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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: core-runtime
+Version: 2.10.1
+Summary: CORE: executable constitutional governance for AI-assisted software development.
+License-Expression: MIT
+License-File: LICENSE
+Keywords: governance,audit,ci,constitutional,software-factory,code-quality,intent-driven,ai-assisted,llm
+Author: Dariusz Newecki
+Author-email: d.newecki@gmail.com
+Requires-Python: >=3.12,<4.0
+Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Information Technology
+Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
+Classifier: Operating System :: MacOS
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
+Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Quality Assurance
+Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Testing
+Classifier: Topic :: System :: Systems Administration
+Provides-Extra: migration
+Provides-Extra: telemetry
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+Project-URL: Documentation, https://dariusznewecki.github.io/CORE/
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/DariuszNewecki/CORE
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/DariuszNewecki/CORE
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+
+# CORE
+
+> **Executable constitutional governance for AI-assisted software development.**
+>
+> Designed for environments where AI action traceability is not optional.
+
+[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](LICENSE)
+[![Release](https://img.shields.io/badge/Release-v2.10.1-blue)](https://github.com/DariuszNewecki/CORE/releases)
+[![Docs](https://img.shields.io/badge/Docs-online-green)](https://dariusznewecki.github.io/CORE/)
+[![Autonomy](https://img.shields.io/badge/Autonomy-A3-blue)](https://github.com/DariuszNewecki/CORE/issues/106)
+
+*Versioning: SemVer with `2.x` denoting an API approaching stability (Beta on PyPI); see the [versioning policy](.specs/planning/CORE-Semver-Policy.md).*
+
+---
+
+## The Problem
+
+AI coding tools generate code fast. Too fast to stay sane.
+
+Without enforcement, AI-assisted codebases accumulate invisible debt — layer violations, broken architectural contracts, files that grow unbounded. And agents, left unconstrained, will eventually do something like this:
+
+```
+Agent: "I'll delete the production database to fix this bug"
+System: Executes.
+You:    😱
+```
+
+CORE makes that *class* of violation impossible — structurally blocked before execution, not detected after the fact. (Which surfaces hard-block versus advisory-report is mapped under *Current proof status* below.)
+
+```
+Agent: "I'll delete the production database to fix this bug"
+Constitution: BLOCKED — Violates data.ssot.database_primacy
+System: Execution halted. Violation logged.
+You:    😌
+```
+
+CORE is a governance runtime that constrains AI agents with machine-enforced constitutional law — enforcing architectural invariants, blocking invalid mutations automatically, and making autonomous workflows auditable and deterministic.
+
+**LLMs operate inside CORE. Never above it.**
+
+---
+
+## 🎬 See it govern itself — one command
+
+You don't have to take this on faith. On a clean machine with Docker:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/DariuszNewecki/CORE.git
+cd CORE && ./install-core.sh
+```
+
+`install-core.sh` stands up CORE and finishes by **offering** the consequence-chain
+demo as an explicit, opt-in command (it never runs it for you). Run it when you're
+ready — no LLM key required, but it does need Docker:
+
+```bash
+poetry run core-admin demo consequence-chain
+```
+
+The demo runs entirely inside a **disposable clone** and **disposable, loopback-only
+Postgres + Qdrant** — it never touches your checkout, its git index, your database,
+or a running daemon. In one isolated run it:
+
+- seeds a function that violates `linkage.assign_ids` (a blocking rule) into the clone
+- lets the **real** sensor detect it, the **real** remediator propose a `fix.ids` repair,
+  and the governed risk classifier auto-approve it as *policy-safe* (not "human approved")
+- executes the proposal through the **real** proposal route + executor and commits the repair
+- reads the exact recorded chain back — finding → proposal → approval authority →
+  execution → committed change → durable consequence → resolved finding — and re-audits clean
+- fails closed: every one of those facts is asserted, and any missing link exits non-zero
+- tears down all disposable resources when it's done
+
+Every displayed fact belongs to the *same* proposal — nothing is selected by "latest".
+The wrapper `scripts/demo.sh` still works; it just delegates to the command above.
+
+Governance is executable.
