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Task 8 only: add the versioned Judge policy registry/admission boundary on top of the current task-owned Task-7 head. This remains a preparatory Draft lane while immutable dependency pinning is unresolved. It does not publish user-facing diagnostics, call a model, fit calibration/IRT models, change send behavior, import Inkspan, or bypass dependency order.

Runtime integration order remains Task 7 Judge → immutable fast-mlsirm artifact pinning → Task 8 calibration/admission policy → Task 9 review service → Task 10 review API. This policy slice may be developed and verified in parallel, but it must not be admitted as the canonical runtime-policy descendant ahead of immutable pinning.

Current ancestry

  • exact predecessor feat(email-writing): restack independent Judge on current candidate #1524: ad888235577ba87f32d96e06fab1cfb9992d84a9;
  • exact current Task-8 head: 91813e60948e070ca3734ec4634adf28cb5daadd;
  • original Task-8 RED contract: af1ba891dfd0883390ee0c65bdb5c460a051b76f;
  • candidate-kind regression RED: e155375700879938ad010b46d83ac7edfbd8c504;
  • narrow policy fix retained from predecessor Task-8 head: 21fa293d967bac0dd2b7b9a917b9fbce415134a2.

Current head was produced by ordinary non-force restacking after the Task-5 import-boundary repair propagated through Candidate and Judge. No external Cursor/Jules branch was rebased, copied wholesale, force-updated, or used as writable ancestry. External Cursor #1402 remains read-only. All predecessor checks/reviews are discarded after the head/base movement.

Policy boundary

The slice adds:

  • strict JSON Schema and immutable SHA-256 manifest binding for lifecycle/publication/profile/criterion/calibration/provenance fields;
  • an evaluation_only artifact that necessarily withholds user-facing diagnostics;
  • strict runtime validation of lifecycle, temporal validity, exact dependency contracts, fixed Task-7 criterion identity/order, category/floor semantics, profiles and structured adjudication states;
  • fail-closed outcomes admit | withhold | adjudicate | unsupported_profile | policy_unavailable without keyword/regex/phrase-list/sender-domain/recipient-count/language-name/text-position semantic judgment;
  • conjunctive preservation floors so a high average cannot compensate for failed fact/intent/request-strength evidence;
  • same-model Candidate/Judge escalation unless an explicitly evaluated published profile permits the pairing;
  • rollback selection restricted to an explicitly named compatible published artifact;
  • stable candidate_kind_invalid rejection before policy-map access for unknown runtime candidate kinds.

The checked-in artifact is deliberately evaluation-only. It contains no fabricated calibration/holdout proof and cannot admit user-facing diagnostics.

Scientific admission evidence

A future published artifact is invalid unless preregistered evidence identities bind the accepted evaluation design before holdout-label access, including human/adjudicated reference evidence, category-count ablation, calibration/Brier, test-retest, language/recipient-role/thread-depth DIF, temporal drift, single-model versus Candidate → Judge → adjudicator comparison, and fact/intent/deadline/request-strength preservation plus over-softening errors.

Hashes and summaries are evidence identities, not proof by themselves. publish_decision=publish requires the referenced immutable/reproducible artifacts to exist and match the exact policy/profile/criterion semantics. Do not infer language validity from the evaluation-only fixture's example locale labels.

Immutable dependency boundary

Fresh external dependency truth remains:

  • fast-mlsirm v0.9.1 immutable tagged source contains the required Judge symbols at source commit 09f762ded35786dd1078222a4577ff09d649816f, but the GitHub release has no attached wheel/sdist;
  • owner-side distributable/SBOM/provenance repair is currently tracked through ContextualWisdomLab/fast-mlsirm#1692 and remains read-only here;
  • Inkspan v0.3.1 still has no released writing-diagnostics public package surface.

This PR consumes no mutable dependency branch/Git URL/source copy/local stub/workspace path. Before runtime publication, the exact fast-mlsirm distributable must be version/hash/source/Python-3.14/hash-lock verified, Task 7 must exercise its released symbols, and this Task-8 delta must be placed on the immutable-pinning predecessor. Published policy validation also requires exact compatible Inkspan/fast-mlsirm contract identities and complete preregistration/calibration/holdout/adjudication evidence.

