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Bo 2ef932b617 RPI flow: premortem on risky plans, finding class in the law, adjudicated splits, orphaned evidence, doc claims gated (#1104)
## RPI flow: premortem on risky plans, finding class in the law,
adjudicated splits, orphaned evidence, doc claims gated

Provenance: running the loop for real across three trains on 2026-09-03
(#1099, #1100, #1101). The spine held; the flow around it did not. A
risky-surface design shipped with no premortem and needed six repair
passes. The open finding set grew three rounds running inside one class
while the id-counting law watched. A same-family PASS and a cross-family
FAIL had no tie-break until the caller named one afterwards. Every
harness edit orphaned bound evidence with no warning until verify
failed. A doc called an egress log published while the repository's
`*.log` rule kept it out of the tree, and the same overclaim class came
back four rounds.

**What changes.**
- **Premortem at plan exit.** When the write scope hits a risky surface,
one fresh judge reads the frozen plan before Implement; a blocking
finding returns NOT_PLANNED with the findings. The caller may declare
`premortem: skip`; the report says so.
- **A split is recorded, never elected and never closed inside the
loop.** The law stands: a risky surface converges only when both legs
PASS, and no finding leaves the open set because someone chose a judge.
Plan declares `binding_judge` as the caller's disposition for a split
that survives repair; it is bound in the plan identity, carried in the
report, and never mutates the verdict. On a risky split that survives
the repair budget (never after a law stop), one council leg receives a
bounded packet marked untrusted and returns per-finding rulings, exactly
one per id, which the traversal validates and records under
`council.rulings` for the caller's next intent; the verdict and the open
finding set stay exactly as repair left them. A council closure
mechanism was built, drew a new finding class in three consecutive judge
rounds (path containment, digest exclusion, presence-as-evidence,
partial closure downgrading a FAIL), and was cut under the train's own
class rule rather than hardened again. A non-risky split stays worst-of.
- **Finding class in the convergence law.** Findings carry an optional
stable `class`. A class carried by a resolved id that reappears on a new
id with no surviving prior id carrying it is `class_reopened`, whether
or not a classless round sits between; a blank class is an invalid
round; a round can carry both a reopened id and a reopened class and
stops on either. Repair stops, the traversal returns NOT_PROVEN, and the
caller goes back to Plan, because the design is wrong, not the patch.
Same rule in `run_once.py` and `workflows/rpi.js`, driven by one shared
fixture file, with executed canaries in the cathedral gate.
- **Plan identity, and the premortem's risky test.** On a risky scope
the Plan carries `binding_judge` and the evidence it expects to orphan;
`plan_digest`, when the plan declares one, must equal the script's
digest over the acceptance, the write scope, the binding judge, and the
intent-source digest, or the traversal stops before Implement. The risky
test over a declared scope is glob intersection: witness paths, the
risky regexes over the glob with wildcards instantiated, and any literal
prefix that reaches a risky root; a bare `**` or `*` is risky.
- **Intent is verified before anything is built.** An `intent-snapshot`
receipt re-derives the digest and compares the snapshot bytes to the
caller intent before premortem or Implement; absent, mis-hashed, or
wrong stops the traversal with `plan_identity_mismatch`. The Python
reference refuses on the same rule. Declared scopes are canonicalized
(repeated `./` collapsed; absolute paths and `..` refused at plan exit),
and the four spellings of `tests/**` share one plan digest while
`tests/` does not.
- **Orphaned evidence is a receipt, not a surprise.** After Implement
and after every repair round the workflow runs
`scripts/evidence-orphans.sh` over the runtime-derived path union, keyed
on the round so a same-set repair still reruns it and appends every
scorecard and fixture set whose bound evaluator or skill digests cover
them to the check receipts the validator reads, each with a cause
(`changed_path`, `digest_drift`, `both`, `skill_changed`). Plan budgets
that recapture up front. On today's tree the receipt already lists the
08-16 and 08-26 sets whose bound harness digests moved long ago.
- **Doc claims are gated.** The stronger scan already caught one stale
claim in the tree (a 2026-06-22 harvest note calling evidence committed
after Train 2 had removed that tree); the sentence now says where the
evidence went. `docs.claims-tracked` (blocking) requires backticked repo
paths in `evals/` and `docs/evals/` markdown to be tracked, and
sentences that say published, tracked, or committed to name files that
exist.
- **Risky scope is a glob intersection, not a heuristic.** One
segment-wise `globsIntersect` over one list of risky segment globs
answers both the declared-scope question at Plan exit and the
changed-path question for the cross-family rule; two heuristic designs
missed in opposite directions and were replaced rather than patched.
- **Contracts.** rpi gains a judgment dispatch table: risky scope routes
to premortem, a risky split to council, an irreversible landing to
one-way-door as a caller choice. plan, implement, validate, premortem,
council, and learn carry their halves; learn proposes a deterministic
check for any finding class that repeats.
`docs/architecture/rpi-traversal.md` is the source of record and was
updated with the flow.

**Evidence on the tip.** Regen check clean; Go bar; full gate green with
a HEAD-built binary (the new gate fires and passes); CI's literal bats
command green; rpi unit tests; cathedral gate with executed canaries for
the class law; routing goldens; token budgets; gate-tightening ratchet;
coverage 1 of 12 unchanged.

**Judgment, stated plainly.** Six judging rounds, each on a frozen tip.
The caller elected Fable 5.1 as the binding validator; its round-6
verdict is PASS with no verdict-driving findings (lows: a council
payload outside the schema throws a raw error instead of recording
`invalid-rulings`; two stale comments; a dead parameter; a dead fixture
element; the contracts say exactly one ruling per finding while the code
enforces at most one). The cross-family Codex read of the same tip
failed on three input-validation items, which the final commit closes:
control characters are now refused on the original scope value with the
full Unicode control class and the caller scope is canonicalized in
place so one spelling reaches every prompt; the intent receipt no longer
forgives a trailing-newline difference; and the Python reference accepts
a digest string only from a verifier callback and matches digests with
`fullmatch`. One half of one Codex item stays open and is disclosed: the
workflow does not itself hash the caller intent's bytes to compare with
the plan's declared digest (it relies on the receipt's exact-bytes match
plus digest equality); binding that locally means every probe fixture
carries a real digest of its intent text, which is the next pass. Also
open, pre-existing and outside this train: the risky-surface list names
`lib/**` while the preamble every gate sources lives under
`scripts/lib/`. Across the rounds the loop behaved as designed once: the
council closure mechanism drew a fresh finding class three rounds
running and was cut under the train's own class rule instead of hardened
a fourth time.
2026-09-05 23:03:51 +00:00
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ao — AgentOps CLI

ao supplies deterministic repository utilities and evidence inspection. It is the optional checks/linking CLI of the AgentOps operations layer; the semantic protocol lives in the skills:

RPI → Plan → Implement → fresh Validate → repair to convergence → report

The CLI does not own retries, queues, work claims, Git delivery, release, closure, or semantic validation. Consumer repositories choose their own Git and CI policy.

Install

go install github.com/boshu2/agentops/cli/cmd/ao@latest

Current executable truth

ao capabilities
ao robot-docs
ao --help

The generated command reference follows the published Cobra tree. Removed lifecycle commands are not registered at all: invoking one fails as an unknown command with a pointer to its replacement, and no build tag or compatibility profile restores their implementation.

Development

make build
make test

Add deterministic utilities only when they do not become lifecycle or delivery authorities. Keep semantic judgment in the Validate skill, optional verdict persistence with declared consumers, and external delivery in the consumer repository.

References