere else are left byte-for-byte. Since 0.84.1 an address-shaped value (`scheme://…`) that sits right after an invisible single character — a format character, a lone surrogate, a non-whitespace control character, or the outlet's own escape token for one — is no longer let through as an address: the scheme stays and the host and path are replaced, with the query and fragment masked as before; `user:<password>@` followed only by stripped units and then a boundary, a port or another `@` is masked as userinfo. A value after real whitespace or after a colour sequence is still treated as an address, and clean text stays unchanged; forms that the previous release masked are checked not to leak on the same outlets. A `user:<password>@` candidate that is the value of a credential label or scheme word — including a label or scheme word split by stripped characters, and a quoted value that goes on past whitespace — is left to the label pass, so the whole value is masked as in the previous release; both reported shapes and frozen samples from the targeted pools are checked on every outlet. A scheme-less `user:password@host` whose password holds a double quote, backtick or angle bracket is still masked when a credential label or scheme word sits right before the user name, or when the user name is a plain word that is not itself a label, the host has a real shape and the address is not wrapped by that quote; quoted JSON values, quoted or bracketed e-mail addresses and quoted arrays stay byte-identical. When a label inside a quoted value ends right at that value's closing quote, the quote and separator stay outside the mask, and an address that begins the rest of a quoted value counts as an address only up to the next blank, so washing the output again never changes it. The credential stage now repeats its single scan on its own output until nothing changes (the cap counts rewrites, at most eight; clean text takes exactly one pass), so masking the output again never changes it for every input that settles within the cap — the random, exhaustive and grammar pools and the two known step-by-step constructions settle in at most three passes counting the confirming one, and the searched constructions kept in the pool in at most six; a deliberately constructed input can need more rewrites as it grows, and at the cap the last rewrite is returned, which a further pass can only mask more of. The checks cover the pass cap and how reaching it is reported, single-pass clean text, a grammar sample of the busiest shapes, constructions that once advanced one step per pass, the mark positions on the final output and how positions compose across rewrites. A username that is itself a credential label with a quote or angle bracket in the password is masked as userinfo (also with only the URL net on) unless the label's own value really reaches the `@`; a URL parameter such as `;token=...` or `,token=...` stays inside the URL piece; a private-key header the outlet cannot recognise does not hide the labels inside its block; the tail glued after the host of a label's address value is masked to the value's end; and a value this package's own transcript wash split at a carriage return is masked when the display joins it back. A bare `Token <value>` / `token <value>` (no label, no separator) is now washed like `Bearer`, with a wider allow-list of ordinary English words after `token` so prose such as `token count: 1234` or `token expired` stays readable; a `/token` URL path tail followed by a status code is not a scheme word and stays as is, and neither is `token` right after `unexpected` in a parser error such as `SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<'`, which stays readable. The `token` scheme word only adds masking of its own value: label values and `bearer` / `basic` values are read exactly as in the previous release, so a value that starts with another character, or a `bearer` value, followed by `token`, a non-ASCII space and an address is still masked whole. |
+| `scripts/run-display-untrusted-projection-test.mjs` | The single display-safety outlet (`displayUntrusted`) and the credential wash on the end-of-run rows this package mints. The outlet composes two credential nets (URL structure: userinfo, every query value, the fragment, path parameters and path segments that start with a known secret prefix; key/value words such as `Authorization: Bearer ...`, `Authorization: token ...` or `api_key=...`, plus well-known secret literals that appear without a label, such as `sk-...`, `ghp_...`, `AKIA...`, JWTs and the body of a PEM private key) with three character nets (control characters, bidirectional and format characters, whitespace folding). The credential nets match on a view of the text with ANSI sequences, format characters, control characters and the outlet's own escape tokens stripped, and map the result back onto the original, so colouring or an invisible character wedged between a label, its separator and its value cannot hide the value, and no stray marker is left behind. Whitespace of any length around the separator is accepted. Hosts, ports, paths, query key names and surrounding prose stay byte-for-byte, clean text comes back unchanged, the result is idempotent (also with a length cap), a length cap never splits an escape token or a surrogate pair, an invalid cap means no cap, and every net can be switched off on its own. A few narrow shapes are left alone because they name something rather than carry a value (a plain English word after `bearer` or `basic`, a back-quoted credential variable name, a plain integer after `tokens:`, a list of key names after `keys:`), each with a counter-example that is still washed. Regional flag emoji built from tag characters are kept whole. The existing single-line helpers (`escapeDisplayControlChars`, `collapseLabel`, `capForDisplay`, peer sender names and the hook failure banner) now run on the same engine and are held byte-identical to their previous output over every BMP code unit plus random strings. The approval decision-note echo, the subagent resume receipt (and its failure debug line) and the startup list of plugin hooks that will not run now also drop bidirectional and format characters (and, for the receipt, C1 controls); a note that is empty after cleaning is treated as absent. The synthetic end-of-run rows (`API Error:`, `Run stopped:`, `Model output error:`, `Outcome unknown:`) and the result frame's `errors[]` pass both credential nets before they leave the package, on the print lane and on the interactive lane (which also keeps the row-class flag); this covers a blocked reason whoever wrote it, while assistant text rows, a successful `result` and salvaged output are never touched, and a non-string `errors[]` entry is passed through unchanged. The known-secret-prefix check is a local copy of the configuration package's detector and is compared with the installed one entry by entry. Since 0.83.5 the outlet has two opt-in switches and a position read-out. `escapeBackslashes` (escape form only) writes every literal backslash as a pair, so each output decodes back to exactly one input (a real invisible character and its literal six-character spelling no longer look alike); a reference decoder round-trips thousands of random strings, the output is byte-identical to the default when the input has no backslash, a length cap is measured on the paired output and keeps the longest fitting prefix, credentials are washed exactly as in the default, and the switch is not idempotent by design (use it only at the final render). Zero-width joiners and non-joiners are kept only inside emoji sequences drawn as emoji (so not between symbols such as © or ™ that display as text) and between letters of scripts where they change the shaping (joining scripts such as Arabic, and the Brahmic family), each listed script checked both ways; the one other place a joiner is kept is right after a virama at the end of a word, the older spelling still found in Malayalam and Bengali text. Next to Latin, Cyrillic, CJK and other letters, next to modifier letters shared across scripts, at the start of a word, at the end of a word without a virama before it, or on their own they are now marked. `blanks` marks characters that look like a space but are not an ASCII space (no-break and other width spaces, the ideographic space, Hangul fillers, the blank Braille pattern) before whitespace folding, for names that must never look alike. `displayUntrustedMarks` returns the same text plus the position of every character mark; its text is compared with the outlet over thousands of inputs. With both credential nets off, the character face stays byte-identical to the previous release for input without joiners. The credential nets read escape sequences the way a terminal would when one is cut short: an unfinished colouring or character-set sequence interrupted by another one is dropped as a whole, a sequence never takes the `@` of an address as its final character, and a final character that starts a well-known secret literal (`sk-`, `ghp_`, `AKIA`, a JWT) is also read as the start of that literal; escape tokens this outlet writes are read as one unit, while look-alike text it never writes (an upper-case `\U`, or a code point it never marks) is read as plain text. A URL is cut before a run of non-ASCII blanks followed by a credential label or scheme word, Hangul fillers and the blank Braille pattern count as spaces around a label's separator, and a value that itself starts with a quoted label (`token= "password":"..."