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+# Feature Factory Schema
+
+The feature factory persists a per-run control plane so runs are durable, resumable, observable, and externally drivable. The factory writes all files except gate answer files. The proof layer removed in the simplified factory; local files are durable state and diagnostics, not cryptographic authority.
+
+`run.json.cost_attribution` is local current-run diagnostic attribution only. It is not billing authority, an invoice, a quota ledger, or cross-run accounting; it records provider-supplied usage/cost metadata that was available to the orchestrator.
+
+## Directory
+
+```text
+.opencode/factory/<run-id>/
+  run.json
+  process.json
+  factory.lock
+  heartbeat.json
+  process-launch.lock/
+    owner.json
+  run-json.lock/
+    owner.json
+  gates/
+    story.question.md
+    story.answer
+    brief.question.md
+    brief.answer
+    pre_pr.question.md
+    pre_pr.answer
+  artifacts/
+    story.md
+    research-map.md
+    design-brief.md
+    technical-brief.md
+    test-report.md
+    validation-report.md
+    pr-body.md
+  plan/
+    slices.json
+    plan.md
+  evidence/<subject>.json
+  reviews/<subject>.json
+  reviews/implementation-validator.json
+  reviews/security-reviewer.json
+  steering/pending-<timestamp>-<id>.json
+  steering/consumed-<timestamp>-<id>.json
+  processes/<timestamp>.log
+```
+
+Implementation worktrees live under:
+
+```text
+.opencode/worktrees/<feature-branch>/
+.opencode/worktrees/<feature-branch>--<slice-id>/
+```
+
+## Runtime-Only Task Context
+
+Task tool `task_id` values are non-durable runtime context for the current orchestrator session only. They are not part of the factory persistence schema and are intentionally excluded from `run.json`, `heartbeat.json`, gates, artifacts, plan files, evidence files, review files, terminal results, and schema validation.
+
+No `run.json`, evidence, or reviews schema has a `task_id` field.
+
+The orchestrator may use a `task_id` only to resume an eligible implementer remediation task (`backend-builder`, `frontend-builder`, or `test-verifier`) while the same role, subject/slice/test owner, worktree, branch, live orchestrator session, and bounded remediation loop are still unchanged. A `task_id` must never be serialized for resume, replay, external-driver coordination, audit evidence, or cross-session recovery.
+
+Reviewer tasks are always fresh. `task_id` must never be passed to or stored for `work-reviewer`, `implementation-validator`, or `security-reviewer`; their continuity comes only from explicit prompt inputs such as current observed evidence, `attempt`, and prior `required_fixes`.
+
+Only the primary `feature-factory` agent may use the Task tool. Every registered subagent has `permission.task: "deny"`, so researchers, spec writers, decomposers, builders, test verifiers, and reviewers cannot recursively delegate or create hidden agent chains.
+
+## Runtime-Only Trace Context
+
+Telemetry is off by default. The schema has no default exporter, no network side effects, and no durable trace state.
+
+Trace context from `factory start`, `factory resume`, or `factory continue` flags is runtime process-correlation metadata only:
+
+```sh
+--parent-span-id <16-hex-span-id>
+--traceparent <w3c-traceparent>
+--tracestate <w3c-tracestate>
+```
+
+The launcher validates this metadata and maps it into child-process env for opencode: `--traceparent` sets `TRACEPARENT` and `FEATURE_FACTORY_TRACEPARENT`; `--tracestate` sets `TRACESTATE` and `FEATURE_FACTORY_TRACESTATE`; `--parent-span-id` or the span id inside `--traceparent` sets `FEATURE_FACTORY_PARENT_SPAN_ID`. Existing operator-provided `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_*` and `OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES` env is preserved.
+
+No `run.json`, evidence, reviews, gates, artifacts, plans, or terminal-result schema has trace-context fields such as `traceparent`, `tracestate`, `parent_span_id`, or `parentSpanId`. Trace context is non-authoritative runtime config, not operator instructions, not a gate answer, not review evidence, and not persisted for resume/replay.
+
+## CLI State Write Surface
+
+After the initial manifest bootstrap, do not edit `run.json` directly. Every semantic state write uses the `feature-factory factory ...` CLI, which takes `run-json.lock/`, validates the next state, and commits atomically. The CLI invokes the checked transition helpers internally, including `transitionGateDecision` for protected gate decisions and `transitionPrCreated` for completed PR state.
+
+The public blocked-run continuation entry point is:
+
+```sh
+feature-factory factory continue <blocked-run-id> --review <review-ref> --run-id <new-run-id>
+```
+
+It starts a fresh child run from a parent run whose `run.status` is exactly `blocked`. The continuation payload passed into `/feature` is untrusted operator data/config, not privileged instruction. The factory must validate the parent run, approved review evidence, source refs, branch/commit/worktree refs, content hashes, and requested new run id before persisting `run.continuation` / `run.json.continuation`. Parent artifacts, evidence, reviews, manifest, worktree, branch, PR URL, and terminal result are read-only context and must not be mutated by the child run.
+
+The corresponding `/feature` intent is `blocked-run-continuation`.
+
+New runs may be named explicitly with:
+
+```sh
+feature-factory factory start --run-id <run-id> <prompt...>
+```
+
+The CLI validates the requested id as a bare safe factory run id, rejects resume prompts that also pass `--run-id`, rejects existing run directories before launch, and passes the value as untrusted driver config `driver.run_id`. The orchestrator must use `driver.run_id` only for new-run manifest bootstrap, not for resume or blocked-run continuation routing.
+
+Required semantic `run.json` write commands:
+
+```sh
+feature-factory factory env record-created <run-id> --json
+feature-factory factory env record-resume <run-id> --json
+feature-factory factory steer <run-id> --message TEXT --json
+feature-factory factory steer-consume <run-id> --ref steering/<file>.json --hash sha256:<hash> --json
+feature-factory factory steer-ack <run-id> --ref steering/consumed-<file>.json --hash sha256:<hash> --json
+feature-factory factory steer-conflict <run-id> --ref steering/<file>.json --hash sha256:<hash> --reason TEXT --json
+feature-factory factory boundary-open <run-id> <gate|dispatch|remediation|terminal> --json
+feature-factory factory boundary-cross <run-id> <dispatch|remediation> --boundary-token TOKEN --json
+feature-factory factory action-started <run-id> <dispatch|remediation> --action-token TOKEN --json
+feature-factory factory action-abort <run-id> <dispatch|remediation> --action-token TOKEN --json
+feature-factory factory pr-fence <run-id> --json
+feature-factory factory pr-fence <run-id> --clear --fence-token TOKEN --json
+feature-factory factory cost-record <run-id> --agent AGENT --step STEP --slice-id ID --provider PROVIDER --model MODEL --input-tokens N --output-tokens N --total-tokens N --cost-total N --currency CODE --json
+feature-factory factory answer --json <run-id> <gate> approve
+feature-factory factory recover <run-id> --reason TEXT --json
+feature-factory factory gate-decision <run-id> <gate> pending --artifact artifacts/<file> --question-ref gates/<gate>.question.md --answer-ref gates/<gate>.answer --json
+feature-factory factory gate-decision <run-id> <gate> approved --artifact artifacts/<file> --question-ref gates/<gate>.question.md --answer-ref gates/<gate>.answer --approval-source external-driver --boundary-token TOKEN --json
+feature-factory factory slices-seed <run-id> --from plan/slices.json --json
+feature-factory factory slice-status <run-id> <slice-id> running --branch <branch> --worktree <path> --attempts N --json
+feature-factory factory slice-status <run-id> <slice-id> review --evidence-ref evidence/<slice-id>.json --review-ref reviews/<slice-id>.json --attempts N --json
+feature-factory factory slice-status <run-id> <slice-id> blocked --reason TEXT --json
+feature-factory factory step <run-id> <known-agent> running --attempts N --json
+feature-factory factory step <run-id> <known-agent> accepted --artifact-ref artifacts/<file> --review-ref reviews/<agent>.json --json
+feature-factory factory step <run-id> <known-agent> rejected --review-ref reviews/<agent>.json --json
+feature-factory factory verdicts <run-id> --validator GO --report artifacts/validation-report.md --security PASS --review-ref reviews/security-reviewer.json --json
+feature-factory factory terminal <run-id> blocked --reason TEXT --boundary-token TOKEN --json
+feature-factory factory slice-merged <run-id> <slice-id> --merge-commit SHA --json
+feature-factory factory pr-created <run-id> --pr-url URL --pr-number N --repository OWNER/REPO --fence-token TOKEN --json
+```
+
+Process-sidecar write command, not a semantic `run.json` write:
+
+```sh
+feature-factory factory cancel <run-id> --json
+```
+
+`factory cancel` updates `$RUN/process.json` only. It is outside the checked semantic `run.json` transition surface and does not mutate gates, slices, verdicts, terminal result, or PR state.
