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Item 0 of the v0.9 build list. Documentation only: no src/ change, no test change. The version
bump is item 7's, as v0.6's, v0.7's and v0.8's were.

What it says

v0.8 asked who may say yes and whether the kernel can tell. v0.9 asks the question VISION.md §5
has had no code under it: how much, over which records, for which task? A grant says
amount_lte: 5000 and is silent about the thousand actions that each pass it. An agent that issues
four hundred refunds of 4,999 in eleven minutes produces four hundred valid receipts and breaks no
rule this project has written down.

Six deliverables and three guarantees, per the roadmap's v0.9 section:

Item Section Guarantee
1. Task-bound authority §6 G24
2. Scope providers §5 G23
3. The budget in the document §2 none
4. The ledger, and the store amendment §3 none
5. Consumption, reconciliation and release §4 G22
6. The operator surfaces §7 none

The one amendment to a frozen surface

StateStore gains charges= on reserve_effect and consume_approval_and_reserve. It has
been frozen since SPEC-v0.6.md §9.2 and the expected number of new methods has been zero. §3.3
argues it against that section's stated bar, twice:

  1. The charge must land inside the transaction that writes the reservation. A second backend
    written against today's declared protocol has nowhere to put it except outside that transaction,
    and outside it the sum and the insert are not serialised. Two processes read the same total and
    both pass. postgres.py:1106 records this repository finding that exact bug once already, in the
    form of eight authorised refunds.
  2. The stronger half. Because the charge rides inside the reservation's transaction,
    v0.6 §4.3.2's single re-read resolves it along with the reservation. Split them and §4.3.2
    needs a third table nobody has written, covering a reservation that landed with a charge that may
    not have, which is a state no operator could reason about and no resolve command could fix.

If item 4 finds a column would have done, the amendment is unnecessary and this spec is wrong.
That is a stop-and-report, not a workaround.

What reading the code changed

Four decisions this document would otherwise have got wrong, recorded in §1.4:

  • plan_reservation already contains the ledger's state machine. effect.py:248-315 is the
    complete table of exits from a reservation, and one rule over it covers every row. The ledger has
    no states, it has an invariant: released exactly on FAILED, held in every other state.
  • "One effect key charges once" is false. FAILED is the only state that reserves the same key
    twice, with renews=True and attempt+1, and it should charge again because the release
    already happened. §4.3 states it correctly: at most one un-released charge per
    (effect_key, grant_id, metric) at a time.
  • v0.6 §4.3.2's re-read tables decide two implementation details. Table A1 row 2 re-inserts
    once, so the ledger insert is idempotent on a key (§3.4). Table A2 row 2 re-issues an UPDATE
    once, so release is a compare-and-set on a nullable timestamp and never a decrement (§4.4). A
    decrement would have quietly grown an operator's budget on a lost commit.
  • Consumption must charge every ancestor (§2.7). Without it a holder of a 100,000-a-day grant
    delegates ten correctly-contained children and spends 1,000,000, and v0.3 §5's whole containment
    argument decides nothing quantitative.

Four open questions, decided, and where to overrule me

Question Answer Section
O1 the StateStore amendment's shape charges= on the two reserving methods plus one read method; the predicate evaluated in the store, inside the transaction §3.3, §3.3.1, §3.3.2
O2 what a budget refusal discloses grant, metric, window; never the remaining amount, which a refusal-costs-nothing attacker binary-searches §4.5
O3 scope provider: shared with v0.7 §6, or a sibling a sibling, amending v0.7 §6.9 explicitly §5.2, §5.2.1
O4 what a grant naming no task authorises any task; v0.3 §5.4's own closing paragraph already settled the root-versus-delegation asymmetry §6.5

O4 is the one that could change 0.8.0 behaviour: read the other way, v0.9 would refuse every action
that succeeded at 0.8.0 under every grant anybody has written, since none names a task.

Review: done, ten blocking findings, all ten real

The independent spec review ran and found ten. Every one was verified against the code before being
acted on, and every one was a genuine defect. The full set is in the commit message of
Answer the spec review; four are worth reading here.

