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Bundle F of CLOUD-928's dispatch: the capture spine, three rows on one branch in
dependency order.

Closes CLOUD-917
Closes CLOUD-918
Closes CLOUD-919

Three closing keys, named individually because closing-key-check only verifies
the body closes a key rather than every key the branch served (CLOUD-674) — a
bundle PR otherwise strands its tail silently and the log reads as a clean pass.

Why

CLOUD-776 built the agent-sourced fact channel and closed the door behind
itself. Rule 4 was discharged structurallyfacts::rows_in reduces a tool
response to a count at the boundary, and the count is what reaches disk — so the
code asserts in three places that no byte of a tool response exists anywhere
under the state root.

That is a stronger claim than rule 4 needs, and it costs the capability this
bundle exists for: a response truncated in context, or one an agent needs to
re-read a hundred lines into, cannot be recovered without re-running the
command — and the command may not be idempotent. Re-running it is exactly what
the local capture surface was built to delete.

This replaces the prohibition on storage with a contract. Emission is
untouched.
The property is not weakened, it is relocated to the emission
boundary where rule 4 has always lived:

A secret planted in a tool response appears in no hook stdout, no hook
stderr, no -J document and no file under
$GIT_DIR/batten-receipts/and is byte-identical when read back through
one explicit capture-replay operation.

Both halves are asserted. The second is what makes the first a contract rather
than an accident of the buffer being discarded: a test that only checks absence
passes on a build that captured nothing.

The rows

row commit
1 CLOUD-917 — the fidelity vocabulary and the column feat:
2 CLOUD-918 — Stream::Response, Selection::Raw, the calls log, the bounded store feat(capture):
3 CLOUD-919 — the per-call capture and the post-tool bench arm feat(hook):

Ordered by dependency rather than taste: 917 decides the fidelity vocabulary the
other two record, and 918's store must exist before 919's security predicate has
a second half to assert.

Status

  • CLOUD-917Fidelity, CaptureCapabilities, ResponseShape,
    Capabilities::fidelity, the census, and the reserved-word scan.
  • CLOUD-918 — the store extension.
  • CLOUD-919 — the call site, the test re-scope, and the perf arm.

Notes for review

LexicalBytes is not reachable, and that changed what 917 could honestly
declare.
decode builds Envelope::result off an already-parsed
serde_json::Value, so the response member's original bytes are gone before
run_hook sees them. Claude Code's one measured cell is therefore
DecodedContent; LexicalBytes stays in the vocabulary with no host claiming
it. Reaching it needs serde_json's non-default raw_value feature and the
decoder retaining the member's raw span — larger than 917 describes, and not in
this bundle.

The fidelity column is deliberately off the Capability axis. A Fidelity
does not project to a Declaration without inventing a mapping that erases
which of the five values was measured. It is a second axis, as events already
is.

"byte-perfect" is enforced, not asserted. tests/capture_fidelity.rs reads
the module's doc paragraphs and the type's rendered output and refuses the term
beside a value that does not answer true at is_byte_perfect. It rejected its
own author twice before it passed — both real violations, in the commit that
introduces the rule.

facts.rs's doc-comment edit is deliberately not here. It belongs to bundle
G: facts.rs is hand-written, #660 is actively changing it, and a comment
collision is a hand-merge rather than a regeneration. That keeps this branch's
only overlap with #660 a single generated file.


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CLOUD-917 Supersede the hook tool-response no-storage rule with a local capture contract

Why

CLOUD-776 built the fact-acquisition channel: a gate denies with Fix::Run, the agent's own tool runs the command, the harness hands the bytes back as Envelope::result, and the boundary records what it said. It also closed the door behind itself. Rule 4 was discharged structurallyfacts::rows_in reduces the buffer to a count at the boundary, and the count is what reaches disk — so the code now asserts, in three places, that no byte of a tool response exists anywhere under the state root.

That is a stronger claim than rule 4 needs, and it costs the capability this bundle exists for: a response truncated in context, or one an agent needs to re-read a hundred lines into, cannot be recovered without re-running the command. The command may not be idempotent, and re-running it is exactly what the local capture surface (CLOUD-121) was built to delete.

This row replaces the prohibition on storage with a contract. Emission is untouched.

What is superseded — three named sites, and only these

  • crates/batten/src/hook.rs:1633-1637Envelope::result's doc: "It is decided OVER and never reproduced — not in a deny message, not in a -J document, and not under the state root." Only the final clause dies. The first two are rule 4 and stand.
  • crates/batten/src/facts.rs:941-948"Rule 4, structural rather than careful … No byte of it is stored." This edit lands with the mediated-call bundle, not the capture bundle: facts.rs is hand-written, CLOUD-911 bundle 1 is actively changing it (CLOUD-851 added Production there), and a doc-comment collision is a merge rather than a regeneration. Deferring one comment keeps the capture PR's only overlap a single generated file. The paragraph's mechanism (rows_in reduces to a count) is retained as the description of the fact record, which still stores no byte. What dies is the claim that the count is the only thing anywhere.
  • crates/batten/tests/cli.rs:9231 no_byte_of_the_result_buffer_is_emitted_or_storedre-scoped, never deleted. Note it already searches .git/batten-receipts rather than the state root its assertion message names, so the re-scope makes the test match what it does: the secret stays absent from stdout, stderr, -J and every fact record. It gains a positive twin asserting the same bytes are byte-identical through one explicit replay.

Nothing else in CLOUD-776 is reopened. Its worked instance, its command-verification rule, its three-valued contract and its receipt shape are unaffected.

What survives, stated as the security predicate

The property is not weakened, it is relocated to the emission boundary where rule 4 has always lived:

A secret planted in a tool response appears in no hook stdout, no hook stderr, no -J document and no file under $GIT_DIR/batten-receipts/and is byte-identical when read back through one explicit capture-replay operation.

Both halves are asserted. The second half is what makes the first a contract rather than an accident of the buffer being discarded: a test that only checks absence passes on a build that captured nothing.

facts::rows_in and the Sourced { command, seen_at, rows } record are an independent consumer of the same envelope field. They are not layered on the capture, they do not read it, and they still reduce to a count. Deleting the capture path must leave the row-count projection green, and deleting the projection must leave replay green — asserted in both directions, because a shared implementation is how the count would eventually start carrying a payload.

The fidelity matrix — one authoritative source per host and response shape

Five values, mutually exclusive, and every cell carries exactly one:

Value What the capture holds May be called byte-perfect
LexicalBytes the original bytes of the response member as the host framed it yes
DecodedContent the decoded content bytes, with the framing recorded separately no — see below
SpillFile the bytes of the file the host spilled the response into yes
Prefix { captured, declared } a leading prefix, plus what is known about the whole no
Unavailable nothing; the host does not make the bytes reachable here n/a

Declared as a column on Capabilities, per harness, in the shape attribution already uses — a non-scalar column whose unsurveyed default is a named constant (UNSURVEYED_ATTRIBUTION is the precedent). Censused over Harness::ALL so a seventh adapter cannot land without declaring one, which is the same totality obligation Capability::ALL carries for the scalar columns.

An unsurveyed host is Unavailable, never a guess. Today that is five of the six: only ClaudeCode's post-tool payload has been measured in this repository (tests/board-write-record.bats for the MCP content-block shape). Widening a row is a measurement, filed per host.

"Byte-perfect" is a reserved word

DecodedContent is byte-exact for the decoded member and is explicitly not byte-perfect for the response as the host framed it: re-serializing a decoded JSON value normalizes key order, escaping and whitespace, so the reserialized document is a different byte string from what arrived. No doc comment, no output line, no record field and no test name may describe a reserialized decoded value as byte-perfect. Asserted directly: a test scans the capture module's own docs and the rendered output for the term and requires the fidelity value beside it to be LexicalBytes or SpillFile.

Empty vs absent — three-valued, and neither is the other

  • The response member is absent (Value::Null after decode's alias walk) → no capture, and a provenance row recording the absence. This is the pre-tool case, and every post-tool call from a host that sends no response.
  • The member is present and empty ("", [], {}) → a real capture of zero bytes. Capture.bytes already documents zero as "a real answer, not an absence", and this is the case that reading makes load-bearing.
  • The member is present and non-empty → a capture of those bytes at its declared fidelity.

Collapsing the first two is CLOUD-251's vacuous pass on a new surface: "the tool returned nothing" and "nobody looked" would become one record.

Structured responses

The authoritative source is the original lexical bytes of the response member where the decoder can reach them. Where it cannot, it is the decoded content bytes of each text block in the order the host sent them, with the framing (block count, per-block type) recorded in the provenance row rather than interleaved into the bytes — so a reader of the raw stream gets content and a reader of the record gets structure. Fidelity is LexicalBytes in the first case and DecodedContent in the second, and the two are never silently interchanged.

Spill-file races

One read. The digest is computed over the bytes actually read, never over a second stat. If the file is absent when opened, or its length differs between open and end-of-read, the outcome is Unavailable with a stable reason id (capture-spill-vanished, capture-spill-raced) — never a Prefix implying the host truncated, and never a partial claiming to be full. A racing host is a fidelity answer, not an error that stops a turn.

