v0.11 item 2: the anchor, and the truncation it makes detectable - #202
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SPEC-v0.11 §2, §3 and rule 1. Migration 0008 creates all three of §9's tables. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
A deployment anchors or it does not, so it is a property of the deployment. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
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…sing Two mutations survived: a rewrite at or below an anchored seq was reached by no test, and the per-kind ordering could not be distinguished from a joint one because nothing could produce a checkpoint anchor below the head. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
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…ot prove Both halves or neither: an example that only showed the anchor catching a truncation would be an advertisement. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
Each is pinned rather than derived and stays pinned: the claim under test is that the denominator moves with what was graded, and a derived number could not fail. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
A command rather than a parameter: an anchor is made on a schedule by an operator, where every other surface in this kernel is a library call made by an agent. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
…8's row T414 now asserts what it is about, that 0007 is additive and forward-only, against the migration itself rather than against whichever id happens to be last. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds an external anchor subsystem for receipt chains. It adds storage, verification, a CLI command, migration 0008, G28 guarantee coverage, an anchored-chain example, and updated verification counts. ChangesAnchored chain feature
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Operator
participant AnchorCLI
participant StateStore
participant AnchorProvider
Operator->>AnchorCLI: ctrlrun anchor --provider
AnchorCLI->>StateStore: read chain head
AnchorCLI->>AnchorProvider: make seq and hash
AnchorCLI->>StateStore: cache Anchor
Operator->>AnchorCLI: ctrlrun anchor --verify
AnchorCLI->>AnchorProvider: read anchors and check pairs
AnchorCLI->>StateStore: read cached anchors and receipts
AnchorCLI-->>Operator: AnchorReport
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Some anchor-creation failures can produce persistent missing-anchor reports, and the shipped example loses its anchor history after restart. Resolve these durability and reconciliation gaps before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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371-371: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUpdate the simulated older registry for migration
0008.The test creates a database with the full
MIGRATIONSregistry. It then removes only0007_budget_ledger, so0008_anchor_checkpoint_holdremains known to the simulated older binary. The migration runner rejects only applied migration IDs that are absent from the current registry. Therefore, this test checks rejection of0007_budget_ledger, not rejection of0008_anchor_checkpoint_hold.Remove
0008_anchor_checkpoint_holdfromolderand assert that migration ID in the error, or add a separate pre-0008compatibility test.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@examples/anchored-chain/main.py`:
- Line 58: Update FileAnchorProvider initialization to load existing anchor
records from _path/anchors.json into _held, handling an absent file as an empty
store. After make() successfully creates an anchor, atomically persist the
updated _held to anchors.json so records survive process restarts and
verify_anchors can validate them.
In `@src/ctrlrun/anchor.py`:
- Around line 328-341: Update the anchoring flow around provider.make,
_checked_answer, and _require_time_moves_forward to reconcile provider-committed
anchors through the provider’s existing since-based state after local validation
fails. Preserve InvalidArgument/refusal behavior for malformed answers and
backward-time anchors, without caching backward anchors or downgrading ordering
errors to warnings; ensure retries repair the local cache rather than reporting
anchor_missing.
In `@src/ctrlrun/cli/main.py`:
- Line 584: Update the provider resolution expression around found() to detect
and instantiate provider classes before checking for a make attribute. Preserve
existing handling for callable provider instances and non-class providers,
ensuring make_anchor() receives an initialized provider rather than an unbound
class.
In `@src/ctrlrun/verify/scenarios.py`:
- Line 4675: In the G28 scenario, update the result from verify_chain(truncated)
to assert chain.ok before invoking verify_anchors(), preserving the intended
unanchored-control guarantee and ensuring the scenario specifically validates
anchor-based detection.
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In `@tests/test_ledger.py`:
- Line 371: Update the simulated older migration registry in the test to exclude
both 0007_budget_ledger and 0008_anchor_checkpoint_hold, then assert that the
migration runner rejects 0008_anchor_checkpoint_hold; alternatively, add a
separate compatibility test using a registry from before migration 0008.
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| def __init__(self, path: Path) -> None: | ||
| self._path = path | ||
| self._path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) | ||
| self._held: dict[str, Anchor] = {} |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Persist the anchor records to _path.
FileAnchorProvider stores every anchor only in _held. It never reads or writes anchors.json.
After a process restart, the provider loses the external record. verify_anchors then cannot verify the durable anchor that this example claims to create.
Load existing anchors during initialization. Atomically persist _held after make() succeeds.
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In `@examples/anchored-chain/main.py` at line 58, Update FileAnchorProvider
initialization to load existing anchor records from _path/anchors.json into
_held, handling an absent file as an empty store. After make() successfully
creates an anchor, atomically persist the updated _held to anchors.json so
records survive process restarts and verify_anchors can validate them.