Current verification state

For exact current head 91813e60948e070ca3734ec4634adf28cb5daadd:

  • local exact-tree policy tests: 22 passed;\n- owned services/email_writing_policy.py coverage: 353/353 statements and 170/170 branches, 100%;\n- Ruff: passed.\n\nFresh hosted Python 3.14, security/supply-chain, and independent review evidence must still execute on this unchanged head. Do not churn this product head merely to provoke scheduling.

There is no transferable qualifying approval after the head movement. Absence/model/status/predecessor evidence is not approval.

Merge boundary

Keep Draft. Do not merge ahead of immutable dependency pinning. Before any integration decision, refetch the exact live stack and regenerate every head/base-sensitive artifact.

Fresh hosted Python 3.14 focused/full tests, exact owned production statement/branch coverage and public docstrings where supported, SAST/security/dependency/package/SBOM/provenance, current-head review/thread evidence, and every live required governance context are mandatory for the final unchanged integration head. Pending/queued/skipped/neutral/failed/cancelled/absent/stale/predecessor/model/status/author-only evidence is non-passing. No force-push, destructive rebase, self-approval, bypass, or gate weakening.

Current review repair

Exact head 91813e6 closes the current publication-integrity gap at the consumer boundary: published schemas require validated calibration and complete evidence identities; the loader resolves immutable evidence bytes, recomputes digests, verifies evidence kind and protocol binding, and enforces holdout evidence after protocol preregistration. Fresh local evidence: 34 focused contract tests pass with warnings treated as errors, Ruff passes, and git diff --check passes. Hosted exact-head evidence is absent while this stacked base remains outside the pre-#1562 workflow branch filters, so the PR remains Draft.

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Adds an integrity-bound email-writing policy system. It defines strict policy contracts, validates signed artifacts, evaluates admission conditions, selects compatible rollback policies, and adds regression tests with dedicated CI enforcement.

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Email writing policy

Layer / File(s) Summary
Policy contracts and artifacts
backend/policies/email_writing_judge_policy.schema.json, backend/policies/email_writing_judge_evaluation_only_v1.json, backend/policies/email_writing_policy_manifest.json
Defines the policy schema, adds an evaluation-only policy artifact, and pins the artifact with a SHA-256 manifest digest.
Policy loading and admission
backend/services/email_writing_policy.py
Adds immutable policy models, redacted errors, manifest and digest validation, runtime contract checks, admission evaluation, and compatible rollback selection.
Regression and CI validation
backend/tests/test_email_writing_policy.py, backend/tests/test_email_writing_policy_candidate_kind.py, .github/workflows/email-writing-policy-tdd.yml
Tests schema, lifecycle, integrity, evidence, admission, rollback, and candidate-kind handling. The workflow enforces tests, full coverage, docstrings, linting, and compilation.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 21fa2

This PR adds a versioned policy admission and rollback boundary, but the current implementation can accept published policies without verified evaluation evidence and has bounded validation and rollback freshness gaps. These issues could permit unsupported policy decisions or stale recovery selection when integrated, so the PR is not merge-ready until the trust and validation paths are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PolicyArtifact
  participant PolicyManifest
  participant load_policy_artifact
  participant evaluate_policy_admission
  PolicyManifest->>load_policy_artifact: Verify allowlist and SHA-256 digest
  PolicyArtifact->>load_policy_artifact: Provide artifact bytes
  load_policy_artifact->>evaluate_policy_admission: Pass validated policy
  evaluate_policy_admission-->>load_policy_artifact: Return AdmissionOutcome
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Please review exact current Task-8 head 21fa293d967bac0dd2b7b9a917b9fbce415134a2. Treat it as a preparatory evaluation-only policy lane, not a published/admitted policy. Verify strict lifecycle/publication/profile/criterion/calibration/provenance validation, fixed criterion identity/order, fail-closed mixed/unknown semantics, candidate-kind validation, conjunctive preservation floors, same-model escalation, rollback compatibility, preregistration/locked-holdout boundaries, and absence of lexical semantic fallback or fabricated scientific evidence. The hosted Task-8 workflow remains queued/cancelled and is non-passing.

