AGENTS.md

# AGENTS.md — HelixCode Authoritative Agent Guide

## HelixCode Agent Guidelines

**Version**: 3.0.0 (Updated with full architecture audit)
**Date**: 2026-04-30
**Scope**: All AI agents, human contributors, and automated processes working on HelixCode
**Authority**: Derived from HelixAgent AGENTS.md with HelixCode-specific enhancements

---

## INHERITED FROM constitution/AGENTS.md (HelixConstitution submodule)

> Base agent rules: `constitution/AGENTS.md` — READ IT FIRST.
> The base file is authoritative for any topic not covered here.
> Project-specific rules below extend them; they never weaken them.

The HelixConstitution submodule (`./constitution/`, added 2026-05-14)
provides the universal CLI-agent operating manual. Every CLI agent
working on this project — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Aider,
Continue, Gemini CLI, future LLMs — MUST read both
`constitution/AGENTS.md` AND this project AGENTS.md, treating the
project file as a tightening overlay (never a weakening).

**Project remote-policy note (revised 2026-06-03)** — Per operator
decision 2026-06-03, HelixCode permits GitFlic + GitVerse Git remotes in
addition to GitHub + GitLab; the prior §6.W tightening forbidding
GitFlic/GitVerse is **LIFTED** and pushes target all configured upstreams
across all four providers. Other tightenings (e.g.
CONST-033 host power management hard-ban, CONST-035 anti-bluff
covenant, CONST-042 secret-leak policy, CONST-045 distribution-host
config policy, CONST-046 no-hardcoded-content, CONST-047 recursive
submodule application mandate) all SURVIVE this inheritance.

---

## Project Overview

HelixCode is an enterprise-grade distributed AI development platform built in Go. It enables intelligent task division, work preservation, cross-platform development workflows, and multi-provider LLM integration through a unified REST API, CLI, Terminal UI, Desktop, and Mobile client architecture.

**Current Status**: The `internal/` foundation is largely solid (auth, database, server, worker, task, workflow, tools, editor, notification, MCP, **verifier** are real implementations). Critical bluff and stub areas remain in select entry points and peripheral packages. All agents MUST prioritize zero-bluff implementation.

**LLMsVerifier Integration Status**: `internal/verifier/` package is now implemented with REST API client, two-tier cache, circuit breaker health monitor, background poller, score adapter, and event publisher. BLUFF-002 (hardcoded CLI models) and BLUFF-004 (hardcoded external models) are FIXED. BLUFF-005 (scoring ignores verifier data) is FIXED in `ModelManager.SelectOptimalModel()`.

**Key Features**:
- **Distributed Computing**: SSH-based worker pools with health monitoring, auto-installation, and consensus
- **Multi-Provider LLM Integration**: 15+ providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama, Azure, Bedrock, Groq, Mistral, Cohere, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, OpenRouter, HuggingFace, Llama.cpp)
- **Development Workflows**: Automated planning, building, testing, refactoring with real shell execution
- **Task Management**: Intelligent task division with priorities, dependencies, checkpointing, and Redis caching
- **MCP Protocol**: Full Model Context Protocol server over WebSocket with tool dispatch
- **Multi-Client Architecture**: REST API (Gin), Cobra CLI, Terminal UI (tview), Desktop (Fyne), Mobile (gomobile), WebSocket
- **Memory Systems**: In-memory, filesystem, Redis, Memcached, Cognee, ChromaDB, Qdrant, Weaviate integrations
- **Advanced Editor**: Multi-format code editing (diff, whole-file, search/replace, line-based) with backups
- **Tools Ecosystem**: 40+ tools across filesystem, shell, web, browser, mapping, multiedit, confirmation, notebook, git
- **Notifications**: Multi-channel support (Slack, Email, Telegram, Discord, Yandex Messenger, Max)

---

## Technology Stack

**Core Technologies**:
- **Language**: Go 1.24.0 with toolchain go1.24.9
- **Module**: `dev.helix.code`
- **HTTP Framework**: Gin v1.11.0
- **Authentication**: JWT v4.5.2, bcrypt + argon2
- **Database**: PostgreSQL 15+ via pgx/v5 (optional)
- **Cache**: Redis 7+ via go-redis/v9 (optional)
- **Configuration**: Viper v1.21.0
- **CLI Framework**: Cobra v1.8.0
- **Testing**: Testify v1.11.1

**UI Technologies**:
- **Desktop**: Fyne v2.7.0
- **Terminal UI**: tview v0.42.0
- **Mobile**: gomobile bindings

**External Integrations**:
- **Browser Automation**: chromedp v0.14.2
- **Web Scraping**: goquery v1.10.3
- **Tree-sitter**: go-tree-sitter
- **Identity**: Azure SDK, AWS SDK v2
- **Vector/Memory**: Cognee, ChromaDB, Qdrant, Weaviate clients
- **Container Orchestration**: digital.vasic.containers (vasic-digital/Containers submodule)

---

## Working Directory & Build System

**CRITICAL**: All build and test commands must be run from the `helix_code/` subdirectory, not the repository root.

```bash
cd HelixCode
```

### Build Commands
| Command | Purpose |
|---------|---------|
| `make build` | Build server binary to `bin/helixcode` |
| `make test` | Run `go test -v ./...` |
| `make test-all` | Run tests + coverage + benchmarks + docs |
| `make test-coverage` | Generate coverage report |
| `make test-benchmark` | Run Go benchmarks |
| `make logo-assets` | Generate logo assets (required before first build) |
| `make setup-deps` | Run `go mod tidy` |
| `make fmt` | Run `go fmt ./...` |
| `make lint` | Run `golangci-lint run ./...` |
| `make clean` | Clean build artifacts |
| `make dev` | Start development server |
| `make prod` | Cross-platform production build |
| `make mobile` | Build iOS + Android targets |
| `make aurora-os` | Build Aurora OS target |
| `make harmony-os` | Build Harmony OS target |

### Full Infrastructure Test Commands
| Command | Purpose |
|---------|---------|
| `make test-infra-up` | Start full Docker test infrastructure |
| `make test-infra-down` | Stop full Docker test infrastructure |
| `make test-full` | ALL tests with real infrastructure (zero skips) |
| `make test-unit-full` | Unit tests with real services |
| `make test-integration-full` | Integration tests with `-tags=integration` |
| `make test-e2e-full` | E2E challenge tests via runner |
| `make test-security-full` | Security test suite |
| `make test-load-full` | Load tests |
| `make test-complete` | Sequential run of all full test types |
| `make coverage-full` | Coverage with full infrastructure |

### Containerized Builds (NO Host Dependencies)
| Command | Purpose |
|---------|---------|
| `make container-builder-image` | Build the builder container image |
| `make container-build` | Build application inside container |
| `make container-test` | Run tests inside container |
| `make container-lint` | Run linter inside container |
| `make container-shell` | Interactive shell in builder container |
| `make container-dev-up` | Start containerized dev environment |
| `make container-dev-down` | Stop containerized dev environment |
| `make container-release` | Full release build in container |
| `./scripts/containers/build-in-container.sh` | Convenience wrapper script |

The builder container includes: Go 1.24, gcc, postgresql-client, redis, docker-cli, golangci-lint, and all build tools. The only host requirement is Docker/Podman.

### Standalone Test Scripts
| Script | Purpose |
|--------|---------|
| `./run_tests.sh --unit` | Unit tests |
| `./run_tests.sh --integration` | Integration tests |
| `./run_tests.sh --e2e` | E2E tests |
| `./run_tests.sh --coverage` | Coverage analysis |
| `./run_tests.sh --security` | Security tests |
| `./run_all_tests.sh` | Orchestrates ALL suites sequentially |
| `./run_integration_tests.sh` | DB integration tests with Docker |

### Single Test Execution
```bash
go test -v -run TestName ./path/to/package
go test -v -tags=integration ./internal/database
cd tests/e2e/challenges && go run cmd/runner/main.go -challenge ascii-art-generator-001 -providers ollama
```

---

## Architecture & Code Organization

```
helix_code/
├── cmd/                          # Application entry points
│   ├── server/main.go            # HTTP server entry point
│   ├── cli/main.go               # Legacy flag-based CLI client
│   ├── root.go                   # Cobra root command (`helix`)
│   ├── main_commands.go          # `helix start`, `helix auto`
│   ├── other_commands.go         # `helix server`, `helix version`, etc.
│   ├── local-llm.go              # `helix local-llm` command tree
│   ├── local-llm-advanced.go     # Advanced local-llm commands
│   ├── helix-config/main.go      # Dedicated config management CLI
│   ├── security-test/main.go     # Simulated security test runner
│   ├── security-fix/main.go      # Security fix wrapper
│   ├── security-fix-standalone/main.go  # Standalone security scanner
│   ├── performance-optimization/main.go # Performance optimizer
│   ├── performance-optimization-standalone/main.go # Standalone perf simulator
│   └── config-test/main.go       # Config hot-reload test utility
│
├── internal/                     # Internal packages (~40 packages)
│   ├── auth/                     # JWT authentication, bcrypt/argon2, sessions
│   ├── llm/                      # LLM provider implementations (15+ providers)
│   │   ├── providers/            # Per-provider HTTP clients
│   │   ├── compression/          # Context compression
│   │   └── vision/               # Vision/multimodal support
│   ├── provider/                 # Provider abstractions
│   ├── providers/                # Provider management
│   ├── worker/                   # SSH-based worker pool, health checks
│   ├── task/                     # Task queues, dependencies, checkpoints
│   ├── server/                   # Gin HTTP server, routes, middleware
│   ├── database/                 # PostgreSQL pgx pool, schema initialization
│   ├── redis/                    # go-redis wrapper with graceful degradation
│   ├── tools/                    # 40+ tool ecosystem registry
│   │   ├── filesystem/           # fs_read, fs_write, fs_edit, glob, grep
│   │   ├── shell/                # shell, shell_background with sandbox
│   │   ├── web/                  # web_fetch, web_search
│   │   ├── browser/              # browser_launch, browser_navigate, browser_screenshot
│   │   ├── multiedit/            # Transactional multi-file editing
│   │   └── git/                  # Git automation
│   ├── editor/                   # Multi-format code editing with backups
│   ├── memory/                   # Memory providers (in-mem, filesystem, Redis, etc.)
│   ├── cognee/                   # Cognee.ai memory integration
│   ├── context/                  # Hierarchical context management with TTL
│   ├── notification/             # Multi-channel notification engine
│   ├── mcp/                      # Model Context Protocol WebSocket server
│   ├── workflow/                 # Development workflow execution
│   ├── config/                   # Viper-based configuration management
│   ├── event/                    # Pub/sub event bus
│   ├── logging/                  # Structured logging wrapper
│   ├── monitoring/               # Metric collection framework
│   ├── security/                 # Security scanning (stubbed)
│   ├── session/                  # Development session management
│   ├── agent/                    # Agent orchestration
│   ├── project/                  # Project management
│   ├── rules/                    # Rules engine
│   ├── hooks/                    # Hook system
│   ├── focus/                    # Focus chain management
│   ├── template/                 # Template system
│   ├── persistence/              # State persistence
│   ├── deployment/               # Deployment management
│   ├── discovery/                # Service/model discovery
│   ├── hardware/                 # Hardware abstraction
│   ├── repomap/                  # Repository mapping
│   ├── version/                  # Version management
│   ├── fix/                      # Security fix engine
│   ├── performance/              # Performance optimization
│   ├── testutil/                 # Test utilities
│   └── mocks/                    # Shared mocks
│
├── applications/                 # Platform-specific applications
│   ├── desktop/                  # Fyne desktop app
│   ├── terminal-ui/              # tview terminal UI
│   ├── android/                  # Android app
│   ├── ios/                      # iOS app
│   ├── aurora-os/                # Aurora OS client
│   └── harmony-os/               # Harmony OS client
│
├── api/                          # OpenAPI specification
│   └── openapi.yaml              # Full REST API spec (OpenAPI 3.0.3)
│
├── config/                       # Configuration files
│   ├── config.yaml               # Primary application config
│   ├── production-config.yaml    # Enterprise production config
│   ├── minimal-config.yaml       # Minimal test config (DB/Redis disabled)
│   ├── test-config.yaml          # Test-specific config
│   ├── working-config.yaml       # Working variant
│   ├── azure_example.yaml        # Azure-specific example
│   └── model-aliases.example.yaml# Model alias examples
│
├── tests/                        # New test framework
│   ├── e2e/challenges/           # Challenge-based E2E tests
│   └── automation/               # Hardware automation tests
│
├── test/                         # Legacy/parallel test suites
│   ├── integration/              # Integration tests
│   ├── e2e/                      # Legacy E2E tests
│   ├── automation/               # Provider automation tests
│   └── load/                     # Load tests
│
├── benchmarks/                   # Performance benchmarks
├── security/                     # Security tests
├── standalone_tests/             # Standalone CLI tests
├── docker/                       # Docker assets and extended compose
├── scripts/                      # Build and deployment scripts
└── assets/                       # Logo and image assets
```

---

## Verified Real Implementations

### AUTH-001: Authentication System (VERIFIED REAL)
**File**: `internal/auth/auth.go` (~470 lines)
**Assessment**: Production-ready
- User registration with validation
- Password hashing with bcrypt + argon2 fallback
- JWT token generation and verification (JWT v4)
- Session management with crypto-random tokens
- Constant-time comparison for timing attack prevention
- Full test coverage in `internal/auth/auth_test.go` (~777 lines)

### DB-001: Database Layer (VERIFIED REAL)
**File**: `internal/database/database.go`
**Assessment**: Production-ready
- PostgreSQL connection pool via pgx/v5
- Full schema initialization (users, workers, tasks, projects, sessions, LLM providers, MCP servers, notifications, audit logs)
- `DatabaseInterface` for testability
- Graceful degradation when host is empty

### SRV-001: HTTP Server (VERIFIED REAL)
**File**: `internal/server/server.go`
**Assessment**: Production-ready
- Gin-based server with 50+ routes across `/api/v1/`
- JWT auth middleware, CORS, security headers
- WebSocket endpoint for MCP
- Health check with DB + Redis validation
- Graceful shutdown (30s timeout)

### LLM-001: LLM Providers (VERIFIED REAL)
**File**: `internal/llm/` (~5000+ lines across providers)
**Assessment**: Real HTTP clients
- `AnthropicProvider` (~752 lines): Full SSE streaming, prompt caching, extended thinking, tool calls
- `OpenAIProvider` (~431+ lines): Full HTTP API client
- `ModelManager`: Multi-provider orchestration, selection strategy, fallback chain
- 16 provider subdirectories with real HTTP implementations
- **Note**: The `internal/llm/` package is genuine. Bluff areas are at `cmd/cli/main.go` only.

### WRK-001: Worker Pool (VERIFIED REAL)
**File**: `internal/worker/` (~800+ lines)
**Assessment**: Real distributed worker management
- `WorkerManager`: Register, heartbeat, assign tasks, complete tasks
- SSH config parsing, capability matching, resource tracking
- Health checks with TTL

### TSK-001: Task Management (VERIFIED REAL)
**File**: `internal/task/` (~1000+ lines)
**Assessment**: Real task lifecycle
- Priority queues, dependency validation, checkpointing
- Redis caching with graceful degradation
- Retry logic and cleanup

### WFL-001: Workflow Engine (VERIFIED REAL)
**File**: `internal/workflow/` (~1100+ lines)
**Assessment**: Real shell execution
- `Executor` dispatches to real `exec.CommandContext()` calls
- Security filtering via `isDangerousCommand()` (rm, dd, mkfs, fork bombs, etc.)
- LLM integration with real `LLMRequest`
- Supports Go, Node, Python, Rust project types

### TOO-001: Tools Ecosystem (VERIFIED REAL)
**File**: `internal/tools/` (~2000+ lines)
**Assessment**: Real tool registry
- 8 categories: filesystem, shell, web, browser, mapping, multiedit, confirmation, notebook
- Real chromedp browser automation
- Transactional multi-file editing

### EDT-001: Code Editor (VERIFIED REAL)
**File**: `internal/editor/` (~600+ lines)
**Assessment**: Real file I/O
- Diff, whole-file, search/replace, line-based editors
- Automatic file backup with `io.Copy`
- `EditApplier` / `EditValidator` interfaces

### NOT-001: Notification Engine (VERIFIED REAL)
**File**: `internal/notification/` (~800+ lines)
**Assessment**: Real HTTP/SMTP calls
- Slack (webhook HTTP POST), Email (SMTP via `net/smtp`), Telegram (Bot API), Discord (webhook)
- Yandex Messenger (OAuth API), Max (enterprise API)
- Rate limiting, retry, queue, metrics

### MCP-001: MCP Protocol Server (VERIFIED REAL)
**File**: `internal/mcp/` (~400+ lines)
**Assessment**: Real WebSocket server
- gorilla/websocket concurrent session handling
- JSON-RPC-like message format
- Tool execution dispatch

### CFG-001: Configuration Management (VERIFIED REAL)
**File**: `internal/config/` (~1700+ lines)
**Assessment**: Full Viper integration
- Environment variable binding (`HELIX_*`)
- Config file search (`.`, `$HOME/.helixcode`, `/etc/helixcode`)
- Validation rules, default config creation
- `ConfigManager` for load/save/merge

### QA-001: helix_qa Integration (VERIFIED REAL)
**Files**: `internal/helixqa/`, `internal/server/qa_handlers.go`, `applications/terminal_ui/main.go`
**Assessment**: Full embedded QA engine with real session lifecycle
- `Engine` struct manages QA sessions with map + sync.RWMutex
- `StartSession()`, `CancelSession()`, `GetSession()`, `ListSessions()` with real state tracking
- REST API: `POST /api/v1/qa/session`, `GET /api/v1/qa/session/:id/status`, `GET /api/v1/qa/session/:id/report`, `GET /api/v1/qa/session/:id/screenshot/:name`, `DELETE /api/v1/qa/session/:id`
- CLI flags: `--qa-run`, `--qa-list`, `--qa-report`, `--qa-screenshot`, `--qa-cancel`
- TUI dashboard with session table, stats panel, refresh/cancel actions
- Screenshot pipeline: 8 platform engines (Linux, Web, iOS, Android, CLI, TUI, macOS, Windows)
- Tests: `internal/helixqa/wrapper_test.go`, `internal/server/qa_handlers_test.go`, `pkg/screenshot/*_test.go`

---

## Verified Bluff & Stub Areas (MUST FIX)

### BLUFF-001: LLM Generation is Simulated in Legacy CLI (CRITICAL) — FIXED
**File**: `cmd/cli/main.go` lines ~236-284
**Evidence**: Previously returned `fmt.Sprintf("Generated response for: %s...", prompt)` without calling any provider.
**Fix**: `handleGenerate()` now constructs a real `llm.LLMRequest` with user messages and calls `provider.Generate()` / `provider.GenerateStream()`. Errors are propagated to the user if the provider is unavailable.
**Verification**: `go build -tags nogui ./cmd/cli/` compiles; provider call is real (returns error if Ollama/etc. is not running).
**Fix Priority**: P0 — RESOLVED

### BLUFF-002: Model Listing is Hardcoded in Legacy CLI (CRITICAL) — FIXED
**File**: `cmd/cli/main.go` lines ~101-128
**Evidence**: Previously only 3 hardcoded models. No dynamic discovery.
**Fix**: Replaced with verifier-aware `handleListModels()` that queries LLMsVerifier adapter first, falls back to provider discovery, then to constitutional `FallbackModels` (7 models with scores and verification status).
**Verification**: `go test -v ./internal/verifier/...` passes; `go build ./cmd/cli/...` compiles.
**Fix Priority**: P0 — RESOLVED

### BLUFF-003: Command Execution is Simulated in Legacy CLI (HIGH) — FIXED
**File**: `cmd/cli/main.go` lines ~310-324
**Evidence**: Previously printed the command and slept for 1 second without executing anything.
**Fix**: `handleCommand()` uses `exec.CommandContext(ctx, "sh", "-c", command)` with real `os.Stdout`/`os.Stderr` redirection. Exit codes are reported.
**Verification**: `go build -tags nogui ./cmd/cli/` compiles.
**Fix Priority**: P0 — RESOLVED

### STUB-001: Security Scanning is Simulated — FIXED
**File**: `internal/security/security.go` (~132 lines)
**Evidence**: Previously `ScanFeature()` contained explicit "Simulate security scanning logic" comment and returned `Success=true, Score=95` with empty issues.
**Fix**: Replaced with real Scanner interface, SonarQube/Snyk clients. `ScanFeature()` now dispatches real security scanners. Score is no longer hardcoded.
**Verification**: 17/17 tests PASS, zero "simulated" in production code.
**Fix Priority**: P1 — RESOLVED (commit `33ddf6a`)

### STUB-002: Memory Redis/Memcached Providers Store Locally — FIXED
**File**: `internal/memory/` (~1800+ lines)
**Evidence**: Previously `RedisMemoryProvider` and `MemcachedMemoryProvider` stored data in local maps.
**Fix**: `internal/redis/redis.go` provides real go-redis/v9 client. Dedicated memory stubs no longer exist.
**Fix Priority**: P2 — RESOLVED

### STUB-003: Security-Test Entry Point is Entirely Simulated — FIXED
**File**: `cmd/security_test/main.go`
**Evidence**: Previously had 12 simulated test results via `simulateSecurityScan()`.
**Fix**: Rewired to real `internal/security` scanner dispatch via `ScanFeature()`.
**Fix Priority**: P2 — RESOLVED (commit `33ddf6a`)

### STUB-004: Several `helix` Subcommands are Print-Only — FIXED
**File**: `cmd/other_commands.go`
**Evidence**: Previously `server`, `generate`, `test`, `worker`, `notify` commands were stubbed.
**Fix**: Wired to real `server.New()`, `llm.ModelManager`, notification engine, and `go test` dispatch.
**Fix Priority**: P2 — RESOLVED (commit `33ddf6a`)

### STUB-005: Several `helix-config` Subcommands are Placeholders — PENDING
**File**: `cmd/helix_config/main.go`
**Evidence**: Many template/history/schema subcommands print placeholder messages.
**Fix Priority**: P3

### BLUFF-004: LLMsVerifier Integration is Stubbed or Bypassed (CRITICAL) — FIXED
**File Pattern**: `internal/verifier/*.go`
**Evidence**: Previously returned hardcoded 8.5 scores, empty discovery results.
**Fix**: REST API client, two-tier cache, circuit breaker, background poller implemented. Fallback models are constitutionally permitted (CONST-036).
**Verification**: Fallback models list only at `fallback_models.go` (permitted). All other verifier code uses real client.
**Fix Priority**: P0 — RESOLVED

### BLUFF-005: Provider Discovery Uses Hardcoded Env Var Names (HIGH) — FIXED
**File Pattern**: `internal/verifier/startup.go` or provider adapter files
**Evidence**: Previously hardcoded env var names like `"OPENAI_API_KEY"`.
**Fix**: Env vars sourced from config struct fields, not hardcoded strings.
**Verification**: grep sweep clean.
**Fix Priority**: P1 — RESOLVED

### BLUFF-006: Model Capabilities Are Hardcoded (HIGH) — FIXED
**File Pattern**: `internal/llm/*.go`
**Evidence**: Previously `SupportsToolUse: true` as struct literal.
**Fix**: No hardcoded capabilities found in grep sweep.
**Fix Priority**: P1 — RESOLVED

### BLUFF-007: Test Claims Integration But Uses Mocked Verifier (CRITICAL) — FIXED
**File Pattern**: `*_test.go` files with `testify/mock` or `testMode: true`
**Evidence**: Previously non-unit tests used mocked verifier.
**Fix**: No mocks in non-unit verifier tests.
**Verification**: grep sweep clean.
**Fix Priority**: P0 — RESOLVED

### BLUFF-008: Scoring Weights Do Not Sum to 1.0 (MEDIUM) — FIXED
**File Pattern**: `configs/verifier.yaml` or `internal/verifier/config.go`
**Evidence**: Previously scoring weights misconfigured.
**Fix**: Weights configurable via `ScoringWeights` struct in `adapter.go`. No hardcoded weight issues found.
**Fix Priority**: P2 — RESOLVED

### BLUFF-009: `/metrics` Endpoint Returns Hardcoded Zeros (CRITICAL) — FIXED
**File**: `internal/server/handlers.go` lines ~834-855
**Evidence**: All dynamic metrics (goroutines, memory, database connections) were hardcoded to `0`.
**Fix**: `getMetrics()` now calls `runtime.ReadMemStats()`, `runtime.NumGoroutine()`, and `s.db.Pool.Stat()` to return real values.
**Fix Priority**: P0 — RESOLVED

### BLUFF-010: Multi-Edit Conflict Detection is a No-Op (HIGH) — FIXED
**File**: `internal/tools/multiedit/transaction.go` lines ~352-369
**Evidence**: `detectFileConflict()` always returned `nil, nil` with comment "For now, we'll assume no conflicts."
**Fix**: Implemented real conflict detection — reads the file from disk, computes SHA-256, and compares against the `Checksum` field. Returns `ConflictModified` or `ConflictDeleted` when appropriate.
**Fix Priority**: P1 — RESOLVED

---

## Configuration Management

### Primary Configuration
Main config at `config/config.yaml`:

```yaml
server:
  address: "0.0.0.0"
  port: 8080
  read_timeout: 30
  write_timeout: 30
  idle_timeout: 300
  shutdown_timeout: 30

database:
  host: ""          # Empty string disables PostgreSQL
  port: 5432
  user: "helix"
  password: "${HELIX_DATABASE_PASSWORD}"
  dbname: "helixcode_prod"
  sslmode: "disable"

redis:
  host: "redis"
  port: 6379
  password: "${HELIX_REDIS_PASSWORD}"
  db: 0
  enabled: true

auth:
  jwt_secret: "${HELIX_AUTH_JWT_SECRET}"
  token_expiry: 86400
  session_expiry: 604800
  bcrypt_cost: 12

workers:
  health_check_interval: 30
  health_ttl: 120
  max_concurrent_tasks: 10

tasks:
  max_retries: 3
  checkpoint_interval: 300
  cleanup_interval: 3600

llm:
  default_provider: "local"
  max_tokens: 4096
  temperature: 0.7
  timeout: 30
  max_retries: 3
  providers:
    <name>:
      type: <provider-type>
      endpoint: <url>
      enabled: true
      parameters:
        timeout: 30.0
        max_retries: 3
        streaming_support: true
        api_key: ""
  selection:
    strategy: "performance"
    fallback_enabled: true
    health_check_interval: 30

logging:
  level: "info"
  format: "text"
  output: "stdout"

notifications:
  enabled: true
  rules:
    - name: "..."
      condition: "type==error"
      channels: ["slack", "email"]
      priority: urgent
      enabled: true
  channels:
    slack: { enabled, webhook_url, channel, username, timeout }
    telegram: { enabled, bot_token, chat_id, timeout }
    email: { enabled, smtp: { server, port, username, password, tls }, recipients, timeout }
    discord: { enabled, webhook_url, timeout }
```

### Environment Variables
**Required for Production**:
- `HELIX_DATABASE_PASSWORD`
- `HELIX_AUTH_JWT_SECRET`
- `HELIX_REDIS_PASSWORD`

**LLM Provider Keys** (as needed):
- `OPENAI_API_KEY`, `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `GEMINI_API_KEY`, `XAI_API_KEY`, `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`, `GROQ_API_KEY`, `MISTRAL_API_KEY`, `COHERE_API_KEY`, `AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY`, `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` / `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`

**Notification Integrations**:
- `HELIX_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL`
- `HELIX_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN`, `HELIX_TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID`
- `HELIX_EMAIL_SMTP_SERVER`, `HELIX_EMAIL_USERNAME`, `HELIX_EMAIL_PASSWORD`
- `HELIX_DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL`

---

## Testing Strategy

### Test Categories
1. **Unit tests**: Mocks allowed, `*_test.go`, `-short` flag
2. **Contract tests**: Real API schemas, no mocks
3. **Component tests**: Real subsystems wired together
4. **Integration tests**: Full app with real dependencies (`-tags=integration`)
5. **E2E challenges**: Complete user workflows against real LLM APIs
6. **Security tests**: OWASP compliance
7. **Performance tests**: Benchmarks
8. **Automation tests**: Provider/hardware automation (`-tags=automation`)
9. **Load tests**: Stress testing

### Anti-Bluff Testing Rules
- Unit tests: Mocks OK
- **ALL other tests: Real infrastructure ONLY**
- Every PASS guarantees **Quality + Completion + Usability**
- Challenges fail on simulated/stubbed behavior
- No bare `t.Skip()` without `SKIP-OK: #<ticket>` marker

### Docker Test Infrastructure
- `docker-compose.test.yml`: PostgreSQL 16, Redis 7, Memcached, Cognee, ChromaDB, Qdrant, Ollama, Prometheus, Grafana
- `docker-compose.full-test.yml`: Complete stack with mock-LLM server, Selenium, ChromeDP, SSH server + 3 workers, Cognee, Weaviate, mock-Slack, multicast router

### Challenge Framework (`tests/e2e/challenges/`)
The most rigorous test system validates HelixCode by having it **generate real projects** and testing them:
- **Challenge Definitions**: JSON specs (ASCII art generator, CLI task manager, JSON validator, notes API, tic-tac-toe TUI, URL shortener)
- **Execution Flow**: Load spec → Call real LLM API → Parse generated code → Compile → Test → Runtime validation
- **Validation Layers**: Directory structure, code quality, compilation, testing, functionality, runtime validation with diverse data
- **Test Matrix**: Supports CLI, TUI, REST, WebSocket interfaces across 15+ providers and worker pool distributions

### Test Scripts Summary
```bash
# Basic
cd HelixCode && make test

# Full infrastructure (recommended for validation)
make test-infra-up
make test-complete
make test-infra-down

# Individual categories
make test-unit-full
make test-integration-full
make test-e2e-full
make test-security-full
make test-load-full

# Legacy scripts
./run_tests.sh --all
./run_all_tests.sh
./run_integration_tests.sh
```

---

## Docker Deployment

### Production (`docker-compose.yml`)
Services: helixcode-server (8080, 2222), postgres:15, redis:7, nginx (80, 443), prometheus (9090), grafana (3000)

### Quick Start
```bash
cd HelixCode
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with secure passwords
docker compose up -d
docker compose ps
curl http://localhost/health
```

### Other Compose Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `docker-compose-simple.yml` | Minimal dev (postgres + redis only) |
| `docker-compose.test.yml` | Integration/E2E testing stack |
| `docker-compose.full-test.yml` | Zero-skip full test infrastructure |
| `docker-compose.aurora-os.yml` | Security-focused Aurora OS platform |
| `docker-compose.harmony-os.yml` | Distributed Harmony OS platform |
| `docker-compose.specialized-platforms.yml` | Combined Aurora + Harmony |
| `docker/docker-compose.yml` | Extended full-stack with Milvus, Elasticsearch, MLflow, Jaeger, Jupyter, Portainer |

### Deployment Patterns
- Healthchecks on every service
- Docker profiles: `monitoring`, `distributed`, `with-redis`, `production`, `dev`, `server`
- Isolated bridge networks per deployment
- Named persistent volumes for all stateful services
- `.env` file for secrets

---

## Code Style & Development Conventions

### Go Conventions
- Standard Go formatting: `go fmt ./...`
- Linting: `golangci-lint run ./...` (timeout 10m in CI)
- Vet: `go vet ./...`
- Table-driven tests with `t.Run()` subtests
- Build tags for integration/automation tests: `//go:build integration`

### Project Conventions
- **Always work from `helix_code/` subdirectory**
- **Generate logo assets before first build**: `make logo-assets`
- **Database/Redis optional**: Disable by setting `database.host: ""`
- **Environment variables override config file**
- Use `internal/` for all core packages; no `pkg/` directory in active use
- Error handling: explicit, no silent failures
- Concurrent access: use `sync.RWMutex` or channel patterns

### API Conventions
- REST API documented in `api/openapi.yaml` (OpenAPI 3.0.3)
- Base path: `/api/v1`
- Authentication: Bearer JWT via `Authorization` header
- Health endpoint: `GET /health` (no auth required)

---

## Security Considerations

### Verified Security Features
- Password hashing: bcrypt (cost 12) with argon2 fallback
- JWT with constant-time comparison
- CORS middleware, security headers (X-Frame-Options, CSP, HSTS)
- Rate limiting support in production config
- Session timeout, concurrent session limits, IP binding options
- Workflow `isDangerousCommand()` filter blocks rm, dd, mkfs, fork bombs, etc.
- Input validation in auth and server packages

### Security Testing
- `security/security_test.go`: OWASP Top 10, SAST, DAST, credential scanning, TLS enforcement, input validation (path traversal, XSS, SQL injection, command injection, SSRF)
- File permission checks (0600 for configs)

### Known Security Stubs
- `internal/security/security.go`: Simulated scanning (always returns clean)
- `cmd/security_test/main.go`: Entirely simulated security tests

### Production Hardening
- Use `HELIX_AUTH_JWT_SECRET` with high entropy
- Enable PostgreSQL SSL in production
- Enable Redis authentication
- Configure CORS `allowed_origins` explicitly
- Enable audit logging
- Set `bcrypt_cost: 14` in production

---

## Universal Mandatory Constraints

### Hard Stops (permanent, non-negotiable)
1. **NO CI/CD pipelines** (Note: existing workflow files in `.github/workflows/` are legacy and must not be expanded)
2. **NO HTTPS for Git** (SSH only)
3. **NO manual container commands** (orchestrator-owned)

### Mandatory Development Standards
1. **100% Test Coverage** (unit, integration, E2E, automation, security, benchmark)
2. **Challenge Coverage** (every component)
3. **Real Data** (actual API calls, real DB, live services)
4. **Health & Observability** (health endpoints, circuit breakers)
5. **Documentation & Quality** (update docs with code changes)
6. **Validation Before Release** (full suite + all challenges)
7. **No Mocks in Production**
8. **Comprehensive Verification** (runtime, compile, structure, dependencies, compatibility)
9. **Resource Limits** (30-40% of host resources max)
10. **Bugfix Documentation** (root cause, affected files, fix, verification link)
11. **Real Infrastructure for All Non-Unit Tests**
12. **Reproduction-Before-Fix** (Challenge first, then fix)
13. **Concurrent-Safe Collections**

### Definition of Done
A change is NOT done because code compiles. "Done" requires:
- Pasted terminal output from a real run
- No self-certification words without evidence
- Demo commands that run against real artifacts
- Loud skips with `SKIP-OK: #<ticket>` markers

---

## CONST-035 — End-User Usability Mandate

A test or Challenge that PASSES is a CLAIM that the tested behavior **works for the end user of the product**.

The HelixAgent project has repeatedly hit the failure mode where every test ran green AND every Challenge reported PASS, yet most product features did not actually work — buggy challenge wrappers masked failed assertions, scripts checked file existence without executing the file, "reachability" tests tolerated timeouts, contracts were honest in advertising but broken in dispatch. **This MUST NOT recur in HelixCode.**

Every PASS result MUST guarantee:
a. **Quality** — correct behavior under real inputs, edge cases, concurrency
b. **Completion** — wired end-to-end with no stub/placeholder gaps
c. **Full usability** — a user following documentation succeeds

A passing test that doesn't certify all three is a **bluff** and MUST be tightened.

### Bluff Taxonomy (each pattern observed and now forbidden)

- **Wrapper bluff** — assertions PASS but wrapper's exit-code logic is buggy
- **Contract bluff** — system advertises capability but rejects it in dispatch
- **Structural bluff** — file exists but doesn't contain working code
- **Comment bluff** — comment promises behavior code doesn't have
- **Skip bluff** — `t.Skip("not running yet")` without `SKIP-OK: #<ticket>` marker

The taxonomy is illustrative, not exhaustive. Every Challenge or test added going forward MUST pass an honest self-review against this taxonomy before being committed.

## Constitutional anchors (cascaded from `CONSTITUTION.md`)

### Article XI §11.9 — Anti-Bluff Forensic Anchor
> Verbatim user mandate: *"We had been in position that all tests do execute with success and all Challenges as well, but in reality the most of the features does not work and can't be used! This MUST NOT be the case and execution of tests and Challenges MUST guarantee the quality, the completion and full usability by end users of the product!"*
>
> Operative rule: **The bar for shipping is not "tests pass" but "users can use the feature."** Every PASS in this codebase MUST carry positive runtime evidence captured during execution. Metadata-only / configuration-only / absence-of-error / grep-based PASS without runtime evidence are critical defects regardless of how green the summary line looks. No false-success results are tolerable.

### Article XII §12.1 (CONST-042) — No-Secret-Leak
No API key, token, password, certificate, or other credential may be committed to any repository owned by HelixDevelopment or vasic-digital. All secrets live in `.env` files (mode 0600) listed in `.gitignore`. Any leak is a release blocker until rotated and post-mortemed.

### Article XII §12.2 (CONST-043) — No-Force-Push
No force push, force-with-lease push, history rewrite, branch deletion of `main`/`master`, or upstream-overwriting operation may be performed without explicit, in-conversation user approval per operation. Authorization for one push does not extend further. Bypassing hooks / signing / protected-branch rules also requires explicit approval.

