API Contract Artifacts Contract (S2 contract 9)

Status: DRAFT — awaiting ratification (webui-audit S2, contract 9 of 9). Authority: docs/API/README.md declares the single API documentation boundary: docs/API/OPENAPI.yaml as the canonical machine-readable HTTP/WebSocket contract and docs/API/ENDPOINTS.md as the human-readable endpoint, authentication, permission, and error index — both declared, neither present (the webui-audit REPORT's prerequisite 9). docs/SITEMAP.md records that canonical scope requires maintainer approval; ratification of this contract by the repository maintainer supplies that approval for these two artifacts. Contract 5 is the Tool↔Gateway Mapping Contract (D8) — S2 contract 5, PR #1438, landing as docs/requirements/tool-gateway-mapping.md in the same S2 ruling batch as this contract; it is not yet on the integration trunk, so its file does not exist in this branch's tree. Its §4 binds the per-operation request/result/error/audit envelope, and its §4.2 defines the closed per-family error taxonomy this contract's references bind to. Every "contract 5" reference in this document resolves against that document as ratified; §6.5 states the ordering dependency. This contract binds only how the two artifacts are produced, what they must cover, and how they are kept true.

Revision 2 (luna review F1–F5): the generation model now defines its complete input — a declared route-metadata layer every production route must carry, with the generator failing closed on any route lacking extractable metadata, and the migration of today's local-DTO, inline-typed, and raw-handler routes named as implementing-PR scope (F1). The §7.2 inventory is closed over the real surface: raw framework mounts, delegated surfaces, conditional/tier-gated controllers, SSE, and Socket.IO events in both directions, with an explicit delegation/exclusion list (F2). The ENDPOINTS.md no-duplication rule is reattributed as a new disclosed policy with a structured entry format and a mechanical checker (F3). Witnesses are added or made executable for 3.1 validity, family coverage in ENDPOINTS.md, per-entry required content, and the retirement equivalence algorithm (F4). §8 discloses every untraced binding rule, and the SITEMAP approval claim is restated in the sitemap's own terms (F5).

Revision 3 (luna re-review residuals + F6): the route-metadata layer is now a defined closed record with a per-field completeness predicate, and "production route" is a defined, decidable term (F1). The §7.2 scans cover all production source with a named registration-primitive list, a defined deployment-profile set, and a literal-event-name rule backed by one typed event registry (F2). ENDPOINTS.md gets an exact entry grammar and a repository checker script with defined reject rules (F3). §7.4 enumerates its normalization and comparison rules, defines covering-entry selection and the legacy-derivation rule, and §7.6 pins a named validator (F4). §8 discloses the §7 witness machinery itself (F5). Delegated surfaces get a machine-checkable delegation allowlist with a below-prefix boundary check (F6).

Revision 4 (luna re-review residuals + F7/F8): the route-metadata record is redefined as the route's registration input — the registration primitive consumes the record and derives the installed auth guard and permission enforcement from it, so record-vs-code divergence on those fields is structurally impossible, and a new source-consistency witness (§7.7) cross-checks the remaining fields (F1). The auth-class enumeration is pinned in this contract (four values, amendment-only), and Socket.IO event records get direction-specific field semantics replacing the status-code response map (F1). The scan roots are apps/, packages/, and plugins/ — all three named everywhere — and registration-primitive detection is by TypeScript symbol identity against the framework's type declarations, closing the wrapper/alias/dynamic-name escapes (F2). §2.2 defines an exact entry grammar (heading form, literal field labels, cardinality, link syntax, anchor syntax, event-item syntax) and §7.5's reject rules cover every Markdown node type plus a one-entry-per-operationId uniqueness rule (F3, and the covering-entry ambiguity in F4). §7.4 defines cycle handling, $ref scope, per-(path, method) matching, no-body equality, and a common representation for error-code comparison (F4). The delegation boundary requires the named module to contain exactly the mount call and nothing below the prefix from any module, with field-by-field mirror equality (F6). The exclusion list gets a closed, machine- checked eligibility rule: an excluded route emitted by any production-profile inventory pass is a witness failure (F7). The contract 5 dependency is named explicitly — PR #1438, same ruling batch — with an ordering clause and a contingency amendment rule (F8).

