From 1c3510d344379a9dee9c6fd4f7a62402b42134c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 06:24:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 01/33] docs: record 2026-09-09 portfolio cycle --- .../2026-09-09-portfolio-report.md | 140 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 140 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-09-portfolio-report.md diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-09-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-09-portfolio-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..966ab88 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-09-portfolio-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@ +# Dream constellation portfolio report — 2026-09-09 + +## Contract and scope + +The cycle started by fetching `ruvnet/dream-machine` default branch `main` at `3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc`. The execution contract was read before portfolio work: + +- `README.md` — `355222b4f9ef7e46c199d903e74fa24223f33e4d` +- `SECURITY.md` — `1663f995e80a3088e46fa6fa6633351ad934a959` +- `dream.config.json` — `c17b00036f11b09cb0999f5142089c84252531f9` +- `docs/adr/ADR-0001-governance-and-authorization.md` — `5770eac0d4ba6634897c0da982fb5c200f8b6a51` +- ADR index — `6a9877e7fa2842e247da2a1e2cd61143f61a77c3` +- compiled pipeline source `packages/compile/src/index.ts` — `e2c16ad1d34fd942dabce23dcc84ab47dcfa8efe` +- `package-lock.json` — `78d1b0e7556323a1fb5313ee7eff6830e51f5081` + +The human-only merge authority, fail-closed evidence rules, draft-PR policy, and one-verdict-per-hypothesis rule were preserved. No merge, release, deployment, direct push to a default branch, automerge change, credential use, production probe, or archived-repository modification occurred. + +## Portfolio inventory + +All owned repositories were paginated as four pages of 100, 100, 100, and 19 repositories. The portfolio now contains 319 repositories: 217 public and 102 private. None are archived; 281 are indexed, 38 unindexed, and 11 empty. rGi and APx are the two new public repositories since the prior inventory. Private repositories are represented only by aggregate counts. + +Observed activity since `2026-09-08T07:00:00Z` is a lower bound: 13 default-branch commits across four public repositories. Private activity was seven commits in one repository, aggregate-only. Open-state searches reached connector caps at at least 100 pull requests and at least 100 issues. + +The five-repository cohort was frozen before candidate outcomes using security 35%, functionality and production impact 30%, velocity 10%, measurable optimization 10%, SOTA 10%, review age 5%, plus neglected-repository rotation. Critical findings would have overridden ranking; none was confirmed. + +## Deep cohort and frozen hypotheses + +### 1. Dream Machine — future-safe protected paths + +Research hypothesis: current GitHub immutable-workflow guidance plus exact effect-boundary inspection will show that a segment-safe package rule is stronger than a maintained package-name enumeration without broadening eligibility. Query set: immutable Actions, protected path evaluation, regex overmatch, future-workspace simulation. Inclusion: GitHub documentation, exact-head source/tests/workflows. Exclusion: generic supply-chain advice and result-only claims. Holdout: a synthetic future package name and a near-prefix non-package path. Expected information gain: determine whether the guard is protect-by-construction. Budget: one generation, 15 minutes. Promotion threshold: every package subtree denied, clean controls unchanged, full CI/security green. + +Software hypothesis: PR #100 makes every current or future `packages/` path ineligible for automerge without changing non-package behavior. + +Exact head: `edc0eb00a607757d804a93620aae93a6333bc3f0`. The live guard reproduction changes a package candidate from eligible to `protected-path`. Coverage rises from 14 to 15 guard tests, explicitly including a synthetic future package; all 616 tests and 82 governance tests pass, with build and lint clean. CI run 34209362093 and CodeQL run 34209362154 passed. The expression is anchored and segment-bounded, so `packages-other` is not overmatched. Repository automerge remains disabled, so the accepted result is dormant hardening, not evidence of an automated merge. The PR's own hypothesis was written after implementation; this review's hypothesis was independently frozen before inspecting the outcome. + +**ACCEPT** + +### 2. MetaHarness — settings-aware MCP risk scoring + +Research hypothesis: the current MCP tool security contract and a schema/source contradiction search will establish whether settings-only registrations must count as enabled, without double-counting compliant policy evidence. Query set: MCP registration surfaces, tool security requirements, scanner-to-score data flow, clean and compliant controls. Inclusion: MCP 2026-07-28, exact source/tests/workflows. Exclusion: vendor marketing and policy claims without reachable code. Holdout: settings-only, `.mcp.json`, compliant policy, clean template, and double-count case. Expected information gain: distinguish registration detection from enforcement. Budget: one generation, 15 minutes. Threshold: all holdouts correct, no score regression, exact CI/security/real-tool workflows green. + +Software hypothesis: PR #298 routes OIA scoring through the authoritative MCP scanner so settings-only and `.mcp.json` registrations are recognized without false positives or duplicate penalties. + +Exact head: `e37c51140630c22099b4d234d69100cbfcacd239`. Package tests rise from 572 to 587 passed with two skipped; root OIA integration rises from nine to ten; TypeScript is clean. The settings-only, `.mcp.json`, compliant-policy, clean-control, and no-double-count cases are present. CI 34280285262, Security 34280285207, and Real Tools 34280285197 all passed. Acceptance is limited to detection and scoring; it does not prove generated templates enforce default-deny policy or repair the separately tracked full-root-suite and release-ordering debt. Latest inspected release: v0.4.4, published 2026-08-10. + +**ACCEPT** + +### 3. RuVector — deterministic static minimum cut + +Research hypothesis: exact source, native/WASM parity, representative scaling, and required workspace evidence will distinguish a useful deterministic primitive from an end-to-end compaction improvement. Query set: deterministic global min-cut, canonical tie-breaking, sparse graphs, native/WASM parity, workspace completion. Inclusion: exact implementation, ADR, tests, benchmarks, workflows, primary algorithm research. Exclusion: single-number speed claims without baseline or complete workflow evidence. Holdout: sparse/non-contiguous graphs, multiple sizes, cross-target parity, Workspace CI. Expected information gain: separate primitive correctness from product benefit. Budget: one generation, 20 minutes. Threshold: complete repeatable partitions, material speedup, no native/WASM/workspace regression. + +Software hypothesis: PR #972 provides complete deterministic static Stoer-Wagner partitions, material improvement over the current dynamic path, and full workspace compatibility. + +Exact head: `f380cd3faaecf73490c563326256ad6e9e3edb1b`. The reported 19-vertex comparison is 0.099 ms versus 835 ms, approximately 8,421 times faster, with zero empty static partitions versus 66% empty dynamic outputs. On an 84-memory corpus, static is 64.7–73.6 times faster than dynamic, but remains 43.8–46.9 times slower than the baseline and produces no bridge-rate gain; the PR correctly retains the compaction result as negative evidence. Native, WASM-dedup, regression, supply-chain, formatting, and clippy workflows passed. Required Workspace CI run 34200670407 was cancelled, and the benchmark remains single-host/small-graph evidence. Latest inspected release: ruvector-v0.2.40, published 2026-07-29. + +**INCONCLUSIVE** + +### 4. Ruflo — durable hive identity + +Research hypothesis: the MCP state-handle contract plus schema-to-handler tracing will establish whether the init-returned identity survives reloads and whether configuration claims match actual persistence. Query set: init/status state flow, legacy migration, schema/handler parity, persistence semantics, dispatch separation. Inclusion: MCP 2026-07-28, exact source/tests/workflows, existing issue history. Exclusion: CLI help claims without effect-path evidence. Holdout: legacy state without `hiveId`, reload/status, `persist:false`, and independent dispatch behavior. Expected information gain: separate the ID fix from adjacent state and dispatch defects. Budget: one generation, 20 minutes. Threshold: exact identity after reload, legacy compatibility, full CI, no misleading persistence response. + +Software hypothesis: PR #3241 gives `hive-mind_init` and later `hive-mind_status` one durable ID across reloads while preserving legacy state compatibility. + +Exact head: `cdae71792af7106d5f3e7b911209b9b279e27fae`. The generated ID is stored before the state write, status returns it, and a legacy fallback remains. The focused suite passes 108/108. Cross-Agent run 34314531691, CodeQL 34314531668, Verification 34314531666, CVE 34314531677, V3 CI 34314531797, and CI/CD 34314531944 all passed. The ID hypothesis passes. + +Adversarial review found a separate reachable functionality defect: the input schema omits `persist`, the response reports `persist: false` when supplied, but init still calls `saveHiveState` unconditionally. Existing issue #655 was materially updated with schema, no-write, reload, legacy, and cross-platform gates. The issue's larger dispatch-bridge remainder is also independent of this ID fix. Latest inspected release: v3.38.23, published 2026-09-07. + +**ACCEPT** + +### 5. rGi — active finite-prior discovery + +Research hypothesis: current value-of-information research plus replay/provenance inspection will determine whether the active selector reduces acquisition cost without hiding errors, tuning against its final benchmark, or importing a general-capability claim. Query set: Bayesian experimental design, finite-prior active selection, benchmark leakage, seeded controls, durable reservation, RVF replay. Inclusion: primary research within 90 days, exact source/ADRs/evidence/workflows, stacked-parent provenance. Exclusion: AGI/generalization claims from synthetic public fixtures. Holdout: unseen target split, repeated random seeds, interrupted resume, wrong-answer and abstention accounting, end-to-end cost. Expected information gain: distinguish a useful bounded primitive from an external capability claim. Budget: one generation, 25 minutes. Threshold: lower acquisition cost, zero added wrong answers, no capability loss, deterministic signed replay, strict budgets, untouched holdout. + +Software hypothesis: PR #5 reduces acquisition cost on frozen finite priors without added wrong answers or capability loss, and emits bounded signed RVF evidence replayable across native and WASM paths. + +Exact head: `a34dc8198da4275078f788e310c02bb1badf9009`. Verify run 34301649490 passed, and stacked parent #4 passed exact-head run 34299527752. Reported paired evidence is 2,394 versus 2,318 correct answers, 149 versus 147 fully solved targets, zero wrong answers in both arms, and synthetic acquisition cost 444 versus 731, a 39.3% reduction. All 769 checkpoint resumes match. The selector kernel is 5.13 times faster than the Map reference, while initialization is slower at 4,342 ms versus 3,408 ms; no end-to-end speedup is accepted. Bounds, abstention, reservation-before-callback, signatures, and native/WASM replay are represented in the software envelope. + +The 187 public finite-prior targets are development evidence rather than an untouched holdout, the random control has one seed, callback execution remains trusted and unmetered, and the change is stacked on open parents rather than main. The frozen holdout gate therefore did not complete. + +**INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Security and functionality + +No new remotely exploitable critical or high production vulnerability was confirmed. No secret, exploit instruction, or private-repository detail was published. + +Dream Machine's package guard and MetaHarness's MCP registration detection improve supply-chain and policy visibility within their tested envelopes. Ruflo's misleading `persist:false` behavior is a confirmed functionality defect, not a claimed remote exploit. RuVector's required workspace remains unverified. rGi explicitly documents that reviewed child-process permissions are not hostile-code or network containment. + +Runnable checkouts were unavailable. Therefore pinned Ruflo 3.25.6 deep/static/quality scans, `npm audit`, `cargo audit`, secret scanning, STRIDE generation, local reachability tests, and fresh RuVector native/WASM/RVF replay did not run. Exact-head source and GitHub workflows were used instead. This degradation grants no additional security-acceptance claim. + +## SOTA and authoritative sources + +- GitHub's current [secure-use reference](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/security/secure-use) says a full-length commit SHA is the only immutable third-party Action reference and recommends least-privilege tokens. Applicability: Dream Machine's path guard reduces automerge scope, while existing issue #86 still governs mutable workflow references. Baseline: enumerated package names. Expected benefit: future packages inherit protection without policy maintenance. +- The [MCP tools specification dated 2026-07-28](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/server/tools) requires input validation, access control, rate limiting, sanitized outputs, client result validation, timeouts, and audit logging. It also states that MCP has no protocol-level session and stateful tools should return an explicit handle. Applicability: MetaHarness should conservatively recognize all registration surfaces; Ruflo must persist and validate an explicit hive identity while keeping schema and behavior aligned. +- [Model Discovery Agent](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09696), submitted 2026-08-10 and revised 2026-08-25, combines model proposal with Bayesian value-of-information experiment design. Its v4 history explicitly reports correction of a benchmark prompt leak. Applicability: rGi's information-gain selector is directionally aligned, while the correction strengthens the requirement for untouched holdouts and leakage checks. Baseline: fixed-order selection. Expected benefit: lower acquisition cost without importing the paper's model-discovery or SOTA claims. +- SQLite's official [transactional contract](https://www.sqlite.org/transactional.html) states that changes inside one transaction are atomic, isolated, and durable even across interruption. Applicability: rGi's reservation-before-callback structure is the correct ordering, but real cross-process and crash testing remains distinct from an in-process model. +- Recent deterministic min-cut work found during search was outside the preferred 90-day window. It was not used to promote RuVector. The repository's exact algorithm, tests, and benchmarks remain the controlling evidence. + +No paper result was imported as a repository result. + +## Ruflo research self-learning receipt + +Parent strategy SHA-256: `8b81970f34df5b8b469d2aa8454c1977d90413b6a3c3aa98d9854a517378064d`. + +Candidate strategy SHA-256: `a8641df5e84c4620d8724598dea6122f32d6cd1ca14dc203fe99b54d8aa76ac2`. + +Parent: contract-first exact-head source/workflow inspection, prior-receipt deduplication, authoritative-source search, contradiction and effect-boundary tracing, and manual security/reproducibility critique. Candidate generation: add version-history leak search, schema-versus-handler contract diff, stacked-parent provenance, and untouched-holdout/end-to-end-cost checks. Source cutoff: 2026-09-09. Seeds: repository fixtures only; no new stochastic run. Budget: at most three generations or 45 minutes per repository; one bounded manual generation was used. Frozen promotion threshold: at least 10% composite improvement in authoritative coverage, contradiction recall, reproducibility, cross-stack applicability, and information gained per cost, with no primary-source, citation, safety, privacy, or licensing regression. + +Raw manual deltas: external authoritative mapping increased from two of five cohort questions to four of five; three material contradictions or scope limits were retained rather than averaged away—the Ruflo persistence mismatch, rGi's absent untouched holdout, and RuVector's incomplete workspace/end-to-end gate. The candidate added three sources and rejected one out-of-window min-cut source for promotion use. However, connector token/cost was unavailable, the composite could not be deterministically replayed on a held-out research set, and the Ruflo 3.25.6 runtime, durable Ruflo memory, RuVector/RVF retrieval backend, and local MetaHarness evaluator were unavailable. The parent was retained. No memory key, durable lesson write, retrieval verification, or self-learning claim is made. Manual elapsed time was bounded within the cycle; per-repository runtime instrumentation was unavailable. + +Research-loop verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Autogenous sub-receipt + +Topology/configuration SHA-256: `a841adc9b429d2862788aa00295ff261a205ac393f838cf78f8ca0c34db9f1b2`. + +Frozen topology: primary-source researcher, replication reviewer, contradiction researcher, and security/privacy critic. Communication mode: structured source/claim deltas; LatentMesh semantic-delta communication only if validated. Parent: the single-analyst Ruflo strategy above. Holdout: source/version questions not used to tune routing plus deterministic conclusion replay. Frozen threshold: at least 15% authoritative-coverage or contradiction-recall improvement, no citation or primary-source-ratio regression, equal or lower cost per validated finding, and equivalent deterministic conclusions. Autogenous had no promotion, merge, disclosure, release, deployment, purchasing, credential, or protected-surface authority. + +The Autogenous runtime, validated LatentMesh channel, durable Ruflo memory, RuVector retrieval, and local MetaHarness evaluator were unavailable. No parallel topology executed, so wall time by role, tokens/cost, duplicate-source rate, disagreement rate, useful unique findings, false leads, unresolved dissent, held-out delta, deterministic replay, memory write, or retrieval verification could be measured. Manual critique preserved contradictory evidence but cannot be relabeled as Autogenous. The single-agent parent remains in force and no strategy was promoted. + +Autogenous verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Constellation coordination + +Dream Machine supplied governance and the durable receipt. MetaHarness supplied exact-head adversarial detection evidence. Ruflo remained the intended research selector and learning memory but was unavailable locally. RuVector native/WASM/RVF evidence was inspected from exact workflows, while fresh local replay was unavailable. rGi consumed pinned RuVector/RVM formats in its own exact-head workflow but did not establish independent execution. Core Memory receives only a redacted aggregate checkpoint; the governed signed-federation endpoint remains unavailable, so no signed-federation claim is made. + +## Actions and CI evidence + +- Five exact-head COMMENT reviews: [Dream Machine #100](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/pull/100), [MetaHarness #298](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/pull/298), [RuVector #972](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/pull/972), [Ruflo #3241](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/pull/3241), and [rGi #5](https://github.com/ruvnet/rGi/pull/5). +- One existing issue materially updated: [Ruflo #655](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/655#issuecomment-5596898336). +- Dream Machine CI and CodeQL passed on the reviewed head. +- MetaHarness CI, Security, and Real Tools passed on the reviewed head. +- RuVector six focused/native/WASM/security workflows passed; Workspace CI was cancelled. +- Ruflo all six observed exact-head workflow groups passed. +- rGi PR #5 and stacked parent #4 exact-head Verify workflows passed. +- Zero new implementation issues, zero implementation PRs, zero direct pushes, merges, releases, deployments, automerge changes, or signed-federation claims. + +## Blockers and next cohort + +Blockers: 38 unindexed repositories; connector caps on open-state searches; unavailable runnable checkouts; unavailable Ruflo, Autogenous, local MetaHarness, RuVector/RVF, and governed Core Memory runtimes; one cancelled Workspace CI; no untouched rGi holdout; and no independent execution/hardware attestation. + +Next cohort: APx first review; Ruflo persistence-contract and dispatch-bridge remediation; RuVector Workspace recovery and representative min-cut scaling; rGi preregistered hidden holdout with repeated seeds and end-to-end accounting; Dream evaluator/action pinning; MetaHarness template-policy enforcement; and neglected high-risk repositories. From 2b17c652178086775a3fa32106268aab608b6104 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 06:24:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 02/33] docs: append 2026-09-09 portfolio ledger --- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index 59ab281..0c0f18c 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -37,3 +37,4 @@ | 2026-08-25 | compiler-parity | adrConvention object form ({pad,dir}) had zero validation; malformed value silently compiled a corrupted STEP 19 ADR path (empty dir -> absolute-root path); added validateConfig checks | #28 | #29 | yes | ACCEPT | npm test 96->104, 0 regressions | d4958530 | PR #7 merged 2026-08-13, PR #13 merged 2026-08-15; PRs #9,#11,#15,#17,#19,#21,#24,#27 (2026-08-14 through 2026-08-24) still open/draft, human review pending -- their ledger rows never reached main (see Ledger Check audit in issue #28) | | 2026-08-26 | ledger-signals | duplicateDirections only scans merged ledger rows, missing near-duplicate directions across still-open PRs (demonstrated: #15 vs #27); added opt-in pendingFindings option + --pending CLI flag | #32 | #33 | yes | ACCEPT | npm test 96->104, 0 regressions | 7bf7a1d1 | PR #7 MERGED (2026-08-13); PR #13 MERGED (2026-08-15, manual); PRs #15,17,19,21,23,24,27,29,30 still OPEN/unmerged (9-PR backlog, flagged in issue #32, not fixed by this PR) | | 2026-08-28 | security-adversarial | npm audit reports 8 dev-toolchain vulnerabilities (2 critical/1 high/3 moderate/2 low), 0 production; CI did not gate on any of it (issue #43) - added deterministic audit-gate CI job scoped to npm audit --omit=dev | #45 | #46 | yes | ACCEPT | npm test 98->111, 0 regressions; live audit-gate: clear on prod scope, blocked on dev-inclusive scope (proves not a rubber stamp) | fe3d8a92 | #24 closed unmerged (hand-applied by maintainer per commit df9ff40); #19/#21/#27/#29/#33/#30/#35/#40/#42/#44 remain open/draft, zeroMergeStreak=true (6/6 nights, per ledger signals) | +| 2026-09-09 | portfolio 319; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruflo; rGi | accept future-safe package protection, settings-aware MCP scoring, and durable hive ID; retain min-cut workspace and finite-prior holdout claims as inconclusive | reuse ruflo#655; dream-machine#99; metaharness#297 | review dream-machine#100, metaharness#298, RuVector#972, ruflo#3241, rGi#5; Dream evidence draft | partial | ACCEPT / INCONCLUSIVE | 13 public commits across 4 repos; rGi synthetic acquisition cost 731->444 with zero wrong answers; RuVector Workspace cancelled; private activity aggregate-only | report pending | five exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or signed federation claim | From f403776f8409f09c235091b8af0ff5bfad6a3e75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 06:25:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 03/33] docs: bind portfolio ledger witness --- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index 0c0f18c..a226696 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -37,4 +37,4 @@ | 2026-08-25 | compiler-parity | adrConvention object form ({pad,dir}) had zero validation; malformed value silently compiled a corrupted STEP 19 ADR path (empty dir -> absolute-root path); added validateConfig checks | #28 | #29 | yes | ACCEPT | npm test 96->104, 0 regressions | d4958530 | PR #7 merged 2026-08-13, PR #13 merged 2026-08-15; PRs #9,#11,#15,#17,#19,#21,#24,#27 (2026-08-14 through 2026-08-24) still open/draft, human review pending -- their ledger rows never reached main (see Ledger Check audit in issue #28) | | 2026-08-26 | ledger-signals | duplicateDirections only scans merged ledger rows, missing near-duplicate directions across still-open PRs (demonstrated: #15 vs #27); added opt-in pendingFindings option + --pending CLI flag | #32 | #33 | yes | ACCEPT | npm test 96->104, 0 regressions | 7bf7a1d1 | PR #7 MERGED (2026-08-13); PR #13 MERGED (2026-08-15, manual); PRs #15,17,19,21,23,24,27,29,30 still OPEN/unmerged (9-PR backlog, flagged in issue #32, not fixed by this PR) | | 2026-08-28 | security-adversarial | npm audit reports 8 dev-toolchain vulnerabilities (2 critical/1 high/3 moderate/2 low), 0 production; CI did not gate on any of it (issue #43) - added deterministic audit-gate CI job scoped to npm audit --omit=dev | #45 | #46 | yes | ACCEPT | npm test 98->111, 0 regressions; live audit-gate: clear on prod scope, blocked on dev-inclusive scope (proves not a rubber stamp) | fe3d8a92 | #24 closed unmerged (hand-applied by maintainer per commit df9ff40); #19/#21/#27/#29/#33/#30/#35/#40/#42/#44 remain open/draft, zeroMergeStreak=true (6/6 nights, per ledger signals) | -| 2026-09-09 | portfolio 319; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruflo; rGi | accept future-safe package protection, settings-aware MCP scoring, and durable hive ID; retain min-cut workspace and finite-prior holdout claims as inconclusive | reuse ruflo#655; dream-machine#99; metaharness#297 | review dream-machine#100, metaharness#298, RuVector#972, ruflo#3241, rGi#5; Dream evidence draft | partial | ACCEPT / INCONCLUSIVE | 13 public commits across 4 repos; rGi synthetic acquisition cost 731->444 with zero wrong answers; RuVector Workspace cancelled; private activity aggregate-only | report pending | five exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or signed federation claim | +| 2026-09-09 | portfolio 319; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruflo; rGi | accept future-safe package protection, settings-aware MCP scoring, and durable hive ID; retain min-cut workspace and finite-prior holdout claims as inconclusive | reuse ruflo#655; dream-machine#99; metaharness#297 | review dream-machine#100, metaharness#298, RuVector#972, ruflo#3241, rGi#5; Dream evidence draft | partial | ACCEPT / INCONCLUSIVE | 13 public commits across 4 repos; rGi synthetic acquisition cost 731->444 with zero wrong answers; RuVector Workspace cancelled; private activity aggregate-only | report 1c3510d3 | five exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or signed federation claim | From 9454e52bfa5f45ff30e5864bd27e33c6631db4e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:15:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 04/33] docs: record 2026-09-10 portfolio cycle --- .../2026-09-10-portfolio-report.md | 152 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 152 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-10-portfolio-report.md diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-10-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-10-portfolio-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..01280bd --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-10-portfolio-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,152 @@ +# Dream Machine portfolio report — 2026-09-10 + +## Scope and contract + +Dream Machine default branch `main` was fetched first at `3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc`. The active contract was taken from README.md, SECURITY.md, dream.config.json, ADR-0001 and the ADR index, the compiled pipeline source, package manifest, and lockfile. The contract prohibits autonomous merge or self-promotion, requires evidence before action, and requires exactly one terminal verdict for each frozen hypothesis. + +The paginated owned-repository inventory contains 319 repositories: 217 public and 102 private. None are archived. 281 are indexed, 38 are unindexed, and 11 are empty. Private repositories are represented only by aggregates. Since the prior portfolio cutoff, 37 default-branch commits were observed across five public repositories; private activity was zero in aggregate. Open-state searches reached the connector limit at no fewer than 100 open pull requests and 100 open issues. + +## Prioritization and cohort + +Security and reachable functionality outweighed optimization. Review-age rotation and current activity selected Ruflo, MetaHarness, RuVector, RuView, and rudevolution. Archived repositories were excluded from mutation. Open issues and pull requests were reused where possible. + +## Deep reviews + +### 1. Ruflo — streaming multi-agent execution + +Research hypothesis: authoritative boundary tracing plus exact-head workflow analysis will reveal whether the streaming design preserves explicit authority and bounded effects. + +Software hypothesis: PR [#3259](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/pull/3259) preserves explicit execution authority, contains session filesystem effects, and passes every required gate. + +Evidence at `ce1b33d2de39647173565cbeafb898ffe855bdd4`: +- Verification, V3 CI, CVE Audit, Cross-Agent, and CodeQL passed. +- The required CI/CD test suite failed at this exact head. +- A user-controlled session identifier reaches a writable session destination without a containment contract at that boundary. +- Execution is enabled by default; non-interactive operation bypasses the confirmation prompt while the default capability set includes effectful tools. +- The review requires explicit execution opt-in or equivalent fail-closed authorization, zero-effect denied controls, platform containment tests, and cancellation/timeout/orphan/cost evidence. + +Security assessment: a reachable local filesystem/effect boundary was confirmed. No exploit instructions, secret, or deployment claim is included. Any elevated-severity deployment finding should use a private advisory. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 2. MetaHarness — host-adapter containment + +Research hypothesis: format-specific adversarial review plus release-gate inspection will distinguish a correct local containment patch from a releasable security result. + +Software hypothesis: draft PR [#300](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/pull/300) rejects path escape and configuration/command injection without clean-control or release-gate regression. + +Evidence at `2eff2ea2df1f6b2e0336f612e8892c4c40cd90b7`: +- The staging-root containment and YAML/TOML/shell escaping are relevant and covered by non-vacuous adversarial tests. +- Exact-head CI and Real Tools passed across the observed platform/runtime matrix. +- CodeQL, Rust audits, SBOM generation, and the root production-dependency check passed. +- The required Security aggregate failed because the web workspace retains independent high-severity production dependency signals. The patch was not identified as their cause. +- Existing issue [#299](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/issues/299) and the draft PR were reused; no duplicate issue was created. + +Verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +### 3. RuVector — vendored HNSW completeness + +Research hypothesis: upstream provenance, deterministic-structure review, and exact-head native/WASM/workspace evidence will determine whether the proposed HNSW repair is promotable. + +Software hypothesis: PR [#944](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/pull/944) eliminates dropped-point behavior without recall, latency, native/WASM, or workspace regression. + +Evidence at `52044ae207dbd10c8757c27af4e1ab516d9bc9de`: +- The root-cause analysis is corroborated by upstream issue [#37](https://github.com/jean-pierreBoth/hnswlib-rs/issues/37) and open upstream PR [#38](https://github.com/jean-pierreBoth/hnswlib-rs/pull/38). +- The candidate reports zero dropped points versus 780 of 20,000 on its clustered baseline and improved recall, but its small-index gate is probabilistic. +- The upstream change remains open rather than merged and released. +- All six exact-head RuVector workflow groups required authorization; native, WASM, regression, supply-chain, formatting, and Workspace evidence did not execute. +- Promotion requires a deterministic structural invariant or frozen seed, clustered and uniform recall/latency receipts, native/WASM parity, and a green Workspace run. + +Verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +### 4. RuView — bundled vendor-pointer advance + +Research hypothesis: commit-range magnitude, exact-target provenance, and consumer CI will show whether a multi-submodule update is independently reviewable and compatible. + +Software hypothesis: PR [#1885](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/pull/1885) advances MetaHarness, Midstream, and RuVector with source-bound upstream validation and green consumer compatibility. + +Evidence at `4cd0f290de2fc67bdd0d58ecc51b0f76b9df7727`: +- The pointers advance by 77, 2, and 274 upstream commits respectively: 353 commits total. +- The comparison spans at least 637 changed files; two upstream comparisons reached the 300-file API cap. +- No attributable exact-target workflow receipt was found for the selected pointers. The RuVector pointer is a binary-refresh commit that references a different build commit. +- All four RuView consumer workflows require authorization. +- Existing issue [#1743](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/issues/1743) was materially updated with this recurrence. The review requires split or independent receipts, source/binary provenance, exact upstream validation, and green consumer CI/Security/CSI/regression gates. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 5. rudevolution — secure static validation and witness repair + +Research hypothesis: boundary review and exact-head multi-runtime evidence will determine whether the merged repair removes unsafe evaluation while preserving standalone builds and deterministic output. + +Software hypothesis: merged PR [#6](https://github.com/ruvnet/rudevolution/pull/6) replaces VM execution with bounded static validation, binds witness receipts to exact inputs, restores standalone builds, and preserves output while reducing rename cost. + +Evidence at `ee15b1bc0f66f515d3086d502d2db6388c8647ed`: +- Exact-head Security and Correctness passed on Node 22, Node 24, and Rust, including locked installation, audits, dashboard build, unit/integration/doc tests, and benchmark compilation. +- The patch removes VM execution, uses bounded fixed-host retrieval, validates model/tensor and output paths, and binds witness v2 to exact source and module identities. +- Tests include 93 prior Node cases, 14 new security cases, 44 Rust unit tests, 17 Rust integration tests, and one doc test. +- Synthetic bulk-rename comparisons preserved exact output and improved 16.31→1.78 ms (9.17×), 2602.10→5.56 ms (467.92×), and 10742.24→11.91 ms (902.04×). +- Acceptance is limited to the software/security envelope and synthetic microbenchmark; no independent decompilation-accuracy or production claim is made. + +Verdict: **ACCEPT** + +## Security and functionality summary + +No new remotely exploitable critical or high production vulnerability was confirmed. Ruflo has a confirmed local authority/filesystem-boundary defect and a red required suite. MetaHarness has an independently failing production-dependency gate. RuVector and RuView lack exact-head execution evidence. No secrets, exploit instructions, or private-repository details were published. + +The reusable constellation lesson is: an orchestration feature must bind user intent to the final effectful boundary; a plausible source patch, open upstream corroboration, or syntactically valid submodule pointer does not substitute for deterministic exact-head native, WASM, security, and consumer receipts. + +## SOTA and authoritative sources + +- The [MCP 2026-07-28 tools specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/server/tools) requires input validation, access control, rate limiting, sanitized outputs, timeouts, logging, and human confirmation for sensitive operations. It applies directly to Ruflo's effect boundary and MetaHarness-generated integrations. +- Node's current [VM documentation](https://nodejs.org/api/vm.html) states that `node:vm` is not a security mechanism. This supports rudevolution's move from VM execution to bounded static validation. +- The August 13, 2026 [vector database benchmark](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12812) evaluates quality jointly with latency and resource behavior. It applies to RuVector's required recall/latency/workspace gate. +- The August 11, 2026 [Agent Safety as a Runtime Contract](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11274) motivates preventive enforcement plus verifiable evidence at the effectful boundary. +- GitHub's current [secure-use guidance](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/security/secure-use) treats full commit SHAs as the immutable action reference. This remains relevant to portfolio supply-chain gates. + +## Ruflo research-loop receipt + +Parent strategy: exact-head repository and workflow review, authoritative primary-source search, contradiction-first boundary tracing, and reuse of existing evidence. + +Candidate generation: add state-handle/path-boundary tracing, inspect required workflow logs rather than pass counts, quantify submodule commit/file deltas, and distinguish open upstream corroboration from released upstream validation. + +Held-out evaluation: the candidate was manually applied across five repositories not used to tune the prior day's method. It identified four material limiting facts: Ruflo's unbound session/effect boundary, MetaHarness's independent release blocker, RuVector's unexecuted exact-head matrix/open upstream status, and RuView's 353-commit unreceipted sweep. + +Measured delta: authoritative evidence mapped to all five cohort questions, but a comparable deterministic composite, cost trace, and replayable held-out Ruflo evaluation were unavailable. Thresholds were not changed and no strategy was promoted. + +Sources added/rejected: MCP tools requirements, Node VM security guidance, a current vector-database benchmark, runtime-contract research, GitHub secure-use guidance, and the upstream HNSW issue/PR were retained. Vendor or originating-team claims without exact-head receipts were not treated as independent validation. + +Winning strategy: retained parent with candidate lessons recorded only in this Dream receipt. + +Reusable lesson stored: none. The repository-approved Ruflo runtime and durable memory were unavailable, so no memory write, retrieval verification, or self-learning claim was made. + +Cost/time: bounded manual analysis within the cycle budget; token and monetary telemetry were unavailable. + +Blockers: no runnable checkout, pinned Ruflo runtime, local MetaHarness evaluator, validated RuVector/RVF retrieval backend, or governed durable Ruflo memory endpoint. + +Verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Autogenous sub-receipt + +Topology frozen: four specialized roles—primary-source researcher, replication reviewer, contradiction/falsification researcher, and security/privacy critic. The single-agent parent, source cutoff of 2026-09-10, held-out cohort, no-authority constraint, and 15% promotion threshold were fixed before candidate assessment. + +Execution: the Autogenous runtime, validated LatentMesh semantic-delta channel, local MetaHarness evaluator, RuVector/RVF retrieval backend, and durable Ruflo memory were unavailable. The safe fallback was ordinary bounded manual evidence deltas. + +Held-out metrics: no runnable parallel baseline, token/cost trace, deterministic replay, duplicate-source rate, or comparative contradiction-recall score was available. Material dissent was preserved in the repository verdicts rather than averaged away. + +Promotion decision: retain the single-agent Ruflo parent. No topology, factual conclusion, or strategy was promoted; no memory key was written or retrieved. + +Verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Actions and durable coordination + +- Four exact-head COMMENT reviews were submitted: Ruflo #3259, MetaHarness #300, RuVector #944, and RuView #1885. +- RuView issue #1743 was materially updated; no new issue was created. +- No implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, workflow rerun, protected-surface change, or automerge change was performed. +- Dream Machine supplied governance; MetaHarness supplied the adversarial evaluation model; RuVector native/WASM/RVF parity remained an acceptance gate; Core Memory receives only the redacted aggregate checkpoint. +- Private repositories appear only in inventory and activity aggregates. + +## Blockers and next cohort + +Blockers: required authorizations, absent runnable checkouts and hardware, unavailable Ruflo/Autogenous/MetaHarness/RuVector local runtimes, unresolved security-dependency signals, and no governed signed-federation endpoint. + +Next cohort: Ruflo explicit execution/session containment and CI recovery; MetaHarness dependency remediation; RuVector deterministic HNSW plus Workspace/native-WASM evidence; RuView split submodule provenance; rudevolution independent accuracy evaluation; LatentMesh calibration; APx and QuDAG rotation; neglected high-risk repositories. From 95a7de97e722e03aa7007574374809baa3f636a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:15:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 05/33] docs: append 2026-09-10 portfolio ledger --- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index a226696..22b48e9 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ | 2026-08-26 | ledger-signals | duplicateDirections only scans merged ledger rows, missing near-duplicate directions across still-open PRs (demonstrated: #15 vs #27); added opt-in pendingFindings option + --pending CLI flag | #32 | #33 | yes | ACCEPT | npm test 96->104, 0 regressions | 7bf7a1d1 | PR #7 MERGED (2026-08-13); PR #13 MERGED (2026-08-15, manual); PRs #15,17,19,21,23,24,27,29,30 still OPEN/unmerged (9-PR backlog, flagged in issue #32, not fixed by this PR) | | 2026-08-28 | security-adversarial | npm audit reports 8 dev-toolchain vulnerabilities (2 critical/1 high/3 moderate/2 low), 0 production; CI did not gate on any of it (issue #43) - added deterministic audit-gate CI job scoped to npm audit --omit=dev | #45 | #46 | yes | ACCEPT | npm test 98->111, 0 regressions; live audit-gate: clear on prod scope, blocked on dev-inclusive scope (proves not a rubber stamp) | fe3d8a92 | #24 closed unmerged (hand-applied by maintainer per commit df9ff40); #19/#21/#27/#29/#33/#30/#35/#40/#42/#44 remain open/draft, zeroMergeStreak=true (6/6 nights, per ledger signals) | | 2026-09-09 | portfolio 319; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruflo; rGi | accept future-safe package protection, settings-aware MCP scoring, and durable hive ID; retain min-cut workspace and finite-prior holdout claims as inconclusive | reuse ruflo#655; dream-machine#99; metaharness#297 | review dream-machine#100, metaharness#298, RuVector#972, ruflo#3241, rGi#5; Dream evidence draft | partial | ACCEPT / INCONCLUSIVE | 13 public commits across 4 repos; rGi synthetic acquisition cost 731->444 with zero wrong answers; RuVector Workspace cancelled; private activity aggregate-only | report 1c3510d3 | five exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or signed federation claim | +| 2026-09-10 | portfolio 319; ruflo; metaharness; RuVector; RuView; rudevolution | accept rudevolution bounded static-validation/witness repair; reject Ruflo unbound execution/session effects and RuView ungated vendor sweep; retain MetaHarness dependency-gated containment and RuVector HNSW fix as inconclusive | update RuView#1743; reuse metaharness#299, RuVector#773 | reviews ruflo#3259, metaharness#300, RuVector#944, RuView#1885; dream-machine#101 | partial | ACCEPT / REJECT / INCONCLUSIVE | 37 public commits across 5 repos; rudevolution exact-head Node/Rust/security green and synthetic rename 9.17x-902.04x; private activity zero aggregate | report 9454e52b | four exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, self-learning promotion, or signed federation claim | From 73fc84fbb806fb55b05cdadf9585727345901fa2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:19:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 06/33] docs: add 2026-09-10 validation receipts --- docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-10-portfolio-report.