fix(fleet): harden #791 upgrade rollback against find/reset failures

Second- and third-round independent-review reliability fixes on the keep-mode
upgrade rollback path, plus accurate abort messaging. All fixed red-first with
self-verifying controls in the rollback gate.

Round 2 (blockers A/B, should-fix C):
- install.sh: `trap 'restore_snapshot; exit 1' ERR INT TERM` so an INT/TERM
  mid-sync terminates instead of resuming past the interrupt and reporting
  success (a bash signal handler that only returns does not terminate).
- manifest.{ts,sh}: reject a degenerate [framework] section whose entries are
  all empty or bare-dot (`/`, `./`, `.`, `..`) — it passed the non-empty guard
  yet yielded zero usable globs, silently resolving everything to operator.
  Parity via a shared `[^/.]` usable-glob test; TS throws ManifestError.
- finalize.ts: classify the sync-abort message — a ManifestError is a pre-sync
  validation abort ("no files were changed"); any other error may be partial.

Round 3 (blockers D1, D2):
- install.sh: enumerate framework files with a checked temp file (_scan_or_die)
  instead of `< <(find …)` — process substitution discards find's exit status,
  so an EACCES/I/O failure mid-scan would truncate the file list yet leave the
  loop exiting 0, committing a partial upgrade as success (ERR trap never fires).
- install.sh: guard the `rm -rf; mkdir -p` target reset inside restore_snapshot
  — a bare reset failing under set -e exits silently after partial deletion,
  never printing the snapshot-recovery pointer. Now checked like the cp -a
  restore: on failure it preserves the snapshot and tells the operator where.

Tests: rollback gate 14→28 (Parts C/D/E with disabled-guard controls);
new finalize-sync-abort.spec.ts (3). No secret value is ever emitted; snapshots
stay 0700. Gates green: typecheck, lint, format:check, full mosaic vitest 1094,
HARD GATE 193, rollback 28, migration 21.

Refs #791

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.woodpecker/ci.yml

@@ -42,6 +42,23 @@ steps:
       - bash packages/mosaic/framework/tools/quality/scripts/check-resident-budget.sh --self-test
       - bash packages/mosaic/framework/tools/quality/scripts/check-resident-budget.sh
 
+  # Blocking gate (#791): a framework upgrade must never write or delete an
+  # operator-owned path. The HARD GATE proves an unanticipated operator sentinel
+  # survives a keep-mode reseed byte-identical (with rsync present AND absent —
+  # keep mode is a single cp-based path that must not depend on rsync), and that a
+  # corrupt/empty/missing manifest aborts fail-closed leaving operator files
+  # untouched (B2/B3). The rollback gate proves a mid-sync failure is rolled back
+  # from the pre-update snapshot (B1). The migration matrix pins the v2→v3
+  # contract-file semantics. Pure bash, no node_modules — runs early alongside
+  # sanitization.
+  upgrade-guard:
+    image: *node_image
+    commands:
+      - apk add --no-cache bash rsync
+      - bash packages/mosaic/framework/tools/quality/scripts/test-upgrade-manifest-guard.sh
+      - bash packages/mosaic/framework/tools/quality/scripts/test-upgrade-rollback.sh
+      - bash packages/mosaic/framework/tools/quality/scripts/test-install-migration.sh
+
   typecheck:
     image: *node_image
     commands:
@@ -50,6 +67,7 @@ steps:
     depends_on:
       - install
       - sanitization
+      - upgrade-guard
 
   # lint, format, and test are independent — run in parallel after typecheck
   lint:

docs/design/791-upgrade-config-protection.md

@@ -0,0 +1,290 @@
+# Design — #791: Framework upgrades must not destroy operator-owned config under `~/.config/mosaic`
+
+- **Issue:** mosaicstack/stack#791
+- **Branch:** `feat/791-upgrade-config-protection` (off `origin/main` `9745bc3f`)
+- **Author:** ms-791 worker lane
+- **Status:** Phase 1 — DESIGN, awaiting MS-LEAD confirmation before implementation
+- **Ratified scope (Mos-approved, not re-litigated):** deliver **(b) strict ownership separation [PRIMARY]** + **(a) transactional pre-update snapshot [safety net]** + **(d) regeneration-from-SSOT [recovery]**. **(c) periodic backup timer is DEFERRED** — noted as future work only.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Current updater behavior + exact wipe mechanism (evidence)
+
+### 1.1 What runs on `mosaic update`
+
+`mosaic update` re-seeds the framework by invoking the **bash installer** in sync-only, keep mode:
+
+- `packages/mosaic/src/runtime/update-checker.ts:509` `buildReseedCommand()` returns
+  `bash <frameworkRoot>/install.sh` with env `MOSAIC_SYNC_ONLY=1`, `MOSAIC_INSTALL_MODE=keep`,
+  `MOSAIC_HOME=<mosaicHome>`.
+- The same `install.sh` is the direct/`tools/install.sh` upgrade path and the framework-vN migration path.
+
+So the destructive surface is **`packages/mosaic/framework/install.sh`**.
+
+### 1.2 The wipe
+
+`sync_framework()` (`install.sh:177`) performs, in `keep` mode:
+
+```
+rsync -a --delete --exclude .git --exclude .framework-version --exclude '*.pre-constitution.bak' \
+      [--exclude "/$path" for each PRESERVE_PATHS entry] SOURCE_DIR/ TARGET_DIR/
+```
+
+- `install.sh:199` — `rsync -a --delete`. **`--delete` prunes every path in `~/.config/mosaic`
+  that is NOT present in the shipped framework source**, unless excluded.
+- `install.sh:47` — `PRESERVE_PATHS` is the **only** thing standing between `--delete` and operator
+  data. It is a _denylist of exclusions_:
+  ```
+  PRESERVE_PATHS=("CONSTITUTION.md" "AGENTS.md" "SOUL.md" "USER.md" "TOOLS.md" "STANDARDS.md"
+    "memory" "sources" "credentials" "fleet/roster.yaml" "fleet/roster.json" "fleet/agents"
+    "fleet/run" "fleet/backlog" "fleet/roles.local")
+  ```
+- The cp-fallback (no rsync) is equally destructive: `install.sh:223`
+  `find "$TARGET_DIR" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ... -exec rm -rf {} +` then re-copies source, restoring
+  only PRESERVE_PATHS globs.
+
+**Root-cause model:** _"Everything under `~/.config/mosaic` is framework-owned and pruneable UNLESS
+explicitly preserved."_ Any operator path the list forgets is destroyed on the next upgrade.
+
+### 1.3 The exact operator paths wiped
+
+Cross-referencing the issue's operator-owned list against `PRESERVE_PATHS`:
+
+| Operator path (issue #791)                                        | In PRESERVE_PATHS?                      | Fate on `mosaic update` |
+| ----------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | ----------------------- |
+| `agents/*.conf` (per-agent runtime)                               | **NO**                                  | **WIPED**               |
+| `policy/*.md` (operator overlays)                                 | **NO**                                  | **WIPED**               |
+| `*.local.md` (SOUL/USER/STANDARDS)                                | **NO**                                  | **WIPED**               |
+| harvester / SOP artifacts + timers                                | **NO**                                  | **WIPED**               |
+| `tools/_lib/credentials.json`                                     | **NO** (`credentials/` dir ≠ this path) | **WIPED**               |
+| `fleet/agents/*.env`                                              | yes (`fleet/agents`, added by #631)     | survives                |
+| `memory/`, `fleet/roster.*`, `fleet/backlog`, `fleet/roles.local` | yes                                     | survives                |
+
+The `fleet/agents`, `memory`, `fleet/backlog` entries were **retro-added after prior incidents**
+(#631). This whack-a-mole is the structural signature of a denylist.
+
+**Stale-comment evidence:** `update-checker.ts:492` claims the reseed preserves
+"`SOUL/USER/*.local/credentials`" — but `PRESERVE_PATHS` contains **no `*.local` entry**. The code
+documents protection it does not deliver.
+
+### 1.4 Second code path (TS) — already non-destructive, but drifted
+
+`FileConfigAdapter.syncFramework()` (`packages/mosaic/src/config/file-adapter.ts:157`) →
+`syncDirectory()` (`packages/mosaic/src/platform/file-ops.ts:66`) is a **copy-overlay**: it copies
+source over target and skips preserved paths, but **never deletes** target paths absent from source
+(`file-ops.ts:77-109`). It is used by the wizard/init flow, not `mosaic update`.
+
+Two problems remain:
+
+1. Its `preservePaths` (`file-adapter.ts:164-185`) has **already diverged** from `install.sh` — it is
+   **missing `fleet/backlog` and `fleet/roles.local`**. Two hand-maintained denylists, drifted. This
+   is direct evidence for a single shared SSOT manifest.
+2. Even non-destructive, it will happily _overwrite_ an operator file that collides with a
+   framework-shipped path unless that path is on its (incomplete) preserve list.
+
+### 1.5 Existing snapshot is inadequate for rollback
+
+`make_snapshot()`/`restore_snapshot()` (`install.sh:76-87`) copy `TARGET_DIR` to `mktemp -d` under
+`/tmp`, restore **only on `ERR/INT/TERM` trap**, and are **deleted on success** (`cleanup_snapshot`,
+`install.sh:345`). Consequences: ephemeral `/tmp`, no retention, no post-success rollback, and **no
+`mosaic restore`**. It is crash-safety only, not the transactional safety net #791 requires.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Fix (b) — Strict ownership separation [PRIMARY / root cause]
+
+### 2.1 Ownership model (invert to allow-list)
+
+Replace _"framework-owned unless preserved"_ with _"operator-owned unless framework-owned"_, resolved
+**per target path** with operator carve-outs winning inside shared framework subtrees.
+
+Two declared lists, one SSOT data file shipped in the framework
+(`framework/framework-manifest.json`), consumed by **both** bash and TS:
+
+- **`framework` globs** — paths the updater is entitled to create / overwrite / prune. Authored to
+  match exactly what the framework ships in `packages/mosaic/framework/` (e.g. `CONSTITUTION.md`,
+  `AGENTS.md`, `STANDARDS.md`, `TOOLS.md`, `guides/**`, `constitution/**`, `templates/**`, `tools/**`,
+  `skills/**`, `mcp/**`, `defaults/**`, `fleet/examples/**`, `fleet/roles/**`, `fleet/profiles/**`,
+  `fleet/roster.schema.json`).
+- **`operatorReserved` globs** — NEVER written or pruned, even nested inside a `framework` subtree;
+  these **win** over `framework` (deny-wins / most-specific-wins). At minimum:
+  `agents/**`, `policy/**`, `memory/**`, `sources/**`, `credentials/**`, `*.local.md`,
+  `tools/_lib/credentials.json`, `fleet/roster.yaml`, `fleet/roster.json`, `fleet/agents/**`,
+  `fleet/run/**`, `fleet/backlog/**`, `fleet/roles.local/**`, plus operator harvester/SOP artifacts.
+
+### 2.2 Ownership resolution for a target path `P`
+
+1. `P` matches `operatorReserved` → **operator-owned**: updater MUST NOT write, MUST NOT delete.
+2. else `P` matches `framework` → **framework-owned**: may overwrite; may prune **only if absent from
+   the current SOURCE** (a genuinely retired framework file).
+3. else (matches neither) → **UNKNOWN ⇒ operator-owned by default (fail-safe)**: never delete.
+
+Rule 3 is the actual root-cause fix: an operator path the manifest authors forget is still protected,
+because _unknown defaults to operator_. A denylist can never provide this guarantee.
+
+### 2.3 Sync mechanism change (the mechanically-critical part)
+
+`--delete` cannot express "prune only framework-owned" without re-enumerating every operator path
+(the denylist trap). So:
+
+1. **Drop `--delete` from the bulk sync.** Copy `SOURCE → TARGET` non-destructively (writes/overwrites
+   all framework files; deletes nothing). rsync without `--delete`, or the existing overlay copy.
+2. **Explicit manifest-scoped prune pass.** Iterate the **`framework` manifest** (not the whole tree);
+   for each framework path present in `TARGET` but **absent in `SOURCE`**, delete it — after
+   re-checking it does not match `operatorReserved`. Because the prune iterates only declared
+   framework globs, operator/unknown paths are **structurally unreachable** by deletion.
+
+This is implemented in both bash `sync_framework()` and TS `syncFramework()` from the shared manifest.
+A pure **prune-planner** function (TS) computes the delete-set from
+`(manifest, sourceListing, targetListing)` so the invariant is unit-testable in isolation.
+`PRESERVE_PATHS` becomes redundant (kept as a defense-in-depth alias mapping to `operatorReserved`, or
+removed) — either way the two lists stop drifting because they read one file.
+
+### 2.4 HARD GATE test — "upgrade touches no path outside the manifest"
+
+Filesystem-observation test in the existing `test-install-migration.sh` harness pattern (mktemp
+`MOSAIC_HOME`, `MOSAIC_SYNC_ONLY=1`), plus TS specs:
+
+1. Seed a throwaway `TARGET` with a realistic operator mix — one sentinel per operator class:
+   `agents/x.conf`, `policy/p.md`, `SOUL.local.md`, `memory/m.md`,
+   `tools/_lib/credentials.json` (with a secret value), `fleet/agents/a.env`, `fleet/roster.yaml`,
+   `harvester/sop.md`, **and a deliberately-unanticipated `unknown-operator-dir/x`**.
+2. Record hash+mtime of every sentinel.
+3. Run the upgrade from a `SOURCE` containing none of those operator paths.
+4. **Assert:** every sentinel exists, byte-identical, **mtime unchanged** (not even rewritten). The
+   `unknown-operator-dir` surviving proves the fail-safe default — a denylist could not pass this case.
+5. **Positive controls:** framework files WERE updated; a retired framework file WAS pruned.
+6. **Property test** (TS prune-planner): for fuzzed operator paths, `deleteSet ⊆ {matches framework ∧
+in target ∧ not in source}` and `deleteSet ∩ operatorReserved = ∅`.
+
+---
+
+## 3. Fix (a) — Transactional pre-update snapshot [safety net]
+
+- **Destination:** `${XDG_STATE_HOME:-~/.local/state}/mosaic/backups/pre-update-<UTC-ts>/`.
+  **Outside `~/.config/mosaic`** (so no future sync can sweep it) and outside any repo.
+- **Perms:** dir `0700`, files `0600` — enforced with `umask 077` around the copy **and** explicit
+  `chmod`. Never world-readable.
+- **Scope:** the operator-owned surface (`operatorReserved` paths that exist) — bounded; does not copy
+  the framework tree.
+- **Timing:** taken before ANY mutation in the upgrade flow.
+- **Post-sync verify + selective restore:** after sync, diff the operator surface against the snapshot;
+  since (b) should never touch operator paths, any diff means a manifest bug — restore the affected
+  paths from the snapshot and warn loudly. This is precisely (a) catching a miss in (b).
+- **Retention:** keep N most-recent (default 5; `MOSAIC_BACKUP_RETENTION` override); prune older.
+- **`mosaic restore`:** `--list` (default, dry-run) enumerates snapshots by timestamp;
+  `--from <ts>` restores that snapshot over the operator surface, confirmation-gated. Reports
+  counts/paths only.
+- **Secret-safety:** snapshot copy and restore never emit file **contents**; only paths/counts.
+  Tests assert `0700/0600` and that no secret value appears in stdout/stderr.
+
+---
+
+## 4. Fix (d) — Regeneration-from-SSOT [recovery]
+
+The incident's live blast radius: `fleet/agents/*.env` (systemd `EnvironmentFile` sources) gone →
+`mosaic-agent@<name>` boots **unit defaults** on restart (because `EnvironmentFile=-...` is
+absent-tolerant) → **silent identity/runtime/workdir downgrade**.
+
+The SSOT for those `.env` files is the roster. The reconciler **already** separates a
+`regenerate-projections-from-roster` projection phase from lifecycle
+(`packages/mosaic/src/fleet/fleet-reconciler.ts:93,234`; env rendering in
+`generated-env-boundary.ts:149-264`).
+
+**`mosaic fleet regen`** is therefore a **thin recovery-framed wrapper over the existing projection
+phase** — it does NOT reimplement fleet logic and does NOT preempt in-flight FCM cards (M4/M5):
+
+- Regenerates derivable config (per-agent `*.env.generated`, unit files) from roster SSOT.
+- **Preview-first:** dry-run default; `--write` to apply. Idempotent.
+- **Never restarts agents** (the recovery order forbids restart-before-verify).
+- Prints the runbook's next step (verify `EnvironmentFile` resolves, THEN restart).
+
+Alternatively documentable as `install.sh --relink` per the issue; `mosaic fleet regen` is preferred
+because it reuses the merged reconciler plumbing.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Secret-safety approach (secrev surface)
+
+- Snapshots/backups: `0700`/`0600`, outside any repo, never world-readable. (§3)
+- No secret **value** ever emitted to logs/stdout/stderr by snapshot, restore, sync, or regen —
+  paths/counts only. Adversarial test: a secret value placed in `tools/_lib/credentials.json` must
+  never appear in installer or command output.
+- `tools/_lib/credentials.json` is an explicit `operatorReserved` carve-out inside the framework-owned
+  `tools/**` subtree — it is never overwritten or pruned.
+- The HARD GATE test doubles as a secret-safety test (asserts the credentials sentinel is untouched).
+
+---
+
+## 6. Test plan (TDD, tests-first, ≥85% on new code, co-located `*.spec.ts`)
+
+1. **Manifest SSOT parity** — bash and TS resolve identical framework/operator sets from the one file;
+   a test fails if either path hard-codes a divergent list.
+2. **Manifest completeness** — every path shipped in `framework/` is covered by a `framework` glob (so
+   a new shipped file cannot silently fall outside the manifest and become un-prunable/undeclared).
+3. **HARD GATE** — upgrade touches nothing outside the manifest, incl. the unanticipated-path case
+   (§2.4).
+4. **Prune-planner** unit + property tests (§2.4.6).
+5. **Snapshot** — perms `0700/0600`, correct destination, retention prune, secret value absent from
+   output.
+6. **Restore** — `--list` / `--from` round-trip restores operator surface byte-exact; confirmation
+   gate; no secret leakage.
+7. **Regen** — roster→env projection deterministic + idempotent; dry-run makes no writes; `--write`
+   restores `*.env`; **never** issues a lifecycle/restart call.
+8. **Cross-path regression** — TS `syncFramework` and bash `install.sh` agree on a shared fixture
+   (closes the current #631-style drift).
+
+Gates before every push: `pnpm typecheck && pnpm lint && pnpm format:check` + mosaic package tests
+green. Never `--no-verify`.
+
+---
+
+## 7. web1 recovery runbook (operator-agnostic; web1 specifics live in the issue as evidence only)
+
+For a currently-wiped fleet EnvironmentFile state — **do NOT service-restart while
+`fleet/agents/*.env` is absent** (a restart boots unit defaults and silently downgrades identity):
+
+1. **Regenerate:** `mosaic fleet regen --write` — rebuild `~/.config/mosaic/fleet/agents/*.env` from
+   roster SSOT.
+2. **Verify each unit resolves to the intended runtime/workdir** _before_ any restart:
+   `systemctl --user show mosaic-agent@<name> -p EnvironmentFile` and confirm the generated env exists
+   and carries the intended `MOSAIC_AGENT_*` runtime/workdir values.
+3. **Only then** `systemctl --user restart mosaic-agent@<name>`, one unit at a time.
+
+If config (not just fleet env) was lost, `mosaic restore --list` → `mosaic restore --from <ts>` before
+step 1.
+
+---
+
+## 8. Proposed PR split (reviewable; DAG-ordered)
+
+| PR  | Scope                                                                                                                                                    | Depends | Review focus               |
+| --- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | -------------------------- |
+| PR1 | **PRIMARY** — shared `framework-manifest.json` + ownership resolver + non-deleting sync + scoped prune (bash + TS) + **HARD GATE** + prune-planner tests | —       | correctness (root fix)     |
+| PR2 | **Safety net** — pre-update snapshot (`~/.local/state`, 0700/0600, retention) + post-sync verify/restore + `mosaic restore`                              | PR1     | **secrev** (backup/secret) |
+| PR3 | **Recovery** — `mosaic fleet regen` (projection-only, preview-first, no restart) + docs (upgrade-safety + recovery runbook)                              | PR1     | correctness + docs         |
+
+Rationale: PR1 closes the failure class on its own; if PR2/PR3 slip, the class stays fixed. Each PR is
+one reviewable unit with its own tests ≥85%. Independent review (author≠reviewer) on all; **secrev** on
+PR2 (and PR1's secret-sentinel assertions).
+
+## 9. Deferred (noted per scope)
+
+**(c) periodic backup timer** — a systemd user timer snapshotting operator dirs on a cadence
+(defense-in-depth for non-upgrade losses). Explicitly **out of scope now**; future phase.
+
+## 10. Constraints honored
+
+- **Framework-PR firewall:** manifest + logic are operator-agnostic; no SOUL/USER/operator specifics
+  in framework code; web1 details are issue evidence only.
+- **Capacity-fill:** must not preempt M5-001 or #790; `fleet regen` reuses merged FCM-M3 plumbing and
+  does not overlap FCM-M4/M5 migration cards.
+- **Delivery gates:** TDD tests-first, ≥85% new-code coverage, trunk-based squash PRs, independent
+  review + secrev, completion = merged PR + descendant-main green + #791 closed.
+
+---
+
+**Requesting MS-LEAD confirmation of:** (1) the manifest allow-list + non-deleting-sync + scoped-prune
+approach as the (b) root-cause fix; (2) snapshot destination/retention + `mosaic restore` UX;
+(3) `mosaic fleet regen` as a projection-only wrapper; (4) the 3-PR split. Implementation begins only
+on your confirmation.

