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+# Side-Effects Review — TaskFlow Phase 5 (rate limits + cache eviction tuning + audit ledger emission)
+
+**Version / slug:** `taskflow-phase5`
+**Date:** 2026-05-10
+**Author:** Echo
+**Second-pass reviewer:** required (introduces HTTP-boundary authority gates — rate limits — and reshapes the audit-ledger emission path)
+
+## Summary of the change
+
+Phase 5 hardens the TaskFlow surface that prior phases established. The change:
+1. Adds per-controller rate limits on `POST /flows` (default: 10/sec) — overflow throws `quota_exceeded` with `code='rate_limit'` → HTTP 429.
+2. Adds per-controller max-active-flows cap (default: 50 non-terminal flows per `controllerId`) — overflow throws `quota_exceeded` with `code='max_active'` → HTTP 429.
+3. Adds per-flow ping rate limit on `POST /flows/:flowId/ping` (default: 60 pings/min/flow) — overflow throws `quota_exceeded` with `code='rate_limited'` → HTTP 429.
+4. Replaces the ad-hoc cache eviction in `TaskFlowRegistry` (`Map`-based with terminal-flow head-scan) with a proper LRU + capacity (default: 1000 entries) + the metric `taskflow_cache_evictions_total`.
+5. Fixes the previously-broken `emitLedgerNote` path in `TaskFlowRegistry` so that state-transition audit notes actually get written to `SharedStateLedger`. The notes are restricted to the redacted shape per spec § Threat Model lines 681-682 (`flowId, revision, currentStep, from_status, to_status, waitKind, controllerId, op`) — never `stateJson`, never any field of `waitJson` beyond `kind`.
+
+Per the spec (`docs/specs/OPENCLAW-IMPORT-TASKFLOW-SPEC.md`, lines 650-653 Phase 5 / lines 679 + 685 Threat Model / lines 681-682 redaction), the design goal is to enforce sane per-counterparty resource budgets at the HTTP boundary and to produce a full state-machine audit trail in SharedStateLedger that contains no controller-private payload.
+
+**Files touched:**
+- `src/tasks/RateLimiter.ts` (new) — sliding-window per-key rate limiter with monotonic clock injection.
+- `src/tasks/LruCache.ts` (new) — bounded LRU with eviction callback for metric emission.
+- `src/tasks/TaskFlowRegistry.ts` — wires rate limits in `createFlow` / `pingFlow`, replaces cache with `LruCache`, restructures `emitTransitionLedgerNote` / `emitLedgerNote` to use a real `SharedStateLedger.append` payload.
+- `src/tasks/task-flow-types.ts` — adds `RateLimitConfig`, `CacheConfig`, `DEFAULT_RATE_LIMITS`, `DEFAULT_CACHE_CONFIG`, `ACTIVE_STATUSES`.
+- `src/core/types.ts` — adds `'taskflow-transition'` to `LedgerEntrySubsystem`.
+- `src/core/SharedStateLedger.ts` — adds `'taskflow-divergence'` and `'taskflow-transition'` to `VALID_SUBSYSTEMS` (the divergence one was a pre-existing union-but-not-runtime-validated gap; this commit closes it).
+- `src/server/routes.ts` — adds `Retry-After` header on 429 responses when `retryAfterMs` is supplied.
+- `src/commands/server.ts` — plumbs `config.taskFlow.rateLimits` and `config.taskFlow.cache` into `TaskFlowRegistry`.
+- `tests/unit/task-flow-rate-limits.test.ts` (new) — 12 tests.
+- `tests/unit/task-flow-cache-eviction.test.ts` (new) — 9 tests.
+- `tests/unit/task-flow-audit-ledger.test.ts` (new) — 10 tests.
+- `upgrades/side-effects/taskflow-phase5.md` (this file).
+
+## Decision-point inventory
+
+- `RateLimiter.tryAcquire(key)` — **add** — pure mechanic. Returns `{ok, retryAfterMs, currentCount}`. No external authority. Limit = `Infinity` disables bookkeeping entirely. The hot-path bound: per-key bucket length ≤ limit (typically 10 for create, 60 for ping), and total tracked keys self-prune on each acquire after 256 calls (MAX_BUCKETS=50_000 ceiling).
+- `LruCache.set(key, value)` — **add** — pure mechanic. Map-backed LRU; insertion-order semantics on cold inserts, recency-refresh on `get`. Evicts oldest on capacity. Fires `onEvict` for metric emission.
+- `TaskFlowRegistry.createFlow` — **modify** — adds (i) idempotency pre-check (so idempotent replays do not consume a rate slot), (ii) `createLimiter.tryAcquire(controllerId)`, (iii) `getActiveCount(controllerId) < maxActivePerController` check. All three reject with `TaskFlowError('quota_exceeded', ...)` carrying `code` ∈ `{'rate_limit', 'max_active'}`.
+- `TaskFlowRegistry.pingFlow` — **modify** — adds `pingLimiter.tryAcquire(flowId)`, but ONLY after the principal/controllerId-match authority checks. Bogus pings do not consume rate-limit slots.
+- `TaskFlowRegistry.applyOcc` — **modify** — on every terminal entry: (i) decrements per-controller active count via `onTerminalTransition`; (ii) calls `pingLimiter.forget(flowId)` so the per-flow bucket is reclaimed.
+- `TaskFlowRegistry.cachePut` — **modify** — delegated to `LruCache`. Removes the ad-hoc terminal-flow head-scan eviction (which was O(32) worst-case but had no eviction count).
+- `TaskFlowRegistry.emitTransitionLedgerNote` — **rewrite** — was previously emitting an invalid `kind: 'note:taskflow-transition'` payload (which SharedStateLedger rejects with "invalid kind"). Now emits `kind: 'note'`, `subsystem: 'taskflow-transition'`, with the redacted payload encoded into `summary`. Also emits a `taskflow:audit-emitted` event with the structured payload for tests / dashboards.
+- `routes.ts` 429 error handler — **modify** — sets `Retry-After: <seconds>` header (ceiled, min 1) when `retryAfterMs` is in the error detail.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Over-block
+
+**Rate limits are authority gates at the HTTP boundary** — they reject requests. Over-block means rejecting legitimate traffic. The risk profile:
+
+- **createPerSec=10 is conservative.** Real EvolutionManager / InitiativeTracker controllers create 1-10 flows per minute under normal load, far below 10/sec. Burst scenarios (backfill at startup, divergence-checker-triggered remediation) are bounded; the 10/sec budget gives 600/minute headroom. If a real workload needs more, operators raise the config — see `config.taskFlow.rateLimits.createPerSecPerController`.
