Retry-agency invariant: a stage may only retry a gate it has the capability
to change. A write-less stage failing a build/contract/static gate (e.g.
freestyle final_verification with allowedTools=[shell]) can never fix it, so
retrying in place is futile until the budget drains (Vikunja #41).
Instead: open a FailureTicketOpenedEvent (category + requiredCapability derived
deterministically from the gate id, no LLM) and route to a recovery stage that
holds the capability, bounded by a small per-stage route budget.
- Slice 2: SalvageDecision.RECOVER (ternary CONTINUE/RECOVER/FAIL) lets the
review-gate salvage judge hand off to recovery. Shared routeToRecovery()
unifies the deterministic agency guard and the judge on one destination;
decideGateExhaustion now returns StepResult?.
- Return-to-sender: recovery's exit is dynamic (recoveryReturnMove) — it goes
back to the exact ticket-origin stage to re-run its gate, so a write-less
gate anywhere in the graph is handled without skipping intervening stages.
The synthesized recovery->terminal edge is now only a no-ticket fallback.
- Freestyle wiring: ExecutionPlanCompiler injectRecovery flag (Main passes
true) synthesizes a write-capable recovery stage; ticket evidence reaches it
via buildRecoveryTicketEntry.
- Read-only tools always present: StageConfig.effectiveAllowedTools adds
file_read/list_dir to any tool-granting stage (fixes the verifier reaching
for `shell ls -R` to inspect the tree).
Tests: RecoveryRoutingTest (deterministic gate, no static return edge — proves
dynamic return) + GateRetryBudgetExhaustionTest RECOVER case + two compiler
tests. All green; detekt clean.
Replaces the single shared per-stage retryCount (reset on TransitionExecuted,
shared across all post-stage gates) with a per-gate budget. Motivated by run
2e468f9f, where a promising freestyle run was terminally FAILED because the
contract gate burned all 3 shared retries on one trivial miss before the
semantic-review gate ever ran.
- StageExecutionResult.Failure gains a `gate` id; each gate tags its failures.
- OrchestrationState gains gateRetryBudgets / gateFailureFingerprints /
gateSalvageUsed (all rebuilt from events, reset per-stage on TransitionExecuted).
- FailureFingerprint normalizes+hashes the failure reason; RetryCoordinator.decide
charges a gate's budget only when the fingerprint is unchanged (no progress),
so a moving run is never penalised. Returns Retry | Exhausted.
- Hybrid exhaustion: deterministic gates fail; the review gate consults a
SalvageJudge (LLM, or a deterministic allow-one-reset fallback), recorded as
RetrySalvageDecidedEvent (invariant #9). CONTINUE resets the gate budget once;
a second exhaustion is terminal.
- Review gate is now the sole authority on review-retry termination; the old
REVIEW_BLOCK_RETRY_CAP is repurposed as a high absolute backstop only.
- ServerModule escaped-exception path now records a truthful terminal
WorkflowFailed (real stage/reason/retryExhausted) via recordUnhandledFailure.
Tests: DefaultRetryCoordinatorTest (fingerprint charging) +
GateRetryBudgetExhaustionTest (deterministic exhaust / review CONTINUE-then-
terminal / review FAIL / null-judge fallback) + reducer coverage.
Context rework from the 2026-07-05 context-poisoning diagnosis (session
6ca236c4 read-loop):
- ContextBucket on ContextEntry: REQUIRED (task, constraints, needed
artifacts, failure feedback) is never pruned/compressed/dropped; the
build fails fast (RequiredContextOverflowException -> non-retryable
stage failure) if required alone exceeds the stage budget.
- OptionalCeilings: per-sourceType token caps for the optional block
(repoMap 1200, relevantFiles 1600, journal 800, profiles 400/600,
vocabulary 400), tuned for the 9-26B tier at 16k; enforced by
truncation (journal keeps its tail, others their head).
- Repo map is now a structural 'what exists' listing (alphabetical,
per-directory, no recency ranking, no symbols); .md/docs paths are
gated behind an explicit docs mention in the stage prompt — retrieval
hits remain the only other path for docs to enter context.
- file_written needs render as a manifest of ALL files the producing
stage wrote (projected from ArtifactContentStored -> ToolInvocation
-> FileWritten events), fixing the last-write-wins collapse; content
stays lazy behind file_read.
- Decision journal folds a stage's RETRY records into one summary line
once a later transition leaves that stage (render-time only).
- Dedupe retrieved-file lines in buildRelevantFilesEntry.
