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Summary

Executes the first two steps of the 7-phase LLM Control Plane build plan:

  • Phase 0 (new, not in any contract): merges the already-committed-but-unmerged remediation branch fix/unified-remediation-phases-1-7 (18 closed audit findings: family-safe model downgrade, circuit breaker, Zod validation, pricing table, error-redaction, router-only-egress lint rule) into this branch as the baseline for the Control Plane build. Resolved 6 conflicts (eslint.config.js, package.json, src/index.ts, src/types.ts, tests/budget.test.ts, tests/router.test.ts) — all mechanical/cosmetic, no semantic disputes.
  • Phase 1 (Control Plane Kernel, contract v5.0.0): adds src/control-plane/TaskProfile, LLMRoutePlan, LLMExecutionRecord, LLMFeedbackSignal schemas (all SHA-256 content-hashed), PolicyEngine/LLMProviderAdapter interfaces (no implementation — later phases), and deterministic builder functions for each schema.

Architectural decision (documented in docs/control-plane-architecture.md): the new kernel lives under src/control-plane/ and is reachable only via a new ./control-plane package.json subpath export. It is not wired into src/index.ts — the legacy L9LLMRouter remains the package's default public API. The plan's own Phase 8 is the explicit cutover step; wiring the two together now would pre-empt that decision mid-build.

What is NOT included in this PR

Phases 2-8 of the build plan are not built:

  • Phase 2: Provider Adapter Expansion
  • Phase 3: Route Matrix v2.1
  • Phase 4: Evidence and Signals
  • Phase 5: Fitness Engine
  • Phase 6: Promotion Workflow
  • Phase 7: Frontier Lab
  • Phase 8: legacy L9LLMRouter cutover

Each remaining phase is its own ~10-file nuclear contract (schemas + interfaces + implementation + 10 tests + config + docs) — out of scope for a single autonomous pass. This PR intentionally stops at a clean, fully-validated checkpoint (Phase 0 + Phase 1) rather than partially building later phases.

Test plan

All commands run locally against this branch, output captured in src/control-plane/validation-results.md:

  • npm ci
  • npm run build — exit 0
  • npm run verify:types — exit 0
  • npm run lint — 0 errors, 2 pre-existing warnings (unrelated as any casts in src/index.ts, predate this PR)
  • npm test — 137/137 passing across 21 files (120 pre-existing + 17 new tests/control-plane/*, covering all 10 Phase 1 contract-required assertions)
  • npm audit --audit-level=high --omit=dev — 0 vulnerabilities

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cryptoxdog and others added 3 commits July 20, 2026 02:19
Merges and remediates the overlapping findings from
consolidated-findings-plan.md (PRD-*/ICA-*) and
consolidated-findings-remediation-plan.md (AUD-*/SEC-*/RAA-*/DWA-*),
both audited against base_ref 87075d8. 18 distinct defects closed;
see src/docs/WIP/LLM-Router audits/unified-remediation-ledger.md for
full deduplication rationale and per-ID disposition (not tracked in
git — WIP planning doc).

Phase 1 — CI/test safety net (TEST-CI-GAP: PRD-002/AUD-001/RAA-001)
- Add eslint.config.js (flat config, ESLint v9) and a real Vitest suite
- Wire npm test + npm run lint into ci.yml and publish.yml

Phase 2 — Critical live-traffic bug (ICA-002/ICA-003)
- getDowngradedModel() now branches on provider/model-family instead of
  always returning a GeneralModel
- Replace the unchecked `as any` cast in execute()'s Perplexity branch
  with a fail-closed isSonarModel() guard

Phase 3 — Pricing authority consolidation (PRICING-DRIFT: PRD-003/AUD-002/RAA-002)
- Extract canonical src/pricing.ts; openrouter.ts and general-matrix.ts
  both consume it instead of maintaining independent rate tables

Phase 4 — Dead-wiring activation & cleanup
- Implement the disableSearch branch (ICA-001/DWA-001): web_search_options
  is now omitted when search is disabled
- Add checkSurge()/resetGlobalMonthly() router wrappers (DWA-002/DWA-003)
- Implement a real CircuitBreaker, wired into execute() (DWA-005)
- Remove unused RoutingResult/ResolvedConfig types (DWA-004)
- Accumulate per-attempt fallback errors instead of discarding them (AUD-005)

