An adversarial audit found the enforcement story ahead of the code: gates
that were documented as hard gates were advisory, manual, or absent, and
several human-facing claims outran the machine record. This makes the
claims true.
High findings
- Differential fuzz was documentation, not enforcement: verdict hardcoded
fuzz_iters=0 and diff-test hardcoded the gate to Skipped, while the case
studies claimed 10k-iteration fuzz on the same wins. Fuzz is now a real
pipeline gate (strict FUZZ-RESULT contract, executed count recorded), and
it is inherently baseline-vs-candidate, so it runs on the accept path and
reports Skipped in the standalone `just gates` flow. New hard rule: a
machine `accepted` verdict is impossible unless the fuzz gate actually
passed — otherwise it caps at needs-human-review.
- The agent's system prompt claimed FP/concurrency/unsafe patches were
"routed to human review automatically". No such mechanism existed. Added
a conservative lexical risk classifier (crates/verdict/src/risk.rs) that
forces needs-human-review on any would-be accept carrying those signals;
fp-tolerance equivalence always signals.
- The local verdict path ran agent-influenced code unsandboxed. It now runs
under scripts/no-net.sh (network namespace) and fails closed. Upstream
test suites are hash-verified against corpora/<t>/TESTSUITE.sha256 when
present (scripts/pin-testsuite.sh generates them).
Also fixed, found while fixing the above
- The pipeline script's `set -e` was inert (brace group as the left operand
of `&&`), so a failing candidate build did not abort the run and verdict
could bench a stale binary. Now a scoped subshell whose status is branched
on at top level.
- A wrapper that exits before exec'ing (no-net.sh refusing, bad wrapper path)
stranded RUNNING.lock and left read_verdict polling forever. Failure
accounting now lives outside the wrapper.
- harnessd's patch allowlist ignored git rename/copy headers and --no-prefix
diffs; the rename-escape case is now a committed regression test.
- The workspace did not compile on Windows (ungated Unix APIs). cfg-gated;
71 portable tests now run on both platforms.
- pin-check regenerated the corpus manifest instead of verifying it; it is
now verify-only, with a deliberate `just pin-corpus` to re-pin.
- Max RSS is captured per run on Unix; PMU counters are opt-in diagnostics
(compare --perf-stat), never part of the accept decision.
Docs now match the code, including what is NOT yet enforced: no target ships
a TESTSUITE.sha256 pin, no target declares [build].tsan, and matmul is not
wired to the fp-tolerance gate — each is stated as mechanized-but-inert
rather than done. Corrected the stale "33 ledger rows" (34), the playbook's
class-3 cJSON win (rejected), adversarial-review.md's sanitizer-separation
claim (five accepted rows carry sanitizers_clean=false), the unsupported
"40,000 requests" figure, and the blanket "historical rows record
fuzz_iters=0" (8 of 10; phase0-tokei-002/-003 record 4,332).
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The parser/service targets only ever needed byte-identical golden replay.
The kernel lane is the case that breaks it: a matmul optimization
(transpose-B for cache locality + eight-accumulator ILP) that REORDERS the
floating-point reduction, so its low bits differ by construction —
byte-identical is the wrong gate.
Adds:
- EquivalencePolicy::compare + Divergence (diff-test): byte-identical is
exact; fp-tolerance tokenizes and compares numeric tokens within
abs + rel*|baseline|, with explicit NaN handling. Non-numeric tokens and
token-count mismatches still fail exactly.
- fp-compare bin: applies a target's equivalence.toml to two output files.
- targets/matmul/kernel.c: matmul_ref (single-accumulator oracle) vs
matmul_opt (reordered, faster), with emit/check/run/bench modes.
- targets/matmul/equivalence.toml: fp-tolerance abs 1e-4 + rel 1e-3.
- scripts/kernel-lane-demo.sh + results/phase5/kernel-lane.txt: byte-identical
FAILs, fp-tolerance is EQUIVALENT, a +0.5 perturbation is still REJECTED,
speedup 3.23× measured with the same interleaved A/B + bootstrap CI.
Ledger row phase5-matmul-opt = needs-human-review: using the FP-tolerance
tier at all is a human-review signal (SPEC §8), same posture as mimalloc.
