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+ Metadata-Version: 2.4
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+ Name: raftward
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+ Version: 0.1.1
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+ Summary: Offline, guarded integrity checks for closed SQLite databases and backups
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+ License-Expression: Apache-2.0
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+ Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/Dragon-Lady/raftward
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+ Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/Dragon-Lady/raftward/issues
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+ Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Security
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.10
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Requires-Dist: tomli>=2; python_version < "3.11"
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+ Dynamic: license-file
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+
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+ # Raft Ward
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+
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+ Raft Ward checks the integrity of closed SQLite databases, frozen exports, and
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+ backup folders. It detects missing files, corruption, suspicious shrinkage,
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+ permission changes, and patterns consistent with bulk encryption or renaming.
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+ It does not repair, restore, quarantine, or modify the files it watches.
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+
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+ Version 0.1.1 is free software under Apache-2.0, for Linux with Python 3.10
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+ or newer. Its only runtime dependency is
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+ `tomli` on Python 3.10.
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+
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+ ## Posture
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+
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+ - Local, read-only target access; no telemetry. No network or child processes by
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+ default. Configured alert delivery is the only network feature.
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+ - Every watched target has configured owning applications. A running app or
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+ background worker skips its own target, with its name and reason in the report.
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+ Other targets continue. No metadata, hashing, or integrity work starts for a
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+ target whose owner is already observed running.
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+ - Unknown process visibility or any configured nonlocal machine also defers the
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+ entire run. A stale local status file never counts as remote closure.
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+ - Owner matching is generic and case insensitive across Linux `/proc` process
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+ names, executable paths, and command lines. Cursor and Codex are defaults, not
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+ special cases. There is no owning-process allowlist.
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+ - Targets are opened only with read-only descriptors, no locks. SQLite is never
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+ connected to an original. Source symlinks, unsupported files, foreign-owned
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+ paths, a visible same-UID foreign target/sidecar descriptor, transfer locks, and running
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+ configured transfer programs defer the run.
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+ - Writes are restricted to private application state, an explicit new report
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+ file, and disposable private SQLite copies under `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/raftward`.
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+ Report/state/runtime locations cannot overlap configured target trees.
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+ - Persistent state contains local paths, keyed identifiers, file metadata,
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+ SHA-256 file digests, entropy measurements, findings, and timestamps. It contains
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+ no database rows, message text, file excerpts, full process arguments, or
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+ conversation data. SQLite copies contain source bytes briefly and are deleted
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+ in cleanup on success, deferral, interruption, or exception. On the next run,
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+ stale private copies are removed from the runtime directory.
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+
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+ Keep all involved applications and workers closed for the full run. A polling
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+ guard cannot establish an atomic interlock with an unrelated application. Raft
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+ Ward reaches one checkpoint after each 64 KiB source chunk, throughout
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+ directory walks, and every 100 SQLite virtual-machine instructions. Repeated
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+ process enumeration is throttled to a 100 ms interval measured from the end of
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+ the previous enumeration at these checkpoints.
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+ Mandatory checks bypass that interval before target metadata/open, initial source
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+ copying, private-copy creation, SQLite connection/integrity work, and completion.
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+ A slow process enumeration, bounded retry, or blocked filesystem call can extend
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+ the wall-clock delay; this is not a real-time deadline. Once a running owner is
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+ observed, that target's result is discarded while other targets continue; cleanup
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+ closes descriptors and removes its private copy. An app can start between a check
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+ and a syscall or entirely between
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+ checks. No zero-race protection is claimed.
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+
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+ ## Install and configure
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+
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+ From a reviewed checkout:
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ python3 -m pip install .
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+ raftward --help
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+ ```
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+
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+ Copy and edit `examples/config.toml` into
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+ `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/raftward/config.toml` (default
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+ `~/.config/raftward/config.toml`). Create that configuration with mode **0600**.