Revision 5 (luna r4 residuals F1/F2/F4 + F9): the auth-class enumeration grows to six values so the live alternation guards are representable — admin (session-with-admin-privilege OR admin bearer token) and federation (mTLS client identity plus federation grant) — and the generator carries a closed ApiAuthClass → OpenAPI security-requirement mapping (F1, F4). §7.7 gains an emitted-status closure: every status-emission site in a route's handler closure must resolve to a literal status contained in the record's response map, with unresolvable emissions a scan failure (F1). The §7.2 scan requires every registered path argument and decorator path value to resolve to a compile-time string constant equal to the record's path template; an unresolvable or mismatched path is a scan failure (F2). The response map admits an explicit no-body marker per status, and §7.4 canonicalizes body-less responses (including legacy description-only responses) to that marker so the deep equality has a defined input (F4). The §4.6 registry gains a total, single-valued event-ownership map to ENDPOINTS.md family names; §2.2 binds each event item to its owning family's entry; §7.5 rejects duplicate and wrong-family event items; and §7.2/§7.5 assert bidirectional set equality between the event inventory and the file's event items (F9).

This contract binds the artifact definitions (§2), the production model (§3), coverage obligations (§4), legacy migration (§5), phase timing (§6), witnesses (§7), and disclosed drafting additions (§8). Operation semantics stay with contract 5 and the owning S2 contracts; documentation placement rules stay with the docs atlas (docs/README.md).

1. Definitions

The artifacts: docs/API/OPENAPI.yaml and docs/API/ENDPOINTS.md, exactly as declared by docs/API/README.md.
Coverage: the set of Gateway HTTP routes (however registered), SSE routes, and Socket.IO events (both directions) the artifacts describe.
Drift: any difference between an artifact and the production surface it documents — an undocumented live route or event, a documented phantom, or a divergent schema/auth/error description.
Delegated surface: a mounted path prefix whose request handling is delegated wholesale to an embedded third-party engine (for example an auth engine's own route tree): the Gateway registers the mount; the engine defines the routes. Only a prefix listed in the §4.4 delegation allowlist is a delegated surface; any other prefix is ordinary surface, documented route-by-route.
Production route: any HTTP or SSE route, or Socket.IO event (either direction), registered by production source (apps/, packages/, and plugins/ — the three production roots, named identically in every scan in this contract; tests excluded) under ANY deployment profile (§4.5), excluding only entries on the §4.1 exclusion list and routes below a §4.4 delegated prefix. The term is decidable: a route is a production route iff the §7.2 inventory emits it, and the §7.2 scan definition — not intent — is the boundary.
Route metadata record: the closed per-route registration input (§3.1). The record is not documentation of a handler — it IS the handler's registration configuration: the registration primitive consumes the record, and the installed authentication guard and permission enforcement are DERIVED from the record's declared auth class and permission rule reference, so the record cannot diverge from the code on those fields; a route registered without a record, or with enforcement not derived from its record, fails §7.7. Its fields, all REQUIRED for HTTP and SSE routes: a unique operation id; the HTTP method and path template (or the SSE marker); the request schema reference (or an explicit no-body marker); the response map — every status code the route can emit, mapped to a schema reference or an explicit no-body marker (a body-less response is declared, never implied by omission), with at least one success entry, and with one error entry per HTTP status the route's declared error-code set maps to under the contract 5 §4.2 status mapping (so the reachable error statuses are exactly the declared taxonomy's statuses, cross-checked by §7.7); the authentication requirement, one value from the closed enumeration ApiAuthClass, exported from the shared types package with exactly the values none (unauthenticated), session (authenticated account), api-key (agent/service key), admin (the alternation guard: an authenticated session holding platform-admin privilege OR the admin bearer token — the alternation itself is the class, so the live admin surface is representable without collapsing it into session), federation (mTLS client identity plus a valid federation grant — both required), and bootstrap (identity §3 pre-epoch surface) — amendment-only, pinned here rather than deferred. Each ApiAuthClass value maps to exactly one OpenAPI security-requirement set under a closed mapping table carried by the generation script (§3.1): none maps to the empty security array, and each other value maps to a named security-scheme requirement set the implementing PR defines once in OPENAPI.yaml's components; the mapping is total over the enumeration, and §7.4(b) compares security through it; the permission rule reference (owning contract plus rule identifier); and the error-code set, drawn from the contract 5 §4.2 closed taxonomy. Socket.IO event records carry direction-specific fields in place of the response map: an inbound event record has the event name, direction, payload schema reference, and an ack schema reference or an explicit no-ack marker; an outbound event record has the event name, direction, and payload schema reference; the success-entry rule is defined as inapplicable to event records. Completeness predicate: every field present AND every reference resolvable, evaluated per field; a violation names the route and the exact failing field.