### Article XIII §13.1 (CONST-044) — Continuation Document Maintenance Mandate
The `docs/CONTINUATION.md` document MUST be maintained in sync with actual programme state at all times. It is the authoritative resumption record for any CLI agent or LLM picking up the CLI-Agent Fusion programme. Every commit that advances state — task completion, feature close-out, push, known-issue discovery, deferred-item resolution, phase transition, submodule/remote add or remove — MUST update CONTINUATION in the same commit. Out-of-sync CONTINUATION is a **CRITICAL DEFECT** — same severity as a false-success test result under CONST-035 / Article XI §11.9. Cascade applies to every owned-by-us repo's three governance files. See `CONSTITUTION.md` Article XIII §13.1 for the full mandate (definition of out-of-sync, verification plan, cascade requirement).

### CONST-045 — No Hardcoded Distribution Hosts
ALL container distribution targets SHALL be configured exclusively through `CONTAINERS_REMOTE_HOST_N_*` env vars in `containers/.env`. NO host (hostname, IP, user, key path, runtime, label) may be hardcoded in ANY source file, test, challenge, config template, script, or governance document. Adding/removing hosts = editing `containers/.env` only; NO code change. Tests SHALL read `.env` at runtime and skip with `SKIP-OK:` marker when `CONTAINERS_REMOTE_ENABLED=false`. See `CONSTITUTION.md` §CONST-045 for the full mandate.

---

## CONST-036: LLMsVerifier Single Source of Truth Mandate

**Rule**: LLMsVerifier SHALL BE the sole authoritative source for:
1. All model metadata (names, IDs, context windows, capabilities)
2. All provider metadata (endpoints, auth types, supported models)
3. All verification status (verified, partial, failed, pending)
4. All scoring data (overall scores, capability scores, tier rankings)

**Prohibition**: NO hardcoded model lists, NO hardcoded provider lists, NO simulated model discovery. Any code path that presents a model or provider listing to a user MUST fetch that listing from the LLMsVerifier subsystem or its cached replica.

**Anti-Bluff Verification**:
- Challenge script `scripts/anti_bluff/verifier_hardcode_check.sh` scans all Go source files for hardcoded model arrays.
- The only permitted hardcoded data is the 7-entry fallback list in `internal/verifier/fallback_models.go`.

---

## CONST-037: Model Provider Anti-Bluff Guarantee

**Rule**: Every model displayed to an end user MUST have been verified by LLMsVerifier within the last 24h. Models older than this MUST display a "stale" indicator and be deprioritized.

**Anti-Bluff Testing**:
- Unit tests MAY mock the verifier client.
- Integration tests MUST start the verifier server and perform real provider discovery.
- The Makefile target `make test-verifier-integration` MUST exist and run without mocks.

---

## CONST-038: Real-Time Model Status Accuracy

**Rule**: Model status (available, rate-limited, cooldown, offline, deprecated) displayed to users MUST reflect the actual state as known by LLMsVerifier within 60 seconds.

**Polling vs. Push**:
- If WebSocket/SSE push is unavailable, the system MUST poll LLMsVerifier at most every 60s.
- The TUI MUST display a "last updated" timestamp with every model listing.
- Models in "cooldown" or "rate-limited" state MUST show the estimated recovery time if known.

---

## CONST-039: All Providers and Models Integration Mandate

**Rule**: HelixCode MUST integrate with ALL providers that LLMsVerifier supports, subject only to:
1. The provider being explicitly disabled in configuration (`enabled: false`)
2. The API key being absent and the provider requiring one
3. The provider being marked `deprecated` in the verifier database

**Minimum Provider Set** (SHALL NOT be reduced without constitutional amendment):
OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq, Mistral, xAI, OpenRouter, Ollama, Llama.cpp.

---

## CONST-040: MCP / LSP / ACP / Embedding / RAG / Skills / Plugins Integration Mandate

**Rule**: LLMsVerifier integration SHALL extend beyond basic model listing to cover ALL capability dimensions:

1. **MCP**: The verifier MUST report which models support MCP tool calling.
2. **LSP**: The verifier MUST report code-analysis capabilities.
3. **ACP**: The verifier MUST report multi-agent coordination support.
4. **Embedding**: The verifier MUST report `supports_embeddings` for each model.
5. **RAG**: The verifier MUST report context-window sizes for chunking strategies.
6. **Skills / Plugins**: The verifier MUST track plugin compatibility.

**Prohibition**: Capability flags MUST NOT be hardcoded. The `Provider.GetCapabilities()` method MUST return data sourced from the verifier's `VerificationResult` fields.

---

## CONST-046: No Hardcoded Content — All Text Must Be Dynamic (cascaded from CONSTITUTION.md)

**Rule**: NO user-facing text, prompt template, question text, error message, label, helper text, or explanatory content may be hardcoded as a static literal string in any source file. All such content MUST be:
1. Generated dynamically by an LLM at runtime based on user context (language, prompt content, session state), OR
2. Loaded from an i18n resource file (`.yaml`, `.json`, `.toml`) that supports locale overrides, OR
3. Composed programmatically from verifier metadata, configuration data, or provider responses.

**Rationale**: Hardcoded English text silently breaks the product for non-English users. A clarification question hardcoded as "Which file has the bug?" may be shown identically to a Japanese, Serbian, or Spanish user — producing an incoherent, unusable experience. Every piece of user-facing text MUST adapt.

**Violation examples**: `[]string{"Which file has the bug?"}`, hardcoded TUI labels, static error prose, hardcoded English prompt templates.

**Compliant patterns**: LLM-generated questions via `DetectAmbiguity(prompt)`, i18n-loaded labels with locale fallback, verifier-composed model descriptions.

**Enforcement**: `make lint` MUST include a hardcoded-text scan. Anti-bluff sweeps MUST flag obvious hardcoded-text patterns.

See `CONSTITUTION.md` §CONST-046 for the full mandate and cascade requirements.

---

## CONST-047: Recursive Submodule Application Mandate (cascaded from CONSTITUTION.md)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-14): *"Make sure all work we do is applied ALWAYS to all Submodules we control under our organizations (vasic-digital and HelixDevelopment) fully recursively everywhere with full bluff-proofing and comprehensive documentation, user manuals and guides and full tests and Challenges coverage!"*

Every engineering deliverable produced for HelixCode MUST be applied — fully and recursively — to every owned submodule under the `vasic-digital` and `HelixDevelopment` GitHub organizations. Each owned submodule MUST receive in lockstep: (1) the same anti-bluff posture (CONST-035 / Article XI §11.9), (2) comprehensive documentation (README + user manuals + guides matching actual capabilities), (3) full tests + Challenges coverage with captured runtime evidence, (4) recursive propagation through nested submodules under the same orgs, (5) synchronized commits when meta-repo state advances a submodule's surface.

**Owned submodule baseline** (direct children as of 2026-05-14): vasic-digital/{Containers, Security, Challenges, LLMsVerifier, Models}, HelixDevelopment/{HelixQA, DocProcessor, LLMOrchestrator, LLMProvider, VisionEngine, HelixAgent}, HelixDevelopment-s-Code/Website — plus any nested submodule under these orgs (full recursion).

**Cascade requirement:** This rule (verbatim or by CONST-047 ID reference) MUST appear in every owned-by-us submodule's CONSTITUTION.md, CLAUDE.md, and AGENTS.md.

See `CONSTITUTION.md` §CONST-047 for the full mandate and verification details.

## CONST-048: Full-Automation-Coverage Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.25)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-15): *"Make sure that every feature, every functionality, every flow, every use case, every edge case, every service or application, on every platform we support is covered with full automation tests which will confirm anti-bluff policy and provide the proof of fully working capabilities, working implementation as expected, no issues, no bugs, fully documented, tests covered! Nothing less than this does not give us a chance to deliver stable product! This is mandatory constraint which MUST BE respected without ignoring, skipping, slacking or forgetting it!"*

No feature / functionality / flow / use case / edge case / service / application on any supported platform of HelixCode is deliverable until automation tests prove six invariants: (1) anti-bluff posture with captured runtime evidence (CONST-035); (2) proof of working capability end-to-end on target topology; (3) implementation matches documented promise; (4) no open issues/bugs surfaced; (5) full documentation in sync; (6) four-layer test floor (pre-build + post-build + runtime + paired mutation). Coverage ledger regenerated at release-gate sweep.

**Cascade requirement:** This rule (verbatim or by CONST-048 ID reference) MUST appear in every owned-by-us submodule's CONSTITUTION.md, CLAUDE.md, and AGENTS.md. See constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.25 for the full mandate.

## CONST-049: Constitution-Submodule Update Workflow Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.26)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-15): *"Every time we add something into our root (constitution Submodule) Constitution, CLAUDE.MD and AGENTS.MD we MUST FIRST fetch and pull all new changes / work from constitution Submodule first! All changes we apply MUST BE commited and pushed to all constitution Submodule upstreams! In case of conflict, IT MUST BE carefully resolved! Nothing can be broken, made faulty, corrupted or unusable! After merging full validation and verification MUST BE done!"*

7-step pipeline: (1) fetch + pull first inside constitution submodule; (2) apply with §11.4.17 classification + verbatim mandate; (3) validate (meta-test + no conflict markers + cross-file consistency); (4) commit + push to EVERY configured upstream (governance files only, no `git add -A`); (5) careful conflict resolution preserving union — force-push forbidden (CONST-043); (6) post-merge cascade verification (CONST-047); (7) bump consuming `.gitmodules` pointer in SAME commit.

**Cascade requirement:** This rule (verbatim or by CONST-049 ID reference) MUST appear in every owned-by-us submodule's CONSTITUTION.md, CLAUDE.md, and AGENTS.md. See constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.26 for the full mandate.

## CONST-050: No-Fakes-Beyond-Unit-Tests + 100%-Test-Type-Coverage Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.27)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-15): *"Mocks, stubs, placeholders, TODOs or FIXMEs are allowed to exist ONLY in Unit tests! All other test types MUST interract with real fully implemented System! No fakes, empty implementations or bluffing is allowed of any kind! All codebase of the project MUST BE 100% covered with every supported test type: unit tests, integration tests, e2e tests, full automation tests, security tests, ddos tests, scaling tests, chaos tests, stress tests, performance tests, benchmarking tests, ui tests, ux tests, Challenges (fully incorporating our Challenges Submodule). EVERYTHING MUST BE tested using helix_qa (fully incorporating helix_qa Submodule). helix_qa MUST BE used with all possible written tests suites (test banks) for every applications, service, platform, etc and execution of the full helix_qa QA autonomous sessions! All required dependency Submodules MUST BE added into the project as well (fully recursive!!!)."*

Two invariants. **(A)** Mocks/stubs/fakes/placeholders/TODOs/FIXMEs/"for now"/empty-implementation patterns PERMITTED only in unit-test sources; non-unit tests (integration, E2E, full-automation, security, DDoS, scaling, chaos, stress, performance, benchmarking, UI, UX, Challenges, HelixQA) MUST exercise the real, fully implemented HelixCode system. Production code MUST NOT import `helix_code/internal/mocks/`. **(B)** Codebase MUST be covered by every supported test type the domain warrants: unit, integration, E2E, full-automation, security, DDoS, scaling, chaos, stress, performance, benchmarking, UI, UX, Challenges (vasic-digital/Challenges submodule at `./challenges/` fully incorporated), helix_qa (HelixDevelopment/HelixQA submodule at `./helix_qa/` fully incorporated, with full autonomous QA sessions executing every registered test bank with captured wire evidence).

Required dependency submodules (recursive per CONST-047): Challenges (`git@github.com:vasic-digital/Challenges.git` at `./challenges/`) + helix_qa (`git@github.com:HelixDevelopment/HelixQA.git` at `./helix_qa/`) + any other functionality submodules under vasic-digital/HelixDevelopment orgs HelixCode depends on. Pointers bumped to upstream HEAD in same commit as cascade work (CONST-049 step 7).

**Cascade requirement:** This rule (verbatim or by CONST-050 ID reference) MUST appear in every owned-by-us submodule's CONSTITUTION.md, CLAUDE.md, and AGENTS.md. See constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.27 for the full mandate.

## CONST-051: Submodules-As-Equal-Codebase + Decoupling + Dependency-Layout Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.28)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-15): *"All existing Submodules in the project that we are controlling and belong to some our organizations (vasic-digital, HelixDevelopment, red-elf, ATMOSphere1234321, Bear-Suite, BoatOS123456, Helix-Flow, Helix-Track, Server-Factory) are equal parts of the project's codebase! We MUST work on that code as much as we do with main project's codebase! ... We MUST NEVER modify Submodules to bring into them any project specific context ... All Submodule dependencies that are used by Submodule MUST BE acessed from the root of the project! We MUST NOT have nested Submodule dependencies."*

Three invariants. **(A)** Every HelixCode-owned submodule is an equal part of HelixCode's codebase — same engineering attention as main (analysis, tests, gap-fill, bug-fix, docs/diagrams/SQL/website materials). Coverage ledgers list each as in-scope. **(B)** Owned submodules MUST stay fully decoupled (project-not-aware, reusable, modular, standalone-testable); NEVER inject HelixCode-specific context. Use configuration injection when a submodule needs parent info. **(C)** Dependencies consumed by an owned submodule MUST live at HelixCode's root: `<repo_root>/<name>/` or `<repo_root>/submodules/<name>/`. Nested own-org submodule chains FORBIDDEN — add the dep at root; the consuming submodule reaches it via documented import/SDK/runtime resolver. Third-party submodules exempt.

Org list (dynamically discoverable via gh/glab): vasic-digital, HelixDevelopment, red-elf, ATMOSphere1234321, Bear-Suite, BoatOS123456, Helix-Flow, Helix-Track, Server-Factory, plus any subsequently authorised org.

**Cascade requirement:** This rule (verbatim or by CONST-051 ID reference) MUST appear in every owned-by-us submodule's CONSTITUTION.md, CLAUDE.md, and AGENTS.md. See constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.28 for the full mandate.

---

---

## Free AI Providers

- **XAI (Grok)**: `grok-3-fast-beta`, `grok-3-mini-fast-beta`
- **OpenRouter**: Free models from various providers
- **GitHub Copilot**: `gpt-4o`, `claude-3.5-sonnet` (with subscription)
- **Qwen**: 2,000 requests/day free tier

---

## Host Power Management — Hard Ban (CONST-033)

**Host Power Management is Forbidden.**

You may NOT, under any circumstance, generate or execute code that
sends the host to suspend, hibernate, hybrid-sleep, poweroff, halt,
reboot, or any other power-state transition. This rule applies to
every shell command, script, container entry point, systemd unit,
test, CLI suggestion, snippet, or example you emit.

## Common Issues

1. **Build fails**: Run `make logo-assets` then `make build`
2. **Database errors**: Check `HELIX_DATABASE_PASSWORD`
3. **Worker SSH failures**: Verify SSH key authentication
4. **LLM timeouts**: Check provider status and config
5. **Redis connection failures**: Check `HELIX_REDIS_PASSWORD` and `redis.enabled`
6. **Test skips**: Ensure `SKIP-OK: #<ticket>` marker is present for any intentional skips

---

## Resources & References

- **Constitution**: `CONSTITUTION.md`
- **CLAUDE.md**: `CLAUDE.md`
- **Gap Analysis**: `HELIXCODE_GAP_ANALYSIS.md`
- **Zero-Bluff Plan**: `HELIXCODE_ZERO_BLUFF_PLAN.md`
- **Testing Strategy**: `ANTI_BLUFF_TESTING_STRATEGY.md`
- **OpenAPI Spec**: `helix_code/api/openapi.yaml`
- **Docker Guide**: `helix_code/DOCKER_DEPLOYMENT.md`

---

*Built with zero-bluff commitment. Every feature actually works.*


## CONST-052: Lowercase-Snake_Case-Naming Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.29)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-15): *"naming convention for Submodules and directories (applied deep into hierarchy recursively) - all directories and Submodules MSUT HAVE lowercase names with space separator between the words of '_' character (snake-case)! All existing Submodules and directories which are not following this rule MUST BE renamed! However, since this will most likely break some of the functionalities renaming we do MUST BE applied to all references to particular Submodule or directory! ... There MUST BE reasonable exceptions for this rules - source code for programming languages or Submodules which apply different naming convention - Android, Java, Kotlin and others. ... Upstreams directory which all of our projects and Submodules have MUST BE renamed to the lowercase letters too, however root project containing the install_upstreams system command (it is exported in out paths in our .bashrc or .zshrc) MUST BE updated to fully work with both Upstreams and upstreams directory. ... NOTE: Rules lowercase / snake-case do apply to all project files as well and references to it and from them!"*

Every directory, submodule, and file in HelixCode MUST use lowercase snake_case names. Existing non-compliant names (`helix_code/`, `challenges/`, `containers/`, `helix_agent/`, `helix_qa/`, `security/`, `github_pages_website/`, `upstreams/`, `dependencies/`, etc.) MUST be renamed as part of the phased migration opened by this clause. Every reference (configs, docs, links, source-code imports, governance files) MUST be updated atomically with the rename — reference drift after a rename is a CONST-052 violation of equal severity to the rename itself.

**Common-sense exceptions (technology-preserving):** language-mandated case for Java/Kotlin/Android/Apple/C#/Swift INSIDE the language root (submodule root follows our convention; subtree follows language convention); vendor/upstream third-party submodules keep upstream names; build artefacts (`node_modules`, `__pycache__`, `.git`, `target`, `build`, `bin`) keep tool-mandated names. The test "does renaming break the technology?" trumps the rule.

**`upstreams/` → `upstreams/` transition:** the constitution submodule's `install_upstreams.sh` (exported via `.bashrc`/`.zshrc`) supports BOTH `upstreams/` and `upstreams/` directory layouts (commit `45d3678` of the constitution submodule); lowercase wins when both present.

**Test coverage of renames** (per CONST-050(B)): every rename batch ships with (i) regression test verifying every reference now resolves, (ii) full test-type matrix run post-rename, (iii) anti-bluff wire-evidence captured.

**Phased execution** per the operator's explicit instruction: comprehensive brainstorming → phase-divided plan → fine-grained tasks/subtasks → every change covered by every applicable test type. §11.4.20 subagent delegation for cross-cutting rename sweeps.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `CONST-052` ID reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Severity-equivalent to a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the reference-integrity layer. No escape hatch beyond the common-sense exceptions enumerated above. See constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.29 for the full mandate.


## CONST-053: .gitignore + No-Versioned-Build-Artifacts Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.30)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-15): *"every project module, every Submodule, every servcie and apolication MUST HAVE proper .gitignore file! We MUST NOT git version build artifacts, cache files, tmp files, main .env file(s) or any files containing sensitive data, API keys or token! Any build derivate which we can recreate by executing proper mechanism for generating MUST NOT be versioned! We MUST pay attention what is going to be commited every time we are preparing to execute commit! If any violetion is detected it MUST be fixed before commit is executed!"*

Every project module, owned-by-us submodule, service, and application MUST ship a proper `.gitignore`. Forbidden-from-version-control classes:

1. **Build artefacts**: `/bin/`, `/build/`, `/dist/`, `/out/`, `target/`, `*.exe`, `*.dll`, `*.so`, `*.dylib`, `*.a`, `*.o`, `*.class`, `*.pyc`, generator-produced files when the generator is committed.
2. **Cache files**: `__pycache__/`, `.pytest_cache/`, `.mypy_cache/`, `.ruff_cache/`, `node_modules/`, `.next/`, `.cache/`, `.gradle/`, `.terraform/`, language-server caches.
3. **Temp files**: `*.tmp`, `*.swp`, `*~`, `.DS_Store`, `Thumbs.db`, `*.orig`, `*.rej`.
4. **Sensitive-data files**: `.env`, `.env.*` (allow `.env.example` placeholder only — no real secrets even as examples), `*.pem`, `*.key`, `*.crt`, `id_rsa*`, `id_ed25519*`, `.netrc`, `secrets/`, `api_keys.sh`.
5. **Generated reports/logs**: `*.log`, `coverage.out`, `htmlcov/`, runtime captures unless reference assets.
6. **OS/IDE personal state**: `.idea/`, `.history/`, `.vscode/` (except shared settings).

**Anti-bluff invariant**: `.gitignore` line alone is not sufficient — no file matching the forbidden patterns may be CURRENTLY TRACKED. A tracked `*.log` despite the ignore-line is a violation of equal severity to no ignore-line at all.

**Pre-commit attention**: every commit author (human OR agent) MUST inspect `git diff --staged` + `git status` BEFORE executing the commit. Forbidden-class hits abort the commit until fixed (un-stage, add to `.gitignore`, scrub if already-tracked). Gate `CM-GITIGNORE-PRECOMMIT-AUDIT` + paired mutation.

**Secret-leak intersection (CONST-042 / §11.4.10):** a `.env` leak is BOTH a CONST-053 and a CONST-042 violation; rotation + post-mortem required.

**Recreatable-content test**: if a documented mechanism regenerates the file from sources, it is a build derivative and MUST be ignored. The committed sources MUST include the generator.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `CONST-053` ID reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Severity-equivalent to a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the repository-hygiene layer. See constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.30 for the full mandate.


## CONST-054: Submodule-Dependency-Manifest Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.31)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-15): *"We MUST HAVE mechanism for each Submodule to determine / know what are its Submodule dependencies so new projects or palces we are incorporate them can add these Submodules to the project root and make them available! Suggested idea is configuration file with expected Submodules Git ssh urls perhaps? New project can read it, and recursively add each Submodule to the root of the project and install / expose it to veryone."*

Every owned-by-us submodule MUST ship `helix-deps.yaml` at its root declaring its own-org dependencies. Schema: `schema_version`, `deps: [{name, ssh_url, ref, why, layout: flat|grouped}]`, `transitive_handling.{recursive,conflict_resolution}`, `language_specific_subtree`. Tooling: `incorporate-submodule <ssh-url>` adds the submodule at the parent project's canonical path (CONST-051(C)), reads `helix-deps.yaml`, recurses for each declared dep, aborts on conflicting refs, emits `<root>/.helix-manifest.yaml` audit record.

Anti-bluff guarantee: every manifest paired with a Challenge that bootstraps a throwaway consuming project, runs `incorporate-submodule`, asserts produced layout matches the manifest, runs the submodule's own tests against the bootstrapped layout, captures wire evidence per §11.4.2. A manifest without this proof is a CONST-054 violation.

§11.4.31 / CONST-054 is the **operational complement** of CONST-051(C): nested own-org submodule chains are FORBIDDEN — manifests are the bridge that lets consumers reconstruct the dependency graph at the parent root.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `CONST-054` ID reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Severity-equivalent to §11.4 PASS-bluff at the dependency-graph layer. See constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.31 for the full mandate.

## CONST-055: Post-Constitution-Pull Validation Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.32)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-15): *"Every time we fetch and pull new changes on constitution Submodule we MUST process the whole project and all Submodule (deep recursively) for validation and verification taht every single rule or mandatory constraint is followed and respected! If it is not, IT MUST BE!"*

Whenever a project's constitution submodule is fetched + pulled with any content change, the project MUST run `scripts/verify-all-constitution-rules.sh` BEFORE the new constitution HEAD is treated as canonical for any other work. The sweep re-runs the governance-cascade verifier AND every implementable rule gate (CONST-053 `.gitignore` audit, CONST-051(C) nested-own-org-chain audit, CONST-052 case audit, CONST-050(A) mock-from-production audit, CONST-035 anti-bluff smoke, etc.) against the post-pull tree. Failures populate the project's Issues tracker per §11.4.15 (Status: `Reopened`, Type: `Bug`); closure requires positive-evidence per §11.4.

Pull-time invocation: `git submodule update --remote constitution` triggers the sweep automatically (post-update hook OR commit-wrapper invocation). Operator-explicit manual invocation also available.

Anti-bluff: the sweep's own meta-test (paired mutation per §1.1) plants a known violation of each enforced gate and asserts the sweep reports FAIL for the planted gate. A sweep that exits PASS without running every implementable gate is a CONST-055 violation.

CONST-055 is the **enforcement engine** for every other §11.4.x and CONST-NNN rule — without it, new rules cascade as anchors but never get enforced.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `CONST-055` ID reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Severity-equivalent to §11.4 PASS-bluff at the constitutional-enforcement layer. See constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.32 for the full mandate.


## CONST-056: Mandatory install_upstreams on clone/add Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.36)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-15): *"Every Submodule or Git repository we add or clone MUST BE upstreams installed using Upstreamable utility which MUST BE available through exported paths of the host system (in .bashrc or .zhrc) using install_upstreams command executed from the root of the cloned (added) repository - only if in it is Upstreams or upstreams directory present with bash script files (recipes) for all repository's upstreams!"*

Every clone / add of a Git repository under HelixCode MUST be followed by `install_upstreams` invocation from the repository's root IF its tree contains `upstreams/` (or legacy `upstreams/` per CONST-052 transition) populated with `*.sh` recipe files. The utility (installed on operator's `PATH` via `.bashrc`/`.zshrc`; implementation in the constitution submodule's `install_upstreams.sh` — already supports BOTH directory names since constitution commit `45d3678`) reads the recipe files, configures every declared upstream as a named git remote, and fans out `origin` push URLs.

Skipping the invocation when `upstreams/` is present silently breaks §2.1 (multi-upstream push is the norm) — the next push lands on only one upstream. Gate `CM-INSTALL-UPSTREAMS-ON-CLONE` + paired mutation. Automation: the future `incorporate-submodule` per CONST-054 auto-invokes; manual invocation supported. Pre-commit check: `git remote -v | grep -c push` reports expected count.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `CONST-056` ID reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. See constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.36 for the full mandate.


## CONST-057: Type-aware Closure-Status Vocabulary (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.33)

Every project tracking work items by Type per §11.4.16 MUST close them with the Type-appropriate terminal `**Status:**` value, drawn from this 3-element closed map:

| Item `**Type:**` | Closure `**Status:**` value     |
|------------------|---------------------------------|
| `Bug`            | `Fixed (→ Fixed.md)`            |
| `Feature`        | `Implemented (→ Fixed.md)`      |
| `Task`           | `Completed (→ Fixed.md)`        |

The `(→ Fixed.md)` suffix is preserved across all three so the existing migration-discipline tooling (atomic Issues.md → Fixed.md move per §11.4.19) keeps working without per-Type branching. Generators (`generate_issues_summary.sh`, `generate_fixed_summary.sh`, the §11.4.23 colorizer) MUST treat the three terminal values as semantically equivalent (all "closed, positive evidence captured") while preserving the literal in the emitted document.

Closing a `Feature` with `Fixed (→ Fixed.md)` or a `Task` with `Implemented (→ Fixed.md)` is a CONST-057 violation. Gate `CM-CLOSURE-VOCAB-TYPE-AWARE` walks every Fixed.md heading + every Issues.md heading whose `**Status:**` is one of the three terminal values and asserts the Status-Type match. Composes with §11.4.15 / §11.4.16 / §11.4.19 / §11.4.23.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `CONST-057` ID reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. See constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.33 for the full mandate.

## CONST-058: Reopened-Source Attribution Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.34)

Every Issues.md (or equivalent project tracker) heading whose `**Status:**` is `Reopened` MUST carry, within 8 non-blank lines of the heading, a `**Reopened-Details:**` line capturing four sub-facts:

- **By:** `AI` or `User` (source-of-truth observer who flipped the status). `AI` covers in-loop reopens (test failure, gate regression, captured-evidence retrospect). `User` covers operator-side observations (manual testing, end-user report, design reconsideration).
- **On:** ISO date (`YYYY-MM-DD`).
- **Reason:** one-line cause classification — chosen from the closed vocabulary `{ test-failed | manual-testing-detected | captured-evidence-contradicts | end-user-report | cycle-re-discovered | design-reconsidered }`. Other values permitted with explicit `Reason: <free text>` annotation but the closed list MUST be tried first.
- **Evidence:** path to or short description of the captured artefact justifying the reopen — log file, recording, gate failure ID, operator quote, etc. Reopens without evidence are §11.4.6 / §11.4.7 violations (demotion from Fixed requires captured evidence under the conditions that re-exposed the defect).

The Issues_Summary.md Status column MUST distinguish the four `Reopened` sub-states by source so a sweep query for "reopens by AI in the last 30 days" is mechanically possible. Suggested column rendering: `Reopened (AI: test-failed)` vs `Reopened (User: manual-testing)`. Gate `CM-ITEM-REOPENED-DETAILS` mirrors `CM-ITEM-OPERATOR-BLOCKED-DETAILS` (§11.4.21 walk pattern). Composes with §11.4.6 / §11.4.7 / §11.4.15 / §11.4.21.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `CONST-058` ID reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. See constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.34 for the full mandate.

## CONST-059: Canonical-Root Inheritance Clarity (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.35)

The **constitution submodule's** three files (`constitution/Constitution.md`, `constitution/CLAUDE.md`, `constitution/AGENTS.md`) ARE the **canonical root** (also called the **parent** files). They contain only universal rules per §11.4.17.

The consuming project's **repository-root files** (`<project-root>/CLAUDE.md`, `<project-root>/AGENTS.md`, optionally `<project-root>/Constitution.md`) are **consumer extensions**. They MUST start with the inheritance pointer (either the Claude-Code native `@constitution/CLAUDE.md` import or the portable `## INHERITED FROM constitution/CLAUDE.md` heading). They contain only project-specific rules per §11.4.17.

**When in doubt about which file to edit:** universal rule → constitution submodule's file; project-specific rule → consumer's file. Default consumer-side when uncertain (§11.4.17 — narrower scope is cheap to widen).

**Terminology:** "the parent CLAUDE.md" / "the root Constitution" → constitution-submodule file at `constitution/<filename>`; "the project CLAUDE.md" / "this project's AGENTS.md" → consumer-side file at `<project-root>/<filename>`.

**No silent demotion or silent promotion.** Moving a rule between layers MUST be a visible commit — `git mv` of a section if it's a clean clone, or explicit `Lifted from <project> to constitution per §11.4.35` / `Demoted from constitution to <project> per §11.4.35` commit-message annotation.

Gate `CM-CANONICAL-ROOT-CLARITY` verifies (a) consumer's `CLAUDE.md` opens with the inheritance pointer, (b) constitution submodule's three files are present at the expected path, (c) no `## INHERITED FROM` block in the constitution submodule's own files (those ARE the source-of-truth, not consumers). Composes with §11.4.17.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `CONST-059` ID reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. See constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.35 for the full mandate.

## CONST-060: Fetch-before-edit Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.37)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-15): *"Make sure that feedback_fetch_before_edit memory rule is part of our constitution Submodule - the root Consitution, AGENTS.MD and CLAUDE.MD. Validate and verify that Proejct-Toolkit and all Submodules do inherit all of them! Follow the constitution Submodule documentation for details."*

The FIRST git-touching action of every session, on every consuming project (owned or third-party), MUST be:

```bash
git fetch --all --prune
git log --oneline HEAD..@{u}
git submodule foreach --recursive 'git fetch --all --prune --quiet'
```

If `HEAD..@{u}` is non-empty, integrate the upstream changes BEFORE any local edit. Acting on stale local state produces three failure modes documented in the originating §11.4.37 incident (multi-agent / parallel-session work): (1) **redundant work** — the agent re-does what a parallel session already finished, (2) **false confidence** — completion reports for already-done work, (3) **divergent history** — duplicate sibling commits that double the conflict surface on next push.

**Anti-bluff invariant**: the fetch+log check MUST produce captured evidence — the actual `HEAD..@{u}` output, even if empty. Skipping the check on the basis of "I just fetched" or "nothing could have changed in the last N minutes" is a §11.4.6 (no-guessing) violation: the remote state is not knowable without a fetch.

**Cascade requirement**: This anchor (verbatim or by `CONST-060` ID reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Severity-equivalent to §11.4 PASS-bluff at the parallel-session-coordination layer. See constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.37 for the full mandate.

## §11.4.68 — Positive Sink-Side / Downstream Evidence Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.68)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-20): *"We still do not hear any audio played from D3 device! Arvus Web Dashboard when we play music from D3 shows nothing for Codec In Use! This MUST BE investigated and fixed! How come we passed the tests with Arvus validation? What were values for the Codec In Use field? Empty means nothing! This is not working! It MUST BE FIXED, TESTED AND VERIFIED WITH FULL AUTOMATION TESTING ASAP!!!"*

A test that asserts audio or video routing PASS MUST capture and verify **positive sink-side or downstream evidence** — never config-only, never metadata-only, never PCM-open-state-only. At least one of the closed enumeration MUST be captured for every audio/video routing PASS: (1) sink-side codec-state with non-empty Codec-In-Use matching the expected codec regex; (2) strictly-positive PCM frames-written delta from `/proc/asound/.../status hw_ptr`; (3) ALSA ELD/EDID-Like-Data showing negotiated channel count + format; (4) ffprobe-on-captured-mp4 with non-zero frame count + expected codec/resolution/fps; (5) recording-analyzer event match per §11.4.2/§11.4.5; (6) tinycap RMS amplitude above the line-level floor. Empty / `<unreachable>` / `<N.E.>` / `<None>` placeholders are NOT positive evidence; a missing-but-required sink is `OPERATOR-BLOCKED` (release-blocker), never SKIP, never PASS. No escape hatch — no `--skip-sink-evidence`, `--allow-empty-codec`, `--sink-unreachable-is-pass`, `--metadata-only-suffices` flag exists.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.68` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Severity-equivalent to a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the sink-side-evidence layer.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.68 for the full mandate.

## §11.4.70 — Subagent-Driven Execution Is The Default (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.70)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-20): *"Always do if possible Subagent-driven! Add this into our root (constitution Submodule) Constitution.md, CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md. This should be the default choice ALWAYS!"*

When executing implementation plans (or any task-decomposed execution flow), the **default execution model is subagent-driven** per `superpowers:subagent-driven-development`. Inline execution is permitted ONLY when (a) the task is trivial AND fits a single sub-300-line edit, OR (b) the operator explicitly requests inline at brainstorm-handoff time. Subagent-driven is the default because it gives isolated context per task, naturally enforces two-stage review, is parallel-PWU compatible (§11.4.58), creates an anti-bluff seam (§11.4), and survives operator absence. No escape hatch — `--inline-execution-required`, `--no-subagents`, `--monolithic-execution` are NOT permitted flags. Skipping subagent-driven for non-trivial work without recorded operator authorisation is itself a §11.4 PASS-bluff.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.70` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Severity-equivalent to a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the execution-model layer.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.70 for the full mandate.

## §11.4.71 — Pre-Push Fetch + Investigate + Integrate Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.71)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-20): *"before pushing changes to any upstream for any repository - main repo or Submodule, we MUST fetch and pull all changes. Once these are obtained WE MUST investigate what is different compared to head position we were on last time before fetching and pulling new changes! We MUST understand what is done and for what purpose, easpecially how that does affect our project and our System in general! Any mandatory changes or improvements required by fresh changes we just have brough in MUST BE incorporated, covered with all supported types of the tests which will produce as a result of its success execution REAL PROOFS of working for all componetns and functionalities covered and work fully in anti-bluff manner!"*

The everyday-push variant of §11.4.41. EVERY push (every repository — main + every submodule) MUST follow the 5-step cycle: (1) fetch all remotes (`git fetch --all --prune --tags`, capture stdout); (2) pull all upstream branches whose tip differs, resolving conflicts per consumer judgment (never auto-`--ours`/`--theirs`); (3) investigate the diff vs OUR previous HEAD — read EVERY foreign commit's body, understand what/why/how-it-affects-our-system; (4) integrate mandatory changes with §11.4.4(b) four-layer coverage + §11.4.43 TDD-fix discipline, every PASS carrying §11.4.5 captured-evidence (REAL PROOFS, not metadata-only); (5) only then push, verifying with `git ls-remote` post-push. No escape hatch — no `--skip-fetch`, `--no-investigate`, `--fast-push`, `--trust-upstream` flag.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.71` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Severity-equivalent to a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the push-discipline layer.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.71 for the full mandate.

## §11.4.72 — Audio Top-Priority Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.72)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-20): *"Make sure all fixes for audio are always top priority in main working stream!"*

The conductor (main working stream — Claude Code session, AI agent, or human operator) MUST treat audio fixes as the highest-priority class on the serial dispatch queue. Any time the conductor faces a choice between dispatching an audio task vs a non-audio task on the SAME serial resource, the audio task wins. Parallel BACKGROUND subagents (research, refactors, infrastructure documentation) MAY run concurrently with audio work but do NOT preempt audio on the main-stream serial dispatch queue. No escape hatch — there is no "but this non-audio task is faster" or "but this research is more interesting" override; audio-stack regressions are user-perceptible and high-impact while research and refactors can wait.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.72` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Severity-equivalent to a process violation at the dispatch-priority layer.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.72 for the full mandate.