§2.6's window axis was inverted, and this is the one that mattered. It said
child.window <= parent.window, reasoning that the same limit over a longer window is more
authority. The arithmetic is the other way round. A parent at 100000/PT24H may spend 700,000 a
week; a child at 100000/P7D may spend 100,000, which is one seventh the rate. The rule as written
would have accepted a child at PT1H, spending 24x the parent's authority, and rejected the
child that was genuinely narrower. Fixed to child.window >= parent.window, with the proof written
out and T401/T402 swapped, since both asserted the inverted rule.

§7 did not exist. §1's scope table assigned item 6 to it, §9.6 referenced it, and §3.5, §4.5 and
§12 pointed at a §7.3 that was never written. One of six deliverables had no contract at all. §7 is
now the operator surfaces; guarantees moved to §8 and everything after shifted.

O1 was under-answered, which the review is what caught. charges= made the ledger write
atomic, and the race is in the check, and nothing said where the check happens. §3.3.1 now decides
it: in the store, inside the transaction, with Charge carrying the whole predicate. Evaluating at
the authority gate is rejected by name, because control.py:819 runs before the transaction, so
both processes would pass and charges= would faithfully record both spends. §3.3.2 adds the second
half of the amendment: a read method, since a backend implementing charges= and nothing else
breaks inspect and verify, which is v0.6 §2.7.2's finding for events() and receipts()
happening again.

A budget was silently unenforced for any action with no effect key. effect_key is optional and
consumption happens on reserve, so an agent holding a budgeted grant could propose unlimited actions
carrying no effect: template and spend zero. §2.1's sharp case is four hundred refunds; four
hundred under a @protect with no effect= would have been four hundred free ones. §2.4.1 refuses
them.

Also fixed: §5 contradicted v0.7 §6.9, which says in as many words that v0.9's scope providers
"configure this hook rather than adding a second one" (§5.2.1 now amends it explicitly, with the
three mechanical reasons); §4.2's table was mislabelled and missing four rows including the
attempt-ceiling release, which is the exact shape v0.8's item 4 took three attempts on; §6.3 named
no surface by which a task id reaches the kernel, and the obvious one would have moved every action
hash in existence (§6.3.1); and §5.8 claimed v0.7 §6.7's window was unchanged when §5.7's ordering
widens it.

The four open questions are now answered in the spec rather than left for the maintainer, and
the table above is superseded by §3.3.1, §4.5, §5.2.1 and §6.5. They remain the four places to
overrule me, and an item that finds one wrong stops rather than working around it.

Checks

  • ruff format --check, ruff check: clean.
  • Full gate at the branch point acf45c0, with Postgres: 3952 passed in 3m28s plus 56 serial in
    31s, 4008 total, 0 skipped. Without Postgres: 3745 passed, 257 skipped. The runs differ by 263 and
    not 257 because six tests are collected only when a store URL is configured.
  • Docs generators: this changes no public name, CLI command or schema, so none of them drift
    because of this branch. The docs job is nonetheless red, and it is red on main at
    acf45c0 for the same reason
    : render_readiness reports the block claims 5,653 tests and the suite collects 5,577. Pre-existing, not a required check, and item 7 regenerates it rather
    than any item here. Flagging it rather than leaving it to look like this branch's doing.
  • Acceptance tests are T379 onward; v0.8 ended at T378.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Added the v0.9 “Envelope” specification.
    • Documented consequence budgets, scope providers, and task-bound authority.
    • Defined related guarantees, acceptance tests, fail-closed behavior, and out-of-scope cases.
    • Recorded updates to the reservation contract and schema versions.

Everything shipped so far decides one action at a time. A grant says
amount_lte: 5000 and is silent about the thousand actions that each pass
it. That is the qualitative half of authority, and it is complete. v0.9
is the quantitative half: how much, over which records, for which task?