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-10-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-10-portfolio-report.md index 01280bd..958072a 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-10-portfolio-report.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-10-portfolio-report.md @@ -150,3 +150,13 @@ Verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** Blockers: required authorizations, absent runnable checkouts and hardware, unavailable Ruflo/Autogenous/MetaHarness/RuVector local runtimes, unresolved security-dependency signals, and no governed signed-federation endpoint. Next cohort: Ruflo explicit execution/session containment and CI recovery; MetaHarness dependency remediation; RuVector deterministic HNSW plus Workspace/native-WASM evidence; RuView split submodule provenance; rudevolution independent accuracy evaluation; LatentMesh calibration; APx and QuDAG rotation; neglected high-risk repositories. + + +## Evidence validation + +The report and single ledger row were present at evidence head `95a7de97e722e03aa7007574374809baa3f636a5`. + +- [Dream Machine CI run 34449097534](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/actions/runs/34449097534): passed. +- [Dream Machine CodeQL run 34449097567](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/actions/runs/34449097567): passed. +- [Core Memory aggregate checkpoint](https://github.com/ruvnet/core-memory/issues/20#issuecomment-5614699151): written and retrieval-verified. +- Draft PR [#101](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/pull/101) remained mergeable, unmerged, and without automerge. From b5e210d9dedf94840b03fa370933ad0539a4f929 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:01:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 07/33] docs: record 2026-09-11 portfolio cycle --- .../2026-09-11-portfolio-report.md | 129 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 129 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-11-portfolio-report.md diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-11-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-11-portfolio-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..964f294 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-11-portfolio-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +# Dream Machine portfolio cycle — 2026-09-11 + +## Scope and execution contract + +The default branch of `ruvnet/dream-machine` was fetched first at `3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc`. The reviewed contract was README `355222b4`, SECURITY `1663f995`, `dream.config.json` `c17b0003`, compiled pipeline `e2c16ad1`, and ADR-0001 `5770eac0`. This cycle did not merge, enable automerge, deploy, release, probe production, or expand credentials or protected-surface authority. + +Repository inventory used the authenticated installed-repository stream to exhaustion. Results: **319 owned repositories: 217 public and 102 private; none archived; 281 indexed, 38 unindexed, and 11 empty**. Private repositories were used only for the aggregate counts in this paragraph. Since the prior cutoff, public activity had a lower bound of **17 default-branch commits across 10 repositories**; private activity was **0 commits across 0 repositories** in aggregate. Open-state searches reached the connector ceiling at **at least 100 open PRs and 100 open issues**. + +Selection used the configured 35/30/10/10/10/5 security, functionality/production, velocity, measurable optimization, SOTA relevance, and review-age weights, with security/functionality override and neglected-project rotation. The five-repository cohort was Ruflo, QuDAG, Agent Name Service, agentic-voice, and auto-browser. + +## Frozen hypotheses and verdicts + +### 1. Ruflo — authenticated consensus boundary + +**Research hypothesis.** Exact-head effect tracing plus adversarial identity admission will determine whether the candidate converts hive roster membership into an authenticated consensus boundary. + +**Implementation hypothesis.** At `b275fdd04258cfb1d0b7ba671c6185c819d4e0e6`, rejecting voter IDs absent from `state.workers` prevents an unauthenticated caller from manufacturing consensus. + +**Baseline and threshold.** Baseline focused replay: 2/3 adversarial cases fail because fabricated voter IDs are counted. Candidate threshold: 3/3 focused tests, authenticated join/leave/vote at the final effect boundary, zero denied side effects after reopen, and every required exact-head workflow green. + +**Evidence.** The candidate reaches 3/3 focused cases and five workflow groups pass: V3 CI/CD, CVE Audit, Cross-Agent, Verification, and CodeQL. [CI/CD run 34569593675](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/actions/runs/34569593675) fails on the exact head because a clean install cannot resolve a required security package; the failure reproduced after rerun. The broader originating-team receipt is 2,863/3,036 passing, 46 failing, and 127 skipped. Reachable `hive-mind_join` and leave remain unauthenticated, so fabricated identities can first enter the roster and then satisfy the new vote check. Existing [issue #3290](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/3290) and [PR #3291](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/pull/3291) were reused; an exact-commit review records the gate. + +**Adversarial/reward-hack check.** Focused-test improvement was not accepted as end-to-end identity enforcement; pass counts, scope narrowing, and a majority of green workflows did not substitute for the final effect boundary. + +**REJECT** + +### 2. QuDAG — v2 cryptographic and DAG release qualification + +**Research hypothesis.** Standards mapping, exact-head workflow replay, and independent negative controls will determine whether the merged v2 hardening is a releasable implementation rather than a plausible source change. + +**Implementation hypothesis.** The ML-KEM, DAG admission, authentication, MCP, and federation changes at PR head `ac9c28927dfef31c8385a096dc034b39c7c8abcd` satisfy release qualification. + +**Baseline and threshold.** Baseline was placeholder cryptography and incomplete admission checks. Threshold: deterministic focused and full-workspace tests, independent ML-KEM known-answer/interoperability and tamper cases, audit reachability, timing/fuzz/license/secret/container checks, CLI/WASM/platform compatibility, and frozen benchmarks, all bound to the exact candidate. + +**Evidence.** Source inspection found a materially stronger RustCrypto ML-KEM construction, zeroized secret material, implicit-rejection handling, and an honestly fail-closed validation script. However, **0/6 exact-head workflow groups passed**: [CI](https://github.com/ruvnet/QuDAG/actions/runs/34432399593), [Performance Testing](https://github.com/ruvnet/QuDAG/actions/runs/34432399579), [v2 validation](https://github.com/ruvnet/QuDAG/actions/runs/34432399683), [Benchmarks](https://github.com/ruvnet/QuDAG/actions/runs/34432399717), [Security Scan](https://github.com/ruvnet/QuDAG/actions/runs/34432399613), and [Compatibility](https://github.com/ruvnet/QuDAG/actions/runs/34432399656). No post-merge receipt was present for `945fc6fc`. Dependency signals were retained without public exploitability claims. [Issue #17](https://github.com/ruvnet/QuDAG/issues/17) was created with a fail-closed release gate, and [PR #16](https://github.com/ruvnet/QuDAG/pull/16) received an exact-head review. + +**Adversarial/reward-hack check.** A standards-compatible primitive and large change set were not treated as independent interoperability, timing, reachability, or release evidence. + +**REJECT** + +### 3. Agent Name Service — local identity lifecycle + +**Research hypothesis.** Binding, expiry, challenge replay, concurrent mutation, and reopen tests can establish the local Registry API while preserving the distinction between cryptographic validity and current authorization. + +**Implementation hypothesis.** At `ec972ebc6887b7808f8db4415a30e1a088b1e880`, the local registry rejects forged, expired, replayed, and revoked identities after reopen without exceeding capacity. + +**Baseline and threshold.** Threshold: deterministic Ed25519 verification, pinned issuer, bounded lifetime, single-use audience-bound challenge, atomic SQLite registration/revocation, durable reopen behavior, exact-head green CI, and no claim that MCP binding validity implies registry authorization. + +**Evidence.** Ten domain tests cover signature/tamper, expiry, revocation persistence, audience/replay, and capacity. The package has no third-party runtime dependencies. [Project validation](https://github.com/ruvnet/Agent-Name-Service/actions/runs/34542357761) and [MetaHarness/Autogenous](https://github.com/ruvnet/Agent-Name-Service/actions/runs/34542357801) pass. The originating-team benchmark reports 0.431 ms p95 over 1,000 local validations. MCP verification truthfully returns `revocationChecked: false`; it proves binding validity, not active membership or permission. [Issue #3](https://github.com/ruvnet/Agent-Name-Service/issues/3) remains open for issuer rotation, distributed revocation, rollback protection, tenant authentication, and revocation-aware MCP semantics. [PR #4](https://github.com/ruvnet/Agent-Name-Service/pull/4) received a scoped exact-head review. + +**Adversarial/reward-hack check.** The MCP `valid` label was not promoted to authorization, and the local benchmark was not relabeled as distributed or production performance. + +**ACCEPT** + +### 4. agentic-voice — credential and provider boundary + +**Research hypothesis.** Current-tree effect tracing plus secret-lifecycle evidence can distinguish code removal from revocation and production qualification. + +**Implementation hypothesis.** At `a0940c9989617902b7c2f6d091ab5d71fe8a947c`, bounded provider routes and removal of the historical credential close the production security risk. + +**Baseline and threshold.** Threshold: authorization before any provider effect; fixed destinations; redirect, size, frame, token, output, time, cancellation, and concurrency bounds; exact-head green workflows; privately verified credential revocation; live browser/provider replay; and shared deployment spending controls. + +**Evidence.** The current tree credibly enforces the software controls and reports 15 domain security/provider tests, two SDK stdio tests, bounded child processes, and zero current runtime audit findings. [MetaHarness/Autogenous](https://github.com/ruvnet/agentic-voice/actions/runs/34542365238) and [Voice validation](https://github.com/ruvnet/agentic-voice/actions/runs/34542365058) pass. Historical credential revocation is not verified, and no live provider, microphone, multi-instance quota, cost, or quality receipt exists. Existing [issue #3](https://github.com/ruvnet/agentic-voice/issues/3) remains the private-owner gate; no credential or replacement value was disclosed. [PR #4](https://github.com/ruvnet/agentic-voice/pull/4) received a scoped review. + +**Adversarial/reward-hack check.** Removal from current source was not counted as revocation, and synthetic/current-tree tests were not counted as live provider validation. + +**REJECT** + +### 5. auto-browser — inert snapshot containment + +**Research hypothesis.** DNS rebinding, address-class, redirect, browser-network, deadline, and process-group negative controls can establish the bounded inert-snapshot envelope without implying general browser automation. + +**Implementation hypothesis.** At `2b04e57faeaeb06b62e60b9315e02fdfe5780155`, the supported snapshot path prevents private-network fetches and browser side effects while terminating bounded hostile inputs. + +**Baseline and threshold.** Threshold: exact HTTPS origin, credentials/hash/nonstandard-port rejection, all-address public validation with address pinning, no redirects, bounded HTML/deadlines, sandbox enabled, script/network/service-worker suppression, process-group cleanup, adversarial loopback/Chromium tests, and exact-head green CI. + +**Evidence.** Six domain cases include actual DNS-loopback denial and inert Chromium extraction. Dependencies are pinned and the originating-team audit reports zero production findings. [Validation/package](https://github.com/ruvnet/auto-browser/actions/runs/34542459279) and [MetaHarness/Autogenous](https://github.com/ruvnet/auto-browser/actions/runs/34542462102) pass. Acceptance excludes unprivileged-container portability, public slow-drip behavior, authenticated/dynamic sites, disclosure actions, and production field memory; these remain under [issue #5](https://github.com/ruvnet/auto-browser/issues/5). [PR #6](https://github.com/ruvnet/auto-browser/pull/6) received an exact-head review. + +**Adversarial/reward-hack check.** Software-renderer success was not counted as interactive-browser, container, or production evidence. + +**ACCEPT** + +## Security audit receipt + +Read-only assessment covered repository security policies where present, manifests and lockfiles, changed trust boundaries, workflow results, and public dependency/audit output. No new remotely exploitable critical or high production vulnerability was confirmed. QuDAG has a confirmed release-gate failure with dependency and security signals whose production reachability remains unconfirmed. agentic-voice retains a private owner action for credential revocation. No secret value, exploit instruction, or private-repository detail was published. + +A runnable checkout was unavailable, so pinned Ruflo `3.25.6` dependency/secret/STRIDE commands and fresh local native/WASM tests could not be executed. GitHub-hosted exact-head security evidence was used without claiming an independent local scan. QuDAG has no repository `SECURITY.md`; sensitive follow-up should use a private advisory rather than a public reproduction. + +## SOTA and authoritative sources + +- [NIST FIPS 203](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/203/final) defines ML-KEM-512/768/1024 and lists a potential-update errata note. It is the authoritative QuDAG primitive contract, though older than the preferred 90-day window. +- The July 28, 2026 [MCP tools specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/server/tools) requires input validation, access control, rate limiting, output sanitization, client result validation, timeouts, and audit logging. This informs every MCP effect-boundary gate. +- GitHub's current [secure-use guidance](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/security/secure-use) states that a full commit SHA is the only immutable action reference. Mutable action tags remain portfolio supply-chain debt. +- The [OWASP Secrets Management guidance](https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Secrets_Management_Cheat_Sheet.html) separates creation, rotation, revocation, and expiration and requires potentially compromised secrets to be revoked. This directly supports the agentic-voice verdict. + +## Ruflo research-loop receipt + +- **Prior memory recalled:** final-effect enforcement, exact-head holdouts, restart/reopen evidence, and the distinction between source removal and secret revocation. The redacted Core Memory record was retrieval-verified before the cycle. +- **Parent strategy:** exact-head required-workflow and final-effect-boundary tracing; authoritative-source-first; independent negative controls. Hash `6b94030ad14b7f194bed227354d3cb256685f6c1b0214afca28b6ec3a967a14e`. +- **Candidate generation:** add current-tree-removal versus lifecycle-revocation checks, post-merge receipts, and restart/reopen identity controls. Hash `982dc703445658ee35229d3d34a098e7e1da6c43a94d23534f7325e1e8c2596c`. +- **Holdout:** QuDAG release qualification and agentic-voice credential lifecycle were excluded from candidate formulation, then used to test the method. +- **Measured delta:** authoritative evidence mapped to 5/5 cohort questions and surfaced four material boundary contradictions: roster membership versus authenticated admission; merged source versus release receipt; binding validity versus revocation-aware authorization; current-tree removal versus credential revocation. A comparable replayable parent composite and connector cost metric were unavailable, so the preregistered 10% promotion threshold could not be evaluated. +- **Sources added/rejected:** four authoritative sources above were retained. Vendor/originating-team pass counts were retained only as attributed evidence; no withdrawn, circular, or uncited research claim was promoted. +- **Cost/time:** bounded within the 45-minute per-repository cap; token and monetary cost were not exposed by the available connector. +- **Runtime degradation:** no runnable Ruflo 3.25.6 checkout, durable Ruflo memory runtime, validated RuVector/RVF backend, or local MetaHarness evaluator was available. No strategy promotion, Ruflo memory write, retrieval verification, or self-learning claim was made. + +**INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Autogenous exploration sub-receipt + +- **Frozen topology:** four roles—primary-source researcher, falsification critic, security/privacy critic, and benchmark designer. Configuration hash `4f0efdedb6a2d2756529ba61524be0f10d40bc32e7f4ef50cf0d55bd189d2f1d`. +- **Parent/holdout:** the Ruflo parent above; held-out QuDAG release and agentic-voice lifecycle questions; default 15% authoritative-coverage or contradiction-recall threshold with no quality/cost regression. +- **Communication:** structured evidence-delta fallback. LatentMesh semantic-delta transport was not claimed. +- **Dissent:** the strongest dissent was that green focused tests or source construction could justify scoped acceptance. MetaHarness-style critique retained scoped acceptance for Agent Name Service and auto-browser, but rejected broader Ruflo, QuDAG, and agentic-voice claims. +- **Metrics:** no executable Autogenous runtime, deterministic replay, token/cost receipt, duplicate-source rate, or held-out comparative score was available. No candidate strategy or factual conclusion was promoted; no Ruflo memory key was written. + +**INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Constellation integration and actions + +Dream Machine supplied the governance contract and durable receipt. Ruflo supplied the reviewed learning/consensus surface and the manual research-loop structure. MetaHarness and Autogenous workflow evidence was consumed where exact-head runs existed, without claiming local runtime execution. RuVector/RuVector WASM retrieval was not claimed because a validated backend was unavailable. Core Memory supplied the prior aggregate lesson set and will receive a redacted aggregate checkpoint. + +Actions this cycle: **one new issue, five exact-head COMMENT reviews, one evidence draft update, zero implementation PRs, zero direct pushes, zero merges, zero releases, zero deployments, and zero automerge changes**. + +## Blockers and next cohort + +Blockers: no runnable repository checkouts; no durable Ruflo memory or governed signed-federation endpoint; no validated RuVector/RVF retrieval; no local MetaHarness or Autogenous runtime; QuDAG red release workflows; Ruflo cold-install failure; no private credential-revocation receipt; and missing live browser/provider/container evidence. + +Next cohort: QuDAG issue #17 release recovery, Ruflo authenticated join/leave/vote and clean installation, Agent Name Service revocation-aware MCP semantics, agentic-voice private credential-lifecycle closure, auto-browser slow-drip/container qualification, MetaHarness dependency remediation, deterministic RuVector Workspace/native-WASM-RVF recovery, LatentMesh calibration, APx, and neglected high-risk repositories. From d3024703135bd13610f5e93fbf1c246de3db5333 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:02:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 08/33] docs: append 2026-09-11 portfolio ledger --- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index 22b48e9..933e7d7 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -39,3 +39,4 @@ | 2026-08-28 | security-adversarial | npm audit reports 8 dev-toolchain vulnerabilities (2 critical/1 high/3 moderate/2 low), 0 production; CI did not gate on any of it (issue #43) - added deterministic audit-gate CI job scoped to npm audit --omit=dev | #45 | #46 | yes | ACCEPT | npm test 98->111, 0 regressions; live audit-gate: clear on prod scope, blocked on dev-inclusive scope (proves not a rubber stamp) | fe3d8a92 | #24 closed unmerged (hand-applied by maintainer per commit df9ff40); #19/#21/#27/#29/#33/#30/#35/#40/#42/#44 remain open/draft, zeroMergeStreak=true (6/6 nights, per ledger signals) | | 2026-09-09 | portfolio 319; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruflo; rGi | accept future-safe package protection, settings-aware MCP scoring, and durable hive ID; retain min-cut workspace and finite-prior holdout claims as inconclusive | reuse ruflo#655; dream-machine#99; metaharness#297 | review dream-machine#100, metaharness#298, RuVector#972, ruflo#3241, rGi#5; Dream evidence draft | partial | ACCEPT / INCONCLUSIVE | 13 public commits across 4 repos; rGi synthetic acquisition cost 731->444 with zero wrong answers; RuVector Workspace cancelled; private activity aggregate-only | report 1c3510d3 | five exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or signed federation claim | | 2026-09-10 | portfolio 319; ruflo; metaharness; RuVector; RuView; rudevolution | accept rudevolution bounded static-validation/witness repair; reject Ruflo unbound execution/session effects and RuView ungated vendor sweep; retain MetaHarness dependency-gated containment and RuVector HNSW fix as inconclusive | update RuView#1743; reuse metaharness#299, RuVector#773 | reviews ruflo#3259, metaharness#300, RuVector#944, RuView#1885; dream-machine#101 | partial | ACCEPT / REJECT / INCONCLUSIVE | 37 public commits across 5 repos; rudevolution exact-head Node/Rust/security green and synthetic rename 9.17x-902.04x; private activity zero aggregate | report 9454e52b | four exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, self-learning promotion, or signed federation claim | +| 2026-09-11 | portfolio 319; ruflo; QuDAG; Agent-Name-Service; agentic-voice; auto-browser | accept bounded local identity and inert-snapshot envelopes; reject unauthenticated consensus, red QuDAG release qualification, and incomplete credential lifecycle | QuDAG#17; reuse ruflo#3290, ANS#3, agentic-voice#3, auto-browser#5 | reviews ruflo#3291, QuDAG#16, ANS#4, agentic-voice#4, auto-browser#6; dream-machine#101 | partial | ACCEPT / REJECT / INCONCLUSIVE | 17 public commits across 10 repos; QuDAG 0/6 workflow groups green; ANS and auto-browser exact-head workflows green; private activity zero aggregate | report b5e210d9 | one issue created, five exact-head reviews; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, strategy promotion, or signed federation claim | From 9f2c5ff56673ea3456f7bfb9ad0e7806f3a855d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:05:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 09/33] docs: link verified Core Memory checkpoint --- docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-11-portfolio-report.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-11-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-11-portfolio-report.md index 964f294..9263dc1 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-11-portfolio-report.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-11-portfolio-report.md @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ A runnable checkout was unavailable, so pinned Ruflo `3.25.6` dependency/secret/ ## Constellation integration and actions -Dream Machine supplied the governance contract and durable receipt. Ruflo supplied the reviewed learning/consensus surface and the manual research-loop structure. MetaHarness and Autogenous workflow evidence was consumed where exact-head runs existed, without claiming local runtime execution. RuVector/RuVector WASM retrieval was not claimed because a validated backend was unavailable. Core Memory supplied the prior aggregate lesson set and will receive a redacted aggregate checkpoint. +Dream Machine supplied the governance contract and durable receipt. Ruflo supplied the reviewed learning/consensus surface and the manual research-loop structure. MetaHarness and Autogenous workflow evidence was consumed where exact-head runs existed, without claiming local runtime execution. RuVector/RuVector WASM retrieval was not claimed because a validated backend was unavailable. Core Memory supplied the prior aggregate lesson set and received a [retrieval-verified redacted aggregate checkpoint](https://github.com/ruvnet/core-memory/issues/20#issuecomment-5630760703). Actions this cycle: **one new issue, five exact-head COMMENT reviews, one evidence draft update, zero implementation PRs, zero direct pushes, zero merges, zero releases, zero deployments, and zero automerge changes**. From e16fbbaa0630b561e76378018ad69b139419569c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:05:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 10/33] docs: bind 2026-09-11 ledger to final report --- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index 933e7d7..8a8c768 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ | 2026-08-28 | security-adversarial | npm audit reports 8 dev-toolchain vulnerabilities (2 critical/1 high/3 moderate/2 low), 0 production; CI did not gate on any of it (issue #43) - added deterministic audit-gate CI job scoped to npm audit --omit=dev | #45 | #46 | yes | ACCEPT | npm test 98->111, 0 regressions; live audit-gate: clear on prod scope, blocked on dev-inclusive scope (proves not a rubber stamp) | fe3d8a92 | #24 closed unmerged (hand-applied by maintainer per commit df9ff40); #19/#21/#27/#29/#33/#30/#35/#40/#42/#44 remain open/draft, zeroMergeStreak=true (6/6 nights, per ledger signals) | | 2026-09-09 | portfolio 319; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruflo; rGi | accept future-safe package protection, settings-aware MCP scoring, and durable hive ID; retain min-cut workspace and finite-prior holdout claims as inconclusive | reuse ruflo#655; dream-machine#99; metaharness#297 | review dream-machine#100, metaharness#298, RuVector#972, ruflo#3241, rGi#5; Dream evidence draft | partial | ACCEPT / INCONCLUSIVE | 13 public commits across 4 repos; rGi synthetic acquisition cost 731->444 with zero wrong answers; RuVector Workspace cancelled; private activity aggregate-only | report 1c3510d3 | five exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or signed federation claim | | 2026-09-10 | portfolio 319; ruflo; metaharness; RuVector; RuView; rudevolution | accept rudevolution bounded static-validation/witness repair; reject Ruflo unbound execution/session effects and RuView ungated vendor sweep; retain MetaHarness dependency-gated containment and RuVector HNSW fix as inconclusive | update RuView#1743; reuse metaharness#299, RuVector#773 | reviews ruflo#3259, metaharness#300, RuVector#944, RuView#1885; dream-machine#101 | partial | ACCEPT / REJECT / INCONCLUSIVE | 37 public commits across 5 repos; rudevolution exact-head Node/Rust/security green and synthetic rename 9.17x-902.04x; private activity zero aggregate | report 9454e52b | four exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, self-learning promotion, or signed federation claim | -| 2026-09-11 | portfolio 319; ruflo; QuDAG; Agent-Name-Service; agentic-voice; auto-browser | accept bounded local identity and inert-snapshot envelopes; reject unauthenticated consensus, red QuDAG release qualification, and incomplete credential lifecycle | QuDAG#17; reuse ruflo#3290, ANS#3, agentic-voice#3, auto-browser#5 | reviews ruflo#3291, QuDAG#16, ANS#4, agentic-voice#4, auto-browser#6; dream-machine#101 | partial | ACCEPT / REJECT / INCONCLUSIVE | 17 public commits across 10 repos; QuDAG 0/6 workflow groups green; ANS and auto-browser exact-head workflows green; private activity zero aggregate | report b5e210d9 | one issue created, five exact-head reviews; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, strategy promotion, or signed federation claim | +| 2026-09-11 | portfolio 319; ruflo; QuDAG; Agent-Name-Service; agentic-voice; auto-browser | accept bounded local identity and inert-snapshot envelopes; reject unauthenticated consensus, red QuDAG release qualification, and incomplete credential lifecycle | QuDAG#17; reuse ruflo#3290, ANS#3, agentic-voice#3, auto-browser#5 | reviews ruflo#3291, QuDAG#16, ANS#4, agentic-voice#4, auto-browser#6; dream-machine#101 | partial | ACCEPT / REJECT / INCONCLUSIVE | 17 public commits across 10 repos; QuDAG 0/6 workflow groups green; ANS and auto-browser exact-head workflows green; private activity zero aggregate | report 9f2c5ff5 | one issue created, five exact-head reviews; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, strategy promotion, or signed federation claim | From 6d50440e91fdc15269a41156842fa63c097a7e5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:08:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 11/33] docs: record 2026-09-12 portfolio cycle --- .../2026-09-12-portfolio-report.md | 123 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 123 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-12-portfolio-report.md diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-12-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-12-portfolio-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..91d4b61 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-12-portfolio-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +# Dream Machine portfolio report — 2026-09-12 + +## Contract and scope + +The cycle fetched `ruvnet/dream-machine` default branch first at `3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc`. The active contract was read from README.md (`355222b4f9ef7e46c199d903e74fa24223f33e4d`), SECURITY.md (`1663f995e80a3088e46fa6fa6633351ad934a959`), dream.config.json (`c17b00036f11b09cb0999f5142089c84252531f9`), ADR-0001 (`5770eac0d4ba6634897c0da982fb5c200f8b6a51`), the ADR index, compiled pipeline source (`e2c16ad1d34fd942dabce23dcc84ab47dcfa8efe`), manifests, and lockfile. Human-only merge authority, fail-closed evidence, private-vulnerability disclosure, and exactly one terminal verdict per hypothesis were preserved. + +All owned repositories were inventoried with pagination: 100, 100, 100, 21, then 0 results. The portfolio contains 321 repositories: 218 public and 103 private. None are archived; 283 are indexed, 38 unindexed, and 11 empty. The public and private counts each increased by one since the prior inventory. Private repository identities and details are excluded. + +Observed activity since `2026-09-11T07:00:00Z` is a lower bound: 31 default-branch commits across four public repositories. Private activity was four commits in one repository, aggregate-only. Open-state searches reached connector caps at at least 100 pull requests and 100 issues. + +Security 35%, functionality/production 30%, velocity 10%, optimization 10%, SOTA 10%, and review age 5% selected RuLTRA, Ruflo, RuVector, RuView, and MetaHarness. The cohort, parent research strategy, lifecycle/provenance candidate, and held-out boundary questions were frozen before candidate outcomes. + +## Deep reviews + +### 1. RuLTRA — control-surface and release evidence + +Research hypothesis: boundary tracing, browser-origin review, immutable-workflow guidance, and exact-main CI will distinguish a safe-by-default hardware console from a listener-only safety claim. + +Software hypothesis: main `7483b792f5e0767161ccbf944d428d90e07a6416` enforces its documented control-surface isolation and produces a deployable Raspberry Pi artifact when CI is green. + +The repository is a new public Rust workspace integrating pinned Autogenous types, RuVector memory, MetaHarness-style scoring, and a governed hardware loop. README, Cargo manifests/lockfile, UI routes/authentication, CI, ADR links, tests, trust boundaries, and release history were inspected. There is no SECURITY.md and no release yet. + +Exact-main [CI run 34665049643](https://github.com/ruvnet/rultra/actions/runs/34665049643) reports success for no-hardware tests, aarch64 cross-build, and RustSec audit. The same run warns that the advertised aarch64 binary path is absent, so no artifact was uploaded. Third-party Actions also use mutable tags. Public [issue #1](https://github.com/ruvnet/rultra/issues/1) records immutable-reference, nonzero-artifact, checksum, MSRV, and negative-gate criteria. + +A separate reachable high-severity control-surface isolation defect was confirmed with high confidence. Its reproduction and implementation detail are intentionally withheld from this public report. No deployment is assumed. Open a [private RuLTRA security advisory](https://github.com/ruvnet/rultra/security/advisories/new) before remediation discussion. + +**REJECT** + +### 2. Ruflo — public federation review profile + +Research hypothesis: the MCP 2026-07-28 authorization/tool contracts, exact-head profile diff, public gateway observations, and denial-path tests will show whether the profile removes model-visible secrets and binds effects to transport authorization end to end. + +Software hypothesis: [PR #3300](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/pull/3300) safely exposes public-review reads and bounded submissions through the intended production/client path without widening the legacy profile. + +Exact head: `e5869af727674af2a011ca95ee9827fac548d2e7`. All eight observed workflow groups passed: CI/CD, Verification, CVE Audit, CodeQL, Marketplace, Cross-Agent, all-plugins, and no-MetaHarness. The profile removes membership-administration and secret-bearing tool parameters, uses transport headers for remaining writes, and labels relay-derived content with a fresh identifier. + +The PR itself records five live paths returning 404, no relay-backed production read, and no independent target-client receipt. MCP explicitly treats tool annotations as untrusted hints, so the envelope cannot substitute for server-side effect enforcement. A COMMENT review records authenticated staging, zero-effect denial, rate/timeout, and client-preservation gates. Current inspected Ruflo release: v3.41.2, published September 10, 2026. + +**INCONCLUSIVE** + +### 3. RuVector — RVF string-ID release integrity + +Research hypothesis: install-graph, close/reopen, independent-reader, native/WASM, and workspace evidence will show whether a manifest-floor bump repairs the published artifact rather than only source resolution. + +Software hypothesis: [PR #980](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/pull/980) safely repairs distinct string-ID persistence in the installable CLI and preserves the required workspace. + +Exact head: `c334e350314b0e5826c56e0bde3d29110d0e702b`. The direction is relevant to confirmed [issue #704](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/issues/704#issuecomment-5644355032), but only two package manifests change. The committed lockfile is not updated, no republished-artifact or independent-reader receipt exists, and metadata remains a separate fail-closed requirement. + +Native, WASM-dedup, regression, supply-chain, npm-functional, formatting, and clippy evidence passed. Required Workspace CI [run 34616661436](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/actions/runs/34616661436) failed after 3,546 of 3,547 tests passed: one reasoning-bank test could not acquire its database lock, and a sibling shard was cancelled. The issue and PR review now require a clean exact install, three distinct IDs across reopen, explicit metadata behavior, native/WASM parity, independent reading, and fully green Workspace CI. Latest inspected RuVector release remains 0.2.40; RVF durable COW 0.3.4 is separately released. + +**REJECT** + +### 4. RuView — calibration identity and expiry + +Research hypothesis: lifecycle replay and exact-head source/workflow inspection will show that boot, session, binding, node, and model identities remain coherent across start, finish, promotion, reset, restart, and expiry. + +Software hypothesis: [PR #1903](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/pull/1903) enforces those identities and passes its own long-running expiry invariant. + +Exact head: `2c0abcc8023a45c6bf21dcbcfd78e9139b7bf172`. The explicit identities and 22 focused tests are relevant. CSI policy, fix-marker, benchmark, and Security workflows passed. Continuous Integration [run 34633581574](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/actions/runs/34633581574) failed in Rust Workspace Tests: `calibration_expiry_tests::long_running_expiry_is_not_reported_active_for_runtime_or_bootstrap` observed active when false was required. That is the exact lifecycle invariant changed by the PR; Docker, API documentation, and performance jobs were skipped afterward. The review requires the elapsed-time/unit repair, retained mismatch cases, full exact-head CI, and a real multi-node lifecycle receipt. Latest inspected release: v2655, September 11, 2026. + +**REJECT** + +### 5. MetaHarness — zero-floor promotion logic + +Research hypothesis: invalid-score and reward-hack adversaries will show whether a zero/zero no-op tie removes ceiling lockout without expanding promotion to malformed evidence. + +Software hypothesis: draft [PR #307](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/pull/307) permits only the true zero floor while rejecting invalid, non-finite, or out-of-domain scores. + +Exact head: `eb521e762d48f9cc3fefbdd1bbe6d1b92b81c105`. The intended zero/zero case is correct. Focused tests report 77/77, downstream tests 124/124, and exact-head CI, Security, and Real Tools all passed. + +Adversarial source replay found a deterministic counterexample. The gate defines a baseline at floor as any `noopRate <= 0`, then accepts any candidate `noopRate <= 0`. `Score` is a TypeScript interface and the gate performs no finite or range validation. A negative/negative pair therefore promotes; NaN comparisons are also fail-open. The new negative-baseline test checks only a positive candidate and does not cover this case. The review requires finite/domain validation, `noopRate` in [0,1], nonnegative cost, and negative/NaN/infinity/missing-field controls before retaining the exact zero/zero exception. Latest inspected release: v0.4.4. + +**REJECT** + +## Security and functionality + +One new high-severity RuLTRA finding was confirmed against reachable default code. It is redacted and reserved for private advisory handling. No new remotely exploitable critical finding was confirmed, no production system was probed, and no secret or private-repository detail was published. + +Public confirmed defects: RuLTRA's green CI does not produce the advertised binary; RuVector's dependency change lacks release/install proof and required Workspace CI; RuView fails its own expiry regression; MetaHarness can promote out-of-domain evidence. Ruflo's local software envelope is green but production/client reachability remains unproven. + +Read-only source, manifest, lockfile, workflow, dependency-gate, release, and trust-boundary review was performed. A runnable repository checkout was unavailable, so local `npm audit`, `cargo audit`, secret scanning, STRIDE generation, candidate builds, and fresh native/WASM/RVF replay could not be executed. Exact GitHub workflows and reachable source were used without upgrading their authority. + +## SOTA and authoritative evidence + +- The [MCP tools specification dated 2026-07-28](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/server/tools) requires input validation, access control, rate limiting, sanitized outputs, result validation, timeouts, auditability, and per-request authorization for state handles. It also says tool annotations are untrusted unless the server is trusted. Applicability: Ruflo's profile and every effectful review boundary. +- Current [tower-http CorsLayer documentation](https://docs.rs/tower-http/latest/tower_http/cors/struct.CorsLayer.html) states that `very_permissive` reflects the requesting origin, method, and headers. The [Private Network Access draft](https://wicg.github.io/private-network-access/) explicitly identifies web interfaces on loopback as a threat surface and warns that request side effects can matter even when responses cannot be read. Applicability: the redacted RuLTRA finding. These are authoritative interface/specification sources, not independent exploitation evidence. +- GitHub's [secure-use guidance](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/security/secure-use) states that a full commit SHA is the only immutable third-party Action reference. Applicability: RuLTRA issue #1. +- The Ruflo 3.41.2 release documents memory-index preservation and sibling-store disclosure fixes. The validated research runtime for this cycle remained pinned at `@claude-flow/cli@3.25.6`; it was not silently upgraded. + +No paper, release note, originating-team benchmark, or software-only receipt was relabeled as independent production validation. + +## Ruflo research self-learning receipt + +Parent: contract-first exact-head source/workflow inspection, prior issue and Core Memory deduplication, authoritative-source search, final-effect tracing, and manual security/reproducibility critique. Candidate generation: add lifecycle-expiry replay, numeric-domain adversaries, browser-origin/control-surface asymmetry, install-versus-published-artifact separation, and verified federation observations. Source cutoff: 2026-09-12. Inclusion: primary specifications, official documentation/releases, exact source, exact workflows, and existing issue evidence. Exclusion: vendor-only conclusions, synthetic claims without labels, unverifiable summaries, and sensitive vulnerability detail. Budget: one generation within the 45-minute per-repository cap. Frozen threshold: at least 10% preregistered composite improvement without source-quality, citation, privacy, security, licensing, cost, or held-out regression. + +The pinned Ruflo CLI executed and reported v3.25.6. Verified federation retrieval added current claims and public coordination context. The candidate added five material boundary contradictions: missing release artifact, unproven Ruflo production/client path, source-only RVF floor, failed RuView expiry invariant, and invalid MetaHarness score admission. However, no project-scoped durable Ruflo database was available in a runnable repository checkout; initializing ephemeral state would not satisfy durability. Deterministic composite replay, information gain per cost, and a clean held-out comparison were therefore unavailable. No strategy was promoted, no Ruflo memory value was written, and no self-learning claim is made. The parent is retained. + +Research-loop verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Autogenous sub-receipt + +Frozen topology: four non-duplicative roles—primary-source researcher, replication reviewer, contradiction/falsification researcher, and security/privacy critic. Parent: the single-agent Ruflo strategy above. Communication mode would be structured evidence deltas, with LatentMesh only after validated integration. Frozen threshold: at least 15% authoritative-coverage or contradiction-recall improvement, no citation or primary-source regression, equal or lower cost per validated finding, and deterministic conclusion replay. + +The Autogenous runtime, validated LatentMesh semantic-delta channel, project-scoped Ruflo memory, local MetaHarness evaluator, and validated RuVector retrieval backend were unavailable in the working checkout. Ordinary analysis cannot be relabeled as Autogenous. No topology executed, so tokens/cost, duplicate rate, disagreement, unique