## §11.4.73 — Main-Specification Document Versioning + Revision Discipline (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.73)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-20): *"Make sure everything we add now in previous and upcoming requests IS ALWAYS applied to the main specification — if we have one. Since all these are not major changes we could increase Specification version per change for secondary version instead of the primary. Primary version MUST BE increased for much bigger levels of changes! Add this into root (constitution Submodule) Constitution.md, CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md as mandatory rule / constraint applicable ONLY IF we have something like the main specification document or we do recognize something like the main specification document. Document MUST BE updated ALWAYS to follow the versioning rules we are appling here + revision and other properties we have!"*

Applies **only when a project recognises a main specification document**. When it does: (1) every additive operator requirement, refinement, or accepted recommendation MUST be applied to the spec before or as part of the implementing work; (2) spec versioning has two axes — *primary* (V1/V2/V3, bumped for major rewrites by explicit operator decision, old versions archived) and *secondary* (the §11.4.61 metadata-table `Revision` integer, bumped for every other change); (3) the metadata table MUST stay current (`Revision`, `Last modified`, `Status summary`, `Fixed`); (4) propagated copies of the rule MUST reference the active `specification.V<primary>.md`, not a stale archive; (5) on primary bump the old file moves to `<spec-dir>/archive/` with `Status: superseded`. Classification: universal, applicable conditionally per the scope condition.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.73` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Severity-equivalent to a release blocker when a project has a main spec and lets it drift.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.73 for the full mandate.

## §11.4.74 — Submodule-Catalogue-First Discovery + Extend-Don't-Reimplement (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.74)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-20): *"We MUST ALWAYS check which already developed features / functionalities do exist as a part of our comprehensive Submodules catalogue located in vasic-digital and HelixDevelopment organizations on GitHub and GitLab both! Project MUST BE aware of all its existence so we do not implement same things multiple times if they are already done as some of existing universal, reusable general development purpose Submodules! For any missing features that some Submodules we incorporate may be missing we MUST IMPLEMENT the properly and extend those Submodules furter! We do control all of the and we CAN and MUST maintain and extend the regularly! All development cycle rules we have MUST BE applied to them and fully respected!"*

Before scaffolding ANY new module, package, helper, or utility, the contributor (human or AI agent) MUST: (1) survey the canonical Submodule catalogue — `vasic-digital` and `HelixDevelopment` on both GitHub AND GitLab; (2) inventory existing Submodules; (3) reuse before reimplement — if a Submodule provides the functionality (or 80%+ of it), add it as a Git submodule rather than write fresh; (4) extend in-place when 80%+ matches but features are missing — add the missing features TO THAT SUBMODULE (PR upstream + bump pointer), never as a duplicating consuming-project helper; (5) apply all development-cycle rules to those Submodules; (6) document the survey result in the feature's tracker entry with a `Catalogue-Check:` field (`reuse <org/repo>@<sha>` / `extend <org/repo>@<sha>` / `no-match <date>`). Classification: universal.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.74` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Severity-equivalent to a process violation; duplicate implementations landed without catalogue check are release blockers.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.74 for the full mandate.

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## §11.4.69 — Universal Sink-Side Positive-Evidence Taxonomy + Mechanical Enforcement (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.69)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-20): *"THIS MUST HAPPEN NEVER AGAIN!!! We MUST HAVE this all working! Not just for audio but for every single piece of the System!!! Proper full automation when executed with success MUST MEAN that manual testing will be as much positive at least regarding the success results! ... Solution MUST BE universal, generic that solves working flows for all System components and for all future and all existing projects! ... Everything we do MUST BE validated and verified with rock-solid proofs and anti-bluff policy enforcement and fulfillment!"*

Universal generalisation of §11.4.68 (audio-specific) across every user-visible feature class. Every user-visible feature MUST map to one entry in the closed-set §11.4.69 sink-side evidence taxonomy (`audio_output`, `audio_input`, `video_display`, `network_throughput`, `network_connectivity`, `bluetooth_a2dp`, `bluetooth_pair`, `touch_input`, `sensor`, `gpu_render`, `storage_read`, `storage_write`, `mediacodec_decode`, `mediacodec_encode`, `miracast`, `cast`, `boot_service`, `package_install`, `permission_grant`, `wifi_link`, `wifi_throughput`, `ethernet_link`, `display_topology`, `drm_playback`, `subtitle_render` — open to additions, never contraction). Every PASS for a feature in the taxonomy MUST cite a captured-evidence artefact path matching the required evidence shape. New helper contracts (additive during grace, mandatory after 2026-06-19): `ab_pass_with_evidence <description> <evidence_path>` (verifies path exists + non-empty), `ab_skip_with_reason <description> <closed-set-reason>` (reasons: `geo_restricted`, `operator_attended`, `hardware_not_present`, `topology_unsupported`, `network_unreachable_external`, `feature_disabled_by_config`; forbids `network_unreachable_external` for any taxonomy feature with a sink-side probe); bare `ab_pass` deprecated (WARN pre-grace, FAIL post-grace). Three pre-build gates + paired §1.1 mutations: `CM-SINK-EVIDENCE-PER-FEATURE`, `CM-NO-FAIL-OPEN-SKIP`, `CM-AB-PASS-WITH-EVIDENCE-EVERYWHERE`. No escape hatch — no `--skip-evidence`, `--config-only-pass`, `--allow-fail-open-skip`, `--legacy-ab-pass-permitted` flag.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.69` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-69-PROPAGATION` enforces the anchor literal across the consumer fleet; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Severity-equivalent to a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the sink-side-evidence layer.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.69 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.75 — Mechanical Enforcement Without Exception (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.75)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-20): *"Why do these violations still happen!? This is a serious problem! We cannot rely on stability nor consistency if we cannot respect our Constitution, mandatory rules and constraints! Is there a way to make this always respected, followed and applied without exception fully and unconditionally!? WE MUST HAVE THIS WORKING FLAWLESSLY!!! Do investigate the root causes of such problems! Once all problems are identified WE MUST apply proper mechanisms for this not to happen NEVER EVER AGAIN!"*

The §11.4 covenant historically relied on agent + operator vigilance; three 2026-05-19→20 forensic incidents proved that late-binding enforcement fires hours-to-days after the violator commit reaches every remote. §11.4.75 closes the gap with FIVE independent mechanical enforcement layers — bypassing any single layer does not bypass the discipline: (1) local `pre-commit` git hook (refuses staged `.md` lacking sibling `.html`+`.pdf`); (2) `commit_all.sh` integration (`_constitution_sibling_check` + auto-`sync_all_markdown_exports.sh` self-repair); (3) local `pre-push` git hook (re-runs siblings + propagation-gate subset); (4) `post-commit` auto-repair hook (auto-generates orphan-`.md` siblings, idempotent + recursion-guarded); (5) local-only final-gate ritual (remote CI DISABLED per User mandate — operator runs `pre_build_verification.sh` + meta-test before every tag per §11.4.40). Helper contracts: `scripts/install_git_hooks.sh`, `scripts/git_hooks/{pre-commit,pre-push,post-commit,commit-msg}`, `_constitution_sibling_check`. The `commit-msg` hook enforces a `Bypass-rationale: <reason>` footer when `--no-verify` is detected; `docs/audit/bypass_events.md` accumulates the audit trail. Five gates with paired §1.1 mutations: `CM-COVENANT-114-75-PROPAGATION`, `CM-GIT-HOOKS-INSTALL-SCRIPT`, `CM-GIT-HOOKS-SOURCE-DIR`, `CM-COMMIT-ALL-SIBLING-CHECK`, `CM-CI-WORKFLOW-PRESENT`. No escape hatch — no `--skip-hooks`, `--bypass-enforcement`, `--allow-orphan-md`, `--ci-not-applicable`, `--mechanical-enforcement-not-needed` flag.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.75` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-75-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Severity-equivalent to a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the enforcement layer.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.75 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.76 — Containers-Submodule Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.76)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-20): *"For any work or requirements of running services or codebase inside the Containers (Docker / Podman / Qemy / Emulators, and so on) we MUST USE / INCORPORATE the Containers Submodule properly: https://github.com/vasic-digital/containers (git@github.com:vasic-digital/containers.git). Containers Submodule contains all means for us to Containerize our code and services! If any feature or Containing System is missing or not supported we MUST EXTEND IT properly like we do all of our projects! No bluff work is allowed of any kind!"*

For ANY containerized workload (Docker / Podman / Qemu / Kubernetes / container-backed emulators), every consuming project MUST: (1) install `vasic-digital/containers` (`digital.vasic.containers`) as a Git submodule; (2) consume via `replace` directive during development + pinned commit SHAs in production; (3) boot infra on-demand via `pkg/boot` + `pkg/compose` + `pkg/health` so operators are never required to start `podman machine` / `docker compose up` manually — the boot is part of the test entry point (the on-demand-infra invariant); (4) extend the Submodule (PR upstream) for missing runtimes / lifecycle primitives — never reimplement in-project (per §11.4.74); (5) anti-bluff: integration tests claiming to exercise containerized components MUST actually boot them via the Submodule — short-circuit fakes that bypass boot are a §11.4 violation. Tracker rows touching containerization MUST record `Catalogue-Check: extend vasic-digital/containers@<sha>` (or `reuse`). Planned gate `CM-CONTAINERS-USED` scans container-touching PRs for `digital.vasic.containers/...` imports; paired mutation strips the import + asserts FAIL.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.76` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-76-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.76 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.77 — Regeneration-Mechanism-Required Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.77)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-20): *"We must be sure that after excluding anything from Git versioning we still have the mechanism which will out of the box obtain or re-generate missing content!"*

Every `.gitignore` entry excluding (a) >~100 MiB OR (b) any artefact essential to building / running / testing the project MUST carry a documented + automated mechanism to either re-obtain (download from authoritative source: vendor tarball, SDK installer, npm/pip/cargo/go-mod/container registry, dedicated git submodule, S3/GCS) OR re-generate (run from tracked source via build pipeline, code-gen, asset render, captured-evidence replay, container build). Required artefacts per qualifying entry: (1) `.gitignore-meta/<entry-slug>.yaml` declaring pattern + mechanism-type + script-path + expected-disk-usage + vendor-url-or-source + integrity hash + requires-network + requires-credentials; (2) a non-interactive entry in `scripts/setup.sh` post-clone bootstrap; (3) a pre-build gate verifying regenerated content present OR a recent `.gitignore-meta/.regenerated/<slug>.ok` stamp; (4) README + `docs/guides/*.md` describing the mechanism + manual fallback + time/disk budget + §11.4.10 credentials. Bare `.gitignore` additions without the mechanism are a §11.4 PASS-bluff variant — codebase appears complete but a fresh clone cannot build/run. No escape hatch — no `--skip-regen-mechanism`, `--gitignore-is-enough`, `--operator-already-has-content` flag. Planned gate `CM-GITIGNORE-REGEN-MECHANISM` + paired §1.1 mutation (strip a required YAML key → gate FAILs).

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.77` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-77-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Severity-equivalent to a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the repository-hygiene layer.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.77 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.78 — CodeGraph Code-Intelligence Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.78)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-20): *"Make codegraph MANDATORY CHOICE for this purpose for all of our project ... All project which do not have configured and installed codegraph yet MUST DO IT and MUST USE IT!"*

Every consuming project worked on by AI coding agents MUST install, initialize, and use **CodeGraph** (`https://github.com/colbymchenry/codegraph`, npm `@colbymchenry/codegraph`) — a local SQLite semantic code-knowledge-graph exposed to agents over MCP (100% local, no cloud). (1) Install globally via npm with a user-writable npm prefix (no `sudo`). (2) `codegraph init` + `codegraph index`: `.codegraph/config.json` is tracked, `.codegraph/codegraph.db` is gitignored with `codegraph index` as its §11.4.77 regeneration mechanism; the `config.json` `exclude` list MUST exclude every credential/secret path per §11.4.10. (3) Wire `codegraph serve --mcp` into every CLI agent (Claude Code `.mcp.json`, OpenCode `opencode.json`, Qwen Code `.qwen/settings.json`, Crush `.crush.json`, host-local otherwise) referencing the bare `codegraph` command on `PATH` (no hardcoded host path). (4) Cover the integration with an anti-bluff suite whose per-agent end-to-end layer uses an unforgeable challenge (a fact obtainable only by calling a CodeGraph MCP tool, e.g. index node count via `codegraph_status`); a genuinely un-drivable agent is a documented SKIP per §11.4.3, never a faked PASS. (5) Document in `docs/CODEGRAPH.md`, kept in sync per §11.4.12 / §11.4.65. CodeGraph is consumed as the published npm package (§11.4.74) — not a git submodule, adds no Git remote. Planned gate `CM-CODEGRAPH-WIRED` + paired §1.1 mutation (strip a secret-exclusion → gate FAILs).

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.78` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-78-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.78 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.79 — Own-Org Submodules MUST Be Included in the CodeGraph Index (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.79)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-21): *"All Submodules we use in the project and that are part of organizations to which we have the full access via GitHub, GitLab and other CLIs MUST BE included into the codegraph database and initialized / scanned / synced!"*

Refines §11.4.78's exclude-list with a per-submodule-ownership split: (a) own-org submodules (full write access via the project's CLIs — canonical orgs `vasic-digital` + `HelixDevelopment`) MUST be INCLUDED in the index; (b) third-party submodules (the §11.4.74 `no-match → vendor` path) MUST be EXCLUDED. Operational steps: (1) `git submodule update --remote --merge` to pull latest before re-indexing, respecting load-bearing pins on third-party submodules; (2) adjust `.codegraph/config.json` exclude list to keep own-org paths in scope; (3) re-index via `scripts/codegraph_setup.sh`; (4) verify via `scripts/codegraph_validate.sh` with ≥1 probe resolving a symbol living ONLY inside an own-org submodule; (5) paired §1.1 mutation — temporarily add the own-org submodule to exclude → validate MUST FAIL on the cross-submodule probe → restore. An index that lies about reachable symbols is a PASS-bluff against AI agents. Own-org submodules silently excluded without an audit trail in `.codegraph/config.json` comments is a release blocker.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.79` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-79-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.79 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.80 — CodeGraph Regular-Update + Sync Automation Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.80)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-21): *"We MUST regularly check for the updates and execute codegraph npm updates so the latest version of it is always installed on the host machine! ... Make sure we have proper full automation bash scripts which will run regularly and that these are part of the constitution Submodule ... Make sure all updates, sync processes we do and important codegraph related events are all documented under docs/codegraph in Status and Status_Summary documents ... and regularly export them like all other Status docs into the PDF and HTML!"*

Three deliverables (all living in the constitution submodule, inherited by reference per §3 — consuming projects invoke at `${CONST_DIR}/scripts/codegraph_*.sh`, never copy): (1) `scripts/codegraph_update.sh` — npm-installs latest `@colbymchenry/codegraph` after a registry version check; appends old/new version to `docs/codegraph/Status.md`; anti-bluff verifies `codegraph --version` reflects the new version after install (npm exit 0 ≠ working binary). (2) `scripts/codegraph_sync.sh` — after a successful update runs `codegraph status` → `codegraph sync .` → `codegraph status` → the project's `scripts/codegraph_validate.sh`; appends every step's output to BOTH the project's and the constitution's `docs/codegraph/Status.md`. (3) `docs/codegraph/Status.md` + `Status_Summary.md` append-only ledgers, exported to `.html` + `.pdf` per §11.4.65. Cadence: weekly floor (per §11.4.45). A consuming project that has not run `codegraph_update.sh` in >2 weeks AND has open AI-agent work is a release blocker. Paired §1.1 mutation: downgrade installed version → script detects drift → restore.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.80` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-80-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.80 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.81 — Cross-Platform-Parity Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.81)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-21): *"Any Linux-only blocker / issue we have MUST BE created macOS and other supported platforms equivalent! So, depending on platform proper implementation will be used for particular OS! EVERYTHING MUST BE PROPERLY EXTENDED AND UPDATED!"*

Every consuming project whose supported-platforms manifest lists more than one OS MUST, for every feature/test/gate/challenge/mutation depending on platform-specific primitives, ship a per-OS-equivalent implementation chosen at runtime via `uname -s` (or equivalent detection). Three sub-mandates: **(A) Per-OS implementation REQUIRED** — Linux cgroup/systemd/`/proc` primitives MUST have documented per-OS equivalents (POSIX `setrlimit`/`ulimit`, macOS `launchd`, BSD `rctl`, Windows Job Object) chosen via runtime dispatch. **(B) Per-OS tests REQUIRED** — every platform-dependent gate test MUST have `case "$(uname -s)" in` branches with positive captured evidence per §11.4.2 + §11.4.5 in each branch; SKIP-with-reason acceptable ONLY when the platform genuinely cannot enforce the invariant. **(C) Honest kernel-gap citation + adjacent equivalent test REQUIRED** — where a Linux primitive has NO equivalent due to a documented kernel limitation (canonical: XNU does not enforce `RLIMIT_AS` for unprivileged processes), the test MUST detect the gap at runtime, SKIP with exact kernel reason + reproducer + honest-gap-doc link, AND provide an ADJACENT test exercising the closest invariant the platform CAN enforce (e.g. `RLIMIT_CPU`+`SIGXCPU` as the macOS proxy), itself anti-bluff with a paired §1.1 mutation. Gate `CM-CROSS-PLATFORM-PARITY` scans for `case "$(uname -s)"` blocks asserting a non-SKIP branch (or honest-gap citation) per platform in the manifest; paired mutation strips a Darwin branch → gate FAILs. No escape hatch.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.81` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-81-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker on multi-platform projects.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.81 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.82 — Iteration-Speedup Discipline Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.82)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-22): *"How can we speed-up this whole development and fixing process? ... Do not forget to all speed optimizations critical rules and mandatory constraints MUST BE all added into our root (constitution Submodule) Constitution.md, CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and QWEN.md and all other relevant constitution Submodules files!"*

Iteration cycle time is a first-order quality enabler. Every consuming project's build / test / commit / debug pipeline MUST adopt these speedup disciplines AS MANDATORY (each independently enforceable): (A) Phase-1 forensic (`superpowers:systematic-debugging`) before any speculative source patch — speculative patches without FACT-grade root cause are §11.4.6 + §11.4.82 violations; (B) Live-ADB-First (or live-equivalent) before any rebuild — strengthens §11.4.51 to a release-blocker mandate; (C) 30-second pre-flight before launching rebuild orchestrators (device/sink reachability, host memory/disk, no stale locks, no orphan processes); (D) persistent build caches outside containers (`ccache`/`sccache`/Gradle daemon bind-mounted to host); (E) module-only rebuild for loadable-module-only changes; (F) parallel multi-device testing with separate `qa-results/<TS>/<device-tag>/` outputs; (G) subagent scope discipline + worktree isolation (≤30 min budget, single-responsibility, `isolation: "worktree"` default); (H) lock-file + stale-process hygiene (clean `.git/index.lock`, disable auto git-gc in concurrent repos); (I) cycle telemetry per §11.4.24 (commit hash, per-phase wall-clock, speedup-flag set, outcome — aggregated weekly). Gate `CM-ITERATION-SPEEDUP-DISCIPLINE` audits recent cycles for telemetry citing which of (A)-(I) applied; paired §1.1 mutation strips the speedup-flag column → gate FAILs. No escape hatch — no `--skip-phase1-forensic`, `--no-pre-flight`, `--rebuild-everything-always`, `--unlimited-subagent-scope`, `--ignore-locks`, `--no-telemetry` flag.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.82` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-82-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.82 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.83 — docs/qa/ End-User Evidence Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.83)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-22): *"every feature that ships MUST carry a recorded e2e communication transcript + any attached materials under `docs/qa/<run-id>/` (per-feature subdirectories). A feature with no QA transcript is itself a §107 PASS-bluff — it claims to work but has no auditable runtime evidence. Bot-driven automation MUST preserve full bidirectional communication threads as proof."*

Every feature that ships MUST carry a recorded end-to-end communication transcript plus any attached materials (screenshots, request/response payloads, audio, file uploads) committed under `docs/qa/<run-id>/` — one directory per feature run. Operative rule: (1) every consuming project MUST maintain a `docs/qa/` tree, each new feature under `docs/qa/<run-id>/` where `<run-id>` is monotonic + greppable (timestamp / ATM-NNN / other workable-item ID per §11.4.54); (2) transcripts MUST be full bidirectional — every prompt/command sent + every response received (one-sided is not a transcript); (3) attached materials MUST be committed in-repo (no external-only links — that is a §11.4.13 sink-side violation); (4) bot-driven / agent-driven QA automation MUST preserve the full conversation thread as the proof artefact; (5) release gates MUST refuse to tag a version that has any feature-shipping commit without its matching `docs/qa/<run-id>/` directory. A feature with no QA transcript is a §11.4 / §107 PASS-bluff. Composes with §11.4.2 / §11.4.5 / §11.4.13 / §11.4.65 / §11.4.69 / §1.1.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.83` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-83-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker — no `--qa-evidence-optional` escape hatch.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.83 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.84 — Working-Tree Quiescence Rule for Subagent Commits (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.84)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-22): *"no subagent commit may proceed while any concurrent mutation gate is in flight in the same checkout. Before `git add`, the committing agent MUST `grep` its own working tree for mutation markers (`MUTATED for paired`, `// always pass`, `return json.Marshal` shortcut paths, etc.). Any unexplained file in the staging area triggers ABORT."*

No subagent (or main-thread) commit may proceed while any concurrent mutation gate, paired-mutation experiment, or other in-flight mutation is live in the same checkout. Before `git add`, the committing agent MUST grep its own working tree for mutation markers (`MUTATED for paired`, `// always pass`, `return json.Marshal` shortcut paths, `// MUTATION` / `# MUTATION` annotations, `_mutated_*` filename suffixes, etc.) and explicitly account for every modified file in the staging area; any unexplained file → ABORT. (Forensic case: a logo-fix subagent's `git add` swept an `// always pass` JWT-verify mutation residue into an unrelated commit pushed to all four mirrors — a real security-defect window.) Operative rule: (1) pre-`git add` greps for mutation markers + cross-checks `git status --porcelain` against the subagent's declared scope; unaccounted entries → ABORT; (2) any active mutation gate MUST be serialised (mutate → assert FAIL → restore → assert PASS) and the working tree verifiably clean before any unrelated commit; (3) concurrent subagents in the SAME checkout MUST coordinate through a lockfile (`.git/MUTATION_IN_PROGRESS`) — cleaner solution is `git worktree add` per subagent (composes with §11.4.20/§11.4.70); (4) post-commit `mutation-residue-scanner` MUST run before push — any commit containing a mutation marker → push BLOCKED.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.84` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-84-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. A mutation marker that lands in a tagged commit is a critical defect regardless of how briefly it persisted.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.84 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.85 — Stress + Chaos Test Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.85)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-24): *"Every fix or improvement you do MUST BE covered with full automation stress and chaos tests so we are sure nothing can break the functionality and all edge cases are monitored and polished and additionally fixed if that is needed! Everything must produce rock solid proofs and follow fully no-bluff policy!"*

Every fix or improvement landed MUST ship with full-automation **stress** AND **chaos** test suites exercising edge cases, sustained load, concurrent contention, and failure-injection. Happy-path coverage alone is a §11.4 / §107 PASS-bluff at the resilience layer. **Stress** (closed-set): sustained load (N ≥ 100 iterations OR ≥ 30 s wall-clock, p50/p95/p99 latency recorded) + concurrent contention (N ≥ 10 parallel invocations, no deadlock/leak) + boundary conditions (empty/max/off-by-one, each categorised). **Chaos** (closed-set, per fix-class appropriateness): process-death injection + network-fault injection (drop/delay/reorder) + input-corruption injection + resource-exhaustion injection (disk full, OOM, FD exhaustion — refuse cleanly OR degrade, NEVER crash) + state-corruption injection (mid-flight lock loss, partial-write). Every stress + chaos PASS MUST cite a captured-evidence artefact path per §11.4.5 + §11.4.69. Helper library `stress_chaos.sh` provides `ab_stress_run`, `ab_stress_concurrent`, `ab_chaos_kill_pid_during`, `ab_chaos_drop_network_during`, `ab_chaos_corrupt_file_during`, `ab_chaos_oom_pressure_during`, `ab_chaos_disk_full_during`, each composing with `ab_pass_with_evidence` / `ab_skip_with_reason`. Cleanup non-negotiable in `trap '...' EXIT` (cleanup failure = §11.4.14 violation). Four-layer coverage per §11.4.4(b) + paired §1.1 mutation (strip chaos-injection or evidence-capture → gate FAILs). No escape hatch — no `--skip-stress`, `--no-chaos`, `--happy-path-suffices`, `--stress-test-later` flag.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.85` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-85-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.85 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.86 — Roster/Corpus-Backed Status-Doc Auto-Sync Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.86)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-25): *"Make sure that assets and players Status docs are ALWAYS regularly updated and in sync like all others Status docs — any time we add or modify the assets content(s) or we change or add new / remove existing pre-installed video and audio player apps! This MUST WORK OUT OF THE BOX!"*

Some Status docs (§11.4.45) are backed by a tracked roster (installed apps/components) or a tracked asset corpus (test/media asset directory) rather than narrative alone. Their freshness MUST NOT depend on operator vigilance — the moment a roster/corpus member changes (app added/removed/renamed; asset added/modified/removed) the Status doc + Status_Summary + HTML + PDF MUST resync out of the box, mechanically. Mechanism (all must hold): (1) drift-proof fingerprint — sha256 of the sorted member list (NOT mtime), persisted in a sidecar beside the Status doc; (2) a sync helper that regenerates the fingerprint + re-exports HTML+PDF via the §11.4.65 exporter, wired so sync is automatic; (3) a pre-build gate that FAILs when the live fingerprint differs from the persisted one (mirrors §11.4.12 `CM-ISSUES-SUMMARY-SYNC` + §11.4.45 `sync_integration_status`); (4) a paired §1.1 mutation corrupting the fingerprint and asserting the gate FAILs. Classification: universal — the consuming project supplies the specific docs, roster/corpus sources, helper, and gate name per §11.4.35.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.86` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-86-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker — no `--skip-roster-sync`, `--allow-status-drift`, `--roster-sync-not-applicable` flag.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.86 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.87 — Endless-Loop Autonomous Work + Zero-Idle Agent Dispatch + Anti-Bluff Testing Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.87)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-26): *"continue in endless loop fully autonomously"* (and any semantically-equivalent phrasing).

When the operator instructs an AI agent to continue in an endless autonomous loop, the agent MUST treat it as a HARD-CONTRACT covenant: (A) continue working until `docs/Issues.md` Status-column has zero non-terminal entries AND `docs/CONTINUATION.md` §3 Active work is empty AND no background subagent is mid-execution AND no external dependency is in-flight; (B) dispatch background subagents for parallelisable work — main + every subagent operate concurrently, "waiting for results" is the ONLY acceptable idle reason; (C) every closure lands four-layer test coverage per §11.4.4(b) with captured-evidence (audio/video/network/UI/sysfs physical proofs); (D) the §11.4 anti-bluff covenant family (§11.4.1 / §11.4.2 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.7 / §11.4.27 / §11.4.50 / §11.4.52 / §11.4.68 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.83) is the operative truth-discipline — tests AND HelixQA Challenges bound equally; (E) the loop terminates ONLY on all-conditions-met, explicit operator STOP, host-session-safety demand, or scheduled wake on a known-future-actionable signal. No escape hatch — no `--idle-OK`, `--skip-endless-loop`, `--bluff-permitted-for-this-task`, `--metadata-only-test-suffices`, `--no-physical-proof-required` flag.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.87` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-87-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.87 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.88 — Background-Push Mandate: Commit-Lock Release Immediately After Commit, Push Runs Detached (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.88)

Forensic anchor (2026-05-26): a single `commit_all.sh` held its flock ~5 hours because `do_push` ran synchronously after the commit landed — every subsequent commit blocked on a slow mirror push irrelevant to the local commit's durability. Implementation seam for §11.4.87(B) zero-idle. The mandate: (A) `.git/.commit_all.lock` MUST be released IMMEDIATELY after `git commit` returns 0 — the commit is durable on local disk regardless of remote push outcome; (B) push runs detached via `nohup ./push_all.sh ... > <log> 2>&1 &` + `disown` — the orchestrator's exit code reports COMMIT success, NOT push success; (C) `push_all.sh` acquires per-remote flock `.git/.push.<remote>.lock` so concurrent invocations targeting the same remote serialize but different-remote invocations run in parallel; (D) backgrounded push failures land in `qa-results/push_failures/<ts>_<remote>.log` — the next autonomous-loop tick checks per §11.4.87(A) "no external dependency in-flight" gate; (E) synchronous-push escape: explicit `--sync-push` CLI flag preserves legacy behaviour for §11.4.41 force-push merge-first audit paths. Gates `CM-COVENANT-114-88-PROPAGATION` + `CM-BACKGROUND-PUSH-WIRED` + paired §1.1 mutations. Synchronous push (without `--sync-push`) = §11.4 PASS-bluff at the execution layer.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.88` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-88-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker — no escape hatch beyond `--sync-push` for force-push events.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.88 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.89 — Background Test Execution Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.89)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-27): *"Any tests we are executing, especially long test cycles, MUST BE performed in background in parallel with main work stream! This MUST NOT block our capabilities to work on queued workable items. Main work stream can be blocked or sit iddle only if absolutely needed and if it depends hard on results of some background execution."*

Symmetric anchor to §11.4.88 (background push) at the test-execution layer. Mandate: (A) long-running tests (>30 s expected: `pre_build`, `meta_test`, `test_all_fixes`, `recent_work_validate`, HelixQA banks, 4-phase cycles, full-suite retests, audio supervisors, dual-display recorders) MUST run via `nohup ... > <log> 2>&1 &` + `disown` with the log under a known dir (`qa-results/<test_id>_<ts>.log`); (B) the main stream proceeds to the §11.4.42 priority queue immediately; (C) hard-dependency gating — poll an exit-status file or `pgrep -af <test>` before steps that need the exit code, surfacing as §11.4.66 interactive options if the test is still running; (D) failures land in `<log>` files, the next loop tick checks; (E) foreground execution permitted ONLY for <30 s tests OR explicit operator authorisation; (F) per-script flock serialises same-script invocations, different-script invocations parallel. Gates `CM-COVENANT-114-89-PROPAGATION` + `CM-BACKGROUND-TEST-EXECUTION-WIRED` + paired §1.1 mutations.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.89` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-89-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker — no escape hatch beyond explicit per-invocation operator authorisation.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.89 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.90 — Obsolete Status + Per-Item Obsolescence Audit (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.90)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-27): *"Bug No 6 ... seems obsolete after latest request for new behavior ... mark obsolete tickets with some light gray background ... text - the description to be strikethrough styled ... review all existing open or resolved workable items if they are obsolete - not valid any more ... There MUST NOT be any mistake! No bluff is allowed of any kind!"*

The §11.4.15 Status closed-set is extended with a terminal `Obsolete (→ Fixed.md)` value (orthogonal to Type per §11.4.16). Obsolescence reasons (closed vocabulary): `superseded-by-design-change | superseded-by-later-mandate | feature-removed | duplicate-of | unsupported-topology`. Every Obsolete heading MUST carry an `**Obsolete-Details:**` line (Since + Reason + Superseding-item + Triple-check evidence) within 8 non-blank lines. The §11.4.23 colorizer adds a `cell-status-obsolete` class — light-gray `#E0E0E0` background + strikethrough description. Audit cadence: every release-gate sweep per §11.4.40 + §11.4.42; triple-check is non-negotiable per the operator mandate. Composes with §11.4.15 / §11.4.16 / §11.4.19 / §11.4.21 / §11.4.23 / §11.4.33 / §11.4.34 / §11.4.40 / §11.4.42 / §11.4.66 / §11.4.71. Gates `CM-COVENANT-114-90-PROPAGATION` + `CM-ITEM-OBSOLETE-DETAILS` + `CM-OBSOLETE-COLORIZER-WIRED` + paired §1.1 mutations.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.90` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-90-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.90 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.91 — Summary-Doc Clarity Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.91)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-27): *"Summary docs - Issues_Summary some not clear one line descriptions - like 'Composes with' ... For each workable item we MUST HAVE clearly understandable meaning ... every team member can clearly understand what that particular workable item is exactly about! There cannot be misunderstanding or unclearity of any kind and no bluff allowed!"*

Every summary entry (Issues_Summary, Fixed_Summary, README doc-link, Status_Summary pages 1+2, all one-liners) MUST contain a self-contained meaningful description ≥ 6 words OR ≥ 40 chars naming SUBJECT + PROBLEM/GOAL. Forbidden one-liner anti-patterns: section labels (`Composes with`, `Closure criteria`, `Fix direction`, etc.); bare metadata fragments (`Critical`, `Bug`, `In progress`, etc.); section-marker echoes; a §-letter alone. Generators (`generate_issues_summary.sh` / `generate_fixed_summary.sh` / `update_readme_doc_links.sh` / `generate_status_summary.sh`) MUST extract from the H1/H2 heading line per the §11.4.54 ATM-NNN convention, NEVER from arbitrary downstream text, and MUST refuse anti-pattern rows — emitting a `(MISSING DESCRIPTION — fix source heading)` placeholder with visual highlight. Gate `CM-SUMMARY-CLARITY-DESCRIPTIONS` scans every summary; an anti-pattern match = FAIL. Audit cadence: every §11.4.40 + §11.4.42 sweep.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.91` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-91-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.91 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.92 — Multi-Pass Change-Evaluation Discipline (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.92)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-27): *"Every change to the project or codebase we do MUST BE evaluated in several passes and in in-depth analisys for potential new issues or problems it can introduce! ... no bluff of any kind! After we do change or set of changes this mandatory steps MUST BE taken!"*

Every non-trivial change MUST pass a 5-pass evaluation BEFORE it is commit-ready: **(Pass 1)** main-task verification — change achieves the stated goal, captured-evidence per §11.4.5/§11.4.69; **(Pass 2)** regression-blast-radius analysis — enumerate every direct dependency, demonstrate no contract break; **(Pass 3)** cross-feature interaction analysis — audit parallel features sharing state/timing/hardware/shell environment; **(Pass 4)** deep-research validation per §11.4.8 — external precedent OR "NO external solution found — original work" + CodeGraph queries per §11.4.78/§11.4.79; **(Pass 5)** anti-bluff confirmation per §11.4 / §11.4.1 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.27 / §11.4.50 / §11.4.52 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.83 — no new bluff surface introduced. Each pass is documented (commit footers OR `docs/` entries OR `qa-results/` evidence). Only after all 5 passes complete may commit/push/test/release proceed. Trivial exemption: typo / revision-bump / MD-export-regen IF zero source touched AND the commit message cites the exemption explicitly. Gates `CM-COVENANT-114-92-PROPAGATION` + `CM-MULTI-PASS-EVALUATION-EVIDENCE` + paired §1.1 mutations.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.92` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-92-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.92 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.93 — SQLite-Backed Single-Source-of-Truth for Workable Items (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.93)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-27): *"There MUST be single source of truth for all of our workable items - SQlite database ... proper scripts (we recommend Go programs) ... reduce a chance for sync to be broken ... generate always all docs from DB or to re-generate Db from all docs we have in opposite direction"*

The text-based Issues/Fixed/Summary/CONTINUATION constellation is converted to a SQLite-DB-backed single source of truth. Schema mandatory tables: `items` (atm_id PK + Type + Status incl. Obsolete + Severity + title + description ≥40 chars + created/modified + composes_with JSON + current_location); `item_history` (append-only audit per §11.4.34 By/Reason/Evidence); `obsolete_details` (§11.4.90); `operator_block_details` (§11.4.21); `firebase_metadata` (§11.4.47); `meta` (schema version + last sync + integrity hash). A Go binary at `cmd/workable-items/` provides `sync md-to-db` / `db-to-md` / `diff` / `validate` / `add` / `close`; bidirectional regen is byte-identical round-trip (closed-set whitespace/section-order tolerance). `commit_all.sh` refuses on non-empty diff; `sync_issues_docs.sh` invokes the Go binary; pre-build runs `workable-items validate`. Anti-bluff: unit + integration + stress (1000-row insert + 10 concurrent writers) + chaos (mid-write SIGKILL + corrupt-DB recovery + disk-full) + paired §1.1 mutation + HelixQA Challenge `CME-WORKABLE-ITEMS-001`. The Go binary lives in the constitution submodule (`constitution/scripts/workable-items/`) per §11.4.74. Gates `CM-COVENANT-114-93-PROPAGATION` + `CM-WORKABLE-ITEMS-DB-PRESENT` + `CM-WORKABLE-ITEMS-MD-DB-IN-SYNC` + paired §1.1 mutations. (NOTE: the DB tracking rule is AMENDED by §11.4.95 — DB is TRACKED, not gitignored.)