Truncation and known length

  • Host declares a total and the captured bytes are shorter → Prefix { captured, declared: Some(n) }.
  • Host signals truncation with no total → Prefix { captured, declared: None }.
  • No truncation signal and no declared total → the fidelity value for what was read, and no implicit claim of completeness. Completeness is claimed only by LexicalBytes or SpillFile.

Unavailable-host behaviour

Capture is skipped. A provenance row is still written, carrying fidelity = Unavailable and the harness's declaration. Hook execution continues, the exit code is unchanged, and nothing is emitted. A host that cannot be captured is knowable rather than silent, which is the whole difference between this and the current state.

Two identities, and deduplication may not erase either

Content and invocation are separate objects with separate keys:

  • Content identity — the existing content-addressed digest. Identical bytes are one record, and the record carries no timestamp, which capture.rs already argues for at length: a capture keyed by content must be a pure function of that content, or §6 byte-stability breaks.
  • Invocation identity — a separate, append-only provenance record, one row per call, carrying: source (which member, or the spill-path class — never a path), host, tool, event, seen_at, a monotone per-session order, fidelity, and the content digest or a recorded absence.

Dedup happens on content and never on provenance. Two calls that produced identical bytes are one blob and two rows; a session that ran the same command forty times can still say which call was which. This is also why the timestamp CLOUD-121 refused belongs here instead: it is a fact about an invocation, not about bytes.

Capture failure, decided

Not "explicit failure" — the observable behaviour, named:

  1. Hook execution continues. The exit code is unchanged and is never 2. A storage failure is not a policy verdict, and the 0/1/2/3 table has no per-verb exception.
  2. A degraded provenance record is written, carrying fidelity = Unavailable and a stable reason id for why (capture-store-unwritable, capture-state-root-unresolved, capture-budget-exhausted).
  3. The observable signal is pointer-only — the reason id reaches the operator through doctor and the advisory channel. Never the bytes, never a path, and never a byte count that could fingerprint the content.
  4. The one unrecordable failure is the provenance write itself. That case is counted, by the same doctor check, so "no record" cannot mean "no calls" and "could not write" at once.

This is deliberately the opposite posture from capture::store's own "never a silent skip" doc, and the reason is the surface: store is called by exec, where an unrecorded capture is a lie about a command a human asked for. Here it is called on the mediated path, where the non-negotiable is that no Batten failure can block a tool call.


Refinement — Ready

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

  • Source of truth (§1). This issue is the contract; the mechanism lands in CLOUD-918 and CLOUD-919. The three superseded sites above are the complete edit list for the supersession itself, and the fidelity column's authority is Harness::capabilities() — one table, per host, censused over Harness::ALL.
  • Computable predicate (§2). Two, both decidable: (a) every harness in Harness::ALL declares exactly one fidelity value per surveyed response shape, and a build with a missing cell does not compile; (b) the security predicate above, run as one test asserting absence on four channels and byte-identity through replay. Failure case: a build that stores nothing passes the absence half and fails the identity half.
  • Effect (§3). read at decision time; the storage this authorizes is a self-declared write on the post-tool path, classified in CLOUD-919 where it lands.
  • Generated artifacts (§4). The fidelity column reaches no generated artifact here. schema/batten.schema.json moves in CLOUD-918, where the [capture] table lands, and is derived and drift-gated.
  • Output & exit (§5). No new verb, and the 0/1/2/3 table is unchanged. Default emission stays pointer-only on every path. A fidelity value and a reason id are both stable tokens carrying no path and no byte — doctor.rs's a_reason_id_never_carries_a_path is the existing gate the new ids inherit.
  • Commit / bump (§6). feat → patch until 0.1.0. One type, not a slash-alternative: ready-lint reads docs as implying no bump, so docs/feat beside a declared patch is bump-disagrees-with-type. Caught by running the gate rather than by reading the line (2026-08-22).
  • Test obligation (§7). The re-scoped no_byte_of_the_result_buffer_is_emitted_or_stored plus its positive twin; a fidelity census over Harness::ALL; the byte-perfect word scan; empty-vs-absent as two distinct records with a test that fails if they collapse; and the two-directions independence assertion between the capture path and rows_in. Shown able to fail per CLOUD-418: deleting the capture write reds the identity half, and deleting the projection reds the count half.
  • Blockers (§8). None. relatedTo CLOUD-776 (the prohibition this supersedes, Done), CLOUD-777 and CLOUD-898 — the last two are landed integration constraints, not blockers: the matcherless registration this rides already covers all eight Claude events, and [[hook.handler]] is the door this deliberately does not use. blocks CLOUD-918.

CLOUD-918 Generalize local captures for binary-safe replay and tool-response handles

Why

capture.rs already holds the substrate: content-addressed records under state::repo_state_dir, a temp-and-rename publish that a reader can never see torn, Handle parsing that keeps a digest from becoming a path traversal, and a Selection surface an agent navigates without re-running anything. What it cannot do is the two things a tool response needs.

It has no third stream. Stream is Stdout | Stderr, and both the store key and the hashed preimage derive from it, so a response has nowhere to live.

Every read is a lossy text view. select runs String::from_utf8_lossy and hands back numbered lines — correct for a build log and correct in the doc that says so, and wrong as the only route to bytes. A response carrying a tarball, a NUL, or one invalid continuation byte comes back changed, and the module's own promise that "the bytes stay exact in the store" has no operation that proves it.

This row adds the third stream and the byte-exact route, and leaves every existing projection exactly as lossy as it already honestly says it is.

Stream gains Response

Appended, never inserted — Stream is #[non_exhaustive] and semver reads a reordered variant as enum_no_repr_variant_discriminant_changed. Handles stay <stream>:<digest>, so Handle::parse, list, prune and the <stream>-<digest> filename need no new shape, and Stream::ALL keeps being the one place a reader enumerates them.

A response arrives whole. There is nothing to spool, so Stream::Response is sealed-only: it never mints a <stream>@<key> live handle, and that is asserted rather than assumed — a live handle for a response would promise a file that is still growing when nothing is writing it.

Selection gains Raw

Raw { from: Option<u64>, to: Option<u64> }0-indexed, from inclusive, to exclusive, both optional, and clamped at both ends for exactly the reason Lines is clamped: widening a window is the point, and an agent that asks for 0:5000 of a 400-byte record wants the record. An inverted range selects nothing rather than panicking, matching Lines's existing arithmetic.

Byte offsets are 0-indexed where lines are 1-indexed, and that asymmetry is deliberate rather than sloppy: a line number is what a human reads off a grep result, and a byte offset is what dd, seek and every other byte tool in the world already means by it. Collapsing them would make one of the two wrong.

Bounds errors are a UsageError, and the split is the contract

  • Out-of-range but well-formed → clamped, exit 0. 1000:2000 of a 40-byte record is an empty selection, not a failure.
  • Malformed — a non-numeric bound, a missing :, a value that overflows u64UsageError, exit 1, naming the shape it wanted, exactly as Handle::parse does for a bad digest.

So a caller who guessed a window gets an answer, and a caller who wrote nonsense gets told. That is the same split Handle::parse already draws between "unknown stream" and "clamp it".

The CLI

batten capture show <handle> --raw [--bytes FROM:TO] writes the selected bytes to stdout verbatim: no decode, no replacement characters, no added trailing newline, and on Windows the raw handle so no \n\r\n translation. This is the one operation in the binary whose output is not text.

--raw with --json, --lines or --grep is a UsageError. A raw byte stream and a byte-stable JSON document are different contracts, and a flag combination that has to pick one silently is how a caller ends up with base64 where it wanted bytes.

JSON never carries raw bytes

Under --json, a raw selection emits { handle, bytes, from, to, encoding: "base64", data }. Base64 rather than an escaped string, because §6 requires byte-stability and a lossy decode is not a function of the bytes; and rather than raw, because a -J document is parsed by consumers that assume UTF-8.

The text projections keep their existing behaviour and gain one field: Selected carries lossy: bool, set when the decode replaced anything. Today a caller cannot tell a record that decoded cleanly from one that did not, which is the difference between a line view being a convenience and being a trap. Line, grep and JSON views remain explicitly lossy projections, never replay — the module doc already says so, and --raw is now the operation that makes that sentence checkable.

Provenance is a second record, not a field

Per CLOUD-917: content identity is the digest, invocation identity is its own append-only row. Concretely, beside captures/<stream>-<digest>, a captures/calls log whose rows carry source, host, tool, event, seen_at, a monotone per-session order, fidelity, and the digest or a recorded absence.

The blob keeps carrying no timestamp. capture.rs argues that at length and it is right: a capture keyed by content must be a pure function of that content, or two identical outputs become two records and §6 breaks. The timestamp a tool response genuinely needs is a fact about the call, so it lands on the call row. Dedup therefore collapses bytes and never rows — forty calls that printed the same thing are one blob and forty rows.

batten capture list grows a per-call view over that log so provenance is discoverable rather than merely stored; its ordering stays byte-stable, by handle then by recorded order, never by mtime.