docs/scratchpads/791-upgrade-config-protection.md

@@ -0,0 +1,216 @@
+# Scratchpad — #791 Upgrade config protection (ms-791 worker lane)
+
+**Lane:** web1:ms-791 → reports to MS-LEAD (web1:mosaic-100). Do NOT contact Jason/Mos directly.
+**Worktree:** `/home/hermes/agent-work/stack-agents-dir-791`, branch `feat/791-upgrade-config-protection`
+off `origin/main` `9745bc3f` (verified exact head).
+
+## Mission prompt (verbatim intent)
+Protect operator-owned config under `~/.config/mosaic` from framework-upgrade wipes. Ratified
+combination (Mos-approved, do NOT re-litigate): (b) strict ownership separation [PRIMARY] + (a)
+transactional pre-update snapshot [safety net] + (d) regeneration-from-SSOT [recovery]. (c) periodic
+timer DEFERRED. HARD GATE: unit test that an upgrade run touches NO path outside the manifest.
+Design-first: write design doc, send to MS-LEAD, WAIT for confirmation before impl.
+
+## Session 1 (2026-07-16) — Phase 1 design
+
+### Evidence gathered (wipe mechanism, file/line)
+- `mosaic update` → `update-checker.ts:509` `buildReseedCommand` → `bash install.sh`
+  (`MOSAIC_SYNC_ONLY=1`, `MOSAIC_INSTALL_MODE=keep`).
+- Wipe = `packages/mosaic/framework/install.sh:199` `rsync -a --delete` + `PRESERVE_PATHS` denylist
+  (`install.sh:47`). cp-fallback `install.sh:223` `find ... -exec rm -rf`.
+- Denylist gaps → WIPED: `agents/*.conf`, `policy/*.md`, `*.local.md`, harvester/SOP,
+  `tools/_lib/credentials.json`.
+- Stale comment `update-checker.ts:492` claims `*.local` preserved — PRESERVE_PATHS has no such entry.
+- TS path `file-adapter.ts:157` → `file-ops.ts:66` `syncDirectory` = non-destructive copy-overlay, BUT
+  its preserve list (`file-adapter.ts:164`) already DRIFTED from install.sh (missing `fleet/backlog`,
+  `fleet/roles.local`). Evidence for single shared manifest SSOT.
+- Existing snapshot (`install.sh:76`) = /tmp, crash-trap only, deleted on success → inadequate; no
+  `mosaic restore`.
+- `fleet-reconciler.ts:93,234` already has `regenerate-projections-from-roster` phase separate from
+  lifecycle → `mosaic fleet regen` = thin projection-only wrapper (no restart), no FCM-M4/M5 preemption.
+
+### Design decisions
+- **(b)** Invert to allow-list: shared `framework/framework-manifest.json` (framework globs +
+  operatorReserved carve-outs); resolve per-path, deny-wins; **UNKNOWN ⇒ operator (fail-safe)**.
+  Mechanism: drop `--delete`; non-deleting bulk copy + explicit manifest-scoped prune pass (iterate
+  framework globs only → operator/unknown structurally unreachable). Pure prune-planner fn for tests.
+- **(a)** Snapshot to `~/.local/state/mosaic/backups/pre-update-<ts>/` 0700/0600, retention N=5,
+  post-sync verify+restore, `mosaic restore --list/--from`. No secret values in output.
+- **(d)** `mosaic fleet regen` projection-only, preview-first, never restart.
+- HARD GATE test includes a deliberately-unanticipated operator path to prove fail-safe default.
+- **PR split:** PR1 manifest+guard (root fix, ships alone) → PR2 snapshot/restore (secrev) → PR3
+  regen+docs. PR2/PR3 depend on PR1.
+
+### Status
+Design doc written: `docs/design/791-upgrade-config-protection.md`. Sent to MS-LEAD.
+
+## Session 1 (cont.) — MS-LEAD CONFIRMED → Phase 2 GO
+All 4 asks approved. Binding conditions:
+- TDD tests-first, red-first proof per PR; ≥85% new-code; co-located `*.spec.ts`; never `--no-verify`.
+- HARD GATE test (§2.4, unanticipated sentinel survives byte-identical + mtime unchanged) = MERGE-BLOCKING for PR1.
+- Manifest-completeness test (§6.2) required.
+- Bash+TS read ONE shared `framework-manifest.json`; parity test (§6.1) required (closes #631 drift class).
+- UNKNOWN⇒operator (rule 3) non-negotiable. Keep prune-planner PURE.
+- `fleet regen`: NEVER restart; dry-run default, `--write` to apply; "never issues restart" test mandatory.
+- Independent review every PR; PR2 dedicated secrev.
+- One PR at a time through DAG. Report PR1 exact head + red→green evidence for review commission.
+
+### Now: implementing PR1 (manifest + resolver + non-deleting sync + scoped prune + guard tests).
+
+## Session 2 (2026-07-16) — PR1 built, tests-first, red→green proven
+
+Deviation noted to MS-LEAD in PR: manifest is `framework-manifest.txt` (line-oriented), NOT `.json`.
+Rationale: keep the bash installer free of a python3/jq dependency. The "ONE shared file, parity-
+tested" requirement is honored — `manifest-parity.spec.ts` drives the bash resolver as a subprocess
+and asserts byte-identical ownership vs the TS resolver over 34 probe paths spanning every class.
+
+### PR1 artifacts
+- SSOT: `packages/mosaic/framework/framework-manifest.txt` ([framework]/[operator], deny-wins, fail-safe).
+- TS resolver: `src/framework/manifest.ts` (pure: parse/matchGlob/resolveOwnership/frameworkSubtreeRoots/
+  planPrune) + `manifest.spec.ts` (18 tests incl. planPrune property test + §6.2 completeness).
+- Bash resolver: `framework/tools/_lib/manifest.sh` (compiled globs → fork-free `manifest_is_framework`;
+  CLI `resolve|subtree-roots|classify`). Sourced by install.sh.
+- HARD GATE (§2.4): `framework/tools/quality/scripts/test-upgrade-manifest-guard.sh` — keep-mode reseed,
+  10 operator sentinels (incl. unanticipated `unknown-operator-dir/x`, `harvester/sop.md`,
+  `fleet/my-fleet.yaml`) survive byte-identical + mtime-unchanged; retired framework file pruned;
+  secret value absent from output. RED=31 fail (orig install.sh) → GREEN=48 pass (fixed).
+- install.sh: keep mode now manifest-driven (`sync_framework_keep`, no `--delete`); overwrite unchanged.
+  PRESERVE_PATHS denylist deleted.
+- TS sync: `file-ops.syncDirectory` gains `isOperatorOwned` guard; `file-adapter.syncFramework` derives
+  it from `loadManifest` — hardcoded (drifted) preservePaths deleted. Fixture uses the REAL manifest.
+- Parity: `manifest-parity.spec.ts` (§6.1) — bash↔TS agree on 34 paths + subtree roots.
+- Migration matrix `test-install-migration.sh`: F6 flipped — `my-fleet.yaml` now MUST survive (fail-safe).
+- CI: new merge-blocking `upgrade-guard` step (`.woodpecker/ci.yml`) runs both bash suites (adds rsync).
+- update-checker.ts reseed comment corrected to the manifest model.
+
+### Gates (all green)
+- `pnpm typecheck` ✓ · `pnpm lint` ✓ · `pnpm format:check` ✓
+- Full mosaic vitest: 1062 passed (cli-smoke needs `pnpm build` first — build-artifact dep, not this change).
+- HARD GATE 48/48 · migration 21/21 · parity 3/3 · manifest 18/18 · file-adapter 8/8.
+
+### PR opened + reported (2026-07-16)
+- **PR #802** http://git.mosaicstack.dev/mosaicstack/stack/pulls/802 — base `main`@`9745bc3f`,
+  head `34e55d4a` (commit `feat(mosaic): manifest-owned upgrade guard…`). 15 files, +1160/-142.
+- Reported PR head + red→green evidence to MS-LEAD (web1:mosaic-100); queued (lead busy).
+  Standing by for the independent-review commission at head `34e55d4a`.
+- **TWO items flagged to MS-LEAD for decision (awaiting reply):**
+  1. Deviation `.txt` vs `.json` — confirm accept (parity-tested) or convert to `.json`+jq.
+  2. `pr-create -i 791` appended `Fixes #791` → would auto-close the tracking issue on PR1 merge
+     while PR2/PR3 remain. Recommended edit to `Part of #791`; awaiting go-ahead to patch PR body.
+- DO NOT start PR2/PR3 until PR1 merges (DAG; one PR at a time).
+
+### MS-LEAD ruling → #797 ledger-survival sentinel folded into PR1 (2026-07-16)
+MS-LEAD ruled both my decisions: (1) `.txt` format ACCEPTED (parity must be strict/merge-blocking incl.
+format edge cases + negative probe); (2) trailer `Fixes #791`→`Part of #791` APPROVED (patched PR #802
+body via Gitea API — tracking issue no longer auto-closes on PR1 merge). Plus Mos-ELEVATED merge-blocker
+(spec `~/agent-work/planning/epic-796/791-ledger-survival-sentinel-SPEC.md`): #797 Runtime Session Ledger
+must survive upgrade. Two coupled deliverables landed in PR1:
+- (i) Carve-out: `fleet/run/**` was ALREADY an explicit `[operator]` entry — glob matches the spec's
+  pinned `fleet/run/**` EXACTLY, so NO divergence to route back to planner-opus. Strengthened its comment
+  to name the ledger (`fleet/run/sessions/` events.ndjson + ledger.json) so it is unmistakably load-bearing.
+- (ii) HARD-GATE sentinel: seeded populated ledger (events.ndjson 3 events + ledger.json node+edge+gen,
+  0600 under 0700) into test-upgrade-manifest-guard.sh sentinels; asserts byte-identical + mtime-unchanged
+  + dir-perms unchanged. Negative control (retired framework file IS pruned) relabeled explicitly.
+  HARD GATE now 58/58 (was 48).
+- Decision-1 parity hardening: format-edge fixtures (comments/blanks/whitespace, duplicate+overlapping
+  globs deny-wins, section/glob-ordering independence) + explicit UNKNOWN→operator negative probe, driven
+  through BOTH resolvers via MANIFEST_FILE override. Parity 7/7 (was 3).
+- RED-FIRST honesty note: the bash ledger sentinel stays GREEN even against the pre-fix installer (the
+  ledger was incidentally safe from the rsync --delete bug; overall pre-fix run 30/58 as expected). The
+  carve-out's TRUE load-bearing value (deny-wins if framework ownership ever broadens to `fleet/**`) is
+  isolated by a dedicated resolver-seam red→green in manifest.spec.ts: WITHOUT `fleet/run/**` operator
+  entry + hypothetical `fleet/**` framework → ledger resolves framework and planPrune DELETES it (RED);
+  WITH the carve-out → deny-wins → operator, unprunable (GREEN). manifest.spec.ts 21/21 (was 18).
+- Gates all green: typecheck ✓ lint ✓ format:check ✓ · full mosaic vitest 1069 passed · HARD GATE 58/58
+  · migration 21/21. Committing FORWARD on the branch (NOT rebasing 34e55d4a out from under review).
+
+### MS-LEAD REQUEST CHANGES @ 0a5e703a → B1/B2/B3 fixed red-first (2026-07-16)
+MS-LEAD returned REQUEST CHANGES (routed merge-blockers satisfied; 2 CRITICAL reliability defects from
+the commissioned independent review). Fixed forward on the branch, red-first:
+- **B1 (CRITICAL) — dead ERR trap.** install.sh had `set -euo pipefail` (no `-E`), so the
+  `trap restore_snapshot ERR` never fired for a failure inside sync_framework_keep() (function body) —
+  a mid-sync abort left a half-written target with NO rollback. Fix: `set -Eeuo pipefail` (errtrace) +
+  disarm the trap at the top of restore_snapshot() to prevent re-entrancy. New gate
+  `test-upgrade-rollback.sh`: injects a mid-sync `cp` EACCES (read-only divergent framework file);
+  Part A asserts the shipped installer rolls back (restore message fires AND target byte-identical to
+  pre-upgrade); Part B control strips `-E` and asserts the rollback message does NOT fire (dead trap) —
+  self-verifying red→green. 7/7.
+- **B2/B3 (CRITICAL) — empty/unreadable/malformed manifest divergence.** Pre-fix: TS `parseManifest('')`
+  returned `{framework:[],operator:[]}` (NO throw) → silent no-op "Installation complete"; bash aborted
+  fragilely (the `_manifest_compile` `"${MANIFEST_OPERATOR[@]:-}"` artifact returned 1 with no message)
+  AND the CLI dispatch swallowed manifest_load's rc (no `|| exit`) so `resolve` exited 0 resolving
+  everything operator. Fix (fail-loud + identical both langs):
+  * TS `parseManifest`: throw on zero framework entries; `loadManifest`: wrap read error →
+    "Cannot read framework manifest …".
+  * bash `manifest_load`: explicit unreadable guard (`[[ ! -r ]]`) + zero-`[framework]` guard, both loud
+    stderr + return 1; `_manifest_compile` gets explicit `return 0` (kills the empty-array artifact);
+    CLI dispatch `manifest_load … || exit 1`.
+  * `finalize.ts`: wrap syncFramework → `spin.stop('Framework sync aborted …')` + rethrow (never falls
+    through to "Installation complete").
+  Tests: manifest.spec.ts +5 fail-closed (empty/comment-only/operator-only/empty-section/missing);
+  manifest-parity.spec.ts +7 failure-mode parity (both reject empty/comment-only/operator-only/
+  empty-section/entry-before-header/unknown-header/missing — TS throws, bash CLI exits non-zero+stderr);
+  HARD GATE +4 end-to-end fail-closed matrices (empty/operator-only/malformed/missing → abort non-zero,
+  manifest error surfaced, every operator sentinel byte-identical). RED proven by reverting
+  manifest.ts+manifest.sh to HEAD → 12 new tests fail; restore → 40/40 green.
+- **Non-blocking addressed.** MEDIUM install.sh:222 find-empty now warns on a real failure instead of
+  blanket `|| true`. LOW: corrected the "both destructive paths rsync vs cp" overstatement in the HARD
+  GATE header + cp-fallback comment + ci.yml (keep mode is a single cp-based path; the rsync-present vs
+  -absent runs prove rsync-independence). `.pre-constitution.bak` triage: single-shot backup is
+  intentional (reconcile_framework_files backs up once), no change.
+- Gates: typecheck ✓ lint ✓ format:check ✓ · full mosaic vitest 1081 passed (was 1069, +12) · HARD GATE
+  118/118 (was 58) · rollback 7/7 (new) · migration 21/21. No --no-verify. Rollback test wired into
+  ci.yml upgrade-guard. Committing FORWARD (no rebase of 34e55d4a/0a5e703a).
+
+### Codex round 2 (pre-push self-review) → blockers A/B + should-fix C fixed red-first (2026-07-16)
+Before committing round 1 I re-ran codex on the change set; it surfaced two fresh reliability defects
+and one messaging defect on the SAME rollback/manifest path. Fixed forward, red-first:
+- **Blocker-A (CRITICAL) — signal trap resumed instead of terminating.** A bash INT/TERM handler that
+  merely `restore_snapshot` (returns) does NOT terminate the script — execution RESUMES past the
+  interrupt, cleans the snapshot and reports success, leaving a partial post-interrupt update. Fix:
+  `trap 'restore_snapshot; exit 1' ERR INT TERM` so both the errtrace (ERR) and signal (INT/TERM) paths
+  exit non-zero. Rollback test Part C: a `cp` shim that `kill -TERM $PPID` mid-sync then succeeds (so
+  set -e never fires and only the signal path governs) → asserts abort non-zero + restore fires + does
+  NOT print "file phase complete"; control strips `exit 1` and asserts the buggy resume-to-success.
+- **Blocker-B (CRITICAL) — degenerate `[framework]` section resolved everything operator.** A manifest
+  whose framework entries are all empty / bare-dot (`/`, `./`, `.`, `..`) passed the non-empty guard yet
+  yielded zero usable globs → nothing is framework → a keep-mode sync silently no-ops (bash resolved
+  `operator`, exit 0). Fix (both langs, parity): reject when no entry has a char other than `/`/`.` —
+  TS `isUsableFrameworkGlob` = `/[^/.]/.test(normalizeRel(glob))`, throws `ManifestError`; bash mirror
+  loops `[[ "$(_manifest_norm "$_g")" =~ [^/.] ]]`, loud stderr + return 1. Tests: manifest.spec.ts
+  `it.each(['/','./','.','..','/\n./'])` throw; parity +3 `expectBothReject` (root-slash/dot-slash/
+  bare-dot). RED: reverting the guard makes `[framework]\n/` resolve `operator` exit 0.
+- **Should-fix-C — misleading abort message.** finalize.ts printed one generic "may be partially
+  applied" for every sync failure. A `ManifestError` is a PRE-sync validation abort (manifest is
+  validated before any copy) → nothing was written; conflating it with a mid-copy failure misdirects
+  recovery. Fix: introduce `ManifestError` (exported from manifest.ts, thrown by every fail-closed
+  parse/load path), and classify in finalize.ts — ManifestError → "no files were changed"; any other →
+  "may be partially applied". New co-located `finalize-sync-abort.spec.ts` (3 tests) asserts both
+  branches re-throw the original error + the correct message, and that config writes are never reached.
+  RED proven by collapsing the classification → the ManifestError test fails.
+- Gates: typecheck ✓ lint ✓ format:check ✓ · full mosaic vitest 1094 (was 1081, +3 finalize-abort;
+  manifest specs already counted) · HARD GATE 193/193 · rollback 14/14 · migration 21/21.
+
+### Codex round 3 (pre-push self-review) → blockers D1/D2 fixed red-first (2026-07-16)
+Re-ran codex again; it found two more rollback-path gaps `set -E` cannot catch. Fixed forward, red-first:
+- **Blocker-D1 (CRITICAL) — `find` scan failures swallowed by process substitution.** Both the overlay
+  copy and the scoped prune consumed `< <(find … -print0)`. Bash does NOT propagate the producer's exit
+  status to the `while`, so an EACCES/I/O failure mid-scan truncates the file list yet leaves the loop
+  exiting 0 → a partial upgrade commits and reports success; the ERR/restore trap never fires. Fix:
+  `_scan_or_die` runs `find … -print0 > "$tmp"` to completion, checks its status, and returns non-zero
+  (→ ERR trap → restore) on failure; both loops now read from the checked temp file. Rollback test
+  Part D: a `find` shim that fails every `-print0` scan → shipped installer aborts non-zero + restores +
+  emits "Could not enumerate framework files" + target byte-identical; control neuters the `# D1-GUARD`
+  `return 1` → find failure swallowed, upgrade wrongly reports "file phase complete", no rollback.
+- **Blocker-D2 (CRITICAL) — silent `set -e` exit on a failed target reset.** restore_snapshot did a bare
+  `rm -rf "$TARGET_DIR"; mkdir -p "$TARGET_DIR"` (trap disarmed, under set -e). If `rm`/`mkdir` fails —
+  possibly after `rm` deleted part of the target — the script exits immediately, skipping the cp AND the
+  recovery pointer, leaving a half-removed target and an orphaned snapshot the operator can't locate.
+  Fix: `if ! rm -rf … || ! mkdir -p …; then fail "Snapshot restore could not reset … preserved at:
+  $SNAPSHOT_DIR — copy it back …"; return 1; fi` (tested like the cp -a check; snapshot NOT deleted).
+  Rollback test Part E: cp-poison triggers restore + an `rm` shim fails `rm -rf <TARGET>` → shipped
+  emits the recovery pointer, the named snapshot dir survives, secret value never leaked; control deletes
+  the recovery line → operator gets no pointer. RED: reverting D1+D2 → 7 shipped/control assertions fail.
+- Gates: typecheck ✓ lint ✓ format:check ✓ · full mosaic vitest 1094 · HARD GATE 193/193 ·
+  rollback 28/28 (was 14, +14 for D1/D2 with controls) · migration 21/21. shellcheck clean on new lines.
+  No --no-verify. Committing FORWARD (no rebase of 34e55d4a/0a5e703a).