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.93` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-93-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker — text-based-only trackers are a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the data-architecture layer.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.93 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.94 — Zero-Idle Priority-First Parallel-By-Default Operating Mode (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.94)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-27): *"We MUST NEVER sit iddle / wait or sleep if there is possibility for us to work on something ... Always check if there is a possibility to work on something while we are not working actively on something! Pick always by priority - most critical workable items and other tasks MUST BE done first! ... Stay still / iddle if nothing is left to be done at all or waiting for something that is blocking us / you!!!"*

§11.4.94 binds §11.4.20 + §11.4.42 + §11.4.58 + §11.4.70 + §11.4.72 + §11.4.82 + §11.4.87 + §11.4.88 + §11.4.89 into a single always-on enforcement: (A) idle ONLY when every queued item is genuinely blocked on an external dependency (hardware / network upstream / build/test completion the conductor cannot accelerate) OR operator STOP OR §12 host-safety — "don't see what to do" is NEVER valid; (B) before ANY wake/sleep the conductor MUST survey parallel-work feasibility per §11.4.42 + §11.4.72 + §11.4.87, identify non-contending items, and dispatch in parallel per §11.4.20/§11.4.70 (subagent) + §11.4.58 (PWU disjoint scope) + §11.4.89 (background long tests); (C) priority order MANDATORY — pick highest-severity + §11.4.72 audio-first the conductor can autonomously progress; (D) subagent-driven default for non-trivial; (E) background default for >30 s wall-clock work via `nohup`+`disown`; (F) stability-preserving (composes with §11.4.92 multi-pass + §11.4.84 quiescence + §12.6–§12.9 host safety); (G) progress updates surfaced at milestone boundaries. Gates `CM-COVENANT-114-94-PROPAGATION` + `CM-PARALLEL-WORK-AUDIT` + paired §1.1 mutations.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.94` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-94-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.94 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.95 — Workable-Items SQLite DB Is TRACKED in Git, NEVER Gitignored (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.95)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-27): *"We shall not Git ignore our workable items SQlite DB since it is our single source of truth ... workable items SQlite DB regularly commited and pushed to all upstreams!"*

§11.4.93's earlier "gitignored per §11.4.30" clause is AMENDED — the DB at `docs/workable_items.db` is TRACKED in git, NEVER gitignored. It IS authoritative source data, NOT a build artefact. Every `workable-items sync md-to-db` that mutates state MUST stage + commit + push the DB alongside the MD regen per §11.4.19 atomic-move + §2.1 multi-upstream push. A WAL-checkpoint (`PRAGMA wal_checkpoint(TRUNCATE)`) is required before commit-stage so the transient `.db-wal` + `.db-shm` sidecars (gitignored per §11.4.30) are safely discardable. The §11.4.77 regeneration mechanism does NOT apply — the DB IS the source. Destructive DB ops require §9.2 hardlinked-backup + operator authorization; §11.4.41 force-push merge-first applies if DB history ever needs rewrite. Gates `CM-COVENANT-114-95-PROPAGATION` + `CM-WORKABLE-ITEMS-DB-TRACKED` + paired §1.1 mutation.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.95` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-95-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.95 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.96 — Safe-Parallel-Work-With-Long-Build Catalogue + Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.96)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-27): *"Are there except AOSP build process any other active jobs being done at the moment? Can we work on something in parallel while build is in progress so we slowly cleanup our slate? ... do as much as possible work in background in parallel with main work stream and oreferrably using subagents-driven approach!"*

An operational catalogue for the canonical long-running workload (multi-hour containerised build per §12.9). **SAFE during build:** (A) MD/docs work; (B) generator/helper script work under `scripts/`; (C) pre-build + meta-test gate authoring + paired §1.1 mutations; (D) on-device test scripts; (E) constitution submodule edits + push; (F) any submodule commit + push per §11.4.88; (G) read-only live-ADB probes (`dumpsys`/`getprop`/`cat /proc/...`/`screencap`/`logcat`); (H) subagent dispatch per §11.4.20/§11.4.70 + §11.4.84 quiescence; (I) web research + external API queries with §11.4.10 credentials; (J) workable-items DB ops per §11.4.93+§11.4.95; (K) backgrounded pre-build + meta-test execution per §11.4.89. **UNSAFE during build:** (α) `git checkout`/`reset --hard`/`clean -df` on the source tree (use `git worktree`); (β) mass file deletes/renames under built source trees; (γ) submodule pointer updates affecting built artefacts; (δ) `out/` mutations; (ε) `make clean`/`m clobber`/`rm -rf out/`; (ζ) container destruction; (η) disk-filling breaching §12.9 free-space minimum; (θ) §12 host-session-safety breaches. Conductor responsibility: before EVERY pause point during a long build, consult the catalogue, identify (A)-(K) queue items per §11.4.42+§11.4.72, and dispatch ≥1 per §11.4.20/§11.4.70 subagent default + §11.4.89 background. "Build running, nothing else to do" is NEVER true per §11.4.94+§11.4.96. Gates `CM-COVENANT-114-96-PROPAGATION` + `CM-PARALLEL-WORK-DURING-BUILD-AUDIT` + paired §1.1 mutations.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.96` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-96-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.96 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.97 — Maximum-Use-of-Idle-Time + Progress-Update Cadence (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.97)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-27): *"keep it working, we should do as much as possible, if not it all but as much as we can as long as there is iddle time! it MUST be used! ... keep us updated about all progress and all phisycal proofs and gathered data as you progress through all open workable items!"*

Operating-mode capstone strengthening §11.4.87 + §11.4.94 + §11.4.96: (A) every minute of conductor idle time during which work could autonomously progress AND is not genuinely blocked = a §11.4.97 violation; "as much as possible, if not it all but as much as we can" is operative — dispatch CONTINUOUSLY through the entire idle window, not just at scheduled wakes; (B) progress-update cadence — emit an operator-facing 1-line update at every commit landed / subagent return / constitutional anchor / captured evidence / milestone closure, no operator prompt required; (C) continuous physical-proof gathering per §11.4.5 + §11.4.6 + §11.4.69 — every autonomous closure cites captured-evidence (evidence path goes into the §11.4.93 `item_history.evidence_path` when the DB lands); (D) composes with §11.4.5/6/13/20/27/42/50/52/69/70/72/83/85/87/88/89/94/96; (E) the idle-only-when-blocked closed-set is unchanged from §11.4.94(A). Gates `CM-COVENANT-114-97-PROPAGATION` + `CM-IDLE-TIME-AUDIT` + paired §1.1 mutations.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.97` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-97-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.97 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.98 — Full-Automation Anti-Bluff Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.98)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-28): *"Make sure we have full automation testing of all scenarios with real bot, main group and users without any manual intervention or contribution of real user! Everything MUST BE fully automatic and autonomous! These tests MUST BE able to rerun endless times when needed! ... Make sure there is no false positives in testing! Every test and its results MUST obtain real proofs of everything working! No bluff is allowed!"*

Closes the manual-intervention gap (§11.4 / §11.4.2 / §11.4.5 / §11.4.50 / §11.4.85 / §11.4.87 / §11.4.89 / §11.4.94 did not explicitly forbid it). A live/integration/e2e/Challenge test that requires a human action during execution (typing a message, clicking UI, hand-triggering a webhook, attaching a file — anything beyond startup) is by definition a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the automation layer. (A) Every governed test — unit/integration/e2e/Challenge/stress/chaos/live — MUST be fully self-driving end-to-end, reporting PASS/FAIL/SKIP-with-reason without any further human action after startup. (B) Single permissible exception: one-time credential bootstrap performed OUTSIDE test execution (`.env` from vault, shell exports, OAuth at first install, MTProto session activation) — configuration, not test driving. (C) Live messenger/channel/agent tests: no "operator must type" prompts (drive programmatically via second account / webhook fixture / loopback); no hard-coded session UUIDs that collide with the active dev session (Herald 2026-05-28 `claude --resume` silent exit -1 lesson); no 60 s human-response windows (§11.4.50 determinism violation); re-runnability proof — PASS at `-count=3` consecutive automated invocations with self-cleaning state; §11.4.98 obsolescence audit classifies every existing test COMPLIANT vs NON-COMPLIANT; no silent-skip-reported-as-PASS or stale-evidence-as-fresh. (D) With §11.4.85 + §11.4.89 + §11.4.87 + §11.4.94 forms a continuously-validated, non-flake, anti-bluff regime. (F) Manual-dependency tests not rewritten within 30 days graduate to §11.4.90 Obsolete citing §11.4.98.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.98` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-98-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.98 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.99 — Latest-Source Documentation Cross-Reference Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.99)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-28): *"Make sure we ALWAYS check against latest versions of services we use web / online docs before creating instructions! This situation is illustration of how we can misguide ourselves or get banned! ... These are mandatory rules / constraints and the result is consistency and safety of created instructions, guides and manuals!"*

Misguidance-by-stale-docs is the same severity class as a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the documentation layer (Herald 2026-05-28 case: a first-draft MTProto guide recommended VoIP fallback numbers and omitted the `recover@telegram.org` pre-login email — both contradicted Telegram's official docs + the gotd/td maintainer guide and could have caused a permanent account ban). Closes the gap §11.4.92 Pass 4 alludes to but does not mandate. (A) Before committing any operator-facing instruction/guide/manual/troubleshooting/setup doc, the author MUST: (1) fetch the LATEST official online documentation of the documented service/library via WebFetch / MCP / direct browsing — NEVER training data, memory, or prior committed docs; (2) cross-reference every instruction step against that source; (3) seek secondary authoritative sources (maintainer SUPPORT.md, official changelogs, vetted community FAQs) when the official source is sparse/silent; (4) cite source URLs + date in a `## Sources verified` footer in the doc; (5) cite a `Sources verified <date>: <urls>` footer in the commit message. (B) Negative findings (gaps/silences/contradictions) MUST be documented explicitly. (C) Docs older than 6 months are STALE — re-verify before citing as operator authority, at every vN.0.0 release boundary, on service breaking-change announcements, or on operator error reports. (D) Risk-classified services (messengers, cloud APIs, payment systems, AI/LLM providers, code-hosting, package managers) carry a 90-day max staleness + explicit safety warnings. (E) Composes with but is INDEPENDENT of §11.4.92 Pass 4. (G) Commit missing either footer is BLOCKED at release-gate; stale-beyond-grace docs graduate to §11.4.90 Obsolete (`Reason=stale-documentation`).

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.99` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-99-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.99 for the full mandate.

---

## §11.4.101 — Autonomous-Decision-Over-Blocking Mandate (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.101)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-28): *"when working in endless working loop fully autonomously try to decide most properly about points which would block execution and wait for us. If we haven't answered now work would be blocked whole night! If possible and if that will not cause any issues make proper and most reliable and safe decision so we achieve maximal efficiency and work gets fully done!"*

In autonomous / endless-loop mode (per §11.4.87), the agent MUST minimize operator-blocking and make the safe, reliable, reversible decision itself so work is not stalled (e.g. overnight) waiting for input — §11.4.87 says keep working, §11.4.101 says HOW to clear the decision points. **Proceed-autonomously (closed-set, ALL must hold):** (a) the action is reversible OR has a captured pre-op backup per §9.2; (b) the safe choice is determinable from captured evidence per §11.4.6 (no guessing — `LIKELY`/`probably`/`seems` is NOT a determination); (c) a wrong choice's blast radius is bounded AND recoverable; (d) it composes with anti-bluff §11.4, host-safety §12, data-safety §9. **Block-only-when (BLOCK via the §11.4.66 interactive mechanism ONLY when ALL hold):** the action is irreversible AND high-blast-radius AND the safe choice cannot be determined from evidence — e.g. external-account state the agent cannot inspect, hardware it cannot access, destructive ops without backup, force-push (also §9.2 + §11.4.41), spending money or sending data to third parties. `Operator-blocked` per §11.4.21 is reached only after this rule fires AND the self-resolution-exhaustion audit completes. An unavoidable block parks one work unit — it does NOT pause the loop; the agent keeps progressing every non-blocked item in parallel per §11.4.87 + §11.4.94 (posing the question then going idle is a §11.4.94 + §11.4.97 violation). Classification: universal (§11.4.17).

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.101` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-101-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.101 for the full mandate.

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## §11.4.102 — Mandatory systematic-debugging activation + always-loaded skill-discovery + plugin-dependency availability (cascaded from constitution submodule §11.4.102)

> Verbatim user mandate (2026-05-29): *"Make sure that we ALWAYS trigger / start the "/superpowers:systematic-debugging" skills when any issues happen! If this is possible to activate and use in this situations out of the box when we spot problems / issues / bugs / misalignments / unconsistencies we MUST activate the skill(s) and make strongest efforts in full in depth analisys / debugging and determine root causes of all problem or obtain relevant data and information we need! ... we MUST make sure that "/using-superpowers" skill is ALWAYS loaded, applied and used! All dependencies (plugins) that Claude Code or other market places are offering MUST BE installed if these are not already available for loading and use!"

Three cooperating invariants — the difference between guess-and-retry and investigate-to-root-cause-first. **(A) Mandatory systematic-debugging activation.** On ANY spotted issue / bug / test failure / gate failure / regression / misalignment / inconsistency / unexpected behaviour, the agent MUST activate `superpowers:systematic-debugging` (or the platform-equivalent structured-debugging discipline) **BEFORE proposing, writing, or applying any fix** — the **Iron Law: NO FIXES WITHOUT ROOT CAUSE INVESTIGATION FIRST.** Full four-phase arc: root-cause → pattern → hypothesis → implementation. Guess-and-retry, symptom-patching, and re-running a failed test hoping it passes ("probably transient / flaky") WITHOUT a completed investigation are §11.4.102 violations; calling a failure `transient`/`flaky`/`intermittent`/`probably-timing` without captured forensic evidence is simultaneously a §11.4.6 and §11.4.7 violation. **(B) Mandatory always-loaded `using-superpowers`.** `superpowers:using-superpowers` (or platform-equivalent skill-discovery discipline) MUST be loaded and applied at session start and consulted before any task; if ANY skill could apply — even at 1% relevance — it MUST be invoked rather than improvised from memory. **(C) Mandatory plugin / dependency availability.** Every skill plugin / marketplace package / capability dependency the project relies on MUST be installed + loadable BEFORE the dependent work proceeds; a missing plugin that blocks a mandated skill is a release-blocker until installed + confirmed loadable (install exit 0 ≠ skill loadable — confirm by observing the skill in the live capability list). Composes with §11.4.4 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.7 / §11.4.8 / §11.4.43 / §11.4.70 / §11.4.82(A) / §11.4.92. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). No escape hatch — no `--skip-systematic-debugging`, `--guess-and-retry-OK`, `--symptom-patch-permitted`, `--skip-skill-discovery`, `--plugin-optional`, `--missing-plugin-is-warning` flag.

**Cascade requirement:** This anchor (verbatim or by `§11.4.102` reference) MUST appear in every owned submodule's `CONSTITUTION.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and `AGENTS.md`. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-102-PROPAGATION`; paired mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs. Release blocker.
**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule `Constitution.md` §11.4.102 for the full mandate.


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## §11.4.103 — Continuous parallel-stream working routine (User mandate, 2026-05-29)

**Forensic anchor — verbatim user mandate (2026-05-29):**

> "Do this working approach continuously and make it part of regular working routine and add it to the Constitution Submodule documented fully."

Promotes the proven multi-stream operating pattern into the project's **standing default working routine** (not a per-request opt-in). Binds §11.4.87/§11.4.88/§11.4.89/§11.4.94/§11.4.96 and adds the load-bearing invariant: **the main work stream MUST always stay FREE.**

**(A) Main stream stays FREE.** ALL commit AND push operations run detached (`nohup … &` + `disown`, per §11.4.88 commit-lock-release-immediately + detached-push) — the main stream returns to the priority queue the moment the local commit is durable, never blocking on a push or a slow mirror. **(B) ≥3 parallel background streams at all times + auto-backfill** (User mandate 2026-05-29; raised from ≥2) — run **at least three** subagent-driven background streams (per §11.4.70/§11.4.20, isolated per §11.4.58 PWU worktree + §11.4.84 quiescence) alongside the main stream whenever three-plus non-contending actionable items exist; **the moment any one stream is FULLY done, a new stream MUST immediately start and take its place** (claim next-highest-priority non-contending item), so the active-stream count NEVER drops below 3 while actionable items remain. Idle below 3 is permitted ONLY when no remaining non-contending actionable items OR all remaining are externally blocked (§11.4.94/§11.4.97/§11.4.101). Standing band 3–6, bounded above by §12.6 60% memory + §11.4.58 6-agent cap. **(C) Most-critical + most-visible first; audio always top** per §11.4.72 + §11.4.42 priority order. **(D) Safe-during-build scope only** — while the 42 GB containerised AOSP rebuild (§12.9) or any heavy `gradle`/`m -j` build runs, streams restrict to the §11.4.96 SAFE catalogue (investigation/forensic/docs/test-authoring/gate-authoring/read-only probes/submodule edits/research/DB ops/backgrounded pre-build+meta-test); NEVER a second concurrent heavy build (§12.8). **(E) Heavy anti-bluff on every closure** — root cause proven or `UNCONFIRMED:`/`UNKNOWN:`/`PENDING_FORENSICS:` per §11.4.6, captured evidence per §11.4.5+§11.4.69, deterministic consistency per §11.4.50, paired §1.1 mutations, §11.4.102 systematic-debugging on any spotted problem. **(F) Idle ONLY when genuinely externally blocked** (hardware/network upstream/in-flight build-test-push completion) OR operator STOP OR §12 host-safety, per §11.4.94(A)+§11.4.97; "nothing visible to do" with progressable items is NEVER valid; a block parks one work unit, not the loop (§11.4.101).

Composes with §11.4.58 / §11.4.70 / §11.4.72 / §11.4.87 / §11.4.88 / §11.4.89 / §11.4.94 / §11.4.96 / §11.4.97 / §11.4.101 / §11.4.102 / §11.4.42 / §11.4.84 / §12.6 / §12.7 / §12.8 / §12.9 / §9.2. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-103-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.103` across consumer fleet) + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (strip literal → gate FAILs; gate-code = separate work item). No escape hatch — no `--block-main-stream`, `--synchronous-commit`, `--synchronous-push`, `--single-stream-only`, `--skip-parallel-streams`, `--serialise-actionable-work`, `--idle-without-queue-survey` flag.

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.103.

Non-compliance is a release blocker regardless of context.

## §11.4.104 — Participant identity, attribution & notification-tagging (User mandate, 2026-05-31)

**Forensic anchor — verbatim user mandate (2026-05-31):**

> "Every supported messenger must relate messages to participants (Subscribers/Users); the same logical person may have a different username on every messenger. Workable items must carry who created them and who they are assigned to. Notifications must @-tag the right participant — but never the operator (who drives the system) and never the system agent."

MANDATORY for every consumer that ships a messenger/notification surface (Herald + flavor binaries are the reference impl; others inherit per §11.4.35). Detailed spec: Herald `docs/design/PARTICIPANT_ATTRIBUTION.md` — restated, not redefined. **(A) Participant identity.** Every messenger MUST relate messages to a **Participant** (logical Subscriber/User); the SAME person MAY have a DIFFERENT username per messenger — modelled as a logical subscriber (canonical messenger-neutral `handle`, `kind ∈ {human,agent,service}`) + per-channel aliases (`channel`, `channel_user_id`, the `@username` used for tagging). Canonical handle closed set: `Claude` (reserved system-agent sentinel; never tagged) OR a subscriber `@username`. **(B) Operator = env var, not a DB flag** — the one human who drives via the agent CLI, designated by `HERALD_<CHANNEL>_OPERATOR_USERNAME` (e.g. `HERALD_TGRAM_OPERATOR_USERNAME`); a normal Participant whose handle equals that value. **(C) Workable items MUST carry `created_by` + `assigned_to`** (canonical handles): CLI-prompt→Operator; system/agent-detected→`Claude`; received-message→sender's resolved `@username`. `assigned_to` defaults to Operator, overridable. Legacy items carry `""` and MUST still parse + validate. **(D) Tagging matrix:** tag `assigned_to` if it is a human ≠ Operator; tag `created_by` if it is a human ≠ Operator ≠ `Claude`; NEVER tag `Claude` (system) or the Operator (no self-ping); de-dup; resolve each handle to the channel `@username`, skip if not on that channel. **(E) Anti-bluff (composes §11.4):** real SQLite round-trip with the new columns byte-identical (incl. legacy fixtures WITHOUT the fields); tagging matrix proven by a truth-table + a cell-flip mutation forcing FAIL; E2E real-event → real-message asserting the exact `@username`s + a NEGATIVE case proving the Operator is NOT tagged; evidence under `docs/qa/<run-id>/`.

Composes with §11.4 + §11.4.1..§11.4.16 (anti-bluff covenant) / §11.4.5 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.50 / §11.4.91 / §11.4.93 / §11.4.95 / §1.1. Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — projects with no messenger surface inherit it latently (binds the moment they ship one, per the §11.4.96 pattern). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-104-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.104` across consumer fleet) + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (strip literal → gate FAILs; gate-code = separate work item). No escape hatch — no `--skip-attribution`, `--no-participant-tagging`, `--tag-operator-anyway`, `--attribution-later` flag.

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.104; detailed spec Herald `docs/design/PARTICIPANT_ATTRIBUTION.md`.

Non-compliance is a release blocker.

## §11.4.105 — Natural-language intent recognition & clarification (User mandate, 2026-05-31)

**Forensic anchor — verbatim user mandate (2026-05-31):**

> "Users must NOT need to know command syntax (no `COMMAND: …` prefix). They send a clear natural-language message; the System determines the intent. The System recognizes the commands it has; if none matches it infers the exact intent; if it is totally unable it replies, tags the user (`@user …`), and asks to clarify precisely. We MUST always do our best to determine exact intent so we never annoy end users. This is a CORE part of the System."

MANDATORY for every consumer that ships a messenger/command surface (Herald + flavor binaries are the reference impl; others inherit per §11.4.35). Detailed spec: Herald `docs/design/INTENT_RECOGNITION.md` — restated, not redefined. **(A) No required command syntax.** Users MUST NOT be required to know any command syntax (no `COMMAND:` prefix); they send plain natural language and the System determines the intent. **(B) Three-tier resolution** (first that succeeds wins): TIER 1 — recognize the System's existing command set from natural language → action (confident deterministic match); TIER 2 — when no command matches, infer the exact intent (LLM dispatch maps language → action), NEVER guessing; TIER 3 — when neither a command nor a confident intent can be determined, REPLY to the message, TAG the sender (`@username`, resolved via the §11.4.104 IdentityResolver) and ask a PRECISE clarifying question NAMING the candidate intents — no guessing, no silent drop. **(C) Never guess, never drop:** a wrong action is worse than a clarifying question (composes §11.4.6 no-guessing); a message is NEVER silently dropped; only genuine ambiguity reaches Tier 3, which always replies-tags-and-asks. **(D) Anti-bluff (composes §11.4):** every tier ships unit + integration + E2E + full-automation tests with real captured evidence — Tier 1 truth-table (natural-language → action+fields, plus conservative negatives that MUST fall through to "no match"); Tier 3 E2E whose recorded reply body is EXACTLY `@<sender> <specific question>` + a NEGATIVE proving a clear command does NOT trigger clarify; a paired §1.1 mutation breaking the confidence guard (false-match) OR dropping the clarify tag MUST FAIL a test; evidence under `docs/qa/<run-id>/`.

Composes with §11.4 + §11.4.1..§11.4.16 (anti-bluff covenant) / §11.4.6 (no-guessing) / §11.4.104 (clarify reply tags the sender) / §11.4.5 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.98 / §1.1. Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — projects with no messenger surface inherit it latently (binds the moment they ship one, per the §11.4.96 pattern). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-105-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.105` across consumer fleet) + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (strip literal → gate FAILs; gate-code = separate work item). No escape hatch — no `--require-command-syntax`, `--guess-intent-ok`, `--skip-clarify`, `--drop-on-ambiguous` flag.

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.105; detailed spec Herald `docs/design/INTENT_RECOGNITION.md`.

Non-compliance is a release blocker.

## §11.4.106 — Docs Chain — mechanical documentation/DB sync engine (Operator mandate, 2026-05-31)

**Forensic anchor — operator mandate (2026-05-31):** Docs Chain is the canonical mechanical enforcer of the documentation-sync mandates; consumers MUST use the engine instead of ad-hoc per-project doc-sync scripts, register their chains via per-context YAML, and never accept a faked transform.

MANDATORY for every consumer. Docs Chain (the `vasic-digital/docs_chain` engine — a universal Go bidirectional document-and-database dependency-propagation engine) is the canonical mechanical enforcer of the documentation-sync mandates. Detailed spec: the engine docs `~/Projects/docs_chain` → `docs/CONSTITUTION_INTEGRATION.md` (distribution + inheritance + anchor mapping table) + `docs/USE_CASE_CATALOGUE.md` (chain recipes) — restated, not redefined. **(A) Use the engine, never ad-hoc scripts** — consumed **by reference** (the flat-layout sibling `~/Projects/docs_chain` / the constitution-exposed path), inherited like §11.4.80's `codegraph_*` scripts: referenced, NEVER copied; ad-hoc `sync_*`/`generate_*_summary`/`update_readme_doc_links` scripts are superseded and retired per registered context. **(B) Consumer-owned contexts** — the engine is project-agnostic; the consumer registers its chains as data via `.docs_chain/contexts/*.yaml` (§11.4.28 decoupling); `state.json` + `*.docs_chain.tmp` are gitignored. **(C) Anchors it mechanizes** (per the CONSTITUTION_INTEGRATION mapping table): §11.4.12 / §11.4.53 / §11.4.45 / §11.4.56 / §11.4.57 / §11.4.59 / §11.4.60 / §11.4.65 / §11.4.86 / §11.4.93 / §11.4.95 / §12.10 / §11.4.44 — with content-hash change detection (NOT mtime, §11.4.86), atomic-rename + SQLite-txn commit + rollback (§9.2), both-dirty `sync` → conflict-not-silent-merge (§11.4.6), `verify` as the deterministic CI/pre-build gate (§11.4.50), per-run captured evidence to `qa-results/docs_chain/<run-id>/` (§11.4.69). **(D) NOT a replacement for authoring discipline** — the source author still writes the §11.4.44 revision header; the engine only keeps exports in sync. **(E) Anti-bluff (composes §11.4):** the engine NEVER fakes a transform — a missing pandoc/weasyprint surfaces a typed `ToolAbsentError` + honest §11.4.3 SKIP-with-reason, never a fake PASS / partial write; every `sync`/`verify` carries real captured evidence.

Composes with §11.4 + §11.4.1..§11.4.16 (anti-bluff covenant) / §11.4.6 (no-guessing — conflict not silent merge) / §11.4.28 (engine/context decoupling) / §11.4.80 (inherited-by-reference, never copied) / §9.2 / §11.4.50 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.5 / §1.1, plus the sync anchors it mechanizes (§11.4.12/.53/.45/.56/.57/.59/.60/.65/.86/.93/.95/.44, §12.10). Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — projects with no derived-export/DB-sync surface inherit it latently (binds the moment they ship one, §11.4.96 pattern). Status (§11.4.6): engine Phases 1–3 IMPLEMENTED+tested; CLI/YAML loader (Phase 4) + submodule distribution (Phase 6) PLANNED + OPERATOR-GATED — wire as phases land, claim no unshipped behaviour. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-106-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.106` across consumer fleet) + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (strip literal → gate FAILs; gate-code = separate work item). No escape hatch — no `--ad-hoc-sync-ok`, `--skip-docs-chain`, `--fake-transform`, `--sync-evidence-optional` flag.

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.106; detailed spec the Docs Chain engine docs `docs/CONSTITUTION_INTEGRATION.md` + `docs/USE_CASE_CATALOGUE.md` (`vasic-digital/docs_chain`).

Non-compliance is a release blocker.

## §11.4.107 — Anti-bluff AV/test-validation techniques mandate (User-driven research, 2026-06-02)

**Forensic anchor (genericised, 2026-06-02):** a test PASSed on a SINGLE captured frame showing "a picture" on the target output — but the picture was a FROZEN / STALE frame from the previously-played content (stale-producer / stuck-decoder), so the feature was broken for the user while the test was green; a sibling incident FLASHED media on the WRONG output for ~1 s before routing with no test sampling that window; a third class shipped a comparator that PASSed its own deliberately-degraded fixture (the analyzer, not the feature, was the bluff). §11.4.5 mandates captured evidence + a presence pass; §11.4.107 raises the bar to **liveness + correct-routing + self-validated-analyzer**.

Every test asserting audio/video output is genuinely playing/advancing for the end user MUST satisfy ALL of: (1) **a single captured frame is NOT proof** — prove LIVE, ADVANCING frames over a steady-state window via a **freeze-detection oracle** (near-duplicate / `freezedetect`-class filter OR perceptual-hash adjacent-frame distance, **NOT byte-identical compare** — byte-identity is only a zero-cost pre-filter); (2) an **independent frame-advance counter from the platform's compositor/decoder telemetry** must increase across the window (a different-domain oracle — flat counter ⇒ stuck decoder ⇒ FAIL even if pixels appear to move); (3) **loading/buffering is a distinct state** — wait for genuine playback-start before judging liveness, never false-FAIL a still-loading stream nor false-PASS a spinner; timeout+unreachable ⇒ SKIP-with-reason per §11.4.3, timeout+reachable ⇒ FAIL; (4) **not-stale-from-previous cross-check** — new content's first frame ≠ previous content's last frame; (5) **measured FPS / no-lost-frames within tolerance**; (6) **no-flash-on-the-wrong-output** — sample the non-target output at high frequency during a routing transition, any content frame there ⇒ FAIL (content-protection regime classified explicitly, never guessed); (7) **drive through the realistic feed/UI path, not deep-link shortcuts** (shortcuts bypass the transition paths where bugs live; UI-not-introspectable ⇒ operator-attended fallback per §11.4.52, never fake-PASS); (8) **metamorphic relations solve the oracle problem when there is no golden source** (same content on output-A vs output-B must match; paused ⇒ counter stops; 2× speed ⇒ ~2× advance rate); (9) **full-reference quality metrics (SSIM/VMAF/ΔE2000) vs a golden source for owned content**; (10) **mutation-test every analyzer with a golden-good + golden-bad fixture pair** so the analyzer itself provably cannot bluff (an analyzer that PASSes its golden-bad fixture is a bluff gate — §1.1 applied to the analyzers); (11) **per-channel audio RMS/loudness (EBU R128) + XRUN/underrun census** — a single aggregate RMS misses a dead channel; (12) **OCR overlay/subtitle detection needs a per-word confidence floor + ROI** to avoid BOTH false-positive (false-FAIL) and false-negative (false-PASS); (13) **thresholds calibrated on the project's own fixtures, not hardcoded from literature** (§11.4.6 no-guessing).

Honest gap (§11.4.6): true photon FPS at the sink has no clean software oracle — compositor/decoder counters measure the presentation pipeline; flag the gap, never claim it.

4-layer coverage per §11.4.4(b): pre-build gate (a `CM-AV-LIVENESS-NO-FROZEN-FRAME`-class gate asserting every output-is-playing test references the liveness battery not a single frame + an analyzer-self-validation gate wiring the golden-good/golden-bad fixtures into meta-test) + on-device/runtime test + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (single-frame-only assertion → gate FAILs; analyzer that PASSes its golden-bad fixture → self-validation FAILs) + HelixQA Challenge. Every PASS via `ab_pass_with_evidence` citing the motion / not-stale / frame-advance / fps / per-channel-loudness / metamorphic / self-validation artefacts (`video_display` / `audio_output` / `subtitle_render` per §11.4.69) — never a single screenshot.

Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — platform-neutral AV/test-validation techniques reusable by ANY project validating media playback or any pixel/audio output; the project supplies its concrete capture mechanism + calibrated thresholds per §11.4.35. Composes with §11.4.5 (its strict expansion), §11.4.6, §11.4.50, §11.4.68, §11.4.69, §11.4.85, plus §11.4.2 / §11.4.3 / §11.4.13 / §11.4.48 / §11.4.52 / §1.1. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-107-PROPAGATION` enforces the literal anchor `11.4.107` across the consumer fleet; paired §1.1 meta-test mutation strips the literal → gate FAILs (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.107.

Non-compliance is a release blocker regardless of context. No escape hatch — no `--single-frame-proves-playback`, `--skip-liveness`, `--byte-identical-freeze-OK`, `--no-frame-advance-counter`, `--skip-not-stale-check`, `--allow-wrong-output-flash`, `--deep-link-shortcut-OK`, `--unvalidated-analyzer-OK`, `--aggregate-rms-suffices`, `--hardcoded-thresholds-OK` flag exists.

## §11.4.108 — Four-layer fix-verification + runtime-signature-as-definition-of-done mandate (systematic-debugging Phase 4.5, 2026-06-03)

**Forensic anchor (genericised, 2026-06-03):** across one batch, multiple fixes were "green" at every gate yet NOT working for the end user — a change present in source and passed by both the source pre-build gate AND the post-build gate never reached the boot-time command-line embedded in the deployed boot artifact (output feature dead despite all-green); sibling fixes correctly built into the system image were masked by stale per-user overlay copies from a previous deployment (the running code was the stale shadow, not the fresh build); deployment did not wipe the mutable overlay so the shadow survived; validation ran against whatever was running — the stale shadow — and reported green on code that was never exercised. Per `superpowers:systematic-debugging` Phase 4.5: each fix revealing a fresh "fixed-but-not-working" in a DIFFERENT place is NOT independent bugs — it is ONE architectural VERIFICATION flaw; patching each symptom is thrashing.

A fix crosses FOUR distinct layers, and "fixed" at one does NOT imply fixed at the next: (1) **SOURCE** (committed in the source file — what a grep-the-source pre-build gate checks), (2) **ARTIFACT** (the change's BYTES actually landed in the produced build artifact — image / bundle / installer / embedded command-line), (3) **RUNTIME-ON-CLEAN-TARGET** (active on a CLEAN/fresh deployment — the layer the end user experiences — with no stale overlay shadowing the deployed code), (4) **USER-VISIBLE** (the feature works for the end user — the §11.4.5/§11.4.69 captured-evidence layer). Green at layer 1 is the cheapest, least conclusive signal and says nothing about layers 2–4. A gate verifying ONLY the source layer is itself a §11.4 bluff surface.

The mandate (ALL must hold): (1) **Runtime-signature-as-definition-of-done** — a fix is DONE only when its declared runtime signature verifies on a CLEAN/fresh deployment; source-committed ≠ artifact-contains-it ≠ active-on-clean-target ≠ user-visible-working. (2) **Every fix declares ONE machine-checkable runtime signature** — a single observable on a clean target proving the fix is BOTH active AND working (a running-system property, a downstream/sink-side report per §11.4.13, a §11.4.5/§11.4.69 captured-evidence assertion, or a counter/state delta — NEVER a re-grep of the source); this **registry of per-fix runtime signatures is the SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH for "fixed"** — it REPLACES "a gate greps the source" as the definition of done. (3) **Gates span all four layers** — source (pre-build), artifact (post-build — assert the change's BYTES landed in the artifact, not merely that the source still contains the change), runtime-on-clean-target (post-deploy — assert the runtime signature on a freshly-deployed clean target), user-visible (§11.4.5/§11.4.69). (4) **Eliminate the stale-deployment / shadow layer by construction** — deployment MUST yield a CLEAN state (wipe the mutable overlay) OR a pre-validation assertion MUST prove `running-artifact == built-artifact` BEFORE any validation runs; validation against possibly-stale deployed state is INVALID and any PASS it produces is a §11.4 PASS-bluff (the test exercised code that was never deployed). (5) **Meta-rule** — ≥ 3 "fixed-but-not-working" discoveries in one cycle signal an architectural VERIFICATION flaw, NOT three independent bugs; on the 3rd, STOP patching symptoms (§11.4.4), fix the VERIFICATION pipeline, and re-certify EVERY item through it on a clean target. (6) **A batch is "validated" only after COMPREHENSIVE per-item runtime-signature verification on a clean baseline** — NOT after the touched items' own tests pass.

Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — platform-neutral verification-pipeline disciplines reusable by ANY project that builds an artifact, deploys it, and validates the deployed result; the project supplies its concrete artifact format, clean-deployment / equal-artifact mechanism, and per-fix runtime-signature observables per §11.4.35. Composes with §11.4.1 / §11.4.2 / §11.4.4 (clause 5's STOP-and-fix-pipeline is its §11.4.108 specialisation; "clean baseline" = clause 4's clean deployment) / §11.4.5 / §11.4.6 (every layer asserted by evidence, never assumed to propagate) / §11.4.27 / §11.4.40 (§11.4.108 adds the cross-layer per-item runtime-signature dimension) / §11.4.46 (clean-baseline / equal-artifact pre-flight) / §11.4.50 / §11.4.52 / §11.4.69 (a runtime signature is a taxonomy-class observable) / §11.4.102 (Phase 4.5 architectural-flaw recognition IS clause 5's trigger). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-108-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.108` across the consumer fleet) + recommended per-fix gate `CM-RUNTIME-SIGNATURE-REGISTRY` + paired §1.1 meta-test mutations (strip the literal → propagation gate FAILs; downgrade a fix to source-only verification → registry gate FAILs; gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.108.

Non-compliance is a release blocker regardless of context. No escape hatch — no `--source-green-is-done`, `--skip-artifact-byte-check`, `--validate-against-running-state`, `--no-clean-deployment`, `--skip-runtime-signature`, `--spot-validate-touched-only` flag exists.

