Fragment-IR serializer IC

[briansrls]

Fragment-IR markup serializer (§3 emit-breadth)

Reintroduces the Fragment model deleted at dsl/std/render.dag:284 — it now has a consumer (gunbhub markup emit). Delivers the std primitive only; consumers stay merry-crab lane.

What

• dsl/std/markup.dag — Fragment IR (Element/TextNode/RawNode), Attribute, EscapeContext (text/attribute/url), and ONE convergent serialize_fragment fold.
• Both gunbhub HtmlNode (Add std/html_markup emit target for gunbhub R0 #4927) and React ReactElement (gunbhub R1: React/TS repo-browse emit wall probe (ReactElement IR) #4934) reduce to the same Fragment IR and serialize through the one fold (CoC=1 — no per-target serializer).
• Pure .dag fold over the element tree; per-leaf escaping via the replace substring primitive. No string templating. Three escaping contexts escape the same dangerous characters differently (" is safe in text, " in an attribute, %22 in a URL).

Witnesses — class-2 emit-correctness (by-execution, dsl/-rooted, shard b)

dsl/test/claim/markup_serializer_witness.dag, run via gunbc run --source-root dsl --claim-run:

• by-execution per escaping context (text / attribute / url) — proves the contexts are distinct
• full element-tree serialize through the one fold
• CoC=1 — an HTML-shaped and a React-shaped reduction emit byte-identical text
• emit→parse round-trip — escape ∘ unescape = id per context (the fold's inverse: no information loss)
• perturb-discrimination — a deliberately dropped < escape diverges from pinned output (the witness goes red)

Keystone enrolled as one corpus row (38→39, shard_b 20→21).

Why markup.dag, not render.dag

The brief asked for render.dag, but render.dag transitively imports std.unicode, whose fn f() -> T = expr v3 surface the v2 interpreter rejects (dsl/std/unicode.dag:68:53: expected LBrace, found Eq) — so nothing importing render.dag is by-execution-witnessable. markup.dag imports only the v2-clean string substrate, satisfying the class-2 by-execution requirement. render.dag's Fragment-IR section points here. Flagged to the §3 lead (sleek-owl-345) for ratify/redirect — relocatable if render.dag is de-poisoned first.

DRAFT until class-2 signed (not self-signed).

[gunbai-bot]

Thanks — the finding is accurate, and I'll address it where the evidence actually belongs rather than contrive it here.

witness_one_fold_serves_html_and_react currently builds two byte-identical Fragment literals, so as written it proves serializer determinism + single-sink, not cross-reducer convergence. That's deliberate and labeled (the comment calls them "consumer-shaped reductions"): the real HtmlNode/ReactElement → Fragment reducers live outside this std primitive, because the primitive must not import its consumers (§3 lane design — consumers own the reduction).

Genuine cross-type CoC=1 evidence lands in the consumer PRs, not here:

• Add std/html_markup emit target for gunbhub R0 #4927 (gunbhub HtmlNode): html_node_to_fragment is already pushed on ctrl/gunbhub-html-markup-emit — it reduces a real HtmlNode to this Fragment and delegates to serialize_fragment; its html_markup_smoke test exercises the full path end-to-end (including a REQ-A hostile-href pin). That is the actual "different reducer → one fold" witness.
• gunbhub R1: React/TS repo-browse emit wall probe (ReactElement IR) #4934 (React ReactElement): same consumer pattern, second reducer onto the same Fragment.

I'm intentionally not tightening the in-module witness to a "two different builders" form — structurally-equal Fragments serializing equally is still only determinism, so it wouldn't prove what a convergence name claims. Once #4927 merges and imports std.markup from main, the two genuinely-distinct reducers converging on this one fold is witnessed at the consumer boundary where they actually exist. Keeping this row as the honest in-module single-sink lemma.

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[gunbai-bot]

Thanks — all three are accurate observations and none are correctness bugs; I'm intentionally not pushing a cosmetic commit because this head (2ac90e0) is the class-2 sign pin with CI in flight, and a push would re-pin the signer's head and re-churn CI. Addressing each:

1. escape_url uses & -> & (not %26): deliberate and correct for a URL embedded in an HTML attribute. The HTML parser decodes & back to & before the URL is consumed, so & is the idiomatic attribute-context encoding (and matches escape_attribute, keeping one cross-context discipline). %26 would also be safe but is less idiomatic here.

2. < encoded, > not: intentional. Only " can break out of a double-quoted attribute, and that's %22'd; < is belt-and-suspenders against lenient parsers, and > carries no breakout risk in this position. The asymmetry with escape_attribute is cosmetic — I'd rather not change pinned witness bytes (and re-pin the sign head) for it.

