fix(facets): harden public control validation

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Scope

Fix #921 by validating and normalizing public many-facet calibration controls before compiled Rust-core discovery, without changing MFRM mathematics or estimator semantics.

Test-first lineage

• RED 9b82469b8c76373d2324514547c8a90aa2bae79c adds hostile Python/NumPy scalar subclasses, protocol-only controls, invalid-domain, malformed-response, and genuine NumPy compatibility regressions. Replayed against protected-main behavior, the focused suite produced 22 failed / 0 passed: malformed/rejected controls reached Rust-core discovery first and genuine NumPy integer controls were not accepted by the old contract.
• GREEN 397d70f00818fb037bcc32254b7df54af6071e48 adds exact trusted scalar admission, one-time built-in normalization, existing-domain validation, and moves native discovery after control/response validation.
• Focused GREEN proof: PYTHONPATH=python pytest -q tests/test_facets_control_safety.py -> 22 passed; Python compilation passes.
• Additional existing focused tests: tests/test_cov_a_facets.py tests/test_scoring_facets_calibration.py tests/test_scoring_facets_fit_replay.py -> 33 passed / 2 unavailable-native failures. Both failures were happy paths requiring the compiled _core; this local environment has no Rust toolchain/compiled extension. Hosted exact-head CI/PyO3/package proof is required rather than faking native evidence.

Preserved boundary

• n_cat, q_theta, and max_iter accept exact built-in integers or genuine supported NumPy integer scalar identities; tol also accepts exact built-in/genuine supported NumPy real scalar identities.
• Booleans, Python/NumPy scalar subclasses, and arbitrary conversion-protocol providers fail before caller callbacks and before native discovery.
• Accepted controls normalize once to built-in int/float, then retain the existing category, quadrature-grid, iteration, finiteness, and positive-tolerance domains.
• Response validation/marshalling completes before native discovery.
• Many-facet response probabilities, marginal-ML EM, Gauss-Hermite quadrature, connectedness, likelihood, optimization, estimates, identification, and result schema remain Rust-owned and unchanged.
• No dependency, provider, persistence, workflow, gate, or package-version change.

Documentation

The bounded doctoring note records the trust-boundary/security rationale and distinguishes it from scientific model recommendations. APA-style trace cites CWE-1287, OWASP ASVS 5.0.0, final NIST SSDF 1.1, and tracks SP 800-218 Rev. 1 / SSDF 1.2 as draft. A security changelog fragment accompanies the source change.

Exact creation state

• Protected base: fb67ced09d8ee00542c05d56374537a9a7239751.
• Exact source head: 08bf4e7ba52c3686c51ef121aabc850b3fb75f28.
• Branch is ahead 4 / behind 0 with exactly four changed files.

This PR intentionally starts Draft. Ready/integration requires fresh exact-head CI/security/package/provenance/coverage/review evidence plus the live protected-main independent-review policy. No gate is weakened or bypassed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Strengthened validation for facet-fitting controls, including iteration limits, category and quadrature settings, and tolerances.
  • Invalid, unsupported, non-finite, or non-positive values are now rejected early with safer behavior.
  • Compatible NumPy scalar values continue to work correctly.
  • Malformed inputs are detected before native processing begins.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance covering accepted control values, validation rules, and fail-closed behavior.

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fit_facets now validates and normalizes public controls before Rust-core discovery. It rejects hostile or unsupported scalar inputs, validates response arrays earlier, accepts genuine NumPy scalars, and documents the trust-boundary behavior.

Changes

fit_facets control safety

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Control normalization and validation python/fast_mlsirm/facets.py	Added strict scalar normalizers, domain checks, built-in value conversion, and delayed Rust-core discovery.
Trust-boundary verification and documentation tests/test_facets_control_safety.py, docs/doctoring/facets-control-safety.md, docs/changelog.d/921-facets-control-safety.md	Added fail-closed tests for hostile inputs, invalid values, response ordering, and NumPy compatibility. Added documentation and changelog evidence.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b78bf

The PR hardens public control validation without changing model calculations, but the current changes include a localized test-code lint issue and a documentation citation that should be corrected or confirmed. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up on these bounded items.

Possibly related issues

• Issue 854: Related validation and marshalling hardening for a different public API.
• Issue 856: Related pre-native-dispatch numeric validation for a different control path.

Possibly related PRs

• ContextualWisdomLab/fast-mlsirm#847: Applies similar Python-to-Rust validation hardening to irt_link.
• ContextualWisdomLab/fast-mlsirm#853: Applies similar calibration-control validation to fit_testlet.
• ContextualWisdomLab/fast-mlsirm#906: Uses similar iteration and tolerance validation before compiled-core discovery.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #921 by validating controls before native discovery, rejecting unsafe inputs, preserving semantics, and adding focused regressions.
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CodeRabbit-routed review of b4f93f51 vs 9d185565 found no issues.

Reviewed 4 files (+444/−15): python/fast_mlsirm/facets.py, tests/test_facets_control_safety.py, docs/doctoring/facets-control-safety.md, docs/changelog.d/921-facets-control-safety.md.

Checked for: bugs, security issues, and code-quality risks on the public fit_facets trust boundary (exact-type admission, bool/subclass/protocol rejection, domain checks, response marshalling before _core_module(), no MFRM/EM/quadrature/Rust kernel change).

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Local focused suite: PYTHONPATH=python python3 -m pytest -q tests/test_facets_control_safety.py → 22 passed. Prior CodeRabbit PLE0305 on hostile __index__/__hash__ is already resolved on 68db9de3.

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Required check python is FAILURE on exact head 73c6b4a8920e3f8f454da84565739c476961d682.