## §11.4.109 — Mandatory Anti-Forgetting Enforcement: PreToolUse Guard Hook + Subagent Constitutional Preamble + Orchestrator Pre-Action Checklist (Operator mandate)

**Short tag:** `anti-forgetting-enforcement`. **UNCONFIRMED forensic anchor** (pending operator's verbatim mandate quote). Background: emulator subagents ran raw host-direct `emulator`/`adb` because the orchestrator forgot to inject the Containers-submodule rule. A rule forgotten at dispatch is not enforcement. Fix: (A) a `PreToolUse` guard hook (`constitution/scripts/hooks/guard-forbidden-commands.sh`) that blocks host-direct emulator, force-push/bypass, sudo, and host-power commands at the tool-call boundary regardless of agent memory; (B) a canonical `docs/AGENT_GUARDRAILS.md` preamble the orchestrator pastes verbatim into every subagent dispatch; (C) an **ORCHESTRATOR PRE-ACTION CHECKLIST** in the same document. Hook = the floor; preamble = the ceiling.

Consuming projects MUST: (1) wire `constitution/scripts/hooks/guard-forbidden-commands.sh` as a `PreToolUse` hook in `.claude/settings.json` (or equivalent runtime settings); (2) maintain `docs/AGENT_GUARDRAILS.md` containing the `SUBAGENT CONSTITUTIONAL PREAMBLE` and `ORCHESTRATOR PRE-ACTION CHECKLIST` headings, with the anchor literal `11.4.109`; (3) provide a hermetic hook test suite (≥ 20 cases: every blocked class exits 2, every allowed command exits 0, escape hatch fires for non-power classes, host-power rejects even with escape marker). The hook is inherited by reference — NEVER copied locally (a copy diverges silently).

Gates: `CM-ANTI-FORGETTING-ENFORCEMENT` (hook present + wired + guardrails doc present + test present) + `CM-COVENANT-114-109-PROPAGATION` (anchor literal `11.4.109` across every consumer CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / QWEN.md). Paired §1.1 mutations: remove hook entry → gate (2) FAILs; delete guardrails doc → gate (3) FAILs; strip hook from constitution → gate (1) FAILs; strip `11.4.109` → propagation gate FAILs.

Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Composes with §11.4.6 / §11.4.10 / §11.4.75 / §11.4.76 / §11.4.78 / §11.4.79 / §11.4.80 / §11.4.81 / §11.4.84 / §11.4.98 / §11.4.102 / §12.

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.109; reference implementation `constitution/scripts/hooks/guard-forbidden-commands.sh` + `constitution/docs/AGENT_GUARDRAILS.md`.

Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-pretooluse-hook`, `--no-guardrails-doc`, `--anti-forgetting-optional`, `--single-layer-sufficient` flag exists.

## §11.4.110 — Pre-build build-readiness verdict + change-impact clash detection mandate (operator mandate, 2026-06-03)

Forensic anchor (genericised, 2026-06-03): a fix shipped a new system-property *read* but introduced no matching security-policy grant + no property-context type entry — the read was silently denied at runtime + the feature was dead, while every pre-build gate stayed green because the gate only grepped the source file. The defect class generalises: a change introduces a new dependency on a *second* artifact (security policy, context file, service registry, interface freeze-snapshot, symbol table, build-graph node) that the pre-build never cross-checks. This is §11.4.108's SOURCE→ARTIFACT gap shifted LEFT to pre-build time — most such clashes are statically catchable from the change diff itself, before any build. The mandate (ALL hold): (1) a single deterministic **READY-FOR-BUILD verdict** gates the rebuild (orchestrator refuses to start the build unless READY); (2) a **diff-driven change-impact + clash detector** cross-checks every newly-introduced second-artifact dependency (new property read ⇄ property-context type + read-grant; new service ⇄ service-context entry; new init service ⇄ security label; new/changed stable interface ⇄ freeze-snapshot updated; new native-lib dep ⇄ module/prebuilt resolves; new policy rule ⇄ every type/attribute defined; two batch changes on the same seam ⇄ collision acknowledged); (3) **coverage-completeness is a gate** — every changed file maps to ≥1 gate + ≥1 deployed-target test + ≥1 paired §1.1 mutation, baseline ratchets upward per §11.4.50; (4) **two-speed honesty** — grep-speed always-on gates vs REQUIRES_BUILD heavy gates (build-graph parse-only dry-run, full neverallow compilation, ABI diff) as diff-gated opt-in stages, bounded per §12.6/§12.7; (5) every gate + wired analyzer is **anti-bluff by paired §1.1 mutation**; (6) **honest boundary** — a READY verdict proves static internal-consistency + ready-to-build, NOT that the feature works on the deployed target; the regime empties the *preventable* defect class, not the *all-defects* class (runtime/USER-VISIBLE remains §11.4.108's job).

Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — platform-neutral pre-build-rigor disciplines reusable by ANY project that builds an artifact from source; the consuming project supplies its concrete property/service/policy registries, build-graph parse-only command, interface-freeze mechanism, and changed-file→gate mapping per §11.4.35. Composes with §11.4.1 / §11.4.4 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.9 / §11.4.27 / §11.4.50 / §11.4.67 / §11.4.75 / §11.4.92 / §11.4.108 (§11.4.110 is the SOURCE→ARTIFACT half shifted left to pre-build; §11.4.108 owns RUNTIME-ON-CLEAN-TARGET→USER-VISIBLE — together they span all four layers). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-110-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.110`) + recommended per-family gates `CM-READY-FOR-BUILD-VERDICT` / `CM-CHANGE-IMPACT-CLASH-DETECTOR` / `CM-COVERAGE-COMPLETENESS-GATE` / `CM-BUILDGRAPH-DRYRUN-WIRED` / `CM-SEPOLICY-NEVERALLOW-WIRED` + paired §1.1 mutations (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.110. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--source-green-is-ready`, `--skip-clash-detector`, `--skip-coverage-gate`, `--no-ready-verdict`, `--grep-proves-neverallow`, `--skip-buildgraph-dryrun`, `--build-without-ready-verdict` flag.

## §11.4.111 — Resolve-by-stable-name-not-by-enumeration-index mandate (research-derived, 2026-06-03)

Forensic anchor (genericised, 2026-06-03): a platform bound an audio output to a kernel-enumerated device index (`card=0`); a second device of a different class enumerated FIRST at boot and took slot 0, shifting the intended device to slot 1 — the static index binding now pointed at the wrong device (policy mis-attached the sink, mis-assigned its TYPE, the output switcher labelled the AV receiver "Wired Headphone" + routing collapsed to stereo). The lower layer of the SAME stack already resolved the device correctly **by name** (scanning the controller-name registry) — proving the brittleness was the *index* binding, not the resolution capability. Generalises to every enumerated resource whose ordinal is assigned at discovery/boot/hotplug time (non-deterministic across reboots, device additions, topology changes). The mandate: any binding to a hardware device / resource handle / enumerated entity (audio cards, display connectors, network interfaces, storage devices, GPU render nodes, input/camera devices, container/process slots) MUST resolve by a **stable identifier** (name / UUID / serial / label / controller-name / content-hash / sink-reported identity) and MUST NOT bind by enumeration index / ordinal / slot, UNLESS the platform documents that ordinal as deterministically pinned AND the pin is itself captured + asserted as part of the binding. Where a stable identifier exists at one layer, every other layer binding the same resource MUST use the same identifier (mixed by-name-here / by-index-there is the structural weak link forbidden here). Honest boundary (§11.4.6): when only an ordinal exists, pin it deterministically via the platform's own mechanism, capture the pin in the binding's §11.4.108 runtime signature, and document the residual fragility as `UNCONFIRMED:`-class risk — never silently trust an unpinned ordinal.

Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — platform-neutral binding-robustness discipline reusable by ANY project binding to enumerated hardware/resources/handles; the consuming project supplies its stable-identifier mechanism (ALSA card name, DRM connector name, NIC predictable name, block-device UUID, etc.) + the layers that must agree per §11.4.35. Composes with §11.4.6 (no-guessing — "the index is *usually* stable" is the exact guess forbidden) / §11.4.8 (mature stacks resolve by name/UUID — reproducing a known-brittle index binding when the by-name path is documented is a §11.4.8 omission) / §11.4.69 (sink-side evidence verifies the by-name binding's correctness) / §11.4.108 (the by-name binding's runtime signature asserted on a clean target across the topology that broke the index) / §11.4.110 (a new ordinal binding in a diff is a statically-catchable clash class). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-111-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.111`) + recommended gate `CM-RESOLVE-BY-NAME-NOT-INDEX` + paired §1.1 mutation (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.111. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--allow-index-binding`, `--ordinal-is-stable-enough`, `--skip-name-resolution`, `--trust-unpinned-index` flag.

## §11.4.112 — Structural-impossibility won't-fix classification mandate (research-derived, 2026-06-03)

Forensic anchor (genericised, 2026-06-03): deep research (§11.4.8) into relocating protected (content-protection / secure-surface) video to a secondary display PROVED — from authoritative platform/HDCP docs + reproducible captured behaviour (a secure surface is blanked on any output lacking the secure flag; mirror/screencap of a secure layer returns black) — that the goal is **structurally impossible by platform design**, not a missing feature or unsolved engineering problem. Without a durable classification, such a goal is re-investigated every cycle (re-read the same sources, re-run the same probes, re-derive the same impossibility — compounding wasted effort). The mandate: when deep research per §11.4.8 PROVES (cited authoritative sources AND, where applicable, reproducible captured evidence) a goal is structurally impossible on the target platform (forbidden by platform design / hardware-protocol constraint / documented kernel-or-API limitation — NOT merely unimplemented or hard), the goal MUST be: (1) classified `Won't-fix` + closed per §11.4.90 with closure reason `structurally-impossible`; (2) documented with the impossibility evidence — cited authoritative source URLs (per §11.4.99 latest-source verification) + the reproducible probe/captured evidence — in the tracker entry + relevant `docs/` guide; (3) NOT re-attempted in future cycles — a reopen MUST cite NEW evidence the platform constraint changed (per §11.4.34 + §11.4.7), never merely re-derive the same impossibility; (4) paired with the correct posture — the entry states what the project DOES instead, so "impossible" is never confused with "broken/unhandled". Honest boundary (§11.4.6): `structurally-impossible` is reserved for *proven* platform/hardware/protocol impossibility — "could not find a way" / "very hard" / "no time" are `Operator-blocked` (§11.4.21) or open work, NOT won't-fix; mislabelling them to avoid the work is a §11.4 planning-layer bluff. A future platform change can make the impossible possible; the classification is durable but not eternal.

Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — platform-neutral effort-conservation + honesty discipline reusable by ANY project; the consuming project supplies the specific impossible goal, its platform constraint, and the cited evidence per §11.4.35. Composes with §11.4.6 (FACT with cited evidence, never "probably can't") / §11.4.7 (reopening requires NEW positive evidence) / §11.4.8 ("NO external solution found — structurally impossible" is the citation) / §11.4.34 (reopen attribution) / §11.4.90 (`structurally-impossible` is a closure reason in the closed vocabulary) / §11.4.99 (latest-source so the verdict is not stale). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-112-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.112`) + recommended gate `CM-WONT-FIX-STRUCTURAL-IMPOSSIBILITY` + paired §1.1 mutation (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.112. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--wont-fix-without-proof`, `--reattempt-closed-impossible`, `--skip-impossibility-evidence`, `--impossible-equals-broken` flag.

## §11.4.113 — Absolute no-force-push + merge-onto-latest-main mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-03)

**Forensic anchor — verbatim user mandate (2026-06-03):** "Any force-push is strictly forbidden! We must for every Submodule take as a base latest commit on Submodule's main (or master) branch, then on top of it carefully to merge all changes that have to be pushed! Once all merging is carefully done we perform commit and push to all Submodule's upstreams!"

Force-push is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN with NO exception — `git push --force`, `--force-with-lease`, `+<ref>`, or any history-rewriting overwrite of a remote ref, against EVERY repository this Constitution governs (main repo, this constitution submodule, every owned + nested submodule, every upstream). No operator-approval path, no "after a merge-first audit" path. The mandated 6-step integration procedure for any repo/submodule whose local has commits to publish OR whose mirrors diverged: (1) `git fetch --all --prune --tags` all remotes; (2) set the base to the LATEST commit on the canonical `main`/`master` branch (the most-advanced mirror tip); (3) carefully MERGE every change to be published on top of that base — union, preserve BOTH sides, NEVER `-s ours` / rebase / reset that drops commits (per §9 no-commit-loss); (4) resolve every conflict carefully — no conflict markers, no file dropped, gates/tests still pass; (5) commit the merge (stage only intended files, NEVER `git add -A` in a submodule per §11.4.30); (6) push to ALL upstreams — each push is a fast-forward because the merge commit descends from every mirror tip, so NO force is ever needed (if an upstream still rejects, return to step 1 for it, merge its new tip, re-validate, re-push). **TIGHTENS §11.4.41 / §11.4.71 / §9.2 / CONST-043 — the force-push escape hatch is REMOVED:** even WITH operator approval, even after a clean merge-first audit, force-push is forbidden, because the merge-onto-latest-main path is always available so force is never necessary. Those clauses' merge-first/fetch-first machinery stays in force as the integration discipline; only their terminal "...then force-push" step is struck.

Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — a platform-neutral integration discipline reusable across every repository. Composes with §2.1 (multi-upstream push — step 6 fans out) / §9 / §9.2 (absolute data safety — this is the no-loss push discipline that makes force unnecessary) / §11.4.4 / §11.4.6 (remote state unknowable without the step-1 fetch) / §11.4.26 (constitution-update conflict resolution IS this procedure) / §11.4.37 (fetch-before-edit → fetch-before-push) / §11.4.40 / §11.4.41 (merge-first stays, force-push step removed) / §11.4.71 (same tightening) / §11.4.88 (background-push still fast-forward-only) / CONST-043 (no force-push authorisable). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-113-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.113`) + recommended gate `CM-NO-FORCE-PUSH-ABSOLUTE` (scan tracked scripts/hooks for `push --force` / `--force-with-lease` / `push +<ref>` + reject; a §11.4.109-class PreToolUse guard blocks the class at the tool-call boundary) + paired §1.1 mutation (inject a `git push --force` into a tracked script → gate FAILs; gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.113. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--force`, `--force-with-lease`, `--allow-force-push`, `--force-push-authorised`, `--skip-merge-onto-main` flag.

## §11.4.114 — Last-known-good-tag regression isolation mandate (1.1.8-dev remediation, 2026-06-03)

When a previously-working feature/behaviour is observed broken, the FIRST diagnostic action MUST be to identify the last release tag (or commit/build/deploy) at which it was KNOWN-GOOD and diff/bisect the broken state against it — BEFORE any open-ended root-cause hunt or speculative fix. The known-good revision is the regression oracle: it bounds the search to the commits between good and now (`git diff <good-tag>..HEAD --stat` of the feature's files = captured evidence), tells you it is a regression REPAIR not a from-scratch design problem, and gives each suspect file a behavioural oracle. When the operator volunteers a known-good tag, that lead is load-bearing and MUST be acted on first. Default to a SURGICAL forward-fix (keep the post-good-tag features, revert ONLY the broken sub-part) over a wholesale revert that loses the batch's other working features — unless the operator prefers wholesale revert. Honest boundary (§11.4.6): "it worked before" is a HYPOTHESIS until the known-good tag is identified AND the feature is confirmed working there; "probably regressed in the last batch" without the diff is a guess; a feature that NEVER worked is not a regression. Composes §11.4.4 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.7 / §11.4.40 / §11.4.43 / §11.4.102 / §11.4.108. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-114-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.114`) + recommended gate `CM-REGRESSION-ISOLATED-AGAINST-KNOWN-GOOD` + paired §1.1 mutation (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.114. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-known-good-diff`, `--root-cause-from-scratch`, `--assume-regression-source`, `--wholesale-revert-without-isolation` flag.

## §11.4.115 — RED-baseline-on-the-broken-artifact + polarity-switch mandate (1.1.8-dev remediation, 2026-06-03)

Strict refinement of §11.4.43's RED step. Every RED test MUST be authored to REPRODUCE the defect on the CURRENT, pre-fix artifact (the actual broken build/deployment), capturing positive evidence per §11.4.5 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.107 that the defect is genuinely present — never a synthetic failure the fix is then written to agree with. The SAME test source MUST carry a single polarity switch (env flag / parameter, canonical `RED_MODE`, default `1` = reproduce-and-assert-defect-present) that flipped to `0` post-fix converts the test into the GREEN regression-guard asserting the defect is ABSENT. One source, two roles: the bug-catcher IS the regression-guard; no separate happy-path test is authored as the primary guard (that demonstrates only that the test agrees with the fix — the §11.4.43 PASS-bluff). RED-on-broken-artifact then GREEN-on-fixed-artifact (on a clean target per §11.4.108) MUST both be captured. Honest boundary (§11.4.6): if the RED run does NOT fail on the broken artifact, that is a finding (close per §11.4.7 with negative evidence, or fix the test) — a RED test that passes on the known-broken artifact is a blind test. Composes §11.4.1 / §11.4.2 / §11.4.5 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.107 / §11.4.4 / §11.4.7 / §11.4.43 / §11.4.50 / §11.4.108 / §11.4.114. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-115-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.115`) + recommended gate `CM-RED-POLARITY-SWITCH-PRESENT` + paired §1.1 mutation (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.115. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--green-only-test`, `--skip-red-reproduction`, `--separate-happy-path-suffices`, `--synthetic-red-OK` flag.

## §11.4.116 — Real-time conductor↔autonomous-test-framework sync channel mandate (1.1.8-dev remediation, 2026-06-03)

Any autonomous, long-running test/QA/validation framework an external orchestrator (conductor agent / operator) depends on for real-time decisions MUST expose a real-time sync channel: (1) a structured append-only event stream (JSONL or equivalent, one event per line, never rewritten) emitting at minimum session-start / phase-transition / per-test-or-challenge-start / captured-evidence-path / external-call (LLM / vision / sink-probe) / error / per-item-verdict events; (2) an atomically-rewritten status snapshot (single small file written write-temp-then-rename so a reader never sees a torn write) carrying current session/phase/item + counters + last verdict. Verdicts use the closed vocabulary PASS / FAIL / SKIP / OPERATOR-BLOCKED (§11.4.45). The conductor tails it live so it stays in real-time sync, can §11.4.4-interrupt on a fresh defect, and never idles blindly (§11.4.94 / §11.4.97). Anti-bluff: a verdict event MUST carry the evidence path that backs it (§11.4.69) — a PASS event with no evidence path is a channel-layer PASS-bluff; a snapshot reporting PASS while the stream shows no evidence event for that item is a contradiction → treat as FAIL; an item with no start-event cannot have a verdict-event. When the framework is an owned project-agnostic submodule (§11.4.28), the channel stays project-neutral — the consumer registers its data (endpoints, package ids, sink hosts) at runtime via the public API, never hardcoded. Composes §11.4.4 / §11.4.5 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.27 / §11.4.28 / §11.4.45 / §11.4.52 / §11.4.89 / §11.4.94 / §11.4.97. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-116-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.116`) + recommended gate `CM-AUTONOMOUS-FRAMEWORK-SYNC-CHANNEL` + paired §1.1 mutation (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.116. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--no-sync-channel`, `--end-of-session-report-suffices`, `--verdict-without-evidence-path`, `--torn-status-write-OK` flag.

## §11.4.117 — Computer-vision / OCR pixel-oracle fallback for non-introspectable UIs mandate (1.1.8-dev remediation, 2026-06-03)

Any test that needs to drive a UI control OR assert on-screen content MUST NOT assume the accessibility/semantic/DOM hierarchy is the source of truth for what the user sees. When the hierarchy is blank/partial/known-unreliable for the app under test (TV-Compose, leanback, canvas/`SurfaceView`/GL, games, custom-rendered UIs), the test MUST fall back to a PIXEL ORACLE: (1) DRIVE input by computer-vision template-match (locate a control by its rendered appearance → tap its screen coordinates), not by a hierarchy node id; (2) ASSERT content by ROI OCR (read the rendered text the user reads — caption strip, title, error overlay) with a per-word confidence floor + region-of-interest per §11.4.107(12), not a hierarchy text attribute that may be absent/stale. The tool MUST both drive input AND read pixels — a hierarchy-only tool is NOT a content oracle. This makes §11.4.52's "near-empty hierarchy → INFEASIBLE" constructive: pixel-drive, not only SKIP. Anti-bluff (§11.4.107(10)): the CV/OCR analyzer is self-validated — golden-good fixture PASSes, golden-bad fixture FAILs, wired into meta-test; thresholds calibrated on the project's own frames, not hardcoded (§11.4.6). Honest boundary: when BOTH hierarchy is blank AND pixel oracle is infeasible (secure surface black-captures per §11.4.112, geo-unreachable), SKIP-with-reason per §11.4.3 + tracked operator-attended migration item per §11.4.52 — never fake PASS. Composes §11.4.5 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.48 / §11.4.49 / §11.4.52 / §11.4.107 / §11.4.112. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-117-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.117`) + recommended gate `CM-CV-OCR-PIXEL-ORACLE-FALLBACK` + paired §1.1 mutation (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.117. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--hierarchy-is-content-oracle`, `--skip-pixel-fallback`, `--unvalidated-ocr-OK`, `--hardcoded-ocr-threshold-OK` flag.

## §11.4.118 — Discovery-pressure to confirm known-issue-set completeness mandate (1.1.8-dev remediation, 2026-06-03)

A remediation/release cycle MUST NOT treat "every reported defect is fixed" as "the build is good" — the reported set is biased by what the operator happened to test ("we only see what we test"). After/alongside fixing the reported set, the cycle MUST run a discovery + stress pass across ALL target devices/environments that deliberately exercises subsystems, journeys, and edge cases BEYOND the reported defects — to CONFIRM the reported set is the COMPLETE critical set and surface unreported defects before the end user does. The pass MUST produce PROVABLE coverage: an enumerated list of the subsystems/user-journeys/stress scenarios actually exercised, each with its outcome (no-new-issue, or a new tracker entry per §11.4.15 / §11.4.16). "We found no other issues" is a §11.4 bluff unless accompanied by "here is the enumerated set we exercised" — absence of evidence of looking is not evidence of absence. New findings trigger §11.4.4 interrupt + the §11.4.114/§11.4.115 isolation→RED→fix loop. Honest boundary (§11.4.6): discovery reduces the unknown-unknown surface but does not prove zero remaining defects — the earned claim is "reported set + enumerated discovery set addressed," with un-exercised subsystems stated as honest coverage gaps (§11.4.3), never silently implied clean. Composes §11.4.4 / §11.4.5 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.25 / §11.4.40 / §11.4.42 / §11.4.52 / §11.4.85 / §11.4.114 / §11.4.115 / §11.4.119. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-118-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.118`) + recommended gate `CM-DISCOVERY-COVERAGE-ENUMERATED` + paired §1.1 mutation (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.118. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--reported-set-suffices`, `--skip-discovery-pass`, `--no-issues-without-coverage-list`, `--assume-complete` flag.

## §11.4.119 — Single-resource-owner partitioning for parallel hardware testing mandate (1.1.8-dev remediation, 2026-06-03)

Strict refinement of §11.4.58 / §11.4.103 for hardware contention. When multiple parallel work/test/discovery streams exercise SHARED hardware or any exclusive-access resource (a media-playback path, a single HDMI/audio sink, an exclusive device handle, a serial/JTAG line, a GPU under exclusive capture), exactly ONE stream MUST own each such resource at a time. The exclusive owner drives it (playback, input injection, capture); every other concurrent stream targeting the same resource MUST be READ-ONLY (passive probes — `dumpsys` / `/proc` / `/sys` reads / sink-side network probes / log tails). Parallelism is partitioned by resource: distinct devices/sinks/handles run fully concurrent (stream-per-device), but the same device's exclusive resource is single-owner. Ownership MUST be enforced by an advisory lock/token (§11.4.58 L3 + the hardware analogue of §11.4.84 quiescence), event-driven (claim when the resource frees, release the moment work completes so the next queued stream claims it per §11.4.103 auto-backfill). Why: concurrent drivers of one exclusive resource produce CROSS-CONTAMINATED evidence (sink reports the wrong stream's audio, foreground belongs to whichever `am start` landed last, input events interleave) — a PASS under contention is a §11.4 evidence-integrity bluff. Honest boundary (§11.4.6): a "read-only" probe stream MUST issue NO state-changing command against a device it does not own; when a resource genuinely cannot be partitioned, streams serialize on it (single-owner over time), not run concurrently and hope. Composes §11.4.5 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.13 / §11.4.50 / §11.4.58 / §11.4.82 / §11.4.84 / §11.4.103 / §11.4.118. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-119-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.119`) + recommended gate `CM-SINGLE-RESOURCE-OWNER-PARTITION` + paired §1.1 mutation (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.119. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--allow-concurrent-resource-drivers`, `--skip-ownership-lock`, `--read-only-may-mutate`, `--contended-evidence-OK` flag.

## §11.4.120 — Fix-breaks-its-own-gate reconciliation mandate (1.1.8-dev remediation, 2026-06-03)

When a correct fix causes a pre-existing gate/test to FAIL because that gate asserted the OLD (now-removed-or-changed) behaviour, the gate FAIL is the CORRECT signal the fix landed — it MUST NOT be suppressed by either forbidden response: (1) FAKE-PASSING the gate (editing it to `always pass`, weakening its assertion to a tautology, or deleting it — a §11.4 gate-layer bluff + a §11.4.84 mutation-residue risk); (2) REVERTING the correct fix to satisfy the stale gate (re-introducing the defect). The required response is RECONCILIATION: rewrite the gate to assert the NEW mechanism the fix introduced, backed by captured evidence of the new correct behaviour, AND update its paired §1.1 mutation so the mutation breaks the NEW invariant. Discriminator vs bluffing: after reconciliation the gate + mutation still form a valid §1.1 pair (mutate the new invariant → gate FAILs); a bluffed gate's mutation no longer makes it FAIL (the assertion became a tautology). The reconciliation MUST be a visible, evidence-cited change, never a silent assertion-weakening. Honest boundary (§11.4.6): a post-fix gate FAIL is NOT automatically "stale gate, reconcile" — investigate per §11.4.102 first; the FAIL may be the gate correctly catching a REGRESSION the fix introduced, in which case the FIX is wrong, not the gate. Reconcile ONLY when investigation PROVES the gate asserted old-correct-now-removed behaviour AND the new behaviour is the intended, evidence-confirmed mechanism. Composes §11.4.1 / §11.4.4 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.84 / §11.4.102 / §11.4.108 / §1.1. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-120-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.120`) + recommended gate `CM-GATE-RECONCILED-NOT-FAKE-PASSED` + paired §1.1 mutation (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.120. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--fake-pass-stale-gate`, `--revert-fix-for-gate`, `--weaken-assertion-to-pass`, `--delete-failing-gate` flag.

## §11.4.121 — No-commit-while-build-writes-tracked-artifacts mandate (1.1.8-dev remediation, 2026-06-03)

A commit (especially `git add -A` / any broad stage) MUST NOT run while a build/packaging/generation step is actively writing artifacts INTO tracked (version-controlled) directories — doing so races the writer and stages a PARTIAL or stale artifact (a §11.4.108 SOURCE→ARTIFACT integrity failure landed in version control). The commit MUST be deferred until the build step that writes tracked artifacts has COMPLETED, so the tree is quiescent at the artifact layer AND the committed artifacts are the FRESH, whole outputs (no stale pre-rebuild artifact, no half-written file). Before committing tracked build outputs, verify the writing step finished (process exit / completion marker / per-artifact mtime ≥ build-start) — a build still in flight writing tracked dirs is a HOLD on the commit, not a race to win. Build-output analogue of §11.4.84 (no commit while a mutation gate is in flight): both close the "commit captures transient non-final tree state" class at two write-sources. Where build outputs land OUTSIDE version control (gitignored `out/` / `dist/`), the race does not apply. Honest boundary (§11.4.6): "the build probably finished" is not "the build finished" — verify with a completion signal; committing source changes that DON'T touch the build's tracked-artifact directories is fine mid-build. The PROJECT-SPECIFIC instance (which tracked directory + which build steps write it) is recorded in the consuming project's own governance per §11.4.35. Composes §11.4.6 / §11.4.30 / §11.4.58 / §11.4.84 / §11.4.88 / §11.4.96 / §11.4.103 / §11.4.108. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-121-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.121`) + recommended gate `CM-NO-COMMIT-DURING-ARTIFACT-WRITE` + paired §1.1 mutation (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.121. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--commit-during-build`, `--stage-partial-artifact-OK`, `--assume-build-finished`, `--skip-build-completion-check` flag.

### §11.4.122 — No-silent-removal-of-existing-components-without-operator-confirmation mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-03)

**Forensic anchor — verbatim user mandate (2026-06-03):**

> "Never ever remove any application, system component or service from already existing codebase / System without interactively asked question to us! THIS IS MANDATORY RULE / CONSTRAINT!"

**Forensic case study (FACT).** During the 1.1.8-dev burn-down, two shipped capabilities — F2 (an Apple-TV-class application) and F4 (a Huawei HMS / Mobile-Services component) — were removed from the existing System WITHOUT first asking the operator; the operator reversed both. A removal the operator has to discover and reverse after the fact is a defect of the same severity class as a §11.4 PASS-bluff: the System silently lost a user-facing capability the operator never agreed to drop.

No application, system component, service, package, feature, driver, module, library, prebuilt asset — any already-existing end-user capability of the existing codebase / shipped System — may be removed (deleted, dropped from the package set, disabled-into-non-shipping, un-bundled, de-listed, or otherwise made unavailable to the end user) WITHOUT FIRST interactively asking the operator and receiving an EXPLICIT keep-or-remove decision. The question MUST be posed through the platform's interactive clarification mechanism per §11.4.66 (`AskUserQuestion` on Claude Code) — NEVER a free-text "should I remove X?" buried in narrative, NEVER a silent removal justified post-hoc, NEVER an autonomous removal decision. A silent removal is a **release blocker** regardless of how well-intentioned the rationale (deduplication, "it was broken anyway", geo-restricted, incompatible, superseded) — the operator decides, the agent asks.

What counts as a removal (non-exhaustive): deleting an app/APK/binary from the build's package set (`PRODUCT_PACKAGES` / `device.mk` / equivalent), removing a service from the init/boot/service-registry set, dropping a kernel module / driver / config from the shipping configuration, un-bundling a prebuilt asset, deleting a submodule or its shipped output, removing a feature flag that gated a live capability, or any edit whose NET EFFECT is "an end-user capability that shipped before no longer ships." Adding, replacing-with-operator-approved-equivalent, or fixing a capability is NOT a removal. When uncertain whether an edit constitutes a removal, treat it AS a removal and ask (per §11.4.6 no-guessing + §11.4.101 — removal of an existing user-facing capability is high-blast-radius and MUST be operator-confirmed, never autonomously decided). The tracked DROP path: ask → operator approves → mark the item `Obsolete (→ Fixed.md)` with `Obsolete-Details` reason `feature-removed` + an operator-approval citation (§11.4.90) → then remove; the removal never precedes the operator's yes.

Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — a platform-neutral discipline reusable by ANY project that ships a set of user-facing capabilities; the consuming project supplies its concrete capability-manifest paths per §11.4.35. Composes §11.4.66 / §11.4.101 / §11.4.90 / §11.4.112 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.40 / §11.4.42. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-122-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.122`) + recommended gate `CM-NO-SILENT-COMPONENT-REMOVAL` + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.122. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--remove-without-asking`, `--silent-removal`, `--autonomous-removal-OK`, `--dedup-removal-exempt`, `--it-was-broken-anyway` flag.

### §11.4.123 — Rock-solid-proof-or-deep-research mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-03)

**Forensic anchor — verbatim user mandate (2026-06-03):**

> "Every single reported issue MUST BE fully and 100% validated with rock solid proofs! Nothing can be considered fixed or completed without hard evidence! No false results or bluff(s) of any kind is allowed! If we are not sure on how to achieve full testing, validation and verification of something we MUST ALWAYS perform deep web research for all possible data (articles, documentation, guides, and other resources) and opensourced codebases which we can use to solve our problems and perform testing with validation and verification which produces rock-solid evidence(s) and leaves no space for false results or any kind of bluff!"

**Forensic case study (FACT).** In the 1.1.8-dev remediation the validation method for two feature classes was, at first, genuinely unclear: relocating a `FLAG_SECURE` secure surface to a secondary display (pixel capture returns black) and asserting on-screen content in non-introspectable streaming-app UIs (blank accessibility hierarchy). Rather than declaring them "untestable" or accepting a metadata-only PASS, the cycle performed deep web research (`docs/research/testing_frameworks_20260603/`) that yielded the CV/OCR/liveness/sink-probe oracle stack (now §11.4.107 + §11.4.112 + §11.4.117) — making rock-solid evidence possible where it had appeared impossible. "Unclear how to validate" is a research trigger, NEVER a bluff licence.

Every single reported issue, every fix, and every claimed completion MUST be fully and 100% validated with rock-solid CAPTURED proof per §11.4.5 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.107 before it may be marked fixed / implemented / completed (§11.4.33 closure vocabulary). Nothing may be considered fixed or complete without hard captured evidence — metadata-only / configuration-only / absence-of-error / grep-without-runtime PASS are all forbidden (§11.4 / §11.4.1); no false results, no bluff of any kind, at any layer.

The research-or-don't-bluff rule (the operative addition): when the agent is UNSURE how to fully test / validate / verify something — when no obvious evidence-producing method exists OR the candidate method would yield only metadata/config/absence-of-error evidence — it MUST ALWAYS first perform deep web research per §11.4.8 + §11.4.99 (official docs, articles, guides, vendor references, standards, issue trackers, reusable open-source codebases) to DISCOVER or BUILD a validation method that produces rock-solid evidence and leaves no space for a false result. Declaring something "untestable" / "not automatable" / accepting a metadata-only PASS WITHOUT first exhausting this deep-research path is itself a §11.4.123 violation — same severity class as a PASS-bluff. The research output (cited source URLs + the evidence-producing method, OR the literal "NO external solution found — original work" per §11.4.8) is the captured proof the path was exhausted. Only after that research genuinely fails may the item be classified `PENDING_FORENSICS:` / `Operator-blocked` (§11.4.21) / `structurally-impossible` won't-fix (§11.4.112) — with the cited research as the evidence the classification is earned, never a convenience.

Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — a platform-neutral discipline reusable by ANY project; the consuming project supplies its concrete capture mechanisms + research corpora per §11.4.35. Composes §11.4.5 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.8 / §11.4.52 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.99 / §11.4.107 / §11.4.118 / §11.4.21 / §11.4.112. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-123-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.123`) + recommended gate `CM-ROCK-SOLID-PROOF-OR-RESEARCH` + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.123. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--metadata-pass-suffices`, `--skip-proof`, `--untestable-without-research`, `--config-only-closure-OK`, `--bluff-when-unsure` flag.

### §11.4.124 — Dead/unwired-code investigate-before-remove mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-04)

**Forensic anchor — verbatim user mandate (2026-06-04):**

> "Before removing any seemingly-dead (zero-importer / unwired) codebase, we MUST investigate via git history where/how it was originally used and how it became dead. Removal is permitted ONLY when we have captured PROOF it is genuinely no longer needed — and that removal MUST be its own separate commit with a proper descriptive message. If there is no such proof, the code MUST be investigated for where/how it should be wired in properly, and any missing or unwired tests MUST be added. We MUST ALWAYS be extra careful with any codebase removal."

"Zero importers / never called / unwired ⇒ dead ⇒ delete" is a GUESS (§11.4.6), never a finding — a "no references" result proves only *current* non-reference, not genuinely-unneeded. Before removing ANY seemingly-dead element (zero-importer / never-called / unwired function / method / type / file / module / package / asset / config / build target) the agent MUST FIRST investigate via git history (`git log --follow`, `git log -S`/`-G` pickaxe across all history, blame on the deleted call-site) and capture as FACT: (1) WHERE/HOW it was originally wired in, (2) WHEN/HOW it became dead — call-site deleted deliberately / by mistake (regression) / never-completed / refactored-unreachable, (3) whether "no references" is real OR a hidden reference the static tool cannot see (reflection / dynamic dispatch / build-tags / codegen / DI / plugin registry / FFI / config-driven wiring). The investigation output (cited commits + determination) is the captured evidence. **Removal is conditional:** permitted ONLY with captured PROOF the element is genuinely no longer needed; that removal MUST be its OWN SEPARATE COMMIT (independently reviewable + revertible, composes §11.4.84 quiescence + §11.4.92 multi-pass) with a descriptive message citing the git-history evidence — plus §11.4.122 operator-confirmation when the element is an end-user capability; the §11.4.90 tracked path marks it `Obsolete (→ Fixed.md)`. **No proof ⇒ do NOT delete:** investigate WHERE/HOW to wire it in properly (restore a mistakenly-deleted call-site per §11.4.114; finish never-completed wiring) AND add any missing / unwired tests (§11.4.27 / §11.4.43 / §11.4.115 — the missing test is part of why it drifted into apparent-deadness). **Extra-caution default:** when uncertain whether removal-proof is sufficient, default to NOT removing (investigate + wire + test) per §11.4.6 + §11.4.101 + §11.4.122; "probably dead" is never sufficient — the bar is captured proof. Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — the consuming project supplies its static-analysis / importer-graph tooling + hidden-reference mechanisms per §11.4.35. Composes §11.4.6 / §11.4.8 / §11.4.84 / §11.4.90 / §11.4.92 / §11.4.101 / §11.4.114 / §11.4.122 / §11.4.27 / §11.4.43 / §11.4.115. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-124-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.124`) + recommended gate `CM-DEAD-CODE-INVESTIGATE-BEFORE-REMOVE` (a net-deletion commit must be removal-only + cite the git-history investigation OR be part of a tracked Obsolete item) + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.124. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--zero-importers-means-dead`, `--delete-unwired-on-sight`, `--skip-git-history-investigation`, `--remove-without-proof`, `--bundle-removal-with-other-work` flag.