The trust machinery is unchanged; only the timer and the gate differ, which
is exactly the shape a future GPU kernel would slot into.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EcKPWQ3MQD4NdEHwar96u2
- bench-runner service mode (SPEC §3.1 mode c): a coordinated-omission-
correct, open-loop, fixed-rate load generator; latency measured from
the intended send time so queueing is counted, not hidden. Interleaved
A/B of two server binaries, exact percentiles (bounded sample, no HDR
bucketing error), bootstrap p50/p99 CIs via the existing ratio-CI
machine. service-calibrate: A/A false-positive + injected latency-
regression detection (calibration in progress).
- targets/cjson/service.c: minimal single-threaded HTTP server wrapping
the patched cJSON.c (trust-layer, outside the workspace allowlist);
env-toggled per-request busy-wait for the injection calibration only.
- report generator (crates/report bin): reads a ledger row +
optional service-latency JSON, renders throughput→cores→dollars and/or
latency percentiles, every figure with its CI, pricing source, and the
methodology printed inline (SPEC §9); flags any non-accepted row so a
rejected change never reads as a committed saving.
- ledger::report_row; justfile service/service-calibrate/report.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EcKPWQ3MQD4NdEHwar96u2
Closes the CI-reachable slice of the Phase 1 infra gaps:
- trust-layer job: cargo test + clippy -D warnings + fmt
- target-gates-no-net: fetches pinned targets (new targets/fetch.sh),
regenerates + verifies corpora, runs 'just gates tokei'
mechanically, and executes the bench workload inside a
--network=none container (SPEC 3.1/10 no-net requirement)
- runner-calibration (informational): A/A + injection harness measures
the shared runner's noise floor per run, evidence uploaded as an
artifact — environments are judged empirically, not assumed
- perf-probe (informational): reports which perf event sources work
docs/infra.md maps each remaining hardware requirement (pinned cores,
governor/SMT control, separate-uid trust layer) to the bench-metal
self-hosted runner setup a human can complete in ~15 min.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EcKPWQ3MQD4NdEHwar96u2
Adds the diff-test CLI ('just gates <target>'): loads
targets/<name>/target.toml (new [corpus] section: manifest, root,
golden_sha256; commands now repo-root-relative), verifies the corpus
manifest FIRST and refuses to run any gate on mismatch, then runs the
upstream test suite and golden replay (stdout sha256 vs pinned hash).
Differential fuzz and sanitizers remain per-attempt manual steps in
Phase 1 and are reported as skipped-with-reason; all-skipped is not a
pass.
Verified end-to-end on both vendored targets (comrak: 1 pinned file,
848 tests, golden PASS; tokei: 545 pinned files, 250 tests, golden
PASS) and the refusal path (tampered corpus -> 'HASH MISMATCH ...
refusing to run' before any gate executes).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EcKPWQ3MQD4NdEHwar96u2
Commit the spec and scaffold the system it describes:
- SPEC.md: the full v0.1 engineering spec
- crates/: trust-layer Rust workspace, unit-tested
- bench-runner: interleaved ABAB scheduling with discarded warm-ups,
deterministic bootstrap CIs over the ratio of medians,
CI-lower-bound accept rule, env fingerprinting, and a CLI with
compare + A/A self-test modes (A/A verified passing end-to-end)
- diff-test: gate outcome model, sha256 corpus pin verifier that
refuses on mismatch, per-target equivalence policy parser
(byte-identical default, explicit fp-tolerance opt-in)
- ledger: append-only SQLite attempt schema with UPDATE/DELETE
refused by triggers, anti-double-attempt query
- report: cores-saved and dollars/yr ROI math over speedup CIs,
pricing.toml inputs
- playbook/: classes 1-7 with preconditions, procedure, verification
notes, and known failure modes per class
- agent/: Python package skeleton — six-tool contract and prompting
spine, harness IPC deferred to Phase 1
- config/: accept.toml (2% threshold, 30 runs/side), pricing.toml
- targets/, corpora/, results/calibration/: layout and policy docs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EcKPWQ3MQD4NdEHwar96u2
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