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🔗 Linked Issue

Closes #4088


🏷️ PR Type

What kind of change does this PR introduce?

  • type:bug — Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)

📝 Summary

internal/agents/researchcapability was the declared capability authority for source-backed SDD research, but no production path consumed it: Claude, Kiro, Cursor, Kimi and OpenCode projections declared evidence grants and tool permissions independently, named-profile generation emitted sdd-research-{name} agents with no permission block at all, and nothing rejected drift between the authority and the generated runtime surfaces.

This PR makes the authority the single source that generated projections are derived from and verified against, failing closed before any disk mutation.


📂 Changes

File / Area What Changed
internal/agents/researchcapability/projection.go New projection contract: ordered adapter tool bindings, canonical Declaration renderer, strict ParseDeclaration, VerifyProjection, EvidenceToolDecisions, and markdown/OpenCode extractors.
internal/agents/researchcapability/projection_test.go Strictness, tamper, round-trip, shipped-asset and admission/denial tests, including the four parity tests requested by the issue.
internal/components/sdd/inject.go Fail-closed verification of OpenCode base + named-profile overlays before mutation, and of shipped sdd-research.md assets before the first write of their section.
internal/components/sdd/profiles.go Named-profile research permission derived from the authority.
internal/components/sdd/research_projection_contract_test.go Projection-parity contract tests (assets, injection, tampering).
internal/assets/assets_test.go Asset assertions now compare against authority-derived expectations.
internal/components/sdd/commands_test.go The named-profile boundary assertion now fails closed on a missing permission object.

OpenCode remains denied and the capability matrix is unchanged.


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Tool/model (if known): OpenCode (desktop) with a delegated agent pipeline; models deepseek-v4.1-flash (orchestration) and muse-spark-1.3-contributor (independent review relays).

Material scope: Reconnaissance, implementation of the projection contract and production wiring, and test authorship were produced with AI assistance under direct human direction. The human defined scope, reviewed the changeset, and owns the submission.

Verification performed: go build ./...; go run ./internal/gofmtcheck (exit 0); go test ./internal/agents/researchcapability; full go test ./internal/components/sdd; go test ./internal/assets; OpenCode golden suite — all green, zero golden changes. A native high-risk 4R review (a separate RDD lineage on the frozen candidate) approved with 13 non-blocking findings and no correction.


🧪 Test Plan

Unit Tests

go test ./...

Go Format

go run ./internal/gofmtcheck

E2E Tests (Docker required)

cd e2e && ./docker-test.sh

Benchmark Validation

N/A — this change touches the SDD research capability/projection authority (internal/agents/researchcapability and SDD injection), not the review lifecycle, gates, recovery, delivery, benchmark implementation/corpus/classifier, or benchmark claims.

  • Unit tests pass for the affected packages (internal/agents/researchcapability, internal/components/sdd, internal/assets, internal/components goldens). Full go test ./... runs in CI; the authoring machine cannot run the whole suite locally because a machine-global git hook breaks temp-repo tests that seed git repositories.
  • Go format passes (go run ./internal/gofmtcheck)
  • E2E tests pass (cd e2e && ./docker-test.sh) — left to CI
  • Manually tested locally (go build ./..., affected-package suites, golden check)

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  • PR is linked to an issue with status:approved
  • PR stays within 400 changed lines, or I have requested/obtained maintainer-applied size:exception with rationale documented — requesting size:exception: the change is one atomic architectural fix (authority + derivation + fail-closed verification + parity tests); separating it would land the authority without a production consumer, which is the defect this issue reports. Roughly 55% of the diff is tests, and the scope matches the approved issue.
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  • Unit tests pass (affected packages; see Test Plan for the local full-suite constraint)
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  • CI Check PR Cognitive Load will flag the 400-line budget: requesting the maintainer-applied size:exception label (rationale above) and the type:bug label.
  • The new checks are fail-closed by design: a drifted declaration, an unmappable grant, or a missing explicit deny stops generation before any disk mutation.
  • Kilocode keeps its existing restored research permission path and is intentionally outside this parity boundary.
  • OpenCode is intentionally still denied; this PR does not admit its tools.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Research-agent configurations now use explicit, runtime-specific evidence-tool permissions.
    • OpenCode research profiles apply dedicated permissions, including explicit denials for shell, task execution, file writing, and editing.
    • Research capability declarations consistently map approved documentation and web access to runtime tools.
    • Shared research prompts are validated against the selected capability settings.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid, ambiguous, or tampered research configurations are rejected before changes are applied.
    • Generated research agents verify permissions before creating files.
    • OpenCode requests fail closed when declarations, permissions, or required denials are missing.

…y authority

The canonical research capability matrix now projects onto every generated
runtime surface instead of being exercised only by unit tests:

- researchcapability gains the projection contract: ordered adapter tool
  bindings per runtime, a canonical declaration renderer, a strict
  declaration parser, and VerifyProjection with exact multiset grants and
  exact tool-posture matching (explicit denial required for default-open
  runtimes; unmappable grants refuse).
- OpenCode base and named-profile overlays, and every shipped sdd-research
  markdown asset, are verified before any disk mutation, failing closed.
- Named-profile generation derives the sdd-research-{name} permission map
  from the authority instead of emitting no permission block.