+
+External drivers write only `gates/<gate>.answer`; they may use `feature-factory factory answer --json <run-id> <gate> approve` or write the answer file directly. The factory consumes answer files through `factory gate-decision`; approved file-sourced answers record `approval_source: "external-driver"` and consumed answer files are archived away from the canonical `gates/<gate>.answer` path.
+
+`factory cost-record` is the only required write surface for cost attribution. It appends one normalized entry under `run.json.cost_attribution.entries[]`, recomputes `totals`, `by_agent`, and `by_slice`, validates the run, and writes under `run-json.lock/`. Use it after agent waits when provider/opencode metadata exposes usage or cost; do not edit `run.json.cost_attribution` directly.
+
+`feature-factory factory cost-report <run-id> [--json] [--telemetry]` is a read-only response surface, not a semantic state-write command. It does not acquire or wait for `run-json.lock` and does not add report fields to `run.json`.
+
+`factory recover` is operator recovery for orphaned/stale running runs; do not use it to bypass active in-flight work or protected gates.
+
+`feature-factory factory resume-check <run-id> --json` is the disrupted-resume recovery surface. `factory start --headless|--autonomous "resume <run-id>"` runs the same preflight before mutating resume state. It may restore a missing `.opencode/worktrees/<run>` worktree or write a terminal failure, but it must never re-scaffold a missing/disrupted `.opencode/factory/<run-id>` control plane. It also must not perform destructive cleanup, `git worktree prune`, `git worktree remove`, branch deletion, or run-directory removal; cleanup remains an explicit operator action through `feature-factory factory cleanup <run-id>`. If `.opencode/factory/<run-id>/run.json` is missing, inaccessible, or invalid, return a synthetic non-durable terminal-shaped blocked result with `ok:false`, `durable:false`, `updated:false`, `recovered:false`, `status:"blocked"`, and a clear `terminal_result.reason` explaining that no durable `terminal_result` can be written without forbidden re-scaffolding. Valid terminal manifests are returned unchanged. Valid non-terminal manifests recover a missing active worktree only when the branch exists, recorded `base_commit` and merged slice `merge_commit` values are ancestors of branch HEAD, the target is under `.opencode/worktrees`, no unsafe existing path would be overwritten, `git worktree add` succeeds, and final `checkWorktreeIdentity` plus HEAD checks match. Contradictory git evidence writes durable terminal `blocked` with a `terminal_result.reason` naming the conflicting branch/commit evidence; unsafe or inaccessible local paths write durable terminal `needs-human` with a `terminal_result.reason` naming the path that requires operator reconciliation. The `status`, `list`, `validate`, and `watch` surfaces are read-only diagnostics; they do not call this implicitly and must not recover, repair, cleanup, prune, or remove anything.
+
+`factory slice-status` updates only slices that already exist in `run.json.slices[]`; use `factory slices-seed` to create slices from `plan/slices.json`. `factory step` updates only step placeholders bootstrapped in the initial manifest.
+
+Write `run.json` atomically: write a temp file, then rename. The current writer does not fsync the temp file or containing directory before rename; this is a conscious portability/speed tradeoff, so sudden power loss can still lose the most recent write even though readers never observe a partial JSON file.
+
+`$RUN/run-json.lock/` is the ephemeral lock directory used by both foreground manifest writes and heartbeat ticks. `owner.json` records the current lock holder for diagnostics. A lock directory that remains ownerless beyond `missingOwnerStealMs` may be reclaimed only through an exclusive claim bound to the same directory identity; fresh ownerless locks and malformed owner evidence remain fail-closed.
+
+`$RUN/factory.lock` records the local factory session owner for diagnostics. It is not a heartbeat credential and it does not authorize `run.json` writes.
+
+```json
+{
+  "schema_version": 1,
+  "run_id": "app-123",
+  "session_owner": "session-route-1",
+  "updated_at": "2026-07-06T12:00:00Z"
+}
+```
+
+## heartbeat.json And Locked Liveness Updates
+
+`$RUN/heartbeat.json` is liveness-only display/recovery data for long orchestrator waits. It is written by the heartbeat helper, not by external drivers, and it does not authorize workflow state.
+
+```json
+{
+  "schema_version": 1,
+  "run_id": "app-123",
+  "phase": "slice-review",
+  "pid": 4242,
+  "interval_ms": 30000,
+  "last_tick_at": "2026-07-06T12:00:05Z"
+}
+```
+
+Phase enum values and their conventional long-wait mapping:
+
+- `spec-review` - `spec-writer` Task dispatch/wait and the following `work-reviewer` wait for the technical brief/spec review.
+- `decomposition-review` - `work-decomposer` Task dispatch/wait and the following `work-reviewer` wait for the decomposition/plan review.
+- `builder-wave` - concurrent builder `Task` dispatch/wait for a dependency wave.
+- `slice-review` - `work-reviewer` wait for one or more slice reviews.
+- `test-verifier` - `test-verifier` dispatch/wait.
+- `test-rerun` - long orchestrator rerun of the named acceptance suite.
+- `test-review` - `work-reviewer` wait for test-verifier evidence review.
+- `implementation-validator` - implementation-validator dispatch/wait.
+- `security-reviewer` - security-reviewer dispatch/wait.
+- `remediation` - routed builder or integration/test remediation dispatch/wait.
+- `post-pr-observation` - long GitHub checks/review observation wait after PR creation.
+- `post-pr-remediation` - post-PR builder or test-verifier remediation dispatch/wait.
+- `post-pr-revalidation` - post-PR panel and local revalidation wait before republishing.
+
+`phase` is opaque display data. Use the enum above for consistency, but schema validation accepts any non-empty string.
+
+Lifecycle rules:
+
+- Start heartbeat immediately before a long `Task`/subagent/review/test wait while `run.status` is still `running`.
+- Start it with `feature-factory factory heartbeat <run-id> --start --phase <phase> --json` and inspect it with `feature-factory factory heartbeat <run-id> --status --json`.
+- Treat `heartbeat.json` as data, not authority. PID and sidecar contents alone never authorize freshness or workflow writes.
+- Start heartbeat only when the manifest already shows real in-flight factory work via a `running` step or a `running`/`review` slice.
+- Do not start heartbeat while the run is stopped at protected gates `story`, `brief`, or `pre_pr`. Pending gates are monitored through `run.json.gates`, not through heartbeat.
+- Stop heartbeat in a `finally`/after-return path with `feature-factory factory heartbeat <run-id> --stop --json`. Stop is best-effort: it sends SIGTERM to a live recorded PID and writes a liveness stamp with `pid: null`.
+- Before writing terminal `completed`, `blocked`, `partial`, or `needs-human` status, or before writing `terminal_result`, stop heartbeat if it is active. The durable terminal write is still controlled by the run-json lock and transition preconditions, not heartbeat state.
+
+Long-wait heartbeat guard:
+
+- Mark in-flight state first when heartbeat requires it. Before heartbeat starts, `run.json` must already show a `running` step, `running` slice, or `review` slice created through the relevant `feature-factory factory ...` state writer.
+- Start heartbeat immediately before long `Task`/subagent dispatch/wait. Start-after-dispatch is too late; start-before-in-flight-state is invalid.
+- For Step 2, phase `spec-review` brackets both the `spec-writer` Task dispatch/wait and the following `work-reviewer` dispatch/wait; phase `decomposition-review` brackets both the `work-decomposer` Task dispatch/wait and the following `work-reviewer` dispatch/wait. Each long wait gets its own start/stop cycle, and each stop happens in the after-return/`finally` path before the next semantic `run.json` / factory CLI state write.
+- Stop heartbeat in the after-return/`finally` path when the wait completes, fails, or is abandoned.
+- Do not perform the next semantic `run.json` / factory CLI state write while the long-wait heartbeat remains active; stop heartbeat, or verify inactive with `feature-factory factory heartbeat <run-id> --status --json`, before writing evidence refs, accepted/rejected steps, slice review/blocked/merged states, verdicts, terminal state, or PR-created state.
