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Summary

Retires the eight capability-path DTO names tracked by the architecture simplification ratchet:

  • renames the loop-facing invocation envelope to LoopRequest / LoopRequestBatch
  • removes the public capability host invocation/resume/auth-resume request structs in favor of direct CapabilityHost parameters
  • removes the public host-runtime invocation/resume/auth-resume request structs while keeping the object-safe facade as tuple parts
  • renames the private runtime adapter envelope to RuntimeLaneRequest
  • updates docs and the ratchet so the retired names must not reappear

Test Strategy

  • Formatting: cargo fmt --all -- --check
  • Whitespace: git diff --check
  • Affected compile: cargo check -p ironclaw_capabilities -p ironclaw_host_runtime -p ironclaw_loop_host --all-targets
  • Affected clippy: cargo clippy -p ironclaw_capabilities -p ironclaw_host_runtime -p ironclaw_loop_host --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  • Architecture: cargo test -p ironclaw_architecture --quiet
  • DTO ratchet: cargo test -p ironclaw_architecture reborn_capability_dto --quiet
  • Affected tests: cargo test -p ironclaw_capabilities -p ironclaw_host_runtime -p ironclaw_loop_host --quiet

Compatibility / Rollback

This intentionally breaks internal Rust API call sites for the retired DTO names and updates all in-repo consumers in the same change. Rollback is the single commit if downstream code still depends on the old request structs; the runtime behavior is intended to remain unchanged.

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📝 Walkthrough

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • API Updates

    • Streamlined capability invocation and resume interfaces with unified loop request handling.
    • Simplified runtime and host calls by removing intermediate request wrappers.
    • Updated capability batches, approval flows, authentication resumes, and spawn operations.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Added automatic retries with backoff for rate-limited and temporarily unavailable response requests.
  • Documentation

    • Updated architecture and contract documentation to reflect the revised request and runtime terminology.
  • Tests

    • Updated coverage across invocation, authorization, approval, cancellation, dispatch, and end-to-end scenarios.

Walkthrough

The change consolidates capability request DTOs around LoopRequest and LoopRequestBatch, replaces host-runtime request structs with tuple aliases, renames lane-local adapter requests to RuntimeLaneRequest, updates middleware and dispatch plumbing, migrates tests and documentation, and adds retry handling for selected API responses.

Changes

Capability request consolidation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Loop and capability-host contracts
crates/ironclaw_turns/..., crates/ironclaw_capabilities/...
CapabilityInvocation and related request DTOs are replaced by LoopRequest; CapabilityHost now receives direct parameters and constructs internal request values.
Runtime and lane dispatch
crates/ironclaw_host_runtime/...
HostRuntime uses tuple aliases for invocation and resume paths, while adapter dispatch uses RuntimeLaneRequest.
Loop-host and middleware plumbing
crates/ironclaw_loop_host/..., crates/ironclaw_hooks/..., crates/ironclaw_runner/...
Capability ports, filtering, hooks, resolver APIs, spawn handling, digesting, and idempotency paths use the new loop request types.
Composition, tests, and documentation
crates/ironclaw_reborn_composition/..., tests/..., docs/...
Implementations, doubles, contract tests, architecture docs, and DTO ratchets are migrated to the consolidated request vocabulary.
API retry handling
tests/e2e/scenarios/test_reborn_responses_api.py
create_response retries HTTP 429 and qualifying HTTP 503 responses with increasing delays.
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) ~60 minutes

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⚠️ Needs validation 0 0 0 a9c82bb90b56

Head: a9c82bb90b565a65c0dfe94fcfe918deef2468a9
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Status: Current
Needs human: no
Needs validation: yes

Summary

Static review found no concrete correctness, security, or migration defects. This is a broad mechanical DTO retirement (109 files; 1,860 additions/2,211 deletions) with production invocation, approval-resume, auth-resume, and spawn field ordering preserved. Rust validation could not run because cargo is unavailable in the review environment.

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Coverage ratchet

Ratchet mode: ENFORCING

RATCHET PASS: global
  observed: 86.21% (304000 / 352612 lines)
  floor:    85.3% (tolerance 0.5pp -> effective floor 84.8%)
  denominator: 352612 lines now vs 320188 at floor capture (+32424 lines, +10.13%) — material change (>5%)

⚠️ 2 Reborn crate(s) have 0 int-tier coverage (target: 0) — ironclaw_prompt_envelope, ironclaw_scripts