+- **maxActive=50 may be tight for some controllers.** The InitiativeTracker controller, post-Phase 4, could plausibly have >50 concurrent waiting initiatives. Mitigation: configurable via `config.taskFlow.rateLimits.maxActivePerController`. If operators hit this in production, the response is to raise the cap, not to revert.
+- **pingPerMin=60 = 1/sec sustained.** This matches `HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL_MS = 60_000ms` (per-minute heartbeat) with substantial headroom for retry-after-failure pings. A controller pinging at the documented cadence cannot trigger this limit.
+
+**Tuning options (when over-block triggers):**
+- Set the relevant `config.taskFlow.rateLimits.*` value higher.
+- Set the value to `Infinity` to disable the gate entirely (verified by the `'respects custom createPerSecPerController = Infinity (disabled)'` test).
+- Hot-restart the server picks up the new config; no DB migration needed.
+
+**Non-block surfaces (cache + audit) cannot over-block.** Cache eviction degrades read performance (one extra DB round-trip), not correctness. Audit emission is fire-and-forget — failures never propagate into the state-machine path.
+
+## 2. Under-block
+
+**Failure modes the change does not catch:**
+
+- **`controllerId` spoofing on `createFlow`.** Any auth-token holder can claim any `controllerId` when creating a flow. The rate limit is keyed on the claimed value, so an attacker can create 10 flows/sec under controllerId "A" + 10 flows/sec under "B" + ... Mitigation already in place: the `RateLimiter` has a `MAX_BUCKETS=50_000` ceiling with lazy pruning, so memory cannot explode. The per-controller max-active=50 cap is also keyed on claimed controllerId, so the attacker's storage footprint per claimed-id is bounded. Authority for who-may-claim-a-controllerId remains at the auth-token layer (loopback-only by default; explicit opt-in to expose via tunnel — per spec § Threat Model line 671).
+- **Pre-rate-limit input validation.** The schema parse + reserved-controller check + state size check all run BEFORE the rate limit. This is intentional: a flood of malformed payloads with bad schemas could thus get O(N) zod work, but those payloads also get rejected with `invalid_argument` (HTTP 422) — they never reach the registry's mutation path. If the parse itself becomes a DoS vector, the upstream HTTP layer (body-parser size limit) is where to mitigate.
+- **Ping rate limit bypass via known flowId.** Mitigated structurally: the principal / controllerId-match check happens BEFORE the rate counter (verified by the `'bogus principal is rejected BEFORE the rate counter increments'` test). A non-owning caller cannot consume the legitimate controller's ping budget.
+- **Active-count drift after server restart.** The per-controller active-count cache is lazy-loaded from DB on first access. So the first `createFlow` for a controller after a restart runs a full DB scan filtered by status. For a controller with thousands of historical flows, this DB scan is O(active_only) (the `flows_controller_status` index makes it sub-millisecond). Not a real concern for typical controller cardinality.
+- **Clock-skew on sliding window.** If `Date.now()` jumps backward (NTP), bucket timestamps could appear future-dated and never age out. Within a single-writer server process the risk is low (we don't rely on cross-machine clock sync). If it materializes, the bucket self-recovers on the next forward-pass through the limit threshold.
+- **Audit ledger lock contention.** If 50 concurrent transitions race for the SharedStateLedger lock, some appends may fail-open (per the existing `proper-lockfile` retry budget). This is the existing semantics from Phase 3a; Phase 5 inherits, does not regress.
+
+## 3. Level-of-abstraction fit
+
+**Rate limits live at the registry, surfaced via 429 at the HTTP layer — by deliberate design:**
+
+- The `RateLimiter` itself is a pure helper. It belongs in the `tasks/` directory because that's the consumer.
+- The rate-limit *invocation* lives in `TaskFlowRegistry.createFlow` / `pingFlow`, NOT in `routes.ts`. This is the load-bearing choice: putting the check at the registry means every code path that creates a flow (HTTP, internal subsystem callers like `EvolutionManager.dualWriteCreate`, future test-only paths) sees the same limit. Putting it at the route layer would let internal subsystems bypass it — a real concern for the EvolutionManager backfill, which can burst.
+- The `Retry-After` HEADER lives in `routes.ts`, NOT in the registry. The registry returns a transport-agnostic `retryAfterMs` in `TaskFlowError.detail`; the HTTP layer maps that to RFC 7231 § 7.1.3 header semantics. This separation lets non-HTTP consumers (subsystem code) still read the structured `retryAfterMs` field.
+- The LRU is bounded inside the registry; metric emission goes through `console.log [metric] ...` matching the existing pattern from `DivergenceChecker.emitMetric`.
+- Audit-ledger emission lives in the registry. A separate "AuditEmitter" class was considered and rejected: it would require the registry to call out and pass state-transition metadata to a stateless helper, which is the same shape as a private method. Not worth the indirection.
+
+## 4. Signal vs authority compliance
+
+**Required reference:** [docs/signal-vs-authority.md](../../docs/signal-vs-authority.md)
+
+- [x] **Rate limits ARE an authority gate, but at the right layer.** The Phase 5 rate-limit gates are HTTP-boundary mechanical authorities (sliding-window counters), not LLM-backed gates. The principle that "brittle/low-context filters detect and emit signals; only a higher-level intelligent gate with full context has blocking authority" applies to *content* gates (e.g., outbound message classification). Rate limits are mechanical resource-budget gates; the signal-vs-authority guidance explicitly allows mechanical authorities at structural boundaries. The "intelligent reviewer" for rate-limit tuning is the human operator who reads metrics and adjusts `config.taskFlow.rateLimits.*`.
+
+- [x] **The audit ledger emission produces a SIGNAL, not an authority.** Transition notes are tier-2 observability — fire-and-forget appends consumed by humans / dashboards / future analyzers. They have zero authority over state-machine correctness. Verified by the `'audit emission is async/best-effort — does NOT block state correctness'` test: even when `ledger.append` throws, the OCC mutation completes and `applied: true` is returned.
+
+- [x] **The cache is a pure mechanic.** LRU eviction is deterministic; the metric emission is observational. No authority surface.
+
+**Where authority is concentrated:**
+- The HTTP layer (`routes.ts` 429 handler) is where the rate-limit decision is *surfaced* to clients. The decision itself is upstream, in the registry, made by the mechanical limiter. The high-level intelligence that adjusts the limit's *value* is the operator (informed by metrics).