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+ There are no automatically scanned targets. Every target has a unique simple
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+ name, `path`, `class`, and nonempty `owners` list. If `owners` is omitted it
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+ defaults to all configured owners. The default owners are `cursor` and `codex`.
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+
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+ ```toml
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+ machines = ["local"]
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+ alert_channels = ["stdout"]
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+
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+ [owners]
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+ notes = ["notes-app", "notes-worker"]
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+
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+ [[targets]]
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+ name = "notes-export"
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+ path = "~/backups/notes.sqlite"
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+ class = "frozen"
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+ sqlite = true
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+ owners = ["notes"]
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+ ```
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+
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+ `live` tolerates ordinary hash and mtime changes. `frozen` flags changes in hash,
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+ size, or mtime. `folder` recursively checks mixed files and evaluates bulk changes
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+ since the last completed run. `sqlite = true` identifies an expected database
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+ even if its header is already damaged; it defaults true for `live`. Recognizable
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+ SQLite files found in any class also get integrity checks. Prefer explicit
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+ `sqlite = true` for frozen database exports.
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+
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+ File and directory globs support `*`, `?`, and bracket patterns. Recursive `**`
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+ globs defer; use a `folder` target for recursive scanning. Symlinks are never
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+ followed. Defaults are 10,000 files and a 20-file mass-change threshold. A folder
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+ containing other users' files defers rather than silently skipping them. Broad
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+ owner substrings may yield conservative false positives.
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+
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+ **Multi-machine operation:** list every involved machine in `machines`, including
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+ `local`. v0.1 cannot prove current remote app state and therefore always defers if
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+ this list includes another machine. There is no SSH, remote helper, status-file
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+ override, or network probe. Do not omit an involved machine to get around this
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+ gate. Coordinated cross-machine inspection remains a review/release gap.
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+
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+ ## Commands
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ raftward guard
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+ raftward baseline
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+ raftward check --quick --max-gb 2
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+ raftward check --target notes-export --format html --output /tmp/raft-report.html
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+ raftward accept notes-export --reason "verified closed export"
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+ raftward baseline export --format json
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+ raftward status
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+ raftward report --since 7d
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+ raftward report --since 24h --send
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+ raftward targets list
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+ raftward targets add packets ~/backups/packets --class folder --owner notes
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+ raftward targets remove packets
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+ raftward print-timer --interval 30m
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+ ```
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+
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+ All commands accept `--format text|json|md|html` and `--output NEW_FILE`.
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+ Global `--config FILE` and `--state DIR` options precede the command. Report
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+ destinations must already have a parent directory; existing files are never
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+ overwritten. Text output is a readable metadata record; JSON is structured data.
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+ Markdown and HTML escape all interpolated values and load no external assets.
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+
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+ `guard` inspects process state and configured transfer-lock metadata only; it does
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+ not stat or open watched targets. `status`, `report`, `targets list`, and `baseline
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+ export` read stored application metadata only and do not scan sources. A guard
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+ result is valid at that checkpoint, not a promise about a later check.
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+
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+ `baseline` captures all targets or `--target NAME`; replacing an existing baseline
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+ requires `--force`. `accept TARGET` re-baselines one reviewed change. Neither will
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+ bless missing targets, a lost expected SQLite header, failed integrity, or future
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+ mtime. An accept records time, target, and an HMAC fingerprint of the optional
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+ reason; it intentionally does **not** retain free text, which might contain
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+ credentials or personal conversation. `targets add/remove` writes a private
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+ complete target list in state that takes precedence over the TOML target list;
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+ owner definitions still come from TOML.
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+
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+ Checks use `nice(10)` when allowed. `--max-gb` limits source bytes for the entire
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+ run; exceeding it defers rather than recording a partial success. The runtime
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+ directory must be available in `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`. `--quick` requests
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+ `PRAGMA quick_check`; full `integrity_check` is the default.
