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This is the base PR for the unbound-turns train: it began as the two design documents and now also carries the full phase-1 implementation (#7633, squash-merged onto this branch) plus the main-merge reconciliations needed to keep it current. The stacked #7634 completes the switchover (surfaces, budgets, listing hygiene, design-conformance closure) on top of this branch.

The model in one paragraph: TurnCoordinator keeps exactly one submission method, submit_turn. Threads are the universal unit of work; a conversation is a thread plus product-side conversation state. Per-request data rides the accept step: accept_prepared_context — one shared implementation in the threads tier, sibling of the conversation accept — mints an unbound, ownerless thread, seeds the caller's content, and journals the declarations (tools / output contract / limits). Admission derives the unbound_default / unbound_structured profile by probing that journaled record. Every non-channel caller uses that one door (subagent spawn already does); reply routing is purely product-side — the kernel binding refs were deleted, not optionalized.

What this branch contains

  1. Design documents (docs/internal/design/): 2026-08-12-unbound-turns.md (the contract, with implementation-delta sections recording where the landed system is stronger than the draft) and 2026-08-12-one-engine-many-surfaces.md (the system picture). The earlier exploration drafts record the design's evolution.
  2. The phase-1 implementation (feat(unbound-turns): prepared-context accept door, unbound run lane, kernel binding-ref deletion #7633): the accept_prepared_context door (deterministic unbound-{sha256} thread ids, CAS-seeded rows, journaled PreparedContextRecord as the idempotent commit marker); kernel binding-ref deletion across submit/resume/retry/state/response with frozen legacy-shape compat; ironclaw_llm::agent_message vocabulary; declaration-probing admission; unbound_default/unbound_structured loop families (typed gate_not_supported aborts, builtin.structured_result result tool); subagent spawn on the shared door; product-side reply routing.
  3. Post-merge repairs on this branch: two main-merge reconciliations; gate_not_supported registered end to end (category list, user-facing summary, driver matcher, Tier-2 source-parity pin); the ownerless process-journal round-trip fix (ownerless_thread disposition marker); loop-family registry count; ratchet re-sums.

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  • Bug fix
  • New feature
  • Refactor
  • Documentation
  • CI/Infrastructure
  • Security
  • Dependencies

Validation

  • cargo fmt / clippy / build — enforced by CI on this branch (all lanes)
  • Integration: reborn_integration_unbound_turns (whole-path accept → refless submit → loop → terminal state)
  • Architecture suite: dependency boundaries, same-layer edge inventory, retired-taxonomy pins, struct ratchets, composition mass gate
  • python3 scripts/ci/docs_publication_boundary.py — every page published or fenced

Rollback / compatibility

  • Review track: C (kernel contract + persistence-adjacent changes ride this train).
  • Rollback is a revert of this branch's commits (the squashed phase-1 change plus the repair commits); the unbound lane is additive — no conversation-path behavior changes when unreverted callers stop using it.
  • The kernel binding-ref deletion keeps old persisted rows rehydrating (serde ignores the retired keys); a frozen legacy-shape compat test pins that old readers fail closed on new rows. No schema migration in either direction.
  • New durable state (prepared-context records, ownerless_thread process-metadata marker) is serde-defaulted: absent on old rows, ignored by old readers.

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Bot review threads on the earlier docs-only revisions critique draft text that the implementation and the docs' implementation-delta sections have since superseded; each thread carries a disposition reply. Findings that were live on this branch's code are fixed here or in the stacked #7634 (each reply says which).

Two design documents for the product-neutral agent execution seam:

- 2026-08-12-agent-execution-seam.md — the AgentExecution port: the
  request contract (ExecutionContext::{Thread, Snapshot}), the
  AgentMessage interface, OutputContract, gates policy, two-plane
  events/observation, the runtime invariants (I1-I5) the design
  preserves, crate placement, open questions.
- 2026-08-12-agent-execution-architecture.md — the system-level picture:
  every surface (channels, WebUI, automations, suggestions, OpenAI-compat)
  submits through the one seam and interprets the output its own way;
  manifest-driven channel reply (stream vs send_reply); boundary rules;
  phased sequencing.

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  • New Features
    • Added unbound runs with caller-provided context, tools, output formats, limits, and idempotency.
    • Added structured-output runs with JSON Schema validation, repair attempts, and durable result storage.
    • Added ownerless threads, deterministic replay, and provider-neutral message support.
    • Added configurable concurrency limits, defaulting to four.
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    • Improved scope isolation and fail-closed handling for invalid or unavailable context.
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    • Added design and contract documentation for unbound runs and structured outputs.

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The change adds prepared-context support for unbound runs, ownerless thread persistence, declaration-driven profiles, structured-result execution, concurrency controls, and removal of binding references from kernel and delivery contracts.

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Unbound prepared-context flow

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Prepared-context contracts and persistence
crates/contracts/ironclaw_host_api/src/prepared_context.rs, crates/domains/ironclaw_threads/*, crates/domains/ironclaw_llm/src/agent_message.rs
Adds prepared-context declarations, canonical agent messages, ownerless thread creation, deterministic seed messages, durable records, scoped reads, replay handling, and validation tests.
Coordinator, profiles, and runtime wiring
crates/kernel/ironclaw_turns/src/coordinator.rs, crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/*, crates/app/ironclaw_composition/*, crates/app/ironclaw_config/src/config_file.rs
Derives unbound profiles from prepared declarations, narrows model and capability limits, registers unbound drivers, applies unbound capability policy, and adds a configurable concurrency cap.
Structured output and gate handling
crates/loop/ironclaw_loop_host/src/structured_result.rs, crates/loop/ironclaw_agent_loop/src/strategies/*, crates/contracts/ironclaw_loop_contracts/src/loop_exit.rs
Adds schema-backed structured-result execution, bounded repair handling, structured-output admission, result-based stopping, and typed unsupported-gate failures.
Delivery and binding migration
crates/kernel/ironclaw_turns/*, crates/kernel/ironclaw_processes/*, crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/*, crates/loop/ironclaw_loop_host/src/subagent_spawn_port.rs
Removes binding references from turn requests, run state, metadata, gates, retries, and subagent paths. Delivery resolves durable conversation bindings instead of run state.
Integration coverage and design records
tests/integration/unbound_turns.rs, Cargo.toml, docs/internal/design/*
Adds end-to-end coverage for structured and text unbound runs, repair, idempotency, ownerless visibility, and the documented coordinator design.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to b1994

This PR adds a new unbound execution path and changes persistence, routing, and message conversion behavior, but unresolved issues could allow unauthorized context use, duplicate or misrouted deliveries, oversized durable inputs, or failed replay of seeded tool history. The branch is not ready to merge until these correctness and isolation risks are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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In `@docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-agent-execution-architecture.md`:
- Around line 199-219: Update handle_conversation_output and chat_completion to
create one local execution_caller from the authenticated caller, add or use the
appropriate caller parameter, and pass execution_caller to every
agent_execution.subscribe call. Replace the undefined caller usage while
preserving the authorization seam for subscription.
- Around line 161-187: Make the conversation_submit workflow recoverable between
agent_execution.submit and conversation_runs.associate by persisting a durable,
retryable association intent keyed by accepted.idempotency_key and
execution.execution_id before or atomically with submission. Ensure
reconciliation can complete conversation_runs.associate after crashes or write
failures, and apply the same ordering to the suggestions flow.

In `@docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-agent-execution-seam.md`:
- Around line 103-108: Clarify the admission serialization boundary in the
ResolvedRunProfile and related admission-record sections: exclude host-owned
policy from the caller request, but explicitly state that the resolved profile
is persisted in the admission record and reused during recovery. Preserve
invariant I4 by preventing recovery from recomputing policy after drift.
- Around line 568-590: Update submit to establish the idempotency identity
before land_inline_content_as_refs allocates references, using a stable
canonical request digest or binding landing to request.idempotency_key. Ensure
retries with the same key and payload reuse the original content references and
are accepted as replays rather than producing different payloads or duplicate
stored content.
- Around line 3-5: Before merging the design document, verify the Mintlify CLI
is available and run both required checks from the docs directory: mint dev and
mint broken-links. Resolve any reported issues before completing the change.
- Around line 485-492: Resolve the contract between detached-profile policy and
external-tool waiting in the architecture document: either keep all detached
gates as GateNotSupported, or explicitly define external-tool waiting as an
authorized detached protocol. If supported, document approval state, leases,
idempotency, terminal transitions, and the required authorization-to-runtime
ordering from tools.md, and update the companion OpenAI-compatible execution
behavior to match.

Apply the same fix in `@docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-agent-execution-seam.md`
around lines 161 - 195: Covers the architecture's promised external-tool
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Two design gaps prevent the proposed OpenAI-compatible adopter from faithfully supporting its documented inputs and structured-output contract.

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🟠 Medium · Preserve system/developer message semantics

Inline on docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-agent-execution-architecture.md:332. See the inline comment for details.

🟠 Medium · Define a path for caller-provided JSON schemas

Inline on docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-agent-execution-seam.md:471. See the inline comment for details.

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Comment on lines +330 to +332
context=Snapshot(
system_prompt=from_system_messages(api_request.messages),
messages=non_system_messages(api_request.messages), # no flattening

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🟠 Medium · Preserve system/developer message semantics

The proposed conversion removes system messages from the ordered snapshot and has only one `system_prompt` string; the seam’s message enum has no `System` or `Developer` role. The current OpenAI-compatible DTO accepts both roles. Consequently, developer messages and interleaved system messages cannot be represented without losing their role and ordering, despite the claim that the new path no longer flattens messages. Define an order-preserving mapping (including its relationship to host framing) or explicitly reject unsupported request shapes.

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The draft is deleted on both trees; the base tree's OpenAI-compat still flattens, but #7634 lands the explicit mapping. agent_messages (composition/llm_admin/openai_compat_serve.rs:332-395) accepts both roles: system and developer rows fold, in encounter order, into the single host system_prompt — deliberate, since AgentMessage has no System role by design (agent_message.rs:62) — and user/assistant/tool rows seed in order with tool-call pairing enforced. Unsupported shapes get typed invalid_request rejections (prepared_turn.rs pre-validation mirrors the door), nothing is silently dropped. Interleaved-position of system rows collapses into the one prompt by contract; content and instruction order within it are preserved.

Comment on lines +469 to +471
- **Registry ownership:** schemas are registered by the owning workflow crate
into a host-owned registry keyed by name+version (declared, not inline JSON
per request), so stored results stay interpretable after the fact.

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🟠 Medium · Define a path for caller-provided JSON schemas

The design permits only pre-registered, workflow-owned schema references and explicitly excludes inline per-request schemas, but the stated OpenAI-compatible adopter maps its caller-supplied `response_format` into this contract. That API field is arbitrary JSON, so a client `json_schema` has no registry entry to resolve to and cannot be validated or retained as promised. Specify a bounded, durable dynamic-schema registration/versioning path, or limit and reject the unsupported response formats rather than claiming they are implemented.

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The registry-only design this critiques was dropped on the base branch before implementation: commit 9b247d7 ("Schema rides the request inline; registry deleted from the design") plus the 850b9c7 sweep. Landed shape (#7634): parse_response_format maps caller-supplied response_format directly to OutputContract::JsonSchema { schema } inline (prepared_turn.rs:51-79), journaled with the prepared-turn declarations so results stay interpretable; the host result-tool handler validates against that journaled schema (unbound-turns.md "Structured interception (§4.5)" delta). Unsupported format types are rejected with a typed invalid_request, never silently dropped. The commented file exists on neither tree.