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| try: | ||
| answer = provider.make(seq, digest, kind) | ||
| except CTRLRunError: | ||
| raise | ||
| except Exception as refused: | ||
| raise InvalidArgument( | ||
| f"{ANCHOR_UNAVAILABLE}: the anchor provider did not answer " | ||
| f"({type(refused).__name__}), so nothing was anchored" | ||
| ) from refused | ||
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| token, anchored_at = _checked_answer(answer) | ||
| anchor = Anchor(seq=seq, hash=digest, token=token, kind=kind, at=anchored_at) | ||
| _require_time_moves_forward(store.anchors(), anchor) | ||
| store.put_anchor(anchor) |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Reconcile provider-held anchors after local validation fails.
provider.make(...) can commit an anchor before returning. _checked_answer(...) and _require_time_moves_forward(...) then run before store.put_anchor(...). If either check raises, verify_anchors(...) can report anchor_missing for the provider-held anchor. A retry does not query since() or repair the local cache, and AnchorProvider has no retract operation.
The shape check has the same failure path when a provider commits and returns an invalid answer.
Add an explicit reconciliation path for provider-held anchors after a successful provider commit. Preserve refusal for invalid answers and backward provider times. Do not cache a backward-time anchor as accepted or downgrade that refusal to a warning, because the ordering contract requires refusal.
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
In `@src/ctrlrun/anchor.py` around lines 328 - 341, Update the anchoring flow
around provider.make, _checked_answer, and _require_time_moves_forward to
reconcile provider-committed anchors through the provider’s existing since-based
state after local validation fails. Preserve InvalidArgument/refusal behavior
for malformed answers and backward-time anchors, without caching backward
anchors or downgrading ordering errors to warnings; ensure retries repair the
local cache rather than reporting anchor_missing.
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| raise click.UsageError( | ||
| f"--provider {dotted}: {module_name} has no attribute {attribute!r}" | ||
| ) from None | ||
| provider = found() if callable(found) and not hasattr(found, "make") else found |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Instantiate provider classes.
A zero-argument provider class has a callable make attribute. This condition treats that class as an instance. make_anchor() then calls its unbound make() method and the command reports a TypeError as provider unavailability.
Check for classes before checking for provider methods.
Proposed fix
- provider = found() if callable(found) and not hasattr(found, "make") else found
+ provider = (
+ found()
+ if isinstance(found, type) or (callable(found) and not hasattr(found, "make"))
+ else found
+ )📝 Committable suggestion
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| provider = found() if callable(found) and not hasattr(found, "make") else found | |
| provider = ( | |
| found() | |
| if isinstance(found, type) or (callable(found) and not hasattr(found, "make")) | |
| else found | |
| ) |
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In `@src/ctrlrun/cli/main.py` at line 584, Update the provider resolution
expression around found() to detect and instantiate provider classes before
checking for a make attribute. Preserve existing handling for callable provider
instances and non-class providers, ensuring make_anchor() receives an
initialized provider rather than an unbound class.
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| truncated = _AnchoredChain(kept, (last_seq, last_hash), store) | ||
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| # The chain alone does not notice, which is the defect this item exists to answer. | ||
| chain = verify_chain(truncated) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Assert the unanchored control result.
G28 records verify_chain(truncated) but never requires it to be intact. If the normal chain verifier starts detecting this rewrite, G28 still passes when the anchor detects it. Assert chain.ok before checking verify_anchors() so this guarantee proves the anchor-specific detection path.
Proposed fix
chain = verify_chain(truncated)
+ _expect_control(
+ chain.ok,
+ "the truncated chain with a rewritten head still verifies without an anchor",
+ f"it reported {[(item.name, item.seq) for item in chain.breaks]}",
+ )
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| chain = verify_chain(truncated) | |
| chain = verify_chain(truncated) | |
| _expect_control( | |
| chain.ok, | |
| "the truncated chain with a rewritten head still verifies without an anchor", | |
| f"it reported {[(item.name, item.seq) for item in chain.breaks]}", | |
| ) |
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In `@src/ctrlrun/verify/scenarios.py` at line 4675, In the G28 scenario, update
the result from verify_chain(truncated) to assert chain.ok before invoking
verify_anchors(), preserving the intended unanchored-control guarantee and
ensuring the scenario specifically validates anchor-based detection.
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v0.11 item 2, the milestone's headline. Implements
SPEC-v0.11.md§2, §3 and rule 1: the chain's head, recorded where the store's writer cannot reach it.Stacks on item 4's branch, which is merged, so the diff against
mainis item 2 alone.The defect, and the fix, both measured against a real store
The chain detects alteration. It does not detect truncation, because the head that would catch it is a row in the same database. On a six-receipt chain:
Three receipts erased, and the chain reports itself intact. With an anchor taken first, the same two statements:
And the case the chain has never been able to catch at all. An administrator who rewrites one receipt and recomputes every hash after it and the head leaves a chain that verifies perfectly.
