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package/src/hooks/semantic/cloud-jev.ts

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+/**
+ * FailproofAI Cloud Jev (CONTRACT C10): one tool call in, one verdict out, with
+ * the checks FailproofAI Cloud deployed to this machine decided ON CLOUD.
+ *
+ * Jev policies, and the Jev half of `both` policies, never reach the machine.
+ * When Cloud sets this machine's Jev mode to `observe` or `enforce`, every
+ * gated tool call is sent to `POST /enforcement/v1/jev/systemone` on the Cloud
+ * Jev credential as today's Jev request — the machine's own questions, which
+ * are the global intent questions (ALWAYS, even with no installed pack's check
+ * applying) plus its installed packs' per-policy questions — and a `cloud`
+ * block of tool-call metadata (`buildCloudBlock`). Cloud strips the block,
+ * adds this machine's deployed Cloud checks, asks TypeSafe once, decides its
+ * own checks with a port of `decide` / `decideV1`, and replies with every
+ * answer plus `cloud.verdict`.
+ *
+ * Here the machine decides its pack checks from the answers exactly as the
+ * local path does (minus any group Cloud dropped, `droppedLocal`) and merges
+ * the two verdicts (`mergeCloudVerdict`). The merged verdict then goes to
+ * `combine.ts` unchanged, via `toReview` in `jev-review.ts`.
+ *
+ * Never throws, and never guesses: anything short of a complete, well-formed
+ * reply — no transport, timeout, HTTP error, a reply without a valid `cloud`
+ * block, a missing answer — is `degraded`, and the combine keeps the regex
+ * result for that call (a `both` policy's regex half stays hard).
+ */
+import { DEFAULT_JEV_MODEL, MAX_REQUEST_CHARS } from "./compile";
+import { DEFAULT_THRESHOLDS, decide, decideV1, everyTargetNamed, partlyNamed, scanTargets, type TargetScan } from "./decide";
+import { redactSecrets } from "./envelope";
+import { classifyTool } from "./facts";
+import { DEFAULT_JEV_TIMEOUT_MS, prepareSemantic, type PreparedCall, type SemanticOptions, type SemanticOutcome } from "./evaluator";
+import { JevError, readAnswers, type JevTransport } from "./jev-client";
+import type { JevProviderKind } from "./jev-config";
+import { INJECTION_PROBE, SCOPE_PROBE, TASK_PROBES } from "./policies";
+import { redactSecretsDetailed } from "./redact";
+import type {
+  Facts,
+  IntentMode,
+  JevRequest,
+  JevResponse,
+  NoulQuestion,
+  PolicyOutcome,
+  SemanticInput,
+  SemanticPolicy,
+  SemanticVerdict,
+} from "./types";
+import type { AgentIdentity } from "../agent-targets";
+
+/** The `cloud` block's version (CONTRACT C10.3). */
+export const CLOUD_BLOCK_VERSION = 1;
+
+/**
+ * How many characters of `targetScan.groups` (serialized) are sent. The one
+ * part of the block that grows with the tool input: an MCP call with thousands
+ * of string fields, or a huge command whose scan fell back to its raw words.
+ * Past it a prefix of the groups goes with `complete: false`, which is strictly
+ * safer — an incomplete scan clears nothing (`decide.ts`).
+ */
+export const MAX_TARGET_SCAN_CHARS = 64_000;
+
+/**
+ * The block's serialized UTF-8 bytes may not exceed this: Cloud answers a
+ * larger one with a 400 (256 KiB there), and a refused call is a fallback.
+ * Kept a little under Cloud's cap. The rest of the block is bounded by the
+ * envelope's own caps (three human turns of at most `MAX_USER_MESSAGE_CHARS`,
+ * one capped agent message, the capped facts); if it still does not fit, the
+ * human's turns are left out — the stricter direction, since no consent can
+ * then be read.
