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Implements #311 P7. This PR does not close #311; P6 remains in #331.

Summary

  • Adds descriptor-driven Pi refuter and targeted-validator role vectors using the exact provider-issued --execute=true bindings.
  • Hardens provider-role execution with independent stream limits, process-tree termination, and explicit abort, timeout, overflow, and termination-failure outcomes.
  • Validates unique request hashes and typed wire identities before decoding artifacts, while preserving distinct relay-handshake diagnostics.

Changes

File Change
scripts/maintainer/provider-relay-matrix.mjs Adds closed role routing, exact binding validation, bounded output capture, fail-closed process-tree termination, and typed artifact/error handling.
tests/maintainer/provider-relay.maintest.ts Covers both real role verbs and wire mappings, duplicate hashes, malformed identities, stream overflow, abort/timeout cleanup, and descendant reaping.

Review path

  1. Review descriptor validation for the closed role-kind maps and exactly one matching validator request hash.
  2. Review runProviderRoleVector for first-cause preservation, independent stream limits, and process-tree termination.
  3. Review abort/timeout/error mapping and typed artifact identity validation before camel-case decoding.
  4. Confirm the real stub-child tests exercise both provider verbs without launching a model.

Verification

  • pnpm test: 1,294 passed, 0 failed, 1 platform skip
  • pnpm run test:maintainer: 29 passed, 0 failed, 6 environment-gated skips
  • pnpm run check:transaction-runner: generated modules match TypeScript sources
  • pnpm run test:packed-runner: all 13 states passed
  • Primary LSP and git diff --check: clean

Review workload: exactly 394 additions + 6 deletions = 400 changed lines.

Out of scope

  • P6 restart parity remains in test(review): prove host relay restart parity #331.
  • The provider-owned 600-second internal role deadline belongs to Gentle AI; this PR keeps the outer watchdog at 900 seconds and focuses on bounded cleanup.
  • No production relay contract, model/provider/profile selection, or automatic role execution changes.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added provider-role refuter and validator checks to relay validation.
    • Added validation for role-specific inputs, request bindings, and returned artifacts.
    • Added clear handling for launch failures, timeouts, refusals, invalid results, and execution errors.
    • Added explicit arming and stale-binding checks for role-based validation flows.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for provider-role execution, validation, failure handling, timeouts, and stale artifacts.

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Walkthrough

The maintainer relay matrix now supports provider-role refuter and validator cases. It validates role-specific bindings, executes declared vectors, classifies failures, validates capture artifacts, enforces arming, and rejects stale lineage or target data.

Changes

Provider Role Relay Matrix

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider-role contracts and validation
scripts/maintainer/provider-relay-matrix.mjs, tests/maintainer/provider-relay.maintest.ts
Adds provider-role kinds, typed capture and failure contracts, strict descriptor validation, role bindings, and validator request-hash checks.
Provider-role execution
scripts/maintainer/provider-relay-matrix.mjs, tests/maintainer/provider-relay.maintest.ts
Adds gentle-ai execution, relay-contract enforcement, failure classification, timeout and abort handling, process cleanup, output limits, artifact validation, and execution tests.
Matrix arming and verdict routing
scripts/maintainer/provider-relay-matrix.mjs, tests/maintainer/provider-relay.maintest.ts
Adds injectable role execution, explicit arming, stale-binding rejection, and role-specific blocked, failed, and passed verdict tests.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to f75e4

The PR adds exact role binding and timeout handling, but unresolved paths can treat a launched operation with no output as safe to retry, leave runs hanging when descendants retain streams, accept conflicting execution controls, or allow ambiguous request hashes. These issues could cause duplicate mutations, stuck runs, or incorrect validation, so merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance.

