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v0.11 item 4. Implements SPEC-v0.11.md §6: one chain, five receipt schema versions, walked end to end. Adds G31 and moves the guarantee catalogue to ctrlrun.guarantees/v7, once, as the first of items 2 and 4 to land.

No new field. schema has existed since SPEC-v0.3.md §12.2. What was never proved is that verify_chain walks a chain holding more than one of them, hash by hash, each row hashed by the rule its own version wrote. v0.10's release pass proved the v6/v7 boundary against the released 0.9.0 and stopped there.

The premise, proved against the released wheels

scripts/five_schema_chain.py, run on 2026-09-14 against this branch:

0.6.1   wrote 2 receipts under ctrlrun.receipt/v3; store now holds 2
0.7.0   wrote 2 receipts under ctrlrun.receipt/v4; store now holds 4
0.8.0   wrote 2 receipts under ctrlrun.receipt/v5; store now holds 6
0.9.0   wrote 2 receipts under ctrlrun.receipt/v6; store now holds 8
0.10.0  wrote 2 receipts under ctrlrun.receipt/v7; store now holds 10

  receipts:              10
  schemas in ONE chain:  5
    ctrlrun.receipt/v3     at seq [1, 2]
    ctrlrun.receipt/v4     at seq [3, 4]
    ctrlrun.receipt/v5     at seq [5, 6]
    ctrlrun.receipt/v6     at seq [7, 8]
    ctrlrun.receipt/v7     at seq [9, 10]
  verify_chain:          ok=True verified=10 chained=10 unchained=0
  breaks:                none

Five pip install ctrlrun==, five environments, one store. A fixture is this build's opinion of what 0.6 wrote; the wheel is what it wrote.

0.10.0 is on PyPI, uploaded 2026-09-14T12:42:03, so the chain is built from released artefacts end to end rather than stopping at 0.9.0.

That run was wrong the first time, and the way it was wrong is the finding

Run as PYTHONPATH=src python scripts/five_schema_chain.py, which is how anyone runs a script against an uninstalled checkout, the variable is inherited by every child. So each "released wheel" imported this build's src/ctrlrun instead of the wheel just installed beside it. It printed:

  receipts:              10
  schemas in ONE chain:  1
    ctrlrun.receipt/v7     at seq [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  verify_chain:          ok=True verified=10 chained=10 unchained=0

Ten receipts, a clean walk, and nothing under test. A run that checked nothing looked exactly like a pass, and only the schema count gave it away, which is the number the script exists to produce. The script now strips PYTHONPATH, PYTHONHOME and PYTHONSTARTUP from every child and asserts, per release, that the interpreter ran from that release's own environment and writes the schema this script claims it writes.

G31, and why it can be graded without a network

SPEC-v0.7.md §6.11 made to_dict render under its own schema's label and key set, and made a stored receipt hash the document it was read from. So a Receipt carrying ctrlrun.receipt/v3 serializes to v3's 26 keys and hashes to what 0.6 stored, through the same _document_hash every version has used.

It cannot go through put_receipt, and that is correct. Every backend does replace(receipt, schema=RECEIPT_SCHEMA, ...): a writer writes under its own schema, so an older receipt cannot be forged through the public API. The first version of this scenario tried exactly that and G31's own control caught it, reporting it holds ['ctrlrun.receipt/v7'] where it had asked for five. The chain is therefore presented as a ChainSource view, which is what G11 already does to alter a row.

Two controls, neither decoration:

  1. the chain must hold five distinct labels before the walk is graded, because five v7 rows verify perfectly and prove nothing (SPEC-v0.4.md §2.2);
  2. an older row is altered and the break must be named at its seq, or "verified" is a count of the rows the walk bothered to read.

--only G31 and a full run agree; both report PASS.

