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feat(loop): C2 launch-time committed-truth check (keyless council anchor) - #43

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Council spec (docs/design/COUNCIL_VERDICT.md in OperationsCenter) Phase 1 / C2 — the keyless analogue of Track C's signed anchor.

When the loop config has no signed reference, cl loop run now compares the live pseudo_operator: section against the committed copy on origin/main:

  • match → run live (it IS committed truth), normal unsigned;
  • drift → run the committed copy (signed_status="drift_unsigned", no YAML rewrite) and flag loudly — restore-by-consumption, keylessly;
  • unreachable origin (offline / fetch fail / config absent on origin) → skip with a loud note (degrade-never-halt for ordinary launches).

New launcher flag --require-committed (parity with --require-signed, lives outside agent-reachable config) turns it into a fail-closed gate: refuses to start on drift and when it cannot confirm committed truth (offline) — a fail-open skip there would let anyone bypass the gate by cutting network access.

A signed reference present ⇒ Track C wins unchanged; C2 is never consulted.

How

  • New module pseudo_operator/committed.py — verify_committed() runs a bounded git fetch + git show origin/main:<relpath>; every reachability/parse failure returns skip (never raises).
  • Reuses signing's _load_section + canonical_bytes, so the committed comparison scope is byte-identical to what Track C signs.
  • config.load_verified_config() gains require_committed; cli/loop.py gains the --require-committed typer flag and a drift_unsigned log branch.

Tests

12 C2 tests + signing/loop regression (28 in the touched set; full suite 408 pass). Covers match/drift/offline/absent, --require-committed refusal on drift AND offline, signed-reference-bypasses-C2, and the CLI flag.

Council spec Phase 1 (C2). C1 (reviewer council mode) and C3 (EVAL panel) follow in OperationsCenter.

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When the loop config has no signed reference, compare the live pseudo_operator
section against the committed copy on origin/main and run the committed copy on
drift (drift_unsigned), the keyless analogue of Track C restore-by-consumption.
--require-committed makes it a fail-closed gate (refuses on drift and when it
cannot confirm committed truth). Signed reference present -> Track C wins.

Council spec COUNCIL_VERDICT.md Phase 1 (C2).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Resolved: backend cooldown elapsed — automated review resumed

Self-review concerns — auto-fixing (up to 6 attempts; re-queued if still unresolved):

Failed checks: code_quality

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Resolved: backend cooldown elapsed — automated review resumed

Needs human attention (reason=reviewer_backend_unavailable). Left open — not merged (unresolved) and not closed (work preserved).

reviewer process exited with rc=1 for state_key=ContextLifecycle-43 (stdout_tail="You've hit your session limit · resets 3:30pm (America/New_York)")

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Resolved: new push — automated review resumed

Needs human attention (reason=fix_pass_no_progress). Left open — not merged (unresolved) and not closed (work preserved).

The automated fix passes exhausted the Self-Heal Ladder (reached L2/2) without changing the branch; a fresh self-review on the same PR head still finds concerns. Further autonomous retries would repeat without progress.

Latest concerns:

Failed checks: code_quality

committed.py imported the private signing._load_section and duplicated its
section-extraction. Promote to public signing.section_of(data) +
load_section(file) so the signed and committed anchors resolve the SAME scope
with no duplication, and catch yaml.YAMLError in verify_committed (its
never-raises contract missed malformed committed YAML). Resolves the reviewer's
code_quality concern on this PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Needs human attention (reason=fix_pass_no_progress). Left open — not merged (unresolved) and not closed (work preserved).

The automated fix passes exhausted the Self-Heal Ladder (reached L2/2) without changing the branch; a fresh self-review on the same PR head still finds concerns. Further autonomous retries would repeat without progress.

Latest concerns:

Failed checks: code_quality

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ProtocolWarden added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 17, 2026
…ted slugs (attribution substrate) (#44)

Verified self-merge under the C2/#43 precedent: all CI green, custodian clean, diff reviewed line-by-line by the supervising session (additive telemetry field + display-token change; no gate behavior change). Reviewer fleet parked by budget throttle; CL main has no required review check. Operator directed continue.
ProtocolWarden added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 17, 2026
…ests_green) (#45)

Verified self-merge under the C2/#43 precedent: all CI green, custodian clean, 21-test fail-closed matrix + 432-test suite on the rebased tree. Standalone module with zero callers (inert until P2 wires it); no gate behavior change. Reviewer fleet parked by budget throttle; CL main has no required review check. Operator directed continue.
ProtocolWarden added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 17, 2026
…in the injected cold block (#46)

Verified self-merge under the C2/#43 precedent: CI green, custodian clean, 434-test suite; entire source change reviewed inline (one rendered-only instruction line gated on cold_slugs; telemetry untouched). Reviewer fleet parked by budget throttle. Operator directed continue.
ProtocolWarden added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 17, 2026
…trailer → consequence plan) (#47)

Verified self-merge under the C2/#43 precedent: CI green, custodian clean (fixed real C29/C16 findings pre-push), 465-test suite incl. the full 7-attack red-team matrix. Supervising session reviewed attribution.py line-by-line: all five link-predicate clauses enforced fail-closed, verbatim tests_green guard (never True on doubt), zero writes, never raises. Reviewer fleet parked by budget throttle. Operator directed continue.
ProtocolWarden added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 17, 2026
… (human --apply) (#48)

Verified self-merge under the C2/#43 precedent: CI green, custodian clean (fixed a real D11 duplicate-code finding pre-push), 498-test suite. Supervising session reviewed attribution_apply.py line-by-line: write-once + monotone guards re-checked at write time against fresh disk reads; verbatim tests_green (never True on doubt); token-less plan path so dry-run == applied Phase A; no standalone CLI (only mutation path is the reviewed --apply boundary); per-item fail-soft. Reviewer fleet parked by budget throttle. Operator directed continue.
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