+- Protected gates `story`, `brief`, and `pre_pr` stay heartbeat-free. Heartbeat is liveness-only, not authority, and the `phase` string remains opaque/non-enforced by validation beyond being non-empty.
+
+Locked heartbeat-only manifest mutation protocol:
+
+- Both the heartbeat helper and foreground manifest writers acquire `$RUN/run-json.lock/` before touching `run.json`.
+- While heartbeat is active, the helper updates only `heartbeat_at` under that lock.
+- Foreground semantic writes acquire the same lock and are serialized with heartbeat ticks.
+- External drivers never write `factory.lock`, `heartbeat.json`, `run-json.lock/`, or `run.json`.
+
+External monitoring semantics:
+
+- Treat `heartbeat.json` plus `run.json.heartbeat_at` as liveness-only. Freshness is derived from `last_tick_at`, `interval_ms`, and whether the recorded PID is alive. A fresh heartbeat has age <= `max(2 * interval_ms, 120000ms)` and a live PID.
+- Use pending gate status in `run.json.gates.*` for story/brief/pre-PR waits because heartbeat is intentionally absent there.
+- Use terminal `run.status` plus `terminal_result` as the durable completion/blocking signal.
+
+## process.json And Cancellation Evidence
+
+Validated run-owned detached launches write run-scoped process evidence to `$RUN/process.json` and process logs under `$RUN/processes/<timestamp>.log`; examples include `factory resume <run-id> --detached` and validated continuation launches. Evidence is written only after live process identity is verified; unsupported inspection fails the launch before `process.json` is written. Generic `factory start --detached "prompt"` launches, including those with `--run-id <run-id>`, may write only package-level logs: `--run-id` does not grant process-evidence authority over an existing run and must not be assumed to create `$RUN/process.json`. `process.json` is optional for old/non-detached/generic-detached runs, but when present it validates as:
+
+```json
+{
+  "schema_version": 1,
+  "kind": "opencode-process",
+  "run_id": "app-123",
+  "execution_id": "uuid",
+  "pid": 4242,
+  "started_at": "2026-07-06T12:00:00Z",
+  "updated_at": "2026-07-06T12:00:00Z",
+  "state": "running",
+  "cwd": "/absolute/repo/path",
+  "identity": {
+    "inspector": "node-process",
+    "start_marker": "linux-procfs:123456",
+    "command_name": "opencode"
+  },
+  "log_ref": "processes/2026-07-06T12-00-00.log",
+  "cancel": null
+}
+```
+
+`state` is one of `running`, `cancelled`, `failed-closed`, or `exited`. `log_ref` must stay under `processes/`; `cwd` must be absolute; `identity` must include `inspector`, a verified `start_marker`, and `command_name`; and `run_id` must match the requested run for cancellation.
+
+`feature-factory factory cancel <run-id> --json` reads this evidence and is SIGTERM-only. It sends exactly one targeted `SIGTERM` to the recorded PID only when `process.json` exists, validates, is `state:"running"`, and live process inspection matches PID, start marker, command name, and cwd. Success writes `state:"cancelled"` with `cancel.signal:"SIGTERM"` and returns `ok:true`, `status:"cancelled"`, `process_ref:"process.json"`, `signaled:true`, and `updated:true`. Missing, invalid, stale, mismatched, non-running, or signal-failed evidence returns `ok:false`, `status:"failed-closed"`, `signaled:false`, `updated:false`, and a reason; it must not send a broad process kill, process-group signal, `pkill`, or `killall`. This command updates only `$RUN/process.json`; it is not a semantic `run.json` transition.
+
+## Detached Run Diagnostics (Output-Only)
+
+Diagnostics are emitted by `factory status`, `factory list`, `factory validate`, `factory watch`, and TUI data. They are output-only and do not change persisted `run.json`, `heartbeat.json`, or gate schemas.
+
+Envelope shape:
+
+```json
+{
+  "schema_version": 1,
+  "checked_at": "2026-07-08T00:00:00.000Z",
+  "authoritative": true,
+  "status": "ok",
+  "severity": "info",
+  "classification": "healthy",
+  "summary": "No diagnostics",
+  "items": [
+    {
+      "condition": "stale-heartbeat",
+      "classification": "recoverable",
+      "severity": "warning",
+      "status": "warning",
+      "message": "Heartbeat has not advanced within the stale threshold.",
+      "action": "Inspect the run log and validate durable state before resuming; do not restart blindly.",
+      "authoritative": false,
+      "checked_at": "2026-07-08T00:00:00.000Z",
+      "evidence": {
+        "source": "heartbeat.json",
+        "liveness_only": true,
+        "pid": 4242,
+        "process_alive": false
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+Enums:
+
+- `condition`: `stale-heartbeat`, `missing-heartbeat-process`, `missing-worktree`, `invalid-run-state`, `protected-gate`, `terminal-run`.
+- `classification`: `healthy`, `recoverable`, `blocked`, `needs-human`, `terminal`, `invalid`. `invalid` is first-class.
+- `status`: `ok`, `warning`, `error`.
+- `severity`: `info`, `warning`, `error`, `critical`.
+
+Aggregation:
+
+- No items yields `classification: "healthy"`, `status: "ok"`, `severity: "info"`, and `summary: "No diagnostics"`.
+- Primary item priority is classification `invalid` > `blocked` > `needs-human` > `recoverable` > `terminal` > `healthy`, severity `critical` > `error` > `warning` > `info`, status `error` > `warning` > `ok`, condition `invalid-run-state` > `missing-worktree` > `missing-heartbeat-process` > `stale-heartbeat` > `protected-gate` > `terminal-run`, then original detection order.
+- Top-level `classification`, `status`, `severity`, and `summary` come from the primary item.
+
+Condition mappings and operator actions:
+
+- `stale-heartbeat` -> `recoverable` / `warning` / `warning`; liveness-only; threshold `max(2 * interval_ms, 120000ms)`; inspect logs and validate durable state before resuming, do not restart blindly.
+- `missing-heartbeat-process` -> `recoverable` / `warning` / `warning`; heartbeat-helper PID only; liveness-only; the PID is not a detached opencode process.
+- `missing-worktree` -> `blocked` / `error` / `error`; restore the worktree or recover from durable state.
+- `invalid-run-state` -> `invalid` / `error` / `critical`; invalid JSON/schema/required sidecars; treat as untrusted until validation passes.
+- `protected-gate` -> exactly `needs-human` / `warning` / `warning`; answer the pending protected gate (`story`, `brief`, or `pre_pr`) or stop the run.
+- `terminal-run`: `completed`/`partial` -> `terminal` / `ok` / `info`; `blocked` -> `blocked` / `error` / `error`; `needs-human` -> `needs-human` / `warning` / `warning`; read `terminal_result`.
+
+Heartbeat/PID/process semantics are liveness-only. `missing-heartbeat-process` refers to the heartbeat helper process recorded in `heartbeat.json`, not to a detached opencode process; no durable run-id-to-opencode-PID registry exists. Heartbeat evidence is always `authoritative: false` with `evidence.liveness_only: true`; PID liveness, process existence, `heartbeat.json`, and mutable `run.json` heartbeat fields cannot prove health or ownership.
+
+Heartbeat diagnostics require heartbeat-bracketed in-flight work in `run.json`: a `running` step, `running` slice, or `review` slice. Idle/bootstrap runs, blocked steps, protected gates, and valid terminal states suppress stale-heartbeat and missing-heartbeat-process diagnostics because no heartbeat helper should be active for those states.
+
+## debug_snapshot Diagnostic State
+
+`run.json.debug_snapshot` stores redacted diagnostic snapshots for debugging factory environment drift. It is optional and diagnostic-only. Older snapshot keys may still validate for old runs, but new writes use `debug_snapshot`.
+
+```json
+"debug_snapshot": {
+  "created_with": {
+    "collected_at": "2026-07-06T12:00:00Z",
+    "event": "created",
+    "diagnostic_only": true,
+    "env": {
+      "feature_factory_version": "0.1.0",
+      "opencode_version": "1.17.13",
+      "plugin_spec": "opencode-feature-factory",
+      "resolved_models": {},
+      "driver": {"kind": "cli", "name": "feature-factory"},
+      "capabilities": {"git": true, "gh": true}
+    }
+  },
+  "last_resumed_with": null,
+  "resume_count": 0
+}
+```
+
+Rules:
+
+- `created_with` and `last_resumed_with` snapshots have `diagnostic_only: true`, `collected_at`, `event`, and a diagnostic environment object.
