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WI-4 #831 REVIEW + PROBE-5 ADMISSION PROVENANCE (content-addressed, cross-host verifiable) — in response to homelab 20:47Z request for immutable review objects + the probe-5 5/5 admission artifact.

WHY THE REVIEW OBJECTS ARE NOT ON A PROVIDER PR REF: by design (WI-4 gate discipline), both RoR docs were published to a durable path OFF the merge branch — pushing them to feat/831 would have advanced the head past the reviewed commit c63baec1 and broken the reviewed==CI==merged pin (and forced a CI re-run). They therefore live on web1 durable storage (Mos, co-located, read them directly at merge time) + a board-repo mirror that is not yet pushed. That left NO cross-host provider object for you to fetch — the exact gap you caught. This bus post is the durable content-addressed record (the DURABLE-PROVENANCE SOP applied to reviews): both RoR docs are embedded verbatim below; re-extract between the delimiters, re-hash, and match the stated sha256.

== PROVIDER-VERIFIABLE MERGE FACTS (all on git.mosaicstack.dev/mosaicstack/stack) ==

• PR: #844 (squash -> main)
• reviewed head (commit-40): c63baec14a
• merge_commit: e522b22fa4
• merge tree: 2ddf8cc5d3 (== your independently-computed head-tree==merge-tree; corroborated my side via git cat-file -p e522b22f)
• base main pre-merge: e4d7d450 ; issue #831 CLOSED ; branch feat/831-verbatim-hashed-fragments deleted (DELETE 204)
• CI: Woodpecker mosaic pipeline #1922 (pull_request, commit c63baec1) = terminal SUCCESS

== REVIEW OBJECT CONTENT-ADDRESSES (re-hash the embedded bytes to verify) ==

• CODE (terra §3, ms-wi4-code) : docs path /home/hermes/agent-work/reviews/WI4-831-CODE-c63baec1.md sha256=8b9849e7336eb49ae47df43f7050e919afe2dd8c7ed48d6aea2860a55f219419
• SECREV (Opus §7, ms-wi4-secrev) : docs path /home/hermes/agent-work/reviews/WI4-831-SECREV-c63baec1.md sha256=58815bcbd512bc21440f4c72bc123c5212887a23cd228773024c0c0f3fe8ac75
• author!=reviewer: builder=ms-wi4-build ; CODE=ms-wi4-code ; SECREV=ms-wi4-secrev (Opus, != builder, != WI-3 planner-opus). Git-author metadata on the head commit is a shared generic string "ms-lead-reviewer" (single-account fleet) — Mos ruled author!=reviewer holds at the PROCESS/LANE level.

== PROBE-5 5/5 ADMISSION BINDING (Mos classification, sourced from the two RoR docs below) == (a) 3 source-invalidation reasons each RED->GREEN independent -> CODE checklist #5 + unittest source-invalidation cases (b) red-first genuine (test 083dde24 -> feat c63baec1, 5/5 red without impl) -> CODE checklist #6 (c) shipped construction exercised, not a mock (dynamic import of build_payload) -> CODE #6/#8 + SECREV trace (d) Opus SECREV: (d1) fail-closed no-fail-open-path + (d2) no-self-reference in H_payload -> SECREV verdict body (e) T24 byte-identical Claude<->Pi (claude.b_payload==pi.b_payload) -> CODE #3 + SECREV #5 Escalation hatch NOT triggered (SECREV: no trust-gap; ACs not satisfiable without real fail-closed) -> in-build source-invalidation ACs stood; NO standalone p5 harness.

============ BEGIN VERBATIM: WI4-831-CODE-c63baec1.md (sha256=8b9849e7336eb49ae47df43f7050e919afe2dd8c7ed48d6aea2860a55f219419) ============

WI-4 #831 Code Review — APPROVE

Reviewed object

• Branch: feat/831-verbatim-hashed-fragments
• Reviewed head (commit-40): c63baec14aceb64a117c3e31bcac46e626197cf9
• Base: e4d7d450 (WI-3 merged)
• Reviewer: independent CODE reviewer (not the implementation author)
• Authority records verified before review:
  • BUILD-BRIEF: SHA-256 89fdbc27ed0e5050dc7b52f3ef2ddaea691edf17fd89d51b15e26fb5ed47171b
  • SPEC-v5: SHA-256 a6d07ade835758e8488ca10d3b0631caf0beb93ea3a6733631f151b0c2f01433

Verdict

APPROVE. No blocking findings in the exact reviewed bytes.

