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Summary

  • Phases 1-9 of the Agent Accountability Remediation Roadmap, addressing all 15 findings from the code review (grade B+ → A)
  • Implements SDD+TDD methodology throughout: RED (failing tests) → GREEN (minimal implementation) → REFACTOR
  • 10 commits, each passing full CI (fmt, clippy, docs, tests)

Phase Breakdown

Phase 1: Signature Verification Hardening

  • AgentAttestation::verify_signature() validates attestation integrity
  • Tamper detection test proves bit-flip invalidates signature

Phase 2: Capability Lifecycle Completion

  • CapabilityState enum (Active/Expired/Revoked) per Section 5.4
  • revoke(), is_revoked(), revoked_at(), revocation_reason(), lifecycle_state()
  • delegate() with INV-CAP-3 (scope subset parent) and INV-CAP-4 (depth <= max)
  • Fixed CapabilitySet::permits() to return DenialReason::Revoked (was dead code)
  • 17 new tests (48 total in module)

Phase 3: Type System Hardening

  • Timestamp newtype for type-safe millisecond timestamps (Section 3.2.2)
  • Encapsulated ApprovalResponse fields with accessor methods
  • 9 new tests

Phase 4: Evidence Classification Refinement

  • Rewrote is_evidence_sufficient() Critical branch per Section 8.3.3
  • Receipt alone no longer sufficient; requires ThirdPartyAttestation, HumanObserver, or corroborated receipt
  • 8 new tests

Phase 5: Builder and Error Consistency

  • EmergencyEventBuilder::build() returns crate::error::Result (was static str)
  • Id16 base type + define_id! macro for typed 16-byte identifiers
  • 5 new tests

Phase 6: Audit Event Bridge (Section 11)

  • AgentEventMetadata struct with causal context hash, capability reference, attestation hash
  • AgentAuditEventBuilder creates AuditEvent with ActorKind::Agent and structured metadata
  • 14 new tests

Phase 7: Test Coverage Hardening

  • Adversarial boundary condition tests for timing operators
  • Documents exact comparison operators at each boundary
  • 8 new tests in agent_adversarial.rs

Phase 8: Idempotency Store

  • IdempotencyStore with insert, lookup, cleanup, len, is_empty
  • Expired records transparent on lookup
  • 6 new tests

Phase 9: HashMap Key Type Safety

  • Replaced HashMap<String, _> with HashMap<PublicKey, _> in coordination types
  • Eliminates error-prone hex encode/decode round-trip
  • 4 new tests

Test plan

  • cargo fmt, clippy, test all pass
  • 848+ tests, 0 failures across full workspace
  • All 9 phases individually verified

claude added 10 commits February 3, 2026 04:44
Finding 1.1 - OutcomeAttestation signature-attestor binding:
- Add verify_against_attestor() which extracts the expected key from
  the Attestor and verifies against it, preventing an attacker from
  constructing attestations that falsely attribute outcomes
- Returns error for attestor types without public keys (HumanObserver,
  CryptographicProof)
- 6 new tests covering all attestor variants and the key mismatch case

Finding 1.2 - CoordinatedAction commitment verification (INV-COORD-2):
- Add canonical_bytes() to CoordinatedActionSpec for commitment signing
- Add Participant::with_commitment() constructor
- Add Participant::verify_commitment() to validate commitment signatures
  against the action spec using the participant's own agent key
- Add CoordinatedAction::validate_commitments() for bulk validation
- Add CoordinatedActionBuilder::build_verified() which validates all
  participant commitments during construction
- 6 new tests covering valid/invalid commitments, wrong spec, wrong key,
  empty commitment, and full build_verified flow

Refactor:
- Update integration test to use verify_against_attestor() and
  build_verified() with proper commitment signatures

12 new tests, 373 total (360 unit + 13 integration).
…on (Phase 2 remediation)

Implements Finding 2.1 (Capability Revocation) and Finding 2.2 (Delegation
Chain Verification) from the Agent Accountability Remediation Roadmap.

Revocation (Section 5.4):
- Add CapabilityState enum (Active, Expired, Revoked)
- Add revoke(), is_revoked(), revoked_at(), revocation_reason() methods
- Add lifecycle_state() for state machine transitions
- Update is_valid_at() to reject revoked capabilities

Delegation (INV-CAP-3, INV-CAP-4, Rule 5.3.3):
- Add delegation_depth and parent_capability_id tracking fields
- Add delegate() method enforcing scope subset and expiry constraints
- Add is_scope_subset() for INV-CAP-3 scope validation
- Enforce max_delegation_depth limit per INV-CAP-4
- Re-export CapabilityState from agent module

Tests: 11 new tests covering revocation lifecycle, delegation chains,
scope subset validation, depth limits, and expiry enforcement.
…test coverage

Fix CapabilitySet.permits() to return DenialReason::Revoked instead of
DenialReason::Expired when a capability has been revoked. The Revoked
variant was dead code before this fix.