Storage permissions

The capture directory is minted 0o700 and records 0o600 on Unix, following secrets.rs's KEY_DIR_MODE. This is a change from today's behaviour — the store is currently created with create_dir_all and inherits the umask, which was defensible while a capture held only the output of a command the operator themself ran, and is not once it can hold a tool response. On Windows, ACL inheritance is stated as unenforced, the same per-platform arm the state root already carries.

Retention and GC

A [capture] table declares max_bytes and max_records. Enforcement is at write time, evicting oldest by the call log's recorded order; the trigger is the write — never a clock, never a schedule, never a background sweeper. That is .claude/rules/toolchain.md's split between a gate and a schedule, and prune's own doc already refuses a time-based sweeper on the same grounds.

Bounded by default for response captures, and unbounded for exec captures, so today's behaviour is unchanged for the consumer that has it: prune remains the whole lifecycle there, and the store stays bounded by how many distinct outputs a repository produces. The default exists because response capture changes the growth law — per call rather than per distinct exec output — and inheriting exec's unbounded posture into that would be adopting a bound that was computed for a different denominator.

Cross-platform

The fs4 advisory lock stays, on the reason that survives dependency arguments: the kernel releases it when its holder dies. Byte ranges are platform-independent arithmetic. The two platform-specific claims are stated rather than assumed: the raw stdout handle on Windows (no newline translation), and permissions being unenforced there.


Refinement — Ready

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

  • Source of truth (§1). crates/batten/src/capture.rs — one module, extended: Stream, Selection, select, list, plus the new call log. The CLI surface is cli.rs's existing CaptureCommand::Show. No second store, no second addressing scheme.
  • Computable predicate (§2). mise run verify green with: arbitrary bytes — invalid UTF-8, a NUL, a lone \r — round-tripping byte-identically through --raw; every clamp case answering and every malformed bound exiting 1; and the budget evicting deterministically. Failure case: a build whose --raw path went through from_utf8_lossy reds the round-trip immediately, which is the whole point of choosing bytes as the assertion rather than a line count.
  • Effect (§3). capture show and capture list stay read; capture prune stays the declared write. The write-time eviction is a new write on the store the verb already owns — declared, and no movement in the derived read-only allowlist.
  • Generated artifacts (§4). schema/batten.schema.json gains the [capture] table and stays derived and drift-gated. Man pages and the CLI reference are regenerated by their existing tasks.
  • Output & exit (§5). The 0/1/2/3 table with no per-verb exception: 0 an answer including an empty selection, 1 a malformed handle or bound, 3 a store that cannot be read. --raw is the one output path that is not text and is therefore the one that must never appear under -J. An unqualified show stays Selection::Summary — pointer-only by default, which is what keeps the payload something a caller names rather than something they receive.
  • Commit / bump (§6). feat(capture) → patch until 0.1.0. Stream::Response and Selection::Raw are additive on #[non_exhaustive] enums; mise run semver decides, not this paragraph.
  • Test obligation (§7). Round-trip cases for invalid UTF-8, NUL and a 1 MiB binary body; --raw combined with each of --json, --lines, --grep refused; clamp and malformed-bound pairs; two identical responses from different calls yielding one blob and two provenance rows, with both discoverable; a sealed-only assertion for Stream::Response; lossy true on a record that decoded with replacements and false on one that did not; permissions asserted through the decision rather than the umask, per .claude/rules/rust.md on this sandbox running as root; and the eviction order pinned so a budget cannot silently drop the newest. Mutation coverage per CLOUD-418 — removing the clamp, removing the --raw/--json refusal, and inverting the eviction order each turn a case red.
  • Blockers (§8). blockedBy CLOUD-917 — the contract decides fidelity, the two identities and the failure posture that this surface stores and reports; building the store first would mean choosing them here by implementation. blocks CLOUD-919.

CLOUD-919 Persist every PostToolUse response as a local capture

Why

Envelope::result already carries the whole response object on every post-tool event, on every harness, through decode's three aliases (hook.rs:2024-2029). Exactly one thing reads it, and it reads a count.

The bytes are then dropped. Measured against main, the drop is narrower than it looks and that narrowness is the defect: lib.rs:1881 reaches the recorder only when

envelope.event == hook::Event::PostTool && !envelope.command.is_empty()

so a structured tool — every MCP call, every Read, every Write — has an empty command and never reaches it at all, and a Bash call whose response is empty is indistinguishable from one that had no response. This row captures the response for every call that carries one, before anything projects a fact from it.

Where the capture happens, and why there

In lib.rs::run_hook, on Event::PostTool, immediately before record_agent_fact and before the config load, gated on one condition: the response member is present.

  • Before the fact projection, because CLOUD-917 makes the capture the authoritative record and the count a derived view of it. Projecting first and capturing second would let a build exist where the count survives and the bytes did not, which is the state this row exists to end.
  • Before the config load, because the post-tool path is now on every call. The whole cost is a digest and one write; the narrowing discipline (hook.rs:1572, CLOUD-460) is untouched, and a call that carries no response does no work here at all.
  • Not gated on !command.is_empty(). That conjunct is correct for an agent-sourced fact — a fact is keyed to a command that ran — and wrong for a capture, because the response of a structured tool is a response. Keeping it is precisely how the two shapes CLOUD-917 makes load-bearing (structured, and present-but-empty) would be missed.

Not through [[hook.handler]]

CLOUD-898's door is for a program a consumer declares. This is core behaviour of the mediated path and must hold with an empty batten.toml, on every harness, with nothing registered but batten hook. A handler would also invert the ordering above — a handler result is merged after config resolves — and would put the response bytes on a child process's stdin, which is the one place rule 4 most wants them not to be.

Registration: nothing to add

Verified against main: CLAUDE_EVENTS carries eight events (hook.rs:1013) and .claude/settings.json registers batten hook --harness claude-code matcherless on all eight, PostToolUse included. The alias walk is already in decode. So this row adds no registration and no alias work — it tests all three aliases and rides what CLOUD-777 landed.

What is written per call

Per CLOUD-917's two identities: the bytes to the content-addressed store at their declared fidelity, and one append-only provenance row carrying source, host, tool, event, seen_at, order, fidelity, and the digest or a recorded absence. Three outcomes, kept distinct:

Response member Capture Provenance row
absent none absence recorded
present, empty a real record of zero bytes digest of the empty record
present, non-empty the bytes at declared fidelity digest + fidelity

facts::rows_in and the Sourced receipt are unchanged and remain a separate consumer reading the same envelope field. They do not read the capture, and the capture does not read them.

Capture failure

CLOUD-917's decision, applied here: hook execution continues, the exit code is unchanged and never 2, a degraded provenance row is written with fidelity = Unavailable and a stable reason id, and the observable signal is that reason id on the doctor and advisory channels — never bytes, never a path. This is the opposite of capture::store's "never a silent skip", and deliberately so: on this surface no Batten failure may block a tool call.


Refinement — Ready

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

  • Source of truth (§1). crates/batten/src/lib.rs's post-tool arm in run_hook — one call site, beside record_agent_fact at :1881 and ahead of it. The store, the handle shape and the fidelity vocabulary are CLOUD-918's and CLOUD-917's; nothing about them is re-decided here.
  • Computable predicate (§2). mise run verify green with a payload fixture per row of the table above, plus the security predicate end to end: a planted secret is absent from stdout, stderr, every -J document and every file under $GIT_DIR/batten-receipts/, and byte-identical through batten capture show <handle> --raw. Failure case: a build that keeps the !command.is_empty() conjunct passes the Bash fixture and reds the structured one — which is why both are required rather than one standing in for the other.
  • Effect (§3). hook is already classified. The write is the only new cost and it is a self-declared write on the store capture owns; the engine still spawns nothing and builds no runtime, and house-style §5's read promise is untouched because reading a buffer the harness handed over is not execution.
  • Generated artifacts (§4). None. The wiring is already derived and drift-gated, and this adds no registration.
  • Output & exit (§5). Nothing is emitted on the capture path. A post-tool event is not a deny channel on any surveyed host and stays exit 0; a capture failure does not change that. Pointer-only holds structurally: the only new bytes leave the process through capture show --raw, which a caller has to name.
  • Commit / bump (§6). feat(hook) → patch until 0.1.0.
  • Test obligation (§7). Over the compiled binary, in tests/cli.rs's existing idiom beside the CLOUD-776 block at :9114, because the halves live in different processes:
    • a Bash fixture and an MCP content-block fixture each persist the authoritative bytes at the declared fidelity;

    • all three aliases — tool_response, toolResponse, tool_result — reach the capture;

    • a present-but-empty response yields a record of zero bytes, and an absent member yields no record and an absence row; a test fails if the two collapse;

    • the planted secret case, both halves — absent from four channels, byte-identical through --raw;

    • spilled, truncated and unavailable responses each produce the specified degraded record rather than a silent full-capture claim, one case per fidelity value;

    • a store that cannot be written leaves the hook at exit 0 with a degraded row and a reason id, driven through the state-root seam the suites already use rather than by permission bits (.claude/rules/rust.md: this sandbox runs as root);

    • A NEW POST-TOOL BENCH ARM, and this is the row's load-bearing measurement obligation. mise-tasks/perf.sh has five arms — noop, check, hook, passthrough, wired — and hook and wired both feed crates/batten/tests/fixtures/hooks/claude-code.json, a canned PreToolUse payload, with wired_cmd drawn from .hooks.PreToolUse[]. There is no PostToolUse arm. So the write this row adds — on every post-tool event, therefore on every tool call — is invisible to perf, perf-compare, perf-pair and perf-assert, and running perf-gate proves nothing about it. This row adds the arm, with its own canned PostToolUse fixture beside claude-code.json and claude-code-passthrough.json, and publishes the number.