Reborn integration-tier coverage

Line coverage (Reborn crates): 86.21% — 304000 / 352612 lines

Per-crate breakdown (62 crates, lowest-covered first)
Crate Line % Covered / Total
ironclaw_prompt_envelope 0% 0 / 88
ironclaw_scripts 0% 0 / 345
ironclaw_telegram_extension 34.88% 60 / 172
ironclaw_event_projections 43.31% 673 / 1554
ironclaw_dispatcher 60% 72 / 120
ironclaw_observability 61.54% 16 / 26
ironclaw_authorization 62.98% 609 / 967
ironclaw_memory 69.2% 773 / 1117
ironclaw_trust 72.88% 661 / 907
ironclaw_filesystem 73.5% 4543 / 6181
ironclaw_capabilities 74.07% 2717 / 3668
ironclaw_wasm_limiter 74.6% 47 / 63
ironclaw_extractors 74.72% 538 / 720
ironclaw_projects 76.48% 400 / 523
ironclaw_triggers 77.33% 2531 / 3273
ironclaw_reborn_cli 78.13% 10352 / 13250
ironclaw_llm 78.49% 20608 / 26254
ironclaw_mcp 78.52% 731 / 931
ironclaw_product_context 78.57% 11 / 14
ironclaw_wasm 79.72% 735 / 922
ironclaw_process_sandbox 80.46% 671 / 834
ironclaw_memory_native 81.17% 3195 / 3936
ironclaw_events 81.95% 1594 / 1945
ironclaw_first_party_extensions 82.58% 6608 / 8002
ironclaw_reborn_event_store 83.03% 1169 / 1408
ironclaw_telegram_v2_adapter 83.07% 2017 / 2428
ironclaw_product_adapter_registry 83.43% 574 / 688
ironclaw_reborn_identity 83.59% 433 / 518
ironclaw_processes 83.78% 940 / 1122
ironclaw_secrets 83.8% 2550 / 3043
ironclaw_reborn_config 84.17% 1962 / 2331
ironclaw_product_workflow 84.78% 13166 / 15529
ironclaw_auth 85.01% 4011 / 4718
ironclaw_common 85.18% 1741 / 2044
ironclaw_product_adapters 85.29% 3351 / 3929
ironclaw_run_state 85.61% 458 / 535
ironclaw_network 85.97% 913 / 1062
ironclaw_hooks 86.6% 9931 / 11468
ironclaw_extensions 87.02% 3795 / 4361
ironclaw_threads 87.17% 4849 / 5563
ironclaw_host_api 87.52% 5394 / 6163
ironclaw_skills 87.58% 4470 / 5104
ironclaw_reborn_traces 88.11% 11972 / 13587
ironclaw_reborn_composition 88.29% 57593 / 65229
ironclaw_turns 88.62% 14481 / 16341
ironclaw_host_runtime 88.64% 18227 / 20562
ironclaw_webui 88.91% 7904 / 8890
ironclaw_reborn_openai_compat 89.03% 3627 / 4074
ironclaw_extension_host 89.59% 2856 / 3188
ironclaw_slack_extension 89.7% 2439 / 2719
ironclaw_approvals 90.18% 1598 / 1772
ironclaw_conversations 90.39% 3123 / 3455
ironclaw_event_streams 90.82% 1009 / 1111
ironclaw_resources 90.85% 4477 / 4928
ironclaw_runner 91.18% 16908 / 18544
ironclaw_loop_host 92.22% 16133 / 17494
ironclaw_attachments 93.06% 630 / 677
ironclaw_agent_loop 94.81% 9467 / 9985
ironclaw_safety 95.15% 3749 / 3940
ironclaw_first_party_extension_ports 95.62% 3672 / 3840
ironclaw_outbound 95.71% 3455 / 3610
ironclaw_runtime_policy 96.55% 811 / 840

This table itself is informational and never gates the PR on its own — not the percentage, not the per-crate holes, not the 0-coverage callout. A separate coverage ratchet (dry-run until enforce=true; see tests/integration/coverage-floor.toml) can fail the build on specific configured floors.

Exemptions (3 entry/entries excluded from the accounting above)
Module / Crate Reason Issue
crate: ironclaw_embeddings v1-only: consumed only by root ironclaw (src/app.rs, src/tools/builtin/memory.rs, src/workspace/mod.rs, src/config/{mod,embeddings}.rs); no crates/* dependents. Covered by "Tests (Legacy)". #5657
crate: ironclaw_gateway v1-only: consumed only by root ironclaw (src/channels/web/platform/static_files.rs, src/channels/web/handlers/frontend.rs); no crates/* dependents. Covered by "Tests (Legacy)". #5657
crate: ironclaw_tui v1-only: consumed only by root ironclaw (src/main.rs, src/channels/tui.rs); no crates/* dependents. Crate's own doc comment confirms it bridges INTO v1, not Reborn. Covered by "Tests (Legacy)". #5657

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⚠️ Needs validation 0 1 1 26be6dbcd589

Head: 26be6dbcd589410e7792201125ca1bec0d433b73
Next: Human review or validation is required before merging.

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Status: Current
Needs human: no
Needs validation: yes

Summary

One non-blocking ratchet gap found; source review found the invocation/resume routing preserved. Rust checks could not run because cargo is unavailable in this environment.