Phase 5 — Security hardening
- validateImageUrl(): https-only + private/loopback/link-local hostname
  allowlist for vision image URLs (SEC-001, candidate CWE-918)
- src/schemas.ts: Zod validation of TaskDescriptor/RouterConfig at
  execute()/constructor entry (SEC-002)
- toJSON() redaction allowlists on PerplexityError/OpenRouterError/
  BudgetExhaustedError (SEC-003)
- npm audit --audit-level=high --omit=dev gate in ci.yml/publish.yml (SEC-004)

Phase 6 — Contract documentation (RAA-003)
- ARCHITECTURE.md documents module boundaries and router-only-egress
- no-restricted-imports ESLint rule enforces that only src/index.ts may
  import providers/* directly

Phase 7 — Re-baseline
- Ledger and prior-baseline handoff doc updated to close out all findings
  (WIP docs, not tracked in git)

82 tests across 10 files, 0 lint errors, 0 npm audit vulnerabilities
(prod deps), clean tsc build/typecheck.

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Merges the 18-finding remediation branch as the baseline for the LLM
Control Plane 7-phase build. Resolves 6 conflicts:

- eslint.config.js: union of both configs (main's src/docs/** ignore +
  branch's @eslint/js base config, no-restricted-imports router-only-egress
  rule, and coverage/** ignore)
- package.json: union of devDependencies (typescript, vitest, typescript-eslint)
- src/index.ts: take branch's CircuitBreaker import (rest was already a
  superset on this side)
- src/types.ts: take branch's per-member eslint-disable comments (cosmetic)
- tests/budget.test.ts, tests/router.test.ts: take branch's versions in full
  (rewritten supersets covering family-safe downgrade, circuit breaker, and
  Zod validation paths)

Validated post-merge: build, verify:types, lint (0 errors, 2 pre-existing
any warnings), test (120/120 passing across 13 files), npm audit
--audit-level=high --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities).

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… route-plan, execution-record, feedback-signal)

Implements the Phase 1 nuclear contract (v5.0.0) additively under
src/control-plane/, deliberately NOT wired into the legacy L9LLMRouter
public surface (src/index.ts). The legacy router remains the package's
default API; cutover is explicit Phase 8 scope, not performed here.

Adds:
- src/control-plane/contracts.ts — TaskProfile, LLMRoutePlan,
  LLMExecutionRecord, LLMFeedbackSignal schemas + all referenced unions
- src/control-plane/hashing.ts — contentHashOf(): canonical-JSON SHA-256
- src/control-plane/task-profiler.ts — buildTaskProfile()
- src/control-plane/policy-engine.ts — PolicyEngine interface (no impl)
- src/control-plane/provider-adapter.ts — LLMProviderAdapter interface (no impl)
- src/control-plane/route-plan.ts — buildRoutePlan(); route_id derived from
  routing-relevant fields only (excludes request_id) per the Routing
  Determinism Law
- src/control-plane/execution-record.ts — buildExecutionRecord()
- src/control-plane/feedback-signal.ts — buildFeedbackSignal()
- src/control-plane/index.ts — barrel export, reachable via the new
  "./control-plane" package.json subpath export
- config/llm-route-matrix.v2.yaml — static defaults skeleton (not loaded
  by any Phase 1 code path yet)
- docs/control-plane-architecture.md — Phase 1 boundary doc, explains the
  legacy/control-plane coexistence decision
- tests/control-plane/*.test.ts — 17 tests covering all 10 contract-required
  assertions (determinism, content_hash presence, interface callability,
  Graphiti/Neo4j import boundary, no hardcoded node URLs)

Validated: build, verify:types, lint (0 errors, 2 pre-existing warnings
unrelated to this change), test (137/137 across 21 files), npm audit
--audit-level=high --omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities). Full captured output in
src/control-plane/validation-results.md.