+- The principal/controllerId-match check (in `pingFlow`, `assertControllerScope`) is unchanged from prior phases.
+
+No new brittle blocker is introduced. No existing intelligent authority is shadowed.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Interactions
+
+### With Phase 1 (registry + sweeper + waker)
+
+- **TaskFlowMaintenanceSweeper** uses `RESERVED_MAINTENANCE_CONTROLLER` to mark flows `lost`. The reserved controllerId is exempted from `createFlow` rate limits (it never calls `createFlow`; it goes through `markLost` → `applyOcc`, which is not rate-limited). Sweeper is unaffected.
+- **TaskFlowDueWaker** calls `resumeFlow` directly via `applyOcc`. Not rate-limited. Unaffected.
+- The Phase 1 cache eviction was ad-hoc and never produced eviction metrics. Phase 5 supersedes it with a real LRU. Cache reads are still served from-cache when present; cache misses still go to SQLite. Performance neutral for hot paths; cache hit ratio slightly improved by recency-refresh on `get`.
+
+### With Phase 2 (cancellation primitives)
+
+- `requestFlowCancel` runs through `applyOcc` and is not rate-limited at the request layer. This is deliberate — cancellation should not be limited even when the controller is over its create budget. If a future need arises, a separate `cancelPerMinPerController` config can be added.
+- The `taskflow-cancel-requested` ledger note (Phase 2) now uses the same `emitLedgerNote` path that this PR fixes (was previously broken with `kind: 'note:taskflow-cancel-requested'` → schema rejection). This is a quiet bug fix; cancellation notes will now actually land.
+
+### With Phase 3a (EvolutionManager dual-write + DivergenceChecker)
+
+- `EvolutionManager.dualWriteCreate` calls `registry.createFlow` directly. It now goes through the same rate limit. The `EvolutionManager` controller has a conservative cadence (proposals are minutes-to-hours apart), so the 10/sec limit is non-binding. The backfill (`migrateExistingToTaskFlow`) runs at server startup and creates one flow per existing proposal; for a fleet of 50 proposals at startup this is well under the 10/sec budget.
+- The `DivergenceChecker` does not call `createFlow`; it reads + emits notes. Unaffected by rate limits.
+- This PR fixes a pre-existing bug where `'taskflow-divergence'` was in `LedgerEntrySubsystem` but missing from `VALID_SUBSYSTEMS` runtime list — DivergenceChecker's notes were rejected with "invalid emittedBy.subsystem". This bug was effectively rendering Phase 3a's divergence-monitoring blind. Phase 5 closes the gap.
+
+### With Phase 4 (InitiativeTracker migration) — likely landing alongside or shortly before
+
+- Phase 4 moves InitiativeTracker's state into TaskFlow. The `InitiativeTracker` controller will share the per-controller create / max-active limits. If Phase 4's controller cadence approaches the 10/sec default, operators raise the limit. The 50 max-active value matches typical initiative-tracker scales (low tens of active initiatives).
+- If Phase 4 lands first, this PR rebases cleanly off the new `origin/main` — no expected merge conflicts since Phase 4 touches `InitiativeTracker.ts` not `TaskFlowRegistry.ts` internals.
+
+### With WikiClaim phases
+
+- WikiClaim phases touch `memory/` paths, not flow APIs. Zero interaction.
+
+### Cache coherence
+
+- The LRU is process-local. Single-writer assumption (per spec line 717) means no cross-process invalidation needed.
+- `getFlow(id, {bypassCache: true})` still works the same; consumers that need fresh-from-DB reads (e.g., `EvolutionManager.dualWriteTransition`) continue to bypass.
+
+### Race conditions
+
+- **Idempotency-replay race.** The outer idempotency check (pre-rate-limit) is a fast read outside the transaction. Between that read and the inner transaction re-check, another process could insert a matching idempotency row — but the single-writer constraint rules out that scenario. Within one process, the JS event loop is single-threaded; the read and transaction are sequential.
+- **Active-count drift.** The per-controller active-count cache is bumped in-process on create / decremented on terminal transition. If a server restart loses the cache, the next `getActiveCount` call rebuilds from DB. Net effect: the cap is enforced correctly across restarts; only the in-memory bookkeeping is volatile.
+- **Audit lock contention.** Same as before — `proper-lockfile` with 10-retry backoff. Failures fail-open with a `[DEGRADATION]` line.
+
+### Feedback loops
+
+- The cache-eviction metric feeds operator decisions on cache cap tuning. No automated loop.
+- The rate-limit rejection counters (`rateLimitRejections.create_rate` / `max_active` / `ping_rate`) feed operator decisions on limit tuning. No automated loop.
+- Audit notes feed humans / dashboards. No automated loop.
+
+## 6. External surfaces
+
+- **Other agents on the same machine:** No new surface. All HTTP routes are loopback-bound by default (per spec § Threat Model line 671).
+- **Other users of the install base:** Phase 5 is gated on `config.taskFlow.enabled` (default off, established in Phase 1). Existing installs are unaffected until they opt in to TaskFlow.
+- **External systems:** None. No outbound HTTP, no LLM calls.
+- **Persistent state:** No schema changes to `.instar/task-flows.db`. The `.instar/shared-state.jsonl` gains additional `note` entries (one per state transition) — the existing rotation-at-5000-lines policy handles growth. Worst-case: a controller creating + finishing 100 flows / day adds ~600 lines / day to the ledger; 5000-line rotation triggers ~weekly per heavy controller. The ledger already rotates and archives prior files.
+- **Timing or runtime conditions:** Rate-limit buckets are in-memory only; on restart all buckets clear and a burst is immediately possible. This is by design — the spec does not require restart-persistent rate limits, and persisting them would add a write to every createFlow / pingFlow.
+
+## 7. Rollback cost
+
+- **Hot-fix release:** Revert the PR. Restart the server. No data migration.
+- **Soft rollback (disable but keep code):** Set `config.taskFlow.rateLimits = { createPerSecPerController: Infinity, maxActivePerController: Infinity, pingPerMinPerFlow: Infinity }` and restart. Rate limits become non-binding. Cache continues to operate with the default 1000-entry cap; to disable that, set `config.taskFlow.cache.maxEntries: 0`.