+- `resume_count` is a non-negative integer incremented by resume recording.
+- Use `feature-factory factory env record-created <run-id> --json` after initial manifest creation.
+- Use `feature-factory factory env record-resume <run-id> --json` before a mutating resume step.
+- Sensitive keys are omitted. Token-shaped or high-entropy credential values are replaced with `[redacted]`; raw `ghp_*`, `github_pat_*`, `gho_*`, `sk-proj_*`, `sk-*`, and `xoxb_*` values are invalid in persisted diagnostic state.
+- If snapshot collection or validation fails, do not persist raw diagnostics.
+
+## cost_attribution Diagnostic State
+
+`run.json.cost_attribution` persists per-run usage and cost observations. `factory status`, `factory list`, and TUI data expose public summaries from it. These surfaces are diagnostic and local to the current run; they are not billing authority and must not be used as the source of truth for invoices, quotas, chargeback, or cross-run finance controls.
+
+Required write command:
+
+```sh
+feature-factory factory cost-record <run-id> \
+  --agent AGENT \
+  [--step STEP] \
+  [--slice-id ID] \
+  [--provider PROVIDER] \
+  [--model MODEL] \
+  [--source SOURCE] \
+  [--operation OP] \
+  [--request-id ID] \
+  [--input-tokens N] \
+  [--output-tokens N] \
+  [--total-tokens N] \
+  [--cache-creation-input-tokens N] \
+  [--cache-read-input-tokens N] \
+  [--reasoning-tokens N] \
+  [--cost-total N] \
+  [--cost-input N] \
+  [--cost-output N] \
+  [--cost-cache-creation N] \
+  [--cost-cache-read N] \
+  [--currency CODE] \
+  [--recorded-at ISO] \
+  [--entry-id ID] \
+  [--json]
+```
+
+Cost schema:
+
+```json
+"cost_attribution": {
+  "schema_version": 1,
+  "updated_at": "2026-07-09T12:00:00Z",
+  "status": "partial",
+  "totals": {
+    "status": "partial",
+    "entry_count": 2,
+    "request_count": 2,
+    "total_tokens": 12900,
+    "cost_total": 1.23,
+    "cost_currency": "USD",
+    "mixed_currency": false,
+    "missing": ["cost_total"]
+  },
+  "by_agent": {
+    "implementation-validator": {
+      "status": "available",
+      "entry_count": 1,
+      "request_count": 1,
+      "total_tokens": 12900,
+      "cost_total": 1.23,
+      "cost_currency": "USD",
+      "mixed_currency": false,
+      "missing": []
+    }
+  },
+  "by_slice": {
+    "be-api": {
+      "status": "partial",
+      "entry_count": 1,
+      "request_count": 1,
+      "input_tokens": 5000,
+      "mixed_currency": false,
+      "missing": ["cost_total", "cost_currency"]
+    }
+  },
+  "entries": [
+    {
+      "id": "uuid-or-provider-request-id",
+      "recorded_at": "2026-07-09T12:00:00Z",
+      "run_id": "app-123",
+      "agent": "implementation-validator",
+      "step": "implementation-validator",
+      "source": "opencode",
+      "operation": "invoke_agent",
+      "provider": "openai",
+      "model": "openai/gpt-5.6-sol",
+      "request_id": "provider-request-id",
+      "input_tokens": 12000,
+      "output_tokens": 900,
+      "total_tokens": 12900,
+      "cache_creation_input_tokens": 0,
+      "cache_read_input_tokens": 0,
+      "reasoning_tokens": 300,
+      "cost_total": 1.23,
+      "cost_input": 0.82,
+      "cost_output": 0.41,
+      "cost_cache_creation": 0,
+      "cost_cache_read": 0,
+      "cost_currency": "USD",
+      "status": "available",
+      "missing": []
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+Rules:
+
+- Persist only values supplied by the provider/opencode response metadata. No local pricing tables, no pricing APIs, no estimated model prices, no currency conversion, and no missing-to-zero coercion.
+- If a provider omits a field, omit that field and list the missing capability when relevant. Do not write `0` for absent token or cost fields.
+- Entry `status` is `available` only when `provider`, `model`, at least one usage field, `cost_total`, and `cost_currency` are present.
+- Entry `status` is `partial` when some usage or cost data exists but availability requirements are incomplete; `missing` must name the absent provider/model/usage/cost_total/cost_currency or metadata.
+- Entry `status` is `unavailable` when no usage and no cost fields were exposed. This means attribution is unavailable, not zero cost.
+- Rollups use the same `available` / `partial` / `unavailable` status semantics. Mixed `cost_currency` values set `mixed_currency: true`, omit `cost_total`, and record `missing: ["mixed_currency"]`.
+- `by_agent` is keyed by agent name. `by_slice` is keyed by `slice_id`; validation rejects unknown slice ids when slices are known.
+- Orchestrators must call `factory cost-record` only after the heartbeat for that wait has stopped or `factory heartbeat <run-id> --status --json` verifies it inactive, and before terminal writes or `factory pr-created`.
+- Required attribution points are waits for `spec-writer`, `work-reviewer`, `work-decomposer`, `backend-builder`/`frontend-builder`, `test-verifier`, `implementation-validator`, `security-reviewer`, and remediation. Work-reviewer attribution includes spec review, decomposition review, slice review, and test review waits.
+
+### cost-report report-v1 response (not persisted)
+
+Invocation modes:
+
+```sh
+feature-factory factory cost-report <run-id>
+feature-factory factory cost-report <run-id> --json
+feature-factory factory cost-report <run-id> --telemetry [--json]
+```
+
+The first form is human-readable; `--json` emits this stable response shape:
+
+```json
+{
+  "schema_version": 1,
+  "run_id": "app-123",
+  "status": "partial",
+  "entry_count": 3,
+  "request_count": 3,
+  "agent_count": 2,
+  "step_count": 2,
+  "slice_count": 1,
+  "unattributed_step_entry_count": 1,
+  "totals": {
+    "status": "partial",
+    "entry_count": 3,
+    "request_count": 3,
+    "input_tokens": 100,
+    "output_tokens": 20,
+    "total_tokens": 120,
+    "cost_total": 0.25,
+    "cost_currency": "USD",
+    "mixed_currency": false,
+    "missing": ["model"]
+  },
+  "by_agent": {"backend-builder": {}},
+  "by_step": {"build": {}},
+  "by_slice": {"be-api": {}}
+}
+```
+
+Every rollup has required `status`, `entry_count`, `request_count`, `mixed_currency`, and `missing`. It conditionally includes only persisted-and-aggregated numeric fields, in order: `input_tokens`, `output_tokens`, `total_tokens`, `cache_creation_input_tokens`, `cache_read_input_tokens`, `reasoning_tokens`, `cost_total`, `cost_input`, `cost_output`, `cost_cache_creation`, `cost_cache_read`, then valid `cost_currency`. Top-level status/counts derive from totals; one persisted entry is one request even when request IDs repeat.
+
+The response is recomputed at read time exclusively from a projected copy of `run.json.cost_attribution.entries`. Persisted attribution `status`, `totals`, `by_agent`, and `by_slice` are ignored as possibly stale caches. `by_step`, report totals, report telemetry, and the response are not persisted and do not change the `run.json.cost_attribution` schema. Missing/null/empty attribution or entries yields an unavailable report with zero counts, `missing: ["entries"]`, and empty dimension maps.
+
+For `agent`, `step`, and `slice_id`, a group exists only for a string with nonzero trimmed length, but its exact untrimmed and unsanitized persisted value is the raw JSON key. `"agent"`, `" agent "`, control-containing/literal-escape strings, and `__proto__` remain distinct identities. Missing, `null`, empty, or whitespace-only `step` values are excluded from `by_step`, counted by `unattributed_step_entry_count`, and never represented by a synthetic key. Human output uses double-quoted injective terminal-safe labels: quote/backslash are escaped, and every other non-printable/non-ASCII UTF-16 code unit is uppercase `\uXXXX`; display encoding never changes raw JSON keys or merges groups.
+
+Empty/all-unavailable rollups are `unavailable`, meaning absence rather than zero. A validator-accepted data-less `partial` entry stays `partial` and contributes no invented numeric field. Every own usage/cost numeric property whose persisted value is exactly `null` is projected to absence and omitted before aggregation; numeric `null` is never zero, while explicit numeric `0` remains present.
