tasks, bus, harness, seat: the approved requirement ids as data (#1584)

Row 90, round 2. Dewey built it, Filbert approved it (comment 28068) on
manifest 95611274 (21 paths, base b8539480). The approved PRD's
requirement ids live in packages/tasks/requirements.json. task_create
refuses an id outside it, and the PM session gets a list_requirements
tool. Round 2 adds requirements.mjs to the sandbox's RUNNER_FILES
(decision 127). Sage gate on c047d028 plus the patch, 23:50:16Z to
23:54:26Z: tasks 89, bus 111, harness 66, webui 101, cli 123, seat 33,
business 60, control-board 124, queue 150, conversation 182, discord 178,
ledger 78, runs 43, mosaic 69, all fail 0. Every scripts/test-*.sh
exited 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

packages/bus/README.md

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ an operator inspect content and delivery evidence after an uncertain result.
 | `role.claim` | No args; claims capability's role/run. One current holder per business/instance; a revoked run cannot reclaim that role, including after restart. |
 | `role.release` | No args; only its current holder releases. |
 | `role.revoke` | `{role,decision}`; needs human-approved gated decision for this exact target and holder incarnation. |
-| `decision.raise` | `{action,question,options:[{key,text}],recommendation,blocking,domain?,target?,project?,task_ref?,requirement_ref?,supersedes?,choice?,approvalChoice?}`. Returns decision with decoded options and authorization context. |
+| `decision.raise` | `{action,question,options:[{key,text}],recommendation,blocking,domain?,target?,project?,task_ref?,requirement_ref?,supersedes?,choice?,approvalChoice?}`. Returns decision with decoded options and authorization context. A blocking decision holds a task: `blocking` true with no `task_ref` refuses `task-required`. A non-blocking one needs no task, and a gated action such as `prd.approve` or `role.revoke` still routes to the human's inbox. |
 | `decision.resolve` | `{id,choice,note?}`; option must exist, resolver must be routed role or outside-agent human CLI. |
 | `decision.seen` | `{id,note?}`; acknowledgement by resolver, not a resolution. |
 | `decision.withdraw` | `{id,note?}`; raiser or human. Never rewrites the decision. |
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ an operator inspect content and delivery evidence after an uncertain result.
 | `trail` | `{subject}`: task ref, decision UUID or message UUID. Linked records in broker write order. |
 | `decisions` | `{list}`: `roles` or `recent`; human and reader sessions only. Open decisions routed to a role, or the last 50 closed. |
 | `credentials` | No args; human and reader sessions only. `[{service,account,role,dateKind,date,state}]` for the capability's business, never a token, file path or variable name. |
+| `requirements` | No args; role sessions only, as `task.create` is (row 90, #1584). The approved PRD's requirement ids, `{prd,version,requirements:[{id,title}]}`, from `packages/tasks/requirements.json`, loaded when the broker starts; a bad file refuses the start. A human session refuses `agent-required`, a reader `read-only`. |
 | `replies` | `{id}`: a message UUID; human and reader sessions only. The messages whose `in_reply_to` is that id, oldest first, at most 50. Writes nothing. |
 
 ### Agent state (row 59, #1548)

packages/bus/src/broker.mjs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { randomUUID, randomBytes } from 'node:crypto';
+import { loadRequirements } from '../../tasks/src/requirements.mjs';
 
 // Kept closed while S1 lands; its vocabulary is the integration authority.
 export const ACTIONS = Object.freeze([
@@ -93,6 +94,7 @@ export class Broker {
   #ended = new Set();
   #secretCheck;
   #credentialStatus;
+  #requirements;
   #clock = 0;
   // credentialStatus is the runtime's metadata-only Credentials.status(); the broker never gets use().
   constructor({ store, businesses, secretCheck = () => {}, credentialStatus = () => [] }) {
@@ -101,6 +103,8 @@ export class Broker {
     this.#store = store;
     this.#secretCheck = secretCheck;
     this.#credentialStatus = credentialStatus;
+    // Row 90 (#1584): the approved PRD's requirement ids. A bad requirements.json refuses here.
+    this.#requirements = loadRequirements();
     for (const table of [
       'events',
       'role_claims',
@@ -894,6 +898,14 @@ export class Broker {
           ),
         };
       }
+      // Row 90 (#1584): the approved PRD's requirement ids, which task.create takes. A read for
+      // every session that can create tasks: task.create is an agent verb, so a human refuses
+      // agent-required here as there, and a reader read-only.
+      case 'requirements': {
+        keys(a, []);
+        this.#agent(s);
+        return this.#requirements;
+      }
       case 'inbox':
       case 'agents':
       case 'tasks':