Findings

Blocking: 0 / Notes: 1

Non-blocking notes (1)
1. 💬 [LOW] Retire the batch-envelope name in the DTO ratchet too

Location: crates/ironclaw_architecture/tests/reborn_capability_dto_collapse_ratchet.rs:49-57
CapabilityBatchInvocation is also removed in this diff (renamed to LoopRequestBatch), but it is absent from RETIRED_COLLAPSE_DTOS. The ratchet will therefore remain green if that old public DTO is reintroduced. Add it to the retired-name list.

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/// Retired capability-path mirror DTO names (§3.1). These request/result shapes
/// are subsumed by `Invocation`/`Authorized`/`Resolution` or by tuple parts at
/// the object-safe runtime boundary. They must not reappear.
const RETIRED_COLLAPSE_DTOS: &[&str] = &[

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CapabilityBatchInvocation is also removed in this diff (renamed to LoopRequestBatch), but it is absent from RETIRED_COLLAPSE_DTOS. The ratchet will therefore remain green if that old public DTO is reintroduced. Add it to the retired-name list.

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* test(architecture): drop the dead ironclaw_storage row and arm the substrate list

Gate-audit finding (open-and-shut): SUBSTRATE_CRATES in
reborn_composition_boundaries.rs carried three rows of rot, all invisible
because the loop's `let Some(..) else { continue }` silently skipped any
entry that resolves to no workspace package:

- "ironclaw_storage": no such package exists (verified against
  `cargo metadata --no-deps`; the only MISSING name of the 29 listed).
- "ironclaw_approvals" and "ironclaw_assistant" were each listed twice.

The silent skip is replaced with a panic naming the stale entry, so the
list can no longer rot invisibly. Verified by sabotage: adding a bogus
"ironclaw_zzz_probe" row now fails the test with
"is listed in SUBSTRATE_CRATES but is not a workspace package"; the
clean list passes (23/23).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): prune the dead sanctioned path from the specificity gate

Gate-audit finding (open-and-shut): SANCTIONED_PATHS in
reborn_extension_specificity.rs still exempted
`extension_host/extension_installation_store.rs` — a file deleted by
nearai#6430. No scanned path matches the fragment (verified with rg across
crates/), so the entry exempted nothing; it is also the one exclusion
surface in this gate with no staleness check, which is how it outlived
its file. Full specificity suite green after removal (8/8).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): drop the v1 ironclaw_gateway/static exclusions from the telegram gates

Gate-audit finding (open-and-shut): both cross-tree scans in
telegram_extension_gates.rs still carved out `ironclaw_gateway/static`
— the v1 monolith's embedded UI, whose crate was deleted with the src/
monolith (no crates/*/ironclaw_gateway directory exists). The exclusions
matched nothing; scans now cover the whole tree with no dead carve-outs.
Suite green after removal (12/12).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): make the dto-collapse gate's header describe the gate that exists

Gate-audit finding (open-and-shut doc rot): the module doc still
described the pre-nearai#6447 freeze design — a dangling doc-link to
FROZEN_COLLAPSE_DTOS (renamed RETIRED_COLLAPSE_DTOS in nearai#6447), a
promised delete-without-trimming failure and an empty-allowlist
assertion that do not exist in the file, and a named owner for a
collapse that completed. The mechanism itself is armed and untouched;
the header now describes the permanent zero-gate it became, and records
the two originally-frozen names that deliberately left governance
(CapabilityOutcome via nearai#6299 deletion, CapabilityDispatchRequest blessed
as the canonical port type). Suite green (2/2).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): repoint the manifest-reparse allowlist note at the colocated asset

Gate-audit finding (open-and-shut doc rot): the BundledAsset allowlist
entry's justification still cited include_str! of
assets/memory_native/manifest.toml — a path retired when WS2 (nearai#7037)
colocated packages; the live include in memory_native_extension.rs
reaches crates/extensions/packages/memory-native/manifest.toml. Comment
only; the gate's mechanism and counts are untouched. Suite green (2/2).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): give the memory-vocabulary gate the partial-tree floor its twin has

Gate-audit finding: reborn_memory_retired_vocabulary.rs had no
MIN_SCANNED_FILES floor, unlike its explicit twin
reborn_retired_taxonomy.rs — so a partially-moved tree (the CHECKLIST
WS0 / nearai#6963 'green while measuring nothing' shape) would scan a
fraction of the files and still report the vocabulary clean. The gate
was in fact born with an already-dead sanctioned path (its own header
records this), so the rot class is not hypothetical for this file.

Adds the same 500-file floor (real count ~4000), asserts it in the main
gate, and pins the premise on a fixture: a 10-file partial tree scans
clean and is rejected by the floor. Suite green (4/4); clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): close the transport gate's nested-use-group fail-open

Gate-audit finding (sabotage-verified): product_symbols_in's braced-group
branch closed at the FIRST '}' (group.find('}')), so a nested group —
use ironclaw_assistant::{m::{X}}; — truncated mid-element and recorded
zero symbols. Probed live before the fix: appending
use ironclaw_assistant::{zzz_audit::{ZzzProbe}}; to webui's lib.rs left
transports_name_only_the_frozen_residue_of_product_symbols GREEN, while
the plain-path spelling of the same import correctly failed. The same
truncation dropped qualified elements inside flat groups
({qualified_module::X} recorded nothing).