packages/mosaic/framework/framework-manifest.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+# Mosaic framework path-ownership manifest — SSOT for the updater.
+#
+# This single file is the source of truth consumed by BOTH the bash installer
+# (packages/mosaic/framework/install.sh) and the TypeScript config adapter
+# (packages/mosaic/src/config/file-adapter.ts). A parity test asserts both
+# paths resolve the same ownership from this file, so the two can never drift
+# (the failure mode that #631 patched by hand in two places).
+#
+# Format: one glob per line, relative to the mosaic home (~/.config/mosaic).
+#   - Lines starting with '#' and blank lines are ignored.
+#   - '[framework]' / '[operator]' switch the active section.
+#   - '**' matches any depth; '*' matches within a single path segment.
+#
+# Ownership resolution for a path P (deny-wins / fail-safe):
+#   1. P matches an [operator] glob            -> operator-owned.
+#   2. else P matches a [framework] glob        -> framework-owned.
+#   3. else (matches neither)                   -> OPERATOR-OWNED BY DEFAULT.
+#
+# Rule 3 is the root-cause fix for #791: a path the manifest authors never
+# anticipated is protected because UNKNOWN defaults to operator. The updater
+# may only ever create/overwrite framework-owned paths, and may only prune a
+# framework-owned path that lives inside a shipped framework subtree and is
+# absent from the current framework source (a genuinely retired file).
+# Operator-owned and unknown paths are structurally unreachable by pruning.
+
+[framework]
+# Top-level framework contract files (also reconciled from defaults/ on upgrade).
+CONSTITUTION.md
+AGENTS.md
+STANDARDS.md
+# Shipped framework subtrees — pruning is scoped to these roots.
+adapters/**
+constitution/**
+CONTRIBUTING.md
+defaults/**
+examples/**
+guides/**
+install.sh
+install.ps1
+LICENSE
+profiles/**
+runtime/**
+systemd/**
+templates/**
+tools/**
+# Fleet: only the framework-seeded fleet subtrees are framework-owned.
+fleet/README.md
+fleet/examples/**
+fleet/profiles/**
+fleet/roles/**
+fleet/roster.schema.json
+fleet/services/**
+# The manifest itself is framework-owned.
+framework-manifest.txt
+
+[operator]
+# Identity / user-seeded contract files — generated by the wizard or seeded
+# once from defaults/, then owned by the operator. Never overwritten on upgrade.
+SOUL.md
+USER.md
+TOOLS.md
+# Local overlays (tighten-only) authored by the operator.
+*.local.md
+# Operator-owned trees the updater must never write over or prune.
+agents/**
+policy/**
+memory/**
+sources/**
+credentials/**
+# Secret-bearing operator file INSIDE the framework-owned tools/ subtree.
+# Listed explicitly so the deny-wins rule carves it out of tools/**.
+tools/_lib/credentials.json
+# Operator-owned fleet state (roster SSOT, per-agent env, heartbeats, backlog,
+# persona overrides). Losing these silently downgrades a running fleet (#791).
+fleet/roster.yaml
+fleet/roster.json
+fleet/agents/**
+# Runtime state, incl. the #797 Runtime Session Ledger at fleet/run/sessions/
+# (events.ndjson journal + ledger.json projection). This carve-out is the
+# mechanism that makes the ledger upgrade-safe: an upgrade that wiped it would
+# defeat its reason to exist. The HARD GATE (test-upgrade-manifest-guard.sh)
+# proves a populated ledger survives byte-identical + mtime-unchanged.
+fleet/run/**
+fleet/backlog/**
+fleet/roles.local/**

packages/mosaic/framework/install.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -euo pipefail
+# -E (errtrace): the ERR trap must propagate INTO functions and command
+# substitutions. Without it the `trap restore_snapshot ERR` set below is dead
+# code for any failure inside sync_framework_keep() (its whole body runs in a
+# function) — a mid-sync failure would abort with a half-written target and NO
+# rollback (#791 B1). Keep -E first so every later function inherits the trap.
+set -Eeuo pipefail
 
 # ─── Mosaic Framework Installer ──────────────────────────────────────────────
 #
@@ -19,32 +24,19 @@ SOURCE_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
 TARGET_DIR="${MOSAIC_HOME:-$HOME/.config/mosaic}"
 INSTALL_MODE="${MOSAIC_INSTALL_MODE:-prompt}"
 
-# Files/dirs protected from rsync --delete during sync. NOTE: framework-owned
+# Shared framework path-ownership manifest reader (#791). Parity with
-# entries (CONSTITUTION/AGENTS/STANDARDS) ARE re-applied afterward by
+# packages/mosaic/src/framework/manifest.ts — both consume framework-manifest.txt.
-# reconcile_framework_files (overwrite + backup-once); the rest stay user-owned.
+# Sourcing does not run its CLI dispatch (guarded by BASH_SOURCE==$0).
-# User-created content in these paths survives rsync --delete.
+# shellcheck source=tools/_lib/manifest.sh
-#
+source "$SOURCE_DIR/tools/_lib/manifest.sh"
-# fleet/* — the framework SEEDS fleet/examples, fleet/roles, fleet/profiles, and
+
-# fleet/roster.schema.json (synced normally — every fleet/roles/*.md role contract
+# Which paths a keep-mode upgrade may touch is no longer a hand-maintained
-# and fleet/profiles/*.yaml system-type profile lands automatically via this sync,
+# denylist. It is derived from the shared framework-manifest.txt (#791): the
-# so no per-file entry is needed; exact preserved roster paths are anchored to
+# updater only ever creates/overwrites framework-owned paths and only prunes a
-# the top level only and do NOT shadow fleet/profiles/*.yaml). The user's
+# retired framework file inside a shipped framework subtree. Everything else —
-# own fleet files MUST
+# every operator file, and every path the manifest never anticipated — is
-# survive `mosaic update` (which runs this sync automatically): the active
+# operator-owned by default (fail-safe) and is never written or deleted. See
-# rosters (`fleet/roster.yaml` and `fleet/roster.json`), per-agent env
+# sync_framework_keep() below and packages/mosaic/src/framework/manifest.ts.
-# (`fleet/agents/`), heartbeat run dir (`fleet/run/`), and the Mosaic-native
-# backlog-of-record store (`fleet/backlog/` — embedded PGlite data dir; see
-# packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet-backlog.ts). Without these, an update
-# wipes the operator's fleet AND their backlog. Glob entries are honored by
-# both the rsync path (`--exclude`) and the glob-aware cp fallback below.
-#
-# fleet/roles.local — the persona OVERRIDE layer (H4). Baseline personas in
-# fleet/roles/ are reseeded normally on every update (delivering new baseline
-# personas), so any local edit there would be clobbered. User customizations
-# and user-ADDED personas instead live in fleet/roles.local/ and MUST survive
-# `mosaic update` — they win over the baseline on merge (AC-NS-7; see
-# packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet-personas.ts).
-PRESERVE_PATHS=("CONSTITUTION.md" "AGENTS.md" "SOUL.md" "USER.md" "TOOLS.md" "STANDARDS.md" "memory" "sources" "credentials" "fleet/roster.yaml" "fleet/roster.json" "fleet/agents" "fleet/run" "fleet/backlog" "fleet/roles.local")
 
 # Framework-owned contract files: re-copied from defaults/ on every upgrade (the
 # user must not edit them; a divergent copy is backed up once before overwrite).
@@ -75,14 +67,45 @@ step() { echo -e "\n${BOLD}$1${RESET}"; }
 SNAPSHOT_DIR=""
 make_snapshot() {
   is_existing_install || return 0
+  # mktemp -d creates the dir 0700 — the snapshot (which mirrors operator config,
+  # possibly including secrets) is never world-readable.
   SNAPSHOT_DIR="$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/mosaic-snapshot-XXXXXX")"
-  cp -a "$TARGET_DIR/." "$SNAPSHOT_DIR/" 2>/dev/null || true
+  # The snapshot MUST be complete: restore rebuilds the target from it, so a
+  # partial capture (unreadable file, disk-full, I/O error) would silently
+  # discard whatever it missed. If cp -a cannot copy the whole tree, abort NOW —
+  # before the restore trap is armed and before anything is mutated. Fail closed
+  # rather than proceed with a snapshot we cannot trust (#791 blocker-2).
+  if ! cp -a "$TARGET_DIR/." "$SNAPSHOT_DIR/"; then
+    fail "Could not capture a complete pre-upgrade snapshot of $TARGET_DIR — aborting before any changes were made (fail-closed)."
+    rm -rf "$SNAPSHOT_DIR"; SNAPSHOT_DIR=""
+    exit 1
+  fi
 }
 restore_snapshot() {
+  # Disarm the trap first: restore runs under `set -e`, and a non-zero step
+  # inside it must not re-enter this handler (errtrace makes ERR fire in
+  # functions now). One restore attempt, then let the script exit non-zero.
+  trap - ERR INT TERM
   [[ -n "$SNAPSHOT_DIR" && -d "$SNAPSHOT_DIR" ]] || return 0
   fail "Install interrupted/failed — restoring previous state from snapshot"
-  rm -rf "$TARGET_DIR"; mkdir -p "$TARGET_DIR"
+  # Reset the target before rebuilding from the snapshot — but CHECK it. Under
-  cp -a "$SNAPSHOT_DIR/." "$TARGET_DIR/" 2>/dev/null || true
+  # `set -e` (trap already disarmed) a bare `rm -rf; mkdir -p` that fails would
+  # exit the whole script immediately, after `rm` may have deleted part of the
+  # target, WITHOUT ever printing the recovery pointer below — the operator would
+  # be left with a half-removed target and no idea the snapshot survives in /tmp.
+  # Test the reset explicitly (like the cp -a below), and on failure keep the
+  # snapshot and tell the operator where it is (#791 blocker-D2).
+  if ! rm -rf "$TARGET_DIR" || ! mkdir -p "$TARGET_DIR"; then
+    fail "Snapshot restore could not reset $TARGET_DIR. Your previous configuration is preserved at: $SNAPSHOT_DIR — copy it back into $TARGET_DIR manually."
+    return 1
+  fi
+  # Surface an incomplete restore instead of swallowing it: the snapshot is the
+  # last good copy, so if cp cannot fully rebuild the target we must NOT delete
+  # the snapshot — point the operator at it for manual recovery (#791 blocker-2).
+  if ! cp -a "$SNAPSHOT_DIR/." "$TARGET_DIR/"; then
+    fail "Snapshot restore did not complete cleanly. Your previous configuration is preserved at: $SNAPSHOT_DIR — copy it back into $TARGET_DIR manually."
+    return 1
+  fi
 }
 cleanup_snapshot() { [[ -n "$SNAPSHOT_DIR" && -d "$SNAPSHOT_DIR" ]] && rm -rf "$SNAPSHOT_DIR"; SNAPSHOT_DIR=""; }
 
@@ -184,63 +207,105 @@ sync_framework() {
     return
   fi
 
-  if command -v rsync >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  if [[ "$INSTALL_MODE" == "keep" ]]; then
-    local rsync_args=(-a --delete --exclude ".git" --exclude ".framework-version" --exclude "*.pre-constitution.bak")
+    # The `mosaic update` path. Manifest-driven, never-deleting-outside-framework:
-
+    # operator config is structurally protected (#791). No rsync --delete here.
-    if [[ "$INSTALL_MODE" == "keep" ]]; then
+    # The manifest is already loaded+validated in main() BEFORE the snapshot/trap
-      # Anchor to the transfer root (leading /) so we preserve the TOP-LEVEL
+    # (a fail-closed manifest must abort without ever restoring over operator
-      # ~/.config/mosaic/<file> without also excluding defaults/<file> from sync
+    # files — see the pre-flight in main, #791 blocker-1).
-      # (reconcile_framework_files needs the freshly-synced defaults/ copies).
+    sync_framework_keep
-      for path in "${PRESERVE_PATHS[@]}"; do
-        rsync_args+=(--exclude "/$path")
-      done
-    fi
-
-    rsync "${rsync_args[@]}" "$SOURCE_DIR/" "$TARGET_DIR/"
     return
   fi
 
-  # Fallback: cp-based sync. Exact top-level preserved paths mirror the
+  # overwrite mode — a full replace, chosen only for a fresh install or when the
-  # root-anchored rsync excludes above.
+  # operator explicitly asks to replace everything. No operator state to protect.
-  local preserve_tmp=""
+  sync_framework_overwrite
-  if [[ "$INSTALL_MODE" == "keep" ]]; then
+}
-    preserve_tmp="$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/mosaic-preserve-XXXXXX")"
-    local match rel
-    for path in "${PRESERVE_PATHS[@]}"; do
-      # Unquoted $path lets the glob expand against TARGET_DIR; nullglob makes a
-      # non-matching pattern vanish instead of staying literal.
-      shopt -s nullglob
-      for match in "$TARGET_DIR/"$path; do
-        [[ -e "$match" ]] || continue
-        rel="${match#"$TARGET_DIR/"}"
-        mkdir -p "$preserve_tmp/$(dirname "$rel")"
-        cp -R "$match" "$preserve_tmp/$rel"
-      done
-      shopt -u nullglob
-    done
-  fi
 
-  find "$TARGET_DIR" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -name ".git" ! -name ".framework-version" ! -name "*.pre-constitution.bak" -exec rm -rf {} +
+# Enumerate a NUL-delimited file list via `find` into the temp file $1, failing
+# CLOSED if find errors. We capture to a checked file instead of consuming
+# `< <(find …)` directly because a process substitution discards the producer's
+# exit status: an EACCES/I/O failure partway through a scan would truncate the
+# list yet leave the reading `while` loop exiting 0, so a partial upgrade would
+# commit and report success and the ERR/restore trap would never fire. Running
+# find to completion first, then checking its status, turns that silent
+# truncation into a fail-closed abort that the restore trap can act on (#791
+# blocker-D1). $1 after the shift is the scan root — named in the error.
+_scan_or_die() {
+  local out="$1"; shift
+  if ! find "$@" -print0 > "$out"; then
+    fail "Could not enumerate framework files under '$1' — aborting before committing an incomplete sync (fail-closed)."
+    return 1  # D1-GUARD
+  fi
+}
+
+# Keep-mode sync: create/refresh framework-owned files and prune only retired
+# framework files inside shipped framework subtrees. Operator-owned and unknown
+# paths (fail-safe default) are never written and never deleted — the #791 HARD
+# GATE. Single code path (no rsync) so it is byte-for-byte parity-testable.
+sync_framework_keep() {
+  local src="$SOURCE_DIR" dst="$TARGET_DIR" abs rel root list
+
+  # 1) Overlay copy — every framework-owned source file, refreshed only when its
+  #    bytes changed (no mtime churn on unchanged files, never on operator files).
+  #    The source scan is captured fail-closed (#791 blocker-D1): a find failure
+  #    aborts the sync (→ ERR trap → restore) rather than silently truncating it.
+  list="$(mktemp)"
+  _scan_or_die "$list" "$src" -type f || { rm -f "$list"; return 1; }
+  while IFS= read -r -d '' abs; do
+    rel="${abs#"$src"/}"
+    case "$rel" in
+      .git|.git/*|.framework-version|*.pre-constitution.bak) continue ;;
+    esac
+    manifest_is_framework "$rel" || continue
+    if [[ -f "$dst/$rel" ]] && cmp -s "$abs" "$dst/$rel"; then continue; fi
+    [[ "$rel" == */* ]] && mkdir -p "$dst/${rel%/*}"
+    cp "$abs" "$dst/$rel"
+  done < "$list"
+  rm -f "$list"
+
+  # 2) Scoped prune — within each shipped framework subtree root, remove
+  #    framework-owned target files the current source no longer ships. Operator
+  #    carve-outs (e.g. tools/_lib/credentials.json) resolve to operator and are
+  #    skipped; unknown paths resolve to operator too — both are unreachable here.
+  #    Each subtree scan is captured fail-closed for the same reason as the copy.
+  while IFS= read -r root; do
+    [[ -n "$root" && -d "$dst/$root" ]] || continue
+    list="$(mktemp)"
+    _scan_or_die "$list" "$dst/$root" -type f || { rm -f "$list"; return 1; }
+    while IFS= read -r -d '' abs; do
+      rel="${abs#"$dst"/}"
+      case "$rel" in *.pre-constitution.bak) continue ;; esac
+      [[ -f "$src/$rel" ]] && continue                          # still shipped
+      manifest_is_framework "$rel" || continue
+      rm -f "$abs"
+    done < "$list"
+    rm -f "$list"
+    # Drop framework dirs left empty by the prune (never touches a dir that still
+    # holds an operator file — those are never emptied). A genuine find failure
+    # (unreadable dir) is surfaced as a warning rather than silently swallowed;
+    # the "directory not empty" races we tolerate are ignored via -delete's own
+    # rc, not by hiding stderr — so a real error is still visible to the operator.
+    if ! find "$dst/$root" -type d -empty -delete 2>/dev/null; then
+      warn "prune: could not fully sweep empty framework dirs under $root (left as-is)"
+    fi
+  done < <(manifest_subtree_roots)
+}
+
+# Overwrite-mode sync: full replace. Only reached for a fresh install or an
+# explicit operator "replace everything" choice, so nothing is preserved.
+sync_framework_overwrite() {
+  if command -v rsync >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    rsync -a --delete \
+      --exclude ".git" --exclude ".framework-version" --exclude "*.pre-constitution.bak" \
+      "$SOURCE_DIR/" "$TARGET_DIR/"
+    return
+  fi
+  find "$TARGET_DIR" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 \
+    ! -name ".git" ! -name ".framework-version" ! -name "*.pre-constitution.bak" \
+    -exec rm -rf {} +
   cp -R "$SOURCE_DIR"/. "$TARGET_DIR"/
   rm -rf "$TARGET_DIR/.git"
-
-  if [[ -n "$preserve_tmp" ]]; then
-    # Restore by re-globbing the SAME patterns against preserve_tmp, so each
-    # preserved item is restored at its own relative path (e.g. only
-    # fleet/roster.yaml is replaced — the freshly-synced fleet/examples stays).
-    for path in "${PRESERVE_PATHS[@]}"; do
-      shopt -s nullglob
-      for match in "$preserve_tmp/"$path; do
-        [[ -e "$match" ]] || continue
-        rel="${match#"$preserve_tmp/"}"
-        rm -rf "$TARGET_DIR/$rel"
-        mkdir -p "$TARGET_DIR/$(dirname "$rel")"
-        cp -R "$match" "$TARGET_DIR/$rel"
-      done
-      shopt -u nullglob
-    done
-    rm -rf "$preserve_tmp"
-  fi
 }
 
 # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
@@ -311,9 +376,23 @@ else
   ok "Install mode: overwrite"
 fi
 
+# Pre-flight (keep mode): load + validate the framework manifest BEFORE taking a
+# snapshot or arming the restore trap. A fail-closed manifest (missing / empty /
+# malformed) must abort here WITHOUT deleting or restoring over operator files —
+# the snapshot/restore path exists only for a genuine mid-sync mutation failure,
+# not for a validation failure that has touched nothing yet (#791 blocker-1).
+if [[ "$INSTALL_MODE" == "keep" ]]; then
+  manifest_load
+fi
+
 # Snapshot before any destructive file operation; restore on interrupt/failure.
+# The trap MUST exit after restoring: a bash INT/TERM handler that merely returns
+# does NOT terminate the script — execution would resume past the interrupt,
+# clear the snapshot, and report success, leaving a partial post-interrupt update
+# (#791 blocker-A). `restore_snapshot; exit 1` guarantees a non-zero exit for
+# both the errtrace (ERR) and signal (INT/TERM) paths.
 make_snapshot
-trap 'restore_snapshot' ERR INT TERM
+trap 'restore_snapshot; exit 1' ERR INT TERM
 
 sync_framework
 

packages/mosaic/framework/tools/_lib/manifest.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,253 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Shared bash reader for framework-manifest.txt (#791).
+#
+# This is the bash half of the SSOT ownership resolver; the TypeScript half is
+# packages/mosaic/src/framework/manifest.ts. BOTH read the same
+# framework-manifest.txt and MUST resolve identical ownership for any path — the
+# parity test (manifest-parity.spec.ts) invokes this file's `resolve` CLI and
+# compares it against the TS resolver, so the two can never drift (the #631
+# two-copies failure class this closes).
+#
+# Ownership resolution (deny-wins / fail-safe):
+#   1. operator glob matches  -> operator
+#   2. else framework glob    -> framework
+#   3. else                   -> operator   (UNKNOWN defaults to operator, #791)
+#
+# Globs are compiled once at load into exact-prefix checks or POSIX EREs, so the
+# hot resolver (manifest_is_framework) forks no subprocesses — the installer
+# calls it once per file across the whole tree.
+#
+# Usage as a library (source it, then):
+#   manifest_load [manifest-file]      # populates + compiles the manifest
+#   manifest_is_framework <rel-path>   # rc 0 = framework-owned, rc 1 = operator
+#   manifest_resolve <rel-path>        # echoes: framework | operator
+#   manifest_subtree_roots             # echoes shipped framework `dir/**` roots
+#
+# Usage as a CLI (parity harness):
+#   bash manifest.sh resolve <rel-path>
+#   bash manifest.sh subtree-roots
+#   bash manifest.sh classify          # reads paths on stdin -> "<own>\t<path>"
+
+MANIFEST_FRAMEWORK=()
+MANIFEST_OPERATOR=()
+
+# Compiled forms (parallel arrays). _*_KIND[i] is "exact" or "re".
+_MF_KIND=(); _MF_EXACT=(); _MF_RE=()
+_MO_KIND=(); _MO_EXACT=(); _MO_RE=()
+_MF_ROOTS=()
+
+_manifest_default_root() { cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../.." && pwd; }
+
+# Normalize a path/glob: backslashes -> slashes, strip leading ./ and /, strip
+# trailing / (mirrors normalizeRel in manifest.ts).
+_manifest_norm() {
+  local p="$1"
+  p="${p//\\//}"
+  p="${p#./}"
+  while [[ "$p" == /* ]]; do p="${p#/}"; done
+  while [[ "$p" == */ ]]; do p="${p%/}"; done
+  printf '%s' "$p"
+}
+
+# Translate a normalized glob into a POSIX ERE body (mirrors globToRegExpBody).
+_manifest_glob_to_ere() {
+  local pattern; pattern="$(_manifest_norm "$1")"
+  local out="" c n i len=${#pattern} trailing
+  for (( i = 0; i < len; i++ )); do
+    c="${pattern:i:1}"
+    if [[ "$c" == "*" ]]; then
+      n="${pattern:i+1:1}"
+      if [[ "$n" == "*" ]]; then
+        i=$((i + 1))
+        trailing=0
+        if [[ "${pattern:i+1:1}" == "/" ]]; then i=$((i + 1)); trailing=1; fi
+        if [[ "$out" == */ ]]; then
+          out="${out%/}(/.*)?"
+        elif [[ "$trailing" -eq 1 ]]; then
+          out="$out(.*/)?"
+        else
+          out="$out.*"
+        fi
+      else
+        out="$out[^/]*"
+      fi
+    else
+      case "$c" in
+        .|+|\?|^|\$|\{|\}|\(|\)|\||\[|\]|\\) out="$out\\$c" ;;
+        *) out="$out$c" ;;
+      esac
+    fi
+  done
+  printf '%s' "$out"
+}
+
+# Compile one raw glob into (kind, exact, re) appended to the given section.
+# $1 = raw glob, $2 = section letter (F|O).
+_manifest_compile_one() {
+  local norm; norm="$(_manifest_norm "$1")"
+  [[ -n "$norm" ]] || return 0
+  if [[ "$norm" == *"*"* ]]; then
+    local re="^$(_manifest_glob_to_ere "$norm")\$"
+    if [[ "$2" == F ]]; then
+      _MF_KIND+=(re); _MF_EXACT+=(""); _MF_RE+=("$re")
+    else
+      _MO_KIND+=(re); _MO_EXACT+=(""); _MO_RE+=("$re")
+    fi
+  else
+    if [[ "$2" == F ]]; then
+      _MF_KIND+=(exact); _MF_EXACT+=("$norm"); _MF_RE+=("")
+    else
+      _MO_KIND+=(exact); _MO_EXACT+=("$norm"); _MO_RE+=("")
+    fi
+  fi
+  [[ "$2" == F && "$norm" == */"**" ]] && _MF_ROOTS+=("${norm%/**}")
+  return 0
+}
+
+_manifest_compile() {
+  _MF_KIND=(); _MF_EXACT=(); _MF_RE=(); _MF_ROOTS=()
+  _MO_KIND=(); _MO_EXACT=(); _MO_RE=()
+  local g
+  for g in "${MANIFEST_FRAMEWORK[@]:-}"; do [[ -n "$g" ]] && _manifest_compile_one "$g" F; done
+  for g in "${MANIFEST_OPERATOR[@]:-}"; do [[ -n "$g" ]] && _manifest_compile_one "$g" O; done
+  # Explicit success: an empty operator array makes the final `[[ -n "" ]] && …`
+  # short-circuit to rc 1, which would otherwise become this function's (and
+  # manifest_load's) return code — a spurious failure (#791 B2). Never rely on
+  # the last loop's exit status here.
+  return 0
+}
+
+# Load + compile the manifest. Rejects a malformed file the same way
+# parseManifest() does (entry before a section header / unknown header).
+manifest_load() {
+  local file="${1:-}"
+  [[ -n "$file" ]] || file="$(_manifest_default_root)/framework-manifest.txt"
+  # Fail CLOSED on a missing/unreadable manifest. Without this, `done < "$file"`
+  # aborts on a raw redirection error with no explanation; downstream that reads
+  # as "no framework paths" and an upgrade could no-op silently (#791 B2/B3).
+  if [[ ! -r "$file" ]]; then
+    echo "manifest: cannot read manifest file: $file — refusing to sync (fail-closed)." >&2
+    return 1
+  fi
+  MANIFEST_FRAMEWORK=()
+  MANIFEST_OPERATOR=()
+  local section="" line
+  while IFS= read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
+    line="${line#"${line%%[![:space:]]*}"}" # ltrim
+    line="${line%"${line##*[![:space:]]}"}" # rtrim
+    [[ -z "$line" || "${line:0:1}" == "#" ]] && continue
+    case "$line" in
+      "[framework]") section=framework; continue ;;
+      "[operator]") section=operator; continue ;;
+      "["*) echo "manifest: unknown section header: $line" >&2; return 1 ;;
+    esac
+    if [[ -z "$section" ]]; then
+      echo "manifest: entry before any [section] header: $line" >&2
+      return 1
+    fi
+    if [[ "$section" == framework ]]; then
+      MANIFEST_FRAMEWORK+=("$line")
+    else
+      MANIFEST_OPERATOR+=("$line")
+    fi
+  done < "$file"
+  # An empty or comment-only manifest defines NO framework-owned paths. Treating
+  # that as valid would make every path resolve operator and an upgrade prune
+  # nothing / write nothing — a silent no-op indistinguishable from success.
+  # Fail loud instead, mirroring parseManifest()'s throw in manifest.ts (#791 B2).
+  if [[ ${#MANIFEST_FRAMEWORK[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
+    echo "manifest: no [framework] entries in $file — refusing to sync (empty or malformed manifest)." >&2
+    return 1
+  fi
+  # An entry like `/` or `./` normalizes to nothing and compiles to a glob that
+  # matches no path — so a manifest whose only [framework] entries are degenerate
+  # passes the count guard above but leaves the framework matcher empty: every
+  # path resolves operator, the exact silent no-op we fail closed against. Require
+  # at least one entry with a real (non-slash, non-dot) character. Mirrors
+  # parseManifest()'s `isUsableFrameworkGlob` `/[^/.]/` test in manifest.ts (#791 blocker-B).
+  local _g _usable=0
+  for _g in "${MANIFEST_FRAMEWORK[@]:-}"; do
+    if [[ "$(_manifest_norm "$_g")" =~ [^/.] ]]; then _usable=1; break; fi
+  done
+  if [[ "$_usable" -eq 0 ]]; then
+    echo "manifest: no usable [framework] entries in $file (every entry is empty or a bare dot segment) — refusing to sync (malformed manifest)." >&2
+    return 1
+  fi
+  _manifest_compile
+  return 0
+}
+
+# Fork-free: does $1 (a mosaic-home-relative path) match an operator glob?
+_mo_matches() {
+  local path="$1" i n=${#_MO_KIND[@]} re pat
+  for (( i = 0; i < n; i++ )); do
+    if [[ "${_MO_KIND[i]}" == exact ]]; then
+      pat="${_MO_EXACT[i]}"
+      [[ "$path" == "$pat" || "$path" == "$pat/"* ]] && return 0
+    else
+      re="${_MO_RE[i]}"
+      [[ "$path" =~ $re ]] && return 0
+    fi
+  done
+  return 1
+}
+
+# Fork-free: does $1 match a framework glob?
+_mf_matches() {
+  local path="$1" i n=${#_MF_KIND[@]} re pat
+  for (( i = 0; i < n; i++ )); do
+    if [[ "${_MF_KIND[i]}" == exact ]]; then
+      pat="${_MF_EXACT[i]}"
+      [[ "$path" == "$pat" || "$path" == "$pat/"* ]] && return 0
+    else
+      re="${_MF_RE[i]}"
+      [[ "$path" =~ $re ]] && return 0
+    fi
+  done
+  return 1
+}
+
+# The installer hot path — no subshell. rc 0 = framework-owned, rc 1 = operator
+# (deny-wins / fail-safe). Assumes an already-clean POSIX relative path.
+manifest_is_framework() {
+  _mo_matches "$1" && return 1
+  _mf_matches "$1" && return 0
+  return 1
+}
+
+# Echo the ownership of a path: framework | operator. Normalizes first, so it is
+# safe for CLI / test callers passing unnormalized input.
+manifest_resolve() {
+  local path; path="$(_manifest_norm "$1")"
+  if manifest_is_framework "$path"; then echo framework; else echo operator; fi
+}
+
+# Echo each shipped framework subtree root (a `dir/**` entry, without the /**).
+manifest_subtree_roots() {
+  local r
+  for r in "${_MF_ROOTS[@]:-}"; do [[ -n "$r" ]] && printf '%s\n' "$r"; done
+}
+
+# CLI dispatch — only when executed directly, never when sourced.
+if [[ "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" == "${0}" ]]; then
+  set -o pipefail
+  # Propagate a fail-closed manifest_load (missing/empty/malformed) as a non-zero
+  # exit instead of continuing to resolve against empty compiled arrays — that is
+  # what lets the parity test assert bash and TS reject the same bad inputs (#791 B2).
+  manifest_load "${MANIFEST_FILE:-}" || exit 1
+  cmd="${1:-}"
+  case "$cmd" in
+    resolve) manifest_resolve "${2:?path required}" ;;
+    subtree-roots) manifest_subtree_roots ;;
+    classify)
+      while IFS= read -r p; do
+        [[ -z "$p" ]] && continue
+        printf '%s\t%s\n' "$(manifest_resolve "$p")" "$p"
+      done
+      ;;
+    *)
+      echo "usage: manifest.sh {resolve <path>|subtree-roots|classify}" >&2
+      exit 2
+      ;;
+  esac
+fi

packages/mosaic/framework/tools/quality/scripts/test-install-migration.sh

@@ -61,8 +61,10 @@ MOSAIC_HOME="$T5" MOSAIC_INSTALL_MODE=bogus MOSAIC_SYNC_ONLY=1 bash "$INSTALL" >
 chk "F5 failure: invalid mode rejected (nonzero exit)" "[ $rc -ne 0 ]"
 chk "F5 failure: SOUL + credentials intact" "grep -q orig '$T5/SOUL.md' && grep -q keepme '$T5/credentials/c.json'"
 
-# F6 — keep-mode re-seed (the `mosaic update` path) MUST preserve only the
+# F6 — keep-mode re-seed (the `mosaic update` path) MUST preserve ALL user-owned
-# exact user-owned roster paths while refreshing framework-owned schema/examples.
+# fleet state — including an unanticipated file the manifest never names, which
+# resolves to operator-owned by the #791 fail-safe — while refreshing the
+# framework-owned schema/examples.
 T6=$(mktemp -d); mkdir -p "$T6/fleet/examples" "$T6/fleet/run" "$T6/fleet/agents"
 printf '# persona\n' > "$T6/SOUL.md"   # makes it a recognized existing install (→ keep mode)
 printf 'version: 1\nagents:\n  - name: coder0\n' > "$T6/fleet/roster.yaml"
@@ -75,13 +77,14 @@ printf '{"stale":true}\n' > "$T6/fleet/roster.schema.json"
 E6=$(mktemp -d)
 cp "$T6/fleet/roster.yaml" "$E6/roster-yaml.expected"
 cp "$T6/fleet/roster.json" "$E6/roster-json.expected"
+cp "$T6/fleet/my-fleet.yaml" "$E6/my-fleet.expected"
 cp "$T6/fleet/run/coder0.hb" "$E6/run.expected"
 cp "$T6/fleet/agents/coder0.env" "$E6/agent.expected"
 echo 3 > "$T6/.framework-version"
 run "$T6" keep
 chk "F6 reseed: exact roster.yaml bytes survive keep-mode sync" "cmp -s '$T6/fleet/roster.yaml' '$E6/roster-yaml.expected'"
 chk "F6 reseed: exact roster.json bytes survive keep-mode sync" "cmp -s '$T6/fleet/roster.json' '$E6/roster-json.expected'"
-chk "F6 reseed: unrelated fleet YAML is not preserved" "[ ! -f '$T6/fleet/my-fleet.yaml' ]"
+chk "F6 reseed: unanticipated operator fleet file survives (fail-safe, #791)" "cmp -s '$T6/fleet/my-fleet.yaml' '$E6/my-fleet.expected'"
 chk "F6 reseed: per-agent env bytes survive" "cmp -s '$T6/fleet/agents/coder0.env' '$E6/agent.expected'"
 chk "F6 reseed: heartbeat bytes survive" "cmp -s '$T6/fleet/run/coder0.hb' '$E6/run.expected'"
 chk "F6 reseed: framework examples are refreshed" "grep -q orchestrator '$T6/fleet/examples/general.yaml'"