packages/bus/tests/requirements.test.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+// Row 90 (#1584): `requirements`, the approved PRD's ids that task.create takes, for the role
+// sessions that create tasks; and the PM's two no-task decisions, a request no id fits
+// (prd.approve) and a run it thinks should stop (role.revoke), which reach the human's Inbox.
+import test from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { mkdtempSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+import { Store } from '../src/store.mjs';
+import { Broker } from '../src/broker.mjs';
+import { loadRequirements } from '../../tasks/src/requirements.mjs';
+
+const options = [
+  { key: 'yes', text: 'Approve' },
+  { key: 'no', text: 'Decline' },
+];
+const roles = {
+  pm: { authority: { withinRole: ['message.send', 'task.create'], crossRole: [] } },
+  coder: { authority: { withinRole: ['message.send'], crossRole: [] } },
+};
+const businesses = { demo: { id: 'demo', human: 'jason', arbiters: { technical: 'pm', delivery: 'pm' }, roles } };
+function setup(t) {
+  const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'bus-requirements-'));
+  const store = new Store(root);
+  const b = new Broker({ store, businesses });
+  t.after(() => {
+    store.close();
+    rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+  const agent = (role) => {
+    const cap = b.bindLaunch({ business: 'demo', role, run: `demo-${role}-run`, harness: 'pi', address: role });
+    b.request(cap, { verb: 'role.claim' });
+    return cap;
+  };
+  const human = b.bindHuman({ business: 'demo', human: 'jason', via: 'cli', outsideAgent: true });
+  const reader = b.bindReader({ business: 'demo' });
+  return { b, agent, human, reader };
+}
+const call = (b, cap, verb, args = {}) => b.request(cap, { verb, args });
+const raise = (b, cap, action, extra = {}) =>
+  call(b, cap, 'decision.raise', { action, question: `${action}?`, options, recommendation: 'no', blocking: false, ...extra });
+
+test('requirements returns the committed list to a holding role session, and no one else', (t) => {
+  const { b, agent, human, reader } = setup(t);
+  const pm = agent('pm');
+  const list = call(b, pm, 'requirements');
+  assert.deepEqual(list, loadRequirements());
+  assert.equal(list.requirements.length, 24);
+  assert.deepEqual(call(b, agent('coder'), 'requirements'), list);
+  assert.throws(() => call(b, human, 'requirements'), /agent-required/);
+  assert.throws(() => call(b, reader, 'requirements'), /read-only/);
+  // A second launch of the role that never claimed it holds nothing.
+  const stale = b.bindLaunch({ business: 'demo', role: 'pm', run: 'demo-pm-other', harness: 'pi', address: 'pm2' });
+  assert.throws(() => call(b, stale, 'requirements'), /not-holder/);
+  assert.throws(() => call(b, pm, 'requirements', { prd: 'docs/prd/mosaic-stack.md' }), /invalid-request/);
+});
+
+test("the PM's prd.approve with no task, when no id fits, reaches the human's Inbox", (t) => {
+  const { b, agent, human, reader } = setup(t);
+  const pm = agent('pm');
+  const d = raise(b, pm, 'prd.approve', { target: 'mosaic-stack-prd' });
+  assert.deepEqual([d.class, d.route_to, d.blocking, d.task_ref], ['gated', 'human', false, null]);
+  for (const cap of [human, reader]) assert.deepEqual(call(b, cap, 'inbox').map((r) => r.id), [d.id]);
+  assert.deepEqual(call(b, pm, 'inbox'), []);
+  // Blocking needs a task to hold.
+  assert.throws(() => raise(b, pm, 'prd.approve', { blocking: true }), /task-required/);
+});
+
+test("the PM's non-blocking role.revoke with no task reaches the human's Inbox", (t) => {
+  const { b, agent, human } = setup(t);
+  const pm = agent('pm');
+  agent('coder');
+  const d = raise(b, pm, 'role.revoke', { target: 'coder' });
+  assert.deepEqual([d.class, d.route_to, d.blocking, d.task_ref], ['gated', 'human', false, null]);
+  assert.deepEqual(d.authorization, { action: 'role.revoke', target: 'coder', approvalChoice: 'yes' });
+  assert.deepEqual(call(b, human, 'inbox').map((r) => r.id), [d.id]);
+  assert.throws(() => raise(b, pm, 'role.revoke', { target: 'coder', blocking: true }), /task-required/);
+});

packages/harness/src/bundle.mjs

@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ function prompt({ contract, resolved, session, tools, untyped }) {
     `- Bus tools: ${tools.map((t) => t.name).join(", ")}. The broker decides every call; a refusal names its reason.`,
     "- Each message to you arrives as one turn. Your final answer goes back to the sender as the reply, so end each turn with the answer itself.",
     "- You never hold a token. You act on the tracker, the forge and other roles only through the bus tools.",
+    // Row 90 (#1584): PM fault 10 (#228 c91).
+    "- Only the human stops a run, with `mosaic stop`. If you think a run should stop, raise a role.revoke decision with blocking false and the role instance as target, naming the run and saying why.",
   ];
   if (untyped.length) lines.push(`- Actions you hold that have no bus tool yet: ${untyped.join(", ")}. Say so instead of working around it.`);
   return lines.join("\n") + "\n";

packages/harness/src/runner.mjs

@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ export function turnRequest(m) {
   const head = [`Message ${m.id} from ${m.from_role}`, `class ${m.class}`];
   if (m.in_reply_to) head.push(`in reply to ${m.in_reply_to}`);
   if (m.decision) head.push(`citing decision ${m.decision}`);
+  // Row 90 (#1584): the human input id task_create cites as its request.
+  if (m.request) head.push(`request ${m.request}`);
   return `${head.join(", ")}:\n\n${m.body}`;
 }
 