Six deliverables, three guarantees. G22 a budget held by an unresolved
effect refuses the next reserve, G23 a failing scope provider leaves
nothing reserved, G24 a grant refused off the task it names.

Four rules, each a decision that could have gone the other way:

Consumed on reserve, inside the reservation's transaction. A check on
one line and a consumption on another is a race two processes win
together, and postgres.py:1106 records this repository finding that
exact bug once already.

Ambiguity is not a refund. An AMBIGUOUS effect holds its consumption
until a human or a hook resolves it, because otherwise an agent that can
generate ambiguity can generate authority, and generating ambiguity is
free for any flaky integration. This is the hole that parked budgets for
four milestones rather than shipping them as a rate limiter.

A budget names a metric, not a consequence. The kernel sums a number it
was pointed at and classifies nothing, on SPEC-v0.4 §3.9's rule that
verify never grades an operator's document.

A scope provider answers a question rather than detecting a change,
which is what separates it from the precondition fingerprint of
SPEC-v0.7 §6. The provider returns the scope and the kernel matches,
because a provider returning a decision would be the authorizer and the
receipt would say only that something said yes.

Reading the code moved four decisions. plan_reservation already contains
the ledger's state machine, so the ledger has an invariant rather than
states. FAILED is the only path that reserves one effect key twice, so
"charges once" is wrong and §4.3 states it as at most one un-released
charge at a time. SPEC-v0.6 §4.3.2's re-read tables are why the ledger
insert is idempotent and why release is a compare-and-set on a flag
rather than a decrement. And because the charge rides inside the
reservation's transaction, one re-read resolves both, where splitting
them would need a third table nobody has written.

That last point is half of §3.3's argument for the milestone's one
amendment to a frozen surface: StateStore, frozen since SPEC-v0.6 §9.2,
gains charges= on the two methods that reserve. If item 4 finds a column
would have done, it stops.

§12 is empty; item 7 writes it in one pass, per the milestone's plan.

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- Around line 267-268: Update _canonical_grant so budget entries preserve their
document order in the policy hash, or make refusal selection independent of
budget order; ensure reordered budgets cannot produce the same hash while
changing the named first refusal, and add an acceptance test covering reordered
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- Around line 189-192: Update the metric-value specification near the
canonicalizer requirement to remove decimals from the accepted set, matching
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- Around line 328-336: Define the Charge value object with grant_id, metric, and
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than child-only charges. Document the store-boundary invariant that every
required ancestor has exactly one ledger row, define duplicate-input rejection,
and require atomic validation before reserve_effect and
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Specify the exact scope-hash input.

docs/SPEC-v0.9.md defines only that the returned scope uses canonical_bytes and a distinct domain tag. It does not define the tag value or whether the input is the raw scope mapping or a tagged wrapper. Independent implementations can therefore produce different scope_hash values for the same scope. Define the complete input formula and add a fixed test vector for verify and receipt consumers.

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§2.3 said "integers and decimals", and the code says otherwise.
v0.1 §2.3's PlainValue is str | int | bool | list | dict | None, and
action.py:18 carries the reason as "Note the absence of float". Decimal
is not in that set, so an Action cannot hold one and canonical_bytes
would refuse it: the sentence specified a value the kernel rejects at
construction, which is the kind of contradiction a spec gets to have for
exactly as long as nobody reads it against the code.

So money is budgeted in minor units, which is what
examples/authority/payments.yaml already does: amount_lte: 5000 with the
comment "€0 to €50.00". Nothing new is being asked of an operator; the
convention is the one the shipped example teaches.

A decimal metric is not added here rather than merely omitted. It would
need a canonical representation, a rule for how it hashes and receipt
coverage for both, which is a v0.1 §2.3 amendment and not something §2
may decide on its own.

T407 grows the cases and names the one to write first: YAML hands a
quoted number back as a str, so "100.50" is the shape an operator
actually produces, and coercing it would put the drift back through the
door the float rejection closed. §10's row follows.

Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
The independent review found ten blocking defects. All ten were real;
one of them would have shipped a containment check that blesses a 24x
escalation while rejecting the safe case.