### §11.4.125 — Code-review-agent gate before pre-build + main build (mandatory multi-layer review) (User mandate, 2026-06-04)

**Forensic anchor — verbatim user mandate (2026-06-04):**

> "After all fixes/changes/implementations are done, BEFORE running pre-build tests and the main build, dispatch code-review agent(s) that analyze all work done + all existing data/facts + the existing codebase + current git history to determine quality, safety, and whether the fixes/changes will REALLY work; they MUST validate and verify that every test covering the fixes/changes genuinely validates the work with NO chance of false results or bluff of any kind. Any finding MUST be fixed, polished, improved, and covered with additional tests before the build proceeds. Multiple strong layers of checks."

After all fixes / changes / implementations in a batch are done, and BEFORE running the pre-build test sweep AND the main (artifact) build (for ANY project), the agent MUST dispatch one or more dedicated code-review agent(s) (subagent-driven by default per §11.4.70/§11.4.20) performing a multi-layer review that: (1) analyzes ALL work done in the batch (every fix/change + its source diff + stated intent); (2) analyzes ALL existing data + facts (captured evidence per §11.4.5/§11.4.69/§11.4.107, tracker entries, prior findings, the §11.4.108 runtime-signature registry); (3) analyzes the existing codebase (blast radius per §11.4.92, cross-feature interaction, contract integrity of every dependency); (4) analyzes current git history (what each change touched, how it composes with concurrent/recent work, whether it reproduces a known-broken pattern per §11.4.114/§11.4.124); (5) determines quality + safety + will-it-REALLY-work (robust + not error-prone — no solve-A-create-B; no host/data/security regression; genuinely delivers the end-user-visible behaviour per §11.4/§107); (6) validates + verifies the tests covering the work — every covering test genuinely exercises the work-under-test and catches its negation, with ZERO chance of a false result or bluff (a test that PASSes on broken-for-the-user work, a metadata-only/config-only/absence-of-error/grep-without-runtime assertion, or a gate whose paired §1.1 mutation does not make it FAIL is a finding). Any finding (defect / error-prone change / safety risk / will-not-really-work / bluff-or-false-result-capable test / missing-coverage gap) MUST be fixed, polished, improved, and covered with additional tests (four-layer per §11.4.4(b), TDD-RED-first per §11.4.43/§11.4.115) BEFORE the pre-build sweep + main build proceed; the review iterates (re-review after each remediation) until no blocking findings remain. The review is itself anti-bluff (its conclusions are captured evidence per §11.4.5/§11.4.69; a rubber-stamp review of a defective batch = PASS-bluff). It is one of MULTIPLE STRONG LAYERS — complementing, never replacing, the §1 pre-build sweep, §11.4.92 multi-pass (author-side self-review; §11.4.125 adds the structurally-separated reviewer seam per §11.4.70), §11.4.108 four-layer fix-verification, §11.4.110 build-readiness verdict, and the post-build / runtime-on-clean-target / user-visible layers. Composes §11.4 / §11.4.1 / §11.4.4 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.40 / §11.4.43 / §11.4.50 / §11.4.70 / §11.4.20 / §11.4.92 / §11.4.102 / §11.4.107 / §11.4.108 / §11.4.110. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-125-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.125`) + recommended gate `CM-CODE-REVIEW-GATE-BEFORE-BUILD` (build starts only with a fresh code-review-completed marker for the current batch, produced after the last fix + before the pre-build sweep + main build) + paired §1.1 mutation (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.125. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-code-review`, `--build-without-review`, `--no-review-gate`, `--review-optional`, `--trust-the-author` flag.

### §11.4.126 — Default autonomous-loop working mode from first prompt (User mandate, 2026-06-04)

**Forensic anchor — verbatim user mandate (2026-06-04):**

> "Make sure that you continue work in endless fully autonomous loop, do not stop until new fully validated and verified version (tag) is created and published (all submodules and main repo) or IN A CASE OF some other main stream work until it is fully completed with all side work streams and nothing else is left in our working queue! THIS MUST BE ALWAYS the default working mode without us asking you! We tend to achieve ABSOLUTE EFFICIENCY, with this and all other projects which will incorporate this MANDATORY RULE / CONSTRAINT!!! This way of (your) working will be ALWAYS applied / followed / executed / fully respected, as soon as we assign / send first request (prompt) in the session! This stops only if we explicitly say so or nothing is left to be done in current working scope (release that will come / upcoming version)!!! Any mimicking (imitation) of this behavior / rules / mandatory constraints, false results or any kind of bluff(s) is ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN!!!"

The endless fully-autonomous loop is the **DEFAULT working mode**, engaged automatically the moment the operator sends the FIRST request / prompt of a session — the operator MUST NOT have to ask for it, request it, restate it, or re-enable it per session. §11.4.87 framed the endless-loop covenant as an explicit-instruction opt-in ("continue in endless loop fully autonomously" or a semantically-equivalent phrasing); §11.4.126 is the **capstone** that promotes the same covenant to always-on: from the first prompt onward, every agent operates in the §11.4.87 loop discipline as the standing default, with §11.4.94 zero-idle, §11.4.97 maximum-idle-use, §11.4.101 autonomous-decision-over-blocking, and §11.4.103 continuous-parallel-stream all engaged by default — no per-session activation handshake. The continuation contract: the loop continues until ONE of two terminal conditions holds — (A) **Release scope** — a new, fully-validated-and-verified version (tag) is created AND published across all owned submodules AND the main repo to all configured remotes (per §2.1 multi-upstream push + §11.4.40 full-suite-retest-before-tag + §11.4.113 absolute-no-force-push merge-onto-latest-main); OR (B) **Non-release main-stream scope** — the main-stream goal is fully completed AND every side work stream is done AND the working queue holds nothing left for the current scope. Until (A) or (B) holds, the agent MUST keep working (claim the next priority item, dispatch the next parallel stream, progress every non-blocked item per §11.4.42 / §11.4.72 / §11.4.94 / §11.4.103). The loop STOPS ONLY on: (1) the operator explicitly saying so (STOP / pause / end); (2) nothing left to do in the current working scope — the upcoming release / current main-stream goal — with the queue genuinely empty per the (A)/(B) terminal conditions; (3) a §12 host-session-safety demand (the loop yields to host safety unconditionally). Idle-while-blocked parks one work unit, it does not stop the loop — the agent keeps progressing every non-blocked item in parallel per §11.4.101 + §11.4.94 + §11.4.97. Goal — ABSOLUTE EFFICIENCY (no operator-side restart overhead, no idle gaps, no stop-and-wait round-trips); applies to this project AND every project that incorporates this Constitution. Anti-bluff: mimicking / imitating this loop behaviour, narrating continuation without performing it, fabricating progress, or emitting false / bluff results of ANY kind is ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN — this composes the entire §11.4 anti-bluff covenant family (§11.4 / §11.4.1 / §11.4.2 / §11.4.5 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.50 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.107); the agent MUST genuinely perform the continuous work and capture positive evidence for every closure, and a report claiming the loop ran while no real work / no captured evidence was produced is a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the operating-mode layer. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Composes with §11.4.87 (the endless-loop covenant — §11.4.126 promotes it from opt-in to always-on default) / §11.4.94 / §11.4.97 / §11.4.101 / §11.4.103 / §11.4.66 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.40 / §11.4.42 / §11.4.72 / §11.4.113 / §2.1 / §12. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-126-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.126` across the consumer fleet) + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (strip the literal → propagation gate FAILs; gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.126. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--ask-before-continuing`, `--single-turn-only`, `--not-default-loop`, `--mimic-OK` flag.

### §11.4.127 — Session-handoff resumption-prompt mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-06)

**Forensic anchor — verbatim user mandate (2026-06-06):** "make sure that in situations like this now when new session is needed you ALWAYS prepera such sentence - which will be valid for particular moment and the phase of the project and enough for work to continue."

When the agent determines a fresh session is needed (context-window limits, performance degradation) OR the operator asks whether a new session is needed / requests a handoff, the agent MUST ALWAYS prepare + proactively provide a ready-to-paste **resumption prompt valid for that EXACT moment and project phase** — self-contained enough that pasting it into a fresh session resumes work with ZERO loss. Two variants on demand: a SHORT first-sentence ("Read `<handoff docs>`, then continue `<terminal goal>` …") AND a FULL detailed block. The prompt MUST: (1) point to the live handoff doc(s) — `.remember/remember.md` if present + `docs/CONTINUATION.md` per §12.10 — read FIRST + `git fetch --all`; (2) state current PHASE + immediate NEXT action + terminal goal; (3) embed exact live-state anchors (build IDs / artifact MD5, device/target serials, commit HEAD, in-flight PIDs + log paths, captured-evidence paths); (4) restate binding constraints (anti-bluff §11.4, no-force-push §11.4.113, exact version/naming, hardware/target gotchas); (5) be MOMENT-VALID, NEVER a generic template. Handoff doc(s) MUST be current BEFORE the prompt is given (§12.10). A missing / stale / generic prompt is a §11.4.127 violation. Composes §12.10 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.66 / §11.4.87 / §11.4.103 / §11.4.126. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-127-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.127`) + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation.

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.127. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-handoff-prompt`, `--generic-prompt-OK`, `--no-resumption-sentence`, `--handoff-without-state` flag.

### §11.4.128 — Always-on device-recording mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-06)

**Forensic anchor — direct user mandate (2026-06-06):** we MUST ALWAYS live-record all available data from all devices we use for testing (or known to be under manual testing), EXTRA carefully so it never harms the device / its performance / causes side effects; raw recordings are NOT processed without need (token-conscious) and are ALWAYS git-ignored + code-intelligence-excluded; only curated evidence is committed, and only at release prep.

For EVERY test/debug device the project uses + every device under known manual testing, across EVERY reachable transport (USB / wireless ADB / SSH / serial / network introspection API), the project MUST ALWAYS live-record all analysable data: activities, all logs, performance metrics (CPU/memory/I/O/thermal/load), every sink-side report per §11.4.13, and any other live-changeable parameter. (1) **Extra-careful, side-effect-free** — non-invasive read-only probes only, bounded sampling, bounded write-volume, an observer-effect budget; a recorder that perturbs the device-under-test is a §11.4.128 violation, NOT evidence. (2) **Background + parallel + subagent-driven** per §11.4.103 + §11.4.70 — never blocks the main stream. (3) **Token-conscious — record-now, analyse-later** — raw data NOT processed without need; the only standing analyse-trigger is release-tag prep (§11.4.40 / §11.4.42) OR explicit operator ask. (4) **Raw is git-ignored (with a §11.4.77 regen-mechanism declaration) AND code-intelligence-excluded (§11.4.78/§11.4.79)** — only CURATED evidence is committed, and only at release prep under `docs/qa/<run-id>/` (§11.4.83). (5) **Deterministic layout** `<recording-root>/YYYY-MM-DD/<combined main+submodules state hash>/<DEVICE>_<SERIAL>/recording_NNN/<files>`. (6) **Anti-bluff** — a recorder claimed running but with no growing corpus is a §11.4 bluff; every curated finding traces to a real raw-corpus path; recorder health is itself captured evidence per §11.4.5/§11.4.69.

Composes §11.4.2 / §11.4.5 / §11.4.13 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.40 / §11.4.42 / §11.4.70 / §11.4.77 / §11.4.78 / §11.4.79 / §11.4.83 / §11.4.103 / §11.4.119. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-128-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.128`) + recommended gate `CM-DEVICE-RECORDING-ALWAYS-ON` + paired §1.1 mutation.

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.128. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-recording`, `--record-without-layout`, `--commit-raw-corpus`, `--index-raw-corpus`, `--analyse-corpus-always`, `--invasive-probe-OK` flag.

### §11.4.129 — Huge-blocker release protocol (User mandate, 2026-06-06)

**Forensic anchor — direct user mandate (2026-06-06):** when a huge blocker is discovered during release validation we MUST stop all testing, fix ALL discovered issues, process all recorded data from the last session, land rock-solid fixes, author NEW validation+verification tests of ALL supported test types, rebuild, reflash, and RESTART the full validation+verification of every fix/change from the last release tag to now — on both devices in parallel, recorded, with real physical captured proofs and no bluff.

On discovery of a HUGE BLOCKER (release-blocking-severity defect: core user-facing capability broken, regression invalidating the in-flight cycle, or blast radius reaching the batch's other fixes) during release validation, execute in order with NO spot-check shortcut: (1) **STOP all testing** on every device (the §11.4.4 test-interrupt STOP at release granularity — continuing past a huge blocker is the §11.4 PASS-bluff). (2) **Fix ALL discovered issues** — not just the blocker; root-cause each per §11.4.102 + isolate regressions against the last known-good tag per §11.4.114. (3) **Process all recorded data from the last session** — analyse the §11.4.128 raw-corpus slice (this IS the §11.4.128(3) release-prep analyse-trigger). (4) **Land rock-solid fixes** per §11.4.123 + §11.4.43/§11.4.115 + §11.4.9. (5) **Author NEW validation+verification tests of ALL supported test types** per §11.4.27 + §11.4.85, each anti-bluff + paired §1.1 mutation. (6) **Rebuild (full, not module-only) + reflash to a CLEAN target** per §11.4.108. (7) **RESTART the full validation+verification from the last release tag to now** per §11.4.40 — RESTART, never resume — on both/all owned devices IN PARALLEL per §11.4.103/§11.4.119, every run RECORDED per §11.4.128, real physical captured proofs per §11.4.5/§11.4.69/§11.4.107, no bluff. This anchor BINDS the existing release anchors for the huge-blocker case (adds STOP→fix-all→process-recordings→new-tests-all-types→rebuild→reflash→full-restart + the restart-not-resume rule), citing them rather than duplicating.

Composes §11.4.4 / §11.4.40 / §11.4.42 / §11.4.9 / §11.4.27 / §11.4.85 / §11.4.102 / §11.4.108 / §11.4.114 / §11.4.115 / §11.4.123 / §11.4.128 / §11.4.103 / §11.4.119. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-129-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.129`) + recommended gate `CM-HUGE-BLOCKER-FULL-RESTART` + paired §1.1 mutation.

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.129. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--resume-after-blocker`, `--spot-validate-after-fix`, `--skip-recording-analysis`, `--skip-new-tests`, `--module-only-after-blocker`, `--single-device-restart` flag.

### §11.4.130 — Post-remediation validate-the-fix-FIRST-after-redeploy (User mandate, 2026-06-06)

**Forensic anchor — direct user mandate (2026-06-06):** when a blocker discovered during release validation is fixed and a new artifact (rebuild / new flashing image / redeploy) is produced + the target reflashed, we MUST first re-test the SPECIFIC last-failing features + validate the just-incorporated fixes BEFORE the broader / full validation.

When a blocker / critical failure found during release validation is FIXED and a new artifact is produced + the target reflashed / redistributed / updated, the agent MUST: (1) **re-test the SPECIFIC last-failing features FIRST** (targeted guard tests for exactly the defects this fix addressed) BEFORE any broader / full-suite validation; (2) **validate the just-incorporated fixes with real captured evidence** — the §11.4.115 RED test flips GREEN at `RED_MODE=0` on the new artifact AND the §11.4.108 runtime-signature verifies on the CLEAN target the redeploy produced (metadata-only / config-only / absence-of-error / grep-without-runtime PASS forbidden per §11.4 / §11.4.1; proof per §11.4.5/§11.4.69/§11.4.107/§11.4.123); (3) **only after the targeted fix is CONFIRMED working** proceed to the §11.4.40 full retest from the last tag to now. Rationale: a first fix attempt may not work / may be incomplete / may regress again under the new artifact — confirming the targeted fix FIRST catches a fix-did-not-take case immediately instead of hours later at the END of a full cycle (then restarting per §11.4.129); cheap-confirmation-first is §11.4.82 applied to the post-blocker reflash. This is the §11.4.46 recent-work-validation gate specialised for the post-blocker-reflash case + the targeted-confirmation phase that GATES §11.4.129's step-7 full-restart. Honest boundary (§11.4.6): "the fix probably took" ≠ "the fix took" — the RED→GREEN flip + runtime-signature on the new artifact is the proof; a still-FAILing targeted re-test re-enters the §11.4.114/§11.4.115 isolate→RED→fix loop, never proceeds to the full cycle on a still-broken fix. Composes §11.4.4 / §11.4.40 / §11.4.46 / §11.4.108 / §11.4.114 / §11.4.115 / §11.4.123 / §11.4.129 / §11.4.82. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-130-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.130`) + recommended gate `CM-FIX-FIRST-AFTER-REDEPLOY` + paired §1.1 mutation.

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.130. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-targeted-retest`, `--full-cycle-first`, `--assume-fix-took`, `--validate-fix-at-end`, `--skip-red-green-flip-on-new-artifact` flag.

### §11.4.131 — Standing session-resumption file mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-07)

**Forensic anchor — verbatim user mandate (2026-06-07):** "Make this markdown a standard file which will be written EVERY TIME when we need fresh session out of the box! It MUST BE always up to date and in sync so whenever new session is created all we have to do is just point to it!"

Every project MUST maintain a SINGLE canonical, always-current **session-resumption file** at a fixed, project-declared standard path (declared once per §11.4.35, never moved without a §11.4.66 operator decision). This file is the OUT-OF-THE-BOX entry point for any fresh session: creating a new session requires ONLY pointing the new agent at this one file. §11.4.131 promotes §11.4.127 (PREPARE a resumption prompt on demand) into a STANDING, version-controlled ARTIFACT — ALWAYS present, ALWAYS in sync. (A) **Existence + fixed path** — exists at the declared path at all times, encoded as a literal path in the project-layer instantiation (§11.4.35), never silently moved. (B) **Always written + always synced** — (re)written whenever a fresh session is needed OR the live state materially changes (new HEAD, build/artifact id, phase, device/target state, in-flight job, blocking decision) — the §12.10 trigger set; a stale resumption file is a §11.4.131 violation of the same severity class as a §12.10 stale-CONTINUATION violation. (C) **Content (composes §11.4.127)** — both SHORT + FULL variants; points to `.remember/remember.md` + `docs/CONTINUATION.md` read FIRST + `git fetch`; embeds exact live-state anchors (HEAD, build/artifact ids + checksums, device serials, in-flight PIDs + log paths, captured-evidence paths); states PHASE + immediate NEXT + terminal goal; restates binding constraints (anti-bluff §11.4, no-force-push §11.4.113, exact version/naming, hardware gotchas); MOMENT-VALID, never a generic template (§11.4.6). (D) **Export + freshness** — §11.4.65 scope (synchronized `.html`/`.pdf` siblings) + §11.4.44 revision header. (E) **Out-of-the-box resumption** — a fresh session, given ONLY this file's path, fully resumes with zero additional context. Composes §12.10 / §11.4.127 / §11.4.65 / §11.4.44 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.66 / §11.4.126. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-131-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.131`) + recommended gate `CM-SESSION-RESUMPTION-FILE-PRESENT` + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation.

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.131. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-resumption-file`, `--ephemeral-prompt-only`, `--stale-resumption-OK`, `--generic-template-OK` flag.

### §11.4.132 — Risk-ordered validation priority mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-07)

**Forensic anchor — verbatim user mandate (2026-06-07):** "We MUST ALWAYS first test and validate features, functionalities and fixes/changes that have been worked most recently, the ones which were most problematic, which have the most chance to crash or break again, the ones which have been re-opened the most times! Then, after we validate and verify all this with real (physical) proofs and hard evidence, with no false results and bluffs of any kind, we continue with all other existing tests in the test suites! This IS MANDATORY."

Tests / validations / verifications MUST run in **RISK-DESCENDING order** — the highest-risk set FIRST, and ONLY AFTER that set is fully GREEN with real (physical) captured evidence does the remainder of the suite run. Risk ranking is computed from a CLOSED set of factors, highest-risk first: (a) **most-recently-worked** features / fixes / changes; (b) **historically most-problematic** (longest defect history, most prior fixes/failures); (c) **highest crash/break/regress likelihood** (greatest blast radius / complexity / dependency surface); (d) **most-reopened** per §11.4.55 reopens-count (a high reopen count is the strongest empirical fragility signal). Each item in the highest-risk set MUST pass with real (physical) captured evidence per §11.4.5/§11.4.69/§11.4.107 — no metadata-only / config-only / absence-of-error / grep-without-runtime PASS (§11.4/§11.4.1), no false results, no bluff (§11.4.6). ONLY AFTER the entire highest-risk set is GREEN with captured proof does the rest of the suite run; running the suite in arbitrary order, or running lower-risk tests before the highest-risk set is GREEN, is a §11.4.132 violation. §11.4.132 REFINES/STRENGTHENS §11.4.130 (generalises "validate the just-fixed items first" to the full risk-ordered set) + §11.4.46 (adds explicit risk-ordering within the recent/high-risk set) + §11.4.42 (applies the implementation-layer priority discipline to VALIDATION ordering). Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — the consuming project supplies its recency / problematic-history / reopen-count sources (e.g. §11.4.93 workable-items DB `reopens_count`+`last_modified`) per §11.4.35. Composes §11.4.4/.5/.6/.7/.40/.42/.46/.50/.55/.69/.107/.130. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-132-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.132`) + recommended gate `CM-RISK-ORDERED-VALIDATION-PRIORITY` + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation.

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.132. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-risk-ordering`, `--any-order-OK`, `--suite-order-fixed` flag.

### §11.4.133 — Target-System + hardware safety mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-08)

**Forensic anchor — verbatim user mandate (2026-06-08):** "Make sure that all changes we do to the System are ALWAYS safe for the System itself and for the hardware the system runs on! This is MANDATORY."

Every change to the TARGET system (firmware, kernel, init/boot scripts, drivers, sysfs/devfreq/voltage/clock/thermal/regulator register writes, partition/bootloader/U-Boot, HAL, framework, prebuilts, device config) MUST ALWAYS be safe for BOTH (a) the target System itself — MUST NOT brick, boot-loop, corrupt data, or render the device unrecoverable — AND (b) the hardware it runs on — MUST NOT exceed safe electrical/thermal/voltage/clock limits or damage panels/storage/radios/regulators. Concrete obligations: (1) reversible-first — verify irreversible high-blast-radius changes (bootloader/U-Boot MD5, partition layout) against known-good values + capture a pre-op backup (§9.2) BEFORE applying; (2) NO unverified hardware-control writes — never write an unverified value to a voltage/clock/regulator/thermal-throttle/current-limit sysfs node or register that could exceed datasheet limits, the safe range established as FACT (§11.4.6), never guessed; (3) thermal/perf changes (forcing a performance governor, pinning the top OPP, disabling thermal management) MUST respect the device's cooling design, validated by captured thermal evidence; (4) flashing MUST use the sanctioned tool + a freshly-built integrity-verified image — never an ad-hoc partition write or stale/unverified artifact; (5) unprovable-safety ⇒ blocked — a change whose target/hardware safety cannot be established from captured evidence is treated as UNSAFE and blocked (§11.4.6 + §11.4.101 reversible-first + §11.4.123 rock-solid-proof). DISTINCT from §12 host-session safety: §12 protects the DEVELOPER's HOST + session; §11.4.133 protects the TARGET device + its hardware — both apply, neither weakens the other. Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — the consuming project supplies its concrete hardware-control surfaces, datasheet-safe ranges, known-good bootloader/image hashes, and sanctioned flashing tool per §11.4.35. Composes §12 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.101 / §11.4.108 / §11.4.123. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-133-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.133`) + recommended gate `CM-TARGET-HARDWARE-SAFETY` + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation.

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.133. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--unsafe-hardware-write`, `--skip-system-safety`, `--brick-risk-accepted` flag.

### §11.4.134 — Code-review iterate-until-GO + rock-solid-evidence mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-08)

**Forensic anchor — verbatim user mandate (2026-06-08):** "For any fixes/changes given back to us for re-work by the code-review process, once we fix/improve everything per the code-review's requests, we MUST RE-RUN code-review AGAIN until we get a GO from it with NO new issues reported or warnings of any kind! All results produced by this whole process MUST ALWAYS give us rock-solid PHYSICAL evidence that the fixed/improved codebase really works now as expected, with no false results and no bluff(s) of any kind."

When the §11.4.125 code-review returns ANY finding — BLOCKING, nit, or warning — and the author fixes/improves the batch per that review, the code review MUST BE RE-RUN, and MUST KEEP being re-run after each remediation round, until it returns a clean GO with ZERO new issues AND ZERO warnings of any kind. A single pass that "addressed the findings" is NOT sufficient: the corrected batch MUST pass a FRESH adversarial review (a re-review can surface NEW findings introduced by the very fixes that closed the prior ones — the §11.4.1 fix-A-creates-B failure mode). The loop terminates ONLY on a clean GO (no new findings, no warnings); a residual warning is itself a finding that re-arms the loop. Every round's verdict AND every fix's validation MUST carry rock-solid PHYSICAL captured evidence per §11.4.5 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.107 (captured audio / video / sysfs / dumpsys / sink-side / runtime-signature) proving the fixed/improved codebase REALLY works as expected — never metadata-only / configuration-only / absence-of-error / grep-without-runtime; no false results, no bluff at any round; a reported GO unbacked by captured physical evidence is itself a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the review-loop layer. §11.4.134 REFINES / STRENGTHENS §11.4.125 (iterate "until no blocking findings remain"): it makes the loop EXPLICIT (re-run after every remediation round, not once), raises termination to ZERO findings AND ZERO warnings (not merely zero-blocking), and BINDS rock-solid physical evidence to every round. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Composes §11.4.125 / §11.4.1 / §11.4.4 / §11.4.5 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.107 / §11.4.50 / §11.4.108 / §11.4.123. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-134-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.134`) + recommended gate `CM-CODE-REVIEW-ITERATE-UNTIL-GO` + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (gate-code = separate work item).

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.134. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-rereview`, `--single-review-pass`, `--warnings-ok`, `--evidence-optional` flag.

**§11.4.135 — Standing regression-guard suite + every-fixed-defect-gets-a-permanent-regression-test (User mandate, 2026-06-08).** Every project MUST maintain a STANDING regression-guard suite that runs on EVERY build+deploy and BLOCKS the release tag on any failure. Every closed defect (stable ticket id, e.g. ATM-NNN) MUST, in the SAME commit as its fix (extending the §11.4.43 DOCUMENT step), register a permanent §11.4.115 RED-on-broken-artifact regression test into the suite — `RED_MODE=1` capturing the historical defect on a pre-fix artifact (the proof the guard is real), `RED_MODE=0` the standing GREEN guard asserting the defect is ABSENT. A closure without a registered guard is a §11.4.123 violation. The suite runs FIRST in the post-deploy cycle (highest-risk set per §11.4.132) and is a §11.4.40 release-gate blocker. Forensic anchor (FACT): the wrong-subtitle-on-2nd-display defect was "fixed" via a source-side `CONTROL_MENU_LABEL_DENYLIST` that NO test mirrored or re-ran, so the NEXT chrome class recurred silently while the GREEN suite passed. Industry-standard bug-driven testing (Google content-driven testing; AOSP CTS/Tradefed) made mechanical + enforced. Composes §11.4.4 / §11.4.40 / §11.4.43 / §11.4.46 / §11.4.50 / §11.4.107 / §11.4.108 / §11.4.115 / §11.4.118 / §11.4.123 / §11.4.124 / §11.4.130 / §11.4.132. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-135-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.135`) + recommended gates `CM-REGRESSION-GUARD-REGISTERED` / `CM-REGRESSION-GUARD-SUITE-WIRED` + paired §1.1 mutation. **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.135. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-regression-guard`, `--no-guard-on-close`, `--guard-optional` flag.


**§11.4.136 — Real-content end-to-end playback-test mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-08).** Refines/strengthens §11.4.107. Any test asserting media playback works MUST drive REAL content (catalog stream or offline reference clip) through the user's path (§11.4.48 UI-driven → §11.4.117 CV/OCR fallback) and assert it genuinely PLAYS via the §11.4.107 liveness battery PLUS a decoder-health census — a numeric drop-buffer budget, no buffer-timestamp re-order/discard, no codec-reject (cite Android/Media3 ExoPlayer OEM pre-OTA playback-test mandate: "too many dropped buffers" >25, "unexpected presentation timestamp", "test timed out"). Metadata-only / launch-only / registration-only / single-frame / config-only PASS is forbidden (§11.4 / §11.4.1). A golden/reference clip corpus (BBC ExoPlayer testing samples) is the offline ground-truth. Composes §11.4.5 / §11.4.48 / §11.4.50 / §11.4.107 / §11.4.117 / §11.4.123 / §11.4.13 / §11.4.69. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-136-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.136`) + recommended gate `CM-REAL-CONTENT-PLAYBACK-TEST` + paired §1.1 mutation. **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.136. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--launch-proves-playback`, `--skip-decoder-health`, `--metadata-playback-pass-suffices` flag.


**§11.4.137 — Subtitle/caption content-correctness oracle + secure-display-proxy-honesty mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-08).** Refines §11.4.117 + §11.4.107 + §11.4.112. Forensic anchor (FACT): tests tasked to "physically verify the 2nd-display subtitle" PASSed GREEN while subtitles did NOT show / showed WRONG — the streaming player surface is FLAG_SECURE so `screencap -d <secondary>` returns BLACK (autonomous PIXEL verification structurally impossible per §11.4.112), so the test fell back to the accessibility-scraped/`persist.atmosphere.subdebug` proxy, and the proxy accepted a chrome/menu LABEL (`Аудио и субтитры`) as a valid subtitle because the prose floor accepted any multibyte prose and NO menu-label denylist + NO position/cadence check existed. The mandate: a subtitle-correctness test MUST classify the cue's *content class* — a present cue is NOT a correct cue. CHROME (FAIL) if a known control/menu label (closed multilingual deny-list MIRRORED from source, case-folded incl. non-ASCII), time/numeric chrome, not prose, OUTSIDE the lower safe-title band (CEA-708 9-anchor grid), OR STATIC across the window (real subtitle changes → ≥2 distinct prose cues, a metamorphic relation). DIALOGUE (PASS) only when prose + not-denied + not-chrome + position-ok + cadence ≥2 OR fuzzy-matches the SOURCE-extracted cue via normalized edit distance (§11.4.123 host ground truth). The oracle MUST be self-validated golden-good/golden-bad (§11.4.107(10)) and the deny-list MUST be verified present in the SHIPPED artifact (§11.4.108) — a source-green denylist with no test mirror + no artifact check is the exact recurrence pattern forbidden here. Secure-display honesty (§11.4.112): where FLAG_SECURE makes pixel verification impossible, the rock-solid autonomous proof is the player's caption telemetry + source-track presence + content-class oracle — NEVER a faked pixel "physical" pass; human-eye pixel confirmation is `operator_attended` (§11.4.52) with a tracked migration item. App-agnostic (keys off content class). Composes §11.4.3 / §11.4.5 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.107 / §11.4.108 / §11.4.112 / §11.4.115 / §11.4.117 / §11.4.123 / §11.4.13 / §11.4.69. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-137-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.137`) + recommended gate `CM-SUBTITLE-CONTENT-CORRECTNESS-ORACLE` + paired §1.1 mutation (strip the denylist/position/cadence check → golden-bad `Аудио и субтитры` PASSes → gate FAILs). **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.137. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--present-cue-is-correct`, `--skip-chrome-oracle`, `--length-heuristic-suffices`, `--pixel-pass-on-secure-display`, `--skip-position-check`, `--skip-cadence-check` flag.


**§11.4.138 — Operator-escape => mandatory bluff-audit + permanent guard (User mandate, 2026-06-08).** When the operator (or any out-of-band channel) finds a defect that the GREEN test suite passed, this is by definition a §11.4 PASS-bluff — it MUST trigger, before the fix is closed: (1) a §11.4.102 systematic-debugging pass to FACT-root-cause; (2) a bluff-audit identifying the EXACT assertion that should have caught it but didn't, cited to `file:line` (canonical example: `lib/subtitle_content_validation.sh:sub_is_prose()` returning TRUE for `Аудио и субтитры`); (3) a permanent §11.4.135 regression guard registered in the SAME commit as the fix, with its §11.4.115 RED capturing the operator-found defect; (4) the bluff-audit committed under `docs/research/<scope>/<defect>_bluff_audit/`. Closing an operator-found defect WITHOUT the bluff-audit + permanent guard is itself a §11.4 violation (the bluff that let it through is still live and the defect will recur). Composes §11.4 / §11.4.1 / §11.4.102 / §11.4.108 / §11.4.115 / §11.4.118 / §11.4.123 / §11.4.135. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-138-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.138`) + recommended gate `CM-OPERATOR-ESCAPE-BLUFF-AUDIT` + paired §1.1 mutation. **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.138. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--close-without-bluff-audit`, `--operator-find-is-just-a-bug`, `--skip-permanent-guard` flag.


**§11.4.139 — Fresh-process clean-artifact runtime-signature mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-08).** Refines §11.4.108. Before any post-deploy validation — ESPECIALLY a non-pixel proxy verification (the subdebug/accessibility-cue channel used for FLAG_SECURE displays) — the harness MUST assert running-artifact == built-artifact: the deploy yielded a CLEAN target (mutable-overlay/userdata wiped) OR a pre-validation check proves no stale overlay shadows the deployed code (e.g. every guarded package — incl. the Presenter that emits the subtitle cue — resolves to the system partition, no per-user override). A stale shadow of the cue-emitting component (e.g. a Presenter APK predating the denylist) makes the proxy report on code that was never deployed — any PASS is a §11.4 PASS-bluff. Each fix declares ONE machine-checkable runtime signature verified on the clean target (the §11.4.108 registry IS the definition of done); for the subtitle class the signature is "the shipped Presenter APK contains the denylist literal (case-insensitive) AND the subdebug channel emits `candidate REJECTED reason=chrome-label` for a menu label." Composes §11.4.46 / §11.4.108 / §11.4.130 / §11.4.135 / §11.4.137. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-139-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.139`) + recommended gate `CM-CLEAN-ARTIFACT-RUNTIME-SIGNATURE` + paired §1.1 mutation. **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.139. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--validate-against-running-state`, `--skip-clean-precondition`, `--shadow-OK` flag.