packages/harness/src/tools.mjs

@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ const TASK_TOOLS = {
     priority: PRIORITY,
     labels: LABEL_IDS,
     relations: { type: "array", items: RELATION, maxItems: 50 },
-    request: str("Id of the message or human input this task answers"),
-    requirement: str("Requirement id, such as REQ-CRED-2", { pattern: "^REQ-[A-Z]+-[1-9][0-9]*$" }),
+    request: str("The request id of the human message this task answers, shown as \"request <id>\" in that message's header; not the message's own id"),
+    requirement: str("Requirement id from list_requirements, such as REQ-CRED-2", { pattern: "^REQ-[A-Z]+-[1-9][0-9]*$" }),
     decision: COMMON.decision,
   }, ["title", "request", "requirement"]],
   "task.assign": ["task_assign", "Assign an unassigned task to a role.", { ...COMMON, role: str("Role instance to assign") }, ["task_ref", "role"]],
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ export function typedTools({ resolved, arbiter = false, tracker = false }) {
     question: str("The question, with enough context to answer it"),
     options: { type: "array", minItems: 2, maxItems: 9, items: obj({ key: str("Short key"), text: str("What this option means") }, ["key", "text"]) },
     recommendation: str("Your recommended option key, with a reason"),
-    blocking: { type: "boolean", description: "True when you can't continue without the answer" },
+    blocking: { type: "boolean", description: "True only for a decision that holds a task: it needs task_ref, and the task waits for the answer. A request with no task is false" },
     target: str("What the action applies to, such as a role instance or task reference"),
     approvalChoice: str("The option key that approves the action"),
     task_ref: TASK_REF,
@@ -129,6 +129,9 @@ export function typedTools({ resolved, arbiter = false, tracker = false }) {
       after: str("The next value of the previous page"),
     }));
     add("get_task", "tasks", null, "Read one tracker task in full, description included.", obj({ task_ref: TASK_REF }, ["task_ref"]));
+    // Row 90 (#1584): the ids task_create takes, for the sessions that hold it.
+    if (held.has("task.create"))
+      add("list_requirements", "requirements", null, "List the approved PRD's requirement ids, each with a one-line title. task_create takes only these. When none fits a request, raise a prd.approve decision instead of creating the task.", obj({}));
   }
   return tools;
 }

packages/harness/tests/bundle.test.mjs

@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ test("a pi bundle: prompt, policy, tools and manifest, 0600 in a 0700 directory"
   assert.match(prompt, /^# Contract\n\nDo the work\.\n\n## This session\n/);
   assert.match(prompt, /Role instance: pm \(definition pm\)\. Run: run-1\./);
   assert.match(prompt, /Bus tools: send_message, launch, /);
+  // Row 90 (#1584): PM fault 10 (#228 c91).
+  assert.match(prompt, /^- Only the human stops a run, with `mosaic stop`\. If you think a run should stop, raise a role\.revoke decision with blocking false/m);
   assert.deepEqual(JSON.parse(readFileSync(b.files.policy, "utf8")), {
     harness: "pi",
     workspace: b.workspace,

packages/harness/tests/runner.test.mjs

@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ test("turnRequest names the sender, class, reply and decision", () => {
     turnRequest({ id: "m2", from_role: "cto", class: "RESULT", in_reply_to: "m1", decision: "d1", body: "b" }),
     "Message m2 from cto, class RESULT, in reply to m1, citing decision d1:\n\nb",
   );
+  // Row 90 (#1584): a human message's request id, which task_create cites; none for a role's.
+  assert.equal(
+    turnRequest({ id: "m3", from_role: "jason", class: "REQUEST", request: "e7", body: "b" }),
+    "Message m3 from jason, class REQUEST, request e7:\n\nb",
+  );
+  assert.equal(turnRequest({ id: "m4", from_role: "cto", class: "RESULT", request: null, body: "b" }), "Message m4 from cto, class RESULT:\n\nb");
 });
 
 async function setup(t, { session = {}, policy = {}, tools } = {}) {

packages/harness/tests/tools.test.mjs

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ test("the PM gets launch, its task verbs and the reads", (t) => {
     "send_message", "launch",
     "task_create", "task_assign", "task_reassign", "task_schedule", "task_priority_change", "task_scope_change",
     "task_update_assigned", "task_close",
-    "raise_decision", "resolve_decision", "list_agents", "inbox", "trail", "list_tasks", "get_task",
+    "raise_decision", "resolve_decision", "list_agents", "inbox", "trail", "list_tasks", "get_task", "list_requirements",
   ]);
   const launch = tools.find((x) => x.name === "launch");
   assert.equal(launch.verb, "launch");
@@ -31,6 +31,27 @@ test("the PM gets launch, its task verbs and the reads", (t) => {
   }
 });
 
