feat: implement issue #647 — [Phase 4] Promotion mechanism: informational to blocking after two clean audit cycles

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Closes #647

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CodeAnt-AI Description

Make AGENTS.md promotion eligibility auditable without enabling blocking enforcement

What Changed

• Compliance audit summaries now show the exact structural finding count for each cycle and link to the committed cycle log.
• Added an append-only cycle log that records false-positive counts, details, clean-cycle status, and the named maintainer responsible for each review.
• Added validation that rejects invalid counts, missing maintainer attribution, and inconsistent clean-cycle claims.
• Added eligibility reporting for consecutive clean cycles while explicitly requiring maintainer sign-off and preventing automatic promotion.
• The AGENTS.md check remains informational, and the initial cycle log is intentionally not eligible for promotion.
• Added automated tests covering log validation, eligibility reporting, audit counts, and the inactive promotion state.

Impact

✅ Auditable AGENTS.md promotion decisions
✅ No automatic enforcement changes
✅ Named maintainer accountability

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Compliance audit summaries now report the current cycle’s structural finding count and link to a log for recording confirmed false positives.
  • Added checks to validate cycle-log entries and report whether the clean-cycle requirement is met. Meeting the requirement does not automatically change enforcement.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance on recording audit cycles and the maintainer review required before structural checks can become blocking. The current log is empty, so checks remain informational.

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No changes were needed for this PR.

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Code Review

This pull request implements Phase 4 of the AGENTS.md structural validation initiative, introducing an append-only cycle log, a helper script to validate and check promotion eligibility, and corresponding tests. The review feedback suggests robustly handling escaped pipe characters and Windows CRLF line endings in the log parser, as well as asserting exact non-zero exit statuses in BATS tests to avoid false positives.

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CodeAnt Nitpicks

1 code suggestion

1. The documented command omits the script path, so running it from the repository root fails with “command not found” unless scripts is already on PATH.

Api mismatch · docs/initiatives/agents-md-validation.md:167-168

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Summary

Phase 4 (#647) adds the informational->blocking promotion mechanism for AGENTS.md structural validation: a new pure, side-effect-free reader/validator (scripts/agents-md-cycle-log.sh), an append-only committed cycle log (ships empty/inert), a per-cycle finding count in the compliance-audit summary, and rules.json promotion metadata with toggle.enabled=false. The mechanism arms nothing (default_severity unchanged, check stays informational), touches no secrets/auth/crypto/DB, and passes all security scanners (CodeQL, SonarCloud, gitleaks, AgentShield). Downstream impact: (none). The two triage-flagged advisory findings are legitimate but non-blocking nits and do not warrant Tier-3 escalation.

Findings

• minor: amcl_data_rows uses awk -F'|' which does not honor backslash-escaped pipes (|). If a maintainer later puts a literal pipe in the 'False-positive details' cell, NF increases and the maintainer/Clean? fields shift columns. Traced impact: amcl_validate_log fails CLOSED (rc=1 with a confusing error) rather than fabricating a clean cycle, and the shipped log is currently empty so there is no active path today. Recommend pre-substituting escaped pipes to a sentinel before splitting (then restoring) so future rows with pipes in free-text parse cleanly. Not a security bypass; safe to address in a follow-up.
• minor: Four validate-rejection tests assert [ "$status" -ne 0 ] instead of the exact [ "$status" -eq 1 ]. Since the CLI returns 1 for a malformed/unattributed row but 2 for usage/env errors (e.g. missing file), -ne 0 could let an unintended rc=2 pass as a rejection false-positive. Tighten to -eq 1 to assert the intended validation-failure path. Non-blocking maintainability nit.
• info: MCP run_secret_scanning tool was not exposed in this environment; relied on the passing gitleaks CI check instead. No scan result fabricated.

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Summary

Phase 4 (#647) adds the informational->blocking promotion MECHANISM for AGENTS.md structural validation: a new pure/side-effect-free reader-validator (scripts/agents-md-cycle-log.sh), an append-only committed cycle log that ships EMPTY/inert, a per-cycle finding count in the compliance-audit summary, and rules.json promotion metadata with toggle.enabled=false. It arms nothing (default_severity unchanged, check stays informational), touches no secrets/auth/crypto/DB, and passes all scanners (CodeQL, SonarCloud, gitleaks, AgentShield) with all CI green. Downstream impact: (none). The two triage-flagged advisory findings are legitimate but non-blocking nits and do not warrant Tier-3 escalation.