§2.6's window axis was inverted. It said child.window <= parent.window,
on the reasoning that the same limit over a longer window is more
authority. The arithmetic is the other way round: a parent at
100,000/24H may spend 700,000 a week, a child at 100,000/week may spend
100,000, so the longer window is one seventh the rate and narrower. The
rule is now child.window >= parent.window, with the proof written out
and the 24x case (parent PT24H, child PT1H) on the page next to T401.
T401 and T402 are swapped; they asserted the inverted rule in both
directions.

§2.6.1 is new: budgets are a list, so containment needs a pairing rule
and there was none. For every parent budget there must exist a child
budget on the same metric with limit <= and window >=. Matching on the
metric alone is undecidable the moment a parent budgets amount twice,
which is the case §2.2 exists for.

§3.3.1 is new and answers what §3.3 left open. charges= made the ledger
write atomic; the race is in the check, and nothing said where the check
happens. It happens in the store, inside the transaction, with Charge
carrying the whole predicate, and Control converting a package-internal
refusal into §4.5's ActionDenied. Evaluating at the authority gate is
rejected explicitly: control.py:819 runs before the transaction, so two
processes read the same total and charges= records both spends
faithfully.

§3.3's "both backends" cited state.py:1014-1040, which is
InMemoryStateStore under a threading.Lock. The SQLite store's is
state.py:1760-1795. A mutex is not evidence about a transaction.

§3.3.2 is new: the amendment is one parameter and one read method. A
second backend implementing charges= and nothing else satisfies every
declared method and breaks ctrlrun inspect and ctrlrun verify, which is
v0.6 §2.7.2's finding for events() and receipts(), again.

§7 did not exist. §1 assigned item 6 to it, §8.6 referenced it, and
§3.5, §4.5 and §12 pointed at a §7.3 that was never written. One of six
deliverables had no contract. §7 is now the operator surfaces;
guarantees moved to §8 and everything after it shifted.

§2.4.1 is new. effect_key is optional, consumption happens on reserve,
so an agent holding a budgeted grant spent nothing on any action with no
effect template. Four hundred refunds under a @Protect with no effect=
were four hundred free ones. Refused now, on §2.3's rule that the
absence of a field must not become the absence of a limit.

§4.2 was titled "every exit from RESERVED" and was wrong about the code:
commit_effect and fail_effect leave EXECUTING, resolve_effect leaves
AMBIGUOUS. Retitled to the disposition of a held charge, which is what
the rule is over, and four rows added that an implementer would not
derive: the attempt ceiling releasing after a won reservation
(control.py:1242, the shape v0.8 item 4 missed), begin_execution refused
after a won reservation, observe mode reserving outside _take, and a
suspension holding a charge. Row 9 claimed v0.2 §2.3 permits two hook
passes; it permits two takes, and _secure's guard is `if reconciled or
not self._reconciled(...)`.

§4.2.1 is new: observe mode charges nothing, because a budget consumed
under observation would enforce, and observe-then-enforce is the
documented adoption path.

§5.2.1 is new. v0.7 §6.9 says in as many words that v0.9's scope
providers "configure this hook rather than adding a second one", and §5
concluded the opposite without citing it. The amendment is now explicit,
with the three mechanical differences that justify it. §5.2.2 adds the
where-it-binds table v0.7 §6.8 has and §5 owed, including resume, where
a refusal strands a reservation.

§5.8 said v0.7 §6.7's residual window applies unchanged. It does not:
running scope before the recheck puts a second unbounded network call
inside the precondition's fetch-to-reservation window. Stated, with the
diagnosability reason it is worth it.

§6.3.1 is new. §6.3 said the task comes from the caller and named no
surface. It is task= on @Protect and Control.execute, through v0.7
§6.2's context mechanism, and NOT a field on Action: adding one moves
every action hash in existence and invalidates every stored approval.
The cost is stated rather than hidden: the hash is silent about the
task, so an approval does not bind one, and authority re-checks it at
consumption.

