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All three were real. 1. Section 3.4.2 said Control.resume stops using evaluate_task=False, full stop, while the section 10 fail-closed row said a leg suspended by 0.9.0 is evaluated as 0.9.0 evaluated it. Those cannot both be true: a 0.9.0 EXECUTION_STARTED carries an empty data mapping, so evaluating the task dimension against an absent value hits SPEC-v0.9 section 6.4 and denies every in-flight action across the upgrade, on the only receipt an MCP multi round-trip ever gets. resume keeps evaluate_task=False in exactly two places now, a lease extension and a leg suspended by 0.9.0, and section 3.4.2 carries a two-row table saying which. T487 is the test. 2. A chain of two hops has a middle, and section 3.4's table had two rows. A relay agent presents one hop and creates another in the same action, and Receipt.hop is one string. New section 3.4.3: the receipt names the hop the action ran under, never the one it created, because a receipt is evidence about a decision and the created hop authorised nothing on this action. The created one is found from DELEGATION_CREATED, which v0.3 section 7 already appends. Two fields rejected, with the reason. T488 is the test. 3. G27's title fits either of section 4.3's check points, and only check 2 produces a DENY while check 3 produces NotExecuted with the effect FAILED. A scenario grading the handshake would report PASS for a guarantee whose title promises a denial that never happened. Section 7 now scopes G27 to check 2 and says why it is also the only one verify can grade without a network. Check 3's coverage is T491, an acceptance test rather than a guarantee. Acceptance tests renumbered to T470-T507, contiguous, item 2 gaining two. 33 line citations still resolve against 22c9948. Documentation only. No code changes. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com> (cherry picked from commit fbc66c9)
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An adversarial round against SPEC-v0.10 returned eighteen defects. All were checked against the tree before being answered; every one below was real. Two more are mine, found while reading item 3's and item 4's targets. The two that change the design. Control._suspend re-decides authority and takes no hop. It is the lease extension: control.py:2218 evaluates again and control.py:2227 raises AuthorityDenied, and the comment above it says why, that without it v0.3 section 5.7's "a chain of any depth is cut by one write" is false for exactly the actions in flight. Under section 2.3.2 the decision at execute's top is pinned to the hop and this one was not, so a receiver holding any grant of its own keeps its reservation across a round trip after the hop is cut. New section 3.4.3, with a table of where each path takes its hop from and why the context variable is right at _suspend and wrong at resume. Section 3.4.2's justification was also inverted: resume records and does not re-decide, which control.py:1847 says in a comment, so a hop there fixes which grant the receipt names, not blast radius. Three of six hop refusals report no_authority with no id. matches_shape filters on subject, action, resource and environment before any outcome is collected, so a hop that does not cover them falls out of the loop and evaluate returns no_authority with grant_id None. That is the milestone's headline refusal reported as "you hold no authority at all", with nothing to hand inspect --hop, and section 6.3 promised a command with its argument filled in. authority_hop now covers a presented hop that does not match the action's shape, carrying data.dimension. Section 2.3.3 has the probe. Also: -41013 was already ctrlrun.not_a_human, shipped in SPEC-mcp-operator and tested; retaken as -41016, the first free code. Rules 2 and 3 of section 2.3.2 contradicted each other on a revoked hop and covered no expired one; liveness is struck from rule 2. Section 2.3.1's narrative was false of the probe it displays, which shows an action inside the envelope, not outside it. A relay breaks rule 3 and G26: DELEGATION_CREATED is action-less by construction, so the created hop is linked to the action that created it by nothing but a timestamp; the event gains action_id and G26 becomes "a hop is named on both sides", graded over a chain with a middle. CreatedVia's rollback denies every action in the deployment, not one delegation, which makes the first hop the irreversible step; new section 9.3. The gateway reads no caller metadata and threads no task, and needs_approval routes through evaluate with neither, so section 9 froze no surface item 1 could wire. Section 4.4's load error is not implementable at load and would have stopped verify loading the example section 7.3 requires. Section 7.1's G25 requirement had no implementable construction. Section 6.2's chain[] needed a helper that does not exist and was singular where T470 is plural. The resumed-leg discriminator must be key presence, not value. Three citations were semantically wrong while line-accurate: contained_dimension has seven callers and a hop adds none, max_delegation_depth is a section key not a grant key, and require_v7 gates grant entries while upstream: is an action-entry key. Mine. The ordered list of section 5.2 cannot live inside the two _secure methods: policy_unapproved is decided at control.py:1293 above authority, while _observe_secure is not called until :1526, so a _secure-only refactor leaves v0.9 section 4.2.1b's second case broken and its generated pair test green. Measured, one action, one document: enforce raises policy_unapproved and observe reports no_authority. And section 4.2 pinned by digest while section 4.3 made the pinned certificates trust anchors, which a digest cannot be; a certificate-valued key is added, and a probe shows a CA-signed leaf with VERIFY_X509_PARTIAL_CHAIN admits the pinned server and refuses a swapped one. 48 line citations, all resolving. Tests T470-T507 plus T488a and T499a. Documentation only. No code changes. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