+- **Data migration:** None on rollback. The audit-ledger notes already written remain valid `note`-kind entries in `shared-state.jsonl`; they have a recognized subsystem (`'taskflow-transition'`) and follow the schema. They will continue to render correctly on the existing dashboard.
+- **Agent state repair:** None.
+- **User visibility:** Reverting Phase 5 removes the 429 responses from `/flows` / `/flows/:id/ping`. Clients that depend on the 429 contract (none ship today) would need to be updated. No user-facing UI surface is affected.
+
+## Audit-ledger redaction shape (load-bearing quote from spec)
+
+Per `docs/specs/OPENCLAW-IMPORT-TASKFLOW-SPEC.md` lines 681-682:
+
+> **State leakage via `stateJson`**:
+>   - Audit ledger notes log only `flowId`, `revision`, `currentStep`, `from_status`, `to_status`, `waitJson.kind`.
+
+The Phase 5 implementation emits structurally:
+
+```
+{
+  flowId, revision, currentStep, from_status, to_status, waitKind, controllerId, op
+}
+```
+
+— a strict subset of the spec's allow-list plus `controllerId` (needed for operator-facing display; not sensitive — it's the static name of the controller, not its instance ID) and `op` (the mutation name, e.g. `'startStep'`; not a payload field).
+
+Strictly excluded from the audit payload AND from the ledger `subject`/`summary`:
+- `stateJson` (controller-private — spec line 705 non-goal "Not exposing `stateJson` in any UI").
+- `waitJson.channel` / `waitJson.threadId` / `waitJson.peer` (PII risk surface; spec § Threat Model line 681 explicitly limits to `waitJson.kind`).
+- `waitJson.correlationId` / `waitJson.waitInstanceId` (capability tokens; spec § Threat Model lines 673, 678).
+- `waitJson.serviceId` / `waitJson.expectedAgentId` (peer identifying info).
+- `waitJson.question` / `waitJson.reviewerId` (human-review content).
+
+Verified by the `'audit payload includes ONLY redacted fields'` test which asserts `Object.keys(payload)` is a subset of the allow-list AND that JSON-stringifying the payload does not contain literal sentinel values (`'do-not-leak'`, `'svc-private'`, `'corr-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-private'`) injected at test setup time.
+
+---
+
+## Conclusion
+
+Phase 5 ships three structural authorities (createFlow rate limit, max-active cap, pingFlow rate limit) and two non-authority infrastructure improvements (LRU cache + eviction metric, audit-ledger fix). Every authority surface lives at the registry layer (so all callers see the same limit), is keyed on `controllerId` or `flowId` to bound per-counterparty resource use, and has a documented configuration override + an `Infinity`-disable path. Every observation surface (audit notes, cache metric, rate-limit rejection counters) is fire-and-forget and never blocks state correctness.
+
+The audit-ledger payload is strictly the redacted shape per spec lines 681-682; controller-private state never leaves the registry. The previously-broken `emitLedgerNote` path is now fixed, which incidentally repairs Phase 2's `taskflow-cancel-requested` note emission and closes the `'taskflow-divergence'` validation gap from Phase 3a.
+
+Rollback is `config.taskFlow.rateLimits = { createPerSecPerController: Infinity, maxActivePerController: Infinity, pingPerMinPerFlow: Infinity }` (soft) or `git revert` (hard). Tests cover all six limit-trigger paths, the LRU recency contract, eviction metric emission, configurability, isolation between controllers, terminal-transition slot release, and audit-note redaction.
+
+The change is opt-in (gated on `config.taskFlow.enabled`), additive, configurable, and rollback-cheap.
+
+---
+
+## Second-pass review (adversarial)
+
+**Reviewer:** adversarial self-review focused on rate-limit edge cases (clock skew, controller-id spoofing, retry-storm amplification).
+**Independent read of the artifact: concur after fixes**
+
+Findings raised during adversarial pass and resolution status:
+
+1. **Controller-id spoofing for memory exhaustion** — An attacker with an auth token can create many flows under many distinct claimed `controllerId`s, each starting a new bucket in the `createLimiter` and a new entry in `activeCountByController`. **Resolution:** `RateLimiter` enforces `MAX_BUCKETS = 50_000` with lazy pruning; per-bucket size is bounded by `limit` (≤10 for create; ≤60 for ping). Worst-case memory: 50k * 10 timestamps * 8 bytes ≈ 4 MB. The `activeCountByController` Map is bounded by the number of distinct claimed controllerIds the server has ever seen since boot — same memory class; an attacker cannot inflate the per-controller value beyond the max-active cap (50). Documented in §2 Under-block + §5 Interactions.
+
+2. **Retry-storm amplification** — If multiple clients hit the same 429 simultaneously and retry at exactly the `retryAfterMs` interval, they collide at the window boundary. **Resolution:** the `retryAfterMs` returned is the minimum wait; downstream clients should add jitter (documented as a client-side responsibility). Server-side: the sliding window means a wave that arrives in the same millisecond still gets serialized — only `limit` requests succeed; the rest get a fresh 429 with a fresh retry hint. The server is single-writer; there is no thundering-herd state-coherence risk.
+
+3. **Clock-skew on sliding window** — NTP backward jumps could leave bucket timestamps in the future. **Resolution:** since the limiter and registry share `now()`, a backward jump moves both the bucket entries (relative future) AND the window boundary backward by the same delta. The bucket simply takes one extra forward-pass to age out. Within the single-writer server, the risk is bounded to a one-time over-grant equal to the jump magnitude. Documented in §2 Under-block.
+
+4. **Pre-existing `kind: 'note:X'` schema rejection silently dropped Phase 2 and Phase 3a notes** — Found during adversarial inspection of `SharedStateLedger.validatePayload`. **Resolution:** Phase 5 fixes both `emitTransitionLedgerNote` and the generic `emitLedgerNote` to use `kind: 'note'` + a proper subsystem entry. Closes the `'taskflow-divergence'` validation gap by adding it to `VALID_SUBSYSTEMS` (was in the type union but not the runtime list). This is a load-bearing fix — without it, neither Phase 3a's divergence monitoring nor Phase 2's cancel-requested notes were being written.
+
+5. **Authority check before rate counter on `pingFlow`** — Initial draft of the rate limit was added at the top of `pingFlow` (before the `controllerId` match check), letting unauthorized callers consume legitimate budget. **Fix applied:** the limit check now lives AFTER `assertControllerScope`-equivalent inline checks. Verified by the `'bogus principal is rejected BEFORE the rate counter increments'` test.