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…message

The field is today's SubmitTurnRequest.accepted_message_ref; naming it
that way makes the 1:1 phase-2 mapping visible and documents why the
freeze-point exists (deterministic replay; late arrivals steer or queue).

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…m doc

Pins the answer to the natural simplification (conversation workflow
assembles system_prompt/messages/tools itself and the engine stays
context-kind-agnostic): a conversation run's context is engine-mutated
for the run's whole life — steering, per-iteration skill/memory
re-selection, mid-run compaction write-back, resume rebuild, surface
re-versioning, prompt-bundle anti-forgery, refs-only storage.

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In `@docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-agent-execution-seam.md`:
- Around line 250-259: Define the durable wire compatibility contract for
AgentExecutionRequest.accepted_message by preserving the existing
accepted_message_ref serialization key, or explicitly documenting a versioned
migration with dual-read support for both keys. Update the design’s
serialization and persistence sections to state the chosen behavior for
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Resolves an ambiguity Ben caught: 'tools=[]' meant 'no tools' in the seam
doc but 'profile surface' in the architecture example. Pinned semantics:
request knobs are per-invocation choices bounded by the profile's per-class
policy — Thread requires empty tools (surface is profile-derived, per
iteration) and AssistantMessage output; Snapshot names an exact subset of
the profile surface. Violations reject fail-closed at the seam.

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… context

Conversations resolve None -> the planned default profile via the
resolver's implicit default; trigger fires are forced onto the
deny-mapped scheduled-trigger profile. The prior parenthetical named
contract-layer ids instead.

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219-221: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use the authoritative delivery claim before send_reply.

outbound_policy.validate(envelope) is followed by vendor egress at Line 221. Unless validation also performs the authoritative claim, concurrent workers can both pass local validation and send the same delivery. Call claim_delivery_attempt_for_send and send only the claimed attempt. Reload the persisted attempt when the claim fails.

Based on learnings: DeliveryCoordinator must call claim_delivery_attempt_for_send before vendor egress because a local Authorized result can become stale after a concurrent first-write-wins attempt record.

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In `@docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-agent-execution-architecture.md` around lines
219 - 221, Update DeliveryCoordinator to call claim_delivery_attempt_for_send
after outbound_policy.validate and before channel_reply.send_reply, passing only
the authoritative claimed attempt to vendor egress. If the claim fails, reload
the persisted delivery attempt and do not send the unclaimed envelope.

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164-172: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Derive ExecutionCaller from accepted.actor. ironclaw_conversations requires submissions and replays to reuse the accepted message's canonical actor. Use execution_caller_from(accepted.actor), or reject an actor mismatch before submission.

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In `@docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-agent-execution-architecture.md` around lines
164 - 172, Update the submission path around agent_execution.submit to derive
the execution caller from accepted.actor rather than inbound.actor, ensuring
submissions and replays use the accepted message’s canonical actor;
alternatively, validate and reject any actor mismatch before submitting.
docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-agent-execution-seam.md (1)

329-336: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve the Thread run-profile hint across AgentExecution.

ConversationTurnSubmission.requested_run_profile is typed, forwarded to SubmitTurnRequest, and required for retry preservation. AgentExecutionRequest has no equivalent, so non-trigger Thread submissions can resolve with None and select the implicit default. Add a policy-bounded typed hint to Thread, or specify an explicit mapping that preserves every existing value. Retain the explicit scheduled_trigger mapping. This violates the typed-boundary and behavior-preservation rules in AGENTS.md and .claude/rules/types.md.

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In `@docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-agent-execution-seam.md` around lines 329 -
336, Preserve the Thread run-profile hint through AgentExecution by adding a
typed, policy-bounded hint to AgentExecutionRequest/Thread, or define an
explicit mapping covering every existing profile value; ensure non-trigger
Thread submissions do not resolve to the implicit default. Keep the explicit
scheduled_trigger mapping unchanged and preserve the existing
ConversationTurnSubmission.requested_run_profile retry behavior.
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In `@docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-agent-execution-architecture.md`:
- Around line 219-221: Update DeliveryCoordinator to call
claim_delivery_attempt_for_send after outbound_policy.validate and before
channel_reply.send_reply, passing only the authoritative claimed attempt to
vendor egress. If the claim fails, reload the persisted delivery attempt and do
not send the unclaimed envelope.
- Around line 164-172: Update the submission path around agent_execution.submit
to derive the execution caller from accepted.actor rather than inbound.actor,
ensuring submissions and replays use the accepted message’s canonical actor;
alternatively, validate and reject any actor mismatch before submitting.

In `@docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-agent-execution-seam.md`:
- Around line 329-336: Preserve the Thread run-profile hint through
AgentExecution by adding a typed, policy-bounded hint to
AgentExecutionRequest/Thread, or define an explicit mapping covering every
existing profile value; ensure non-trigger Thread submissions do not resolve to
the implicit default. Keep the explicit scheduled_trigger mapping unchanged and
preserve the existing ConversationTurnSubmission.requested_run_profile retry
behavior.

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329-336: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve scheduled-trigger provenance in the seam.

The existing path persists ProductTurnContext.origin and requests RunProfileId::scheduled_trigger() for trusted trigger fires. The proposed ExecutionContext::Thread and RunProfileResolutionRequest do not carry either discriminator. Define the host-owned mapping and durable replay behavior, or add a host-owned admission input. Do not expose a caller-controlled profile selector.

This protects invariant I4 and the trusted-trigger contracts in AGENTS.md and crates/domains/AGENTS.md.

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For JsonSchema contracts the host injects a synthetic host-owned result
tool whose parameters are the registered schema, riding the existing
strict tool-schema path every provider supports; reply admission
intercepts the call as terminal output. Not a capability (no
authorization/dispatch, like capability_info). Provider-native response
modes become later per-provider upgrades behind the same contract.
Prior art: pi's typed-output idiom.

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In `@docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-agent-execution-seam.md`:
- Around line 533-543: Define a stable reserved identity for the synthetic
result tool, validate the workflow capability registry before submission, and
reject any name collision. Ensure forced selection and reply admission recognize
the result tool by its typed host-owned identity before generic capability
dispatch, keeping it outside authorization and execution routing.
- Around line 534-548: Define the typed final-tool contract before advertising
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Comment thread docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-agent-execution-seam.md Outdated
Seam doc gains three implementation questions surfaced in planning
(process-kind encoding + rolling-compat test, ExecutionLimits mapping,
pi-style per-tool crash-replay declaration); architecture doc pins the
three phase-2 questions (origin-metadata home, delivery-observer
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64-76: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add caller-level coverage for the execution-policy trust gate.

coordinator_submit_request forwards execution_policy only for ConversationInboundClassification::TrustedTrigger. The changed fixtures set execution_policy to None, so they do not prove forwarding for a trusted trigger or stripping a supplied value for TrustedOther and Untrusted. Add a test through CoordinatorTurnSubmitter::submit_conversation_turn for all three classifications and assert SubmitTurnRequest.product_context.execution_policy.

As per path instructions: “Test through the caller: when a helper gates a side effect, require a test driving the real call site (handler/factory/manager), not only the helper.”

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TrustedOther, and Untrusted classifications. Supply a non-None execution_policy
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59-75: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Align the Blocked summary with the expanded vocabulary.

The variant table describes Blocked only for approval, auth, and resource gates. Line 75 adds await_dependent_run and external_tool.

Update the table to describe a supported gate generally. Keep the profile-specific rule that unbound profiles reject unsupported gate kinds. Otherwise, contract consumers can reject valid dependent-run or external-tool exits.

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dependent-run and external-tool gates, rather than only approval, auth, and
resource gates. Preserve the existing profile-specific rule that unbound
profiles reject unsupported gate kinds with gate_not_supported.
tests/integration/changed-coverage-exemptions.toml (1)

531-537: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Move the metadata exemption to the serde default function.

Lines 130–132 contain AgentTurnProcessStateMetadata::from_claimed construction. The legacy-row default function is at lines 146–148. This violates the exact-line-only exemption invariant in tests/integration/changed-coverage-exemptions.toml:6.

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In `@crates/loop/ironclaw_loop_host/src/subagent_spawn_port.rs`:
- Around line 1036-1066: Use the same ownership mode for
PreparedContextRequest.scope and child_turn_scope: when the parent is ownerless,
persist the prepared context with an ownerless scope; otherwise retain the
explicit owner scope. Update the child spawn flow around accept_prepared_context
and add a caller-level test covering an ownerless parent that spawns a child and
successfully loads its seeded context through the matching scope.
- Around line 1063-1066: Update the submit_child_run failure compensation flow
after accept_prepared_context succeeds so SpawnCompensationState::rollback
retains the prepared thread instead of calling delete_thread; record it as
incomplete or failed while preserving the durable transcript. Add a caller-level
regression test covering this failure path and verifying the thread remains
available.

In `@crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/src/runtime.rs`:
- Around line 1036-1041: Update the error mapping around the declaration-read
operation to pass a fixed safe summary to AgentLoopHostError::new instead of
formatting the underlying error; send the original error only through the
approved diagnostic logging path. Add a caller-level test that verifies the
model-visible failure contains the sanitized message and does not expose backend
details or filesystem paths.

In `@crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/src/model_channel_delivery/tests.rs`:
- Around line 146-151: Extend ScriptedBindingLookup with DeniedSameThread and
DeniedOtherThread variants that produce InboundTurnError::AccessDenied for the
corresponding thread contexts, then add coverage through the production caller
for both outcomes: same-thread denial must return OriginConversationTarget,
while other-thread denial must still deliver successfully.

In `@crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/src/run_delivery/observer.rs`:
- Around line 81-85: The ObservedReplyTargetAuthority flow must resolve actor
and conversation metadata from the durable sealed reply target rather than
copying it from the inbound envelope. Use the ProductOutboundTargetResolver
lookup, reject any route mismatch before delivery, and add a caller-level test
verifying that mismatches produce neither a vendor send nor a delivered-ledger
entry.

In `@docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-one-engine-many-surfaces.md`:
- Around line 486-492: Update the three contract references in the design
document from docs/reborn/contracts/ to docs/internal/reborn/contracts/. Do not
alter the referenced contract filenames or descriptions.

In `@docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-unbound-turns.md`:
- Around line 1026-1035: Update the resolved decisions and related sections to
state that the threads accept door, specifically accept_prepared_context, owns
minting the ownerless thread and seeding its messages. Limit coordinator
admission to reading journaled declarations and deriving the profile; remove
wording that says the coordinator mints the thread.
- Around line 1069-1075: Update docs/internal/design/2026-08-12-unbound-turns.md
at lines 1069-1075 to state the resolved default of 4 and that 0 means
unlimited; update .env.example at line 242 to reflect the same unbound
concurrency setting semantics, and extend the existing runner configuration
tests to cover max_concurrent_unbound_runs from both config-file and environment
overrides.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/app/ironclaw_cli/src/runtime/mod.rs` around lines
1665 - 1668: The CLI regression test must assert the documented
zero-to-unlimited behavior.

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In `@docs/internal/reborn/contracts/loop-exit.md`:
- Around line 59-75: Update the Blocked row in the variant table to describe any
supported gate, including dependent-run and external-tool gates, rather than
only approval, auth, and resource gates. Preserve the existing profile-specific
rule that unbound profiles reject unsupported gate kinds with
gate_not_supported.

In `@tests/integration/changed-coverage-exemptions.toml`:
- Around line 531-537: Move the exemption range in the [[exemption]] entry for
await_edge/mod.rs from the AgentTurnProcessStateMetadata::from_claimed
construction to the legacy-row serde default function at lines 146–148, keeping
the exemption limited to the exact lines of that function and preserving the
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.map_err(|error| {
AgentLoopHostError::new(
ironclaw_loop_contracts::AgentLoopHostErrorKind::Unavailable,
format!("unbound declarations read failed: {error}"),
)
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Sanitize the declaration-read failure.

