iterate-plugin 3.9.2 → 3.10.0

package/dist/tools/decision-log.js

@@ -1,25 +1,72 @@
-import { appendFileSync, readFileSync, mkdirSync, existsSync, statSync, } from 'node:fs';
+/**
+ * src/tools/decision-log.ts — the iterate loop's decision ledger.
+ *
+ * THE WRITE SIDE IS THE KERNEL'S SINCE THIS BATCH. `appendDecisionEntry` no longer
+ * serialises the loop's own `{timestamp, round, type, data}` record: it transcribes that
+ * record through `iterate-kernel/decision-log-transcribe` and appends a verified
+ * hash-chain entry through `iterate-kernel/decision-log` — the same shape the Python
+ * harness writes (`iterate_harness/iterate/decision_log.py`) and the same file format the
+ * GlassPane fork already runs. Two ecosystems, one format on disk, one chain either side
+ * can recompute:
+ *
+ *   line i        = canonical JSON of entry i (keys sorted, no whitespace)
+ *   sequence      = i (genesis is 0, strictly +1)
+ *   prevEntryHash = "" for i = 0, else sha256_hex(line i-1 as written)
+ *
+ * Chain fields are supplied by the LEDGER (`decisionLogHead` inside the kernel's append),
+ * never by the caller — a caller that could pick `sequence` could rewrite history.
+ *
+ * The history that predates the flip is neither rewritten away nor ignored:
+ *
+ * - a file whose every line is still a legacy record is MIGRATED ON THE NEXT WRITE: each
+ *   record transcribed in order using its OWN timestamp (which also mints its entry id, so
+ *   two runs migrating the same history build the same chain), the new chain verified
+ *   BEFORE anything is swapped in, and the original bytes kept beside it at mode 0600;
+ * - `readDecisionLogDetailed` classifies every line and returns the RECORD VIEW for both
+ *   shapes (`projectDecisionRecord`), which is what keeps `last_state`, `ci_report`,
+ *   `html_report`, `replay`, history/checkpoint and the web client working unchanged:
+ *   transcription rule 3 copies `data` into `payload` in full, so nothing a report reads
+ *   is lost by the flip;
+ * - a log where a legacy line FOLLOWS the chain is CONTESTED: refused, reported, and left
+ *   for a human. Re-deriving a line that already carries a hash would forge its
+ *   continuity, so neither the append path nor prune touches it — `archiveContestedDecisionLog`
+ *   is the only legal move, and it is chosen, never automatic;
+ * - a line that is neither shape is SKIPPED by the reader (a partial log beats no log) and
+ *   counted in `invalidLines` so it never disappears silently.
+ *
+ * Refusals carry `code` + `remedy` — the kernel's own codes propagate verbatim
+ * (`KERNEL_E_*`), plus the two cases only a file's history can produce
+ * (`ITERATE_E_DECISION_LOG_INTERLEAVED` / `ITERATE_E_DECISION_LOG_MIGRATION`). They are
+ * never a bare Error and never swallowed: `appendDecisionEntry` keeps its old
+ * never-throws contract and returns the refusal structured, and the tool boundary answers
+ * with the code and the remedy.
+ */
+import { chmodSync, closeSync, fchmodSync, fsyncSync, openSync, readFileSync, mkdirSync, existsSync, renameSync, statSync, writeSync, } from 'node:fs';
 import { join } from 'node:path';
 import { defineTool } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tools';
+import { KernelDecisionLogError, appendDecisionLogEntry as kernelAppendLedgerEntry, buildDecisionLogEntry as kernelBuildLedgerEntry, decisionLogEntryHash as kernelLedgerEntryHash, newDecisionEntryId as kernelNewDecisionEntryId, serializeDecisionLogEntry as kernelSerializeLedgerEntry, verifyDecisionLogText as kernelVerifyLedgerText, } from 'iterate-kernel/decision-log';
+import { DECISION_KIND_PATTERN as KERNEL_DECISION_KIND_PATTERN } from 'iterate-kernel/decision-log-entry';
+import { KernelDecisionTranscribeError, decisionLogDraftFromRecord as kernelDraftFromRecord, isLegacyDecisionRecord as kernelIsLegacyRecord, } from 'iterate-kernel/decision-log-transcribe';
 import { resolveProjectRootForExec } from "../config-loader.js";
 import { acquireProjectLockChecked } from "../file-lock.js";
+import { KNOWN_DECISION_KINDS } from "../types.js";
 const LOG_DIR = '.iterate';
 const LOG_FILE = 'decision-log.jsonl';
+/** Absolute path of a project's ledger. Pure: never creates anything. */
+export function decisionLogPath(projectRoot) {
+    return join(projectRoot, LOG_DIR, LOG_FILE);
+}
 // ─── Cross-process log mutex ────────────────────────────────────────────────
 //
-// The prune rewrite (temp + atomic rename) can silently discard an audit line
-// from a CONCURRENT appender whose fd was opened against the pre-rename inode:
-// the appender writes to the unlinked inode, the post-rewrite re-read sees a
-// "stable" file, and the fresh entry is lost. In-process safety is guaranteed
-// by synchronous I/O, but a second plugin process appending to the same
-// project realises the race. The log is serialized with a tiny advisory lock
-// file (exclusive create, pid stamped, stale-stealable) so `append` and the
-// prune rewrite mutually exclude across processes. Appends are BEST-EFFORT:
-// contention timeouts degrade to "proceed unlocked" (an audit line must never
-// be lost to a wedged append), never to a crash. The prune REWRITE is the
-// opposite — it renames the log and therefore refuses to run when the lock
-// cannot be taken (see `rewriteDecisionLogKeepingRecent` in prune.ts).