T530bruns exactly that and asserts both halves:chain.okisTrue, and the anchor reportsanchor_broken. That is what the anchor adds overG11, and until nowTHREAT_MODEL.mdlisted it as simply out of scope.The bounded claim is a test, not a sentence
T531writes a forged append into a real store, with a correct hash and an advanced head, and requires both reports to stay clean:An earlier draft of §2.4 said the anchor closes "a suffix erased or appended". It does not. A forged receipt lands at head + 1, above every anchored
seq, so nothing stops reproducing and a later anchor freezes the forged chain as readily as an honest one. This is the first thing in this project a reader could mistake for tamper-proofing, so the limit is asserted rather than described, andG28's title says truncation and does not say append.The third statement
The design's load-bearing decision is §3.3's: the provider is asked what it holds before the local table is consulted. An earlier design had
makeandcheckalone, and a review broke it in one extra statement, because the set of questions then came from the rewritable side.anchor_brokenleads, which §3.4 requires:anchor_missingreads to an operator as a misconfiguration andanchor_brokenreads as tamper, and naming the milder one alone is how a real finding gets filed as a config ticket. My first implementation reported onlyanchor_missing, and running this case is what found it.G11's contract does not change, structurallyANCHOR_BREAKSis its own closed set andCHAIN_BREAKSstays closed at six. Putting the anchor's kinds inCHAIN_BREAKSfailsG11's control withcontrol failedon every anchoring deployment, because that control readsintact.okover the wholeChainReport.T533assertsG11passes on a store whose anchor report carries multiple breaks, so the separation is a property of the code rather than a paragraph.anchor_unavailableis in neither set. An unreachable provider reportsunavailable, which is neither ok nor broken: refusing to act when you cannot ask is fail-closed, and reporting tampering when you cannot ask is a false positive.Two decisions the spec did not settle, flagged rather than made quietly
AnchorProvider.makereturns(token, time), not §3.2's bare token. §3.2's table says "returns an opaque token"; §3.3 says CTRLRun caches "the pair, the token, and the time"; §10 refuses "an anchor whose time runs backwards". A time the provider does not supply is one CTRLRun would read from its own clock, which rule 1 forbids: the anchor consumes a timestamp and issues none. The three cannot all hold with a bare token, and this is the only resolution that keeps rule 1.StateStore.checkpoint(the read) ships here, not in item 3. §9's row assignsput_checkpoint/.checkpointto item 3. But §4.6's supersession rule is part of whatanchor_brokenmeans: an anchoredseqbelow an anchored checkpoint is superseded, not broken. An anchor shipped without it would report every anchor older than the retention window as tampering, forever, on any deployment that prunes, and §3.4's definition would be wider than its code.put_checkpoint, the write, is still item 3's.Also:
ctrlrun anchor's--provider module:attrshape is a decision, not a spec quotation. §9 freezes the command and says nothing about how it reaches the provider.Mutations
Fifteen, all caught.
verify_anchorsreads the local table instead of asking the providerseqis not a breakseqthat hashes differently is not a breakcheck()returning false is ignoredmake()still caches an anchorG28drops its untouched-chain controlCHAIN_BREAKSQ9 was a design finding, not a test finding, and is the one worth reading. Restoring the joint ordering survived everything, because nothing could produce a checkpoint anchor below an interval one for the per-kind rule to have to allow:
make_anchoranchored the head and nothing else. But §4.6 needs exactly that, since a prune's checkpoint sits below the head.at=closes it, andT535eis the case a joint ordering would refuse permanently.Q2 and Q6 were my own invalid mutations, corrected and re-run: they changed detail strings rather than behaviour, and the tests assert on name and
seqrather than message, which isSPEC-v0.7.md§6.11's rule. Reported rather than counted as passes.Counts
./scripts/check.shwith Postgres: 4461 passed + 66 serial. mypy--strictclean, ruff clean.The shipped example
examples/anchored-chain/runs both halves, because an example that only showed the anchor catching a truncation would be an advertisement: the reader has to see the chain report the same store intact. It prints what an anchor does not prove as plainly as what it does, andT539asserts those lines and greps the output fortamper-proof,immutableandcannot be altered.Docs
Paired branch of the same name, PR CTRLRun/ctrlrun-docs#33, which also stacks the whole open docs chain and is what makes
main'sdocsjob green again. It corrects two published overclaims:OWASP-SOLUTIONS-LANDSCAPE.mdsaid the anchor catches "truncation and append", andOWASP-AGENTIC-TOP10.md'sG11row said "v0.6 has no anchor and claims none".🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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ctrlrun anchorcommand for creating and verifying anchors.