AgentLoopHostError::new receives a safe summary. Line 1039 embeds the underlying thread-service error in that summary. A persistence error can expose backend details or filesystem paths to the model-visible failure path.

Return a fixed safe message. Log the original error only through the approved diagnostic path. Add a caller-level test for the sanitized failure.

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             .await
             .map_err(|error| {
+                tracing::debug!(error = %error, "unbound declarations read failed");
                 AgentLoopHostError::new(
                     ironclaw_loop_contracts::AgentLoopHostErrorKind::Unavailable,
-                    format!("unbound declarations read failed: {error}"),
+                    "unbound declarations are unavailable",
                 )
             })?;
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In `@crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/src/runtime.rs` around lines 1036 - 1041,
Update the error mapping around the declaration-read operation to pass a fixed
safe summary to AgentLoopHostError::new instead of formatting the underlying
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Fixed on the surfaces branch (#7634, audit-batch commit in flight): the summary is a fixed safe string ("unbound declarations read failed") with the cause going to tracing::debug! only (debug, not warn, per the REPL logging rule); the sibling read site in refreshing_capability_port.rs got the same treatment. Lands on this base when #7634 folds in.

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@BenKurrek, thanks. The stated change satisfies the sanitized-boundary requirement when it lands.

The current PR base still contains the unsafe formatted cause. Keep this thread open until #7634 folds in and the caller-level regression test is available for verification.

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… consumer (nearai#7770 phase 1) (nearai#7765)

* feat(memory): periodic memory-curation pass ("dreaming"), first slice (nearai#7276)

Memory only ever grew. Writes accumulate, nothing prunes, and the standing
document has a byte budget, so redundancy crowds out what matters. No human
reads the file, so the decay is invisible.

This adds the Hermes-shaped answer: every N completed user turns, the agent
runs with no user present, re-reads its standing memory, and tidies it —
merging duplicates, resolving superseded facts, tightening wording. Its
output is the edits plus a structured report; nothing is sent to anyone.

Buildable now because unbound turns landed (nearai#7562/nearai#7634): a run with no
conversation and no reply target. The pass is submitted through the same
`UnboundTurnService` door OpenAI-compat and subagent spawn already use.

Shape. The loop tier owns only the observation ("an ordinary user turn
completed, under this scope") and reports it through a port; every policy
decision lives in the product tier. The port vocabulary sits in
`ironclaw_loop_contracts` rather than the runner because WS1.7 deliberately
removed `ironclaw_turn_runner` as a production dependency of
`ironclaw_assistant`, and this must not reverse that.

The load-bearing guard: an unbound run NEVER triggers curation. A pass is
itself unbound, so triggering on unbound completion would let each pass
schedule its successor — an unbounded background loop running the model
against a user's memory forever. Pinned by test, both unbound profiles.

Also fixed along the way: `UnboundTurnSubmission` had no way to declare
limits, so it always inherited the profile's 1024-iteration budget and no
wall clock. Fine for a user waiting on a panel, wrong for an unwatched
background chore — an unconverged pass would burn tokens against a user's
memory until that ceiling, and nobody would notice. Added narrowing-only
limits (existing callers unchanged, explicitly defaulted) and the pass
declares 6 model calls / 12 capability calls / 90s.

Safety properties pinned by tests: the pass acts as the owner and never as
an operator-config caller; it gets the three memory capabilities and nothing
else; its id doubles as the idempotency key so a crash-retry converges on
the same pass; a failed submission is swallowed at debug (post-terminal
background path — info!/warn! would corrupt the REPL).

Concurrency is safe without batch-atomic memory ops: memory writes are
compare-and-swap, so a pass racing a live conversation loses the write
rather than clobbering it. The failure mode is a lost curation pass, never
a lost memory.

Not wired into composition yet — no deployment runs this. Wiring, the
gate-behavior decision (unbound runs abort on approval gates, so users with
auto-approve off need skip-not-abort), and an integration scenario follow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): avoid an extension name in curation comments

The extension-specificity gate scans generic code for concrete extension
names; "with slack for one retry" tripped it on the English word. Reworded
rather than allowlisted — the allowlist is for pre-existing debt, not for
new code that can simply say something else.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(memory): move the curation contract into ironclaw_memory

Memory vocabulary belongs with the memory contract. "Curation" means
nothing outside memory, and the signal exists only to decide whether a
user's memory needs tidying — putting it in ironclaw_loop_contracts made
the loop-contracts crate carry a memory concept it has no stake in.

Both tiers already depend on ironclaw_memory (the runner for after-turn
recording, the product tier for the memory service), so this pulls in no
new edge; it only puts the type where its domain lives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(hooks): add privileged AfterTurn lifecycle point

Adds `HookPointSpec::AfterTurn`, a privileged-only hook point that fires
once after a turn's run reaches a terminal state — the seam for work about
the turn as a whole rather than about one model call, capability
invocation, or checkpoint.

- `AfterTurnHookContext` (`points/turn.rs`) carries tenant/user/agent/
  project plus a `completed` flag. `user_id` is non-optional and there is
  deliberately no `unbound` field: the dispatch call site never fires this
  point for unbound runs, because hook-started background work runs
  unbound and firing on unbound completion would let each background pass
  schedule its own successor forever. Observing background runs stays with
  `EventTriggered` + `LoopCompleted`, which is observer-only.
- `PrivilegedAfterTurnHook` takes no sink: an AfterTurn hook may hold its
  own collaborators and start follow-on work as a side effect. The
  sealed-return-type law stays scoped to points untrusted tiers can reach.
- `install_after_turn` rejects `Installed` and `SelfAuthored` at install
  time; `install_observer` rejects the point outright.
- `dispatch_after_turn` mirrors the observer dispatch shape (ordered
  snapshot, poison handling, failure policy, telemetry) with a 5s per-hook
  timeout, and never propagates a hook failure to the caller.
- New `DecisionKind::Lifecycle` (three in-crate consumers, all updated):
  act-capable but fails isolated, since the run it observes is already
  terminal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(memory): curation rides the AfterTurn hook point, bespoke port deleted

nearai#7765 landed memory curation on a bespoke `AfterTurnCurationPort` because no
general lifecycle seam existed yet. The `AfterTurn` hook point now exists, so
the port is deleted and curation becomes one privileged hook among others.

- `ironclaw_memory` sheds `src/curation.rs` entirely: memory carries no
  hook-framework vocabulary and no bespoke port.
- `ironclaw_turn_runner` gains `after_turn_hooks::after_turn_hook_context`,
  which keeps the two guards centrally so no hook has to remember them: an
  unbound run never fires the point (hook-started background work runs
  unbound, so firing on unbound completion would let each pass schedule its
  own successor forever), and an actorless run never fires it (nothing to
  attribute follow-on work to).
- The executor's `after_turn_curation` field becomes
  `after_turn_hooks: Option<Arc<HookDispatcher>>` with `with_after_turn_hooks`.
  The 5s bound survives as an OUTER backstop around the whole dispatch; the
  dispatcher already bounds each hook.
- Semantic widening: the point fires for ANY terminal state of an ordinary
  actor-bearing run, not just `Completed`. Hooks that only want successes read
  `ctx.completed` — which `MemoryCurationService` does, first thing, because a
  failed turn says nothing about whether memory needs tidying and counting it
  would drift the interval.
- `MemoryCurationService` implements `PrivilegedAfterTurnHook`; every policy
  decision (interval, per-owner counters, pass building, idempotency key)
  is unchanged. `ironclaw_assistant` takes a normal `ironclaw_hooks`
  dependency — products→loops, the edge it already has via `ironclaw_loop_host`.
- `AfterTurnHookContext::new` added: the struct is `#[non_exhaustive]` and the
  call site is outside `ironclaw_hooks`, so a struct literal is unavailable.

The dispatcher is un-wired (`None`) after this commit; composition follows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(memory): wire curation through composition behind [memory] config

Phase 1 of nearai#7770 ends where it should: the `AfterTurn` point has a live
consumer. Composition registers the memory-curation hook, so after every Nth
completed turn the agent goes off on its own and tidies the user's standing
memory document (nearai#7276).

- `[memory].curation_interval_turns` (`ironclaw_config`): opt-in, serde-default
  absent. Absent means the hook is NEVER REGISTERED — disabled is expressed by
  not wiring, never by a sentinel, so a written `0` is rejected at parse time
  rather than clamped downstream into "after every turn". Config-only, no env
  override: that matches `provider`/`admin_overrides`, and only the mem0
  connection fields carry an env convention.
- `ironclaw_assistant::memory_curation::after_turn_curation_dispatcher` owns the
  assembly — which hook, at which phase (`Telemetry`: the run is already
  terminal, so it enforces nothing), under which trust class (`Builtin`), behind
  the stable `HookId::for_builtin` path. Composition calls it; per AGENTS.md the
  wiring root does not own module policy. Its own small dispatcher, not the
  per-run middleware one: `after_turn` fires once per run from a
  process-lifetime `Arc`.
- `DefaultPlannedRuntimeParts::after_turn_hook_dispatcher_factory` is a factory,
  not a ready dispatcher, because the `UnboundTurnService` the hook submits
  through is built from the coordinator the same function builds. Handed
  `AfterTurnHookDeps` once, after those exist; may still decline.
- Two conditions gate registration in composition: an operator asked for an
  interval AND a memory provider resolved. A pass over a document no provider
  backs would submit a run whose only three tools do not exist.

Gate posture (nearai#7770's skip-and-note) is deliberately NOT implemented; a
`DECISION nearai#7770:` comment at the submission site records why. No read-only
"would this capability gate for this scope" query exists: the answer needs the
descriptor's effects and origin-gate matrix, the run's `ApprovalPolicy`, the
`TrustDecision`, grants, and leases composed inside
`authorize_dispatch_with_trust` at dispatch time, with an origin that does not
exist until the run is executing. Approximating it from
`ApprovalSettingsProvider::global_auto_approve` alone would duplicate gate
composition in a product service. The seam that is actually missing is at the
gate strategy: a `GateOutcome` that skips the capability for the model instead
of aborting the unbound run.

Tests: two group scenarios drive the wired path end to end — the pass's thread
id is its idempotency key and therefore deterministic, which is what lets the
harness script the background pass's model at all. The positive scenario runs N
ordinary turns and asserts the tidied text reaches a LATER conversation's prompt
under the same user's own memory lane; the negative asserts an empty pass script
below the interval and then corroborates it by crossing the interval one turn
later, so "empty" cannot be latency. Both falsified by moving the interval.
`with_memory_curation_interval()` on the group builder mirrors production's
opt-in exactly; the wiring-parity tripwire and composition mass gate move with
the new field.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): review round — per-trigger pass identity, conversation-only triggers, fail-closed install

Six review findings on nearai#7765 (epic nearai#7770 phase 1).