packages/mosaic/framework/tools/quality/scripts/test-upgrade-manifest-guard.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,224 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# test-upgrade-manifest-guard.sh — the #791 HARD GATE.
+#
+# Proves that a keep-mode framework upgrade (the `mosaic update` path:
+# install.sh with MOSAIC_INSTALL_MODE=keep MOSAIC_SYNC_ONLY=1) touches NO path
+# outside the framework-owned manifest. Every operator-owned sentinel — including
+# a deliberately UNANTICIPATED one the manifest never names — must survive
+# byte-identical with an unchanged mtime (not even rewritten). Framework files
+# must still update, and a retired framework file inside a shipped subtree must
+# still be pruned. No operator secret value may appear in installer output.
+#
+# Keep mode is a SINGLE code path (sync_framework_keep, a manifest-driven cp
+# overlay + scoped prune — no rsync). The matrix still runs twice, once with
+# rsync on PATH and once with it hidden, to prove the keep path is genuinely
+# rsync-independent: it must obey the manifest identically whether or not rsync
+# happens to be installed (rsync --delete is only ever used by overwrite mode,
+# which has no operator state to protect).
+#
+# It also runs a fail-closed matrix (#791 B2/B3): an empty, operator-only,
+# malformed, or missing manifest must ABORT the upgrade loudly and leave every
+# operator path untouched — never silently no-op to "complete".
+#
+# Usage:  bash test-upgrade-manifest-guard.sh
+set -uo pipefail
+
+FW="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../../.." && pwd)"   # packages/mosaic/framework
+INSTALL="$FW/install.sh"
+
+pass=0; fail=0
+chk() { if eval "$2"; then echo "  ✓ $1"; pass=$((pass + 1)); else echo "  ✗ $1"; fail=$((fail + 1)); fi; }
+
+SECRET='SUPER-SECRET-TOKEN-do-not-log-3f9a'
+
+# Seed a throwaway MOSAIC_HOME with an operator sentinel per ownership class.
+seed_home() {
+  local H="$1"
+  mkdir -p "$H/agents" "$H/policy" "$H/memory" "$H/tools/_lib" \
+           "$H/fleet/agents" "$H/fleet/run/sessions" "$H/harvester" \
+           "$H/unknown-operator-dir" "$H/guides"
+  printf '# persona\n' > "$H/SOUL.md"          # marks a recognized existing install → keep mode
+  printf 'MODEL=opus\n' > "$H/agents/coder0.conf"
+  printf '# operator policy\n' > "$H/policy/custom.md"
+  printf '# soul overlay\n' > "$H/SOUL.local.md"
+  printf '# operator memory\n' > "$H/memory/note.md"
+  printf 'TOKEN=%s\n' "$SECRET" > "$H/tools/_lib/credentials.json"
+  printf 'MOSAIC_AGENT_NAME=coder0\n' > "$H/fleet/agents/coder0.env"
+  printf 'version: 2\nagents:\n  - name: coder0\n' > "$H/fleet/roster.yaml"
+  printf '# harvester SOP\n' > "$H/harvester/sop.md"
+  printf 'operator data the manifest never anticipated\n' > "$H/unknown-operator-dir/x"
+  printf 'version: 1\nagents:\n  - name: mine\n' > "$H/fleet/my-fleet.yaml"
+
+  # #797 Runtime Session Ledger (Mos-elevated to a #791 PR1 merge-blocker): a
+  # populated ledger under fleet/run/sessions/ must survive the upgrade — a
+  # runtime ledger an upgrade rsync can wipe is worthless. Seed it exactly as
+  # #797 writes it: a non-empty append journal + a non-empty compacted
+  # projection, files 0600 under a 0700 dir.
+  printf '%s\n%s\n%s\n' \
+    '{"seq":1,"kind":"session.spawn","node":"sess-42","generation":7}' \
+    '{"seq":2,"kind":"lease.grant","node":"sess-42","lease":"web1"}' \
+    '{"seq":3,"kind":"dispatch.create","from":"sess-42","to":"disp-9"}' \
+    > "$H/fleet/run/sessions/events.ndjson"
+  printf '%s\n' \
+    '{"generation":7,"nodes":[{"id":"sess-42","kind":"session"}],"edges":[{"from":"sess-42","to":"disp-9","kind":"dispatch"}]}' \
+    > "$H/fleet/run/sessions/ledger.json"
+  chmod 0700 "$H/fleet/run" "$H/fleet/run/sessions"
+  chmod 0600 "$H/fleet/run/sessions/events.ndjson" "$H/fleet/run/sessions/ledger.json"
+
+  # A retired framework file inside a shipped subtree (absent from source) — must be pruned.
+  printf '# retired guide\n' > "$H/guides/RETIRED-OLD-GUIDE.md"
+  echo 3 > "$H/.framework-version"
+}
+
+OPERATOR_SENTINELS=(
+  "agents/coder0.conf"
+  "policy/custom.md"
+  "SOUL.local.md"
+  "memory/note.md"
+  "tools/_lib/credentials.json"
+  "fleet/agents/coder0.env"
+  "fleet/roster.yaml"
+  "harvester/sop.md"
+  "unknown-operator-dir/x"
+  "fleet/my-fleet.yaml"
+  # #797 Runtime Session Ledger — populated journal + projection must survive.
+  "fleet/run/sessions/events.ndjson"
+  "fleet/run/sessions/ledger.json"
+)
+
+run_matrix() {
+  local label="$1"; shift          # extra env / PATH override applied to the run
+  local H E OUT rel before_hash after_hash before_mt after_mt
+  H=$(mktemp -d); E=$(mktemp -d); OUT=$(mktemp)
+  seed_home "$H"
+
+  # Snapshot hash + mtime of every operator sentinel before the upgrade.
+  for rel in "${OPERATOR_SENTINELS[@]}"; do
+    sha256sum "$H/$rel" | awk '{print $1}' > "$E/$(echo "$rel" | tr / _).hash"
+    stat -c %Y "$H/$rel" > "$E/$(echo "$rel" | tr / _).mt"
+  done
+
+  # Snapshot the ledger directory permission bits (#797 assert: perms unchanged).
+  local before_dirperm after_dirperm
+  before_dirperm=$(stat -c %a "$H/fleet/run/sessions")
+
+  # The upgrade under test (keep + sync-only = the `mosaic update` reseed path).
+  MOSAIC_HOME="$H" MOSAIC_INSTALL_MODE=keep MOSAIC_SYNC_ONLY=1 "$@" bash "$INSTALL" >"$OUT" 2>&1
+
+  # HARD GATE: every operator sentinel survives byte-identical AND mtime-unchanged.
+  for rel in "${OPERATOR_SENTINELS[@]}"; do
+    before_hash=$(cat "$E/$(echo "$rel" | tr / _).hash")
+    before_mt=$(cat "$E/$(echo "$rel" | tr / _).mt")
+    after_hash=$(sha256sum "$H/$rel" 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $1}')
+    after_mt=$(stat -c %Y "$H/$rel" 2>/dev/null || echo MISSING)
+    chk "[$label] operator sentinel survives byte-identical: $rel" \
+      "[ -n '$after_hash' ] && [ '$before_hash' = '$after_hash' ]"
+    chk "[$label] operator sentinel not rewritten (mtime unchanged): $rel" \
+      "[ '$before_mt' = '$after_mt' ]"
+  done
+
+  # #797 assert 7: the ledger directory's permission bits are unchanged.
+  after_dirperm=$(stat -c %a "$H/fleet/run/sessions" 2>/dev/null || echo MISSING)
+  chk "[$label] ledger dir perms unchanged (#797): $before_dirperm" \
+    "[ '$before_dirperm' = '$after_dirperm' ]"
+
+  # Positive controls / negative controls — prove the test discriminates: the
+  # upgrade DOES write and prune framework-owned paths, so the operator sentinels
+  # (incl. the #797 ledger) survive because of the manifest, not because the
+  # upgrade is a no-op.
+  chk "[$label] positive control: framework file present after upgrade (guides synced)" \
+    "[ -f '$H/guides/E2E-DELIVERY.md' ]"
+  chk "[$label] negative control: retired framework file inside a subtree IS pruned" \
+    "[ ! -f '$H/guides/RETIRED-OLD-GUIDE.md' ]"
+  chk "[$label] manifest itself is installed" "[ -f '$H/framework-manifest.txt' ]"
+
+  # Secret-safety: the operator secret value never appears in installer output.
+  chk "[$label] operator secret value absent from installer stdout/stderr" \
+    "! grep -q '$SECRET' '$OUT'"
+
+  rm -rf "$H" "$E" "$OUT"
+}
+
+# Fail-closed matrix (#791 B2/B3 + blocker-1): run install.sh from a COPY of the
+# framework so the shipped manifest can be corrupted. Every corruption must abort
+# the upgrade non-zero with a manifest error, leaving all operator sentinels
+# byte-identical AND on the SAME inode. The inode check is the load-bearing part:
+# manifest validation is hoisted BEFORE make_snapshot/the restore trap, so a bad
+# manifest must abort without ever snapshotting, deleting, and restoring the
+# target. Were validation still armed under the ERR trap, restore_snapshot would
+# rm -rf + rebuild the target — same bytes but a NEW inode (broken hard links,
+# changed ctime), which a content-only hash would miss (#791 blocker-1).
+run_failclosed() {
+  local label="$1" mutate="$2"
+  local SRC H E OUT rc rel before_hash after_hash before_ino after_ino key
+  SRC=$(mktemp -d); H=$(mktemp -d); E=$(mktemp -d); OUT=$(mktemp)
+  cp -a "$FW/." "$SRC/"
+  case "$mutate" in
+    empty)         : > "$SRC/framework-manifest.txt" ;;
+    operator-only) printf '[operator]\nSOUL.md\n*.local.md\n' > "$SRC/framework-manifest.txt" ;;
+    malformed)     printf 'stray.md\n[framework]\nguides/**\n' > "$SRC/framework-manifest.txt" ;;
+    degenerate)    printf '[framework]\n/\n./\n[operator]\nSOUL.md\n' > "$SRC/framework-manifest.txt" ;;
+    missing)       rm -f "$SRC/framework-manifest.txt" ;;
+  esac
+
+  seed_home "$H"
+  for rel in "${OPERATOR_SENTINELS[@]}"; do
+    key=$(echo "$rel" | tr / _)
+    sha256sum "$H/$rel" | awk '{print $1}' > "$E/$key.hash"
+    stat -c '%i' "$H/$rel" > "$E/$key.ino"
+  done
+
+  MOSAIC_HOME="$H" MOSAIC_INSTALL_MODE=keep MOSAIC_SYNC_ONLY=1 bash "$SRC/install.sh" >"$OUT" 2>&1
+  rc=$?
+
+  chk "[fail-closed:$label] upgrade aborts non-zero" "[ '$rc' -ne 0 ]"
+  chk "[fail-closed:$label] refuses loudly with a manifest error" \
+    "grep -qi 'manifest' '$OUT'"
+  for rel in "${OPERATOR_SENTINELS[@]}"; do
+    key=$(echo "$rel" | tr / _)
+    before_hash=$(cat "$E/$key.hash")
+    after_hash=$(sha256sum "$H/$rel" 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $1}')
+    chk "[fail-closed:$label] operator sentinel untouched: $rel" \
+      "[ -n '$after_hash' ] && [ '$before_hash' = '$after_hash' ]"
+    before_ino=$(cat "$E/$key.ino")
+    after_ino=$(stat -c '%i' "$H/$rel" 2>/dev/null)
+    chk "[fail-closed:$label] operator sentinel not deleted/recreated (inode stable): $rel" \
+      "[ -n '$after_ino' ] && [ '$before_ino' = '$after_ino' ]"
+  done
+  chk "[fail-closed:$label] operator secret value absent from output" \
+    "! grep -q '$SECRET' '$OUT'"
+
+  chmod -R u+w "$SRC" "$H" 2>/dev/null || true
+  rm -rf "$SRC" "$H" "$E" "$OUT"
+}
+
+echo "#791 upgrade manifest guard (HARD GATE):"
+
+# 1) rsync path (if available on this host).
+if command -v rsync >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  run_matrix "rsync"
+else
+  echo "  · rsync not installed — skipping rsync-path matrix"
+fi
+
+# 2) rsync-absent path — hide rsync behind a scratch PATH. Keep mode never calls
+#    rsync, so this must resolve identically to run (1); it proves the keep path
+#    does not silently depend on rsync being installed. (Provide the coreutils the
+#    installer needs on the stripped PATH.)
+FBIN=$(mktemp -d)
+for t in bash cp find mktemp rm mkdir chmod cmp sed grep cat dirname basename stat sha256sum awk tr; do
+  p=$(command -v "$t" 2>/dev/null) && ln -s "$p" "$FBIN/$t"
+done
+run_matrix "rsync-absent" env "PATH=$FBIN"
+rm -rf "$FBIN"
+
+# 3) fail-closed matrix (#791 B2/B3) — corrupt the shipped manifest four ways.
+run_failclosed "empty-manifest"       empty
+run_failclosed "operator-only"        operator-only
+run_failclosed "malformed-manifest"   malformed
+run_failclosed "degenerate-framework" degenerate
+run_failclosed "missing-manifest"     missing
+
+echo
+echo "RESULT: $pass passed, $fail failed"
+[ "$fail" -eq 0 ]

packages/mosaic/framework/tools/quality/scripts/test-upgrade-rollback.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,319 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# test-upgrade-rollback.sh — the #791 B1 regression gate.
+#
+# A keep-mode upgrade takes a pre-update snapshot and installs an ERR/INT/TERM
+# trap that restores it if the sync aborts midway (install.sh: make_snapshot +
+# `trap restore_snapshot`). That trap is only reached if `set -E` (errtrace) is
+# active — otherwise a failure INSIDE sync_framework_keep() (which runs entirely
+# in a function) never fires the trap, and the upgrade aborts leaving a
+# half-written target with NO rollback. This test proves:
+#
+#   Part A (the gate):   the shipped installer rolls back a mid-sync failure —
+#                        the restore message fires, the corrupted file is put
+#                        back, AND the whole target is byte-identical to its
+#                        pre-upgrade state.
+#   Part B (the control): the SAME installer with `-E` stripped does NOT roll back
+#                        (dead trap) — the mid-sync corruption survives, proving
+#                        errtrace is load-bearing. If anyone removes `set -E`,
+#                        Part A goes red.
+#
+# The mid-sync failure is injected with a PATH-shadowing `cp` shim rather than
+# file permissions. The earlier 0400/EACCES approach was NOT portable: Woodpecker
+# runs steps as root (node:24-alpine has no USER directive), and root overwrites a
+# 0400 file, so the failure never fired and this gate silently passed (#791
+# blocker-3). The shim fails deterministically for one framework-owned
+# destination regardless of uid, and — like a real interrupted cp (disk-full
+# mid-write) — leaves a partially-written target behind, so rollback has real
+# damage to undo and the control has real damage to expose.
+#
+# Usage:  bash test-upgrade-rollback.sh
+set -uo pipefail
+
+FW="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../../.." && pwd)"   # packages/mosaic/framework
+INSTALL="$FW/install.sh"
+ORIG_PATH="$PATH"
+
+# The `-E`-stripped control installer must live INSIDE $FW: install.sh derives
+# SOURCE_DIR from its own path and `source`s $SOURCE_DIR/tools/_lib/manifest.sh,
+# so a copy anywhere else aborts at the source line before ever reaching the sync
+# loop — which would make the control a false negative. A root dotfile is
+# operator-owned (unknown→operator), so the sync loop skips it. Clean up on exit.
+STRIPPED="$FW/.install-rollback-control.tmp.sh"
+NOEXIT="$FW/.install-noexit-control.tmp.sh"
+D1CTRL="$FW/.install-d1guard-control.tmp.sh"
+D2CTRL="$FW/.install-d2guard-control.tmp.sh"
+rm -f "$STRIPPED" "$NOEXIT" "$D1CTRL" "$D2CTRL"
+trap 'rm -f "$STRIPPED" "$NOEXIT" "$D1CTRL" "$D2CTRL"' EXIT
+
+pass=0; fail=0
+chk() { if eval "$2"; then echo "  ✓ $1"; pass=$((pass + 1)); else echo "  ✗ $1"; fail=$((fail + 1)); fi; }
+
+SECRET='SUPER-SECRET-TOKEN-do-not-log-b1'
+# A framework-owned file the shim fails the copy of. The seeded target holds GOOD
+# bytes; source ships different bytes, so sync_framework_keep() attempts the copy
+# and the shim intercepts it. Root-level framework files sort before guides/, so
+# several framework files are already refreshed when the copy reaches this one.
+POISON_REL='guides/E2E-DELIVERY.md'
+GOOD='GOOD-REFERENCE-CONTENT-pre-upgrade-b1'
+GARBAGE='PARTIAL-WRITE-GARBAGE-mid-sync-b1'
+
+# A `cp` shim: for the poisoned destination, simulate an interrupted copy — write
+# partial garbage to the target, then fail — otherwise delegate to the real cp
+# (resolved via the ORIGINAL PATH so make_snapshot/restore still work).
+make_cp_shim() {
+  local dir="$1"
+  cat > "$dir/cp" <<SHIM
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+dest="\${@: -1}"
+case "\$dest" in
+  */$POISON_REL)
+    printf '%s' '$GARBAGE' > "\$dest" 2>/dev/null || true
+    exit 1 ;;
+esac
+exec env PATH="$ORIG_PATH" cp "\$@"
+SHIM
+  chmod +x "$dir/cp"
+}
+
+# A `find` shim that fails every enumeration scan (`-print0`) as if it hit an
+# EACCES/I/O error partway — it emits the real (here: complete) list first, then
+# exits non-zero, exactly the class of failure a `< <(find …)` process
+# substitution silently swallows. All non-`-print0` finds (e.g. the -delete
+# sweep) delegate to the real find on the original PATH. Used to prove #791
+# blocker-D1: the shipped installer must honor find's exit status and roll back.
+make_find_fail_shim() {
+  local dir="$1"
+  cat > "$dir/find" <<SHIM
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+for a in "\$@"; do
+  if [ "\$a" = "-print0" ]; then
+    env PATH="$ORIG_PATH" find "\$@"   # emit the real list…
+    exit 1                              # …then fail as if the scan hit EACCES
+  fi
+done
+exec env PATH="$ORIG_PATH" find "\$@"
+SHIM
+  chmod +x "$dir/find"
+}
+
+# An `rm` shim that fails ONLY `rm -rf <FAIL_RM_TARGET>` (the restore's target
+# reset) and delegates every other rm to the real one. Used to prove #791
+# blocker-D2: when the target reset inside restore_snapshot fails, the installer
+# must emit the manual-recovery pointer (snapshot path) instead of exiting
+# silently under `set -e`. FAIL_RM_TARGET is exported into the installer env.
+make_rm_fail_shim() {
+  local dir="$1"
+  cat > "$dir/rm" <<'SHIM'
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+last="${@: -1}"
+if [ -n "${FAIL_RM_TARGET:-}" ] && [ "$last" = "$FAIL_RM_TARGET" ]; then
+  exit 1
+fi
+exec env PATH="$ORIG_PATH_FOR_RM" rm "$@"
+SHIM
+  chmod +x "$dir/rm"
+}
+
+seed_home() {
+  local H="$1"
+  mkdir -p "$H/agents" "$H/tools/_lib" "$H/memory" "$H/guides"
+  printf '# persona\n' > "$H/SOUL.md"          # recognized install → keep mode + snapshot
+  printf 'MODEL=opus\n' > "$H/agents/coder0.conf"
+  printf '# operator memory\n' > "$H/memory/note.md"
+  printf 'TOKEN=%s\n' "$SECRET" > "$H/tools/_lib/credentials.json"
+  echo 3 > "$H/.framework-version"
+  # Good pre-upgrade bytes; source ships different bytes, so cp is attempted.
+  printf '%s' "$GOOD" > "$H/$POISON_REL"
+}
+
+# Run one keep-mode upgrade against $1=installer, seeding a fresh home and a
+# byte-for-byte reference of the pre-upgrade state, with the cp shim first on
+# PATH. Echoes: "<exit>\t<out>\t<ref>\t<home>".
+run_upgrade() {
+  local installer="$1" shim_maker="${2:-make_cp_shim}" H REF OUT SHIM rc
+  H=$(mktemp -d); REF=$(mktemp -d); OUT=$(mktemp); SHIM=$(mktemp -d)
+  seed_home "$H"
+  env PATH="$ORIG_PATH" cp -a "$H/." "$REF/"     # pre-upgrade reference (real cp)
+  "$shim_maker" "$SHIM"
+  set +e
+  PATH="$SHIM:$ORIG_PATH" \
+    MOSAIC_HOME="$H" MOSAIC_INSTALL_MODE=keep MOSAIC_SYNC_ONLY=1 bash "$installer" >"$OUT" 2>&1
+  rc=$?
+  set -e 2>/dev/null || true
+  rm -rf "$SHIM"
+  printf '%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n' "$rc" "$OUT" "$REF" "$H"
+}
+
+echo "#791 upgrade rollback (B1 regression gate):"
+
+# ── Part A: the shipped installer must roll back a mid-sync failure ───────────
+IFS=$'\t' read -r rcA OUTA REFA HA < <(run_upgrade "$INSTALL")
+
+chk "[shipped] upgrade aborts non-zero on the injected mid-sync failure" \
+  "[ '$rcA' -ne 0 ]"
+chk "[shipped] restore_snapshot fires (rollback message present)" \
+  "grep -q 'restoring previous state from snapshot' '$OUTA'"
+chk "[shipped] the corrupted file is restored to its pre-upgrade bytes" \
+  "[ \"\$(cat '$HA/$POISON_REL')\" = '$GOOD' ]"
+chk "[shipped] target rolled back byte-identical to pre-upgrade state" \
+  "diff -r '$REFA' '$HA' >/dev/null 2>&1"
+chk "[shipped] operator secret value absent from installer output" \
+  "! grep -q '$SECRET' '$OUTA'"
+
+# ── Part B: control — strip `-E`, the trap is dead, no rollback happens ───────
+# Proves errtrace is what makes the trap reachable. If `set -E` is ever removed
+# from install.sh, Part A's rollback assertions fail exactly like this control.
+sed 's/^set -Eeuo pipefail/set -euo pipefail/' "$INSTALL" > "$STRIPPED"
+chk "[control] the -E strip actually changed the installer" \
+  "! cmp -s '$INSTALL' '$STRIPPED'"
+
+IFS=$'\t' read -r rcB OUTB REFB HB < <(run_upgrade "$STRIPPED")
+chk "[control] without -E the upgrade still aborts non-zero" \
+  "[ '$rcB' -ne 0 ]"
+# The load-bearing, deterministic proof of B1: without errtrace the ERR trap
+# never fires for a failure inside sync_framework_keep(), so no rollback runs.
+chk "[control] without -E the rollback message does NOT fire (dead trap)" \
+  "! grep -q 'restoring previous state from snapshot' '$OUTB'"
+chk "[control] without -E the mid-sync corruption survives (no rollback)" \
+  "[ \"\$(cat '$HB/$POISON_REL')\" = '$GARBAGE' ]"
+
+# ── Part C: an INT/TERM interrupt must terminate, not resume (blocker-A) ──────
+# A bash signal trap that merely returns lets the script continue past the
+# interrupt — restoring the snapshot, then resuming the sync and reporting
+# success. We inject a SIGTERM mid-sync with a cp that SUCCEEDS (so set -e never
+# fires and ONLY the signal path governs), and assert the shipped installer
+# restores AND exits without reporting success. The control strips `exit 1` from
+# the trap and shows the buggy resume-to-success.
+make_term_shim() {
+  local dir="$1"
+  cat > "$dir/cp" <<SHIM
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+dest="\${@: -1}"
+case "\$dest" in
+  */$POISON_REL)
+    kill -TERM "\$PPID" 2>/dev/null   # signal install.sh; the copy still succeeds
+    exec env PATH="$ORIG_PATH" cp "\$@" ;;
+esac
+exec env PATH="$ORIG_PATH" cp "\$@"
+SHIM
+  chmod +x "$dir/cp"
+}
+
+# Run one keep-mode upgrade with the SIGTERM shim. Echoes "<exit>\t<out>\t<home>".
+run_signal_upgrade() {
+  local installer="$1" H OUT SHIM rc
+  H=$(mktemp -d); OUT=$(mktemp); SHIM=$(mktemp -d)
+  seed_home "$H"
+  make_term_shim "$SHIM"
+  set +e
+  PATH="$SHIM:$ORIG_PATH" \
+    MOSAIC_HOME="$H" MOSAIC_INSTALL_MODE=keep MOSAIC_SYNC_ONLY=1 bash "$installer" >"$OUT" 2>&1
+  rc=$?
+  set -e 2>/dev/null || true
+  rm -rf "$SHIM"
+  printf '%s\t%s\t%s\n' "$rc" "$OUT" "$H"
+}
+
+IFS=$'\t' read -r rcC OUTC HC < <(run_signal_upgrade "$INSTALL")
+chk "[signal] SIGTERM mid-sync aborts non-zero (trap exits, does not resume)" \
+  "[ '$rcC' -ne 0 ]"
+chk "[signal] restore_snapshot fires on the interrupt" \
+  "grep -q 'restoring previous state from snapshot' '$OUTC'"
+chk "[signal] does NOT resume to report sync success after the interrupt" \
+  "! grep -q 'file phase complete' '$OUTC'"
+
+# Control: strip `exit 1` from the signal trap → the handler returns, the script
+# resumes past the interrupt and wrongly reports success. In $FW so SOURCE_DIR resolves.
+sed "s/trap 'restore_snapshot; exit 1' ERR INT TERM/trap 'restore_snapshot' ERR INT TERM/" \
+  "$INSTALL" > "$NOEXIT"
+chk "[control] the exit-strip actually changed the installer" \
+  "! cmp -s '$INSTALL' '$NOEXIT'"
+IFS=$'\t' read -r _rcD OUTD HD < <(run_signal_upgrade "$NOEXIT")
+chk "[control] without 'exit 1' the trap resumes and reports sync success (the bug)" \
+  "grep -q 'file phase complete' '$OUTD'"
+
+# ── Part D: a failed source/prune `find` scan must abort + roll back (D1) ─────
+# A `< <(find …)` process substitution discards find's exit status, so an
+# EACCES/I/O failure mid-scan would truncate the file list yet leave the reading
+# loop exiting 0 — a partial upgrade committed and reported as success, with the
+# ERR/restore trap never firing. The shipped installer captures the scan into a
+# checked temp file (_scan_or_die) and aborts on failure. We inject a `find` that
+# fails every `-print0` scan and assert the shipped installer rolls back.
+IFS=$'\t' read -r rcE OUTE REFE HE < <(run_upgrade "$INSTALL" make_find_fail_shim)
+chk "[find-fail] a failing framework scan aborts the upgrade non-zero" \
+  "[ '$rcE' -ne 0 ]"
+chk "[find-fail] restore_snapshot fires on the aborted scan" \
+  "grep -q 'restoring previous state from snapshot' '$OUTE'"
+chk "[find-fail] the abort is a fail-closed enumeration error (not a silent truncation)" \
+  "grep -q 'Could not enumerate framework files' '$OUTE'"
+chk "[find-fail] target rolled back byte-identical to pre-upgrade state" \
+  "diff -r '$REFE' '$HE' >/dev/null 2>&1"
+
+# Control: neuter the D1 guard (turn its `return 1` into a no-op) so a find
+# failure is swallowed exactly as `< <(find …)` would — the scan appears to
+# succeed and the upgrade reports completion with NO rollback.
+sed 's/return 1  # D1-GUARD/: # D1-GUARD-DISABLED/' "$INSTALL" > "$D1CTRL"
+chk "[control] the D1-guard strip actually changed the installer" \
+  "! cmp -s '$INSTALL' '$D1CTRL'"
+IFS=$'\t' read -r _rcF OUTF REFF HF < <(run_upgrade "$D1CTRL" make_find_fail_shim)
+chk "[control] with the D1 guard disabled the find failure is swallowed (no rollback)" \
+  "! grep -q 'restoring previous state from snapshot' '$OUTF'"
+chk "[control] with the D1 guard disabled the upgrade wrongly reports success" \
+  "grep -q 'file phase complete' '$OUTF'"
+
+# ── Part E: a failed target reset inside restore must not exit silently (D2) ──
+# restore_snapshot resets the target (`rm -rf; mkdir -p`) before rebuilding from
+# the snapshot. Under `set -e` (trap disarmed) a bare reset that fails would exit
+# the whole script immediately — after `rm` may have deleted part of the target —
+# WITHOUT printing where the snapshot lives. We trigger a rollback (cp poison) AND
+# fail the target reset (rm shim), then assert the shipped installer emits the
+# manual-recovery pointer and preserves the snapshot.
+run_rmfail_upgrade() {
+  local installer="$1" H OUT SHIM rc
+  H=$(mktemp -d); OUT=$(mktemp); SHIM=$(mktemp -d)
+  seed_home "$H"
+  make_cp_shim "$SHIM"        # poison cp → triggers the abort + restore
+  make_rm_fail_shim "$SHIM"   # rm -rf <H> fails → exercises the D2 reset guard
+  set +e
+  PATH="$SHIM:$ORIG_PATH" ORIG_PATH_FOR_RM="$ORIG_PATH" FAIL_RM_TARGET="$H" \
+    MOSAIC_HOME="$H" MOSAIC_INSTALL_MODE=keep MOSAIC_SYNC_ONLY=1 bash "$installer" >"$OUT" 2>&1
+  rc=$?
+  set -e 2>/dev/null || true
+  rm -rf "$SHIM"
+  printf '%s\t%s\t%s\n' "$rc" "$OUT" "$H"
+}
+
+IFS=$'\t' read -r rcG OUTG HG < <(run_rmfail_upgrade "$INSTALL")
+chk "[reset-fail] a failed target reset still aborts non-zero" \
+  "[ '$rcG' -ne 0 ]"
+chk "[reset-fail] the manual-recovery pointer is emitted (not a silent set -e exit)" \
+  "grep -q 'Snapshot restore could not reset' '$OUTG'"
+chk "[reset-fail] the recovery message points at a preserved snapshot dir" \
+  "grep -q 'preserved at: .*mosaic-snapshot' '$OUTG'"
+SNAP_E="$(grep -o '/[^ ]*mosaic-snapshot[^ ]*' "$OUTG" | head -1)"
+chk "[reset-fail] the named snapshot directory actually survives for recovery" \
+  "[ -n '$SNAP_E' ] && [ -d '$SNAP_E' ]"
+chk "[reset-fail] operator secret value never appears in installer output" \
+  "! grep -q '$SECRET' '$OUTG'"
+
+# Control: delete the D2 recovery line so a failed reset returns non-zero with NO
+# operator pointer — the observable defect (half-reset target, snapshot orphaned
+# in /tmp with no path told to the operator). Proves the message is load-bearing.
+sed '/Snapshot restore could not reset/d' "$INSTALL" > "$D2CTRL"
+chk "[control] the D2-recovery strip actually changed the installer" \
+  "! cmp -s '$INSTALL' '$D2CTRL'"
+IFS=$'\t' read -r _rcH OUTH HH < <(run_rmfail_upgrade "$D2CTRL")
+chk "[control] without the D2 recovery line the operator gets no snapshot pointer" \
+  "! grep -q 'Snapshot restore could not reset' '$OUTH'"
+[ -n "${SNAP_E:-}" ] && rm -rf "$SNAP_E"
+# Reap any snapshot the reset-fail runs left in /tmp (reset failed → never cleaned).
+grep -o '/[^ ]*mosaic-snapshot[^ ]*' "$OUTH" 2>/dev/null | head -1 | while read -r s; do rm -rf "$s"; done
+
+# Cleanup ($STRIPPED / $NOEXIT / $D1CTRL / $D2CTRL are also removed by the EXIT trap).
+for d in "$HA" "$REFA" "$HB" "$REFB" "$HC" "$HD" "$HE" "$REFE" "$HF" "$REFF" "$HG" "$HH"; do rm -rf "$d"; done
+rm -f "$OUTA" "$OUTB" "$OUTC" "$OUTD" "$OUTE" "$OUTF" "$OUTG" "$OUTH" \
+  "$STRIPPED" "$NOEXIT" "$D1CTRL" "$D2CTRL"
+
+echo
+echo "RESULT: $pass passed, $fail failed"
+[ "$fail" -eq 0 ]