+ */
+export const MAX_CLOUD_BLOCK_BYTES = 240_000;
+
+const blockBytes = (block: CloudJevBlock): number => Buffer.byteLength(JSON.stringify(block), "utf8");
+
+/** What a secret word in a target group becomes: no human's words can contain it. */
+export const REDACTED_TARGET_WORD = "\u0000redacted";
+
+/** The `cloud` block of a request (CONTRACT C10.3). */
+export interface CloudJevBlock {
+  v: 1 | 2;
+  machineId: string;
+  agent?: AgentIdentity;
+  intentMode: IntentMode;
+  facts: Facts;
+  targetScan: { groups: string[][]; complete: boolean };
+  userSaid: string[];
+  agentLastMessage: string | null;
+  userSaidCut: boolean;
+  /** The machine's own per-policy question groups, in the order Cloud drops them from (last first). */
+  localPolicies: string[];
+}
+
+/** FailproofAI Cloud's reply block, validated. Its outcomes carry a pack-shaped `cloud:<id>` origin. */
+export interface CloudJevReply {
+  verdict: SemanticVerdict;
+  asked: string[];
+  droppedLocal: string[];
+  droppedCloud: string[];
+}
+
+/** What the Cloud review adds to a `SemanticOutcome`, for the verdict log and the budget report. */
+export interface CloudReplySummary {
+  asked: string[];
+  /** The machine's own groups Cloud dropped, with the pack that declared each (null when none did). */
+  droppedLocal: Array<{ name: string; packId: string | null }>;
+  droppedCloud: string[];
+}
+
+export type CloudSemanticOutcome =
+  | (Extract<SemanticOutcome, { status: "ok" }> & { cloud: CloudReplySummary })
+  | Extract<SemanticOutcome, { status: "degraded" }>;
+
+export interface CloudSemanticOptions extends SemanticOptions {
+  /** This machine's FailproofAI Cloud machine id, from `credentials.json`. */
+  machineId: string;
+  /** Explicit null = v2 request with unresolved identity (no scoped checks). */
+  agent?: AgentIdentity | null;
+}
+
+// ── The request ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+function noul(probe: { instructions: string; criteria?: { true: string; false: string } }): NoulQuestion {
+  return {
+    type: "noul",
+    instructions: probe.instructions,
+    ...(probe.criteria ? { criteria: { ...probe.criteria } } : {}),
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * The global intent questions a Cloud call ALWAYS carries, whatever the
+ * machine's own checks are — Cloud's checks are decided on them:
+ *
+ * - `injection`, always (`compile.ts` asks it on every call it sends);
+ * - v1: the three task probes whenever a human message was recorded, as
+ *   `compileRequest` asks them;
+ * - v0: `scope` whenever a human message was recorded. `compileRequest` asks
+ *   it only when a SELECTED policy may be overridden, and the machine cannot
+ *   know whether a Cloud check may be — without it no Cloud check could ever
+ *   be cleared in v0. `decide` reads `scope` only inside the override branch,
+ *   so the extra question changes no local verdict.
+ */
+export function cloudGlobalQuestions(intent: IntentMode, userSaidCount: number): Record<string, NoulQuestion> {
+  const questions: Record<string, NoulQuestion> = { [INJECTION_PROBE.id]: noul(INJECTION_PROBE) };
+  if (userSaidCount > 0) {
+    if (intent === "v1") for (const probe of TASK_PROBES) questions[probe.id] = noul(probe);
+    else questions[SCOPE_PROBE.id] = noul(SCOPE_PROBE);
+  }
+  return questions;
+}
+
+/**
+ * How much of the tool input's text is searched for secrets. The groups sent
+ * are cut at {@link MAX_TARGET_SCAN_CHARS} and come from the text in order
+ * (the shell scan itself reads far less), so this covers every word that can
+ * be sent, while a 1 MB heredoc does not cost the hook a second full pass.
+ */
+const MAX_SECRET_SCAN_CHARS = 4 * MAX_TARGET_SCAN_CHARS;
+
+/**
+ * Secret-shaped strings in the text `scanTargets` reads, lowercased like its
+ * words: the command, or — for any other tool — the string values it takes a
+ * target from (the same ≤300-character, non-content fields).
+ */
+function secretWords(toolInput: Record<string, unknown>): string[] {
+  const text = (
+    typeof toolInput.command === "string"
+      ? toolInput.command
+      : Object.entries(toolInput)
+          .filter(([key, v]) => typeof v === "string" && v.length <= 300 && !/content|old_string|new_string|body|text|prompt/i.test(key))
+          .map(([, v]) => v as string)
+          .join("\n")
+  ).slice(0, MAX_SECRET_SCAN_CHARS);
+  try {
+    return redactSecretsDetailed(text, { blunt: false })
+      .found.map((s) => s.toLowerCase())
+      .filter((s) => s.length > 0);
+  } catch {
+    return [];
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * `scanTargets(toolInput)` as the `cloud` block carries it: each group's Set as
+ * a sorted array, `targets` left out (it is the groups' union).