- **Pass identity was the number of OWNERS, not passes.** The curation pass id
  was `…-{counters.len()}`, which for one user is forever `1`: every interval
  after the first reused the same public id and idempotency key, so the unbound
  accept door REPLAYED the first pass instead of running a new one — the
  document would be curated exactly once, ever, with nothing surfacing it.
  `AfterTurnHookContext` now carries `run_id` (the terminal run that fired the
  point), the runner threads it through, and the pass id is
  `memory-curation-{tenant}-{user}-{run_id}`: distinct per trigger, and
  replayed as-is by a crash-retry of the same trigger, with no durable counter.
- **Scheduled-trigger fires and subagent children no longer count.** A trusted
  fire keeps its creator as `TurnActor` and runs a non-unbound profile, so it
  passed both original guards and could launch a write-capable pass with no
  user present. The derivation is now an ALLOWLIST of conversation profiles
  (`reborn-planned-default`, `interactive_default`, `default`); the
  denylist shape failed open for every profile added later.
- **Curation install fails closed.** `AfterTurnHookDispatcherFactory` returns
  `Result` and the runtime build propagates it as
  `DefaultPlannedRuntimeBuildError::AfterTurnHooks`. Declining is expressed by
  supplying no factory, never by a swallowed error that leaves a deployment
  believing memory is being tidied.
- **A zero interval is unrepresentable downstream.** Config already rejected
  `curation_interval_turns = 0`; `NonZeroU32` now carries through the input
  builder into `MemoryCurationService`, and the clamp is gone.
- **Typed error and typed counter key.** `CurationPassSubmitter::submit_pass`
  returns `UnboundTurnError`; counters key on a `(TenantId, UserId)` struct.
- `// arch-exempt:` on the executor's hook field uses the enforced
  `plan #NNNN` form.

Tests: distinct-vs-converging pass ids; scheduled-trigger and subagent profiles
yield no context, planned-default does; the executor actually dispatches at the
seam (recording hook over a completed bound run, and never for an unbound one);
`accept_and_submit` journals the declared `TurnLimits`. The two curation
scenarios script the pass by owner-scoped thread PREFIX — a new test-support
`register_scope_script_prefix_for_test` — because a per-run pass id is not
knowable before the triggering turn runs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): panic-free interval const + QA harness field the sweep missed

Two breaks, one class: struct call sites in test bins the local
verification set never compiled.

- The production panic baseline scans syntactically, so the compile-time
  `match … unreachable!()` NonZeroU32 constructor counted as a new panic.
  Replaced with `NonZeroU32::MIN.saturating_add(9)` — const, panic-free,
  and the comment says why the odd spelling exists.
- `reborn_parity_qa/binary_e2e.rs` initializes DefaultPlannedRuntimeParts
  and needed the new `after_turn_hook_dispatcher_factory` field (None: QA
  replay drives no lifecycle hooks).

Verified with `cargo check --workspace --tests` — the command that
covers every bin, which the per-crate verification lists did not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(filesystem): satisfy the Rust 1.98 chunks_exact_to_as_chunks lint

Rust stable 1.98 rolled through CI today and its new clippy lint fails
every branch on decode_embedding_blob's chunks_exact. as_chunks is the
better code anyway: const chunk size yields [u8; 4] directly, so the
per-element indexing disappears. Behavior pinned by the existing vector
tests.

Not this branch's code — the same fix goes to main in its own PR so
every other open branch stops failing too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(lints): complete the Rust 1.98 clippy migration

Full-workspace sweep under 1.98 (the toolchain CI now runs), on top of the
vector.rs fix already on this branch:

- result_large_err: GoogleCredentialError boxes its Recovery projection
  (one variant, nine sites' worth of warnings); agent_loop's batch error
  boxes its host error; turn_runner boxes only HostFinalizationFailed's
  payload — DriverError stays unboxed because five match sites destructure
  it by pattern, and it is not the oversized member.
- chunks_exact_to_as_chunks: the two UTF-16 decoders in coding/text.rs.
- useless_format in a trace_commons test.

All private types or contained call sites; no public API changes beyond
the boxed variant payloads inside their own crates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(lints): last two 1.98 sites — map_or_identity, test-support large errors

The tracing-syntax architecture test's map_or(len, |end| end) becomes
unwrap_or; db_write_measurement's error enum boxes its DbProbeError
payloads (test-support only, ~5 construction sites).

Full-workspace clippy --tests under 1.98: clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(hooks): Lifecycle-vs-Effect rationale + amend the side-effect invariant

Approach-audit disposition on nearai#7770 (accepted findings ST3/SP3):

- trust.rs documents why Lifecycle is not a duplicate of Effect: Effect is
  permitted for Installed/SelfAuthored by default — the third-party class
  for post-durable-fact event hooks — while turn completion must not carry
  that default. Folding them would silently widen who may react to a
  finished turn.
- The hooks contract's side-effect invariant now names mediated
  prepared-context turn submission as a sanctioned route for Lifecycle
  hooks, instead of the code silently diverging from a list written before
  unbound turns existed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): audit round 2 — fail-closed curation gate, per-run hook dispatcher

Second approach audit on nearai#7765 (nearai#7770 phase 1). Six accepted findings plus
the documentation gaps they exposed.

Fail closed on a provider that cannot curate. Composition registered curation
whenever an interval was configured and any memory provider resolved, but a
pass REPLACES the standing document and a bound third-party provider may
reject that write outright — a deployment would spawn passes forever that all
fail, with nothing surfacing it. `curation_interval_for_binding` now gates on
the resolved binding and turns a configured-but-unservable curation into a
startup error naming the provider and how to disable it. Nothing in a manifest
declares "supports standing-document replacement" (`[memory].lifecycle` is
about read/record hooks), so the gate is the native binding, with the missing
declaration named in the comment as the seam for nearai#7664.

Hook poison is run-scoped by contract, so the executor now holds a per-run
dispatcher FACTORY instead of one process-lifetime dispatcher: a panic or
timeout is barred for the run it happened in and retried on the next, instead
of disabling curation until restart. The curation SERVICE stays one long-lived
instance — its per-owner counters must accumulate across runs — and each fresh
dispatcher installs a binding over that same service.

Blocked states no longer dispatch. `after_turn_hook_context` requires
`TurnStatus::is_terminal()`: a gated-then-resumed turn fired the point twice,
once while still running.

Also: tier-specific `install_builtin_after_turn` / `install_trusted_after_turn`
replace the trust-class-parameterized installer (an invalid tier is now
unrepresentable, not rejected at runtime); the executor's outer dispatch bound
moves 5s -> 30s so it can never preempt the dispatcher's own per-hook timeout
classification; the unused default-interval constant is deleted and its "ten
matches Hermes" rationale moved to the config field a deployer reads; the
hooks consumer inventory gains `ironclaw_assistant`; and `points/turn.rs` now
states plainly that the point fires only for exits the executor applies —
scheduler failure terminalization does not dispatch it, tracked as a follow-up
on nearai#7770.

Composition budget 42198 -> 42316 (both records, dated): +7 wiring, +109 for
the fail-closed gate and its tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(hooks): enforce the after_turn tier gate in the registry, and close the review gaps

CodeRabbit round three on nearai#7765.

`HookRegistry::insert` now refuses `Installed` / `SelfAuthored` bindings at
`HookPointSpec::AfterTurn`, alongside the phase-vs-trust gate it already
carries. The tier-split installers encoded the restriction, but raw bindings
reach the registry through `from_bindings` and the public builder's
`insert_binding`, which bypass them — the point is act-capable, so an
untrusted binding there would surface as a malformed binding mid-dispatch
instead of an install-time refusal.

The dispatcher's per-hook `after_turn` budget becomes injectable
(`HookDispatcherBuilder::with_after_turn_timeout`, defaulting to
`AFTER_TURN_HOOK_TIMEOUT`), which is what makes the timeout-race regression
affordable: the executor-seam test wedges one hook against a millisecond
budget and proves the hook ordered after it still runs, that the wedged one is
recorded as a Timeout failure, and that the already-terminal run is unaffected.
That asymmetry — outer backstop strictly larger than per-hook budget times hook
count — was fixed earlier but never pinned.

Executor-seam coverage also gains the two non-success terminal states: a FAILED
and a CANCELLED conversation run each dispatch exactly once with
`ctx.completed == false`.

The below-threshold curation scenario no longer rests on a single empty
reading, which a queued-but-unstarted pass would also produce. After crossing
the interval it now requires EXACTLY ONE pass — one pass's worth of model calls
and no more — which is what makes the earlier zero real rather than latency.

The group harness mirrors production's two-part activation gate: curation wires
only when an interval AND a bound memory provider are present, not from the
interval alone.

Version claims in two comments are reworded to name the lint rather than a
toolchain release nobody can verify offline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(composition): re-measure the mass budget after the main merge

The merge combined main's composition growth (notification inbox nearai#7697,
subagent slice nearai#7788) with this branch's curation wiring; the two
ceilings merged textually without a git conflict while the sum exceeded
both — the gate caught exactly the case it exists for. Ceiling and the
mirrored COMPOSITION_ABSOLUTE_SRC_LOC move together to the measured
42479, dated rationale in the toml. No composition code changes here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): give the curation pass report headroom — live-test finding

The 2026-08-21 live test (DeepSeek-V4-Flash, isolated home, interval 2)
proved the machinery end to end — the pass fired exactly once, acted as
the user, consolidated two wordings of one fact into a correct merged
line, and read its own write back to verify — and then terminated
`Failed { model_call_limit }` before emitting its structured report. A
real model spends calls a scripted one does not: three writes where the
prompt asks for one, plus a fumbled read.

Two changes, both evidence-backed:
- MEMORY_CURATION_MAX_ITERATIONS 6 -> 10. The ceiling still hard-stops
  an unconverged pass; it now leaves room for the report after ordinary
  real-model imperfection.
- The prompt's Finishing section states the budget and the exact
  sequence (read -> at most one write -> result tool), and says plainly
  that a pass dying unreported is worse than a pass changing nothing.

The scripted integration scenario hands the model exactly three replies
and structurally cannot see this failure mode; the constants comment
records the live evidence so the next tuner knows where 10 came from.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(extension-contracts): declare [[memory.scheduled_ops]] — pass ops, trust-gated, cost-floored

A memory provider can now declare its own recurring upkeep in its manifest
instead of the host hardcoding which provider gets which background work.
The provider names the work and the cadence; the host keeps the clock, the
invocation envelope, and the authority.

    [[memory.scheduled_ops]]
    trigger = "after_turn"
    interval_turns = 10
    pass = { prompt = "prompts/memory_curation.md", tools = ["ironclaw.memory.read", "ironclaw.memory.write"], max_model_calls = 10 }

Contracts tier only — nothing dispatches or invokes these yet.

`MemoryScheduledTrigger` is a closed host-owned vocabulary with exactly one
v0 entry; an unrecognized token fails the parse rather than being dropped,
because a silently ignored trigger presents as a provider whose declared
upkeep simply never runs. `MemoryScheduledOpKind` is tagged by which key the
entry declares, and `tool = "..."` is RECOGNIZED and REJECTED with its own
message rather than falling through to an unknown-field error, so a manifest
written against the eventual schema fails with intent. Both keys or neither
are errors too. The wire shape and the parsed shape are separate types, so
`MemoryScheduledOp` cannot be built from a manifest without clearing every
per-op rule.

Three bounds, each with its reason in a doc comment and a test:

- `interval_turns >= 2` (`MIN_SCHEDULED_OP_INTERVAL_TURNS`) — a manifest
  declares work that runs on someone else's deployment at their expense, so
  it must not be able to demand per-turn invocation. `NonZeroU32` makes
  "every 0 turns" unrepresentable before the floor even applies.
- `pass.max_model_calls <= 16` (`MAX_SCHEDULED_PASS_MODEL_CALLS`) — a pass is
  unwatched background spend with nobody reading the transcript. The nearai#7770
  live test put the realistic curation need at 10.
- At most one op per trigger — the host holds one interval counter per
  trigger per owner, so a second op has no well-defined cadence.