Round one's answer said a presented hop that does not match the action's shape reports authority_hop with data.dimension naming which of subject, actions, resources or environments failed. Grant.matches_shape (authority.py:534) returns a bool and returns False at the first failure, so that value exists on the stack and is discarded, and section 9 named nothing that could supply it. unmatched_shape(grant, action) -> str | None returns the first failing row, and matches_shape becomes a call to it so the two cannot drift. That is contained_dimension's shape applied to the other half of v0.3 section 4.3's iff, which is also why it is not a second walk inside evaluate. Found while reading the answer before writing code against it. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
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In `@docs/SPEC-v0.10.md`:
- Line 1003: Update T497 and its matching rows in sections 8 and 10 to use the
single refusal phase for both ACS-hook and in-process pinning, replacing the
inconsistent load-error outcome with the applicable constructor-time
InvalidArgument or decision-time upstream_unverified behavior defined in section
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- Around line 154-158: Update the opening summary of the contained_dimension
discussion in SPEC-v0.10.md to remove the stale third-caller claim and state
that it has seven existing call sites, with the hop created through
plan_delegation rather than adding another caller or relation. Keep the
call-site details and §2.2 behavior consistent.
- Around line 1078-1083: Make the acceptance-test identifiers contiguous by
replacing T499a with the next numeric identifier and renumbering all subsequent
tests consistently, including any references or consumers of those identifiers;
preserve the declared T470–T507 sequence contract.
- Around line 229-245: Update the fail-closed table’s handling of hops naming no
live delegation so authority_hop is returned only for a missing delegation
record or a delegation shape mismatch. Preserve the existing refusal reasons for
revoked and expired delegations, and align the table with the documented
authority_hop cases in the surrounding specification.
- Around line 816-820: Update the tls_cert_file definition and its §4.3 check 3
behavior to require exact upstream leaf certificates only, rejecting CA or
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| **`contained_dimension` gains no caller at all, and certainly no second relation.** Counted rather | ||
| than estimated: **seven** call sites at `22c9948`, three in `authority.py` (break-glass at `:1410`, | ||
| `plan_delegation` at `:1478`, the evaluation-time chain walk at `:1688`) and four in | ||
| `verify/scenarios.py` (`:2360`, `:2363`, `:4632`, `:4651`). **A hop is created through | ||
| `plan_delegation`**, which is already one of them, so the count does not move. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Remove the stale third-caller claim.
Section 1 still says contained_dimension has a third caller. This section says the hop adds no caller and lists seven existing call sites. Update the opening summary to match §2.2. Otherwise, implementers may add a duplicate hop-specific relation.
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In `@docs/SPEC-v0.10.md` around lines 154 - 158, Update the opening summary of the
contained_dimension discussion in SPEC-v0.10.md to remove the stale third-caller
claim and state that it has seven existing call sites, with the hop created
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| 1. **The delegation that id names is the only candidate.** Its chain is **walked**, by | ||
| `v0.3 §5.6`'s existing rules, and is **not offered**: an ancestor is never itself a candidate. | ||
| No other grant of the principal is a candidate either, passing or failing. | ||
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| The distinction is not pedantry. An earlier draft said "exactly the delegation that id names, | ||
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| which a root addressed to `agent: "*"`, or one whose `user` pattern admits the receiver, | ||
| authorises the action **at its own width**. That is §2.3.1's hole with one extra step, reached | ||
| by an ambiguity rather than by a decision. | ||
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| 2. **`authority_hop` means the presented hop does not reach this action**, and it covers exactly | ||
| the two things that are true of the hop rather than of the chain: | ||
| - the id names no delegation at all, in which case `data.hop` is the presented id and there is | ||
| nothing else to say; | ||
| - the delegation exists but its grant does not match the action's shape, in which case | ||
| `data.hop` names it and **`data.dimension`** names which of `subject`, `actions`, `resources` | ||
| or `environments` failed. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Do not classify every non-live hop as authority_hop.
