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+# Harness-neutral adapter contract
+
+Status: version 1 remains accepted and frozen; version 2 is implemented by the
+shipped adapters and independent reference oracle.
+
+This is the public contract for a thin adapter between a coding-agent harness
+and the existing Wowbagger core CLI. It supplements [SPEC.md](../SPEC.md),
+[the mutation contract](mutation-contract.md), and
+[ADR 0005](adr/0005-harness-neutral-adapter-contract.md). The core contracts
+remain authoritative for ledger meaning, command JSON, exit codes, and mutation
+limits.
+
+The words MUST, MUST NOT, SHOULD, and MAY are normative.
+
+## 1. Scope and terms
+
+An **adapter** is a small integration that translates a configured harness
+request into a documented Wowbagger core command. It is not a second core.
+
+| Term | Meaning |
+|---|---|
+| Core | The standalone `wowbagger` CLI and its published JSON contracts. |
+| Harness | A host that may provide a workspace, filesystem, command runner, instruction inputs, and model interaction. |
+| Model transport | A protocol that sends model requests and responses. It can be OpenAI-compatible without being a usable coding harness. |
+| Consumer | The repository owner or authorized operator who configures the adapter and grants authority. |
+| Workspace | A consumer-approved repository root known to a harness under an opaque identifier. |
+| Instruction input | Bounded text that the harness explicitly supplies for a session. It is not discovered by guessing a filename. |
+
+Version 1 covers only these core commands: `validate`, `ready`, `capabilities`,
+`inspect`, `create`, and `transition`. An adapter MUST use their documented
+`--json` forms. It MUST NOT create an alternate interpretation of lifecycle,
+readiness, revisions, locks, error codes, or mutation state.
+
+Sections 1 through 11 define version 1 unchanged. Section 12 defines version 2
+only as explicit deltas from that base; an unmodified rule applies to both
+versions.
+
+The core contract version and this adapter-contract version are different
+numbers. `contract_version` in core JSON is defined by the core. This document
+uses `adapter_contract_version`.
+
+Every adapter manifest, describe result, invocation, result, instruction input,
+and handoff is one UTF-8 JSON object with no duplicate member names at any
+depth. A receiver rejects an invalid or duplicate-member object rather than
+choosing a last member.
+
+## 2. Boundary
+
+The adapter boundary is deliberately narrow.
+
+| Concern | Core | Adapter | Harness or consumer |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Ledger validation and readiness | Owns | Forwards | May request |
+| Local mutation scope and revisions | Owns | Probes and forwards | May approve a request |
+| Command process and byte streams | Produces | Launches and preserves | Supplies a safe runner |
+| Workspace selection and path guard | Rejects unsafe ledger entries | Verifies its own input boundary | Configures approved roots |
+| Instruction discovery | Does not do it | Carries declared inputs | Supplies or configures inputs |
+| Model API | Does not do it | May describe it | Provides it when applicable |
+| Session state | Does not retain it | Carries an explicit handoff only | Stores or delivers it deliberately |
+| Commit, push, install, or setup | Does not do it | Disabled by default | Requires separate approval |
+
+An OpenAI-compatible API is model transport only. It MUST NOT cause an adapter
+to report filesystem access, no-follow path handling, command execution,
+standard-stream forwarding, instruction discovery, or mutation authority. A
+host that has transport but lacks the required tools is API-only and cannot
+invoke the core.
+
+## 3. Version and capability negotiation
+
+An adapter package has a static manifest and a dynamic `describe` operation.
+Discovery is passive: parsing a manifest MUST NOT install software, run a
+command, start a daemon, or contact a network service.
+
+The consumer selects an installed package or host registration. No adapter may
+scan a repository for a vendor file, infer a host from a model name, or select
+a package merely because an API endpoint is reachable.
+
+Before an invocation, a client MUST:
+
+1. use fixed `bootstrap_wire_version` 1 to call `describe`;
+2. select adapter contract version 1 when both peers include it, or refuse;
+3. obtain `describe` and reject a required capability that is missing or
+   `false`;
+4. invoke core `capabilities --json` before assuming a core mutation,
+   coordination, or durability capability; and
+5. treat an unknown field, missing field, unsupported version, or failed probe
+   as unavailable.
+
+The describe request is the exact object `bootstrap_wire_version`,
+`supported_adapter_contract_versions`, and `request_id`, with no other members.
+The request ID uses the safe opaque-ID syntax. Request version arrays are
+nonempty, unique, sorted-ascending arrays of positive safe integers. The
+version 1 manifest array is exactly `[1]`, and the successful dynamic result
+selects exactly `1`; advertising a shared future version does not activate an
+undocumented schema or handler. A future version requires a separately
+registered manifest, request, result, and invoke-schema handler.
+Malformed request, manifest, and dynamic objects are refused as
+`invalid-describe-request`, `invalid-adapter-manifest`, and
+`invalid-describe-result`, respectively; validation never depends on host
+array methods or property access before the containing schema has passed.
+
+The bootstrap wire version 1 refusal for a malformed `describe` request is the
+exact envelope below. `message` is stable. For a parsed request that fails the
+describe schema, `details.member` names the first failing member check. For an
+input read or parse failure, `details` preserves the reader's complete
+diagnostic object.
+
+```json
+{
+  "ok": false,
+  "bootstrap_wire_version": 1,
+  "error": {
+    "code": "invalid-describe-request",
+    "message": "The adapter describe request is invalid.",
+    "details": {
+      "member": "request_id"
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Bootstrap is deliberately non-circular. Wire version 1 is fixed independently
+of the adapter versions being negotiated. The client sends its supported
+adapter versions; `describe` selects one or refuses. An implementation MUST
+compare the static ID, adapter version, platform declaration, and required core
+contract version with the dynamic result, then compare the required core
+contract version with the actual `capabilities --json` probe. Any mismatch or
+unsupported platform is a refusal before the requested core command launches.
+For each invocation, it MUST determine the active runtime platform and launch
+only when the matching static and dynamic platform value is exactly
+`supported`. `unsupported`, `unverified`, and an unlisted active platform are
+`adapter-platform-mismatch` refusals with `platform`, `status`, and
+`required: "supported"` details before core launch.
+
+The adapter MUST preserve the core `capabilities` result as core output. The
+probe is the exact successful version 1 core `capabilities --json` envelope:
+its root, backend, operations (`inspect`, `create`, `transition`, and
+`work_claim`), durability, and limits objects accept no missing or additional
+members and every fixed value must match the published core contract. A
+missing, extra, malformed, wrong-command, or wrong-contract probe is refused.
+The adapter's complete ordered version 1 command list must match the probed
+core contract. `optional_features.claims` is derived only from
+`operations.work_claim.supported`; `optional_features.policy` remains false
+because core version 1 advertises no policy feature. Static or dynamic claims
+cannot elevate either value. The adapter MUST NOT turn a local mutation
+capability into cross-worktree, cross-clone, or
+work-claim support.
+
+### 3.1 Static package manifest
+
+An installed package MAY expose a UTF-8 JSON file named
+`wowbagger-adapter.json`. A host registration may carry the same object without
+a file. This packaging name is not an instruction-discovery convention.