Two rules need the whole manifest and land in
`ironclaw_extension_registry::v3::validate_memory_scheduled_ops`, beside the
existing `[admin_configuration]` cross-check and for the same reason — only
that layer sees `[[tools]]` and the requested trust class next to `[memory]`:

- A pass's `tools` must be ids the SAME manifest declares. Declaration is
  selection, never authority: a memory provider must not schedule passes
  wielding another extension's tools.
- Only a first-party/system manifest may declare a pass op at all. A pass is
  a manifest-authored prompt running with write tools, as every user, on a
  schedule — a strictly larger grant than a model-chosen tool call, so it
  gets the same default-deny wall as the after-turn hook tiers. Host-bundled
  alone is not enough, pinned by a test that refuses a third-party-trust
  manifest from a host-bundled source.

`scheduled_ops` is serde-defaulted and empty when absent, so every manifest
written before it existed parses unchanged and schedules nothing
(`memory_manifest_without_scheduled_ops_still_parses`,
`scheduled_ops_absent_in_an_older_manifest_means_none`). `pass.prompt` reuses
`guidance_doc`'s validated bundled-asset ref type; asset RESOLUTION stays
host-side and fail-closed.

The §11.2.3 contracts size ceiling moves 10_841 -> 11_451 for the declaration
family and its inline tests, count read from the ratchet's own failure
message.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(memory): scheduled ops drive curation — native declares its pass, opt-in stays

The declaration replaces the hardwired layer (nearai#7664 addendum v2):

- memory-native's manifest declares its curation as `[[memory.scheduled_ops]]`
  (after_turn, recommended cadence 10, pass over its own three memory tools,
  max_model_calls 10 — the live-test calibration). The curation prompt moves
  into the package beside the guidance doc, exported through the same asset
  table, resolved host-side fail-closed.
- `MemoryCurationService` dies; `MemoryScheduledOpRunner` is built FROM the
  resolved declaration (prompt text, tool ids, model-call ceiling), keeping
  the policy that was already pinned: per-owner counters, completed-only
  counting, the `memory-curation-` pass-id prefix as contract, the submitter
  seam, debug-only failure swallowing. The tool-op arm is
  unreachable-by-construction (leg A parse-rejects it) and says so explicitly.
- Composition's native-only gate arm dies: the gate is now "did the bound
  provider declare an op" — a configured interval against a provider that
  declares nothing stays a startup error naming the provider.

OPT-IN preserved (owner decision, 2026-08-22): the declaration ARMS upkeep —
validated shape, resolved prompt, recommended cadence — and
`[memory].curation_interval_turns` ENABLES it. Omitted = nothing runs,
exactly as before this change; a manifest cannot switch on background token
spend for a deployment that never asked. The config floor (>= 2) is now
enforced at parse, where the operator can read why.

Leg B built by a subagent (session-limited mid-flight), completed and
re-verified from the worktree; opt-in flip + config validation + marker
resolution by the orchestrator.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): the curation prompt demands an explicit append:false — live-test v2 finding

The declared-op live re-test (2026-08-23, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, fresh isolated
home): the pass reached its structured report — the model_call_limit death
from the first live test is fixed — but the model's FIRST write omitted
append:false, transiently duplicating the document before it self-corrected
with a proper replace two calls later. The prompt asked for one write; it
never said which KIND. Now it does, with the consequence spelled out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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… unbound run lane, kernel binding-ref deletion (nearai#7562)

* docs(internal): agent-execution seam proposal and system architecture

Two design documents for the product-neutral agent execution seam:

- 2026-08-12-agent-execution-seam.md — the AgentExecution port: the
  request contract (ExecutionContext::{Thread, Snapshot}), the
  AgentMessage interface, OutputContract, gates policy, two-plane
  events/observation, the runtime invariants (I1-I5) the design
  preserves, crate placement, open questions.
- 2026-08-12-agent-execution-architecture.md — the system-level picture:
  every surface (channels, WebUI, automations, suggestions, OpenAI-compat)
  submits through the one seam and interprets the output its own way;
  manifest-driven channel reply (stream vs send_reply); boundary rules;
  phased sequencing.

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

* docs(internal): rename Thread context freeze-point field to accepted_message

The field is today's SubmitTurnRequest.accepted_message_ref; naming it
that way makes the 1:1 phase-2 mapping visible and documents why the
freeze-point exists (deterministic replay; late arrivals steer or queue).

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

* docs(internal): add 'why not materialize everywhere' rationale to seam doc

Pins the answer to the natural simplification (conversation workflow
assembles system_prompt/messages/tools itself and the engine stays
context-kind-agnostic): a conversation run's context is engine-mutated
for the run's whole life — steering, per-iteration skill/memory
re-selection, mid-run compaction write-back, resume rebuild, surface
re-versioning, prompt-bundle anti-forgery, refs-only storage.

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

* docs(internal): pin request-knob x context validity matrix

Resolves an ambiguity Ben caught: 'tools=[]' meant 'no tools' in the seam
doc but 'profile surface' in the architecture example. Pinned semantics:
request knobs are per-invocation choices bounded by the profile's per-class
policy — Thread requires empty tools (surface is profile-derived, per
iteration) and AssistantMessage output; Snapshot names an exact subset of
the profile surface. Violations reject fail-closed at the seam.

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

* docs(internal): name the actual production default profile for Thread context

Conversations resolve None -> the planned default profile via the
resolver's implicit default; trigger fires are forced onto the
deny-mapped scheduled-trigger profile. The prior parenthetical named
contract-layer ids instead.

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

* docs(internal): OutputContract v1 mechanism = schema as forced tool

For JsonSchema contracts the host injects a synthetic host-owned result
tool whose parameters are the registered schema, riding the existing
strict tool-schema path every provider supports; reply admission
intercepts the call as terminal output. Not a capability (no
authorization/dispatch, like capability_info). Provider-native response
modes become later per-provider upgrades behind the same contract.
Prior art: pi's typed-output idiom.

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* docs(internal): complete the open-questions inventory

Seam doc gains three implementation questions surfaced in planning
(process-kind encoding + rolling-compat test, ExecutionLimits mapping,
pi-style per-tool crash-replay declaration); architecture doc pins the
three phase-2 questions (origin-metadata home, delivery-observer
transition shim, pins inventory).

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

* docs(internal): resolve open questions per design review

Schema rides the request inline (registry deleted from the design;
journaled request keeps results interpretable). Strict-only validation.
New ProcessKind variant + legacy-kind audit via rolling-compat path.
ExecutionLimits maps onto existing budget machinery. Observation buffers
and message bounds reuse existing sizing/behavior. Per-tool crash-replay
declaration rejected — detached executions inherit standard recovery.
Open list now: suggestions tool need, detached concurrency cap value,
gate-resolve affordance.

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

* docs(internal): sweep remaining schema-registry mentions

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* docs(internal): converge the seam onto main — threads are the unit of work

Final model after design review with the team: main already has the
agent-execution service (TurnCoordinator + process runtime + canonical
loop), threads are already the universal unit of work, and a conversation
is already a thread plus a binding. The seam is TurnCoordinator's front,
matured: two admission idioms (bound thread = today's submission;
content = mint-seed-submit of an unbound, ownerless thread with an
internal id), plus the genuinely-new pieces (OutputContract, per-run
knobs, subscription, detached profiles, codified taxonomy).

Replaces earlier design elements accordingly: no SnapshotBackedLoopContextPort
(one materialization path), no thread-kind flag (binding-absence +
ownerlessness classify, and owner-scoped listings already exclude), no
kernel scope changes, process journal role unchanged. Adds the what-main-has
section, the TurnCoordinator method mapping table, and the subagent
precedent.

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

* docs(internal): update both diagrams to the converged model

The two mermaid diagrams still showed the pre-convergence picture. Both
now show mint-seed-submit behind the door (Snapshot → unbound, ownerless
thread → the same unchanged turn admission) and the single thread-backed
materialization path; the seam node is labeled as TurnCoordinator's
front, matured. Labels reflowed so renderers that strip <br/> tags keep
readable spacing.

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

* docs(internal): classify the interface inventory

The seam doc defines ~19 type blocks, which reads as a large new surface;
classified honestly it is one trait + request/response DTOs. Adds an
inventory table (new API vs ironclaw_llm extension vs read-side views vs
referenced-unchanged) and labels the observation types as per-execution
views over the existing durable vocabularies and live-hint plane — no new
durable event language.

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

* docs(internal): drop the AgentExecution port — expand TurnCoordinator directly

Per design review: 'TurnCoordinator's front, matured' meant literally
expanding the coordinator, not naming a new port over it. The docs are
reworked accordingly and renamed (agent-execution-seam → detached-turns;
agent-execution-architecture → one-engine-many-surfaces):

- One new method, submit_detached_turn(SubmitDetachedTurnRequest), beside
  the unchanged submit_turn (precedent: submit_child_run). The request
  enum, AgentExecution trait, ExecutionId, ExecutionCaller, and the
  wrapper/response DTOs are all deleted from the design; the run id and
  SubmitTurnResponse are the handles. Knob misuse becomes unrepresentable
  (knobs exist only on the detached request), so the validity matrix and
  its fail-closed rejection path are gone too.
- Conversations now have NO migration at all — not even an entry-point
  re-plumb; they already call the trait being expanded. The old phase 2
  reduces to an independent SubmitTurnRequest-slimming follow-up (binding
  refs → workflow association state), explicitly hygiene-not-architecture.
- Rich subscribe moves off the kernel trait to a product-tier
  RunObservation façade (a kernel trait must not depend on read models);
  observation types renamed to Run* view vocabulary.
- Both diagrams, all flow pseudocode (submit_turn shown verbatim-as-today
  for conversations), the interface inventory, phases, non-goals, crate
  placement, ownership, and resolved-decisions updated coherently; boundary
  rule 3 corrected to match reality (engine stores binding refs opaquely
  today; slimming is the follow-up).

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

* docs(internal): one submit_turn with optional bindings + one shared detached accept door

Final API shape per design review: the coordinator keeps exactly one
submission method — submit_turn — whose binding refs become Option,
making the request type express the taxonomy directly (thread required =
the unit of work; binding optional = what makes it a conversation).
Per-request data moves to the accept step where conversations already put
theirs: accept_detached_context (threads tier, ONE shared implementation)
mints the unbound, ownerless thread, seeds content, and journals the
declarations (tools/output/limits); every non-channel caller uses it —
suggestions, OpenAI-compat, and subagent spawn, whose hand-rolled
ensure_thread + accept_inbound_message + synthetic placeholder refs
retire (refactor lands as its own follow-up PR). submit_detached_turn is
deleted from the design; ResumeTurnRequest refs optionalize alongside;
model hint stays on submit as requested_model. Diagrams, flows, inventory,
placement, sequencing, and resolved decisions updated coherently; subagent
lane nuance footnoted in the semantics table.

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

* docs(internal): layers-table wording — coordinator is not 'expanded'

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

* docs(internal): fix two spec inconsistencies before implementation handoff

Gates: the blanket GateNotSupported policy contradicted the OpenAI-compat
external-tool flow (and our own ResumeTurnRequest note); the ExternalTool
gate is now an explicit exemption — its resolver is the submitting client,
not a human surface. Process-kind: the 'new ProcessKind variant' resolution
predates the final design and is superseded — detached turns are ordinary
AgentTurn processes, and rolling compat reframes onto None-refs +
detached-profile rows.

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

* feat(unbound-turns): prepared-context accept door, unbound run lane, kernel binding-ref deletion (nearai#7633)

* test(turns,threads): pin today's behavior before the detached-turns change

Tests only — every pin passes against unmodified code, so the commits that
follow cannot silently change the behavior they capture.