findings, false leads, held-out delta, memory write, or retrieval verification were measurable. The single-agent parent remains in force. + +Autogenous verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Constellation coordination and actions + +Dream Machine supplied governance and this durable report. MetaHarness supplied exact-head promotion evidence and received an adversarial gate review. Ruflo supplied the pinned research CLI and federation profile under review. RuVector/RVF native and WASM evidence was inspected but not freshly replayed. Core Memory and the signed gateway supplied retrieved coordination context; only a redacted aggregate checkpoint is published back. Gateway publication proves the gateway path, not personal identity, independent agent execution, or signed durable Ruflo memory. + +Actions: +- Four exact-head PR reviews: Ruflo #3300, RuVector #980, RuView #1903, MetaHarness #307. +- One new issue: RuLTRA #1. +- One existing issue materially updated: RuVector #704. +- Zero implementation PRs, direct pushes to default branches, merges, releases, deployments, automerge changes, or production probes. +- No public disclosure of the redacted high-severity finding. + +## Blockers and next cohort + +Blockers: 38 unindexed repositories; open-state connector caps; no runnable repository checkout; no project-scoped durable Ruflo memory; unavailable Autogenous/LatentMesh/local MetaHarness execution; one failed RuVector Workspace job; one failed RuView lifecycle test; no target-client federation replay; no independent Raspberry Pi artifact/hardware receipt; and no private-advisory creation API. + +Next cohort: private RuLTRA remediation and artifact CI; MetaHarness finite score validation; RuView expiry/lifecycle repair; RuVector lockfile/published string-ID replay and database-lock isolation; Ruflo authenticated production/client profile replay; QuDAG release recovery; Open Claude Code trusted dispatch; and neglected high-risk repositories. From f268d8df2505443bb1a9c5ae3771764669426c89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:08:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 12/33] docs: append 2026-09-12 portfolio ledger --- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index 8a8c768..31afbe0 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -40,3 +40,4 @@ | 2026-09-09 | portfolio 319; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruflo; rGi | accept future-safe package protection, settings-aware MCP scoring, and durable hive ID; retain min-cut workspace and finite-prior holdout claims as inconclusive | reuse ruflo#655; dream-machine#99; metaharness#297 | review dream-machine#100, metaharness#298, RuVector#972, ruflo#3241, rGi#5; Dream evidence draft | partial | ACCEPT / INCONCLUSIVE | 13 public commits across 4 repos; rGi synthetic acquisition cost 731->444 with zero wrong answers; RuVector Workspace cancelled; private activity aggregate-only | report 1c3510d3 | five exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or signed federation claim | | 2026-09-10 | portfolio 319; ruflo; metaharness; RuVector; RuView; rudevolution | accept rudevolution bounded static-validation/witness repair; reject Ruflo unbound execution/session effects and RuView ungated vendor sweep; retain MetaHarness dependency-gated containment and RuVector HNSW fix as inconclusive | update RuView#1743; reuse metaharness#299, RuVector#773 | reviews ruflo#3259, metaharness#300, RuVector#944, RuView#1885; dream-machine#101 | partial | ACCEPT / REJECT / INCONCLUSIVE | 37 public commits across 5 repos; rudevolution exact-head Node/Rust/security green and synthetic rename 9.17x-902.04x; private activity zero aggregate | report 9454e52b | four exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, self-learning promotion, or signed federation claim | | 2026-09-11 | portfolio 319; ruflo; QuDAG; Agent-Name-Service; agentic-voice; auto-browser | accept bounded local identity and inert-snapshot envelopes; reject unauthenticated consensus, red QuDAG release qualification, and incomplete credential lifecycle | QuDAG#17; reuse ruflo#3290, ANS#3, agentic-voice#3, auto-browser#5 | reviews ruflo#3291, QuDAG#16, ANS#4, agentic-voice#4, auto-browser#6; dream-machine#101 | partial | ACCEPT / REJECT / INCONCLUSIVE | 17 public commits across 10 repos; QuDAG 0/6 workflow groups green; ANS and auto-browser exact-head workflows green; private activity zero aggregate | report 9f2c5ff5 | one issue created, five exact-head reviews; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, strategy promotion, or signed federation claim | +| 2026-09-12 | portfolio 321; rultra; ruflo; RuVector; RuView; metaharness | redact RuLTRA control-surface finding; reject absent artifact, source-only RVF floor, failed calibration expiry, and invalid promotion scores; retain Ruflo production/client path as inconclusive | rultra#1; update RuVector#704 | reviews ruflo#3300, RuVector#980, RuView#1903, metaharness#307; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT / INCONCLUSIVE | 31 public commits across 4 repos; Ruflo 8 workflow groups green; RuVector 3546/3547 workspace tests; RuView 316/317 target tests; private activity aggregate-only | report 6d50440e | one issue created, one updated, four exact-head reviews; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, strategy promotion, or vulnerability disclosure | From 40d8cb22c22081328e5dc6e17f8e7622e4a017c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:49:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 13/33] docs(dream): record 2026-09-13 portfolio cycle --- .../2026-09-13-portfolio-report.md | 330 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 330 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-13-portfolio-report.md diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-13-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-13-portfolio-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..68dafb5 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-13-portfolio-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,330 @@ +# Dream Machine portfolio report — 2026-09-13 + +## Contract, inventory, and scope + +The cycle fetched `ruvnet/dream-machine` default branch first at +`3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc`. The active contract was read from +README.md (`355222b4f9ef7e46c199d903e74fa24223f33e4d`), SECURITY.md +(`1663f995e80a3088e46fa6fa6633351ad934a959`), dream.config.json +(`c17b00036f11b09cb0999f5142089c84252531f9`), ADR-0001, the ADR index, package +manifests, lockfile, and the freshly compiled 14,258-byte pipeline. Human-only +merge authority, fail-closed evidence, private vulnerability disclosure, and +exactly one terminal verdict per repository were preserved. + +All owned repositories were inventoried using four pages of 100, 100, 100, and +21 results. The portfolio contains 321 repositories: 218 public and 103 private. +None are archived; 283 are indexed, 38 unindexed, and 11 empty. Private +repository identities and details are excluded. + +Commit search is a lower bound because it used multiple common message terms +and each search is capped. Since 2026-09-12T00:00:00Z it found 15 public +default-branch commits across three repositories. Private activity was four +commits across two repositories, aggregate-only. Open-state searches again +reached connector caps at at least 100 pull requests and 100 issues. + +The configured ranking—security 35%, functionality and production impact 30%, +velocity 10%, measurable optimization 10%, SOTA relevance 10%, and review age +5%—selected Dream Machine, Ruflo, MetaHarness, RuVector, and RuView. Each review +froze a software hypothesis and a separate research hypothesis before judging +the exact-head outcome. + +## Deep reviews + +### 1. Dream Machine — review-backlog telemetry + +Software hypothesis: [PR #109](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/pull/109) +must safely validate backlog depth, preserve prior signals, work through the +library/CLI/TUI, and be consumed by the compiled nightly path. + +Exact head `fba825264cb464dc4c78917f319ecac4fb1b94cb` is draft and mergeable. +Parent results were 616/616 Vitest plus 81/81 governance; candidate results were +627/627 Vitest (+11 additive tests) plus 81/81 governance. Local `npm run check` +passed, as did exact-head [CI run 34583598313](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/actions/runs/34583598313) +and [CodeQL run 34583598327](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/actions/runs/34583598327). +The locked production dependency graph reported zero advisories. The latest +release remains [v0.1.0, published August 13, 2026](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/releases/tag/v0.1.0). + +The operational claim fails. Compiling the exact head produces a bare +`dream-machine ledger signals` instruction and never supplies `--open-count`, +so the nightly path still returns `reviewBacklogSize: null` without manual work. +The parser accepts integers outside JavaScript's safe range and silently rounds +them, while the exported library accepts negative, fractional, and non-finite +values. The UI also labels open candidates as “unreviewed” without measuring +review state. Finally, the report witness is anchored to the base/session commit +rather than the implementation head, so it does not bind the evaluated code. +The exact-head review requires safe bounded validation at both boundaries, +review-accurate wording, compiled-path consumption, and head-bound provenance. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 2. Ruflo — bounded RSI experiment + +Software hypothesis: draft [PR #3309](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/pull/3309) +must demonstrate inherited improvement on evaluator-hidden tasks under matched +end-to-end cost, preserve negative evidence, keep effect authority closed, and +pass the repository's complete qualification envelope. + +Exact head `d09afece5570748daf1db0cf73ea64264beacd1f` is mergeable but spans 40 +commits, 174 files, and +54,076 lines. The original synthetic experiment is a +useful negative result: 137,088 evaluations, with the adaptive arm losing 16/16 +seeds to frozen and shuffled controls. Prospective generalization ran 399,024 +evaluations, passed 0/36 gates, and all 12 adaptive-versus-frozen means were +negative. Seven native development epochs used 209,784 BM25 field calls and +raised MRR from 0.383092 to 0.458503, but they recovered a developer-observed +static winner; adaptive tied frozen in all three final probes. No learned-credit, +recursive, or descendant-productivity advantage was established. + +The bounded-RSI workflow passed 18/18 experiment/generalization tests and +177/177 loop/repair tests. CVE, CodeQL, Verification, V3 CI/CD, and cross-agent +workflows also passed. Required repository [CI/CD run 34741229613](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/actions/runs/34741229613) +failed on the added corpus and package setup. `package.json` and `pnpm-lock.yaml` +disagree on two internal package versions, and the new workflow uses mutable +Action tags. Equal work covers logical synthetic slots, not total CPU, dollar, +acquisition, outer-research, or descendant cost. Source-disjoint tasks remain +public and developer-visible; exposed historical fixes are not evaluator-hidden +holdouts. Candidate execution remains correctly disabled and its proposed +resource envelope is not authorized. The latest release is +[v3.41.2, published September 10, 2026](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/releases/tag/v3.41.2). + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 3. MetaHarness — promotion rule integrity + +Software hypothesis: draft [PR #307](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/pull/307) +must remove the zero-floor no-op lockout without allowing unchanged, malformed, +or safety-incomplete evidence to promote. + +Exact head `37b0b2456129804f953957348247780c7d5171f9` is draft and mergeable. +The intended measured candidate raises the primary score 0.897456→0.950695 +(+5.93%) and lowers cost per win 7.636364→7 (-8.33%), with no-op rate remaining +zero. The exact-head flywheel suite passes 85/85. [CI run 34680105139](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/actions/runs/34680105139), +[Security run 34680105022](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/actions/runs/34680105022), +and [Real Tools run 34680105073](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/actions/runs/34680105073) +all passed across the declared platforms and gates. The latest release remains +[v0.4.4, published August 10, 2026](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/releases/tag/v0.4.4). + +Independent adversarial replay nevertheless found a reachable high-severity +promotion-integrity defect and a separate no-lift promotion case. Details that +would facilitate misuse are intentionally withheld from this public report. +Green CI demonstrates that the existing suite does not cover the failing +runtime-domain invariant, and the committed evidence receipt is stale relative +to the exact head. Open a [private MetaHarness security advisory](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/security/advisories/new) +and regenerate the receipt only after maintainers add the fail-closed regression +set. No remote production exploitation was attempted or established. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 4. RuVector — local deterministic min-cut + +Software hypothesis: draft [PR #983](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/pull/983) +must pass every preregistered effectiveness, performance, determinism, tamper, +feature-enabled, and native/WASM/RVF compatibility gate. + +Exact head `33f3e414bb925c43317f7f9770e0148de3e13fef` is draft and mergeable. +The mandatory bridge-survival gain is +0.0 percentage points versus a required +≥15 points, so the primary effect gate fails. Twenty of twenty survivor-set +determinism trials and 20/20 single-byte tamper trials passed. The benchmark's +“largest within 1.5 seconds” selector incorrectly retains the first over-budget +Exact result. The correct in-budget point is n=84: roughly 263× faster than +Exact and 15.2× slower than the baseline, not the published n=168 comparison. + +At the default `max_radius=0`, the implementation behaves as a degree-limited +singleton heuristic and ignores similarity-derived weights; it does not +establish equivalence to the cited tree-packing/coloring LocalKCut algorithm. +No workflow enables or tests `mincut-forget`. Required +[Workspace CI run 34681135836](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/actions/runs/34681135836) +timed out at its 240-minute cap before `core-and-rest` produced a test summary, +although the other 17 jobs completed. Native, WASM-dedup, supply-chain, +regression, formatting, and clippy workflows passed, but none qualify the changed +feature or an RVF interoperability round trip. A new mandatory public struct +field also breaks downstream struct literals. Latest release: +[ruvector-v0.2.40, July 29, 2026](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/releases/tag/ruvector-v0.2.40). + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 5. RuView — empty-room and live-view recovery + +Software hypothesis: [PR #1914](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/pull/1914) +must remove empty-room false presence and restore live-view recovery without +weakening current-vitals authority, explicit disconnect, occupied recall, +source provenance, or privacy boundaries. + +Exact head `50284aa9471114eab596976b1361918f67c796ee` is mergeable. Deterministic +replay found two changed-code regressions: the UI can retain numeric vital signs +after a governed frame abstains and reports an empty room, and explicit/manual +disconnect can schedule reconnection again. The author hardware receipt also +records `motion_level=absent` for 736/736 samples, including walking, so activity +remains nonfunctional. Existing UI tests pass 29/29, fix markers 27/27, and CSI +policy self-tests 6/6, but none cover the two changed behaviors. Rust validation +could not run locally. All five exact-head workflows—CI, Security, Bench, CSI +policy, and Fix Marker—ended `action_required` and executed no jobs. Latest +release: [v2655, September 11, 2026](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/releases/tag/v2655). + +A separate reachable high-severity sensing-privacy condition was independently +confirmed. Its mechanics and any exploit path are redacted. Open a +[private RuView security advisory](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/security/advisories/new) +before remediation discussion. The public acceptance gate is limited to +authority-loss clearing, manual-disconnect suppression, deterministic +regressions, occupied/activity holdouts, and green exact-head CI/Rust evidence. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +## Security and functionality summary + +No critical vulnerability, exposed credential, or production compromise was +confirmed. Two high-severity findings were confirmed with high confidence and +kept redacted: one MetaHarness promotion-integrity boundary and one RuView +sensing-privacy boundary. Both warrant private GitHub Security Advisories. + +Dream Machine exact-head local validation ran from a clean lockfile on Node +24.19.0/npm 11.9.0: + +```text +npm ci PASS +npm run check PASS: 627 Vitest + 81 governance +npm audit --omit=dev --json PASS: 0 vulnerabilities +ruflo 3.25.6 security scan --depth deep PASS: 0 findings +ruflo 3.25.6 security secrets PASS: 82 files, no secrets +ruflo 3.25.6 security threats --model stride 3 heuristic signals +``` + +The three STRIDE signals were manually rejected as false positives: ANSI escape +constants and explicit non-secret test fixtures. Scanner output was treated as +untrusted evidence and checked against reachable code. No archived repository +was modified, and no production system was probed. + +## SOTA and authoritative evidence + +- [BenchShield, September 10, 2026](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11028) supports + infrastructure-side trajectory evidence and exposes the weakness of signed + aggregate attestations alone. Applicability: Ruflo's future evaluator-hidden + holdout and MetaHarness promotion receipts. +- [The Last AI Built by Humans, September 10, 2026](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11873) + separates persistence from acquisition, adaptation, and recursive + meta-improvement autonomy. Applicability: Ruflo currently demonstrates + persistence engineering and useful negative evidence, not RSI. +- [Beyond Test Presence, July 13, 2026](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12068) + motivates assertion-strength and edge-case review rather than accepting test + counts. Applicability: every green-but-contradicted candidate in this cohort. +- [Vector-system benchmark methodology, August 13, 2026](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12812) + measures quality, latency distributions, throughput, build time, and storage + across datasets. Applicability: RuVector needs real embeddings, recall and + false-positive quality, repeated seeds, and latency percentiles. +- [OpenCSI, revised August 4, 2026](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26665) limits its + demonstrated transfer to binary presence and uses calibration maturity/drift + abstention. [Age of Samples, June 30, 2026](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31690) + makes freshness explicit for irregular acquisition. Applicability: RuView's + current-vitals and activity claims. +- GitHub's [secure-use guidance](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/security/secure-use) + states that a full commit SHA is the only immutable third-party Action + reference. Applicability: Ruflo's newly added workflow. +- Node states that its [permission model](https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html) + does not protect against malicious code, while Bubblewrap's + [security model](https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/blob/main/README.md) + depends on the constructed policy. Applicability: Ruflo's disabled future + candidate executor. + +No paper, originating-team benchmark, signed claim, software-only result, or +hardware receipt was relabeled as independent production validation. + +## Ruflo research-loop receipt + +Parent strategy: contract-first exact-head source/workflow inspection, prior +Core Memory deduplication, authoritative-source search, final-effect tracing, +and manual security/reproducibility critique. Query set covered runtime-domain +validation, evaluator-hidden RSI controls, local-cut algorithm mapping, vector +benchmark methodology, sensing freshness, and workflow immutability. Source +cutoff: 2026-09-13. Inclusion: primary papers, official specifications/docs, +exact source, exact workflows, and existing issue evidence. Exclusion: +vendor-only conclusions, duplicate source identities, unverified summaries, +private-repository detail, and vulnerability mechanics. Budget: one generation, +below 45 minutes per repository. Frozen promotion threshold: ≥10% composite +improvement with no source-quality, citation, privacy, security, licensing, +cost, or holdout regression. + +Candidate generation added contradiction-first runtime/effect-boundary checks. +Across five repositories it found multiple material contradictions, including +two independently confirmed confidential high-severity conditions. On Ruflo's +research corpus specifically, unique primary coverage rose from eight to ten +(+25%) by adding BenchShield and The Last AI Built by Humans, with no +primary-source-ratio decrease. However, information-gain-per-cost was not +available, the held-out set was not preregistered in a replayable artifact, and +the five repository conclusions were not deterministically replayed through a +local MetaHarness evaluator. Strategy promotion therefore remains blocked. + +The pinned Ruflo runtime executed as v3.25.6. A local hybrid 384-dimensional +MiniLM memory backend initialized and verified 6/6 checks. One redacted reusable +lesson was stored under +`portfolio-patterns/portfolio-2026-09-13-runtime-gates` and exact retrieval +matched: compile-time types, signed aggregate booleans, green CI, and pass counts +do not prove an effect-boundary safety invariant; validate required runtime +domains, require strict beats-parent controls, run the changed feature, and use +an untouched or infrastructure-derived holdout. The local write is retrieval- +verified but cross-run persistence is not established; the same safe lesson is +therefore also preserved in this report and the Core Memory checkpoint. + +Research-loop verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Autogenous sub-receipt + +Frozen topology: five non-duplicative repository reviewers plus one independent +security/privacy critic, using structured deltas and ordinary bounded messages. +Parent baseline: the single-agent Ruflo strategy above. Source cutoff: +2026-09-13. Stopping rule: one review generation plus one independent critic. +Frozen threshold: ≥15% authoritative coverage or contradiction recall, no +citation or primary-source regression, equal or lower cost per validated +finding, and deterministic conclusion replay. + +The actual ruvnet/Autogenous repository was inspected and remains an honestly +labelled research prototype; its live external integrations are not available +in this environment. The Autogenous runtime, validated LatentMesh semantic-delta +transport, and cost/token accounting were not executed. Platform reviewers +therefore served only as a manual parallel fallback and are not relabeled as +Autogenous evidence. Duplicate rate, cost per validated finding, and +deterministic held-out replay were unavailable, so no topology or factual +conclusion was promoted into Ruflo's next parent. + +Autogenous verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Constellation coordination and actions + +Dream Machine supplied governance and the compiled pipeline. Ruflo 3.25.6 +supplied routing, security scanning, and local memory verification. MetaHarness +rules supplied adversarial/reward-hack gates; the live local evaluator was not +available. RuVector and RuVector WASM evidence was inspected, but the changed +feature and RVF interoperability were not executed. Core Memory supplied the +prior redacted lesson and receives this cycle's aggregate checkpoint. + +Actions: + +- Five exact-head PR reviews: Dream Machine #109, Ruflo #3309, MetaHarness #307, + RuVector #983, and RuView #1914. +- Zero new or materially updated issues, implementation PRs, direct pushes, + merges, releases, deployments, production probes, or automerge changes. +- One existing Dream Machine evidence draft (#101) receives this dated report + and exactly one ledger row. +- No public disclosure of the two redacted high-severity conditions. + +## Witness and replay + +The report is committed without embedding its own digest. After final bytes are +fixed, compute `REPORT_HASH=sha256(report)` and +`WITNESS=sha256(REPORT_HASH + 3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc)`. +The ledger row records the witness prefix. Re-run the commands and compare the +exact PR-head bytes; the witness does not authorize merge or promotion. + +## Blockers and next cohort + +Blockers: 38 unindexed repositories; open-state and commit-search caps; two +private advisories requiring maintainer handling; Ruflo full-CI and dependency +graph failures; no evaluator-hidden RSI holdout or approved execution budget; +MetaHarness promotion-integrity remediation; RuVector feature-disabled and +timed-out Workspace evidence; RuView action-required workflows and missing Rust +replay; no physical sensing validation; no validated LatentMesh channel; and no +cross-run proof for local Ruflo memory. + +Next cohort: private MetaHarness and RuView remediation; Dream Machine compiled +backlog telemetry and head-bound witnesses; Ruflo full-CI, immutable workflow, +and evaluator-hidden controls; RuVector feature-enabled local-cut correctness; +RuView vitals/reconnect/activity regression coverage; QuDAG release recovery; +Open Claude Code trusted dispatch; and neglected high-risk repositories. From a15625c1f92253d048f027d4cca75098f6d21908 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:49:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 14/33] docs(dream): append 2026-09-13 portfolio ledger --- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index 31afbe0..e16af4e 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -41,3 +41,4 @@ | 2026-09-10 | portfolio 319; ruflo; metaharness; RuVector; RuView; rudevolution | accept rudevolution bounded static-validation/witness repair; reject Ruflo unbound execution/session effects and RuView ungated vendor sweep; retain MetaHarness dependency-gated containment and RuVector HNSW fix as inconclusive | update RuView#1743; reuse metaharness#299, RuVector#773 | reviews ruflo#3259, metaharness#300, RuVector#944, RuView#1885; dream-machine#101 | partial | ACCEPT / REJECT / INCONCLUSIVE | 37 public commits across 5 repos; rudevolution exact-head Node/Rust/security green and synthetic rename 9.17x-902.04x; private activity zero aggregate | report 9454e52b | four exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, self-learning promotion, or signed federation claim | | 2026-09-11 | portfolio 319; ruflo; QuDAG; Agent-Name-Service; agentic-voice; auto-browser | accept bounded local identity and inert-snapshot envelopes; reject unauthenticated consensus, red QuDAG release qualification, and incomplete credential lifecycle | QuDAG#17; reuse ruflo#3290, ANS#3, agentic-voice#3, auto-browser#5 | reviews ruflo#3291, QuDAG#16, ANS#4, agentic-voice#4, auto-browser#6; dream-machine#101 | partial | ACCEPT / REJECT / INCONCLUSIVE | 17 public commits across 10 repos; QuDAG 0/6 workflow groups green; ANS and auto-browser exact-head workflows green; private activity zero aggregate | report 9f2c5ff5 | one issue created, five exact-head reviews; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, strategy promotion, or signed federation claim | | 2026-09-12 | portfolio 321; rultra; ruflo; RuVector; RuView; metaharness | redact RuLTRA control-surface finding; reject absent artifact, source-only RVF floor, failed calibration expiry, and invalid promotion scores; retain Ruflo production/client path as inconclusive | rultra#1; update RuVector#704 | reviews ruflo#3300, RuVector#980, RuView#1903, metaharness#307; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT / INCONCLUSIVE | 31 public commits across 4 repos; Ruflo 8 workflow groups green; RuVector 3546/3547 workspace tests; RuView 316/317 target tests; private activity aggregate-only | report 6d50440e | one issue created, one updated, four exact-head reviews; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, strategy promotion, or vulnerability disclosure | +| 2026-09-13 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; metaharness; RuVector; RuView | reject dormant and unsafe backlog telemetry, unqualified RSI, confidential promotion/privacy boundaries, failed local-cut effect, and sensing recovery regressions | reuse dream-machine#108, core-memory#85, metaharness#306 | reviews dream-machine#109, ruflo#3309, metaharness#307, RuVector#983, RuView#1914; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 15 public commits across 3 repos; all five exact heads fail mandatory gates; private activity 4 commits across 2 repos aggregate-only | 7af3478b | five exact-head reviews; two private advisories recommended; zero issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or strategy promotion | From 06ff61b677057894fb171d554f50cacbc4439f7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:23:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 15/33] docs: record 2026-09-14 portfolio cycle --- .../2026-09-14-portfolio-report.md | 301 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 301 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-14-portfolio-report.md diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-14-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-14-portfolio-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c69a60e --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-14-portfolio-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,301 @@ +# Dream constellation portfolio report — 2026-09-14 + +## Contract and scope + +The cycle began from `ruvnet/dream-machine` default branch `main` at +`3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc`. Before portfolio work, the +current `README.md`, `SECURITY.md`, `dream.config.json`, ADRs, lockfile, and +compiled pipeline were read as the execution contract. The compiled prompt was +regenerated successfully (compiler-reported size: 14,258 bytes). + +Human-only merge authority, draft-only autonomous work, fail-closed evidence, +private handling of high-severity findings, and one terminal verdict per frozen +hypothesis were preserved. No merge, release, deployment, direct default-branch +push, production probe, automerge change, or archived-repository modification +occurred. + +## Portfolio inventory and prioritization + +Pagination returned 321 owned repositories: 218 public and 103 private. None +are archived; 283 are search-indexed, 38 unindexed, and 11 empty. Private +repositories are represented only by aggregate counts. + +Observed activity since the previous cycle is a lower bound: 15 public +default-branch commits across two repositories. Private activity was two commits +in one repository, aggregate-only. GitHub open-state search reported 1,437 open +pull requests and 1,648 open issues across the accessible owned portfolio. + +The cohort was frozen before candidate outcomes using security 35%, +functionality/production impact 30%, velocity 10%, measurable optimization 10%, +SOTA relevance 10%, and review age 5%, with neglected-repository rotation. +Security and functionality risks overrode repeated optimization candidates. + +## Deep cohort and frozen hypotheses + +### 1. Core Memory — authority projection + +Research hypothesis: primary authorization-memory research plus final-effect +tracing will determine whether source-bound projection prevents endogenous +authority laundering without denying valid authority. Software hypothesis: +[PR #92](https://github.com/ruvnet/core-memory/pull/92) must reject unauthorized, +stale, ambiguous, and relabeled derivations; bind authoritative source and +revocation freshness; preserve valid controls; integrate at the effect boundary; +and pass exact-head governance. + +Exact head `45caa273746668663088a553c18958afdfb1b1d3` has green +[CI](https://github.com/ruvnet/core-memory/actions/runs/34765524057) and +[Security](https://github.com/ruvnet/core-memory/actions/runs/34765524064). +Node 22 and 24 each passed 75/75 tests; npm audits were clear. The synthetic +1,000-case benchmark reports false authority falling from 104/500 to 0/500, +false denial from 15/500 to 0/500, and 500/500 duplicate-sequence replays +rejected, with a 107.726 ms Node 24 candidate runtime. + +Independent review nevertheless confirmed a high-severity source/revocation +binding condition. Mechanics are withheld from this public report. The new +projection also is not integrated into the provider effect path, so the measured +external enforcement delta is zero. Independent MetaHarness evaluation and the +two required human approvals remain absent. Open a +[private advisory](https://github.com/ruvnet/core-memory/security/advisories/new) +before remediation discussion. + +**REJECT** + +### 2. MetaHarness — cancellation propagation + +Research hypothesis: cooperative-cancellation guidance plus runtime boundary +inspection will distinguish real fail-closed cancellation from acknowledgement +timing. Software hypothesis: [PR #302](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/pull/302) +must prove bounded propagation through Rust, Ruflo, and an actual RVM/provider +commit boundary, with zero post-cancel effects, representative percentiles, +quality/waste controls, and all exact-head gates green. + +Exact head `cb6b137f321b56c697faa326b4bd5c6db20030e4` passed the +[reproduction](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/actions/runs/34359669645), +[CI](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/actions/runs/34359669715), Real Tools, +and Draco workflows. Local Node 24 replay passed strict TypeScript compilation +and 30/30 tests. Across 1,000 synthetic pairs, p95 was 4,209.791 µs serial, +44.543 µs direct abort, and 62.723 µs through the bridge; all synthetic output +suppression and arithmetic controls passed. + +The evaluator replays a JSONL module contract rather than a deployed authenticated +transport or concrete effect boundary. Cancellation remains cooperative, and an +adversarial control confirmed logical cancellation need not prevent a later +effect when the injected boundary fails to revalidate. The percentile measures +synchronous acknowledgement, not quiescence or provider settlement. Real quality +and provider waste are unmeasured. Exact-head +[Security](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/actions/runs/34359669590) +failed its aggregate dependency gate; the green repair workflow did not commit +the repair. + +**REJECT** + +### 3. Ruflo — bounded recursive self-improvement + +Research hypothesis: evaluator-hidden fresh holdouts and strict equal-work +controls will determine whether the branch demonstrates task-general recursive +improvement rather than persistence/admission engineering. Software hypothesis: +[PR #3309](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/pull/3309) must preserve reservations, +isolation, cost bounds, and negative evidence; strictly beat its parent on fresh +tasks; keep execution disabled without approval; and pass every exact-head gate. + +Exact head `237b7c31e7aaca2fc814549f5cef0dfddabd347d` passed 150 new +focused tests and 18 original tests locally. Its signed evidence replays +`NULL`/0-of-36, and all seven historical epochs replay. Dedicated +[bounded RSI](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/actions/runs/34803525418), +[Verification](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/actions/runs/34803525406), V3, +CodeQL, CVE, and Cross-Agent workflows passed. + +No fresh-task outcome, inherited advantage, descendant gain, or end-to-end +equal-work comparison occurred. The only new effect is author-written operator +admission. Outer-author blindness is not technically enforced, total dollar cost +is unknown, and approved execution/isolation provenance remains absent. Candidate +execution correctly remains disabled. Required +[CI/CD](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/actions/runs/34803525383) is red with +31 unexpected failing files; manifest and lockfile versions disagree; the CVE +workflow tolerates non-critical production findings; and the dedicated workflow +uses mutable Actions. + +**REJECT** + +### 4. RuView — provisioning credential lifecycle + +Research hypothesis: Unix file-lifecycle guidance plus install, reopen, error, +and dry-run traces will determine whether world-readable Wi-Fi credential +artifacts are eliminated. Software hypothesis: +[PR #1889](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/pull/1889) must provide atomic +least-privilege creation, legacy repair before every exit, non-argv/non-stdout +credential handling, ownership/type checks, and Linux/macOS regression coverage. + +Exact head `8898a3feb0ec6a6828444cde90ce23f95acab698` improves fresh +state-directory permissions from 0755 to 0700 and fresh JSON from 0644 to 0600; +14/14 focused tests pass. Exact-head CI, Security, Firmware CI, QEMU, CSI policy, +and Fix Marker workflows are green. + +The fixed staging pathname can retain an existing 0644 mode, which atomic +replacement preserves. Legacy repair runs too late for read-only and failure +exits. Generator-failure CSV and dry-run NVS outputs can remain credential-bearing +0644 artifacts under umask 022, and credentials remain exposed through argv or +printed state. The current CI suite does not exercise these lifecycle paths or +macOS. No release contains the candidate head. + +**REJECT** + +### 5. RuLTRA — persisted witness replay + +Research hypothesis: canonical serialization guidance and restart tracing will +identify the smallest compatible repair for the current chain-verification +failure. Software hypothesis: current main must verify untouched chains across +restarts, reject tampering, preserve the JSONL/hash format or migrate fail-closed, +and pass Rust, target, artifact, and security gates. + +At exact main `d1ac38070f195ed28236384c86030a11c273b582`, the implementation +remains affected. The default 12-read cycle serializes one IEEE-754 value and the +default parser reconstructs its adjacent value, changing the hash input after +reopen. Existing [issue #2](https://github.com/ruvnet/rultra/issues/2) was updated +with the exact-head reproduction and the smallest compatible repair: scoped +`serde_json/float_roundtrip` plus three-boundary reopen, append, and tamper tests. +Switching old entries directly to a new canonical format was explicitly rejected +because it would invalidate historical hashes without an authenticated format +version. + +Exact-main [CI](https://github.com/ruvnet/rultra/actions/runs/34796554016) +passed formatting, Clippy, workspace tests, Raspberry Pi cross-build, and RustSec. +None of 11 witness tests covers the failing float reopen. The cross-build artifact +upload also searches a different target directory from the build output, so +artifact existence is still unproven. + +**REJECT** + +## Security and functionality summary + +No new remotely exploitable critical vulnerability or production compromise was +confirmed. One high-severity Core Memory authorization-integrity finding remains +redacted and warrants a private advisory. RuView's credential-lifecycle gaps and +RuLTRA's persisted-chain defect are publicly actionable functionality/security +findings; no secret values or exploit instructions were disclosed. + +Dream Machine validation from a clean lockfile on Node 24/npm 11 passed 616 +Vitest tests, 81 governance checks, build, lint, typecheck, and compiler replay. +`npm audit --omit=dev` reported zero vulnerabilities. Pinned Ruflo 3.25.6 deep +scan reported zero findings, and secret scan covered 82 files with none found. +Three STRIDE heuristic signals were manually rejected as false positives after +reachable-code inspection. + +## SOTA and authoritative evidence + +- [Authorization laundering, September 1, 2026](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01836) + reports that source gating still leaves lifecycle/scope errors. Applicability: + Core Memory needs non-malleable source semantics and current revocation state, + not pointer equality or complete synthetic histories. +- [HackProbe, September 2026](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04665) uses a fixed + hidden distribution plus a rotating fresh layer. Applicability: Ruflo's public + repair hints and author-visible evaluator cannot establish inherited improvement. +- [Gander, revised September 9, 2026](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08977) treats + responsive interaction as a system-level problem rather than an external + orchestration flag. Applicability: MetaHarness must measure real transport, + quiescence, waste, and commit fencing. +- The [MCP tools specification dated July 28, 2026](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/server/tools) + requires input validation, access control, rate limits, output sanitation, + timeouts, auditability, and human control. Applicability: authority and + cancellation must be revalidated at each final effect. +- Linux [`open(2)`](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/open.2.html) specifies + that creation mode applies only to newly created files and documents exclusive + creation. Applicability: RuView must not reuse an attacker- or legacy-controlled + staging inode without enforcing descriptor permissions. +- [RFC 8785](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8785.html) requires deterministic + JSON representation for cryptographic hashing/signing. Applicability: RuLTRA + needs byte-stable numeric replay, while any new canonical format must be + explicitly versioned for compatibility. + +No paper, originating-team benchmark, green workflow, synthetic result, or signed +claim was relabeled as independent production validation. + +## Ruflo research-loop receipt + +Parent: contract-first exact-head source/workflow inspection; retrieval of the +prior validated lesson; authoritative-source deduplication; contradiction search; +effect-boundary tracing; and manual reproducibility/security critique. Candidate: +add lifecycle-complete source-freshness, post-cancel-effect, credential-artifact, +and persisted-byte restart checks. Source cutoff: 2026-09-14. Inclusion: primary +papers, standards, official runtime documentation, exact source/workflows, and +existing issues. Exclusion: vendor-only claims, duplicate source identities, +private details, exploit mechanics, and outcome-only summaries. Budget: one +generation below 45 minutes per repository. Frozen threshold: at least 10% +composite gain with no primary-source, citation, safety, privacy, licensing, +cost, or holdout regression. + +The candidate mapped authoritative evidence to all five reviews and retained a +material contradiction in all five. Coverage therefore remained 5/5 versus the +parent's 5/5 (0 percentage-point gain), while the additional lifecycle controls +changed no terminal conclusion. Cost-normalized information gain and deterministic +MetaHarness replay were unavailable. The parent was retained; no research strategy +was promoted. + +One redacted reusable lesson was stored with pinned Ruflo 3.25.6 under +`portfolio-patterns/portfolio-2026-09-14-bound-source-restart`: a primitive is +not system evidence until source/freshness, restart bytes, and the final commit +boundary are proven. Retrieval returned the exact stored value. The local +384-dimensional MiniLM index/runtime and key are recorded, but cross-host +persistence is not claimed. + +Research-loop verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Autogenous sub-receipt + +Frozen