The 'router' name was misleading — it's the always-on conversational front-end
(CHAT triage + STEERING into a running workflow), not a routing layer, and it's
distinct from InferenceRouter. Rename core:router -> core:talkie, package
com.correx.core.router -> com.correx.core.talkie, and RouterFacade/Config/State/
Repository/ContextBuilder/Projector/Reducer/Response -> Talkie*. Config section
[router] -> [talkie] (legacy [router] still read as fallback).
Persisted wire formats are preserved: ChatTurnRole.ROUTER and the
RouterNarrationEvent @SerialName("RouterNarration") stay, so existing event
logs still replay. RouterNarrationEvent the class is now TalkieNarrationEvent.
Three tool-path correctness fixes:
- Tool-execution events were emitted twice — SandboxedToolExecutor and
SessionOrchestrator.recordToolExecution both emitted Completed/Failed/
FileWritten per call (double TUI rows, double-counted metrics). Split
ownership: orchestrator is the sole recorder of Completed/Failed (truncates
output, drives the read-before-write gate); executor owns Started +
FileWritten (pre/post-image hashes it alone can capture).
- computeToolPreview still gated on operation == "write", but file_write lost
its operation param when delete was split out, so it bailed to raw-args for
every write (approval card showed raw JSON). Drop the dead guard.
- A file_read blocked by REFERENCE_EXISTS can never complete, so it could never
lift read-only mode: a stage writing a NEW file deadlocked (writes filtered,
every read of the not-yet-created target blocked) until MAX_TOOL_ROUNDS.
Lift read-only on a REFERENCE_EXISTS block, and reword the block message to
tell the model to file_write directly. Regression test added.
Uncommitted work from the session-robustness-and-dox branch sweep
(docs/qa/QA-session-robustness-and-dox.md), verified alongside the
compression/context fixes:
- SandboxedToolExecutor: validate tool args centrally before dispatch. A
malformed/missing-arg call becomes a recoverable ERROR: (surfaced with the
tool's arg schema so the model can correct + retry) instead of stranding
the stage with no artifact. + validation test.
- PlanLinter: seed artifacts (analysis) produced by the planning phase count
as available producers, so a plan stage that `needs` them isn't flagged as
an unproduced-need; H1 unproduced-needs + trap-state checks. + tests.
- DefaultSessionOrchestrator: live-QA robustness fixes (event-tail /
per-stage budget + retry handling).
- workflow prompts/configs: DOX AGENTS.md alignment + freestyle/task/role
prompt tweaks.
- SessionOrchestratorIntegrationTest: coverage for the above.
- FreestylePlanningWorkflowTest: allow list_dir in analyst tools (follows the
list_dir wiring in 968cbfa).
- QA plan doc for the branch sweep.
Root Child DOX Index assembled, plus a per-module AGENTS.md across the tree
(core/*, infrastructure/*, apps/*, testing/*, and docs/examples/frontend/etc),
each following the DOX section shape: Purpose, Ownership, Local Contracts,
Work Guidance, Verification, Child DOX Index.
Two orchestrator tool-gating behaviors (both touch SessionOrchestrator):
- Read-only switch: when a tool call is BLOCKed with READ_BEFORE_WRITE, derive a
read-only mode from the event log (block until a later FILE_READ completes) and
withhold FILE_WRITE tools from the next inference turn(s), so a weak model is
pushed down the read-then-write path instead of looping on the blocked write.
- require_task_decompose stage flag (TomlWorkflowLoader) + owesTaskDecompose guard:
a stage so marked cannot stage_complete until a task_decompose/task_create has
succeeded this stage. New task_planning workflow + prompt are the first consumer
(decompose-only: swoop codebase, emit a parent + DEPENDS_ON task graph, stop).
Two reviewer-reliability tracks, both deterministic and unit-verified (no model/network).
§B-§5 — static_check stage seam. The StaticAnalysisRunner + StaticFindingsRecordedEvent +
reviewer-context filter already existed; what was missing was a stage that runs the tool and
emits the event. Added:
- StaticCheckStageExecutor: reads stage metadata (static_tool/static_argv), runs the configured
command via StaticAnalysisRunner, returns a StaticFindingsRecordedEvent. No-op (empty findings)
when no runner is wired or no command is configured — safe to carry unconfigured.
- A deterministic-stage seam in DefaultSessionOrchestrator.enterStage: any stage with
metadata["stage_type"] == "static_check" is run by the executor instead of the LLM subagent,
then advances on its (unconditional) exit edge.
- TomlWorkflowLoader: stage_type/static_tool/static_argv fields → StageConfig.metadata.
- role_pipeline.toml: a static_check stage between implementer and reviewer (no-op until
static_argv + a CommandRunner are set; activation is live-QA-gated, see StaticAnalysisRunner doc).