`) is left to that inner label. With `blanks` on, a blank written as an escape token right after a label is read as a blank when the value is judged, so `password:` followed by a no-break space and `missing` stays unmasked and an empty value gets no marker; the credential nets also read the text the way it looks after default whitespace folding and combine what each reading masks, so whatever the default form masks stays masked with `blanks` on (checked over a seeded corpus for the escape form, with paired backslashes and without folding; the exceptions are text that itself contains a literal six-character blank escape, which cannot be told apart from one the outlet wrote, and the dot and space marks, which cannot tell a marked blank from a real dot or space). A lone surrogate wedged between a label, its separator and its value no longer hides the value: the credential nets treat it exactly like a format character, in the machine-readable wash, in a single pass of the display outlet, and on the end-of-run rows and the result frame's `errors[]` on both lanes, while lone surrogates anywhere else are left byte-for-byte. Since 0.84.1 an address-shaped value (`scheme://…`) that sits right after an invisible single character — a format character, a lone surrogate, a non-whitespace control character, or the outlet's own escape token for one — is no longer let through as an address: the scheme stays and the host and path are replaced, with the query and fragment masked as before; `user:<password>@` followed only by stripped units and then a boundary, a port or another `@` is masked as userinfo. A value after real whitespace or after a colour sequence is still treated as an address, and clean text stays unchanged; forms that the previous release masked are checked not to leak on the same outlets. A `user:<password>@` candidate that is the value of a credential label or scheme word — including a label or scheme word split by stripped characters, and a quoted value that goes on past whitespace — is left to the label pass, so the whole value is masked as in the previous release; both reported shapes and frozen samples from the targeted pools are checked on every outlet. A scheme-less `user:password@host` whose password holds a double quote, backtick or angle bracket is still masked when a credential label or scheme word sits right before the user name, or when the user name is a plain word that is not itself a label, the host has a real shape and the address is not wrapped by that quote; quoted JSON values, quoted or bracketed e-mail addresses and quoted arrays stay byte-identical. When a label inside a quoted value ends right at that value's closing quote, the quote and separator stay outside the mask, and an address that begins the rest of a quoted value counts as an address only up to the next blank, so washing the output again never changes it. The credential stage now repeats its single scan on its own output until nothing changes (the cap counts rewrites, at most eight; clean text takes exactly one pass), so masking the output again never changes it for every input that settles within the cap — the random, exhaustive and grammar pools and the two known step-by-step constructions settle in at most three passes counting the confirming one, and the searched constructions kept in the pool in at most six; a deliberately constructed input can need more rewrites as it grows, and at the cap the last rewrite is returned, which a further pass can only mask more of. The checks cover the pass cap and how reaching it is reported, single-pass clean text, a grammar sample of the busiest shapes, constructions that once advanced one step per pass, the mark positions on the final output and how positions compose across rewrites. A username that is itself a credential label with a quote or angle bracket in the password is masked as userinfo (also with only the URL net on) unless the label's own value really reaches the `@`; a URL parameter such as `;token=...` or `,token=...` stays inside the URL piece; a private-key header the outlet cannot recognise does not hide the labels inside its block; the tail glued after the host of a label's address value is masked to the value's end; and a value this package's own transcript wash split at a carriage return is masked when the display joins it back. A bare `Token <value>` / `token <value>` (no label, no separator) is now washed like `Bearer`, with a wider allow-list of ordinary English words after `token` so prose such as `token count: 1234` or `token expired` stays readable; a `/token` URL path tail followed by a status code is not a scheme word and stays as is, and neither is `token` right after `unexpected` in a parser error such as `SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<'`, which stays readable. The `token` scheme word only adds masking of its own value: label values and `bearer` / `basic` values are read exactly as in the previous release, so a value that starts with another character, or a `bearer` value, followed by `token`, a non-ASCII space and an address is still masked whole. When a credential label or scheme word is followed by a colon and a YAML block scalar header (`\|` or `>`, optionally with `-`, `+` or digits, invisible characters allowed between them, and nothing else on that line but blanks, invisible characters or a comment, ending in a line break), the whole indented block becomes a single marker: the block runs until the first line with visible content that is not indented deeper than the label's line, blank lines included, and the line break before that line and the line itself stay as they were on outlets that keep line breaks (outlets that draw line breaks as escapes or dots merge the next word into the marker, as they already do after any value). Raw and JSON-escaped line breaks are both read; blanks inside escape sequences or control strings never count as indentation, and a block line holding only a control string counts as content and is masked whole. Forms where the marker is followed by more text on the same line, `=`-separated forms such as `key = \|` or the `=>` arrow, and a header at the very end of the text read exactly as in the previous release. |
 | `scripts/run-ask-survives-posture-test.mjs` | The single posture predicate `askSurvivesPosture(card, facts)` for sessions whose standing mode would otherwise answer approval cards on the user's behalf (bypass-style modes). It reads two facts and returns one of three verdicts. The first is the ask origin stamped on the card: the question tool (`content_question`), an organization rule (`org_rule`), a hook (`hook`), an explicit ask rule (`ask_rule`), an organization policy or rule store that could not be read (`org_unavailable`, `rule_store_unavailable`) and the classifier's hand-off after its denial limit (`denial_limit_fallback`) must still be asked (the engine requires a real person to answer all three) and every other origin this build knows is left to the posture only once the host has also reported that its own ask rules did not match. The second is the host's own reading of its settings ask rules for this call: a positive match must be asked, and a command the host could not fully parse counts as no match. When the host reported no reading, every card outside those seven origins gets `unknown`, because an origin says who asked and not that the user's own ask rules did not match; an origin this build does not know gets `unknown` even after a reported non-match. `unknown` is never an approval: the host falls back to its own settings rules. The guard checks the verdict for every origin word, both with no host reading and with a reported non-match, against an independent table whose word set must equal the package's origin list, so a new upstream word fails the guard until it is classified; it covers the combinations of both facts, malformed inputs (non-boolean readings, empty or non-string origins, prototype keys, a different letter case), the fact that the predicate does not read the stronger bits on the card (those stay with the host's earlier checks), real card requests produced by the live-frame, parked-row and suspended-ask paths, and a closed, frozen verdict shape. Since 0.84.0 the product table itself is also checked against the SDK's runtime list of known origin words, so a word the upstream does not know cannot sit in the table. |