+
+The manifest has these required members:
+
+```json
+{
+  "adapter_manifest_version": 1,
+  "adapter_id": "org.example.wowbagger.adapter",
+  "adapter_version": "1.0.0",
+  "adapter_contract_versions": [1],
+  "bootstrap_wire_version": 1,
+  "required_core_contract_version": 1,
+  "entrypoints": {
+    "describe": {
+      "kind": "command",
+      "executable": "bin/wowbagger-adapter",
+      "fixed_args": ["describe"]
+    },
+    "invoke": {
+      "kind": "command",
+      "executable": "bin/wowbagger-adapter",
+      "fixed_args": ["invoke"]
+    }
+  },
+  "platforms": {
+    "darwin": "unverified",
+    "linux": "unverified",
+    "win32": "unverified"
+  }
+}
+```
+
+`adapter_id` is a stable reverse-domain-style identifier. `adapter_version` is
+the package version. Version arrays are unique and sorted ascending. An
+entrypoint is either a consumer-registered `host-tool` or the exact command
+schema shown above. `executable` is a nonempty forward-slash relative path
+anchored at the installed package root. Absolute, drive, UNC, device, volume,
+backslash, control-character, empty-segment, `.`, and `..` forms are invalid on
+every platform. The package root, every parent component, and the final regular
+file are resolved no-follow and their stable identities are rechecked
+immediately before launch. `fixed_args` is an array of UTF-8 strings without
+NUL or control characters; arguments are passed directly and never through a
+shell. Consumer
+registration may replace the entire entrypoint, but a request may replace
+neither field nor append arguments. The runner launches it directly without a
+shell. Host-tool registrations have equivalent consumer-granted authority and
+MUST identify the registered tool by a fixed name.
+
+The manifest root and each entrypoint object are exact. Every displayed root
+member is required, unknown members are refused, and a `host-tool` entrypoint
+contains exactly `kind: "host-tool"` and a nonempty string `name`.
+
+After manifest validation, a command entrypoint is joined to the approved
+package root only after its relative syntax passes. A missing, link, junction,
+reparse point, special file, escaping component, or identity replacement is a
+refusal before the adapter process launches.
+
+Platform values are `supported`, `unsupported`, or `unverified`. `supported`
+requires native evidence from the common adapter vectors. A manifest MUST use
+`unverified` until it has that evidence.
+
+### 3.2 Dynamic describe result
+
+`describe` returns exactly one UTF-8 JSON object. Its successful envelope has
+these members and no undocumented root members:
+
+```json
+{
+  "ok": true,
+  "bootstrap_wire_version": 1,
+  "selected_adapter_contract_version": 1,
+  "adapter_id": "org.example.wowbagger.adapter",
+  "adapter_version": "1.0.0",
+  "core": {
+    "required_core_contract_version": 1,
+    "commands": ["capabilities", "create", "inspect", "ready", "transition", "validate"]
+  },
+  "host": {
+    "command_execution": {
+      "supported": true,
+      "arguments_array": true,
+      "shell": false,
+      "stdio": true,
+      "process_tree_containment": true,
+      "orphan_detection": true,
+      "timeout_enforcement": true,
+      "stdout_limit": true,
+      "stderr_limit": true
+    },
+    "filesystem": {
+      "workspace_selection": "guarded-relative",
+      "no_follow_resolution": true,
+      "stable_identity": true,
+      "component_walk": true
+    },
+    "model_transport": {
+      "available": true,
+      "protocol": "openai-compatible"
+    },
+    "instruction_input": {
+      "mode": "host-provided",
+      "max_sources": 8,
+      "max_bytes": 65536
+    },
+    "handoff": {
+      "supported": true,
+      "persistence": "explicit-only"
+    },
+    "trusted_approval": {
+      "supported": true,
+      "sources": ["consumer"]
+    },
+    "integration_mechanisms": {
+      "hooks": false,
+      "slash_commands": false,
+      "mcp": false,
+      "daemon": false
+    }
+  },
+  "optional_features": {
+    "claims": false,
+    "policy": false
+  },
+  "limits": {
+    "max_request_bytes": 65536,
+    "max_context_bytes": 65536,
+    "max_stdout_bytes": 1048576,
+    "max_stderr_bytes": 65536,
+    "max_timeout_ms": 30000
+  },
+  "platforms": {
+    "darwin": "unverified",
+    "linux": "unverified",
+    "win32": "unverified"
+  }
+}
+```
+
+The example does not assert that such a host exists. It shows the required
+separation of capabilities. `model_transport` is descriptive. It does not
+change `command_execution` or `filesystem`.
+
+The root and every nested object shown above are exact, except that
+`host.trusted_approval` MAY be absent to declare mutations unavailable. Every
+other displayed member is required and no additional member is accepted.
+Command arrays are unique,
+ordered subsets of the version 1 core command list; capability flags are
+booleans; enumerated strings and bounded integers use the domains described
+below. A missing member, extra member, wrong type, unknown enumeration, or
+invalid bound is `invalid-describe-result`.
+
+When present, version 1 trusted approval has exactly one authority label:
+`trusted_approval.sources` MUST equal `["consumer"]`. Model, agent, system,
+tool, harness, and additional source labels are invalid describe results; they
+cannot become trusted through configuration. `trusted_approval.supported` MUST
+be `true` for `create` or `transition`. A false or absent member makes those
+commands unavailable before an approval is validated or redeemed. Read-only
+commands remain available.
+
+A non-null `handoff_carrier` requires `host.handoff.supported: true` before
+the carrier is parsed. A supported value of `false` is a
+`capability-unavailable` refusal with `missing: ["handoff"]`; an absent or
+malformed handoff capability is `invalid-describe-result`. Neither case can
+launch the core.
+
+`command_execution.supported` is true only when the adapter can launch the
+configured core executable with an argument array, without a shell, and capture
+both byte streams. `filesystem.workspace_selection` is `guarded-relative` only
+when the adapter can apply section 4. `instruction_input.mode` is `none`,
+`host-provided`, or `configured-relative-paths`. `handoff.persistence` is
+always `explicit-only` in version 1.
+
+Capability fields obey these cross-field invariants; a contradictory describe
+result is `invalid-describe-result`.
+
+| Mode | Required dependent values |
+| --- | --- |
+| `command_execution.supported: true` | `arguments_array`, `stdio`, `process_tree_containment`, `orphan_detection`, `timeout_enforcement`, `stdout_limit`, and `stderr_limit` are `true`; `shell` is `false`; every advertised byte/time limit is a positive safe integer. |
+| `command_execution.supported: false` | Every dependent execution Boolean is `false`, including `shell`; `core.commands` is empty, so the adapter does not advertise invoke capability. |
+| `filesystem.workspace_selection: "guarded-relative"` | `no_follow_resolution`, `stable_identity`, and `component_walk` are all `true`. |
+| `filesystem.workspace_selection: "none"` | `no_follow_resolution`, `stable_identity`, and `component_walk` are all `false`. |
+| `instruction_input.mode: "none"` | `max_sources` and `max_bytes` are zero. |
+| Other instruction-input modes | `max_sources` and `max_bytes` are positive safe integers. |
+
+Byte limits are finite nonnegative safe integers; zero permits no content.
+`max_timeout_ms` is a finite positive safe integer. Byte limits apply to raw
+bytes before base64 expansion. An adapter MAY advertise smaller limits than
+the example. It MUST NOT imply an unbounded context, output, or execution time.
+
+`optional_features.claims` and `optional_features.policy` default to `false`.