2. Artifact contract

OPENAPI.yaml is one file, valid OpenAPI 3.1 (witness §7.6), and the canonical machine-readable contract for the Gateway's HTTP surface. Socket.IO events, which OpenAPI cannot express natively, are documented in ENDPOINTS.md and referenced from the OpenAPI description block; inventing a pseudo-path encoding for them inside OPENAPI.yaml is non-conformant.
ENDPOINTS.md is the human index, in an exact entry grammar: the file is a sequence of entries, each entry exactly one ## heading whose text is the endpoint family name (unique in the file), followed by a bullet list whose items begin with exactly one of the literal field labels Summary:, Operations:, Auth:, Permissions:, Errors:, Events: — each label at most once per entry; Summary:, Operations:, Auth:, Permissions:, and Errors: REQUIRED in every entry, Events: REQUIRED for a family with Socket.IO events and absent otherwise. Field contents: Summary: — the family's behavior summary, free prose; Operations: — one or more Markdown links, each with link text equal to an operationId and link target ./OPENAPI.yaml#operation/{operationId} (the anchor grammar: the fragment is the literal string operation/ followed by the operationId; the link RESOLVES iff that operationId exists as an operation in the committed OPENAPI.yaml) — operations are referenced by link only, never by restated definition, and each operationId is linked from exactly one entry in the whole file; Auth: — the ApiAuthClass value (§1.6); Permissions: — the permission/authorization rule naming the owning contract (contract 2 for chain authorization, the SOT for workspace membership); Errors: — error semantics including the contract 5 §4.2 taxonomy codes; Events: — one bullet sub-item per event, each exactly inbound {event-name} or outbound {event-name} where {event-name} is a member of the §4.6 event registry, the item appears in exactly the entry of the family the §4.6 ownership map assigns to that event, and each (direction, name) pair appears at most once in the whole file. ENDPOINTS.md MUST NOT contain request/response schema definitions for any operation that exists in OPENAPI.yaml (mechanical rule: the reserved tokens requestBody, responses, parameters, schema, properties appear nowhere in the file, in any Markdown node type — witness §7.5; entry prose must avoid the reserved tokens, a disclosed strictness). This no-duplication rule and the entry grammar are new policy disclosed in §8 (the docs/API/README.md boundary as written binds guide books, not ENDPOINTS.md itself).
Both artifacts are committed repository files, reviewed in PRs like any contract text; neither is a build output that exists only in CI.