 | `scripts/run-engine-agent-absence-projection-test.mjs` | Absent background agents: when the engine stops reporting a background agent and no final state has arrived, the row is marked absent and this package owns every decision about it, so all clients agree. One predicate says whether a row is absent (the mark, not the status, decides). An absent row keeps its last known status, never counts as running, and is never counted as completed, failed or stopped; its elapsed time stops at the last moment it was seen, and its sentence says it may still be running. The end-of-turn sweep never settles an absent row (or a resident one). A row that comes back, or a real final state for the current cycle, clears the mark; a late final state from an earlier cycle does not. Absent rows are never removed at the short grace window. After the hard limit (30 minutes from the last time they were seen) the host is asked for the background-agent registry reading of each row: only a reading that the agent has ended or is not listed lets the row go, and each removal is returned as a fact the host must act on and announce; a reading of running, unknown, missing or unrecognised keeps the row and schedules nothing, so no standing poll is created. Until a registry reading is available every absent row stays. A row someone is viewing is held and reported separately only once the registry confirms it is gone. The row sentence, the removal sentence and the late-result sentence come from one place, never state an outcome or that the agent finished, and escape control characters in names, in the engine's removal word and in the late-result status. An end-to-end cell drives the real fleet projection and the real absence channel through every decision. From 0.84.0 the package also reads the registry itself: a reader lists the session's background registry only when the server advertises the listing, classifies its failures as unavailable (a failed read keeps the HTTP status and error code when the error carries them, and never invents either), and refuses a partly readable listing as a whole; a classifier turns the listing into the per-row reading, treating a registry status it cannot place as unknown and reading "not listed" only for keys shaped like registry handles and only when the host states the engine is a single process and names the row's session, because a key from another identity space proves nothing by being absent and, on a multi-replica deployment, a listing answered by another replica does not contain this session's agents at all (without that statement a missing row reads unknown and the row stays); and a predicate returns the agents the registry still counts as live that the host has no row for. A listing at the server's 500-row cap cannot show that an agent is gone either, so a missing row there reads unknown; the cap is checked against the engine's own list clamp and, when a server build is supplied, against the server's route. Each listing carries its session and a per-client sequence number, and a listing superseded by a later delivered read, or read for another session than the one the host names, counts for nothing. Only the exact listing object the reader returned can authorize removing a row or adding one: a spread copy, a structured clone, a filtered or a hand-built listing reads unknown and adds nothing, the listing, its row array and every row are frozen, the cap check uses the row count recorded when the page was read, and rewriting a listing's sequence number fools nothing. The fill predicate holds back agents first seen within the absence settle window — timed on one monotonic local clock from when this client's reader first saw the id, so a skew between the server's clock and this one, or reconnecting to a long-running agent, cannot skip the window — agents without a readable registration time and agents the host saw end since the read went out; the registry key of a row, progress or absence event is whichever of its two ids is shaped like a registry handle; and none of the reader, the classifier or the predicate throws. |
 | `scripts/run-plan-review-dismissal-test.mjs` | An automatic reopen does not put back a plan-review card the user closed (the first-presentation path neither checks nor clears that record, so a replayed park frame still presents its card). A plan-review card the user dismissed (Esc, abort, or any answer that is not approve or reject) is recorded per session and run at the moment of dismissal, synchronously, before anything queued behind the card can be released; a reopen marked `trigger: 'automatic'` then refuses with `{ reopened: false, dismissedByUser: true }` instead of minting a new card the user's next keystroke would land on, while the user's own next action (`trigger: 'user'`) reopens it and clears the record. The record is keyed by gate instance when the host supplies an instance reader: a new plan gate on the same run is still surfaced, and anything that cannot prove the gate is new (no reader, a failed, empty, thrown or timed-out read) refuses on the conservative side. The asynchronous form re-checks after its reads and before minting — a decision handed over meanwhile (seen by the package, or reported by the host's optional hand-over predicate) answers as "your answer is on its way"; a record that changed meanwhile makes the stale evaluation mint nothing and answer from the current record: another close refuses as the user's close and keeps the newer record, a card already back on screen (the user's own action or a concurrent automatic reopen, waited for within the receipt window and re-read once the wait is over) answers `reopened: true`, and a record that is gone (session change, ledger overflow) answers a plain refusal without `dismissedByUser`; a hand-over predicate that throws refuses with a plain `{ reopened: false }`. Each run has at most one reopen on its way: a reopen that arrives while an earlier one's card is published but not yet settled joins it instead of minting a second card and retiring the first card's answer path. Instance readers are snapshotted when they resolve, so a host that hands over its own live set still gets a new gate recognised; and a decisive-looking host answer note does not clear the record for the very card the package's own responder already judged non-decisive (the label was not on that card). A successful reopen replaces only the record taken before the card was minted (with an on-screen marker, not a deletion), a decisive answer clears it, the per-session ledger is bounded, and a session change clears its bucket. Without `trigger` the reopen answers exactly as before, apart from joining a reopen already on its way. A reopen for a session with no view subscribed to question frames (`onQuestionFrameFor(sessionKey, handler)`; `onQuestionFrame` for the default session) refuses with `{ reopened: false, _sema_noPresentationSurface: true }` — in the synchronous and the receipt form alike, per session key, and also when the view goes away while the asynchronous check is reading — and that answer comes before the user-closed check, at the entry and after the asynchronous read alike, whether or not the read proved a newer gate (after the read, a decision handed over while the read was in progress, and a dismissal record that was replaced or cleared meanwhile, still take precedence over the missing view); a host log or probe port that throws changes none of the reopen answers (the suite runs the same arrangement with a quiet and with a throwing log port and requires the same answer and the same card frames); every other refusal (receipt window lapsed, decision in flight, user-closed card, non-default slot without a delivery path, record gone) keeps its own keys without the flag. The first-presentation call does not check for a view: without one it still answers `true` and the card frame goes nowhere, which the suite records as today's behaviour, not as a guarantee. |
@@ -440,8 +440,8 @@ guard still cross-checks the table by name).