+Claims become true only when the independently probed version 1 core reports
+`work_claim.supported: true`; policy remains false because version 1 advertises
+no policy feature. The mutation capability probe is advisory and cannot imply
+publication fencing or safe exclusive dispatch. Ledger-specific callers must
+use `claim capabilities` to distinguish an unprovisioned advisory ledger from
+a provisioned merge-coordinated ledger. A mutation lock remains a short local
+mutation lock, not a claim.
+
+### 3.3 Bootstrap command wire
+
+Command entrypoints use the same bootstrap transport for `describe` and
+`invoke`:
+
+- The runner writes exactly one strict UTF-8 JSON object to stdin and closes
+  stdin. Duplicate members, trailing bytes, and invalid UTF-8 are refused.
+- The entrypoint writes exactly one strict JSON object followed by one LF to
+  stdout. No prefix, progress record, or second object is allowed. Diagnostic
+  text is bounded and may use stderr; it is never parsed as a result.
+- Exit 0 means a complete bootstrap response was written, including an
+  `ok:false` response. A nonzero exit, signal, timeout, malformed response, or
+  incomplete bounded stream is transport failure.
+- The installed package root is the entrypoint working directory. The
+  invocation's separately guarded `cwd` applies only to the core child. The
+  adapter environment is a consumer-configured allowlist; inherited secrets,
+  Git variables, shell startup, and request-supplied environment entries are
+  excluded.
+- The runner applies finite stdin, stdout, stderr, and wall-clock limits. It
+  starts the adapter and core in a containable process-tree unit and, on limit,
+  timeout, or cancellation, terminates that whole unit and verifies that no
+  descendant remains. A runner unable to provide or verify containment MUST
+  advertise command execution unavailable.
+
+The describe request contains only `bootstrap_wire_version`,
+`supported_adapter_contract_versions`, and an opaque `request_id`. The invoke
+request uses the selected version. A describe result advertises
+`trusted_approval`; absence means mutations are unavailable. Static and dynamic
+adapter ID, adapter version, selected contract, complete three-platform map,
+and `core.required_core_contract_version` MUST match exactly. The independently
+launched core probe must then match that required core version. Error
+precedence is describe-request schema, static-manifest schema, bootstrap wire
+compatibility, common-version selection, dynamic-result schema, static/dynamic
+identity and version, selected contract, required core, platform map, core
+probe, capabilities, path/input validation, approval, then launch.
+
+## 4. Workspace and path selection
+
+The model never supplies an absolute workspace root. A consumer preconfigures
+an opaque `workspace_id` that maps to one approved root. The adapter accepts
+only logical paths relative to that root.
+
+A logical path is `.` or one or more forward-slash-separated segments. It MUST
+NOT be absolute, empty, contain a backslash, NUL, drive prefix, volume prefix,
+`.` segment, or `..` segment. Windows drive-relative forms such as `C:repo`,
+drive-rooted forms using either separator, UNC forms using either separator,
+device namespaces such as `\\?\C:` and `\\.\COM1`, and `Volume{...}` roots are all
+invalid on every host platform. The same logical syntax is used on macOS,
+Linux, and Windows; the adapter rejects platform prefixes before converting a
+logical path to a host path.
+
+For a core request with a workspace, the adapter MUST:
+
+1. resolve `workspace_id` to a consumer-approved real directory without
+   following a link or reparse point at the root;
+2. resolve `cwd` and `ledger` from that root with a no-follow check on every
+   existing path component, including Windows reparse points;
+3. reject a missing, symbolic-link, junction, reparse-point, special, or
+   escaping component before launching the core; and
+4. re-check stable platform file identities immediately before launch, refuse
+   a replacement, and launch the core with the resolved `cwd` plus an absolute
+   ledger argument anchored at the workspace root.
+
+`cwd` never changes the base for `ledger`. For example, `cwd: "nested"` and
+`ledger: "ledger"` select `<root>/nested` as the child working directory and
+`<root>/ledger` as the ledger; `<root>/nested/ledger` is a decoy and MUST NOT
+be selected. Root, cwd, ledger, and every component are directories with
+no-follow `lstat` identity snapshots. The adapter checks the root and each
+cumulative component (for example `nested`, then `nested/deep`) before and
+immediately before launch. A component replacement between validation and
+launch is `path-replaced`, not permission to retry through the new component.
+
+Every before/after snapshot is the exact object `{ "kind": ..., "identity":
+... }`. `kind` is the required portable kind for that position (`directory`
+for package/workspace roots and parents, `regular-file` for a command
+executable). `identity` is either a nonempty control-free opaque stable token,
+an exact POSIX `{ "dev": ..., "ino": ... }` object, or an exact Windows
+`{ "volume_id": ..., "file_id": ... }` object. Explicit identity members are
+nonempty control-free strings or nonnegative safe integers. Missing, malformed,
+or extra snapshot members on either side are `path-rejected`; two valid
+same-kind snapshots with unequal identities are `path-replaced`.
+
+The core separately rejects a symbolic-link ledger root and symbolic-link
+entries below it. The adapter boundary does not claim to eliminate privileged
+filesystem races. It prevents a caller from selecting an arbitrary path or
+silently traversing a link before the core gets its own fail-closed check.
+
+An adapter that cannot make this no-follow determination MUST report
+`no_follow_resolution: false` and MUST NOT accept local workspace or ledger
+selection. An API-only host therefore cannot claim a local core invocation.
+
+## 5. Invocation
+
+An adapter accepts a structured request. It MUST NOT accept raw shell source,
+an arbitrary executable, an arbitrary CLI argument list, or an arbitrary input
+file path. It constructs the documented core argument vector itself.
+
+```json
+{
+  "adapter_contract_version": 1,
+  "request_id": "ready-forwarding-0001",
+  "workspace": {
+    "workspace_id": "example-workspace",
+    "cwd": "."
+  },
+  "core_request": {
+    "command": "ready",
+    "ledger": "ledger",
+    "as_of": "2030-01-15"
+  },
+  "instruction_input": {
+    "required": false,
+    "instruction_input_version": 1,
+    "sources": []
+  },
+  "handoff_carrier": null,
+  "limits": {
+    "context_bytes": 4096,
+    "stdout_bytes": 65536,
+    "stderr_bytes": 4096,
+    "timeout_ms": 30000
+  }
+}
+```
+
+`request_id` is an opaque ASCII identifier of 1 through 128 characters using
+letters, digits, period, underscore, and hyphen. The adapter returns it
+unchanged. Requested byte limits MUST be finite nonnegative safe integers no
+greater than the advertised values. `timeout_ms` is required, positive, and no
+greater than `max_timeout_ms`; it bounds the complete contained adapter/core
+process observation.
+
+The runner applies its finite local `max_request_bytes` ceiling before parsing
+the raw invocation. After describe succeeds, the same raw bytes MUST also be
+at most `described.limits.max_request_bytes`; that advertised cap is
+authoritative for the invocation. A describe result that advertises a request
+cap above the local ceiling is inconsistent and is refused as
+`invalid-describe-result`. The adapter never enlarges either cap.
+
+`workspace` is required for every command except `capabilities`. `cwd` defaults
+to `.` when omitted. `ledger` is required for every workspace command and uses
+the logical path rules in section 4.