Suggested reviewers: innitdev

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant runMatrix
  participant runProviderRoleVector
  participant gentle-ai
  participant CaptureArtifact
  runMatrix->>runProviderRoleVector: execute armed provider role vector
  runProviderRoleVector->>gentle-ai: launch executable with exact bindings
  gentle-ai-->>runProviderRoleVector: return capture artifact or typed failure
  runProviderRoleVector->>CaptureArtifact: validate role, lineage, and target
  CaptureArtifact-->>runMatrix: return validated identities
  runMatrix->>runMatrix: emit blocked, failed, or passed verdict
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In `@scripts/maintainer/provider-relay-matrix.mjs`:
- Around line 41-43: Update the comment above DEFAULT_ROLE_VECTOR_TIMEOUT_MS to
state that the 900,000 ms outer watchdog runs after the provider-owned 600,000
ms deadline, preserving setup and cancellation margin. Do not change the
constant or related tests.
- Around line 107-109: Update the role-kind checks in validateDescriptor and
runMatrix to derive membership from PROVIDER_ROLE_VECTOR_KINDS rather than
repeating provider-role-refuter and provider-role-validator literals. Preserve
the existing validation and relay routing behavior while ensuring any additional
kind in the exported list follows the role path automatically.
- Around line 327-328: Update the verdict reason in the
ROLE_SURFACE_UNAVAILABLE/HANDSHAKE_REFUSED branch to distinguish the two failure
kinds: retain the provider role capture surface message for
ROLE_SURFACE_UNAVAILABLE, and use a handshake/relay-contract negotiation message
for HANDSHAKE_REFUSED. Keep the existing verdict fields and the
ROLE_SURFACE_UNAVAILABLE behavior unchanged.
- Around line 283-287: Update the artifact validation gate in
runProviderRoleVector to require valid lineage_id and target_identity values
alongside schema, role, and captured before returning the artifact mapping.
Ensure missing or malformed identity fields throw the existing typed-shape
ProviderRoleVectorError, while preserving the separate stale-binding
classification in runMatrix.
- Around line 176-186: Update the provider-role-validator handling around
validationRequest and argumentTokens to reject vectors containing anything other
than exactly one --request-hash= token before checking that it matches
vr.requestHash. Preserve the existing expected-token validation and add
maintainer test coverage alongside the existing binding-uniqueness test.
- Around line 246-256: Cap accumulated stdout and stderr in the child-process
handling around the timer and stream listeners, using a safe byte limit for the
expected role artifact. When either stream exceeds the cap, stop buffering, kill
the child, and record a distinct overflow state; classify that state before
exit-code or JSON parsing so the result reports mutationOutcome "unknown" rather
than an invalid-JSON failure.
- Around line 250-251: Update the role-vector process launch and watchdog around
the child process so it runs in a dedicated process group, then have the timeout
handler terminate the entire group rather than only the direct child. Preserve
the existing SIGKILL behavior and timeout handling while ensuring descendants
such as the pi grandchild are also stopped.

In `@tests/maintainer/provider-relay.maintest.ts`:
- Around line 199-238: Update the tests around runMatrix to assert the
provider-contract mappings directly: import PROVIDER_ROLE_VECTOR_VERB and verify
both role kinds map to capture-refuter and capture-validation, respectively.
Also assert the corresponding PROVIDER_ROLE_VECTOR_ROLE mappings, or rename the
existing test titles to describe kind forwarding if those constants are not
imported.
- Around line 79-85: Update ROLE_ARTIFACT to use the decoded camelCase fields
expected by the roleRunner stub replacing runProviderRoleVector, while
preserving snake_case only for provider stdout fixtures. Reuse ROLE_ARTIFACT in
a stub-binary test that emits it as stdout and exercises runProviderRoleVector,
covering the lineage_id and target_identity mapping into lineageId and
targetIdentity.
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if (entry.kind === "provider-role-validator") {
const vr = entry.validationRequest;
if (!isObj(vr)) fail(`${label}.validationRequest must be an object; the provider-embedded validation_request binding is required on the targeted-validator vector`);
exactKeys(vr, new Set(["schema", "requestHash"]), `${label}.validationRequest`);
if (vr.schema !== "gentle-ai.review-targeted-validation-request/v1") fail(`${label}.validationRequest.schema must be exactly "gentle-ai.review-targeted-validation-request/v1"`);
if (!isStr(vr.requestHash) || !REQUEST_HASH_RE.test(vr.requestHash)) fail(`${label}.validationRequest.requestHash must be a sha256 digest`);
const expectedToken = `--request-hash=${vr.requestHash}`;
if (!entry.argumentTokens.includes(expectedToken)) {
fail(`${label}.argumentTokens must include the provider-issued "${expectedToken}" token that binds the embedded validation_request`);
}
result.validationRequest = { schema: vr.schema, requestHash: vr.requestHash };

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Enforce exactly one --request-hash= token on the validator vector.