      Without it the cost is unmeasurable now and unmeasurable later, which is the CLOUD-851 shape exactly: its store acquisition regressed check p50 4.76ms → 10.01ms (2.103x) with 2134 cargo tests green across it, because none of them measures invocation cost. CLOUD-875 is the same class.

      For the arms that already exist: REGRESSION_RATIO is 1.30, the measured noise floor 1.102, and wired carries an exemption to 1.60 until 2026-11-30 (CLOUD-843). perf-pair's two arms are measured sequentially, so concurrent load does not divide out — run it with nothing else in flight.

    • perf-assert holds, and a call carrying no response still does less work than --help.

    • Shown able to fail per CLOUD-418: restoring the command conjunct, and moving the capture after the projection, each turn a named case red.

  • Blockers (§8). blockedBy CLOUD-918 — the store has no Stream::Response and no byte-exact read until it lands, so the security predicate's second half is unassertable before then. Ordered after CLOUD-917 for the fidelity vocabulary this records. relatedTo CLOUD-776 (the projection this must leave intact) and CLOUD-777 (the registration this rides, landed — not a blocker).

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The capture API separates sealed responses from live stdout and stderr streams. It adds response decoding, fidelity metadata, raw byte-range selection, call provenance, response budgets, and oldest-first eviction. The CLI supports raw output, byte ranges, and call listings with updated documentation and completions. Capture storage uses owner-only permissions and exclusive staging files. Host capabilities declare fidelity by response shape. Configuration and schema support capture retention limits. Execution and tests use the new live-stream contract.

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384-403: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Retry when a stale staging name already exists.

The staging name is not unique across process lifetimes. A previous failed write can leave <stream>-<digest>.<pid>.0.tmp. After PID reuse, the same response digest causes create_new(true) to return AlreadyExists, and store fails.

Generate another staging attempt when open returns AlreadyExists. Keep create_new(true) for exclusive creation.

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OpenOptions::open returns AlreadyExists, while retaining create_new(true) for
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In `@crates/batten/src/capture.rs`:
- Around line 327-335: Update create_store_dir to detect whether create_dir_all
created the directory, and apply STORE_DIR_MODE only for newly created capture
stores. Leave permissions unchanged when the directory already exists, while
preserving the existing error-context handling.
- Around line 313-318: Gate
the_store_mode_is_decided_by_a_constant_rather_than_by_the_umask with
#[cfg(unix)] so it is compiled only where STORE_DIR_MODE and STORE_FILE_MODE are
defined, preserving Windows test compilation.

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1276-1291: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Confirm the eviction candidate scan stays inside its intended cost.

The candidate build is quadratic: for each row it scans held, and inside the predicate it scans candidates again. With the default bound of 1024 records and one row per call, the row count can far exceed the record count, so this runs rows × held × candidates. A HashSet<String> of digests already taken, plus a digest-keyed map over held, makes it linear without changing the order the rows define.

♻️ Proposed refactor for the candidate scan
     let ordered = calls_in(dir)?;
+    let by_digest: std::collections::HashMap<&str, &Capture> = held
+        .iter()
+        .map(|record| (record.digest.as_str(), record))
+        .collect();
+    let mut taken: std::collections::HashSet<&str> = std::collections::HashSet::new();
     let mut candidates: Vec<Capture> = Vec::new();
     for row in &ordered {
         let Some(digest) = row.digest.as_deref() else {
             continue;
         };
-        if let Some(found) = held.iter().find(|record| {
-            record.digest == digest && !candidates.iter().any(|had| had.digest == digest)
-        }) {
-            candidates.push(found.clone());
-        }
+        if let Some(found) = by_digest.get(digest)
+            && taken.insert(digest)
+        {
+            candidates.push((*found).clone());
+        }
     }
     for record in &held {
-        if !candidates.iter().any(|had| had.digest == record.digest) {
+        if !taken.contains(record.digest.as_str()) {
             candidates.push(record.clone());
         }
     }
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In `@crates/batten/src/capture.rs` around lines 1276 - 1291, Refactor the
candidate construction in the eviction scan to avoid nested linear searches:
build a digest-keyed lookup from held records and track selected digests with a
HashSet<String>. Iterate ordered rows in their existing order, selecting each
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- Around line 1341-1403: Update record_call_in so ordinal assignment does not
re-parse the entire calls log on every append: scan entries from the tail and
derive the next order from the latest row for the same session, preserving
correct ordering. Also enforce a bounded calls log by trimming it in
evict_to_budget_in using the same oldest-first policy as blob eviction.
- Around line 1246-1305: Invoke evict_to_budget after successfully writing a
response capture, using the same repository root and CaptureConfig available to
the write path. Ensure the write operation still completes successfully while
eviction enforces configured max_bytes and max_records, and avoid adding
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- Around line 1276-1291: Refactor the candidate construction in the eviction
scan to avoid nested linear searches: build a digest-keyed lookup from held
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Comment on lines +1246 to +1305
pub fn evict_to_budget(repo_root: &Path, config: Option<&CaptureConfig>) -> Result<usize> {
evict_to_budget_in(&captures_dir(repo_root)?, config)
}

/// [`evict_to_budget`] over a store directory named outright — [`store_in`]'s
/// seam.
///
/// # Errors
///
/// As [`evict_to_budget`].
pub fn evict_to_budget_in(dir: &Path, config: Option<&CaptureConfig>) -> Result<usize> {
let max_bytes = config
.and_then(|held| held.max_bytes)
.unwrap_or(DEFAULT_RESPONSE_MAX_BYTES);
let max_records = config
.and_then(|held| held.max_records)
.unwrap_or(DEFAULT_RESPONSE_MAX_RECORDS);
let held: Vec<Capture> = list_in(dir)?
.into_iter()
.filter(|record| record.stream == Stream::Response.as_str())
.collect();
let mut total: u64 = held.iter().map(|record| record.bytes).sum();
let mut count = held.len() as u64;
if total <= max_bytes && count <= max_records {
return Ok(0);
}
// The call log's order is the authority on which capture is oldest. A digest
// named by no row cannot be ordered, so it is evicted last rather than first
// — guessing an order for it would be inventing provenance.
let ordered = calls_in(dir)?;
let mut candidates: Vec<Capture> = Vec::new();
for row in &ordered {
let Some(digest) = row.digest.as_deref() else {
continue;
};
if let Some(found) = held.iter().find(|record| {
record.digest == digest && !candidates.iter().any(|had| had.digest == digest)
}) {
candidates.push(found.clone());
}
}
for record in &held {
if !candidates.iter().any(|had| had.digest == record.digest) {
candidates.push(record.clone());
}
}
let mut removed = 0;
for record in candidates {
if total <= max_bytes && count <= max_records {
break;
}
let path = dir.join(format!("{}-{}", record.stream, record.digest));
if std::fs::remove_file(&path).is_ok() {
total = total.saturating_sub(record.bytes);
count = count.saturating_sub(1);
removed += 1;
}
}
Ok(removed)
}

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Wire evict_to_budget into the response-capture write path. No production call site exists, so the write-time bound is never enforced and response storage can exceed configured limits.

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evict_to_budget after successfully writing a response capture, using the same
repository root and CaptureConfig available to the write path. Ensure the write
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1418-1455: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

The call-log bound is unreachable on the common path.

evict_to_budget_in returns at Line 1418 whenever the blob budget is satisfied. trim_calls runs only after that check. Response blobs are content-addressed and deduplicated, so repeated identical responses keep total and count constant while the log gains one row per call. In that state the early return always fires and the log is never trimmed.

next_order documents its bound as "the log trimming in evict_to_budget_in", so the bound it relies on does not hold. A new session then reverse-scans the whole log.

Move the trim ahead of the budget check.

♻️ Proposed fix
     let mut total: u64 = held.iter().map(|record| record.bytes).sum();
     let mut count = held.len() as u64;
+    // The row count and the blob count grow on different laws: dedup collapses
+    // identical responses, so a store inside its byte and record budget can
+    // still accumulate one row per call. Trimming before the budget check is
+    // what makes `next_order`'s bound real.
+    trim_calls(dir, &calls_in(dir)?, max_records)?;
     if total <= max_bytes && count <= max_records {
         return Ok(0);
     }

Then drop the later trim_calls(dir, &ordered, max_records)?; call at Line 1455.

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In `@crates/batten/src/capture.rs` around lines 1418 - 1455, In
evict_to_budget_in, load the ordered call log and invoke trim_calls before the
early return that checks total and count budgets, so call-log trimming occurs
even when deduplicated blobs already satisfy those budgets. Remove the later
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In `@crates/batten/src/capture.rs`:
- Around line 1576-1595: Update the trim flow around trim_calls and
evict_to_budget_in to acquire the existing calls.lock before reading the call
records, hold it through the trim rewrite and rename, and release it afterward.
Reuse the locking mechanism used by record_call_in; if bounded lock acquisition
retries are exhausted, skip trimming without failing the operation.

