feat(lease-broker): add the missing promotion client

The enforcement half of the lease broker ships and denies; the promotion half
has no production caller anywhere in the package. Verified across 0.0.48, 0.0.49
and 0.0.50-next.2207: begin_verification / observe_receipt / promote_lease are
invoked only by broker-test-client.ts, the acceptance spec, unit tests, and two
probes under docs/.

Consequence: no lease on any host can reach VERIFIED, so mutator-gate denies
every mutator with MUTATOR_UNVERIFIED via a gate that nothing shipped can
satisfy. Runtimes that enforce the gate in-process (pi, via mosaic-extension's
tool_call hook) are bricked for mutators; runtimes whose gate is wired through a
settings hook escape only when that hook is absent — i.e. by being ungated.

This adds the client. It implements protocol steps 1, 4 and 5:

  1. begin_verification  -> mint a challenge, return the exact receipt text
  2. the MODEL emits that text verbatim as its entire latest message
  3. the runtime adapter ships that message to the observer socket
  4. observe_receipt      -> PENDING_PROMOTION
  5. promote_lease        -> VERIFIED

Step 2 is deliberately NOT implemented here, and that is the point.
is_verbatim_receipt uses hmac.compare_digest against the exact minted string —
explicitly "not a transcript substring" — which makes promotion a LIVENESS
PROOF: it requires a live model that received the challenge in its context and
echoed it exactly.

receipt-observer-client.py will post ANY string as the latest assistant message.
A promotion client that posted its own receipt would satisfy the broker while
proving nothing — a gate-disabler indistinguishable from a working fix unless
someone specifically looks. Emitting the receipt therefore belongs to the runtime
adapter, where a real model turn happens. A local diagnostic that posts its own
receipt exists in the operator's repo and is deliberately NOT shipped here.

The construction binds the exact normative source bytes, so a VERIFIED lease
means "this agent is running THIS law", not merely "this session id is known".
h_source/h_payload are derived by importing the framework's own
normative_fragments.build_payload rather than reimplementing it: the broker
derives them the same way and any divergence yields PAYLOAD_BINDING_MISMATCH.
There must be exactly one implementation.

session_identity() prefers the generation FILE over the env var, matching
lease_generation.py. Sending a generation higher than the broker's would revoke
the session's own authority (daemon.py:342-344), so it never guesses.

Verified end-to-end on sb-it-1-dt under a real lease-gated anchor: a mutator
denied rc=2 MUTATOR_UNVERIFIED, then begin -> observe -> promote -> VERIFIED,
then the same mutator allowed rc=0. Negative controls pass: a fresh session is
still denied, and an unrelated session still reads UNVERIFIED — promotion is
per-session and does not leak.