Also: §6.5 now cites v0.3 §5.4's own closing paragraph, which settled
the root-versus-delegation asymmetry in writing, instead of arguing it
from scratch. 0007_budget_ledger is named, as v0.6 §3.7 and v0.7 §6.11
named theirs, with the reverse-direction test v0.6 §3.5 requires. Budget
.window's type and canonical form are pinned. §8.1 argues G23's N/A,
which is the one that is not a statement about the document. Three tests
asserting a receipt "field-for-field what 0.8.0 wrote" are impossible
once the schema bumps, and now say so. §12 no longer attributes all
thirteen of its rows to the roadmap, which has four.

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Thirteen findings. The second round exists because in v0.5 two defects
were found in fixes written for the previous round; this round found
three, which is the rule earning its keep.

A negative metric value was accepted, and it is a budget refund. §2.3
required an integer and never required a non-negative one, so an agent
alternating +100000 and -100000 reduced the rolling sum and spent
without bound. examples/policies/payments.yaml:29 already carries the
comment "a refund of a negative amount is a charge", which is why every
band in that document binds both ends. Worse, it silently voided the
§2.6 proof added by round one: monotonicity of a sum over nested
intervals holds only for non-negative terms, so one negative value and
the child's predicate stops implying the parent's.

Round one's §3.3.1 made a third-party store fail OPEN. It cited
SPEC-v0.8 §2.5 as precedent for a package-internal carrier, but that
section's safety is its direction, which it states: a store that ignores
it records nothing and the consume-side check then refuses, "which is
the fail-closed direction". This carrier inverts that. StateStore is a
structural Protocol, so a store implementing charges= as "write the
rows" and never evaluating the predicate disables every budget silently.
The predicate is now a declared MUST with a conformance case.

And the refusal had no catch site. _secure catches AmbiguousEffect,
ActionDenied and ApprovalMismatch; a new type escapes all three with no
receipt and no event, which control.py:1748-1751 records this repository
finding once already, "Found by review, round 2". Routing it through the
ActionDenied handler is also wrong: that appends APPROVAL_DENIED
unconditionally and would fabricate an approval denial for an action no
human saw. §3.3.2 names the handler; T437 asserts the absence.

§2.4.1, written by round one, had the same shape as the gap it fixed: it
refused at execute and named no site. Authority.evaluate takes no effect
key, and Control.evaluate resolves none, so needs_approval would report
ALLOW for an action execute refuses. It also made a shipped grant
authorise nothing: examples/authority/payments.yaml's reconciliation
grant covers reads, which carry no effect: template on purpose, so a
count budget on it refused 100% of its actions forever. Moved to a load
error.

§4.2 was not complete at sixteen. Three _unrecorded paths were missing
and one is dangerous: fail_effect can itself be refused when the record
moved on, so there is exactly one path where the executor proved nothing
happened and the charge is NOT released. An implementer reading "release
when the executor raises NotExecuted" gets it backwards and hands back
authority for an effect somebody may have committed. Nineteen rows now,
with the warning written next to it.

DIMENSIONS is a six-element exported tuple that verify iterates for G9
and prints the length of. Adding budgets and tasks to contained_dimension
without it gives "6 of 6 dimensions", green, exercising neither; adding
it without updating G9's _narrowed raises VerifyInternalError on any
document carrying a budget, which §7.4 requires one to. §8.0 and T448.

Control.resume evaluates authority at control.py:1578 and takes no
task=, and §6.3.1 keeps the task off the Action, so under a task-bound
grant every resumed leg would record AUTHORITY_DENIED into what
control.py:1575-1577 calls the only receipt an MCP multi round-trip ever
gets. It evaluates and records without re-deciding, per v0.3 §5.6.1.

The milestone's plan requires two columns on v0.3 §4.3.1's thirteen
rows. §5.2.2 covered six and named neither the gateway nor the ACS hook,
which build an Action and call execute with no scope= and no task=, so
neither check reaches them. Both tables are complete now and the
limitation is in §1.1 rather than implied.

