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Repair issue #36 without changing CF semantics: bind impact and the external HL7 oracle invocation to the exact archive bytes whose cache digests were verified.

Canonical branch base at creation:

main: eeecb0bc03c7040bb18b70bce8b69d618384f783
tree: d5abe932f1436a9612f45bf130ba29aadbc5a133

This PR is intentionally Draft until issue #35 / PR #39 is canonical and the branch is requalified against the resulting live main.

Impact repair

impact now uses PackageCache::read_verified for before/after root archives and passes those exact bytes into structural/impact analysis. The verify-then-independent-fs::read helper is removed.

Oracle repair

The oracle path now:

  1. reads before/after root archives through PackageCache::read_verified;
  2. reads the required R4 core archive from the before cache through the same boundary;
  3. independently proves the same core digest exists and verifies in the after cache;
  4. snapshots the verified core/left/right bytes into a commandF-owned TempDir using create_new, sync_all, and read-only file permissions;
  5. passes only those staged paths to the external JVM/adapter for every resource comparison in the invocation;
  6. keeps original package SHA-256 identities in semantic evidence and never serializes staged paths into product reports.

The staged snapshot has bounded lifetime through RAII cleanup.

Regression

Adds a Unix process-boundary regression that:

  • captures a source generation as the verified-byte boundary;
  • stages it;
  • mutates the original source path after the boundary;
  • executes an external adapter that asserts its --left-package still contains the staged verified generation.

Existing adapter timeout/process-tree/output-bound tests remain intact.

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Sequencing / qualification

Do not mark Ready or merge until PR #39 is canonical, this PR is reconciled against the then-current main, exact-head mandatory/path-applicable workflows are terminal green, Qodo and CodeRabbit review the exact final head, and zero unresolved substantive findings remain.

Refs #36.


Summary by cubic

Binds the impact diff and HL7 oracle adapter to the exact bytes whose cache digests were verified, fixing issue #36 without changing CF semantics. Staging of verified archives now happens only when the before/after digests differ, so comparison paths that are identical skip the snapshot entirely.

  • Impact uses PackageCache::read_verified for before/after archives and removes the separate fs::read fallback.
  • Oracle stages verified core/left/right archives into a read-only TempDir and passes only those staged paths to the external adapter.
  • Adds a process-boundary regression that mutates the original source after staging to prove the adapter still sees the verified bytes.

Do not merge until PR #39 is canonical and this branch is re-qualified against the updated main.

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  • New Features

    • Added secure temporary staging for verified package archives used by HL7 oracle processing.
    • Oracle processing now works from verified archive snapshots, including core, before, and after packages.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented later source archive changes from affecting an already verified oracle input.
    • Improved archive handling with read-only permissions where supported.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage confirming staged archives preserve verified contents even when the original archive changes.

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The CLI now loads verified package archives, stages oracle inputs in temporary files, and passes staged paths to the HL7 oracle. The package exports the staging type. Integration coverage verifies snapshot isolation from later source-file mutations.

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Oracle archive flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Temporary archive staging
crates/commandf-pkg/src/oracle_process.rs, crates/commandf-pkg/src/lib.rs
Hl7OracleStagedArchives writes core, left, and right archive bytes to temporary files, synchronizes them, applies platform-specific permissions, and exposes their paths.
Verified archive integration
crates/commandf-cli/src/impact.rs, crates/commandf-cli/src/oracle.rs
Package archives now use PackageCache::read_verified. The oracle receives paths from staged archives instead of cache paths.
Staged snapshot validation
crates/commandf-pkg/tests/oracle_process.rs
The integration test verifies that the adapter reads staged bytes after the original archive changes.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a5a62

The change binds impact and oracle comparisons to verified archive bytes, but on Windows the staged archives remain writable; a later adapter invocation could alter shared bytes and cause subsequent comparisons to use data that was not verified. This bounded platform-specific integrity risk should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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  participant OracleRun
  participant PackageCache
  participant Hl7OracleStagedArchives
  participant HL7Oracle
  OracleRun->>PackageCache: read_verified package archives
  PackageCache-->>OracleRun: verified archive bytes
  OracleRun->>Hl7OracleStagedArchives: stage core, before, and after bytes
  Hl7OracleStagedArchives-->>OracleRun: staged archive paths
  OracleRun->>HL7Oracle: invoke with staged archive paths
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Please perform an early review of exact Draft head a5a62694ec7dd913ab96bc4110fb07c822c55288. Focus on verified-byte binding for impact, the oracle staging boundary, cross-platform temp-file safety/cleanup, preservation of before/after core verification, whether staged paths can leak into semantic evidence, and whether the regression truly proves source-path rebinding cannot affect the external adapter. This is not merge qualification; PR #39 remains a sequencing prerequisite.

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Please perform a fresh early review of exact Draft head a5a62694ec7dd913ab96bc4110fb07c822c55288. Focus on TOCTOU closure, staging lifetime/permissions, Unix/Windows portability, error handling, API design, test validity, and any semantic or performance regression. No approval is assumed and this is not merge qualification.