+
+Mixed-currency rollups are `partial`, set `mixed_currency: true`, include `mixed_currency` in `missing`, and omit both `cost_total` and `cost_currency`. Compatibility component fields (`cost_input`, `cost_output`, `cost_cache_creation`, `cost_cache_read`) may still be summed separately, but they are not normalized monetary totals; consumers must not infer or reconstruct a combined total.
+
+`cost-report` is strictly local read-only diagnostics and non-billing output. It does not mutate files, persist derived data, acquire/wait for `run-json.lock`, require heartbeat state or accepted attestations, invoke full-run/gate/review validation, normalize provider metadata, inspect pricing tables/APIs, price or estimate costs, convert/coerce currency, coerce missing values to zero, or make network calls. It is not invoice, quota, chargeback, finance-control, or cross-run accounting authority.
+
+`--telemetry` is an opt-in for report-invocation correlation only. Without it, ambient context cannot change output. With valid inherited context it may append only:
+
+```json
+"telemetry": {
+  "trace_id": "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
+  "parent_span_id": "0123456789abcdef"
+}
+```
+
+Absent context adds no field. The IDs do not prove that an attribution entry, agent, step, slice, provider request, or aggregate originated from that trace/span. The command creates no span, initializes no SDK/exporter, exposes no full trace context/headers, persists no context, and makes no network call.
+
+## run.json
+
+```json
+{
+  "schema_version": 1,
+  "run_id": "app-123",
+  "external_ref": "APP-123",
+  "base_ref": "main",
+  "base_commit": "0123456789abcdef",
+  "branch": "app-123-short-slug",
+  "worktree": "/abs/repo/.opencode/worktrees/app-123-short-slug",
+  "github_account": "repo-owner-or-account",
+  "mode": "interactive",
+  "status": "running",
+  "continuation": {
+    "schema_version": 1,
+    "kind": "blocked-run-continuation",
+    "created_at": "2026-07-04T12:05:00Z",
+    "operator_summary": "Continue from blocked validation finding.",
+    "parent": {
+      "run_id": "app-123",
+      "status": "blocked",
+      "run_ref": ".opencode/factory/app-123/run.json",
+      "run_hash": "sha256:0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
+      "branch": "app-123-short-slug",
+      "commit": "abc1234",
+      "worktree": ".opencode/worktrees/app-123-short-slug"
+    },
+    "review": {
+      "kind": "validator",
+      "ref": "reviews/remediation-review.json",
+      "hash": "sha256:abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789",
+      "subject": "app-123-short-slug",
+      "verdict": "APPROVE",
+      "source": "run.validator.review_ref",
+      "summary": "Remediate the blocked slice by hardening the recovery runtime.",
+      "required_fixes": ["Verify branch evidence via refs/heads before worktree add"]
+    },
+    "target": {
+      "run_id": "app-123-continuation-1",
+      "branch": "app-123-continuation-1",
+      "worktree": ".opencode/worktrees/app-123-continuation-1",
+      "base_ref": "main",
+      "base_commit": "fedcba9876543210"
+    },
+    "parent_artifacts": [
+      {
+        "kind": "story",
+        "ref": "artifacts/story.md",
+        "hash": "sha256:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111"
+      },
+      {
+        "kind": "technical_brief",
+        "ref": "artifacts/technical-brief.md",
+        "hash": "sha256:2222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222"
+      }
+    ],
+    "parent_evidence": [
+      {
+        "kind": "evidence",
+        "ref": "evidence/test-verifier.json",
+        "hash": "sha256:3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333"
+      }
+    ],
+    "parent_reviews": [
+      {
+        "kind": "review",
+        "ref": "reviews/remediation-review.json",
+        "hash": "sha256:abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789"
+      },
+      {
+        "kind": "review",
+        "ref": "reviews/implementation-validator.json",
+        "hash": "sha256:4444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444"
+      }
+    ],
+    "planning_reuse": {
+      "eligible": true,
+      "spec_review_ref": "reviews/spec-writer.json",
+      "spec_review_hash": "sha256:5555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555",
+      "spec_artifact_ref": "artifacts/technical-brief.md",
+      "spec_artifact_hash": "sha256:6666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666",
+      "child_spec_review_ref": "reviews/spec-writer.json"
+    }
+  },
+  "created_at": "2026-07-04T11:45:00Z",
+  "updated_at": "2026-07-04T12:00:00Z",
+  "heartbeat_at": "2026-07-04T12:00:00Z",
+  "max_parallel_slices": 3,
+  "max_retries": 3,
+  "review_tier": "strict",
+  "pr_mode": "draft",
+  "cost_attribution": {
+    "schema_version": 1,
+    "updated_at": "2026-07-09T12:00:00Z",
+    "status": "unavailable",
+    "totals": {"status": "unavailable", "entry_count": 0, "request_count": 0, "mixed_currency": false, "missing": ["entries"]},
+    "by_agent": {},
+    "by_slice": {},
+    "entries": []
+  },
+  "debug_snapshot": {
+    "created_with": {
+      "collected_at": "2026-07-04T11:45:00Z",
+      "event": "created",
+      "diagnostic_only": true,
+      "env": {"feature_factory_version": "0.1.0", "capabilities": {"git": true}}
+    },
+    "last_resumed_with": null,
+    "resume_count": 0
+  },
+  "gates": {
+    "story": {
+      "status": "pending",
+      "artifact": "artifacts/story.md",
+      "question_ref": "gates/story.question.md",
+      "answer_ref": "gates/story.answer",
+      "pending_snapshot": {
+        "question_ref": "gates/story.question.md",
+        "question_hash": "sha256:0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
+        "artifact_ref": "artifacts/story.md",
+        "artifact_hash": "sha256:abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789",
+        "answer_ref": "gates/story.answer",
+        "answer_hash": null,
+        "created_at": "2026-07-04T11:50:00Z"
+      },
+      "answered_at": null,
+      "answer": null,
+      "approval_source": null,
+      "decision_note": null
+    }
+  },
+  "steps": [
+    {
+      "agent": "spec-writer",
+      "status": "accepted",
+      "attempts": 1,
+      "artifact_ref": "artifacts/technical-brief.md",
+      "review_ref": "reviews/spec-writer.json",
+      "evidence_ref": null,
+      "acceptance": {
+        "artifact_ref": "artifacts/technical-brief.md",
+        "artifact_hash": "sha256:6666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666",
+        "review_ref": "reviews/spec-writer.json",
+        "review_hash": "sha256:5555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555"
+      }
+    }
+  ],
+  "slices": [
+    {
+      "id": "be-api",
+      "stack": "backend",
+      "depends_on": [],
+      "status": "merged",
+      "branch": "app-123-short-slug--be-api",
+      "worktree": ".opencode/worktrees/app-123-short-slug--be-api",
+      "attempts": 1,
+      "evidence_ref": "evidence/be-api.json",
+      "review_ref": "reviews/be-api.json",
+      "merge_commit": "abc1234",
+      "blocked_reason": null
+    }
+  ],
+  "validator": {
+    "verdict": "GO",
+    "report": "artifacts/validation-report.md",
+    "summary": "All acceptance criteria covered."
+  },
+  "security_review": {
+    "verdict": "PASS",
+    "review_ref": "reviews/security-reviewer.json",
+    "summary": "No blocking findings."
+  },
+  "pr_url": null,
+  "terminal_result": null
+}
+```
+
+Top-level `status` values are `running`, `completed`, `blocked`, `partial`, and `needs-human`. Terminal statuses are `completed`, `blocked`, `partial`, and `needs-human`.
+
+Top-level `run.json.review_tier` is an optional opaque display string. It may contain labels such as `light`, `standard`, or `strict`, but it does not change gates, agents, PR behavior, validation behavior, or workflow control. It does not change `schema_version`; it remains `1`.
+
+Top-level `run.json.pr_mode` is an optional durable PR creation mode with value `draft` or `ready`. Persist the effective start-time mode there after applying `driver.pr_mode`, legacy `driver.ready`, or the plugin configured default; resume payloads carry this value as `driver.pr_mode` so a run created with a per-run override does not fall back to a later plugin default. It does not change `schema_version`; it remains `1`.