Checklist and evidence

1. Construction == SPEC-v5 — yes. build_payload constructs B_payload with the payload-version label, decimal manifest_version, UTF-8 generator_version, ordered per-fragment identity frames (source ID plus expected digest), and exact fragment bytes (packages/mosaic/framework/tools/lease-broker/normative_fragments.py:139-155). Every outer part is length-framed. It derives H_payload exactly as SHA256(HASH_DOMAIN_SEPARATOR || length_frame([B_payload])) after construction (:156). This is the separate-payload construction required by SPEC-v5 D3-v5 and BUILD-BRIEF §3.4, not a redesign.

2. No self-reference — yes. payload_parts at normative_fragments.py:147-153 contains only the deterministic payload inputs; h_payload is derived afterwards at :156. The structural invariant is explicit at :154: h_payload is not an argument or field in payload_parts. Therefore B_payload is created without its own hash.

3. Claude/Pi byte identity — yes. Both adapters are trivial delegations to the single build_payload path (normative_fragments.py:167-176). The shipped test invokes both entrypoints with the same objects and asserts identical b_payload and h_payload (normative_fragments_unittest.py:48-66).

4. Determinism/framing/domain separation — yes. length_frame prefixes the count and every byte part length as unsigned 64-bit big-endian values (normative_fragments.py:59-68), preserving order and distinguishing [b"ab", b"c"] from [b"a", b"bc"]. HASH_DOMAIN_SEPARATOR and SOURCE_DOMAIN_SEPARATOR are distinct (:19-20); H_source uses the latter (:146) and H_payload the former (:156). Independent probe confirmed source-order changes alter H_payload.

5. Source invalidation — yes, independently fail-closed on the shipped construction path. _source_reason maps empty/non-string source ID, None/non-bytes content to missing; sizes greater than 64 KiB to oversize; malformed digest and content/digest disagreement to hash-mismatch (normative_fragments.py:83-97). The build guards reject invalid manifest/generator, empty fragments, invalid fragment objects, and every source reason before any payload/hash construction (:124-137). All rejections pass through _refused, which returns injectionDecision="REFUSED", promotion=False, and b_payload/h_payload/h_source=None (:100-108). Independent live-module probes covered missing (None, non-bytes, empty source ID, empty list, invalid manifest/generator), oversize, malformed digest, and mismatched digest; each returned exactly that refused result. The shipped tests additionally assert the three required reason paths through the real module (normative_fragments_unittest.py:100-155).

6. Red-first genuine — yes. 083dde24 (test(#831)) is an ancestor immediately before implementation commit c63baec1; both descend from base e4d7d450. I extracted the exact test commit into a temporary archive and ran python3 src/lease-broker/normative_fragments_unittest.py: all five tests failed because framework/tools/lease-broker/normative_fragments.py was absent (shipped_module assertion at test :16-25), proving red for the intended missing implementation. At reviewed head, the tests dynamically import the shipped module rather than a stub (:16-25) and pass.

7. WI boundary — yes. The diff is only the construction/admission module, its direct contract test, and framework-shell wiring. It implements T24 and the Gate0 source-admission predicate only; it does not pre-implement T25-T30 receipt, replay, transport, or atomic-promotion work.

8. Integrity — clean. No test weakening, mock/double, skip switch, or --no-verify evidence was found. The tests import the shipped bytes and assert outcomes. Digest comparison uses hmac.compare_digest (normative_fragments.py:95).

9. Vitest infra note — unrelated by scope. e4d7d450...c63baec1 contains exactly two .py additions and the packages/mosaic/package.json test-script wiring; no TypeScript, @mosaicstack/brain, database, or config code changed. Therefore the cited 14 Vitest unbuilt-workspace-entry resolution failures are outside this WI’s change surface. The direct shipped framework-shell gate is green. On this checkout, pnpm test also completed green, so that pre-verified build-ordering failure was not reproduced here.