packages/mosaic/src/config/file-adapter.test.ts

@@ -1,9 +1,22 @@
 import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest';
-import { mkdtempSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, rmSync, readFileSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs';
+import {
+  mkdtempSync,
+  mkdirSync,
+  writeFileSync,
+  rmSync,
+  readFileSync,
+  existsSync,
+  copyFileSync,
+} from 'node:fs';
 import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
 import { join } from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
 import { FileConfigAdapter, DEFAULT_SEED_FILES } from './file-adapter.js';
 
+// The real shipping manifest — the fixture uses it verbatim so these tests
+// exercise production ownership resolution, not a synthetic copy (#791).
+const REAL_FRAMEWORK_ROOT = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../framework', import.meta.url));
+
 /**
  * Regression tests for the `FileConfigAdapter.syncFramework` seed behavior.
  *
@@ -34,6 +47,13 @@ function makeFixture(): { sourceDir: string; mosaicHome: string; defaultsDir: st
   mkdirSync(defaultsDir, { recursive: true });
   mkdirSync(mosaicHome, { recursive: true });
 
+  // #791: syncFramework resolves ownership from the shared manifest under the
+  // source dir. Seed the real one so keep-mode syncs behave as in production.
+  copyFileSync(
+    join(REAL_FRAMEWORK_ROOT, 'framework-manifest.txt'),
+    join(sourceDir, 'framework-manifest.txt'),
+  );
+
   // Framework-contract defaults we expect the wizard to seed.
   writeFileSync(join(defaultsDir, 'CONSTITUTION.md'), '# CONSTITUTION default\n');
   writeFileSync(join(defaultsDir, 'AGENTS.md'), '# AGENTS default\n');
@@ -102,9 +122,10 @@ describe('FileConfigAdapter.syncFramework — defaults seeding', () => {
   });
 
   it('overwrites framework-owned files (backup-once) but preserves user-seeded files', async () => {
-    // Plant a root-level AGENTS.md in sourceDir so syncDirectory's preserve is exercised.
+    // Contract files (CONSTITUTION/AGENTS/STANDARDS) ship only under defaults/ —
-    writeFileSync(join(fixture.sourceDir, 'AGENTS.md'), '# shipped AGENTS from source root\n');
+    // reconcile_framework_files is their sole writer (backup-once). The bulk
-
+    // sync never sees a root-level copy, so a user's edited root file is backed
+    // up, not silently clobbered, on upgrade.
     writeFileSync(join(fixture.mosaicHome, 'TOOLS.md'), '# user-customized TOOLS\n');
     writeFileSync(join(fixture.mosaicHome, 'AGENTS.md'), '# user-customized AGENTS\n');
 

packages/mosaic/src/config/file-adapter.ts

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import {
   buildToolsTemplateVars,
 } from '../template/builders.js';
 import { atomicWrite, backupFile, syncDirectory } from '../platform/file-ops.js';
+import { loadManifest, resolveOwnership } from '../framework/manifest.js';
 
 /**
  * Parse a SoulConfig from an existing SOUL.md file.
@@ -155,38 +156,22 @@ export class FileConfigAdapter implements ConfigService {
   }
 
   async syncFramework(action: InstallAction): Promise<void> {
-    // Must match PRESERVE_PATHS in packages/mosaic/framework/install.sh so
+    // #791: ownership is derived from the shared framework manifest
-    // the bash and TS install paths have the same upgrade-preservation
+    // (packages/mosaic/framework/framework-manifest.txt) — the SAME file the
-    // semantics. Contract files (AGENTS.md, STANDARDS.md, TOOLS.md) are
+    // bash installer reads — so the TS and bash paths can never drift. On an
-    // seeded from defaults/ on first install and preserved thereafter;
+    // upgrade (keep/reconfigure) the sync must NEVER write an operator-owned
-    // identity files (SOUL.md, USER.md) are generated by wizard stages and
+    // path: every operator file, and any path the manifest never anticipated
-    // must never be touched by the framework sync.
+    // (which resolves to operator by the fail-safe default), is left untouched.
-    const preservePaths =
+    // A fresh install ('overwrite'/'reconfigure' onto an empty home) seeds the
-      action === 'keep' || action === 'reconfigure'
+    // full tree, so the guard applies only when preserving an existing home.
-        ? [
+    const guardOwnership = action === 'keep' || action === 'reconfigure';
-            'CONSTITUTION.md',
+    const manifest = guardOwnership ? loadManifest(this.sourceDir) : undefined;
-            'AGENTS.md',
-            'SOUL.md',
-            'USER.md',
-            'TOOLS.md',
-            'STANDARDS.md',
-            'memory',
-            'sources',
-            'credentials',
-            // User-authored fleet data MUST survive `mosaic update`'s re-seed.
-            // The framework seeds only fleet/examples + fleet/roles +
-            // fleet/roster.schema.json; the operator's roster, per-agent env, and
-            // heartbeat run dir stay user-owned. (Mirror of install.sh PRESERVE_PATHS.)
-            'fleet/roster.yaml',
-            'fleet/roster.json',
-            'fleet/agents',
-            'fleet/run',
-          ]
-        : [];
 
     syncDirectory(this.sourceDir, this.mosaicHome, {
-      preserve: preservePaths,
       excludeGit: true,
+      isOperatorOwned: manifest
+        ? (relPath) => resolveOwnership(manifest, relPath) === 'operator'
+        : undefined,
     });
 
