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Closes #108.

Acceptance evidence is now read against the contract a person approved, and only from the reporter configured for each criterion's kind. Before this, the criteria came from the head, and any App's result counted. The rulings, with the Maintainer's three decisions, are on #108.

What changes

• The approved contract:

  • facts.acceptance becomes {approved, head, results}.
  • The criteria and their kinds come from the contract a person approved, at approved.commit.
  • A sha256: digest of 64 hex characters covers the contract and the tests it names.
  • approved.commit must be held by the approver's own review on that commit: a person with write, in state approved, not dismissed by a person.

• Two new Holds, both needs_you:

  • contract_not_approved: no approval, an approval that isn't a person's, or one with no matching review.
  • contract_changed: the head's digest differs from the approved one, including deletion and a change to a test the contract names.

  Both are read after foreign_checks and before mergeable. A queued item leaves the queue under either.

• acceptance: null now means the linked issue asks for no contract, read in full. Reading the issue waits on adapters/; the Maintainer accepted an issues: read grant for the Controller.

• Reporters:

  • A new acceptance_reporters setting maps each criterion kind to a required deterministic Lens. Only test → verify is filled. human never has a reporter.
  • A result from another App, workflow file or check name is acceptance_unreadable (from_another_app, from_workflow, from_another_check), reusing Kernel: a Lens is read only from the App that reports it #60's pin.
  • A missing or misshapen setting defers as acceptance_reporters_unreadable.

• A human criterion passes only on an approving review of this content by a person with write. One such review covers every human criterion (the Maintainer's call). A dismissal ends it only when a person dismissed it. That departs from the ruling's word "undismissed" to follow Kernel: what a person placed, only a person ends #61: "what a person placed, only a person ends". 0025's Why records it.

• Readability: a review missing its commit, content id or a dismissal field is review_unreadable, so nothing crashes on a short read.

• Lifecycle: verifying → converged by a person, when the person confirms a human criterion. It is bounded, because no cycle can depend on it without a person.

• Simulator:

  • A push can edit or delete the contract, and settling puts a deleted one back.
  • A person approves or withdraws it.
  • Other Apps, workflows and checks give results.
  • The simulator asserts that only a person passes a human criterion.

• Records:

  • Decision 0025: acceptance, new.
  • Decision 0026: replaces 0022 and restates it, with two rows corrected: the contract is read at the approval's commit, and whether one exists comes from the linked issue. Two of 0022's waiting rows now name their tests.
  • Design: trial P-38.

Verified on a plain git archive export with PATH=/usr/bin:/bin, at 4a58fc3, rebased onto #149:

• make verify passes (527 tests).
• python3 -m tools.mutants kills 446 of 446. Four check_decisions mutants timed out on the loaded Mac and were killed on a rerun two at a time. CI's shards are the final word.
• Each new mutant fails its own test, and check_decisions is clean.

Reviewed by: a fresh-context Claude review and a security pass. All five findings are fixed:

• 0022 made false, so it is replaced;
• a crash on a review missing a field;
• a crash on a missing reporter setting;
• the contract's approval taken on the port's word;
• a digest of any length.

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CodeRabbit: four points were answered by Auto-fix in 16f0926:

• decision 0025's Status no longer recounts history;
• the design names the newest person's approval as the baseline;
• the simulator keeps a contract's criteria across re-approval;
• the port's choice of approval is clarified.

The fifth point, a mutant that was killed by a crash, now produces a wrong decision and is killed by its own test's assertion (4a58fc3).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Acceptance criteria are tied to a human-approved contract that must match the pull request’s current content. Missing approval or contract changes hold the item for review and prevent work from starting.
  • Check-based criteria require results from the configured reporter and its matching App and workflow. Human criteria require approval of the current content.
  • Reporter settings specify which checks can report each criterion type; unset reporters make those results unreadable.
  • People can move an item from verifying to converged without a time limit.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance on acceptance contracts and check identity, and expanded platform trials to cover how dismissed reviews are recorded.

