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This PR reserves ns and nsapi as interop-mode namespaces. It is a breaking change that bumps the interop test-vector fixture from 1.0.0 to 1.1.0. The segment regex ^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9._-]{0,63} is unchanged. An additional exact-match rule applies to namespace` only.

Public API / Contract Changes

  • Interop key construction (all SDKs, all backends): namespace values ns and nsapi MUST be rejected at decoration or registration time.
    • Scope: the reservation is exact-match and namespace-only. nsapix remains a valid namespace, and ns and nsapi remain valid operations.
  • Reference implementation (tools/interop-reference.py):
    • New module constant RESERVED_NAMESPACES = frozenset({"ns", "nsapi"}).
    • interop_key(namespace, operation, args) now raises InteropError for a reserved namespace. The error message states that the server parses a key starting ns: or nsapi: as namespace-prefixed.
    • The check runs after the per-segment regex validation, so a malformed segment still reports the regex error first.
  • Fixture metadata:
    • version changes to "1.1.0".
    • segment_pattern_note now states the reservation and that operation has no reserved values.

Supporting Changes

  • Generator: _build() now derives each key vector's expected_key by calling interop_key(...) instead of string formatting. Any future key vector that violates the grammar or the reservation fails at generation time.
  • Cross-check (tools/interop-crosscheck.mjs):
    • Segment validation is refactored into a single segmentsValid(namespace, operation) helper. The regex is compiled once.
    • Key vectors and error vectors share this helper. Key vectors gain a "segments valid" assertion.
    • The reserved set is hard-coded independently of the fixture.
  • Spec text (spec/interop-mode.md):
    • The status banner now notes one exception to server acceptance: keys with .. inside a segment.
    • SaaS Considerations states that interop keys carry no ns: or nsapi: prefix, and that the reservation guarantees this.
    • The "strict subset" wording is replaced by "subset, with one known exception". The exception is .., which the validator's Traversal rule rejects with 400.
    • SDK requirement 1 now explicitly includes the reserved namespaces.
    • The test-vector table counts change to 34 key vectors and 11 error vectors.
  • CHANGELOG.md: new Unreleased entry (LAB-5876) that documents the break and the migration path. The migration is to rename the namespace, which causes a full cache miss for that namespace.
  • sdk-feature-matrix.md: the "Test vectors in CI" cells for Python, Rust, and TypeScript link the unreleased SDK PRs that vendor fixture 1.1.0.

Impact

Deployments that use namespace ns or nsapi will fail at startup once the SDK updates ship. No existing vector bytes change. The fixture diff only adds reservation_scope, reject_reserved_namespace_ns, and reject_reserved_namespace_nsapi.


Summary

This PR adds one entry to CHANGELOG.md. The only change in the diff is a changelog note about the wire-format specification (LAB-1750).

Note: The PR title refers to reserving ns and nsapi as interop namespaces (LAB-5876). The diff does not add anything for that. The nearby text about reserved names being hard-coded is existing context, not a new line. No spec, fixture, or test-vector files are modified.

Changes

CHANGELOG.md

A new section is added: "Wire format — vendored-fixture coverage note corrected (LAB-1750)". It records a correction to spec/wire-format.md:

  • Version correction: The spec no longer says cachekit-core vendors fixture version 1.1.0. It pins 1.1.1.
  • Coverage clarification: Because of that pin, the width_boundary_bin16_bin vector has a canonical-writer (lz4_flex) check on the compressed bytes and the xxh3-64 checksum.
  • Rule for vendoring the fixture: Derive the expected marker for each *_bin twin from its decoded compressed_data length. Do not assume bin8, and do not accept any bin width.

Impact

  • The change is documentation only. No public APIs, wire-format behavior, or test vectors change in this diff.
  • The changelog describes an edit to spec/wire-format.md, but that file is not in the diff. It may be committed separately or still missing from this PR.
  • The ! (breaking) marker and the LAB-5876 scope in the title do not match the diff. Reviewers should check that the intended namespace-reservation changes are included, or retitle the PR to match its contents.

