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Canonical PR rework completion readback
Scope and source
Canonical entry point: <HARNESS_ROOT>/harness/agents/impl/skills/gitea-issue-rework/scripts/rework_comment.py.
The adjacent rework_readback.py derives readback inputs; rework_readback_cli.py
provides the role-local GET-only transport and private artifact writer. Update
these canonical files and this reference in place; do not copy them into another
profile or use a review-role credential for impl delivery.
snapshot and verify-live never create, edit, retry, or submit a Gitea comment.
The create action verifies an already observed single comment addition; reuse
verifies an unchanged collection with exactly one matching existing comment.
An independently authorized publication workflow remains responsible for its
single external write, uncertain-write reconciliation, Issue lease, and fresh
pre-write delegation admission.
Prerequisites and independent expectations
- The canonical access contract is
harness/operations/gitea-access.md. - Run in the impl role's own
HERMES_HOME. Only its owned, non-symlink, mode-0600.envfile suppliesGITEA_TOKEN. No ambient token or other-profile fallback. - Independently supply the expected stable impl account ID. The first API read
must authenticate that ID and the
gitea-impl-agentlogin. - Generate
expected.jsonwith the existing canonical renderer. Its exact target, final head, reviewed head, review ID, body, marker and digest bind the workflow. - Supply a reviewed provider contract and its independently expected SHA-256. The exact provider version is read from the server and must match the contract. A digest calculated from an untrusted delegate file is not independent evidence.
- Own a private mode-0700 runtime directory. Inputs must be owned regular files, not group/world writable or symlinked. Output files use mode 0600; a failed verification does not replace an existing receipt.
Provider contract
Schema: gitea-agent.rework-provider/v1. The contract explicitly declares the
aggregate semantics for PR and underlying PR-Issue comments fields. Each
components array contains unique values from top_level, reviews, inline
and must include top_level. An optional cache_mode: "gitea-conversation-v1"
on each aggregate scope is accepted only for provider version 1.27.3, field
comments, and components consisting of exactly top_level and reviews.
Omission retains strict legacy behavior. Choose the reviewed deployment semantics, not the
combination that happens to fit a current response. There is no guessed version
or automatic capability downgrade.
Shape example only: upstream v1.27.3 source supports this shape; it does not attest that a custom build matches upstream:
{
"schema": "gitea-agent.rework-provider/v1",
"version": "1.27.3",
"aggregate": {
"pr": {"field": "comments", "components": ["top_level", "reviews"], "cache_mode": "gitea-conversation-v1"},
"pr_issue": {"field": "comments", "components": ["top_level", "reviews"], "cache_mode": "gitea-conversation-v1"}
},
"inline": {
"mode": "per_review",
"field": "review_comments",
"components": ["reviews"]
}
}
Cached conversation admission
For the explicit cache mode, snapshot counters must be present non-boolean,
nonnegative integers no greater than the complete collection-derived conversation
count. This admits bounded stale lag, not arbitrary mismatch; counters ahead of
the collected count, missing values and malformed scalars remain BLOCK.
Upstream v1.27.3 services/convert/issue.go reads stored Issue.NumComments.
models/issues/comment.go counts plain comments and review-summary comments;
review creation bypasses the recomputation that plain-comment creation performs.
This source pin explains the opt-in policy, not a deployed custom-build attestation.
For create, fresh readback must prove exactly one canonical top-level addition
and the recomputed aggregate must equal the complete post-write conversation
count. A stale baseline counter 0 with one review can become 2 after the new
plain comment; before counter + 1 is not the cache-mode rule. All old rows,
reviews, inline evidence, Source Issue metadata/comments, identity, body, head
and unrelated native fields retain their existing protections. For reuse, no
addition or counter/metadata refresh is admitted: even a legitimate-looking
cache change without the authorized create action is BLOCK. Strict contracts
without cache opt-in retain exact snapshot projections and the original delta.
For inline.components, the explicit projection modes are ["inline"],
["reviews"], and ["reviews", "inline"]. The review-only mode projects
only the number of reviews into review_comments; it does not add per-review
inline comments. The inline-only mode projects collected per-review inline
comments; the combined mode projects both. These are caller-supplied policies:
select one only from independently verified deployed-provider semantics, never
automatically detect a mode or choose one to fit observed counters. Both
per_review and per_review_or_pr_count retain the same explicit fallback
policy; per-review counters, complete collection pagination, duplicate IDs and
record cardinality remain checked.
per_review requires every exact-review comment endpoint. Only publication
snapshot/verify-live with an explicit per_review_or_pr_count capability
permits endpoint-unavailable 404/405 fallback. Initial input-gate instead requires
real inline records and rejects this fallback; its PR-wide counter projections are
recorded as non-blocking counter_diagnostics, not used to establish collection
completeness. See input-gate.md for the phase boundary. Publication
counter crosschecks, Source Issue protection and review decision rules are unchanged.