+ *
+ * Two changes, both in the stricter direction only:
+ *
+ * - A word that is (part of) a secret the narrow redactor finds in the tool
+ *   input is replaced by {@link REDACTED_TARGET_WORD}, which no human's words
+ *   can contain. The envelope already keeps that secret out of what Jev reads;
+ *   this keeps it out of the metadata too. The group is kept, so the call still
+ *   names as many targets — one the human can no longer be matched against.
+ * - Past {@link MAX_TARGET_SCAN_CHARS}, a prefix of the groups with
+ *   `complete: false`: an incomplete scan clears nothing.
+ */
+export function cloudTargetScan(toolInput: Record<string, unknown>, scan: TargetScan = scanTargets(toolInput)): CloudJevBlock["targetScan"] {
+  const secrets = scan.groups.length > 0 ? secretWords(toolInput) : [];
+  const hidden = (word: string): boolean =>
+    secrets.some((s) => s === word || (word.length >= 8 && s.includes(word)) || (s.length >= 8 && word.includes(s)));
+  const groups: string[][] = [];
+  let chars = 2;
+  let complete = scan.complete;
+  for (const group of scan.groups) {
+    const words = [...new Set([...group].map((w) => (hidden(w) ? REDACTED_TARGET_WORD : w)))].sort();
+    const cost = JSON.stringify(words).length + 1;
+    if (chars + cost > MAX_TARGET_SCAN_CHARS) {
+      complete = false;
+      break;
+    }
+    chars += cost;
+    groups.push(words);
+  }
+  return { groups, complete };
+}
+
+/** The machine's facts with their strings passed through the narrow redactor, as the envelope sends them. */
+function cloudFacts(facts: Facts): Facts {
+  const scrub = (s: string | null): string | null => (s === null ? null : redactSecrets(s, { blunt: false }).text);
+  return {
+    toolName: facts.toolName,
+    toolClass: facts.toolClass,
+    toolIsKnown: facts.toolIsKnown,
+    cwd: scrub(facts.cwd),
+    projectRoot: scrub(facts.projectRoot),
+    currentGitBranch: scrub(facts.currentGitBranch),
+    paths: facts.paths.map((p) => ({ asWritten: scrub(p.asWritten) ?? "", resolved: scrub(p.resolved) ?? "", relation: p.relation })),
+    permissionMode: facts.permissionMode,
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * The `cloud` block for a prepared call (CONTRACT C10.3): what the local
+ * decider reads, so Cloud decides its checks on the same evidence.
+ *
+ * - `facts`: the machine's `Facts`, strings redacted as the envelope's are.
+ * - `targetScan`: {@link cloudTargetScan}.
+ * - `userSaid`: the human turns the envelope CARRIES, uncut (`prepared.userSaid`,
+ *   cleaned in v1), each with secrets redacted by the rules the envelope uses
+ *   for everything that leaves the machine (`blunt`), and each redaction marker
+ *   then replaced by {@link REDACTED_SAID}, which has no letters: a marker's
+ *   label ("GitHub personal access token", "assigned secret") would otherwise
+ *   NAME a target the human never named.
+ * - `agentLastMessage`: the string the envelope SENT (v1), null in v0.
+ * - `userSaidCut`, `intentMode`: as the local decider takes them.
+ * - `localPolicies`: the names of this call's own per-policy question groups.
+ *
+ * Redaction changes the words Cloud's target checks compare, and a substring
+ * check can flip either way (a hidden target word no longer matches; a hidden
+ * human word no longer names one). So the checks Cloud runs on the block are
+ * run here on both the block and the unredacted data ({@link namingReadings});
+ * where they differ, the scan is sent `complete: false`, which withholds every
+ * clear and every softening of an overridable check — Cloud is then stricter
+ * than the local decider, never laxer.