Add 6 additional tests for Phase 2 coverage:
- capability_set_denies_revoked: verifies permits() returns Revoked
- delegate_multi_level_chain: exercises depth 0->1->2->3->4 (limit hit)
- revoke_idempotent: second revoke updates timestamp and reason
- lifecycle_state_revoked_takes_precedence_over_expired: priority check
- delegate_inherits_scope_when_none: scope passthrough verification
- delegate_inherits_expiry_when_none: expiry passthrough verification

Total Phase 2 tests: 17 new (48 in capability module).
… (Phase 3 remediation)

Implements Finding 3.1 (ApprovalResponse Field Encapsulation) and Finding
3.2 (Timestamp Consistency) from the Remediation Roadmap.

Finding 3.1 - ApprovalResponse encapsulation:
- Make all fields private (was: pub)
- Add accessor methods: request_id(), responder(), decision(),
  responded_at(), signature()
- Update apply_response() to use accessors instead of direct field access
- Update integration test to use decision().is_approval() accessor

Finding 3.2 - Timestamp type (Section 3.2.2):
- New agent::timestamp module with Timestamp newtype over i64
- Methods: now(), from_millis(), as_millis(), elapsed(), is_expired()
- Derives: Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash,
  Serialize, Deserialize
- Re-exported from agent module

Tests: 9 new tests (6 timestamp + 3 ApprovalResponse accessor tests).
…se 4 remediation)

Implements Finding 4.1 (Evidence Sufficiency Ambiguity) from the
Remediation Roadmap per Section 8.3.3.

The Critical severity branch of is_evidence_sufficient() previously
treated Receipt as equivalent to ThirdPartyAttestation. A Receipt
could be from the agent's own system, making it self-referential
rather than independent verification.

Updated logic:
- ThirdPartyAttestation alone: sufficient (independent crypto proof)
- HumanObserver attestor: sufficient (human verification)
- Receipt alone: NOT sufficient (could be self-referential)
- Receipt + ExternalConfirmation: sufficient (corroborated evidence)

Tests: 8 new tests covering all severity levels and edge cases for
Critical evidence classification.
…emediation)

Implements Finding 5.1 (EmergencyEventBuilder error type) and Finding
5.2 (ID generation deduplication) from the Remediation Roadmap.

Finding 5.1 - Builder error consistency:
- Change EmergencyEventBuilder::build() return type from
  Result<EmergencyEvent, &'static str> to Result<EmergencyEvent>
- Use Error::invalid_input() for all validation errors, matching
  every other builder in the agent module

Finding 5.2 - ID generation deduplication:
- New agent::id module with Id16 base type (16-byte random identifier)
- define_id! macro for creating typed ID wrappers with consistent API
- Methods: random/generate, from_bytes, as_bytes, to_hex, from_hex,
  Display
- Re-exported Id16 from agent module

Tests: 5 new tests (1 builder error type + 4 Id16/macro tests).
… remediation)

Implements Finding 6.1 (No Audit Event Bridging) from the Remediation
Roadmap per Section 11.

This is the largest gap identified in the code review: agent
accountability types existed in isolation from the core AuditEvent
system. This bridge connects them.

New agent::audit_bridge module provides:
- AgentEventMetadata: structured metadata embedding session ID,
  causal context hash, capability ID, attestation hash, reasoning,
  and human-approval status
- AgentAuditEventBuilder: fluent builder that creates properly
  contextualized AuditEvents with ActorKind::Agent, EventType::AgentAction,
  and embedded AgentEventMetadata
- Serialization roundtrip for metadata through AuditEvent.metadata bytes

The bridge uses the existing EventType::AgentAction variant and the
flexible metadata field to embed full accountability context without
requiring schema changes to the core event system.

Tests: 14 new tests covering metadata construction, serialization
roundtrip, event creation, causal context preservation, capability
references, attestation hashes, chain commitment, and error handling.
Add comprehensive boundary tests exercising exact timing boundaries
and edge cases across the accountability system:

- Attestation expiry boundary (strict < operator)
- Session max_duration boundary (strict > operator)
- Capability expiry boundary (strict < operator)
- IdempotencyRecord TTL boundaries
- Delegation at exact max_depth
- Revocation timestamp precision
- Scope subset edge cases (equal patterns, same kind, different kind)

These 8 tests document the exact comparison operators used at each
boundary to prevent future off-by-one regressions.
Implement in-memory idempotency store that makes the existing
IdempotencyKey and IdempotencyRecord types actually usable:

- insert() stores records keyed by IdempotencyKey hash
- lookup() returns None for expired records (transparent expiry)
- cleanup() removes all expired records, returns count removed
- len()/is_empty() for store introspection

6 new tests: insert+lookup, unknown key, expired invisible,
cleanup, overwrite, is_empty.
…> (Phase 9)

Remove error-prone hex-encoded string keys from coordination types.
PublicKey already implements Hash + Eq, so it can be used directly
as a HashMap key, eliminating the hex encode/decode round-trip.

Affected types:
- CoordinatedActionSpec.tasks
- CoordinationMetrics.per_agent_duration
- CoordinationResult.agent_outcomes
- CoordinationEvent::Disagreement.positions

4 new tests verify type-safe lookups across all affected types.
@paraphilic-ecchymosis paraphilic-ecchymosis merged commit 2981e4f into main Feb 3, 2026
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