The group branch now does a balanced-brace walk, splits elements at
depth-0 commas only, and records a qualified/nested element's leading
path segment — the same key the single-path branch records for
ironclaw_assistant::module::X. Flat-element semantics are byte-for-byte
unchanged, so the frozen 100-row webui inventory is untouched (suite
green 6/6 on the live tree). Regression fixtures added to
import_scanner_reads_symbols_out_of_real_use_shapes; the original
sabotage now fails with the gate's own message (re-verified).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: delete check-e2e-matrix-files.sh — a gate for a workflow that no longer exists

Gate-audit finding (provably inert): the script's default target is
.github/workflows/e2e.yml, deleted when the v1 e2e suites were retired
(git log --diff-filter=D shows the removing commit); no workflow, script,
hook, doc, or guidance file references check-e2e-matrix-files.sh
(verified with rg across the repo including .github and .githooks).
A checker nothing runs, pointed at a file nothing provides, is dead
weight that reads as coverage.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: delete the measured-broken check-boundaries.sh and its guidance references

Gate-audit finding (provably inert, previously measured): crates/AGENTS.md
recorded on 2026-08-05 that the script fails on a clean tree (check 5
false-positives on live test files) and that checks 1/2/3/6 target the
deleted v1 src/ tree, passing vacuously. No workflow or hook runs it; its
only callers were guidance files, two of which claimed it 'enforces'
root-tests feature gating — an enforcement claim the skill-maintainer
rules forbid for a check nothing executes.

Removed the script and every live reference: the crates/AGENTS.md warning
row becomes a tombstone note; the testing skill + exemplar reference drop
the false enforcement parenthetical; the architecture-review skill's
Verify line drops the dead command; deslop-reborn's allowed-tools drops
the permission; .coderabbit.yaml's driver-leak instruction now points at
the live enforcement (reborn_persistence_driver_boundary). Two dated
docs/internal/ plan snapshots keep their historical mentions.

Verified: python3 scripts/ci/check-guidance.py OK (2084 path references)
and its self-test OK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(product): stop hardcoding charter sub-owner counts in the family map

Gate-audit finding (stale prose): crates/product/AGENTS.md said
'19-sub-owner reborn_services charter map' — the enforced map has had 20
sub-owners since nearai#7235 added the inspector row (counted from the live
table). Rather than chase the number, drop both inline counts: the
owning maps and their gates are authoritative, and the re-verify
commands are already inline (skill-maintainer rule: no counts without a
regeneration recipe). check-guidance.py OK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): correct the scanner-fixture file's name-filter claim

Gate-audit finding (doc rot with a false coverage claim): the header
said naming the FILE reborn_* makes code_style.yml's
'cargo test -p ironclaw_architecture_tests reborn' see it — but that
argument is a test-NAME filter (the measurement is documented in
reborn_contracts_vendor_census.rs), and none of this file's test fns
contains the substring, so that smoke lane runs 0 of them (11 collected
by the full plan). Comment-only; the note now records the real semantics
so file names are not trusted for lane coverage. Suite green (11/11).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(internal): gate & ratchet audit report + proposed preflight gauntlet

The audit the owner asked for after PR nearai#7157 went red six times across
four gates: every architecture-test gate, module charter, CI script, and
committed baseline inventoried with a verdict and evidence; the handful
worth acting on ranked by friction x weakness; the CI-ergonomics analysis
(why failures surface one per ~1h round-trip: no --no-fail-fast anywhere
in CI, cancel-in-progress on push, sequential fast-checks steps —
measured: two broken gates report 1 failure in 18s under the CI shape vs
both in 211s with --no-fail-fast); and the sabotage log for every probe.

scripts/preflight-gates.sh is the concrete pre-push proposal: the
deterministic-gate classes only (script gates ~10s + architecture suite
--no-fail-fast + changed-crate charter tests), covering all four nearai#7157
gate classes locally in one command. Unwired — nothing invokes it.
Validated end-to-end on this branch: exit 0, 'every deterministic gate
green', 402.8s including gate-binary recompiles.

Placement verified: python3 scripts/ci/docs_publication_boundary.py OK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci(planner): classify preflight-gates.sh and the deleted check-boundaries.sh

The gate audit's own PR hit the planner's fail-closed arm — 'unmapped
test or CI path: scripts/check-boundaries.sh' — exactly the class the
arm exists to force a decision on (and the audit's report documents).
Per the PR_STATIC_CONTROL_PATHS membership rule (no Reborn test lane
exercises either file):

- scripts/preflight-gates.sh — the audit's proposed local pre-push
  gauntlet; referenced by no workflow.
- scripts/check-boundaries.sh — deleted by the audit; the entry lets the
  deletion diff (and any revert) classify instead of failing every
  downstream Reborn lane.