-/** Lock name shared with the prune rewrite (→ `.iterate/.decision-log.lock`). */
+// Appends from two plugin processes against one project would otherwise interleave
+// inside the kernel's read-head → write → read-back window and break the chain. The
+// kernel DETECTS that (read-back + verify) and refuses to build on the damaged tail;
+// the advisory lock keeps it from happening at all. Appends are BEST-EFFORT on
+// contention: a timeout degrades to "proceed unlocked" (an audit line must never be
+// lost to a wedged append) and the kernel's own detection is the backstop. Nothing
+// here renames the log any more — the prune rewrite that needed the exclusive lock is
+// gone, because renumbering a hash chain is not a thing a ledger can honestly do.
+/** Lock name shared with the project lock registry (→ `.iterate/.decision-log.lock`). */
 const LOG_LOCK_NAME = 'decision-log';
 /**
  * Acquire the decision-log lock for `projectRoot`.
@@ -33,17 +80,14 @@ export function acquireLogLock(projectRoot, options = {}) {
     return acquireLogLockChecked(projectRoot, options).release;
 }
 /**
- * {@link acquireLogLock} plus the one thing the prune rewrite needs: whether
- * the lock was actually TAKEN. Appends stay best-effort on contention (an
- * audit line must not be lost to a wedged append), but the rewrite renames the
- * log under any unlocked concurrent appender — it must refuse to run without
- * the mutex rather than silently dropping an audit line.
+ * {@link acquireLogLock} plus whether the lock was actually TAKEN. Appends stay
+ * best-effort on contention; a caller that would mutate the ledger's identity (there is
+ * no such caller in this module any more — archive-and-restart renames an UNVERIFIABLE
+ * file only) needs the difference.
  *
- * Delegates to the shared `acquireProjectLockChecked` with lock name
- * `decision-log`: the decision-log mutex IS that generic project lock. This
- * module used to hand-roll an identical copy of the acquire/steal/wait logic,
- * and the two stale/wait parameter sets could drift apart — one implementation,
- * one set of defaults, one ownership-checked release.
+ * Delegates to the shared `acquireProjectLockChecked` with lock name `decision-log`:
+ * the decision-log mutex IS that generic project lock. One implementation, one set of
+ * defaults, one ownership-checked release.
  */
 export function acquireLogLockChecked(projectRoot, options = {}) {
     return acquireProjectLockChecked(projectRoot, LOG_LOCK_NAME, options);
@@ -104,78 +148,461 @@ export function recountEntries(filePath) {
 }
 /**
  * Drop the cached entry count for a log file. The cache is keyed by the log
- * path and assumes "same byte size ⇒ same entry count"; a prune rewrite
- * (temp + atomic rename) replaces the file with a DIFFERENT number of entries,
- * so only a stale-cache invalidation keeps the fast path honest. Without it, a
- * rewrite that lands on the exact same byte size as the previous append would
- * make the next append report a wrong `count`.
+ * path and assumes "same byte size ⇒ same entry count"; any event that replaces
+ * the file wholesale (a migration, an archive-and-restart) lands a DIFFERENT
+ * number of entries under the same path, so only an explicit invalidation keeps
+ * the fast path honest.
  */
 export function invalidateLogCountCache(filePath) {
     entryCountCache.delete(filePath);
 }
-/** All valid DecisionLogEntry `type` values (must stay in sync with Types). */
-const VALID_ENTRY_TYPES = new Set([
-    'round_start',
-    'review_result',
-    'atomic_fix',
-    'architectural_fix',
-    'revert',
-    'round_failed',
-    'validation',
-    'decision',
-    'report',
-    'resume',
-]);
+// ─── Refusals: code + remedy, never a bare Error ────────────────────────────
 /**
- * Validate a candidate (type, round, data) triple for an append operation.
- * Returns an error string on failure, or null when the entry is well-formed.
+ * Harness-level refusal codes. The kernel's own codes (`KERNEL_E_*`) propagate
+ * unchanged; these two name the cases only a file's HISTORY can produce, so a caller can
+ * tell "this ledger is broken" from "a legacy record and the chain are interleaved and I
+ * will not guess which side owns the tail". Names mirror the Python side verbatim.
  */
-function validateEntryInput(type, round, data) {
-    if (typeof type !== 'string' || !VALID_ENTRY_TYPES.has(type)) {
-        return `type must be one of: ${[...VALID_ENTRY_TYPES].join(', ')}.`;
+export const DECISION_LOG_ERROR_CODES = {
+    interleaved: 'ITERATE_E_DECISION_LOG_INTERLEAVED',
+    migration: 'ITERATE_E_DECISION_LOG_MIGRATION',
+};
+/** A decision that must not be recorded, carrying a code and an executable remedy. */
+export class DecisionLogWriteRefusal extends Error {
+    code;
+    remedy;
+    constructor(code, message, remedy) {
+        super(`${code}: ${message}`);
+        this.name = 'DecisionLogWriteRefusal';
+        this.code = code;
+        this.remedy = remedy;
     }
-    if (typeof round !== 'number' || !Number.isInteger(round) || round < 1) {
-        return 'round must be a positive integer.';
+}
+/**
+ * Everything "this decision cannot be recorded" can raise, so a tool boundary can answer
+ * with a code and a remedy instead of letting an exception reach the agent as a crash. The
+ * kernel's own classes are in here too: their `code`/`remedy` attributes are the same shape
+ * on purpose.