+
+<!-- TODO: embed a fresh asciicast of ./install-core.sh once recorded -->
+
+---
+
+## 📋 Live Audit Trail
+
+Every enforced action records its lineage. Two consequence chains, pulled live from the CORE database — same schema, two different authorities:
+
+**Autonomous path** — risk-classified as safe, system self-approved
+
+```
+FINDING     → workflow.ruff_format_check       src/api/cli/client.py                2026-05-18 05:15:15 UTC
+PROPOSAL    → 8845dacc…   fix.format                                                2026-05-18 05:16:15 UTC
+APPROVAL    → risk_classification.safe_auto_approval                                2026-05-18 05:16:15 UTC
+EXECUTION   → completed   (1.29s)                                                   2026-05-18 05:17:18 UTC
+FILE CHANGE → +105 / -0   98da9038 → fca9a971  src/api/cli/client.py                2026-05-18 05:17:19 UTC
+```
+
+**Human-approval path** — governor in the loop
+
+```
+FINDING     → purity.docstrings.required       src/cli/commands/audit_reporter.py   2026-05-15 08:28:29 UTC
+PROPOSAL    → a4363a81…   fix.docstrings                                            2026-05-16 13:39:34 UTC
+APPROVAL    → principal.governor  (cli_admin)                                       2026-05-16 13:53:32 UTC
+EXECUTION   → completed   (24.5s)                                                   2026-05-16 13:55:48 UTC
+FILE CHANGE → +26 / -0    5a123426 → 71fde489  src/cli/commands/audit_reporter.py   2026-05-16 13:55:49 UTC
+```
+
+Both chains are queryable end-to-end from `proposal_consequences` and `blackboard_entries`. The constitution decides which authority applies; the schema is identical. Reproduce them yourself with the [Consequence-chain query](https://dariusznewecki.github.io/CORE/proof-index/#consequence-chain-query) in the Proof Index.
+
+---
+
+## Architectural Model
+
+CORE separates responsibility across four repository layers — three enforced as constitutional law, and Specs (human intent). This separation is enforced as law — not convention.
+
+### 📐 Specs — Human Intent (`.specs/`)
+
+Where humans define what the system is for and why decisions were made. Contains architectural papers, northstar documents, user requirements, architectural decision records, and planning documents. This is the entry point for anyone trying to understand CORE before reading its implementation.
+
+`.specs/` is read by humans and searchable by CORE's semantic layer. It is never written by CORE itself.
+
+### 🧠 Mind — Law (`.intent/` + `src/mind/`)
+
+Defines what is allowed, required, or forbidden. Contains machine-readable constitutional rules, enforcement mappings, phase-aware governance models, and the authority hierarchy (`Meta → Constitution → Policy → Code`).
+
+Mind never executes. Mind never mutates. Mind defines law.
+
+### ⚖️ Will — Judgment (`src/will/`)
+
+Reads constitutional constraints, orchestrates autonomous reasoning, and records every decision with a traceable audit trail. Every operation follows a structured phase pipeline:
+
+```
+INTERPRET → PLAN → GENERATE → VALIDATE → STYLE CHECK → EXECUTE
+```
+
+Will never bypasses Body. Will never rewrites Mind.
+
+### 🏗️ Body — Execution (`src/body/`)
+
+Deterministic, atomic components: analyzers, evaluators, file operations, git services, test runners, CLI commands.
+
+Body performs mutations. Body does not judge. Body does not govern.
+
+---
+
+## How CORE Works
+
+Every autonomous operation is governed by the same constitutional loop:
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart TD
+    A["🟢 GOAL\nHUMAN INTENT"] --> B["📂 CONTEXT\nRepo state • knowledge • history"]
+    B --> C["🔒 CONSTRAINTS\nImmutable rules\n260 rules • 15 engines"]
+    C --> D["🗺️ PLAN\nStep-by-step reasoning\nRule-aware plan"]
+    D --> E["✨ GENERATE\nCode • changes • tool calls"]
+    E --> F["✅ VALIDATE\nDeterministic checks\nAST • semantic • intent • style"]
+    F -->|Pass| G["▶️ EXECUTE\nApply compliant changes"]
+    F -->|Fail| H["🔄 REMEDIATE\nRepair violation\nAutonomy Ladder"]
+    H --> E
+    G --> I["✓ SUCCESS\nChanges committed"]
+
+    subgraph "SAFETY HALT"
+        direction TB
+        J["🚨 CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION\n→ HARD HALT\n+ FULL AUDIT LOG"]
+    end
+
+    E -.->|Any violation| J
+    F -.->|Any violation| J
+
+    classDef phase      fill:#f8f9fa,stroke:#495057,stroke-width:2px
+    classDef constraint fill:#d1e7ff,stroke:#0d6efd,stroke-width:2.5px
+    classDef validate   fill:#fff3cd,stroke:#ffc107,stroke-width:2.5px
+    classDef halt       fill:#ffebee,stroke:#dc3545,stroke-width:3px
+
+    class A,B,D,E,G,I phase
+    class C constraint
+    class F validate
+    class J halt
+```
+
+---
+
+## System Guarantees
+
+Within CORE:
+
+- No file outside an autonomy lane can be modified
+- No structural rule can be bypassed silently
+- No atomic action can execute outside the governed executor (inline authorization is deferred to the audit→consequence loop)
+- Decisions are phase-aware and logged with decision traces (audit persistence is best-effort — see *Current proof status*)
+- No agent can amend constitutional law
+
+If a *blocking* rule fails, execution halts with no partial state. Reporting and advisory rules surface findings and continue — what blocks versus what reports depends on the mode.