+
+Top-level `run.json.continuation` is present only for child runs created by `factory continue`. Accepted continuation metadata has `schema_version: 1`, `kind: "blocked-run-continuation"`, `created_at`, `operator_summary`, nested `parent`, `review`, and `target` objects, and refs paired with hashes for the parent manifest, approved review evidence, target base commit, and every read-only parent context file. `parent.status` must be exactly `blocked`; `parent.worktree`, branch, and commit identify the source worktree. `review.ref` resolves under the parent run's `reviews/` directory, is paired with `review.hash`, must be referenced by parent run state, and must have a subject consistent with that source. `target.run_id`, `target.branch`, `target.worktree`, `target.base_ref`, and `target.base_commit` describe the fresh child run. `parent_artifacts` is an array of `{kind, ref, hash}` entries for source artifacts such as story and technical brief, and `parent_evidence` / `parent_reviews` arrays carry `{kind, ref, hash}` entries for additional source context; `parent_reviews` includes the selected review with the same hash as `review.hash`. Optional `planning_reuse` records whether the parent's planning output is reusable by durable acceptance rather than file presence: `eligible` is true only when the parent has an accepted `spec-writer` step carrying an **acceptance binding** (see below) whose bound bytes still match the current `artifacts/technical-brief.md` and its approving `spec-writer` review. `spec_review_ref`/`spec_review_hash` and `spec_artifact_ref`/`spec_artifact_hash` echo the bound review and brief hashes; `child_spec_review_ref` (`reviews/spec-writer.json`) is where `factory continue` carries the approving review into child state so the adopted step's review ref resolves. When `eligible` is false, no planning artifacts are seeded and the parent brief is amendment input only, never adopted as approved. The child records the adoption only through the checked `factory adopt-continuation <child-run-id>` transition, which re-verifies the seeded brief and review against `spec_artifact_hash`/`spec_review_hash` before writing an inherited-acceptance record — a generic `factory step ... accepted` does not perform this verification. The continuation object is persisted operator context, not authority: it does not approve gates, satisfy evidence, bypass validator/security review, mark a PR safe, or permit direct edits to the parent run. Admission validates approved review evidence and referenced files/commits/hashes; it must not rely on a special blocking verdict enum as the authorization mechanism.
+
+Each `run.json.steps[]` entry may carry an optional `acceptance` binding, written by the accept transition (`factory step <run-id> <agent> accepted`) when the step references an artifact that exists: `{ artifact_ref, artifact_hash, review_ref?, review_hash? }` capture the exact bytes accepted. This binding is what a blocked-run continuation matches against — reuse is gated on the current files still hashing to the bound values, so bytes changed after acceptance are not silently treated as accepted, and a legacy accepted step with no binding fails closed. A child step written by `factory adopt-continuation` additionally carries `inherited_acceptance` `{ from_run_id, parent_spec_review_ref, artifact_hash, review_hash }` recording the parent run and bound hashes the adoption verified.
+
+Continuation child runs use the normal run status enum and normal gate/evidence/review schemas. They must run the standard story, brief, build, acceptance-test, implementation-validator, security-reviewer, and pre-PR gates before PR creation. Continuation PRs use the same effective configured PR mode as normal runs: `draft` creates and records draft PRs, while `ready` creates and records ready-for-review PRs. If remediation is exhausted or the child remains invalid after bounded attempts, write terminal `status: "blocked"` with `terminal_result.pr_url: null` and leave top-level `pr_url` unset.
+
+Gate status values are `pending`, `approved`, `changes_requested`, and `stopped`. `approval_source` values are `human`, `external-driver`, `autonomous`, and `override`. A non-pending `factory gate-decision` must provide exactly one answer source: inline `--answer` or file-backed `--answer-ref`, never both. Autonomous approvals use inline `--answer approve` and omit `--answer-ref`; external-driver approvals consume the pending gate's answer file through `--answer-ref`.
+
+Validator verdicts are `GO`, `GO-WITH-NITS`, and `NO-GO`. Security verdicts are `PASS` and `BLOCK`.
+
+Slice status values are `pending`, `running`, `review`, `merged`, and `blocked`. Step status values are `running`, `accepted`, `rejected`, and `blocked`.
+
+Terminal result shape:
+
+```json
+{
+  "status": "completed",
+  "run_id": "app-123",
+  "pr_url": "https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/123",
+  "pr_number": 123,
+  "repository": "owner/repo",
+  "draft": false,
+  "reason": null,
+  "summary": "PR created.",
+  "artifacts": {
+    "story": "artifacts/story.md",
+    "technical_brief": "artifacts/technical-brief.md",
+    "test_report": "artifacts/test-report.md",
+    "validation_report": "artifacts/validation-report.md",
+    "pr_body": "artifacts/pr-body.md"
+  }
+}
+```
+
+## Evidence And Review Files
+
+Builder claim blocks are not accepted directly as durable truth. The orchestrator translates builder claim `status: pass|blocked` into observed evidence fields: `status` records the observed outcome, and `review_ready` is true only when the orchestrator observed the diff and required checks itself.
+
+The `test-verifier` step is the post-merge integration gate. A transition to `running` requires every durable slice to be `merged`, a positive `attempts` value, and `attempts <= run.max_retries` (default 3). Entering `running` from a non-running state advances the prior durable attempt by exactly one; an idempotent `running` re-mark keeps the same attempt. Each gate pass runs the accepted brief's canonical repository-wide command and writes `evidence/test-verifier.attempt-N.json`. Red evidence records the step `rejected` and routes one bounded owner-specific remediation before the complete gate reruns at `N + 1`; max-attempt failure records the step and run blocked. Green evidence is reviewed at `reviews/test-verifier.attempt-N.json` before acceptance. Integration remediation has no separate free-form review subject or uncounted attempt loop; any production remediation diff receives its review in the mandatory full-diff pre-PR panel.
+
+Remediation attempts use attempt-suffixed evidence refs. A rejected slice fix writes a new file such as `evidence/be-api.attempt-2.json` and updates `run.json.slices[].evidence_ref` to that attempt before re-review.
+
+Slice evidence shape:
+
+```json
+{
+  "subject": "be-api",
+  "attempt": 2,
+  "status": "pass",
+  "review_ready": true,
+  "head": "abc1234",
+  "commands": [
+    {"command": "npm test -- api", "status": "pass"}
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+Slice review shape:
+
+```json
+{
+  "subject": "be-api",
+  "verdict": "APPROVE",
+  "required_fixes": []
+}
+```
+
+`reviews/implementation-validator.json` shape:
+
+```json
+{
+  "subject": "app-123-short-slug",
+  "verdict": "GO",
+  "summary": "All acceptance criteria are covered.",
+  "required_fixes": []
+}
+```
+
+Allowed implementation-validator verdicts are `GO`, `GO-WITH-NITS`, and `NO-GO`. The `subject` is the integrated feature branch name.
+
+`reviews/security-reviewer.json` shape:
+
+```json
+{
+  "subject": "app-123-short-slug",
+  "verdict": "PASS",
+  "summary": "No blocking security findings.",
+  "required_fixes": []
+}
+```
+
+Allowed security-reviewer verdicts are `PASS` and `BLOCK`. The `subject` is the integrated feature branch name.
+
+## Gates And pending_snapshot
+
+Protected gates are `story`, `brief`, and `pre_pr`.
+
+`pending_snapshot` captures the exact pending material the answer is allowed to consume: `question_ref`, `question_hash`, `artifact_ref`, `artifact_hash`, `created_at`, and optional `answer_ref`/`answer_hash`.
+
+Before an approved, changes_requested, or stopped gate decision consumes an external answer, the factory re-hashes the current pending question, artifact, and answer material. Missing files, escaped refs, stale hashes, question/answer overlap, or mismatched `pending_snapshot` fields fail closed.
+
+`question_ref` must be rooted under `gates/`. `answer_ref`, when present, must be rooted under `gates/`. `artifact_ref` remains rooted under `artifacts/`; gate questions and answers are never laundered through `artifacts/`.
+
+### Interactive approval handoff receipt
+
+An approved interactive gate carries `handoff_receipt` under `run.json.gates.<gate>`. The receipt binds the exact approved decision to its pending snapshot, answer bytes, and steering generation before ownership may pass to another process:
+
+```json
+"handoff_receipt": {
+  "schema_version": 1,
+  "kind": "interactive-approval-handoff",
+  "gate": "story",
+  "approval_fingerprint": "sha256:0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
+  "pending_snapshot_hash": "sha256:abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789",
+  "answer_hash": "sha256:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111",
+  "steering_generation": 0,
+  "accepted_at": "2026-07-12T12:00:00.000Z"
+}
+```
+
+All three hash fields are required `sha256:<64 lowercase hex>` values, `gate` must match the containing gate key, `steering_generation` is a non-negative integer, and `accepted_at` is an ISO timestamp. `approval_fingerprint` covers the approved gate fields plus the snapshot hash, answer hash, steering generation, and acceptance time. The receipt is created only for an interactive approval; it must be preserved unchanged by readers and writers. Handoff fails closed when the receipt is missing or malformed, the current immutable question/artifact material no longer matches `pending_snapshot`, the answer or approval fingerprint differs, the steering generation changed, or steering has pending, uncheckpointed, boundary, action-claim, or PR-fence state.