In `@crates/batten/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 3054-3058: Update the error branch after capture::evict_to_budget
in the response write path to report capture::STORE_UNWRITABLE instead of
capture::BUDGET_EXHAUSTED, preserving BUDGET_EXHAUSTED for actual budget
refusals.
- Around line 3005-3008: Update run_hook so repository state uses
hook_authority_root() rather than the process cwd: at crates/batten/src/lib.rs
lines 3005-3008, pass hook_authority_root() to git::repo_root; at lines
3101-3105, resolve config::CONFIG_FILE from hook_authority_root() instead of the
literal relative path. Ensure both reads use the same hook authority root.

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wenzowski and others added 8 commits August 23, 2026 08:10
CLOUD-776 discharged rule 4 structurally: `facts::rows_in` reduces a tool
response to a count at the boundary, and the count is what reaches disk. That
is a stronger claim than rule 4 needs, and it costs the capability the capture
surface exists for — a response truncated in context cannot be recovered
without re-running a command that may not be idempotent.

Supersede the prohibition on STORAGE with a contract, leaving emission
untouched. This commit lands only the vocabulary the other two rows record in.

`capture::Fidelity` carries five mutually exclusive values, and
`is_byte_perfect` is the single authority on which of them may be described as
a faithful reproduction of the bytes a host framed. Only `LexicalBytes` and
`SpillFile` qualify: a decoded member is exact for what it decoded and
renormalizes key order, escaping and whitespace on the way back out, so calling
it byte-perfect would be a claim about the document the bytes do not support.

`tests/capture_fidelity.rs` makes the reserved word enforceable rather than
aspirational. It reads this module's own doc paragraphs and the type's rendered
`note`, and refuses the term beside a value that does not answer `true` at the
authority. A negated mention counts as a mention, so the three refused values
state what they ARE rather than what they are not.

A blank doc line ends a paragraph, and getting that wrong is what made the
first version of the scan unusable: treating a whole doc block as one paragraph
means a type whose docs legitimately discuss all five values can never mention
the term, so the only way to pass would be to stop explaining the rule.

Shown able to fail (CLOUD-418), and it failed on its author twice before it
passed: the scan rejected the `Fidelity` type's own heading, which used the
term while naming a refused value, and then `is_byte_perfect`'s summary line,
which used it while naming none. Both were real violations of the rule the
issue states, in the commit that introduces the rule.

The column is `Capabilities::capture`, per host and per `ResponseShape`, in the
shape `attribution` already uses. It is deliberately NOT a `Capability`: a
`Fidelity` does not project to a `Declaration` without inventing a mapping —
is `SpillFile` a `Yes`? is `Prefix` a `Partial`? — that erases which of the
five values was measured, which is the collapse `Declaration`'s four values
exist to prevent. So it is a second axis, as `events` already is, with
`Capabilities::fidelity` as its projection and its own census.
`no_capability_token_names_the_fidelity_column` keeps
`the_two_capability_subsets_partition_the_whole_table` a two-subset XOR by
construction rather than by luck.

Five of six hosts declare `Unavailable` on every shape. That is the honest
value and not a placeholder: it says the host does not make the bytes reachable
HERE, which is what an unmeasured surface supports. Claude Code has the one
measured cell, and it is `DecodedContent` rather than `LexicalBytes`, because
`decode` hands the engine an already-parsed value and the member's original
bytes are gone by then. Reaching `LexicalBytes` would need the decoder to keep
the member's raw span; declaring it without that is exactly the claim the
reserved word forbids.

The five capture reason ids and the `Absence` type are NOT here, which is a
departure from the plan and the plan's own reasoning applied where it did not
expect to need it. They have no construction site until the hook call site
exists — `captures_dir` and `store` raise `anyhow` errors rather than recording
a reason id — and clippy refused all three consts as dead code. An id nothing
can produce breaks the `doctor.rs` pattern they are modelled on, so all five
land with `capture_response`.

Refs: CLOUD-917
CLOUD-918's first half: the store could not hold a tool response, and every
route out of it was a lossy text view.

`Stream::Response`, appended never inserted — `semver` reads a reordered
variant as `enum_no_repr_variant_discriminant_changed`. It is not a child's
stream and it rides this enum anyway, because everything downstream of the
store key is identical: the handle shape, `Handle::parse`, `list`, `prune` and
the `<stream>-<digest>` filename need no new case, and a second addressing
scheme for the same question is how two stores come to disagree.

Sealed-only is made UNREPRESENTABLE rather than asserted. A response arrives
whole, so there is nothing to spool, and rather than test that nothing mints a
live handle for it, `LiveStream` is a newtype whose `new` returns `None` for
`Response` and which `live_handle`, `Spool::open`, `read_live` and
`live_watermark` now take. There is no code path left to guard.

That propagated further than expected, and the propagation is the point:
`ChildSink` matched on `Stream` to pick a terminal sink, which would have grown
an unreachable third arm. It holds a `LiveStream` now and asks `is_stderr`, so
the choice is total — two spooling streams, two sinks, no arm for a case the
type already excludes. `LiveStream::STDOUT`/`STDERR` are consts rather than
`new` plus a handled `None`, because every production site knows its stream
statically and the crate's lints forbid unwrapping a total answer into a
reachable panic.

`Selection::Raw { from, to }` — 0-indexed, `from` inclusive, `to` exclusive,
both optional, clamped at both ends, and an inverted range selects nothing. The
asymmetry with 1-indexed inclusive `Lines` is deliberate: a line number is read
off a rendering that starts at 1 and feeds back in from a grep, while byte
ranges must TILE — `0:N` then `N:M` covers the record exactly once with no
off-by-one at the seam, and an absent `to` is the only way to say "to the end"
without first learning the length.

`select_raw` is a SIBLING of `select`, not an arm of it. `select` opens with
`String::from_utf8_lossy` and every arm reads the decoded view, so a raw arm
inside it would sit one refactor away from being decoded too. A separate
function is what makes "raw never decodes" structural: there is no decoded
value in that scope to accidentally read.

`Selected` gains `lossy`, read off the `Cow` `select` already builds —
`from_utf8_lossy` returns `Borrowed` if and only if the input was wholly valid
UTF-8, so the discriminant is a faithful answer and costs no second pass. Its
doc states what would otherwise be a lie: it is a property of the WHOLE
capture, not of the selection, so `--lines 1:2` of a log whose byte 4000 is
invalid reports true.

Still to come on this row: the `--raw`/`--bytes` CLI surface and its refusals,
the `captures/calls` provenance log, 0o700/0o600 on the store, and the
`[capture]` write-time budget.

Refs: CLOUD-918
CLOUD-918's second half: the byte-exact route out of the store, and the
refusals that keep it from colliding with the text views.

`capture show <handle> --raw [--bytes FROM:TO]` writes the selected bytes to
stdout verbatim. `out` is already a byte sink, so `write_all` is the whole
mechanism — what matters is what it BYPASSES, and each omission is deliberate:
`writeln!` (so nothing appends a newline the store never held, which is the one
thing every other arm of this verb does), `to_string_pretty`, and the whole
`output::` ladder. This is the only write in the binary that is not text.

`--raw` is refused with `--json`, `--lines` and `--grep`, before anything is
read. `--raw` and `--json` are two ENCODINGS of one selection and resolving
that silently is how a caller ends up with base64 where it wanted bytes;
`--lines`/`--grep` are line views, which a byte stream is not. `--bytes` is the
selector, so a raw read narrows with that.

`parse_bytes` is laxer than `parse_line` about an empty half and exactly as
strict about a malformed one, and the divergence is declared rather than
inherited. `parse_line` refuses `5:` because an inclusive range has no notation
for an open end, so defaulting would invent a meaning; a half-open range makes
an absent bound the only way to say "to the end" without first learning the
length. Its three refusals are worded apart — no separator, non-numeric,
overflows u64 — because "too big" and "not a number" have different fixes. It
never compares against a length: clamping lives in `select_raw` and only there.

Base64 under `--json`, hand-rolled in ~20 lines rather than vendored, because
`deny.toml` and `tests/ambient_authority.rs` both price a new crate as a
decision to argue and this is the only base64 in the tool.

Two corrections to the row body, both places the tree disagreed with it:

Rust's `std::io` performs NO newline translation on any platform, so the
`\n` → `\r\n` hazard the row guards against does not exist. The real Windows
caveat is narrower and now stated where it applies: a `Stdout` bound to a
console goes through `WriteConsoleW`, which mangles non-UTF-8, and obtaining a
true byte handle needs `unsafe` — forbidden by the workspace lints. So the
verbatim guarantee is a guarantee about a REDIRECTED stdout, which is the only
way a program consumes these bytes.

The row's `--raw`/`--json` refusal and its base64 document read as a
contradiction until `--bytes` is understood as the selector and the other two
as encodings of it. So the base64 document is what `--bytes -J` emits, WITHOUT
`--raw`. That reading is an inference from the row rather than something the
code decided, and it is recorded on the row.