 | `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'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. A fourth batch (from 0.88.0) covers the closed set of reasons a permission mode's release of a question may carry: it is generated the same way, the package's public word list is that generated object, no hand-written copy of its words remains in the source, and an engine package that does not yet publish it 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-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. A fourth batch (from 0.88.0) covers the closed set of reasons a permission mode's release of a question may carry: it is generated the same way, the package's public word list is that generated object, no hand-written copy of its words remains in the source, and an engine package that does not yet publish it makes the generator stop and name it. A sixth batch (from 0.90.0) covers the table of tool-name aliases that hook matchers resolve (the alias spelling of a built-in tool to its canonical name): the engine publishes no ready-made table, so the generator expands the aliases declared on each row of the engine's static tool catalog, and the package reads the result through two public functions (the table itself is not exported). Those functions must agree name by name with the engine's own name resolution, leave every name outside the table untouched (empty strings and inherited object keys included), never fold case or whitespace, and never throw. The generator stops rather than writing an empty table when the catalog declares no alias at all, when a catalog row has an unexpected shape, when an alias collides with another row's canonical name, or when an alias is an integer-like string (object keys of that shape would be reordered), and a run of it against a catalog without aliases exits non-zero and leaves every generated file byte-identical; the generated table is built from key-value pairs and is executed in the check against the engine's own resolver, so an alias spelled like an inherited object key still lands as an own entry The generator also produces five closed sets that the engine exports from its package root — the reasons a rule's evidence can be absent in an approval question, the lanes of the system injection queue, the full list of built-in read-deny tiers, the tiers active by default, and the per-class arbitration switches — as frozen literal tables that the package's own root entry hands out as the very same objects. The check compares them item by item and in order with the engine (the arbitration rows bit by bit, with the key set compared to the engine's own list of ask classes, and the tier lists with the engine's own tier resolver), refuses to generate when a name is missing, a list is empty or has duplicates or non-strings, a default tier is not in the full list, or an arbitration row has a missing, extra or non-boolean switch, and a run of the generator against an engine without one of them exits non-zero and leaves every generated file byte-identical. The reader that answers whether a standing answer may settle an ask reads only the generated arbitration table: its answers follow a table with one switch flipped, a class added or a class removed, the source holds no class name literal, and it treats a throwing getter, a prototype-only field or an unknown class as unknown rather than as permission. The engine code string for a self-contradictory request body appears as a string literal exactly once in the source; the three refusal readers that use it keep their own criteria. |
+| `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); this package's declared support floor (`scripts/support-floor.json`) for the server, the engine or the SDK reaching a given version (an unreadable or malformed declaration fails the check instead of being skipped); 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. Positive evidence that the run left the gate can arrive after the host has handed a decision over and before the package's delivery path picks it up (while the host is still waiting on its gate snapshot, or in the microtasks between that wait ending and the delivery call); the delivery path then still picks up that same entry instead of minting a new one, so the latest decision mark the host keyed its snapshot and its not-applied notice on does not move, the duplicate-delivery latch and the capacity rule hold for it, and the three failure outcomes read byte for byte as they would without the hand-over. Only an entry settled by such evidence is picked up again: one the host settled itself, one it revoked, and one that already produced an outcome are not, and a new decision gets a new mark |
 | `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. A successful sub-agent steer carries the server's acceptance id (`messageId`) only when the receipt holds a non-empty string; older servers leave it out. |
 | `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. |
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 | `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. |
-| `scripts/run-display-untrusted-baseline-diff-test.mjs` | The credential side of the display outlet (`displayUntrusted` and `washCredentials`), diffed byte for byte against the previous published release: five input pools (seeded random strings, exhaustive shapes around labels, quoted values, userinfo, schemes and invisible units, and URL parameters separated by `;` or `,`) run through fifteen outlets. A secret the previous release masked must stay masked wherever it sits in a credential position; the outlet with only the URL net enabled is judged within that net's own reach. Clean lines from the package's own documents pass through unchanged, and every outlet is idempotent (masking the output again changes nothing). The previous release tarball is supplied through `SEMA_DU_BASELINE_TGZ`; without it the diff sections report as skipped and the run counts as partial, not green. The minimal-shape pool also carries scheme-less userinfo whose password holds a quote or angle bracket after a credential label, and the shapes that once washed differently on a second pass. A full-product grammar pool of 64,512 strings joins the idempotence check, and every pool is also checked for the credential stage reaching its pass cap (it must never do so). The pools now include the bare `token` scheme-word forms and a full `token` grammar product, so the new wash is held to the same idempotence and no-regression bars against the previous release. They also include label and `bearer` / `basic` values that run into a `token` scheme word, a non-ASCII space and an address, with or without a leading character, and quoted values where `token` and an address follow `bearer`. |
+| `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 error carrier the package mints for a terminal is the same one the failure line is judged on, so handing it to the edit-and-resend reading makes that reading yield exactly when the line carries the mismatch key, across thirty-one terminal shapes including accessor and inherited fields, governance and busy endings among them; the failure line and the carrier are derived from one reading of the frame, so a field whose answer changes between reads cannot make the line and its key disagree, and an empty error sentence yields neither a line nor a carrier. The key also records whether that row offered the recovery sentence, so a host reads the fact instead of re-deciding it later, and the key reader itself is exported and checked from the package entry. The sentence naming the broken turn, which a host appends once it has resolved that turn, is checked for its two exact forms, cleaning before cutting at sixty code points, linear tag stripping, and byte equality with the shipped terminal wording. On any other provider rejection the same terminal row ends with the edit-and-resend sentence and carries that reading as a key: never together with the mismatch key, never on governance, busy or model-output rows, and every row without one of these changes is byte-identical to the previous release. The check also feeds outcomes built and published by an installed server package when one is available and reports that part as skipped otherwise. The arm of the synthesized terminal row is decided in one function that both the row text and the error carrier read, and its order is pinned: a lock or governance terminal keeps its row even when the error text starts with the model-output sentence. |
