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Found in the release audit, after v0.10 merged. Pairs with ctrlrun-docs#25.

The first version of this branch recorded three unshipped SPEC-v0.10 §9 names and left them.
That was the wrong instinct. A gap that can be closed is closed; only the one whose name was
wrong and whose reason was right stays as a row.

The defect

§9 is the section a reader trusts for the public surface. Three of its rows were justified, frozen,
and then not built, and the table went on saying they had for a whole milestone. Nothing went red,
because no test in this repository asserted that a name §9 freezes exists.

Row Now
hop=/task= on ctrlrun.adapter.needs_approval built
ctrlrun.hop/v1's key set (§6.2) fixed in §6.2, and now parsed by a test
ssl_context= on gateway.transport.request not built, deliberately — §9.4 is one row saying why

needs_approval — a behaviour fix, not a doc fix

Signature is now (control, action, arguments, *, resource=None, task=None, hop=None), both
threaded into Control.evaluate.

Without them the predicate evaluated against the receiver's whole candidate set while execute
evaluates against the hop alone (§2.3, no fallback). It answered "a human is needed" for a call
execute then refuses: the framework surfaces an approval item, a human says yes, the call fails
anyway.

It was never an authority holeControl.execute is the enforcement point and refuses either
way, so nothing wider ever ran. What it cost was the framework's own approval item and a receipt
nobody could explain. Said plainly, because "a frozen API row didn't ship" reads worse than it was.

T128c drives the predicate and execute over one hop and asserts they agree. The no-hop case is
its negative control
: without it the fixture could be one where everything is denied anyway
(mutation pattern 3). Mutated back to the old call: fails.

ctrlrun.hop/v1 — the table listed eight of eleven keys

schema, root_id and missing_parent_id were emitted for a whole milestone while §6.2 described
a smaller shape. Under-describing is the safe direction for a reader and the wrong one for a schema
somebody writes a consumer against. Not re-cut, because nothing it emits changed.

T506b parses the table out of SPEC-v0.10.md and compares it to the emitted document, so the two
cannot drift again. Mutated: one row deleted from the spec, T506b fails naming it.

T480 — both halves

  • Parser: no identity field from params.metadata becomes a field of the request. Asserted over
    the parsed object's own attributes rather than by grepping for a string, so a read added under any
    name fails it.
  • End to end: the receipt names the IdentityProvider's principal, and the payload's chosen name
    reaches no receipt and no event.

This held by construction before — the parser lifts hop and task and nothing else — so what
this is, honestly, is the regression guard for a property that was true and untested. Mutated:
agent_id read out of the bag, both halves fail.

T502 — and the audit changed the answer

Two of its four rows already existed under their own numbers (test_T461... for the
effect_key, test_T462... for the pickle). That is §9.4's defect in another place: a table that
describes the tree, checked by a human reading both. My earlier report called T502 uncovered; it was
half covered, under other names.

  • T502a — the resumed observed receipt's spend. T439 covers observe, T447 covers resume,
    neither covers the two together.
  • T502b — the doubled ACTION_DENIED on a resumed observed leg. The one row with no test under
    any name, and absent-shaped for a reason worth keeping: every assertion near it checked the event
    appeared, and an event that appears twice appears.

Two of my own tests were wrong first, and the mutations are what said so

T502a asserted the opposite of the contract. It read an empty ledger as meaning an observed
resumed receipt should report no spend. §4.2.1a is explicit: every number on an observed receipt
is a counterfactual, and without it nothing records what the action would have cost, so a budget
cannot be sized from an observed run
— which is the entire reason to run one. The code was right;
I nearly "fixed" it.

T502b was green against its own mutation. It filtered on budget_exhausted, and announce
guards the unmeasurable refusal, so the scenario never reached the guarded line. Rebuilt on a
negative amount; now fails when announce is ignored.

The test §9.4 asked v0.11 for is in the same commit

Asking a later milestone would be the exact mistake the section is about.
test_every_v0_10_name_the_spec_freezes_is_importable_with_the_parameter_it_names walks the rows and
checks each name imports with the parameter its row gives.
test_the_row_of_section_9_that_did_not_ship_still_has_not pins ssl_context= in the other
direction, so building it later fails there and the row comes out in the same commit: the document
and the tree are wrong together or right together, never one of each.

Full gate: all checks passed.

Not merging.

