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Summary

  • validate public validate_judge(..., k=...) category counts before compiled-core discovery
  • admit only exact built-in integers or exact concrete NumPy integer scalar identities; reject booleans, subclasses, arbitrary integer-protocol providers, and caller-controlled scalar metaclass hooks without executing them
  • use identity-only NumPy scalar-type admission so trust decisions do not dispatch metaclass hashing/equality
  • normalize accepted NumPy scalars once to an exact built-in integer before label validation and PyO3 dispatch
  • preserve the existing 2..=1000 category domain and all Rust-owned agreement/fairness arithmetic, governed thresholds, and result schemas
  • add RED-first hostile-control regressions, genuine NumPy scalar compatibility, changelog, and APA 7 doctoring/standards trace

Test-first lineage

  • 7cf9eb6c2937020b5e755b5ae0a6cc2380fc068d specifies the hostile conversion/native-discovery RED contract
  • db0cb5848d317d39f197933043e289e00cdf522b implements trusted scalar admission and moves Rust discovery after public validation/marshalling
  • 7b6c93c56a0c30a63c52f22fe8b514615680fab1 records bounded release evidence
  • 0ebcc06a619e8eb9a84b2b92d1b40898087fdcaa records initial doctoring and standards traceability
  • 3979f064b3e32fe44892cab369f8ffc1e3af4d73 adds a second RED proving hashed type-container membership can dispatch caller-controlled scalar metaclass hooks
  • 54fe33b2dd9d2a287c04635f2acba7bfc94f10fa replaces that admission with identity-only type comparisons
  • ee16ffa047aa5c24ff7011407a848cd57af59369 aligns canonical doctoring with the second RED/GREEN boundary

Scope

Python validation/marshalling, tests, changelog, and doctoring only. No psychometric/fairness formula, threshold policy, Rust kernel, dependency, provider, persistence, workflow, gate, result-schema, or downstream-ownership change.

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Standards trace

CWE-1287; OWASP ASVS 5.0.0 (latest stable as rechecked 2026-08-16); NIST SP 800-218 SSDF 1.1 as the final baseline, with Rev. 1 / SSDF 1.2 recorded only as an Initial Public Draft standards-watch item.

Closes #912.

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  • Security Enhancements

    • Hardened category-count validation for validate_judge.
    • Accepts only trusted integer values and enforces the valid range of 2–1000.
    • Rejects booleans, subclasses, unsafe conversion objects, and unsupported scalar types without triggering callbacks.
    • Invalid values now fail before compiled processing begins.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Ensured supported NumPy integer values are safely normalized before processing.
    • Preserved existing formulas, thresholds, and result formats.

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validate_judge(..., k=...) now applies strict integer validation before compiled-core discovery. Accepted NumPy integers are normalized to built-in int. Regression tests and documentation cover callback safety, bounds, import ordering, and unchanged result behavior.

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Judge category control safety

Layer / File(s) Summary
Trusted category validation
python/fast_mlsirm/validation.py
k accepts exact built-in integers and concrete NumPy integer scalars. Booleans, subclasses, protocol providers, and values outside 2..=1000 are rejected.
Deferred core dispatch
python/fast_mlsirm/validation.py
Validation occurs before compiled-core discovery. The normalized category count is used for label validation and Rust dispatch.
Regression and documentation evidence
tests/test_validation_category_control_safety.py, docs/changelog.d/912-judge-category-control-safety.md, docs/doctoring/judge_category_control_safety.md
Tests verify callback suppression, import ordering, NumPy normalization, and dispatch types. Documentation records the validation contract and unchanged formulas, thresholds, and result schemas.

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The validation hardening is mergeable with explicit follow-up to correct the standards verification date and rename shadowing test parameters so documentation and lint requirements remain clean.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant validate_judge
  participant Rust_core
  Caller->>validate_judge: provide k
  validate_judge->>validate_judge: validate and normalize k
  validate_judge->>Rust_core: validate_scoring(category_count)
  Rust_core-->>validate_judge: validation result
  validate_judge-->>Caller: return result
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In `@docs/doctoring/judge_category_control_safety.md`:
- Line 27: Recheck the cited OWASP and NIST sources and update the verification
date in the standards-status paragraph to the actual completed date, ensuring it
is not later than August 15, 2026.

In `@tests/test_validation_category_control_safety.py`:
- Around line 126-131: Rename the guarded_import parameters globals and locals
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Reviewed d34d2a224e3291cf4199a8e65d542e47f7c5ae2b against #912. Production validate_judge(..., k=...) meets the marshalling contract; the RED suite does not fully prove the named threat list. Verdict: COMMENT. Not APPROVE: evidence is not independently clean. No production must-fix, so not REQUEST_CHANGES.


@pytest.mark.parametrize(
"control_type",
[_HostileInt, _HostileNumpyInt, _IntegerProtocolProvider],

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Important / should-fix (not a production hole): this parametrize does not match #912 items 2 and 5 or the repo integer-safety RED contract in tests/test_scoring_execution_integer_callback_safety.py.

Missing cases that production already rejects with zero callbacks (probed on this head): True / False / np.bool_; an __index__-only provider; a 0-d np.ndarray (int(np.array(2)) still works in Python); and repr/eq/hash/lt/gt hooks on the hostile objects. _IntegerProtocolProvider only implements __int__.

Hostile tests also only assert rust_calls == []. They stay green if from . import _core moves back above the type check. Extend test_validate_judge_rejects_invalid_k_before_core_import to type-invalid k, and patch sys.modules['fast_mlsirm._core'] as well as fast_mlsirm._core so the NumPy dispatch assertion remains meaningful after other tests have imported the extension.

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Review of #913 @ d34d2a22

Production validate_judge(..., k=...) meets #912. Category-count admission is identity-only (type(value) is int or an exact concrete NumPy integer scalar), the 2..=1000 domain is unchanged, labels/policy marshal next, and from . import _core happens only after that. Booleans, subclasses, 0-d arrays, and arbitrary __int__/__index__ providers raise before conversion or native discovery. Prior CodeRabbit threads (standards date; globals/locals shadowing) are already resolved on this head.

The new RED file does not yet prove the full named threat list: no __index__-only provider, no boolean/np.bool_/0-d array cases, no type-invalid import-order probe, and hostile tests only assert a package-attribute fake. That is a test-contract gap, not a production hole.

Next action: land #935 (582e4187) instead of merging this head in parallel. #935 keeps this production boundary and adds the missing RED cases (20 passed locally). Do not treat this automation comment as independent review or as merge authority. Required checks on this synchronize are still running; refetch exact-head evidence before any integration decision.

Same-file residual, out of #912 scope: fleiss_kappa(..., k=...) still does from . import _core then isinstance + int(k). Keep that as a dedicated follow-up after #935.

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@pytest.mark.parametrize(
"control_type",
[_HostileInt, _HostileNumpyInt, _IntegerProtocolProvider],

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This parametrize covers __int__ subclasses and one protocol object, but #912 also names __index__-only providers, booleans/np.bool_, and 0-d arrays. The import-guard test below only uses in-type k=1, so a later from . import _core move would still leave these hostile cases green.

#935 adds those RED cases and pins the fake through sys.modules['fast_mlsirm._core']. Take that head rather than expanding this file in place if #935 is still open.

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