+| `scripts/run-display-untrusted-baseline-diff-test.mjs` | The credential side of the display outlet (`displayUntrusted` and `washCredentials`), diffed byte for byte against the previous published release: five input pools (seeded random strings, exhaustive shapes around labels, quoted values, userinfo, schemes and invisible units, and URL parameters separated by `;` or `,`) run through fifteen outlets. A secret the previous release masked must stay masked wherever it sits in a credential position; the outlet with only the URL net enabled is judged within that net's own reach. Clean lines from the package's own documents pass through unchanged, and every outlet is idempotent (masking the output again changes nothing). The previous release tarball is supplied through `SEMA_DU_BASELINE_TGZ`; without it the diff sections report as skipped and the run counts as partial, not green. The minimal-shape pool also carries scheme-less userinfo whose password holds a quote or angle bracket after a credential label, and the shapes that once washed differently on a second pass. A full-product grammar pool of 64,512 strings joins the idempotence check, and every pool is also checked for the credential stage reaching its pass cap (it must never do so). The pools now include the bare `token` scheme-word forms and a full `token` grammar product, so the new wash is held to the same idempotence and no-regression bars against the previous release. They also include label and `bearer` / `basic` values that run into a `token` scheme word, a non-ASCII space and an address, with or without a leading character, and quoted values where `token` and an address follow `bearer`. A YAML block-scalar pool (block headers with every chomping and indentation indicator, comments, raw and JSON-escaped line breaks, non-ASCII and tab indentation, invisible characters at line starts, credentials, control strings and bidi characters inside the block, and seven kinds of line after the block) joins all checks: no secret inside a block may show on any outlet that runs the word net, the previous release must show some on the same pool, and the non-block forms in that pool must stay byte for byte as in the previous release. |
 | `scripts/run-registry-conflict-projection-test.mjs` | How a client tells the two meanings of a registry write conflict apart. The registry answers the same 409 when a write merely lost an optimistic-lock race (re-read, re-base, write once more) and when the space being written was deleted, or deleted and re-created under the same name, while the write was in flight (nothing was written, and a re-read would return the replacement space, so a retry would put an old draft into a space nobody reviewed). The package ships the same three-word classification the newer SDK uses under the same name, plus a predicate for caught errors, because the SDK version this package supports does not have them yet. The guard checks every status and body combination against the newer SDK's own function when that SDK is available, checks the predicate against the newer SDK's own error classes, reads every 409 the registry service mints from its source when that tree is available and replays the resulting bodies, and checks that unreadable bodies never throw and never classify as the retryable kind. The parts that need the newer SDK or the registry source report as skipped when those are absent. |
-| `scripts/run-prompt-delivery-projection-test.mjs` | Whether a user message actually reached the engine, judged once for every client. A ledger records, per message id and per submitted batch, that a submission entered the submit path and whether the engine created a run for it: a stream frame from the new run counts, a later accepted steer into the running run counts, while the session-busy refusal does not, and neither do the frames a server writes before creating the run (the stream-head `meta` frame and replays of approval cards still pending from earlier runs), which arrive ahead of that refusal. Both sets only grow, so the answers do not depend on arrival order, replays or repeats; a message never seen on the submit path is reported as unknown rather than undelivered. Two row-level readers filter side-channel payloads (only messages known to be undelivered are removed, everything else is kept in order). Records serialize one per line in the shape hosts already persist. The check also replays the exact frames an installed server package writes for a busy session through the real SDK stream parser when one is available and reports that part as skipped otherwise. The idempotent-replay form of the busy-session refusal (the raw conflict body without a status, sent when a host reuses an idempotency key while the first submission is still in flight) does not count as delivered either. |
+| `scripts/run-prompt-delivery-projection-test.mjs` | Whether a user message actually reached the engine, judged once for every client. A ledger records, per message id and per submitted batch, that a submission entered the submit path and whether the engine created a run for it: a stream frame from the new run counts, a later accepted steer into the running run counts, while the session-busy refusal does not, and neither do the frames a server writes before creating the run (the stream-head `meta` frame and replays of approval cards still pending from earlier runs), which arrive ahead of that refusal. Both sets only grow, so the answers do not depend on arrival order, replays or repeats; a message never seen on the submit path is reported as unknown rather than undelivered. Two row-level readers filter side-channel payloads (only messages known to be undelivered are removed, everything else is kept in order). Records serialize one per line in the shape hosts already persist. The check also replays the exact frames an installed server package writes for a busy session through the real SDK stream parser when one is available and reports that part as skipped otherwise. The idempotent-replay form of the busy-session refusal (the raw conflict body without a status, sent when a host reuses an idempotency key while the first submission is still in flight) does not count as delivered either. Since 0.90.0 the check also feeds the delivery frames a steer now produces (a queued frame and an applied frame on one input id, which equals the message id on the receipt): the first records delivery, the second changes nothing, replays and reversed order give the same records, and the answer does not depend on whether the input id equals the message id, differs from it, or is absent. The ledger object itself also carries the two row-level readers as methods bound to it, `knownUndeliveredMessage(message)` and `withoutUndelivered(messages)`, which answer exactly what the two free functions answer for that ledger on every input shape: a bare string is not a message row, so it is judged false, and that is why the row-level method does not reuse the name of the id-keyed `knownUndelivered(uuid)`. They keep answering when taken off the ledger, when the ledger is copied, and after it is frozen, they read the ledger as it is now, and a ledger rebuilt from stored records carries them too. The check also compiles the installed declaration file against positive and negative type examples, including a hand-written nine-member ledger stand-in that must still be accepted by the two free functions (their ledger parameter only needs the id-keyed reader). Since 0.91.0 every delivered record the ledger writes names its source (`by`: a frame from the new run, or the accepted steer receipt) and may carry a share (`full` or `partial`, absent meaning full); a delivered record without a source, as written by earlier versions, is read as unknown rather than delivered, a record whose extension fields