+ */
+export const DECISION_LOG_REFUSALS = [
+    DecisionLogWriteRefusal,
+    KernelDecisionLogError,
+    KernelDecisionTranscribeError,
+];
+/** Flatten any refusal (ours or the kernel's) into the structured form callers expect. */
+function refusalFields(error) {
+    if (error instanceof DecisionLogWriteRefusal ||
+        error instanceof KernelDecisionLogError ||
+        error instanceof KernelDecisionTranscribeError) {
+        const carried = error;
+        return {
+            error: typeof carried.message === 'string' ? carried.message : String(error),
+            code: typeof carried.code === 'string' ? carried.code : 'ITERATE_E_DECISION_LOG_UNKNOWN',
+            remedy: typeof carried.remedy === 'string'
+                ? carried.remedy
+                : 'preserve the ledger file and inspect it before writing again',
+        };
+    }
+    return {
+        error: `decision log write failed: ${String(error)}`,
+        code: 'ITERATE_E_DECISION_LOG_WRITE',
+        remedy: 'report this as a failed write instead of continuing as if the decision had been logged',
+    };
+}
+/**
+ * Whether `type` is a decision kind the kernel can carry — SHAPE, not membership.
+ *
+ * The pattern is the kernel's own export (`DECISION_KIND_PATTERN`,
+ * `iterate-kernel/decision-log-entry`), so this module cannot drift from the contract it
+ * implements; `test/decision-log.test.ts` pins the pattern's source text against the
+ * string both shells were coded from, which is what ends the 8-vs-10 kind divergence.
+ */
+export const DECISION_KIND_PATTERN = KERNEL_DECISION_KIND_PATTERN;
+export function isDecisionKind(value) {
+    return typeof value === 'string' && DECISION_KIND_PATTERN.test(value);
+}
+// ─── Line classification and the record projection ──────────────────────────
+const CANONICAL_REQUIRED_KEYS = ['entryId', 'sequence', 'prevEntryHash', 'summary', 'outcome', 'createdAt'];
+/**
+ * `"legacy"` | `"canonical"` | `"unknown"` for one decoded JSONL line.
+ *
+ * Shape-based, like the kernel's `isLegacyDecisionRecord`: guessing "it has a timestamp"
+ * would misclassify the fork's own ledger lines, which also carry one. Mirrors Python's
+ * `_classify_line` exactly.
+ */
+export function classifyDecisionLine(decoded) {
+    if (decoded === null || typeof decoded !== 'object' || Array.isArray(decoded))
+        return 'unknown';
+    const record = decoded;
+    if (Object.keys(record).length === 0)
+        return 'unknown';
+    if (kernelIsLegacyRecord(record))
+        return 'legacy';
+    const keys = new Set(Object.keys(record));
+    return CANONICAL_REQUIRED_KEYS.every((k) => keys.has(k)) ? 'canonical' : 'unknown';
+}
+/** Every non-empty line of a ledger, paired with its decoded object (`null` when it does not decode). */
+function decodedLines(filePath) {
+    let text;
+    try {
+        text = readFileSync(filePath, 'utf-8');
     }
-    if (data !== undefined && data !== null && typeof data !== 'object') {
-        return 'data must be an object (or omitted).';
+    catch {
+        return [];
     }
-    return null;
+    const out = [];
+    for (const raw of text.split('\n')) {
+        if (raw.trim().length === 0)
+            continue;
+        let decoded = null;
+        try {
+            decoded = JSON.parse(raw);
+        }
+        catch {
+            decoded = null;
+        }
+        out.push({ raw, decoded });
+    }
+    return out;
+}
+/** The 1-based line number of the first legacy record AFTER the chain began, else `null`. */
+export function contestedLedgerLine(filePath) {
+    const kinds = decodedLines(filePath).map((l) => classifyDecisionLine(l.decoded));
+    const firstCanonical = kinds.indexOf('canonical');
+    if (firstCanonical === -1)
+        return null;
+    const trailing = kinds.findIndex((kind, index) => index > firstCanonical && kind === 'legacy');
+    return trailing === -1 ? null : trailing + 1;
+}
+/** Project one line (legacy record or canonical entry) into the loop's record shape. */
+export function projectDecisionRecord(decoded) {
+    if (decoded === null || typeof decoded !== 'object' || Array.isArray(decoded))
+        return null;
+    const line = decoded;
+    const kind = classifyDecisionLine(line);
+    if (kind === 'legacy') {
+        const data = line['data'];
+        return {
+            timestamp: typeof line['timestamp'] === 'string' ? line['timestamp'] : '',
+            round: typeof line['round'] === 'number' ? line['round'] : 0,
+            type: typeof line['type'] === 'string' ? line['type'] : '',
+            data: data !== null && typeof data === 'object' && !Array.isArray(data)
+                ? { ...data }
+                : {},
+        };
+    }
+    if (kind !== 'canonical')
+        return null;
+    // The inverse of the kernel's transcription on the fields readers actually use:
+    // createdAt→timestamp, kind→type, payload→data (rule 3 copied `data` in full, so a
+    // report that read a finding list before the flip reads the same list after it).
+    const payload = line['payload'];
+    const round = typeof line['round'] === 'number' ? line['round'] : 0;
+    return {
+        timestamp: typeof line['createdAt'] === 'string' ? line['createdAt'] : '',
+        round,
+        type: typeof line['kind'] === 'string' ? line['kind'] : '',
+        data: payload !== null && typeof payload === 'object' && !Array.isArray(payload)
+            ? { ...payload }
+            : {},
+    };
+}
+// ─── Timestamps and drafts ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+/**
+ * ISO-8601 with an EXPLICIT zone — the same rule both shells transcribe against
+ * (`kernel_decision_record.ISO_8601_WITH_ZONE` on the Python side, rule 4 of
+ * `iterate-kernel/decision-log-transcribe` on the kernel's).
+ *
+ * A PATTERN and not `Date.parse`: JS happily guesses US month/day order for a spelling
+ * like `11/10/2026 02:28` that Python refuses outright. A ledger whose dates depend on
+ * which runtime converted them is not evidence, and the two halves of this contract
+ * would migrate the same history two different ways.
