docs: hand off to five-pillar architecture convergence

[Zartharas]

Purpose

Advance the durable OmniRoute project handoff from the completed R16.32 pre-tag reconciliation back to the original five-pillar product goal.

This is documentation/project-management only. It does not change runtime code, routing, provider state, credentials, Docker, deployment, or live behavior.

Canonical architecture

The product remains:

1. Codex Unified Agent
2. Unified OmniRoute AI Workforce
3. Auth Keeper
4. Intelligent Multi-Model Orchestration
5. Operations Floor

Canonical path:

User → Codex Unified → OmniRoute → Auth Keeper + eligible AI workforce → orchestration/fallback → response → Operations Floor evidence

Current checkpoint

Private engineering repository:

Zartharas/omniroute-auth-keeper

Promoted pre-tag commit:

470a9eb5d5014c0df116c9e3c5b6ae3853bda021

R16r33 completed the five-file semantic qualification with exactly two support-file mutations and verified the remote push.

R16r35 then completed the read-only post-promotion/tag-readiness verification:

• result: WAIT_R16R35_UPSTREAM_V3851_TAG
• upstream release/v3.8.51 observed head: ae2ba35852d4e5a55486a1c0e6a779105564fd6d
• immutable v3.8.51 tag: absent
• evidence root: /Users/zarthras/Downloads/omniroute_r16_32_r16r35_tag_readiness_20260926T184148Z
• no source/ref/GitHub-metadata/Docker/live/dependency mutation by the local harness

Key correction

The missing upstream tag blocks final tag-bound release reconciliation only. It does not block all remaining OmniRoute product engineering.

R16.32 is a Pillar 4/cross-cutting subproject, not the complete product.

Documentation changes

• update docs/project/CURRENT_STATUS.md to the 2026-09-26 checkpoint;
• update docs/project/MASTER_ROADMAP.md to the five-pillar continuation;
• supersede the old R16.32-only continuation as the current project entry point;
• add docs/research/OMNIROUTE-FIVE-PILLAR-CONTINUATION-20260926.md;
• add docs/project/CHAT_HANDOFF_20260926_FIVE_PILLAR_CONVERGENCE.md for new-chat continuity;
• update docs/project/ENGINEERING_SOURCE_OF_TRUTH.md with R16r33–R16r35 harness lessons and the two-lane continuation;
• preserve D18/D19/FreeLLM/cleanup authority without reopening closed work.

Next product phase

One consolidated, non-destructive Five-Pillar Architecture Convergence Audit should determine:

• live vs qualified-only vs historical state for each pillar;
• Codex Unified reintegration/productization gaps;
• workforce access-mode normalization gaps;
• Auth Keeper remaining provider/session lifecycle gaps;
• orchestration preference/multi-model gaps;
• Operations Floor convergence gaps;
• final cross-pillar E2E acceptance gaps;
• work specifically blocked on v3.8.51;
• work that can proceed safely without mutating protected live state.

Safety

• documentation only;
• no PR merge implied;
• no Docker/live mutation;
• no secret access;
• no deployment;
• no release cutover.

The private R16.32 tag-bound release work remains tracked separately in private PRM diegosouzapw#19.

Project management

The broader product-level convergence work is tracked in private engineering PRM Zartharas/omniroute-auth-keeper#20.

The separate immutable-tag release gate remains tracked in private issue diegosouzapw#19.

2026-09-28 continuation checkpoint

The private five-pillar engineering lane has now qualified the non-network Auth Keeper-controlled credential execution boundary while preserving the public architecture.

Current public-safe facts:

• provider pricing and authentication are independent contracts;
• free-priced models are not assumed to provide anonymous/keyless execution;
• provider credentials remain owned by Auth Keeper;
• OmniRoute carries only routing decisions, opaque connection references, and secret-free execution data;
• the controlled qualification boundary propagates a one-call/single-attempt policy across the Auth Keeper boundary;
• Operations Floor remains observer-only;
• no real-provider qualification, deployment, Docker/live mutation, or release cutover is implied.