+// Row 90 (#1584): list_requirements for the sessions that hold task.create, with a tracker.
+test("list_requirements reads the requirement ids, for a task.create holder with a tracker", (t) => {
+  const pm = resolvedFor(t, "pm");
+  const tools = typedTools({ resolved: pm, arbiter: true, tracker: true });
+  const list = tools.find((x) => x.name === "list_requirements");
+  assert.deepEqual([list.verb, list.action], ["requirements", null]);
+  assert.deepEqual(list.parameters.properties, {});
+  assert.match(list.description, /task_create takes only these/);
+  assert.match(list.description, /raise a prd\.approve decision instead of creating the task/);
+  assert.ok(!names(typedTools({ resolved: pm, arbiter: true })).includes("list_requirements"));
+  const noCreate = resolvedFor(t, "pm", (d) => (d.roles.pm.vars["limits.authority"] = ["message.send", "task.assign"]));
+  const without = names(typedTools({ resolved: noCreate, tracker: true }));
+  assert.ok(without.includes("task_assign") && !without.includes("task_create") && !without.includes("list_requirements"));
+  const create = tools.find((x) => x.name === "task_create").parameters.properties;
+  assert.match(create.requirement.description, /from list_requirements/);
+  assert.match(create.request.description, /shown as "request <id>" in that message's header; not the message's own id/);
+  const raise = tools.find((x) => x.name === "raise_decision").parameters.properties;
+  assert.match(raise.blocking.description, /needs task_ref/);
+  assert.match(raise.blocking.description, /A request with no task is false/);
+});
+
 test("a coder gets no launch, no resolve_decision, and no task tools without a tracker", (t) => {
   const coder = resolvedFor(t, "coder");
   const tools = typedTools({ resolved: coder });
@@ -117,6 +138,6 @@ test("replyText: compact JSON up to the cap, an error naming the size and the ca
     return true;
   });
   assert.throws(() => replyText("\u{1F600}".repeat(REPLY_CAP / 2)), /reply too large: 40002 characters/);
-  // 40000 units fit, though they are 80002 bytes: the cap isn't a byte count.
+  // 40000 units fit, though they are 79998 bytes: the cap isn't a byte count.
   assert.equal(replyText("\u{1F600}".repeat(REPLY_CAP / 2 - 1)).length, REPLY_CAP);
 });

packages/seat/src/sandbox.mjs

@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ export const RUNNER_FILES = Object.freeze([
   "packages/bus/src/client.mjs",
   "packages/bus/src/broker.mjs",
   "packages/business/src/vocabulary.mjs",
+  "packages/tasks/src/requirements.mjs",
 ].map((p) => join(REPO, p)));
 
 const SYSTEM_LINKS = ["/bin", "/lib", "/lib64", "/sbin"];

packages/tasks/README.md

@@ -133,6 +133,17 @@ decision isn't in it. That comes from the role's authority in
 `tests/fields.test.mjs` walks every verb against the fake and checks
 both.
 
+`requirements.json` holds the approved PRD's requirement ids as data
+(row 90, #1584): the PRD's path and version, and each id with a one-line
+title, in the PRD's order. The PRD (`docs/prd/mosaic-stack.md`) stays
+the reviewed source. `tests/requirements.test.mjs` reads its
+`**REQ-...**` bullets and its status line, and fails unless the list
+holds the same ids in the same order at the same version. A later PRD
+version is a new list in a reviewed commit. `loadRequirements()`
+(`src/requirements.mjs`) checks the file's shape, refuses any other and
+returns it frozen; the adapter loads it when it starts, and the bus
+loads it for its `requirements` read. Neither starts on a bad file.
+
 A write that answers 5xx or doesn't answer is never retried. The adapter
 reads the task again. If the write took effect, it continues. If not,
 or the re-read fails too, the verb refuses with `write-uncertain`. A
@@ -186,12 +197,15 @@ own write back as a person's edit.
 Details that aren't obvious from the table:
 
 - `task.create` needs `request`, the id of a `human.input` event of this
-  business (`request-not-found` otherwise), and a `requirement` like
-  `REQ-TASK-3`. `project` is the tracker project id to create the task
-  in, the root when left out. Any other project than an installed one of
-  the tree refuses with `project-not-installed`, and a value that isn't a
-  positive integer with `invalid-request`. The decision a create may
-  need is bound to no target, so it doesn't name the project.
+  business (`request-not-found` otherwise), and a `requirement` from
+  `requirements.json`, like `REQ-TASK-3`. An id in the right form that
+  the list doesn't hold refuses `unknown-requirement`. The `request` is
+  the `request` field `message.receive` gives a human's message, not the
+  message's own id. `project` is the tracker project id to create the
+  task in, the root when left out. Any other project than an installed
+  one of the tree refuses with `project-not-installed`, and a value that
+  isn't a positive integer with `invalid-request`. The decision a create
+  may need is bound to no target, so it doesn't name the project.
   `task.created` is recorded even when a label or relation write after
   the create fails. The task exists, and the verb then refuses with that
   write's code.
@@ -376,7 +390,7 @@ on a live read with the sync key, and a switch is a follow-up row.
 | `task-moved`, `task-placement`, `task-project` | the task is in another project, or on no bucket |
 | `project-not-installed` | the project is watch-only, or not an installed project of the tree |
 | `task-conflict`, `task-done`, `task-assigned`, `task-unassigned`, `not-assigned` | the task's state doesn't allow the verb |
-| `field-writer`, `label-not-allowed`, `unknown-role`, `invalid-state`, `request-not-found`, `invalid-request` | the call itself is wrong |
+| `field-writer`, `label-not-allowed`, `unknown-role`, `invalid-state`, `request-not-found`, `unknown-requirement`, `invalid-request` | the call itself is wrong |
 