+ */
+const ISO_8601_WITH_ZONE = /^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})T(\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})(?:\.(\d{1,9}))?(Z|[+-]\d{2}:\d{2})$/;
+/** Milliseconds since the epoch for a zone-stamped ISO-8601 instant, or `null`. */
+export function timestampMs(raw) {
+    if (typeof raw !== 'string' || raw.length === 0)
+        return null;
+    const m = ISO_8601_WITH_ZONE.exec(raw);
+    if (!m)
+        return null;
+    const [, y, mo, d, h, mi, s, frac, zone] = m;
+    if (y === undefined || mo === undefined || d === undefined || h === undefined ||
+        mi === undefined || s === undefined || zone === undefined)
+        return null;
+    const millis = (frac ?? '').slice(0, 3).padEnd(3, '0');
+    const epochMs = Date.UTC(Number(y), Number(mo) - 1, Number(d), Number(h), Number(mi), Number(s), Number(millis));
+    if (Number.isNaN(epochMs))
+        return null;
+    if (zone === 'Z')
+        return epochMs;
+    const sign = zone[0] === '+' ? 1 : -1;
+    const offsetMinutes = sign * (Number(zone.slice(1, 3)) * 60 + Number(zone.slice(4, 6)));
+    return epochMs - offsetMinutes * 60_000;
+}
+/** Transcribe one record into a ledger draft, with an entry id minted from its OWN instant. */
+function draftFor(record, context) {
+    const epochMs = timestampMs(record.timestamp);
+    if (epochMs === null) {
+        throw new DecisionLogWriteRefusal(DECISION_LOG_ERROR_CODES.migration, `a decision dated ${JSON.stringify(record.timestamp)} cannot be entered into the ledger (${context})`, 'the kernel accepts ISO-8601 with an explicit zone; fix the producer\'s timestamp — ' +
+            'an entry the ledger cannot date is un-auditable, and minting an id from this machine\'s ' +
+            'clock would make the same history hash two different ways');
+    }
+    // The id is time-ordered from the RECORD's own timestamp (never `Date.now()`), so two
+    // runs migrating the same legacy history build the same chain and get the same hashes.
+    return kernelDraftFromRecord({ timestamp: record.timestamp, round: record.round, type: record.type, data: record.data }, kernelNewDecisionEntryId(epochMs));
+}
+// ─── Migration and the contested state ──────────────────────────────────────
+/** Write `bytes` to a fresh file at mode 0600, refusing to clobber (O_EXCL + explicit chmod). */
+function writeExclusive0600(path, bytes) {
+    // The mode argument is masked by the process umask, so `0o600` alone is not the mode it
+    // looks like; fchmod after the open states it outright.
+    const fd = openSync(path, 'wx', 0o600);
+    try {
+        fchmodSync(fd, 0o600);
+        const buffer = typeof bytes === 'string' ? Buffer.from(bytes, 'utf-8') : Buffer.from(bytes);
+        let written = 0;
+        while (written < buffer.length)
+            written += writeSync(fd, buffer, written);
+        fsyncSync(fd);
+    }
+    finally {
+        closeSync(fd);
+    }
+}
+/** `20261020T010203004567Z` — sortable, zone-stamped, collision-unlikely suffix for archives/backups. */
+function utcStamp(now) {
+    return now.toISOString().replace(/[-:]/g, '').replace(/\./g, '');
+}
+/**
+ * Rewrite an all-legacy log as a verified chain, keeping the original bytes.
+ *
+ * Refuses rather than improvises: any record the kernel will not transcribe stops the
+ * whole migration, because a ledger that silently omits the line it could not read is a
+ * ledger whose gaps are invisible. The new text is verified BEFORE it replaces anything
+ * (same order the Python side uses: build → verify → backup → swap).
+ */
+function migrateToLedger(filePath, records) {
+    let sequence = 0;
+    let prevHash = '';
+    const lines = [];
+    for (let index = 0; index < records.length; index++) {
+        const record = records[index];
+        try {
+            const entry = kernelBuildLedgerEntry(draftFor(record, `line ${index + 1}`), {
+                sequence,
+                prevEntryHash: prevHash,
+            });
+            prevHash = kernelLedgerEntryHash(entry);
+            sequence += 1;
+            lines.push(kernelSerializeLedgerEntry(entry));
+        }
+        catch (error) {
+            if (error instanceof DecisionLogWriteRefusal)
+                throw error;
+            const { code, error: message, remedy } = refusalFields(error);
+            throw new DecisionLogWriteRefusal(code === 'ITERATE_E_DECISION_LOG_MIGRATION' ? code : DECISION_LOG_ERROR_CODES.migration, `line ${index + 1} of ${filePath} cannot be transcribed into the ledger: ${message}`, `the ledger will not start on top of a record it cannot read (${code}) — preserve the file, ` +
+                `repair that line's timestamp/payload/kind, then write again. ${remedy}`);
+        }
+    }
+    const body = `${lines.map((line) => `${line}\n`).join('')}`;
+    const check = kernelVerifyLedgerText(body);
+    if (!check.ok || check.entries.length !== records.length) {
+        throw new DecisionLogWriteRefusal(DECISION_LOG_ERROR_CODES.migration, `the migrated chain does not verify (${check.reason ?? 'unknown reason'})`, `nothing was written; keep ${filePath} as it is and investigate line ${check.firstBrokenLine ?? '?'}`);
+    }
+    // Verified first, backup second, swap last: an interrupted migration can always be
+    // replayed from the 0600 original, and the file on disk is never an unverified chain.