§B-§6 — critique-outcome producer. The CritiqueFinding type + CriticCalibrationProjection existed
but nothing fed them. Added:
- CritiqueFindingsRecordedEvent (+ CritiqueVerdict): the producing side — a critic's findings +
verdict for one review iteration, carrying modelHash for per-model calibration.
- CritiqueOutcomeCorrelator: pure loop-resolution logic deciding UPHELD (fixed between rounds) /
DISMISSED (persisted into an approved final) / INCONCLUSIVE (open at a non-approved terminal),
per critic (role + modelHash) and per finding id.
- A hook in completeWorkflow/failWorkflow that correlates recorded findings into
CritiqueOutcomeCorrelatedEvents at loop resolution — no-op when none recorded, idempotent.
(LLM-side finding emission stays a separate model-gated activation.)
Tests: StaticCheckStageExecutorTest (4), StaticCheckStageTest integration (1, fake runner →
event + transition), CritiqueOutcomeCorrelatorTest (8), CritiqueCalibrationWiringTest integration
(1, seeded findings → outcomes at completion), updated RolePipelineWorkflowTest. Full suites for
core:events/kernel/critique, infrastructure:workflow, testing:integration green; detekt clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a stage produces an LLM artifact carrying a non-empty questions
array, the orchestrator parks the run, records ClarificationRequested,
awaits the operator's answers (submitClarification seam), records
ClarificationAnswered, injects the answered Q&A as an L2 USER entry, and
re-runs the same stage so the questions are resolved by the role that
asked them. Runs on a dedicated pendingClarifications map and the
enterStage success-branch loop, so a clarification round never consumes
the failure-retry budget; capped at three rounds. Integration test covers
the happy path and the cap.
Adds two test files to prove B4/B3 invariants end-to-end:
- RepoKnowledgeReplayTest (testing/replay): projection-based replay tests that
verify recorded RepoKnowledgeRetrievedEvent drives relevantFiles context assembly
without consulting a retriever (test A), and that a log without the retrieval event
falls back to the RepoMapComputedEvent legacy path (test B).
- RepoMapReuseIntegrationTest (testing/integration): end-to-end test using the real
ProjectMemoryService + L3RepoKnowledgeRetriever + InMemoryL3MemoryStore proving
exactly one index walk across two sessions sharing the same stateKey, and that the
second session receives non-empty repo hits via the shared L3 embeddings despite
having no per-session RepoMapComputedEvent.
New test deps (noted per constraint):
- testing/replay: adds core:context (needed to import ContextLayer/ContextEntry from
the buildRelevantFilesEntry return type).
- testing/integration: adds apps:server (ProjectMemoryService, L3RepoKnowledgeRetriever,
FakeWorkspaceStateProbe), core:router (InMemoryL3MemoryStore), core:config (ProjectConfig).
No new inter-core or upward production dependencies introduced.
emitLlmArtifacts previously emitted ArtifactCreated/Validating/Validated for every
llm-emitted slot unconditionally, fabricating "validated" artifacts when the model
produced no content. Gate now mirrors the F-015 file_written check: slots with null
or blank cached content are skipped with a warn log. Regression test added in
NeedsArtifactInjectionTest verifies no artifact events appear for a blank-response stage.
Implements the replay-safe half of preemptive redirect (graph re-routing). An
operator-confirmed PreemptRedirectEvent overrides the resolver's edge at the next
transition boundary; the pure resolver stays untouched.
- PreemptRedirectEvent / PreemptRedirectBlockedEvent (+ serialization registration)
- TransitionExecutedEvent + TransitionDecision.Move gain optional redirectId — the
durable 'consumed once' marker
- PreemptRedirect.decide: pure decision over the event log (override / block / none),
so replay reaches the identical outcome without re-classifying (invariant #8)
- override wired in DefaultSessionOrchestrator.step above resolveTransition; back-edge
jumps count against the existing maxRetries cap via executeMove
- blocks jumps to unknown stages or targets with unsatisfied needs
- DomainEventMapper: redirect events mapped to null (operator surface ships with the
LLM-proposal + approval-confirm front-half)
- tests: override+consume-once, block-on-needs, block-on-unknown, ignore-consumed
Front-half (LLM proposal -> approval-gate confirm -> emit PreemptRedirectEvent) is
deferred; needs live LLM verification. Until it ships no redirect event is emitted in
production, so the override is inert. Spec: docs/plans/2026-06-10-freestyle-graph-rerouting.md
rehydrate() now scans ArtifactContentStoredEvent (the durable slot->CAS-hash
bridge) and fetches stored bytes by content hash, keying the cache by the
logical slot name. The slot name is never passed to the hash-keyed CAS, so the
odd-length-hex crash is gone and artifact content is restored on cold-start
resume. RehydrateTest reworked to use a content-addressed fake store (slot name
!= content hash) so it actually exercises the bug. Replay (#8) is unaffected —
rehydrate is live-resume-only.