Findings

• minor: amcl_data_rows uses awk -F'|' which does not honor backslash-escaped pipes. If a future maintainer places a literal/escaped pipe in the free-text 'False-positive details' cell, NF increases and the maintainer/Clean? fields shift columns. Traced impact: amcl_validate_log fails CLOSED (rc=1 with a confusing error, e.g. clean-flag mismatch) rather than fabricating a clean cycle, and the shipped log is empty so there is no active path today. eligibility (report-only, never gates) could mis-count such a malformed row, but validate rejects the same log and promotion is human-gated with sign-off. Recommend pre-substituting escaped pipes to a sentinel before splitting (then restoring). Not a security bypass; safe to address in a follow-up.
• minor: Four validate-rejection tests assert [ "$status" -ne 0 ] instead of the exact [ "$status" -eq 1 ]. The CLI returns 1 for a malformed/unattributed row but 2 for usage/env errors; in these tests the log exists and args are well-formed so only rc=1 is reachable, but tightening to -eq 1 asserts the intended validation-failure path and prevents an unintended rc=2 passing as a rejection. Non-blocking nit flagged by Gemini.
• info: MCP run_secret_scanning tool was not exposed in this environment (only context7 MCP tools available); relied on the passing gitleaks CI check instead. No scan result fabricated.

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Summary

Phase 4 (#647) adds a pure, bats-tested reader/validator for an append-only AGENTS.md cycle log plus docs, a disabled promotion toggle in the rule set, and a per-cycle finding count in the audit summary — the mechanism arms nothing. All 35 CI checks pass (ShellCheck, CodeQL, gitleaks, Agent Security Scan, SonarCloud, bats); GitHub secret-scanning MCP was not available so the gitleaks CI gate was relied upon (no result fabricated). Downstream impact is (none).

Findings

• MAJOR: awk -F'|' in amcl_data_rows does not honor backslash-escaped or literal pipes in the 'False-positive details' cell; a pipe there shifts the 'Determined by'/'Clean?' fields. This fails SAFE — the validator rejects the misaligned row loudly (maintainer/clean mismatch) rather than passing a fabricated clean cycle, and every row is authored in a maintainer-reviewed, git-tracked PR, so no eligibility spoofing is possible. Recommend hardening (temporarily substitute escaped pipes before splitting, restore after) to avoid confusing validation failures on legitimate entries.
• MINOR: validate-failure assertions use generic [ "$status" -ne 0 ]; the malformed-row path always returns exactly 1, so tightening to -eq 1 (per Gemini advisory) would prevent an unrelated env error (exit 2) from masquerading as the expected validation failure. Non-blocking.

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Summary

Phase 4 (#647) adds an append-only cycle-log validator, docs, a disabled promotion toggle, and a per-cycle structural-finding count in the audit summary. The whole mechanism is inert on merge (toggle enabled=false, shipped log has zero data rows) and promotion stays human-gated and never automatic, so it fails safe. All CI is green (bats, ShellCheck, CodeQL, gitleaks, SonarCloud quality gate, Agent Security Scan) and no security anti-patterns are present; the triage/Gemini HIGH escaped-pipe finding is a real robustness bug but errs toward validation failure, cannot fabricate a clean cycle, and does not meet the HIGH security taxonomy — approving with findings recorded rather than escalating to Tier 3. Downstream impact: none.

Findings

• MAJOR: amcl_data_rows uses awk -F'|' which does not honor Markdown's backslash-escaped pipe (|). If a maintainer puts a literal escaped pipe in the free-text 'False-positive details' cell, fields shift right so 'Determined by'/'Clean?' are misread. Traced direction: the shift makes the Clean? check read the maintainer handle, so validate FAILS (safe direction — it rejects the row and forces a fix); it cannot fabricate clean-cycles-met=true nor a false clean cycle, and nothing auto-promotes. Still worth fixing before real rows are appended: replace escaped pipes with a sentinel (e.g. �) before splitting on '|', then restore them in the details cell — the fix Gemini suggested.
• MINOR: Four negative-path assertions use the generic [ "$status" -ne 0 ] instead of the exact [ "$status" -eq 1 ]. validate returns 1 on a malformed/unattributed row, so an unexpected error (syntax error, command-not-found under set -euo pipefail) would still satisfy -ne 0 and mask a real failure. Tighten to -eq 1. Flagged 4x by Gemini.
• INFO: run_secret_scanning MCP tool was not available in this environment (only context7 MCP exposed); no MCP secret scan performed. The gitleaks CI check is COMPLETED/SUCCESS and the diff introduces no credential-like content, so this is non-blocking.
• INFO: DOWNSTREAM_IMPACT is (none): no downstream consumer repos pin the shared surfaces this PR touches. Note that compliance-audit.sh and agents-md-rules.json are consumed internally; the changes to them are additive (new summary line, new JSON keys) and non-breaking.