+    let original;
+    try {
+        original = readFileSync(filePath);
+    }
+    catch (error) {
+        throw new DecisionLogWriteRefusal(DECISION_LOG_ERROR_CODES.migration, `the legacy ledger could not be read for backup: ${String(error)}`, `nothing was written; fix access to ${filePath} — this is evidence, so repair it rather than deleting it`);
+    }
+    const backup = `${filePath.replace(/\.jsonl$/, '')}.pre-ledger-${utcStamp(new Date())}.jsonl.bak`;
+    try {
+        writeExclusive0600(backup, original);
+        const temp = `${filePath}.migrating-${process.pid}`;
+        writeExclusive0600(temp, body);
+        renameSync(temp, filePath);
+    }
+    catch (error) {
+        throw new DecisionLogWriteRefusal(DECISION_LOG_ERROR_CODES.migration, `the migrated chain could not be swapped in: ${String(error)}`, `the original is preserved at ${backup}; nothing was lost — repair the directory and write again`);
+    }
+    finally {
+        invalidateLogCountCache(filePath);
+    }
+}
+/**
+ * Move a ledger whose legacy lines follow the chain aside, without losing a byte.
+ *
+ * This is the HUMAN's action after the `…INTERLEAVED` refusal, and it is the only safe
+ * one: the chain cannot be renumbered and the foreign lines cannot be left inside a file
+ * the ledger has to verify. The archive keeps the original bytes at mode 0600 under a name
+ * that says what it is, and the next `appendDecisionEntry` starts a fresh chain — a
+ * restart of continuity somebody chose, rather than a silent repair this module could not
+ * do honestly.
+ *
+ * Refuses when the log is NOT contested, because otherwise this would be a way to erase a
+ * healthy chain by accident; an all-legacy log is refused too, because it migrates.
+ */
+export function archiveContestedDecisionLog(projectRoot) {
+    const filePath = decisionLogPath(projectRoot);
+    const contested = contestedLedgerLine(filePath);
+    if (contested === null) {
+        const kinds = decodedLines(filePath).map((l) => classifyDecisionLine(l.decoded));
+        const allLegacy = kinds.length > 0 && kinds.every((k) => k === 'legacy');
+        throw new DecisionLogWriteRefusal(DECISION_LOG_ERROR_CODES.interleaved, `${filePath} is not a contested ledger`, allLegacy
+            ? 'this log is ALL legacy records and nothing has to be settled: it migrates onto the chain on the next write, keeping a 0600 backup of the original'
+            : 'archiving is only for a log whose legacy lines FOLLOW the chain (the first one is none here): a healthy ledger would lose its continuity to this call');
+    }
+    const archive = `${filePath.replace(/\.jsonl$/, '')}.contested-${utcStamp(new Date())}.jsonl`;
+    try {
+        renameSync(filePath, archive);
+        chmodSync(archive, 0o600);
+    }
+    catch (error) {
+        throw new DecisionLogWriteRefusal(DECISION_LOG_ERROR_CODES.interleaved, `the contested ledger could not be moved aside: ${String(error)}`, `nothing was deleted; ${filePath} is still in place — fix the directory permissions and choose archive-and-restart again`);
+    }
+    finally {
+        invalidateLogCountCache(filePath);
+    }
+    return archive;
+}
+/** 1-based line of the first legacy record after the chain began, or `null` (exported for tools/tests). */
+export function decisionLogContestedLine(projectRoot) {
+    return contestedLedgerLine(decisionLogPath(projectRoot));
 }
 /**
  * Resolve the log file path, creating the directory if needed.
+ *
+ * A directory this function creates is set to `0700` with an explicit `chmod`: the ledger
+ * refuses a group/other-writable parent (anyone could replace the whole chain) and
+ * `mkdir`'s mode argument is masked by the process umask, so passing `0o700` alone would
+ * not be the mode it looks like.
+ *
+ * An ALREADY-EXISTING directory is only touched when it is group/other-WRITABLE, and then
+ * just enough to clear those two write bits: that is the condition the kernel's own
+ * location check refuses on, and the directory may also have been created by the project
+ * lock helper (which mkdirs `.iterate/` itself), so "fresh" is not the only path to a
+ * writable parent. Anything else — an owner's deliberate 0750 — is left alone.
  */
 function logPath(projectRoot) {
     const dir = join(projectRoot, LOG_DIR);
     if (!existsSync(dir)) {
         mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
+        try {
+            chmodSync(dir, 0o700);
+        }
+        catch {
+            // A chmod we cannot perform is reported by the kernel's own location check on the
+            // next append (mode is still whatever the umask allowed); it must not become a
+            // crash here, before the ledger has even been looked at.
+        }
+        return join(dir, LOG_FILE);
+    }
+    try {
+        const mode = statSync(dir).mode & 0o777;
+        if ((mode & 0o022) !== 0)
+            chmodSync(dir, mode & ~0o022);
+    }
+    catch {
+        // Same reasoning as above: unreadable/unchmodable is the ledger's problem to report,
+        // not this function's to crash on.
     }
     return join(dir, LOG_FILE);
 }
 /**
- * Append one entry to the decision log (JSONL format).
- * Returns the entry count after appending. Never throws — a disk failure is
- * surfaced through `error` so callers (fix/prune) can report the audit-trail
- * miss without failing the mutation they already performed.
+ * Migrate an all-legacy ledger and refuse a contested one, so the next kernel append
+ * lands on a chain this file can verify. Any refusal is a `DecisionLogWriteRefusal`.
+ */
+function prepareLedger(filePath) {
+    const lines = decodedLines(filePath);
+    const kinds = lines.map((l) => classifyDecisionLine(l.decoded));
+    if (lines.length > 0 && kinds.every((k) => k === 'legacy')) {
+        migrateToLedger(filePath, lines.map((l) => l.decoded));
+    }
+    const contested = contestedLedgerLine(filePath);
+    if (contested !== null) {
+        throw new DecisionLogWriteRefusal(DECISION_LOG_ERROR_CODES.interleaved, `line ${contested} of ${filePath} is a legacy record appended after the chain began`, 'this cannot be repaired in place: re-deriving a line that already carries a hash forges it, ' +
+            'and leaving it means the ledger stays unverifiable. Either flip the writer that produced it, ' +
+            'or archive the contested log losslessly and start the chain again — ' +
+            '`iterate_decision_log({operation:"archive"})` / `archiveContestedDecisionLog(projectRoot)`. ' +
+            'Nothing is deleted either way.');
+    }
+}
+/**
+ * The structured form every `appendDecisionEntry` failure takes.