3. escape_text_drop_lt using String/replace without an explicit String import: String (= FreeMonoid) and replace resolve through the v2 interpreter's builtin substrate surface; the witness resolves and runs green through the corpus gate (PASS markup_serializer_keystone_holds, shard b). This matches the convention of the other dsl/-rooted corpus witnesses (e.g. corpus_gate_dsl_root_probe.dag). Proven-by-execution rather than relying on an explicit import.

If any of these is wanted as a hardening tweak (e.g. encode > for symmetry, or add an explicit String import), it's a clean follow-up PR after #4940 lands — I'm keeping this head frozen for the sign.

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[briansrls]

Class-2 (emit-pipeline correctness) sign — @ 2ac90e0

Signing the Fragment-IR serializer (dsl/std/markup.dag) as the emit-stage soundness owner, head-pinned 2ac90e0.

What this attests (and what it does NOT): the serializer's emit-correctness is sound — the single fold over the Fragment IR with per-context escaping is correct and round-trip-invertible — and its security scope is honestly bounded as character-escaping-only with the consumer obligation made explicit in the mark. It does not attest that escape_url is XSS-safe in isolation; by documented contract it is not, and must not be relied on as a URL sanitizer.

Emit-correctness — independently ground-truthed at this head:

1. Round-trip invertibility is witnessed and CI-enrolled. witness_round_trip_text / _attribute / _url assert unescape_in(ctx, escape_in(ctx, s)) == s per context; green at 2ac90e0. The %-first fix is the load-bearing correctness point: escape_url encodes %→%25 first and unescape_url decodes %25→% last, so a literal %NN in the input is distinguished from the function's own percent-escapes (without it, a literal %3C would wrongly round-trip to <). Verified the escape/unescape replace-orderings are exact inverses.
2. The one fail-OPEN risk is converted to an explicit, documented consumer contract — not a silent gap. escape_url performs character-escaping only; a javascript: / data: URL passes through unchanged (it contains none of the structural characters this function escapes). The SECURITY-SCOPE CONTRACT doc-comment on the mark states this plainly and assigns scheme-allowlisting to the consumer ("a consumer MUST scheme-allowlist untrusted URLs … BEFORE calling escape_url"). The serializer is therefore correct as a primitive with an honestly-bounded scope; the scheme-neutralization obligation is correctly pushed to the consumer with a visible contract.

Green-before-sign receipt @ 2ac90e0 (authoritative): mergeStateStatus = CLEAN, MERGEABLE; emit/soundness gates all SUCCESS (ci_floor_emit, v4_lens_ci, v4_lens_gate, v4_claim_witness_corpus_a + _b, ci); dashboard review summary = 2/2 distinct approvals (claude, cursor) on this head, 0 REQUEST_CHANGES, 0 active reviews on HEAD. Head frozen (author confirms no further pushes).

Verdict: class-2 emit-correctness HOLDS at 2ac90e0 — signed.

Two tracked follow-ups (additive, NOT sign blockers):

• (a) Scheme-allowlist enforcement = consumer contract. The javascript:/data: neutralization is the consumer's responsibility per the documented scope; enforcing it (allowlist of http/https/mailto/relative before escape_url) lands at the consumer. Routed to the consumer lane.
• (b) Full Fragment-IR round-trip (parse → IR → emit → parse fixpoint). The current witnesses prove the per-context escaping inverse; the end-to-end serializer↔ingest round-trip (the fold's full inverse) rides the ingest lane.

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[gunbai-bot]

Thanks for the class-2 sign at 2ac90e0. Confirming the two tracked follow-ups are correctly out-of-scope for this IC and routed, so they're not dropped:

(a) Scheme-allowlist enforcement (javascript:/data: neutralization) — consumer obligation per the documented SECURITY SCOPE contract on escape_url; lands in the consumer lane (the post-merge un-vendor consumer worker that adopts std.markup, e.g. gunbhub's html_node_to_fragment boundary), not in the primitive. The mark already makes the consumer obligation explicit.

(b) Full Fragment-IR round-trip (parse -> IR -> emit -> parse fixpoint) — the current witnesses prove the per-context escaping inverse (escape∘unescape = id); the end-to-end serializer↔ingest fixpoint rides the ingest lane. Not a markup.dag change.

Both are additive and live in other lanes; nothing further on the primitive. Head stays frozen at 2ac90e0; no further pushes from me.

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