Not built in this pass: Phases 2-7 (Provider Adapter Expansion, Route
Matrix v2.1, Evidence and Signals, Fitness Engine, Promotion Workflow,
Frontier Lab) and Phase 8 (legacy cutover). See machine-summary.json.

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…le 1)

PR #16's CI run surfaced 5-6 pre-existing failing governance workflows,
confirmed (via `gh run list --branch main`) to already be failing on main
since they were imported in PR #3 — unrelated to this PR's own diff, but
blocking this PR's checks, so fixed here as part of the remediation loop.

Root cause 1 (9 files): every `uses: Quantum-L9/l9-ci-core/.github/
workflows/*.yml@v1` reference targets a tag that does not exist in that
repo — `gh api repos/Quantum-L9/l9-ci-core/tags` shows only `v0.1.0` is
published. Re-pinned all 9 refs to `@v0.1.0`; verified each target
workflow file exists at that tag via the GitHub API before committing.

Root cause 2 (l9-node-ts-monorepo.yml, self-contained, no external repo
involved): `install-and-typecheck` ran `npm run typecheck`, but
package.json only defines `verify:types` — fixed to call the real script
name. `test-by-segment` ran `npx jest --testPathPattern=...` across a
non-existent unit/integration split, but this package has no Jest
dependency and uses Vitest exclusively with a flat tests/ directory —
replaced with a single `test` job running `npm test`.

Known deferred item (not fixed, documented instead): `L9 Analysis`
(.github/workflows/l9-analysis.yml) pins l9-ci-core to a direct commit SHA
(not a tag) and still fails — captured logs show the failure is
`ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'yaml'` inside l9-ci-core's own
`provision-sdk` action (missing `pyyaml` in that action's pip install
step). This is a defect in the external Quantum-L9/l9-ci-core /
l9-ci-sdk repositories, not in any file this repo owns — no local fix is
possible; recommend filing against Quantum-L9/l9-ci-core.

Local verify (blocking gate, re-run after these changes): build,
verify:types, lint (0 errors), test (137/137), npm audit --audit-level=high
--omit=dev (0 vulnerabilities) — all green. YAML syntax of every edited
workflow validated with python3 -c "yaml.safe_load(...)".

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l9-ci-core's security.yml@v0.1.0 reusable workflow does not declare a
run-npm-audit input (only python-version, source-dir,
l9-ci-install-command). Passing it caused a workflow-call input
validation startup_failure in both l9-security.yml and the embedded
security job in l9-node-ts-monorepo.yml. npm audit already runs
separately in ci.yml.

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#16 cycle 3)

GitHub Actions rejects a reusable-workflow call at startup (0 jobs,
opaque "workflow file issue" / startup_failure) when a called job's
declared `permissions:` exceed what the caller grants. l9-ci-core's
security.yml, scorecard.yml, and pr-pipeline.yml's internal
security/sbom/scorecard jobs request security-events:write,
id-token:write, and/or pull-requests:read, but none of our wrapper
workflows declared elevated permissions (repo default is read-only),
so every call to them failed at resolution time before any job ran.

Also drop `src-directory` from l9-governance.yml: trio-governance.yml@
v0.1.0 does not declare that input (only python-version, changed-files,
policy-path, baseline-path, classifier-path, the three trio token
secret-name inputs, pr-labels, labels-known), so passing it caused the
same class of startup_failure independent of the permissions issue.

Fixed:
- l9-security.yml: add job-level permissions (contents:read,
  security-events:write, pull-requests:read)
- l9-scorecard.yml: add job-level permissions (security-events:write,
  id-token:write, contents:read, actions:read)
- l9-node-ts-monorepo.yml: same permissions on its embedded
  security/scorecard jobs
- l9-pr-pipeline.yml: add job-level permissions (contents:read,
  security-events:write, pull-requests:read, id-token:write) and
  remove undeclared run-security/working-directory inputs
- l9-governance.yml: remove undeclared src-directory input

Not fixed (documented as out of scope for this PR, tracked
separately): l9-pr-pipeline.yml, l9-governance.yml, and
l9-pre-commit.yml still require Python-only governance infrastructure
that does not exist in this Node/TypeScript repo (.github/governance/
quality-thresholds.yaml, rule-modes.yaml, audit-policy.yml,
audit-baseline.json, a Python classifier script, a
.pre-commit-config.yaml, and the closed-source `l9-ci` pip package).
Creating that infra is a repo-governance decision, not a Control Plane
PR concern.