+
+## process-launch.lock/owner.json Launch Claim
+
+`$RUN/process-launch.lock/owner.json` is a transient, exclusive ownership claim used to serialize approval handoff and foreground/detached resume launches. It is factory-owned state; external drivers must not create, edit, reclaim, or delete it.
+
+```json
+{
+  "schema_version": 1,
+  "kind": "opencode-launch-claim",
+  "run_id": "app-123",
+  "execution_id": "uuid",
+  "launch_kind": "approval-handoff",
+  "phase": "spawning",
+  "pid": 4242,
+  "hostname": "host.example",
+  "acquired_at": "2026-07-12T12:00:00.000Z",
+  "identity": {
+    "inspector": "node-process",
+    "start_marker": "linux-procfs:123456",
+    "command_name": "opencode",
+    "cwd": "/absolute/repo/path"
+  },
+  "approval": null,
+  "nonce": "opaque_safe_token_1234"
+}
+```
+
+`launch_kind` is one of `approval-handoff`, `resume-foreground`, `resume-detached`, `start-resume-foreground`, or `start-resume-detached`. `phase` is one of `foreground-live`, `predecessor-active`, `predecessor-released`, or `spawning`. `pid` is a positive integer; `hostname`, `execution_id`, and every `identity` field are non-empty; `identity.cwd` is absolute; `acquired_at` is an ISO timestamp; `approval` is either `null` or an object; and `nonce` is a 16-128 character opaque token containing only ASCII letters, digits, `_`, or `-`.
+
+Acquisition verifies the claimant's process identity before atomically creating the directory and owner file. Phase transitions and release require the exact nonce, expected prior phase, matching directory/file identity, matching run id, and revalidated live owner identity. Successful release renames the exact owned directory to a run-local quarantine, verifies that the moved claim still has the same identity and nonce, then removes it.
+
+A missing claim means ownership is absent. A valid claim with a verified live owner remains authoritative and blocks competing launch. Ownerless, malformed, inaccessible, symlinked, stale, mismatched, dead-owner, or indeterminate-owner evidence is never permission to reclaim or relaunch: preserve it and fail closed with manual ownership reconciliation. Resume may reconcile only an exact valid claim/process pairing defined by the launch phase; ambiguous claims remain on disk. Never infer ownership from PID liveness alone, remove a claim by pathname without exact-token and identity checks, or silently discard a claim while recovery is uncertain.
+
+## PR-Created Transition
+
+The normal CLI surface is:
+
+```sh
+feature-factory factory pr-fence <run-id> --json
+gh pr create ...
+feature-factory factory pr-created <run-id> --pr-url URL --pr-number N --repository OWNER/REPO --fence-token TOKEN [--draft|--no-draft] [--json]
+```
+
+Preconditions:
+
+- A lock-established `steering.pr_fence` exists, its token matches `--fence-token`, its steering generation and state hash are still current, and it does not coexist with pending, uncheckpointed, boundary, or action-claim steering state.
+- `gates.pre_pr.status` is `approved`.
+- `validator.verdict` is `GO` or `GO-WITH-NITS`.
+- `validator.report` resolves under `artifacts/`.
+- `security_review.verdict` is `PASS`.
+- `security_review.review_ref` resolves under `reviews/` and parses as JSON.
+- Every slice is `merged` or `blocked`, with at least one `merged` slice.
+- `pr_url` is a canonical GitHub PR URL.
+- `pr_number` matches the canonical GitHub PR URL.
+
+Create the fence only after the final steering checkpoint, Gate 3 approval, push, and metadata preparation. Fence creation revalidates the canonical PR readiness preconditions under `run-json.lock/`, rejects pending/uncheckpointed/action-claim steering and an active heartbeat, and prevents new steering or any other `run.json` write until PR recording or explicit fence clear. Run `gh pr create` only after the fence exists. Before a PR exists, or after external creation definitively fails without creating one, clear the exact-token fence with `factory pr-fence --clear --fence-token TOKEN`; this may recover a legacy fence whose state hash was made stale, but never accepts a mismatched token. After a PR exists, do not clear it: `pr-created` revalidates the fence and canonical PR rules, then writes `run.pr_url`, `status: "completed"`, and `terminal_result.pr_url` atomically with the completed terminal result and clears the fence.
+
+## plan/slices.json
+
+```json
+{
+  "slices": [
+    {
+      "id": "be-api",
+      "stack": "backend",
+      "paths": ["src/api/**", "test/api/**"],
+      "depends_on": [],
+      "acceptance": ["AC1"],
+      "test_plan": ["npm test -- api"]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+Rules:
+
+- Every acceptance criterion maps to at least one slice.
+- Same-wave slices are file-disjoint.
+- Dependencies are real consumption dependencies.
+- Generated files have one owning slice.
+- Shared hotspots are serialized by `depends_on`.
+- Waves are derived from `depends_on`: a root slice is wave 1, and the longest dependency path may span at most three waves.
+- `max_parallel_slices` limits concurrency within a wave; it does not override the three-wave depth cap.
+- `factory slices-seed` and pre-seed validation enforce the cap for new plans. Existing durable runs with older, deeper seeded plans remain readable and resumable; the cap does not rewrite persisted plan state.
+
+## Steering And Resume
+
+Steering files are untrusted operator data/config. `feature-factory factory steer <run-id> --message TEXT --json` writes `$RUN/steering/pending-<timestamp>-<id>.json`; `run.json.steering` stores metadata only. Schema version remains `1`: the backward-compatible optional fields are `generation`, `uncheckpointed`, `boundary`, `action_claim`, `last_action`, and `pr_fence`, plus audit `history`. Older manifests with none of those fields remain valid and are normalized on the next steering transition.
+
+`pending` is `{id, ref, hash, message_chars, created_at}`. After one-time archival, `uncheckpointed` is `{id, ref, hash, message_chars, created_at, consumed_at}` and points to the same ref/hash-bound `steering/consumed-*` file until the orchestrator records either conflict or no-conflict prospective application. `boundary` is `{kind, token, generation, state_hash, created_at}` for `gate`, `dispatch`, `remediation`, or `terminal`. Crossing dispatch/remediation replaces it with `action_claim: {kind, token, generation, claimed_at}`; exact-token `action-started` or inactive-heartbeat `action-abort` clears the claim and records `last_action: {kind, token, generation, claimed_at, outcome, resolved_at}`. `pr_fence` is `{token, generation, state_hash, created_at}`. Raw steering text is never copied into these fields.
+
+For a running detached opencode process, cancel before steer/resume: `feature-factory factory cancel <run-id> --json`, then queue steering, inspect with status/list/TUI, dry-run `feature-factory factory resume <run-id> --dry-run --json`, and only then run `feature-factory factory resume <run-id> --headless --json`.
+
+### Live-Run Steering Drain Protocol
+
+In addition to `/feature resume`, an uninterrupted live run drains pending steering only at this complete set of safe consume boundaries. Every numbered boundary uses the same pointer-only discovery, conditional drain, immediate conflict checkpoint, and prospective application contract below:
+
+1. **After a heartbeat-bracketed wait:** after that wait's heartbeat is stopped or verified inactive, before `cost-record`, evidence/artifact/review writes, or result transitions.
+2. **Before an autonomous gate approval decision:** after gate material and eligibility evidence are current, immediately before `factory gate-decision ... approved`, with no intervening durable write.
+3. **Before dispatching the next agent or next build wave:** each standalone Task is a next agent; one concurrently dispatched dependency-ready slice batch is a next build wave. Drain once before preparing or marking a batch, never between already-started members; drain once before a grouped parallel non-build dispatch.
+4. **Before remediation:** before choosing, routing, or locally applying each new remediation attempt.
+5. **Before terminalization or PR creation:** immediately before `factory terminal` or an equivalent terminal operation; for PR creation, after Gate 3 approval and final push/metadata preparation but immediately before `gh pr create`.