OpenCode remains denied; the capability matrix is unchanged.
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The PR adds provider-owned research capability projections and strict verification for markdown and OpenCode runtime assets. SDD injection and profile generation now validate projections before writing files. Tests cover exact grants, tool mappings, generated assets, and fail-closed behavior.

Research projection authority

Layer / File(s) Summary
Canonical declarations and verification
internal/agents/researchcapability/projection.go
Defines strict evidence declarations, adapter tool bindings, ordered tool decisions, and exact projection verification.
Runtime asset projection parsers
internal/agents/researchcapability/projection.go
Parses Claude and Kiro markdown assets and OpenCode entries. It rejects malformed declarations, deprecated keys, missing decisions, unknown tools, and mismatches.
SDD generation validation
internal/components/sdd/inject.go, internal/components/sdd/profiles.go
Validates OpenCode overlays and staged research assets before writes. Generated profile permissions use canonical evidence tool decisions.
Projection parity and fail-closed tests
internal/agents/researchcapability/projection_test.go, internal/assets/assets_test.go, internal/components/sdd/commands_test.go, internal/components/sdd/research_projection_contract_test.go
Tests exact admission, runtime asset parity, tool decision ordering, defensive copies, generated projections, and tampered projection rejection.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SDDGenerator
  participant ResearchCapability
  participant RuntimeProjection
  participant FileSystem
  SDDGenerator->>ResearchCapability: derive declarations and tool decisions
  SDDGenerator->>RuntimeProjection: parse generated runtime asset
  RuntimeProjection->>ResearchCapability: verify canonical grants and tool surface
  ResearchCapability-->>SDDGenerator: validation result
  SDDGenerator->>FileSystem: write files after successful validation
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Suggested reviewers: alan-thegentleman

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b11ea

Installing profiles with different model capabilities can give one profile a prompt intended for another capability. Conflicting assignments should be rejected before merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: verifying generated SDD research projections against the capability authority.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #4088 coding requirements are met. internal/agents/researchcapability supplies canonical declarations, explicit adapter mappings, strict projection parsing, and fail-closed verification. Produ…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within issue #4088. Projection rendering, adapter mappings, asset validation, profile permission derivation, shared-prompt validation, pre-mutation checks, and regression tests dire…
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The CI checks need two maintainer-applied labels before they can go green:

  • type:bug — exactly one type:* label is required, and contributors cannot apply labels.
  • size:exception — this PR changes 1479 lines (+1468/−11), over the 400-line review budget. The change is one atomic architectural fix (authority + derivation + fail-closed verification + parity tests); splitting it would land the authority without a production consumer, which is the defect bug(sdd): research capability authority is disconnected from generated runtime grants #4088 reports. Roughly 55% of the diff is tests, and the scope matches the approved issue.

Could a maintainer add both? Thanks!

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/agents/researchcapability/projection.go`:
- Around line 408-418: Update findToolsLine to parse tools: only within the
document’s initial, closed frontmatter block, rejecting missing or unterminated
frontmatter and ignoring matching body lines. Keep VerifyProjection dependent on
the frontmatter-derived value so the verified projection matches Claude Code’s
installed configuration.

In `@internal/assets/assets_test.go`:
- Line 995: Update the assertion comparing projection.AllowedTools and
allowedTools in the relevant test to compare their tool identities as unordered
sets, using sorted copies or set membership while preserving duplicate-free
semantics. Leave the separate toolsExact assertion unchanged so Claude’s
serialized tools order remains validated independently.

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  • internal/agents/researchcapability/projection.go
  • internal/agents/researchcapability/projection_test.go
  • internal/assets/assets_test.go
  • internal/components/sdd/commands_test.go
  • internal/components/sdd/inject.go
  • internal/components/sdd/profiles.go
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- Bound the markdown tools lookup to the initial closed frontmatter block:
  a `tools:` line in the body is no longer mistaken for the tool surface
  the runtime loads, and missing or unterminated frontmatter refuses.
- Compare projected tool identities as sets in the parity tests so file
  order cannot produce a false failure; the serialized tools order remains
  pinned by the existing toolsExact assertion.
Wiring the authority into production (internal/components/sdd) brought
internal/agents/researchcapability into the reachable call graph, so the
dead-code ratchet now evaluates it and flags its test-exercised API:

- Admit is the admission contract exercised by the admission/denial tests;
  production admission stays agent-side.
- Declaration and its helper render the canonical declaration consumed by
  the projection-parity tests; production validation uses VerifyProjection.