`--bytes` with neither encoding named is pointer-only, because rule 4 holds
here too: it reports the window and the count it would return, never the
payload.

Shown able to fail (CLOUD-418): routing `--raw` through `from_utf8_lossy` reds
`an_invalid_utf8_byte_round_trips_through_raw_unchanged` and
`a_nul_byte_round_trips_through_raw_unchanged`; deleting the clamp reds
`a_byte_range_past_the_end_is_clamped_rather_than_refused`; deleting the
`raw && json` arm reds `raw_and_json_name_two_encodings_and_are_refused_together`.
The assertions are on BYTES rather than on a rendered string or a line count,
which is what gives them teeth — a decode anywhere in the path changes them.

Still to come on this row: the `captures/calls` provenance log, 0o700/0o600 on
the store, and the `[capture]` write-time budget.

Refs: CLOUD-918
The capture store was created with a bare `create_dir_all` and inherited the
umask, and its records with a bare `File::create`. That was defensible while a
capture held only the output of a command the operator themself ran. It is not
once the same store can hold a tool response, which is the likeliest thing in
an envelope to carry a secret — so the store is `0o700` and a record `0o600`,
following `secrets.rs`'s `KEY_DIR_MODE` and `KEY_MODE`.

The two are set differently, and each way is `secrets.rs`'s for its reason. The
DIRECTORY is created then chmod'ed, which is acceptable because
`create_dir_all` takes no mode and the window holds an empty directory. The
RECORD takes its mode at creation through `OpenOptionsExt`, because a file
chmod'ed after the write is world-readable for exactly the window in which the
bytes are in it. `create_new` is safe on that path because the staging name
already carries the pid and a per-process counter.

Stated rather than left to be discovered: a store written by an earlier binary
is NOT retroactively tightened, because the mode is set when a directory is
created and nothing here walks an existing one.

The tests assert the bits we SET, never enforcement — this sandbox runs as
root, so permission bits never bite, and a test asserting enforcement would
assert its own premise before its conclusion (`.claude/rules/rust.md`,
CLOUD-249). So there are two halves: the constants are checked directly, which
is the extracted decision, and the modes are read back off a real
`create_store_dir` and a real `OpenOptions`, which is the half a constant
cannot cover — that the decision actually reaches the two `create` calls.

On Windows the claim is unenforced, the same per-platform arm the state root
already carries.

Refs: CLOUD-918
CLOUD-918's last two pieces, and both exist because a response capture is
keyed differently from an `exec` one.

THE CALL LOG is the invocation identity CLOUD-917 keeps separate from the
content identity. The blob is keyed by content, so identical bytes are one
record and the record carries no timestamp; a row is keyed by call, so forty
calls that produced the same bytes are one blob and forty rows. That is what
lets a session say which call was which, and it is where the timestamp a
response genuinely needs can live without breaking §6 — a fact about a moment
rather than about bytes. `identical_bytes_are_one_blob_and_two_rows` is the
property.

`order` is minted from the count of rows already recorded for that session,
read under the lock the append takes. Not a clock: a clock would make two runs
over an unchanged log disagree, which is the same reason the blob refuses one.
`seen_at` is stored and NEVER rendered by `capture list --calls`, so the
listing stays byte-stable.

A lost lock RETRIES rather than skipping, which is the opposite of
`Spool::commit`'s watermark publish and deliberately so: there a skipped
publish costs a reader one stale length and the next publish carries both, and
here a skipped row is a call nobody recorded. Bounded, because this runs on the
mediated path where no Batten failure may block a tool call.

Absence is a KEY that exists rather than a count that differs. A row with a
digest and a row with a reason id are distinguishable by shape, so "the tool
returned nothing" and "nobody looked" cannot collapse — CLOUD-251's vacuous
pass, refused at the record.

THE BUDGET is write-time, evicting oldest by the call log's recorded order, and
`exec` captures are never candidates. Today's behaviour for that consumer is
byte-identical: `prune` stays its whole lifecycle, and its store is bounded by
how many DISTINCT outputs a repository produces. Responses need a bound because
they grow per call, and inheriting `exec`'s unbounded posture would be adopting
a bound computed for a different denominator.

Three gates in this repo caught real holes in the first draft, each of which
would have shipped a silent falsehood:

`trust`'s `every_config_field_carries_a_verdict` refused `[capture]` until it
declared what weakening it can express. It declares `NoMonotoneReading`: no
rule's verdict reads the store — an `exec_pattern` predicate scans the bytes in
the process that captured them, and `capture show` is navigation rather than a
gate — so a tighter bound evicts a record an agent might have wanted and
weakens no finding.

`config_schema`'s `the_schema_check_glob_names_every_module_the_schemas_derive_from`
refused `capture.rs` until `hk.pkl` named it, because a commit touching only
that module would otherwise move a published schema without firing the drift
gate.

And clippy refused `assert!(DEFAULT_RESPONSE_MAX_BYTES > 0)` as a tautology,
correctly: asserting a const is positive proves nothing. That case now asserts
the BEHAVIOUR an absent table produces — bounded by the default rather than
unbounded — which is the claim that could actually be wrong.

Three review findings from the previous commit are fixed here too, all valid:
the unix-only mode test is `#[cfg(unix)]`-gated (it reads constants that do not
exist on Windows); `create_store_dir` now sets a mode only on a store it
CREATES, because chmod-ing an existing one contradicted the compatibility note
in the same commit that made it; and the staging open retries on
`AlreadyExists`, because `create_new` — which setting a mode at creation
forces — fails on a stale `.tmp` after pid reuse where the predecessor's
`File::create` truncated it.

The `*_in` seams follow `Spool::open_in`'s precedent and exist for its stated
reason: resolving the state root reads the OS data directory, and a unit test
must not write into a developer's.

Refs: CLOUD-918
CLOUD-919's call site. One place in `run_hook`'s post-tool arm, before the fact
projection and before the config load, gated ONLY on the response member being
present.

The `!command.is_empty()` conjunct stays exactly where it belongs — on
`record_agent_fact`, because a fact is keyed to a command that ran — and the
capture does not inherit it. That conjunct is why every MCP call, every `Read`
and every `Write` is missed today: a structured tool has no command, and its
response is still a response.

The capture is textually first, and that ordering is the contract rather than a
preference: CLOUD-917 makes it the authoritative record and the row count a
derived view, so projecting first would permit a build where the count survived
and the bytes did not.

FIDELITY IS `DecodedContent`, AND THAT IS A MEASUREMENT. `hook::decode` builds
`Envelope::result` by cloning off an already-parsed `serde_json::Value`, so the
member's original lexical bytes are gone before anything here sees them.
`LexicalBytes` would need `serde_json`'s non-default `raw_value` feature AND a
decoder that carries the member's raw span — neither exists, so the selector is
single-armed with a comment naming both prerequisites rather than a two-armed
match with one arm unreachable. Re-serializing is explicitly refused:
renormalized key order and escaping is a different byte string, and describing
it as a faithful reproduction is the one claim the reserved word forbids.

Three shapes decode, which are the three the corpus carries: content-block
arrays, the Bash `{stdout,stderr}` object in a FIXED declared order so the
digest is a function of the value rather than of map iteration, and a bare
string. Anything else is could-not-look with a reason id, never zero bytes —
`facts::rows_in`'s own distinction. An empty array or object IS zero bytes,
because a host saying "nothing" is not a shape we failed to read.

Failure continues, never blocks: no `Result` reaches the caller, the exit code
is untouched, and the reason id goes to the advisory buffer and `doctor`. No
repo root means no capture at all, because `hook_authority_root` falls back to
the cwd and capturing unconditionally would mint a state root wherever an agent
happened to be standing.

## What the run demonstrated, and it is worth recording

`no_byte_of_the_result_buffer_is_emitted_or_stored` DID NOT go red, and the
reason is the defect the next commit fixes. `run_hook_in` pins no state root, so
the capture writes into the AMBIENT one while the test searches only
`dir/.git/batten-receipts`. It passed while the bytes were genuinely being
stored.

So the test is not merely mis-messaged — it is structurally incapable of
observing the thing its assertion names. That is a stronger reason for the
re-scope than "the message is wrong", and it is why the re-scope has to pin a
state root rather than only rename an assertion.

## Review findings from the previous commit, all three valid

`evict_to_budget` had no production caller, so the write-time bound was declared
and never enforced. Now called on the response path.

`record_call_in` re-parsed the whole log to mint an ordinal, on the hottest path
in the binary — the exact shape CLOUD-851 measured, where a store acquisition
regressed `check` 2.103x with every test green because none measured invocation
cost. It scans backwards to the newest row for its session instead, and the log
is trimmed on the same oldest-first authority so that scan has a real bound. A
generous multiple of the record bound, not the bound itself, because an absence
row names no record and those are the rows a reader most wants kept.

The eviction candidate build scanned inside a scan, quadratic in the log's
length on a per-call path. A digest-keyed map and a taken-set make it linear at
the same order.

Refs: CLOUD-919
CLOUD-919's measurement obligation. The five existing arms stop short of
the event the capture actually runs on, so the per-call store write landed
on the hottest path in the binary with no number against it — the CLOUD-851
shape, where 2134 green tests coexisted with a 2.103x regression.