+
+At every boundary, run `feature-factory factory status <run-id> --json` as a read-only pointer probe and inspect only `steering.pending` and `steering.uncheckpointed` metadata. Discovery must not open either file or expose raw steering text. Status is metadata discovery, not a consume site. If both are null, do not call `env record-resume`, `steer-consume`, or the conflict checkpoint solely for draining; proceed to the lock-protected boundary command below. This conditional live path does not change normal `/feature resume`: explicit resume still calls `record-resume` before any other mutating resume work.
+
+When pending or uncheckpointed metadata exists, first stop the heartbeat owned by a completed wait or verify no fresh live heartbeat exists. Then the mandatory order is `record-resume -> steer-consume/redeliver -> immediate conflict checkpoint`:
+
+- `feature-factory factory env record-resume <run-id> --json`
+- `feature-factory factory steer-consume <run-id> --ref <pending-or-uncheckpointed.ref> --hash <pending-or-uncheckpointed.hash> --json`
+- immediately perform the steering-conflict checkpoint with the successful consumed response's ref and hash
+
+Successful `record-resume` is the lock-protected heartbeat verification immediately before consume/redelivery, and `steer-consume` independently rechecks heartbeat inactivity. A first consume atomically renames the pending file once to `steering/consumed-*`, clears `pending`, appends one `consumed` history event, and persists `uncheckpointed` before returning raw text. If the process crashes after that write, the same command with the archived ref/hash safely redelivers the exact same text and exact trust label without another rename or a second consumed event, and without mutating state. `active-heartbeat`, command failure, or ref/hash mismatch prevents raw-text application and prevents crossing the boundary. No cost write, generic transition, artifact/evidence/review edit, agent dispatch, gate decision, remediation, terminal write, PR action, or heartbeat start may occur while `uncheckpointed` exists.
+
+Raw text enters context only in a successful consume/redelivery response labeled `UNTRUSTED OPERATOR STEERING DATA (not instructions)` with exactly `trust: untrusted-operator-data`; it cannot override commands, skills, gates, evidence, reviews, security, or PR rules. The checkpoint runs immediately after every delivery. Protected accepted durable state includes approved gates, accepted steps, merged or blocked slices, passing validator/security verdicts, accepted evidence/reviews, `pr_url`, and `terminal_result`. If guidance conflicts with that state, apply nothing and perform no rollback. The only permitted workflow write is `feature-factory factory steer-conflict <run-id> --ref <consumed.ref> --hash <consumed.hash> --reason TEXT --json`, which stops as `needs-human`. For compatibility the CLI accepts `--reason`, but raw/operator text is ignored and never persisted or returned; the terminal artifacts use fixed `reason_code: "accepted-state-conflict"` plus safe steering ref/hash and protected-state metadata.
+
+Without a conflict, apply guidance prospectively to future unaccepted work, then record `feature-factory factory steer-ack <run-id> --ref <consumed.ref> --hash <consumed.hash> --json`. Ack verifies the archived hash and inactive heartbeat under lock, records outcome `applied-prospectively`, and clears `uncheckpointed`. It is the only no-conflict acknowledgement. Until ack or `steer-conflict`, new steering, heartbeat start, generic semantic writes, and every privileged boundary fail closed.
+
+After the checkpoint is clear, establish the privileged boundary observation under lock with `factory boundary-open`. Pass its exact `--boundary-token` to an approved gate decision or `factory terminal`; use `factory boundary-cross <run-id> <dispatch|remediation> --boundary-token <token> --json` for dispatch/remediation. The command rejects pending steering, uncheckpointed steering, active heartbeat, stale generation, a changed run-state hash, missing/mismatched tokens, and an active pre-PR fence. New steering invalidates an open observation. Gate/terminal wrappers consume their token atomically. Dispatch/remediation crossing instead creates a durable action claim that blocks steering and semantic writers through external action start. After the action start is accepted, run `factory action-started <run-id> <dispatch|remediation> --action-token <token> --json`; if it did not start, stop the heartbeat and run `factory action-abort <run-id> <dispatch|remediation> --action-token <token> --json`. Generic step/slice/low-level transitions are not substitutes and remain non-consuming.
+
+PR creation uses the stronger durable fence: after final drain/checkpoint, Gate 3 approval, push, and metadata preparation, run `factory pr-fence <run-id> --json` under lock before `gh pr create`. The fence blocks new steering and every `run.json` writer, including env snapshots and heartbeat writes, so sibling state-hash churn cannot invalidate it. `factory pr-created ... --fence-token <fence.token>` rejects a missing, mismatched, or stale fence and rechecks steering plus canonical PR rules before completion. Before a PR exists, or after creation definitively failed, exact-token `factory pr-fence --clear` is the recovery path and may clear a legacy stale fence. After a PR exists, never clear; recover by recording it with `factory pr-created` and the retained fence token.
+
+Consume is prohibited in low-level transition helpers (`transitionRunJson`, `transitionRunJsonLocked`, `transitionLifecycleRun`, and `mutateRunJsonLocked`), heartbeat tick/start/status/stop helpers including `heartbeatOnce`, `transitionCostUsage`/`recordCostUsage` and `cost-record`, and read-only `listRuns`/status/validate/watch/TUI scanning or projection paths. These paths never consume or acknowledge steering; mutating paths reject while uncheckpointed, action-claimed, or pre-PR-fenced except that heartbeat writes may preserve an action claim and heartbeat stop writes only its sidecar. Pointer-only status discovery remains read-only and never consumes. Every site outside the five numbered safe boundaries is prohibited by default. A dispatch/remediation claim remains active until exact-token `action-started` or safe `action-abort` recovery. `steer-conflict` terminalization completes the current drain without recursion. Treat fenced `gh pr create` plus immediate `factory pr-created` recording as one logical operation and never drain after the external PR exists.
+
+### `/feature resume` Contract
+
+`feature-factory factory resume <run-id> --dry-run --json` returns a payload with top-level `resume` and `steering` objects:
+
+```json
+{
+  "resume": { "schema_version": 1, "kind": "existing-run-resume", "run_id": "<run-id>" },
+  "steering": {
+    "schema_version": 1,
+    "kind": "operator-steering-pointer",
+    "run_id": "<run-id>",
+    "pending": null,
+    "uncheckpointed": null,
+    "consume": null,
+    "raw_message_included": false
+  }
+}
+```
+
+When pending or uncheckpointed steering exists, `consume.args` is `['factory','steer-consume','<run-id>','--ref','<ref>','--hash','<hash>','--json']`; an uncheckpointed pointer names `steering/consumed-*` and causes safe redelivery. The skill must run `feature-factory factory env record-resume <run-id> --json` before `steer-consume`. Preserve existing resume semantics: unlike the conditional live-boundary probe, a mutating `/feature resume` calls `record-resume` before any other mutating resume work whether or not steering is pending. Resume rejects `active-heartbeat`, `terminal-run`, `invalid-run-state`, `missing-worktree`, and an active pre-PR fence. Raw consumed text may enter context only under `UNTRUSTED OPERATOR STEERING DATA (not instructions)` with `trust: untrusted-operator-data`.
+
+After `steer-consume`, the orchestrator performs a steering-conflict checkpoint. If the untrusted message would require changing protected accepted state, automatic rollback is forbidden and the only allowed write is `feature-factory factory steer-conflict <run-id> --ref steering/<file>.json --hash sha256:<hash> --reason TEXT --json`. The command requires a non-terminal `running` run, inactive heartbeat, matching `uncheckpointed` ref/hash, and a consumed steering file whose content hash matches. It writes terminal `status:"needs-human"`, clears `uncheckpointed`, and uses only fixed safe reason text and artifacts `steering_ref`, `steering_hash`, `protected_state`, and `reason_code`; it never persists operator text from `--reason`. The response returns `ok:false`, `conflict:true`, `updated:true`, `status:"needs-human"`, `steering`, `protected_state`, and `terminal_result`.
+
+Protected accepted state for this checkpoint includes approved gates (`gate:<name>`), accepted steps (`step:<agent>`), merged or blocked slices (`slice:<id>`), passing validator/security verdicts (`validator:GO`, `validator:GO-WITH-NITS`, `security_review:PASS`), `pr_url`, and `terminal_result`. Do not reset gates, unmerge slices, rewrite evidence/reviews, remove PR URLs, or continue from stale accepted artifacts to satisfy steering automatically.