fix(security): harden CDM native controls

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Summary

• validate CDM-family max_iter and tol as exact trusted built-in/concrete NumPy scalar identities before compiled-core discovery
• reject booleans, scalar subclasses, arbitrary conversion-protocol providers, non-finite/out-of-range controls, and unknown DINA/DINO selectors without executing caller callbacks
• validate DINA/DINO selectors as exact built-in strings in the existing vocabulary and pass trusted values directly to PyO3
• move native discovery behind public validation across the eight affected CDM adapters while preserving all Rust-owned psychometric arithmetic
• add RED-first hostile-callback regressions, genuine NumPy scalar compatibility, stable loader-not-called evidence, changelog, and doctoring traceability

Test-first lineage

• 9409e5dd3158fb9b57a999645573b44e9db4a0f2 specifies the hostile-control and loader-boundary RED contract
• 66cb895f16efc10d3a1f6afadbe6934b665085df implements exact scalar/model validation and reorders native discovery
• 00b84af2ac59e7a1321ede6b79fac5bf7be37eff records the security changelog
• 3e6e8d831ef591cfcb6db2c714365f88bf00d508 records doctoring/evidence scope

Scope

Validation/marshalling order, tests, changelog, and doctoring only. No DINA/DINO/G-DINA/higher-order/sequential formula, likelihood, EM, Wald/PVAF, result-schema, dependency, provider, persistence, workflow, or gate change.

Standards trace

Engineering traceability only: CWE-1287; OWASP ASVS 5.0.0 V2.2.1/V2.2.2; NIST SP 800-218 SSDF 1.1. The doctoring note does not treat later draft revisions as final authority.

Closes #902

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Added stricter validation for iteration limits, tolerances, model selectors, and response shapes.
  • Invalid, non-finite, out-of-range, boolean, unsupported, or subclassed values now fail early with clear errors.
  • Prevented invalid inputs from reaching native processing.

• Documentation

  • Documented validation rules, supported numeric types, security boundaries, and scope limitations.

• Tests

  • Added comprehensive coverage for valid and invalid control values, model selections, and response formats.

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CDM adapters now validate stopping controls, model selectors, and input structures before compiled-core discovery. Exact built-in and supported NumPy scalars remain accepted. Invalid or callback-capable inputs fail locally. Regression tests and documentation define the boundary.

Changes

CDM native validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Exact control and selector validation python/fast_mlsirm/cdm.py	Stopping controls use exact built-in or supported NumPy scalar checks. Booleans, subclasses, protocol providers, invalid ranges, non-finite tolerances, and unsupported selectors are rejected.
Pre-discovery adapter validation python/fast_mlsirm/cdm.py	CDM, G-DINA, higher-order, Wald, and sequential adapters validate inputs before Rust-core resolution and pass validated values without redundant coercion.
Boundary regression coverage and documentation tests/test_cdm_native_control_boundary.py, docs/doctoring/cdm_native_control_boundary.md, docs/changelog.d/902-cdm-native-control-boundary.md	Tests verify callback suppression, loader ordering, invalid input rejection, and compatibility with approved NumPy scalars and model strings. Documentation records the validation contract and scope.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4a07a

The PR hardens CDM control validation, but extremely large integer tolerances may still raise OverflowError instead of the documented ValueError. The change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to normalize this bounded input-validation case.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant CDMAdapter
  participant Validation
  participant NativeCore
  Caller->>CDMAdapter: submit CDM inputs
  CDMAdapter->>Validation: validate controls, model, and structures
  Validation-->>CDMAdapter: return validated values or local error
  CDMAdapter->>NativeCore: resolve core and pass validated values
  NativeCore-->>CDMAdapter: return fitting or validation result

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Possibly related issues

• Reject executable equating control providers before Rust dispatch #897 — Applies the same exact-type validation pattern to a different adapter and control set.
• Harden rubric testlet pilot controls before caller callbacks #883 — Addresses the same rejection of coercion-capable inputs in a separate estimator module.

Possibly related PRs

• ContextualWisdomLab/fast-mlsirm#906 — Implements parallel pre-discovery validation for iteration and tolerance controls in another adapter.
• ContextualWisdomLab/fast-mlsirm#853 — Uses exact built-in and NumPy scalar validation before native dispatch in another module.
• ContextualWisdomLab/fast-mlsirm#847 — Applies the same Python-to-Rust boundary validation pattern to linking.py.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes implement issue #902 requirements for exact validation, fail-first native discovery, regression tests, and scoped documentation.
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In `@python/fast_mlsirm/cdm.py`:
- Around line 56-63: Update tolerance normalization in cdm.py to catch
OverflowError from converting oversized integer tolerances to float and raise
ValueError with the existing finite-positive tolerance message instead. Cover
both built-in and supported NumPy integer paths as applicable, and add a
regression test for an oversized integer tolerance.

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