- prepare_turn reservations (new coordinator_prepared_run_contract): the
  prepared-id path had no coverage and no production caller — pin
  consume-once, the cross-scope Unauthorized rejection, the child-run
  exemption, abort_prepared_turn, and the 4096 capacity cap.
- Rolling-compat reader posture (new run_metadata_compat_contract): a
  durable agent_turn metadata row missing the binding-ref keys is rejected
  fail-closed by today's reader (the old-style-reader proof for the
  upcoming Option refs); unknown run-profile ids (e.g. a future
  detached_structured) still rehydrate; TurnRunProfile's lenient legacy
  deserialization gets its first direct pin.
- Taxonomy baseline (both threads backends): a thread whose scope carries
  no owner_user_id is structurally invisible to owner-scoped listings and
  vice versa — the exact-tuple scope filter the detached lane's
  unbound+ownerless threads rely on.

Existing pins verified green as the baseline (not modified): busy
admission DeferredBusy/RejectedBusy + duplicate replay
(inbound_turn_contract, product_surface_contract, steering.rs), submit
idempotency replay (idempotent_replay.rs, process journal contract —
which deliberately replays without payload comparison),
one-active-run-per-thread (generated_gate_sequences, cancel.rs),
cancel-time Queued→RejectedBusy reconciliation (steering_reconcile),
trigger trusted-path submission (triggered_submit.rs), subagent spawn
(subagent_spawn_port tests, subagent_await_edge.rs), lease reclaim
(lease_wedge.rs), model repair/retry (model_recovery.rs, tool_call.rs).

Two doc-vs-code contradictions surfaced by pinning, preserved as-is and
carried to the PR body: subagent child threads are owner-scoped and DO
surface in conversation listings today (spawn is production-disabled, so
this is latent), and submit idempotency replay ignores fresh invocation
identity rather than failing closed on payload mismatch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViVKgEfYb6YCNUUMDoGE4t

* feat(unbound-turns): prepared-context accept door, unbound lane, and kernel binding-ref deletion

The kernel stops carrying reply routing. SubmitTurnRequest, ResumeTurnRequest,
RetryTurnRequest, SubmitChildRunRequest, TurnRunState, TurnRunRecord, agent-turn
metadata, and SubmitTurnResponse::Accepted lose source_binding_ref /
reply_target_binding_ref entirely; routing lives in product-side conversation
state. Frozen legacy-shape compat test proves old readers fail closed on new
rows while new readers rehydrate old rows (serde ignores unknown keys).

New primitives:
- ironclaw_host_api::prepared_context — PreparedTurnDeclarations, OutputContract,
  TurnLimits, PreparedContextSource, structured-result capability ids.
- ironclaw_llm::agent_message — provider-neutral AgentMessage vocabulary with
  bounded validation and total ChatMessage conversions.
- ironclaw_threads accept door — accept_prepared_context / read_prepared_context
  on SessionThreadService (in-memory + filesystem): deterministic unbound-thread
  minting, seeded rows via CAS, journaled PreparedContextRecord as commit marker,
  idempotent replay by key.
- Coordinator prepared-context probe — unbound profile derivation +
  declared-limits narrowing at admission; unbound concurrency class.
- Agent-loop unbound families (gate-not-supported, structured-output reply
  admission, structured-result stop) + loop_host structured_result capability
  with strict JSON-schema validation.

Subagent spawn lands on the shared accept door: synthetic per-child binding
refs, mark_message_submitted step, and AwaitEdge ref plumbing are deleted;
child submits reference the accepted seed message.

Product-side rerouting:
- run-delivery observer routes notifications from the conversation binding it
  already resolves (runs carry no reply route).
- model-channel same-origin check asks the durable conversation-binding store
  which thread a sealed reply-target ref is bound to
  (resolve_stored_reply_target) instead of reading kernel run state; the
  late-bound trigger-source turn-state slot this replaced is deleted.
- approval/auth/blocked-auth/webui gate resumes stop minting synthetic refs.
- ProcessGateRecord no longer surfaces resume/reply refs; legacy journal
  migration stops copying them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViVKgEfYb6YCNUUMDoGE4t

* feat(unbound-turns): production wiring — profiles, drivers, surfaces, caps

- Register the unbound-default / unbound-structured planned drivers and run
  profiles (steering disabled; the structured profile allows no-reply
  completion — its terminal output is the validated result row); both loop
  families join the production family registry, with re-pinned BLAKE3 digests.
- Wire ThreadServicePreparedContextSource into both production coordinator
  builds so admission derives unbound profiles from the journaled record.
- Capability surface: the `unbound_tools` deny-map strips subagent spawn and
  the trigger mutators; a prepared context that declares its tools narrows the
  surface to exactly that allowlist (read fails closed at host build).
- Unbound structured runs get the synthetic builtin.structured_result tool
  built from the journaled output schema at capability-port assembly.
- Unbound runs skip the skill/identity/memory context lanes and the
  after-turn memory recorder: the prepared context is the complete input, and
  the exchange is caller data, not a user observation.
- New `unbound` concurrency class cap plumbed through RunnerSection →
  IRONCLAW_REBORN_RUNNER_MAX_CONCURRENT_UNBOUND_RUNS → TurnRunnerSettings →
  process concurrency limits (default 4), documented in .env.example.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViVKgEfYb6YCNUUMDoGE4t

* test(unbound-turns): whole-path integration coverage + docs to the shipped end state

- New integration bin `reborn_integration_unbound_turns`: accept →
  refless submit → derived profile → planned loop → terminal state, pinning
  the structured-result happy path, the invalid-then-valid repair loop, the
  plain-final default contract, accept/submit idempotent replay, and the
  ownerless-listing exclusion; registered in Cargo.toml + tests/CLAUDE.md.
- Fix surfaced by the whole-path run: reconstructing a `__system__`-slot
  process scope now yields `TurnThreadOwner::Ownerless` (not actor-fallback),
  so an unbound run's thread reads stay on the slot the accept door wrote —
  actor-fallback reconstruction re-pointed them at `owners/<actor>` and the
  loop failed with `host_stage_unavailable_prompt`.
- Group harness: `builtin_tools_with_durable_capability_io()` ctor so the
  capability port reads the SAME thread store the runtime uses (production
  parity for the structured-result declarations read).
- Docs: design drafts renamed to the unbound/prepared-context vocabulary with
  an explicit implementation-delta section (refs deleted rather than
  optionalized; probe-derived profiles; spawn on the shared door), and the
  loop-exit contract's stale MVP gate list amended.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViVKgEfYb6YCNUUMDoGE4t

* chore(unbound-turns): gate-pass fixes — clippy matches!, host_api ceiling raise, guidance rows

- `part_allowed` rewritten as `matches!` (clippy, all-features gate).
- ironclaw_host_api size ceiling 19_026 -> 19_274: the `prepared_context`
  contract module (declarations/output-contract/limits vocabulary, the
  admission-probe trait, and the structured-result capability ids) — neutral
  authority vocabulary only; behavior stays in threads/loop_host/turns.
- ironclaw_assistant AGENTS.md module tables drop the deleted webui binding
  helpers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViVKgEfYb6YCNUUMDoGE4t

* fix(unbound-turns): clear the production panic baseline

- `chat_messages_from_agent_messages` re-raises the typed
  `ToolMessageResultCount` / `UnpairedToolResult` errors for its
  post-validation lookups instead of `.expect()` — the conversion stays
  total with no panic path.
- The structured-result capability-id constant's `.expect()` carries its
  inline `// safety:` rationale on the invocation line, where the baseline
  scanner reads it (compile-time constant, pinned by a test).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViVKgEfYb6YCNUUMDoGE4t

* fix(ci): repoint changed-coverage exemptions displaced by the ref deletion

Two exemption entries named lines beyond their files' new EOF after the
binding-ref deletion shortened them: the await-edge type-repoint exemption
(mod.rs 112/149 -> 105/142) and the steering-allowed serde-default exemption
(metadata.rs 139-141 -> 130-132). Same exempted code, current positions;
`reborn_changed_coverage.py --validate-manifest-only` passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViVKgEfYb6YCNUUMDoGE4t

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* fix(unbound-turns): close the completeness-audit gaps

Findings from the adversarial design-vs-code audit of the unbound lane:

- The stale rename-era assertion in the structured reply-admission test now
  pins the REAL control text (`builtin__structured_result`); it had been
  asserting a string the hint never contained.
- The `ironclaw_threads -> ironclaw_llm` same-layer edge is inventoried
  (with its mirror-DTO-ban rationale) and SAME_LAYER_EDGE_BASELINE moves
  71 -> 72; the manifest edge now pins `default-features = false` like the
  other policed edges.
- `gate_not_supported` failures now carry the aborting gate kind as the
  sanitized failure detail, making the loop-exit contract's "the gate kind
  rides the sanitized failure detail" true in live code; other gate-abort
  classifications keep their pinned bare-category shape.
- Design docs reconciled to the shipped end state: the companion
  one-engine doc's Option-refs phase notes are annotated as
  landed-stronger-than-drafted, and the unbound-turns §4.2 continuation
  claim now states the truth (a fresh key mints a fresh thread; in-place
  appending is a follow-up).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViVKgEfYb6YCNUUMDoGE4t

* fix(unbound-turns): repair the three red lanes on the merged base

- `production_registry_binds_default_and_subagent_families` still asserted
  the pre-unbound family count; the registry binds four families.
- Ownerless scopes lost their disposition through the process journal: the
  `__system__` owner slot holds both ownerless and actor-fallback runs, so
  reconstruction guessed. Process metadata now journals an
  `ownerless_thread` marker (absent = legacy actor-fallback) and the
  snapshot reader honors it; both directions pinned.
- Cherry-picked completeness-audit fixes: the structured reply-admission
  control-text assertion pins `builtin__structured_result`, and the
  threads→llm same-layer edge is inventoried with the baseline re-summed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViVKgEfYb6YCNUUMDoGE4t

* fix(gates): register gate_not_supported end to end + re-sum struct ratchets

`gate_not_supported` (PR nearai#7633's typed abort) was never registered with the
run-failure vocabulary: the Tier-2 summary source-parity pin, the canonical
category list, the user-facing summary table, and the text-loop driver's
matcher (which collapsed it to `driver_bug`). All four now carry it.
Struct-debt ratchet re-summed after the main merge deleted composition
factory/runtime debt (shrink-only baseline + WS0 member baseline 274 -> 270
per its own doc rule).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ViVKgEfYb6YCNUUMDoGE4t

* fix: resolve CI failures — delegate prepared context

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… consumer (nearai#7770 phase 1) (nearai#7765)

* feat(memory): periodic memory-curation pass ("dreaming"), first slice (nearai#7276)

Memory only ever grew. Writes accumulate, nothing prunes, and the standing
document has a byte budget, so redundancy crowds out what matters. No human
reads the file, so the decay is invisible.

This adds the Hermes-shaped answer: every N completed user turns, the agent
runs with no user present, re-reads its standing memory, and tidies it —
merging duplicates, resolving superseded facts, tightening wording. Its
output is the edits plus a structured report; nothing is sent to anyone.

Buildable now because unbound turns landed (nearai#7562/nearai#7634): a run with no
conversation and no reply target. The pass is submitted through the same
`UnboundTurnService` door OpenAI-compat and subagent spawn already use.

Shape. The loop tier owns only the observation ("an ordinary user turn
completed, under this scope") and reports it through a port; every policy
decision lives in the product tier. The port vocabulary sits in
`ironclaw_loop_contracts` rather than the runner because WS1.7 deliberately
removed `ironclaw_turn_runner` as a production dependency of
`ironclaw_assistant`, and this must not reverse that.

The load-bearing guard: an unbound run NEVER triggers curation. A pass is
itself unbound, so triggering on unbound completion would let each pass
schedule its successor — an unbounded background loop running the model
against a user's memory forever. Pinned by test, both unbound profiles.