Verified: the planner now produces mode=selected with the
architecture-misc bucket for this branch's diff, and
python3 scripts/ci/test_reborn_pr_test_plan.py is OK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(internal): add the fold-tripped asymmetric-tolerance exhibit to the audit

The strongest single exhibit for shortlist item 2, contributed by the
nearai#7157 branch steward after this audit's cutoff and verified against the
gate's code: TOLERANCE = 400 is consulted in exactly one direction (the
banked-slack check, ceiling.saturating_sub(lines) > TOLERANCE); the
growth check is a bare lines > ceiling. With the in-file 'set to
current, not padded' instruction, every ceiling is a hard cap at the
observed count — so one line landing on main in any contracts crate
reds every open branch at its next fold until someone re-captures.

Measured recurrence on nearai#7157: loop_contracts re-captured four times,
~once per fold (14,479 -> 13,850 -> 13,949 -> 13,115 -> 13,181), the
last tripped by main's nearai#7361/nearai#7363 adding 66 lines to
instruction_bundle.rs — nothing the branch wrote. All four deltas were
<= 105 lines: either repair shape in §3.2 (one-line upward tolerance
using the existing constant, or mid-window pinning) would have absorbed
every one with zero red builds. This audit's own sabotage already
proved the jaws (+1 line host_api red / -1 line common red); the fold
history shows the operational cost. The repair stays a recommendation —
adding growth headroom to a ratchet is the owner's call, not this PR's.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): give the contracts size ceiling upward working slack

Owner-directed repair of the audit's sharpest finding (report §3.2): the
gate's TOLERANCE = 400 was consulted in exactly one direction — the
banked-slack check — while the growth check was a bare lines > ceiling.
Combined with 'set to current, not padded' pins, every ceiling was a hard
cap at the exact observed count, so one line landing on main in any
contracts crate redded every open branch at its next fold until someone
re-captured. Measured on nearai#7157: four loop_contracts re-captures, roughly
once per fold, every delta <= 105 lines — the gate generating its own
busywork.

The growth check now allows GROWTH_TOLERANCE = 150 of working slack
above each pin (sized to composition-budget precedent; the reviewed
raises this gate has caught were +1,069 and +1,214 lines, far above it),
and all six ceilings are re-pinned to the counts the test itself
reported with every ceiling at 0 — which also removes the +400 seed
padding on common/loop_contracts/prompt_envelope that contradicted the
capture rule and put those crates one deleted line from the banked jaw.

Sabotage-verified both ways: +1 line in host_api and -1 line in common —
both red before this change — now pass; a +151-line probe still fails
with the effective-ceiling arithmetic in the message. Full
reborn_dependency_boundaries binary green (41/41); clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci(budget): re-equalize composition pins to observed — restore the working window

Owner-directed companion to the contracts-ceiling repair (same annoying
class, other mass gate): merged main-side growth since the 2026-08-05
equalization had drifted +101 LOC and +5 Arc<dyn> sites through the
tolerance windows, leaving 49 LOC / 10 sites of live headroom — the next
routine composition PR would have gone red on wiring alone (the gate
audit measured this the same day it was pinned).

Per the TOML's own maintenance instructions: loc_ceiling/loc_observed
40423 -> 40524 and arc_dyn 814 -> 819, measured with the gate's --print,
set to current not padded, dated notes appended (not overwritten), and
the arch-test record (COMPOSITION_ABSOLUTE_SRC_LOC) moved in the same
commit as its file requires. ceiling_bp stays 658 — the WS0 floor is
deliberately not re-set.

Verified: check-composition-budget.sh OK; its 76-case self-test green;
reborn_restructure_baselines green; probe +100 LOC now passes (was red
at 49 headroom), probe +160 LOC still fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(internal): record the landed zero-slack repairs in the audit report

The §3.2 repair moved from recommendation to landed at owner direction;
the report's answer, inventory rows, and §7 ledger now say so, with the
counting-rule fix promoted to the top remaining recommendation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* gates: pin the ceiling-window arithmetic; fail preflight discovery closed

Two review-round hardenings (the open CodeRabbit Majors):

- reborn_dependency_boundaries.rs: extract the size-ceiling comparison into
  contracts_ceiling_verdict() and pin its four window edges with a committed
  regression test (contracts_size_ceiling_window_edges_hold) — accept at
  ceiling+GROWTH_TOLERANCE, reject one line past, accept at
  ceiling-TOLERANCE, reject one banked line further, and a zero-measure scan
  reads Banked, never a silent pass. The pre-repair asymmetry (tolerance
  consulted only downward) can no longer return silently. Live-gate behavior
  re-probed unchanged after the rewiring: +1 line to host_api passes, +151
  fails with the same effective-ceiling message.
- preflight-gates.sh: setup and changed-file discovery now fail closed — a
  missing repo root exits 2, and a failed merge-base/diff widens the charter
  run to all five crates instead of silently skipping them (the same
  fallback the missing-base branch already used). A broken setup may cost
  compile time, never a silent skip.