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+
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+ Exit codes: **0** no findings/success, **1** findings or rejected unsafe baseline,
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+ **2** usage/runtime/alert-delivery error, **3** deferred or partial check/guard/status. A report
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+ returns 1 when the requested history contains findings. Timer unit text is printed
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+ as report data only. Review the `ExecStart` executable path before installing
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+ units yourself; Raft Ward never installs, enables, or starts timers.
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+
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+ ## SQLite and transfer boundaries
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+
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+ For a closed source without sidecars, Raft Ward copies bytes through bounded
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+ read-only reads into a unique 0700 directory. The copy is created 0600 before any
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+ bytes are written. Source device/inode, size, mtime, ctime, and mode are checked
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+ again. The copy is opened with `mode=ro&immutable=1`, `query_only=ON`,
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+ `trusted_schema=OFF`, and `temp_store=MEMORY`. Only `ok`/`not ok` and page count
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+ are retained from SQLite; diagnostic strings may reveal content and are discarded.
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+
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+ **Any `-wal`, `-shm`, or `-journal` beside a SQLite target defers the entire run.**
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+ Raft Ward never assumes immutable mode validates uncheckpointed WAL contents. It
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+ does not checkpoint or remove sidecars. A closed WAL-mode main database without
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+ sidecars can be checked as a main-file snapshot. WAL reconstruction and live WAL
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+ integrity validation are explicitly unsupported.
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+
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+ Configured `transfer_commands` default to `rclone` and `rsync`. Any matching
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+ process stops the entire run even when its arguments do not identify a target.
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+ This includes permanent `rclone mount` processes and rsync daemons: they can defer
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+ every run indefinitely. The 24-hour deferral notice names this conservative
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+ transfer policy. Subcommand/target attribution has not been proven safe and no
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+ mount or daemon exemption is applied. `transfer_dirs` stops work if a process
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+ command references a configured directory; `transfer_locks` and singular
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+ `transfer_lock` are supported. No process is stopped or signaled.
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+
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+ Raft Ward requires a full host `/proc` view. A restricted `hidepid` mount defers;
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+ a PID namespace containing only a subset of the host is not proof that other
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+ owners are closed. Owner/worker and transfer matching uses `comm` plus `cmdline`
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+ for every visible process, with `exe` as supplementary identity when readable.
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+ Only Raft Ward's own PID is excluded; its parent, sibling processes, and workers
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+ are still checked. Same-UID identity/descriptor permission failures get three
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+ 50 ms rereads. A persistently unavailable `exe` may be omitted when identity
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+ remains readable. A same-UID process whose `/proc/PID/fd` is kernel-owned, such
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+ as a non-dumpable user service, participates in name matching while its open-file
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+ check is reported as `unverifiable`. The same applies when fd entries remain
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+ listable but their readlinks return EACCES/EPERM after retries and the process's
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+ CapPrm or CapEff contains capabilities absent from our own. Readable fd links
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+ still participate in target-handle checks. Other unreadable same-UID identity
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+ or descriptors still defer.
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+ `process-descriptor-state-unknown` distinguishes descriptor visibility failure.
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+
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+ Other-UID `exe` and descriptor access is normally restricted by Linux. Raft Ward
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+ matches those processes using readable `comm`/`cmdline`; at least one identity
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+ field must be readable. It does not inspect other-UID descriptors and cannot prove
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+ that another user (including root) has no target file open. This is an explicit
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+ visibility gap, not a closed-state claim. Transient ENOENT/ESRCH means a vanished
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+ process/descriptor; readable owner names are retained when only `exe` disappears.
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+ PID reuse/UID changes trigger a reread. No owner allowlist or privilege request is
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+ used to make an unknown state pass.