Also fixed along the way: `UnboundTurnSubmission` had no way to declare
limits, so it always inherited the profile's 1024-iteration budget and no
wall clock. Fine for a user waiting on a panel, wrong for an unwatched
background chore — an unconverged pass would burn tokens against a user's
memory until that ceiling, and nobody would notice. Added narrowing-only
limits (existing callers unchanged, explicitly defaulted) and the pass
declares 6 model calls / 12 capability calls / 90s.

Safety properties pinned by tests: the pass acts as the owner and never as
an operator-config caller; it gets the three memory capabilities and nothing
else; its id doubles as the idempotency key so a crash-retry converges on
the same pass; a failed submission is swallowed at debug (post-terminal
background path — info!/warn! would corrupt the REPL).

Concurrency is safe without batch-atomic memory ops: memory writes are
compare-and-swap, so a pass racing a live conversation loses the write
rather than clobbering it. The failure mode is a lost curation pass, never
a lost memory.

Not wired into composition yet — no deployment runs this. Wiring, the
gate-behavior decision (unbound runs abort on approval gates, so users with
auto-approve off need skip-not-abort), and an integration scenario follow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): avoid an extension name in curation comments

The extension-specificity gate scans generic code for concrete extension
names; "with slack for one retry" tripped it on the English word. Reworded
rather than allowlisted — the allowlist is for pre-existing debt, not for
new code that can simply say something else.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(memory): move the curation contract into ironclaw_memory

Memory vocabulary belongs with the memory contract. "Curation" means
nothing outside memory, and the signal exists only to decide whether a
user's memory needs tidying — putting it in ironclaw_loop_contracts made
the loop-contracts crate carry a memory concept it has no stake in.

Both tiers already depend on ironclaw_memory (the runner for after-turn
recording, the product tier for the memory service), so this pulls in no
new edge; it only puts the type where its domain lives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(hooks): add privileged AfterTurn lifecycle point

Adds `HookPointSpec::AfterTurn`, a privileged-only hook point that fires
once after a turn's run reaches a terminal state — the seam for work about
the turn as a whole rather than about one model call, capability
invocation, or checkpoint.

- `AfterTurnHookContext` (`points/turn.rs`) carries tenant/user/agent/
  project plus a `completed` flag. `user_id` is non-optional and there is
  deliberately no `unbound` field: the dispatch call site never fires this
  point for unbound runs, because hook-started background work runs
  unbound and firing on unbound completion would let each background pass
  schedule its own successor forever. Observing background runs stays with
  `EventTriggered` + `LoopCompleted`, which is observer-only.
- `PrivilegedAfterTurnHook` takes no sink: an AfterTurn hook may hold its
  own collaborators and start follow-on work as a side effect. The
  sealed-return-type law stays scoped to points untrusted tiers can reach.
- `install_after_turn` rejects `Installed` and `SelfAuthored` at install
  time; `install_observer` rejects the point outright.
- `dispatch_after_turn` mirrors the observer dispatch shape (ordered
  snapshot, poison handling, failure policy, telemetry) with a 5s per-hook
  timeout, and never propagates a hook failure to the caller.
- New `DecisionKind::Lifecycle` (three in-crate consumers, all updated):
  act-capable but fails isolated, since the run it observes is already
  terminal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(memory): curation rides the AfterTurn hook point, bespoke port deleted

nearai#7765 landed memory curation on a bespoke `AfterTurnCurationPort` because no
general lifecycle seam existed yet. The `AfterTurn` hook point now exists, so
the port is deleted and curation becomes one privileged hook among others.

- `ironclaw_memory` sheds `src/curation.rs` entirely: memory carries no
  hook-framework vocabulary and no bespoke port.
- `ironclaw_turn_runner` gains `after_turn_hooks::after_turn_hook_context`,
  which keeps the two guards centrally so no hook has to remember them: an
  unbound run never fires the point (hook-started background work runs
  unbound, so firing on unbound completion would let each pass schedule its
  own successor forever), and an actorless run never fires it (nothing to
  attribute follow-on work to).
- The executor's `after_turn_curation` field becomes
  `after_turn_hooks: Option<Arc<HookDispatcher>>` with `with_after_turn_hooks`.
  The 5s bound survives as an OUTER backstop around the whole dispatch; the
  dispatcher already bounds each hook.
- Semantic widening: the point fires for ANY terminal state of an ordinary
  actor-bearing run, not just `Completed`. Hooks that only want successes read
  `ctx.completed` — which `MemoryCurationService` does, first thing, because a
  failed turn says nothing about whether memory needs tidying and counting it
  would drift the interval.
- `MemoryCurationService` implements `PrivilegedAfterTurnHook`; every policy
  decision (interval, per-owner counters, pass building, idempotency key)
  is unchanged. `ironclaw_assistant` takes a normal `ironclaw_hooks`
  dependency — products→loops, the edge it already has via `ironclaw_loop_host`.
- `AfterTurnHookContext::new` added: the struct is `#[non_exhaustive]` and the
  call site is outside `ironclaw_hooks`, so a struct literal is unavailable.

The dispatcher is un-wired (`None`) after this commit; composition follows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(memory): wire curation through composition behind [memory] config

Phase 1 of nearai#7770 ends where it should: the `AfterTurn` point has a live
consumer. Composition registers the memory-curation hook, so after every Nth
completed turn the agent goes off on its own and tidies the user's standing
memory document (nearai#7276).

- `[memory].curation_interval_turns` (`ironclaw_config`): opt-in, serde-default
  absent. Absent means the hook is NEVER REGISTERED — disabled is expressed by
  not wiring, never by a sentinel, so a written `0` is rejected at parse time
  rather than clamped downstream into "after every turn". Config-only, no env
  override: that matches `provider`/`admin_overrides`, and only the mem0
  connection fields carry an env convention.
- `ironclaw_assistant::memory_curation::after_turn_curation_dispatcher` owns the
  assembly — which hook, at which phase (`Telemetry`: the run is already
  terminal, so it enforces nothing), under which trust class (`Builtin`), behind
  the stable `HookId::for_builtin` path. Composition calls it; per AGENTS.md the
  wiring root does not own module policy. Its own small dispatcher, not the
  per-run middleware one: `after_turn` fires once per run from a
  process-lifetime `Arc`.
- `DefaultPlannedRuntimeParts::after_turn_hook_dispatcher_factory` is a factory,
  not a ready dispatcher, because the `UnboundTurnService` the hook submits
  through is built from the coordinator the same function builds. Handed
  `AfterTurnHookDeps` once, after those exist; may still decline.
- Two conditions gate registration in composition: an operator asked for an
  interval AND a memory provider resolved. A pass over a document no provider
  backs would submit a run whose only three tools do not exist.

Gate posture (nearai#7770's skip-and-note) is deliberately NOT implemented; a
`DECISION nearai#7770:` comment at the submission site records why. No read-only
"would this capability gate for this scope" query exists: the answer needs the
descriptor's effects and origin-gate matrix, the run's `ApprovalPolicy`, the
`TrustDecision`, grants, and leases composed inside
`authorize_dispatch_with_trust` at dispatch time, with an origin that does not
exist until the run is executing. Approximating it from
`ApprovalSettingsProvider::global_auto_approve` alone would duplicate gate
composition in a product service. The seam that is actually missing is at the
gate strategy: a `GateOutcome` that skips the capability for the model instead
of aborting the unbound run.

Tests: two group scenarios drive the wired path end to end — the pass's thread
id is its idempotency key and therefore deterministic, which is what lets the
harness script the background pass's model at all. The positive scenario runs N
ordinary turns and asserts the tidied text reaches a LATER conversation's prompt
under the same user's own memory lane; the negative asserts an empty pass script
below the interval and then corroborates it by crossing the interval one turn
later, so "empty" cannot be latency. Both falsified by moving the interval.
`with_memory_curation_interval()` on the group builder mirrors production's
opt-in exactly; the wiring-parity tripwire and composition mass gate move with
the new field.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): review round — per-trigger pass identity, conversation-only triggers, fail-closed install

Six review findings on nearai#7765 (epic nearai#7770 phase 1).

- **Pass identity was the number of OWNERS, not passes.** The curation pass id
  was `…-{counters.len()}`, which for one user is forever `1`: every interval
  after the first reused the same public id and idempotency key, so the unbound
  accept door REPLAYED the first pass instead of running a new one — the
  document would be curated exactly once, ever, with nothing surfacing it.
  `AfterTurnHookContext` now carries `run_id` (the terminal run that fired the
  point), the runner threads it through, and the pass id is
  `memory-curation-{tenant}-{user}-{run_id}`: distinct per trigger, and
  replayed as-is by a crash-retry of the same trigger, with no durable counter.
- **Scheduled-trigger fires and subagent children no longer count.** A trusted
  fire keeps its creator as `TurnActor` and runs a non-unbound profile, so it
  passed both original guards and could launch a write-capable pass with no
  user present. The derivation is now an ALLOWLIST of conversation profiles
  (`reborn-planned-default`, `interactive_default`, `default`); the
  denylist shape failed open for every profile added later.
- **Curation install fails closed.** `AfterTurnHookDispatcherFactory` returns
  `Result` and the runtime build propagates it as
  `DefaultPlannedRuntimeBuildError::AfterTurnHooks`. Declining is expressed by
  supplying no factory, never by a swallowed error that leaves a deployment
  believing memory is being tidied.
- **A zero interval is unrepresentable downstream.** Config already rejected
  `curation_interval_turns = 0`; `NonZeroU32` now carries through the input
  builder into `MemoryCurationService`, and the clamp is gone.
- **Typed error and typed counter key.** `CurationPassSubmitter::submit_pass`
  returns `UnboundTurnError`; counters key on a `(TenantId, UserId)` struct.
- `// arch-exempt:` on the executor's hook field uses the enforced
  `plan #NNNN` form.

Tests: distinct-vs-converging pass ids; scheduled-trigger and subagent profiles
yield no context, planned-default does; the executor actually dispatches at the
seam (recording hook over a completed bound run, and never for an unbound one);
`accept_and_submit` journals the declared `TurnLimits`. The two curation
scenarios script the pass by owner-scoped thread PREFIX — a new test-support
`register_scope_script_prefix_for_test` — because a per-run pass id is not
knowable before the triggering turn runs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): panic-free interval const + QA harness field the sweep missed

Two breaks, one class: struct call sites in test bins the local
verification set never compiled.

- The production panic baseline scans syntactically, so the compile-time
  `match … unreachable!()` NonZeroU32 constructor counted as a new panic.
  Replaced with `NonZeroU32::MIN.saturating_add(9)` — const, panic-free,
  and the comment says why the odd spelling exists.
- `reborn_parity_qa/binary_e2e.rs` initializes DefaultPlannedRuntimeParts
  and needed the new `after_turn_hook_dispatcher_factory` field (None: QA
  replay drives no lifecycle hooks).

Verified with `cargo check --workspace --tests` — the command that
covers every bin, which the per-crate verification lists did not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(filesystem): satisfy the Rust 1.98 chunks_exact_to_as_chunks lint

Rust stable 1.98 rolled through CI today and its new clippy lint fails
every branch on decode_embedding_blob's chunks_exact. as_chunks is the
better code anyway: const chunk size yields [u8; 4] directly, so the
per-element indexing disappears. Behavior pinned by the existing vector
tests.

Not this branch's code — the same fix goes to main in its own PR so
every other open branch stops failing too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(lints): complete the Rust 1.98 clippy migration

Full-workspace sweep under 1.98 (the toolchain CI now runs), on top of the
vector.rs fix already on this branch:

- result_large_err: GoogleCredentialError boxes its Recovery projection
  (one variant, nine sites' worth of warnings); agent_loop's batch error
  boxes its host error; turn_runner boxes only HostFinalizationFailed's
  payload — DriverError stays unboxed because five match sites destructure
  it by pattern, and it is not the oversized member.
- chunks_exact_to_as_chunks: the two UTF-16 decoders in coding/text.rs.
- useless_format in a trace_commons test.