cannot be read falls back to that unknown form and is stored without them, and keys the reader does not know are dropped and counted. Merging takes the highest of unknown, partial and full for each message, whatever the order: the check replays 2400 random sequences in original, shuffled, duplicated, split-and-merged and persisted forms against an independent model, and feeds records written by this version to the previous release's reader, which must give the same answers. A submission can also carry the engine generation it was sent on; the ledger then lists, once per generation, the messages submitted there that are still known undelivered, without changing the recorded facts, and a malformed generation is ignored while the submission itself is still recorded. Revoked proxies passed as batches, outcomes, record lists or message lists are treated as unreadable instead of throwing. Both write ports also take the two tiers of an encoded submission, `{ full, partial }` as returned by `deliveredUuidsOf`: the partial tier is recorded with `share: 'partial'`, so a message that was only partly sent is never read back as known undelivered, and an unreadable batch records nothing without throwing. On read-back, once a record's `u` and `s` are read, a throwing extension field or key enumeration keeps the record as legacy instead of dropping it. |
 | `scripts/run-session-memory-erase-projection-test.mjs` | The session owner's memory erase (`eraseSessionMemory`, with the pure judge `sessionMemoryEraseOutcome`): one call sends exactly one request to erase what a session contributed to memory, with a body of exactly the request id plus the unevidenced-erase consent only when the caller gives it as a boolean (never added when absent, and no other key the caller passes reaches the wire); a dot-segment session id is refused locally. The connection takes the same configuration as the engine client factory, and the outbound headers are compared byte for byte with a client that factory builds for every credential form (string, per-request value function, a value function that returns nothing or throws, empty, same-origin relay, loopback without a token, blank or missing principal); a token-bearing connection in a browser host sends nothing. Malformed arguments, options and connections never throw and send nothing. A request that may have reached the engine without a readable answer (time limit, a connection dropped after the request went out or while the body was read, a cancellation after sending, an unreadable response) is reported as no answer, while a connection that never opened, a cancellation before sending or a synchronous fetch failure is reported as not sent. The judge sorts each answer into erased, partly erased, refused (nothing was erased: not sent, or a named engine code issued before any change) or not confirmed (no answer, an unreadable receipt or one for a different request or session, a refusal with two possible meanings, an unrecognised code, or a non-success status without the engine's own error code; a code found only on the prototype chain does not count), by machine code before HTTP status, with one fixed sentence per outcome and a retry posture; a caller who gave the unevidenced consent always gets a person decides on the not confirmed outcomes. Receipts are read with the existing erase receipt reader. The closed lists are frozen, derived from the wording tables and equal to what the judge produces; sentences differ, refusals always say nothing was erased, and none copies a server sentence. The check also boots installed server packages of the current and the previous generation, when available, with their real dispatcher and handler and the engine's real file memory store, and drives the call against them: real receipts and replays, a request id reused on another session, a store without erase evidence with and without consent, unknown and foreign sessions, missing credentials, missing faces, malformed bodies and the coded refusals; the previous generation's untyped internal errors are judged not confirmed. The unevidenced-erase consent counts only when it is the caller's own property (an inherited one is never sent), a session id that cannot be encoded into the path is refused locally without a request and without a rejection, and a signal-shaped object that is not a real abort signal is refused as bad input. |
 | `scripts/run-disable-skills-wire-test.mjs` | The request field that turns off every skill for one request (the deployment's skills, skills the client sends and skills listed on agent definitions). It is carried on the two user lanes only as the literal true; false or an absent value sends nothing, and any other value is refused before anything is sent. A request that also carries a non-empty skill list, or an agent definition with skills, is refused by name both when it is built and again after agent definitions are added later, because the engine rejects that combination. The value reaches a request only through a helper that reads the engine's capability report: when the engine has not reported the capability, reports it as unavailable, has not been read yet, or reports it in a form that cannot be read, nothing is sent (an engine that does not know the field rejects the whole request) and the caller receives the reason plus one sentence saying skills stay on for this run. Requests that do not use the field are byte-identical to the previous release. |
+| `scripts/run-permissions-declaration-test.mjs` | The request-side assembly of permission rules (`permissionsDeclaration`): the deny, ask and allow lists the client resolved from its settings become the `settings.permissions` fragment of a request. Every list is ordered by where each rule came from (managed policy first, then command-line flags, the settings flag, the session, user, local and project settings, and rules of unknown origin last) and filtered by the same judges the engine uses, so a rule the engine would refuse does not turn a whole request into an error — the judges are the client's installed engine functions, so the server can still refuse the whole request when its engine version differs from the client's, when a judge fails on one rule and that deny or ask rule goes through unchecked, or when a list is longer than the engine's limit. A whole-server or whole-peer rule (`mcp__<server>`, `a2a__<peer>`; one rule for every protocol prefix the installed engine knows) is rewritten to the same name followed by `__*`, after checking, protocol by protocol, that the engine judges both forms alike and that every tested server generation accepts the rewritten form. A whole tool name that the engine's rule compiler refuses (for example one containing a closing parenthesis or a backslash) is kept on the client as well, whether or not the rule was rewritten, so every rule sent has passed the same judge; this is checked on generated rule strings and differs from the previous terminal's behaviour in exactly that one registered class. Allow rules are sent only when the engine reports, through one capability position read by `observedPermissionsAllowGrant`, that it reads allow rules as rules rather than as an exclusive list; an engine that does not say so may read an allow list as the only tools permitted, so nothing is sent and approvals keep being answered on the client side. A sent allow rule records that someone answered for the tool; it does not waive the prompts the engine raises on its own, so the client keeps answering matching approvals from all of its allow rules, and allow rules with a content pattern are never sent. Allow rules that come from settings files (or whose source is unknown) are also held back whenever the host does not report that the settings read which produced them was clean (`settingsRead: 'clean'`; a partial or unreadable read, or no report at all, holds them back), while allow rules from the command line or the session are still sent, so every lane follows one rule decided in one place. The capability position is the one servers publish from 7.115.0 on, checked against the capabilities route of each server generation the gate is given. An empty list is never sent, missing rule judges raise an error instead of sending unchecked rules (a judge that is present but fails on a rule is the exception above), the diagnostic sentence is derived from the same judgement as the sending decision and never throws, and inputs with inherited or malformed fields, or rule lists whose gaps are filled from a modified array prototype, are refused rather than silently losing a rule. A companion report, `permissionsDeclarationReport`, comes out of the same single pass: its `permissions` are byte-identical to the sending decision, every rule string lands exactly once either in what is sent (with a table mapping each rewritten form back to the rule that produced it) or in a `kept` list with one reason from a closed vocabulary, and deny or ask rules sent while the rule compiler could not answer are listed as unchecked; the gate keeps one witness per reason, checks that both entry points make the same sequence of compiler calls and throw the same errors, and compares the sending decision with the previous release on two independent rule pools. |