3. Production model

Generation (per the ruling). OPENAPI.yaml is GENERATED from the Gateway source by a deterministic repository script whose input is the route metadata record (§1.6) of every production route (§1.5): route decorators plus typed request/response schemas (the contract 5 §4.1 shared DTOs where the operation is a mapped tool family; declared per-route schemas elsewhere), each record satisfying the §1.6 completeness predicate. The generator fails closed: it first computes the §7.2 inventory's route set, then requires a complete metadata record for every route in it; a missing record, a missing field, or an unresolvable reference is a generation error naming the route and field — never a silently omitted or partially emitted operation. Because the route set comes from the inventory and completeness is the per-field §1.6 predicate, a byte-stable but incomplete artifact cannot pass: an unrecorded route fails generation, and a recorded route emits every §1.6 field into its OpenAPI operation (operation id, schemas, per-status responses, security requirement, and the permission reference and error-code set as declared extension fields). Because the record is the registration input (§1.6), the generator's input and the route's installed enforcement share one source; §7.7 witnesses that no route bypasses record-derived enforcement and that the record fields the framework does not consume (error-code set, response map) match the code. Today's local-DTO, inline-typed, and raw-handler routes therefore migrate to complete metadata records in the implementing PR. The generated output is committed, and CI regenerates and byte-compares it (§7.1). Hand edits to OPENAPI.yaml are non-conformant — a description that cannot be expressed from source annotations goes into the annotations, or into ENDPOINTS.md.
Normative direction. Generation documents the code; it does not ratify it. The S2 contracts and their witnesses remain the normative gates on what the surface may be; the artifacts make the measured surface visible and machine-checkable. A generated description of a non-conformant route is drift evidence against that route's owning contract, not authority for it.
ENDPOINTS.md is hand-authored (its content — permission rationale, cross-contract links, event semantics — is judgment, not extraction), against the §7.2 coverage and §7.3 content witnesses.

4. Coverage obligations

Closure over the real surface. Coverage extends to every production route however registered: framework-decorated controllers and gateways AND raw framework mounts registered outside them (the bootstrap's own route/hook registrations), SSE routes, and conditionally registered (deployment-tier-gated) controllers — documented in the union, each conditional route marked with its condition. Delegated surfaces (§1.4) are documented as delegated-surface entries naming the mount, the delegating engine, and that engine's own contract — not re-documented route-by-route. Socket.IO events are covered in both directions: subscribed (inbound handler) events and server-emitted events. Test-only and development-only surfaces are excluded via an exclusion list that is explicit in the generation script and enumerated in ENDPOINTS.md, never implicit. The list has a closed, machine-checked eligibility rule: each entry names the route, its reason class (test-only or dev-only), and the exact guard — the deployment-profile branch or build-time flag — that prevents its registration in every §4.5 production profile; eligibility is DEFINED as "not emitted by the §7.2 inventory in any production profile", and the §7.2 witness fails if any excluded entry is emitted by any production-profile pass. A live route added to the list is therefore a witness failure, not a silent omission. The exclusion and delegation lists are new policy disclosed in §8.
Every documented operation carries: its authentication requirement; its authorization rule by reference to the owning contract; its error responses drawn from the contract 5 §4.2 closed taxonomy. Where contract 2's no-existence-oracle rule applies, the documentation shows authorization refusal and not-found as indistinguishable on the wire — documenting a distinguishing response there is a coverage defect, not a documentation style choice.
New surface ships documented: a PR that adds or changes a Gateway route or event lands with the regenerated OPENAPI.yaml and any needed ENDPOINTS.md entry in the same PR, enforced by the §7.1 drift gate — there is no "docs to follow" state.
Delegation allowlist. The generation script contains one machine-readable delegation allowlist; each entry names: the mount prefix; the delegating engine package (name and version constraint); a reference to the engine's own route contract (the engine package's published API document); and the one production module that registers the mount. The §7.2 witness enforces the boundary in both halves: (a) the named registration module contains exactly one registration-primitive call — the mount itself — and no other; (b) any route registration, from ANY module including the named one, whose path resolves below an allowlisted prefix fails the witness — the single mount call is the only permitted registration under the prefix, so an app-owned handler cannot hide there, inside or outside the named module. ENDPOINTS.md's delegated-surface entries mirror the allowlist field-by-field: prefix, engine package name and version constraint, engine contract reference, and registering module are each equal by string comparison after whitespace trimming — "mirror one-to-one" means this equality, checked by §7.5.
Deployment profiles. The authoritative profile set is the closed deployment-tier enumeration in the Gateway's configuration schema (the same enumeration the conditional registrations branch on); the implementing PR names it. The inventory is evaluated once per profile and unioned; each conditional operation carries a declared condition extension field naming the profile(s) it exists in. A conditional branch on anything outside the named enumeration fails the §7.2 witness.
Event-name discipline. The event registry is two exported as const readonly records in the shared types package — one inbound, one outbound — whose values are unique string literals; that shape is part of this contract, not implementing-PR discretion. Every Socket.IO event name, in both directions, is a member of the applicable registry, referenced by symbol (a registry property access), never by a re-typed string; emitting or subscribing with a dynamically constructed name, or through a helper whose name argument does not resolve (by the type-checker's symbol identity, §7.2) to a registry member, is non-conformant (§7.2 scans for non-registry names). The registry is the comparison target for the event inventory. Event ownership: the shared types package additionally exports one as const readonly ownership record mapping every registry event name (both directions) to exactly one ENDPOINTS.md family name (the §2.2 ## heading text). The map is total over the union of both registries and single-valued — every event has exactly one owning family — and it is the deterministic rule for which entry documents which event; a registry event absent from the map, or mapped to a family with no ENDPOINTS.md entry, fails §7.5.