Also bump router narration maxTokens 1024 -> 4096: reasoning models were
spending the whole budget thinking and emitting empty content (finishReason=
length), so narrations never reached the TUI.
Removes the stale TUI-refactor progress doc.
Extract a SubagentRunner fun-interface (SubagentRunRequest/SubagentRunResult)
and an InSessionSubagentRunner default that delegates to the existing
executeStage path, with per-run effectives captured in the lambda closure so
the seam stays free of the internal RunEffectives type.
DefaultSessionOrchestrator.enterStage now dispatches through subagentRunner.run
instead of calling executeStage inline; effectives threading is dropped from
run/step/executeMove/enterStage/resume. ReplayOrchestrator supplies its own
runner. Behaviour is identical — RefinementLoopTest and full check stay green.
Stages declaring needs=[...] now receive each needed artifact's validated
JSON (from artifactContentCache) as an L1/USER neededArtifact context entry,
so a one-shot subagent sees its inputs.
Also emit llm-emitted artifact lifecycle events (Created/Validating/Validated)
on successful validation via emitLlmArtifacts, closing a latent gap where
verifyProduces would fail for stages producing only an llm-emitted artifact.
Events are emitted only after validation passes, preserving invariant #7.
A stage's allowedTools only shaped which tool definitions were offered to
the model; the dispatch path resolved returned tool calls straight from the
full registry and executed them without checking stage membership. A
hallucinated, jailbroken, or edited-transcript tool call for any registered
tool would run unchecked (violating invariant #5 / policy-is-absolute).
dispatchToolCalls now rejects any tool call whose name is not in the stage's
allowedTools (STAGE_COMPLETE_TOOL exempt), emitting ToolExecutionRejectedEvent
and feeding an error ContextEntry back to the model instead of executing.
Empty allowedTools means deny-all domain tools, consistent with offering
only STAGE_COMPLETE_TOOL at inference time.
A steering note attached to a tool approval was recorded but only
consumed by the NEXT stage's prompt build (buildSteeringNoteEntries runs
once, before the tool loop), so on a single-stage task it had no visible
effect. Two changes:
- Approve+note: capture userDecision.userSteering at the gate and inject
it as a context entry right after the tool result, so the same stage's
loop re-infers with the note and the model acts on it.
- Reject: buildSteeringNoteEntries now also emits anti-repeat feedback for
REJECTED decisions with no note, so the model does not re-propose the
identical call on the retryable re-run (a bare reject previously fed
back only "approval denied").
Integration test drives an approval with a steering note and asserts the
next inference's context carries it.
Compute the effective tool registry/executor and plane-2 WorkspacePolicy per run
from config.workspace (effectivesFor), threaded through the orchestrators; a null
workspace falls back to the boot instances byte-for-byte. Wire the concrete
WorkspaceToolRegistryProvider in Main (buildToolConfigForWorkspace). Session undo
unions the session's recorded workspace into its jail roots. (Axis 2 Phase A, tasks 3 + 7.)
A stage declaring no `produces` passed verifyProduces vacuously, letting an
agent stage_complete with zero work. Gate on allowedTools: a produce-less stage
with tools available must have >=1 ToolInvocationRequestedEvent scoped to its
stageId, else Failure(retryable). Produce-less + no tools is exempt (only
stage_complete is ever offered), so pure-reasoning stages aren't bricked.
DefaultContextPackBuilder already enforced the token budget, but SessionOrchestrator discarded the entriesDropped signal at both build sites — overflow was enforced yet unobserved. Emit ContextTruncatedEvent when entriesDropped>0, matching the router path (open-threads 6.2 contract).
Tools can declare how their output is compressed before it enters the
context pack, replacing uniform handling. Open-threads 6.3 / ADR-0003.
- core:tools/compression: ToolOutputCompressor interface,
IdentityCompressor default, declarative OutputCompressionSpec +
CompressionRule (StripBlankLines, StripLeadingWhitespace,
DropMatching, HeadTail), and the pure DeclarativeCompressor engine
(regexes compiled at construction; bypassOnError passes raw on
non-zero exit; never throws on input).
- Tool gains `outputCompressor` (default IdentityCompressor). FileReadTool
strips blanks + leading whitespace; ShellTool strips blanks + head/tail.