Full boundary binary 42/42 green; clippy clean; preflight-gates.sh
end-to-end green on this tree.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
l3ocifer pushed a commit to l3ocifer/frick-ironclaw that referenced this pull request Sep 3, 2026
…ead gates deleted (nearai#7373)

* test(architecture): drop the dead ironclaw_storage row and arm the substrate list

Gate-audit finding (open-and-shut): SUBSTRATE_CRATES in
reborn_composition_boundaries.rs carried three rows of rot, all invisible
because the loop's `let Some(..) else { continue }` silently skipped any
entry that resolves to no workspace package:

- "ironclaw_storage": no such package exists (verified against
  `cargo metadata --no-deps`; the only MISSING name of the 29 listed).
- "ironclaw_approvals" and "ironclaw_assistant" were each listed twice.

The silent skip is replaced with a panic naming the stale entry, so the
list can no longer rot invisibly. Verified by sabotage: adding a bogus
"ironclaw_zzz_probe" row now fails the test with
"is listed in SUBSTRATE_CRATES but is not a workspace package"; the
clean list passes (23/23).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): prune the dead sanctioned path from the specificity gate

Gate-audit finding (open-and-shut): SANCTIONED_PATHS in
reborn_extension_specificity.rs still exempted
`extension_host/extension_installation_store.rs` — a file deleted by
nearai#6430. No scanned path matches the fragment (verified with rg across
crates/), so the entry exempted nothing; it is also the one exclusion
surface in this gate with no staleness check, which is how it outlived
its file. Full specificity suite green after removal (8/8).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): drop the v1 ironclaw_gateway/static exclusions from the telegram gates

Gate-audit finding (open-and-shut): both cross-tree scans in
telegram_extension_gates.rs still carved out `ironclaw_gateway/static`
— the v1 monolith's embedded UI, whose crate was deleted with the src/
monolith (no crates/*/ironclaw_gateway directory exists). The exclusions
matched nothing; scans now cover the whole tree with no dead carve-outs.
Suite green after removal (12/12).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): make the dto-collapse gate's header describe the gate that exists

Gate-audit finding (open-and-shut doc rot): the module doc still
described the pre-nearai#6447 freeze design — a dangling doc-link to
FROZEN_COLLAPSE_DTOS (renamed RETIRED_COLLAPSE_DTOS in nearai#6447), a
promised delete-without-trimming failure and an empty-allowlist
assertion that do not exist in the file, and a named owner for a
collapse that completed. The mechanism itself is armed and untouched;
the header now describes the permanent zero-gate it became, and records
the two originally-frozen names that deliberately left governance
(CapabilityOutcome via nearai#6299 deletion, CapabilityDispatchRequest blessed
as the canonical port type). Suite green (2/2).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): repoint the manifest-reparse allowlist note at the colocated asset

Gate-audit finding (open-and-shut doc rot): the BundledAsset allowlist
entry's justification still cited include_str! of
assets/memory_native/manifest.toml — a path retired when WS2 (nearai#7037)
colocated packages; the live include in memory_native_extension.rs
reaches crates/extensions/packages/memory-native/manifest.toml. Comment
only; the gate's mechanism and counts are untouched. Suite green (2/2).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): give the memory-vocabulary gate the partial-tree floor its twin has

Gate-audit finding: reborn_memory_retired_vocabulary.rs had no
MIN_SCANNED_FILES floor, unlike its explicit twin
reborn_retired_taxonomy.rs — so a partially-moved tree (the CHECKLIST
WS0 / nearai#6963 'green while measuring nothing' shape) would scan a
fraction of the files and still report the vocabulary clean. The gate
was in fact born with an already-dead sanctioned path (its own header
records this), so the rot class is not hypothetical for this file.

Adds the same 500-file floor (real count ~4000), asserts it in the main
gate, and pins the premise on a fixture: a 10-file partial tree scans
clean and is rejected by the floor. Suite green (4/4); clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): close the transport gate's nested-use-group fail-open

Gate-audit finding (sabotage-verified): product_symbols_in's braced-group
branch closed at the FIRST '}' (group.find('}')), so a nested group —
use ironclaw_assistant::{m::{X}}; — truncated mid-element and recorded
zero symbols. Probed live before the fix: appending
use ironclaw_assistant::{zzz_audit::{ZzzProbe}}; to webui's lib.rs left
transports_name_only_the_frozen_residue_of_product_symbols GREEN, while
the plain-path spelling of the same import correctly failed. The same
truncation dropped qualified elements inside flat groups
({qualified_module::X} recorded nothing).