This section reserves authority_hop for a missing delegation or a shape mismatch. Revoked and expired hops retain their existing refusal reasons. The fail-closed table still says that a hop naming “no live delegation” returns authority_hop at Line 1447. Narrow that row to the documented missing-record and shape-mismatch cases.
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In `@docs/SPEC-v0.10.md` around lines 229 - 245, Update the fail-closed table’s
handling of hops naming no live delegation so authority_hop is returned only for
a missing delegation record or a delegation shape mismatch. Preserve the
existing refusal reasons for revoked and expired delegations, and align the
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| | Key | Compared against | Shape | Feeds | | ||
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| | `tls_cert_sha256` | the SHA-256 of the upstream's **leaf certificate**, DER form | a **list** of `sha256:…` strings | §4.3 checks 1 and 2 | | ||
| | `tls_cert_file` | the certificate itself | a path to a PEM file holding one or more certificates | §4.3 check 3 | | ||
| | `tool_schema_sha256` | `"sha256:" + hex(SHA-256(canonical_bytes(<the tool's entry in tools/list>)))` | one `sha256:…` string | §4.3 checks 1 and 2 | |
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Restrict tls_cert_file to exact leaf certificates. The specification permits one or more PEM certificates and makes them the only check 3 trust anchors. A CA or intermediate would therefore trust any chaining leaf. When tls_cert_sha256 is omitted, no exact-leaf check remains. Require leaf-only pins or compare the peer leaf certificate exactly.
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In `@docs/SPEC-v0.10.md` around lines 816 - 820, Update the tls_cert_file
definition and its §4.3 check 3 behavior to require exact upstream leaf
certificates only, rejecting CA or intermediate certificates as trust anchors.
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| | T494 | Rotation: two hashes in `tls_cert_sha256`, either certificate admitted, a third refused | | ||
| | T495 | The gateway refuses to start on a mismatch, printing observed beside pinned, exiting non-zero with nothing on stdout | | ||
| | T496 | `upstream:` in a `ctrlrun.policy/v7` document is a load error naming the key and its consequence | | ||
| | T497 | `upstream:` on an action that reaches the kernel through the ACS hook, or in-process, is a load error naming the surface | |
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Use one refusal phase for ACS and in-process pinning.
Section 4.4 defines constructor-time InvalidArgument for AcsControlHook and decision-time upstream_unverified for in-process execution. T497 still specifies a load error for both cases. Update T497 and the matching §8 and §10 rows.
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In `@docs/SPEC-v0.10.md` at line 1003, Update T497 and its matching rows in
sections 8 and 10 to use the single refusal phase for both ACS-hook and
in-process pinning, replacing the inconsistent load-error outcome with the
applicable constructor-time InvalidArgument or decision-time upstream_unverified
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| | T498 | The generated property: over every constructible pair of refusals, enforce's raised reason equals observe's `blocked_reason`. The pair set is asserted non-empty and its size is reported | | ||
| | T499 | `v0.9 §4.2.1b`'s first named case: out of scope and awaiting approval, both modes name the same reason | | ||
| | T499a | P7 as a test: an action tripping both `policy_unapproved` and a later refusal names `policy_unapproved` in **both** modes. The case that proves the list starts at `execute`'s entry, and the one a `_secure`-only refactor leaves broken while every other pair goes green | | ||
| | T500 | Its second: `policy_unapproved` against a later refusal, both modes name the same reason | | ||
| | T501 | Every pair the generator could not construct is named in the test's own output, and the list is asserted against the declared order so a shrinking pair set fails red | | ||
| | T502 | The four v0.9 regressions as regression tests: the resumed observed receipt's spend, the doubled `_Observation` event, the `effect_key` on the budget-refusal event, and the picklability of every `InvalidArgument` subclass across `verify`'s JSON-over-stdin children | |
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Keep acceptance identifiers contiguous.