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Please perform an early review of exact Draft head a5a62694ec7dd913ab96bc4110fb07c822c55288. Focus on verified-byte binding for impact, the oracle staging boundary, cross-platform temp-file safety/cleanup, preservation of before/after core verification, whether staged paths can leak into semantic evidence, and whether the regression truly proves source-path rebinding cannot affect the external adapter. This is not merge qualification; PR #39 remains a sequencing prerequisite.

Early review of draft a5a62694ec7dd913ab96bc4110fb07c822c55288:

Findings

  • Impact is only partially bound to the verified bytes. impact::run passes the bytes returned by read_verified into diff_package_archives (crates/commandf-cli/src/impact.rs:27-37), which fixes the diff input. However, build_context_graph subsequently rereads every package from the cache (crates/commandf-pkg/src/context.rs:83-91). A cache object can therefore be replaced between those operations, producing a report whose diff and context graph come from different generations. If byte-level binding is the invariant, the graph builder needs to consume the already verified snapshots (or the cache needs an immutable/read-snapshot boundary).

  • Oracle target/core verification and staging look correct. Both target archives and both copies of the pinned core are read through read_verified (crates/commandf-cli/src/oracle.rs:48-51), and the oracle receives staged paths derived from those exact byte buffers (oracle.rs:65, oracle_process.rs:33-60). The after-core read is intentionally discarded but still preserves the required verification.

  • The staging lifecycle is sound on the supported platforms. TempDir owns cleanup, files are created with create_new, closed before the adapter runs, synced, and made mode 0400 on Unix (oracle_process.rs:63-101). Partial staging failures should also clean up through TempDir. The non-Unix permission hook is a no-op, so the security guarantee is weaker on Windows/other platforms; confirm that the temporary-directory ACL guarantees are an explicit portability requirement. Cleanup errors are necessarily ignored by TempDir drop, so this is best-effort rather than observable cleanup.

  • Staged paths do not enter semantic evidence in the normal success path. They are passed only as adapter CLI arguments; the parsed oracle report and reconciliation inputs contain resource URLs/versions and observations, not archive paths. They could still be echoed by an adapter into stderr, but that is diagnostic error text rather than semantic evidence.

  • The regression test proves snapshot copying, but not full production source-path rebinding resistance. staged_archives_are_independent_of_original_source_after_boundary mutates an unrelated original file after staging and verifies the adapter reads the staged left bytes (tests/oracle_process.rs:78-116). It does not exercise oracle::run, a cache object replacement at the actual read/stage boundary, or assert that all three adapter paths differ from cache paths and are removed afterward. It is also Unix-only, so it provides no cross-platform staging/cleanup coverage.

Recommendation

The main correctness gap is the impact context graph reread. Add a snapshot-aware graph path (or stage/use a consistent verified snapshot set) and add an integration regression that replaces the cache object after verification, then proves both the diff and derived context use the verified generation. Keep the existing staging test, but add cleanup/path assertions and a platform-appropriate portability test before treating the boundary as fully covered. This remains an early review, not merge qualification; PR #39 sequencing is unchanged.

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@TheHalfMoon: I reviewed exact Draft head a5a62694ec7dd913ab96bc4110fb07c822c55288.

I found one substantive issue.

  • Windows staged archives remain writable. crates/commandf-pkg/src/oracle_process.rs Line 99 makes protect_staged_archive a no-op for all non-Unix targets. This includes Windows. The same staged files are passed to every adapter invocation in crates/commandf-cli/src/oracle.rs Lines 81-95. An adapter can modify an archive during one comparison. Later comparisons can then consume adapter-modified bytes. Set the Windows read-only file attribute after sync_all, and add a Windows-specific test. std::fs::Permissions::set_readonly(true) can provide the needed portable API surface.

The review found these positive results:

  • impact now passes the read_verified root byte vectors directly into diff_package_archives.
  • oracle verifies both root archives and both core-cache entries before analysis.
  • The oracle adapter receives only paths from Hl7OracleStagedArchives.
  • TempDir lifetime spans all resource comparisons and performs RAII cleanup.
  • Oracle report models do not serialize staged paths. They retain semantic identities and SHA-256 evidence from the structural diff.
  • The Unix regression proves that mutation of the original left archive after snapshot creation does not rebind the adapter input.

The regression does not cover Windows because crates/commandf-pkg/tests/oracle_process.rs is Unix-only. It also does not test all three archive inputs. The first gap is important because the Windows protection path is currently missing.

I did not run repository code or tests in this sandbox. This is an early review only. It is not merge qualification.

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#[cfg(not(unix))]
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Protect staged archives on Windows.

protect_staged_archive is a no-op on Windows. An adapter can modify the shared staged archive, and a later comparison can read bytes that PackageCache::read_verified did not verify. Set the Windows read-only attribute after sync_all, and add a Windows regression for repeated adapter invocations.

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In `@crates/commandf-pkg/src/oracle_process.rs` around lines 99 - 102, Implement
Windows handling in protect_staged_archive instead of returning a no-op: after
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