+
+### Current proof status
+
+CORE's guarantee semantics are split across modes by design. This is the honest map of what each surface does, so a single binary claim ("CORE blocks violations") is not mistaken for the whole picture:
+
+| Surface | Mode | Behaviour |
+|---|---|---|
+| `.intent/` writes | hard invariant | blocked — the governance directory is immutable to all components |
+| Constitutional rules | always-blocking | block a commit regardless of strict mode |
+| Policy rules | strict vs. default | block only when `strict_mode=True`; otherwise report |
+| Capability tier | advisory today | reports a "would-deny" signal; does not yet block (ADR-079) |
+| Stateless CI (GitHub Action) | rule subset | skips `knowledge_gate` + `llm_gate` (they need DB / LLM state) and reports the skip |
+| Action audit trail | best-effort | recorded when the DB write succeeds; a write-action failure is surfaced (`AUDIT_GAP`), not silent |
+
+The hard invariants and constitutional rules block unconditionally; the policy, capability, and stateless tiers are weaker by design and labelled here so the boundary is legible rather than implied.
+
+---
+
+## Constitutional Primitives
+
+| Primitive  | Purpose                        |
+|------------|--------------------------------|
+| Document   | Persisted, validated artifact  |
+| Rule       | Atomic normative statement     |
+| Phase      | When the rule is evaluated     |
+| Authority  | Who may define or amend it     |
+
+Enforcement strengths: **Blocking** · **Reporting** · **Advisory**
+
+---
+
+## Enforcement Engines
+
+| Engine            | Method                                       |
+|-------------------|----------------------------------------------|
+| `ast_gate`        | Deterministic structural analysis (AST)      |
+| `regex_gate`      | Pattern-based text enforcement               |
+| `glob_gate`       | Path and boundary enforcement                |
+| `cli_gate`        | CLI surface and command-shape enforcement    |
+| `artifact_gate`   | Declared-vs-discovered artifact completeness |
+| `workflow_gate`   | Phase-sequencing and coverage checks         |
+| `knowledge_gate`  | Responsibility and ownership validation      |
+| `action_gate`     | Atomic-action invariants                     |
+| `passive_gate`    | Substrate-enforced rules (DB/runtime marker) |
+| `taxonomy_gate`   | Capability-id ↔ atomic-action coherence (ADR-079 D9) |
+| `contracts_gate`  | Cross-cutting data-contract coherence (context-level; ADR-102) |
+| `runtime_gate`    | Runtime telemetry checks over blackboard data, not source (ADR-081/082) |
+| `attestation_gate`| The honest third outcome: requirements no automated method can settle need a dated human attestation (ADR-113) |
+| `llm_gate`        | LLM-assisted semantic checks                 |
+| `grc_judge`       | LLM-assisted compliance assessment of GRC documents |
+| `IntentGuard`*    | Runtime write authorization (not audit)      |
+
+*Runtime Gate per `.specs/papers/CORE-Gate.md`, kept here for visibility.
+
+Deterministic when possible. LLM only when necessary.
+
+260 rules across 60 rule documents. 250 are mapped to enforcement engines; the other 10 are advisory rules that are mapping-exempt by design (#820), so every rule that requires a mapping has one. "Mapped" means engine-bound — not enforced in every mode: stateless CI skips `knowledge_gate` and `llm_gate`, which need the knowledge graph and an LLM provider.
+
+---
+
+## The Autonomy Ladder
+
+CORE progresses through defined levels. Each adds capability while remaining constitutionally bounded.
+
+```
+A0 — Self-Awareness       ✅  Knows what it is and where it lives
+A1 — Self-Healing         ✅  Fixes known structural issues automatically
+A2 — Governed Generation  ✅  Natural language → constitutionally aligned code
+A3 — Governed Autonomy    ✅  Daemon finds, proposes, and fixes violations unattended  ← current
+A4 — Self-Replication     🔮  Writes CORE.NG from its own understanding of itself
+```
+
+---
+
+<!-- PRODUCTION-READINESS:START — generated by scripts/production_readiness.py; do not edit by hand -->
+## Production Readiness
+
+CORE does not claim a status it has not earned. The gates are defined in [URS-production-readiness](.specs/requirements/URS-production-readiness.md); the current verdict and per-gate evidence live in the [attestation manifest](.specs/attestations/production-readiness.yaml). This table is **generated** from that manifest — do not edit it by hand.