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Acceptance facts now distinguish the person-approved contract from the contract at the pull-request head. The kernel validates approval and digest matching, then evaluates results from configured reporters or person reviews for human criteria. The simulator, lifecycle, schemas, fixtures, tests, and decision records reflect these rules.

Changes: Acceptance contract and reporter enforcement

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Acceptance contracts and reporter data schemas/*.json, config/*, examples/*.json	Acceptance facts now include approved-contract metadata, a head digest, typed criteria, and check identity for each result. Configuration maps check-based criterion kinds to reporters.
Kernel contract and reporter evaluation kernel/terms.py, kernel/derive.py, kernel/decide.py	The kernel validates contract and review fields, approval, digests, criteria, and reporter configuration. It holds items when approval is absent or the head digest differs, and defers evaluation for unreadable contract or reporter data.
Simulator and lifecycle behavior sim/*, lifecycle/pull_request.json	The simulator models approval, withdrawal, contract edits or deletion, reporter-attributed evidence, human criteria, and settlement. The lifecycle permits a human transition from verifying to converged without a bound.
Acceptance tests and mutation coverage tests/*, tools/mutants.py	Tests and mutation cases cover approval identity, digest matching, reporter identity, human criteria, unreadable inputs, lifecycle transitions, and evaluation ordering.
Decision and architecture records docs/architecture/*, docs/decisions/*	The records describe contract approval, reporter rules, Lens behavior, evidence ordering, and platform trial P-38.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: High

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PullRequest
  participant Reviewer
  participant Reporter
  participant Kernel
  PullRequest->>Reviewer: approve contract at a commit
  PullRequest->>Kernel: provide contract digests and acceptance results
  Reporter->>PullRequest: publish criterion result with check identity
  Kernel->>Reviewer: verify approval and review fields
  Kernel->>Reporter: match result to configured check, App, and workflow
  Kernel-->>PullRequest: hold, defer, or evaluate acceptance

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		Issue #108 is implemented for approved-contract identity, reporter attribution, human criteria, Holds, queue removal, tests, and decision boundaries. One coding requirement remains unmet. `kernel.deri…	Make readable_reporters() require every non-human criterion kind (test, scenario, mutation, static, and role) and reject extra or invalid keys as required by the configuration contract. Add a boundary test and mutant for an omit…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 54.76% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 84 functions across 10 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check		The configuration, schemas, kernel derivation, lifecycle, simulator, documentation, fixtures, tests, and mutant catalog all support Issue #108. They implement approved-contract checks, reporter identi…
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: validating acceptance evidence from the configured reporter against the approved contract.

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The configuration, schemas, kernel derivation, lifecycle, simulator, documentation, fixtures, tests, and mutant catalog all support Issue #108. They implement approved-contract checks, reporter identity, human criteria, linked-issue contract semantics, and the required Holds. No unrelated change is demonstrated.

Full details: Linked Issues check

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Issue #108 is implemented for approved-contract identity, reporter attribution, human criteria, Holds, queue removal, tests, and decision boundaries. One coding requirement remains unmet. kernel.derive.readable_reporters() accepts a mapping that omits required non-human criterion kinds because it checks only value types. Such a mapping is not deferred as acceptance_reporters_unreadable; reporter() treats the omitted kind as having no reporter. The schema requires the five keys, but the kernel boundary is not enforced by this function. No boundary test or mutant for an omitted required key is shown.

Resolution

Make readable_reporters() require every non-human criterion kind (test, scenario, mutation, static, and role) and reject extra or invalid keys as required by the configuration contract. Add a boundary test and mutant for an omitted required key. Ensure the result defers with acceptance_reporters_unreadable.