Also: §3.4 claimed A1 row 1's identity check covers the charges; it
reads one effect record and compares that, and what resolves the charge
is the shared transaction. Consumption is frozen in §10 and grant_id is
optional, without which §7.3's row count needs one call per grant that
ever existed. The v0.7 §6.9 quote had emphasis the source does not.
§6.3.1's residual was understated: under tasks: ["invoice-run-*"] an
approval is fungible across every concrete run.

Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
Eleven findings, three of them again defects in the previous round's
fixes. The reviewer's diagnosis is the useful part and I think it is
right: this document is reliable about facts it can check by reading one
line, and wrong about facts that need a value followed through two
modules. Every citation round two added was accurate; three of its
design claims were not. So these fixes are written from probes rather
than from reading.

§2.4.1 could not be a load error, which is what round two made it.
control.py:4017-4026 resolves a template as `effect if effect is not
None else from_policy_effect`: the decorator wins, and
_warn_template_mismatch is a warning on purpose so decorator-based
deployments are not broken by the document. examples/agent-race,
examples/double-refund and examples/approval-replay each declare no
effect: key at all and supply it from @Protect. A load error refuses to
start three shipped examples whose budgets are perfectly enforceable,
which is worse than the execute-time version it replaced. And on the
standalone path it cannot run at all: _STANDALONE_KEYS is {schema,
authority}, so such a document cannot carry actions:, and both
verify --authority and gateway --authority load that way.

It is now checked where the effect key is resolved, before _secure, and
it is existential rather than universal. The universal form left the
hole it was written to close: a grant covering payments.* where refund
has a template and sweep does not loaded clean and spent nothing on
sweep forever.

§6.3.2's fix was the current behaviour. It cited v0.3 §5.6.1's
"evaluated and recorded, not re-decided", and that section's very next
sentence says the resumed leg appends AUTHORITY_RESOLVED or
AUTHORITY_DENIED to what is the only receipt an MCP multi round-trip
ever gets. So the fix specified exactly the outcome it existed to
prevent, and T386a asserted the opposite of the rule above it. v0.9 does
not evaluate the task dimension on a resumed leg: a third mode, named
rather than borrowed, with the cost stated (a resumed leg is unbound by
task) instead of hidden.

§4.2's three new rows said "held, NOT released" flatly. resolve_effect
moves an AMBIGUOUS record to COMMITTED or FAILED, so a human may have
resolved it FAILED while the attempt ran, in which case the charge is
already released. They now defer to §4.1 over the state the record
actually reached, which is what the paragraph under the table already
said and the rows contradicted.

§5.2.2 went from six wrong rows to eleven-and-two-wrong. v0.3 §4.3.1 has
thirteen. It folded ctrlrun.verify.run into "the evidence commands take
no action" while §8.1 of this same document has verify construct a scope
provider, and folded an adapter's protected tool into "adapters answer
approvals", when v0.3 row 9 is "yes, @Protect does, from the bound
call". Both tables are thirteen rows now.

A bool is an int in Python, so "non-negative integer" admitted
amount: false as a zero, which is §2.3's own absence-as-zero sentence
wearing a bool's clothes. authority.py:1491 and scenarios.py:378 already
guard it. And limit: 0 does not stop a grant: it permits unboundedly
many zero-valued actions. §3.3.1 claimed the opposite.

grep -rn DIMENSIONS finds two acceptance tests round two did not name:
test_verify_authority.py:92 asserts exact list equality and :153
parametrizes over it. The conformance suite is opt-in, so it detects the
fail-open rather than foreclosing it; Control now probes the store with
a limit: 0 grant at construction and refuses to start if the store does
not refuse. And task= on Authority.evaluate and Control.evaluate amends
two signatures frozen in v0.3 §11, recorded in §10.3 as that section's
own rule requires.

Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
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arpanghoshal merged commit 4e3381c into main Sep 12, 2026
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arpanghoshal deleted the spec/v0.9 branch September 12, 2026 21:33
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