 Startup adds `credential-unavailable`, `credential-expired`,
 `tracker-version`, `tracker-project`, `tracker-install`,

packages/tasks/requirements.json

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{
+  "prd": "docs/prd/mosaic-stack.md",
+  "version": "1.0",
+  "requirements": [
+    { "id": "REQ-ROLE-1", "title": "Each role is a reviewed roles/<name>.json: contract, authority map, credentials" },
+    { "id": "REQ-ROLE-2", "title": "One holder per role instance; a claim locks and logs; revoking a holder is gated" },
+    { "id": "REQ-ROLE-3", "title": "A user-written business file declares instances, arbiters and credential references" },
+    { "id": "REQ-ROLE-4", "title": "The first business is Mosaic Stack: PM, CTO, coder and reviewer" },
+    { "id": "REQ-VAR-1", "title": "Variables in four layers, declared in code; limits intersect; unknown keys refused" },
+    { "id": "REQ-VAR-2", "title": "One system config, never auto-written; secrets only as references the broker reads" },
+    { "id": "REQ-CRED-1", "title": "Each role instance has its own Gitea and Vikunja token, held by the broker" },
+    { "id": "REQ-CRED-2", "title": "A session that finds only founder credentials stops" },
+    { "id": "REQ-DEC-1", "title": "Every decision is an append-only record: raiser, class, options, resolver, times" },
+    { "id": "REQ-DEC-2", "title": "Decisions route by class: logged, to the domain arbiter, or to the human" },
+    { "id": "REQ-DEC-3", "title": "Human resolutions come only from a mosaic CLI session outside any agent run" },
+    { "id": "REQ-DEC-4", "title": "A blocking gated decision reaches Jason at once; the rest go in a daily digest" },
+    { "id": "REQ-MSG-1", "title": "Messages are addressed to a role, append-only, delivered to the current holder" },
+    { "id": "REQ-TASK-1", "title": "Tasks live in Vikunja, each citing a requirement id; the verbs enforce field writers" },
+    { "id": "REQ-TASK-2", "title": "Polling is the source of truth: a 30-second board poll and an hourly reconcile" },
+    { "id": "REQ-TASK-3", "title": "The installer points at an existing Vikunja or deploys the unmodified upstream image" },
+    { "id": "REQ-TASK-4", "title": "The queue keeps the agents' lock, review rounds and audit log; no two-way sync" },
+    { "id": "REQ-CLI-1", "title": "mosaic is the front door: talk to the PM, the inbox, tasks, agents and trails" },
+    { "id": "REQ-CLI-2", "title": "The PM session mosaic talks to is launched and owned by the stack, not T3" },
+    { "id": "REQ-WEB-1", "title": "The WebUI shows the same data as the CLI" },
+    { "id": "REQ-LAUNCH-1", "title": "The PM launches role sessions within business-file limits, logged and revocable" },
+    { "id": "REQ-HARN-1", "title": "The meta-harness generates each session's launch bundle from role and variables" },
+    { "id": "REQ-HARN-2", "title": "Credential scope, verbs, the tool limit and a container enforce the rules" },
+    { "id": "REQ-EVT-1", "title": "Every slice 1 step emits an event; measures come from events" }
+  ]
+}

packages/tasks/src/requirements.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+// Row 90 (#1584): the approved PRD's requirement ids as data, in ../requirements.json. The PRD
+// (docs/prd/mosaic-stack.md) stays the reviewed source; tests/requirements.test.mjs fails unless
+// the list holds its **REQ-...** ids in its order. A later PRD version is a new list in a reviewed
+// commit. task.create refuses an id the list doesn't hold, and the broker's `requirements` verb
+// returns the list to the sessions that create tasks. This module imports nothing from the bus,
+// so the broker can load it. This function is the file's schema: it refuses any other shape.
+export const REQUIREMENTS_FILE = new URL('../requirements.json', import.meta.url);
+export const REQUIREMENT_ID = /^REQ-[A-Z]+-[1-9][0-9]*$/;
+export class RequirementsError extends Error {}
+const plain = (x) => x !== null && typeof x === 'object' && !Array.isArray(x);
+const str = (x, max) => typeof x === 'string' && x.trim() !== '' && x.length <= max;
+function exact(x, where, allowed) {
+  if (!plain(x)) throw new RequirementsError(`${where}: not an object`);
+  for (const k of Object.keys(x)) if (!allowed.includes(k)) throw new RequirementsError(`${where}: unknown key ${k}`);
+  for (const k of allowed) if (!Object.hasOwn(x, k)) throw new RequirementsError(`${where}: missing ${k}`);
+}
+export function checkRequirements(list) {
+  exact(list, 'list', ['prd', 'version', 'requirements']);
+  if (!str(list.prd, 256) || !/^docs\/prd\/[a-z0-9-]+\.md$/.test(list.prd))
+    throw new RequirementsError('prd: not a docs/prd/*.md path');
+  if (typeof list.version !== 'string' || !/^[1-9][0-9]*\.[0-9]+$/.test(list.version))
+    throw new RequirementsError('version: not a version such as 1.0');
+  if (!Array.isArray(list.requirements) || !list.requirements.length)
+    throw new RequirementsError('requirements: not a nonempty list');
+  const seen = new Set();
+  for (const [i, r] of list.requirements.entries()) {
+    const at = `requirements[${i}]`;
+    exact(r, at, ['id', 'title']);
+    if (typeof r.id !== 'string' || !REQUIREMENT_ID.test(r.id)) throw new RequirementsError(`${at}.id: not a requirement id`);
+    if (seen.has(r.id)) throw new RequirementsError(`${at}.id: ${r.id} twice`);
+    seen.add(r.id);
+    if (!str(r.title, 120) || r.title.includes('\n')) throw new RequirementsError(`${at}.title: not one line of 120 characters or fewer`);
+  }
+  return list;
+}
+function freeze(x) {
+  if (x && typeof x === 'object') {
+    for (const v of Object.values(x)) freeze(v);
+    Object.freeze(x);
+  }
+  return x;
+}
+// The committed list, checked and frozen. A file that fails the check refuses to load.
+export function loadRequirements(file = REQUIREMENTS_FILE) {
+  let list;
+  try {
+    list = JSON.parse(readFileSync(file, 'utf8'));
+  } catch (e) {
+    throw new RequirementsError(e instanceof SyntaxError ? 'requirements.json: not JSON' : `requirements.json: ${e.code ?? 'unreadable'}`);
+  }
+  return freeze(checkRequirements(list));
+}