The group branch now does a balanced-brace walk, splits elements at
depth-0 commas only, and records a qualified/nested element's leading
path segment — the same key the single-path branch records for
ironclaw_assistant::module::X. Flat-element semantics are byte-for-byte
unchanged, so the frozen 100-row webui inventory is untouched (suite
green 6/6 on the live tree). Regression fixtures added to
import_scanner_reads_symbols_out_of_real_use_shapes; the original
sabotage now fails with the gate's own message (re-verified).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: delete check-e2e-matrix-files.sh — a gate for a workflow that no longer exists

Gate-audit finding (provably inert): the script's default target is
.github/workflows/e2e.yml, deleted when the v1 e2e suites were retired
(git log --diff-filter=D shows the removing commit); no workflow, script,
hook, doc, or guidance file references check-e2e-matrix-files.sh
(verified with rg across the repo including .github and .githooks).
A checker nothing runs, pointed at a file nothing provides, is dead
weight that reads as coverage.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: delete the measured-broken check-boundaries.sh and its guidance references

Gate-audit finding (provably inert, previously measured): crates/AGENTS.md
recorded on 2026-08-05 that the script fails on a clean tree (check 5
false-positives on live test files) and that checks 1/2/3/6 target the
deleted v1 src/ tree, passing vacuously. No workflow or hook runs it; its
only callers were guidance files, two of which claimed it 'enforces'
root-tests feature gating — an enforcement claim the skill-maintainer
rules forbid for a check nothing executes.

Removed the script and every live reference: the crates/AGENTS.md warning
row becomes a tombstone note; the testing skill + exemplar reference drop
the false enforcement parenthetical; the architecture-review skill's
Verify line drops the dead command; deslop-reborn's allowed-tools drops
the permission; .coderabbit.yaml's driver-leak instruction now points at
the live enforcement (reborn_persistence_driver_boundary). Two dated
docs/internal/ plan snapshots keep their historical mentions.

Verified: python3 scripts/ci/check-guidance.py OK (2084 path references)
and its self-test OK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(product): stop hardcoding charter sub-owner counts in the family map

Gate-audit finding (stale prose): crates/product/AGENTS.md said
'19-sub-owner reborn_services charter map' — the enforced map has had 20
sub-owners since nearai#7235 added the inspector row (counted from the live
table). Rather than chase the number, drop both inline counts: the
owning maps and their gates are authoritative, and the re-verify
commands are already inline (skill-maintainer rule: no counts without a
regeneration recipe). check-guidance.py OK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): correct the scanner-fixture file's name-filter claim

Gate-audit finding (doc rot with a false coverage claim): the header
said naming the FILE reborn_* makes code_style.yml's
'cargo test -p ironclaw_architecture_tests reborn' see it — but that
argument is a test-NAME filter (the measurement is documented in
reborn_contracts_vendor_census.rs), and none of this file's test fns
contains the substring, so that smoke lane runs 0 of them (11 collected
by the full plan). Comment-only; the note now records the real semantics
so file names are not trusted for lane coverage. Suite green (11/11).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(internal): gate & ratchet audit report + proposed preflight gauntlet

The audit the owner asked for after PR nearai#7157 went red six times across
four gates: every architecture-test gate, module charter, CI script, and
committed baseline inventoried with a verdict and evidence; the handful
worth acting on ranked by friction x weakness; the CI-ergonomics analysis
(why failures surface one per ~1h round-trip: no --no-fail-fast anywhere
in CI, cancel-in-progress on push, sequential fast-checks steps —
measured: two broken gates report 1 failure in 18s under the CI shape vs
both in 211s with --no-fail-fast); and the sabotage log for every probe.

scripts/preflight-gates.sh is the concrete pre-push proposal: the
deterministic-gate classes only (script gates ~10s + architecture suite
--no-fail-fast + changed-crate charter tests), covering all four nearai#7157
gate classes locally in one command. Unwired — nothing invokes it.
Validated end-to-end on this branch: exit 0, 'every deterministic gate
green', 402.8s including gate-binary recompiles.

Placement verified: python3 scripts/ci/docs_publication_boundary.py OK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci(planner): classify preflight-gates.sh and the deleted check-boundaries.sh

The gate audit's own PR hit the planner's fail-closed arm — 'unmapped
test or CI path: scripts/check-boundaries.sh' — exactly the class the
arm exists to force a decision on (and the audit's report documents).
Per the PR_STATIC_CONTROL_PATHS membership rule (no Reborn test lane
exercises either file):

- scripts/preflight-gates.sh — the audit's proposed local pre-push
  gauntlet; referenced by no workflow.
- scripts/check-boundaries.sh — deleted by the audit; the entry lets the
  deletion diff (and any revert) classify instead of failing every
  downstream Reborn lane.