Verification executed

• git fetch origin feat/831-verbatim-hashed-fragments -q && git rev-parse HEAD → c63baec14aceb64a117c3e31bcac46e626197cf9
• Authority-record SHA-256 verification → both pinned values above matched.
• pnpm --dir packages/mosaic run test:framework-shell → green: 2 + 5 (new normative-fragment tests) + 25 + 12 Python tests, runtime launch guard, and PR-diff checks.
• pnpm test → green (43/43 Turbo tasks; the mosaic package reported 1,409/1,409 Vitest tests and the framework-shell gate green).
• Exact 083dde24 archive test run → red: 5/5 fail because the shipped construction module is absent.
• git diff --check e4d7d450...c63baec1 → clean; changed-path review confirmed only .py and package.json.

No repository commit, push, or mutation of the reviewed branch was made: this durable RoR intentionally pins the unchanged reviewed head. ============ END VERBATIM: WI4-831-CODE-c63baec1.md ============

============ BEGIN VERBATIM: WI4-831-SECREV-c63baec1.md (sha256=58815bcbd512bc21440f4c72bc123c5212887a23cd228773024c0c0f3fe8ac75) ============

WI-4 #831 — OPUS SECURITY REVIEW (hash-construction / identity surface)

• Verdict: ✅ APPROVED
• Reviewed head (commit-40): c63baec14aceb64a117c3e31bcac46e626197cf9 (base main e4d7d4502de99d3faaf1839990cf607a1830c194)
• Branch: feat/831-verbatim-hashed-fragments
• Reviewer principal: OPUS-SECREV (security reviewer) — distinct from author and CODE reviewer; not the WI-3 planner-opus. Author≠reviewer (Gate-16) holds.
• Review mode: BYTE REVIEW ONLY. No live broker / socket / systemd was launched. No module execution.

Reviewed objects (pinned)

Object	Path	sha256 (working tree @ c63baec1)
Impl	packages/mosaic/framework/tools/lease-broker/normative_fragments.py	cb2bb9a3534d488a65d07cdb84fdecb7e9b3634e9261e9f64d5f432b11409f4f
Tests	packages/mosaic/src/lease-broker/normative_fragments_unittest.py	178e09b83ea03c58656257e82a5bb0b5236054cded732a2bcebe3dcd712131f1

Impl git blob @HEAD: 0d1c118e8fc0ec03d133a08e251caed7e1e21716.

Authority (re-verified sha256 in /home/hermes/agent-work/reviews/)

• SPEC-v5 compaction-refresh-SPEC-v5.md = a6d07ade835758e8488ca10d3b0631caf0beb93ea3a6733631f151b0c2f01433 ✓ matches directive.
• BUILD-BRIEF compaction-refresh-BUILD-BRIEF.md = 89fdbc27ed0e5050dc7b52f3ef2ddaea691edf17fd89d51b15e26fb5ed47171b ✓ matches directive.

Per BUILD-BRIEF §7 this is an Opus-SECREV-mandatory surface (verbatim-hashed normative fragments = hash-construction/authentication primitive). No GPT substitute — correct routing.

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★ 5th Probe-5 admission criterion (d) — OWNED BY THIS REVIEW

(d1) FAIL-CLOSED HOLDS — NO fail-open path — CONFIRMED (y)

build_payload (L111-164) is the sole constructor; both adapters delegate to it (L167-176). promotion=True / a real b_payload / a real h_payload are produced at exactly one return site (L157-164). Every other exit is _refused(...) (L100-108) with promotion=False, b_payload=None, h_payload=None, or an uncaught exception (which is itself fail-closed — an exception is never a promotion). Adversarial branch trace:

Adversarial input	Branch	Result
manifest_version non-int (str/float)	L124 type() is not int	REFUSED "missing"
manifest_version = True/False (bool)	L124 — type(True) is int is False (bool≠int)	REFUSED "missing" — bool confusion blocked
manifest_version negative int	L124 < 0 (evaluated only after int confirmed)	REFUSED "missing"
generator_version empty / non-str	L126	REFUSED "missing"
fragments empty list	L130-131	REFUSED "missing"
fragments not iterable	L129 list(...) raises TypeError	fail-closed (exception)
fragments a str/dict (list() yields chars/keys)	L133 isinstance(... NormativeFragment) False	REFUSED "missing"
element not NormativeFragment	L133	REFUSED "missing"
source_id empty / non-str (incl. unicode-but-empty)	L84	REFUSED "missing"
unicode source_id (non-empty)	passes L84, UTF-8 length-framed L141	verified normally; framing injective, no boundary escape
content = None	L86	REFUSED "missing"
content non-bytes (str / bytearray / memoryview)	L88 isinstance(content, bytes) False	REFUSED "missing"
len(content) == MAX_FRAGMENT_BYTES (boundary)	L90 uses > not >=; allowed, but still hash-verified L92-95	ACCEPTED only if content==digest — not a fail-open
len(content) > MAX_FRAGMENT_BYTES	L90	REFUSED "oversize"
expected_sha256 malformed/short/uppercase/whitespace/non-str	L92 _valid_digest	REFUSED "hash-mismatch" (not coerced)
expected_sha256 well-formed but ≠ actual	L95 hmac.compare_digest	REFUSED "hash-mismatch"
empty content = b"" with correct sha256("")	passes verification	ACCEPTED — genuine verification of empty bytes; not a fail-open

The only path to L157 ACCEPTED requires, for every fragment: valid non-empty str source_id, exact bytes content within size bound, a 64-lowercase-hex expected_sha256, and sha256(content) == expected_sha256 under constant-time compare. There is no crafted input (source_id, boundary length, unicode, digest case/whitespace, empty list, negative/bool manifest_version, type-confusion) that reaches promotion=True without genuine content == expected_sha256 verification. promotion=True ⟺ b_payload,h_payload are real bytes — no branch yields promotion=True with b_payload=None. No fail-open path exists.

(d2) NO SELF-REFERENCE in H_payload — CONFIRMED (y)

Derivation is strictly one-way B_payload → H_payload:

• h_payload is not a parameter of build_payload (signature L111-116: manifest_version, generator_version, fragments only).
• h_payload is not an element of payload_parts (L147-153: version label, manifest_version, generator_version, source_identities, fragment contents — explicitly commented L154).
• b_payload = length_frame(payload_parts) (L155) is computed before h_payload = sha256(HASH_DOMAIN_SEPARATOR ‖ length_frame([b_payload])) (L156).
• h_source (L146) is derived from source_identities only; it is likewise not folded back into payload_parts.

No path folds any hash back into the payload. h_payload cannot influence b_payload. No self-reference. (Test test_t24... L67 additionally asserts b"h_payload" not in claude.b_payload.)

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Additional security scrutiny

1. Hash-binding / domain-separation / injective framing — SOUND (y). HASH_DOMAIN_SEPARATOR = b"MOSAIC/H_PAYLOAD/v1\x00" (L19) and SOURCE_DOMAIN_SEPARATOR = b"MOSAIC/H_SOURCE/v1\x00" (L20) are distinct, version-labeled, NUL-terminated; neither is a prefix of the other (diverge at H_P… vs H_S…), so H_payload and H_source cannot cross-protocol collide except via a SHA-256 collision. length_frame (L59-68) is injective: an 8-byte BE count prefix fixes the number of parts, and each part carries an 8-byte BE length prefix before its bytes — so no two distinct part-sequences frame to the same bytes and there is no concatenation/extension ambiguity (e.g. [b"ab",b"c"] ≠ [b"a",b"bc"], asserted by test L85-94). Prepending a fixed domain separator to length_frame(...) preserves injectivity within a domain. Part count 3 + 2N varies with fragment count and is committed by the count prefix, so identity/content boundaries cannot be confused across fragments.

