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This repo's Dogfood Gate enforced A2ML, a format that no longer exists. A2ML was
retired after a name clash with the ML community; the live s-expression format is
.deed, which has a grammar (DEED-GRAMMAR-SPEC) and is bound for IANA.

There are two defects here, and fixing only the first would have been a fake cure.

1. The validator was frozen before the rename

.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh was vendored at 13,737 bytes by commit d5f229d
(2026-07-27, "ci: vendor validation scripts and remove remote action pins") — six weeks
before the 09-03 DEED rename. It contains zero .deed references.

Replaced with the canonical dual-accept body from
hyperpolymath/deed-ecosystem/validate-action @ f9d999b6 (17,544 b), which dispatches on
the DEED s-expression head — (estate-deed|repo-deed|estate-atlas-deed|praxis-deed) on the
first form, per DEED-GRAMMAR-SPEC <<concrete-syntax>> — and keeps .a2ml passing as
legacy
. This repo's own SPDX-License-Identifier line is preserved, not overwritten.

2. 🚨 The step that gates that validator counted only *.a2ml

COUNT=$(find . -name '*.a2ml' -not -path './.git/*' | wc -l)
- name: Validate A2ML manifests
  if: steps.detect.outputs.count > 0      # <- the actual gate
  run: bash .githooks/validate-a2ml.sh

On a repo that had migrated to .deed, COUNT would be 0, the validate step would be
skipped, and the job would report green having validated nothing. Upgrading the
validator alone would have been invisible.

The selector now admits both extensions — the same shape the K9 job in this very file
already uses
(find . \( -name '*.k9' -o -name '*.k9.ncl' \)).

3. The gate was instructing maintainers to author the dead format

The warning and summary told every RSR repo to create 0-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml and to run
a2mliser init. Reworded to name .deed as the format to author, .a2ml as legacy.

Measured, one denominator

Census across the 75 repos carrying a vendored .githooks/validate-a2ml.sh
(75 unique repos; an earlier figure of 79 was a row count — 4 slugs were duplicated by
two local checkouts reaching one remote):

property count
detect step counts only *.a2ml 75 / 75
workflow mentions deed at all 0 / 75
carry any .deed file at origin/main 0 / 75
validator at 13,737 b / md5 8f61f8da / MPL-2.0 74
echidna — 13,747 b / c1769fc4 / AGPL-3.0-or-later 1

Why edit 2 is safe

It is behaviour-neutral today. find A -o B is a strict superset of find A, and
0 of 75 repos carry a .deed file, so COUNT is unchanged on every repo in the
population. The change is purely forward-correct: it stops the gate going silently green
the day a repo migrates.

Verification

  • bash -n on the new validator: clean.
  • python3 -c 'yaml.safe_load(...)' on the edited workflow: parses.
  • The sweep asserts its own precondition per repo — exact size and md5 and SPDX
    before any write — and refuses (skips + flags) on any mismatch rather than overwriting an
    unrecognised file. echidna is handled by the same assert, which is what prevented a
    blanket copy from silently relicensing it AGPL-3.0-or-later → MPL-2.0.
  • Post-edit asserts: the restored SPDX line is present, the widened selector is present, and
    no a2ml-only find survived.
  • Upstream regression evidence: the 17,544-byte body is already merged on origin/main in
    both a2ml-ecosystem and deed-ecosystem; 14 repos / 725 .a2ml files produced
    identical exit codes under old and new validators, with a planted positive and negative.

Not changed here

  • strict stays false. Flipping it is a separate, measured decision: 8 of 10 sampled
    repos go rc=0 → rc=1.
  • No .a2ml file is renamed. Extension migration is explicitly held pending a dry-run
    manifest (19,477 tracked .a2ml vs 15 .deed).
  • The canonical validator's own line 5 still reads
    # validate-a2ml.sh — A2ML manifest validation script. Left byte-identical to upstream
    on purpose, so "is this repo at canonical?" stays answerable by md5. Flagged for an
    upstream fix in deed-ecosystem
    , where it corrects once for every consumer.