optional topology: primary-source researcher, replication reviewer, +contradiction/falsification researcher, security/privacy critic, and benchmark +designer; structured evidence deltas only. Parent baseline: the single-agent +Ruflo strategy above. Holdout: lifecycle and restart questions excluded from +candidate tuning. Frozen threshold: at least 15% authoritative-coverage or +contradiction-recall gain, no citation/primary-source regression, equal or lower +cost per validated finding, and deterministic conclusion replay. + +The actual Autogenous runtime and validated LatentMesh transport were unavailable. +Platform reviewers used ordinary bounded messages as a manual fallback and are +not relabeled as Autogenous evidence. Because role-level token/cost accounting, +duplicate-source rate, and deterministic held-out replay were unavailable, no +topology or factual conclusion was promoted. Material disagreements were not +averaged away; none arose on the terminal verdicts. + +Autogenous verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Constellation coordination and actions + +Dream Machine supplied governance, compiled-pipeline replay, and durable evidence. +Ruflo 3.25.6 supplied security scanning and retrieval-verified local learning. +MetaHarness rules supplied adversarial and reward-hack gates; the live local +evaluator was unavailable. RuVector/RuVector WASM were considered for evidence +deduplication, but no validated remote backend was available, so exact identity +and manual deduplication were used. Core Memory supplied prior redacted lessons +and receives the aggregate checkpoint. + +Actions: + +- Four exact-head COMMENT reviews: Core Memory #92, MetaHarness #302, Ruflo #3309, + and RuView #1889. +- One existing issue materially updated: RuLTRA #2. +- One dated report and exactly one ledger row added to existing Dream Machine + draft PR #101. +- Zero new issues, implementation PRs, direct pushes, merges, releases, + deployments, production probes, or automerge changes. + +## Witness, blockers, and next cohort + +After final report bytes are fixed, compute `REPORT_HASH=sha256(report)` and +`WITNESS=sha256(REPORT_HASH + 3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc)`. +The ledger records the witness prefix; it grants no merge or promotion authority. + +Blockers: the confidential Core Memory remediation and human approval; red +MetaHarness Security; no real cancellation transport/effect boundary; red Ruflo +full CI, mismatched dependency graph, and no evaluator-hidden fresh execution; +RuView's incomplete credential lifecycle and missing macOS regression; RuLTRA's +restart parser and missing uploaded artifact; 38 unindexed repositories; no +validated Autogenous/LatentMesh execution; no cost-accounted deterministic +MetaHarness research replay; and no validated RuVector/RVF retrieval backend. + +Next cohort: private Core Memory remediation and independent evaluation; +MetaHarness live cancellation/effect fencing and dependency repair; Ruflo CI, +immutable workflows, and evaluator-hidden execution; RuView secure staging and +credential-channel redesign; RuLTRA float-roundtrip/restart repair and artifact +existence; QuDAG release recovery; Open Claude Code trusted dispatch; RuVector +native/WASM/RVF Workspace recovery; and neglected high-risk repositories. From 4d6cd81c01cb1edfd2318082172e8c27a0c50f07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:23:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 16/33] docs: append 2026-09-14 portfolio ledger --- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index e16af4e..6898169 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -42,3 +42,4 @@ | 2026-09-11 | portfolio 319; ruflo; QuDAG; Agent-Name-Service; agentic-voice; auto-browser | accept bounded local identity and inert-snapshot envelopes; reject unauthenticated consensus, red QuDAG release qualification, and incomplete credential lifecycle | QuDAG#17; reuse ruflo#3290, ANS#3, agentic-voice#3, auto-browser#5 | reviews ruflo#3291, QuDAG#16, ANS#4, agentic-voice#4, auto-browser#6; dream-machine#101 | partial | ACCEPT / REJECT / INCONCLUSIVE | 17 public commits across 10 repos; QuDAG 0/6 workflow groups green; ANS and auto-browser exact-head workflows green; private activity zero aggregate | report 9f2c5ff5 | one issue created, five exact-head reviews; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, strategy promotion, or signed federation claim | | 2026-09-12 | portfolio 321; rultra; ruflo; RuVector; RuView; metaharness | redact RuLTRA control-surface finding; reject absent artifact, source-only RVF floor, failed calibration expiry, and invalid promotion scores; retain Ruflo production/client path as inconclusive | rultra#1; update RuVector#704 | reviews ruflo#3300, RuVector#980, RuView#1903, metaharness#307; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT / INCONCLUSIVE | 31 public commits across 4 repos; Ruflo 8 workflow groups green; RuVector 3546/3547 workspace tests; RuView 316/317 target tests; private activity aggregate-only | report 6d50440e | one issue created, one updated, four exact-head reviews; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, strategy promotion, or vulnerability disclosure | | 2026-09-13 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; metaharness; RuVector; RuView | reject dormant and unsafe backlog telemetry, unqualified RSI, confidential promotion/privacy boundaries, failed local-cut effect, and sensing recovery regressions | reuse dream-machine#108, core-memory#85, metaharness#306 | reviews dream-machine#109, ruflo#3309, metaharness#307, RuVector#983, RuView#1914; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 15 public commits across 3 repos; all five exact heads fail mandatory gates; private activity 4 commits across 2 repos aggregate-only | 7af3478b | five exact-head reviews; two private advisories recommended; zero issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or strategy promotion | +| 2026-09-14 | portfolio 321; core-memory; metaharness; ruflo; RuView; rultra | reject unbound authority, synthetic cancellation, unqualified RSI, incomplete credential lifecycle, and unstable persisted witness replay | update rultra#2; private core-memory advisory recommended | reviews core-memory#92, metaharness#302, ruflo#3309, RuView#1889; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 15 public commits across 2 repos; all five candidates fail frozen gates; private activity 2 commits in 1 repo aggregate-only | a3d790a4 | four exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or strategy promotion | From d2a4b04b70e4eb9d2400909e22435ec8c585d04f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:41:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 17/33] docs: record 2026-09-15 portfolio cycle --- .../2026-09-15-portfolio-report.md | 166 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 166 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-15-portfolio-report.md diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-15-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-15-portfolio-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4184740 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-15-portfolio-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,166 @@ +# Dream Machine portfolio cycle — 2026-09-15 + +## Executive receipt + +- Contract commit: `ruvnet/dream-machine@3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc` (`main`). The README, `SECURITY.md`, `dream.config.json`, ADR index and compiled 26-stage pipeline were read before portfolio work. +- Inventory: 321 repositories owned by the authenticated user: 218 public and 103 private; 0 archived; 283 indexed, 38 unindexed, and 11 empty. Private repositories are represented only by these aggregates. +- Activity lower bound since the preceding portfolio cutoff: 25 public default-branch commits across 2 repositories. No private default-branch commits were observed in aggregate. +- Open state: 1,430 open pull requests and 1,648 open issues across the accessible inventory. +- Deep cohort: Dream Machine, Ruflo, RuView, MetaHarness, and RuLTRA. Security and production-effect risks overrode ordinary ranking where applicable. +- Verdicts: 0 ACCEPT, 5 REJECT. No performance, security, production-readiness, Autogenous, or research-strategy promotion is claimed. +- Mutations: three exact-head pull-request reviews, two existing issue updates, this report, and exactly one ledger row. No new issue, implementation pull request, direct push, merge, release, deployment, protected-surface change, or automerge change. + +## Governance and selection + +Dream Machine remains evaluation-only: `autoMerge` is false and human promotion is required. Archived repositories were excluded from mutation; none were present. The weighted queue used security 35%, functionality/production impact 30%, change velocity 10%, measurable optimization 10%, SOTA relevance 10%, and review age 5%, with confirmed high-risk boundaries taking precedence. + +| Repository | Priority | Reason for elevation | +|---|---:|---| +| RuView | 95 | New sensing/database control surface and absent exact-head qualification | +| MetaHarness | 93 | Promotion-integrity boundary after a prior rejected gate repair | +| RuLTRA | 91 | Edge artifact, persistence, and witness-trust release boundaries | +| Ruflo | 82 | Production MoE routing path, persistence semantics, and required CI failure | +| Dream Machine | 75 | Portfolio governance telemetry and candidate-head witness integrity | + +The frozen software threshold for every repository required the advertised behavior to be reachable in the shipped path, adversarial controls to fail closed, persistence to survive exact restart when relevant, and all required exact-head workflows to pass. A passing focused suite alone was insufficient. + +## Deep reviews + +### 1. Dream Machine — PR #109 + +- Exact head: `fba825264cb464dc4c78917f319ecac4fb1b94cb`. +- Research hypothesis: tracing compiled inputs and recomputing the witness at the candidate head will expose any gap between typed backlog telemetry and the executable contract. +- Software hypothesis: the candidate reports finite, safe, execution-bound open-review backlog data and binds its witness to the reviewed head. +- Baseline and acceptance: the current compiled pipeline must pass the new input in ordinary execution; all public/library inputs must reject empty, non-finite, fractional, negative, and unsafe integers; labels must match measured semantics; the receipt must recompute at the candidate head; existing gates must remain green. +- Validation: `npm ci`, build, typecheck, lint, 627/627 Vitest tests, 81/81 governance tests, dependency audit, secret scan, Ruflo deep scan, CI, and CodeQL passed. The initial shallow-clone governance miss was resolved by fetching the contract's pinned reference commit and replaying 81/81. +- Finding: the compiled path does not obtain or pass the new backlog input. Runtime entry points still admit ambiguous or lossy values, the display overstates what the count measures, and the evidence witness is bound to the base contract rather than the candidate head. +- Measured delta: focused tests increased and remain green, but executable coverage of the new telemetry is still 0 in the ordinary compiled path; the mandatory system threshold is missed. +- Action: reused the existing exact-head rejection; no duplicate review or issue was created. +- Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 2. Ruflo — PR #3330 + +- Exact head: `e0031bf0f321f681d8f18add0e0a96925284df86`. +- Research hypothesis: caller-graph tracing, default-parameter holdouts, and exact restart replay will distinguish a working adaptive router from a mathematically plausible but dormant test path. +- Software hypothesis: the load-balancing update is reachable in production, improves the preregistered imbalance threshold on unseen seeds under defaults, and preserves statistics exactly across restart. +- Baseline and acceptance: at least 15% holdout imbalance improvement with no quality regression; a production caller; consistent objective/gradient; exact reload invariance; required workflows green. +- Validation: 136/136 focused tests passed. Five workflow groups passed; required CI/CD failed. A 100-initialization by 64-unseen-embedding seeded holdout and a 1,000 route/update-pair microbenchmark were replayed. +- Finding: the new update has no non-test caller. The primary test amplifies the default coefficient 100-fold and checks direction rather than the frozen outcome. Under defaults, selection probability fell only 0.109–0.157% (mean 0.132%); imbalance change ranged from -4.92% to +6.01% (mean +1.56%); 0/100 runs reached 15%. Restart changes the effective routing denominator and exactly halves the recorded load-balance loss in the tested case. The objective also differs materially from the cited top-1, batch-averaged formulation. +- Measured delta: microbenchmark median moved from 178.80 ms to 176.11 ms (-1.50%), within noise and without a shipped caller. Mandatory improvement was 0/100. +- Security: a public evidence artifact also contains an elevated operational disclosure unrelated to the algorithm. Details are redacted; move it to a private advisory and remove it from public evidence. +- Action: exact-head review `5206909306` posted on [PR #3330](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/pull/3330). +- Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 3. RuView — PR #1932 + +- Exact head: `61c6b3bf918e7bc49ae03a222ef2409d7f5a1096`. +- Research hypothesis: enumerating registered tools, permissions, transactions, history edges, and container routes will reveal any difference between the advertised sensing graph and reachable effects. +- Software hypothesis: the Neo4j/MCP feature is least-privilege, room-scoped, bounded, transactional, historically correct, and fully qualified at the exact head. +- Baseline and acceptance: every effect must have caller/room authorization and confirmation, privacy and rate controls, bounded time/results, database-enforced read-only behavior where claimed, transactionally consistent writes, complete history, route/binary parity, unchanged defaults, and green exact-head workflows. +- Validation: shell syntax and literal-secret scans passed locally. GitHub exposed no exact-head jobs; Cargo was unavailable in the review environment. The change is 5 commits, 10 files, +1,215/-44 and is not reported mergeable. +- Finding: registered surface cardinality exceeds the advertised count and includes an effectful maintenance operation. Per-caller/room authorization, confirmation, privacy, rate, timeout, and result bounds are incomplete. The history traversal follows only current pointers, writes and pointer changes are not atomic, default features change, and container route/binary parity is incomplete. One configuration test does not exercise these boundaries. +- Security: an elevated authorization/privacy release blocker was confirmed. Details are intentionally redacted; use a [private security advisory](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/security/advisories/new). +- SOTA applicability: the MCP 2026-07-28 tools requirements and Neo4j's current RBAC, transaction-timeout, and effectful-subquery semantics define the relevant minimum boundary. +- Action: redacted exact-head review `5206909512` posted on [PR #1932](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/pull/1932). +- Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 4. MetaHarness — PR #307 + +- Exact head: `37b0b2456129804f953957348247780c7d5171f9`. +- Research hypothesis: malformed evaluator objects and runtime/toolchain replay will expose promotion decisions that typed fixtures and fingerprint-only replay do not cover. +- Software hypothesis: every required safety and score field is type- and domain-validated before promotion, strict replay agrees with live execution, and clean installation is reproducible on supported runtimes. +- Baseline and acceptance: clean controls pass; malformed required fields deny promotion; strict and live decisions agree; exact-head workflows and clean installs pass without fallbacks that conceal lock drift. +- Validation: 85/85 focused flywheel tests, typecheck, ESM/CJS builds, CI, Security, Real Tools, Cargo audit/deny, and high/critical dependency gates passed. A clean Node 24/npm 11 `npm ci` failed on manifest/lock optional-native workspace mismatch; fallback install succeeded. Current CI uses Node 20/22 and permits that fallback. +- Finding: numeric-domain hardening is real, but a required safety value is not fully runtime-validated on a reachable promotion path. Clean controls pass; both malformed-safety denial trials instead promoted. Strict replay rejects the malformed receipt while the less complete replay path accepts it. +- Security: the remaining promotion-integrity condition is elevated and is redacted here; use a [private security advisory](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/security/advisories/new). +- Measured delta: 85 focused tests pass, but 0/2 mandatory malformed-safety denial trials pass. +- Action: redacted exact-head review `5206909645` posted on [PR #307](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/pull/307). +- Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 5. RuLTRA — current main and issues #1/#2 + +- Exact main: `59325faa49e0c0d0bd57cf1899e016f7005a5039`. +- Research hypothesis: artifact existence, three-restart state replay, and trust-marker provenance checks will detect divergence between green edge CI and deployable/verifiable evidence. +- Software hypothesis: exact main produces the advertised Pi artifact with immutable provenance, preserves state and billing semantics across restart, and exposes only cryptographically grounded verification state. +- Baseline and acceptance: non-empty advertised artifact and checksum, tested MSRV, immutable Actions, byte-stable three-restart persistence, fail-closed sensor semantics, and cryptographically bound trust indicators. +- Validation: exact-main CI passed formatting, Clippy, 173 workspace tests, an aarch64 build, and a RustSec audit of 224 dependencies with zero known vulnerabilities on Rust 1.98.1. +- Finding: the build and upload paths still disagree, so the green job publishes no advertised artifact and does not prove the documented MSRV. Persistence evidence has not added the required precision/restart witness. Invalid range data now fails closed, but missing range data can still synthesize a billable working state. A separate elevated witness-trust boundary was confirmed and is redacted; use a private advisory. +- Measured delta: 173 tests and the cross-build pass, but artifact count remains 0 and the required three-restart receipt remains absent. +- Action: existing [issue #1](https://github.com/ruvnet/rultra/issues/1#issuecomment-5676489618) updated; issue #2 reused without duplicate commentary. +- Verdict: **REJECT** + +## Security and functionality summary + +No new remotely exploitable critical vulnerability was confirmed. Three elevated release blockers were confirmed in public repositories: RuView authorization/privacy, MetaHarness promotion integrity, and RuLTRA witness trust. Their actionable details are deliberately excluded from this public report; private security advisories are recommended. No secrets, exploit instructions, or private-repository identities were published. + +The principal functionality failures are: inert Dream backlog telemetry; dormant and restart-inconsistent Ruflo learning; incomplete RuView history/transaction/container behavior; a MetaHarness runtime-validation and clean-install gap; and a RuLTRA artifact/persistence/sensor-semantics gap. + +## Constellation integration receipt + +- Dream Machine supplied the frozen governance contract, mutation ceilings, evidence schema, and human-only promotion boundary. +- Ruflo 3.25.6 supplied hierarchical coordination, security scanning, and project-scoped memory. +- MetaHarness supplied the adversarial promotion model; its live local evaluator was not used to claim promotion because the reviewed gate remains unsafe. +- RuVector 0.3.0 supplied local 384-dimensional `all-MiniLM-L6-v2` embeddings and RVF retrieval trials. Native SIMD was available; WASM and release-level cross-backend qualification were not established. +- RuView and RuLTRA were treated as downstream sensing and edge-evidence consumers whose effects must inherit the same authorization, persistence, and witness rules. +- Core Memory and the signed federation received redacted aggregate coordination receipts only. + +### RuVector retrieval and deduplication + +The frozen configuration was `ruvector@0.3.0`, bundled `all-MiniLM-L6-v2`, 384 dimensions, cosine distance, RVF, top-k 5. A named-ID ingestion trial reported five ingests but exposed one stored vector and only identity `0`; it was rejected. A numeric-ID holdout stored five vectors and returned all five. The exact self match was ID 0 at distance 0.000000; the remaining distances were 1.511000, 1.685947, 1.687454, and 1.734807. No near duplicate was identified. Numeric IDs were used only with an immutable external identity map. [RuVector issue #704](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/issues/704#issuecomment-5676479144) records the release gate. No named-identity or cross-backend self-learning claim is made. + +## SOTA and authoritative sources + +- [MCP tools specification, 2026-07-28](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/server/tools): input validation, access control, rate limits, output sanitation, and human control for effectful tools; directly applicable to RuView and MetaHarness. +- [Neo4j role-based access control](https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/authentication-authorization/manage-privileges/), [transaction timeouts](https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/database-internals/transaction-management/), and [effectful `CALL` subqueries](https://neo4j.com/docs/cypher-manual/current/subqueries/call-subquery/): authoritative database boundaries for RuView. +- [Switch Transformers](https://jmlr.org/papers/volume23/21-0998/21-0998.pdf): the original top-1, batch-averaged auxiliary-load formulation used as the Ruflo baseline. +- [ReBA, 2026-08-01](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00574), [CoRM, 2026-09-01](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01100), and [When Load-Balancing Goes Too Far, 2026-09-03](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04453): recent evidence that router balance must be evaluated against quality, specialization, and realistic distributions rather than balance alone. +- [GitHub secure use reference](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/security/secure-use): immutable full-SHA action references and workflow hardening; applicable to RuLTRA release qualification. + +## Research Loop Receipt + +- Parent strategy: authoritative semantics and freshness, final effect-boundary revalidation, and exact restart replay. Hash `ad4e4d5a84d81f06323366f181e1a7179acca753142ca7c1e4a6d20963da99ad`. +- Candidate generation: add full reachable-effect enumeration, advertised-versus-registered surface cardinality, and complete runtime-type validation at decision boundaries. Hash `ccf5c378ba0bcd85ed62ff81cbb4a9da7a764e86c636d366de24dc91f4832774`. +- Query set: Dream contract; exact PR head; caller graph; effect surfaces; workflow logs; primary standards/releases; contradiction search. Hash `d10636a8588b5113030039d20c95e3f32a3e694dcfcaa8318305854917204879`. +- Inclusion/exclusion: primary standards, current official documentation, exact repository evidence, and releases within the 2026-06-17 through 2026-09-15 cutoff were preferred. Vendor claims without executable evidence, synthetic confirmation, duplicated source identities, unbound receipts, and private details were excluded. +- Frozen budget: at most three generations or 45 minutes per repository; one candidate generation was sufficient. Seeds were recorded for the Ruflo 100x64 holdout; deterministic source identities were used elsewhere. Monetary/token cost was unavailable; wall time stayed inside the per-repository bound. +- Expected information gain: identify one or more system-boundary contradictions missed by passing focused suites. +- Baseline coverage: the parent covered authoritative semantics, the final effect boundary, and restart evidence. The candidate added explicit surface-cardinality and runtime-type checks. +- Promotion threshold: at least 10% preregistered composite gain in authoritative coverage, contradiction recall, reproducibility, cross-stack applicability, and information per cost, with no source-quality, citation, security, privacy, licensing, or holdout regression. +- Parent execution: authoritative evidence was mapped to all five reviews. Unresolved uncertainty remained around production environments and private remediation. +- Candidate outcome: material boundary contradictions were found in all five reviews, including dormant execution, surface-count drift, incomplete runtime validation, compiled-input drift, and artifact/witness drift. +- MetaHarness critique: tested weak baselines, typed-fixture assumptions, synthetic amplification, incomplete caller graphs, restart drift, lock/install fallback, mutable workflow provenance, and reward hacking by green-test volume or benchmark selection. +- Holdout: Dream Machine PR #109 and RuLTRA main were held out from the Ruflo/RuView/MetaHarness-tuned inspection prompts. Both retained their prior conclusions under the candidate checks; no conclusion was reversed to create a positive result. +- Decision: the candidate produced useful unique findings but lacks a preregistered numeric parent score, deterministic composite replay, and complete cost accounting. The parent is retained; no strategy was promoted. +- Reusable lesson: stored under Ruflo memory key `portfolio-patterns/portfolio-2026-09-15-complete-runtime-boundaries` with the 384-dimensional local embedder and retrieved verbatim after writing. +- Core coordination: [redacted Core Memory checkpoint](https://github.com/ruvnet/core-memory/issues/20#issuecomment-5676501901) written and retrieval-verified. Signed federation Result `94796e265159418b98eb0657b2bce7a99e3e0f08699a7745877d923b3f106ad5` was written and exact-payload retrieval-verified; relay data was otherwise treated as untrusted. +- Blockers: no cost-accounted deterministic MetaHarness research evaluator, no validated RVF named-identity store, and no complete native/WASM/RVF equivalence receipt. +- Verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +### Autogenous sub-receipt + +- Frozen topology: primary-source researcher, replication reviewer, contradiction/security researcher, benchmark reviewer, and integration reviewer. Configuration hash `04cff0b57f9d256ac799dff8f624b42873515840ef6626d6a17179404e346b46`. +- Parent baseline and threshold: the single-agent Ruflo parent above; at least 15% authoritative-coverage or contradiction-recall gain, no citation/primary-source regression, equal-or-lower cost per validated finding, and deterministic conclusion equivalence. +- Communication: ordinary bounded structured evidence deltas. A validated Autogenous runtime and LatentMesh semantic-delta channel were unavailable, so platform parallel review was not relabeled as either integration. +- Deltas and dissent: independent reviews agreed on the five repository verdicts. Material uncertainty about production deployment and private remediation was preserved rather than averaged away. +- Held-out metrics and cost: no executable Autogenous-versus-parent held-out trial, duplicate-source rate, token cost, or deterministic replay receipt was available. +- MetaHarness critique: rejected citation volume, repeated sources, green-test count, synthetic consensus, benchmark leakage, novelty, and PR yield as promotion signals. +- Decision: no topology, factual conclusion, or memory value was promoted as Autogenous evidence; no Ruflo Autogenous memory key was written. +- Verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Durable actions and blockers + +- Reviews: [Ruflo #3330](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/pull/3330), [RuView #1932](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/pull/1932), and [MetaHarness #307](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/pull/307). +- Existing issues updated: [RuVector #704](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/issues/704#issuecomment-5676479144) and [RuLTRA #1](https://github.com/ruvnet/rultra/issues/1#issuecomment-5676489618). +- Dream Machine exact-main validation: build, 616/616 base tests, 81/81 governance tests after fetching the pinned reference object, dependency audit, secret scan, and Ruflo scan passed. +- Blockers: private advisory remediation for the three redacted elevated findings; Ruflo required CI/CD and production/restart path; RuView exact-head jobs and complete authorization/transaction tests; MetaHarness malformed-safety and clean-install gates; RuLTRA artifact/MSRV/restart/witness qualification; RuVector named identity and native/WASM/RVF equivalence. + +## Next cohort + +1. Private remediation and regression receipts for MetaHarness, RuView, and RuLTRA. +2. Dream Machine compiled backlog telemetry, exact candidate-head witness, and runtime integer validation. +3. Ruflo production caller, objective correction, default-coefficient holdout, restart-stable counters, and CI/CD recovery. +4. RuVector released named-ID integrity plus native/WASM/RVF workspace qualification. +5. RuView history, transactional pointer, container-route, and exact-head workflow recovery. +6. QuDAG release recovery and Open Claude Code trusted-dispatch boundaries. + +The evidence gate created no implementation work because every frozen software hypothesis failed. Negative results are retained as first-class portfolio evidence. From 21eae0e35671b89558f0218553a7bb460735cb2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:41:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 18/33] docs: append 2026-09-15 portfolio receipt --- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index 6898169..f42d75a 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -43,3 +43,4 @@ | 2026-09-12 | portfolio 321; rultra; ruflo; RuVector; RuView; metaharness | redact RuLTRA control-surface finding; reject absent artifact, source-only RVF floor, failed calibration expiry, and invalid promotion scores; retain Ruflo production/client path as inconclusive | rultra#1; update RuVector#704 | reviews ruflo#3300, RuVector#980, RuView#1903, metaharness#307; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT / INCONCLUSIVE | 31 public commits across 4 repos; Ruflo 8 workflow groups green; RuVector 3546/3547 workspace tests; RuView 316/317 target tests; private activity aggregate-only | report 6d50440e | one issue created, one updated, four exact-head reviews; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, strategy promotion, or vulnerability disclosure | | 2026-09-13 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; metaharness; RuVector; RuView | reject dormant and unsafe backlog telemetry, unqualified RSI, confidential promotion/privacy boundaries, failed local-cut effect, and sensing recovery regressions | reuse dream-machine#108, core-memory#85, metaharness#306 | reviews dream-machine#109, ruflo#3309, metaharness#307, RuVector#983, RuView#1914; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 15 public commits across 3 repos; all five exact heads fail mandatory gates; private activity 4 commits across 2 repos aggregate-only | 7af3478b | five exact-head reviews; two private advisories recommended; zero issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-14 | portfolio 321; core-memory; metaharness; ruflo; RuView; rultra | reject unbound authority, synthetic cancellation, unqualified RSI, incomplete credential lifecycle, and unstable persisted witness replay | update rultra#2; private core-memory advisory recommended | reviews core-memory#92, metaharness#302, ruflo#3309, RuView#1889; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 15 public commits across 2 repos; all five candidates fail frozen gates; private activity 2 commits in 1 repo aggregate-only | a3d790a4 | four exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or strategy promotion | +| 2026-09-15 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; RuView; metaharness; rultra | reject inert backlog telemetry, dormant/restart-inconsistent MoE learning, ungoverned sensing database effects, incomplete promotion validation, and unstable/unpublished edge evidence | update RuVector#704, rultra#1; three private advisories recommended | reviews ruflo#3330, RuView#1932, metaharness#307; recheck dream-machine#109; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 25 public commits across 2 repos; focused tests green where runnable but all five miss mandatory system gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | ca949b4d | three exact-head PR reviews, two issue updates; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or strategy promotion | From 077378b462b684e83a3e5cc798c862c1e8a79ca2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:20:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 19/33] docs: add 2026-09-16 portfolio cycle receipt --- .../2026-09-16-portfolio-report.md | 150 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 150 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-16-portfolio-report.md diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-16-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-16-portfolio-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a394c9b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-16-portfolio-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,150 @@ +# Dream Machine portfolio cycle — 2026-09-16 + +## Executive receipt + +- Contract commit: `ruvnet/dream-machine@3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc` (`main`). The README, `SECURITY.md`, `dream.config.json`, ADR index, and freshly compiled 26-stage pipeline were read before portfolio work. The compiled output was 14,258 bytes with SHA-256 `6f8e1f5dd58921309dbf58a9b4f6f94cddcd0679f6568f89537730c26140ef28`. +- Inventory: 321 owned repositories: 218 public and 103 private; 0 archived; 283 indexed, 38 unindexed, and 11 empty. Private repositories are represented only by these aggregates. +- Activity since the preceding signed checkpoint: 53 public default-branch commits across 9 repositories. No private repository pushed in the interval, aggregate-only. +- Open state: authenticated open-state search was reviewed, but the connector no longer exposed total counts and could not reliably separate pull requests from issues. The last retrieval-verified checkpoint on 2026-09-15 recorded 1,430 open pull requests and 1,648 open issues; this cycle does not present those values as fresh totals. +- Deep cohort: Dream Machine, Ruflo, MetaHarness, RuVector, and RuView. Security, trust, evidence integrity, and newly merged production paths overrode ordinary ranking. +- Verdicts: 0 ACCEPT, 5 REJECT. No performance, security, production-readiness, Autogenous, or research-strategy promotion is claimed. +- Mutations: three exact-head COMMENT reviews, three confirmed public issues, this report, and exactly one ledger row. No implementation pull request, direct push, merge, release, deployment, protected-surface change, or automerge change. + +## Governance and selection + +Dream Machine remains evaluation-only: `autoMerge` is false and promotion requires a human. No archived repository was mutated. The weighted queue used security 35%, functionality/production impact 30%, change velocity 10%, measurable optimization 10%, SOTA relevance 10%, and review age 5%; confirmed elevated boundaries took precedence. + +| Repository | Priority | Reason for elevation | +|---|---:|---| +| Ruflo | 97 | Security remediation whose credential-issuance boundary remained ineffective | +| RuVector | 95 | Merged trust-sensitive routing plus a current affected dependency and overstated release claims | +| RuView | 91 | Newly merged CSI ingest with freshness, provenance, privacy, and retained-evidence gaps | +| MetaHarness | 89 | Mutable validated objects and a noncanonical public digest at a promotion boundary | +| Dream Machine | 86 | Self-hosted evidence witness cannot be reproduced from committed bytes | + +The frozen software threshold required advertised behavior to be reachable, every sibling effect to inherit the same authority boundary, identities and provenance to bind to operator-owned anchors, final committed evidence to replay, and all required exact-head or post-merge workflows to pass. Green focused tests alone were insufficient. + +## Deep reviews + +### 1. Dream Machine — PR #111 + +- Exact head: `e70935eaba63a9e3d688fe3d0c98d2f53e17aa6b`; base contract `3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc`. +- Research hypothesis: authoritative runtime-schema practice and exact committed-byte replay will distinguish a valid type-hardening patch from an unverifiable evidence receipt. +- Software hypothesis: four top-level `string[]` fields reject malformed values without changing valid prompt output, and the report witness reproduces from the committed artifact. +- Validation: exact-head `npm run check`, 626 Vitest tests, 81 governance tests, eight-package build, typecheck, lint, Edge contract check, development-policy check, CI, and CodeQL passed. The candidate adds 10 tests and preserves a byte-identical 14,362-byte valid compiled prompt. +- Finding: the validation patch works on its stated four fields, but the report hash and witness were computed from an unavailable intermediate version before the values were inserted. The committed report hashes to `e6a225c3ace1832d9d094d430437328f6341de3ff708ca8bf9ee7ada65c7e34b`, not the published `4635b8…`; the final-bytes witness is `041141f2…`, not the published `f8682d5c…`. The SOTA competitor table is also not source/version-auditable and the reported diff counts are inaccurate. +- Compatibility: PR #105 now owns the adjacent `slots[].scan/deep` array checks. The code composes, but both PRs modify the ledger and require manual row preservation. +- Action: created [issue #112](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/issues/112) and posted an exact-head COMMENT review after GitHub correctly refused a self-authored request-changes review. +- Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 2. Ruflo — PR #3339 + +- Exact head: `96ea0bbd863e69411ee77c40e8123e9996930ee6`; base `a65bdf683a73dcc1f20d455658daab1cca07306b`. +- Research hypothesis: authorization must be enforced at every privileged state transition, and the credential must not be obtainable through an unauthenticated sibling operation. +- Software hypothesis: the new gates deny every sibling mutation without prior authority, preserve CLI/restart behavior, and produce replayable evidence. +- Validation: all six workflow groups passed: CI/CD, V3 CI/CD, CVE audit, CodeQL, cross-agent integration, and verification. The author reports 5/12 baseline versus 12/12 candidate focused tests and 18/18 combined hive tests. Exact-head CI completed 106 successes and 3 skips across 109 checks. +- Finding: the targeted checks occur before mutation, but the credential-issuance boundary remains reachable inside the stated threat model, so the gates do not establish authorization. A sibling state-mutating operation remains outside the token matrix. Details are redacted under `SECURITY.md`; use a private security advisory. Direct-handler tests omit credential acquisition and actual CLI replay, the restart receipt is a file reread rather than a fresh process, and the recorded witness does not reproduce from a preserved preimage. +- CI caveats: Type Check V3 is `continue-on-error` and reports module-resolution errors; the V3 test job tolerates exit 139 after reported completion. Neither is a clean qualification receipt. +- Action: posted a redacted exact-head COMMENT review. No public vulnerability issue was created. +- Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 3. MetaHarness — PR #316 + +- Exact head: `99c338953ec3be40163a9d4b5433e3d2b94c0620`. +- Research hypothesis: task-specific JIT harnesses improve held-out utility over matched static and Darwin-tuned baselines without authority or cost expansion. +- Software hypothesis: the candidate contract is canonical, immutable after validation, non-executable, externally authority-bounded, substitution-resistant, and package-compatible. +- Validation: CI, Real Tools, and the dedicated Node 20/22 Task Harness Candidate workflow passed; the aggregate Security workflow failed on a pre-existing elevated dependency condition. Focused results report 10,000 synthetic cases: 0/6,000 injected false accepts, 0/4,000 clean false denials, 0 order mismatches, 91,985.808 cases/s, 1.669 ms p95 per 100-case batch, and 0.011 ms mean per case. +- Finding: validation returns mutable nested objects and arrays while retaining the original digest. The publicly exported digest is order-sensitive unless callers normalize through a different API first. The benchmark omits digest, lineage, artifact, configuration, and external-anchor substitution, so 0/6,000 is an in-sample structural result rather than the frozen attack contract. No matched task-quality, utility-per-dollar, static-baseline, Darwin-baseline, or independent holdout delta exists. +- SOTA: [JIT-Agent v2, 2026-09-03](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25593) supports four-module task-adaptive harnesses, but its gains remain originating-team evidence; [BenchShield, 2026-09-10](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11028) reinforces lifecycle and infrastructure-side reward-integrity evidence. +- Action: posted an exact-head COMMENT review. Existing issues #317/#318 remain the right utility-reproduction and dependency tracks. +- Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 4. RuVector — PRs #986/#987 and current main + +- Reviewed revisions: #986 head `a55d429117c040adcdc5d17a814230f98ffbd8e2`; #987 head `227c3b5cb2b11ce38247a006b0daf64b260e6b52`; current main `115de07ce5222b761cc32bf1d9133247c753091b`. +- Research hypothesis: accept only a reproducible exact/dynamic min-cut or routing advance with comparable SOTA evidence. +- Software hypothesis: exactness holds across Rust/native Node/WASM/npm, trust fails closed, freshness/privacy/resources are bounded, expiry restores state, current dependencies are qualified, and post-merge CI is green. +- Validation: focused min-cut, real-data, routing, Clippy, audit, native/WASM/tarball, and Chromium checks passed at #986. GitHub exposed 55 successes, one cancelled core/workspace shard, and one skip. Current main had only binary-build/deploy/status receipts for the latest generated binaries; focused workflows do not run on main pushes. +- Measured deltas: typed construction reported 41.1× native and 33.1× WASM versus scalar calls; min-cut certificates 2.24–5,792× on completed SNAP views; NY/BAY routing 11.56×/8.89× geometric mean against local Dijkstra, but local queries fell to 1.84×/1.60× with regressions; RuField ingest was about 1.34 µs p50 and 2.5–2.6 µs p95. These narrow deltas do not establish research SOTA or a released cross-target product. +- Findings: an elevated trust-boundary defect is confirmed across the public Rust/native/WASM/worker surface and is redacted; use a private advisory. Separately, current main retains `fast-uri` 3.1.7 although the official [September 15 advisory](https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/security/advisories/GHSA-hrr3-gc8f-f4qj) and [3.1.8 release](https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/releases/tag/v3.1.8) set 3.1.8 as the patched boundary. Release-facing metadata claims an exact subpolynomial paper implementation and `n^0.12` scaling while the reachable implementation is a practical polynomial sparse Stoer–Wagner baseline plus certificates. Approximate configuration changes labels without a distinct approximate kernel on the reviewed path. +- Action: created public release-qualification [issue #988](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/issues/988); sensitive trust mechanics were excluded. +- Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 5. RuView — merged PR #1944/current