+
+The tagged `core_request` members are exact:
+
+| Command | Required members | Core argument vector |
+|---|---|---|
+| `capabilities` | `command` | `capabilities --json` |
+| `validate` | `command`, `ledger` | `validate --ledger <ledger> --json` |
+| `ready` | `command`, `ledger`, `as_of` | `ready --ledger <ledger> --as-of <date> --json` |
+| `inspect` | `command`, `ledger`, `id` | `inspect --ledger <ledger> --id <id> --json` |
+| `create` | `command`, `ledger`, `input_base64` | `create --ledger <ledger> --input - --json` |
+| `transition` | `command`, `ledger`, `input_base64` | `transition --ledger <ledger> --input - --json` |
+
+`input_base64` is RFC 4648 base64 without line breaks. Its decoded bytes are
+the exact UTF-8 JSON request sent to standard input. The adapter MUST check the
+decoded byte limit before launching the core. It MUST use `--input -`; it MUST
+NOT write a caller-selected request file.
+
+`as_of`, `id`, and decoded mutation requests retain their core validation
+rules. The adapter does not normalize dates, IDs, JSON whitespace, YAML, or
+request bytes.
+
+The version 1 request root always carries `instruction_input` and
+`handoff_carrier`: an optional instruction set is represented by the exact
+empty carrier `{ "instruction_input_version": 1, "required": false,
+"sources": [] }`, and no handoff is represented by `null`. This keeps the root
+schema exact instead of making validation depend on omitted fields. The
+carriers are validated as sections 7 and 8 specify before core launch. A
+required instruction set that is
+missing or invalid produces a named diagnostic refusal; it cannot be silently
+replaced by guessed files or prior-session memory.
+
+### 5.1 Consumer authority
+
+`create` and `transition` require an explicit consumer approval event for that
+invocation and `trusted_approval.supported: true` in describe. The event may be
+represented to the adapter by a trusted host mechanism, but a model-supplied
+Boolean is not approval. If approval is absent, the adapter returns
+`consumer-approval-required` without launching the core. If trusted approval
+is false or absent, it returns `capability-unavailable` with
+`missing: ["trusted-approval"]` before validating or redeeming any approval.
+
+Read operations do not grant mutation authority. No version 1 request grants
+authority to commit, push, modify remote configuration, install dependencies,
+start a setup script, edit a harness configuration, or bypass repository
+instructions or safety gates. These actions are outside this interface.
+
+Trusted command-entrypoint approval uses this exact object:
+
+```json
+{
+  "approval_version": 1,
+  "source": "consumer",
+  "nonce": "single-use-opaque-value",
+  "issued_at": "2030-01-15T12:00:00Z",
+  "expires_at": "2030-01-15T12:05:00Z",
+  "invocation_digest": "sha256:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
+}
+```
+
+The digest covers this exact binding object; no member is optional and no
+extra member is accepted:
+
+```json
+{
+  "request_id": "mutation-approval-0002",
+  "adapter": {
+    "id": "org.example.wowbagger.adapter",
+    "version": "1.0.0",
+    "contract_version": 1
+  },
+  "core": {
+    "executable_identity": "sha256:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
+    "contract_version": 1,
+    "argv": ["transition", "--ledger", "/approved/workspace/ledger", "--input", "-", "--json"],
+    "input_base64": "e30K"
+  },
+  "workspace": {
+    "id": "example-workspace",
+    "root": "/approved/workspace",
+    "cwd": "/approved/workspace",
+    "ledger": "/approved/workspace/ledger"
+  },
+  "limits": {
+    "context_bytes": 4096,
+    "stdout_bytes": 65536,
+    "stderr_bytes": 4096,
+    "timeout_ms": 30000
+  },
+  "instruction_set_digest": "sha256:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
+  "handoff_digest": null
+}
+```
+
+The consumer authority signs or delivers this record through the configured
+trusted channel; the model and instruction inputs are never trusted sources.
+The configured trusted-source set MUST be exactly `{consumer}`. A missing
+consumer or any additional model, agent, system, tool, harness, or other label
+is `approval-source-untrusted`, even when the approval object itself says
+`source: "consumer"`.
+The adapter canonicalizes a binding as UTF-8 JSON with object keys sorted
+lexicographically, no insignificant whitespace, arrays retained in order, and
+ordinary JSON scalar encoding. The SHA-256 binding includes request ID;
+workspace ID, root, cwd, and absolute ledger; exact core executable identity,
+contract version, argv, and stdin bytes; adapter ID/version/selected contract;
+all byte/time limits; instruction-set digest; and handoff digest. Any change
+requires new approval. Approval and binding objects use exact-member schemas.
+Version must be 1; nonce is 16–128 ASCII letters, digits, periods, underscores,
+or hyphens; digests use lowercase `sha256:` plus 64 hex characters. Issued,
+expiry, and current time use canonical whole-second RFC 3339 UTC; invalid time,
+`issued_at >= expires_at`, or current time before issue fails closed. The nonce
+is redeemed atomically once, expires at `now >= expires_at`, and is scoped to
+this consumer/adapter instance. Replay, expiry, unknown source, and binding
+mismatch refuse before launch. More
+restrictive repository, consumer, or harness policy wins; approval never
+overrides an instruction or safety refusal.
+
+## 6. Result, streams, and exit status
+
+When the core process starts and both streams fit the requested bounds, the
+adapter returns exactly one JSON result envelope:
+
+```json
+{
+  "ok": true,
+  "adapter_contract_version": 1,
+  "request_id": "ready-forwarding-0001",
+  "result": {
+    "core_command": "ready",
+    "core_exit_code": 0,
+    "stdout": {
+      "encoding": "base64",
+      "data": "eyJhc19vZiI6IjIwMzAtMDEtMTUiLCJ2YWxpZCI6dHJ1ZSwicmVhZHkiOltdfQo=",
+      "sha256": "sha256:73b7879d83e6047beee2720b38f4e882b98dc351452112d5a9e5f85cac7e8eda",
+      "byte_length": 47
+    },
+    "stderr": {
+      "encoding": "base64",
+      "data": "",
+      "sha256": "sha256:e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855",
+      "byte_length": 0
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+The result envelope's `ok` means that the adapter completed transport. It does
+not mean that the core command succeeded. `core_exit_code` MUST equal the
+actual child-process exit code, including a nonzero validation, request,
+conflict, capability, or operation result. The base64 values decode to the
+exact child stream bytes. Their SHA-256 values cover those decoded bytes.
+
+An adapter MUST NOT trim, reformat, parse-and-reserialize, prefix, suffix, or
+replace a core stream. It MAY provide a separately named parsed JSON view only
+when it proves that it is derived from the complete decoded standard output;
+that view is never the authoritative core result.
+
+For every `--json` core command, decoded standard output is complete only when
+it is one compact JSON object followed by exactly one LF. Whitespace outside
+JSON strings, a missing final LF, or a CR or second LF before that final LF is
+a core protocol failure. The adapter still preserves those exact captured bytes
+in its process observation; it does not normalize them into a valid result.
+
+For `inspect`, the decoded core standard output is complete only when its
+exact command and contract version match, exactly one of `result` or `error`
+is present, and its exit is consistent with that success or documented error.
+On success, `result` contains exactly `item`. The item has the exact documented
+lossless core shape: canonical ID, safe ledger-relative Markdown path, source
+encoding and media type, canonical source bytes, matching source digest, and a
+normalized core/body view that agrees with those decoded UTF-8 source bytes.
+The adapter validates core version 1 field domains and rejects an extra,
+missing, source-inconsistent, or semantically invalid item as a protocol
+failure.