packages/tasks/src/verbs.mjs

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { BusError } from '../../bus/src/broker.mjs';
 import { outcome, refusal } from './vikunja.mjs';
 import { ref, parseRef, checkTask, taskFields, digest } from './digest.mjs';
 import { board, normal } from './sync.mjs';
+import { loadRequirements } from './requirements.mjs';
 // The eight task verbs (addendum B section 4). Each one: field-table writer check, compare-read with
 // the sync token, the caller's expected digest, broker authority, the writes with the acting role's
 // own token, a final read, then one self snapshot and its event. A write that answers 5xx or not at
@@ -64,6 +65,8 @@ const sorted = (a) => [...a].sort((x, y) => x - y);
 const decision = (x) => (x === undefined ? null : text(x, 128, 1));
 export function verbs(ctx) {
   const fail = (code) => refuse(code);
+  // Row 90 (#1584): the approved PRD's ids. A bad requirements.json refuses here, at adapter start.
+  const requirements = new Set(loadRequirements().requirements.map((r) => r.id));
   const label = (id) => {
     // Second guard after the bot-owner rule (probes.md, L): only label ids in the business file.
     if (!ctx.labels.has(id)) fail('label-not-allowed');
@@ -215,6 +218,7 @@ export function verbs(ctx) {
         plan.request = text(args.request, 64, 1);
         plan.requirement = text(args.requirement, 64);
         if (!/^REQ-[A-Z]+-[1-9][0-9]*$/.test(plan.requirement)) fail('invalid-request');
+        if (!requirements.has(plan.requirement)) fail('unknown-requirement');
         return plan;
       }
       case 'task.assign':

packages/tasks/tests/adapter.test.mjs

@@ -181,9 +181,9 @@ test('close waits for a running verb and refuses one that has not started', asyn
   const pm = w.agent('pm');
   let release;
   hold = new Promise((ok) => (release = ok));
-  const running = w.call(pm, 'task.create', { title: 'x', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-S-1' });
+  const running = w.call(pm, 'task.create', { title: 'x', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-TASK-1' });
   await reached;
-  const queued = w.call(pm, 'task.create', { title: 'y', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-S-1' });
+  const queued = w.call(pm, 'task.create', { title: 'y', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-TASK-1' });
   let done = false;
   const closing = w.adapter.close().then(() => (done = true));
   await sleep(20);
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ test('close waits for a running verb and refuses one that has not started', asyn
   assert.ok((await running).task_ref);
   await assert.rejects(queued, (e) => e.code === 'tracker-closed');
   await assert.rejects(
-    w.call(pm, 'task.create', { title: 'z', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-S-1' }),
+    w.call(pm, 'task.create', { title: 'z', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-TASK-1' }),
     (e) => e.code === 'tracker-closed',
   );
   assert.equal(w.events('task.created').length, 1);

packages/tasks/tests/fields.test.mjs

@@ -187,10 +187,10 @@ test('each verb refuses, asks for a decision and writes as the table and the rol
   }
   const others = ROLE_NAMES.filter((r) => r !== 'pm');
   const create = { title: 'b', description: 'what', due_date: '2026-11-01T00:00:00.000Z', priority: 2, labels: [w.label] };
-  for (const r of others) await attempt(r, 'task.create', { ...create, request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-S-1' });
-  const a = await attempt('pm', 'task.create', { title: 'a', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-S-1' });
+  for (const r of others) await attempt(r, 'task.create', { ...create, request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-TASK-1' });
+  const a = await attempt('pm', 'task.create', { title: 'a', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-TASK-1' });
   const relation = { kind: 'related', task_ref: a.task_ref };
-  const { task_ref } = await attempt('pm', 'task.create', { ...create, relations: [relation], request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-S-1' });
+  const { task_ref } = await attempt('pm', 'task.create', { ...create, relations: [relation], request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-TASK-1' });
   for (const r of others) {
     await attempt(r, 'task.assign', { task_ref, role: 'coder' });
     await attempt(r, 'task.reassign', { task_ref, role: 'coder' });