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The dogfood gate enforced a format that no longer exists. Two defects, and
fixing only the first would have been a fake cure.

1. .githooks/validate-a2ml.sh was frozen at a pre-DEED revision (13,737 b) with
   zero .deed references. Replaced with the canonical dual-accept body from
   deed-ecosystem/validate-action (17,544 b), which dispatches on the DEED
   s-expression head and keeps .a2ml passing as legacy. This repo's own
   SPDX-License-Identifier line is preserved.

2. The detect step that GATES that validator counted only *.a2ml:

       COUNT=$(find . -name '*.a2ml' ...)
     - name: Validate A2ML manifests
       if: steps.detect.outputs.count > 0

   So on a repo that had migrated to .deed, COUNT would be 0, the validate step
   would be SKIPPED, and the job would report green having validated nothing.
   The selector now admits both extensions -- the same shape the K9 job in this
   file already uses.

Edit 2 is behaviour-neutral today: this repo carries no .deed file, so COUNT is
unchanged. It is purely forward-correct.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0168Bgpez8mFBcAqYAj8VgEx
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  • New Features

    • Validation now recognises .deed files alongside legacy .a2ml documents, including identity and schema version details.
    • Manifest discovery supports modern and legacy machine-readable paths.
    • Dogfooding checks detect .deed or .a2ml manifests and identify 0-AI-MANIFEST.deed as the canonical manifest.
  • Documentation

    • Guidance now directs users to create 0-AI-MANIFEST.deed; .a2ml is retained for legacy compatibility.

Walkthrough

The validator now scans .deed and .a2ml files. It recognises DEED identity and version fields, supports additional structural paths, and narrows manifest exemptions. The dogfood workflow accepts both formats while identifying .deed as canonical.

Changes

DEED manifest transition

Layer / File(s) Summary
DEED validation rules
.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh
The validator detects DEED head forms and keyword identity fields. It detects :schema-version, supports both structural path formats, requires versions for .deed files, restricts the AI-manifest exemption to .a2ml, and suppresses manifest attestation warnings.
Combined manifest discovery
.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh
Scan messages, file discovery, and result messages now cover .a2ml and .deed files.
Dogfood gate manifest checks
.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml
The workflow detects both file types. Missing-manifest messages require .deed and describe .a2ml as legacy. The scorecard uses DEED manifest wording.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2a2fa

Invalid DEED manifests can pass the dogfood validation gate without their required schema version. Correct the format-specific validation before merging.

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🟡 Minor · Report the detected manifest format and count accurately. · .github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml:58-58

58-58: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Report the detected manifest format and count accurately. The workflow counts both .a2ml and .deed files, but line 58 reports the combined count as .a2ml files. The scorecard also marks the DEED manifest row when only a legacy .a2ml file exists. Use a neutral combined label, report separate counts, or calculate the scorecard status from .deed files only.

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In @.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml at line 58, Update the workflow summary
around the manifest-count logic to accurately distinguish `.a2ml` and `.deed`
files: either report separate counts or use a neutral combined label, and ensure
the scorecard’s “DEED manifest” status is based only on detected `.deed` files
rather than legacy `.a2ml` files.
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Inline comments:
In @.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh:
- Around line 274-275: Update the structural-identity classification in the
validation logic so .deed files under machine-readable directories still set
is_structural_identity=true, but the missing-version exemption applies only when
the validated file is a structural *.a2ml file. Preserve schema-version
validation for DEED files.

In @.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml:
- Line 35: Update the manifest checks in COUNT and the scorecard presence test
to restrict find results to regular files by adding the file-type filter before
counting or testing paths. Apply this in .github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml at
lines 35-35 and 343-343; both sites require the same change.