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+
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+ ## Findings
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+
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+ | Rule | Condition |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | `RF-DELETED` | Missing configured target or previously baselined file |
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+ | `RF-FROZEN-CHANGED` | Frozen file hash, size, or mtime changed |
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+ | `RF-SQLITE-HEADER` | Expected SQLite magic lost |
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+ | `RF-INTEGRITY` | SQLite copy check did not return `ok` |
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+ | `RF-SHRINK` | Live database empty or below 50% of its baseline size |
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+ | `RF-ENTROPY` | First 4 KiB moved from below 7.0 to above 7.5 bits/byte |
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+ | `RF-MASS-CHANGE` | Folder changes exceed 20 files or 30%, over 10 new-extension files appear, or a new decrypt/recover/readme-text note appears |
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+ | `RF-MODE` | Any permission bits loosened relative to baseline |
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+ | `RF-FUTURE-MTIME` | Mtime ahead of the check clock |
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+ | `RF-DEFERRED` | More than 24 hours continuously deferred; one informational alert per episode |
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+
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+ Renames that retain an inode retain the entropy comparison. A replacement written
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+ to a new inode/path cannot be reliably associated with the old file; deletion,
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+ extension, and mass-change findings still apply. These are evidence signals, not
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+ a malware diagnosis. Entropy is estimated from a sample, not the whole file.
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+
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+ ## State, privacy, and alerts
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+
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+ State is under `$XDG_STATE_HOME/raftward` (default `~/.local/state/raftward`), mode
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+ 0700. Files are created 0600 with `os.open`; no post-write chmod is used. Unsafe
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+ existing state permissions or symlinked parents are refused, not repaired.
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+
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+ - `fp.key`: 32 random bytes used for HMAC-SHA256 identifiers (`fp:` plus 16 hex
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+ characters). A missing key beside an existing baseline is an error.
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+ - `baseline.json`, `previous.json`, `last.json`: metadata and findings.
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+ - `history.jsonl`: at most 30 days and 4 MiB of recent metadata (older rows trimmed).
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+ - `accepts.jsonl`: review records with reason fingerprints, at most 4 MiB.
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+ - `targets.json`: optional CLI-managed targets; `deferred.json`: deferral episode;
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+ `alerts.json`: hashed delivery receipts with a 24-hour dedupe period.
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+
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+ Paths appear only locally. Recognized token-shaped substrings in local metadata
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+ are HMAC-redacted. Because arbitrary filenames and operator-supplied configuration
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+ are not universally recognizable as secrets, keep credentials out of target
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+ names and paths. File contents are never rendered or scanned for display.
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+
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+ Critical findings alert during `check`. Other findings are available in reports;
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+ `report --send` explicitly delivers their aggregate summary. `alert_channels`
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+ accepts `stdout`, `slack`, `ntfy`, or `email`; an empty list means stdout. Network
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+ delivery is opt-in by configuring a non-stdout channel. Payloads contain rule IDs,
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+ counts, and severity only, and end with
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+ "run `raftward report` locally for details". They contain no hostname, paths,
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+ process arguments, or file content. Delivery is deduped for 24 hours and uses a
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+ five-second timeout. Redirects are not followed.
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+
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+ Use environment-variable **names**, never inline credentials:
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+ `alert_slack_webhook_env`, `alert_ntfy_token_env`, `alert_smtp_password_env`.
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+ Other channel keys are `alert_ntfy_topic`, `alert_smtp_host`, `alert_smtp_port`,
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+ `alert_smtp_security` (`starttls`, `ssl`, or loopback-only `none`),
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+ `alert_smtp_username`, `alert_smtp_from`, and `alert_email`. HTTPS is required
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+ except on loopback; SMTP encryption is required off loopback. Errors never echo
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+ remote credential-bearing URLs.
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+
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+ ## Development and review
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ python3 -m pytest -q
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+ ```
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+
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+ Tests use a temporary HOME, fixture databases, and injected process listings.
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+ They do not inspect real application data. No timer is installed. See
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+ `REVIEW.md` for the independent acceptance report and remaining limits.