The catalogue is not contiguous, deliberately

ctrlrun.guarantees/v6 becomes v7. G28 to G30 and G32 are not in it: §8 assigns ids in item order so that splitting the milestone renumbers nothing, and item 4 lands before items 2 and 3.

test_the_guarantee_catalogue_is_contiguous_from_G1 asserted contiguity and now cannot. It is narrowed rather than relaxed, because contiguity was never what the check was for: it was for a number nobody built. A hole is now allowed only if it is a number §8 names, each row saying which item owes it, and anything else is still red. The release item is where that list must be empty.

What this moved that was not obvious

Adding one applicable guarantee moved every hardcoded count in the repository, including a shipped one:

before after
.github/workflows/ci.yml, authority example verified 24/24 verified 25/25
.github/workflows/ci.yml, templates example verified 11/11 verified 12/12
T119's applicable count 11 12
the v1-payments template run 11/11 12/12

Each was pinned rather than derived, and each is left pinned: the claim under test is that the denominator moves with what was graded and not with the catalogue's size, and a derived number could not fail.

Mutations

# mutation result
P1 the walk stops reading rows whose schema it does not know caught, 9 failed
P2 to_dict renders every receipt under the current schema's keys caught, 1 failed
P3 chain_hash rehashes as this binary would render, not as stored caught, 1 failed
P4 G31 drops its distinct-schema control caught, 1 failed
P5 the schema ordering compares versions as strings caught, 1 failed
P6 _OLDER_RECEIPT_SCHEMAS includes v1 and v2, which carry no seq caught, 2 failed
P7 the catalogue slips back to v6 caught, 4 failed
P8 the script stops stripping PYTHONPATH caught, 1 failed

Four survived the first run and each was a different kind of finding, reported rather than smoothed over.

  • P3 and P4 were gaps. T521 builds receipts with replace(), which drops the stored document, so chain_hash's stored-document branch was never taken and deleting it left the file green. T521c puts the rows on disk, and T521d puts a key on disk that this binary cannot render, which is the only input that distinguishes the two branches. Nothing drove G31 with a one-version chain, so T524b forces it and requires control failed.
  • P5 was an equivalent mutant made non-equivalent. "ctrlrun.receipt/v10" sorts below "ctrlrun.receipt/v3", so a string comparison is wrong only from v0.13 on and no test could reach it. The derivation moved into _chainable_schemas(known, current) so T522c can hand it v10, which turns a guard that would have failed silently in three milestones into one that fails now.
  • P4's first run was a harness error, the same one as item 1's M9: the test list named the verify test files while T524b lives in tests/test_five_schema_versions.py, so it ran files that could not fail and reported a survivor.

Counts

./scripts/check.sh with Postgres, on this branch rebased onto main at e72de1e: 4437 passed + 66 serial. main is 4420 + 66, so this adds 17. mypy --strict clean, ruff clean.

Docs

Paired branch of the same name. It stacks on v0.11/1a-unparseable-row (ctrlrun-docs#31), which is what makes docs main green again; merge that first or merge this, which contains it.

All three quoted ctrlrun verify transcripts re-run against their own policies rather than edited. ROADMAP.md's "nothing yet proves that verify walks it end to end" is closed and carries the PYTHONPATH finding, so the next person to build a multi-version proof does not rediscover it. G31 gets its row in docs/OWASP-AGENTIC-TOP10.md. The kernel tree came back clean after every generator.

ROADMAP.md already said five, both in the prose and in the Exit line, so §6's instruction to correct "four" was already carried out by an earlier session and nothing needed changing there.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added verification support for receipt chains spanning five schema versions.
    • Added guarantee G31, confirming that five receipt schemas can be verified end to end.
    • Updated the guarantee catalogue to version 7.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Verification totals now correctly include the new guarantee, including updated authority and templates results.
  • Documentation

    • Documented cross-version receipt verification, schema-specific hashing, unknown schema handling, and the new guarantee.

SPEC-v0.11 §6 and §8. The catalogue moves to ctrlrun.guarantees/v7 once, here.