ROLE_BINDING_RE requires exactly one --lineage=, --expected-revision=, --target=, and --repository-context= token, and the loop at lines 168-174 rejects duplicates. --request-hash= receives no such treatment. Line 183 only checks includes(expectedToken).

A validator descriptor that carries both --request-hash=<bound> and --request-hash=<stale> therefore validates, and line 175 forwards argumentTokens verbatim, so both tokens reach the provider capture-validation invocation. The provider then resolves one of them, and the host cannot prove which. That defeats the request-hash / validation_request binding this function exists to preserve, and it is the same stale-binding class the other four prefixes fail closed on.

Add a uniqueness check before the match assertion.

🛡️ Proposed fix
 		if (!isStr(vr.requestHash) || !REQUEST_HASH_RE.test(vr.requestHash)) fail(`${label}.validationRequest.requestHash must be a sha256 digest`);
+		const requestHashTokens = entry.argumentTokens.filter((t) => t.startsWith("--request-hash="));
+		if (requestHashTokens.length !== 1) {
+			fail(`${label}.argumentTokens must include exactly one "--request-hash=" token, found ${requestHashTokens.length}; a second hash makes the bound validation_request ambiguous`);
+		}
 		const expectedToken = `--request-hash=${vr.requestHash}`;
 		if (!entry.argumentTokens.includes(expectedToken)) {
 			fail(`${label}.argumentTokens must include the provider-issued "${expectedToken}" token that binds the embedded validation_request`);
 		}

Add matching coverage in tests/maintainer/provider-relay.maintest.ts next to the existing binding-uniqueness test at line 291.

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if (entry.kind === "provider-role-validator") {
const vr = entry.validationRequest;
if (!isObj(vr)) fail(`${label}.validationRequest must be an object; the provider-embedded validation_request binding is required on the targeted-validator vector`);
exactKeys(vr, new Set(["schema", "requestHash"]), `${label}.validationRequest`);
if (vr.schema !== "gentle-ai.review-targeted-validation-request/v1") fail(`${label}.validationRequest.schema must be exactly "gentle-ai.review-targeted-validation-request/v1"`);
if (!isStr(vr.requestHash) || !REQUEST_HASH_RE.test(vr.requestHash)) fail(`${label}.validationRequest.requestHash must be a sha256 digest`);
const expectedToken = `--request-hash=${vr.requestHash}`;
if (!entry.argumentTokens.includes(expectedToken)) {
fail(`${label}.argumentTokens must include the provider-issued "${expectedToken}" token that binds the embedded validation_request`);
}
result.validationRequest = { schema: vr.schema, requestHash: vr.requestHash };
if (entry.kind === "provider-role-validator") {
const vr = entry.validationRequest;
if (!isObj(vr)) fail(`${label}.validationRequest must be an object; the provider-embedded validation_request binding is required on the targeted-validator vector`);
exactKeys(vr, new Set(["schema", "requestHash"]), `${label}.validationRequest`);
if (vr.schema !== "gentle-ai.review-targeted-validation-request/v1") fail(`${label}.validationRequest.schema must be exactly "gentle-ai.review-targeted-validation-request/v1"`);
if (!isStr(vr.requestHash) || !REQUEST_HASH_RE.test(vr.requestHash)) fail(`${label}.validationRequest.requestHash must be a sha256 digest`);
const requestHashTokens = entry.argumentTokens.filter((t) => t.startsWith("--request-hash="));
if (requestHashTokens.length !== 1) {
fail(`${label}.argumentTokens must include exactly one "--request-hash=" token, found ${requestHashTokens.length}; a second hash makes the bound validation_request ambiguous`);
}
const expectedToken = `--request-hash=${vr.requestHash}`;
if (!entry.argumentTokens.includes(expectedToken)) {
fail(`${label}.argumentTokens must include the provider-issued "${expectedToken}" token that binds the embedded validation_request`);
}
result.validationRequest = { schema: vr.schema, requestHash: vr.requestHash };
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In `@scripts/maintainer/provider-relay-matrix.mjs` around lines 176 - 186, Update
the provider-role-validator handling around validationRequest and argumentTokens
to reject vectors containing anything other than exactly one --request-hash=
token before checking that it matches vr.requestHash. Preserve the existing
expected-token validation and add maintainer test coverage alongside the
existing binding-uniqueness test.