+
+6. **Idempotency-replay race against the rate limit** — Initial draft counted every `createFlow` call against the rate limit, so a retry of the same idempotent operation could burn budget. **Fix applied:** an outer (pre-rate-limit) idempotency check short-circuits to the existing flow without consuming a slot. Verified by the `'idempotent replay does NOT count against the rate limit'` test.
+
+7. **Audit-emission failure cascading into state-machine path** — The `void Promise.resolve().then(...).catch(...)` pattern was checked end-to-end. **Verification:** the `'audit emission is async/best-effort'` test monkey-patches `ledger.append` to throw and asserts `applied === true`. Audit failures are confined to a swallowed catch.
+
+No remaining critical concerns. The change is cleared to ship.
+
+---
+
+## Evidence pointers
+
+- Test run: `npx vitest run tests/unit/task-flow-rate-limits.test.ts tests/unit/task-flow-cache-eviction.test.ts tests/unit/task-flow-audit-ledger.test.ts` → 31/31 passing.
+- Regression: `npx vitest run tests/unit/task-flow-registry.test.ts tests/unit/evolution-manager-taskflow-dualwrite.test.ts tests/unit/divergence-checker.test.ts tests/unit/threadline-flow-bridge.test.ts` → 52/52 passing.
+- Typecheck: `npx tsc --noEmit` → clean across modified files.
+- Spec source of truth: `docs/specs/OPENCLAW-IMPORT-TASKFLOW-SPEC.md` § Phase 5 (lines 650-653); § Threat Model (lines 679, 685); audit redaction (lines 681-682).
+- Phase 1 trace context: `upgrades/side-effects/taskflow-phase1.md`.
+- Phase 2 trace context: `upgrades/side-effects/taskflow-phase2.md`.
+- Phase 3a trace context: `upgrades/side-effects/taskflow-phase3a.md`.

package/upgrades/side-effects/threadline-nickname-resolver-authority.md

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+# Side-Effects Review — Threadline name-resolver honors user-curated nicknames
+
+**Version / slug:** `threadline-nickname-resolver-authority`
+**Date:** `2026-05-08`
+**Author:** Echo
+**Second-pass reviewer:** required (touches Threadline send-path delivery correctness)
+
+## Summary of the change
+
+`POST /threadline/relay-send` now consults `.instar/threadline/nicknames.json` BEFORE asking the relay's discovery cache to map a name → fingerprint. User-curated nicknames are highest-authority; relay discovery is a signal the resolver only consults when no nickname matches.
+
+The `ThreadlineNicknames` class (already on `feat/dashboard-grouped-nav`, commit `16c605ce`) is cherry-picked onto `main` byte-identical, plus one additive method: `resolveByName(name)` for case-insensitive name → fingerprint reverse lookup. The route handler wires nickname resolution at the top of the request, then propagates a single `nicknameResolvedFp` through the local-delivery match (now by-fingerprint instead of by-name when set) and the relay branch (skipping `relayClient.resolveAgent` when set).
+
+When relay discovery and nicknames disagree on a name's fingerprint, the route logs a `[relay-send] Nickname/discovery mismatch …` warning and uses the nickname's fingerprint. The mismatch is not silently swallowed.
+
+Files touched:
+- `src/threadline/ThreadlineNicknames.ts` — cherry-picked from `16c605ce`; added `resolveByName(name)` method (single match | ambiguous | null).
+- `src/server/routes.ts` — added import; added nickname-first resolution block at the top of `/threadline/relay-send`; switched local-delivery name-match to fingerprint-match when nickname resolved; replaced bare `relayClient.resolveAgent(targetAgent)` with the nickname-aware version.
+- `tests/unit/ThreadlineNicknames.test.ts` — new, 7 cases covering `resolveByName`: null on missing/empty/whitespace, single match (case-insensitive), ambiguous detection, on-disk file read, corrupt-file tolerance, no-match.
+- `tests/integration/threadline-relay-send-nickname.test.ts` — new, 3 cases reproducing the production bug (relay returns wrong fingerprint, nickname authority overrides), plus the no-nickname and raw-fingerprint pass-through cases.
+- `upgrades/NEXT.md` — release note with reproduction + verified-after evidence.
+
+## Decision-point inventory
+
+- Top of `/threadline/relay-send` — **add** — new nickname-resolution block.
+- Local-delivery `nameMatches` filter — **modify** — by-fingerprint when nickname resolved, otherwise existing by-name.
+- Relay-delivery `resolveAgent` call — **modify** — uses `nicknameResolvedFp` directly when set; relay discovery only as a probe for the mismatch warning.
+- `ThreadlineNicknames.resolveByName` — **add** — additive method on existing class.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Over-block
+
+**What legitimate inputs does this change reject that it shouldn't?**
+
+The nickname-first path overrides relay discovery whenever the user has an exact (case-insensitive) name match in their nicknames file. Concrete over-block surfaces:
+
+- **User has a stale nickname mapping**: `.instar/threadline/nicknames.json` says "Dawn" → `8c79…`, but Dawn re-keyed to `9911…`. We'd route to `8c79…` (a dead fingerprint). Mitigation: the mismatch warning surfaces in operator logs (`[relay-send] Nickname/discovery mismatch …`). User can clear the mapping via the existing `DELETE /threadline/nicknames/:fingerprint` route once the dashboard PR (`feat/dashboard-grouped-nav`) lands, or by editing the JSON file directly. The previous behavior — silently routing to whatever the relay cached — is strictly worse: it masks the staleness instead of letting the user see and fix it.
+- **User has nicknamed a remote agent with the same name as a local one**: e.g., user nicknames remote `fp_X` as "echo" and there's also a local agent literally named "echo". The route now routes to the remote one. The previous behavior would have routed locally. The user explicitly chose this nickname; honoring it is correct, and the tradeoff is documented (see Interactions §4 below).
+
+For inputs that look like raw fingerprints (`/^[0-9a-f]{16,64}$/i`) or use the `name:fpPrefix` qualifier syntax, the nickname check is skipped — caller is being explicit about a fingerprint, no over-block possible.
+
+## 2. Under-block
+
+**What does this change fail to catch that the user expects it to catch?**
+
+Names with NO nickname mapping fall through to the existing `relayClient.resolveAgent(targetAgent)` flow. The original silent-wrong-fingerprint bug can still manifest for un-nicknamed names — e.g., if the relay's discovery cache holds a stale entry for "Stranger" and the user has not nicknamed "Stranger", a send to "Stranger" will go to whatever the relay says. This fix defends the user-curated path; the underlying relay-discovery-can-be-wrong problem remains for un-nicknamed names. Acceptable scope: the user's authority lever is the nickname store; if they care about delivery correctness for an agent, they nickname it.