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echo '== Checked-out commit =='
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echo '== PR metadata and changed files =='
gh pr view 1530 --repo ContextualWisdomLab/naruon --json number,state,isDraft,headRefOid,baseRefOid,files,statusCheckRollup --jq '{
  number, state, isDraft, headRefOid, baseRefOid,
  files: [.files[].path],
  checks: [.statusCheckRollup[] | {name: .name, status: .status, conclusion: .conclusion}]
}'

echo '== Candidate policy-related files =='
fd -t f . | rg -i '(email.*writing|writing.*policy|judge|admission|calibration|artifact|manifest|policy)'

echo '== Python structure map =='
fd -e py . | xargs -r ast-grep outline --items all --type class,function --match 'Policy|Judge|Admission|Artifact|Manifest|Calibration|Profile|Criterion' 2>/dev/null || true

echo '== Policy and evidence keyword occurrences =='
rg -n -i -C 2 \
  '(evaluation_only|published|publish_decision|candidate_kind|criterion|calibration|provenance|preregister|holdout|rollback|adjudicat|same.model|fast-mlsirm|inkspan|regex|keyword|phrase|sender.domain|recipient.count|language|text.position)' \
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git diff --name-status a2c07ea13f5503b1877461ff0477e6e5f0528a59..HEAD

echo '== Policy module outline =='
ast-grep outline backend/services/email_writing_policy.py --items all --type class,function --view expanded

echo '== Policy module, complete focused ranges =='
cat -n backend/services/email_writing_policy.py | sed -n '1,220p'
cat -n backend/services/email_writing_policy.py | sed -n '220,520p'
cat -n backend/services/email_writing_policy.py | sed -n '520,700p'

echo '== Task-8 policy tests =='
fd -t f -e py . backend/tests | rg 'email_writing_policy'
for f in $(fd -t f -e py . backend/tests | rg 'email_writing_policy'); do
  echo "---- $f ----"
  cat -n "$f"
done

echo '== Artifact and manifest byte/hash check =='
sha256sum backend/policies/email_writing_judge_evaluation_only_v1.json
cat backend/policies/email_writing_policy_manifest.json
echo
echo '== Direct policy imports and call sites =='
rg -n -C 3 \
  'from services\.email_writing_policy import|import services\.email_writing_policy|evaluate_policy_admission\s*\(|load_email_writing|select_rollback_policy\s*\(' \
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@seonghobae I reviewed exact head 21fa293d967bac0dd2b7b9a917b9fbce415134a2.

I found three blocking issues.

  1. Published-policy evidence is self-asserted, not verified.
    EmailWritingPolicyEvidence accepts four SHA-256 strings and one boolean. EmailWritingJudgePolicy.validate_policy_contract() then accepts a published policy when the fields are non-null. It does not resolve immutable evidence artifacts. It does not verify that the protocol predates holdout access. It does not bind the required design to the policy, profile, criterion order, category-count ablation, recipient-role/thread-depth DIF, model comparison, or preservation-error evaluation. The synthetic policy in backend/tests/test_email_writing_policy.py demonstrates this path. It uses arbitrary hashes and scalar values, then reaches admit. This violates the stated published-policy boundary.
    A future published policy must reference immutable, retrievable evidence records. The loader must verify their digests and required semantics before it permits publish_decision: "publish".

  2. candidate_kind is not validated at the untrusted-input boundary.
    In backend/services/email_writing_policy.py, Line 573 returns "withhold" for every non-published policy before Line 599 validates candidate_kind. Line 590 also returns "unsupported_profile" before that validation. An invalid candidate_kind therefore has different outcomes based on unrelated lifecycle and profile values. The new regression checks only the successful published-profile path.
    Validate candidate_kind before lifecycle, profile, and same-model decisions. Add regressions for evaluation-only and unsupported-profile inputs. Each invalid candidate kind should raise EmailWritingPolicyError("candidate_kind_invalid").

  3. Rollback selection can select an expired policy.
    select_rollback_policy() at Line 636 checks version, lifecycle, compatibility, and manifest-binding attributes. It does not check created_at or expires_at. A candidate can pass initial loading, expire later, and still be selected for rollback. The test description at Line 377 claims that expired artifacts are rejected, but the test does not create an expired candidate.
    Pass an aware current time to rollback selection, or select only from a registry that revalidates the policy time window. Add a regression for a rollback candidate that has expired after loading.

The evaluation-only artifact and its manifest digest are consistent. The static code contains no Task-8 lexical semantic fallback. The evaluation-only artifact does not admit diagnostics. The queued and cancelled hosted checks remain non-passing. The PR must remain Draft.

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backend/tests/test_email_writing_policy.py (1)

274-279: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract the published runtime-contract mapping into one constant.