+| `scripts/run-file-history-leg-notice-test.mjs` | What a client says after the engine reports, for one run, whether it is capturing file history. A five-way verdict combines the engine's capture capability, whether this run's submitted request actually carried the per-run opt-out, whether the user turned file checkpoints off, and the word reported for the run; only two outcomes produce a sentence (the run carried the opt-out and the engine still captures, or the engine says capture cannot be turned off per session), each with its conclusion first so a truncated status line still reads. The guard pins every one of the 72 cells of the verdict table, sweeps alternative spellings and malformed values for each input, checks that an unreadable capability never produces a sentence while a carried opt-out is judged without consulting the capability, and that inherited input properties are ignored. A process-local ledger records, per submission, whether the outbound request body carried the opt-out (only a plain own data property counts; a body with its own serialisation hook or an accessor for that key is read as unknown, so a fact is never recorded that the sent JSON could contradict) and binds the submission to its run only on a frame proving the run was created, using the same rule as the prompt-delivery ledger, so session-busy refusals and replayed approval cards carrying another run's id never attach this submission's fact to that run; answers do not depend on call order, conflicting records read as unknown, and runs this process never bound read as unknown. An end-to-end section sends real requests through the SDK stream parser to a local stub and drives the reported word through the projection and adapter layers to the verdict. A body whose property descriptor and property read disagree (a proxy), or that carries any enumerable getter, reads as unknown, because serialization runs those getters and may drop the field; a value that is a non-null object (a wrapped string, an object with its own serialisation hook) also reads as unknown, since what it serialises to cannot be proved. |
+| `scripts/run-support-floor-projection-test.mjs` | The package's machine-readable support floor: the oldest server, engine and SDK versions it still supports, kept in `scripts/support-floor.json` with the source of each value and exported at runtime as `SUPPORT_FLOOR` (with `supportFloorOf` and the engine version reading `engineVersionTier`). The check fails when the declaration cannot be read or is malformed, when the exported values differ from it, when the SDK value differs from the SDK peer range, and (when the full fixture set is required) when no server fixture in the list matches the declared server version or that server pins and installs a different engine than declared; every fixture in the list is printed with whether it sits below, at or above the floor. The version reading answers engine at and above the floor, legacy below it and unknown for anything that is not a plain release version (pre-releases, build metadata, a leading v, whitespace, wrong segment counts, leading zeros, the word unknown, non-strings); a caller-supplied threshold can only raise the floor, a malformed one is refused before any version is read, and hostile inputs never throw. |
+| `scripts/run-server-7113-fixture-test.mjs` | Adoption checks against the published server package, run once per server generation (the one that carries the change and the one just before it). Session reads, live steer and policy settlement are driven through the package's real routes and modules; the attachment checks read the package's shipped source text instead. Attachments: the keys the server's shipped shape description lists are exactly the keys this package knows, the server's shipped refusal for the retired plan-mode reminder key names its retirement, every value this package's attachment switch can produce stays inside the accepted set, and naming the retired key is refused locally instead of being sent. Session reads: a non-owner reading a session's detail, head or event stream gets a not-found whose code names the session (the previous generation named a run), and this package's session read answers the same way on both. Live steer: without an idempotency key the engine's input id equals the message id on the receipt, a queued frame and an applied frame on one input id each project as their own event with every field as written, and the delivery ledger records delivery once. Policy settlement: an unattended answer by class is recorded under the policy party as an allow settled by policy, read back verbatim, no longer read as a person's approval, and a tool-end frame carrying it still projects. |
+| `scripts/run-server-7114-fixture-test.mjs` | Adoption checks against the published server package's real task admission, run on every configured server package (the newest one and each older one in the list), each held to an exact expectation for its generation. From 7.114.0, a tool-event hook matcher that selects a tool's alias but not its current name is refused with a field-invalid error naming both names, in every spelling the server reads (literal, pattern, padded, comma list, pipe list, empty segment), and a matcher that also selects the current name is accepted; 7.113 refuses only the literal and the pipe-list spellings; 7.111 and older accept all nine. A server generation outside the table fails the check instead of being guessed, and with fixtures required each generation band must be covered. This package passes the matcher through byte for byte, the request it assembles gets the same answer from the server as the hand-written one, and its local skip check keys on the matcher as written. From 7.115.0 the refusal additionally carries a machine-readable `field` and a `detail` naming the event, the alias and the current name, with the sentence and the error code unchanged; older generations carry neither. |
+| `scripts/run-steer-refusal-advice-test.mjs` | Refusals of a mid-run steer have one speaker. The root entry's `steerRefusalAdviceOf(error)` returns the steering refusal's safety code and disposition sentence, and `ControlRouter.steer` builds its `ControlSafetyError` from that very call, so a client that steers without the router (and therefore holds the raw SDK error) shows the same words the router would instead of keeping its own sentence table. The guard runs a pool of 180 thrown values (every steering code under ten status shapes, every SDK class name, non-steering errors, throwing getters, proxies, inherited fields and non-objects) through both paths and requires the same code, sentence, message, status and cause on every row; it checks every message against the bytes the previous release produced on the same pool, recorded from that build rather than hand-written, with the four rows whose field reads throw registered as the one intended change: the original error now propagates instead of the getter's. It also pins the error's two new read-only fields (`advice`, `status`), absent on the old two- and three-argument constructor calls and on the cancel 404 and local refusals that carry no disposition; the call-site roster of the three steering legs; that each sentence exists exactly once in the source; and that the open-set sentence splits on the same 4xx line the delivery verdict uses. A last section compares each sentence with the table a client kept, so a change on either side forces a fresh reading |