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Rubric Evaluation

• PR-1 (Requirements & Scope): PASS
  • Fully implements Issue #108:
    • Contract validation & gating: contract_not_approved and contract_changed Holds are evaluated prior to admitting any Run (I-29).
    • acceptance: null safely represents an issue requiring no contract.
    • Deterministic reporter configuration (acceptance_reporters) maps criterion kinds (test -> verify; scenario, mutation, static, role defaulting to null). Foreign check results defer as acceptance_unreadable (from_app, from_workflow, from_another_check, no_reporter).
    • Human criteria evaluation: confirmed only via an undismissed approving review on current content by a person with write permissions (confirmed_by_a_person); check results for human criteria are unreadable; human criteria never fail.
    • Contract approval verification: approval_stands ensures an approving GitHub review on the exact approval commit by that person exists and is not dismissed by a person; digests strictly validated against DIGEST_SHAPE (64-character lowercase SHA-256).
    • Malformed reviews or unreadable acceptance_reporters defer safely for Maintainer triage.
• PR-2 (Security & Execution Safety): PASS
  • No writes outside permitted effects.
  • Fail-closed semantics strictly preserved across all validation paths; unreadable contracts or configuration defer to Maintainer without admitting Runs or actions.
  • Impostor check results from other Apps, unverified workflow paths, or mismatched check names are strictly quarantined.
• PR-3 (Regression & Functional Tests): PASS
  • Exhaustive test suite added across tests/test_decide.py, tests/test_transitions.py, and tests/test_simulator.py.
  • 42 new mutant invariants defined in tools/mutants.py with individual test verifications.
• PR-4 (Kernel Purity): PASS
  • All modifications in kernel/decide.py, kernel/derive.py, and kernel/terms.py are strictly functional and deterministic with zero I/O and zero clock reads.
• PR-5 (Documentation & Invariants): PASS
  • Decision 0025 (docs/decisions/0025-acceptance-is-read-from-its-reporter-against-the-contract-a-person-approved.md) added and Decision 0026 replacing Decision 0022. Both contain complete Boundaries tables mapping each invariant to executable tests or explicit waiting on items.
  • Sequence Note: The CI context numbering failure (records are numbered from 0001 with no gap) is an expected temporary blocker caused by the pending merge of PR Identity hook: a push with no refspec is read from git's configuration, and a git the command may redefine is refused #149 (which supplies Decision 0024); rebasing once Identity hook: a push with no refspec is read from git's configuration, and a git the command may redefine is refused #149 lands will reconcile the sequence.

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🟠 Major · Restore gapless decision numbering before merge. · 0025-acceptance-is-read-from-its-reporter-against-the-contract-a-person-approved.md:1

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Restore gapless decision numbering before merge.

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• PR-1 (Requirements & Scope): PASS
  • Accurately addresses review feedback for Issue #108:
    • Aligns docs/architecture/software-factory-design.md baseline wording with Decision 0025 (identifying the commit named by the newest approving review by a person).
    • Cleans Decision 0025 Status line to Status: accepted. stating what is decided now rather than historical delegation narrative.
    • Preserves contract criteria across approval withdrawal and re-approval in tests/test_transitions.py, preventing custom criterion kinds (e.g. human) from falling back to default test criteria.
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  • All 191 tests across tests/test_decide.py and tests/test_transitions.py pass cleanly.
• PR-4 (Kernel Purity): PASS
  • Zero modifications to kernel/.
• PR-5 (Documentation & Invariants): PASS
  • Decision 0025 and Decision 0026 documentation and boundary invariants verified.

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• PR-1 (Requirements & Scope): PASS
  • Refines mutant testing for Issue #108:
    • Refines mutant "nobody's approval is read as an approval" in tools/mutants.py to return a false CONVERGED state rather than falling through to an unhandled None dereference crash.
    • Adds test coverage in tests/test_decide.py confirming that an approving review present on the PR does not satisfy contract approval when the facts record no contract approval (by=None), properly holding with contract_not_approved.
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