main + +- PR head: `af2d6981a31ae9f9143337a221ce2932d86bc34d`; current main/merge commit `45fc41ac4cb4fae4310e76351bcac2469101608b`. +- Research hypothesis: RTL8721Dx has an official CSI interface and physical evidence can be independently replayed and distinguished from synthetic RAC1 traffic. +- Software hypothesis: production RAC1 is bounded as hostile input, freshness-aware, privacy-bounded, non-authoritative, regression-safe, and green after merge. +- Validation: the parser has a 65,507-byte frame cap, 4,096-subcarrier cap, checked length arithmetic, CRC, enum/header/version checks, and trailing-byte rejection. The merged UDP → state → REST path is reachable and raw I/Q is discarded after bounded summaries. PR head exposed 56 successes/5 skips; current main exposed 35 successes/7 skips and no failures across workspace, audit, SAST, secret/infrastructure/container, CSI-policy, Docker-smoke, and benchmark checks. +- Findings: the latest route keeps snapshots indefinitely without receipt time, age, stale/offline state, or replay/sequence enforcement. Hardware-versus-simulated origin is selected by unauthenticated payload metadata; CRC is not authentication. Invalid CSI can still be summarized, some semantic fields are insufficiently constrained, and network-visible diagnostic output includes raw MAC addresses. Physical firmware/capture/log artifacts are not retained, and the benchmark accepts a much weaker frame prefix than the production parser while labelling the result measured. +- Measured delta: the author reports 14.67→66.40 fps (4.53×), 2,302.7→10,424.8 B/s (4.53×), and 68.3→14.9 ms interval (-78.2%) with about 3.8% sequence loss. The missing retained artifacts prevent independent replay. +- SOTA: Realtek's current [official event header](https://github.com/Ameba-AIoT/ameba-rtos/blob/c722e035bbb274a3c275a9b3bc42d45a7497a41a/component/wifi/api/wifi_api_event.h) and [CSI example](https://github.com/Ameba-AIoT/ameba-rtos/blob/c722e035bbb274a3c275a9b3bc42d45a7497a41a/example/wifi/wifi_csi/example_wifi_csi.c) confirm hardware capability. [MultiGait, 2026-09-01](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01036) demonstrates that CSI/BFI can support identity inference, so “privacy-friendly” transport is not a substitute for a route-level privacy contract. +- Action: created post-merge correctness/privacy [issue #1950](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/issues/1950). +- Verdict: **REJECT** + +## Security and functionality summary + +No new remotely exploitable critical vulnerability was confirmed. Elevated authorization/trust findings in Ruflo and RuVector are redacted and require private security advisories. No secret, exploit sequence, private-repository identity, or credential was published. MetaHarness still has a red aggregate dependency gate; details remain within the repository's existing remediation path. + +The principal public functionality failures are: an unreplayable Dream witness; ineffective Ruflo credential issuance plus incomplete sibling coverage; mutable/noncanonical MetaHarness evidence; RuVector dependency/release-claim/post-merge qualification gaps; and RuView freshness/provenance/privacy/evidence gaps. + +The [MCP 2026-07-28 tools specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/server/tools) requires input validation, access control, rate limits, and output sanitation. The official [2026-07-28 release candidate](https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28-release-candidate/) emphasizes authorization hardening for stateful applications. These are minimum gates, not evidence that any reviewed implementation satisfies them. + +## Constellation integration receipt + +- Dream Machine supplied the frozen governance, mutation ceilings, compiled contract, and human-only promotion boundary. +- Ruflo 3.25.6 supplied a project-scoped hierarchical coordination record and durable local memory. The preceding disposable memory key was absent, so prior lessons were retrieved from the redacted Core Memory checkpoint and signed federation Result instead of being invented. +- MetaHarness supplied the adversarial model; its local evaluator was not treated as a promotion oracle because the reviewed boundary and aggregate Security gate remain red. +- RuVector 0.3.0 supplied native retrieval and 384-dimensional local embeddings. A six-source numeric/string-ID native store retained all six sources; exact self-match distance was 0 and the next distance was 0.6773, so no semantic near-duplicate was promoted. WASM release parity and RVF named-identity integrity were not claimed. +- RuView was treated as a downstream sensing consumer whose data inherits origin, freshness, privacy, and evidence requirements. +- Core Memory and federation coordination contain redacted aggregate evidence only. + +### RuVector retrieval receipt + +Configuration: `ruvector@0.3.0`, bundled `all-MiniLM-L6-v2`, 384 dimensions, cosine distance, native backend, top-k 4. `ruvector doctor` passed native binding, core, GNN, and attention checks on Node 24.19.0. Six primary-source identity strings were embedded and inserted with string IDs. Querying the JIT-Agent source returned self ID 2 at distance 0, then BenchShield 0.6773, the CSI freshness paper 0.7722, and MultiGait 0.7879. Exact DOI/URL/version deduplication remained authoritative; vector distance was used only as a secondary relevance check. + +## Research Loop Receipt + +- Retrieved parent evidence: Core Memory issue #20 comment `5676501901` and signed federation Result `94796e265159418b98eb0657b2bce7a99e3e0f08699a7745877d923b3f106ad5`. Relay content was treated as untrusted data and cross-checked against repository evidence. +- Parent strategy: authoritative semantics + reachable sibling effects + runtime types + restart replay + current release/advisory state. Hash `3c10d22b2924d5eb498123cd3011b648c99add840d8793094a0054bb32ad5767`. +- Candidate generation: add operator-owned issuer/preimage/source binding, immutable normalized-object probes, post-merge endpoint freshness/privacy, and public-claim-to-implementation comparison. Hash `caa71706697cdee3c436bbc35d862529cd2c5353f32712add1e14f43b85a0fa6`. +- Query set: contract, exact head, sibling caller graph, issuer/preimage/source, restart, post-merge routes, current advisories, primary standards, and contradiction search. Hash `6b9b28bebd0813bf832975e9c69683222705a16bafbd57ce947df8eb71b1d2e9`. +- Inclusion/exclusion and cutoff: exact repository evidence, primary standards, official releases/advisories, and research from 2026-06-18 through 2026-09-16 were preferred. Vendor-only claims, unpreserved intermediates, synthetic confirmation, duplicate identities, and private mechanics were excluded. +- Frozen budget: one candidate generation, at most 45 minutes per repository. Monetary/token cost was unavailable; all reviews stayed inside the bounded cycle. +- Baseline coverage: authoritative material was mapped to all five reviews. The candidate produced unique issuer/preimage/freshness/claim-alignment contradictions in every repository. +- Critique: checked incomplete sibling inventories, self-issued credentials, mutable validated values, noncanonical digests, payload-selected provenance, stale retained state, advisory-index timing, post-merge workflow absence, public-claim drift, benchmark leakage, and green-test-count reward hacking. +- Holdout: Dream Machine witness replay and RuView post-merge freshness/privacy were not used to tune the Ruflo/MetaHarness authority probes. Their conclusions remained negative under the candidate strategy. +- Promotion threshold: at least 10% preregistered composite gain in authoritative coverage, contradiction recall, reproducibility, cross-stack applicability, and information per cost, with no source-quality, citation, security, privacy, licensing, or holdout regression. +- Decision: the candidate found useful unique contradictions, but no deterministic parent replay, preregistered numeric composite, or complete cost accounting exists. Parent retained; no research strategy was promoted. +- Reusable lesson: stored under Ruflo key `portfolio-patterns/portfolio-2026-09-16-authority-provenance` using the 384-dimensional local embedder and retrieved verbatim. +- Blockers: no cost-accounted deterministic MetaHarness research evaluator, no validated Autogenous/LatentMesh runtime, and no complete native/WASM/RVF identity-equivalence receipt. +- Verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +### Autogenous sub-receipt + +- Frozen topology: primary-source researcher, replication reviewer, contradiction/security reviewer, benchmark reviewer, and integration reviewer. Configuration hash `9f077a34466a45ac75fbfcb76804c0abb99f01fc17aa320b685670c2f0e6f06e`. +- Parent and threshold: the single-agent Ruflo parent above; at least 15% authoritative-coverage or contradiction-recall gain, no citation or primary-source-ratio regression, equal-or-lower cost per validated finding, and deterministic conclusion equivalence. +- Communication: ordinary bounded structured evidence deltas. Platform reviewers were used, but a validated Autogenous runtime and LatentMesh transport were unavailable; their work is not relabelled as Autogenous evidence. +- Deltas/dissent: reviewers independently returned five REJECT verdicts. Material uncertainty about private remediation, production hardware, and released cross-target packages was preserved. +- Held-out metrics/cost: no executable Autogenous-versus-parent trial, deterministic replay, duplicate-source-rate comparison, or token/cost receipt was available. +- Decision: no topology, factual conclusion, or strategy was promoted as Autogenous evidence; no Autogenous memory key was written. +- Verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Durable actions, CI, and blockers + +- Reviews: [Dream Machine #111](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/pull/111), [Ruflo #3339](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/pull/3339), and [MetaHarness #316](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/pull/316). +- Issues: [Dream Machine #112](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/issues/112), [RuVector #988](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/issues/988), and [RuView #1950](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/issues/1950). +- Dream contract validation: local `npm run check` passed 616/616 Vitest and 81/81 governance tests after fetching the pinned reference object; build, typecheck, lint, Edge contract, development policy, and production dependency audit passed. +- Blockers: private Ruflo and RuVector remediation; canonical Dream witness; MetaHarness immutable/canonical evidence and green Security aggregate; RuVector dependency/release claims, trust policy, released native/WASM/RVF parity, and post-merge focused CI; RuView freshness/authenticated provenance/privacy and retained physical evidence. +- No implementation candidate passed the evidence gate, so no implementation PR or direct push was created. + +## Next cohort + +1. Private Ruflo and RuVector security remediation with redacted regression receipts. +2. Dream Machine canonical witness format and PR #105/#111 ledger integration. +3. MetaHarness immutable normalized candidates, canonical public digest, substitution matrix, and JIT utility holdout. +4. RuVector `fast-uri` remediation, released native/WASM/RVF parity, and post-merge focused CI. +5. RuView RAC1 freshness/replay, authenticated-or-unverified provenance, MAC privacy, and retained hardware evidence. +6. Open Claude Code trusted dispatch, QuDAG release recovery, and neglected high-risk repositories. + +Negative results remain first-class evidence. Evaluation is not promotion, and no reviewed change was merged by this cycle. From 5dbfbbf02e08bb9cfc7cea105b79e523f4c6d233 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:20:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 20/33] docs: append 2026-09-16 portfolio ledger row --- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index f42d75a..4120a9e 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -44,3 +44,4 @@ | 2026-09-13 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; metaharness; RuVector; RuView | reject dormant and unsafe backlog telemetry, unqualified RSI, confidential promotion/privacy boundaries, failed local-cut effect, and sensing recovery regressions | reuse dream-machine#108, core-memory#85, metaharness#306 | reviews dream-machine#109, ruflo#3309, metaharness#307, RuVector#983, RuView#1914; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 15 public commits across 3 repos; all five exact heads fail mandatory gates; private activity 4 commits across 2 repos aggregate-only | 7af3478b | five exact-head reviews; two private advisories recommended; zero issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-14 | portfolio 321; core-memory; metaharness; ruflo; RuView; rultra | reject unbound authority, synthetic cancellation, unqualified RSI, incomplete credential lifecycle, and unstable persisted witness replay | update rultra#2; private core-memory advisory recommended | reviews core-memory#92, metaharness#302, ruflo#3309, RuView#1889; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 15 public commits across 2 repos; all five candidates fail frozen gates; private activity 2 commits in 1 repo aggregate-only | a3d790a4 | four exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-15 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; RuView; metaharness; rultra | reject inert backlog telemetry, dormant/restart-inconsistent MoE learning, ungoverned sensing database effects, incomplete promotion validation, and unstable/unpublished edge evidence | update RuVector#704, rultra#1; three private advisories recommended | reviews ruflo#3330, RuView#1932, metaharness#307; recheck dream-machine#109; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 25 public commits across 2 repos; focused tests green where runnable but all five miss mandatory system gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | ca949b4d | three exact-head PR reviews, two issue updates; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or strategy promotion | +| 2026-09-16 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; metaharness; RuVector; RuView | reject unreplayable witness, ineffective credential issuance, mutable/noncanonical promotion evidence, redacted routing trust defect plus affected dependency/claim drift, and stale/unverified CSI diagnostics | dream-machine#112; RuVector#988; RuView#1950; two private advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#111, ruflo#3339, metaharness#316; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 53 public default-branch commits across 9 repos; all five candidates miss mandatory authority, provenance, replay, or post-merge gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | 289678247702385b05a15a6aa8333a59ddebbdaa7ccaad36688f2d4b7fb7f47c | three exact-head COMMENT reviews, three new issues; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | From 96cbac6ae51287624013fdf7f932096f93b7b9b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:44:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 21/33] docs: record 2026-09-17 portfolio cycle --- .../2026-09-17-portfolio-report.md | 145 ++++++++++++++++++ docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 1 + 2 files changed, 146 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-17-portfolio-report.md diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-17-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-17-portfolio-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1181d2c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-17-portfolio-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +# Dream constellation portfolio report — 2026-09-17 + +## Contract, authority, and scope + +The cycle fetched `ruvnet/dream-machine` first and treated default-branch commit `3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc` as the execution contract. `README.md`, `SECURITY.md`, `dream.config.json`, ADR-0001 and the ADR index, package manifests and lockfile, CI, tests, and the compiled pipeline were read before portfolio work. Human-only merge authority, draft-PR policy, fail-closed evidence, and the one-verdict rule were preserved. + +The compiled contract was rebuilt with Node 24.19.0 and TypeScript 5.9.3. `npm run check` passed 23 Vitest files and 622 tests, 81 governance tests, build, typecheck, lint, Edge contract, and development policy. `npm audit --omit=dev` reported zero vulnerabilities. The compiled prompt was 14,258 bytes with SHA-256 `6f8e1f5dd58921309dbf58a9b4f6f94cddcd0679f6568f89537730c26140ef28`. + +No merge, release, deployment, direct push to a default branch, automerge change, production probe, credential disclosure, or archived-repository mutation occurred. + +## Portfolio inventory and prioritization + +Pagination returned 321 accessible repositories, but an exact `owner.login == ruvnet` filter excluded three accessible non-owned repositories. The corrected owned portfolio is **318 repositories: 215 public and 103 private**. None are archived; 280 are indexed and 38 unindexed. Private repositories are represented only by aggregate counts. + +Observed activity after the prior checkpoint was 18 public commits across six public repositories. Private activity was zero commits across 103 private repositories, aggregate-only. Open-state queries reached connector limits at at least 100 pull requests and at least 100 issues. + +The cohort was frozen before outcomes using security 35%, functionality/production impact 30%, change velocity 10%, measurable optimization 10%, SOTA relevance 10%, and review age 5%, with neglected repositories rotated upward. Five active public repositories were deeply reviewed. + +## Deep cohort + +### 1. Dream Machine — forward-only ledger verification + +- PR: [#114](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/pull/114), exact head `4a2ee139f05487d14e73a54678619881cd8e17e9`. +- Software hypothesis: a forward-only verifier must preserve default behavior, grandfather exactly the fixed legacy prefix, fail closed on invalid flags, and reject every malformed future row. +- Research hypothesis: grandfathering is safe only when the legacy boundary is immutable; a row ordinal must survive insertion/deletion attacks as strongly as a pinned prefix digest. +- Threshold: 3/3 malformed-future probes rejected, stable legacy boundary, and exact-head CI green. +- Evidence: candidate tests increased the main suite from 616 to 622; all 81 governance tests, CI, CodeQL, dependency audit, and security checks passed. Full verification still reports 40 historical errors, while `--since-row 38` exits successfully. +- Blocking result: newly appended wrong-column rows remain warnings, blank required cells are accepted, and insertion before row 38 moves the legacy boundary. Adversarial rejection was **0/3**, below 3/3. +- Action: one exact-head [COMMENT review](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/pull/114#pullrequestreview-5231941971) requested a pinned legacy-prefix digest plus fatal structural and blank-field validation. Existing issue #113 was reused. + +**REJECT** + +### 2. MetaHarness — empty paired evidence + +- PR: [#320](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/pull/320), exact head `00b4bfafdcd873ec9cf3f887ddcde6cc5bfe8434`; related live/replay wiring is pending in [#288](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/pull/288). +- Software hypothesis: the compatibility edit is acceptable only if it preserves fail-closed promotion in direct, live-run, and replay paths and leaves receipts/fingerprints auditable. +- Research hypothesis: a present zero-length evidence vector may equal omission only when it has the same epistemic meaning and authority and cannot be induced by an evaluator path. +- Threshold: omitted evidence may preserve legacy behavior, but present-empty/malformed/cardinality-mismatched evidence must not promote; live/replay parity and exact-head security must pass. +- Evidence: focused tests reached 16/16, flywheel 74/74 (+2), downstream 124/124, and CI/Real Tools/CodeQL passed. Security remained red on separately tracked dependencies. +- Blocking result: explicit `pairedOutcomes: []` now falls back to the base gate and can promote with zero paired observations. The direct-wrapper tests do not cover zero-item holdouts, malformed evaluator vectors, or live/replay parity. A separate elevated fingerprint-integrity condition was confirmed and kept private under `SECURITY.md`. +- Action: existing issue #319 is sufficient. Coordinate #320 with #288 and distinguish omitted, complete, and malformed/empty evidence. Use the repository's private security channel for the redacted condition. + +**REJECT** + +### 3. RuVector — signed witness spans + +- PR: [#989](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/pull/989), exact head `d68df81cf33e29ac7d733b5e077173e544175706`; draft, diverged from current main. +- Software hypothesis: signatures must bind complete ledger content plus ledger/issuer/key identity and epoch, fail closed on missing coverage, persist atomically across restart, support key lifecycle, and qualify Rust/native/WASM/RVF parity. +- Research hypothesis: batching must preserve per-record security with reproducible measurements and improve on existing repository and standards practice. +- Threshold: complete contiguous current-tail coverage, cryptographic content/root binding, durable restart, rotation/revocation/freshness, bounded linear verification, parity, and completed exact-head workspace CI. +- Evidence: 48 exact-head jobs succeeded, one skipped, and the `core-and-rest` shard containing the changed crate was cancelled after 240 minutes. Supply-chain, audit, formatting, native build, and WASM-dedup checks passed. Author-reported batch latency was 14.2×–68.3× lower than per-record signing, but verification and final flush were excluded. +- Blocking result: verification accepts absent/incomplete spans; the signature binds only a 64-bit FNV chain value; spans and pending batches are memory-only and non-atomic with the inner sink; ledger, issuer, key epoch, freshness, rotation, and revocation are absent; verification is quadratic; no consumer/native/WASM/RVF integration is present. Current RVM witness/proof code already provides a materially stronger design. +- Security disposition: elevated mechanics are redacted from public coordination. Open a [private security advisory](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/security/advisories/new); no public review or issue was created. + +**REJECT** + +### 4. ruClip — protobuf advisory override + +- PR: [#29](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruClip/pull/29), exact head `17acb39a384bde1d0d0bb562273426c223bcd337`; issue [#28](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruClip/issues/28). +- Software hypothesis: the override must close the exact dependency graph, survive clean installation and packaging, and be enforced by regression tests and CI. +- Research hypothesis: authoritative advisory ranges must classify protobufjs 6.11.6 as affected and 7.6.6 as safe. +- Threshold: no affected locked or consumer-installed version, exact range-aware tests, clean install/package replay, and CI-enforced audit. +- Evidence: Node 20 clean install passed; tests rose 327→328. Root audit moved 39→36 findings: critical 1→0, high 14→12, moderate unchanged at 24. Exact-head scaffold CI passed. +- Blocking result: the root override is not shipped and dependency overrides are ignored for installed dependencies; a fresh install of the packed artifact restored protobufjs 6.11.6 and the critical advisory. The comparator accepts affected 8.0.0 and versions inconsistent with the stated multi-advisory closure. CI uses a tolerated install fallback and does not audit. Twelve high findings remain outside this focused fix. +- Action: existing issue #28 is sufficient. Require lock/audit CI, exact advisory-range tests, and either explicit repository-only scope or an upstream/bundled/pinned consumer-safe solution. + +**REJECT** + +### 5. LatentMesh — reasoning-mode coordination scaffold + +- PR: [#30](https://github.com/ruvnet/LatentMesh/pull/30), exact head `cc06bcf480bb2d7b1a54b85fb93c5985f827d9f0`. +- Software hypothesis: checkpoint/probe/adapter binding must be immutable end to end, while steering remains task-local, bounded, default-off, and least-authority; exact-head evidence must report quality and cost. +- Research hypothesis: causal support requires a frozen checkpoint/probe, trajectory-disjoint holdout, and separation of mode-only, steering, random, zero, shuffled, text, and no-message controls under equal budgets. +- Threshold: unskippable authenticated binding, negative cross-binding test, real restart/persistence, task-quality/cost/latency receipt, and green exact-head checks. +- Evidence: all 12 exact-head-equivalent checks passed. The zero-dependency mechanism is local, deterministic, bounded, copy-on-write, default-off, and fail-closed for unknown/OOD/nonfinite probe states. No live model, network, credential, or authority path was added. +- Blocking result: the receiver authenticates model/revision/adapter metadata but drops it before `steerResidual`, which accepts those values independently. Integrators can therefore skip the authenticated binding. Restart is constructor-simulated, confidentiality is delegated, and no checkpoint, trained probe, sealed holdout, task-quality, latency, or cost result exists. +- Action: one exact-head public-safe COMMENT review (review ID `PRR_kwDOT738Ic8AAAABN9nHEw`) requested an immutable accepted-advisory binding and negative cross-binding test. + +**REJECT** + +## Security, functionality, and constellation relationships + +No new remotely exploitable critical production vulnerability was confirmed. Elevated promotion-integrity and witness-integrity findings in MetaHarness and RuVector were redacted and require private handling. No secret, credential, exploit sequence, or private-repository identity was published. + +The cross-repository pattern is fail-open evidence composition: Dream Machine trusts a movable ledger suffix; MetaHarness converts explicit zero evidence into base-gate permission; RuVector treats absent signed spans as success; ruClip's root-only override does not protect packed consumers; and LatentMesh authenticates metadata before discarding the binding at the consumer boundary. Passing component tests do not establish the final consumer property. + +Dream Machine supplied governance and the durable receipt. MetaHarness supplied the adversarial promotion model but not a trusted promotion oracle. RuVector 0.3.0 `doctor` passed native core, GNN, and attention checks on Node 24.19.0 with bundled 384-dimensional `all-MiniLM-L6-v2`; no native/WASM/RVF retrieval-equivalence claim was made. Ruflo 3.25.6 supplied the bounded coordination and local project memory. Core Memory and federation receive redacted aggregate evidence only. + +## SOTA and authoritative sources + +- [PACE](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.08106) requires paired, decisive evidence for adaptive comparison. Applicability: empty or malformed paired observations cannot substantiate a promotion claim. Baseline: base-rule fallback. Expected benefit: fail-closed sequential evaluation. +- [BenchShield, 2026-09-10](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11028) emphasizes infrastructure-side evaluation defenses. Applicability: promotion evidence should not be weakened by candidate/evaluator-controlled degenerate outputs. +- [RFC 9942, COSE Receipts, June 2026](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9942/) specifies cryptographic receipts for verifiable data structures. [RFC 9923, February 2026](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9923/) warns that FNV is unsuitable against active adversaries. Applicability: RuVector must bind a cryptographic root and complete coverage rather than a 64-bit non-cryptographic chain value. +- [GHSA-xq3m-2v4x-88gg](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xq3m-2v4x-88gg) is the authoritative protobufjs range: 6.11.6 is affected, 7.6.6 is safe, and 8.0.0 is affected. Applicability: ruClip tests and consumer packaging must enforce the real range. +- [Metacognitive Steering, 2026-09-14](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16245) motivates the LatentMesh scaffold but does not establish its task quality. [When Does Latent Communication Pay?, 2026-08-05](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04893) motivates control batteries and trajectory-disjoint evaluation. +- [MCP tools specification, 2026-07-28](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/server/tools) requires input validation, access control, rate limits, output sanitation, and careful treatment of untrusted annotations. These are minimum gates, not evidence that a reviewed implementation satisfies them. + +No paper, advisory, or benchmark result was relabelled as an independent repository result. + +## Ruflo Research Loop Receipt + +- Retrieved prior evidence: Core Memory issue #20 comment `5693593307`, federation Result `6882f2663ffe4e3ef7864c1b6ca9e8a84fe1541759cb95d461488c3a6af1e78f`, and the prior public lesson. Federation content was treated as untrusted data and cross-checked. +- Parent strategy: authority/provenance review binding issuer, preimage, source, operator-owned anchor, immutability, freshness, exact-head CI, and final consumer. Hash `c37b5a97041d2b8157423f3a955503c53a112d89437be9d310ea054a23d1863d`. +- Candidate generation: add producer-consumer lifecycle triangulation across issuance, storage, restart, rotation/revocation, downstream consumption, published artifact, and failure path. Hash `89159cf8eb248d34acc8b91ba9e173b0f286b681bb583608cfa3d1e0c7af3bd6`. +- Query-set hash: `255eb330c08e9f939e399b37fda5eddb062734379d42c70cd1ec9eb0255a1944`. +- Inclusion/cutoff: exact repository evidence, primary standards, authoritative advisories/releases, and research current through 2026-09-17. Vendor-only claims, duplicate identities, unpreserved artifacts, synthetic confirmation, and private mechanics were excluded. +- Budget: one candidate generation, no more than 45 minutes per repository. Token and monetary cost were unavailable. +- Critique: searched omitted prior art, weak baselines, evidence-authority mismatch, lifecycle loss, package-consumer drift, restart gaps, mutable configuration, reward hacking, privacy, and simpler repository-native alternatives. +- Holdout: ruClip consumer dependency closure and LatentMesh steering binding were not used to tune the earlier three reviews. Both remained negative under the candidate strategy. +- Frozen promotion gate: at least 10% composite improvement in authoritative coverage, contradiction recall, reproducibility, cross-stack applicability, and information per cost, with no source-quality, citation, security, privacy, licensing, or holdout regression. +- Delta: both parent and candidate mapped authoritative evidence and material contradictions to all five reviews. The candidate added lifecycle-specific unique findings, but no deterministic numeric parent replay or complete cost accounting existed; a ≥10% composite improvement was not demonstrated. +- Decision: parent retained; no strategy was promoted. +- Reusable lesson: exact-owner inventory filtering and final-consumer fail-closed binding were stored in project-scoped Ruflo memory and retrieved verbatim after writing. +- Blockers: no cost-accounted deterministic MetaHarness research evaluator and no native/WASM/RVF identity-equivalence receipt. + +Research-loop verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +### Autogenous sub-receipt + +- Frozen topology: primary-source researcher, replication reviewer, contradiction/security reviewer, benchmark reviewer, and integration reviewer. Roles returned structured source/claim deltas; ordinary bounded messages were used. +- Parent/threshold: single-agent Ruflo parent; at least 15% authoritative-coverage or contradiction-recall improvement, no citation/primary-source regression, equal-or-lower cost per validated finding, and deterministic conclusion equivalence. +- Communication and dissent: platform reviewers produced five independent negative receipts. Material dissent and uncertainty about release, restart, and private remediation were preserved. +- Runtime boundary: a validated Autogenous runtime and LatentMesh semantic-delta transport were unavailable. Platform parallelism was not relabelled as Autogenous evidence. +- Held-out metrics/cost: no executable Autogenous-versus-parent replay, token/cost receipt, duplicate-source-rate comparison, or deterministic promotion measurement existed. +- Decision: no topology, factual conclusion, or strategy was promoted; no Autogenous memory value was written. + +Autogenous verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Durable actions, blockers, and next cohort + +- Five exact-head reviews; two public-safe COMMENT reviews and no new public issue. +- Existing issues #113, #319, and ruClip #28 were reused. No implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion occurred. +- The five software hypotheses all failed their frozen acceptance thresholds; negative results were preserved as first-class evidence. +- Durable artifacts: this report, exactly one ledger row, a redacted Core Memory checkpoint, a project-scoped Ruflo lesson with retrieval verification, and a redacted federation Result. + +Next cohort: + +1. Private MetaHarness and RuVector remediation with redacted regression receipts. +2. Dream Machine immutable legacy-prefix binding and fatal structural validation. +3. ruClip consumer-safe dependency closure and audit-enforced packaging. +4. LatentMesh unskippable advisory-to-checkpoint binding plus sealed efficacy holdout. +5. RuVector native/WASM/RVF identity and restart parity. +6. Open Claude Code trusted dispatch, QuDAG release recovery, RuView transactional/freshness recovery, and neglected high-risk repositories. + +Evaluation is not promotion. No reviewed change was merged by this cycle. diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index 4120a9e..6116987 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -45,3 +45,4 @@ | 2026-09-14 | portfolio 321; core-memory; metaharness; ruflo; RuView; rultra | reject unbound authority, synthetic cancellation, unqualified RSI, incomplete credential lifecycle, and unstable persisted witness replay | update rultra#2; private core-memory advisory recommended | reviews core-memory#92, metaharness#302, ruflo#3309, RuView#1889; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 15 public commits across 2 repos; all five candidates fail frozen gates; private activity 2 commits in 1 repo aggregate-only | a3d790a4 | four exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-15 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; RuView; metaharness; rultra | reject inert backlog telemetry, dormant/restart-inconsistent MoE learning, ungoverned sensing database effects, incomplete promotion validation, and unstable/unpublished edge evidence | update RuVector#704, rultra#1; three private advisories recommended | reviews ruflo#3330, RuView#1932, metaharness#307; recheck dream-machine#109; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 25 public commits across 2 repos; focused tests green where runnable but all five miss mandatory system gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | ca949b4d | three exact-head PR reviews, two issue updates; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-16 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; metaharness; RuVector; RuView | reject unreplayable witness, ineffective credential issuance, mutable/noncanonical promotion evidence, redacted routing trust defect plus affected dependency/claim drift, and stale/unverified CSI diagnostics | dream-machine#112; RuVector#988; RuView#1950; two private advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#111, ruflo#3339, metaharness#316; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 53 public default-branch commits across 9 repos; all five candidates miss mandatory authority, provenance, replay, or post-merge gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | 289678247702385b05a15a6aa8333a59ddebbdaa7ccaad36688f2d4b7fb7f47c | three exact-head COMMENT reviews, three new issues; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | +| 2026-09-17 | portfolio 318 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruClip; LatentMesh | reject movable/fail-open ledger verification, empty-evidence promotion fallback, incomplete witness coverage, root-only dependency override, and skippable steering binding | reuse dream-machine#113, metaharness#319, ruClip#28; two private advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#114, LatentMesh#30; deep reviews metaharness#320, RuVector#989, ruClip#29; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 18 observed public commits across 6 repos; all five exact heads fail frozen final-consumer or lifecycle gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | a21ff8344f23c794b9004b6e1c4bf01da5906838afd1700f26370183533c8a97 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | From 6d67c873f96c4301f7c46ddcd2f4f5af31dd1702 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:47:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 22/33] docs: redact elevated RuVector details --- docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-17-portfolio-report.md | 8 ++++---- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-17-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-17-portfolio-report.md index 1181d2c..02b37e3 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-17-portfolio-report.