The arm is `posttool`, never `post_tool`: four regexes in the bats suites
match arm ids with `[a-z]+`, so an underscore would leave
`paired == budgeted + 1` true and let the census test pass over the very
hole it exists to catch.

The fixture is a Claude Code PostToolUse envelope with a Bash object
response and ~1 KiB of stdout. Object rather than content-block because
that is the shape the hot path carries AND the shape `rows_in` cannot read.
The size is a measurement choice, justified in perf.sh: the cost is
dominated by fixed terms, so one page prices the write PATH rather than a
copy; 1 MiB would measure memcpy and is a second arm, not a bigger fixture.

Every arm now exports a hermetic XDG_DATA_HOME/APPDATA/LOCALAPPDATA so the
figures stay comparable and no developer's real store is written. In
perf-pair that is mandatory rather than tidy: base stores nothing and head
stores, so a shared ambient root would leave the store order-dependent.

Naming it in perf-assert's BUDGETS is what arms the presence gate — from
here a `perf` run not emitting `path=posttool` is exit 2 rather than green.
The README row publishes the budget; its p50/p95 cells are filled by a
`perf` run on the landing machine.

Refs: CLOUD-919
…lock

Four review findings on 92ae8b2, all four real.

THE LOG'S BOUND WAS UNREACHABLE ON THE COMMON PATH. `evict_to_budget_in`
returned early once the blob budget was satisfied, and the trim ran after
that return. Response blobs are content-addressed, so a session repeating
one response holds the byte and record counts flat while the log gains a row
per call: the budget check passes forever and the log grows forever with it —
exactly the state the bound exists for. `next_order` reverse-scans from the
tail and cites that bound as its cost argument, so an unbounded log is an
unbounded scan on the mediated path.

Observed red, with the trim moved back behind the early return:
`the log kept 12 rows against a bound of 4`
(a_deduplicated_store_still_bounds_its_call_log).

The trim now runs first and unconditionally, but the parse does not: one
`stat` decides, and the log is read only when its SIZE could hold more rows
than the bound allows. A full parse per tool call is the CLOUD-851 shape
`next_order` exists to avoid, so buying the bound with it would trade one
defect for the other. `MIN_CALL_ROW_BYTES` is the floor that makes the stat
sound in the only direction that matters — too low costs a parse, too high
skips a due trim — and a_rendered_row_never_falls_under_the_row_floor gates
it over the minimal row.

THE TRIM TOOK NO LOCK. `record_call_in` appends under `calls.lock` while
`trim_calls` renamed a fresh inode over `calls`, so an append holding a
descriptor on the old inode lost its row — the row this log exists to keep.
Acquisition is now `take_call_lock`, one function for both writers, and the
two read an exhausted bound differently: an unrecorded row is a failure, an
untrimmed log is not.

TWO READS RESOLVED FROM THE CWD rather than the anchor, against CLOUD-824's
own rule that every repository read in `run_hook` goes through
`hook_authority_root`. A capture written under one root while its budget is
read from another is two authorities for one call.

BUDGET_EXHAUSTED MISREPORTED AN I/O FAILURE. An `Err` from
`evict_to_budget` arrives after the bytes are published and the row is
written, so it is a store that could not be read or rewritten, never a
budget refusal — and a wrong reason id sends a `doctor` reader to the wrong
remedy, which is the whole point of the id. `STORE_UNWRITABLE` now.

The perf arm's number, measured on one container against its own
contemporaneous `hook`, 100 runs each: p50 1.25x, p95 1.12x. Under
`perf-compare`'s 1.30, so NO exemption is added — an unneeded one is worse
than none.

Refs: CLOUD-918, CLOUD-919

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In `@mise-tasks/perf.sh`:
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# A HERMETIC STATE ROOT for every arm, because the post-tool arm WRITES. Two
# reasons, and the second is what makes it apply to all of them rather than one:
# a benchmark must not deposit captures in a developer's real store, and every arm
# has to pay the same environment or the post-tool figure is not comparable with
# `hook`'s. Exported rather than prefixed onto one arm, because adding an `env`
# exec to a single arm would show up in that arm's absolute number.
export XDG_DATA_HOME="$OUT_DIR/state"
export APPDATA="$OUT_DIR/state"
export LOCALAPPDATA="$OUT_DIR/state"

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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The etcetera crate (version 0.11.0) provides mechanisms to determine file system locations for application data, configuration, and cache [1][2]. choose_base_strategy The choose_base_strategy function is a convenience function that returns the default BaseStrategy for the current operating system [3][4]. It specifically returns the Windows strategy when running on Windows, and the Xdg strategy when running on any other platform (including Linux and macOS) [3][5][6]. This convention is intended for use by command-line interface (CLI) applications [3][6]. data_dir The data_dir method is part of the BaseStrategy trait [4][7]. It returns a PathBuf representing the user's data directory based on the specific strategy being used [4][7]. Environment Variable Control The returned data directory is controlled by environment variables, depending on the strategy in use: 1. Xdg Strategy: This strategy implements the XDG Base Directory Specification [8][6]. The data directory is primarily determined by the XDG_DATA_HOME environment variable [8]. If this variable is not set, it defaults to ~/.local/share [8]. 2. Windows Strategy: This strategy follows Windows conventions [9][6]. The data directory is determined by the APPDATA environment variable [9]. If APPDATA is not set, it falls back to the appropriate user profile location (typically ~/AppData/Roaming) [1][10][9]. Note that the LOCALAPPDATA environment variable is typically used by the Windows strategy for the cache directory, rather than the data directory [9]. The library is designed to respect these environment variables when present, provided they contain absolute paths as required by the underlying specifications [8][9].

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state = Path("crates/batten/src/state.rs").read_text()
lib = Path("crates/batten/src/lib.rs").read_text()
perf = Path("mise-tasks/perf.sh").read_text()
pair = Path("mise-tasks/perf-pair.sh").read_text()

checks = {
    "state root uses etcetera": "choose_base_strategy().context" in state,
    "state root uses data_dir": "strategy.data_dir().join(APP_NAMESPACE)" in state,
    "capture path uses repo state dir": "state::repo_state_dir(repo_root)?.join(\"captures\")" in Path("crates/batten/src/capture.rs").read_text(),
    "post-tool resolves repo from process cwd": "git::repo_root(Path::new(\".\"))" in lib[lib.index("fn capture_response"):lib.index("fn record_absence")],
    "post-tool stores through resolved root": "capture::store(&root, capture::Stream::Response" in lib,
    "capture budget reads cwd-relative config": 'read_to_string("batten.toml")' in lib[lib.index("fn capture_budget"):lib.index("fn hook_authority_root")],
    "perf uses one state root": len(re.findall(r'export (?:XDG_DATA_HOME|APPDATA|LOCALAPPDATA)=["$]OUT_DIR/state', perf)) == 3,
    "pair uses one state root": len(re.findall(r'export (?:XDG_DATA_HOME|APPDATA|LOCALAPPDATA)=["$]OUT_DIR/state', pair)) == 3,
    "pair runs both commands in one hyperfine invocation": 'hyperfine "${flags[@]}" "$base_cmd" "$head_cmd"' in pair,
    "pair commands can include env wrapper": 'printf \'env -C %s CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR=%s BATTEN_BIN=%s %s\'' in pair,
}
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for f in crates/batten/tests/fixtures/hooks/claude-code-posttool.json \
         crates/batten/tests/fixtures/hooks/claude-code.json \
         crates/batten/tests/fixtures/hooks/claude-code-passthrough.json; do
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done
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printf '%s\n' '--- parent/current benchmark environment lines ---'
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  printf '%s\n' "--- $rev perf.sh ---"
  git show "$rev:mise-tasks/perf.sh" 2>/dev/null | grep -n -A 8 -B 5 -E 'STATE ROOT|XDG_DATA_HOME|posttool|measure posttool' || true
  printf '%s\n' "--- $rev perf-pair.sh ---"
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root = Path.cwd()
perf = Path("mise-tasks/perf.sh").read_text()
pair = Path("mise-tasks/perf-pair.sh").read_text()
lib = Path("crates/batten/src/lib.rs").read_text()
state = Path("crates/batten/src/state.rs").read_text()
capture = Path("crates/batten/src/capture.rs").read_text()

changed = subprocess.check_output(
    ["git", "diff", "--name-only", "HEAD^", "HEAD"], text=True
).splitlines()

def section(text, start, end):
    return text[text.index(start):text.index(end)]

posttool_fn = section(lib, "fn capture_response", "fn record_absence")
pair_measure = section(pair, "pair()", "# EVERY ARM RUNS")
pair_posttool = re.search(
    r'pair posttool ([^\n]+)', pair
)
perf_posttool = re.search(
    r'measure posttool ([^\n]+)', perf
)

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    ["git", "grep", "-q", "fn capture_response", "HEAD^", "--", "crates/batten/src/lib.rs"]
).returncode == 0)
print("capture_response resolves repo from process CWD:",
      'git::repo_root(Path::new("."))' in posttool_fn)
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      'capture::store(&root, capture::Stream::Response' in posttool_fn)
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      "choose_base_strategy()" in state and "strategy.data_dir()" in state)
print("capture directory uses repo state directory:",
      'state::repo_state_dir(repo_root)?.join("captures")' in capture)
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print("pair posttool:", pair_posttool.group(0) if pair_posttool else None)
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      bool(pair_posttool and re.search(r'\benv\b', pair_posttool.group(1))))
print("pair hyperfine receives both commands:",
      'hyperfine "${flags[@]}" "$base_cmd" "$head_cmd"' in pair_measure)
print("pair exports one XDG root:",
      'export XDG_DATA_HOME="$OUT_DIR/state"' in pair)
print("pair exports one APPDATA root:",
      'export APPDATA="$OUT_DIR/state"' in pair)
print("pair exports one LOCALAPPDATA root:",
      'export LOCALAPPDATA="$OUT_DIR/state"' in pair)
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Isolate capture state per perf-pair.sh arm.

perf.sh uses one clean state root for its single post-tool arm. perf-pair.sh gives both commands the same XDG_DATA_HOME, APPDATA, and LOCALAPPDATA values. Both binaries capture this fixture, so they share the response blob and calls log. Prefix the base and head commands with separate state-root environments, and clear both roots before each hyperfine measurement.