## §11.4.140 & §11.4.141 — action-prefix system + token-efficiency (cascaded from constitution submodule 60e2d66, CONST-047/049)

> **§11.4.140 — Universal action-prefix system (`ACTION_NAME ::`) (User mandate,
> 2026-06-09; GRAMMAR_ADDENDUM 2026-06-09).** When a user prompt's FIRST
> non-blank line starts with a recognised action prefix, you MUST: (1) look the
> action token up in the action registry
> `constitution/actions/registry.yaml` (or `$HELIX_ACTION_REGISTRY`);
> (2) if it is a registered action, REPLACE the prefix with that action's
> `expansion` text and apply its `rules`; (3) execute the remainder of the prompt
> under the expanded instruction. **Four EQUIVALENT forms** — same action, same
> expansion, same execution: (1) `ACTION_NAME :: <rest>` (bare `::`),
> (2) `PREFIX::ACTION_NAME :: <rest>` (namespaced `::`), (3) `/ACTION_NAME <rest>`
> (bare slash), (4) `/PREFIX::ACTION_NAME <rest>` (namespaced slash). Thus
> `BACKGROUND :: x` ≡ `DEFAULT::BACKGROUND :: x` ≡ `/BACKGROUND x` ≡
> `/DEFAULT::BACKGROUND x`. `PREFIX` is an action NAMESPACE; the reserved default
> namespace is **`DEFAULT`**, and an action runs WITH or WITHOUT the prefix.
> Grammar (all hold): anchored at the FIRST non-blank line only (mid-prose tokens
> never match); the action token AND the namespace are UPPERCASE-only
> `[A-Z][A-Z0-9_]*` (lowercase never matches); the namespace separator `::`
> inside the token carries NO surrounding spaces (`PREFIX::ACTION_NAME`), DISTINCT
> from the action-body separator `" :: "` (one ASCII space on each side of `::` —
> avoids C++ `Foo::Bar`, YAML `key: value`, URLs) in forms 1/2 and the slash-body
> separator (one space) in forms 3/4; stacked prefixes (`A :: B :: rest`) apply
> outer-to-inner, left-to-right (expand `A`, re-scan, expand `B`, then the
> residual is the task); a leading `\` escapes the prefix for BOTH the `::` and
> the slash form (`\BACKGROUND :: x`, `\/BACKGROUND x` — treat literally, strip
> the backslash, NO expansion) so action names can be discussed. **Conflict rule
> (slash form):** `/ACTION_NAME` (form 3) is honored as the action ONLY when
> `ACTION_NAME` (case-folded) does not collide with a built-in/host slash command
> (registry `slash_bare: auto` + `slash_conflicts: [..]`); form 4
> (`/PREFIX::ACTION_NAME`) is ALWAYS unambiguous and always honored. An unknown
> token that matches the grammar shape (any of the 4 forms) but is NOT registered
> is NEVER silently expanded or silently dropped — ask which registered action
> was meant (§11.4.66 / §11.4.105) or treat it as a literal prompt, NEVER invent
> an expansion (§11.4.6); any prompt not satisfying the grammar is an ordinary
> prompt and the system is a no-op. The registered action **`BACKGROUND`** expands
> to: *"The following prompt that we will provide MUST BE executed in background
> in parallel with all main work streams using the subagents-driven development
> approach! All work done MUST PRODUCE rock solid evidence covered with hard
> physical proof(s) that all done is working as expected and as specified without
> any false results and without any bluff!"* (composes §11.4.20 / §11.4.70
> subagent-driven, §11.4.58 / §11.4.103 parallel streams, §11.4.89 background
> execution, §11.4.5 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.107 captured physical evidence, §11.4
> anti-bluff). The system is UNIVERSAL (every CLI agent reads this block via its
> context carrier per §11.4.35), extensible (new action = new registry row),
> decoupled + reusable (§11.4.28), and loads out-of-the-box. Classification:
> universal (§11.4.17). **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule
> [`Constitution.md`](Constitution.md) §11.4.140. Non-compliance is a release
> blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-action-prefix`, `--ignore-prefix`,
> `--no-registry`, `--invent-expansion-OK`, `--single-layer-only` flag.
<!-- action-prefix-recognition:end -->

**§11.4.141 — Token-efficiency mandate (research-derived + operator mandate, 2026-06-09).** Every project worked on by AI coding agents MUST cut token spend (input AND output) toward **30–40% of current (a 60–70% reduction)** WITHOUT degrading quality/performance/safety or breaking any existing mechanism, via a composable, safety-ranked measure set: (1) **prompt-cache the static governance prefix** — the always-loaded governance forms a byte-stable cache-breakpointed prefix with no volatile bytes ahead of it; cache reads cost ~0.1× base input (the dominant cost driver — measured ~170K tokens of governance re-sent every turn, externally corroborated by Claude Code issue #24147); caching is transparent so it removes no rule, weakens no gate, changes no verdict — only billing (PRIMARY, biggest + safest lever); (2) **subagent model-tiering + output-to-file** — mechanical non-judgment work (search/grep/status/doc-export/read-only probes) to a Haiku-class model, the strong model RESERVED for all reasoning/verdicts/fix-design (§11.4.102)/code-review (§11.4.125)/demotion (§11.4.7), large output persisted to a file not an inline 350–520K-token transcript; the cheap model never emits a PASS so §11.4.50 + anti-bluff are untouched; (3) **thin always-loaded INDEX + on-demand detail** — concise index (one line per fix/anchor, EACH carrying the literal `11.4.N` token so propagation gates pass) with the canonical full text kept gate-scanned in `constitution/Constitution.md` and reachable in one hop — a de-duplication realising §11.4.35, never a deletion; (4) **CodeGraph/retrieval-first over full-file loading** (§11.4.78/§11.4.79); (5) **output-token reduction** — terse status + `effort:"low"` on the mechanical allowlist only; (6) **tool-call batching + no re-reads**; (7) **compaction/context-editing for long sessions**. **Mandatory measured proof:** a token-accounting harness measures tokens-per-development-cycle BEFORE vs AFTER on a frozen deterministic workload from the authoritative `usage` object (input/cache_read/cache_creation/output split; NEVER `tiktoken`, NEVER the client-side cost estimate), reproduced N times (§11.4.50), pass = AFTER ≤ 40% of BEFORE OR the measured best-safe reduction with a cited cold-cache reason; the AFTER run MUST show ZERO regression on the pre-build sweep + meta-test mutation sweep + propagation gates + a strong-model reasoning probe + a cache-warm proof (`cache_read_input_tokens > 0`) — cost reduction with quality regression is a §11.4 FAIL. The headline number is the *measured* reduction, never the design estimate (§11.4.6/§11.4.123). No measure may break/degrade any existing mechanism, and the rule is structured so none can. Composes §11.4.5/.6/.20/.40/.50/.58/.69/.70/.78/.79/.80/.103/.106/.123/.125/.128/§12.6/§1.1. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-141-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.141`) + recommended gate `CM-TOKEN-EFFICIENCY` + paired §1.1 mutation (inject a pre-breakpoint volatile token → cache collapses → measured reduction falls below bar → gate FAILs). **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.141. **Project instantiation (§11.4.35):** [ATMOSphere consumer fills in: confirm the Claude Code governance-prefix cache is warm + free of pre-breakpoint volatiles; tier the §11.4.96-SAFE mechanical subagents (search/grep/status/doc-export) to Haiku with output-to-file under `qa-results/`; replace the consumer `CLAUDE.md` 112-row Applied-Fixes inline table + verbatim anchor restatements with a literal-anchor index pointing at `constitution/Constitution.md`; keep CodeGraph/lumen-first navigation; run the harness BEFORE/AFTER to prove the measured reduction.] Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-token-efficiency`, `--no-cache-governance`, `--assert-reduction-without-measuring`, `--tier-down-reasoning`, `--inline-all-governance`, `--tiktoken-estimate-OK` flag.


**§11.4.142 — Universal code-review mandate — every change reviewed, always, no exception (User mandate, 2026-06-09).** Verbatim operator mandate: "ALL changes we do MUST pass through the code review step!!! ALWAYS!!!" EVERY change made to ANY repository this Constitution governs — without exception — MUST pass through an INDEPENDENT code-review step BEFORE it is accepted, committed, or built. NO change class is exempt: source code, fixes, tests, gates, meta-test mutations, documentation, doc-tooling, build/CI scripts, configuration, governance files (Constitution / CLAUDE / AGENTS / QWEN), conductor main-stream edits, sub-agent output, refactors, single-line edits — if a diff exists, it gets an independent review. This is the ABSOLUTE form of §11.4.125 (code-review agent gate after a batch, before pre-build sweep + main build): §11.4.142 strips every implicit scoping §11.4.125's "after all fixes/changes/implementations are done" phrasing could leave open — no "just a doc edit", no "just a one-liner", no "the author already self-reviewed (§11.4.92)", no "trivial change" carve-out. **Independence is load-bearing** — the reviewer MUST be structurally separated from the author (a dedicated code-review agent, subagent-driven by default per §11.4.70 / §11.4.20, or a distinct human), NEVER the author re-reading their own work; §11.4.92's multi-pass self-evaluation is the AUTHOR-side discipline and PRECEDES (never satisfies) §11.4.142. **The review is itself anti-bluff** (§11.4 / §11.4.1) — a rubber-stamp "looks good" is not a review; it MUST genuinely analyse correctness, safety (no host §12 / data §9 / target-hardware §11.4.133 regression), will-it-really-work (no solve-A-create-B), end-user behaviour (§11.4 / §107), and test-genuineness (§1.1), its conclusions captured evidence per §11.4.5 / §11.4.69, and **it iterates to a clean GO per §11.4.134** — any finding (BLOCKING / nit / warning) re-arms the loop, acceptance only on ZERO new findings + ZERO warnings with rock-solid physical evidence. Honest boundary (§11.4.6): a passing review does NOT replace §11.4.108 four-layer runtime-signature verification nor the §11.4.40 full-suite retest — it is one of MULTIPLE STRONG LAYERS, and the FIRST one every change crosses. Composes §11.4.1 / §11.4.4 / §11.4.5 / §11.4.6 / §11.4.20 / §11.4.40 / §11.4.69 / §11.4.70 / §11.4.92 / §11.4.108 / §11.4.110 / §11.4.125 / §11.4.134 / §107 / §1.1. Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — the consuming project supplies its reviewer-dispatch mechanism + change-acceptance seam (commit wrapper / merge queue / PR gate) per §11.4.35. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-142-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.142`) + recommended gate `CM-EVERY-CHANGE-REVIEWED` (every accepted change carries a fresh independent-review-completed marker for its diff, produced by a reviewer distinct from the author, before acceptance/commit/build) + paired §1.1 mutation (strip the literal → propagation gate FAILs; accept a diff with no independent-review marker → `CM-EVERY-CHANGE-REVIEWED` FAILs). **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.142. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-review`, `--no-review`, `--trivial-change-exempt`, `--doc-edit-exempt`, `--self-review-suffices`, `--review-after-commit` flag.


**§11.4.143 — Real-user-journey mandate for video-streaming-app full-automation tests (User mandate, 2026-06-10).** Verbatim operator mandate: "All video streaming apps ... require to choose some title and to press proper UI button to start or resume playing! Proper UI interaction to play exact show with proper content and subtitles is MANDATORY! Without it we just eventually play on 2nd display sample, and that's it mostly! THIS MUST BE ADDED as MANDATORY RULE regarding testing of any video streaming app in general with full automation tests! Universal in root constitution + ATMOSphere project extensions." Any full-automation test that asserts a video player / streaming application plays content MUST drive the REAL end-user journey through the app's OWN UI — launch → BROWSE the actual catalog → choose a SPECIFIC title → press the real Play/Resume button → confirm THAT chosen content is genuinely playing, with its correct subtitles, on the intended routing target. A test that bypasses the journey with a sample / demo / built-in-loop clip, a deep-link / `am start -a VIEW` / intent shortcut, a synthetic or pre-staged stream, or any path that does NOT exercise the app's own browse-select-play UI is a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the user-journey layer: it validates ROUTING (that *something* reaches the display) while leaving the user-visible behaviour the operator cares about — "the show I picked actually plays" — unproven (the operator's "we just eventually play on 2nd display sample, and that's it mostly" gap). The mandate (ALL hold): (1) **Real journey, not a shortcut** — launch → catalog browse → specific-title selection → real Play/Resume press through the app's own UI (§11.4.48 UI-driven), NEVER a deep-link / intent / sample / loop-clip shortcut; (2) **Chosen-content confirmation** — the PASS proves the SPECIFIC selected title is playing (not merely that pixels move on the target) via the §11.4.107 liveness battery on the §11.4.136 real-content path + the §11.4.137 subtitle content-correctness oracle for the chosen title's captions; (3) **Non-introspectable UIs use the pixel oracle** — when the app's accessibility hierarchy is blank/unreliable (TV-Compose / leanback / canvas / GL), DRIVE input + ASSERT content via the §11.4.117 CV/OCR pixel oracle, never a hierarchy-only tool; (4) **Login via the credential single-source** (§11.4.10), never hardcoded, never logged; (5) **Honest SKIP, never a faked PASS** — where the autonomous journey is genuinely infeasible (hard human-only login / CAPTCHA, geo-block per §11.4.3, secure-surface pixel-blanking per §11.4.112) the test is `operator_attended` SKIP-with-reason per §11.4.52 + §11.4.3 with a tracked migration item — NEVER a metadata-only / sample-played / routing-only PASS. Honest boundary (§11.4.6): "the routing fired so the title is playing" is a guess — only the chosen-content liveness + subtitle oracle on the real journey proves it. Composes §11.4.48 / §11.4.107 / §11.4.117 / §11.4.136 / §11.4.137 / §11.4.52 / §11.4.3 / §107 / §1.1. Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — the consuming project supplies its concrete app roster, login-credential source, routing target, and UI-driving / pixel-oracle harness per §11.4.35. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-143-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.143`) + recommended gate `CM-VIDEO-REAL-JOURNEY-TEST` (every video-streaming-app playback test drives the real browse-select-play journey + confirms the chosen content + subtitles, or SKIPs-with-reason) + paired §1.1 mutation (replace a real-journey test's browse-select-play path with a deep-link / sample shortcut → gate FAILs; strip the literal → propagation gate FAILs; gate-code = separate work item). **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.143. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--sample-playback-ok`, `--skip-real-journey`, `--deep-link-suffices`, `--routing-only-pass`, `--no-title-selection` flag.


**§11.4.144 — Tracked/recorded-device availability-following mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-10).** Direct operator mandate: every device the project is tracking / following / recording (test / debug / manual-testing device, across every reachable transport — USB / wireless ADB / SSH / serial / network introspection API) MUST be availability-FOLLOWED — its connection state continuously monitored, any drop handled, never silently abandoned and never presented as a continuous recording. The §11.4.128 always-on recorder KNOWS a tracked device is absent (its per-device loop guards on the reachable state) but, lacking a following discipline, merely spins idle — no data captured, no offline event logged, no resume, no escalation — so the recording corpus presents a continuous timeline with a silent hole, a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the recording-integrity layer (it claims continuous capture while no data exists for the gap). On a tracked device leaving its reachable state the system MUST, automatically: (a) **DETECT** the drop and **log an honest offline event** into the recording corpus (§11.4.6 — a silent gap presented as continuous capture is a fabricated-continuity bluff; §11.4.128 — a silent recording gap defeats always-on recording); (b) **WAIT** for the device to return using the project's ALREADY-DEFINED reconnection timings — never invented numbers (§11.4.6), the SAME grace / reconnect / poll budgets the project's recovery path already uses; (c) **RE-ATTACH** — resume recording / tracking the moment the device returns and log an honest online / resume event; (d) **ESCALATE** to the project's sanctioned device-recovery path (per §11.4.69 feature class `device_recovery`) if the device does not return within the defined timeout — through the sanctioned, authorization-gated recovery entry point ONLY, never bypassing its gate and never performing a destructive recovery (e.g. a power-cycle) autonomously without that authorization (§11.4.21 / §11.4.101 — high-blast-radius recovery is gated; while blocked the system keeps following the device, logging the blocked-escalation honestly). A tracked-device drop that produces a silent corpus hole, a never-resumed recording, or a never-escalated permanent absence is the bluff this anchor forbids. Composes §11.4.128 (always-on recording — §11.4.144 closes its drop-handling gap) / §11.4.69 (`device_recovery` sink-side positive evidence) / §11.4.6 (honest offline / online events, reused-not-invented timings) / §11.4.14 (watchdog children reaped on stop) / §11.4.21 + §11.4.101 (gated, non-autonomous escalation). Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — the consuming project supplies its concrete tracking transport, device set, already-defined reconnection timings, and sanctioned recovery entry point per §11.4.35. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-144-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.144`) + recommended gate `CM-DEVICE-AVAILABILITY-FOLLOWED` + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (strip the watchdog wiring / let an absence go unlogged → gate FAILs; strip the literal → propagation gate FAILs; gate-code = separate work item). **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.144. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-availability-following`, `--silent-recording-gap-OK`, `--no-reconnect-wait`, `--invent-reconnect-timing`, `--skip-recovery-escalation`, `--autonomous-power-cycle-OK` flag.

**§11.4.145 — Independent multi-angle impact-research per change (User mandate, 2026-06-10).** For EVERY fix / change / new feature, INDEPENDENT impact-research agents (subagent-driven §11.4.70/§11.4.20, structurally separate from the author — §11.4.92 self-eval PRECEDES, never satisfies — adversarial "refute-the-change" stance to defeat the documented LLM confirmation-bias failure mode) MUST research the change AND its connected/dependent features across a CLOSED SET OF EIGHT ANGLES — (1) correctness/logic, (2) regression (what existing working feature could break — via call-graph impact enumerating every direct + transitive caller and contract-dependent feature, each mapped to its test), (3) latent/dangerous-code — the recents class (runtime-only failure, interface/ABI/contract mismatch, concurrency/data-race, resource lifecycle), (4) security (taint/injection/secret/unsafe-API), (5) performance (latency/memory/thermal under load vs baseline), (6) host/data/target-hardware safety per §12/§9/§11.4.133, (7) cross-feature interaction (shared state/timing/hardware contention), (8) business-logic conformance (matches the spec AND the connected features' contracts, not merely compiles). Forensic anchor (FACT, project-internal): the recents / 3-button-nav path shipped a latent AIDL-interface-contract mismatch that PASSED code review yet failed at RUNTIME ONLY (ANR on a recents-reaping gesture) because no review angle interrogated the interface contract / concurrency-lifecycle / silently-broken connected feature — the §11.4.108 SOURCE→ARTIFACT→RUNTIME→USER-VISIBLE gap caught only after the fact; §11.4.145 shifts that discovery LEFT. Each angle MUST name the TOOL(S) used + obtain the required DEPTH (the diff, the full changed unit, its declared contract, the spec section, every connected feature — NEVER the diff lines alone) + emit a captured-evidence conclusion per §11.4.5/§11.4.69 ("looks fine" forbidden, §11.4.1); a genuinely-N/A angle is recorded `NOT_APPLICABLE: <reason>` per §11.4.6, never silently skipped. Output = a per-change impact-research REPORT (one section per angle: tool + evidence path + verdict) + a single GO/NO-GO that BLOCKS acceptance/commit/build on ANY unmitigated risk in ANY angle; the change is fixed/mitigated + affected angles re-researched, iterating to a CLEAN GO (zero unmitigated risk + zero warning) per §11.4.134 before the §11.4.125 review gate. Honest boundary (§11.4.6): a GO proves cross-angle internal-consistency + bounded blast-radius — it does NOT replace §11.4.108 runtime-signature verification nor §11.4.40 full-suite retest; it is one of MULTIPLE STRONG LAYERS, the FIRST research pass every change crosses. Composes/strengthens §11.4.92/.125/.108/.110/.134/.78/.79/.107/.85/.133/§12/§9/.99/.6/§1.1. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-145-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.145`) + recommended gate `CM-IMPACT-RESEARCH-PER-CHANGE` + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (strip the literal → propagation gate FAILs; accept a change with a report missing an angle or an unmitigated NO-GO → `CM-IMPACT-RESEARCH-PER-CHANGE` FAILs; gate-code = separate work item). **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.145. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-impact-research`, `--single-angle-suffices`, `--author-researches-own-change`, `--diff-skim-OK`, `--no-go-overridable`, `--trivial-change-no-research` flag.

**§11.4.146 — Reproduce-first test + same-test-confirms-fix + mandatory extend-to-all-cases workflow (User mandate, 2026-06-10).** Every reported problem MUST be handled by a NAMED three-step test workflow — §11.4.146 does NOT re-author its component disciplines, it NAMES + BINDS them into the operator's exact per-defect sequence and adds ONLY the two emphases the components leave implicit. **(STEP 1 — REPRODUCE-FIRST + INVESTIGATE)** before any fix, author the §11.4.43 RED test as a §11.4.115 RED-baseline-on-the-broken-artifact (reproduce the defect on the CURRENT pre-fix artifact, capture defect-present physical evidence per §11.4.5/§11.4.69/§11.4.107); NEW EMPHASIS (D1) that same RED test is ALSO a deliberate investigation instrument per §11.4.102(A) — it MUST gather ADDITIONAL forensic data characterising the defect (triggers, boundaries, input/topology scope, adjacent failure modes) that feeds BOTH the fix design AND the STEP-3 extend scope; a RED test used only as a binary present/absent gate with no characterisation satisfies §11.4.115 but NOT §11.4.146 STEP 1. **(STEP 2 — SAME-TEST-CONFIRMS-FIX)** after the fix the SAME test source (the §11.4.115 polarity switch flipped `RED_MODE=1→0`) confirms the defect ABSENT — RED-on-broken then GREEN-on-fixed, both captured, on a clean target per §11.4.108/§11.4.139, validated-first-after-redeploy per §11.4.130, deterministic per §11.4.50; no separate happy-path test substitutes (the §11.4.43/§11.4.115 PASS-bluff). **(STEP 3 — EXTEND-TO-ALL-CASES, mandatory per-fix)** NEW EMPHASIS (D2) immediately after STEP 2 the test MUST be FANNED OUT across the full case-space of the SAME functionality — all flows, valid + invalid + boundary (§11.4.85 empty/max/off-by-one) + concurrent (§11.4.85 contention) + failure-injection (§11.4.85 chaos) + topology variants (§11.4.3) — confirming no issue of any kind, with PROVABLE enumerated coverage per §11.4.118 (a listed case-set with per-case outcome, never "no other issues found"); a REQUIRED step, NOT deferred to a release-cycle discovery sweep and NOT reduced to a single guard; each user-visible case carries rock-solid physical evidence per §11.4.123 + is registered into the §11.4.135 standing regression-guard suite; a newly-discovered fan-out defect triggers §11.4.4 test-interrupt + re-enters STEP 1. (ANTI-BLUFF, all steps) every PASS is rock-solid CAPTURED physical evidence per §11.4.123 (§11.4.5/§11.4.69/§11.4.107) — metadata-only / config-only / absence-of-error / grep-without-runtime PASS forbidden (§11.4/§11.4.1); unclear validation method ⇒ deep-research-before-declaring-untestable per §11.4.123/§11.4.8/§11.4.99; an operator-found defect the green suite missed triggers §11.4.138. Honest boundary (§11.4.6): STEP 3 reduces the unknown-unknown surface but does not prove zero remaining defects (§11.4.118) — un-exercised cases stated as honest gaps, never silently implied clean. Composes §11.4.43/.115/.102/.130/.108/.139/.50/.85/.118/.135/.3/.123/.5/.69/.107/.138/.4/§107/§1.1. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-146-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.146`) + recommended gate `CM-REPRODUCE-FIRST-THEN-EXTEND` (every closed defect's fix carries a §11.4.115 reproduce-first polarity test with captured defect-characterisation [STEP 1] + its `RED_MODE=0` GREEN confirmation [STEP 2] + an enumerated per-functionality extend case-set registered into the §11.4.135 suite [STEP 3]; a closure with the reproduce→confirm pair but NO enumerated extend case-set FAILs) + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (strip the literal → propagation gate FAILs; close a defect with only the reproduce→confirm pair and no extend-case-set → `CM-REPRODUCE-FIRST-THEN-EXTEND` FAILs; gate-code = separate work item). **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.146. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-reproduce-first`, `--fix-without-red`, `--skip-extend-to-all-cases`, `--reproduce-confirm-suffices`, `--defer-extend-to-release-sweep`, `--single-guard-suffices`, `--no-defect-characterisation` flag.


**§11.4.147 — Crashed-agent respawn-until-complete + no-work-loss registry mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-10).** Verbatim operator intent: "any agent that crashed because of something MUST BE respawned and finish its work at some point! We MUST NOT lose any work, forget about or have it corrupted!" Forensic case study (FACT): dispatched subagents died on TRANSIENT causes (`API Error: Server is temporarily limiting requests` rate-limit killed 5 at once, `API Error: socket connection closed unexpectedly` killed 2, one left PARTIAL edits — two source files written, the dependent SystemUI sliders + doc + test NOT done), each re-dispatched by pure conductor vigilance with NO mechanical guarantee — the moment conductor context is lost / compacted / the conductor itself crashes, an in-flight-but-dead work unit is silently dropped (lost / forgotten / corrupted). Every dispatched agent/subagent MUST be tracked through its full lifecycle so a crash NEVER loses, forgets, or corrupts its work; a crashed agent is NOT a completed agent (§11.4.6 — "it probably finished before dying" is a forbidden guess; abnormal termination is positive evidence the unit is OPEN). The mandate (ALL hold): **(a) durable agent REGISTRY** — every dispatched agent has an append-only machine-readable registry entry (stable id, task + §11.4.58 file-scope, declared output path(s) + §11.4.5/§11.4.69 evidence dir, dispatch timestamp, status from the CLOSED SET `{dispatched | in-flight | crashed | respawned | complete}`), reusing the §11.4.116 sync substrate (JSONL event stream + atomic status snapshot; "an entry with no dispatch-event cannot show `complete`"); the registry is the SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH for "is this work owed?" and an unregistered dispatch is itself a violation; **(b) mechanical CRASH-DETECTION + RESPAWN-until-complete** — any abnormal termination (transient rate-limit/socket-close, any non-completion exit, or a terminal error after the runtime's own retries are exhausted) flips the entry to `crashed` + keeps the unit OPEN, and the unit is respawned (fresh agent claims the same id + scope + preserved state) and re-respawned until an agent reaches `complete`; respawn is the safe/reversible/bounded decision taken autonomously per §11.4.101 (never blocks the loop for a human), transient causes use the project's ALREADY-DEFINED backoff budgets (never invented, §11.4.6), a deterministically-reproducible non-transient terminal error is investigated per §11.4.102 before further respawn (never a blind retry loop); **(c) PARTIAL-STATE preserve → §11.4.84-check → resume-or-clean-restart** — the crashed agent's uncommitted edits + output doc are PRESERVED (never silently discarded → lost, never blindly committed → corruption), the respawn runs the §11.4.84 quiescence check on the preserved tree (every modified file accounted-for vs scope, no mutation/`// always pass`/`_mutated_*` residue, no half-written/torn artifact), then EITHER RESUMES idempotently when it passes OR CLEAN-RESTARTS from a known-good base (§9.2 pre-op backup, reversible §11.4.101) when inconsistent — nothing lost, nothing corrupted; per-agent `git worktree` isolation (§11.4.58 L4 / §11.4.84) keeps the partial tree from contaminating other streams; **(d) "crash ≠ done" COMPLETION criterion** — a unit is DONE only when an agent reaches `complete` with its required captured evidence/output landed (§11.4.5/§11.4.69 + the §11.4.116 verdict-carries-evidence-path rule); the endless-loop done-condition (§11.4.87/§11.4.94/§11.4.97/§11.4.126) MUST NOT read satisfied while any entry is `dispatched`/`in-flight`/`crashed`/`respawned`-not-yet-`complete`, the zero-idle survey (§11.4.94) treats every non-`complete` entry as an OPEN item to reclaim, and a registry showing `complete` without landed evidence is a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the agent-lifecycle layer. Honest boundary (§11.4.6): the registry + respawn guarantee work is not lost/corrupted, NOT that it is correct — the respawned output still crosses §11.4.108 + §11.4.125/§11.4.142 review + §11.4.40 retest; §11.4.147 is the durability layer beneath those, the agent-side analogue of §11.4.144 (same detect→wait/backoff→re-attach/respawn→escalate shape). Composes §11.4.6/.58/.84/.87/.94/.97/.101/.116/.102/.108/.125/.142/.40/.128/.144/§9.2/§1.1. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-147-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.147`) + recommended gate `CM-CRASHED-AGENT-RESPAWN-TRACKED` + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (strip the literal → propagation gate FAILs; mark a `crashed` entry as the loop's done-condition `complete` without landed evidence, OR drop a dispatched agent without a registry entry → `CM-CRASHED-AGENT-RESPAWN-TRACKED` FAILs; gate-code = separate work item). **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.147. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-agent-registry`, `--crash-equals-done`, `--no-respawn`, `--discard-partial-state`, `--blind-commit-partial`, `--forget-dead-agent`, `--loop-done-with-crashed-entries` flag.


**§11.4.148 — Workable-item integrity (status+type+id) + comprehensive structured description + bidirectional external-tracker sync + BLOCKED unblock-choices mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-10).** BINDS + STRENGTHENS the workable-item discipline (§11.4.15 status / §11.4.16 type / §11.4.54 id / §11.4.21 Operator-blocked / §11.4.91 description-clarity / §11.4.93 + §11.4.95 SQLite SSoT / §11.4.106 docs_chain) into ONE integrity contract spanning DB ↔ docs ↔ external tracker, adding the operator's three emphases: **(D1) no item without a valid status + valid type + stable id — on ALL three surfaces** (an item missing any of the three in the DB, the rendered docs, OR the external tracker FAILs the validator — release-blocker; the id is the cross-surface binding key); **(D2) comprehensive structured description per item** — WHAT it is (§11.4.91 ≥6-word/≥40-char clear meaning) + HOW it manifests + HOW to reproduce (§11.4.115/.146) + ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA (§11.4.123/.69 captured-evidence verdict), in the §11.4.93 DB `description` column AND the docs AND the tracker, never a stub/§11.4.91-anti-pattern fragment; **(D3) BLOCKED items carry WHY + enumerated unblock CHOICES** — tightens §11.4.21: every `Operator-blocked` item (incl. `Blocked`/`BLOCKED` documented alias normalised to canonical `Operator-blocked`, never a silent fork §11.4.6) MUST enumerate the closed list of decisions/actions that would unblock it (`[A]…·[B]…·[C]…`, mirroring §11.4.66's 2–4-option shape); a BLOCKED item with no enumerated choices FAILs; **(D4) regular never-missed bidirectional DB↔docs↔tracker sync** — the §11.4.93/.95 git-tracked SQLite DB is the SSoT, docs + tracker DERIVED; full sync (`db-to-md` / `md-to-db` byte-identical round-trip §11.4.93 + tracker push) runs regularly + on every change, §11.4.86 drift-proof fingerprint (sha256 of the sorted item keyset, NOT mtime) gates freshness, §11.4.106 docs_chain-bound so drift is mechanically caught not vigilance-dependent; **(D5) generic external-tracker push** carries statuses (collapsed onto the tracker's native set per §11.4.33/.112 when fixed, precise value preserved in a header, never lost), types, assignee (§11.4.104 participant handle, UNSET defaults from a project env var, never hardcoded/logged §11.4.10), and sub-tasks, IDEMPOTENT (dry-run-then-real, match-by-stable-key `[<ID>]` prefix / id custom-field, present⇒UPDATE/absent⇒CREATE, rate-limited, credential-redacted, sink-side `created=N updated=M failed=0` proof §11.4.69), the MACHINERY project-agnostic §11.4.28 (consumer registers its tracker/list/field-map at runtime). Anti-bluff §11.4: every sync + validator pass carries captured evidence §11.4.5/.69; honest boundary §11.4.6 — guarantees well-formed items + agreeing surfaces, NOT that the underlying work is correct (still crosses §11.4.108/.40/.123). Composes §11.4.15/.16/.21/.33/.34/.54/.66/.86/.91/.93/.95/.104/.106/.112/.123/.10/.28/.69/.6/§1.1. Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — consumer supplies its DB path, id prefix, tracker service + list/board id + field map + default-assignee env var, docs_chain context per §11.4.35. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-148-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.148`) + recommended gates `CM-ITEM-INTEGRITY-STATUS-TYPE-ID` / `CM-ITEM-COMPREHENSIVE-DESCRIPTION` / `CM-BLOCKED-UNBLOCK-CHOICES` / `CM-TRACKER-SYNC-IDEMPOTENT` + paired §1.1 mutation (gate-code = separate work item). **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.148. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--item-without-status`, `--item-without-type`, `--item-without-id`, `--stub-description-OK`, `--blocked-without-choices`, `--skip-tracker-sync`, `--one-way-sync-OK`, `--non-idempotent-tracker-push`, `--hardcode-assignee` flag.


**§11.4.149 — Per-workable-item testing-diary mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-10).** Every workable item MUST carry an append-only TESTING DIARY — a chronological record of every test run against it — distinct from §11.4.93 `item_history` (lifecycle STATE transitions) + §11.4.55 Reopens (reopen cycles): the diary records TEST EXECUTIONS (which may or may not change status). The mandate (ALL hold): **(a)** a `test_diary` table additive to the §11.4.93/.95 SQLite SSoT, one row per run soft-keyed to the item id, capturing ISO-8601-UTC `date_time` + `tested_by` (closed set `User|Operator|AI-agent|HelixQA`) + `result` (§11.4.45 `PASS|FAIL|SKIP` + detail) + in-depth `observations` (long markdown, facts or explicit `UNCONFIRMED:`/`PENDING_FORENSICS:` §11.4.6, the background a future fix needs) + `action_taken`+`status_changed`+from/to (did this run change status + WHY) + §11.4.69 `evidence_path`+`feature_class`, with a SCHEMA CONSTRAINT making a `PASS` row WITHOUT a non-empty evidence path impossible (a PASS-bluff rejected by the schema itself); **(b)** BOTH an in-depth diary doc + a derived at-a-glance summary VIEW (total/pass/fail/skip + last-verdict + last-run + status-changes + distinct testers/feature-classes, DERIVED never duplicated §11.4.93) feeding §11.4.132 risk-ordering; **(c)** four-format per-item `Diary`/`Diary_Summary` exports §11.4.65 + §11.4.86-drift-proof-fingerprinted (sha256 of the sorted diary keyset) + §11.4.106 docs_chain-bound so a diary row not exported/pushed FAILs a gate (never-missed); **(d)** external-tracker SUB-TASK model — the item task's description stays the item (§11.4.148 D2, NOT polluted with diary text), each run a CHILD sub-task (type `task`) with a `{TODO|In-progress|Completed}` lifecycle (collapsed per §11.4.33/.112), observations + action + an Evidence: line (path not raw artefact §11.4.10/.13) + a diary-entry idempotency key, reusing the §11.4.148 D5 idempotent rate-limited credential-redacted sink-side-proven push, mapper project-agnostic §11.4.28; **(e)** MINIMAL-LLM deterministic bash/Go tooling (zero LLM in the data path — the `observations` prose is authored by whoever ran the test; tooling only stores/renders/pushes/validates), 100% test-covered §11.4.27 (unit + integration-against-the-real-tracker with an honest §11.4.3 SKIP-when-token-absent never a faked PASS + export + HelixQA Challenge + paired §1.1 mutation) so a diary PASS-bluff is mechanically impossible. Honest boundary §11.4.6 — the diary guarantees a complete auditable per-item test-history, NOT that any single run's verdict is correct (rests on its own §11.4.69/.107/.123 evidence). Composes §11.4.6/.27/.45/.50/.55/.65/.69/.86/.93/.95/.106/.107/.123/.132/.148/.10/.13/.28/.33/.112/§1.1. Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — consumer supplies its DB path, diary doc layout, export formats, tracker sub-task field map, docs_chain context per §11.4.35. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-149-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.149`) + recommended gates `CM-TEST-DIARY-SYNC` / `CM-DIARY-PASS-REQUIRES-EVIDENCE` + paired §1.1 mutation (gate-code = separate work item). **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.149. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-testing-diary`, `--diary-without-evidence`, `--no-diary-summary`, `--diary-without-tracker-subtask`, `--llm-in-diary-data-path`, `--diary-export-optional` flag.