packages/tasks/tests/requirements.test.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+import test from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { mkdtempSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import { loadRequirements, checkRequirements, RequirementsError, REQUIREMENTS_FILE } from '../src/requirements.mjs';
+// Row 90 (#1584): requirements.json against the approved PRD it names. The PRD's **REQ-...**
+// bullets are the source; the list must hold the same ids in the same order, and the PRD's
+// status line must give the list's version.
+const list = loadRequirements();
+const raw = () => JSON.parse(readFileSync(REQUIREMENTS_FILE, 'utf8'));
+const REPO = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../', import.meta.url));
+const listError = (message) => (e) => e instanceof RequirementsError && (message === undefined || e.message === message);
+
+test("the list holds the PRD's requirement ids, in its order, at its version", () => {
+  const prd = readFileSync(join(REPO, list.prd), 'utf8');
+  const ids = [...prd.matchAll(/^- \*\*(REQ-[A-Z]+-[0-9]+)\.\*\*/gm)].map((m) => m[1]);
+  // Any other mention of a bold id would be a bullet this pattern missed.
+  assert.equal(ids.length, [...prd.matchAll(/\*\*REQ-/g)].length);
+  assert.equal(ids.length, 24);
+  assert.deepEqual(list.requirements.map((r) => r.id), ids);
+  assert.match(prd, new RegExp(`^- Status: approved, version ${list.version.replace('.', '\\.')}\\.`, 'm'));
+  assert.deepEqual([list.prd, list.version], ['docs/prd/mosaic-stack.md', '1.0']);
+});
+
+test('the committed list loads frozen', () => {
+  assert.ok(Object.isFrozen(list) && Object.isFrozen(list.requirements) && Object.isFrozen(list.requirements[0]));
+  assert.deepEqual(checkRequirements(raw()), raw());
+  assert.deepEqual(loadRequirements(), list);
+});
+
+test('the schema refuses any other shape', () => {
+  const bad = {
+    'an unknown top key': (l) => (l.source = 'x'),
+    'no prd': (l) => delete l.prd,
+    'a prd outside docs/prd': (l) => (l.prd = 'docs/plans/x.md'),
+    'a prd that is not markdown': (l) => (l.prd = 'docs/prd/mosaic-stack.txt'),
+    'a prd with a parent step': (l) => (l.prd = 'docs/prd/../x.md'),
+    'no version': (l) => delete l.version,
+    'a numeric version': (l) => (l.version = 1.5),
+    'a version with no minor': (l) => (l.version = '1'),
+    'a version 0': (l) => (l.version = '0.4'),
+    'no requirements': (l) => delete l.requirements,
+    'an empty list': (l) => (l.requirements = []),
+    'requirements not a list': (l) => (l.requirements = {}),
+    'an entry not an object': (l) => (l.requirements[0] = 'REQ-ROLE-1'),
+    'an unknown entry key': (l) => (l.requirements[0].note = 'x'),
+    'no id': (l) => delete l.requirements[0].id,
+    'no title': (l) => delete l.requirements[0].title,
+    'an id in lower case': (l) => (l.requirements[0].id = 'REQ-role-1'),
+    'an id numbered 0': (l) => (l.requirements[0].id = 'REQ-ROLE-0'),
+    'an id with a suffix': (l) => (l.requirements[0].id = 'REQ-ROLE-1a'),
+    'an id twice': (l) => (l.requirements[1].id = l.requirements[0].id),
+    'a blank title': (l) => (l.requirements[0].title = ' '),
+    'a title over 120 characters': (l) => (l.requirements[0].title = 'x'.repeat(121)),
+    'a title of two lines': (l) => (l.requirements[0].title = 'a\nb'),
+    'a title that is not a string': (l) => (l.requirements[0].title = 1),
+  };
+  for (const x of [[], null, 'list']) assert.throws(() => checkRequirements(x), listError('list: not an object'));
+  for (const [what, edit] of Object.entries(bad)) {
+    const l = raw();
+    edit(l);
+    assert.throws(() => checkRequirements(l), listError(), what);
+  }
+  const ok = raw();
+  ok.requirements[0].title = 'x'.repeat(120);
+  assert.equal(checkRequirements(ok), ok);
+  const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'requirements-'));
+  try {
+    writeFileSync(join(dir, 'cut.json'), '{"prd":');
+    assert.throws(() => loadRequirements(join(dir, 'cut.json')), listError('requirements.json: not JSON'));
+    assert.throws(() => loadRequirements(join(dir, 'absent.json')), listError('requirements.json: ENOENT'));
+    const twice = raw();
+    twice.requirements.push(structuredClone(twice.requirements[0]));
+    writeFileSync(join(dir, 'twice.json'), JSON.stringify(twice));
+    assert.throws(() => loadRequirements(join(dir, 'twice.json')), listError('requirements[24].id: REQ-ROLE-1 twice'));
+  } finally {
+    rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+});

packages/tasks/tests/shapes.test.mjs

@@ -113,11 +113,11 @@ test('the fake answers each route with the statuses and shapes Vikunja v2.7.0 se
   await w.adapter.start('demo');
   const pm = w.agent('pm'),
     coder = w.agent('coder');
-  const a = await w.call(pm, 'task.create', { title: 'a', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-S-1' });
+  const a = await w.call(pm, 'task.create', { title: 'a', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-TASK-1' });
   const b = await w.call(pm, 'task.create', {
     title: 'b',
     request: w.instruction(),
-    requirement: 'REQ-S-1',
+    requirement: 'REQ-TASK-1',
     labels: [w.label],
     relations: [{ kind: 'blocked', task_ref: a.task_ref }],
   });
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ test('the client works against the fake over real HTTP with the platform fetch',
   const w = await world(t, { fake, fetch: globalThis.fetch, tracker: { baseUrl: server.url } });
   await w.adapter.start('demo');
   assert.equal(w.adapter.status()[0].state, 'ready', w.adapter.status()[0].refused);
-  const r = await w.call(w.agent('pm'), 'task.create', { title: 'over http', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-S-1' });
+  const r = await w.call(w.agent('pm'), 'task.create', { title: 'over http', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-TASK-1' });
   assert.equal(r.task_ref, `vikunja:${w.project}/1`);
   await w.ui('PATCH', '/tasks/1', { title: 'edited' });
   await sleep(20);