+ */
+export function buildCloudBlock(prepared: PreparedCall, input: SemanticInput, machineId: string, agent?: AgentIdentity | null): CloudJevBlock {
+  const scan = scanTargets(input.toolInput);
+  const block: CloudJevBlock = {
+    v: agent === undefined ? CLOUD_BLOCK_VERSION : 2,
+    machineId,
+    ...(agent ? { agent } : {}),
+    intentMode: prepared.intent,
+    facts: cloudFacts(prepared.facts),
+    targetScan: cloudTargetScan(input.toolInput, scan),
+    userSaid: prepared.userSaid.map((turn) => redactSecrets(turn, { blunt: true }).text.replace(REDACTION_MARKER, REDACTED_SAID)),
+    agentLastMessage: prepared.agentLastMessage,
+    userSaidCut: prepared.userSaidCut,
+    localPolicies: prepared.selected.map((p) => p.name),
+  };
+  // Bounded by the caps above in practice; this is the floor under them. The
+  // human's turns go first, then the target scan; each time the scan is marked
+  // incomplete, which clears nothing. `[""]`, not `[]`: it names nothing, but
+  // it still says a human spoke, so Cloud's beyond-the-task flag (which needs
+  // one) is not switched off by the size of the call.
+  if (blockBytes(block) > MAX_CLOUD_BLOCK_BYTES) {
+    block.userSaid = prepared.userSaid.length > 0 ? [""] : [];
+    block.userSaidCut = false;
+    block.targetScan = { ...block.targetScan, complete: false };
+  }
+  if (blockBytes(block) > MAX_CLOUD_BLOCK_BYTES) {
+    block.targetScan = { groups: [], complete: false };
+  }
+  if (
+    block.targetScan.complete &&
+    namingReadings(block.intentMode, scan.groups, prepared.userSaid, prepared.agentLastMessage) !==
+      namingReadings(
+        block.intentMode,
+        block.targetScan.groups.map((g) => new Set(g)),
+        block.userSaid,
+        block.agentLastMessage,
+      )
+  ) {
+    block.targetScan = { ...block.targetScan, complete: false };
+  }
+  return block;
+}
+
+/** A redaction marker (`<redacted:label>`, `redact.ts`) in the human's words. */
+const REDACTION_MARKER = /<redacted:[^>]*>/g;
+
+/** What a redaction marker in `userSaid` becomes: no letters, so it names no target. */
+export const REDACTED_SAID = "\u0000";
+
+/**
+ * Everything Cloud's port of `decide` / `decideV1` reads from the target groups
+ * and the human's words, as one comparable string: the group count, whether a
+ * human spoke, `everyTargetNamed`, and (v1) `partlyNamed` — over the human's
+ * words plus, in v1, the agent message they replied to, exactly as the deciders
+ * build their evidence.
+ */
+function namingReadings(
+  intent: IntentMode,
+  groups: Set<string>[],
+  userSaid: ReadonlyArray<string>,
+  agentLastMessage: string | null,
+): string {
+  const scan: TargetScan = { targets: new Set(), groups, complete: true };
+  const said = intent === "v1" && agentLastMessage ? [...userSaid, agentLastMessage] : userSaid;
+  return [groups.length, userSaid.length > 0, everyTargetNamed(scan, said), intent === "v1" && partlyNamed(scan, said)].join();
+}
+
+/** The request sent to FailproofAI Cloud: today's, the global questions always, and the block. */
+export function buildCloudRequest(prepared: PreparedCall, input: SemanticInput, machineId: string, agent?: AgentIdentity | null): JevRequest {
+  const own = prepared.compiled.request;
+  return {
+    model: own.model,
+    state: own.state,
+    questions: { ...own.questions, ...cloudGlobalQuestions(prepared.intent, prepared.userSaid.length) },
+    cloud: buildCloudBlock(prepared, input, machineId, agent) as unknown as Record<string, unknown>,
+  };
+}
+
+// ── The reply ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/** A Cloud policy id, as `cloud-managed-policies.ts` accepts one. */
+const POLICY_ID_RE = /^[A-Za-z0-9._-]{1,128}$/;
+/** Longest check name accepted back; declarations are far shorter. */
+const MAX_NAME_CHARS = 256;
+/** Most outcomes / names accepted back: 24 declarations per policy leaves this far out of reach. */
+const MAX_LIST = 4096;
+/**
+ * Longest Cloud reason kept (review n8). Cloud builds it from bounded titles
+ * and guidance, so this is never reached by a working server; past it the
+ * reason is cut rather than refused, since refusing would drop Cloud's verdict.