+ *
+ * The `failed to append decision log` prefix is the contract callers (fix, prune, the tool
+ * boundary, the F8 tests) have always matched on; the kernel's own message rides inside it
+ * together with its code and remedy, so a refusal is both greppable and actionable — never
+ * a bare Error, never swallowed.
+ */
+function appendFailure(err, path) {
+    const refusal = refusalFields(err);
+    return {
+        count: 0,
+        path,
+        error: `failed to append decision log: ${refusal.error}`,
+        code: refusal.code,
+        remedy: refusal.remedy,
+    };
+}
+/**
+ * Append one decision to the ledger as a canonical, hash-chained entry.
+ *
+ * Returns `{ count, path }` — `count` counts every readable line, legacy or canonical,
+ * because that is what the reports iterate over. NEVER throws: a refusal (bad kind, an
+ * un-migratable legacy line, a contested log, a broken tail, a torn write) comes back as
+ * `{ error, code, remedy }`, and a disk failure is surfaced the same way so callers
+ * (fix/prune) can report the audit-trail miss without failing the mutation they already
+ * performed.
+ *
+ * The chain fields (`sequence`, `prevEntryHash`) are supplied by the LEDGER through the
+ * kernel's append, never by the caller; the kernel reads back and re-verifies what it
+ * wrote, so an interleaved second writer is DETECTED and reported rather than silently
+ * chained onto.
  */
 export function appendDecisionEntry(projectRoot, entry) {
-    // Serialize with the cross-process log lock so an append can never interleave
-    // with a prune rewrite (which renames the file under us).
+    // Kind grammar BEFORE any disk access: a refusal must not leave a state directory
+    // behind as the only evidence that something was attempted.
+    if (!isDecisionKind(entry.type)) {
+        return {
+            count: 0,
+            path: decisionLogPath(projectRoot),
+            ...refusalFields(new DecisionLogWriteRefusal('KERNEL_E_DECISION_KIND', `${JSON.stringify(entry.type)} is not a decision kind the kernel can carry`, 'a kind is lowercase snake_case up to 32 characters (`^[a-z][a-z0-9_]{0,31}$`); ' +
+                'it is not renamed or case-folded, because two ecosystems must be able to compare it. ' +
+                `This plugin's own kinds are ${KNOWN_DECISION_KINDS.join(', ')} — that list is a label, not a gate.`)),
+        };
+    }
+    // The ledger directory is resolved BEFORE the lock is taken: `acquireProjectLockChecked`
+    // mkdirs `.iterate/` itself, and if it got there first the directory would carry
+    // whatever mode the umask produced instead of the 0700 this ledger asks for. A mkdir
+    // failure (EACCES, ENOTDIR when an ancestor is a regular file) is reported in the same
+    // structured form — `appendDecisionEntry` must never throw out of a caller that already
+    // performed its mutation.
+    let filePath;
+    try {
+        filePath = logPath(projectRoot);
+    }
+    catch (err) {
+        return appendFailure(err, decisionLogPath(projectRoot));
+    }
     const release = acquireLogLock(projectRoot);
     try {
-        // EVERYTHING that can throw — including `logPath`'s mkdirSync (EACCES when
-        // `.iterate` cannot be created, ENOTDIR when an ancestor is a regular file)
-        // and the statSync probes — sits inside the inner try: callers run this
-        // AFTER their own mutations and only handle the structured form, so an
-        // escaping exception would abort the whole iterate_fix/iterate_prune call.
         try {
-            const filePath = logPath(projectRoot);
-            const line = JSON.stringify(entry) + '\n';
-            const prevSize = existsSync(filePath) ? statSync(filePath).size : 0;
-            appendFileSync(filePath, line, 'utf-8');
-            // Count entries via the size/count cache: when nothing else changed the
-            // file since our last append (same byte size), count is just +1 — no full
-            // re-read. Falls back to a full re-count whenever the cache is stale.
+            prepareLedger(filePath);
+            const draft = draftFor(entry, 'this append');
+            const appended = kernelAppendLedgerEntry(filePath, draft);
+            // The kernel wrote `bytesWritten` (line + newline) and verified the read-back. The
+            // size the file had BEFORE this append is therefore today's size minus that line —
+            // which is what the count cache keys on.
+            const afterSize = statSync(filePath).size;
+            const prevSize = Math.max(0, afterSize - appended.bytesWritten);
+            // Count entries via the size/count cache: when nothing else changed the file since
+            // our last append (same byte size), count is just +1 — no full re-read. Falls back
+            // to a full re-count whenever the cache is stale.
             const cached = cacheGet(filePath);
             let count;
             if (cached && cached.size === prevSize) {
@@ -184,20 +611,19 @@ export function appendDecisionEntry(projectRoot, entry) {
             else {
                 const recounted = recountEntries(filePath);
                 if (!recounted.ok) {
-                    // The append LANDED but the read-back failed (file vanished /
-                    // replaced mid-call). Report the best count we actually know —
-                    // cached value or 0 — and DO NOT touch the cache: caching a failed
-                    // read's fallback under the new byte size would poison every later
-                    // append's count.
+                    // The append LANDED but the read-back failed (file vanished / replaced
+                    // mid-call). Report the best count we actually know and DO NOT touch the
+                    // cache: caching a failed read under the new byte size would poison every
+                    // later append's count.
                     return { count: recounted.count, path: filePath };
                 }
                 count = recounted.count;
             }
-            cacheSet(filePath, { size: existsSync(filePath) ? statSync(filePath).size : prevSize, count });
+            cacheSet(filePath, { size: afterSize, count });
             return { count, path: filePath };
         }
         catch (err) {
-            return { count: 0, path: join(projectRoot, LOG_DIR, LOG_FILE), error: `failed to append decision log: ${String(err)}` };
+            return appendFailure(err, filePath);
         }
     }
     finally {
@@ -205,41 +631,27 @@ export function appendDecisionEntry(projectRoot, entry) {
     }
 }
 /**
- * Read all entries from the decision log, plus the count of corrupt lines.