     // Reconcile framework-contract files from framework/defaults/ into the mosaic

packages/mosaic/src/framework/manifest-parity.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,343 @@
+import { afterAll, describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import { execFileSync, spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
+import { existsSync, mkdtempSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import {
+  loadManifest,
+  parseManifest,
+  resolveOwnership,
+  frameworkSubtreeRoots,
+} from './manifest.js';
+
+/**
+ * Bash ↔ TS parity (#791, §6.1).
+ *
+ * The installer (bash) and the config adapter (TS) each resolve path ownership
+ * from framework-manifest.txt. If the two resolvers disagreed on a single path,
+ * an upgrade could protect a file on one code path and wipe it on the other —
+ * exactly the two-copies drift that #631 patched by hand. This test drives the
+ * bash resolver (`tools/_lib/manifest.sh`) as a subprocess and asserts it agrees
+ * with the TS resolver for a broad set of paths spanning every ownership class.
+ */
+
+const FRAMEWORK_ROOT = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../framework', import.meta.url));
+const MANIFEST_SH = join(FRAMEWORK_ROOT, 'tools', '_lib', 'manifest.sh');
+
+const hasBash = (() => {
+  try {
+    execFileSync('bash', ['-c', 'true'], { stdio: 'ignore' });
+    return true;
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+})();
+
+function bashResolve(relPath: string): string {
+  return execFileSync('bash', [MANIFEST_SH, 'resolve', relPath], {
+    encoding: 'utf-8',
+  }).trim();
+}
+
+/** Drive the bash resolver against an arbitrary manifest file (MANIFEST_FILE override). */
+function bashResolveWith(manifestFile: string, relPath: string): string {
+  return execFileSync('bash', [MANIFEST_SH, 'resolve', relPath], {
+    encoding: 'utf-8',
+    env: { ...process.env, MANIFEST_FILE: manifestFile },
+  }).trim();
+}
+
+function bashSubtreeRoots(): string[] {
+  return execFileSync('bash', [MANIFEST_SH, 'subtree-roots'], { encoding: 'utf-8' })
+    .split('\n')
+    .map((s) => s.trim())
+    .filter((s) => s.length > 0);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Drive the bash resolver CLI against a manifest file and report how it exited.
+ * A fail-closed manifest must make the CLI exit non-zero with a message on
+ * stderr — never exit 0 having silently resolved everything to operator.
+ */
+function bashCli(manifestFile: string): { status: number; stderr: string } {
+  const res = spawnSync('bash', [MANIFEST_SH, 'resolve', 'CONSTITUTION.md'], {
+    encoding: 'utf-8',
+    env: { ...process.env, MANIFEST_FILE: manifestFile },
+  });
+  return { status: res.status ?? -1, stderr: res.stderr ?? '' };
+}
+
+// Paths spanning every ownership class: framework single-files, framework
+// subtrees, operator declared trees, operator carve-out inside a framework
+// subtree, local overlays, and deliberately UNANTICIPATED paths (fail-safe).
+const PROBE_PATHS = [
+  'CONSTITUTION.md',
+  'AGENTS.md',
+  'STANDARDS.md',
+  'install.sh',
+  'framework-manifest.txt',
+  'guides/E2E-DELIVERY.md',
+  'tools/git/pr-create.sh',
+  'tools/_lib/manifest.sh',
+  'defaults/SOUL.md',
+  'fleet/README.md',
+  'fleet/roles/coder.md',
+  'fleet/roster.schema.json',
+  'fleet/examples/general.yaml',
+  // operator
+  'SOUL.md',
+  'USER.md',
+  'TOOLS.md',
+  'SOUL.local.md',
+  'USER.local.md',
+  'STANDARDS.local.md',
+  'agents/coder0.conf',
+  'policy/custom.md',
+  'memory/note.md',
+  'sources/skills/x.md',
+  'credentials/c.json',
+  'tools/_lib/credentials.json',
+  'fleet/roster.yaml',
+  'fleet/roster.json',
+  'fleet/agents/coder0.env',
+  'fleet/run/coder0.hb',
+  // #797 Runtime Session Ledger — must resolve operator on both paths.
+  'fleet/run/sessions/events.ndjson',
+  'fleet/run/sessions/ledger.json',
+  'fleet/backlog/data.db',
+  'fleet/roles.local/custom.md',
+  // unanticipated → operator (fail-safe)
+  'harvester/sop.md',
+  'unknown-operator-dir/x',
+  'fleet/my-fleet.yaml',
+  'random-root-file.md',
+  'tools/some-new-framework-tool.sh',
+];
+
+describe.skipIf(!hasBash)('bash ↔ TS manifest parity (§6.1)', () => {
+  it('the bash resolver CLI exists and is executable', () => {
+    expect(existsSync(MANIFEST_SH)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('bash and TS resolve identical ownership for every probe path', () => {
+    const manifest = loadManifest(FRAMEWORK_ROOT);
+    const disagreements: Array<{ path: string; ts: string; bash: string }> = [];
+    for (const p of PROBE_PATHS) {
+      const ts = resolveOwnership(manifest, p);
+      const bash = bashResolve(p);
+      if (ts !== bash) disagreements.push({ path: p, ts, bash });
+    }
+    expect(disagreements).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('bash and TS agree on the framework subtree roots', () => {
+    const manifest = loadManifest(FRAMEWORK_ROOT);
+    expect(bashSubtreeRoots().sort()).toEqual(frameworkSubtreeRoots(manifest).sort());
+  });
+});
+
+/**
+ * Format-safety parity (#791, Decision 1 — the `.txt` line-oriented format is
+ * accepted only because both resolvers agree on the format edge cases a hand-
+ * edited text file invites: comments, blank lines, stray whitespace, duplicate
+ * and overlapping globs (where deny-wins must resolve), and section ordering.
+ * Each fixture is driven through BOTH resolvers (bash via MANIFEST_FILE, TS via
+ * parseManifest) and must agree AND land on the expected ownership. Any
+ * divergence here means the format itself is unsafe and must be fixed/converted.
+ */
+describe.skipIf(!hasBash)('bash ↔ TS manifest format-edge parity (§6.1, Decision 1)', () => {
+  const tmp = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'mf-parity-'));
+  afterAll(() => rmSync(tmp, { recursive: true, force: true }));
+
+  let fixtureSeq = 0;
+  function writeFixture(text: string): string {
+    const file = join(tmp, `manifest-${fixtureSeq++}.txt`);
+    writeFileSync(file, text);
+    return file;
+  }
+
+  // Both resolvers must agree, and on the expected value, for every probe.
+  function expectParity(text: string, cases: ReadonlyArray<readonly [string, string]>): void {
+    const file = writeFixture(text);
+    const manifest = parseManifest(text);
+    for (const [path, expected] of cases) {
+      const ts = resolveOwnership(manifest, path);
+      const bash = bashResolveWith(file, path);
+      expect(bash, `bash disagrees with TS on ${path}`).toBe(ts);
+      expect(ts, `ownership of ${path}`).toBe(expected);
+    }
+  }
+
+  it('tolerates comments, blank lines, and leading/trailing whitespace identically', () => {
+    // Entries and headers are padded with spaces/tabs; comments and blanks are
+    // interleaved. Both resolvers must trim and ignore them the same way.
+    const text = [
+      '# leading comment',
+      '   ',
+      '\t[framework]  ',
+      '   tools/**   ',
+      '# mid-section comment',
+      '',
+      '\tguides/**\t',
+      '  [operator] ',
+      '\ttools/_lib/credentials.json  ',
+      '*.local.md',
+      '',
+    ].join('\n');
+    expectParity(text, [
+      ['tools/git/pr-create.sh', 'framework'],
+      ['guides/E2E-DELIVERY.md', 'framework'],
+      ['tools/_lib/credentials.json', 'operator'], // deny-wins carve-out inside tools/**
+      ['SOUL.local.md', 'operator'],
+      ['nowhere/unknown.md', 'operator'], // negative probe: matches NO rule → operator
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('resolves deny-wins for overlapping and duplicate globs identically', () => {
+    // Framework claims tools/** (twice) and the overlapping tools/git/**;
+    // operator carves out tools/_lib/**. Operator must win the overlap on both.
+    const text = [
+      '[framework]',
+      'tools/**',
+      'tools/**', // duplicate — must not change resolution
+      'tools/git/**', // overlaps tools/**
+      '[operator]',
+      'tools/_lib/**',
+    ].join('\n');
+    expectParity(text, [
+      ['tools/git/pr-create.sh', 'framework'],
+      ['tools/other.sh', 'framework'],
+      ['tools/_lib/credentials.json', 'operator'], // deny-wins over both framework globs
+      ['tools/_lib/nested/deep.json', 'operator'],
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('is independent of section and glob ordering', () => {
+    // Same rule set, operator section first and entries reordered. Resolution
+    // must be identical because deny-wins checks all operator globs before any
+    // framework glob — order within or between sections cannot matter.
+    const forward = [
+      '[framework]',
+      'guides/**',
+      'tools/**',
+      '[operator]',
+      'tools/_lib/credentials.json',
+      '*.local.md',
+    ].join('\n');
+    const reversed = [
+      '[operator]',
+      '*.local.md',
+      'tools/_lib/credentials.json',
+      '[framework]',
+      'tools/**',
+      'guides/**',
+    ].join('\n');
+    const probes: ReadonlyArray<readonly [string, string]> = [
+      ['tools/git/pr-create.sh', 'framework'],
+      ['guides/E2E-DELIVERY.md', 'framework'],
+      ['tools/_lib/credentials.json', 'operator'],
+      ['SOUL.local.md', 'operator'],
+      ['unanticipated/path.md', 'operator'],
+    ];
+    expectParity(forward, probes);
+    expectParity(reversed, probes);
+    // And the two orderings agree path-for-path on both resolvers.
+    const fFile = writeFixture(forward);
+    const rFile = writeFixture(reversed);
+    for (const [path] of probes) {
+      expect(bashResolveWith(fFile, path)).toBe(bashResolveWith(rFile, path));
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('defaults an unmatched path to operator on both resolvers (UNKNOWN → operator)', () => {
+    // A manifest that names only a narrow framework slice. Everything else —
+    // including paths under no rule at all — must fail safe to operator.
+    const text = ['[framework]', 'guides/**', '[operator]', 'agents/**'].join('\n');
+    expectParity(text, [
+      ['guides/x.md', 'framework'],
+      ['agents/coder0.conf', 'operator'],
+      ['totally/unlisted/file.txt', 'operator'], // negative probe
+      ['fleet/run/sessions/ledger.json', 'operator'], // unlisted → operator
+      ['README.md', 'operator'],
+    ]);
+  });
+});
+
+/**
+ * Failure-mode parity (#791 B2/B3). A bad manifest is the dangerous case: if the
+ * two resolvers DISAGREED on rejection — one throwing while the other quietly
+ * resolved everything to operator — an upgrade could fail loud on one code path
+ * and no-op on the other. So for every malformed/empty/missing manifest, BOTH
+ * must reject: TS throws, and the bash CLI exits non-zero with a stderr message.
+ */
+describe.skipIf(!hasBash)('bash ↔ TS manifest failure-mode parity (§6.1, B2/B3)', () => {
+  const tmp = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'mf-failmode-'));
+  afterAll(() => rmSync(tmp, { recursive: true, force: true }));
+
+  let seq = 0;
+  function writeFixture(text: string): string {
+    const file = join(tmp, `bad-manifest-${seq++}.txt`);
+    writeFileSync(file, text);
+    return file;
+  }
+
+  // TS throws AND bash CLI exits non-zero with a non-empty stderr — identical rejection.
+  function expectBothReject(label: string, manifestFile: string): void {
+    expect(() => parseManifestFile(manifestFile), `TS accepted ${label}`).toThrow();
+    const cli = bashCli(manifestFile);
+    expect(cli.status, `bash did not exit non-zero for ${label}`).not.toBe(0);
+    expect(cli.stderr.trim().length, `bash was silent for ${label}`).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  }
+
+  // Read the file for the TS side the same way loadManifest does, so both halves
+  // see identical bytes (loadManifest keys off a directory, not an arbitrary file).
+  function parseManifestFile(file: string): void {
+    parseManifest(readFileSync(file, 'utf-8'));
+  }
+
+  it('both reject a completely empty manifest', () => {
+    expectBothReject('empty', writeFixture(''));
+  });
+
+  it('both reject a comment/blank-only manifest', () => {
+    expectBothReject('comment-only', writeFixture('# header only\n\n   \n'));
+  });
+
+  it('both reject an operator-only manifest (zero framework paths)', () => {
+    expectBothReject('operator-only', writeFixture('[operator]\nSOUL.md\n*.local.md\n'));
+  });
+
+  it('both reject a [framework] section with no entries', () => {
+    expectBothReject('empty-framework-section', writeFixture('[framework]\n[operator]\nSOUL.md\n'));
+  });
+
+  it('both reject a [framework] entry that normalizes to an empty glob (/)', () => {
+    expectBothReject('root-slash-framework', writeFixture('[framework]\n/\n'));
+  });
+
+  it('both reject a [framework] entry that normalizes to nothing (./)', () => {
+    expectBothReject('dot-slash-framework', writeFixture('[framework]\n./\n[operator]\nSOUL.md\n'));
+  });
+
+  it('both reject [framework] entries that are only bare dot segments', () => {
+    expectBothReject('bare-dot-framework', writeFixture('[framework]\n.\n..\n'));
+  });
+
+  it('both reject an entry that appears before any section header', () => {
+    expectBothReject('entry-before-header', writeFixture('stray.md\n[framework]\nguides/**\n'));
+  });
+
+  it('both reject an unknown section header', () => {
+    expectBothReject('unknown-header', writeFixture('[bogus]\nx\n'));
+  });
+
+  it('both reject a missing manifest file (fail-closed, not empty result)', () => {
+    const missing = join(tmp, 'does-not-exist.txt');
+    // TS: loadManifest would throw a read error; here read-then-parse throws on read.
+    expect(() => parseManifestFile(missing)).toThrow();
+    const cli = bashCli(missing);
+    expect(cli.status).not.toBe(0);
+    expect(cli.stderr.trim().length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  });
+});

packages/mosaic/src/framework/manifest.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,327 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import { readdirSync, statSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { join, relative } from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import {
+  parseManifest,
+  loadManifest,
+  matchGlob,
+  resolveOwnership,
+  frameworkSubtreeRoots,
+  planPrune,
+  ManifestError,
+  type FrameworkManifest,
+} from './manifest.js';
+
+const FRAMEWORK_ROOT = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../framework', import.meta.url));
+
+const SAMPLE = `
+# comment
+[framework]
+CONSTITUTION.md
+guides/**
+tools/**
+
+[operator]
+SOUL.md
+*.local.md
+agents/**
+tools/_lib/credentials.json
+`;
+
+describe('parseManifest', () => {
+  it('splits entries into framework and operator sections, ignoring comments/blanks', () => {
+    const m = parseManifest(SAMPLE);
+    expect(m.framework).toEqual(['CONSTITUTION.md', 'guides/**', 'tools/**']);
+    expect(m.operator).toEqual([
+      'SOUL.md',
+      '*.local.md',
+      'agents/**',
+      'tools/_lib/credentials.json',
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects an entry that appears before any section header', () => {
+    expect(() => parseManifest('stray.md\n[framework]\n')).toThrow(/before any \[section\]/);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects an unknown section header', () => {
+    expect(() => parseManifest('[bogus]\nx\n')).toThrow(/Unknown manifest section/);
+  });
+});
+
+// Fail-closed parsing/loading (#791 B2/B3). An empty, comment-only, operator-only,
+// or unreadable manifest must NOT resolve to "framework owns nothing" (which would
+// make an upgrade a silent no-op). Both must throw so finalizeStage surfaces the
+// abort instead of reporting "Installation complete". The bash reader rejects the
+// same inputs — asserted for parity in manifest-parity.spec.ts.
+describe('parseManifest / loadManifest fail closed on empty or unreadable input', () => {
+  it('throws on a completely empty manifest', () => {
+    expect(() => parseManifest('')).toThrow(/no \[framework\] paths/);
+  });
+
+  it('throws on a comment- and blank-only manifest (no entries at all)', () => {
+    expect(() => parseManifest('# just a header comment\n\n   \n')).toThrow(
+      /no \[framework\] paths/,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('throws when only an [operator] section is present (zero framework paths)', () => {
+    expect(() => parseManifest('[operator]\nSOUL.md\n*.local.md\n')).toThrow(
+      /no \[framework\] paths/,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('throws on a [framework] header with no entries beneath it', () => {
+    expect(() => parseManifest('[framework]\n\n[operator]\nSOUL.md\n')).toThrow(
+      /no \[framework\] paths/,
+    );
+  });
+
+  // Degenerate framework entries that pass the length check but normalize to a
+  // glob matching nothing — the manifest would silently protect the whole tree
+  // as operator (#791 blocker-B). Both `/` and `./` normalize to '' ; `.`/`..`
+  // are bare-dot segments.
+  it.each([['/'], ['./'], ['.'], ['..'], ['/\n./']])(
+    'throws when the only [framework] entry (%j) normalizes to nothing usable',
+    (entry) => {
+      expect(() => parseManifest(`[framework]\n${entry}\n`)).toThrow(
+        /no usable \[framework\] paths/,
+      );
+    },
+  );
+
+  it('accepts a wildcard-only framework glob (** is usable)', () => {
+    expect(() => parseManifest('[framework]\n**\n')).not.toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it('loadManifest throws a clear fail-closed error when the manifest file is missing', () => {
+    const missingRoot = fileURLToPath(new URL('./__no_such_framework_root__', import.meta.url));
+    expect(() => loadManifest(missingRoot)).toThrow(/Cannot read framework manifest/);
+  });
+
+  // The distinct error type is what lets finalizeStage tell a pre-sync validation
+  // abort (nothing written) from a mid-sync filesystem failure (#791 blocker-C).
+  it('every fail-closed rejection is a ManifestError', () => {
+    expect(() => parseManifest('')).toThrow(ManifestError);
+    expect(() => parseManifest('[operator]\nSOUL.md\n')).toThrow(ManifestError);
+    expect(() => parseManifest('[framework]\n/\n')).toThrow(ManifestError);
+    expect(() => parseManifest('[bogus]\nx\n')).toThrow(ManifestError);
+    expect(() => parseManifest('stray.md\n[framework]\n')).toThrow(ManifestError);
+    const missingRoot = fileURLToPath(new URL('./__no_such_framework_root__', import.meta.url));
+    expect(() => loadManifest(missingRoot)).toThrow(ManifestError);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('matchGlob', () => {
+  it('matches an exact file', () => {
+    expect(matchGlob('CONSTITUTION.md', 'CONSTITUTION.md')).toBe(true);
+    expect(matchGlob('CONSTITUTION.md', 'AGENTS.md')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('treats a bare directory entry as covering its descendants', () => {
+    expect(matchGlob('memory', 'memory')).toBe(true);
+    expect(matchGlob('memory', 'memory/notes.md')).toBe(true);
+    expect(matchGlob('memory', 'memoryfoo')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('** matches any depth including the root itself', () => {
+    expect(matchGlob('agents/**', 'agents')).toBe(true);
+    expect(matchGlob('agents/**', 'agents/a.conf')).toBe(true);
+    expect(matchGlob('agents/**', 'agents/nested/deep.conf')).toBe(true);
+    expect(matchGlob('agents/**', 'agentsX')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('* stays within a single segment', () => {
+    expect(matchGlob('*.local.md', 'SOUL.local.md')).toBe(true);
+    expect(matchGlob('*.local.md', 'a/SOUL.local.md')).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('resolveOwnership (deny-wins + fail-safe)', () => {
+  const m = parseManifest(SAMPLE);
+
+  it('operator globs win over framework globs (carve-out inside a framework subtree)', () => {
+    expect(resolveOwnership(m, 'tools/_lib/credentials.json')).toBe('operator');
+    expect(resolveOwnership(m, 'tools/git/pr-create.sh')).toBe('framework');
+  });
+
+  it('framework-declared paths resolve to framework', () => {
+    expect(resolveOwnership(m, 'guides/E2E-DELIVERY.md')).toBe('framework');
+    expect(resolveOwnership(m, 'CONSTITUTION.md')).toBe('framework');
+  });
+
+  it('UNKNOWN paths default to operator (the #791 root-cause guarantee)', () => {
+    expect(resolveOwnership(m, 'agents/coder0.conf')).toBe('operator'); // declared
+    expect(resolveOwnership(m, 'harvester/sop.md')).toBe('operator'); // undeclared → fail-safe
+    expect(resolveOwnership(m, 'totally-unknown-dir/x')).toBe('operator');
+    expect(resolveOwnership(m, 'random-root-file.md')).toBe('operator');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('planPrune (pure prune planner)', () => {
+  const m = parseManifest(SAMPLE);
+
+  it('prunes a retired framework file inside a shipped subtree', () => {
+    const del = planPrune({
+      manifest: m,
+      targetPaths: ['guides/OLD.md', 'guides/KEEP.md'],
+      sourcePaths: ['guides/KEEP.md'],
+    });
+    expect(del).toEqual(['guides/OLD.md']);
+  });
+
+  it('never prunes operator-reserved paths even when absent from source', () => {
+    const del = planPrune({
+      manifest: m,
+      targetPaths: ['agents/coder0.conf', 'tools/_lib/credentials.json', 'SOUL.local.md'],
+      sourcePaths: [],
+    });
+    expect(del).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('never prunes UNKNOWN paths outside every framework subtree (fail-safe)', () => {
+    const del = planPrune({
+      manifest: m,
+      targetPaths: ['harvester/sop.md', 'my-fleet.yaml', 'unknown-dir/deep/x'],
+      sourcePaths: [],
+    });
+    expect(del).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('never prunes single-file framework entries (reconcile-managed, not in subtree)', () => {
+    const del = planPrune({ manifest: m, targetPaths: ['CONSTITUTION.md'], sourcePaths: [] });
+    expect(del).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('property: delete-set ⊆ {framework-owned ∧ in-target ∧ not-in-source} and ∩ operator = ∅', () => {
+    const operatorish = [
+      'agents/a.conf',
+      'policy/p.md',
+      'SOUL.local.md',
+      'memory/m.md',
+      'tools/_lib/credentials.json',
+      'harvester/sop.md',
+      'unknown-top/x',
+      'another-unknown/deep/y.txt',
+    ];
+    const frameworkish = ['guides/A.md', 'guides/sub/B.md', 'tools/git/x.sh'];
+    const targetPaths = [...operatorish, ...frameworkish];
+    const del = planPrune({ manifest: m, targetPaths, sourcePaths: [] });
+
+    for (const p of del) {
+      expect(resolveOwnership(m, p)).toBe('framework');
+      expect(targetPaths).toContain(p);
+    }
+    // No operator/unknown path ever appears in the delete-set.
+    for (const p of operatorish) expect(del).not.toContain(p);
+  });
+});
+
+// The #797 Runtime Session Ledger lives at fleet/run/sessions/. Today it is safe
+// twice over: it matches the explicit `fleet/run/**` operator carve-out AND, even
+// without it, the UNKNOWN→operator fail-safe. This test isolates the CARVE-OUT's
+// load-bearing value by simulating a future framework author who broadens fleet
+// ownership to `fleet/**`: without the operator carve-out the ledger would resolve
+// framework and be pruned; deny-wins is what keeps it protected. If deleting the
+// `fleet/run/**` line ever stops turning this test red, the carve-out has silently
+// stopped mattering — which is exactly the #797 regression we are gating against.
+describe('fleet/run/** carve-out is load-bearing for the #797 ledger (deny-wins)', () => {
+  const LEDGER = ['fleet/run/sessions/events.ndjson', 'fleet/run/sessions/ledger.json'];
+  // A framework that (hypothetically) ships all of fleet/** as a subtree.
+  const withoutCarveOut: FrameworkManifest = {
+    framework: ['fleet/**'],
+    operator: [],
+  };
+  const withCarveOut: FrameworkManifest = {
+    framework: ['fleet/**'],
+    operator: ['fleet/run/**'],
+  };
+
+  it('RED without the carve-out: the ledger resolves framework and is pruned', () => {
+    for (const p of LEDGER) expect(resolveOwnership(withoutCarveOut, p)).toBe('framework');
+    const del = planPrune({ manifest: withoutCarveOut, targetPaths: LEDGER, sourcePaths: [] });
+    expect(del.sort()).toEqual([...LEDGER].sort());
+  });
+
+  it('GREEN with the carve-out: deny-wins makes the ledger operator and unprunable', () => {
+    for (const p of LEDGER) expect(resolveOwnership(withCarveOut, p)).toBe('operator');
+    const del = planPrune({ manifest: withCarveOut, targetPaths: LEDGER, sourcePaths: [] });
+    expect(del).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('the SHIPPED manifest reserves fleet/run/** so the ledger is operator-owned', () => {
+    const shipped = loadManifest(FRAMEWORK_ROOT);
+    for (const p of LEDGER) expect(resolveOwnership(shipped, p)).toBe('operator');
+    // And it is structurally unreachable by pruning even if it were in a subtree.
+    expect(planPrune({ manifest: shipped, targetPaths: LEDGER, sourcePaths: [] })).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('frameworkSubtreeRoots', () => {
+  it('returns only the /** subtree roots, not single-file entries', () => {
+    const m = parseManifest(SAMPLE);
+    expect(frameworkSubtreeRoots(m)).toEqual(['guides', 'tools']);
+  });
+});
+
+// ── SSOT manifest: shipped-file completeness (§6.2) ──────────────────────────
+// A newly-shipped framework file must not silently fall outside the manifest —
+// if it did, the updater could neither guarantee it as framework-owned nor
+// prune it when retired. Every file the framework actually ships must resolve
+// to `framework` (except the defaults/{SOUL,USER}.md identity seeds, which are
+// operator-owned by design).
+describe('manifest completeness against shipped framework tree', () => {
+  const manifest = loadManifest(FRAMEWORK_ROOT);
+
+  const IGNORED_TOP = new Set(['.git', 'node_modules']);
+  // Framework-shipped files that are operator-owned by design: the identity
+  // seeds under defaults/, and the `.gitkeep` placeholder that lets the empty
+  // operator-owned memory/ directory exist in git.
+  function isOperatorShipped(rel: string): boolean {
+    if (rel === 'defaults/SOUL.md' || rel === 'defaults/USER.md') return true;
+    if (rel.startsWith('memory/')) return true;
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  function walk(dir: string): string[] {
+    const out: string[] = [];
+    for (const entry of readdirSync(dir)) {
+      const abs = join(dir, entry);
+      const rel = relative(FRAMEWORK_ROOT, abs);
+      if (IGNORED_TOP.has(rel)) continue;
+      if (statSync(abs).isDirectory()) out.push(...walk(abs));
+      else out.push(rel);
+    }
+    return out;
+  }
+
+  it('every shipped framework file resolves to framework ownership', () => {
+    const shipped = walk(FRAMEWORK_ROOT);
+    const misclassified = shipped.filter(
+      (p) => !isOperatorShipped(p) && resolveOwnership(manifest, p) !== 'framework',
+    );
+    expect(misclassified).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('the operator-owned surface from #791 resolves to operator', () => {
+    const operatorPaths = [
+      'agents/coder0.conf',
+      'fleet/agents/coder0.env',
+      'memory/note.md',
+      'policy/custom.md',
+      'SOUL.local.md',
+      'USER.local.md',
+      'STANDARDS.local.md',
+      'tools/_lib/credentials.json',
+      'fleet/roster.yaml',
+      'fleet/roster.json',
+      'fleet/run/coder0.hb',
+      'fleet/backlog/data.db',
+      'fleet/roles.local/custom.md',
+    ];
+    for (const p of operatorPaths) {
+      expect(resolveOwnership(manifest, p), p).toBe('operator');
+    }
+  });
+});