…st that would have said so

`SPEC-v0.10 §9` is the section a reader trusts for the public surface. Three of its rows were
justified, frozen, and then not built, and the table went on saying they had for the whole
milestone. **A frozen name that names nothing is worse than a missing row: a missing row is a gap,
a wrong one is an answer.**

- **`hop=` and `task=` on `ctrlrun.adapter.needs_approval`** — shipped as nothing. Not an authority
  hole: `Control.execute` is the enforcement point and still decides against the hop alone, so a
  call the predicate waves through is refused there. What it costs is the framework's own approval
  item, a worse experience and a confusing receipt, not a wider grant. Said plainly rather than
  left to read as a hole or as nothing.
- **`ssl_context=` on `ctrlrun.gateway.transport.request`** — shipped as nothing on that function.
  Check 3 went to `upstream.observe_upstream(url, *, verify=...)` and the forwarder's `verify`. The
  row's *reason* held and its *name* did not; the module-level-default objection it raises is
  answered by the placement instead of by the parameter.
- **`ctrlrun.hop/v1`'s key set** — emits `schema`, `root_id` and `missing_parent_id` beyond §6.2's
  table. Under-describing what it emits is the safe direction for a reader and the wrong one for a
  frozen schema. The version to amend, not re-cut; v0.11 owns it.

**Why nothing went red: no test in this repository asserts that a name §9 freezes exists.** Now two
do. The first walks the rows that shipped and checks each name imports with the parameter its row
gives. The second pins the three that did not, in the other direction, so building one of them
fails here and §9.4's row comes out in the same commit — the document and the tree wrong together
or right together, never one of each.

Mutated: `verify=` removed from `observe_upstream`, the first test fails naming the parameter and
listing what the function does take. Restored, 35 pass.

This is §11's rule at its sharpest. §11 covers a sentence about a *later item*; these are sentences
about this document's own frozen table, and they needed the same discipline.

Full gate: 3,999 passed, 304 skipped.

Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
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The v0.10 specification now documents three API discrepancies. Repository signal tests validate frozen public names and parameters, and confirm two unshipped parameters remain absent.

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docs/SPEC-v0.10.md
Section 9.4 records missing parameters on needs_approval and transport.request, plus extra keys emitted by ctrlrun.hop/v1.
Validate frozen API names and signatures
tests/test_repository_signals.py
Tests resolve each frozen API name and verify its specified parameter. A separate test confirms that hop and ssl_context remain absent from the affected signatures.

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In `@tests/test_repository_signals.py`:
- Around line 841-858: Add a `ctrlrun.hop/v1` output-schema assertion to
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert Control.hop accepts action_id.

§9 freezes action_id= on Control.hop, but this entry uses None, so the test only verifies that the method exists. Set the parameter to "action_id" so removal or renaming of the keyword fails this repository signal.

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def test_the_three_rows_of_section_9_that_did_not_ship_still_have_not():
"""§9.4's table, pinned so it stays true in both directions.

If one of these is built later, this test fails and §9.4's row comes out in the same commit.
That is the point: the document and the tree are wrong together or right together, never one
of each, which is the state §9.4 exists because of.
"""
import inspect

from ctrlrun import adapter
from ctrlrun.gateway import transport

assert "hop" not in inspect.signature(adapter.needs_approval).parameters, (
"needs_approval now takes a hop: build it, and delete its row from SPEC-v0.10 §9.4"
)
assert "ssl_context" not in inspect.signature(transport.request).parameters, (
"transport.request now takes ssl_context: delete its row from SPEC-v0.10 §9.4"
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the ctrlrun.hop/v1 output-key discrepancy. This test checks the two absent parameters but not the third §9.4 row: the emitted ctrlrun.hop/v1 key set. An import-and-signature test cannot detect that contract.

  • tests/test_repository_signals.py#L841-L858: add an assertion for the ctrlrun.hop/v1 key behavior, including schema, root_id, and missing_parent_id.
  • docs/SPEC-v0.10.md#L1554-L1557: retain the claim that the signals catch all three rows only after the output-schema assertion exists; otherwise narrow the claim.
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`ctrlrun.hop/v1` output-schema assertion to
`test_the_three_rows_of_section_9_that_did_not_ship_still_have_not`, verifying
the emitted key set includes `schema`, `root_id`, and `missing_parent_id`. In
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@arpanghoshal arpanghoshal changed the title Section 9 reconciled: three frozen names that never shipped, and a test that would have said so Build two of §9.4's three rows, and close T480 and T502 Sep 13, 2026
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