+
+**Production readiness: NOT ATTESTED.** All gates must hold simultaneously, and each `met` gate must carry dated, human-signed evidence. There is no composite score.
+
+Progress: **1/15 met** · 12 partial · 1 not demonstrated · 1 not started.
+
+| Gate | Status | Primary gap |
+|------|--------|-------------|
+| G1 — Fresh-install proof | ⚠️ partial | CI-automated fresh-install absent; manual cold-room only |
+| G2 — Constitutional enforcement is deterministic and regression-tested | ⚠️ partial | Per-rule known-violating + known-compliant fixtures not universally applied |
+| G3 — Layer integrity is machine-enforced and blocking | ⚠️ partial | Several layer rules at reporting severity (no_body_to_will, will.no_direct_database_access); reporting-only set not formally documented |
+| G4 — Autonomous loop reliability demonstrated by soak | ❌ not demonstrated | A 72h soak ran (f7430b25, 2026-07-23 → 2026-07-26; NRestarts=0, ~35 workers, 68,495 blackboard entries) and proved loop continuity only: 0 of 16,445 findings posted in the window reached a proposal or a consequence record — the only actionable class was abandoned by the remediation circuit breaker before any proposal could be created. Not accepted as G4 evidence. A qualifying soak needs a pre-declared throughput condition (≥ 1 finding → proposal → consequence chain completed under soak) recorded before it starts. |
+| G5 — Mutation-lane equivalence and lifecycle safety | ⚠️ partial | claim.proposal not yet confirmed as the sole claim-transition entry point by formal audit; approval_authority population on every approved proposal not yet verified |
+| G6 — Risk model is governed, correct, and regression-tested | ⚠️ partial | else-branch safety net exists for future StepKinds; known set handled but exhaustive-handling not independently audited |
+| G7 — Circuit breakers operate at the correct granularity | ⚠️ partial | Flow-level and worker-level circuit breakers not formally audited |
+| G8 — Integration tests for the governed mutation chain | ✅ met | None — no G8 acceptance criterion remains outstanding. |
+| G9 — Enforcement integrity fails closed | ⚠️ partial | Skipped blocking rules not yet proven distinguishable-from-covered by CI fixture; empty-graph vacuous-pass guard not built (unmapped non-advisory PASS gap, #822, is closed) |
+| G10 — Operator observability | ⚠️ partial | Questions 4 (failure diagnosis) and 5 (rollback) not confirmed answerable by a non-author without source access |
+| G11 — Upgrade and migration safety | ⬜ not started | Schema-as-dump (db_schema_live.sql); core._migrations records only (id, applied_at) — no delta path, no version sequence. Most critical structural gap. |
+| G12 — Runtime trust boundary is audited and documented | ⚠️ partial | Rate-limiting posture not fully documented; user-facing route safety not fully confirmed per-route |
+| G13 — Documentation for operators | ⚠️ partial | No operator runbook; CLAUDE.md is comprehensive for Claude Code but is not an operator document |
+| G14 — Source reversibility | ⚠️ partial | Source-restoration-after-completed-mutation not proven by test; rollback-vs-forward audit distinction not verified |
+| G15 — Release integrity | ⚠️ partial | Release-gating checks not fully enforced as a blocking pre-publish gate; release provenance (tag/SHA/check-run) not queryable |
+
+The full gate definitions and acceptance criteria are in [`URS-production-readiness.md`](.specs/requirements/URS-production-readiness.md); the evidence and blockers behind each status are in [`production-readiness.yaml`](.specs/attestations/production-readiness.yaml).
+<!-- PRODUCTION-READINESS:END -->
+
+---
+
+## Requirements
+
+| Dependency  | Version      |
+|-------------|--------------|
+| Python      | 3.12+        |
+| PostgreSQL  | ≥ 14         |
+| Qdrant      | latest       |
+| Docker      | for services |
+| Poetry      | for deps     |
+
+---
+
+## Quick Start
+
+> **Honest status — what works today.** CORE governs *itself* end to end (the demo above), and audits any repo that **has a `.intent/` constitution** — in CI via the [GitHub Action](https://dariusznewecki.github.io/CORE/cold-reviewer/), or locally with `core-admin code audit --offline` *inside that repo*. `pip install core-runtime` gives you the `core-admin` CLI.