packages/mosaic/src/framework/manifest.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+
+/**
+ * Framework path-ownership manifest (#791).
+ *
+ * The updater must operate from an explicit framework-owned path manifest and
+ * NEVER write outside it. This module is the TypeScript reader for the shared
+ * SSOT manifest (`packages/mosaic/framework/framework-manifest.txt`) that the
+ * bash installer also consumes. Keeping both paths on one data file is what
+ * closes the two-copies-drift failure class (see #631 → #791).
+ *
+ * Everything here is pure (parse + resolve + plan) so the ownership guarantee
+ * is unit- and property-testable without touching the filesystem.
+ */
+
+export type Ownership = 'framework' | 'operator';
+
+/**
+ * Thrown when the manifest is missing, empty, or malformed. A distinct type lets
+ * callers (e.g. finalizeStage) tell a pre-sync validation abort — where NO files
+ * were touched — apart from a generic mid-sync filesystem failure, and message
+ * the user accurately (#791 blocker-C).
+ */
+export class ManifestError extends Error {
+  constructor(message: string) {
+    super(message);
+    this.name = 'ManifestError';
+  }
+}
+
+export interface FrameworkManifest {
+  /** Globs the updater MAY create/overwrite, and prune only when retired. */
+  readonly framework: readonly string[];
+  /** Globs the updater must NEVER write over or prune. Win over `framework`. */
+  readonly operator: readonly string[];
+}
+
+type Section = 'framework' | 'operator' | null;
+
+/**
+ * Parse the line-oriented manifest text. `#` comments and blank lines are
+ * ignored; `[framework]` / `[operator]` headers switch the active section.
+ * Lines before any header are rejected — the format must be explicit.
+ */
+export function parseManifest(text: string): FrameworkManifest {
+  const framework: string[] = [];
+  const operator: string[] = [];
+  let section: Section = null;
+
+  const lines = text.split(/\r?\n/);
+  for (let i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
+    const raw = lines[i] ?? '';
+    const line = raw.trim();
+    if (line === '' || line.startsWith('#')) continue;
+
+    if (line === '[framework]') {
+      section = 'framework';
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (line === '[operator]') {
+      section = 'operator';
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (line.startsWith('[')) {
+      throw new ManifestError(`Unknown manifest section header on line ${i + 1}: ${line}`);
+    }
+
+    if (section === null) {
+      throw new ManifestError(
+        `Manifest entry before any [section] header on line ${i + 1}: ${line}`,
+      );
+    }
+    (section === 'framework' ? framework : operator).push(line);
+  }
+
+  // Fail CLOSED on an empty or comment-only manifest. A manifest with zero
+  // framework-owned globs would make resolveOwnership() return `operator` for
+  // every path: an upgrade would prune nothing and refresh nothing — a silent
+  // no-op indistinguishable from success. Refuse loudly instead, mirroring the
+  // bash reader's `manifest_load` guard so both halves reject it identically (#791 B2).
+  if (framework.length === 0) {
+    throw new ManifestError(
+      'Framework manifest defines no [framework] paths — refusing to proceed (empty or malformed manifest).',
+    );
+  }
+
+  // Fail CLOSED on framework entries that normalize to nothing usable. A manifest
+  // like `[framework]\n/` or `[framework]\n./` passes the length check above but
+  // every entry normalizes to an empty (or bare-dot) glob that matches no real
+  // path — so the compiled framework matcher is empty and every path resolves
+  // `operator`: the same silent no-op as an empty manifest. Require at least one
+  // entry with a real, non-dot character (the bash reader applies the identical
+  // `[^/.]` test, so both halves reject these inputs together — #791 blocker-B).
+  if (!framework.some(isUsableFrameworkGlob)) {
+    throw new ManifestError(
+      'Framework manifest defines no usable [framework] paths (every entry is empty or a bare dot segment) — refusing to proceed (malformed manifest).',
+    );
+  }
+
+  return { framework, operator };
+}
+
+/**
+ * A framework glob is usable only if, once normalized, it still contains a
+ * character other than `/` or `.` — i.e. it names a real path segment or a
+ * wildcard. `''`, `/`, `./`, `.`, `..` are all unusable (they compile to a glob
+ * that matches nothing). Kept byte-compatible with the bash `[[ =~ [^/.] ]]`
+ * test so TS and bash accept/reject exactly the same manifests.
+ */
+function isUsableFrameworkGlob(glob: string): boolean {
+  return /[^/.]/.test(normalizeRel(glob));
+}
+
+/** Read and parse the manifest from a framework root directory. */
+export function loadManifest(frameworkRoot: string): FrameworkManifest {
+  const file = `${frameworkRoot}/framework-manifest.txt`;
+  let text: string;
+  try {
+    text = readFileSync(file, 'utf-8');
+  } catch (err) {
+    // A missing/unreadable manifest must fail closed with a clear message, not a
+    // raw ENOENT that a caller might mistake for an empty result set (#791 B2/B3).
+    throw new ManifestError(
+      `Cannot read framework manifest at ${file}: ${(err as Error).message} — refusing to sync (fail-closed).`,
+    );
+  }
+  return parseManifest(text);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Match a mosaic-home-relative POSIX path against one glob.
+ *
+ * Supported: `**` (any depth, including zero segments) and `*` (any run of
+ * characters within a single segment, not crossing `/`). A glob with no
+ * wildcard matches either the exact path OR any path beneath it (so a bare
+ * directory entry like `memory` covers `memory/notes.md`).
+ */
+export function matchGlob(glob: string, relPath: string): boolean {
+  const path = normalizeRel(relPath);
+  const pattern = normalizeRel(glob);
+  if (pattern === '') return false;
+
+  if (!pattern.includes('*')) {
+    // Exact file, or any descendant of a bare directory prefix.
+    return path === pattern || path.startsWith(`${pattern}/`);
+  }
+
+  const re = new RegExp(`^${globToRegExpBody(pattern)}$`);
+  return re.test(path);
+}
+
+/** True if the path matches any glob in the list. */
+export function matchesAny(globs: readonly string[], relPath: string): boolean {
+  return globs.some((g) => matchGlob(g, relPath));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolve ownership of a mosaic-home-relative path (deny-wins / fail-safe):
+ * operator globs win, then framework globs, else operator by default.
+ */
+export function resolveOwnership(manifest: FrameworkManifest, relPath: string): Ownership {
+  if (matchesAny(manifest.operator, relPath)) return 'operator';
+  if (matchesAny(manifest.framework, relPath)) return 'framework';
+  return 'operator';
+}
+
+/**
+ * The set of `[framework]` subtree roots that pruning is allowed to descend
+ * into (glob entries of the form `dir/**`). Single-file framework entries
+ * (e.g. `CONSTITUTION.md`) are reconcile-managed and never pruned.
+ */
+export function frameworkSubtreeRoots(manifest: FrameworkManifest): string[] {
+  const roots: string[] = [];
+  for (const g of manifest.framework) {
+    if (g.endsWith('/**')) roots.push(g.slice(0, -3));
+  }
+  return roots;
+}
+
+export interface PrunePlanInput {
+  readonly manifest: FrameworkManifest;
+  /** Mosaic-home-relative paths currently present in the target. */
+  readonly targetPaths: readonly string[];
+  /** Mosaic-home-relative paths the framework currently ships (source). */
+  readonly sourcePaths: readonly string[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Pure prune planner — the testable seam of the #791 fix.
+ *
+ * Returns the delete-set: target paths that are framework-owned, live inside a
+ * shipped framework subtree, and are absent from the current source (retired
+ * framework files). By construction the result never contains an operator-owned
+ * or unknown path: those either resolve to `operator` or fall outside every
+ * framework subtree root, so they are structurally unreachable by pruning.
+ */
+export function planPrune(input: PrunePlanInput): string[] {
+  const { manifest, targetPaths, sourcePaths } = input;
+  const source = new Set(sourcePaths.map(normalizeRel));
+  const roots = frameworkSubtreeRoots(manifest);
+
+  const deleteSet: string[] = [];
+  for (const raw of targetPaths) {
+    const path = normalizeRel(raw);
+    if (source.has(path)) continue; // still shipped — keep
+    if (resolveOwnership(manifest, path) !== 'framework') continue; // operator/unknown — never prune
+    if (!roots.some((root) => path === root || path.startsWith(`${root}/`))) continue; // outside shipped subtrees
+    deleteSet.push(path);
+  }
+  return deleteSet;
+}
+
+function normalizeRel(p: string): string {
+  return p.replace(/\\/g, '/').replace(/^\.\//, '').replace(/^\/+/, '').replace(/\/+$/, '');
+}
+
+/** Translate a glob body (already normalized) into a RegExp source fragment. */
+function globToRegExpBody(pattern: string): string {
+  let out = '';
+  for (let i = 0; i < pattern.length; i++) {
+    const c = pattern[i];
+    if (c === undefined) continue;
+    if (c === '*') {
+      if (pattern[i + 1] === '*') {
+        // `**` — any depth. `a/**` must also match the bare root `a`, so when a
+        // literal `/` was just emitted, make it optional along with the rest.
+        i++;
+        let trailingSlash = false;
+        if (pattern[i + 1] === '/') {
+          i++;
+          trailingSlash = true;
+        }
+        if (out.endsWith('/')) {
+          out = `${out.slice(0, -1)}(?:/.*)?`;
+        } else if (trailingSlash) {
+          out += '(?:.*/)?';
+        } else {
+          out += '.*';
+        }
+      } else {
+        out += '[^/]*';
+      }
+    } else {
+      out += c.replace(/[.+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&');
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
+}

packages/mosaic/src/platform/file-ops.ts

@@ -62,16 +62,28 @@ function rotateBackups(filePath: string): void {
 /**
  * Sync a source directory to a target, with optional preserve paths.
  * Replaces the rsync/cp logic from install.sh.
+ *
+ * `isOperatorOwned` is the #791 ownership guard: when supplied, any source path
+ * it flags as operator-owned is never copied (the framework must never write an
+ * operator path). Callers derive it from the shared framework manifest so the TS
+ * and bash sync paths obey one source of truth. This copy is non-destructive —
+ * it never deletes a target file — so honoring the guard is sufficient to leave
+ * operator config untouched.
  */
 export function syncDirectory(
   source: string,
   target: string,
-  options: { preserve?: string[]; excludeGit?: boolean } = {},
+  options: {
+    preserve?: string[];
+    excludeGit?: boolean;
+    isOperatorOwned?: (relPath: string) => boolean;
+  } = {},
 ): void {
   // Guard: source and target are the same directory — nothing to sync
   if (resolve(source) === resolve(target)) return;
 
   const preserveSet = new Set(options.preserve ?? []);
+  const isOperatorOwned = options.isOperatorOwned ?? (() => false);
 
   // Collect files from source
   function copyRecursive(src: string, dest: string, relBase: string): void {
@@ -86,7 +98,7 @@ export function syncDirectory(
       if (options.excludeGit && (dirName === '.git' || relPath.includes('/.git'))) return;
 
       // Skip preserved paths at top level
-      if (preserveSet.has(relPath) && existsSync(dest)) return;
+      if (relPath !== '' && preserveSet.has(relPath) && existsSync(dest)) return;
 
       mkdirSync(dest, { recursive: true });
       for (const entry of readdirSync(src)) {
@@ -101,6 +113,10 @@ export function syncDirectory(
       // Skip preserved files at top level
       if (preserveSet.has(relPath) && existsSync(dest)) return;
 
+      // #791: never write an operator-owned path (the framework owns only its
+      // own files; unknown paths resolve to operator and are skipped too).
+      if (isOperatorOwned(relPath)) return;
+
       mkdirSync(dirname(dest), { recursive: true });
       copyFileSync(src, dest);
     }

packages/mosaic/src/runtime/update-checker.ts

@@ -488,9 +488,13 @@ export function getInstallAllCommand(outdated: PackageUpdateResult[]): string {
 // `mosaic update` installs the new npm CLI but, on its own, leaves the framework
 // files in ~/.config/mosaic/ stale — so shipped launcher/runtime changes (e.g.
 // the agent-name export + native heartbeat) never ACTIVATE until a re-seed.
-// These helpers run the package's own install.sh in sync-only mode (the P4
+// These helpers run the package's own install.sh in sync-only mode. The re-seed
-// data-safe reconcile: framework-owned overwrite + backup-once; SOUL/USER/
+// is manifest-driven (#791): keep mode writes ONLY framework-owned paths from the
-// *.local/credentials preserved) and, opt-in, relaunch durable agents.
+// shared framework-manifest.txt and prunes only retired framework files inside
+// shipped subtrees — every operator path (SOUL/USER/*.local/credentials, fleet
+// roster + agents + backlog, and anything the manifest never anticipated) is
+// left byte-identical. Contract files are still reconciled (overwrite +
+// backup-once). Opt-in, this also relaunches durable agents.
 
 /** Resolve the framework/ directory bundled in the installed package. */
 export function resolveBundledFrameworkRoot(): string {

packages/mosaic/src/stages/finalize-sync-abort.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+/**
+ * Tests for the framework-sync abort messaging (#791 B2 + blocker-C).
+ *
+ * finalizeStage runs `config.syncFramework()` first, inside a try/catch. If the
+ * sync throws, the wizard must:
+ *   1. NEVER fall through to "Installation complete" — the error is re-raised so
+ *      the process exits non-zero (#791 B2).
+ *   2. Classify the failure so recovery advice is accurate (#791 blocker-C):
+ *        - ManifestError  → a PRE-sync validation abort; nothing was written, so
+ *          the message states "no files were changed".
+ *        - any other error → may surface mid-copy, so the message must NOT claim
+ *          nothing changed; it warns the state "may be partially applied".
+ *
+ * We assert on the spinner's stop() message (the user-visible line) and that the
+ * original error is re-thrown unchanged in both cases.
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest';
+import { mkdtempSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import type { WizardState } from '../types.js';
+import type { ConfigService } from '../config/config-service.js';
+import { ManifestError } from '../framework/manifest.js';
+
+vi.mock('node:child_process', () => ({
+  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+  spawnSync: vi.fn<any>().mockReturnValue({ status: 0, stdout: '', stderr: '' }),
+}));
+
+vi.mock('../platform/detect.js', () => ({
+  getShellProfilePath: () => null,
+}));
+
+import { finalizeStage } from './finalize.js';
+
+function makeState(mosaicHome: string): WizardState {
+  return {
+    mosaicHome,
+    sourceDir: mosaicHome,
+    mode: 'quick',
+    installAction: 'keep',
+    soul: { agentName: 'TestBot', communicationStyle: 'direct' },
+    user: {},
+    tools: {},
+    runtimes: { detected: [], mcpConfigured: false },
+    selectedSkills: [],
+  };
+}
+
+function buildPrompter() {
+  const stop = vi.fn();
+  const update = vi.fn();
+  const prompter = {
+    intro: vi.fn(),
+    outro: vi.fn(),
+    note: vi.fn(),
+    log: vi.fn(),
+    warn: vi.fn(),
+    text: vi.fn(),
+    confirm: vi.fn(),
+    select: vi.fn(),
+    multiselect: vi.fn(),
+    groupMultiselect: vi.fn(),
+    spinner: vi.fn().mockReturnValue({ update, stop }),
+    separator: vi.fn(),
+  };
+  return { prompter, stop };
+}
+
+function makeConfigService(syncFramework: ConfigService['syncFramework']): ConfigService {
+  return {
+    readSoul: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({}),
+    readUser: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({}),
+    readTools: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({}),
+    writeSoul: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
+    writeUser: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
+    writeTools: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
+    syncFramework,
+    get: vi.fn(),
+    set: vi.fn(),
+    getSection: vi.fn(),
+  } as unknown as ConfigService;
+}
+
+describe('finalizeStage — framework sync abort (#791 B2 + blocker-C)', () => {
+  let tmp: string;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    tmp = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'mosaic-sync-abort-'));
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    rmSync(tmp, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    vi.clearAllMocks();
+  });
+
+  it('re-throws a ManifestError and reports that no files were changed', async () => {
+    const err = new ManifestError('Framework manifest defines no usable [framework] paths');
+    const { prompter, stop } = buildPrompter();
+    const config = makeConfigService(vi.fn().mockRejectedValue(err));
+
+    await expect(finalizeStage(prompter, makeState(tmp), config)).rejects.toBe(err);
+
+    // The abort message must state nothing was written (pre-sync validation).
+    expect(stop).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining('no files were changed'));
+    // It must NOT fall through to a success line.
+    expect(stop).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining('Installation complete'));
+  });
+
+  it('re-throws a non-ManifestError and warns the state may be partially applied', async () => {
+    const err = new Error('cp: write error mid-sync (disk full)');
+    const { prompter, stop } = buildPrompter();
+    const config = makeConfigService(vi.fn().mockRejectedValue(err));
+
+    await expect(finalizeStage(prompter, makeState(tmp), config)).rejects.toBe(err);
+
+    // A generic mid-sync failure must NOT claim nothing changed…
+    expect(stop).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining('may be partially applied'));
+    expect(stop).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining('no files were changed'));
+    expect(stop).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining('Installation complete'));
+  });
+
+  it('does not proceed to config writes when the sync aborts', async () => {
+    const err = new ManifestError('malformed manifest');
+    const { prompter } = buildPrompter();
+    const config = makeConfigService(vi.fn().mockRejectedValue(err));
+
+    await expect(finalizeStage(prompter, makeState(tmp), config)).rejects.toBe(err);
+
+    // writeSoul/writeUser/writeTools are only reached after a successful sync.
+    expect(config.writeSoul).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(config.writeUser).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(config.writeTools).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});

packages/mosaic/src/stages/finalize.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import type { WizardPrompter } from '../prompter/interface.js';
 import type { ConfigService } from '../config/config-service.js';
 import type { WizardState } from '../types.js';
 import { getShellProfilePath } from '../platform/detect.js';
+import { ManifestError } from '../framework/manifest.js';
 
 function linkRuntimeAssets(mosaicHome: string, skipClaudeHooks: boolean): void {
   const script = join(mosaicHome, 'bin', 'mosaic-link-runtime-assets');
@@ -160,7 +161,26 @@ export async function finalizeStage(
 
   // 1. Sync framework files (before config writes so identity files aren't overwritten)
   spin.update('Syncing framework files...');
-  await config.syncFramework(state.installAction);
+  try {
+    await config.syncFramework(state.installAction);
+  } catch (err) {
+    // Stop the spinner loudly and re-raise so the process exits non-zero — never
+    // fall through to "Installation complete" on an aborted sync (#791 B2).
+    // A ManifestError is a PRE-sync validation abort: the manifest is loaded and
+    // validated before any file is written, so nothing was touched. Any other
+    // error can surface AFTER files were partially copied, so we must NOT claim
+    // "no files were changed" for it — that would misdirect recovery (#791 blocker-C).
+    if (err instanceof ManifestError) {
+      spin.stop(
+        'Framework sync aborted — the framework manifest is missing, empty, or malformed; no files were changed.',
+      );
+    } else {
+      spin.stop(
+        'Framework sync aborted — the update did not complete and may be partially applied; see the error below.',
+      );
+    }
+    throw err;
+  }
 
   // 2. Write config files (after sync so they aren't overwritten by source templates)
   if (state.installAction !== 'keep') {