Verified: the planner now produces mode=selected with the
architecture-misc bucket for this branch's diff, and
python3 scripts/ci/test_reborn_pr_test_plan.py is OK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(internal): add the fold-tripped asymmetric-tolerance exhibit to the audit

The strongest single exhibit for shortlist item 2, contributed by the
nearai#7157 branch steward after this audit's cutoff and verified against the
gate's code: TOLERANCE = 400 is consulted in exactly one direction (the
banked-slack check, ceiling.saturating_sub(lines) > TOLERANCE); the
growth check is a bare lines > ceiling. With the in-file 'set to
current, not padded' instruction, every ceiling is a hard cap at the
observed count — so one line landing on main in any contracts crate
reds every open branch at its next fold until someone re-captures.

Measured recurrence on nearai#7157: loop_contracts re-captured four times,
~once per fold (14,479 -> 13,850 -> 13,949 -> 13,115 -> 13,181), the
last tripped by main's nearai#7361/nearai#7363 adding 66 lines to
instruction_bundle.rs — nothing the branch wrote. All four deltas were
<= 105 lines: either repair shape in §3.2 (one-line upward tolerance
using the existing constant, or mid-window pinning) would have absorbed
every one with zero red builds. This audit's own sabotage already
proved the jaws (+1 line host_api red / -1 line common red); the fold
history shows the operational cost. The repair stays a recommendation —
adding growth headroom to a ratchet is the owner's call, not this PR's.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(architecture): give the contracts size ceiling upward working slack

Owner-directed repair of the audit's sharpest finding (report §3.2): the
gate's TOLERANCE = 400 was consulted in exactly one direction — the
banked-slack check — while the growth check was a bare lines > ceiling.
Combined with 'set to current, not padded' pins, every ceiling was a hard
cap at the exact observed count, so one line landing on main in any
contracts crate redded every open branch at its next fold until someone
re-captured. Measured on nearai#7157: four loop_contracts re-captures, roughly
once per fold, every delta <= 105 lines — the gate generating its own
busywork.

The growth check now allows GROWTH_TOLERANCE = 150 of working slack
above each pin (sized to composition-budget precedent; the reviewed
raises this gate has caught were +1,069 and +1,214 lines, far above it),
and all six ceilings are re-pinned to the counts the test itself
reported with every ceiling at 0 — which also removes the +400 seed
padding on common/loop_contracts/prompt_envelope that contradicted the
capture rule and put those crates one deleted line from the banked jaw.

Sabotage-verified both ways: +1 line in host_api and -1 line in common —
both red before this change — now pass; a +151-line probe still fails
with the effective-ceiling arithmetic in the message. Full
reborn_dependency_boundaries binary green (41/41); clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci(budget): re-equalize composition pins to observed — restore the working window

Owner-directed companion to the contracts-ceiling repair (same annoying
class, other mass gate): merged main-side growth since the 2026-08-05
equalization had drifted +101 LOC and +5 Arc<dyn> sites through the
tolerance windows, leaving 49 LOC / 10 sites of live headroom — the next
routine composition PR would have gone red on wiring alone (the gate
audit measured this the same day it was pinned).

Per the TOML's own maintenance instructions: loc_ceiling/loc_observed
40423 -> 40524 and arc_dyn 814 -> 819, measured with the gate's --print,
set to current not padded, dated notes appended (not overwritten), and
the arch-test record (COMPOSITION_ABSOLUTE_SRC_LOC) moved in the same
commit as its file requires. ceiling_bp stays 658 — the WS0 floor is
deliberately not re-set.

Verified: check-composition-budget.sh OK; its 76-case self-test green;
reborn_restructure_baselines green; probe +100 LOC now passes (was red
at 49 headroom), probe +160 LOC still fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(internal): record the landed zero-slack repairs in the audit report

The §3.2 repair moved from recommendation to landed at owner direction;
the report's answer, inventory rows, and §7 ledger now say so, with the
counting-rule fix promoted to the top remaining recommendation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* gates: pin the ceiling-window arithmetic; fail preflight discovery closed

Two review-round hardenings (the open CodeRabbit Majors):

- reborn_dependency_boundaries.rs: extract the size-ceiling comparison into
  contracts_ceiling_verdict() and pin its four window edges with a committed
  regression test (contracts_size_ceiling_window_edges_hold) — accept at
  ceiling+GROWTH_TOLERANCE, reject one line past, accept at
  ceiling-TOLERANCE, reject one banked line further, and a zero-measure scan
  reads Banked, never a silent pass. The pre-repair asymmetry (tolerance
  consulted only downward) can no longer return silently. Live-gate behavior
  re-probed unchanged after the rewiring: +1 line to host_api passes, +151
  fails with the same effective-ceiling message.
- preflight-gates.sh: setup and changed-file discovery now fail closed — a
  missing repo root exits 2, and a failed merge-base/diff widens the charter
  run to all five crates instead of silently skipping them (the same
  fallback the missing-base branch already used). A broken setup may cost
  compile time, never a silent skip.

Full boundary binary 42/42 green; clippy clean; preflight-gates.sh
end-to-end green on this tree.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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