- * A single corrupt line (partial write, hand-edit) is SKIPPED, not fatal —
- * one bad line must never empty the whole history for every reader — but it
- * is counted in `invalidLines` so it never disappears silently.
+ * Read all entries from the decision log, plus the count of unreadable lines.
+ *
+ * Both shapes are PROJECTED to the loop's record view (`projectDecisionRecord`), so every
+ * reader keeps the fields it has always read. A canonical line is projected, NOT verified:
+ * this reader answers "what did the loop decide", and `verifyDecisionLedger` is what
+ * answers "is this ledger intact" — a report must not be silenced by a broken chain link.
+ * A line that decodes to NEITHER shape is skipped, never fatal, but counted.
  */
 export function readDecisionLogDetailed(projectRoot) {
-    const filePath = join(projectRoot, LOG_DIR, LOG_FILE);
+    const filePath = decisionLogPath(projectRoot);
     if (!existsSync(filePath))
         return { entries: [], invalidLines: 0 };
-    let content;
-    try {
-        content = readFileSync(filePath, 'utf-8');
-    }
-    catch {
-        return { entries: [], invalidLines: 0 };
-    }
     const entries = [];
     let invalidLines = 0;
-    for (const line of content.split('\n')) {
-        const trimmed = line.trim();
-        if (trimmed.length === 0)
-            continue;
-        try {
-            const parsed = JSON.parse(trimmed);
-            if (parsed === null || typeof parsed !== 'object' ||
-                typeof parsed.timestamp !== 'string' ||
-                typeof parsed.type !== 'string') {
-                invalidLines += 1;
-                continue;
-            }
-            entries.push(parsed);
-        }
-        catch {
+    for (const line of decodedLines(filePath)) {
+        const view = projectDecisionRecord(line.decoded);
+        if (view === null) {
             invalidLines += 1;
+            continue;
         }
+        entries.push(view);
     }
     return { entries, invalidLines };
 }
@@ -251,44 +663,66 @@ export function readDecisionLogDetailed(projectRoot) {
 export function readDecisionEntries(projectRoot) {
     return readDecisionLogDetailed(projectRoot).entries;
 }
+/**
+ * Verify the ledger's hash chain (the kernel's own read-back). A report should not need
+ * this; an auditor does. A missing file is an empty chain, not an error.
+ */
+export function verifyDecisionLedger(projectRoot) {
+    const filePath = decisionLogPath(projectRoot);
+    try {
+        const lines = decodedLines(filePath);
+        const body = `${lines.map((l) => l.raw).join('\n')}${lines.length > 0 ? '\n' : ''}`;
+        const verified = kernelVerifyLedgerText(body);
+        return {
+            ok: verified.ok,
+            entries: verified.entries.length,
+            firstBrokenLine: verified.firstBrokenLine,
+            brokenKind: verified.brokenKind,
+            reason: verified.reason,
+        };
+    }
+    catch (err) {
+        return { ok: false, entries: 0, ...refusalFields(err) };
+    }
+}
 /**
  * Register the `iterate_decision_log` tool.
- * Append-only decision log stored in .iterate/decision-log.jsonl.
- * Supports `append` and `read` operations.
+ * Append-only decision ledger stored in .iterate/decision-log.jsonl as a kernel
+ * hash chain. Supports `append`, `read`, `verify` and the human-chosen `archive`.
  */
 export function registerDecisionLogTool(ctx) {
     ctx.tools.register(defineTool({
         name: 'iterate_decision_log',
-        // `read` never writes; `append` extends the audit log → only read joins
-        // a parallel dispatch group.
-        isConcurrencySafe: (args) => args.operation === 'read',
-        description: 'Append-only decision log for the iterate loop. ' +
-            'Use `append` to record a round start, review finding, fix, validation result, or decision. ' +
-            'Use `read` to retrieve all entries for review. ' +
+        // `read`/`verify` never write; `append`/`archive` extend (or settle) the audit
+        // ledger → only read joins a parallel dispatch group.