+For `create` and `transition`, the same checks also require the exact mutation
+state: success is `state: "committed"` with `result` and exit 0; an error has
+`error` and its documented `unchanged`, `committed`, or `unknown` state and
+exit. A declared `unknown` state is an adapter
+`mutation-outcome-unknown`, not a completed mutation result. Any malformed,
+incomplete, mismatched-command, mismatched-version, mismatched-state,
+result/error, or exit-inconsistent mutation envelope is likewise
+`mutation-outcome-unknown` with section 6 recovery.
+
+Before forwarding a complete core envelope, the adapter also binds every
+request-derived response member to the exact canonical request it launched.
+`ready` success repeats the requested `as_of`; an `inspect` item or
+`item-not-found` detail repeats the requested ID. Every mutation response with
+a target ID repeats the caller's ID. A transition `revision-conflict` repeats
+the requested expected revision and has an actual revision that differs from
+it. A committed-recovery transition reports a new revision rather than the
+expected pre-transition revision. Create success uses the requested default
+path and the exact canonical candidate source bytes (including permitted
+extension data), whose digest and normalized view already have to match the
+returned item. A committed create recovery reports the SHA-256 digest of those
+same exact candidate bytes for that caller ID and default path; a merely
+well-formed digest is not enough. Transition success repeats the target status,
+date, and required decision evidence. Error operation and lock-owner
+identifiers retain their documented meanings and are validated against their
+target item rather than being treated as opaque strings. A response that is
+valid in isolation but cannot be bound to this request is a protocol failure
+(and therefore an unknown mutation outcome for a mutation). In particular, a
+core `invalid-request` mutation response is acceptable only when the supplied
+mutation bytes did not form a canonical valid request. The adapter retains the
+exact decoded request bytes for this response check, including malformed JSON
+and duplicate-key observations; it does not promote an invalid request into a
+valid mutation merely to correlate its error.
+
+The adapter also rejects self-contradictory or nondeterministic mutation
+details. An `atomic-scope-required` envelope has a nonempty, unique blocker
+array sorted by code, item ID, then field, and it retains its possibly empty
+but ordered precondition issue array. Invalid-request issues sort by path,
+code, then message. Transition issues sort by code, field, then related-ID
+sequence, and each related-ID sequence is unique and ascending. Recovery
+artifacts are unique by path, sorted by path then kind, contain at most 16 entries,
+and use the documented truncation rule. These checks preserve the core's
+deterministic response semantics instead of accepting an equivalent-looking
+but impossible envelope. Blocker and precondition-issue fields also retain the
+fixed meanings of their codes: dependency codes use `depends_on`, child codes
+use `parent`, date checks use `date`, and an invalid edge uses `to_status`.
+
+The adapter parses every returned item source, checks its source digest,
+lossless body, and normalized view, then applies the authoritative ledger
+validator to the returned item. It supplies only valid synthetic relation
+targets needed to evaluate invariants that a one-item response can establish;
+any validator error attributed to the returned item is a protocol failure.
+This covers the version 1 kind and status domains, epic `in-progress`
+prohibition, ID-created-date agreement, timestamp ordering, terminal dates and
+decisions, dependency and relation rules, and terminal epic rollup evidence.
+The core remains responsible for complete-ledger facts that cannot be observed
+from one returned item. A valid validation result has an empty error array.
+Every invalid-ledger, candidate-invalid, or ledger-invalid response has a
+nonempty validation-error array in the deterministic `path`, `field`, `code`,
+then `message` order.
+
+`ready` has two exact complete core forms. A valid ready result has exactly
+`as_of`, `valid: true`, and `ready`, with exit 0. A documented invalid-ledger
+result has exactly `valid: false` and a nonempty deterministically ordered
+`errors` array, with exit 1. The adapter forwards the latter's nonzero exit and
+exact bytes. Other hybrid, extra, empty-error, or inconsistent ready shapes
+are `core-protocol-error`.
+
+If a wrapper also offers a stream passthrough mode, it MUST write the exact core
+standard output and standard error and use the same exit code. It MUST NOT add
+the outer envelope to either core stream.
+
+When the adapter cannot provide a complete core observation, it returns this
+error envelope:
+
+```json
+{
+  "ok": false,
+  "adapter_contract_version": 1,
+  "request_id": "ready-forwarding-0001",
+  "error": {
+    "code": "capability-unavailable",
+    "message": "The configured host cannot invoke the Wowbagger core.",
+    "details": {
+      "missing": ["command-execution"]
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+The following operation classes are exhaustive and disjoint. Their sorted
+union is the complete public version 1 registry. Every code is emitted by the
+reference model and exercised as an expected vector result; adding or removing
+a code requires changing the classes, registry, executable evidence, and drift
+test together.
+
+<!-- adapter-error-code-classes:start -->
+```json
+{
+  "approval": [
+    "approval-binding-mismatch",
+    "approval-expired",
+    "approval-not-yet-valid",
+    "approval-replayed",
+    "approval-source-untrusted",
+    "consumer-approval-required",
+    "invalid-approval",
+    "invalid-approval-binding",
+    "invalid-approval-time",
+    "invalid-approval-time-order"
+  ],
+  "handoff": [
+    "handoff-digest-mismatch",
+    "handoff-instruction-set-mismatch",
+    "handoff-item-mismatch",
+    "handoff-limit-exceeded",
+    "handoff-resume-binding-mismatch",
+    "handoff-stale-item-revision",
+    "handoff-workspace-mismatch",
+    "invalid-handoff-bytes",
+    "invalid-handoff-carrier",
+    "invalid-handoff-json",
+    "invalid-handoff-object",
+    "invalid-handoff-resume-request"
+  ],
+  "instruction": [
+    "duplicate-instruction-source-id",
+    "instruction-byte-limit-exceeded",
+    "instruction-source-limit-exceeded",
+    "invalid-instruction-input",
+    "invalid-instruction-source",
+    "required-instruction-input-missing"
+  ],
+  "invocation": [
+    "capability-unavailable",
+    "context-limit-exceeded",
+    "core-launch-failed",
+    "core-observation-incomplete",
+    "core-protocol-error",
+    "core-signaled",
+    "core-timeout",
+    "invalid-invocation",
+    "mutation-outcome-unknown",
+    "output-limit-exceeded",
+    "path-rejected",
+    "path-replaced",
+    "timeout-limit-exceeded"
+  ],
+  "negotiation": [
+    "adapter-contract-selection-mismatch",
+    "adapter-identity-mismatch",
+    "adapter-platform-mismatch",
+    "adapter-version-mismatch",
+    "core-contract-version-mismatch",
+    "invalid-adapter-manifest",
+    "invalid-describe-request",
+    "invalid-describe-result",
+    "required-core-contract-version-mismatch",
+    "unsupported-adapter-contract-version",
+    "unsupported-bootstrap-wire-version"
+  ]
+}
+```
+<!-- adapter-error-code-classes:end -->
+
+The flattened registry is:
+
+<!-- adapter-error-codes:start -->
+```text
+adapter-contract-selection-mismatch
+adapter-identity-mismatch
+adapter-platform-mismatch
+adapter-version-mismatch
+approval-binding-mismatch
+approval-expired
+approval-not-yet-valid
+approval-replayed
+approval-source-untrusted
+capability-unavailable
+consumer-approval-required
+context-limit-exceeded
+core-contract-version-mismatch
+core-launch-failed
+core-observation-incomplete
+core-protocol-error
+core-signaled
+core-timeout
+duplicate-instruction-source-id
+handoff-digest-mismatch
+handoff-instruction-set-mismatch
+handoff-item-mismatch
+handoff-limit-exceeded
+handoff-resume-binding-mismatch
+handoff-stale-item-revision
+handoff-workspace-mismatch
+instruction-byte-limit-exceeded
+instruction-source-limit-exceeded
+invalid-adapter-manifest
+invalid-approval
+invalid-approval-binding
+invalid-approval-time
+invalid-approval-time-order
+invalid-describe-request
+invalid-describe-result
+invalid-handoff-bytes
+invalid-handoff-carrier
+invalid-handoff-json
+invalid-handoff-object
+invalid-handoff-resume-request
+invalid-instruction-input
+invalid-instruction-source
+invalid-invocation
+mutation-outcome-unknown
+output-limit-exceeded
+path-rejected
+path-replaced
+required-core-contract-version-mismatch
+required-instruction-input-missing
+timeout-limit-exceeded
+unsupported-adapter-contract-version
+unsupported-bootstrap-wire-version
+```
+<!-- adapter-error-codes:end -->
+
+Error details are bounded JSON. They MUST NOT expose
+credentials, environment values, raw instruction contents, arbitrary absolute
+paths, or platform exception text.