+| `scripts/run-read-deny-tiers-test.mjs` | The check for the built-in read-deny tier lists and for the validator of the deployment key's comma-separated value. The nine sample inputs agreed with the terminal are pinned (an empty input means removing the key and never a stored empty string; `none` is the explicit empty posture and must stand alone; whitespace around entries is trimmed with the same rule the server uses; an empty entry and an unknown or mis-cased tier are refused, while a tier listed twice is accepted and kept as written, exactly as the server reads it), the remaining shapes are covered (Unicode whitespace, separators other than commas, zero-width characters, every tier alone and all of them in either order), a non-string input never throws and a result never carries an empty string as its value, and the explanation sentence is one line, free of internal wording, and shows a user-supplied value only after credential masking, control-character escaping and a length cap (a two-million-character entry is neither echoed nor slow). The validator is also run against a fake tier table: adding a tier makes it accepted, removing one makes it refused, and the source holds no tier name, so the generated table is the only source of tiers. There is no comparison against the server because the server package offers no callable parser for this value. |
+| `scripts/run-engine-caps-settled-within-test.mjs` | The bounded wait for the engine's capability report. `engineCapsSettled` takes an optional `withinMs` and answers whether the wait ended because the probe settled or because the time ran out; without `withinMs` it behaves exactly as before. The bounded form creates a timer only when a probe is actually in flight, clears it on every path, never rejects, treats an unusable budget (zero, negative, not a finite number, a malformed options value) as no waiting rather than waiting forever, clamps an oversized budget to the platform maximum, and counts the budget once per call even if the engine is replaced during the wait. `disableSkillsDeclarationSettled` waits within a bound for the report and then answers exactly as the synchronous `disableSkillsDeclaration` does, so when the probe was started by the host, lands in time and reports the capability as available, the very first request can turn skills off, and in every other case (probe too slow, failed, never started, capability not reported or reported as unavailable) the caller gets the same answer the synchronous mouth gives. It never starts a probe itself. Timing cells run on an injected clock, and a real-timer pair checks that no timer handle is left behind. |
+| `scripts/run-hook-matcher-verdict-test.mjs` | The hook-matcher admission verdict `hookMatcherVerdict(event, matcher)` against the published server package's real task admission: for 35 matcher shapes on each tool event, a `refused` verdict (the matcher selects a tool alias but not that alias's canonical name) matches a 400 from the server, and `accepted` / `matchesAll` match an admitted request; from server 7.115.0 the refusal's machine-readable `detail` (event, alias, canonical) must equal the verdict's pair. Shapes the verdict does not judge are listed with their reason and are never treated as accepted. The guard also pins that the verdict reads the generated alias table (adding a pair to a copy of the table changes the copy's verdict), that only the three tool events are judged, that the verdict is case-sensitive and never throws on non-string input, and that pathological user regexes return within a bounded time (each call runs in a worker with a deadline; the same regex run directly against the longest tool name does not finish). After the fact, `hookMatcherRefusalFromError` reads the server's own refusal: from 7.115.0 the refusal's `field` and `detail` give the event, the alias and the current name, which must equal this function's verdict on the same matcher; older refusals carry no such fields and the reader answers nothing rather than parsing the sentence. |
+| `scripts/run-human-turn-encoding-test.mjs` | The check for the data envelope that carries a user's @-attached file, notebook, image, PDF or directory to an engine that has no attachment seat, and for the single function that turns one human submission into what the request carries. The envelope bytes are pinned against the 45 reference samples agreed with the terminal (the sample file is a byte-for-byte copy), and four extra samples with an instruction inside the file contents are checked for shape: the instruction stays between the two fence lines with a line-number prefix, the fence is longer than any tilde run in the envelope, and the header carries no reminder tag, no claim that a tool was called and no imperative. The three boundary rules (fence length over the whole envelope including look-alike tildes, visible escapes for in-line break characters, quoting and escaping of names) each have their own cells; a malformed descriptor throws and accessor properties are never run. For the assembly: the projection rule (non-empty items joined by a newline, attachments before the item text), the image seat plan (pasted images first, at most 20 images, 6 MiB each and in total, only when the model can see images), the 8 MiB request-body accounting (exactly at the limit is accepted and one byte more degrades or refuses, compared with the real serialized body on six body shapes), the order in which attachments are reduced to a reference sentence, the three-step handling on the follow-up carrier (contents, then reference sentences, then keep queued) and its agreement with the engine's own follow-up text validator on a seeded pool, the delivery shares and the reduced list as two views of one record, the refusal reasons, the image-vision verdict and the attachment-seat capability reader. The engine limits the package mirrors are checked against a server package fixture's real admission path when one is configured. Pasted images take seats first but are held to the same count, per-image and total limits; an image over a limit is left out and recorded as not sent. Very long rider lists are handed to the ledger without overflowing the call stack, and an encoded submission handed to the ledger as-is records partly sent entries as partly delivered. |
+| `scripts/run-server-7115-fixture-test.mjs` | Checks against the published 7.115.0 server package and every older package in the list, each held to an exact per-generation table. A server tool call nobody has spoken for is classified as the new `unstated` ask class by the server's own engine and frame reader, and that pair reaches this package's card and seat unchanged, with the standing-answer verdict matching the engine's own arbitration row. The capabilities route really runs: from 7.115.0 it reports the allow-rule capability and this package reads it as present, older servers do not report it and the allow bucket is not sent; requests this package assembles from a mixed rule pool are accepted by the same generation's admission and settings compiler, while content-form allow rules sent raw are refused there. The server's refusal for tasks parked before an upgrade is produced by its own function and, through the SDK error mapping, is read by this package's dedicated reader and turned into a three-part sentence that says the work is still waiting, with the way out chosen by the parked kind the caller supplies; refusals without the flag are not claimed. The two continue-only-an-existing-conversation refusals are read the same way on every generation, and the prose probe reason minted for live frames equals the durable row's copy and lands on the card from both legs. |
 
 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**