+        isConcurrencySafe: (args) => {
+            const operation = args.operation;
+            return operation === 'read' || operation === 'verify';
+        },
+        description: 'Append-only decision ledger for the iterate loop, stored as a hash-chained JSONL ledger ' +
+            '(each line is canonical JSON; `prevEntryHash` is the sha256 of the previous line). ' +
+            'Use `append` to record a round start, review finding, fix, validation result, or decision — ' +
+            'the chain fields come from the ledger, never from the caller. ' +
+            'Use `read` to retrieve the loop\'s record view of every entry, `verify` to check the chain. ' +
+            'Use `archive` ONLY when an append reports ITERATE_E_DECISION_LOG_INTERLEAVED: it moves the ' +
+            'contested ledger aside losslessly (0600) so the next append starts a clean chain. ' +
+            'The ledger can never be renumbered, edited or age-trimmed in place. ' +
             'The log is stored in .iterate/decision-log.jsonl and persists across sessions.',
         parameters: {
             operation: {
                 type: 'string',
                 required: true,
-                description: '"append" to add an entry, "read" to retrieve all entries.',
-                enum: ['append', 'read'],
+                description: '"append" to add an entry, "read" to retrieve all entries, "verify" to check the ' +
+                    'hash chain, "archive" to move a CONTESTED ledger aside and restart the chain.',
+                enum: ['append', 'read', 'verify', 'archive'],
             },
             type: {
                 type: 'string',
-                description: 'Entry type (required for append): round_start, review_result, atomic_fix, ' +
-                    'architectural_fix, revert, round_failed, validation, decision, report, resume.',
-                enum: [
-                    'round_start',
-                    'review_result',
-                    'atomic_fix',
-                    'architectural_fix',
-                    'revert',
-                    'round_failed',
-                    'validation',
-                    'decision',
-                    'report',
-                    'resume',
-                ],
+                description: 'Decision kind (required for append): lowercase snake_case, at most 32 characters ' +
+                    '(`^[a-z][a-z0-9_]{0,31}$`). This plugin emits ' +
+                    `${KNOWN_DECISION_KINDS.join(', ')} — that is a label list, not a closed set: a ` +
+                    'well-formed kind either shell produces is accepted, because the kernel owns the ' +
+                    'GRAMMAR and each ecosystem owns its vocabulary.',
             },
             round: {
                 type: 'integer',
@@ -296,7 +730,7 @@ export function registerDecisionLogTool(ctx) {
             },
             data: {
                 type: 'json',
-                description: 'Entry payload as JSON object (required for append).',
+                description: 'Entry payload as JSON object (required for append). Copied into the entry\'s `payload` in full.',
             },
             path: {
                 type: 'string',
@@ -315,7 +749,11 @@ export function registerDecisionLogTool(ctx) {
                     entries: { type: 'json' },
                     success: { type: 'boolean' },
                     entry: { type: 'json' },
+                    archivePath: { type: 'string' },
+                    chain: { type: 'json' },
                     error: { type: 'string' },
+                    code: { type: 'string' },
+                    remedy: { type: 'string' },
                 },
             },
             render: (_args, value) => [
@@ -334,28 +772,42 @@ export function registerDecisionLogTool(ctx) {
                     operation: 'read',
                     entryCount: entries.length,
                     invalidLines,
-                    logPath: join(projectRoot, LOG_DIR, LOG_FILE),
+                    logPath: decisionLogPath(projectRoot),
                     entries: entries,
                 };
             }
+            if (args.operation === 'verify') {
+                const chain = verifyDecisionLedger(projectRoot);
+                return {
+                    operation: 'verify',
+                    success: chain.ok,
+                    entryCount: chain.entries,
+                    logPath: decisionLogPath(projectRoot),
+                    chain: chain,
+                    ...(chain.error !== undefined ? { error: chain.error, code: chain.code, remedy: chain.remedy } : {}),
+                };
+            }
+            if (args.operation === 'archive') {
+                try {
+                    const archivePath = archiveContestedDecisionLog(projectRoot);
+                    return { operation: 'archive', success: true, archivePath, logPath: decisionLogPath(projectRoot) };
+                }
+                catch (err) {
+                    return { operation: 'archive', success: false, ...refusalFields(err) };
+                }
+            }
             if (args.operation === 'append') {
-                const invalid = validateEntryInput(args.type, args.round, args.data);
+                const invalid = validateAppendInput(args.type, args.round, args.data);
                 if (invalid !== null) {
-                    return {
-                        operation: 'append',
-                        error: invalid,
-                    };
+                    return { operation: 'append', success: false, ...invalid };
                 }
-                const type = args.type;
-                const round = args.round;
-                const data = args.data === undefined || args.data === null
-                    ? {}
-                    : args.data;
                 const entry = {
                     timestamp: new Date().toISOString(),
-                    round,
-                    type,
-                    data,
+                    round: args.round,
+                    type: args.type,
+                    data: args.data === undefined || args.data === null
+                        ? {}
+                        : args.data,
                 };
                 const result = appendDecisionEntry(projectRoot, entry);
                 if (result.error) {
@@ -365,6 +817,8 @@ export function registerDecisionLogTool(ctx) {
                         entryCount: 0,
                         logPath: result.path,
                         error: result.error,
+                        code: result.code,
+                        remedy: result.remedy,
                     };
                 }
                 return {
@@ -377,8 +831,38 @@ export function registerDecisionLogTool(ctx) {
             }
             return {
                 operation: args.operation,
-                error: `Unknown operation "${args.operation}". Use "append" or "read".`,
+                error: `Unknown operation "${args.operation}". Use "append", "read", "verify" or "archive".`,
             };
         },
     }));
 }
+/**
+ * Validate a candidate (type, round, data) triple for an append operation.
+ * Returns a refusal (code + remedy) on failure, or null when the entry is well-formed.
+ *
+ * `type` is checked against the KERNEL GRAMMAR here, not a list: an unknown-but-well-formed
+ * kind is a decision this shell has not seen, not a malformed one.
+ */
+function validateAppendInput(type, round, data) {
+    if (!isDecisionKind(type)) {
+        return refusalFields(new DecisionLogWriteRefusal('KERNEL_E_DECISION_KIND', `${JSON.stringify(type)} is not a decision kind the kernel can carry`, 'a kind is lowercase snake_case up to 32 characters (`^[a-z][a-z0-9_]{0,31}$`); it is not ' +
+            `renamed or case-folded, because two ecosystems must be able to compare it. This plugin emits ` +
+            `${KNOWN_DECISION_KINDS.join(', ')} and a new well-formed kind needs no release.`));
+    }
+    if (typeof round !== 'number' || !Number.isInteger(round) || round < 1) {
+        return {
+            code: 'ITERATE_E_DECISION_ROUND',
+            error: 'round must be a positive integer.',
+            remedy: 'pass the round the loop is on; the kernel allows 0 and above, this tool requires 1+ ' +
+                'so a report can locate the decision in a run',
+        };
+    }
+    if (data !== undefined && data !== null && (typeof data !== 'object' || Array.isArray(data))) {
+        return {
+            code: 'KERNEL_E_DECISION_RECORD',
+            error: 'data must be an object (or omitted).',
+            remedy: 'pass the payload as a JSON object; transcription copies it into `payload` in full',
+        };
+    }
+    return null;
+}