+
+If a stream exceeds its requested bound, the adapter MUST stop or contain the
+core process according to the host's safe runner rule. It returns
+`output-limit-exceeded`; it MUST NOT present a partial core JSON result as
+valid. It may report only bounded byte counts and stream names needed for
+recovery. It must not silently enlarge a limit.
+
+The runner supplies the exact process observation object `started`,
+`process_tree_contained`, `orphaned`, `exit_code`, `signal` (a portable runner
+label, not necessarily a POSIX signal), `timed_out`, `stdout_complete`,
+`stderr_complete`, `stdout_base64`, and `stderr_base64`. Booleans, canonical
+base64 streams, a null or nonnegative integer exit code, and a null or
+nonempty control-free signal label are type-checked before classification; no
+unknown members are accepted. A normally terminated child tree has an integer
+exit code and no timeout or signal. A null exit without another incomplete
+observation condition, a missing or malformed exit, or an integer exit paired
+with timeout/signal is an incomplete observation. The outer process summary
+derives, rather than accepts, `core_envelope_present` and
+`core_envelope_valid` from the captured stdout bytes. A result is complete only
+after the child tree has ended, both streams ended within bounds, no descendant
+remains, and stdout contains the strict complete core envelope expected for
+that command.
+
+Launch classification is tri-state for mutations. A normal
+`core-launch-failed` is allowed only for a complete, internally consistent
+observation that proves `started: false`: no exit, signal, timeout, output,
+orphan, or missing stream/containment evidence. A missing, malformed, or
+contradicted `started` member leaves launch unknown, as does every other
+ambiguous observation, and therefore produces `mutation-outcome-unknown`.
+Read-only commands retain their ordinary transport errors and never acquire a
+mutation outcome.
+
+The adapter independently decodes each captured base64 stream and compares its
+decoded byte length with the invocation's requested stdout or stderr limit.
+An over-limit capture is `output-limit-exceeded` for a read and
+`mutation-outcome-unknown` for a mutation, even when the runner reports the
+stream complete. Runner completion flags cannot enlarge a byte bound.
+
+For read-only commands precedence is: a proven not-started observation →
+`core-launch-failed`; timeout → `core-timeout`; signal → `core-signaled`;
+containment/orphan doubt or malformed observation →
+`core-observation-incomplete`; stream truncation → `output-limit-exceeded`;
+then missing or invalid complete envelope → `core-protocol-error`. Exit code is
+recorded but never overrides an earlier transport failure. No partial core JSON
+is valid.
+
+Mutation commands are stricter: unless the observation proves that launch did
+not occur, any timeout or signal produces `mutation-outcome-unknown` even when
+both buffered streams and a nominal success envelope appear complete.
+Containment uncertainty, incomplete stdout, incomplete stderr, a missing or
+invalid `started` observation, or a missing/invalid complete core envelope also
+produces `mutation-outcome-unknown`—even if exit was zero or captured bytes
+look like a success. The adapter MUST NOT label it failed, roll it back, or
+retry it.
+
+Every create request therefore carries a caller-generated item ID. Recovery is
+bounded and explicit: validate the ledger, inspect that known ID, and retry
+only after `item-not-found` plus review/recovery of any audited publication
+artifact. For transition, validate, inspect the known ID, and compare the
+caller-known expected revision with the current revision and state; never
+retry until that observation is reviewed. This distinction prevents both a
+hidden committed mutation and an orphaned duplicate mutation.
+
+## 7. Instruction inputs
+
+The contract does not assume `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md`, any other filename,
+slash command, hook, MCP server, daemon, or model vendor. A harness may supply
+instruction inputs through this bounded envelope:
+
+```json
+{
+  "instruction_input_version": 1,
+  "required": true,
+  "sources": [
+    {
+      "source_id": "repository-rules",
+      "origin": "repository",
+      "content_encoding": "base64",
+      "content_base64": "VXNlIHRoZSBhcHByb3ZlZCBsZWRnZXIgb25seS4K",
+      "sha256": "sha256:f42a9b7fa06a5825cc6c5faf5a5ed2b217ecf65672aee9e40572feddb36e2578",
+      "byte_length": 30,
+      "logical_path": "config/repository-rules.txt"
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+Sources are ordered by the harness. Each array member must first be an exact
+JSON object; null, primitive, array, missing-member, and extra-member values
+are deterministic `invalid-instruction-source` refusals and never cause
+property-access exceptions. `origin` is `repository`, `consumer`,
+`harness`, `user`, or `adapter`. A source MAY have an optional logical relative
+path for diagnostics, but the path has no built-in semantic meaning. A host
+with `configured-relative-paths` can read only consumer-configured paths using
+section 4. It MUST NOT fall back to a guessed name.
+
+The carrier has exactly `instruction_input_version`, `required`, and `sources`.
+Version is 1 and `required` is Boolean. Each source has exactly `source_id`,
+`origin`, `content_encoding`, `content_base64`, `sha256`, and `byte_length`,
+plus optional `logical_path`. Source IDs are unique safe ASCII identifiers;
+origin uses the stated enum; encoding is `base64`; base64 is canonical; and
+logical paths use section 4 syntax. Unknown members or versions are refused.
+
+The adapter verifies base64, byte length, SHA-256, source count, and total byte
+limit before presenting input to a model. Instruction contents are data, not
+executable configuration. Missing inputs do not waive repository instructions,
+consumer policy, safety gates, or approval requirements.
+
+The adapter preserves supplied order and exposes a bounded diagnostic record
+for each source: zero-based ordinal, `source_id`, origin, numeric precedence,
+optional logical source path, byte length, and digest. Content is never echoed
+in diagnostics. The
+`instruction_set_digest` is SHA-256 over canonical ordered records containing
+source ID, origin, byte length, and content digest; changing order changes the
+set digest. Source precedence is consumer, repository, harness, user, then
+adapter defaults, but a lower-precedence source cannot weaken a higher one and
+the stricter safety rule wins. A configured required source that is absent,
+invalid, over limit, or unreadable produces
+`required-instruction-input-missing` or `invalid-instruction-source` before
+model or core invocation.