+>
+> **Govern your own repo (BYOR):** getting a constitution *into* an existing repo is not a zero-infrastructure step today. `project onboard` (delivers the machinery floor) and `project scout` (proposes fitted rules — via LLM, or a curated four-rule menu without one — each of which you ratify) are `core-cli` commands (`pip install core-cli`) that talk to a **running CORE API**, which needs Postgres + Qdrant behind it (ADR-146). The [BYOR quickstart](https://dariusznewecki.github.io/CORE/byor-quickstart/) walks that path end to end. Once a repo carries a `.intent/`, everything downstream is service-free: `core-admin project adopt-pack core/starter-python --write` adds a ready-made rule pack, and `core-admin code audit --offline` enforces the rules immediately — both from a plain `pip install core-runtime`.
+>
+> **Fastest way to see CORE today: run it on itself, below.**
+
+**Full local runtime** — one command. Clone, then run the installer:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/DariuszNewecki/CORE.git
+cd CORE
+./install-core.sh
+```
+
+`install-core.sh` checks prerequisites, installs dependencies, starts Postgres + Qdrant, applies the schema, and finishes by **offering** the opt-in `core-admin demo consequence-chain` command — an isolated run that has CORE find, propose, approve, fix, and verify a violation and record the consequence chain. Installation never runs it for you; run it yourself when ready (needs Docker, no LLM API key).
+
+<details>
+<summary>Prefer to run the steps yourself?</summary>
+
+```bash
+poetry install
+cp .env.example .env
+docker compose up -d
+docker compose exec -T postgres psql -U postgres -d core < schema.sql
+poetry run core-admin code audit --offline   # offline mode needs no running services
+```
+</details>
+
+Full setup — services, schema, vector sync, first audit — is in [Getting Started](https://dariusznewecki.github.io/CORE/getting-started/).
+
+---
+
+## Documentation
+
+Full documentation, architecture deep-dive, and governance reference:
+[dariusznewecki.github.io/CORE](https://dariusznewecki.github.io/CORE/)
+
+To understand what CORE is for before reading its implementation, start here:
+[`.specs/northstar/CORE-What-It-Does.md`](.specs/northstar/CORE%20-%20What%20It%20Does.md)
+
+---
+
+## Issue Tracker Guide
+
+CORE's tracker mixes governance-internal bookkeeping with ordinary engineering work, so labels do double duty. `type:*`, `priority:*`, `status:*`, `band:*`, and the `*-debt` labels are CORE's own governed taxonomy — they say what kind of work an issue is and where it sits relative to the roadmap (`roadmap` marks epics on a named milestone; `technical-debt`/`governance-debt` mark known gaps CORE is carrying forward deliberately, not bugs; `band:E` marks outward-facing/adoption work). Two standard labels tell you where to actually start: `good-first-issue` is scoped enough to attempt without deep repo context, and `help-wanted` is open to outside contribution but assumes you've read the ADR(s) it links. If an issue carries neither — and especially if it carries `type:question` — it's a live design question awaiting a maintainer decision, not something to open a PR against yet.
+
+---
+
+## Project Status
+
+**Current Release:** v2.10.1 — Honest Offline Verdicts, Prompts Ship in the Wheel (GitHub Action `uses:` form corrected)
+
+Active work: A3 Governed Autonomy — the daemon runs continuously, finds constitutional violations in its own codebase, proposes fixes, executes approved fixes, and verifies the result. The governor's role is to define intent, review proposals that require architectural judgment, and approve constitutional changes.
+
+All four A3 integrity gates are now closed. No enforcement logic or operational threshold lives in `src/` — governance is declared in `.intent/` and enforced from there. The autonomous loop is circuit-breaker protected; systematic errors surface as signals rather than unbounded churn.
+
+These are the **A3 plan's closure gates** ([`CORE-A3-plan.md`](.specs/decisions/CORE-A3-plan.md), closed 2026-05), a different vocabulary from the fifteen production-readiness gates above — the A3 gates say the autonomous loop *exists and is governed*; the readiness gates say whether it is *proven fit to ship*, and today it is not.
+
+| A3 gate | Meaning | Status |
+|---------|---------|--------|
+| A3-G1 — Loop closure | Round-trip autonomous fix demonstrated | ✅ |
+| A3-G2 — Convergence | Circuit-breaker; resolution rate > creation rate | ✅ |
+| A3-G3 — Consequence chain | Causality queryable end-to-end | ✅ |
+| A3-G4 — Governance in `.intent/` | No enforcement logic or thresholds in `src/` | ✅ |
+
+---
+
+## License
+
+[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](LICENSE)
+
+---
+
+<div align="center">
+
+**Build fast with AI. Stay constitutionally aligned.**
+
+</div>
+