The next private engineering boundary is the Auth Keeper provider-bound server endpoint and its isolated qualification before any credential-backed real-provider acceptance run.

2026-09-28 provider-neutral convergence reset

A deeper review of the prior provider decisions confirmed that the product lane must not continue into another OpenCode-specific real-provider qualification.

New durable audit:

docs/project/FIVE_PILLAR_CONVERGENCE_AUDIT_20260928.md

Current decisions:

• OpenCode live execution: HOLD;
• TheOldLLM redevelopment/live execution: HOLD;
• qualified P4G endpoint: preserve as non-live architecture/security evidence;
• real-provider call budget: 0;
• active product phase: Provider-Neutral Workforce Contract Convergence.

The next engineering work is source/evidence based: normalize access-mode/admission contracts, generalize the provider-bound execution seam, qualify synthetic multi-mode behavior, then converge Codex Unified and Operations Floor around the normalized contract.

No provider call, credential read, merge, deployment, Docker/live mutation or release cutover is authorized by this documentation update.

2026-09-29 non-live architecture acceptance

Provider-neutral Gates A–E are complete in the private engineering repository.

Authoritative public checkpoint:

docs/project/FIVE_PILLAR_NONLIVE_ACCEPTANCE_20260929.md

Current formal state:

• FIVE_PILLAR_ARCHITECTURE=QUALIFIED_NONLIVE
• PROVIDER_NEUTRAL_CONVERGENCE=COMPLETE
• FINAL_RELEASE_CUTOVER_ACCEPTANCE=INCOMPLETE
• REAL_PROVIDER_CALL_BUDGET=0
• OpenCode live execution: HOLD
• TheOldLLM live execution: HOLD

Private provider-neutral PRM diegosouzapw#31 is closed. Product/release acceptance remains tracked by private PRMs diegosouzapw#20 and diegosouzapw#19.

This PR remains draft/unmerged. No merge, deployment or live activation is authorized.

2026-09-30 canonical integration reconciliation

Private canonical integration PR diegosouzapw#39 has qualified on R2 without rewriting the accepted P5E head.

• canonical base: 470a9eb5d5014c0df116c9e3c5b6ae3853bda021
• canonical head: 654dc956ce09bcb7c57995c3c292f663352f2d22
• exact topology: 183 ahead / 0 behind
• result: PASS_CANONICAL_FIVE_PILLAR_INTEGRATION_QUALIFICATION_R2
• status: CANONICAL_INTEGRATION_QUALIFIED_NONLIVE_EXACT_LINEAGE
• P4F/P4G provider-specific branches inherited: NO
• real provider calls: 0
• merge/live activation: NOT AUTHORIZED

The fork-owned release lane is active and does not require an upstream tag. Upstream releases remain optional compatibility inputs.

FORK_RELEASE_PROVENANCE=ACTIVE

2026-09-30 fork-owned release authority

The previous upstream-tag release blocker is superseded.

Canonical decision:

• fork release authority: Zartharas/OmniRoute + Zartharas/omniroute-auth-keeper;
• upstream tag required: NO;
• fork release candidate: release/five-pillar-qualified-20260930-rc1;
• exact source: 654dc956ce09bcb7c57995c3c292f663352f2d22;
• release publication / merge / live activation: NOT AUTHORIZED.

Canonical policy:
docs/project/FORK_RELEASE_AUTHORITY_20260930.md

Active next gate:

FORK_OWNED_RELEASE_PROVENANCE_QUALIFICATION

Qualification artifact:

• private qualification commit: 7c92fbb13d66216d11c6219917e3ecf9d5596021
• harness bytes: 19731
• SHA-256: f252228a299920fb197171871bfcdc6bcebf736c2a56a41abc0786ebf6cf5f00

Fork-owned release authority correction

Canonical fork release governance is now explicit:

• public product authority: Zartharas/OmniRoute;
• private implementation/release-evidence authority: Zartharas/omniroute-auth-keeper;
• release candidate: release/five-pillar-qualified-20260930-rc1;
• exact source: 654dc956ce09bcb7c57995c3c292f663352f2d22;
• upstream tag required: NO.