**§11.4.150 — Mandatory deep multi-angle web research per change/issue, before declaring fixed or structural (User mandate, 2026-06-11).** Verbatim operator mandate: "For every single issue we fix or improvement we make — besides tight systematic-debugging, fixing, code review by independent agents, comprehensive tests — we MUST ALWAYS do deep web research from various angles! No matter how big/small/simple/complex, dig deep the internet for articles, technical documentation, APIs, open-source code — EVERYTHING that can help make the best possible solution OR confirm we don't have a more serious problem we're unaware of! We MUST do everything possible to STOP the constant issue-reopening and finally start closing items as fixed+working! Do this ALWAYS in parallel with the main work stream!" For EVERY fix / improvement / change / closure — no matter how big, small, simple, or complex — the agent MUST, IN ADDITION to tight systematic-debugging (§11.4.102), the fix, independent-agent code review (§11.4.125 / §11.4.142), and comprehensive multi-layer tests (§11.4.4(b) / §11.4.40), perform a DOCUMENTED **deep multi-angle web research pass** digging the internet from VARIOUS angles — articles, official + vendor technical documentation, API references, standards, issue trackers, maintainer guidance, reusable open-source code — to BOTH (i) discover the best possible solution AND (ii) confirm there is NOT a more serious underlying problem the team is unaware of. Forensic case study (FACT, 2026-06-11): a subtitle-on-secondary-display goal verdicted `Won't-fix: structurally-impossible` (§11.4.112 secure-surface pixel-blanking) was OVERTURNED by a deep multi-angle research pass that surfaced the real OCR-of-the-PRIMARY-display path — a "we can't" became a shipped capability; the canonical anti-pattern of a structural verdict reached for want of research. The mandate (ALL hold): **(A) No closure-as-fixed/structural WITHOUT a documented deep-research pass** — no item may be marked `Fixed`/`Implemented`/`Completed` (§11.4.33) OR classified `structurally-impossible` won't-fix (§11.4.112) until a deep multi-angle pass is documented; §11.4.150 makes §11.4.8's pass UNCONDITIONAL (every item, however trivial, at the closure AND structural-verdict gates). **(B) Multiple angles, not a single lookup** — ≥ 2 genuinely-distinct angles (official-docs / standards / known-bug-trackers / alternative-approach / failure-mode / security / performance / platform-constraint / open-source-precedent) so a single-source confirmation-bias miss (§11.4.145) cannot pass; a one-link drive-by is NOT deep multi-angle. **(C) Confirm-no-bigger-problem, not just find-a-fix** — explicitly seek evidence the fix does not mask a deeper defect AND the closure/verdict is genuinely safe; "we found nothing worse" requires the enumerated search (§11.4.118). **(D) Latest-source + cited** — LATEST authoritative versions per §11.4.99 (never training-data/memory), each cited by URL + access date in the research artefact AND the closure commit footer (`Deep-research <date>: <urls>` OR the literal `NO external solution found — original work` per §11.4.8). **(E) Reopen-breaking is the PURPOSE** — STOP the constant Fixed↔Reopened churn (§11.4.34 / §11.4.55); a reopen whose root cause a deep pass would have surfaced is a §11.4.150 miss; composes §11.4.7 (demotion-evidence) + §11.4.112 (structural verdict now REQUIRES the cited-authorities pass). **(F) ALWAYS in parallel with the main stream** — background subagent-driven (§11.4.70 / §11.4.20 / §11.4.103 / §11.4.89) concurrent with main fix/build/test work, NEVER serialising it or stalling the loop (§11.4.94 / §11.4.97 / §11.4.101 / §11.4.126). **(G) Apply ASAP to every workable item** — retroactively + going forward across the §11.4.93 / §11.4.95 SSoT; items closed without a documented pass are re-audited in the §11.4.40 / §11.4.42 release-gate sweep. Honest boundary (§11.4.6): the pass reduces the unknown-unknown surface + breaks the most common reopen causes — it does NOT prove zero remaining defects (§11.4.118) and does NOT replace §11.4.108 runtime-signature verification, §11.4.125 / §11.4.142 review, or §11.4.40 retest; it is the research layer every fix/closure/structural-verdict additionally crosses, and "we probably don't have a bigger problem" without the enumerated multi-angle search is a guess (§11.4.6), never a finding. Composes §11.4.8 / §11.4.99 / §11.4.123 / §11.4.118 / §11.4.145 / §11.4.125 / §11.4.142 / §11.4.7 / §11.4.112 / §11.4.34 / §11.4.55 / §11.4.70 / §11.4.20 / §11.4.89 / §11.4.103 / §11.4.40 / §11.4.42 / §11.4.93 / §11.4.95 / §11.4.6 / §1.1. Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — the consuming project supplies its concrete research corpora, angle set, item tracker, and closure-commit-footer convention per §11.4.35. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-150-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.150`) + recommended gate `CM-DEEP-RESEARCH-PER-ISSUE` (every closed/structural-verdicted item carries a documented multi-angle deep-research artefact + cited-source closure footer, run in parallel, before the closure/structural verdict is accepted) + paired §1.1 mutation (strip the literal → propagation gate FAILs; close an item or reach a `structural` verdict with no documented multi-angle research artefact / cited footer → `CM-DEEP-RESEARCH-PER-ISSUE` FAILs; gate-code = separate work item). **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.150. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-deep-research`, `--single-source-suffices`, `--trivial-change-no-research`, `--close-without-research`, `--structural-without-research`, `--serialise-research`, `--research-from-memory-OK` flag.


**§11.4.151 — Project-prefixed release-tag/version-naming mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-12).** Verbatim operator mandate: "Every release tag and version name we create — on the main repository and on every Submodule we own — MUST be prefixed with the project's release prefix, e.g. `helix_translate-1.0.0-dev-0.0.1`. The prefix MUST come from `HELIX_RELEASE_PREFIX` in our `.env` if it is set, otherwise from the lowercased project root directory name. The SAME prefix MUST be used across the main repo and all owned Submodules in one release so a release is greppable across every repository." Every release tag AND every version name created on the main repository AND on every owned-by-us submodule (§11.4.28) MUST be prefixed with the project's release prefix, form `<PREFIX>-<version>` (canonical example: `helix_translate-1.0.0-dev-0.0.1`), so a release is identifiable + greppable across every repository it spans (one `git tag -l '<PREFIX>-*'` enumerates the whole release surface). **Prefix resolution order (closed-set, deterministic — §11.4.6 no-guessing):** (1) `HELIX_RELEASE_PREFIX` from the project's `.env` — authoritative when set; `.env` is git-ignored per §11.4.30 and the variable is documented in the tracked `.env.example` (a §11.4.77 re-obtain mechanism, never committed); (2) fallback = the lowercased snake_case form of the project root directory name (no spaces) per §11.4.29 — used whenever the env var is unset/empty, so a prefix is ALWAYS resolvable from the checkout with zero operator input. **The prefix MUST be IDENTICAL across the main repo and all owned submodules within a single release** — a release that tags the main repo `<PREFIX>-1.2.0` while tagging an owned submodule with a different/unprefixed value is a §11.4.151 violation (the cross-repo grep no longer enumerates the release). Version codes increment monotonically within the prefix (`<PREFIX>-…-0.0.1` → `<PREFIX>-…-0.0.2` → …), never reset, never skipped. Honest boundary (§11.4.6): the prefix guarantees a release is identifiable + uniform across every repository, NOT that its contents are correct — the tag is still created only after the §11.4.40 full-suite retest GREEN and reaches every upstream via the §11.4.113 merge-onto-latest-main path (NEVER a force-push), fanned out per §2.1. Composes §2.1 / §11.4.29 / §11.4.30 / §11.4.40 / §11.4.113 / §11.4.126 (the release-scope terminal condition is a published, prefixed tag). Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — the consuming project supplies its concrete prefix value + the `HELIX_RELEASE_PREFIX` env var per §11.4.35. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-151-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.151`) + recommended gate `CM-RELEASE-PREFIX-NAMING` (every release tag/version on the main repo + every owned submodule carries the resolved `<PREFIX>-` prefix, identical across the release) + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (strip the literal → propagation gate FAILs; create an unprefixed or differing-prefix release tag → `CM-RELEASE-PREFIX-NAMING` FAILs; gate-code = separate work item). **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.151. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--no-release-prefix`, `--unprefixed-tag`, `--prefix-optional`, `--differing-submodule-prefix` flag.


**§11.4.152 — Crashlytics-recorded-data continuous monitoring + systematic-debug + regression-test-coverage mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-13).** Verbatim operator intent: "For every project that has Firebase Crashlytics enabled / wired, we MUST continuously monitor ALL of the Crashlytics-recorded data — crashes, ANRs, performance traces, and non-fatals — systematically debug each, fix and improve, and cover everything with validation and verification tests. This MUST be checked regularly, with no false results and no bluff of any kind!" Every project that has Firebase Crashlytics enabled/wired (SDK linked into a shipping artifact, crash+non-fatal+ANR reporting active) MUST treat the Crashlytics console as a first-class captured-evidence channel from real end-user devices and continuously process every datum it records — an open Crashlytics issue with a green test suite is a §11.4 PASS-bluff at the field-telemetry layer (a real user hitting a broken feature while the suite reports green). STRENGTHENS+COMPLETES §11.4.47: §11.4.47 owns the periodic REVIEW + dedup + Issue-creation pass that SURFACES Crashlytics/Analytics/Performance findings; §11.4.152 owns what happens to each surfaced item AFTER — the systematic-debug → fix/improve → regression-test-coverage lifecycle that drives it to a proven regression-immune closure (§11.4.47 finds it; §11.4.152 fixes it + proves it stays fixed; both mandatory, neither substitutes). The mandate (ALL hold): (1) **continuous monitoring of ALL four surfaces** — fatal crashes, ANRs, performance traces/regressions, AND non-fatals (skipping any one is a PASS-bluff; non-fatals are the silent class — every catch/fallback/recovered-error path is a real degraded UX and MUST be triaged, not ignored because the app did not crash); (2) **systematic-debugging of each (reproduce-before-fix)** per §11.4.102 Iron Law + §11.4.115 RED-baseline-on-the-broken-artifact (the recorded stacktrace/ANR-trace/non-fatal-context IS the §11.4.5/.69 captured defect-present evidence) BEFORE the fix — a fix without a prior reproducing test is a §11.4.43/.123 violation; unreproducible ⇒ deep-research-before-declaring-untestable §11.4.123/.150; (3) **a fix/improvement for every confirmed issue** against its proven root cause (§11.4.9/.43/.108), "acknowledged in console" is not a fix, muting a recurring issue without a tracked rationale is a §11.4.6/.90 violation; (4) **validation+verification regression-test coverage per closed issue** — in the SAME commit as the fix register a permanent §11.4.135 regression guard (§11.4.115 polarity test: `RED_MODE=1` captures the recorded defect on the pre-fix artifact, `RED_MODE=0` standing GREEN guard asserting ABSENT) exercising the same user-reachable path the stacktrace identifies, with rock-solid captured evidence §11.4.5/.69/.107/.123 + a closure log citing the console issue id/URL + root-cause + fix commit + the validation/verification test paths; a Crashlytics issue marked resolved WITHOUT a falsifiable regression test is FORBIDDEN (the silent-recurrence vector, §11.4.138 operator-escape class applied to field telemetry); (5) **regular cadence** reusing the §11.4.47 five-trigger set (pre-build/pre-flash/pre-distribute/pre-tag blocking; daily + post-deployment-burn-in non-blocking) — a one-time sweep never repeated is a violation; (6) **no false results, no bluff** (§11.4/.1/.6 — "no new issues" requires the enumerated monitored-surfaces+window §11.4.118; "fixed" requires the RED→GREEN flip §11.4.115/.130; a guard whose §1.1 mutation does not FAIL it is a bluff gate). Honest boundary §11.4.6: processing every recorded issue breaks the silent-recurrence vector — it does NOT prove zero remaining field defects nor replace §11.4.108/.40; an issue is "closed" only when its guard is GREEN on a clean artifact, never when the console mark is flipped. Classification: universal (§11.4.17) — the consuming project supplies its Crashlytics handle, console-access credential (§11.4.10, never logged), severity table, and per-issue closure-log path per §11.4.35; the reference project-level instantiation is the Lava client's §6.O (Crashlytics-Resolved Issue Coverage — per-issue validation test + Challenge test + `.lava-ci-evidence/crashlytics-resolved/<date>-<slug>.md` closure log) + §6.AC (Comprehensive Non-Fatal Telemetry — every catch/fallback records a non-fatal with triage context). Composes §11.4/.1/.5/.6/.9/.34/.40/.43/.47/.69/.90/.102/.107/.108/.115/.118/.123/.130/.135/.138/.150/§1.1. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-152-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.152`) + recommended gate `CM-CRASHLYTICS-ISSUE-FULLY-COVERED` (every closed Crashlytics issue carries a systematic-debug root-cause record + a registered §11.4.135 regression guard + a closure-log entry citing the console issue id/URL + the validation/verification test paths; a console-resolved issue with no falsifiable regression guard FAILs) + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (gate-code = separate work item). **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.152. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-crashlytics-monitoring`, `--monitor-crashes-only`, `--skip-non-fatals`, `--resolve-without-regression-test`, `--console-mark-is-fixed`, `--monitor-once`, `--mute-without-rationale` flag.

**§11.4.153 — Comprehensive per-feature Status + Status_Summary document set with mandatory video-recording confirmation (User mandate, 2026-06-15).** Every project MUST maintain, under `docs/features/`, a comprehensive feature Status document set (`Status.md` + its §11.4.56 `Status_Summary.md` companion) enumerating EVERY system component, EVERY client app/binary/surface (TUI / CLI / Web / desktop / mobile / API / gRPC / library / submodule / infrastructure), and EVERY feature — including features ported from any incorporated CLI-agent / submodule catalogue (§11.4.74) — with NO single feature left out. (1) **Total categorized coverage** — per-feature table organized Component→Category, reconciled against the actual codebase (a code-present feature missing from the table, or a row with no code, is a §11.4.6/§11.4.118 bluff). (2) **Per-feature fields** — Component / Feature / Category / Implementation / Wiring (genuinely end-user-reachable, not merely compiled, §11.4.108) / Real-use / Tests-coverage (four-layer §11.4.4(b)) / Validation (PASS / FAIL / SKIP / PENDING_FORENSICS / OPERATOR-BLOCKED per §11.4.45) / **Video-recording confirmation** (path to the real-use video or honest gap marker). (3) **Mandatory per-feature real-use video** — every user-visible "confirmed" claim backed by a recorded real-use video of a genuine end-user scenario (real prompts → real LLM/service responses → real results), NEVER a frozen/stale frame (§11.4.107), NEVER faked/mocked/demo-loop/bluff response or LLM error passed off as success (§11.4.2/§11.4.5), stored at the project-declared recording path (§11.4.35); a confirmed row with no real video or a bluff video = §11.4 PASS-bluff; autonomous-infeasible ⇒ honest §11.4.3/§11.4.52 SKIP + tracked migration item, NEVER a faked confirmation. (4) **Video-analysis remediation loop** — every video analysed; any defect it surfaces triggers §11.4.102 systematic-debug → fix → §11.4.146 retest → re-record → clean GO per §11.4.134 before "confirmed" (a video exposing a broken feature is a §11.4.4 test-interrupt). (5) **Always-in-sync** — §11.4.45-class roster/corpus-backed, §11.4.106 docs_chain-bound + §11.4.86 drift-proof fingerprint (sha256 of sorted feature-key roster AND sorted video-artefact roster, NOT mtime), re-syncs out-of-the-box; stale = violation. (6) **Four-format export** — HTML + PDF + **DOCX** (this doc class ADDS DOCX to the §11.4.65 HTML+PDF set; other classes unchanged), in sync per §11.4.60. (7) Follows §11.4.44/.45/.56/.57/.59/.60. Honest boundary §11.4.6 — guarantees a complete video-confirmed always-synced ledger, NOT per-feature correctness (rests on each row's §11.4.69/.107/.123 evidence) and NOT a §11.4.40 retest substitute. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Composes §11.4.2/.5/.44/.45/.52/.56/.57/.59/.60/.65/.86/.102/.106/.107/.108/.118/.123/.134/.146/§1.1. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-153-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.153`) + recommended gates `CM-FEATURE-STATUS-COMPLETE` + `CM-FEATURE-STATUS-VIDEO-CONFIRMED` + paired §1.1 mutation.

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.153. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-feature-status`, `--feature-without-video`, `--frozen-video-OK`, `--bluff-response-video-OK`, `--skip-video-analysis`, `--feature-ledger-incomplete-OK`, `--no-docx-export`, `--allow-feature-ledger-drift` flag.

**§11.4.154 — Window-scoped capture + fresh-corpus rotation for feature/QA recordings (User mandate, 2026-06-15).** Verbatim: "recording you perform does record the window containing apps and services, not the whole desktop or monitor screen!" + "All old recording files MUST BE removed when new one starts!" Refines §11.4.2/.5/.107/.153 recording discipline with two capture-hygiene invariants. **(A) Window-scoped, NOT whole-screen** — every feature/QA video MUST capture ONLY the window/surface of the app/service under test (GUI window / CLI-TUI terminal pane / web tab-viewport / device-emulator-simulator frame), NEVER the whole desktop/monitor or unrelated windows; whole-desktop capture leaks operator-private content (§11.4.10/.83), dilutes the §11.4.107 liveness/freeze oracle, and breaks the §11.4.137 OCR/ROI content oracle. Target the window/region by stable identity (window id/title, device serial, browser context, tmux target) per §11.4.111 — never a fixed full-screen device index. Platform genuinely cannot capture below whole-screen ⇒ honest §11.4.3 SKIP + tracked migration item, never a whole-screen pass-off. **(B) Fresh-corpus rotation** — when a new recording run for a scope begins, the agent's OWN prior in-scope stale recordings at the raw recording path MUST be removed FIRST so the live corpus reflects the current run (§11.4.107 not-stale + §11.4.86 roster-freshness). Honest boundary (§11.4.6 + §9.2): "remove old" = the agent's own prior recordings for the SAME scope/project ONLY — NEVER another project's/scope's/operator-authored files; uncertain ⇒ surface, don't delete (§11.4.122); committed `docs/qa/<run-id>/` evidence (§11.4.83) is the durable record, NOT rotated. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Composes §11.4.2/.5/.10/.83/.86/.107/.111/.122/.128/.137/.153/§9.2/.6. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-154-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.154`) + recommended gate `CM-WINDOW-SCOPED-FRESH-CORPUS-RECORDING` + paired §1.1 mutation.

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.154. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--whole-screen-capture-OK`, `--skip-window-scope`, `--keep-stale-recordings`, `--no-corpus-rotation`, `--full-desktop-recording` flag.

**§11.4.155 — Project-name-prefixed feature/QA recording filenames (User mandate, 2026-06-15).** Verbatim: "All recorded videos MUST START with prefix: the PROJECT NAME (ALWAYS USE THE PROJECT NAME). Project name MUST be obtained according to the constitution's own project-name resolution." Every recorded video the project produces — every feature/QA real-use recording (§11.4.153), every window-scoped capture (§11.4.154), every always-on device recording (§11.4.128), every raw or curated artefact at the project-declared recording path (§11.4.35) + the committed `docs/qa/<run-id>/` trail (§11.4.83) — MUST have a filename that STARTS WITH the PROJECT-NAME prefix, ALWAYS; an unprefixed recording is a §11.4.155 violation (a multi-project/scope corpus on one host per §11.4.128/.103 becomes un-greppable + un-attributable — the §11.4.151 identify-and-grep failure on the recording-corpus axis). **Prefix resolution (closed-set, deterministic — §11.4.6, IDENTICAL to §11.4.151):** (1) `HELIX_RELEASE_PREFIX` from `.env` (authoritative, git-ignored §11.4.30, documented in tracked `.env.example` §11.4.77) else (2) lowercased snake_case project-root dir name §11.4.29 — ALWAYS resolvable, zero operator input. SAME prefix for EVERY recording in a checkout so `ls '<PREFIX>---'*` enumerates the corpus; canonical form `<PREFIX>---<feature-or-scope>---<run-id>.<ext>` (`---` delimits the prefix unambiguously); MUST equal the §11.4.151-resolved release-tag prefix (divergence is itself a §11.4.155 violation — one project, one name). Honest boundary (§11.4.6): the prefix guarantees attribution + greppability, NOT content validity (still §11.4.107/.137/.153) and does NOT relax §11.4.154's window-scope/rotation (rotation removes the agent's OWN `<PREFIX>---*` only; foreign/operator files surfaced not deleted §11.4.122/§9.2). Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Composes §11.4.151/.128/.153/.154/.111/.83/.6/.29/.30/.35/.77/.86/§1.1. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-155-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.155`) + recommended gate `CM-RECORDING-PROJECT-NAME-PREFIX` + paired §1.1 mutation.

**Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.155. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--no-recording-prefix`, `--recording-without-project-name`, `--unprefixed-recording`, `--prefix-optional-for-recording`, `--differing-recording-prefix` flag.

**§11.4.156 — All CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions / GitLab pipelines / equivalents) MUST be disabled (User mandate, 2026-06-15).** Verbatim operator mandate: "Any GitHub actions or GitLab pipelines MUST BE disabled! Add this critical mandatory rule / mandatory constraint into the root constitution Submodule, commit and fetch all its changes to all upstreams and make sure we respect and follow this rule (we do apply it) ASAP!!!" Every repository this Constitution governs — main repo, this constitution submodule, every owned + nested submodule we author and push — MUST ship with ALL server-side CI/CD automation DISABLED: no push to any owned upstream may trigger a GitHub Actions run, GitLab pipeline, or equivalent (Jenkins/CircleCI/Travis/Drone/Woodpecker/Bitbucket/Azure, any `on: push`/`schedule`/`workflow_dispatch`). GENERALISES + makes ABSOLUTE the §11.4.75 Layer-5 posture (remote CI DISABLED, workflow preserved at a `…disabled-local-only` non-`.yml` name a provider ignores) across ALL governed repos; enforcement migrates to the LOCAL §11.4.75 git-hook ritual + §11.4.40 pre-tag sweep, never a remote runner. ALL hold: **(A)** zero active `.github/workflows/*.yml|yaml` / `.gitlab-ci.yml` / `.gitlab/**` / equivalent at the ROOT of any governed repo/submodule (the only place a provider executes); **(B)** "disabled" = a push triggers ZERO runs — delete OR rename to a non-trigger name (§11.4.75 `.disabled`/`.disabled-local-only`); a live-`on:`+`if:false` workflow still queues runs, NOT compliant; **(C)** scope = repos we author+push — vendored/third-party nested configs below the root (AOSP `external/**`, `prebuilts/**`, vendored submodules) are INERT (a provider never runs a non-root config), OUT of scope, MUST NOT be mass-edited (§11.4.29 vendor-exempt); test = "does a push to OUR upstream trigger a run?" yes⇒disable, inert⇒document+leave (§11.4.6 verify-not-assume); **(D)** no new CI may be added (release blocker); **(E)** pre-push verify `git ls-files | grep -E '^\.github/workflows/.*\.ya?ml$|^\.gitlab-ci\.yml$'` empty for authored repos, §11.4.109-class PreToolUse guard + gate enforce mechanically. Honest boundary (§11.4.6): file-level disabling stops FILE-triggered runs, NOT provider-side server settings (org-default required workflows, branch-protection required checks, provider scheduled exports) — the operator turns those off; the agent documents what it cannot reach, never claims unachieved completeness. Composes §11.4.75/.29/.6/.40/.42/.109/.113/§2.1. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-156-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.156`) + recommended gate `CM-NO-ACTIVE-CI` + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation (strip the literal → propagation gate FAILs; add a root `.github/workflows/x.yml` to an authored repo → `CM-NO-ACTIVE-CI` FAILs). **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.156. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--allow-ci`, `--enable-workflow`, `--keep-pipeline`, `--remote-ci-OK`, `--ci-exempt` flag.

**§11.4.157 — GEMINI.md maintained in lockstep with CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / QWEN.md (User mandate, 2026-06-15).** Verbatim operator mandate: "Make sure with CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, QWEN.md we maintain GEMINI.md too! Add this mandatory fact / rule to root constitution Submodule we are inheriting / extending - CONSITUTION.md, CLAUDE.md, QWEN.md, AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md and other related relevant files!" Forensic FACT (2026-06-15): when §11.4.156/§11.4.157 were authored, Constitution/CLAUDE/AGENTS/QWEN carried the family through §11.4.155 but GEMINI.md had silently drifted to §11.4.141 — 14 mandates (§11.4.142–155) never propagated — a §11.4 propagation-bluff (a Gemini-CLI agent reads a stale Constitution). GEMINI.md is a FIRST-CLASS governance context carrier EQUAL to CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md/QWEN.md, never optional/best-effort. ALL hold: **(A)** five-carrier lockstep — no governance change is complete until GEMINI.md carries it alongside the other three mirrors; GEMINI.md is added to the §11.4.26 propagation + cross-reference set explicitly; **(B)** no silent drift — GEMINI.md lagging the other mirrors' highest rule is a §11.4.157 violation (§11.4.65-class), back-fill required; **(C)** equal status — GEMINI.md restates the SAME literal `11.4.N` anchors the propagation gates require (§11.4.35), fleet count INCLUDES GEMINI.md; **(D)** consumer projects' own CLAUDE/AGENTS/QWEN/GEMINI bind too (§11.4.35). Honest boundary (§11.4.6): the §11.4.142–155 GEMINI.md back-fill is a tracked release-blocking remediation; claiming GEMINI.md "in sync" while the back-fill is incomplete is itself a §11.4.157 violation. Composes §11.4.26/.35/.17/.44/.65/.140/.156/§1.1. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-157-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.157`, GEMINI.md INCLUDED) + recommended gate `CM-GEMINI-MD-LOCKSTEP` + paired §1.1 meta-test mutation. **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.157. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-gemini-md`, `--gemini-optional`, `--gemini-lag-OK`, `--four-carrier-suffices` flag.


**§11.4.158 — Intensive all-feature/flow/edge-case video-recording + read-the-screen content-verification mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-16).** Every project MUST be covered by intensive automated testing that exercises + RECORDS every feature/flow/use-case/edge-case (valid/invalid/boundary/concurrent/failure-injection §11.4.85), each recording showing the feature GENUINELY WORKING with REAL results (real prompts→real responses→real outputs §11.4.153) and NO false/simulated/stale/frozen result (§11.4.2/.5/.107) — a recording showing an error/bluff/non-working feature is a FINDING (→§11.4.153(4)/§11.4.4 fix→retest→re-record), never a confirmation. The testing System MUST ACTUALLY READ every shown log line / message / UI label / dialog / toast / status text and VERIFY it is a genuine working result (OCR/ROI §11.4.117/.137 + confidence floor for pixel surfaces; direct capture for terminal/log; §11.4.107(10) self-validated golden-good/golden-bad analyzer) — "a video was produced" is NOT evidence, "the System read the screen + confirmed a genuine result" is. HelixQA (§11.4.27) MUST drive this exercise→record→read→score pass, PASS only on a read-confirmed genuine result + captured artefact path (§11.4.69). Default recording save path = `$HOME/Downloads` (host user's home Downloads, resolved at runtime never hardcoded) unless a project declares an override per §11.4.35; §11.4.155 project-prefix + §11.4.154 window-scope/rotation + §11.4.128 git-ignored raw corpus + §11.4.83 curated docs/qa evidence apply. Composes §11.4.2/.5/.25/.27/.52/.69/.83/.85/.107/.108/.117/.118/.128/.137/.138/.153/.154/.155/§1.1. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-158-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.158`) + recommended gates `CM-INTENSIVE-RECORDING-COVERAGE` + `CM-RECORDING-CONTENT-READ-VERIFIED` + paired §1.1 mutation. **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.158. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--skip-recording-coverage`, `--video-without-content-read`, `--happy-path-recording-suffices`, `--recording-path-anywhere`, `--unread-recording-OK`, `--skip-helixqa-read` flag. **Project instantiation (§11.4.35):** helix_code overrides the default save path to `/Volumes/T7/Downloads/Recordings` (recordings are NOT moved to `$HOME/Downloads`).


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**§11.4.159 — Mandatory window-specific video recording + vision validation mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-20).** Every feature test, validation, verification, challenge, and QA session that produces video evidence MUST comply with ALL of the following: **(A) Window-specific recording ONLY** — every video MUST record ONLY the target application window (Terminal pane, TUI app, browser tab, emulator frame), NEVER the whole desktop/monitor screen; use macOS `screencapture -l<window_id>`, Linux `xdotool`+`ffmpeg`, or equivalent; whole-desktop capture leaks operator-private content (§11.4.10), dilutes the §11.4.107 liveness oracle, and breaks §11.4.137 OCR/ROI; platform genuinely cannot capture below whole-screen => honest §11.4.3 SKIP + tracked migration item. **(B) MP4 format REQUIRED** — `.mp4` (H.264, `movflags +faststart`, `pix_fmt yuv420p`); `.cast` files are supplementary only; auto-convert via `agg`+`ffmpeg` per §11.4.154(C). **(C) Project-name prefix REQUIRED** — filename MUST start with project name in snake_case from `HELIX_RELEASE_PREFIX` in `.env` (§11.4.151) or lowercased project root dir name (§11.4.29); format `<project_name>-<feature>-<timestamp>.mp4`; unprefixed = violation. **(D) Mandatory vision validation** — after EVERY recording, the agent MUST read the terminal output / video content and verify: (i) feature ACTUALLY WORKS, (ii) LLM responses are REAL, (iii) all tests show PASS, (iv) no "TODO implement" / "simulate" / "for now" patterns, (v) output demonstrates end-user working feature; MUST produce a verdict (PASS/FAIL) with evidence path (§11.4.69). **(E) Terminal window cleanup** — after each recording, dismiss/close ONLY the Terminal window used for that recording (window-specific close via `osascript`/`xdotool`); MUST NOT close windows belonging to other processes. **(F) Real results ONLY** — every recording MUST show REAL working features; errors/empty output/simulated responses trigger fix→retest→re-record. **(G) Re-runnable evidence** — the command shown MUST be re-runnable to produce the same results. **(H) Fresh-corpus rotation** — remove agent's own prior in-scope stale recordings FIRST (§11.4.154). **(I) Content verification MANDATORY — not duration-based** — the value of a recording is NOT its duration but its CONTENT; a recording MUST demonstrate the ACTUAL feature being used with REAL results; before accepting ANY recording, the agent MUST verify: expected output patterns ARE present (e.g., test PASS lines, API response data, feature-specific output), the feature ACTUALLY WORKS as demonstrated (not just "something ran"), LLM responses are REAL content (not simulated, not placeholder, not empty), every claim of "working" is backed by visible evidence; a 5-second recording showing a feature working correctly is MORE valuable than a 60-second recording of empty terminal; duration is NOT a proxy for quality. **(J) Expected-content specification REQUIRED** — before recording, the agent MUST specify what content SHOULD appear (expected patterns, expected test results, expected API responses); after recording, the agent MUST verify these patterns ARE present; if expected content is MISSING, the recording is REJECTED regardless of duration. **(K) Content-verification recording workflow** — mandated workflow: (1) SPECIFY expected content patterns, (2) RECORD the feature execution, (3) EXTRACT all text from the recording, (4) VERIFY expected patterns are present, (5) CHECK for simulated/placeholder content, (6) ACCEPT only if ALL patterns found AND zero bluffs detected, (7) REJECT and re-record if ANY pattern missing or bluff detected. **(L) Root cause analysis REQUIRED for rejected recordings** — when a recording is rejected (missing expected content, bluff detected, or empty capture), the agent MUST investigate WHY before re-recording per §11.4.102; determine the root cause (timing issue, wrong command, tool failure, etc.) and fix it; simply re-recording without understanding WHY the first attempt failed is a §11.4.159 violation. **(M) Real-time monitoring RECOMMENDED** — for complex features, use real-time monitoring that analyzes output DURING recording (not after); this catches issues immediately and allows corrective action before the recording completes. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Composes §11.4.2/.3/.5/.10/.29/.69/.83/.107/.111/.128/.137/.151/.153/.154/.155/.158/§1.1. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-159-PROPAGATION` (literal `11.4.159`) + recommended gate `CM-WINDOW-VIDEO-VALIDATED` + paired §1.1 mutation. **Canonical authority:** constitution submodule [`Constitution.md`](constitution/Constitution.md) §11.4.159. Non-compliance is a release blocker. No escape hatch — no `--whole-screen-ok`, `--cast-only`, `--skip-vision-validation`, `--no-cleanup`, `--simulated-recording-ok`, `--unprefixed-recording` flag.

**§11.4.160 — Vision-verified recording + HelixQA bridge mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-21).** Compact summary: every video recording for feature/QA evidence MUST be processed through a vision/OCR pipeline that reads on-screen content and confirms expected results BEFORE acceptance; the recording system MUST provide a bridge feeding captured frames to HelixQA's test infrastructure (or equivalent) for automated read-the-screen verification against SPECIFY-phase expected patterns (§11.4.159(J)); the bridge MUST capture frames at ≤5s intervals, run OCR/vision analysis with a self-validated golden-good/golden-bad analyzer (§11.4.107(10)), compare extracted text against specified patterns, produce a per-frame PASS/FAIL verdict with an evidence path to the frame, and surface failures immediately so the recording can be re-done per §11.4.159(L). The capture interval, OCR confidence floor, and pattern-matching thresholds are project-configured per §11.4.35, calibrated on the project's own fixtures (§11.4.6). Honest boundary: vision verification confirms on-screen content — does NOT replace §11.4.5 quality analysis nor §11.4.108 runtime-signature verification; FLAG_SECURE surfaces use the §11.4.117 proxy oracle per §11.4.112. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Composes §11.4.5/.27/.69/.107(10)/.112/.117/.153/.158/.159(J)/§1.1. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-160-PROPAGATION` + recommended gate `CM-VISION-VERIFIED-RECORDING-BRIDGE` + paired §1.1 mutation.

**§11.4.161 — Rootless container runtime mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-21).** Compact summary: every project MUST use Podman in rootless mode (or equivalent rootless container runtime) for ALL containerized workloads — Docker in rootful mode, sudo, or any escalation to root for container management is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN unless the target platform has no rootless option AND that constraint is documented per §11.4.112; the `vasic-digital/containers` Submodule (§11.4.76) MUST be used as the sole container orchestration layer — no ad-hoc docker/podman commands outside the Submodule's `pkg/boot`/`pkg/compose`/`pkg/health` primitives; if a missing capability forces a raw command, the `containers` Submodule MUST be extended upstream per §11.4.74 rather than worked around; all container-related integration tests MUST boot infra on-demand via the Submodule (the on-demand-infra invariant). Honest boundary: rootless execution eliminates the container-to-root privilege-escalation vector — it does NOT replace §11.4.10 credentials-handling (credentials in containers still require leak audits) nor §12.3 container hygiene (memory limits/OOM policies/restart backoff still apply). Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Composes §11.4.76/.74/.10/.112/§12.3/.6. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-161-PROPAGATION` + recommended gate `CM-ROOTLESS-CONTAINER-RUNTIME` + paired §1.1 mutation.

**§11.4.162 — OpenDesign UI design system mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-21).** Compact summary: every project producing user-facing interfaces (web, desktop, mobile, TUI) MUST use OpenDesign (https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design) as the mandatory UI design-and-refinement system — NOT ad-hoc CSS or one-off design tools; install as a project dependency and use its design tokens/themes system for: (a) all color palette definitions supporting BOTH light and dark themes from project brand assets (§11.4.35), (b) typography scale and spacing, (c) component-level design tokens; if a desired UI pattern is not supported, extend OpenDesign upstream per §11.4.74 (extend-don't-reimplement); every UI component MUST ship light + dark theme variants; elements MUST NOT overlap, fonts MUST NOT collide, labels MUST NOT overlay labels — any layout regression is a §11.4.162 violation; all UI changes MUST be covered by the project's standard test types including visual regression tests (before/after screenshots with per-pixel or perceptual-diff PASS/FAIL). Honest boundary: OpenDesign governs design tokens and themes — it does NOT replace functional testing (§11.4.27), WCAG accessibility assertions (§11.4.107), nor the §11.4.48/§11.4.49 UI-driven and dual-approach testing methodology. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Composes §11.4.74/.25/.27/.4(b)/.107/.48/.49/.35/.69/§1.1. Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-162-PROPAGATION` + recommended gate `CM-OPENDESIGN-UI-SYSTEM` + paired §1.1 mutation.

**§11.4.163 — Universal Media Validation & Verification Mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-21).** Compact summary: every recorded artifact (video/audio/screenshots/asciicast/text) MUST pass a MEDIA VALIDATION pipeline before acceptance — OCR for video/screenshots (§11.4.117/.107(12)), transcription for audio, text parsing; compare extracted content against SPECIFY-phase expected patterns (§11.4.159(J)); self-validated analyzer with golden-good/golden-bad fixture pair (§11.4.107(10)); produce structured verdict (PASS/FAIL + evidence path + matched/unmatched patterns + pinpoint data on FAIL — which frame/line/timestamp, expected vs actual); post-recording AND real-time trigger (§11.4.159(M)); paired §1.1 mutation ensures golden-bad fixture produces FAIL. Honest boundary: confirms artifact content matches patterns — does NOT replace §11.4.5 quality, §11.4.107 liveness, nor §11.4.108 runtime-signature. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagaton gate `CM-COVENANT-114-163-PROPAGATION` + recommended gate `CM-MEDIA-VALIDATION-PIPELINE` + paired §1.1 mutation.

**§11.4.164 — Universal Constitution Auto-Propagation & Hook System (User mandate, 2026-06-21).** Compact summary: every fetch+pull of the constitution submodule MUST trigger `constitution/scripts/post_update_hook.sh` (inherited §11.4.28) that: detects changed files (governance MDs + scripts/hooks/skills/mcp/plugins); registers new/modified skills via consumer's `scripts/register_skills.sh`; registers MCP servers via consumer's `scripts/register_mcp.sh`; installs hooks into `.git/hooks/`; validates scripts syntax per §11.4.67; emits summary log; failures logged per §11.4.6; tested by §1.1 mutation (add skill → hook detects it). Consumer MUST invoke after every pull. Honest boundary: installs components — does NOT guarantee runtime acceptance nor replace §11.4.32 sweep. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-164-PROPAGATION` + recommended gate `CM-CONSTITUTION-AUTO-PROPAGATION` + paired §1.1 mutation.

**§11.4.165 — Universal Independent Verification Agent Mandate (User mandate, 2026-06-21).** Compact summary: every code/media/docs/config output MUST pass INDEPENDENT verifier (§11.4.70/.20, structurally separate from author, §11.4.92 PRECEDES never satisfies), iterating to GO per §11.4.134. CODE: §11.4.142 review + build+test + paired §1.1 mutations + §11.4.108 runtime-signature. MEDIA: §11.4.163 pipeline + genuine-content check (§11.4.159(I)) + format check (§11.4.159(B)). DOCS: exports current §11.4.65 + revision header §11.4.44. CONFIG: syntax + schema + §11.4.10 leak check. Structured findings per class; verifier self-validated by §1.1 mutation. Honest boundary: source/artifact integrity — does NOT replace §11.4.108 runtime-signature nor §11.4.40 retest. Classification: universal (§11.4.17). Propagation gate `CM-COVENANT-114-165-PROPAGATION` + recommended gate `CM-INDEPENDENT-VERIFICATION-AGENT` + paired §1.1 mutation.