T499a makes the published sequence non-contiguous, despite the PR objective stating that tests run from T470 through T507 contiguously. Assign this case a numeric identifier and renumber later tests, or update the stated identifier contract and its consumers.
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renumbering all subsequent tests consistently, including any references or
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Follow-up to #171, which merged before these landed. Documentation only, no code changes.
CodeRabbit posted three findings on #171 while it was open. I checked each against the document
rather than accepting them, and all three were real. #171 merged at
7185379before the answeringcommit was pushed, so
maincurrently carries the first of them, which is a contradictionbetween two sections of the same document.
1.
docs/SPEC-v0.10.mdcontradicts itself about the resumed leg, andmainhas it now§3.4.2 said
Control.resumestops usingevaluate_task=False, full stop. The §10 fail-closed rowsaid a leg suspended by 0.9.0 is evaluated as 0.9.0 evaluated it. Those cannot both be true, and
an implementer following §3.4.2 would have written the damaging one.
A leg suspended by 0.9.0 has an
EXECUTION_STARTEDwhosedatais{}, because that is what0.9.0 wrote (
control.py:1487,control.py:1561). Evaluating the task dimension against an absentvalue hits
SPEC-v0.9§6.4, a grant naming a task refuses an action naming none, so everyin-flight action across the upgrade is denied, on the only receipt an MCP multi round-trip ever
gets (
SPEC-v0.9§8.3).§3.4.2 now carries a two-row table:
EXECUTION_STARTEDcarriesevaluate_task=False, and no hop selectionevaluate_task=Falsetherefore stays in the signature andControl.resumekeeps using it inexactly two places, a lease extension and a leg suspended by 0.9.0, rather than being retired. T487
is the test and §10's row is rewritten to match.
This one is mine rather than CodeRabbit's to be fair about: I wrote §3.4.2 from
SPEC-v0.9§6.3.2'sreasoning without probing what a 0.9.0-written event actually contains, which is precisely the
failure mode §1.4 of this document warns about.
2. A relay agent is both sides at once, and §3.4's table had two rows
A chain of two hops has a middle: an agent that presents one hop and creates another during the
same action. §2.6's own worked example contains one, so it is the ordinary case rather than an edge,
and
Receipt.hopis a single string.New §3.4.3: the receipt's
hopnames the hop the action ran UNDER, never the hop it created. Areceipt is evidence about a decision, and the decision was made against the presented hop (§2.3);
the created hop authorised nothing on this action and it is that action's receipt that will name it.
The created one is found from
DELEGATION_CREATEDwithdata.created_via = "hop", whichv0.3§7already appends and §6.2's surface already reads.
Two fields,
hop_inandhop_out, are rejected with the reason: a value that isnullon everyreceipt except a relay's, on the one shape where an implementation is most likely to fill the wrong
one. T488 is the test.
3. G27 could have graded the check that does not deny
G27 is
a swapped upstream is denied, and §4.3 has three check points. Only check 2 produces aDENY; check 3 refuses at the handshake and producesNotExecutedwith the effectFAILED. Thetitle fits either, so a scenario grading the handshake would report
PASSfor a guarantee whosetitle promises a denial that never happened.
That is the same false-green shape §7.1 exists to refuse, one section later. §7 now scopes G27 to
check 2 explicitly, and adds the second reason it is the right one: the comparison at check 2 is a
pure function over two strings, so
verifyseeds an observation and asserts the refusal with no TLSlistener and no certificate to generate. Check 3's coverage is T491, an acceptance test rather than
a guarantee, and §4.3's table says which is which.
Checks
T470toT507, contiguous, no gaps, no reuse; item 2 gains two.22c9948, unchanged bythis diff).
3.4.1predecessor,3.4.2resumed leg,3.4.3relay.Not merging and not tagging. The required spec review round is still the next step, against the
document as it stands with these in.
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tls_cert_filepinning option and updated the upstream-unpinned JSON-RPC error code.