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Summary

Phase 4 (#647) adds an append-only AGENTS.md structural cycle-log reader/validator (scripts/agents-md-cycle-log.sh), a per-cycle structural-finding count in the compliance-audit summary, docs, and a promotion toggle in rules.json that ships DISABLED (toggle.enabled=false, default_severity unchanged) — the mechanism arms nothing and promotion stays human-gated. No secrets/auth/crypto/DB; all 35 CI checks are green (ShellCheck, CodeQL, gitleaks, AgentShield, SonarCloud quality gate, bats). The triage/Gemini HIGH escaped-pipe finding is a real robustness bug but fails CLOSED (validate rejects the misaligned row rather than fabricating a clean cycle) and is further defended by CI running validate on the shipped log, which is empty/inert — it does not meet the HIGH security taxonomy, so approving with findings recorded rather than escalating to Tier 3. Downstream impact: (none).

Findings

• MAJOR: amcl_data_rows uses awk -F'|' which does not honor Markdown backslash-escaped or literal pipes in the free-text 'False-positive details' cell (col 4). A pipe there raises NF and shifts 'Determined by'/'Clean?' one column right. Traced impact: amcl_validate_log reads the shifted 'clean' as a maintainer handle, which matches neither 'yes' nor 'no', so validate FAILS (rc=1) — it fails safe, rejecting the row loudly rather than passing a fabricated clean cycle. amcl_clean_cycles_met (report-only, never gates) could mis-count such a row, but the same log fails validate, CI runs validate on the committed log, promotion requires explicit human sign-off, and the shipped log is empty — so there is no active bypass path. Recommend pre-substituting escaped pipes to a sentinel before splitting and restoring them after, per the Gemini advisory. Safe to fix in a follow-up.
• MINOR: Four validate-rejection tests assert generic [ "$status" -ne 0 ] instead of the exact [ "$status" -eq 1 ]. The CLI returns 1 for a malformed/unattributed row but 2 for usage/environment errors; in these tests the log exists and args are well-formed so only rc=1 is reachable, but tightening to -eq 1 asserts the intended validation-failure path and prevents an unrelated rc=2 (e.g. a script error under set -euo pipefail) from masquerading as the expected rejection. Non-blocking maintainability nit flagged 4x by Gemini.
• INFO: GitHub Secret Protection MCP tool (run_secret_scanning) was not exposed in this environment (only the context7 MCP server is available), so no MCP secret scan was performed. The gitleaks CI check is COMPLETED/SUCCESS and the diff introduces no credential-like content (shell/markdown/JSON about an audit cycle log). No scan result fabricated.
• INFO: DOWNSTREAM_IMPACT is (none): no external consumer repos pin the shared surfaces this PR touches. compliance-audit.sh and agents-md-rules.json are consumed internally; the edits are additive (new summary line + pure counter function; new JSON keys) and non-breaking.

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In `@err.txt`:
- Line 1: Remove the committed err.txt debug artifact; the agents_md_cycle_log
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In `@scripts/agents-md-cycle-log.sh`:
- Around line 140-143: Update the maintainer check in the cycle-log validation
flow to require `Determined by` to contain a valid GitHub `@handle`, rather than
only rejecting empty values and dash placeholders. Keep the existing validation
failure behavior and ensure invalid values such as `TBD`, `n/a`, `anonymous`,
and `?` are rejected before clean-cycle eligibility is assessed.
- Around line 174-190: Update amcl_clean_cycles_met to retain only the last log
row for each cycle date before selecting the latest required distinct dates, so
duplicate-date corrections count once and out-of-order rows are handled
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Fixed. The CodeAnt nitpick is correct: the documented eligibility example invoked agents-md-cycle-log.sh … without its scripts/ prefix, so it would fail from the repo root unless scripts were on PATH. I changed the runnable example to scripts/agents-md-cycle-log.sh eligibility … in docs/initiatives/agents-md-validation.md and applied the same fix to the matching example in docs/initiatives/agents-md-validation-cycle-log.md for consistency.

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Reviewed commit: fab9dff118b5a1b7ce6950964763e8837a413225
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Summary

Phase 4 (#647) adds an append-only cycle log, a pure reader/validator (scripts/agents-md-cycle-log.sh), a per-cycle structural-finding count in the audit summary, and a disabled promotion toggle — the check ships informational and the helper never promotes. I fetched the PR-head files, ran shellcheck (clean), and exercised every branch directly: control/data flow, boundary cases, dedup/consecutive-cycle ordering, and the attribution guard are all correct, and the three advisory-bot 'Major' concerns raised at the older 2026-09-07 SHA (eligibility counting invalid rows as clean, non-@handle/anonymous attribution, awk pipe-splitting) no longer reproduce at head. The one blocking gate is description quality: 3 of 5 required sections (risk, test-plan, rollback) are missing, which is why I escalate rather than approve. No security-critical path, no hard-stops, CI green, issue #647 ACs 1-5 met, threads resolved — so no security-audit tier is needed.