packages/tasks/tests/sync.test.mjs

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ const ready = async (t, edit) => {
   return w;
 };
 const create = (w, title = 'a task') =>
-  w.call(w.caps.pm ?? w.agent('pm'), 'task.create', { title, request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-S-1' });
+  w.call(w.caps.pm ?? w.agent('pm'), 'task.create', { title, request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-TASK-1' });
 const external = (w, subject) => w.events('task.changed.external').filter((e) => subject === undefined || e.subject === subject);
 // A fake whose clock runs an hour behind, so every task sits outside the cursor window and only the
 // board or a task read can see it.

packages/tasks/tests/verbs.test.mjs

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import test from 'node:test';
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
 import { world, sleep, SCOPES } from './world.mjs';
 import { FakeVikunja } from '../src/fake.mjs';
+import { loadRequirements } from '../src/requirements.mjs';
 const ready = async (t, edit) => {
   const w = await world(t, edit);
   await w.adapter.start('demo');
@@ -13,12 +14,12 @@ const refusedWith = (code) => (e) => e.code === code;
 // A pm-created task, returned with its ref and digest.
 const task = async (w, args = {}) => {
   const pm = w.caps.pm ?? w.agent('pm');
-  return w.call(pm, 'task.create', { title: 'a task', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-S-1', ...args });
+  return w.call(pm, 'task.create', { title: 'a task', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-TASK-1', ...args });
 };
 test('task.create needs a recorded human request and a requirement id', async (t) => {
   const w = await ready(t);
   const pm = w.agent('pm');
-  const args = { title: 'x', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-S-1' };
+  const args = { title: 'x', request: w.instruction(), requirement: 'REQ-TASK-1' };
   await assert.rejects(w.call(pm, 'task.create', { ...args, request: 'not-an-event' }), refusedWith('request-not-found'));
   await assert.rejects(w.call(pm, 'task.create', { ...args, requirement: 'S-1' }), refusedWith('invalid-request'));
   await assert.rejects(w.call(pm, 'task.create', { title: 'x', request: args.request }), refusedWith('invalid-request'));
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ test('task.create needs a recorded human request and a requirement id', async (t
   assert.equal(r.task_ref, `vikunja:${w.project}/1`);
   const created = w.events('task.created');
   assert.equal(created.length, 1);
-  assert.deepEqual(created[0].body, { request: args.request, requirement: 'REQ-S-1' });
+  assert.deepEqual(created[0].body, { request: args.request, requirement: 'REQ-TASK-1' });
   assert.equal(created[0].actor_role, 'pm');
   const [s] = w.snapshots(r.task_ref);
   assert.equal(s.source, 'self');
@@ -50,6 +51,35 @@ test('task.create needs a recorded human request and a requirement id', async (t
   );
   assert.equal(allowed(w, 'task.create').length, 1);
 });
+// Row 90 (#1584): the ids are the approved PRD's, from requirements.json.
+test('task.create takes only an approved requirement id', async (t) => {
+  const w = await ready(t);
+  const pm = w.agent('pm');
+  const { requirements } = loadRequirements();
+  const args = { title: 'x', request: w.instruction() };
+  // REQ-QA-1 is the id P19 #229 and #230 were created under: the right form, not in the PRD.
+  for (const requirement of ['REQ-QA-1', 'REQ-TASK-5', 'REQ-S-1'])
+    await assert.rejects(w.call(pm, 'task.create', { ...args, requirement }), refusedWith('unknown-requirement'), requirement);
+  // The form is checked first, as before.
+  await assert.rejects(w.call(pm, 'task.create', { ...args, requirement: 'REQ-task-1' }), refusedWith('invalid-request'));
+  assert.equal(allowed(w, 'task.create').length, 0);
+  assert.equal(w.events('task.created').length, 0);
+  for (const { id } of [requirements[0], requirements.at(-1)]) await w.call(pm, 'task.create', { ...args, requirement: id });
+  assert.deepEqual(w.events('task.created').map((e) => e.body.requirement), [requirements[0].id, requirements.at(-1).id]);
+});
+test("task.create cites the request a received message carries, not the message's id", async (t) => {
+  const w = await ready(t);
+  const pm = w.agent('pm');
+  const sent = w.broker.request(w.human, { verb: 'message.send', args: { to: 'pm', body: 'build the thing' } });
+  const [m] = w.broker.request(pm, { verb: 'message.receive' });
+  assert.equal(m.id, sent.id);
+  assert.equal(m.request, sent.request);
+  assert.notEqual(m.request, m.id);
+  const args = { title: 'the thing', requirement: 'REQ-TASK-1' };
+  await assert.rejects(w.call(pm, 'task.create', { ...args, request: m.id }), refusedWith('request-not-found'));
+  const r = await w.call(pm, 'task.create', { ...args, request: m.request });
+  assert.deepEqual(w.events('task.created').map((e) => [e.subject, e.body]), [[r.task_ref, { request: m.request, requirement: 'REQ-TASK-1' }]]);
+});
 test('only labels named in the business file can be written', async (t) => {
   const w = await ready(t);
   // The pm can see this label in Vikunja (its owner created it), but the business file doesn't list it.