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…cycle 4)

pr-pipeline.yml@v0.1.0's embedded scorecard job requires
security-events:write, id-token:write, contents:read, AND actions:read.
Cycle 3 granted the first three but missed actions:read, so the call
still failed at startup (0 jobs) even after the other permission fixes.

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…le 5)

SonarCloud's PR analysis failed the Security Rating and Reliability
Rating gates (both required >= A) on two real findings introduced by
this branch's CI-workflow edits and Phase 1 code:

- .github/workflows/{l9-security,l9-scorecard,l9-node-ts-monorepo,
  l9-pr-pipeline}.yml: pin the Quantum-L9/l9-ci-core reusable-workflow
  reference to its resolved commit SHA instead of the floating v0.1.0
  tag (supply-chain integrity — a moved/deleted tag can silently swap
  in different code). Applied the same pin to the remaining l9-ci-core
  callers (l9-governance, l9-nightly, l9-pre-commit, l9-release,
  l9-sbom) for consistency, even though Sonar did not flag those files
  as changed in this diff.
- src/control-plane/hashing.ts: canonicalize()'s Object.keys(...).sort()
  relied on the default sort comparator. Sonar's suggested fix
  (String.localeCompare) would make key ordering — and therefore the
  content hash — depend on runtime locale/ICU data, which breaks the
  cross-machine determinism this module exists to guarantee. Used an
  explicit ordinal comparator instead and documented why
  localeCompare is deliberately not used here.

Verified: npm run verify:types, npm run lint (0 errors), npm test
(137/137 passing) all still green after this change.

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CI Remediation Summary (l9-PR-remediation)

Ran 5 fix/verify cycles against this PR's CI. Result: every startup_failure is gone. All workflows that can pass in a Node/TypeScript-only repo now pass; every remaining red check has a confirmed, external root cause documented below.

Fixed (in scope, verified green)

Cycle Fix Why
1 Pinned Quantum-L9/l9-ci-core reusable-workflow refs from @v1@v0.1.0 across 9 workflow files @v1 tag never existed on l9-ci-core; only v0.1.0 does
1 l9-node-ts-monorepo.yml: npm run typechecknpm run verify:types, Jest matrix → npm test (Vitest) Wrapper assumed a different repo's script names/test runner
2 Removed undeclared run-npm-audit input from l9-security.yml / embedded security job security.yml@v0.1.0 doesn't declare that input — npm audit already runs separately in ci.yml
3 Added job-level permissions: (security-events, id-token, pull-requests, actions) to l9-security.yml, l9-scorecard.yml, l9-node-ts-monorepo.yml, l9-pr-pipeline.yml; removed undeclared src-directory from l9-governance.yml and run-security/working-directory from l9-pr-pipeline.yml GitHub rejects a reusable-workflow call before any job starts (opaque startup_failure, 0 jobs) when a called job's declared permissions exceed what the caller grants, or when an undeclared input is passed
4 Added missing actions: read to l9-pr-pipeline.yml Its embedded scorecard job needs it too; cycle 3 missed this one
5 Pinned all remaining l9-ci-core@v0.1.0 refs to the resolved commit SHA; fixed src/control-plane/hashing.ts key-sort comparator SonarCloud's PR quality gate failed (Security/Reliability Rating on New Code) on the floating-tag refs and on an implicit sort comparator — but I did not apply Sonar's literal suggestion (String.localeCompare) for the hash canonicalizer, since locale-aware sorting would make the content hash non-deterministic across machines/ICU versions, which is exactly the invariant this function exists to guarantee. Used an explicit ordinal comparator instead.

Verified locally after every change: npm run verify:types, npm run lint (0 errors), npm test (137/137 passing).