The same four-key mapping is repeated in eight places in this file and again in backend/tests/test_email_writing_policy_candidate_kind.py. The PR plans to pin fast_mlsirm to an immutable version. That pin will then require an edit at every copy. Define one module constant and reuse it.

♻️ Proposed refactor
+_PUBLISHED_RUNTIME_CONTRACTS = {
+    "naruon": "0.14.4",
+    "inkspan": "0.6.0",
+    "fast_mlsirm": "0.9.2",
+    "contextual_orchestrator": "v1",
+}

Then call _load(payload, runtime_contracts=_PUBLISHED_RUNTIME_CONTRACTS).

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@backend/tests/test_email_writing_policy.py` around lines 274 - 279, Define a
shared module-level constant for the four-key published runtime-contract
mapping, including the current fast_mlsirm value, and replace all repeated
mappings in both test files with that constant. Update _load calls to pass
_PUBLISHED_RUNTIME_CONTRACTS while preserving the existing runtime-contract
values and behavior.
backend/tests/test_email_writing_policy_candidate_kind.py (1)

9-20: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Move the shared test helpers into conftest.py.

This module imports the private helpers _REQUIRED_CRITERIA, _load, and _published_policy from another test module, and then redefines _RUNTIME_CONTRACTS, which already exists in that module. Put the shared fixtures and constants in backend/tests/conftest.py instead. Test modules then stay independent of each other.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@backend/tests/test_email_writing_policy_candidate_kind.py` around lines 9 -
20, Move _REQUIRED_CRITERIA, _load, _published_policy, and _RUNTIME_CONTRACTS
into backend/tests/conft.py, then update
test_email_writing_policy_candidate_kind.py and any other consumers to use the
shared conftest definitions without importing private helpers from another test
module or redefining the runtime contracts.
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Inline comments:
In `@backend/policies/email_writing_judge_policy.schema.json`:
- Line 1: Update the published-policy branch in the schema and
load_policy_artifact so published policies require non-null evidence hashes and
calibration_summary.status of validated. Resolve immutable evidence artifacts,
recompute and compare every digest, verify preregistration timing, and reject
incomplete evaluation semantics before admission; add regression coverage for
null, missing, mismatched, and post-preregistration evidence.

Apply the same fix in `@backend/services/email_writing_policy.py` around lines 401
- 422: Covers the validator's acceptance of hash-shaped evidence without
resolving or verifying the referenced artifacts.

In `@backend/tests/test_email_writing_policy.py`:
- Line 377: Align the test documentation with its actual coverage: either add
cases for expired and incompatible-contract rollback candidates alongside the
existing unlisted-version case, or narrow the test docstring to describe only
the behavior it exercises. If adding coverage, ensure select_rollback_policy
rejects both expired and contract-incompatible candidates.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@backend/tests/test_email_writing_policy_candidate_kind.py`:
- Around line 9-20: Move _REQUIRED_CRITERIA, _load, _published_policy, and
_RUNTIME_CONTRACTS into backend/tests/conft.py, then update
test_email_writing_policy_candidate_kind.py and any other consumers to use the
shared conftest definitions without importing private helpers from another test
module or redefining the runtime contracts.

In `@backend/tests/test_email_writing_policy.py`:
- Around line 274-279: Define a shared module-level constant for the four-key
published runtime-contract mapping, including the current fast_mlsirm value, and
replace all repeated mappings in both test files with that constant. Update
_load calls to pass _PUBLISHED_RUNTIME_CONTRACTS while preserving the existing
runtime-contract values and behavior.
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PR governance metadata gate is not ready for 32c7e33c304d1b500ddc230044e2877edcf411c8:

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Exercise every policy validator, lifecycle, timing, runtime-contract, admission, and rollback branch while preserving the 100 percent workflow threshold.

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Signed-off-by: Seongho Bae <me@seonghobae.me>
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Current head fbf32aaf67e53fcb00e640e48df62c22b2eb4f41 repairs the real task8-admission-policy failure without lowering or excluding the 100% gate. PYTHONWARNINGS=error uv run coverage run --branch --include="services/email_writing_policy.py" ... reports 353/353 statements and 170/170 branches (100%); 22 tests and Ruff pass. The PR remains Draft until immutable dependency prerequisites and fresh hosted evidence complete.

Resolve every published evidence envelope by digest, bind evaluation artifacts to the preregistered protocol, and reject missing, modified, or pre-protocol holdout evidence before admission.

Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex
Signed-off-by: Seongho Bae <me@seonghobae.me>
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