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  • Interop Mode
    • The exact namespace names ns and nsapi are now reserved and rejected during registration, regardless of backend. These restrictions apply only to namespaces: operation names ns and nsapi, and namespaces such as nsapix, remain valid.
    • Namespace validation now requires a full-string match. SaaS validation returns a 400 response when a segment contains ...
  • Documentation
    • Updated the Interop Mode guidance and SaaS considerations to explain the restrictions and their migration impact.
  • Compatibility
    • Updated the Interop test vectors to version 1.1.0 and recorded the new namespace validation cases.

The segment pattern admitted `ns` and `nsapi` as a namespace, but the
resulting key starts `ns:` / `nsapi:`, which the server parses as a
namespace-prefixed key (cache-key-format.md, Server-Side Requirements):
rejected when the operation contains `.`, otherwise scoped to a namespace
named after the operation. Reserve both names as exact-match namespace
values; operations stay unreserved.

- spec: grammar paragraph, SaaS considerations, SDK requirement 1,
  vector table counts (34 key, 11 error)
- vectors 1.1.0: reject_reserved_namespace_ns / _nsapi, plus key vector
  reserved_names_outside_namespace (namespace nsx, operation nsapi)
- reference tool builds key vectors through its validating interop_key
- JS cross-check validates segments on key vectors too, with the reserved
  names hard-coded from the spec rather than read from the fixture

BREAKING CHANGE: SDKs must now reject namespace `ns` or `nsapi` at
decoration / registration time.
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The interop specification and version 1.1.0 test vectors reserve exact namespace values ns and nsapi. The reference and cross-check tools validate the reservation. The changelog and SDK feature matrix record the update.

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Interop namespace reservation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define the namespace rule and test cases
spec/interop-mode.md, test-vectors/interop-mode.json, CHANGELOG.md, sdk-feature-matrix.md
The specification and fixture reserve exact namespace values ns and nsapi, while allowing those values as operations and allowing nsapix as a namespace. The fixture advances to version 1.1.0 and adds a valid scope case and two rejection cases. The specification also clarifies that SaaS validation rejects .. in a key with HTTP 400.
Apply the rule in validation tools
tools/interop-reference.py, tools/interop-crosscheck.mjs
The reference tool rejects the reserved namespaces when building keys. The cross-check tool validates namespace and operation segments for key vectors and applies the shared validation to error vectors.

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

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cd95a

The interop cross-check fails against the new fixture, blocking normal validation. Fix the full-string check before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cd95a

The new rule prevents interop keys from being mistaken for server-prefixed keys, but coordinated adoption across released SDKs is not yet established. Mixed versions could continue to handle the same namespace differently.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The contract now requires every SDK to reject reserved namespaces at registration, while the documented SDK updates remain unreleased. During mixed-version use, older clients may still generate keys that the new contract forbids and that the server interprets as privileged namespace-prefixed keys. This is an enforcement and rollout gap, not evidence of a newly introduced server bypass.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The intended policy spans every SDK and backend using interop keys, but the changed executable validation is in offline tools. Actual production exposure depends on SDK adoption and server behavior not established here.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A client still accepting a reserved namespace could form a key whose first segment the server treats as a prefix rather than an interop namespace, changing server scoping or applicable write-space rules. That possibility follows from the existing parser contract; the PR does not establish a new exploitable path or a production deployment with this mismatch.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Registration-time SDK validation is the specified preventive control before key construction crosses into server prefix parsing. The reference builder and cross-check implement the exact-match rule for conformance, but do not prove enforcement in production SDKs.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before relying on the new guarantee, verify registration-time rejection in each supported SDK release and document mixed-version behavior for tenants that previously used either reserved namespace.
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…m (LAB-5876)

- key vector renamed reservation_scope; namespace nsapix rejects both an
  ns* and an nsapi* prefix-match implementation (nsx caught only ns*)
- reject_reserved_namespace_nsapi uses operation users.fetch_by_id, so the
  vectors cover the operation shape the server would 400 on as well as the
  silently re-scoped one
- spec: the reservation applies on every backend; SaaS Considerations and
  the status banner no longer call the grammar a strict subset of what the
  server accepts (it admits `..` inside a segment, which the server rejects)
- CHANGELOG: breaking for any deployment using ns/nsapi, with the migration
- matrix: fixture 1.1.0 is not yet in a released SDK; link the SDK PRs
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Resolved CHANGELOG.md (both [Unreleased] entries kept, no lines dropped from either side); auto-rebased onto main; CI will re-run.

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