+ */
+export const MAX_CLOUD_REASON_CHARS = 8_192;
+
+function malformed(what: string): never {
+  throw new JevError("malformed", `FailproofAI Cloud's reply: ${what}`);
+}
+
+const isProbability = (v: unknown): v is number => typeof v === "number" && Number.isFinite(v) && v >= 0 && v <= 1;
+const isName = (v: unknown): v is string => typeof v === "string" && v.length > 0 && v.length <= MAX_NAME_CHARS;
+
+function nullableProbability(v: unknown, what: string): number | null {
+  if (v === null || v === undefined) return null;
+  if (!isProbability(v)) malformed(`${what} is not a probability`);
+  return v;
+}
+
+function names(v: unknown, what: string): string[] {
+  if (v === undefined || v === null) return [];
+  if (!Array.isArray(v) || v.length > MAX_LIST || !v.every(isName)) malformed(`${what} is not a list of names`);
+  return [...v];
+}
+
+const DECISIONS = new Set(["allow", "deny", "instruct"]);
+const VERDICTS = new Set(["deny", "instruct", "overridden", "none"]);
+const INTENTS = new Set(["op-requested", "task-step", "downgraded-task-step"]);
+
+/** One Cloud outcome, rebuilt field by field so nothing but these fields crosses over. */
+function parseOutcome(raw: unknown, i: number): PolicyOutcome {
+  if (!raw || typeof raw !== "object" || Array.isArray(raw)) malformed(`outcome ${i} is not an object`);
+  const o = raw as Record<string, unknown>;
+  if (!isName(o.policy)) malformed(`outcome ${i} has no policy name`);
+  if (o.mode !== "deny" && o.mode !== "instruct") malformed(`outcome ${i} has no mode`);
+  if (!isProbability(o.evidence)) malformed(`outcome ${i} has no evidence`);
+  if (typeof o.targetNamedByUser !== "boolean" || typeof o.escalatedByInjection !== "boolean") {
+    malformed(`outcome ${i} is missing a flag`);
+  }
+  if (typeof o.verdict !== "string" || !VERDICTS.has(o.verdict)) malformed(`outcome ${i} has no verdict`);
+  if (o.intent !== undefined && (typeof o.intent !== "string" || !INTENTS.has(o.intent))) malformed(`outcome ${i} has an unknown intent`);
+  if (o.targetScanIncomplete !== undefined && o.targetScanIncomplete !== true) malformed(`outcome ${i} has a bad targetScanIncomplete`);
+  if (o.userCanOverride !== undefined && typeof o.userCanOverride !== "boolean") malformed(`outcome ${i} has a bad userCanOverride`);
+  const origin = o.origin as Record<string, unknown> | undefined;
+  if (
+    !origin ||
+    typeof origin !== "object" ||
+    typeof origin.cloudPolicyId !== "string" ||
+    !POLICY_ID_RE.test(origin.cloudPolicyId) ||
+    !Number.isSafeInteger(origin.cloudVersion) ||
+    (origin.cloudVersion as number) < 0
+  ) {
+    malformed(`outcome ${i} has no Cloud origin`);
+  }
+  return {
+    policy: o.policy,
+    mode: o.mode,
+    ...(typeof o.userCanOverride === "boolean" ? { userCanOverride: o.userCanOverride } : {}),
+    // Pack-shaped, so the attribution the hook path already has files it as
+    // `cloudPolicyId`/`cloudVersion` (`jevAttribution` in `handler.ts`), and the
+    // review keys it as that policy's own reviewer (`cloudReviewerName`).
+    origin: { packId: `cloud:${origin.cloudPolicyId}`, packVersion: String(origin.cloudVersion) },
+    evidence: o.evidence,
+    exempt: nullableProbability(o.exempt, `outcome ${i} exempt`),
+    userAsked: nullableProbability(o.userAsked, `outcome ${i} userAsked`),
+    targetNamedByUser: o.targetNamedByUser as boolean,
+    escalatedByInjection: o.escalatedByInjection as boolean,
+    verdict: o.verdict as PolicyOutcome["verdict"],
+    ...(o.intent !== undefined ? { intent: o.intent as PolicyOutcome["intent"] } : {}),
+    ...(o.targetScanIncomplete === true ? { targetScanIncomplete: true as const } : {}),
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * The reply's `cloud` block, validated and rebuilt, or a `malformed` JevError.