5. Legacy migration

docs/openapi-tess.yaml (17 paths, Tess-scoped) remains labeled a scoped legacy artifact until the consolidated OPENAPI.yaml demonstrably covers it: the docs/API/README.md retirement rule (verify paths, schemas, authentication, permissions, error behavior, and generated/client references) is binding, witnessed by §7.4's equivalence algorithm.
Retirement is deletion in a reviewed PR after the §7.4 witness passes; until then no consumer may treat the legacy artifact as canonical for anything beyond its own 17 paths. (The deletion-in-reviewed-PR form and the interim-consumer restriction are disclosed in §8.)

6. Phase timing

The artifacts, the metadata migration (§3.1), and the generation script are produced by an implementing PR after this contract is ratified; they are S4-phase platform work, not part of any S2 ruling PR.
From the first commit of OPENAPI.yaml onward, the §7.1 drift gate is a required CI check on the integration trunk; the §4.3 same-PR rule binds every subsequent surface-changing PR.
The build-first tool families (A5 ranks, contracts 1–3, 5, 8) are documented as they land, under the same rule — the roll-up query, for example, ships with its OpenAPI operation and its ENDPOINTS.md entry in its implementing PR.
The phase placement and rollout sequencing in this section are disclosed in §8.
Contract 5 ordering dependency. This contract's taxonomy and envelope references bind to the Tool↔Gateway Mapping Contract (S2 contract 5, PR #1438, docs/requirements/tool-gateway- mapping.md), ratified in the same S2 batch but not yet on the integration trunk. No implementing PR under this contract may land before contract 5's document is on the trunk and the shared-types taxonomy enums it requires exist. If contract 5 is not ratified, every §4.2-taxonomy reference here is unresolvable and this contract requires amendment before implementation — stated so the dependency is explicit rather than a dangling file reference (disclosed, §8).

7. Verification requirements

Binding on the implementing PRs; each witness names its commands, scanned source roots, and compared files.