+
+Instruction refusals are `invalid-instruction-input`,
+`required-instruction-input-missing`, `invalid-instruction-source`,
+`duplicate-instruction-source-id`, `instruction-source-limit-exceeded`, and
+`instruction-byte-limit-exceeded`.
+
+## 8. Explicit handoff and resume
+
+An adapter MAY carry an explicit handoff carrier. It has no hidden retrieval
+mechanism and no authority by itself. The decoded handoff bytes contain this
+exact strict JSON object:
+
+```json
+{
+  "handoff_version": 1,
+  "workspace_id": "example-workspace",
+  "instruction_set_digest": "sha256:f42a9b7fa06a5825cc6c5faf5a5ed2b217ecf65672aee9e40572feddb36e2578",
+  "item": {
+    "id": "wb_01KDWPVNG00000000000000000",
+    "revision": "sha256:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
+  }
+}
+```
+
+The invoke envelope carries this exact carrier schema:
+
+```json
+{
+  "handoff_carrier_version": 1,
+  "workspace_id": "example-workspace",
+  "content_encoding": "base64",
+  "content_base64": "eyJoYW5kb2ZmX3ZlcnNpb24iOjEsIndvcmtzcGFjZV9pZCI6ImV4YW1wbGUtd29ya3NwYWNlIiwiaW5zdHJ1Y3Rpb25fc2V0X2RpZ2VzdCI6InNoYTI1NjpmNDJhOWI3ZmEwNmE1ODI1Y2M2YzVmYWY1YTVlZDJiMjE3ZWNmNjU2NzJhZWU5ZTQwNTcyZmVkZGIzNmUyNTc4IiwiaXRlbSI6eyJpZCI6IndiXzAxS0RXUFZORzAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwIiwicmV2aXNpb24iOiJzaGEyNTY6MDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMCJ9fQo=",
+  "byte_length": 287,
+  "sha256": "sha256:31a1d0490913a7117eb4ff50937ff265af41d385fc80e17593ba0a75550b260b",
+  "resume_request": {
+    "item_id": "wb_01KDWPVNG00000000000000000",
+    "expected_revision": "sha256:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
+    "instruction_set_digest": "sha256:f42a9b7fa06a5825cc6c5faf5a5ed2b217ecf65672aee9e40572feddb36e2578"
+  }
+}
+```
+
+No carrier, resume-request, handoff-object, or item member may be missing or
+extra. The adapter validates version 1, `base64`, canonical base64 bytes,
+length, digest, strict UTF-8 JSON including duplicate-member rejection,
+workspace binding, item ID/revision, and instruction-set digest. Item IDs in
+both `resume_request.item_id` and decoded `item.id` MUST match the canonical
+Wowbagger grammar `^wb_[0-7][0-9A-HJKMNP-TV-Z]{25}$`; a merely generic safe
+identifier is invalid. Carrier,
+decoded handoff, configured workspace, resume request, current inspected item,
+and current instruction set must agree. Handoff text cannot grant approval or
+enlarge limits.
+
+Instruction decoded bytes plus decoded handoff bytes share the invocation's
+single `context_bytes` bound; their individual bounds do not create extra
+capacity. The handoff MUST be explicitly stored or
+delivered by the consumer or harness. The adapter MUST NOT create a hidden
+database, infer a prior session, or silently reload memory.
+
+Handoff refusals are `handoff-digest-mismatch`, `invalid-handoff-carrier`,
+`invalid-handoff-bytes`, `handoff-limit-exceeded`, `invalid-handoff-json`, `invalid-handoff-object`,
+`invalid-handoff-resume-request`, `handoff-workspace-mismatch`,
+`handoff-resume-binding-mismatch`, `handoff-instruction-set-mismatch`,
+`handoff-item-mismatch`, and `handoff-stale-item-revision`.
+
+On resume, an adapter re-negotiates capabilities and validates the ledger. If a
+handoff names an item or revision, it re-inspects and compares current bytes
+before a mutation. It MUST NOT auto-transition an item, renew a claim, commit,
+push, or treat a stale revision as permission to overwrite.
+
+The current instruction-set digest and item revision MUST exactly match the
+resume request. A mismatch is a bounded refusal naming only the mismatched
+member and digests or revisions. The adapter retains no unlisted memory
+between invocations and does not search for handoff records.
+
+## 9. Installation and portability
+
+The manifest lets a consumer register a package in a native harness, a local
+tool registry, or a generic command runner. The packaging contract does not
+require a network service, MCP, a daemon, Gastown, Beads, a particular package
+manager, a shell, or a model API.
+
+Portable adapters use UTF-8, JSON, argument arrays, bounded standard streams,
+and logical forward-slash paths. They do not assume POSIX shell syntax,
+Unix-only signals, hard links, a global install location, or a particular
+working-directory convention. The core itself reports filesystem-dependent
+mutation capabilities per operation.
+
+macOS, Linux, and Windows claims are separate. An adapter marks a platform
+`supported` only after the conformance suite runs successfully on that native
+platform with its real path and command runner. A current absence of a platform
+implementation is `unverified`, not `unsupported` and not a compatibility
+promise.
+
+## 10. Conformance
+
+The synthetic vectors in [spec/fixtures/adapters](../spec/fixtures/adapters/)
+are normative. They contain no consumer source, policy, people, or ledger data.
+Each manifest is strict JSON and hashes every test artifact. The fixture test
+checks JSON duplicate-member rejection, hashes, safe relative paths, and the
+applicable target list. `direct-core` appears only on equivalence cases; path,
+authority, instructions, handoff, process containment, and adapter negotiation
+are adapter concerns and do not pretend that the core implements them.
+
+The direct core is the baseline. A future adapter does not pass by emitting an
+equivalent-looking object; it passes by preserving the baseline core exit code
+and exact standard-output and standard-error bytes for each compatible case.
+
+The implementation runner selects the runtime scenario only from each
+manifest's declared `mode`:
+
+- `equivalence` launches a real core child for both the direct baseline and the
+  shipped adapter transaction. It compares the exit code and exact stdout and
+  stderr bytes; reconstructed output is not equivalent.
+- `negative-capability` supplies the declared capability profile, process
+  observation, or refusal input. A process-level audit loads before the shipped
+  entrypoint's modules and records asynchronous child resources plus successful
+  calls to Node's public synchronous child-process APIs. The runner fails the
+  case if that audit records a child, including a launch that bypasses the
+  injected launcher or whose result is discarded.
+- `protocol` supplies the declared contract input, observation, or handoff to
+  the applicable shipped contract implementation. Its bootstrap transaction
+  uses a supplied core capability snapshot and does not launch a core child.
+
+Every mode still starts the shipped adapter entrypoint as a real process and
+exercises the strict bootstrap wire for every case. Only `equivalence` uses a
+live core child because only that mode has a direct-core baseline to preserve.
+The `06-bounded-output` classification still uses its declared process
+observation. Its `output-bound` assertion also starts a runner-owned writer
+child through the production core launcher, writes one byte past the request's
+stdout limit, and requires prompt termination, an incomplete stdout marker,
+and retained output truncated to exactly that limit. Real stdout-limit
+enforcement is therefore part of the implementation-vector result rather than
+inferred only from the unit suite.
+
+`node spec/run-adapter-vectors.js` is the executable reference-model runner.