Decision record:

docs/project/FORK_RELEASE_AUTHORITY_20260930.md

FORK_RELEASE_AUTHORITY=ZARTHARAS_FORK

NEXT_PHASE=FORK_OWNED_RELEASE_PROVENANCE_QUALIFICATION

Authoritative new-chat handoff

Use this file as the first continuation source:

docs/project/CHAT_HANDOFF_20260930_FORK_RELEASE_PROVENANCE.md

It records the fork-owned release authority, canonical P5E/integration SHAs, release-candidate ref, frozen provenance qualification artifact, exact local run command, and safety boundaries.

Active phase:

FORK_OWNED_RELEASE_PROVENANCE_QUALIFICATION

Do not wait for the original upstream owner/tag.

[Zartharas]

Five-pillar provider-auth contract note

The private Phase 4F qualification work confirmed a useful architecture rule for the public design:

Provider pricing and provider authentication must be modeled independently.

A model can be free-priced while still requiring provider authentication. The five-pillar separation remains unchanged: OmniRoute owns routing/orchestration, Auth Keeper owns credential/session lifecycle, and keyless execution must be explicitly proven rather than inferred from pricing or model-name suffixes.

No public architecture boundary changes are required. This note only tightens the provider-access contract used by the private implementation and qualification work.

[Zartharas]

Five-pillar continuation checkpoint — 2026-09-28

The private Auth Keeper engineering lane has advanced the credential-backed execution boundary while preserving the public architecture.

Current architectural result:

• provider pricing and provider authentication are modeled independently;
• free-priced models are not assumed to be anonymous/keyless;
• provider credentials remain owned by Auth Keeper;
• OmniRoute carries only routing decisions, opaque connection references, and secret-free execution data;
• one-call/single-attempt qualification policy is propagated across the Auth Keeper boundary;
• Operations Floor remains observer-only.

The current private preprovider candidate has completed non-network qualification. No live cutover or real-provider qualification is implied by this public note.

Next engineering boundary:
implement and independently qualify the Auth Keeper provider-bound server endpoint before any credential-backed real-provider acceptance run.

Public architecture remains:
User -> Codex Unified -> OmniRoute -> Auth Keeper + eligible AI workforce -> orchestration/fallback -> response -> Operations Floor evidence.

No public runtime, deployment, credential, Docker, or release mutation is authorized by this update.

[Zartharas]

Cumulative five-pillar productization handoff advanced through F1.

Latest private cumulative candidate:
5702c3bbd6eb50d720a04d99fbeb81e586f5cd09

Qualified chain:
P5E → B1 → C1 → D1 → E1 → E2

Latest private integration:
PR diegosouzapw#42, open/draft/unmerged/mergeable, base 470a9eb5..., head 5702c3bb..., 188/0.

Latest RC:
release/five-pillar-productized-20260930-rc2

F1:
PASS_POST_PRODUCTIZATION_CANONICAL_INTEGRATION_RELEASE_F1_QUALIFICATION_R1

POST_PRODUCTIZATION_CANONICAL_INTEGRATION_RELEASE_QUALIFIED_NONLIVE

Public governance docs on this handoff branch now record the F1 checkpoint, RC2 build/pack provenance, and the remaining separate cutover/live-acceptance authorization boundary.

No merge, release publication, deployment, live activation, or real provider validation is authorized by this update.

[Zartharas]

SUPERCEDING CORRECTION to the earlier F1 acceptance comment:

F1 R1 is invalid due to an untracked plugin dependency-install/network provenance blind spot. F1 R2 then failed closed at the offline standalone-plugin dependency gate when npm ci rejected the checked-in lockfile.

The cumulative E2 product semantics remain qualified non-live, but RC2 release provenance is pending repaired F1 R3.

Frozen R3:

• commit 568d4cedfa7c6347fcfdc349fb83e4436f63a3dd
• harness blob d610a9cd7c7c9c972bc5d779d052247bca3f89d2
• bytes 32308
• SHA-256 f3fe02b55bed0ca93f99f0cb2a3a9f60cdf938aa736fa0606fa66530c6f137ba

Public status/handoff docs on this branch have been updated accordingly. No merge/publication/deployment/live activation is authorized.