SonarCloud Code Analysis quality gate: now passing.

Not fixable from this repo (confirmed external root causes — no code change here can resolve these)

Check Root cause Evidence
l9-security.yml, l9-pr-pipeline.yml (Validate/Lint/Test/Security jobs) pip install l9-ci fails: ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement l9-ci ... No matching distribution found for l9-ci. The l9-ci PyPI package referenced by l9-ci-core's default l9-ci-install-command is not published/installable. Job log, l9_security / security step "Install CI Tools"
l9-scorecard.yml, l9-pr-pipeline.yml (OpenSSF Scorecard job) Unable to resolve action 'ossf/scorecard-action@v2', unable to find version 'v2'ossf/scorecard-action only ships fully-qualified tags (v2.4.3, etc.), no floating v2. This is a bug in l9-ci-core's scorecard.yml itself. Job log; confirmed via gh api repos/ossf/scorecard-action/tags (no v2)
l9-governance.yml Requires .github/governance/audit-policy.yml, audit-baseline.json, .github/scripts/classify_pr.py, and three distinct trio-bot token secrets — none exist in this repo, and this is a Python-only three-tier governance harness unrelated to the Control Plane build trio-governance.yml source (fetched from l9-ci-core@v0.1.0)
l9-pre-commit.yml Requires a .pre-commit-config.yaml (ruff/mypy hooks) — this repo has no Python code and no such file pre-commit-ci.yml source
L9 Analysis provision-sdk composite action fails with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'yaml' inside l9-ci-core's own SDK bootstrap Job log

All five clusters trace back to the same family of issue: l9-ci-core's Python-oriented reusable workflows/actions have unpublished dependencies, a bad action ref, and assume a Python governance harness that this Node/TypeScript repo never adopted. These pre-date this PR — the same workflows fail identically on main today (verified via gh run list --branch main), so nothing here is a regression introduced by the Control Plane work.

Fixing these for real requires either (a) publishing the l9-ci package and correcting the scorecard-action ref in Quantum-L9/l9-ci-core, or (b) a maintainer decision to build out .github/governance/*.yaml, .pre-commit-config.yaml, and the trio-bot token secrets for this repo. Both are outside this PR's scope and outside what I can decide unilaterally — flagging for repo owner follow-up rather than fabricating that infrastructure here.

cryptoxdog and others added 2 commits July 20, 2026 11:53
l9-pre-commit.yml calls l9-ci-core's pre-commit-ci.yml, which fails
validate-hook-config with no .pre-commit-config.yaml present, and would
fail pre-commit-run/hook-version-drift on this repo's default
install-command (pip install -e .[dev]) since there is no pyproject.toml.

- Add .pre-commit-config.yaml with pinned pre-commit-hooks v6.0.0
  file-hygiene hooks only (trailing-whitespace, end-of-file-fixer,
  check-yaml, check-json, check-merge-conflict, check-added-large-files,
  check-case-conflict) — no fabricated ruff/mypy hooks for a repo with no
  Python source.
- Override install-command to a no-op ("true") in l9-pre-commit.yml so
  pre-commit-run/hook-version-drift don't try to pip install a
  nonexistent Python package.
- Strip trailing whitespace from the 6 files the new trailing-whitespace
  hook flagged (CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, src/index.ts, src/budget/index.ts,
  src/matrices/general-matrix.ts, src/matrices/perplexity-matrix.ts,
  src/vision/index.ts) so the first CI run passes clean.

Verified locally: pre-commit validate-config, pre-commit run --all-files
(clean second pass), npm run verify:types, npm run lint, npm test
(137/137 passing).

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…d-fail

l9-ci-core's pre-commit-ci.yml hardcodes actions/setup-python@v6 with
cache: pip in every job (not exposed as a configurable input from this
repo's wrapper). With no requirements.txt or pyproject.toml anywhere in
the tree, setup-python errors before pre-commit even runs:

  "No file ... matched to [**/requirements.txt or **/pyproject.toml]"

This repo has no Python source (see ARCHITECTURE.md); the file is
intentionally empty and exists solely to give the cache step a lockfile
to hash.

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