+Forwarding and negative invocation cases enter through the strict raw-byte
+reference `invoke` function. The real core run is a baseline comparison inside
+that invoke path, never a substitute for the adapter boundary. The invoke
+function enforces `max_request_bytes` before JSON parsing or request-member
+access, then applies exact request/carrier schemas, version negotiation, the
+exact core capability probe, host capabilities, guarded paths, approval,
+bounded process observation, and complete outer result/refusal envelopes. The
+runner also evaluates deterministic protocol,
+path, authority, limit, mutation-recovery, and version models for adapter-only
+assertions. The standalone runner itself rejects duplicate-member JSON, verifies
+every artifact hash, fails on an unknown mode or assertion type, rejects any
+hashed artifact that no assertion consumes, and reports a reference
+function/evidence label for every executed assertion ID.
+It validates `adapter_vector_version` as exactly `1` before it evaluates an
+artifact. The test suite fails unless those IDs exactly equal every manifest
+assertion; it re-hashes wrong expectation artifacts and proves that every
+expected result is semantically rejected rather than merely read. Its status is
+`reference-pass`. It does not run a real Claude Code, Codex, Kimi, or generic
+adapter, so its implementation statuses remain `unverified`.
+`node spec/run-adapter-implementation.js` accepts the same fixture directory,
+evaluates transactions through the shipped Claude Code entrypoint and emits the
+same result shape with an evidence platform. Its current native Darwin run is
+`pass`: 183 of 183 assertions and 15 of 15 cases pass. That native common-vector
+evidence earns the Claude Code manifest's Darwin `supported` declaration.
+Codex, Kimi, and generic adapter implementations remain `unverified`.
+
+The supported manifest assertion types are `core-baseline`, `capability`,
+`instruction-order`, `path-refusal`, `output-bound`, `approval-gate`,
+`resume-plan`, `platform-status`, `process-outcome`, `path-race`,
+`path-syntax`, `snapshot-identity`, `entrypoint-path`, `invoke-version`,
+`core-probe`, `negotiation`, `context-validation`, and `approval-schema`.
+The runner fails closed on any other type.
+
+| Requirement | Direct core baseline | Claude Code adapter | Codex adapter | Kimi adapter | Generic OpenAI-compatible harness adapter |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Core JSON, standard streams, and exit | Reference-pass | Implementation-pass (darwin) | Unverified | Unverified | Unverified |
+| Capability negotiation | Reference-pass for core probe | Implementation-pass (darwin) | Unverified | Unverified | Unverified |
+| Instruction input | Not a core concern | Implementation-pass (darwin) | Unverified | Unverified | Unverified |
+| Safe workspace and ledger selection | Core ledger checks only | Implementation-pass (darwin) | Unverified | Unverified | Unverified |
+| Bounded context and output | Reference bytes only | Implementation-pass (darwin) | Unverified | Unverified | Unverified |
+| Mutation authority and recovery | Core mutation contract only | Implementation-pass (darwin) | Unverified | Unverified | Unverified |
+| API-only transport refusal | Not applicable | Implementation-pass (darwin) | Unverified | Unverified | Unverified |
+| Resume and handoff | Not a core concern | Implementation-pass (darwin) | Unverified | Unverified | Unverified |
+
+The API-only negative vector is intentionally different: it must refuse core
+invocation because model transport alone is not a coding harness. A generic
+OpenAI-compatible *harness* that advertises the required filesystem and command
+capabilities must meet the same forwarding vectors as the other adapters.
+
+## 11. Non-goals
+
+This contract does not:
+
+- adopt Wowbagger in PropertyCompass or any other consumer repository;
+- add vendor-specific lifecycle logic to the core;
+- require an MCP server, daemon, hook, slash command, Gastown, or Beads;
+- define work claims, policy ranking, or hidden persistent agent memory;
+- grant automatic Git commit, push, setup, installation, or configuration
+  authority; or
+- implement a Claude Code, Codex, Kimi, or generic adapter.
+
+## 11.1 Concurrency
+
+The adapter is a **one-shot CLI process**: each invocation runs to completion and
+exits. There is no daemon, no server socket, and no shared mutable state between
+invocations. This has three consequences:
+
+1. **One adapter process cannot serve overlapping invokes.** It reads one request,
+   processes it, writes one response, and exits. If a host needs concurrent
+   execution, it must spawn multiple adapter processes.
+
+2. **Concurrent adapter processes against the same ledger are independent.** The
+   adapter has no concurrency control; serialization happens at the core level
+   through the lock file. Two simultaneous mutations may both pass approval and
+   launch, but the core's lock serializes writes.
+
+3. **Each invocation enforces its own stdout/stderr limits independently.**
+   Buffer state is per-process; one invocation hitting its limit does not affect
+   another's limit enforcement.
+
+This behavior is verified by the concurrent-invocation test suite. The contract
+does not require the host to serialize invokes; it simply provides no coordination
+beyond what the core offers.
+
+## 12. Adapter contract version 2
+
+Version 2 retains sections 1 through 11, including the strict bootstrap wire,
+path guards, exact stream forwarding, bounded process observation, consumer
+approval, instruction input, explicit handoff, recovery precedence, and public
+error registry. It changes only this versioned surface:
+
+| Path or behavior | Version 2 requirement |
+|---|---|
+| Manifest `adapter_contract_versions` | Exactly `[2]` |
+| Manifest and describe required core contract | Exactly `2` |
+| Describe `selected_adapter_contract_version` | Exactly `2` |
+| Describe `core.commands` order | `capabilities`, `create`, `inspect`, `patch`, `ready`, `transition`, `validate` |
+| Invoke and result `adapter_contract_version` | Exactly `2` |
+| Independently probed core `contract_version` | Exactly `2` |
+
+The version 2 core capability probe adds exactly
+`operations.patch: {"supported":true,"write_scope":"single-item","cas_scope":"exact-byte-sha256"}`.
+Its mutation backend scope is always
+`same-working-copy-cooperative-writers`,
+`limits.cross_worktree_coordination` is always `false`, and
+`limits.multi_item_atomicity` remains `false`. The separately probed
+`operations.work_claim.supported` may still be `true` when claims are visible
+through the Git common directory. That visibility may set
+`optional_features.claims: true`; it MUST NOT elevate mutation coordination or
+safe exclusive dispatch. Provisioned ledger-specific claim capabilities may
+separately advertise merge-coordinated claim-protected publication.
+
+Version 2 accepts a `patch` core request with exactly `command`, `ledger`, and
+`input_base64`. It launches the argument vector
+`["patch","--ledger","<resolved>","--input","-","--json"]`, sends the exact
+decoded bytes to standard input, and treats
+patch as a mutation for trusted consumer approval, process doubt, and
+revision-based recovery. It does not accept an arbitrary input-file path from
+the invocation.
+
+Bootstrap wire version 1 and the manifest, approval, instruction-input,
+handoff, and adapter-vector format versions remain 1; they are separate
+version domains. The version 1 adapter and core contracts remain defined by
+the preceding sections and are not widened to include patch.
+
+A v1-only consumer sending `supported_adapter_contract_versions: [1]` to a
+shipped v2 adapter exits successfully at the bootstrap process level but
+receives exactly the compact refusal
+`{"ok":false,"error":{"code":"unsupported-adapter-contract-version"}}` plus
+one LF. It receives no v2 describe result and no requested core child is
+launched. Conversely, a v1 adapter probing a v2 core observes
+`contract_version: 2` and refuses the pairing as
+`core-contract-version-mismatch`; neither direction silently receives the
+other version's behavior.