Drift witness: CI regenerates OPENAPI.yaml with the repository script and fails on any byte difference from the committed file; the witness proves it can fail by a control run against a mutated copy. Fail-closed controls (§3.1): one control per §1.6 field class — a fixture route with the whole record absent, and fixture routes each missing one field class (operation id, schema reference, response map, auth requirement, permission reference, error-code set) — each makes generation fail naming the route and field, not emit a partial document.
Coverage witness: an independent surface inventory — static enumeration over ALL production code in apps/, packages/, and plugins/ (the §1.5 production roots), tests excluded (the A5 §1.2 inventory style), not limited to the bootstrap module — covering: framework-decorated controllers and gateways; every raw registration primitive of the HTTP framework (the implementing PR enumerates the primitive list — route, hook, middleware-mount, and plugin-registration calls — and the witness asserts the list against the framework's registration API surface) wherever it occurs, including middleware modules; SSE routes; conditional registrations evaluated per §4.5 profile and unioned; and delegated-surface mounts, with the §4.4 boundary check (exactly-one-mount rule and the all-module below-prefix prohibition). Detection is by symbol identity, not text: the scan identifies registration-primitive call sites through the TypeScript type-checker, resolving each callee to its declaration in the framework package's type declarations — so an alias, a re-export, or a wrapper cannot escape (a wrapper's internal call to the primitive is itself a detected call site); a dynamic property access on the framework's registration object, or a callee the type-checker cannot resolve, is a scan FAILURE naming the site, never a silent skip — with one control per case (aliased call detected; wrapped call detected; dynamic-name access fails). Path-argument resolution: for every detected registration call site and every route decorator, the path argument must be a string literal or resolve through the type-checker to a compile-time string constant; the resolved string is then compared for exact equality with the route's §1.6 record path template. A path argument the checker cannot resolve to a constant (app.get(computedPath(), handler), a decorator with a computed path value) is a scan FAILURE naming the site, never an inventory entry with an undefined path — with one control per case (computed path argument fails; computed decorator path fails; a resolved path unequal to its record's template fails). The inventory equals the documented set in both directions: no undocumented live route, no documented phantom, each conditional operation carrying its §4.5 condition field, each delegated surface present exactly once. Socket.IO events are inventoried in both directions — inbound subscription handlers by handler scan, server-emitted events by emit-call scan — with the §4.6 registry as the comparison target and a scan failure on any non-literal or non-registry event name. Event-set closure: the inventoried event set (both directions) and the set of Events: sub-items across all ENDPOINTS.md entries are equal as sets — every inventoried event appears as an item in its owning family's entry, and every item corresponds to an inventoried event; an inventoried event absent from the file, and a documented event the inventory does not emit, each fail the witness, with one control per direction. Additionally, every HTTP route family in OPENAPI.yaml has an ENDPOINTS.md entry, and every ENDPOINTS.md operation reference resolves to an existing operationId — both directions, mechanical.
Content and taxonomy witness: every ENDPOINTS.md entry carries the §2.2 required fields — behavior, operation links, authentication requirement, owning-contract link, error semantics — presence-checked mechanically against the §2.2 entry grammar; every error response documented in OPENAPI.yaml uses a code from the contract 5 §4.2 closed enums as exported from the shared types package (contract 5 §4.1's package; the implementing PR that lands the enums names the exports, and this witness compares against those exports — §6.5 orders the dependency), and each family's documented codes exactly match the enum in the shared types package; where the no-oracle rule applies, the documented refusal and not-found responses are identical in code, status, and shape.
Retirement witness: before docs/openapi-tess.yaml is deleted, an automated comparison proves each of its 17 paths is covered by OPENAPI.yaml under this equivalence algorithm, exactly: (a) canonicalize both documents — dereference every $ref in-document only (an external $ref is a canonicalization failure naming the reference), with cycle detection that replaces a re-entered $ref by a canonical cycle marker carrying the cycle's entry pointer (deterministic, so two documents with the same cycle structure canonicalize identically), delete the annotation-only keywords (description, summary, example, examples, title, deprecated), rename path-template parameters positionally, lowercase HTTP methods, then sort all object keys; (b) per legacy operation — each (path, method) pair independently, so a multi-method legacy path yields one match per method: deep structural equality of the canonicalized request and response schemas (an absent request body matches only the canonical no-body marker; a response entry with no body schema — including a legacy response carrying only a description with no content — canonicalizes to the same explicit no-body marker, so the deep equality is defined for body-less responses