---

Outside diff comments:
In @.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml:
- Line 58: Update the workflow summary around the manifest-count logic to
accurately distinguish `.a2ml` and `.deed` files: either report separate counts
or use a neutral combined label, and ensure the scorecard’s “DEED manifest”
status is based only on detected `.deed` files rather than legacy `.a2ml` files.

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.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh (1)

199-200: 🎯 Functional Correctness

DEED inline-field handling cannot be decided from the supplied evidence. .githooks/validate-a2ml.sh:199-200 sets has_version only when a line begins with :schema-version, so an inline field on (repo-deed ...) does not set it. The DEED grammar or fixtures that define whether inline fields are valid are unavailable, so the validator's correctness for that form cannot be determined.

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Comment thread .github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml Outdated
CodeRabbit raised three findings on the first commit. All three are correct.

1. The step summary reported the combined .a2ml+.deed count as ".a2ml file(s)",
   and the scorecard row was renamed to "DEED manifest" while its status still
   came from a find matching .a2ml too - so a repo holding only legacy manifests
   scored a green DEED row. That is a label asserting one thing while its check
   asks another, which is the exact defect class this branch exists to cure.
   Fixed by aligning the LABELS to the check rather than narrowing the check:
   narrowing to .deed only would red-score essentially every repo in the estate
   today (19,477 tracked .a2ml against 15 .deed), and this branch is
   behaviour-neutral by design.

2. Both find sites now pass -type f. A directory named *.deed is not a manifest.

3. The validator's structural-identity exemption no longer waives the schema
   version for .deed. DEED is the live, grammar-bearing format; legacy .a2ml
   keeps the exemption. Proved by control: two files in one machine-readable
   directory differing only by extension now get different verdicts.

Severity is unchanged (warning, and the gate invokes strict:false), so no repo
can turn red on this.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟠 Major · Make the version check format-specific. · .githooks/validate-a2ml.sh:199-200

199-200: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make the version check format-specific.

The validator discovers .deed files, and its own comments require :schema-version for every DEED head. However, all legacy version patterns and :schema-version set the same has_version flag. A .deed file with version = "1.0" therefore passes without :schema-version. A contractile .deed also passes because is_contractile_shape bypasses the final check.

Track the DEED-specific field separately and disable the contractile exemption for .deed files:

-    local has_version=false
+    local has_version=false
+    local has_deed_schema_version=false
...
         if [[ "$line" =~ ^[[:space:]]*:schema-version[[:space:]] ]]; then
             has_version=true
+            has_deed_schema_version=true
         fi
...
+    local version_present="$has_version"
    local version_exempt_structural="$is_structural_identity"
-    case "$file" in *.deed) version_exempt_structural=false ;; esac
-    if [[ "$has_version" == "false" && "$is_manifest" == "false" && "$is_contractile_shape" == "false" && "$version_exempt_structural" == "false" ]]; then
+    local version_exempt_contractile="$is_contractile_shape"
+    case "$file" in
+        *.deed)
+            version_present="$has_deed_schema_version"
+            version_exempt_structural=false
+            version_exempt_contractile=false
+            ;;
+    esac
+    if [[ "$version_present" == "false" && "$is_manifest" == "false" && "$version_exempt_contractile" == "false" && "$version_exempt_structural" == "false" ]]; then
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In @.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh around lines 199 - 200, Update the validation
logic so DEED files track :schema-version separately from legacy version
formats, and require that DEED-specific flag during the final validation. Ensure
is_contractile_shape does not bypass this requirement for .deed files, while
preserving existing behavior for other file types.
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In @.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh:
- Around line 199-200: Update the validation logic so DEED files track
:schema-version separately from legacy version formats, and require that
DEED-specific flag during the final validation. Ensure is_contractile_shape does
not bypass this requirement for .deed files, while preserving existing behavior
for other file types.

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.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml (1)

35-35: LGTM!

Also applies to: 58-58, 343-343, 397-397

.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh (1)

7-7: LGTM!

Also applies to: 92-92, 126-126, 154-176, 213-216, 247-277, 284-288, 325-325, 347-355, 373-381

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