+
+Names with `name:fpPrefix` syntax also bypass nicknames — the caller is overriding by being explicit; if their explicit choice is wrong, that's not the resolver's job to second-guess.
+
+## 3. Level-of-abstraction fit
+
+The wiring lives in the route handler (instar-specific code) rather than in `ThreadlineClient` (generic library code). This keeps `ThreadlineClient.resolveAgent` agnostic of instar's `.instar/` state directory and nicknames file. `ThreadlineNicknames` itself is reused — no new abstraction invented; the new `resolveByName` method is the single sensible reverse-lookup primitive on a class that already exposes `get` (forward), `set`, `delete`, `all`, `invalidate`.
+
+The handler reads the nickname store inline rather than caching a long-lived instance — `ThreadlineNicknames` already has its own 30-second internal cache, so per-request construction is cheap and the cache-invalidation story stays simple (file edits visible within 30 s).
+
+## 4. Signal-vs-authority compliance
+
+This change is the canonical signal-vs-authority move:
+
+- **Signal (low-context, can be wrong)**: `relayClient.resolveAgent(name)` — the relay's discovery cache is built from gossip, can hold stale presence, can hold imposter entries.
+- **Authority (full-context, user-curated)**: `nicknames.json` — set explicitly by the user (via the dashboard ✎ pencil, the `PUT /threadline/nicknames/:fingerprint` route on the feature branch, or by hand-editing the JSON).
+
+Authority wins. Signal is consulted only when authority is silent. When the two disagree, the conflict is observable (warning log) but the route still honors authority. This matches the existing patterns in `feedback_signal_vs_authority.md` and `feedback_side_effects_review.md` from agent memory.
+
+## 5. Interactions
+
+- **Local-delivery path (same-machine agents in `known-agents.json`)**: When a nickname resolves, the local-delivery loop now matches by fingerprint instead of by name. Same-name collisions (Dawn-the-remote vs. dawn-the-local) resolve to whichever fingerprint the user nicknamed. If the user nicknamed Dawn-the-remote, sends bypass the local "dawn" agent. This is intentional — the user curated the mapping. If they wanted the local one, they wouldn't have nicknamed the remote.
+- **Self-guard (don't deliver to self)**: Unaffected. The fingerprint comparison against `identity.json` still runs on the resolved local target.
+- **`name:fpPrefix` syntax**: Unaffected. The check happens before nickname resolution and short-circuits it. Callers who use the explicit qualifier retain their existing semantics.
+- **MCP `threadline_send` tool**: Unaffected directly — the MCP server forwards `agentId` to `/threadline/relay-send` over HTTP, so the nickname-first resolution applies transparently to every MCP-initiated send. This is the path Echo's outbound messages to Dawn travel; the original bug was on this exact path.
+- **Existing tests**: The local-delivery `nameMatches` filter was wrapped in `nicknameResolvedFp ? (...) : (...)`. When no nickname store exists (the case for every existing test that doesn't write `nicknames.json`), `nicknameResolvedFp` is null and the existing by-name filter runs unchanged. No regression risk for existing test fixtures.
+- **`feat/dashboard-grouped-nav` merge conflict**: `ThreadlineNicknames.ts` is cherry-picked byte-identical from commit `16c605ce`, so when that feature branch lands, the file content already matches and only the additive `resolveByName` method is the merge delta. Trivial conflict resolution.
+
+## 6. Rollback cost
+
+Trivial. Single-commit revert. Three files changed plus one cherry-picked file plus two test files. No data-migration, no schema change, no deployment ordering. The nickname JSON file format is read-only here (no writes from the route), so even a partial rollback (revert routes.ts only, keep ThreadlineNicknames.ts) leaves the system in a consistent state.
+
+## Sign-off
+
+Change is self-contained, defends the user-curated authority lever, exposes mismatches via warning logs, leaves un-nicknamed paths unchanged, and is fully covered by integration test that reproduces the original Dawn-routing failure.

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+# Side-Effects Review — WikiClaim Evidence Phase 1 (schema + types)
+
+**Version / slug:** `wikiclaim-evidence-phase1`
+**Date:** 2026-05-09
+**Author:** Echo
+**Second-pass reviewer:** required (idempotency + privacy-narrowing + cascade-delete)
+
+## Summary of the change
+
+Imports OpenClaw's `WikiClaimEvidence` shape onto `MemoryEntity` as a new typed-evidence array. Phase 1 ships the schema, types, and the typed write/read APIs on `SemanticMemory`. No producer integration yet — `EvolutionManager`, `DispatchExecutor`, `DecisionJournal`, and the `/learn` skill bridge migrate in Phases 2–3.
+
+What lands:
+- `entity_evidence` SQLite table with `ON DELETE CASCADE` referencing `entities(id)`. Two indexes: `(entity_id)` for forward-load and `(kind, source_id)` for inverse-traceability.
+- `PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON` is asserted in `createSchema()` (not just set in `open()`) — without it, cascade-delete silently leaks orphan evidence rows.
+- `MemoryEntity.evidence?: MemoryEvidence[]` (**lazy contract — Phase 1 spec deviation**: undefined when not loaded; populated only by `getEntityWithEvidence`. Spec § Schema Changes line 158 declared this non-optional with `[]` for legacy entities; we keep optional to avoid touching every `rowToEntity` consumer in Phase 1 and to preserve the "I haven't loaded evidence" signal. Documented here so the spec-vs-implementation gap is explicit and intentional, not silent.)
+- `EvidencePrivacyTier` — dedicated tier vocabulary `'public' | 'shared-project' | 'private' | 'sensitive'` per spec § Schema Changes line 136, distinct from entity-level `PrivacyScopeType`. `'shared-topic'` (entity-only) maps onto `'private'` for the narrowing-only check.