[Zartharas]

Current superseding state:

F1 R3 proved the offline plugin dependency closure but failed the production build because next/font/google attempted to reach Google Fonts under OS network denial.

Minimal corrected source:
679e839dde0ecaad562055eccbf8b0d55a53f25d

New private draft PR diegosouzapw#44 and RC3 preserve RC2/PR diegosouzapw#42 as historical failed provenance.

Frozen F2 R1:

• commit 1dfbbead95dff854305b85df598ac0e548c447b7
• blob b613335bc7429a2b07ee12dfc04f6487d1182d75
• bytes 35864
• SHA-256 4994261af9b73a37cc6d31c3a06b4fa7b3344509e6677021a12982c4013c43e8

RC3 release provenance remains pending this local F2 R1 qualification. No merge/publication/deployment/live activation is authorized.

[Zartharas]

Superseding RC3 qualification state:

F2 R1 proved the corrected RC3 can complete the production build under OS network denial/npm offline, with no build-time install or network dependency. It then failed only because its post-build plugin fingerprint expected node_modules to survive, while prepublish intentionally deletes plugin node_modules as a hard-link guard.

RC3 source remains unchanged at 679e839dde0ecaad562055eccbf8b0d55a53f25d.

Frozen F2 R2:

• commit f3eaf83a0195f3c2c7cdd944772be1b575b19cd6
• blob cd65f4a058cb3eb37e0627827f0f4b5feaf28743
• bytes 37827
• SHA-256 f3101def3105c87b0dceb3946a6fd6ef1926a6b4e55ddf0ea49a0baa6b659075

RC3 release provenance remains pending F2 R2. No merge/publication/deployment/live activation is authorized.

[Zartharas]

Final superseding RC3 non-live checkpoint:

F2 R2 passed cleanly.

PASS_POST_PRODUCTIZATION_OFFLINE_RELEASE_F2_QUALIFICATION_R2

Candidate:
679e839dde0ecaad562055eccbf8b0d55a53f25d

Status:
POST_PRODUCTIZATION_OFFLINE_RELEASE_QUALIFIED_NONLIVE

Accepted release evidence includes:

• 189/0 cumulative topology;
• direct P5E→B1→C1→D1→E1→E2→F2 ancestry;
• OS network deny + npm offline;
• original plugin-lock semantic closure;
• 78 verified plugin packages;
• productization smoke 30/30;
• core/OpenSSE type gates PASS;
• Google Fonts build dependency absent;
• build-time install/network dependency both NO;
• BUILD_SHA 679e839dd;
• plugin hard-link cleanup contract PASS;
• pack artifact PASS;
• tarball SHA-256 0533c8d768be886d0697ff3533ff9bddb36fda665c1cd7c3663bbc59ec0440b7;
• release-manifest SHA-256 8d9701d740b00f7fab7ba34142d1c93a29e7c20482cdb59a545418d5694bd590;
• source/active-worktree nonmutation PASS;
• real provider calls 0.

Private PRM diegosouzapw#43 is complete/closed. Private PR diegosouzapw#44 remains draft/unmerged.

NONLIVE_PRODUCT_ACCEPTANCE=COMPLETE_THROUGH_F2_RC3

NEXT_GATE=SEPARATE_CUTOVER_OR_LIVE_ACCEPTANCE_AUTHORIZATION

No merge/publication/tagging/deployment/live activation is authorized.

[Zartharas]

Repository-owner cutover authorization granted on 2026-09-30.

Private implementation PR diegosouzapw#44 has now merged successfully:

• qualified RC3 source: 679e839dde0ecaad562055eccbf8b0d55a53f25d;
• merge commit: 565130449450ebf33489fab768edee3a19eccb15;
• merge commit is one commit ahead of RC3 with zero file differences.

This public PR is being advanced only as governance/documentation authority. It does not redefine RC3 release provenance or imply that live deployment validation has already passed.