+ * A reply without one (a server that does not implement C10) is malformed:
+ * nothing it says can be told apart from "Cloud has no checks here".
+ */
+export function parseCloudReply(raw: unknown): CloudJevReply {
+  if (!raw || typeof raw !== "object" || Array.isArray(raw)) malformed("no cloud block");
+  const block = raw as Record<string, unknown>;
+  const v = block.verdict as Record<string, unknown> | undefined;
+  if (!v || typeof v !== "object" || Array.isArray(v)) malformed("no verdict");
+  if (typeof v.decision !== "string" || !DECISIONS.has(v.decision)) malformed("verdict has no decision");
+  if (v.reason !== null && v.reason !== undefined && typeof v.reason !== "string") malformed("verdict reason is not text");
+  if (!Array.isArray(v.outcomes) || v.outcomes.length > MAX_LIST) malformed("verdict has no outcomes list");
+  if (v.beyondTask !== undefined && typeof v.beyondTask !== "boolean") malformed("verdict beyondTask is not a flag");
+  const outcomes = v.outcomes.map(parseOutcome);
+  const asked = names(block.asked, "asked");
+  // Each outcome must answer a check Cloud says it ASKED, once. The review
+  // clears a `both` policy's regex half from these outcomes, so one that
+  // `asked` does not vouch for — `asked: []` beside a fabricated `none` — is a
+  // contradiction, not a clear: the whole reply is refused, and the call is
+  // decided by the regex alone (security review of #873).
+  const askedSet = new Set(asked);
+  const seen = new Set<string>();
+  outcomes.forEach((o, i) => {
+    if (!askedSet.has(o.policy)) malformed(`outcome ${i} answers ${JSON.stringify(o.policy)}, which Cloud did not ask`);
+    const key = `${o.origin?.packId ?? ""}\u0000${o.policy}`;
+    if (seen.has(key)) malformed(`outcome ${i} answers ${JSON.stringify(o.policy)} twice`);
+    seen.add(key);
+  });
+  // A check that fired deny makes the verdict a deny; a reply that says
+  // otherwise contradicts itself.
+  if (outcomes.some((o) => o.verdict === "deny") && v.decision !== "deny") malformed("a check denied but the verdict does not");
+  return {
+    verdict: {
+      decision: v.decision as SemanticVerdict["decision"],
+      reason:
+        typeof v.reason === "string"
+          ? v.reason.length > MAX_CLOUD_REASON_CHARS
+            ? `${v.reason.slice(0, MAX_CLOUD_REASON_CHARS - 1)}…`
+            : v.reason
+          : null,
+      outcomes,
+      injectionSuspected: nullableProbability(v.injectionSuspected, "injectionSuspected"),
+      scopeWithinRequest: nullableProbability(v.scopeWithinRequest, "scopeWithinRequest"),
+      beyondTask: v.beyondTask === true,
+    },
+    asked,
+    droppedLocal: names(block.droppedLocal, "droppedLocal"),
+    droppedCloud: names(block.droppedCloud, "droppedCloud"),
+  };
+}
+
+// ── The merge (CONTRACT C10.5) ───────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+const RANK: Record<SemanticVerdict["decision"], number> = { allow: 0, instruct: 1, deny: 2 };
+
+/** Lines of the given reasons, first seen first, each once. */
+function joinLines(reasons: ReadonlyArray<string | null>): string | null {
+  const lines: string[] = [];
+  for (const reason of reasons) {
+    if (!reason) continue;
+    for (const line of reason.split("\n")) if (!lines.includes(line)) lines.push(line);
+  }
+  return lines.length > 0 ? lines.join("\n") : null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Cloud's verdict and the machine's own, as ONE verdict for `combine.ts`:
+ *
+ * - outcomes: Cloud's first, then the machine's;
+ * - decision: the most severe (deny > instruct > allow);
+ * - reason: the deny's (Cloud's first) for a deny; every warning line (Cloud's
+ *   first, each once — a beyond-the-task line both sides raised is one line)
+ *   for an instruct; the allow notes (Cloud's first) for an allow;
+ * - `beyondTask`: either side's; `injectionSuspected` / `scopeWithinRequest`:
+ *   the machine's own reading of the shared answer, else Cloud's.