These are baselined under the ratchet's documented category for exported API
exercised only by tests, deliberately rather than wiring test-only helpers
into production paths to satisfy the guard.
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Addressed the review findings in 1db8f950, plus the CI dead-code ratchet in b4bbd62b:

  • Frontmatter boundary (projection.go): findToolsLine now parses only the initial closed frontmatter block. A tools: line in the body can no longer satisfy the projection, and a document with missing or unterminated frontmatter refuses. New tests cover the body-line, missing-frontmatter, and unterminated-frontmatter cases.
  • Set comparison (assets_test.go, projection_test.go): the parity assertions now compare projected tool identities as sets (sorted copies), so a reordered duplicate-free list cannot produce a false failure; the serialized tools: order remains pinned by the existing toolsExact assertion.
  • Dead-code ratchet: wiring the authority into production brought internal/agents/researchcapability into the reachable call graph, so the ratchet now evaluates it and flagged its test-exercised API (Admit, Declaration, joinDeclarationGrants). They are baselined with the rationale in the commit, matching the ratchet's documented category for exported API exercised only by tests — deliberately not wired into production paths just to satisfy the guard.

@dnlrsls dnlrsls added the type:bug Bug fix label Sep 14, 2026
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Changes requested before this is merge-ready. The capability-authority wiring is a good direction, but the current head (b4bbd62b) still has four blocking gaps:

  1. Verify the materialized shared prompt, not only its reference. OpenCodeProjection accepts a {file:...} value by syntax and path suffix (projection.go:505-547), while named profiles and multi-mode load separately written prompt bytes. A malformed or drifted prompts/sdd/sdd-research.md can therefore pass projection validation. Please validate the exact rendered bytes and add a drift/malformed-content regression.
  2. Deny repository mutation tools explicitly. OpenCode is default-open, but profileResearchPermission (profiles.go:446-458) omits write and edit. The named research executor can still mutate the repository despite its output-only contract. Please add exact denies and cover both named and default generated surfaces.
  3. Reject truly unknown agent IDs. VerifyProjection currently converts a failed ForAgent lookup into an empty capability (projection.go:195-199), allowing an unknown agent with an empty projection to validate. Please model known-denied runtimes separately, reject unknown IDs, and test both cases.
  4. Validate before every filesystem mutation. os.MkdirAll(agentsDir) still runs before the new research validation (inject.go:800-805, validation around 890-900). Move directory creation after preflight validation and add a failed-projection test proving no directory or files are created.

Separately, the PR is 1,542 changed lines and Check PR Cognitive Load is still failing. It needs one honest cohesive split or a maintainer-approved size:exception. The map-order diagnostic nondeterminism is a non-blocking follow-up.

All four changes-requested findings are closed fail-closed:

- Verify the materialized shared prompt bytes, not only the {file:...}
  reference: refs must resolve to the canonical shared research prompt
  path, and the rendered bytes are validated with the same renderer the
  write path uses (strict declaration parsing, exact canonical grants).
- Deny repository mutation for the OpenCode research executor with the
  full explicit posture {bash, task, write, edit}, enforced by
  VerifyProjection and covered on both the base overlays and the named
  profile surface.
- Reject unknown agent IDs through a closed known-runtime domain while
  keeping ForAgent and the deny-only behavior of known denied runtimes.
- Validate before any filesystem mutation: the agents directory is
  created only after research verification, proven by a failed-projection
  test that leaves no directory or files behind.

Shared prompt files are now written whenever a named profile can
reference them, including single mode, so the verified bytes are always
the bytes the runtime loads.
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All four findings are addressed in b11eaff0, fail-closed:

  • A {file:...} research prompt is no longer accepted by syntax alone. The ref must resolve to the canonical shared prompt path, and the rendered bytes are validated with the same renderer the write path uses: malformed, duplicated, or grant-claiming declarations refuse. Shared prompt files are also written whenever a named profile can reference them (including single mode), so the verified bytes are the bytes the runtime loads.
  • write and edit are now explicitly denied on the OpenCode research executor (base overlays and named profiles), and VerifyProjection enforces the full {bash, task, write, edit} posture so the denies cannot silently regress.
  • Unknown agent IDs are refused through a closed known-runtime domain; known denied runtimes keep validating as deny-only, and ForAgent semantics are unchanged.
  • The agents directory is created only after research verification, with a failed-projection test proving no directory or files are left behind.

A self-review pass also caught two things I fixed in the same commit: the earlier round verified rendered bytes that single-mode named profiles never materialized, and the posture check initially covered only the mutation pair.

On the size: this remains one atomic fail-closed boundary (authority, derivation, verification, parity tests), and splitting it would produce intermediate states where generation ships without the verification that is the point of the fix. Requesting size:exception on that basis. If you would rather see a split, I can chain it, but I believe the slices would be artificial.

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In `@internal/components/sdd/prompts.go`:
- Line 74: Validate phase capability assignments before any filesystem mutation:
when building sharedPromptPhaseCapabilities, detect differing ModelCapability
values for the same phase and return an error instead of overwriting the
existing value. Ensure WriteSharedPromptFiles and Inject are not reached after a
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  • internal/agents/researchcapability/projection.go
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  • internal/components/sdd/inject.go
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