All private types or contained call sites; no public API changes beyond
the boxed variant payloads inside their own crates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(lints): last two 1.98 sites — map_or_identity, test-support large errors

The tracing-syntax architecture test's map_or(len, |end| end) becomes
unwrap_or; db_write_measurement's error enum boxes its DbProbeError
payloads (test-support only, ~5 construction sites).

Full-workspace clippy --tests under 1.98: clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(hooks): Lifecycle-vs-Effect rationale + amend the side-effect invariant

Approach-audit disposition on nearai#7770 (accepted findings ST3/SP3):

- trust.rs documents why Lifecycle is not a duplicate of Effect: Effect is
  permitted for Installed/SelfAuthored by default — the third-party class
  for post-durable-fact event hooks — while turn completion must not carry
  that default. Folding them would silently widen who may react to a
  finished turn.
- The hooks contract's side-effect invariant now names mediated
  prepared-context turn submission as a sanctioned route for Lifecycle
  hooks, instead of the code silently diverging from a list written before
  unbound turns existed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): audit round 2 — fail-closed curation gate, per-run hook dispatcher

Second approach audit on nearai#7765 (nearai#7770 phase 1). Six accepted findings plus
the documentation gaps they exposed.

Fail closed on a provider that cannot curate. Composition registered curation
whenever an interval was configured and any memory provider resolved, but a
pass REPLACES the standing document and a bound third-party provider may
reject that write outright — a deployment would spawn passes forever that all
fail, with nothing surfacing it. `curation_interval_for_binding` now gates on
the resolved binding and turns a configured-but-unservable curation into a
startup error naming the provider and how to disable it. Nothing in a manifest
declares "supports standing-document replacement" (`[memory].lifecycle` is
about read/record hooks), so the gate is the native binding, with the missing
declaration named in the comment as the seam for nearai#7664.

Hook poison is run-scoped by contract, so the executor now holds a per-run
dispatcher FACTORY instead of one process-lifetime dispatcher: a panic or
timeout is barred for the run it happened in and retried on the next, instead
of disabling curation until restart. The curation SERVICE stays one long-lived
instance — its per-owner counters must accumulate across runs — and each fresh
dispatcher installs a binding over that same service.

Blocked states no longer dispatch. `after_turn_hook_context` requires
`TurnStatus::is_terminal()`: a gated-then-resumed turn fired the point twice,
once while still running.

Also: tier-specific `install_builtin_after_turn` / `install_trusted_after_turn`
replace the trust-class-parameterized installer (an invalid tier is now
unrepresentable, not rejected at runtime); the executor's outer dispatch bound
moves 5s -> 30s so it can never preempt the dispatcher's own per-hook timeout
classification; the unused default-interval constant is deleted and its "ten
matches Hermes" rationale moved to the config field a deployer reads; the
hooks consumer inventory gains `ironclaw_assistant`; and `points/turn.rs` now
states plainly that the point fires only for exits the executor applies —
scheduler failure terminalization does not dispatch it, tracked as a follow-up
on nearai#7770.

Composition budget 42198 -> 42316 (both records, dated): +7 wiring, +109 for
the fail-closed gate and its tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(hooks): enforce the after_turn tier gate in the registry, and close the review gaps

CodeRabbit round three on nearai#7765.

`HookRegistry::insert` now refuses `Installed` / `SelfAuthored` bindings at
`HookPointSpec::AfterTurn`, alongside the phase-vs-trust gate it already
carries. The tier-split installers encoded the restriction, but raw bindings
reach the registry through `from_bindings` and the public builder's
`insert_binding`, which bypass them — the point is act-capable, so an
untrusted binding there would surface as a malformed binding mid-dispatch
instead of an install-time refusal.

The dispatcher's per-hook `after_turn` budget becomes injectable
(`HookDispatcherBuilder::with_after_turn_timeout`, defaulting to
`AFTER_TURN_HOOK_TIMEOUT`), which is what makes the timeout-race regression
affordable: the executor-seam test wedges one hook against a millisecond
budget and proves the hook ordered after it still runs, that the wedged one is
recorded as a Timeout failure, and that the already-terminal run is unaffected.
That asymmetry — outer backstop strictly larger than per-hook budget times hook
count — was fixed earlier but never pinned.

Executor-seam coverage also gains the two non-success terminal states: a FAILED
and a CANCELLED conversation run each dispatch exactly once with
`ctx.completed == false`.

The below-threshold curation scenario no longer rests on a single empty
reading, which a queued-but-unstarted pass would also produce. After crossing
the interval it now requires EXACTLY ONE pass — one pass's worth of model calls
and no more — which is what makes the earlier zero real rather than latency.

The group harness mirrors production's two-part activation gate: curation wires
only when an interval AND a bound memory provider are present, not from the
interval alone.

Version claims in two comments are reworded to name the lint rather than a
toolchain release nobody can verify offline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(composition): re-measure the mass budget after the main merge

The merge combined main's composition growth (notification inbox nearai#7697,
subagent slice nearai#7788) with this branch's curation wiring; the two
ceilings merged textually without a git conflict while the sum exceeded
both — the gate caught exactly the case it exists for. Ceiling and the
mirrored COMPOSITION_ABSOLUTE_SRC_LOC move together to the measured
42479, dated rationale in the toml. No composition code changes here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): give the curation pass report headroom — live-test finding

The 2026-08-21 live test (DeepSeek-V4-Flash, isolated home, interval 2)
proved the machinery end to end — the pass fired exactly once, acted as
the user, consolidated two wordings of one fact into a correct merged
line, and read its own write back to verify — and then terminated
`Failed { model_call_limit }` before emitting its structured report. A
real model spends calls a scripted one does not: three writes where the
prompt asks for one, plus a fumbled read.

Two changes, both evidence-backed:
- MEMORY_CURATION_MAX_ITERATIONS 6 -> 10. The ceiling still hard-stops
  an unconverged pass; it now leaves room for the report after ordinary
  real-model imperfection.
- The prompt's Finishing section states the budget and the exact
  sequence (read -> at most one write -> result tool), and says plainly
  that a pass dying unreported is worse than a pass changing nothing.

The scripted integration scenario hands the model exactly three replies
and structurally cannot see this failure mode; the constants comment
records the live evidence so the next tuner knows where 10 came from.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(extension-contracts): declare [[memory.scheduled_ops]] — pass ops, trust-gated, cost-floored

A memory provider can now declare its own recurring upkeep in its manifest
instead of the host hardcoding which provider gets which background work.
The provider names the work and the cadence; the host keeps the clock, the
invocation envelope, and the authority.

    [[memory.scheduled_ops]]
    trigger = "after_turn"
    interval_turns = 10
    pass = { prompt = "prompts/memory_curation.md", tools = ["ironclaw.memory.read", "ironclaw.memory.write"], max_model_calls = 10 }

Contracts tier only — nothing dispatches or invokes these yet.

`MemoryScheduledTrigger` is a closed host-owned vocabulary with exactly one
v0 entry; an unrecognized token fails the parse rather than being dropped,
because a silently ignored trigger presents as a provider whose declared
upkeep simply never runs. `MemoryScheduledOpKind` is tagged by which key the
entry declares, and `tool = "..."` is RECOGNIZED and REJECTED with its own
message rather than falling through to an unknown-field error, so a manifest
written against the eventual schema fails with intent. Both keys or neither
are errors too. The wire shape and the parsed shape are separate types, so
`MemoryScheduledOp` cannot be built from a manifest without clearing every
per-op rule.

Three bounds, each with its reason in a doc comment and a test:

- `interval_turns >= 2` (`MIN_SCHEDULED_OP_INTERVAL_TURNS`) — a manifest
  declares work that runs on someone else's deployment at their expense, so
  it must not be able to demand per-turn invocation. `NonZeroU32` makes
  "every 0 turns" unrepresentable before the floor even applies.
- `pass.max_model_calls <= 16` (`MAX_SCHEDULED_PASS_MODEL_CALLS`) — a pass is
  unwatched background spend with nobody reading the transcript. The nearai#7770
  live test put the realistic curation need at 10.
- At most one op per trigger — the host holds one interval counter per
  trigger per owner, so a second op has no well-defined cadence.

Two rules need the whole manifest and land in
`ironclaw_extension_registry::v3::validate_memory_scheduled_ops`, beside the
existing `[admin_configuration]` cross-check and for the same reason — only
that layer sees `[[tools]]` and the requested trust class next to `[memory]`:

- A pass's `tools` must be ids the SAME manifest declares. Declaration is
  selection, never authority: a memory provider must not schedule passes
  wielding another extension's tools.
- Only a first-party/system manifest may declare a pass op at all. A pass is
  a manifest-authored prompt running with write tools, as every user, on a
  schedule — a strictly larger grant than a model-chosen tool call, so it
  gets the same default-deny wall as the after-turn hook tiers. Host-bundled
  alone is not enough, pinned by a test that refuses a third-party-trust
  manifest from a host-bundled source.

`scheduled_ops` is serde-defaulted and empty when absent, so every manifest
written before it existed parses unchanged and schedules nothing
(`memory_manifest_without_scheduled_ops_still_parses`,
`scheduled_ops_absent_in_an_older_manifest_means_none`). `pass.prompt` reuses
`guidance_doc`'s validated bundled-asset ref type; asset RESOLUTION stays
host-side and fail-closed.

The §11.2.3 contracts size ceiling moves 10_841 -> 11_451 for the declaration
family and its inline tests, count read from the ratchet's own failure
message.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(memory): scheduled ops drive curation — native declares its pass, opt-in stays

The declaration replaces the hardwired layer (nearai#7664 addendum v2):

- memory-native's manifest declares its curation as `[[memory.scheduled_ops]]`
  (after_turn, recommended cadence 10, pass over its own three memory tools,
  max_model_calls 10 — the live-test calibration). The curation prompt moves
  into the package beside the guidance doc, exported through the same asset
  table, resolved host-side fail-closed.
- `MemoryCurationService` dies; `MemoryScheduledOpRunner` is built FROM the
  resolved declaration (prompt text, tool ids, model-call ceiling), keeping
  the policy that was already pinned: per-owner counters, completed-only
  counting, the `memory-curation-` pass-id prefix as contract, the submitter
  seam, debug-only failure swallowing. The tool-op arm is
  unreachable-by-construction (leg A parse-rejects it) and says so explicitly.
- Composition's native-only gate arm dies: the gate is now "did the bound
  provider declare an op" — a configured interval against a provider that
  declares nothing stays a startup error naming the provider.

OPT-IN preserved (owner decision, 2026-08-22): the declaration ARMS upkeep —
validated shape, resolved prompt, recommended cadence — and
`[memory].curation_interval_turns` ENABLES it. Omitted = nothing runs,
exactly as before this change; a manifest cannot switch on background token
spend for a deployment that never asked. The config floor (>= 2) is now
enforced at parse, where the operator can read why.

Leg B built by a subagent (session-limited mid-flight), completed and
re-verified from the worktree; opt-in flip + config validation + marker
resolution by the orchestrator.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): the curation prompt demands an explicit append:false — live-test v2 finding

The declared-op live re-test (2026-08-23, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, fresh isolated
home): the pass reached its structured report — the model_call_limit death
from the first live test is fixed — but the model's FIRST write omitted
append:false, transiently duplicating the document before it self-corrected
with a proper replace two calls later. The prompt asked for one write; it
never said which KIND. Now it does, with the consequence spelled out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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