- SessionOrchestrator applies the resolved tool's compressor on the
ToolResult -> ContextEntry path only. Raw output stays authoritative
in the event log (invariant #6); compression is a pure function of
(raw, exitCode, spec), so no new event and replay stays deterministic.
- Spec is @Serializable/config-shaped (JSON round-trip tested). No
custom-tool-from-config path exists today, so first-party tools wire
in code; TOML-declared compression rides along when that path lands.
Tier B (format-aware parsers: failures-only test output, git-log oneline)
is a documented per-tool extension behind the interface, not built here.
Implements the full vertical slice for invariant #9 tool-call assessment:
- core:toolintent — new module with ToolCallRule seam, ToolCallAssessor,
WorldProbe/FileSystemWorldProbe, WorkspacePolicy, PathContainmentRule,
and RiskMapping (assessment → RiskSummary / AssessedIssue)
- core:tools — ToolCallAssessmentRecord + ToolInvocationRecord.assessment
field; DefaultToolReducer handles ToolCallAssessedEvent (replay proof)
- core:config — ToolsConfig gains workspaceRoot + privilegedLocations;
ConfigLoader parses both; DEFAULT_PRIVILEGED_LOCATIONS built-in
- core:kernel — OrchestratorEngines gains toolCallAssessor/workspacePolicy/
worldProbe fields; SessionOrchestrator.dispatchToolCalls runs
runPlane2Assessment before the tier gate: BLOCK → hard-reject without
executing; PROMPT_USER → elevates tier into approval path with plane2Risk
in the ApprovalRequestedEvent
- apps/server — constructs PathContainmentRule + ToolCallAssessor +
WorkspacePolicy from config and wires them into OrchestratorEngines
Assessment is recorded as ToolCallAssessedEvent (environment observed once,
facts stored, replay reads events — invariant #9). Assessor and WorldProbe
are only invoked on the live orchestrator path, never in replay.
Flags when a workflow stage's allowedTools references a tool name that
is not registered in the tool registry (config drift), surfaced as a
non-blocking WARNING.
- Add ValidationContext.availableTools (nullable; null = registry
unavailable, skip the check)
- MissingToolRule emits one MISSING_TOOL warning per (stage, tool) pair,
deterministically ordered
- Populate availableTools from the ToolRegistry at the orchestrator
construction site; wire the rule into the prod SemanticValidator
Wire SemanticValidator into the production validator pipeline and
consolidate cycle-policy types under core:validation.
- Add SemanticValidator(CycleExitRule(requirePolicyForCycles=false))
to the prod ValidationPipeline (no-op default, preserves behavior)
- Move CyclePolicy/Binding/Signature/Factory from core:transitions.policy
to core:validation.policy (validation already owns ValidationContext)
- Rename CyclePolicyBindingRule -> CycleExitRule (issue code unchanged)
- Delete dead CyclePolicyResolver + PolicyValidation
SessionOrchestratorIntegrationTest: wire approvalRepository into
OrchestratorRepositories constructor which gained the field in the kernel
refactor. TambouiKeyMapperTest: correct ctrl-h to alt-h — the mapper has
always placed ToggleApprovalOverlay under the Alt branch, not Ctrl.
SessionOrchestrator.emit: replace substring(0,7) with take(7) to avoid
StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when session IDs are shorter than 7 chars.
fixed detekt issues where possible.
fixed disttar failing build because tools is added twice in the server module.
added workflowId where required.
fixed some tests not being recognized because of runBlocking without explicit return type.
formatting + imports.
Deletes 21 Module.kt scaffolding objects that were never wired into any DI
registry. Removes unused imports across 8 production and 3 test files.
Restores StageExecutor, CyclePolicyResolver, PolicyValidation, and
ReplayContractTest — these are deferred features, not dead code.
New core:artifacts-store interface + infrastructure/artifacts-cas
implementation: segment files + SQLite index, Blake3 hashing,
group-commit fsync via flushBefore, recovery tail-scan, manual
compactor, and oldest-first disk-cap evictor.
Inference events now carry promptArtifactId / responseArtifactId;
orchestrators put bytes before emitting. SqliteEventStore wraps
its txn in artifactStore.flushBefore so segment data is fsynced
before the event commit, making the crash window non-corrupting
(TailScanner re-indexes orphan tail records on reopen).
Compactor and evictor are mutually exclusive via maintenanceMutex.
Step 9 (cloud sync) deferred to a later epic.
See docs/reviews/2026-05-18-cas-steps-1-8-review.md for the final
review.
kami