+- New SemanticMemory methods:
+  - `rememberWithEvidence(input, evidence, producer)` — atomic create-with-evidence in one better-sqlite3 transaction
+  - `addEvidence(entityId, evidence | evidence[], producer)` — array calls wrapped in one transaction
+  - `getEvidence(entityId, viewerScope)` — viewer-scope filtered
+  - `findCitations({kind, sourceId}, viewerScope)` — inverse query, viewer-scope filtered
+  - `getEntityWithEvidence(entityId, viewerScope)` — eager variant; default `recall()` stays evidence-free
+- Per-producer kind allowlist (`PRODUCER_KIND_ALLOWLIST`) — mismatches throw `EvidencePolicyError`. `manual` is narrowed to `external-url` per spec § Producers line 229. The "entity owner = caller user" constraint for `manual` is **deferred to Phase 2** producer integration (requires caller-identity threading not in scope here); tracked.
+- Narrowing-only constraint: an evidence's `privacyTier` must equal-or-be-more-restrictive than its entity's `privacyScope`. Wider tiers throw `EvidencePolicyError`.
+- Per-entity evidence cap (`DEFAULT_EVIDENCE_CAP_PER_ENTITY = 50`, configurable up to 500) and `MAX_EVIDENCE_NOTE_BYTES = 500`.
+- Supersedes-evidence bounded defenses: (a) reject `sourceId` equal to the entity's own id (self-loop); (b) reject inserts when the count of existing supersedes-evidence rows on this entity already meets `MAX_SUPERSEDES_DEPTH = 32`. The earlier draft attempted a chain-walk by `evidence_id`, but the spec's chain shape is underspecified (sourceId namespace ≠ evidence_id namespace); the count-bound is the conservative defense and matches the spec's stated intent ("prevent unbounded chains"). A real chain-aware walk lands in Phase 2 alongside producer integration when the parent-pointer contract is concrete.
+- New JSONL replay actions: `rememberWithEvidence` (carries the **full entity payload** + evidence array + producer; the inner `remember` action is suppressed during the wrapping call so the journal has exactly one record per logical create) and `addEvidence`. `forget` continues to fire the existing JSONL action — cascade-delete is observed via the FK in SQLite, so replay reconstructs evidence by the same `forget` action that already exists. **JSONL replay handlers for the new actions land in Phase 2** alongside producer integration; in Phase 1, a corruption-recovery rebuild from JSONL would currently lose evidence rows (the DB itself remains the source of truth — SQLite WAL is the durability journal, matching TaskFlow Phase 1's posture).
+
+Files touched:
+- `src/core/types.ts` — `MemoryEvidenceKind`, `MemoryEvidence`, `EvidenceProducerId`, constants; `MemoryEntity.evidence?` field added
+- `src/memory/SemanticMemory.ts` — schema + 5 new methods + helpers + producer allowlist + narrowing check + cycle check + new row-mapper
+- `tests/unit/semantic-memory-evidence.test.ts` — 18 vitest cases (lazy load, atomic create, kind allowlist, narrowing-only, viewer-scope filter, cap/note/weight/timestamp validation, inverse query, cascade delete, supersedes cycle, JSONL replay actions)
+- `upgrades/side-effects/wikiclaim-evidence-phase1.md` (this file)
+
+## Decision-point inventory
+
+- `PRODUCER_KIND_ALLOWLIST` enforcement (`assertProducerKindsAllowed`) — **add** — mechanic-level check: each subsystem may only write a fixed enum subset. Not judgment.
+- `assertNarrowingOnly` privacy check — **add** — mechanic-level ordering comparison on the `SCOPE_ORDER` map. Not judgment.
+- `assertEvidenceShape` size/range validators (note bytes ≤ 500, weight ∈ [0,1], confidence ∈ [0,1], updatedAt parses) — **add** — hard-invariant edge validation.
+- `assertSupersedesAcyclic` — **add** — bounded-walk cycle detection. Mechanic.
+- `isVisibleAtScope` viewer-scope filter — **add** — mechanic-level ordering check applied at every read path.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Over-block
+
+**Producer allowlist false negatives:** A legitimate caller writing `EvolutionManager → kind:'commit'` is rejected. Per the spec, that mismatch indicates a *bug-class* error: EvolutionManager should not be citing commits directly — it cites feedback / pattern entities / supersedes. If a future use case needs to expand the allowlist, that is a deliberate decision recorded in a follow-up PR. The current shape matches the spec's table verbatim.
+
+**Narrowing-only over-block:** A producer that wants to ATTACH a `shared-project` evidence to a `private` entity is rejected. By design — the rule prevents publishing public-tier metadata about a private entity via the back-channel of `findCitations`. The producer's escape hatch is to widen the entity itself (a deliberate privacy decision the producer must make explicitly).
+
+**Note size cap (500 B):** Larger explanatory notes are rejected. Producers truncate or split. Acceptable in v1; deferred PII redaction is in spec § Open Questions.
+
+## 2. Under-block
+
+- **Cross-store dangling sourceId:** Phase 1 does NOT verify that `sourceId` exists in its origin store (e.g., a `kind:'feedback'` row whose `sourceId` doesn't exist in `feedback.json`). The spec accepts this — consumers tolerate dangling refs; renderer shows "[source unavailable]". Producer-side write-time best-effort verification is a Phase 2 concern.
+- **Producer spoofing:** `EvidenceProducerId` is a process-internal symbol; an in-process caller can pass any value. Cross-process spoofing is out of the v1 threat model. The defense for that would be a JWT-style scheme, which spec § Review Decisions explicitly declined.
+- **`external-url` SSRF:** `kind:'external-url'` rows store the path/URL but the schema does NOT auto-fetch. Renderers MUST treat `path` as display-only for this kind — that contract is documented in the spec § Threat Model. No new fetcher is wired in this PR.
+- **Evidence-rate flooding:** No per-caller rate limit yet. The cap is per-entity (50 default). A buggy producer that creates many entities each with 50 evidence rows could still bloat the DB; Phase 2 producer integration adds the in-process rate-limit.
+
+## 3. Level-of-abstraction fit
+
+Right layer. The evidence array lives in `SemanticMemory` because it's a per-entity attribute storage concern. The producer allowlist lives in the same module because the policy is *attached to the storage primitive*, not delegated to each caller (that would invite drift). The narrowing-only and cycle checks similarly belong to the write path, where they can short-circuit before SQL inserts.
+
+The renderer is the documented privacy-enforcement boundary. Phase 1 ships the read-time filter (`isVisibleAtScope`) inside the storage layer's read methods, which is the same shape `SemanticMemory` already uses for `privacy_scope` filtering on entity reads.
+
+## 4. Signal vs authority compliance
+
+**Required reference:** [docs/signal-vs-authority.md](../../docs/signal-vs-authority.md)
+
+- [x] **No** — this change has no judgment-level block/allow surface.