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scripts/maintainer/provider-relay-matrix.mjs (1)

161-163: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Require exactly one execution-control token for each control.

Lines 161-163 accept conflicting vectors such as --agent=pi --agent=other or --execute=true --execute=false. Line 238 forwards both tokens unchanged. Provider flag precedence then selects the effective agent or mode, so this runner cannot prove the declared role binding.

Reject every descriptor unless it has exactly one --agent= token equal to --agent=pi and exactly one --execute= token equal to --execute=true. Add negative tests for duplicate and conflicting values.

Proposed fix
-	for (const required of ["--agent=pi", "--execute=true"]) {
-		if (!entry.argumentTokens.includes(required)) fail(`${label}.argumentTokens must include the provider-issued "${required}" token`);
+	for (const [prefix, required] of Object.entries({ "--agent=": "--agent=pi", "--execute=": "--execute=true" })) {
+		const matches = entry.argumentTokens.filter((token) => token.startsWith(prefix));
+		if (matches.length !== 1 || matches[0] !== required) {
+			fail(`${label}.argumentTokens must include exactly one provider-issued "${required}" token`);
+		}
 	}
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In `@scripts/maintainer/provider-relay-matrix.mjs` around lines 161 - 163, Update
the validation around entry.argumentTokens to require exactly one --agent= token
whose value is pi and exactly one --execute= token whose value is true,
rejecting duplicates and conflicting values before forwarding tokens; add
negative coverage for duplicate and conflicting agent and execute tokens.
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Inline comments:
In `@scripts/maintainer/provider-relay-matrix.mjs`:
- Line 268: Update the EMPTY_ARTIFACT handling in the role invocation flow to
set mutationOutcome to "unknown" after a successful launch with empty stdout,
and document that callers must re-query STATUS before retrying. Add an assertion
covering this failure path, preserving the existing ProviderRoleVectorError
classification and context.
- Around line 245-251: Update the termination handling around
terminateRoleProcessTree and the child process close/error handlers so a failed
tree termination destroys child.stdout and child.stderr, marks stream capture as
settled, and resolves promptly with buffered output and the
ROLE_TERMINATION_FAILED outcome. Preserve existing abort/timeout handling, and
add a regression test covering a surviving descendant that retains a piped
descriptor.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@scripts/maintainer/provider-relay-matrix.mjs`:
- Around line 161-163: Update the validation around entry.argumentTokens to
require exactly one --agent= token whose value is pi and exactly one --execute=
token whose value is true, rejecting duplicates and conflicting values before
forwarding tokens; add negative coverage for duplicate and conflicting agent and
execute tokens.
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Addressed the outside-diff execution-control finding in a1cfe016: provider role descriptors now require exactly one --agent= token equal to --agent=pi and exactly one --execute= token equal to --execute=true. Duplicate, conflicting, and missing values are covered by negative tests.

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Reviewed: role vectors validated token-by-token, materialize excluded from self-contained vectors, watchdog beyond the provider deadline, bounded output. Approving.

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Alan-TheGentleman merged commit b2db116 into Gentleman-Programming:main Aug 23, 2026
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