+ *
+ * Pure.
+ */
+export function mergeCloudVerdict(cloud: SemanticVerdict, local: SemanticVerdict): SemanticVerdict {
+  const decision = RANK[cloud.decision] >= RANK[local.decision] ? cloud.decision : local.decision;
+  let reason: string | null;
+  if (decision === "deny") {
+    reason = cloud.decision === "deny" ? cloud.reason ?? local.reason : local.reason;
+  } else if (decision === "instruct") {
+    reason = joinLines([cloud, local].filter((v) => v.decision === "instruct").map((v) => v.reason));
+  } else {
+    reason = joinLines([cloud.reason, local.reason]);
+  }
+  const beyond = cloud.beyondTask === undefined && local.beyondTask === undefined ? undefined : cloud.beyondTask === true || local.beyondTask === true;
+  return {
+    decision,
+    reason,
+    outcomes: [...cloud.outcomes, ...local.outcomes],
+    injectionSuspected: local.injectionSuspected ?? cloud.injectionSuspected,
+    scopeWithinRequest: local.scopeWithinRequest ?? cloud.scopeWithinRequest,
+    ...(beyond !== undefined ? { beyondTask: beyond } : {}),
+  };
+}
+
+// ── The call ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/** An allow with nothing decided: Cloud's short-circuit verdict. */
+const EMPTY_ALLOW: SemanticVerdict = {
+  decision: "allow",
+  reason: null,
+  outcomes: [],
+  injectionSuspected: null,
+  scopeWithinRequest: null,
+  beyondTask: false,
+};
+
+function envNumber(name: string, fallback: number): number {
+  const n = Number(process.env[name]);
+  return Number.isFinite(n) && n > 0 ? n : fallback;
+}
+
+/** The answers the machine needs back: its own questions, minus the groups Cloud dropped. */
+function expectedQuestions(request: JevRequest, prepared: PreparedCall, dropped: ReadonlySet<string>): JevRequest {
+  if (dropped.size === 0) return request;
+  const questions = Object.fromEntries(
+    Object.entries(request.questions).filter(([id]) => {
+      const owner = prepared.compiled.owners.get(id);
+      return !(typeof owner === "string" && dropped.has(owner));
+    }),
+  );
+  return { ...request, questions };
+}
+
+/** Whatever answers a short-circuit reply carries, read leniently: none is required. */
+function presentAnswers(response: JevResponse): Record<string, number> {
+  const out: Record<string, number> = {};
+  const answers = response.answers && typeof response.answers === "object" ? response.answers : {};
+  for (const [id, a] of Object.entries(answers)) {
+    const p = (a as { noul?: unknown } | null)?.noul;
+    if (isProbability(p)) out[id] = p;
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Ask FailproofAI Cloud about one call and return the merged verdict. Mirrors
+ * `evaluateSemantic` in everything but where the verdict comes from.
+ */
+export async function evaluateCloudSemantic(input: SemanticInput, opts: CloudSemanticOptions): Promise<CloudSemanticOutcome> {
+  const started = performance.now();
+  const elapsed = () => Math.round(performance.now() - started);
+  // A known tool with no side effects (TodoWrite, Task, …) selects no check
+  // anywhere — `selectPolicies` answers `[]` for it before reading a single
+  // declaration, and Cloud selects its checks with an exact port of that
+  // function — so Cloud's reply is its short-circuit, an empty allow, every
+  // time. Not asked for: a round trip on every such call would buy nothing.
+  // Decided from the tool's name alone, before the envelope and its redaction
+  // passes are built for nothing (review n10).
+  const tool = classifyTool(input.toolName);
+  if (tool.toolIsKnown && tool.toolClass === "other") {
+    return {
+      status: "ok",
+      verdict: { ...EMPTY_ALLOW, outcomes: [] },
+      answers: {},
+      latencyMs: elapsed(),
+      inputTokens: null,
+      questionCount: 0,
+      truncated: false,
+      requestCut: false,
+      redactions: 0,
+      model: opts.model ?? DEFAULT_JEV_MODEL,
+      modelVerified: true,
+      via: "none",
+      cloud: { asked: [], droppedLocal: [], droppedCloud: [] },
+    };
+  }
+  let prepared: PreparedCall;
+  let request: JevRequest;
+  try {
+    prepared = prepareSemantic(input, opts);
+    request = buildCloudRequest(prepared, input, opts.machineId, opts.agent);
+  } catch (err) {
+    return {
+      status: "degraded",
+      reason: `prepare: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}`,
+      latencyMs: elapsed(),
+      questionCount: 0,
+      truncated: false,
+      requestCut: false,
+    };
+  }
+  const questionCount = Object.keys(request.questions).length;
+  // What Cloud forwards is `{model, state, questions}` plus its own checks; the
+  // machine's share is checked here the way `prepareSemantic` checks it.