and a no-body response matches only a no-body response; equality is evaluated over the canonical forms, so no-body vs any schema is a difference), equality of the security/authentication requirement sets — compared through the §1.6 ApiAuthClass → security-requirement mapping, i.e. the legacy operation's security requirement set is compared with the set the mapping assigns to the covering route's declared auth class — and equality of the documented error semantics compared in a common representation with two components — the HTTP error-status set (the legacy operation's documented non-2xx status codes vs the covering operation's emitted non-2xx status codes) and the taxonomy-code set as plain strings (any error-code enum values in the legacy response schemas vs the covering route's §1.6 error-code set; where the legacy schemas express no taxonomy codes, this component's comparison target is the covering route's §1.6 record alone, i.e. the record is asserted present and closed, exactly as the permissions dimension below); where the legacy document does not express a dimension at all (permissions), the comparison target is the live §1.6 metadata record of the covering route instead; (c) the covering ENDPOINTS.md entry — unique by §7.5's one-entry-per-operationId rule, selected as the entry containing the operationId link of the operation that matched the legacy operation in (b) — must carry a permission rule reference equal (same owning contract, same rule identifier) to that covering route's §1.6 permission reference. The comparison emits the exact per-operation differences on failure. A repository-wide reference scan shows no remaining consumer (including generated clients) resolves the legacy file.
Boundary witness: the repository checker script (shipped by the implementing PR and run in CI alongside §7.1) parses ENDPOINTS.md into the §2.2 entry grammar via a Markdown AST and rejects, exactly: (a) an entry violating the grammar — a non-## entry heading, a duplicate family name, a missing required field label, a duplicated field label, or an Events: field on a non-event family; (b) an operation mention that is not a Markdown link in the §2.2 anchor grammar (link text = operationId, target = ./OPENAPI.yaml#operation/{operationId}); (c) any of the reserved tokens requestBody, responses, parameters, schema, or properties appearing in ANY Markdown node type — fenced code, indented code, HTML block, table, inline code, or prose — anywhere in the file (schema content belongs only in OPENAPI.yaml); (d) an operationId link that does not resolve, per the §2.2 resolution rule; (e) an event item not matching the §2.2 inbound {name} / outbound {name} syntax or whose event name is not in the §4.6 registry's matching direction; (f) an operationId linked from more than one entry; (g) a delegated-surface entry whose fields are not field-by-field equal to the §4.4 allowlist entry (string comparison after whitespace trimming); (h) a (direction, event-name) item appearing more than once in the file, whether within one entry or across entries; (i) an event item in an entry other than the one the §4.6 ownership map assigns to that event; (j) a §4.6 registry event absent from the ownership map, or mapped to a family name with no entry in the file. The witness proves it can fail with one control per reject rule. (Prose duplication a scanner cannot see is handled by review, but every structural duplication channel above is mechanical.)
Validity witness: OPENAPI.yaml parses and validates as OpenAPI 3.1 in CI under Redocly CLI (redocly lint), pinned as a repository devDependency (substituting a different validator is an amendment to this contract); the witness proves it can fail by a control run against an invalidated copy.
Source-consistency witness: for the record fields the registration derivation (§1.6) does not structurally guarantee, the witness cross-checks record against code: (a) derivation closure — every production route's installed authentication guard and permission enforcement originate from its record's declared ApiAuthClass and permission rule reference (static assertion that no route installs a guard or permission check through any path other than record derivation), with a control route that installs a bypassing guard failing the assertion; (b) error-code closure — per route family, the set of contract 5 §4.2 taxonomy codes referenced by the family's production code (by symbol identity against the shared-types enum exports) equals the union of the family's records' error-code sets, in both directions, with one control per direction (a code emitted but not declared; a code declared but never emitted); (c) response-map closure — each record's error entries are exactly the HTTP statuses its error-code set maps to under the contract 5 §4.2 status mapping (mechanical recomputation), with a mutated-record control; (d) emitted-status closure — for every production route, every status-emission site in the handler and its production-source callee closure (each site identified by symbol identity against the framework's reply/response type declarations — the status setter, shorthand send-with-status calls, and framework error constructors carrying a status) must resolve, as a literal or a compile-time constant, to a status present in the route's record response map; a status argument the checker cannot resolve, or a resolved status absent from the record's response map, is a witness FAILURE naming the site — with controls: a handler emitting an unclassified status (reply.status(418)) fails; a computed status argument fails; a framework-default emission path (implicit 200) is attributed to the route and must appear in its response map.