Still open: adapter wiring for step 2. Lazy promotion on first mutator attempt
avoids colliding with the Constitution's first-response mode declaration, since
compare_digest requires the receipt to be the WHOLE message.
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Jason Woltje
2026-08-06 16:57:00 -05:00
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Lease promotion client — the half the enforcement toolkit never shipped.
The enforcement half (``daemon.py`` + ``mutator-gate.py``) ships and denies. The
promotion half has no production caller anywhere in the package: as of 0.0.48,
0.0.49 and 0.0.50-next.2207, ``begin_verification`` / ``observe_receipt`` /
``promote_lease`` are invoked only by ``broker-test-client.ts``, the acceptance
spec, unit tests, and two probes under ``docs/``. Consequence: **no lease on any
host can reach VERIFIED**, so every mutator is denied ``MUTATOR_UNVERIFIED`` by a
gate nothing can satisfy.
THE PROTOCOL (``daemon.py:578-754``)
------------------------------------
1. ``begin_verification`` — broker revokes, mints a challenge, and returns the
exact ``receipt`` text the MODEL must emit
2. *the model emits that text verbatim as its ENTIRE latest message*
3. the runtime adapter ships that message to the daemon-owned observer socket
4. ``observe_receipt`` -> ``PENDING_PROMOTION``
5. ``promote_lease`` -> ``VERIFIED``
THIS MODULE IMPLEMENTS 1, 4 AND 5 — NEVER 2
-------------------------------------------
Step 2 is the security property, not a formality. ``is_verbatim_receipt`` uses
``hmac.compare_digest`` against the exact minted string — explicitly "not a
transcript substring" (``receipt_challenge.py``). Promotion therefore requires a
live model that received the challenge in its context and echoed it exactly.
``receipt-observer-client.py`` will post ANY string as the latest assistant
message. A promotion client that posted its own receipt would satisfy the broker
while proving nothing — a gate-disabler indistinguishable from a working fix
unless someone looks for it. **This module never posts a receipt.** Emitting it
belongs to the runtime adapter, where a real model turn happens.
The construction binds the exact normative source bytes, so a VERIFIED lease
means "this agent is running THIS law", not merely "this session id is known".
``h_source`` / ``h_payload`` are derived by the framework's own
``normative_fragments.build_payload`` rather than reimplemented: the broker
derives them the same way and any divergence yields ``PAYLOAD_BINDING_MISMATCH``.
There must be exactly one implementation.
Usage
-----
lease_promote.py --begin # prints the receipt the MODEL must emit
lease_promote.py --complete <challenge> # after the adapter observed it
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import base64
import json
import os
import socket
import sys
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Final
# Isolated (`python -I`) adapter invocations must still import co-located
# framework modules; never depend on the caller's PYTHONPATH.
_MODULE_DIRECTORY = str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent)
if _MODULE_DIRECTORY not in sys.path:
sys.path.insert(0, _MODULE_DIRECTORY)
from normative_fragments import NormativeFragment, build_payload # noqa: E402
MAX_FRAME: Final = 64 * 1024
BROKER_TIMEOUT_SECONDS: Final = 3.0
SCHEMA_VERSION: Final = 1
MANIFEST_VERSION: Final = 1
GENERATOR_VERSION: Final = "mosaic/lease_promote@1"
DEFAULT_TTL_SECONDS: Final = 300
# Normative sources whose exact bytes bind the lease. Sources absent on a given
# deployment are simply not part of the binding — never fabricated.
FRAGMENT_SOURCES: Final = (
"CONSTITUTION.md",
"AGENTS.md",
"SOUL.md",
"USER.md",
"STANDARDS.md",
"TOOLS.md",
)
def mosaic_home() -> Path:
return Path(os.environ.get("MOSAIC_HOME") or Path.home() / ".config" / "mosaic")
def broker_socket() -> Path:
value = os.environ.get("MOSAIC_LEASE_BROKER_SOCKET")
if value:
return Path(value)
runtime_dir = os.environ.get("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR")
if runtime_dir:
return Path(runtime_dir) / "mosaic-lease" / "broker.sock"
return Path(f"/run/user/{os.getuid()}/mosaic-lease/broker.sock")
def session_identity() -> tuple[str, int, str]:
"""Session id, CURRENT generation, runtime.
The generation file wins over the env var, matching ``lease_generation.py``.
Sending a generation HIGHER than the broker's would revoke this session's own
authority (``daemon.py:342-344``), so this never guesses.
"""
session_id = os.environ["MOSAIC_LEASE_SESSION_ID"]
runtime = os.environ["MOSAIC_LEASE_RUNTIME"]