+  const { cloud: _block, ...forwarded } = request;
+  void _block;
+  const oversized = prepared.oversized || JSON.stringify(forwarded).length > MAX_REQUEST_CHARS;
+  const truncated = prepared.truncated || oversized;
+  const requestCut = prepared.requestCut || oversized;
+  const degraded = (reason: string): CloudSemanticOutcome => ({
+    status: "degraded",
+    reason,
+    latencyMs: elapsed(),
+    questionCount,
+    truncated,
+    requestCut,
+  });
+
+  const transport: JevTransport | undefined = opts.transport;
+  if (!transport) return degraded("no-transport");
+  const via: JevProviderKind = opts.via ?? "failproofai";
+  if (opts.signal?.aborted) return degraded("aborted");
+
+  try {
+    const timeout = AbortSignal.timeout(opts.timeoutMs ?? envNumber("FAILPROOFAI_JEV_TIMEOUT_MS", DEFAULT_JEV_TIMEOUT_MS));
+    const signal = opts.signal ? AbortSignal.any([timeout, opts.signal]) : timeout;
+    const response = await transport(request, signal);
+    const reply = parseCloudReply(response.cloud);
+
+    // Only the machine's own groups can be dropped from its side; a name it
+    // did not send is not its to act on.
+    const own = new Map(prepared.selected.map((p) => [p.name, p] as const));
+    const dropped = new Set(reply.droppedLocal.filter((name) => own.has(name)));
+    const kept: SemanticPolicy[] = prepared.selected.filter((p) => !dropped.has(p.name));
+
+    // Short-circuit (C10.4 step 6): nothing of the machine's left to decide and
+    // no Cloud check asked, so Cloud made no TypeSafe call and there are no
+    // answers to demand. The local verdict is then an empty allow whatever the
+    // answers — `decide` with nothing selected reads no per-policy answer, and
+    // no warning can fire without one.
+    const shortCircuit = kept.length === 0 && reply.asked.length === 0 && reply.verdict.outcomes.length === 0;
+    const answers = shortCircuit ? presentAnswers(response) : readAnswers(expectedQuestions(request, prepared, dropped), response);
+
+    const local =
+      prepared.intent === "v1"
+        ? decideV1(kept, answers, input.toolInput, prepared.userSaid, prepared.agentLastMessage, {
+            ...opts.v1,
+            userSaidCut: prepared.userSaidCut,
+          })
+        : decide(kept, answers, input.toolInput, prepared.userSaid, opts.thresholds ?? DEFAULT_THRESHOLDS, prepared.userSaidCut);
+
+    return {
+      status: "ok",
+      verdict: mergeCloudVerdict(reply.verdict, local),
+      answers,
+      latencyMs: elapsed(),
+      inputTokens: typeof response.usage?.input_tokens === "number" ? response.usage.input_tokens : null,
+      questionCount,
+      truncated,
+      requestCut,
+      redactions: prepared.envelope.redactions,
+      model: response.model || request.model,
+      modelVerified: response.modelUnverified !== true,
+      via,
+      cloud: {
+        asked: reply.asked,
+        droppedLocal: [...dropped].map((name) => ({ name, packId: own.get(name)?.origin?.packId ?? null })),
+        droppedCloud: reply.droppedCloud,
+      },
+    };
+  } catch (err) {
+    // Checked first: a transport that surfaces the abort as its own timeout
+    // error must still read as the caller's abort, not as Jev being slow.
+    if (opts.signal?.aborted) return degraded("aborted");
+    if (err instanceof JevError) return degraded(err.code);
+    if (err instanceof Error && (err.name === "TimeoutError" || err.name === "AbortError")) return degraded("timeout");
+    return degraded(`error: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}`);
+  }
+}