Permission errors, redirects, malformed JSON and conflicting metadata never
trigger fallback. Fallback uses a fresh PR count, the declared review/inline
components and complete review comments_count records; disagreement is BLOCK.
Counts-only fallback is recorded as such and is not proof of inline comment
bodies or a complete inline-record inventory.
Native wire-shape reference: the pinned Gitea v1.24.6 serializers in
services/convert/pull.go and modules/structs/{issue,pull}.go expose PR url
and html_url as HTML URLs, and PR-Issue pull_request.html_url without a native
pull_request.url. Require the actual native relation URL; do not invent a
missing field. This source pin is fixture/protocol evidence, not a claim about
the deployment version. The caller's independent provider contract still binds
that version. In Gitea v1.27.3, services/convert/pull.go delegates the PR
review-comment count to models/issues/pull.go's GetReviewCommentsCount,
which filters CommentTypeReview; this is source evidence for that version's
review-only projection, not a blanket claim for all versions or a live-gate
success. In per_review mode only, an omitted review_comments is accepted
as zero only when complete per-review records and their counters prove a zero
projection. Explicit null, nonzero projection or counts-only fallback with a
missing scalar is rejected. Raw pagination Link evidence is preserved and
first, prev, next, last are checked against the declared total, including
the empty sentinel page after an exact multiple of the page size.
Commands and canonical artifact paths
The caller's admitted Issue runtime is
<HARNESS_ROOT>/repositories/<owner>/<repository>/worktrees/issue-<issue>/runtime/<run_id>.
Place the canonical rework-baseline.json and rework-receipt.json there, outside
the product checkout. Preserve the baseline SHA-256 returned by its producer
independently; never replace the baseline after the external write.
Through terminal, before publication:
python3 -B <HARNESS_ROOT>/harness/agents/impl/skills/gitea-issue-rework/scripts/rework_comment.py snapshot \
--expected <RUNTIME>/expected.json \
--provider-contract <TRUSTED_PROVIDER_CONTRACT> \
--provider-contract-sha256 <INDEPENDENT_PROVIDER_SHA256> \
--actor-id <INDEPENDENT_IMPL_ACCOUNT_ID> \
--output <RUNTIME>/rework-baseline.json
After the authorized write or existing-comment reuse, through terminal:
python3 -B <HARNESS_ROOT>/harness/agents/impl/skills/gitea-issue-rework/scripts/rework_comment.py verify-live \
--expected <RUNTIME>/expected.json \
--provider-contract <TRUSTED_PROVIDER_CONTRACT> \
--provider-contract-sha256 <INDEPENDENT_PROVIDER_SHA256> \
--actor-id <INDEPENDENT_IMPL_ACCOUNT_ID> \
--baseline <RUNTIME>/rework-baseline.json \
--baseline-sha256 <INDEPENDENT_BASELINE_SHA256> \
--action create \
--output <RUNTIME>/rework-receipt.json
Use --action reuse only for an unchanged scoped collection. Do not recapture a
baseline or retry a write merely because readback fails. Exit 0 and a receipt are
required; stdout reports only the artifact path, fingerprint and read-only flag.
The existing offline verify command remains compatible, but manually supplied
JSON/true flags or archived artifacts alone are not fresh provider readback.
Verified invariants
- Source Issue, PR, underlying PR-Issue, repository, exact source review and heads are independently bound to authenticated endpoint responses.
- Pagination is bounded; duplicate IDs, contradictory totals, truncated pages, malformed metadata and off-target continuation links are rejected.
- Genuine empty arrays without a count header are supported; null is not silently accepted as an empty collection.
- Existing top-level comments, Source Issue fields/comments, native reviews and admitted inline evidence remain unchanged. Create admits exactly one matching impl-authored comment. Reuse admits no addition.
- Only provider-declared count projections and the bounded PR/underlying-PR-Issue
state-delta/exact-timestamp admission for that verified new comment are admitted;
Source Issue metadata, including
updated_at, is fully immutable. This admission is not proof of causal event attestation; the receipt records that limitation. - The adapter computes normalized inputs and passes them to the same verifier used
by
rework_comment.py verify, rather than accepting caller success flags.
Limits and verification
The CLI enforces verified HTTPS, no redirects, GET-only requests, a one-megabyte response cap, ten-second socket timeouts and a 120-second operation budget. Body budget checks occur between socket reads, so an already-blocking read may add its remaining socket-timeout allowance. There are no automatic retries.
The authenticated transport and independently supplied actor/provider/baseline expectations are trust inputs, not a sandbox or proof that arbitrary caller code is honest. The adapter cannot prove missing inline bodies from scalar counts, and state deltas plus exact timestamps are not independent causal-event attestation.
Run focused tests with terminal:
python3 -B -m unittest harness.tests.impl.test_rework_readback harness.tests.impl.test_rework_readback_transport harness.tests.impl.test_rework_comment -v
python3 -B harness/tests/run.py
Local synthetic transport and HTTP fixtures validate the executable paths; they do not constitute a live Gitea readback or an external-write completion record.