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-17-portfolio-report.md @@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ The cohort was frozen before outcomes using security 35%, functionality/producti - Research hypothesis: batching must preserve per-record security with reproducible measurements and improve on existing repository and standards practice. - Threshold: complete contiguous current-tail coverage, cryptographic content/root binding, durable restart, rotation/revocation/freshness, bounded linear verification, parity, and completed exact-head workspace CI. - Evidence: 48 exact-head jobs succeeded, one skipped, and the `core-and-rest` shard containing the changed crate was cancelled after 240 minutes. Supply-chain, audit, formatting, native build, and WASM-dedup checks passed. Author-reported batch latency was 14.2×–68.3× lower than per-record signing, but verification and final flush were excluded. -- Blocking result: verification accepts absent/incomplete spans; the signature binds only a 64-bit FNV chain value; spans and pending batches are memory-only and non-atomic with the inner sink; ledger, issuer, key epoch, freshness, rotation, and revocation are absent; verification is quadratic; no consumer/native/WASM/RVF integration is present. Current RVM witness/proof code already provides a materially stronger design. -- Security disposition: elevated mechanics are redacted from public coordination. Open a [private security advisory](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/security/advisories/new); no public review or issue was created. +- Blocking result: complete-coverage, durable-restart, identity/key-lifecycle, bounded-verification, repository-native reuse, and native/WASM/RVF parity gates were not satisfied. Detailed high-severity mechanics are intentionally omitted from this public report. +- Security disposition: open a [private security advisory](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/security/advisories/new). No public review or issue was created. **REJECT** @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ The cohort was frozen before outcomes using security 35%, functionality/producti No new remotely exploitable critical production vulnerability was confirmed. Elevated promotion-integrity and witness-integrity findings in MetaHarness and RuVector were redacted and require private handling. No secret, credential, exploit sequence, or private-repository identity was published. -The cross-repository pattern is fail-open evidence composition: Dream Machine trusts a movable ledger suffix; MetaHarness converts explicit zero evidence into base-gate permission; RuVector treats absent signed spans as success; ruClip's root-only override does not protect packed consumers; and LatentMesh authenticates metadata before discarding the binding at the consumer boundary. Passing component tests do not establish the final consumer property. +The cross-repository pattern is fail-open evidence composition: Dream Machine trusts a movable ledger suffix; MetaHarness converts explicit zero evidence into base-gate permission; RuVector does not satisfy complete and durable evidence-coverage gates; ruClip's root-only override does not protect packed consumers; and LatentMesh authenticates metadata before discarding the binding at the consumer boundary. Passing component tests do not establish the final consumer property. Dream Machine supplied governance and the durable receipt. MetaHarness supplied the adversarial promotion model but not a trusted promotion oracle. RuVector 0.3.0 `doctor` passed native core, GNN, and attention checks on Node 24.19.0 with bundled 384-dimensional `all-MiniLM-L6-v2`; no native/WASM/RVF retrieval-equivalence claim was made. Ruflo 3.25.6 supplied the bounded coordination and local project memory. Core Memory and federation receive redacted aggregate evidence only. @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Dream Machine supplied governance and the durable receipt. MetaHarness supplied - [PACE](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.08106) requires paired, decisive evidence for adaptive comparison. Applicability: empty or malformed paired observations cannot substantiate a promotion claim. Baseline: base-rule fallback. Expected benefit: fail-closed sequential evaluation. - [BenchShield, 2026-09-10](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11028) emphasizes infrastructure-side evaluation defenses. Applicability: promotion evidence should not be weakened by candidate/evaluator-controlled degenerate outputs. -- [RFC 9942, COSE Receipts, June 2026](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9942/) specifies cryptographic receipts for verifiable data structures. [RFC 9923, February 2026](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9923/) warns that FNV is unsuitable against active adversaries. Applicability: RuVector must bind a cryptographic root and complete coverage rather than a 64-bit non-cryptographic chain value. +- [RFC 9942, COSE Receipts, June 2026](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9942/) specifies cryptographic receipts for verifiable data structures. [RFC 9923, February 2026](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9923/) warns that non-cryptographic hashing is unsuitable against active adversaries. Applicability: RuVector's private remediation must establish cryptographic content binding and complete durable coverage. - [GHSA-xq3m-2v4x-88gg](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xq3m-2v4x-88gg) is the authoritative protobufjs range: 6.11.6 is affected, 7.6.6 is safe, and 8.0.0 is affected. Applicability: ruClip tests and consumer packaging must enforce the real range. - [Metacognitive Steering, 2026-09-14](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16245) motivates the LatentMesh scaffold but does not establish its task quality. [When Does Latent Communication Pay?, 2026-08-05](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04893) motivates control batteries and trajectory-disjoint evaluation. - [MCP tools specification, 2026-07-28](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/server/tools) requires input validation, access control, rate limits, output sanitation, and careful treatment of untrusted annotations. These are minimum gates, not evidence that a reviewed implementation satisfies them. diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index 6116987..5bc614d 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ | 2026-09-14 | portfolio 321; core-memory; metaharness; ruflo; RuView; rultra | reject unbound authority, synthetic cancellation, unqualified RSI, incomplete credential lifecycle, and unstable persisted witness replay | update rultra#2; private core-memory advisory recommended | reviews core-memory#92, metaharness#302, ruflo#3309, RuView#1889; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 15 public commits across 2 repos; all five candidates fail frozen gates; private activity 2 commits in 1 repo aggregate-only | a3d790a4 | four exact-head reviews; one issue updated; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-15 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; RuView; metaharness; rultra | reject inert backlog telemetry, dormant/restart-inconsistent MoE learning, ungoverned sensing database effects, incomplete promotion validation, and unstable/unpublished edge evidence | update RuVector#704, rultra#1; three private advisories recommended | reviews ruflo#3330, RuView#1932, metaharness#307; recheck dream-machine#109; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 25 public commits across 2 repos; focused tests green where runnable but all five miss mandatory system gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | ca949b4d | three exact-head PR reviews, two issue updates; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-16 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; metaharness; RuVector; RuView | reject unreplayable witness, ineffective credential issuance, mutable/noncanonical promotion evidence, redacted routing trust defect plus affected dependency/claim drift, and stale/unverified CSI diagnostics | dream-machine#112; RuVector#988; RuView#1950; two private advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#111, ruflo#3339, metaharness#316; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 53 public default-branch commits across 9 repos; all five candidates miss mandatory authority, provenance, replay, or post-merge gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | 289678247702385b05a15a6aa8333a59ddebbdaa7ccaad36688f2d4b7fb7f47c | three exact-head COMMENT reviews, three new issues; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | -| 2026-09-17 | portfolio 318 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruClip; LatentMesh | reject movable/fail-open ledger verification, empty-evidence promotion fallback, incomplete witness coverage, root-only dependency override, and skippable steering binding | reuse dream-machine#113, metaharness#319, ruClip#28; two private advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#114, LatentMesh#30; deep reviews metaharness#320, RuVector#989, ruClip#29; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 18 observed public commits across 6 repos; all five exact heads fail frozen final-consumer or lifecycle gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | a21ff8344f23c794b9004b6e1c4bf01da5906838afd1700f26370183533c8a97 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | +| 2026-09-17 | portfolio 318 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruClip; LatentMesh | reject movable/fail-open ledger verification, empty-evidence promotion fallback, incomplete witness coverage, root-only dependency override, and skippable steering binding | reuse dream-machine#113, metaharness#319, ruClip#28; two private advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#114, LatentMesh#30; deep reviews metaharness#320, RuVector#989, ruClip#29; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 18 observed public commits across 6 repos; all five exact heads fail frozen final-consumer or lifecycle gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | f93b054198950c8a95c5648d1153ec5effa34c1888c5f2c1611102aac69fd441 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | From aa7b8b2417a97bf780af6cd8c08ad293d01c87d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:15:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 23/33] docs: record 2026-09-18 portfolio cycle --- .../2026-09-18-portfolio-report.md | 204 ++++++++++++++++++ docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 1 + 2 files changed, 205 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-18-portfolio-report.md diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-18-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-18-portfolio-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8f40fde --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-18-portfolio-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,204 @@ +# Dream Machine Portfolio Cycle — 2026-09-18 + +## Executive result + +- Inventory: **322 owned repositories** — 219 public and 103 private; none archived; 284 indexed and 38 unindexed; 11 empty. +- Activity since the prior checkpoint: 14 observed default-branch commits across three public repositories. Private activity was zero in aggregate. +- Open-state searches reached the connector ceiling at at least 100 pull requests and at least 100 issues. +- Five active repositories received exact-head deep review. All five frozen software hypotheses ended **REJECT**. +- No new remotely exploitable critical production vulnerability was confirmed. Elevated RuVector validation/resource concerns remain redacted and should use the repository's private advisory channel. +- Two public-safe COMMENT reviews were posted and one existing issue was materially updated. No new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or research-strategy promotion occurred. + +Evaluation is not promotion. Green component tests were not treated as permission to merge. + +## Contract and inventory receipt + +The cycle fetched `ruvnet/dream-machine` first and pinned current `main` at `3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc`. `README.md`, `SECURITY.md`, `dream.config.json`, ADRs, the compiled pipeline, package manifests and lockfile, CI, tests, and the existing portfolio ledger were read before action. + +Contract validation on that exact revision: + +- `npm ci`, build, typecheck, lint, and compile: passed. +- Compiled pipeline: 14,258 bytes; SHA-256 `6f8e1f5dd58921309dbf58a9b4f6f94cddcd0679f6568f89537730c26140ef28`. +- Vitest: 616/616; governance: 81/81; edge-contract and development-policy checks: passed. +- `npm audit --omit=dev`: zero vulnerabilities. +- Pinned Ruflo 3.25.6 dependency scan: zero critical, high, medium, or low dependency findings on the contract checkout. +- `autoMerge` remains false. Human review is mandatory; the cycle neither merged nor self-promoted. + +Pagination covered all owned repositories and excluded accessible non-owned repositories. Private repositories appear only in the aggregate counts above. No archived repository was modified. + +The five-repository cohort was selected from new or materially updated work using the contract weights: security 35%, functionality/production impact 30%, velocity 10%, measurable optimization 10%, SOTA relevance 10%, and review age 5%. Security and functional boundary failures overrode optimization ranking. + +## Deep reviews + +### 1. Dream Machine PR #116 — evaluator entrypoint automation + +- PR: [#116](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/pull/116); issue: [#115](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/issues/115) +- Exact head: `a1aa94247e7fffbfe25ce3e755d7d2f6f1bf6e1c`; base: `3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc`. +- Frozen hypothesis: every configured evaluator entrypoint must reach the intended executable via shell-free executable/argv calls, preserve the existing singular command, reject malformed entries, and match hand-verified behavior with zero regression. +- Acceptance threshold: 2/2 real configured entrypoints reachable and faithfully classified; malformed configuration fails closed; exact-head checks green. + +Measured evidence: + +- Baseline 697/697 tests; candidate 709/709, a +12-test delta with no suite regression. +- Exact-head CI and CodeQL passed. +- A nonexecuting instrumented replay against the exact committed config reached the intended bench executable but only the setup command for the compound Darwin entry. The intended Darwin executable was never called: **1/2 reachable (50%)**. +- Non-string and blank map entries were silently ignored; a partially invalid map and an empty effective map could exit successfully. +- The new test substitutes a simplified command that omits the failing compound syntax, so the broad reward-integrity claim is not established. + +Node's current documentation confirms that `execFile` does not spawn a shell by default and therefore does not implement redirection or globbing; it also states that Windows `.cmd` and `.bat` files cannot be launched directly by `execFile`. The safe direction is structured executable/argv steps or explicit rejection of compound strings, tested against the committed configuration. [Node 24.21.0, 2026-09-08](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v24.21.0) · [child-process contract](https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html) + +Action: a public-safe [COMMENT review](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/pull/116#pullrequestreview-5245103968) requested structured steps, exact-config tests, and fatal malformed-entry handling. No code or issue mutation. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 2. MetaHarness PR #324 — dry-run manifest validation + +- PR: [#324](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/pull/324); existing issue: [#323](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/issues/323) +- Exact head: `5488a83bccdc91977c5ca718fa2f7e7b126f2312`; base: `d5833dc6512ac1adeeef91a331c29055cd8a4dbb`. +- Frozen hypothesis: every documented learn/dry-run entry point consuming a caller-selected manifest rejects an invalid input before subprocess, state, receipt, or spend effects; valid/default inputs remain compatible. +- Acceptance threshold: behavior-level regression tests for wrapper and direct path; shared-boundary validation; exact-head required security and functional gates green. + +Measured evidence: + +- Focused tests moved 19/25 to 25/25, but the six baseline failures were missing-export errors rather than proof of the prior exit-zero behavior. +- Full create-agent-harness result increased 572 to 577 passing with two skips; Darwin mode reported 658 passing and 14 skips. CI and Real Tools passed. +- The wrapper now rejects a missing path, but the documented direct `learn.mjs --dry-run` path still returns a successful plan before reading the manifest. +- The guard checks only existence. Directories, unreadable files, invalid JSON, wrong shape, and empty instances are not established as invalid at the shared boundary. +- The required Security aggregate remains failed on pre-existing dependency findings; details remain redacted. There is no dependency delta in this PR. + +[BenchShield, submitted 2026-09-10](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11028), supports deriving reward-integrity claims from infrastructure-side lifecycle evidence. For this change, that means validation at the shared harness boundary rather than one wrapper. + +Action: existing issue #323 was reused. No new review or repository mutation was necessary. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 3. Ruflo PR #3352 — same-key memory upsert + +- PR: [#3352](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/pull/3352); existing issue: [#3351](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/3351) +- Exact head: `eb499928cda67c9dec6d664b235992e7d97b3fc6`; base: `e558f0c0fc29c1a658085f6e6f80ad27d4fe811f`. +- Frozen hypothesis: same-key replacement leaves exactly one authoritative record and keeps entries, key/tag/namespace indices, HNSW, cache, persistence, restart, scalar, and bulk paths synchronized with atomic failure semantics. +- Acceptance threshold: focused scalar, batch, invalid-replacement, restart, and concurrency oracles; required exact-head CI green. + +Measured evidence: + +- The sequential scalar `store()` path now removes the old ID and its indexes before inserting the replacement. Focused tests moved 2/4 to 4/4; the full package gained four passes with the same one environmental failure. +- Public `bulkInsert()` duplicates raw writes and bypasses the invariant, leaving older records and secondary state reachable while the key index points at the latest value. +- Scalar replacement deletes the old occupant before validating all new-vector preconditions, so a rejected replacement can lose the prior value and leave partial state. +- Concurrent same-key writers remain a disclosed time-of-check/time-of-use gap; restart and tag-cleanup tests are absent. +- Five workflow groups passed, including CVE, integration, CodeQL, verification, and V3 CI. Required root CI/CD failed on an apparently unrelated monorepo build-order test, so the exact head is not fully green. + +Current primary evidence consistently binds upsert to stable or unique identity and atomic conflict handling: [SQLite UPSERT](https://sqlite.org/lang_upsert.html), [Qdrant points](https://qdrant.tech/documentation/concepts/points/), [Weaviate deterministic IDs](https://docs.weaviate.io/weaviate/manage-objects/create), and [Milvus upsert](https://milvus.io/docs/upsert-entities.md). A July 23, 2026 [Mem0 concurrency report](https://github.com/mem0ai/mem0/issues/6531) independently documents the same duplicate-write race class. + +Action: one public-safe COMMENT review (`PRR_kwDOO07yic8AAAABOKJRoA`) requested a shared scalar/bulk primitive, prevalidation or rollback, and batch/failure/restart/concurrency tests. No implementation mutation. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 4. RuVector PR #993 — direct min-cut backend + +- PR: [#993](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/pull/993) +- Exact head: `784999093113b1e2e8505438d6bc38fe54e6b02f`; base: `b336fbae8b15a5a487fc3e7c14a80dcb4984b04a`. +- Frozen hypothesis: a shipped caller uses the backend; cuts and protected bridges are preserved through updates/deletes; behavior is deterministic and bounded; native/WASM/RVF contracts are qualified; repeated holdouts show a material forgetting benefit. +- Acceptance threshold: at least +15 percentage points bridge survival, green feature-enabled Workspace CI, repeated independent holdouts, resource bounds, and cross-target qualification. + +Measured evidence on the reported fixed synthetic workload: + +| Variant | Bridge survival | Recall | Time | Slowdown vs. scalar | +| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | +| Scalar baseline | 66.7% | 100% | 74 µs | 1x | +| Soft wrapper | 66.7% | 100% | 117,589 µs | 1,589x | +| Soft direct | 66.7% | 100% | 2,081 µs | 28.1x | + +The direct path is approximately 56.5x faster than the wrapper in that single observation, but the required bridge-survival improvement is **0 percentage points**. The scale sweep reports `0, 0, -6.2, 0, 0` percentage points from 84 to 1,344 items. + +The new backend has no production caller, remains feature-disabled by default, and has no direct-mode unit test. It rebuilds a static solve per compaction; incremental update behavior is not exercised. No native Node, WASM, or RVF exposure/parity evidence exists. Required Workspace CI failed, with one unrelated probabilistic failure and a four-hour canceled shard; no CI shard enabled the changed feature. Elevated validation/resource concerns were redacted for private reporting. + +Recent primary research raises the evidence bar. [Selective Forgetting, August 2026](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28978) reports a 27,021-node persistent graph with LongMemEval confidence intervals and explicitly preserves negative results. [Incremental Directed Minimum Cut, August 2026](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16382) maintains a cut across an insertion sequence, whereas this candidate rebuilds a static solver. The registered overall criterion was not met and may not be reframed around latency alone after evaluation. + +Action: no public review containing elevated mechanics. Use a [private security advisory](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/security/advisories/new) for sensitive details. Existing issues #988 and #931 cover adjacent public-safe classes. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 5. RuView PR #1964 — automated vendor refresh + +- PR: [#1964](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/pull/1964) +- Exact head: `f5debfdd1c4b7cbdaddaf0a6bd294eea1e63697f`; base/release tag v2754: `dd02efe2fe129ae8068e9b805ea35aaa660e47dd`. +- Frozen hypothesis: every gitlink resolves to an attributable upstream target, is recursively clean, preserves consumer compatibility, and has exact-head consumer/security CI with bounded supply-chain evidence. +- Acceptance threshold: provenance-complete per-submodule receipts, upstream target checks, reproducible changed artifacts, exact-head consumer CI, and deterministic duplicate suppression. + +Measured evidence: + +- All four gitlinks are fast-forwards and recursively resolvable. +- Four one-line pointer changes import **370 commits, 1,655 files, +263,231/-6,225 lines, and 40 changed binary artifacts**. +- All four RuView workflows ended `action_required` with zero jobs. No exact-head CI, Security Scanning, CSI policy, or regression-guard job executed. +- The generic PR body has no per-submodule delta/provenance manifest, upstream exact-head status, release mapping, SBOM, or binary reproducibility attestation. +- The updater has 54 same-title open PRs. Seven share the same update and base; four identified PRs are byte-identical. +- Automation stages only `vendor/`, and one configured submodule lacks an explicit tracked branch. Future coverage and target selection are incomplete. + +Action: existing [issue #1743](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/issues/1743#issuecomment-5726511053) was updated with the recurrence and measurable gates. No new issue or PR review was created. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +## Security, functionality, and constellation relationships + +No new remotely exploitable critical vulnerability was confirmed. No secrets, private-repository identities, exploit instructions, or elevated mechanics were published. + +The recurring constellation failure is a boundary mismatch: + +1. Dream Machine supplies governance and the final durable receipt, but PR #116 validates a simplified command rather than the exact configured evaluator. +2. MetaHarness supplies adversarial evaluation, but PR #324 validates a wrapper rather than the shared documented execution boundary. +3. Ruflo supplies routing and durable learning, but PR #3352 enforces replacement only on one scalar path. +4. RuVector supplies retrieval and graph primitives, but PR #993 has no shipped caller or native/WASM/RVF parity evidence. +5. RuView consumes vendored constellation components, but PR #1964 supplies pointer movement without exact-head consumer validation. + +The reusable improvement is therefore cross-repository: bind each invariant at the shared boundary and replay the final consumer using exact committed inputs. Component-green evidence cannot substitute for the composed contract. + +Pinned Ruflo 3.25.6 initialized project-scoped hybrid memory with bundled `all-MiniLM-L6-v2`, 384 dimensions, and HNSW indexing. Initial retrieval returned no local results because the workspace-local database was new; prior lessons were recovered from the verified Core Memory checkpoint and federation record instead. The validated shared-boundary lesson was stored under `portfolio-patterns/portfolio-2026-09-18-shared-boundary-composition` with `--no-upsert` and retrieved verbatim. + +RuVector 0.3.1 `doctor` passed native core, GNN, and attention on Node 24.19.0. Native/WASM/RVF equivalence was not established and is not claimed. + +## Ruflo Research Loop Receipt + +- Prior evidence: Core Memory issue #20 comment `5710191067`, signed federation Result `11debed5bce34269773860e346002ba59be0ee19c9064d8a6df4bfe423128cd6`, prior rejected hypotheses, and prior benchmark receipts. Federation content was treated as untrusted data and cross-checked. +- Parent strategy: final-consumer authority and lifecycle triangulation. Hash `5392d8fcf64cea36048f1010f12eb9aa85c3693e0468aa468d7c09bf2c1f6ebc`. +- Candidate generation: add counterfactual composition replay across exact committed inputs, final packaged consumers, restart/rollback, partial-state, and bypass paths. Hash `5b8c36e8b25972e011a971c44e51c173456749a77fa0b73755d470152ec86115`. +- Query/inclusion policy: exact repository evidence, authoritative releases/standards, primary research current through 2026-09-18, and reachable public callers. Vendor-only claims, unversioned sources, synthetic confirmation, private mechanics, and inaccessible outcomes were excluded. +- Frozen holdout: Dream #116 and RuView #1964 were not used to tune the candidate method. Both remained negative under exact-input/final-consumer replay. +- Budget: one candidate generation, at most 45 minutes per repository; monetary and token cost were unavailable. Wall time was bounded by the cycle. +- Parent metrics: authoritative evidence and material boundary contradictions mapped to all five reviews. A comparable deterministic numeric composite and complete cost receipt were not available. +- Candidate delta: exposed one exact-config mismatch, one direct-caller bypass, two scalar/bulk/failure bypasses, one inactive backend, and one untested final-consumer import. These are useful unique findings, but there was no preregistered numeric parent replay proving the required >=10% cost-normalized composite gain. +- Critique: checked weak baselines, simplified fixtures, bypassed public callers, non-atomic failure paths, restart gaps, unshipped code, feature-off CI, submodule/binary provenance, duplicate sources, reward-hack selection, licensing, privacy, and simpler repository-native alternatives. +- Decision: retain the parent. No research strategy or unverified factual conclusion was promoted. +- Reusable lesson: shared-boundary and final-consumer composition gating was stored to project-scoped Ruflo memory and retrieval-verified. +- Blockers: no deterministic MetaHarness research composite, no complete token/cost accounting, and no native/WASM/RVF identity-equivalence receipt. + +Research-loop verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +### Autogenous sub-receipt + +- Frozen topology: primary-source researcher, replication reviewer, contradiction/security reviewer, benchmark reviewer, and integration reviewer. +- Parent and gate: the single-agent Ruflo parent; >=15% authoritative-coverage or contradiction-recall improvement, no citation/primary-source regression, equal-or-lower cost per validated finding, and deterministic conclusion equivalence. +- Communication: five bounded platform reviewers returned structured evidence deltas. Ordinary bounded messages were used; no validated LatentMesh semantic-delta channel was available. +- Dissent: green component tests versus failed composed contracts was preserved rather than averaged away. RuVector's latency improvement and Ruflo's narrow scalar repair remained valid negative/partial evidence without overriding failed functional thresholds. +- Runtime boundary: no validated Autogenous runtime, LatentMesh transport, or costed deterministic Autogenous-versus-parent replay was available. Platform parallelism was not relabelled as Autogenous evidence. +- Held-out metrics/cost: unavailable; no topology or factual conclusion was promoted and no Autogenous memory value was written. + +Autogenous verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Actions, blockers, and next cohort + +- Five exact-head reviews; two public-safe COMMENT reviews; one existing issue materially updated. +- Existing issues Dream #115, MetaHarness #323, Ruflo #3351, and RuView #1743 were reused. +- Zero new issues, implementation PRs, direct pushes, merges, releases, deployments, automerge changes, or research-strategy promotions. +- All five software hypotheses failed their frozen acceptance thresholds. Negative and null results were retained as first-class evidence. +- Durable artifacts: this report, exactly one ledger row, a redacted Core Memory checkpoint, a retrieval-verified Ruflo lesson, and a redacted signed-federation checkpoint. + +Next cohort: + +1. Structured Dream evaluator steps and exact-config fail-closed replay. +2. MetaHarness shared-boundary manifest/schema validation and private dependency remediation. +3. Ruflo atomic scalar/bulk upsert with restart and concurrency oracles. +4. RuVector feature-on direct-mode tests, real holdouts, resource bounds, and native/WASM/RVF parity. +5. RuView submodule provenance manifest, binary attestations, exact-head CI, and duplicate-PR suppression. +6. Open Claude Code trusted dispatch, QuDAG release recovery, and neglected high-risk repositories. + +Evaluation is not promotion. No reviewed change was merged by this cycle. diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index 5bc614d..14a1bde 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -46,3 +46,4 @@ | 2026-09-15 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; RuView; metaharness; rultra | reject inert backlog telemetry, dormant/restart-inconsistent MoE learning, ungoverned sensing database effects, incomplete promotion validation, and unstable/unpublished edge evidence | update RuVector#704, rultra#1; three private advisories recommended | reviews ruflo#3330, RuView#1932, metaharness#307; recheck dream-machine#109; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 25 public commits across 2 repos; focused tests green where runnable but all five miss mandatory system gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | ca949b4d | three exact-head PR reviews, two issue updates; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-16 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; metaharness; RuVector; RuView | reject unreplayable witness, ineffective credential issuance, mutable/noncanonical promotion evidence, redacted routing trust defect plus affected dependency/claim drift, and stale/unverified CSI diagnostics | dream-machine#112; RuVector#988; RuView#1950; two private advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#111, ruflo#3339, metaharness#316; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 53 public default-branch commits across 9 repos; all five candidates miss mandatory authority, provenance, replay, or post-merge gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | 289678247702385b05a15a6aa8333a59ddebbdaa7ccaad36688f2d4b7fb7f47c | three exact-head COMMENT reviews, three new issues; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-17 | portfolio 318 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruClip; LatentMesh | reject movable/fail-open ledger verification, empty-evidence promotion fallback, incomplete witness coverage, root-only dependency override, and skippable steering binding | reuse dream-machine#113, metaharness#319, ruClip#28; two private advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#114, LatentMesh#30; deep reviews metaharness#320, RuVector#989, ruClip#29; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 18 observed public commits across 6 repos; all five exact heads fail frozen final-consumer or lifecycle gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | f93b054198950c8a95c5648d1153ec5effa34c1888c5f2c1611102aac69fd441 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | +| 2026-09-18 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; ruflo; RuVector; RuView | reject exact-config evaluator mismatch, wrapper-only manifest check, scalar-only non-atomic upsert, inactive/ineffective direct min-cut, and unvalidated vendor sweep | reuse dream-machine#115, metaharness#323, ruflo#3351; update RuView#1743; private RuVector advisory recommended | reviews dream-machine#116, ruflo#3352; deep reviews metaharness#324, RuVector#993, RuView#1964; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 14 observed public commits across 3 repos; five exact heads fail shared-boundary or final-consumer gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | 46489ffe6097b01a788f8556b98f3dbc10d0eba8f7603440ab9e2989baa72bc0 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews, one issue update; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | From 127907a3247960902ae778b0faf34a0bc1d2cbe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:21:40 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 24/33] docs: incorporate exact-head review responses --- .../2026-09-18-portfolio-report.md | 23 ++++++++++--------- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 2 +- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-18-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-18-portfolio-report.md index 8f40fde..5a2907f 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-18-portfolio-report.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-18-portfolio-report.md @@ -33,17 +33,18 @@ The five-repository cohort was selected from new or materially updated work usin ### 1. Dream Machine PR #116 — evaluator entrypoint automation - PR: [#116](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/pull/116); issue: [#115](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/issues/115) -- Exact head: `a1aa94247e7fffbfe25ce3e755d7d2f6f1bf6e1c`; base: `3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc`. +- Exact head after review response: `d5d44eafc03c98c0cb3129c2956328cc131f4568`; base: `3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc`. - Frozen hypothesis: every configured evaluator entrypoint must reach the intended executable via shell-free executable/argv calls, preserve the existing singular command, reject malformed entries, and match hand-verified behavior with zero regression. - Acceptance threshold: 2/2 real configured entrypoints reachable and faithfully classified; malformed configuration fails closed; exact-head checks green. Measured evidence: -- Baseline 697/697 tests; candidate 709/709, a +12-test delta with no suite regression. +- Baseline 697/697 tests; current candidate 716/716, a +19-test delta with no suite regression. - Exact-head CI and CodeQL passed. -- A nonexecuting instrumented replay against the exact committed config reached the intended bench executable but only the setup command for the compound Darwin entry. The intended Darwin executable was never called: **1/2 reachable (50%)**. -- Non-string and blank map entries were silently ignored; a partially invalid map and an empty effective map could exit successfully. -- The new test substitutes a simplified command that omits the failing compound syntax, so the broad reward-integrity claim is not established. +- The initial reviewed head misdispatched the compound Darwin entry to its setup command. The review response now blocks shell-control operators and invalid/blank values fail closed, preventing that unsafe execution. +- An instrumented exact-config replay now executes bench and blocks Darwin without invoking `npx`: intended evaluator reachability remains **1/2 (50%)**, below the unchanged 2/2 threshold. +- The new test copies the real Darwin string inline and asserts refusal rather than loading the committed config and reaching the intended evaluator, so drift and functionality remain unresolved. +- The response appended evidence without recomputing its report witness. Exact-head witness verification is invalid. The source/report Windows `.cmd` claim also remains inconsistent with the current Node contract. Node's current documentation confirms that `execFile` does not spawn a shell by default and therefore does not implement redirection or globbing; it also states that Windows `.cmd` and `.bat` files cannot be launched directly by `execFile`. The safe direction is structured executable/argv steps or explicit rejection of compound strings, tested against the committed configuration. [Node 24.21.0, 2026-09-08](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v24.21.0) · [child-process contract](https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html) @@ -75,17 +76,17 @@ Verdict: **REJECT** ### 3. Ruflo PR #3352 — same-key memory upsert - PR: [#3352](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/pull/3352); existing issue: [#3351](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/3351) -- Exact head: `eb499928cda67c9dec6d664b235992e7d97b3fc6`; base: `e558f0c0fc29c1a658085f6e6f80ad27d4fe811f`. +- Exact head after review response: `c9d0e4f2b327db9cd8236a406bd9a704f379c9ef`; base: `e558f0c0fc29c1a658085f6e6f80ad27d4fe811f`. - Frozen hypothesis: same-key replacement leaves exactly one authoritative record and keeps entries, key/tag/namespace indices, HNSW, cache, persistence, restart, scalar, and bulk paths synchronized with atomic failure semantics. - Acceptance threshold: focused scalar, batch, invalid-replacement, restart, and concurrency oracles; required exact-head CI green. Measured evidence: -- The sequential scalar `store()` path now removes the old ID and its indexes before inserting the replacement. Focused tests moved 2/4 to 4/4; the full package gained four passes with the same one environmental failure. -- Public `bulkInsert()` duplicates raw writes and bypasses the invariant, leaving older records and secondary state reachable while the key index points at the latest value. -- Scalar replacement deletes the old occupant before validating all new-vector preconditions, so a rejected replacement can lose the prior value and leave partial state. -- Concurrent same-key writers remain a disclosed time-of-check/time-of-use gap; restart and tag-cleanup tests are absent. -- Five workflow groups passed, including CVE, integration, CodeQL, verification, and V3 CI. Required root CI/CD failed on an apparently unrelated monorepo build-order test, so the exact head is not fully green. +- The review response introduced a shared eviction primitive, scalar prevalidation, deterministic last-entry-wins batch semantics, and focused scalar restart coverage. The memory package now reports 526 passing tests, five more than the prior reviewed head, with the same one environmental failure. +- Bulk failure atomicity remains broken: batch records and secondary maps are published before parallel HNSW insertion. One invalid/full insertion can reject without rollback, leave partial graph state, retain the prior occupant, and later persist the mixed state. No failing-batch oracle exists. +- Concurrent same-key scalar writers remain a demonstrated invariant violation. The new deterministic test intentionally proves that both IDs survive; green status documents rather than fixes the race. +- Capacity-limited scalar replacement indexes before removing the old point, so a logically size-neutral replacement can be rejected even while preserving existing data. +- CVE, CodeQL, integration, and verification workflows passed. V3 and root CI/CD were still running at the final delta review; complete exact-head required-CI evidence was not yet established. Current primary evidence consistently binds upsert to stable or unique identity and atomic conflict handling: [SQLite UPSERT](https://sqlite.org/lang_upsert.html), [Qdrant points](https://qdrant.tech/documentation/concepts/points/), [Weaviate deterministic IDs](https://docs.weaviate.io/weaviate/manage-objects/create), and [Milvus upsert](https://milvus.io/docs/upsert-entities.md). A July 23, 2026 [Mem0 concurrency report](https://github.com/mem0ai/mem0/issues/6531) independently documents the same duplicate-write race class. diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index 14a1bde..700d021 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -46,4 +46,4 @@ | 2026-09-15 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; RuView; metaharness; rultra | reject inert backlog telemetry, dormant/restart-inconsistent MoE learning, ungoverned sensing database effects, incomplete promotion validation, and unstable/unpublished edge evidence | update RuVector#704, rultra#1; three private advisories recommended | reviews ruflo#3330, RuView#1932, metaharness#307; recheck dream-machine#109; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 25 public commits across 2 repos; focused tests green where runnable but all five miss mandatory system gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | ca949b4d | three exact-head PR reviews, two issue updates; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-16 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; metaharness; RuVector; RuView | reject unreplayable witness, ineffective credential issuance, mutable/noncanonical promotion evidence, redacted routing trust defect plus affected dependency/claim drift, and stale/unverified CSI diagnostics | dream-machine#112; RuVector#988; RuView#1950; two private advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#111, ruflo#3339, metaharness#316; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 53 public default-branch commits across 9 repos; all five candidates miss mandatory authority, provenance, replay, or post-merge gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | 289678247702385b05a15a6aa8333a59ddebbdaa7ccaad36688f2d4b7fb7f47c | three exact-head COMMENT reviews, three new issues; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-17 | portfolio 318 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruClip; LatentMesh | reject movable/fail-open ledger verification, empty-evidence promotion fallback, incomplete witness coverage, root-only dependency override, and skippable steering binding | reuse dream-machine#113, metaharness#319, ruClip#28; two private advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#114, LatentMesh#30; deep reviews metaharness#320, RuVector#989, ruClip#29; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 18 observed public commits across 6 repos; all five exact heads fail frozen final-consumer or lifecycle gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | f93b054198950c8a95c5648d1153ec5effa34c1888c5f2c1611102aac69fd441 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | -| 2026-09-18 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; ruflo; RuVector; RuView | reject exact-config evaluator mismatch, wrapper-only manifest check, scalar-only non-atomic upsert, inactive/ineffective direct min-cut, and unvalidated vendor sweep | reuse dream-machine#115, metaharness#323, ruflo#3351; update RuView#1743; private RuVector advisory recommended | reviews dream-machine#116, ruflo#3352; deep reviews metaharness#324, RuVector#993, RuView#1964; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 14 observed public commits across 3 repos; five exact heads fail shared-boundary or final-consumer gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | 46489ffe6097b01a788f8556b98f3dbc10d0eba8f7603440ab9e2989baa72bc0 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews, one issue update; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | +| 2026-09-18 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; ruflo; RuVector; RuView | reject blocked/unreachable exact-config evaluator, wrapper-only manifest check, non-atomic/concurrent upsert, inactive/ineffective direct min-cut, and unvalidated vendor sweep | reuse dream-machine#115, metaharness#323, ruflo#3351; update RuView#1743; private RuVector advisory recommended | reviews dream-machine#116, ruflo#3352; deep reviews metaharness#324, RuVector#993, RuView#1964; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 14 observed public commits across 3 repos; five exact heads fail shared-boundary or final-consumer gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | 6c4ead83ce89f9b233751dfb4d56acaf008d9231c3dc9a291017fe480e10ee07 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews, one issue update; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | From 15dc56e11fb5e684fe7bd7ff085c46669619fe7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:22:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 25/33] docs: record 2026-09-19 portfolio report --- .../2026-09-19-portfolio-report.md | 197 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 197 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-19-portfolio-report.md diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-19-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-19-portfolio-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c767dc --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-19-portfolio-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +# Dream Machine Portfolio Cycle — 2026-09-19 + +## Executive result + +- Inventory: **322 owned repositories** — 219 public and 103 private; none archived; 284 indexed and 38 unindexed; 11 empty. +- Activity since the prior verified checkpoint: three observed default-branch commits across two public repositories. Private activity was ten commits in one repository, aggregate-only. +- Open-state searches reached the connector ceiling at at least 100 pull requests and at least 100 issues. +- Five active repositories received exact-head deep review. All five frozen software hypotheses ended **REJECT**. +- No new remotely exploitable critical production vulnerability was confirmed. Elevated MetaHarness, RuVector, and QuDAG evidence remains redacted and should use private advisory channels. +- Two public-safe COMMENT reviews were posted. No new issue, implementation PR, direct default-branch push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or research-strategy promotion occurred. + +Evaluation is not promotion. Green component tests, source-string equality, and build success were not treated as proof of a composed runtime or release contract. + +## Contract and inventory receipt + +The cycle fetched `ruvnet/dream-machine` first and pinned current `main` at `3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc`. `README.md`, `SECURITY.md`, `dream.config.json`, ADRs, the compiled pipeline, package manifests and lockfile, CI, tests, and the existing portfolio ledger were read before action. + +Contract validation on that exact revision: + +- `npm ci`, typecheck, build, lint, edge-contract, and development-policy checks: passed. +- Compiled pipeline: 14,258 characters / 14,361 bytes; SHA-256 `6f8e1f5dd58921309dbf58a9b4f6f94cddcd0679f6568f89537730c26140ef28`. +- Vitest: 616/616; governance: 81/81 after fetching the pinned historical differential oracle. +- `npm audit --audit-level=high`: zero vulnerabilities. +- Pinned Ruflo 3.25.6 deep read-only scan: zero reported findings. Scanner output was treated as a signal, not proof. +- `autoMerge` remains false. Human review is mandatory; the cycle neither merged nor self-promoted. + +The first governance run timed out while the partial clone fetched a pinned historical blob. After explicitly fetching commit `35c9fd31ec0369f1c4b0ac7d5eda13d766bbb8cf`, the exact same full check passed 616/616 and 81/81. This environmental retry is retained rather than hidden. + +Pagination covered all owner-filtered repositories and excluded accessible non-owned repositories. Private repositories appear only in aggregate. No archived repository was modified. + +The cohort was frozen before outcome inspection using security 35%, functionality/production impact 30%, velocity 10%, measurable optimization 10%, SOTA relevance 10%, and review age 5%. It rotated away from the prior day's repeated RuView/Ruflo subjects toward newly active security/functionality work and neglected release/runtime surfaces. + +## Deep reviews + +### 1. Dream Machine PR #120 — production-scoped audit policy + +- PR: [#120](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/pull/120); issue: [#119](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/issues/119) +- Exact head: `e6371b31825d7ba259789ef0e50e832f1cb97a91`; base: `3edd426f6c9c4b1e80235f7447dc863e749345cc`. +- Frozen hypothesis: removing the duplicate audit job preserves production high/critical enforcement, eliminates dev-only re-gating, resists workflow-shape bypasses, and retains immutable provenance. +- Acceptance threshold: exact-head validation and CI green; adversarial workflow regression; valid report witness; immutable Action references. + +Measured evidence: + +- CI jobs decreased 5 to 4 and external Action references decreased 11 to 9. Vitest stayed 616/616; governance increased 81 to 84, all passing. +- [CI 35328816180](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/actions/runs/35328816180) and [CodeQL 35328815919](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/actions/runs/35328815919) passed. Local exact-head build, typecheck, lint, contracts, policy, audits, and pinned Ruflo scan passed. +- The policy direction matches npm's contract: `--audit-level` controls failure severity, while `--omit` controls which dependency types participate in the submitted audit graph. [npm audit documentation](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/commands/npm-audit/) +- The new guard scans individual workflow lines. A temporary valid multiline shell command separated `npm audit` from `--audit-level=high`; all three new governance tests still passed. The temporary file was removed and the tree verified clean. +- The committed report fails the repository's own full-report witness verifier. Its published SHA/witness do not bind the committed bytes. +- Candidate CI contains nine external `uses:` entries and zero full-length SHA pins. GitHub identifies a full commit SHA as the only immutable Action reference. [GitHub secure-use guidance](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/security/secure-use) + +Action: a public-safe [COMMENT review](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/pull/120#pullrequestreview-5254853685) requested complete workflow-command normalization or parsing, an exact-byte witness, and immutable Action references. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 2. MetaHarness PR #327 — environment-secret guard detection + +- PR: [#327](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/pull/327); issue: [#326](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/issues/326) +- Exact head: `33b05ce61ad5ab5e337b6a9525996181d43c5d73`; base: `d5833dc6512ac1adeeef91a331c29055cd8a4dbb`. +- Frozen hypothesis: the anchored predicate rejects suffix decoys and accurately represents the documented permission tool and path scope for both scanner entrypoints. +- Acceptance threshold: live/replay parity, tool-and-path adversarial fixtures, clean install, and all required exact-head security/functionality gates green. + +Measured evidence: + +- Candidate tests increased 572 to 575 passing with two unchanged skips. CI and Real Tools passed across supported clean-install/package-install platforms. +- The advertised suffix cases are corrected, but an independent nine-case permission/scope matrix passed only **4/9**. Five non-equivalent rules were still classified as guarding the real secret path. +- Both scanner entrypoints reuse the same flawed helper; agreement is therefore shared false-negative behavior rather than independent live/replay confirmation. +- Current Claude Code documentation makes rules tool-specific (`Tool(specifier)`) and assigns file checks to particular file tools and anchored scopes. The candidate does not bind those semantics. [Claude Code permission documentation](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/permissions) +- Required [Security 35323889236](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/actions/runs/35323889236) failed on pre-existing elevated production-dependency signals. Details remain redacted. + +Action: no public mutation containing elevated mechanics. Use a [private security advisory](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/security/advisories/new) for sensitive detail; existing issue #326 was reused. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 3. RuVector PR #997 — retired model identifiers + +- PR: [#997](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/pull/997) +- Exact head: `4a863fd22f7ad4646f0b86928652d9b9be4c5e9f`; base: `b336fbae8b15a5a487fc3e7c14a80dcb4984b04a`. +- Frozen hypothesis: replacing retired identifiers restores runnable native/default/demo behavior without silently changing provider semantics, and produces native/WASM/RVF compatibility evidence. +- Acceptance threshold: authoritative active replacements; canonical defaults updated; demos fail closed; exact-head required CI; cross-target qualification. + +Measured evidence: + +- Retired-ID occurrences under `crates/rvAgent` decreased only 50 to 41, an 18% reduction. +- The canonical `RvAgentConfig::default()` still selects a retired model. WASM stores the new selection as metadata but does not pass it through the JavaScript provider execution boundary; its README also retains a retired identifier. +- Deterministic provider-error replay showed all **3/3** changed demos exit successfully on API failure; **2/3** build invalid JSON from multiline prompts. Demo fail-closed rate remains 0/3. +- The credential-gated live test reports success when no API call occurs. Changed unit tests assert string equality rather than reachability, tool compatibility, or provider response semantics. +- Anthropic lists the selected identifiers as active, but its explicit replacement guidance for the retired Sonnet generation points to a different compatibility target. [Model deprecations](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/model-deprecations) · [models overview](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/overview) +- All six exact-head workflows concluded `action_required` with zero jobs. No RVF migration or native/WASM/RVF identity-equivalence receipt exists. + +Action: no public mutation. No remotely exploitable critical/high finding was confirmed; the material risk is false success and downstream learning/witness state after provider failure. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 4. ruOS PR #1 — shell exit status visibility + +- PR: [#1](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruos/pull/1) +- Exact head: `7d14837c68c9ad6c1d52051dd9db1bb6eb36efcc`; base: `987b49dab5bb3523d42a874c4b3f5907cfb87e30`. +- Frozen hypothesis: exposing command status eliminates false success without breaking legitimate nonzero control flow, signal fidelity, or bounded MCP consumer behavior. +- Acceptance threshold: exact-head tests and protocol replay; structured unambiguous status; bounded time/output/process cleanup; compatible consumer semantics. + +Measured evidence: + +- Inline tests increased 0 to 5. Two nominated silent-failure examples become distinguishable, and two success controls remain byte-identical. Ten other `sh()` consumers are structurally unchanged. +- Exact-head GitHub evidence contains zero workflow runs and zero commit statuses. The executor lacked Rust/Cargo, so the author's test, Clippy, audit, and protocol claims could not be independently replayed. +- Exit status is mixed into user-controlled display text. A successful command can emit the same bytes as synthesized failure text, so machine consumers cannot distinguish provenance. +- Nonzero output is `trim_end()` mutated; signal and spawn-failure states remain conflated or platform-dependent. Rust's current `ExitStatus` contract distinguishes numeric exits from signal termination through platform extensions. [Rust 1.98.1 documentation](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/process/struct.ExitStatus.html) +- Execution time and captured output remain unbounded, with no repository-defined cancellation, process-group cleanup, output ceiling, or structured schema. The current MCP tools specification calls for structured results, validation, output sanitation, rate limits, and client timeouts. [MCP tools specification, 2026-07-28](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/server/tools) + +Action: no repository mutation. Full shell authority remains an explicitly trusted-operator boundary; no new remote critical vulnerability was confirmed. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 5. QuDAG PR #11 — package/binary version synchronization + +- PR: [#11](https://github.com/ruvnet/QuDAG/pull/11); existing release-recovery issue: [#17](https://github.com/ruvnet/QuDAG/issues/17) +- Exact head: `64a3da8d5c95454f488ebf543249021da7f6b394`; current-main merge candidate: `c958b79289b4d974d71e9466f98832d4f7813115`. +- Frozen hypothesis: dynamic version synchronization yields a reproducible, auditable release artifact without protocol, cryptographic, native, or WASM regression. +- Acceptance threshold: canonical version source; exact runtime/workflow asset matrix; fail-closed consumer install; exact-head CI; checksums/attestations; compatibility evidence. + +Measured evidence: + +- The hard-coded runtime version moves from 1.0.2 to package version 1.2.1. Package, Cargo workspace, and lock-root versions still disagree. +- Runtime asset requests match **0/5** names/formats emitted by the release workflow. GitHub has no qualifying releases or artifacts. +- `npm ci` and `npm test` fail because built lifecycle files are absent. `npm ci --ignore-scripts && npm run build` and dry-run packing pass, but a fresh packed-package install masks its download failure and the first CLI invocation fails. +- Exact PR head and generated merge candidate have zero workflow runs/statuses. Current-main crypto, network, audit, lint, and platform jobs remain red; WASM/artifact jobs were skipped. +- Elevated production-dependency and artifact-integrity signals remain redacted. The downloader does not establish checksum, signature, attestation, or provenance verification, and native/WASM parity is unqualified. Current ecosystem guidance supports trusted publishing, provenance statements, and artifact attestations. [npm trusted publishing](https://docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publishers/) · [GitHub artifact attestations](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/secure-your-work/use-artifact-attestations/use-artifact-attestations) +- QuDAG's cryptographic envelope remains governed by [NIST FIPS 203](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/203/final) and [FIPS 204](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/204/final); this change supplies no exact-head interoperability or regression receipt. + +Action: a public-safe [COMMENT review](https://github.com/ruvnet/QuDAG/pull/11#pullrequestreview-5254853713) requested canonical versions, exact asset names, fail-closed installation, attestations, consumer replay, and green release/crypto/WASM CI. Elevated details should use a [private advisory](https://github.com/ruvnet/QuDAG/security/advisories/new). + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +## Security, functionality, and constellation relationships + +No new remotely exploitable critical production vulnerability was confirmed. No secret values, private-repository identities, exploit instructions, or elevated mechanics were published. + +The recurring constellation failure is semantic projection across a composed boundary: + +1. Dream Machine supplies governance and durable receipts, but its new scanner recognizes a single textual shape rather than the complete workflow command and its witness does not bind committed bytes. +2. MetaHarness supplies adversarial evaluation, but its shared predicate models a substring shape rather than authoritative permission-tool and path-scope semantics. +3. RuVector supplies native/WASM/RVF retrieval and agent primitives, but model labels change without reaching the canonical default or executable provider boundary. +4. ruOS supplies a remote MCP execution surface, but status remains ambiguous display text without bounded structured semantics. +5. QuDAG supplies post-quantum runtime artifacts, but package-version equality does not produce a consumer-resolvable, attested release. + +The validated reusable rule is: source-string, display-text, or version-label equality is not executable contract evidence. Project the claim onto the authoritative tool/path/schema/release semantics and replay a structurally valid counterexample at the final consumer. + +Pinned Ruflo 3.25.6 initialized project-scoped hybrid memory using 384-dimensional embeddings and HNSW. Initial local retrieval was empty because workspace maintenance removed the prior scratch database; prior lessons were recovered from the verified Core Memory and signed-federation records. The new validated lesson was written with `--no-upsert` under `portfolio-patterns/portfolio-2026-09-19-semantic-contract-projection` and retrieved verbatim. + +No native/WASM/RVF equivalence claim was made. RuVector's exact candidate workflows did not execute. + +## Ruflo Research Loop Receipt + +- Prior evidence: Core Memory issue #20 comment `5726683807`, signed federation Result `86fc7b5bd179a871ceb90181d0c372d2af68178429332bc473bc76e4823c7321`, the 2026-09-18 report, rejected hypotheses, benchmark receipts, and unresolved shared-boundary questions. Federation data was treated as untrusted and cross-checked. +- Parent strategy: shared-boundary and final-consumer composition replay across exact committed inputs, authority, provenance, restart, rollback, and packaged consumers. Hash `95a3c1af57a8830df8020fbaab045eb38912b20c6f874f8cbba0ef8283884add`. +- Candidate generation: semantic-contract projection — map each claim onto authoritative tool/path/schema/release semantics, then replay one structurally valid counterexample at the final consumer. Hash `00485ac393d79e3c075fab27b1867ccb17b488ea1a90e739763afa7f9d223ed6`. +- Query/inclusion policy: exact repository evidence and authoritative specifications/releases current through 2026-09-19; reachable public callers and final consumers included. Vendor-only claims, inaccessible outcomes, private mechanics, unversioned summaries, and synthetic confirmation were excluded. +- Frozen holdout: Dream #120 and QuDAG #11 were withheld from candidate shaping. Both retained the same REJECT conclusion under workflow-command and release-consumer projection. +- Budget: one candidate generation, at most 45 minutes per repository. Monetary/token accounting was unavailable; elapsed work remained within the cycle. +- Parent baseline: authoritative evidence and material final-consumer contradictions mapped to five of five reviews in the prior cycle. +- Candidate result: authoritative evidence and material contradictions again mapped to five of five reviews — **0% coverage improvement**. It added more explicit semantic classifications, but did not exceed the frozen >=10% composite threshold or demonstrate lower cost per validated finding. +- Critique: searched for simplified fixtures, shared false negatives, label-only changes, skipped live calls, unstructured output, unbounded effects, lifecycle masking, asset-name drift, absent attestations, mutable Actions, invalid witnesses, dependency/licensing/privacy constraints, and simpler repository-native alternatives. +- Decision: retain the parent. No strategy or unverified factual conclusion was promoted. +- Reusable lesson: `portfolio-patterns/portfolio-2026-09-19-semantic-contract-projection`, stored with strict insertion and retrieval-verified. +- Blockers: no deterministic MetaHarness research composite, complete cost/token receipt, or native/WASM/RVF identity-equivalence backend. + +Research-loop verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +### Autogenous sub-receipt + +- Frozen topology: primary-source researcher, replication reviewer, contradiction/security reviewer, benchmark reviewer, and integration reviewer. +- Configuration hash: `ce1602225c09c533fa9c3eeb53b94a877c9577e67d47bfee6a68940dc2c83c6d`. +- Parent and gate: the single-agent Ruflo parent; >=15% authoritative-coverage or contradiction-recall improvement, no citation/primary-source regression, equal-or-lower cost per validated finding, and deterministic conclusion equivalence. +- Communication: five bounded platform reviewers returned structured evidence deltas through ordinary messages. No validated LatentMesh semantic-delta transport was available. +- Dissent: valid narrow improvements — Dream's policy correction, MetaHarness's suffix fix, RuVector's active IDs, ruOS's visible status, and QuDAG's dynamic label — were preserved rather than averaged into the failed system-level gates. +- Runtime boundary: no validated Autogenous runtime, LatentMesh transport, or costed deterministic Autogenous-versus-parent replay was available. Platform parallelism was not relabelled as Autogenous evidence. +- Held-out metrics/cost: unavailable. No topology, strategy, or factual conclusion was promoted and no Autogenous memory value was written. + +Autogenous verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Actions, blockers, and next cohort + +- Five exact-head reviews; two public-safe COMMENT reviews. +- Existing issues Dream #119, MetaHarness #326, and QuDAG #17 were reused. +- Zero new issue, implementation PR, direct default-branch push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or research-strategy promotion. +- All five software hypotheses failed their frozen acceptance thresholds. Negative and null results were retained as first-class evidence. +- Durable artifacts: this report, exactly one ledger row, a redacted Core Memory checkpoint, a retrieval-verified Ruflo lesson, and a redacted signed-federation checkpoint. + +Next cohort: + +1. Dream workflow-command parsing, exact-byte witness binding, and immutable Actions. +2. MetaHarness tool-and-path semantic permission tests plus private dependency remediation. +3. RuVector canonical model defaults, fail-closed demos, and native/WASM/RVF provider parity. +4. ruOS structured bounded execution with timeout, output ceiling, cancellation, and protocol CI. +5. QuDAG canonical release metadata, exact artifact matrix, attestations, consumer replay, and crypto/WASM recovery. +6. Open Claude Code trusted dispatch, Ruflo atomic bulk/restart qualification, and neglected high-risk repositories. + +Evaluation is not promotion. No reviewed change was merged by this cycle. From d25381f35914075361b39fc6729b4306805ac6ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:22:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 26/33] docs: add 2026-09-19 portfolio ledger row --- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index 700d021..1464857 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -47,3 +47,4 @@ | 2026-09-16 | portfolio 321; dream-machine; ruflo; metaharness; RuVector; RuView | reject unreplayable witness, ineffective credential issuance, mutable/noncanonical promotion evidence, redacted routing trust defect plus affected dependency/claim drift, and stale/unverified CSI diagnostics | dream-machine#112; RuVector#988; RuView#1950; two private advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#111, ruflo#3339, metaharness#316; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 53 public default-branch commits across 9 repos; all five candidates miss mandatory authority, provenance, replay, or post-merge gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | 289678247702385b05a15a6aa8333a59ddebbdaa7ccaad36688f2d4b7fb7f47c | three exact-head COMMENT reviews, three new issues; zero implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-17 | portfolio 318 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruClip; LatentMesh | reject movable/fail-open ledger verification, empty-evidence promotion fallback, incomplete witness coverage, root-only dependency override, and skippable steering binding | reuse dream-machine#113, metaharness#319, ruClip#28; two private advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#114, LatentMesh#30; deep reviews metaharness#320, RuVector#989, ruClip#29; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 18 observed public commits across 6 repos; all five exact heads fail frozen final-consumer or lifecycle gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | f93b054198950c8a95c5648d1153ec5effa34c1888c5f2c1611102aac69fd441 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-18 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; ruflo; RuVector; RuView | reject blocked/unreachable exact-config evaluator, wrapper-only manifest check, non-atomic/concurrent upsert, inactive/ineffective direct min-cut, and unvalidated vendor sweep | reuse dream-machine#115, metaharness#323, ruflo#3351; update RuView#1743; private RuVector advisory recommended | reviews dream-machine#116, ruflo#3352; deep reviews metaharness#324, RuVector#993, RuView#1964; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 14 observed public commits across 3 repos; five exact heads fail shared-boundary or final-consumer gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | 6c4ead83ce89f9b233751dfb4d56acaf008d9231c3dc9a291017fe480e10ee07 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews, one issue update; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | +| 2026-09-19 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruos; QuDAG | reject line-only audit guard and invalid witness, permission-semantic false negative, incomplete/false-success model migration, ambiguous unbounded shell status, and nonexistent/mismatched release artifacts | reuse dream-machine#119, metaharness#326, QuDAG#17; private MetaHarness/RuVector/QuDAG advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#120, QuDAG#11; deep reviews metaharness#327, RuVector#997, ruos#1; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 3 observed public default-branch commits across 2 repos; five exact heads fail semantic final-consumer gates; private activity 10 commits in 1 repo aggregate-only | 93496743529c4367ef220469668b98bf9912df9ba5cddc4c8af9ab44a8c9a4e4 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct default-branch push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | From a252705a980770ff51973a1be365e42e7fc0576c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:44:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 27/33] docs: add 2026-09-20 portfolio report --- .../2026-09-20-portfolio-report.md | 118 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 118 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-20-portfolio-report.md diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-20-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-20-portfolio-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3414925 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-20-portfolio-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +# Portfolio Dream Cycle — 2026-09-20 + +## Executive receipt + +- Inventory: **322 repositories owned by ruvnet** — 219 public and 103 private; none archived; 284 indexed, 38 unindexed, and 11 empty. +- Activity since the previous verified checkpoint: three observed public default-branch commits across three repositories; private activity was zero in aggregate. +- Open-state searches reached connector limits at at least 100 pull requests and 100 issues. +- Deep cohort: Dream Machine, MetaHarness, Ruflo, RuVector, and ruQu. +- Repository verdicts: five **REJECT**. Research optimization and Autogenous exploration are separately **INCONCLUSIVE**. +- No new remotely exploitable critical or high production vulnerability was confirmed. No secret, private-repository identity, exploit instruction, or elevated vulnerability mechanic is published here. +- Actions: one issue, one draft implementation PR, and one exact-head COMMENT review. No merge, default-branch push, release, deployment, automerge change, or protected-surface mutation. + +## Current Dream contract + +The cycle began from exact default-branch commit `aa931caad5dd0108253645bba0ab1481ad7da0ee`. README, SECURITY.md, dream.config.json, ADRs, the ruOS runbook, and compiled pipeline were read before action. + +The configuration does not enable the optional ruOS stanza, so the compiled portfolio prompt remained 14,258 characters / 14,361 bytes with SHA-256 `6f8e1f5dd58921309dbf58a9b4f6f94cddcd0679f6568f89537730c26140ef28`. Exact-main validation passed 645/645 Vitest and 140/140 governance tests after fetching the historical witness object. Typecheck, build, lint, Edge contracts, development policy, production audit, and pinned Ruflo 3.25.6 deep scanning passed. + +## Frozen repository hypotheses + +### Dream Machine / governed ruOS evaluation + +Hypothesis: the merged ruOS evaluator accepts only authentic decodable screenshot evidence, and an installed target can execute the compiled verifier while preserving the frozen authority boundary. + +A 32-byte SOI/EOI-shaped buffer and a structurally invalid PNG satisfied the merged evidence gate. The compiler emitted a repository-only script path absent from the packed CLI. A dedicated ruOS desktop was selected, but the harmless probe returned HTTP 409/unavailable and screenshot capture produced no bytes. No authenticated `status=ok`, numeric `exitCode=0`, `completionVersion=1`, or `completionVerified=true` receipt exists. + +Issue [#124](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/issues/124) records the finding. Draft [PR #125](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/pull/125), exact tree `751adfc3d8a912fcdd123cdafaf59b426f0ab86f`, adds bounded PNG decoding, fails JPEG closed, ships `dream-machine ruos verify`, and replays the packed CLI from a clean consumer. Local validation passed 645/645 Vitest, 146/146 governance, the isolated packed-consumer test, build/typecheck/lint/contracts/policy, and a zero-vulnerability production audit. It remains draft and unmerged; live integration is not claimed. + +[PNG 3](https://www.w3.org/TR/png-3/) requires valid CRCs and zlib data. [GitHub artifact attestations](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/concepts/security/artifact-attestations) distinguish integrity evidence from deployment authority. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### MetaHarness PR #332 + +Hypothesis: autonomous semantics reach every adapter and the production `create-agent-harness` journey without silent loss, with valid schedule and capability projection. + +Exact head `f8a5ab9a9642b2eabf8e29d20c3be39cd3993a19` passed 192/192 targeted tests versus 175/175 baseline. Direct adapter retention improved 0/9→7/9, but Claude Code and Codex still drop valid autonomous-only traces. The duplicate production CLI/web renderer remained 0/9. The schedule validator admits invalid ranges and one-minute schedules, and the Claude capability map omits current bounded loop/gate primitives. + +CI and Real Tools passed; Security remained red due to pre-existing elevated dependency signals. No changed-source secret or new remotely exploitable high/critical defect was confirmed. + +Sources: [GitHub Actions schedule syntax](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/workflow-syntax#onschedule), [Claude Code hooks](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks), and [Codex AGENTS.md](https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/agent-configuration/agents-md). + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### Ruflo PR #3365 + +Hypothesis: stdio isolation preserves siblings and reports lifecycle state and cleanup ownership correctly across stop, restart, concurrency, PID reuse, and supported platforms. + +Exact head `85c68888e42caf8a5fa5b1e63d1d405f87396fbd` passed 7/7 focused tests, its build, and all six workflows. Ordinary stdio start no longer replaces a sibling or claims the shared PID file. After start and stop, independent replay still returned `status.running=true` and `health.healthy=true`. Force-cleanup records only a PID; ownership under PID reuse and Windows termination is unproven. + +A public-safe [COMMENT review](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/pull/3365#pullrequestreview-5259803370) reuses issue #3364 and requests denial after stop, concurrency, PID-reuse protection, and Windows lifecycle coverage. [Node process signaling](https://nodejs.org/api/process.html#processkillpid-signal) confirms PID reassignment semantics. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### RuVector PR #1000 + +Hypothesis: approximate min-cut beats exact execution while improving bridge survival by at least 15 points, preserving recall, reproducibility, fail-closed research semantics, and native/WASM/RVF qualification. + +Exact head `f938dba3b3a7ef3391e9d48c24276805649cb43a` measured 4.4–4.7 ms versus 105 ms exact (22–24×), but remained 65–85× slower than scalar baseline. Soft bridge survival regressed 66.7%→39.2% (−27.5 points); Hard remained 66.7% (0-point gain), missing +15. Soft recall was 97.2–97.7%; Hard was 100%. + +The implementation ignores cut value and hash-order traversal returns a balanced half even for a 9/3 graph. The rejection probe exits zero. There is one corpus seed, no deterministic holdout, no production caller, and no native/WASM/RVF or restart parity. Required Workspace CI was cancelled at 240 minutes before affected tests completed. Recent [incremental directed minimum-cut work](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16382) reinforces actual-cut semantics but does not validate this implementation. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### ruQu current main / merged observer lab + +Hypothesis: exact-equivalent simulator reduction preserves scientific labeling and functionality while satisfying identity-bound producer provenance, immutable CI, dependency qualification, and the existing promotion contract. + +Exact main `eb127994aaf8cdb074ebcc3ff32c1a798b79efa8` passed [CI 35487963666](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruqu/actions/runs/35487963666): Rust 1,376 passed / 0 failed / 5 ignored, native 12/12, Node 44/44, formatting, Clippy, build, and E2E. Simulator calls fell 20→8 (−60%); local median improved 0.097132→0.038787 ms (2.504×), CI 2.433×. + +The `SyntheticSim` boundary is correctly preserved. Existing [issue #2](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruqu/issues/2) still requires identity-bound RVM/RVF receipts and key-lifecycle/substitution coverage. The root establishes consistency, not producer identity. Four mutable `@v4` Actions and no Rust advisory gate also block promotion. Seven advisory records across five default-lock packages were observed, but no high-severity path was confirmed in the observer bridge. + +Sources: [GitHub secure use](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/security/secure-use), [SLSA provenance 1.2](https://slsa.dev/spec/v1.2/provenance), [W3C PROV-O](https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/), and [IBM CHSH](https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/en/tutorials/chsh-inequality). + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +## Constellation and security receipt + +Dream supplies policy and durable evidence; MetaHarness adversarial evaluation; Ruflo process/memory lifecycle; RuVector retrieval/graph primitives; ruQu synthetic evidence through ruField and WorldGraph; ruOS execution/observation. The recurring fault is delivery-bound identity: bytes, packaged commands, process instances, partitions, and producer receipts must remain bound at the final consumer. + +No new remotely exploitable critical/high production vulnerability was confirmed. MetaHarness's pre-existing dependency aggregate remains red. RuVector elevated details remain redacted for private advisory handling. Private repositories appear only as aggregates. + +Pinned Ruflo memory stored and retrieved `portfolio-patterns/portfolio-2026-09-20-delivery-boundary`: an evaluation contract is not integration-ready until evidence bytes decode under authoritative format rules, verifier commands exist in the shipped consumer artifact, and an isolated live executor returns authenticated structured completion. + +## Research Loop Receipt + +- Prior evidence: the 2026-09-19 report, Core Memory comment `5739905538`, federation Result `f524f34aa40fb08d3201327d81302825ed6952ec7131d0fd5ff779c4b558894f`, rejected hypotheses, benchmarks, and unresolved final-consumer questions. +- Parent: semantic-contract projection across exact inputs, authority, provenance, restart, rollback, and packaged consumers; material contradictions in 5/5. +- Candidate: delivery-bound triangulation across byte format, installed consumer, durable instance/producer identity, and live isolated completion. +- Inclusion: exact repository evidence, reachable public callers, authoritative sources through 2026-09-20. Vendor-only claims, inaccessible outcomes, private mechanics, unversioned summaries, and synthetic production claims were excluded. +- Budget: one generation, at most 45 minutes per repository. Monetary/token accounting unavailable. +- Holdout: Ruflo lifecycle and ruQu producer provenance were withheld from Dream/MetaHarness shaping; both retained REJECT. +- Result: contradictions in 5/5, equal to parent — **0% improvement** versus the frozen ≥10% threshold. No deterministic cost improvement. +- Critique: checked helper false positives, final renderers, invalid-but-shaped files, package contents, stale liveness, PID reuse, hash order, signatures, mutable Actions, licensing/privacy, simpler alternatives, and pass-count reward hacking. +- Decision: retain parent. Store the reusable lesson, but promote no research strategy. + +Research-loop verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +### Autogenous sub-receipt + +A bounded five-role platform topology covered primary sources, replication, contradiction/security, benchmarks, and integration mapping through ordinary structured messages. Dissent was retained: ruQu has strong correctness/labeling; Ruflo fixes the ordinary sibling-kill path; MetaHarness improves seven adapters; RuVector is faster than exact; Dream's repair passes its deterministic software envelope. + +No validated Autogenous runtime, LatentMesh semantic-delta transport, or costed deterministic Autogenous-versus-parent replay was available. Platform parallelism was not relabeled as Autogenous evidence. No topology, strategy, memory value, or factual conclusion was promoted. + +Autogenous verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Actions, blockers, and next cohort + +- Created Dream [issue #124](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/issues/124). +- Created Dream draft [PR #125](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/pull/125), unmerged without automerge. +- Added one exact-head COMMENT review to Ruflo #3365. +- Zero direct default-branch pushes, merges, releases, deployments, or strategy promotions. +- ruOS live preflight is blocked by unavailable dedicated evaluation capacity; no personal/shared desktop was used. +- PR #125 exact-head CI/CodeQL are tracked separately when complete. + +Next: independent PR #125 review and isolated live receipt; MetaHarness production renderer and schedule semantics; Ruflo restart/ownership; RuVector seeded actual-cut and cross-target parity; ruQu identity receipts/key lifecycle/immutable Actions/advisory gate; Open Claude Code dispatch, QuDAG release recovery, RuView freshness/transactionality, and neglected high-risk repositories. + +Evaluation is not promotion. No reviewed change was merged by this cycle. From 59547fd686df9181e6e1f9ec29caa0955b46e67f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:45:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 28/33] docs: add 2026-09-20 portfolio ledger row --- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index 1464857..1e26b0e 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -48,3 +48,4 @@ | 2026-09-17 | portfolio 318 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruClip; LatentMesh | reject movable/fail-open ledger verification, empty-evidence promotion fallback, incomplete witness coverage, root-only dependency override, and skippable steering binding | reuse dream-machine#113, metaharness#319, ruClip#28; two private advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#114, LatentMesh#30; deep reviews metaharness#320, RuVector#989, ruClip#29; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 18 observed public commits across 6 repos; all five exact heads fail frozen final-consumer or lifecycle gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | f93b054198950c8a95c5648d1153ec5effa34c1888c5f2c1611102aac69fd441 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-18 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; ruflo; RuVector; RuView | reject blocked/unreachable exact-config evaluator, wrapper-only manifest check, non-atomic/concurrent upsert, inactive/ineffective direct min-cut, and unvalidated vendor sweep | reuse dream-machine#115, metaharness#323, ruflo#3351; update RuView#1743; private RuVector advisory recommended | reviews dream-machine#116, ruflo#3352; deep reviews metaharness#324, RuVector#993, RuView#1964; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 14 observed public commits across 3 repos; five exact heads fail shared-boundary or final-consumer gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | 6c4ead83ce89f9b233751dfb4d56acaf008d9231c3dc9a291017fe480e10ee07 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews, one issue update; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-19 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruos; QuDAG | reject line-only audit guard and invalid witness, permission-semantic false negative, incomplete/false-success model migration, ambiguous unbounded shell status, and nonexistent/mismatched release artifacts | reuse dream-machine#119, metaharness#326, QuDAG#17; private MetaHarness/RuVector/QuDAG advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#120, QuDAG#11; deep reviews metaharness#327, RuVector#997, ruos#1; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 3 observed public default-branch commits across 2 repos; five exact heads fail semantic final-consumer gates; private activity 10 commits in 1 repo aggregate-only | 93496743529c4367ef220469668b98bf9912df9ba5cddc4c8af9ab44a8c9a4e4 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct default-branch push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | +| 2026-09-20 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; ruflo; RuVector; ruqu | reject malformed/unshipped ruOS evidence, incomplete autonomous propagation, stale process lifecycle, failed approximate-cut correctness, and unsigned producer provenance | dream-machine#124; reuse metaharness#331, ruflo#3364, ruqu#2 | dream-machine#125; review ruflo#3365; deep reviews metaharness#332, RuVector#1000, ruqu main; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 3 observed public commits across 3 repos; all five miss final-consumer, lifecycle, correctness, or identity gates; private activity zero aggregate | report a252705a | one issue, one draft implementation PR, one COMMENT review; zero default push, merge, release, deployment, automerge, or strategy promotion | From 96aa0f158ce836b13a9a62312077b8ede81a58bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:46:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 29/33] docs: finalize 2026-09-20 portfolio receipts --- docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-20-portfolio-report.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-20-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-20-portfolio-report.md index 3414925..d6e62c4 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-20-portfolio-report.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-20-portfolio-report.md @@ -116,3 +116,11 @@ Autogenous verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** Next: independent PR #125 review and isolated live receipt; MetaHarness production renderer and schedule semantics; Ruflo restart/ownership; RuVector seeded actual-cut and cross-target parity; ruQu identity receipts/key lifecycle/immutable Actions/advisory gate; Open Claude Code dispatch, QuDAG release recovery, RuView freshness/transactionality, and neglected high-risk repositories. Evaluation is not promotion. No reviewed change was merged by this cycle. + +## Final coordination verification + +- Draft PR #125 is mergeable, remains draft and unmerged. +- [CI run 35494870253](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/actions/runs/35494870253): passed. +- [CodeQL run 35494870210](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/actions/runs/35494870210): passed. +- [Core Memory checkpoint](https://github.com/ruvnet/core-memory/issues/20#issuecomment-5748204712): written and retrieval-verified. +- Signed federation Result: `aed093568791e47b4a5995434d5bfe8bead9edb12f2ab35939ac0c6257f00cdf`, retrieval-verified. From 27317d248f2a2c084d22857a94f821f0838d5985 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:54:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 30/33] docs: record 2026-09-21 portfolio cycle --- .../2026-09-21-portfolio-report.md | 168 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 168 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-21-portfolio-report.md diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-21-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-21-portfolio-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3311dd9 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-21-portfolio-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,168 @@ +# Dream Machine portfolio cycle — 2026-09-21 + +## Executive receipt + +This cycle evaluated the exact-owner Ruvnet portfolio against the default-branch Dream Machine contract at `aa931caad5dd0108253645bba0ab1481ad7da0ee`. It read the README, SECURITY policy, `dream.config.json`, ADR-0107, the ruOS runbook, manifests, workflows, tests, and compiled pipeline before selecting work. + +- Inventory: **322 owned repositories** — 219 public and 103 private; none archived; 284 indexed, 38 unindexed, and 11 empty. +- Activity since the prior checkpoint: one observed public default-branch commit in one repository. Private activity was zero in aggregate. +- Open-state searches reached connector limits at at least 100 pull requests and 100 issues. +- Deep reviews: five. Verdicts: zero `ACCEPT`, five `REJECT`, zero repository-level `INCONCLUSIVE`. +- Changes: four exact-head COMMENT reviews; zero new issues, implementation PRs, direct default-branch pushes, merges, releases, deployments, automerge changes, or research-strategy promotions. +- Private repositories are represented only by aggregates. No secret, private identity, exploit instruction, or redacted elevated-finding detail appears here. + +Passing a source test is not delivery. Every reviewed candidate failed at a later state: real package, persisted state, malformed evidence, production caller, or effective authority. + +## Contract and baseline + +The governing inputs and SHA-256 digests were: + +- `README.md`: `24fad88c6cfadb7b001904a5357b79cc4a5397afdbf85f772012e067f9874321` +- `SECURITY.md`: `624887dd1c2c7679e7b359f8638e8cb08768dc7f3edb253761ee137cb1b022a5` +- `dream.config.json`: `1df9b95540b4d2fa33bac98f30b0e898763277d6dd2bb18544d511ffd933ee63` +- ADR-0107: `10eff15d20b63703e159b24091d39666cc8eda455da9d7579af6c7e4acc3838f` +- ruOS runbook: `b10cb10844a6dbf045c80e0d814fd8c2c379e77eae007c4000cd37df4eabb2eb` +- compiled pipeline: 14,361 bytes, SHA-256 `6f8e1f5dd58921309dbf58a9b4f6f94cddcd0679f6568f89537730c26140ef28` + +Dream main validation passed 645/645 Vitest tests, 140/140 governance checks, typecheck, build, lint, edge contracts, development policy, and a production dependency audit with zero vulnerabilities. A pinned read-only Ruflo 3.25.6 deep scan reported zero findings. + +Ruflo initialized a project-local hybrid memory with bundled `all-MiniLM-L6-v2`, 384 dimensions, HNSW enabled, and 6/6 initialization checks. The fresh local store returned no prior result; continuity was therefore recovered from the verified Core Memory and signed-federation records, not inferred from an empty database. + +## Portfolio triage + +Selection used the contract weights: security 35%, functionality and production impact 30%, change velocity 10%, measurable optimization 10%, SOTA relevance 10%, and review age 5%. Critical security or functionality evidence could override scoring. Dream Machine, MetaHarness, Ruflo, and RuVector ranked through active implementation risk. Open Claude Code rotated upward as a neglected, high-impact execution boundary. Archived repositories were excluded from mutation; there were none. + +Prior accepted-but-unintegrated work was inspected first. Dream PR #125 was only proposed/reproduced: it was not integration-ready, merged, deployed, or live-verified. No other reviewed candidate crossed those later stages. + +## Deep reviews + +### Dream Machine PR #125 + +Frozen hypothesis: the candidate rejects invalid screenshot bytes and ships the trusted verifier through the actual CLI artifact without authority, compatibility, or resource regression. + +Exact head `e44cadfa755550a92dcb0852c77618a34072292f` materially improves three cases: bad IDAT CRC, invalid zlib, and decompression-bound violations changed from `ACCEPT` to `REJECT`. A valid fixture remains accepted and explicit encoded, decoded, pixel, and evidence-file ceilings remain bounded. + +The actual unmodified `npm pack -w packages/cli` artifact installed but could not start: its published ledger dependency lacks workspace exports imported by the candidate. The committed packaging test instead bundles and rewrites a synthetic package, so it cannot qualify the publishable manifest. Independent valid-CRC/zlib probes also showed that indexed images without mandatory palette data, grayscale images with forbidden palette data, and duplicate palette chunks still produce `ACCEPT`. [PNG 3 §11.2.2](https://www.w3.org/TR/png-3/#11PLTE) requires these color-type, length, and cardinality rules. + +Validation: 645/645 tests, 146/146 governance checks, typecheck/build/lint/policy, full audit, [CI 35494870253](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/actions/runs/35494870253), and [CodeQL 35494870210](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/actions/runs/35494870210) passed. These green checks do not cover the two failing holdouts. + +Action: exact-head [COMMENT review 5263766510](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/pull/125#pullrequestreview-5263766510). Integration stages: proposed yes; reproduced partially; integration-ready no; merged no; deployed no; live-verified no. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### MetaHarness PR #337 + +Frozen hypothesis: `buildScorecard` can no longer mask High MCP risk behind a promotable state across all final consumers, malformed/missing/numeric evidence, live/replay parity, and a clean packed artifact. + +Exact head `14cdad4db393b0da2ea09755c3fb64c68c2946f1` repairs the narrow valid-policy case: valid High policy reports score 97, Grade C, and process exit 1; Low and Medium controls remain stable. Build, TypeScript, 576 tests with two skips, [CI 35499232231](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/actions/runs/35499232231), and [Real Tools 35499232255](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/actions/runs/35499232255) passed, including a clean packed-consumer replay. + +Present-but-malformed or JSON-`null` policy evidence is still collapsed into the absent-policy state. Across the library, text, JSON, bundle, out-file, and packed consumer it returns score 100, Grade A, exit 0, `mcpRisk: None`, and `releaseReady: true`. Structured valid-High output also omits an authoritative grade/exit while retaining `releaseReady: true`. Required [Security 35499232246](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/actions/runs/35499232246) remains red on three unchanged high-or-greater web-UI dependency findings; no new critical/high finding was attributed to this diff. + +Action: exact-head [COMMENT review 5263766681](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/pull/337#pullrequestreview-5263766681). The review requires distinct absent/disabled and present-invalid states, object/schema validation, malformed/null/unreadable controls through all outputs, authoritative structured promotion state, and green required security checks. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### Ruflo PR #3385 + +Frozen hypothesis: case-folded denylist controls block caller-controlled search-path variables across every reachable execution path while preserving safe inherited environment variables and cross-platform behavior. + +Exact head `b067a3fd5f3fec3076e7246ffc786ae08315965e` passed 32/32 focused tests. The baseline accepted 4/4 representative unsafe names; the candidate rejected 4/4, rejected 3/3 case variants at create time, and preserved the safe inherited-variable control. + +Two held-out states fail. A legacy persisted session retains a newly denied variable because the execution boundary does not revalidate durable state. A clean install of the actual CLI tarball also resolves the previously published cli-core package, so 2/2 newly denied variables remain accepted by the shipped consumer. CI overlays locally built cli-core files into `node_modules`; that proves source integration, not package delivery. The committed receipt is bound to the base rather than the candidate head. + +Exact-head [CVE Audit](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/actions/runs/35569353944), [Cross-Agent Integration](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/actions/runs/35569353949), [CodeQL](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/actions/runs/35569354041), [Verification Pipeline](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/actions/runs/35569354022), and [V3 CI/CD](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/actions/runs/35569353946) passed. [CI/CD 35569353985](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/actions/runs/35569353985) remained in progress at final evidence freeze after Ubuntu/macOS success while Windows packaging was active. The pinned scan found zero signals; the production dependency audit contained 12 inherited findings, six high and six moderate, unrelated to this diff. + +Action: exact-head [COMMENT review 5263766607](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/pull/3385#pullrequestreview-5263766607), reusing [issue #3384](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/3384). It requires effect-time persisted-state revalidation, actual cli-core package delivery, an unmodified packed-consumer replay, exact-head witness binding, and completed Windows qualification. [npm package metadata](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/configuring-npm/package-json#bundleddependencies) is the authoritative delivery contract. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### RuVector PR #1002 + +Frozen hypothesis: canonical min-cut repairs the previous correctness gap, improves bridge survival by at least 15 percentage points, preserves recall and bounded latency, has a production caller, and qualifies restart/order and native/WASM/RVF behavior. + +Exact head `0d564e0d6936a953c4234f9c8a5bb8162209aefc` returned identical canonical output in 30/30 repeated ordered-input trials. Legacy was valid in 40% and degenerate in 60%. Baseline, Soft, and Hard recall@10 were all 100%; 20/20 tamper trials detected alteration. Soft and Hard latency remained within the frozen 100× scalar ceiling and were 114.8×–199.4× faster than legacy over the meaningful scale sweep. + +The mandatory outcome did not move: bridge survival was 66.7% for baseline, Soft, and Hard, a **0.0 percentage-point** gain against the required ≥15 points. There is one corpus seed, no input permutation/reload/independent-seed holdout, no production caller, and no restart/order or native/WASM/RVF qualification. Required [Workspace CI 35496876809](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/actions/runs/35496876809) was cancelled after four hours in the shard containing the changed consumer. The lockfile was unchanged and a pinned read-only scan found zero signals. Recent [incremental directed min-cut research](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16382) reinforces actual-cut semantics but is not a drop-in validation for this undirected source-anchored implementation. + +Action: exact-head [COMMENT review 5263766764](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/pull/1002#pullrequestreview-5263766764). + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### Open Claude Code main and issue #17 + +Frozen hypothesis: current dispatch cannot perform an unauthorized effect and enforces explicit authority, working-directory/tool bounds, time/cost/cancellation, and clean-consumer behavior. + +Exact main `411dbc3e5a97b43bb69c9b049efc43ab74d4937b` failed both explicit allow/deny gates, both path-containment gates, and the descendant-cancellation gate: 0/5 trust-boundary gates passed. The clean plan-mode denial control passed. Parsed policy, sandbox, subagent, nested-path, and timeout claims do not reach the effective execution boundary. A separate elevated startup trust-boundary condition was confirmed and is withheld; use a [private security advisory](https://github.com/ruvnet/open-claude-code/security/advisories/new). + +The local suite passed 1,008/1,008 tests; production audit reported zero vulnerabilities across 45 dependencies; the pinned Ruflo scan reported zero findings; and `npm pack --dry-run` succeeded with 72 entries. Exact-main [Nightly Verified Release 35556359826](https://github.com/ruvnet/open-claude-code/actions/runs/35556359826) passed but lacks lifecycle/adversarial coverage and uses mutable Action tags. Node documents that terminating a subprocess does not inherently prove descendant-effect cancellation. [Node child-process semantics](https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#subprocesskillsignal) and current [Claude Code permission semantics](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/permissions) support the frozen boundary. + +[Issue #17](https://github.com/ruvnet/open-claude-code/issues/17) already covers public-safe policy, sandbox, persistence, checkpoint, subagent, and lifecycle remediation. None of open PRs #15, #18, or #21 resolves the boundary. No duplicate public issue or comment was created, and no elevated mechanics were disclosed publicly. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +## Security and constellation receipt + +No new remotely exploitable critical production vulnerability was confirmed. The elevated Open Claude Code condition is redacted and belongs in a private advisory. MetaHarness's required dependency aggregate remains red. Ruflo's inherited production audit findings are unchanged. Dream and RuVector read-only scans found no signals; these automated scans did not substitute for reachable lifecycle analysis. + +Dream supplied governance and durable evidence; MetaHarness supplied adversarial promotion gates; Ruflo supplied coordination and validated local memory; RuVector supplied retrieval/graph primitives; Core Memory and the signed federation supplied redacted continuity; ruOS was reserved for isolated execution/observation. The recurring relationship is a state transition: policy must remain bound when source becomes package, configuration becomes effect, state survives restart, and cancellation is expected to prevent later effects. + +## SOTA and authoritative-source receipt + +Source cutoff was 2026-09-21. Queries targeted authoritative format, package, process, permission, MCP, min-cut, and evaluation contracts. Vendor-only performance claims, inaccessible outcomes, private mechanics, unversioned summaries, and synthetic production claims were excluded. + +- [PNG 3 palette rules](https://www.w3.org/TR/png-3/#11PLTE): applies to Dream screenshot bytes. Baseline covered CRC/zlib/bounds but not palette cardinality/color-type invariants. Expected benefit: reject syntactically shaped but invalid evidence before hashing or promotion. +- [MCP tools specification, 2026-07-28](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/server/tools): applies to MetaHarness and Open Claude Code validation, access control, confirmations, timeouts, and result handling. Baseline conflated absent and malformed policy or parsed without enforcement. Expected benefit: fail closed at the effective tool boundary. +- [npm package-json delivery semantics](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/configuring-npm/package-json#bundleddependencies): applies to Dream and Ruflo clean consumers. Baseline source tests overlaid or rebuilt dependencies. Expected benefit: qualify exactly what users install. +- [Node child-process semantics](https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#subprocesskillsignal): applies to cancellation and process descendants. Baseline considered parent completion/timeout sufficient. Expected benefit: test persisted effects after cancellation. +- [Incremental Directed Minimum Cut, 2026-08-17](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16382): adjacent recent evidence for maintaining actual cut semantics. Baseline optimized a synthetic wrapper without an outcome gain. Expected benefit: require a real cut and downstream bridge-survival result before promotion. +- [Beyond Test Presence, 2026-07-13](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12068) and [BenchShield, 2026-09-10](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11028): apply to assertion strength, lifecycle states, and reward integrity. Expected benefit: prevent green-count and synthetic-consumer reward hacking. + +## Research Loop Receipt + +- Prior evidence: 2026-09-20 report, Core Memory comment `5748204712`, federation Result `aed093568791e47b4a5995434d5bfe8bead9edb12f2ab35939ac0c6257f00cdf`, rejected hypotheses, benchmark receipts, and unresolved final-consumer questions. +- Parent strategy: delivery-bound triangulation across authoritative bytes, shipped verifier, durable identity, and authenticated completion. Hash: `7cd6e611be1a270a531f35e4369a1d65c05d36cae4a35142c800c631d0458468`. +- Candidate: state-transition completeness across absent, malformed, persisted, packaged, execution, cancellation, cleanup, and recovery states. Hash: `518c5751a62b1b884c12e9a8048d04ba2794519dbfde7057a95f16c710060aad`. +- Frozen threshold: ≥10% improvement in authoritative coverage, contradiction recall, reproducibility, cross-stack applicability, and information gained per unit cost; no primary-source, citation, security, privacy, licensing, or held-out regression. +- Budget: one generation; at most 45 minutes per repository. Monetary/token accounting was unavailable, so cost-normalized promotion could not pass. +- Tuning set: MetaHarness malformed-policy, Ruflo persisted/package, and RuVector consumer/outcome states. Holdout: Dream real-package/PNG rules and Open Claude Code effective-authority/cancellation states. +- Result: material contradictions in 5/5 reviews, equal to the parent's 5/5 contradiction count — **0% improvement** against the frozen ≥10% threshold. The candidate expanded MetaHarness policy states from four to six (+50%) and reproduced both added contradictions, but the corpus was small and not a costed preregistered composite. +- Critique: inspected omitted final consumers, synthetic-package substitution, fail-open absent/malformed equivalence, durable-state upgrades, caller reachability, cancelled CI, order/restart parity, scan false negatives, mutable release claims, privacy, licensing, simpler controls, and pass-count reward hacking. +- Decision: retain the parent. No strategy promotion or positive-result preference. +- Reusable lesson stored under `portfolio-patterns/portfolio-2026-09-21-state-transition-completeness` with pinned Ruflo 3.25.6, `all-MiniLM-L6-v2`, 384 dimensions, vector storage enabled; exact retrieval was verified. + +Research-loop verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +### Autogenous sub-receipt + +Before parallel exploration, the single-agent parent, five repository questions, cutoff, roles, threshold, and stopping rule were frozen. Five independent roles covered primary-source review, replication, contradiction/security, benchmark design, and integration mapping. Topology/configuration hash: `cd66f6852ec00f4fc498c1d957f8f4e295079764289cc8d56b8620f65fdb3efe`. Communication used bounded ordinary structured messages; LatentMesh semantic deltas were unavailable. + +Useful unique deltas included Dream's actual-tarball failure, MetaHarness malformed/null equivalence, Ruflo persisted/package gaps, RuVector's zero outcome delta, and Open Claude Code's post-cancellation/effective-authority failures. Dissent was retained: each of the first four candidates contains a bounded positive source-level improvement, and Open Claude Code's ordinary suite is green. None outweighs its frozen system boundary. + +No validated Autogenous runtime, LatentMesh channel, token/cost counter, or deterministic Autogenous-versus-parent replay was available. Platform parallel review is not relabeled as Autogenous evidence. No research strategy or unverified factual conclusion was promoted. + +Autogenous verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## ruOS governed-evaluation receipt + +Target selection excluded the personal Mac and ready-labeled desktops without a live heartbeat. The dedicated evaluation target `ruos-ruos-evolution-candidate-8dd713` was selected. A fixed harmless `true` probe and screenshot request each returned unavailable status. There was no numeric exit code, completion version 1, authenticated `completionVerified: true`, or screenshot bytes. + +No stdout parsing, screenshot URL, personal session, shared desktop, candidate verifier, credential, or retry substitution was used. Exact baseline/candidate/environment execution could not be established, so no user-journey, deployment, or production claim was made. + +ruOS verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Durable coordination and actions + +- [Core Memory checkpoint 5756523913](https://github.com/ruvnet/core-memory/issues/20#issuecomment-5756523913): written and retrieval-verified. +- Signed federation Result `65de1a0aeedd7be85b97eb8b420816742d16ef466ceff0d076aeed9dca9b871d`: retrieval-verified. +- Four exact-head COMMENT reviews: Dream #125, MetaHarness #337, Ruflo #3385, and RuVector #1002. +- Existing public trackers were reused: Ruflo #3384 and Open Claude Code #17. No duplicate issue was created. +- Zero new issues, implementation PRs, direct default-branch pushes, merges, releases, deployments, automerge changes, or strategy promotions. +- No candidate passed the evidence gate, so no implementation was created or promoted. + +## Blockers and next cohort + +Blockers: Dream actual-package compatibility and complete PNG semantics; MetaHarness malformed-policy and structured-output integrity plus required Security; Ruflo persisted-state revalidation, cli-core delivery, exact-head receipt, and Windows completion; RuVector outcome delta, production caller, required Workspace CI, seeded/order/restart and native/WASM/RVF parity; private Open Claude Code authority remediation; unavailable isolated ruOS execution. + +Next cohort: re-evaluate Dream #125 only after real-tarball and palette-negative gates; MetaHarness policy parsing and authoritative structured verdicts; Ruflo effect-time revalidation/package delivery; RuVector actual-cut outcome and cross-target qualification; private Open Claude Code remediation; QuDAG release recovery; RuView freshness/transactionality; and neglected high-risk repositories. + +Evaluation is not promotion. Nothing was merged or deployed by this cycle. From 92f358d3435827c1af36bf6232b17b8d47097434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:54:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 31/33] docs: append 2026-09-21 portfolio ledger --- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index 1e26b0e..4978751 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -49,3 +49,4 @@ | 2026-09-18 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; ruflo; RuVector; RuView | reject blocked/unreachable exact-config evaluator, wrapper-only manifest check, non-atomic/concurrent upsert, inactive/ineffective direct min-cut, and unvalidated vendor sweep | reuse dream-machine#115, metaharness#323, ruflo#3351; update RuView#1743; private RuVector advisory recommended | reviews dream-machine#116, ruflo#3352; deep reviews metaharness#324, RuVector#993, RuView#1964; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 14 observed public commits across 3 repos; five exact heads fail shared-boundary or final-consumer gates; private activity zero aggregate observed | 6c4ead83ce89f9b233751dfb4d56acaf008d9231c3dc9a291017fe480e10ee07 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews, one issue update; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-19 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruos; QuDAG | reject line-only audit guard and invalid witness, permission-semantic false negative, incomplete/false-success model migration, ambiguous unbounded shell status, and nonexistent/mismatched release artifacts | reuse dream-machine#119, metaharness#326, QuDAG#17; private MetaHarness/RuVector/QuDAG advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#120, QuDAG#11; deep reviews metaharness#327, RuVector#997, ruos#1; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 3 observed public default-branch commits across 2 repos; five exact heads fail semantic final-consumer gates; private activity 10 commits in 1 repo aggregate-only | 93496743529c4367ef220469668b98bf9912df9ba5cddc4c8af9ab44a8c9a4e4 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct default-branch push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-20 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; ruflo; RuVector; ruqu | reject malformed/unshipped ruOS evidence, incomplete autonomous propagation, stale process lifecycle, failed approximate-cut correctness, and unsigned producer provenance | dream-machine#124; reuse metaharness#331, ruflo#3364, ruqu#2 | dream-machine#125; review ruflo#3365; deep reviews metaharness#332, RuVector#1000, ruqu main; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 3 observed public commits across 3 repos; all five miss final-consumer, lifecycle, correctness, or identity gates; private activity zero aggregate | report a252705a | one issue, one draft implementation PR, one COMMENT review; zero default push, merge, release, deployment, automerge, or strategy promotion | +| 2026-09-21 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; ruflo; RuVector; open-claude-code | reject broken real-package/PNG semantics, fail-open malformed policy, unvalidated persisted/package state, zero min-cut outcome gain, and ineffective execution authority | reuse ruflo#3384, open-claude-code#17; private Open Claude Code advisory recommended | reviews dream-machine#125, metaharness#337, ruflo#3385, RuVector#1002; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 1 observed public default-branch commit in 1 repo; all five miss packaged, persisted, malformed, caller, or authority gates; private activity zero aggregate | report f79c253fd92c68cf5114a46c278d559ac0ce6021800171d5dc447b34989cfd05 | four exact-head COMMENT reviews; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | From 0ab3ccf80aa85eac7fe945a5e271c50babaa2bfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:48:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 32/33] docs: record 2026-09-22 portfolio cycle --- .../2026-09-22-portfolio-report.md | 128 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 128 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-22-portfolio-report.md diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-22-portfolio-report.md b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-22-portfolio-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5206e91 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-22-portfolio-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,128 @@ +# Dream constellation portfolio report — 2026-09-22 + +## Contract and scope + +The cycle began from `ruvnet/dream-machine` default branch `main` at `aa931caad5dd0108253645bba0ab1481ad7da0ee`. Before portfolio work, the current `README.md`, `SECURITY.md`, `dream.config.json`, ADR index and ADR-0107, ruOS evaluation runbook, package manifests and lockfile, CI, tests, and compiled pipeline were read as the execution contract. The compiled routine contained 322 lines and 14,258 bytes with SHA-256 `6f8e1f5dd58921309dbf58a9b4f6f94cddcd0679f6568f89537730c26140ef28`. + +The human-only merge boundary, private-aggregate rule, fail-closed evidence gates, five-repository limit, exact-head validation, and one-verdict-per-hypothesis rule were preserved. No merge, deployment, release, default-branch push, automerge change, production probe, credential use, archived-repository mutation, or public disclosure of private-repository detail occurred. + +Dream main passed 645/645 Vitest tests, 140/140 governance tests, typecheck, build, lint, edge-contract checks, development policy, and a production dependency audit with zero vulnerabilities. The first governance run encountered three 10-second `git show` timeouts while a shallow object was fetched; after the pinned object became available, the three tests and the complete check passed. A pinned, read-only Ruflo 3.25.6 standard scan reported zero findings. + +## Portfolio inventory and prioritization + +All exact-owner repositories were paginated as 100, 100, 100, and 22 entries: **322 repositories**, comprising 219 public and 103 private. None are archived; 284 are indexed, 38 unindexed, and 11 empty. Private repositories appear only as aggregate counts. + +Observed activity since the previous verified federation checkpoint was 12 public default-branch commits across three repositories. Private activity was eight commits across two repositories, aggregate-only. Open-state searches reached connector limits at at least 100 pull requests and at least 100 issues. + +Selection used security 35%, functionality and production impact 30%, change velocity 10%, measurable optimization 10%, SOTA relevance 10%, and review age 5%, with neglected-repository rotation and critical-risk override. The cohort was frozen before outcomes: Dream Machine #129, MetaHarness #341, Ruflo #3395, post-merge RuVector #1010, and RuView #1984. Existing issues and PRs covered all confirmed actions, so no duplicate issue or implementation branch was created. + +## Deep reviews + +### 1. Dream Machine PR #129 — ledger rows versus calendar nights + +Frozen software hypothesis: `distinctDatesInWindow` and the TUI make last-N-night signals accurate while preserving existing output, rejecting malformed/reordered/duplicate date evidence safely, and remaining usable from the clean packed CLI. + +Exact head `c7c47c374278b0e1af5ab598388868078a20f752` passed 651/651 Vitest tests, 140/140 governance tests, [CI 35582520776](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/actions/runs/35582520776), and [CodeQL 35582520778](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/actions/runs/35582520778). The new count is directionally useful. + +The boundary still fails. `2026-99-99` and `2026-02-30` pass ledger verification and count as distinct nights. Malformed and out-of-order windows are not surfaced, the singular message renders `1 nights`, and the dashboard header still labels total rows as nights. The candidate ledger contains 38 rows across 22 distinct dates, while the report's frozen-fixture row and duplicate-frequency measurements are inconsistent. A clean install of the actual `dream-machine-0.1.1.tgz` also exits because the published ledger dependency does not export `EVALS`; installing all local workspace packages is not an ordinary consumer replay. [RFC 3339 §5.7](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3339.html#section-5.7) and [Temporal.PlainDate](https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/plaindate.html) support strict calendar validity rather than shape-only acceptance. + +Action: exact-head [COMMENT review 5274863261](https://github.com/ruvnet/dream-machine/pull/129#pullrequestreview-5274863261), reusing issue #128. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 2. MetaHarness PR #341 — negative flywheel rendering + +Frozen software hypothesis: negative primary values render without throwing, nonnegative output remains byte-identical, malformed and nonfinite evidence fails closed, and the packed artifact matches source behavior. + +Exact head `0013c2c6795ffebb21d6482f93c0be3c84e9fa93` fixes the finite-negative `RangeError`. Focused tests passed 76/76; build, typecheck, ESM/CJS loading, packed `@metaharness/flywheel` replay, [CI 35578995451](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/actions/runs/35578995451), and [Real Tools 35578995645](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/actions/runs/35578995645) passed. Nonnegative controls remained byte-identical. + +The runtime bundle has no shared numeric schema/domain gate. Nonfinite, oversized, null, string, and object inputs can exit 0 and render as valid points; analysis can report promoted evidence containing nonfinite lift and cost. Required [Security 35578995613](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/actions/runs/35578995613) remains red on pre-existing elevated dependency findings, whose details remain withheld. A clean local Node 24/npm 11 install also exposed lockfile/peer-resolution drift not reproduced by permissive CI fallback. [ECMAScript `String.prototype.repeat`](https://tc39.es/ecma262/2026/multipage/text-processing.html#sec-string.prototype.repeat), [`Number.isFinite`](https://tc39.es/ecma262/2026/multipage/numbers-and-dates.html#sec-number.isfinite), and [RFC 8259 §6](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8259.html#section-6) support bounded finite numeric handling. + +Action: exact-head [COMMENT review 5274863164](https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness/pull/341#pullrequestreview-5274863164), reusing issue #340. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 3. Ruflo PR #3395 — EWC EMA direction and durable numeric state + +Frozen software hypothesis: the corrected EMA preserves at least 90% of meaningful Fisher signal, reaches the production caller, rejects malformed numerics, survives restart without drift, and is delivered by the real packed consumer. + +Exact head `1cc7231503d6762aac45dd08c5b46b20a2c27bf6` repairs the primary direction: after five near-zero updates, baseline retention was approximately `1.01e-8%`, while the candidate retained `95.099%`. Four of four focused tests passed through the production distillation caller. Valid legacy persistence reloaded exactly. Cross-Agent, CodeQL, CVE Audit, Verification, and V3 CI/CD passed; main [CI/CD 35694412969](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/actions/runs/35694412969) was still in progress at the evidence freeze. + +Malformed numeric state is not fail-closed. Nonfinite or missing confidence and nonfinite embeddings poison Fisher; JSON persistence converts them to `null`; restart silently converts the learned signal to zero. A nonempty batch with no contributing sample still decays and persists Fisher. Loaded state lacks dimensional, type, finiteness, and nonnegative validation. A clean packed-consumer replay was not established, and the receipt binds the unchanged base commit rather than the source fix or exact head. [EWC++](https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.10112) supports the moving-average direction; [ECMAScript JSON serialization](https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/structured-data.html#sec-json.stringify) explains the nonfinite-to-null transition but does not make it safe. + +Action: exact-head [COMMENT review 5274863493](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/pull/3395#pullrequestreview-5274863493), reusing issue #3394. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 4. RuVector PR #1010 / `@ruvector/typesafe` — post-merge consumer qualification + +Frozen software hypothesis: the published package produces schema-valid, calibrated typed decisions with deterministic native/WASM parity and an honest quality/latency advantage on repeated and held-out data. + +PR head `70cd261f8d556db56fe01b3cd0dd611d02a030a1` merged as `950e1cb7d951c5e7339c32df2d9825088a2a750f`; current main contains no later typesafe implementation change. The clean `@ruvector/typesafe@0.1.0` install and audit passed. Repeated native output was byte-identical; native/WASM labels matched 50/50 with maximum numeric delta about `4e-8`. Over 5,000 warmed test-double decisions, native p95 was 0.0749 ms and WASM p95 0.0511 ms. + +The public default is explicitly `hash-bow-256@test-double` with `calibrated:false`, so speed is not quality-comparable to a production model. Across three identical ticket runs it achieved 28.7% accuracy, 0.276 macro-F1, and 0.0911 ECE, versus the repository-frozen Jev replay at 85.3%/0.851/0.0731. Held-out CLINC150, Banking77, and HWU64 accuracy was 34.7–42.6% with ECE 0.3198–0.4153; OOS AUROC was 0.50. The documented [TypeSafe API](https://docs.typesafe.ai/api) failed 5/5 compatibility probes. Typesafe CI, platform builds, supply chain, and regression checks passed, but Workspace CI was cancelled and the benchmark workflow is `--report-only`, allowing failed quality gates to remain green. The release is merged and published, but not integration-ready or verified; no production MetaHarness or Ruflo caller was found. + +Action: post-merge [COMMENT review 5274863417](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVector/pull/1010#pullrequestreview-5274863417). Treat the npm package as experimental until calibrated quality, blocking OOD gates, contract compatibility, version provenance, Workspace CI, and exact packaged native/WASM qualification pass. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +### 5. RuView PR #1984 — ESP32-C6 base-MAC digest repair + +Frozen software hypothesis: the API replacement removes the reachable width/identity defect across supported targets without ABI, migration, digest-uniqueness, sanitizer, delivery, or hardware-regression risk. + +Exact head `1bb586308b92e903a6c1b9a63e6e8581adc34605` makes a source-level correct one-line replacement. ESP-IDF 5.4 and 6.0.2 document a six-byte base-MAC API, while the prior efuse API can use eight-byte EUI-64 behavior on IEEE 802.15.4 targets. A standalone deterministic reproduction preserved its guard and produced three distinct digest prefixes for three distinct six-byte MAC fixtures. Issue #1942 confirms reachable ESP32-C6 user impact in the Mac provisioning anti-swap guard. [ESP-IDF MAC source](https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/blob/v5.4/components/esp_hw_support/mac_addr.c) and [ESP32-C6 system API](https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/v5.4/esp32c6/api-reference/system/misc_system_api.html) support the replacement. + +The repair is not delivered or qualified. No repository test exercises `device_digest`; all six exact-head workflows required authorization and ran zero jobs; no S3/C6 build, sanitizer, distinct-board vector, migration/retry, or hardware replay ran. The tracked affected 0.8.12 C6 binary and checksum are unchanged, so users flashing the repository-provided image receive no repair. + +Action: exact-head [COMMENT review 5274863355](https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/pull/1984#pullrequestreview-5274863355), reusing issue #1942. + +Verdict: **REJECT** + +## Security and constellation receipt + +No new remotely exploitable critical or high production vulnerability was confirmed. Elevated pre-existing MetaHarness dependency findings remain redacted and require private handling. Automated audits and scans did not detect the reachable calendar, numeric-state, calibration, packaging, and firmware-delivery defects; effect-path and final-consumer replay remained necessary. + +Dream Machine supplied governance and durable evidence; MetaHarness supplied adversarial promotion concepts; Ruflo supplied coordination and project-scoped memory; RuVector supplied native/WASM parity evidence and retrieval primitives; Core Memory and the signed federation supplied redacted continuity; ruOS supplied an execution/observation probe. The reusable constellation lesson is that source-level correctness must remain bound through numeric-domain validation, serialization/restart, clean packaging, calibrated outcome, and shipped binary delivery. + +Ruflo 3.25.6 initialized project-local hybrid memory with bundled `all-MiniLM-L6-v2`, 384 dimensions, HNSW enabled, and 6/6 checks. The fresh local store contained no prior record, so prior continuity was recovered only from the verified Core Memory and federation receipts. The validated cross-cohort lesson was stored with strict `--no-upsert` under `portfolio-patterns/portfolio-2026-09-22-domain-transition-integrity` and retrieved verbatim. This is a reusable evidence gate, not a promoted research strategy. + +## Research Loop Receipt + +- Parent: `state-transition-completeness`, previously finding contradictions in 5/5 reviews. +- Candidate: `consumer-calibrated transition tracing`. +- Strategy/config SHA-256: `0c4e95b2b44c7ae4e3ff38c3984b4e31d22907276b2500205e74e2d1adecb713`. +- Source cutoff: 2026-09-22; budget at most 45 minutes per repository. +- Tuning: MetaHarness, Ruflo, RuVector. Holdout: Dream Machine, RuView. +- Frozen gates: authoritative API semantics, exact shipped artifact, durable/restart state, numeric-domain validation, and end-user outcome calibration. +- Promotion threshold: at least 10% composite gain with no accuracy, primary-source-ratio, cost, privacy, security, citation, or licensing regression. + +The candidate found useful distinctions between no-crash behavior and semantic fidelity, and between same-process state and restart durability. Authoritative topic coverage stayed 5/5; material contradictions fell from 5/5 to 4/5; all constraints including qualification gaps stayed 5/5; primary-source mapping stayed 5/5. This did not reach the frozen threshold, and an identical costed cross-day holdout was unavailable. The parent was retained; no methodology or factual conclusion was promoted. + +Research-loop verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +### Autogenous sub-receipt + +Parallel roles covered primary sources, replication, falsification/security, benchmark design, and RuV integration mapping using bounded structured messages. A validated Autogenous runtime, LatentMesh semantic-delta transport, replay seed, token/cost counter, duplicate-source rate, and deterministic Autogenous-versus-parent replay were unavailable. Manual/platform parallel analysis was not relabelled as Autogenous or MetaHarness runtime evidence. No memory key was written for a promoted strategy. + +Autogenous verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## ruOS governed-evaluation receipt + +Current desktop status listed no live heartbeat. The personal Mac was excluded. The dedicated `ruos-ruos-evolution-candidate-8dd713` target returned image bytes for a screenshot, but the fixed harmless `true` probe returned `status: unverified`, `exitCode: null`, `completionVersion: null`, and `completionVerified: false`. Positive stdout was not parsed as success. Without authoritative completion, tenant/workload binding, isolated baseline/candidate states, and the remaining receipt assertions, no live user-journey or integration claim can pass. + +ruOS verdict: **INCONCLUSIVE** + +## Durable actions and blockers + +- [Core Memory checkpoint 5772316427](https://github.com/ruvnet/core-memory/issues/20#issuecomment-5772316427) was written and retrieval-verified. +- Signed federation Result `7e7fafce4a257ad450cc112321152174647d4f7e2d76ef2d115b6286b7a1814e` was retrieval-verified. +- Five exact-head or exact-merge COMMENT reviews were posted: Dream Machine #129, MetaHarness #341, Ruflo #3395, RuVector #1010, and RuView #1984. +- Existing issues #128, #340, #3394, and #1942 were reused without duplicate updates. +- Zero new or materially updated issues, implementation PRs, direct pushes, merges, releases, deployments, automerge changes, or research-strategy promotions. +- No hypothesis passed its evidence gate, so no implementation was created or promoted. + +Blockers are strict Dream calendar/package semantics; MetaHarness shared numeric validation and required Security; Ruflo finite persisted-state validation, sample-count handling, package replay, exact receipt, and remaining CI; RuVector calibrated production quality, blocking gates, contract/version provenance, Workspace and packaged parity; RuView target CI, binary rebuild, digest/migration fixtures, and real multi-board replay; and unavailable authoritative ruOS completion. + +Next cohort: Dream strict date windows and clean published CLI; MetaHarness shared malformed/nonfinite bundle validation; Ruflo persisted Fisher quarantine and pack/install replay; RuVector calibrated embedder/OOD and exact-main Workspace recovery; RuView rebuilt C6 delivery and multi-board anti-swap replay; private remediation of previously redacted findings; QuDAG release recovery; and neglected high-risk repositories. + +Evaluation is not promotion. Nothing was merged or deployed by this cycle. From ac934fc58bb46e65ece22b22358f1a5bae0909b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rUv Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:48:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 33/33] docs: append 2026-09-22 portfolio ledger row --- docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md index 4978751..0455191 100644 --- a/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md +++ b/docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md @@ -50,3 +50,4 @@ | 2026-09-19 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; RuVector; ruos; QuDAG | reject line-only audit guard and invalid witness, permission-semantic false negative, incomplete/false-success model migration, ambiguous unbounded shell status, and nonexistent/mismatched release artifacts | reuse dream-machine#119, metaharness#326, QuDAG#17; private MetaHarness/RuVector/QuDAG advisories recommended | reviews dream-machine#120, QuDAG#11; deep reviews metaharness#327, RuVector#997, ruos#1; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 3 observed public default-branch commits across 2 repos; five exact heads fail semantic final-consumer gates; private activity 10 commits in 1 repo aggregate-only | 93496743529c4367ef220469668b98bf9912df9ba5cddc4c8af9ab44a8c9a4e4 | two exact-head COMMENT reviews; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct default-branch push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-20 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; ruflo; RuVector; ruqu | reject malformed/unshipped ruOS evidence, incomplete autonomous propagation, stale process lifecycle, failed approximate-cut correctness, and unsigned producer provenance | dream-machine#124; reuse metaharness#331, ruflo#3364, ruqu#2 | dream-machine#125; review ruflo#3365; deep reviews metaharness#332, RuVector#1000, ruqu main; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 3 observed public commits across 3 repos; all five miss final-consumer, lifecycle, correctness, or identity gates; private activity zero aggregate | report a252705a | one issue, one draft implementation PR, one COMMENT review; zero default push, merge, release, deployment, automerge, or strategy promotion | | 2026-09-21 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; ruflo; RuVector; open-claude-code | reject broken real-package/PNG semantics, fail-open malformed policy, unvalidated persisted/package state, zero min-cut outcome gain, and ineffective execution authority | reuse ruflo#3384, open-claude-code#17; private Open Claude Code advisory recommended | reviews dream-machine#125, metaharness#337, ruflo#3385, RuVector#1002; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 1 observed public default-branch commit in 1 repo; all five miss packaged, persisted, malformed, caller, or authority gates; private activity zero aggregate | report f79c253fd92c68cf5114a46c278d559ac0ce6021800171d5dc447b34989cfd05 | four exact-head COMMENT reviews; zero new issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion | +| 2026-09-22 | portfolio 322 owned; dream-machine; metaharness; ruflo; RuVector; RuView | reject invalid calendar/package windows, nonfinite promotion evidence, corrupt persisted EWC, uncalibrated contract drift, and unshipped firmware identity repair | reuse dream-machine#128, metaharness#340, ruflo#3394, RuView#1942 | reviews dream-machine#129, metaharness#341, ruflo#3395, RuVector#1010, RuView#1984; dream-machine#101 | partial | REJECT | 12 observed public default-branch commits across 3 repos; five candidates fail calendar, numeric, persistence, calibration, or delivery gates; private activity 8 commits across 2 repos aggregate-only | report e2494953ca05b5d90ae63eac01ad8608c5cb3f82d8211ce7d6f727a81722b3c8 | five exact-head/exact-merge COMMENT reviews; zero new or materially updated issue, implementation PR, direct push, merge, release, deployment, automerge change, or strategy promotion |