8. Drafting additions (PRD §12.1 disclosure)

The two artifacts, their roles, and the retirement verification dimensions are traced to docs/API/README.md and docs/SITEMAP.md. Proposed drafting additions, visible here for ratification, each severable:

The generated-with-committed-output production model, the declared route-metadata layer with its fail-closed generator, the metadata migration scope, and the CI drift gate (§3.1, §7.1) — the ruling below.
The same-PR documentation rule for surface changes (§4.3).
The explicit exclusion list and the delegated-surface documentation form (§4.1).
The Socket.IO placement rule (events in ENDPOINTS.md, no pseudo-paths) and the both-direction event coverage (§2.1, §4.1).
The no-oracle documentation requirement (§4.2).
The ENDPOINTS.md structured entry format and its no-duplication rule with the mechanical boundary witness (§2.2, §7.5).
The committed-repository-file rule — neither artifact exists only in CI (§2.3).
The normative-direction rule — generation documents, never ratifies (§3.2).
The retirement deletion-in-reviewed-PR form and the interim-consumer restriction (§5.2), and the §7.4 equivalence algorithm.
The §6 phase placement: implementing-PR-after-ratification, the drift gate as a required trunk check from first commit, and the build-first documentation sequencing.
The §1.5/§1.6 definitions themselves — the production-route boundary over the three named roots, the closed route-metadata record with its per-field completeness predicate, its record-as-registration-input derivation rule, the pinned six-value ApiAuthClass enumeration with its closed security-requirement mapping, and the event-record field semantics — and the §4.4 delegation allowlist with its exactly-one-mount and all-module below-prefix rules and field-by-field mirror equality, the §4.5 profile enumeration and condition field, and the §4.6 typed event registry with its two-record as const shape, symbol-reference rule, and total single-valued event-ownership map.
The §7 witness machinery as such: the §7.2 independent inventory with its registration-primitive list, symbol-identity detection with its failure-not-skip rule, and bidirectional family/operation checks, the §7.3 content and taxonomy witness, the §7.5 checker script with its ten reject rules, the §7.6 pinned validator (Redocly CLI), the §7.7 source-consistency witness, the per-field fail-closed controls in §7.1, and the §7.4 canonicalization/derivation/ covering-entry algorithm.
The §2.2 entry grammar as exact syntax (heading form, literal field labels and cardinality, link and anchor grammar, event-item syntax, the one-entry-per-operationId rule, and the reserved-token prohibition including its prose strictness).
The §4.1 exclusion-list eligibility rule (closed, machine-checked against every production-profile inventory pass).
The §6.5 contract 5 ordering dependency and its contingency amendment rule.
The revision-5 closure rules: the admin and federation auth classes representing the live alternation and mTLS-plus-grant guards (§1.6); the response-map no-body marker and its §7.4 body-less canonicalization; the §7.2 path-argument resolution rule (compile-time constant, equal to the record's path template, failure otherwise); the §7.7(d) emitted-status closure; and the event-set closure machinery — the §4.6 ownership map, the §2.2 owning-family and at-most-once item rules, the §7.2 bidirectional event-set equality, and §7.5 reject rules (h)–(j).

Ruling request

Ruling requested (one decision): shall OPENAPI.yaml be generated from Gateway source through a declared, fail-closed route-metadata layer with a committed output and a CI drift gate (recommended — the 45-controller surface already exists, so generation is the only route that starts true and stays true, and fail-closed metadata makes incompleteness a build error) — or hand-authored contract-first, with code conformance to the hand-written contract enforced by witnesses instead?

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