Findings

• minor: PR description is missing 3 of 5 required sections (risk, test-plan, rollback). The body has an auto-generated 'What Changed'/'Impact' summary but not the org-required sections; the deterministic safety check flags this as [escalate]. This is the sole reason for escalation — the code itself is approval-worthy. Recommend the author add the three sections, after which this can be approved.
• info: Advisory-bot 'Major' finding (eligibility counts rows as clean without validating them) does NOT reproduce at head: amcl_clean_cycles_met runs amcl_validate_log first and returns false on any malformed row. Verified by running eligibility over two rows with Clean?=no/fps=0 -> clean-cycles-met=false.
• info: Advisory-bot 'Major' finding (attribution accepts any non-empty text) does NOT reproduce at head: validate rejects both an empty/dash 'Determined by' and a non-@handle value ('Alice Smith'). Verified by direct validate runs (both exit 1 with the expected reason).
• info: Advisory-bot 'high' finding (awk -F'|' mis-splits an escaped pipe in the details cell) does NOT reproduce at head: escaped '|' is sentinel-protected and restored (fields not shifted; row valid), and an UNescaped literal pipe is rejected loudly as 'expected 8 fields but found 9'. Verified by direct validate runs.
• info: CodeAnt nitpick (docs/initiatives/agents-md-validation.md:167): the example command agents-md-cycle-log.sh eligibility ... omits the scripts/ path prefix, so copy-pasting it from the repo root fails with 'command not found' unless scripts/ is on PATH. Cosmetic doc-only; non-blocking.

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Summary

Phase 4 (#647) adds a pure, append-only cycle-log reader/validator (scripts/agents-md-cycle-log.sh) plus a per-cycle structural-finding count in compliance-audit.sh; it delivers the informational->blocking promotion mechanism but arms nothing (toggle.enabled=false, never writes/promotes). I traced the correctness-critical paths and confirmed them via direct execution: escaped-pipe restoration, the NF!=8 unescaped-pipe guard, the @handle attribution guard, fps<=findings and Clean?/fps agreement, and the same-date dedup in eligibility all behave as documented; the PIPESTATUS[0] linter-failure capture is sound because compliance-audit.sh sets pipefail (line 32), and the INDETERMINATE marker correctly prevents a suppressed linter failure from reading as a clean cycle. No security surface (no auth/secrets/migrations; STANDARDS_SYNC_PR but not a trusted-stub carve-out — it is real script logic). CI is fully green and prior advisory findings (escaped pipe, attribution) are resolved. Only gap is an incomplete PR description (missing risk/test-plan/rollback), which is minor for an arms-nothing, fully test-covered change.

Findings

• minor: PR description is missing 3 of 5 sections (risk, test-plan, rollback); the human-authored body is only 'Closes #647 / Implemented by dev-lead agent'. Low impact here because the change arms nothing (no enforcement/severity change on merge) and is covered by a 360-line bats suite, but the risk/rollback sections should be filled in for auditability.
• info: amcl_clean_cycles_met validates the whole log first (refusing to compute the precondition over an unvalidated log), then dedups rows by Cycle date keeping the last row per date and takes the most-recent required cycles via ISO-lexical sort + tail. Confirmed by execution: two clean cycles report true, a same-date dirty->clean correction is counted once as clean, and a single dirty cycle reports false.
• info: Escaped-pipe handling (sentinel 0x01 swap + restore in the details cell only), the NF!=8 guard rejecting unescaped pipes, the @handle attribution guard rejecting anonymous/non-handle attribution, and the 0x1f non-whitespace field separator preserving empty cells all behave as documented. Confirmed by sourcing the script and exercising synthetic logs.
• info: compliance-audit.sh captures the linter's own status via PIPESTATUS[0] under set -euo pipefail (line 32), and structural_finding_count branches on grep's exit (0=count, 1=zero-findings, >=2=hard error) so an unreadable accumulator is recorded as INDETERMINATE rather than silently as a clean zero-finding cycle (AC #1). Logic verified by inspection; suite is green in CI.
• info: CodeAnt nitpick 'documented command omits the script path' is refuted: both eligibility-command invocations (cycle-log.md and agents-md-validation.md:169) include the 'scripts/' prefix. No change needed.

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Reviewed by the PR-review cascade (triage: haiku 4.5 [sonnet 5] → deep: opus 4.8 [sonnet 5] + duck: o4-mini → audit: fable 5). Reply if you need a human review.

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pr-review approved on PARTIAL advisory evidence: 4/6 required advisory bots reported before the gate's quiescence-timeout fallback proceeded. Recorded for the miss-rate metric (#1596).