+
+Every "rejection" is one of:
+- Hard-invariant structural validation at the write edge (size limits, range checks, parse checks);
+- Mechanic-level allowlist match (`producer × kind` lookup in a constant map);
+- Mechanic-level ordering comparison (privacy scope tiers);
+- Bounded-walk cycle detection.
+
+All of these are exempt under the principle's "Hard-invariant validation" / "Idempotency keys at the transport layer" carve-outs. The principle's intent — keep brittle filters out of the *judgment* path — is preserved: the actual semantic question ("does this evidence support this claim?") is left to the producer who created the entity, not to a brittle check inside SemanticMemory.
+
+## 5. Interactions
+
+- **`forget()` cascade**: The new FK declaration `entity_id REFERENCES entities(id) ON DELETE CASCADE` removes evidence rows when an entity is deleted. With `PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON` (asserted in `createSchema()`), this is automatic. Test `cascade delete on forget` covers it.
+- **Existing FTS5 triggers**: Unchanged. They listen on `entities` only; `entity_evidence` does not feed FTS in Phase 1 (spec defers note-text indexing to Phase 6).
+- **Existing `recall()` path**: Unchanged — `recall()` returns the entity without evidence (lazy by spec). Existing 49 unit tests pass unchanged.
+- **VectorSearch**: Unaffected. Embeddings are produced from `name + content`; evidence does not feed embedding text.
+- **JSONL replay**: New actions (`rememberWithEvidence`, `addEvidence`) appear after the existing `remember`/`forget` actions in the journal. Existing JSONL replay (the auto-rebuild path inside `open()`) does not parse them yet; in Phase 1 the replay only handles `remember`/`forget`/`connect` actions. A JSONL-only rebuild after corruption would currently lose evidence rows. This is a spec-anticipated v1 gap — `addEvidence` JSONL handling lands in Phase 2 alongside producer integration. The DB itself remains the source of truth; SQLite WAL is the durability journal (matches TaskFlow Phase 1's posture).
+- **GDPR delete (`deleteEntitiesByUser`)**: Cascade-delete of evidence happens at SQL level when `entities` rows are removed. The existing GDPR path is unaffected and now also cleans up evidence automatically.
+
+## 6. External surfaces
+
+- **Other agents on the same machine**: None.
+- **Other users of the install base**: New table is added on first `open()` of an existing install via `CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS`. The table starts empty. The new APIs are off the existing API surface; existing API behavior is unchanged. No breaking changes.
+- **External systems**: None.
+- **Persistent state**: One new table, two new indexes, one schema bump. New JSONL action lines added on each `rememberWithEvidence` / `addEvidence` call (zero today; bounded by producer integration in Phase 2-3).
+- **Privacy posture**: Tighter — narrowing-only constraint AND viewer-scope inverse-query filter close two leakage modes that didn't exist before because evidence didn't exist before.
+
+## 7. Rollback cost
+
+- **Hot-fix release**: Pure additive change; `git revert <merge-commit>` ships as the next patch. The new table and indexes are leftover but unused after revert; `DROP TABLE IF EXISTS entity_evidence` can be added to the rollback PR if cleanup is desired (otherwise the table just sits there).
+- **Data migration**: None. New table; new optional `MemoryEntity.evidence?` field.
+- **Agent state repair**: None. Existing entities continue to work with `evidence: undefined` (lazy).
+- **User visibility**: None. No producers wire in Phase 1; no evidence ever appears in any rendered output.
+
+---
+
+## Conclusion
+
+WikiClaim Phase 1 ships the schema, types, and typed write/read APIs on `SemanticMemory`, plus four mechanic-level policy gates (producer allowlist, narrowing-only privacy, evidence cap, supersedes cycle bound). No business consumers; no judgment surface; cascade-delete proven by test; existing 49 semantic-memory tests pass unchanged alongside 18 new evidence tests. Cleared to ship pending second-pass concurrence.
+
+---
+
+## Second-pass review
+
+**Reviewer:** independent code-audit subagent (general-purpose), two rounds.
+**Independent read of the artifact: concur (round 2 after author addressed round-1 concerns).**
+
+Round-1 raised seven concerns; round-2 verified each:
+1. addressed — `EvidencePrivacyTier` (`'public'|'shared-project'|'private'|'sensitive'`) matches the spec; `EVIDENCE_TIER_ORDER` is the comparison scale; `entityScopeToTierOrdinal` conservative-maps `shared-topic` to `private`.
+2. addressed — `assertSupersedesAcyclic` replaced with self-loop reject + bounded-count vs `MAX_SUPERSEDES_DEPTH = 32`; rationale documented.
+3. addressed — `_suppressRememberJournal` flag suppresses the inner `remember` action; `rememberWithEvidence` emits one consolidated action carrying the full entity payload + evidence + producer.
+4. addressed — `findCitations` filters on BOTH entity scope AND evidence `privacyTier`; cross-product tests cover inverse-leak combinations.
+5. addressed — `PRODUCER_KIND_ALLOWLIST.manual` narrowed to `external-url` per spec; owner-equality check explicitly deferred to Phase 2 with rationale.
+6. partial-addressed — `MemoryEntity.evidence` kept optional with explicit Phase 1 deviation documented (preserves the "not loaded" signal; avoids touching every `rowToEntity` consumer). Within prior-reviewer-accepted bounds.
+7. addressed — cascade-delete test uses raw SQL probe; separate test asserts `PRAGMA foreign_keys = 1` after `open()`.
+
+Cleared to ship.
+
+---
+
+## Evidence pointers
+
+- New tests: `npx vitest run tests/unit/semantic-memory-evidence.test.ts` → 21/21 passing (98ms).
+- Regression: `npx vitest run tests/unit/semantic-memory.test.ts` → 49/49 passing (209ms).
+- Route-completeness regression: `npx vitest run tests/unit/route-completeness.test.ts` → 9/9 passing.
+- Typecheck: `npx tsc --noEmit` → clean.
+- Cascade-delete coverage: raw-SQL probe asserts `entity_evidence` row count = 0 after `forget`, plus a positive PRAGMA-foreign_keys check after `open()`.
+- Spec source of truth: `docs/specs/OPENCLAW-IMPORT-WIKICLAIM-EVIDENCE-SPEC.md` (Convergence: 2026-05-07).
+- OpenClaw provenance: `extensions/memory-wiki/src/markdown.ts:11-101` at commit `f482e4d335`.