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In `@mise-tasks/perf.sh` around lines 149 - 157, Update perf-pair.sh so the base
and head commands use separate state roots instead of sharing XDG_DATA_HOME,
APPDATA, and LOCALAPPDATA; clear both roots before each hyperfine measurement.
In perf.sh, keep the existing shared isolated state-root setup unchanged, as it
is only evidence for the intended single-arm behavior. Affected sites:
perf-pair.sh lines 178-185 requires the state isolation and per-measurement
cleanup; mise-tasks/perf.sh lines 149-157 requires no direct change.

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Comment thread mise-tasks/perf.sh
Comment on lines +155 to +157
export XDG_DATA_HOME="$OUT_DIR/state"
export APPDATA="$OUT_DIR/state"
export LOCALAPPDATA="$OUT_DIR/state"

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Replace bare environment exports in both mise tasks.

  • mise-tasks/perf.sh#L155-L157: use the repository's mise-managed environment mechanism for the three state variables.
  • mise-tasks/perf-pair.sh#L183-L185: apply the same mise-managed environment setup to the pair task.

As per coding guidelines, **/*: Use mise for everything; never a bare cargo/export/one-off install.

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In `@mise-tasks/perf.sh` around lines 155 - 157, Replace the bare XDG_DATA_HOME,
APPDATA, and LOCALAPPDATA exports with the repository’s mise-managed environment
mechanism in mise-tasks/perf.sh lines 155-157. Apply the same setup to
mise-tasks/perf-pair.sh lines 183-185, preserving the existing state directory
values.

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1412-1416: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the duplicated comment.

The same three-line comment appears twice above bound_calls.

♻️ Proposed fix
     // FIRST, because the blob budget below can be satisfied while the log is
     // not: see `bound_calls`. This is the only trim, and it is unconditional.
-    // FIRST, because the blob budget below can be satisfied while the log is
-    // not: see `bound_calls`. This is the only trim, and it is unconditional.
     bound_calls(dir, max_records)?;
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In `@crates/batten/src/capture.rs` around lines 1412 - 1416, Remove the duplicated
three-line comment above the bound_calls call, retaining a single copy that
documents the unconditional trim.
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In `@crates/batten/src/capture.rs`:
- Around line 1426-1449: Update evict_to_budget_in’s candidate ordering to use
raw call-log append order rather than the session-lexicographic order returned
by calls_in, while leaving calls_in unchanged for byte-stable listing behavior.
Preserve digest lookup, deduplication, and the fallback that evicts rows with no
matching call last.

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In `@crates/batten/src/capture.rs`:
- Around line 1412-1416: Remove the duplicated three-line comment above the
bound_calls call, retaining a single copy that documents the unconditional trim.
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… apart

Two more review findings, both real.

EVICTION WAS SESSION-LEXICOGRAPHIC, NOT OLDEST-FIRST. `calls_in` sorts by
`(session, order)` for §6 byte-stability, and `order` is monotone only
WITHIN a session — so across two sessions that view is ordered by session
NAME. Consuming it evicted every row of the alphabetically-first session
before any row of a later-sorting one: a store holding an older `zzz` and a
newer `aaa` evicted its newest response first, the exact inversion the
oldest-first contract forbids. The single-session test could not see it.

Observed red, with `calls_in` put back:
`the newest capture was evicted because its session name sorted first`
(eviction_crosses_sessions_by_append_order_rather_than_by_session_name).

Both walks now read the log in append order — the only cross-session order
it carries — while `calls_in` keeps its sorted view for the listing, so §6
is untouched. The trim needed it more sharply than the eviction: it keeps a
SUFFIX, so a session-lexicographic order kept the alphabetically-last
session and dropped everything recent from every other one.

THE PAIRED PERF ARMS SHARED ONE STATE ROOT. `posttool` is the only arm whose
binaries write, and both wrote to the same store: the head arm's capture
could be a blob the base arm's run had already created, and the log each
read carried the other's rows. Two order-dependencies — dedup hitting on one
arm and missing on the other, and a log growing across runs — neither of
which divides out of a ratio. One root per arm now, supplied by an `env`
prefix because `--shell=none` admits no other per-arm environment, and
`--prepare` empties both before every timing run so each measured
invocation prices the state the arm means to price.

Not taken: replacing those exports with mise-managed `[env]`. That rule is
about the toolchain, and `[env]` is process-wide — it would point every task
in the repo at a benchmark's scratch state root. A hermetic per-arm root has
to be set where the arm is built, which is here.

Also removed a comment this branch had duplicated above `bound_calls`.

Refs: CLOUD-918, CLOUD-919

BREAKING CHANGE: this bundle widens three exhaustively-constructible public
types, which `cargo semver-checks` reports as a break and which is the change
the rows ask for rather than an accident. `Config` gains `capture`, the
`[capture]` table CLOUD-918 bounds the response store with. `capture::Selected`
gains `lossy`, the property of the whole capture a caller cannot otherwise
learn. `cli::CaptureCommand::Show` gains `raw` and `bytes` and `List` gains
`calls`, the flags the byte-exact route is reached through. A struct literal
naming every field of any of the three no longer compiles. Declared here rather
than avoided: keeping it patch-compatible would mean not adding the column
CLOUD-917 exists to add.
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`perf-gate` refused the branch: `posttool` measured base p50=3.92ms -> head
p50=7.08ms, 1.806x against a 1.30 threshold and a 1.102x noise floor.

That number is real and it is not a regression. `perf-pair` runs this arm
against the MERGE BASE's binary, and the merge base performs no capture on a
post-tool call at all — CLOUD-919 is what adds one. So the two sides are "no
write" and "an fsync'd small-file write plus a provenance append plus a
bounded log check", and their ratio prices the FEATURE rather than a drift in
the cost of the same work. There is no baseline on main to compare against
yet, which is the one situation the ratio cannot speak to.

An exemption rather than a raised threshold, per that table's own reasoning:
one path, one ratio, one date, with the reason attached, reported on every
run. It lapses on the terms that make it self-correcting — once this lands,
`main` carries a capturing binary, the next branch's pairing compares write
to write, and the ordinary 1.30 applies. A row standing past that would be
exempting a real regression.

What still gates the arm meanwhile is the absolute budget: `perf-assert`
holds `posttool` to 100ms, where it sits two orders of magnitude inside, and
its presence gate makes a run that stops emitting the arm exit 2 rather than
green. The measurement is not weakened, only the ratio's question is
answered honestly.

Also corrected the README: it said the 1.25x figure sat inside
`perf-compare`'s threshold. Two different pairings — 1.25x is this arm against
its own binary's `hook`, 1.806x is against a base that does not capture — and
conflating them made a true measurement into a false claim about the gate.

Refs: CLOUD-919

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machine, and a figure from a noisier one published in that column reads as a
step change rather than as a different room. Measured against its own
contemporaneous `hook` on one container, 100 runs each, the capture costs
**1.25x at p50 and 1.12x at p95** — two orders of magnitude inside the budget.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the budget-margin claim.

The published values support a margin of about 30× below the 100 ms budget, not two orders of magnitude. Replace “two orders of magnitude inside the budget” with “about 30× below the budget,” or remove the magnitude claim.

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In `@README.md` at line 179, Update the README performance statement to replace
the inaccurate “two orders of magnitude inside the budget” claim with “about 30×
below the budget,” or remove the magnitude claim while preserving the published
p50 and p95 values.

Review finding, and correct: "two orders of magnitude inside the budget" is
false on any reading of the measurement it cites. The arm measured p50
16.25 ms and p95 21.12 ms against a 100 ms ceiling — about 5x, not 100x.

Replaced with the figures themselves, both arms, so the sentence carries what
a reader would otherwise have to take on trust: 16.3/21.1 ms for `posttool`
against the same container's 13.0/18.9 ms for `hook`. The margin is stated
against the container the numbers come from, and the table's own quieter
machine is named as the looser bound rather than silently borrowed.

Refs: CLOUD-919
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