state_file = os.environ.get("MOSAIC_LEASE_GENERATION_FILE")
if state_file:
try:
return session_id, int(Path(state_file).read_text().strip()), runtime
except (OSError, ValueError):
pass
return session_id, int(os.environ["MOSAIC_RUNTIME_GENERATION"]), runtime
def build_construction(runtime: str) -> tuple[dict[str, object], object]:
"""Assemble the wire construction and derive its hashes with the sole builder."""
sources = list(FRAGMENT_SOURCES) + [f"runtime/{runtime}/RUNTIME.md"]
wire_fragments: list[dict[str, str]] = []
objects: list[NormativeFragment] = []
for source_id in sources:
try:
content = (mosaic_home() / source_id).read_bytes()
except OSError:
continue
import hashlib
digest = hashlib.sha256(content).hexdigest()
wire_fragments.append(
{
"source_id": source_id,
"content_base64": base64.b64encode(content).decode("ascii"),
"expected_sha256": digest,
}
)
objects.append(NormativeFragment(source_id, content, digest))
if not wire_fragments:
raise RuntimeError("no normative sources found — refusing to build an empty binding")
result = build_payload(
manifest_version=MANIFEST_VERSION,
generator_version=GENERATOR_VERSION,
fragments=objects,
)
if result.injectionDecision != "ACCEPTED" or not result.promotion:
raise RuntimeError(f"construction refused locally: {result.source_reason}")
return (
{
"manifest_version": MANIFEST_VERSION,
"generator_version": GENERATOR_VERSION,
"fragments": wire_fragments,
},
result,
)
def broker_request(payload: dict[str, object]) -> dict[str, object]:
raw = (json.dumps(payload, separators=(",", ":")) + "\n").encode()
if len(raw) > MAX_FRAME:
raise ValueError(
f"request too large ({len(raw)} bytes); broker frame cap is {MAX_FRAME}"
)
response = bytearray()
with socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as connection:
connection.settimeout(BROKER_TIMEOUT_SECONDS)
connection.connect(str(broker_socket()))
connection.sendall(raw)
connection.shutdown(socket.SHUT_WR)
while len(response) <= MAX_FRAME:
chunk = connection.recv(4096)
if not chunk:
break
response.extend(chunk)
if len(response) > MAX_FRAME or not response.endswith(b"\n"):
raise ValueError("invalid broker reply")
value = json.loads(response)
if not isinstance(value, dict):
raise ValueError("invalid broker reply")
return value
def begin(
ttl_seconds: int = DEFAULT_TTL_SECONDS,
compaction_epoch: int = 0,
request_epoch: int = 0,
) -> dict[str, object]:
"""Step 1. Returns the broker reply, including the exact ``receipt`` text."""
session_id, generation, runtime = session_identity()
construction, derived = build_construction(runtime)
return broker_request(
{
"action": "begin_verification",
"session_id": session_id,
"runtime_generation": generation,
"runtime": runtime,
"ttl_seconds": ttl_seconds,
"binding": {
"compaction_epoch": compaction_epoch,
"request_epoch": request_epoch,
"h_source": derived.h_source,
"h_payload": derived.h_payload,
"schema_version": SCHEMA_VERSION,
},
"construction": construction,
}
)
def complete(challenge: str) -> dict[str, object]:
"""Steps 4-5. Assumes the model already emitted the receipt and the adapter
shipped it to the observer socket."""
session_id, generation, _ = session_identity()
observed = broker_request(
{
"action": "observe_receipt",
"session_id": session_id,
"runtime_generation": generation,
"receipt_challenge": challenge,
}
)
if observed.get("ok") is not True or observed.get("state") != "PENDING_PROMOTION":
return {"stage": "observe_receipt", **observed}
promoted = broker_request(
{
"action": "promote_lease",
"session_id": session_id,
"runtime_generation": generation,
"receipt_challenge": challenge,
}
)
return {"stage": "promote_lease", **promoted}
def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Mosaic lease promotion client.")
group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group(required=True)
group.add_argument(
"--begin",
action="store_true",
help="mint a challenge; prints the receipt the MODEL must emit verbatim",
)
group.add_argument(
"--complete",
metavar="CHALLENGE",
help="observe the emitted receipt and promote the lease",
)
parser.add_argument("--ttl-seconds", type=int, default=DEFAULT_TTL_SECONDS)
arguments = parser.parse_args(argv)
try:
if arguments.begin:
print(json.dumps(begin(ttl_seconds=arguments.ttl_seconds), indent=2))
else:
print(json.dumps(complete(arguments.complete), indent=2))
except KeyError as exc:
print(f"missing lease environment: {exc}; not a lease-gated session", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
except (OSError, ValueError, RuntimeError, json.JSONDecodeError) as exc:
print(f"{type(exc).__name__}: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(main())