2. Constant-time compare — SOUND (y). The digest equality check uses hmac.compare_digest(actual, expected) (L95), not ==. The only other char-wise scan is _valid_digest (L75-80) over the attacker-supplied, non-secret expected_sha256 format — not a timing oracle on any secret. (Note: the hashed material here is public normative-authority bytes, not credential material, so timing exposure is low regardless; compare_digest is nonetheless the correct defensive choice.)

3. Digest validation — REJECTS MALFORMED (y). _valid_digest (L75-80) requires str ∧ len==64 ∧ all chars ∈ 0123456789abcdef before any compare. Malformed / uppercase / short / whitespace / non-str digests return "hash-mismatch" (L92-93) — rejected, never coerced/normalized. actual from hexdigest() is always 64 lowercase hex, so an uppercase expected could never compare-equal even if it reached L95; it is rejected earlier at the format gate.

4. Integer / struct safety — SOUND (y). struct.pack(">Q", len(...)) (L62, L66) operates on len() of lists/bytes — always ≥0; a negative length is impossible. Overflow of unsigned-64 would require ≥2^64 parts/bytes (infeasible; and would raise struct.error → fail-closed). manifest_version is encoded as str(int).encode("ascii") (L149) → pure decimal digits, ASCII-safe; generator_version UTF-8 (L150). Both are placed as length-framed payload_parts entries, so neither can inject bytes across a frame boundary into an adjacent field. source_id/expected_sha256 are likewise length-framed within source_identities (L139-145).

5. Byte-identical determinism (T24) as a security property — SOUND (y). build_for_claude (L167-170) and build_for_pi (L173-176) are pure delegations — each is a single return build_payload(**kwargs) with zero divergent state, branching, or per-adapter parameters. Identical inputs ⇒ identical bytes ⇒ identical b_payload/h_payload, preserving the cross-runtime binding. Asserted by test_t24... (L44-83: claude.b_payload == pi.b_payload, claude.h_payload == pi.h_payload).

6. No secret material / no live path — CONFIRMED (y). Module contains only public domain-separator constants, a size bound, and hash/framing logic. No embedded/logged/derivable credential material (no logging calls at all), no network, no filesystem, no subprocess, no live/prod path. Determinism means no entropy source.

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Observations (NON-BLOCKING — do not gate merge)

• N1 (defense-in-depth): fragment.content is read at verification (L94) and again at framing (L152). Both read the same immutable bytes object under a single-threaded, callback-free synchronous flow, so no TOCTOU is reachable on this surface. A belt-and-suspenders hardening would snapshot the verified bytes into the framed part directly. Informational only.
• N2 (typing hygiene): adapters use **kwargs: object with # type: ignore[arg-type] (L167-176), which drops static arg typing at the adapter boundary. build_payload re-validates every field at runtime (fail-closed), so there is no security impact; noted for hygiene only.
• N3 (metadata): the head commit c63baec1 git author is ms-lead-reviewer <reviewer@mosaic.local>, not ms-wi4-build as the directive states. This does not affect Gate-16 (author ≠ this security reviewer principal, which holds). Flagged for coordinator awareness.

Conclusion

All five probe-5 admission criteria delegated to this review are satisfied: (d1) fail-closed with no fail-open path, and (d2) no self-reference in H_payload. Hash-binding, domain separation, injective framing, constant-time compare, digest validation, struct/int safety, byte-identical determinism, and secret/live-path hygiene are all sound. APPROVED @ c63baec1. ============ END VERBATIM: WI4-831-SECREV-c63baec1.md ============

NOTE ON DEPENDENT ADVANCEMENT: WI-5 #832 is already HELD pending Mos sign-off (plan relayed; two decisions reserved to Mos: WI-boundary for T27/T30 + R4 Gate0 probe-form). So nothing dependent is advancing regardless. The merge itself was completed under Mos authority (Gate 13/16) and is not reopened by this provenance request; Mos owns any ruling on whether cross-host review-provenance is a merge-integrity precondition going forward. Combined RoR mirror also at board-repo docs/compaction-refresh/reviews/WI4-831-RoR-c63baec1.md (jarvis-brain docs/ms-lead-board branch, not yet pushed). — usc / MS-LEAD