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T521c (the stored-document path), T522b (two-digit versions), T524b (G31's own
control) and T525b (the script's guard, run rather than grepped).

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Two mutations survived because the inputs that distinguish them do not exist yet.

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The change adds G31 for five-schema receipt-chain verification, adds a released-wheel integration script, advances the guarantees catalogue to v7, and updates tests, CI expectations, reports, and changelog entries.

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Five-schema receipt verification

Layer / File(s) Summary
G31 scenario and catalogue
src/ctrlrun/verify/scenarios.py, src/ctrlrun/verify/guarantees.py
G31 builds and verifies a chain across receipt schemas v3 through v7. It checks tampering at the affected sequence number. The guarantees catalogue moves to v7.
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scripts/five_schema_chain.py
The script installs five released wheels in isolated environments, writes receipts to one store, validates their schemas, and verifies the complete chain.
Chain and compatibility tests
tests/test_five_schema_versions.py
New tests cover chain verification, stored-document hashing, unknown schemas, relabelling, numeric schema ordering, environment isolation, and G31 failure controls.
Catalogue and verification expectation updates
tests/*, .github/workflows/ci.yml, CHANGELOG.md
Existing assertions and CI checks now use catalogue v7 and the updated applicable guarantee totals. The changelog records the new verification behavior.

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  ReleasedWheels->>SharedStore: write receipts for schemas v3-v7
  CurrentBuild->>SharedStore: read receipt chain
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echo "authority: $AUTHORITY ($AUTHORITY_NA not applicable)"
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test "$AUTHORITY" = "verified 24/24"
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Update the stale CI count comments.

The assertion now expects verified 25/25, but the comment at Lines 103-104 still says 10/10. The templates comment at Lines 114-116 still says 5/5 with 5 not applicable, while this workflow now asserts 12/12 with 16 not applicable. Update those comments so maintainers do not follow incorrect expectations.

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Preserve spaces in the reported module path.

stdout.split() splits ctrlrun.__file__ on spaces. A valid --keep directory such as release checks causes seen[0] and seen[1] to contain partial path tokens, so the validation fails.

Split the two printed records by line.

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"""A scratch environment with exactly one released ctrlrun in it."""
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Use the platform-specific virtual-environment executable.

Windows creates the interpreter under Scripts/python.exe, not bin/python. The script therefore fails before installing the first released wheel on Windows.

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Exclude schemas newer than the current writer schema.

A reader-first rollout can add v8 to KNOWN_RECEIPT_SCHEMAS while RECEIPT_SCHEMA remains v7. This filter then treats v8 as an older schema. G31 fabricates a future-schema row and can report a false compatibility result.

Compare each schema number with the current schema number.

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 def _chainable_schemas(known: Iterable[str], current: str) -> tuple[str, ...]:
+    current_number = _schema_number(current)
     return tuple(
         sorted(
             (
                 label
                 for label in known
-                if _schema_number(label) >= _FIRST_CHAINED_SCHEMA and label != current
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MANIFEST.in prunes scripts/ for the reason it prunes .github. Found by the
package job, which runs the suite from the sdist.

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The package job caught a real gap and it is fixed in 7ed45d6.

scripts/five_schema_chain.py belongs to the repository and not to the package: it builds five virtual environments and needs a network, and MANIFEST.in prunes scripts/ for the same reason it prunes .github. T525 and T525b read it unconditionally, so both failed with FileNotFoundError when the suite ran from the sdist.

They now use the same pattern test_verify_action.py already uses for action.yml and the CI workflow: skip where the file is absent, run with everything asserted in a checkout and in the check job, which is where a change to the script is actually made.

Verified by simulating the sdist rather than assuming: git archive HEAD into a temp directory, rm -rf scripts/, run the file. 15 passed, 2 skipped. The local run could never have caught this, because the file is there.

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