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fix(ci): make the dogfood gate .deed-aware - #119

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

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

1. The validator was frozen before the rename

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Measured, one denominator

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

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

Why edit 2 is safe

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

Verification

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

Not changed here

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0168Bgpez8mFBcAqYAj8VgEx
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.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh (2)

289-289: Require a DEED-specific schema-version flag.

The condition still tests shared has_version, which is also set by version = ... and schema_version = .... A .deed file with a valid deed head but no :schema-version can therefore pass the required DEED schema-version check. Track :schema-version separately and require that flag for *.deed, while retaining has_version for legacy formats.

This repeats the previous review finding.


284-288: LGTM!

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

31-31: LGTM!

Also applies to: 53-53, 231-231, 277-277


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  • New Features

    • Added support for .deed files as the primary A2ML manifest format, while retaining .a2ml as a legacy format.
    • Added validation for DEED identities, schema versions and recognised keywords.
    • Extended machine-readable structure detection to support current and legacy paths.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Restricted manifest exemptions to the intended .a2ml naming pattern.
    • Prevented unnecessary attestation warnings for manifest files.
    • Updated discovery, validation output and workflow summaries to recognise .deed files.

Walkthrough

The validator now recognises DEED files and their identity rules. File discovery, manifest exemptions, workflow checks, warnings, and scorecard labels support .deed while retaining .a2ml as a legacy format.

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DEED manifest validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
DEED identity and version checks
.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh
The validator recognises DEED head forms and identity keywords. It requires the hyphenated :schema-version field. The AI-manifest exemption applies only to .a2ml basenames.
Validator scan and exemption rules
.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh
The validator scans .a2ml and .deed files. It recognises both machine-tree path forms, applies DEED-specific version checks, and suppresses attestation warnings for manifest files.
Dogfood workflow integration
.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml
The workflow detects both extensions. Guidance and scorecard labels identify 0-AI-MANIFEST.deed as the primary manifest and .a2ml as legacy.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to caca7

A nonconforming .deed manifest can pass validation without :schema-version, weakening the gate’s intended schema checks; this should be fixed before merge.

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🟡 Minor · Describe the combined count correctly. · .github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml:53-53

53-53: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Describe the combined count correctly.

A2ML_COUNT now includes .deed files. A DEED-only repository therefore reports that it scanned .a2ml files. Change this summary text to .a2ml/.deed file(s).

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In @.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml at line 53, Update the summary message in
the workflow step to describe the combined A2ML_COUNT correctly as scanned
“.a2ml/.deed file(s)” instead of only “.a2ml file(s)”.
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In @.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh:
- Line 199: Update the validation logic around the has_version flag to track
DEED schema versions separately from the shared version field. When processing
DEED files, set and require a dedicated schema-version flag for :schema-version,
while preserving the existing version validation for other files.

In @.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml:
- Line 31: Update both manifest-counting commands in
.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml at lines 31-31 and 231-231 to require regular
files by adding the find -type f predicate, preserving the existing .a2ml/.deed
extension and .git exclusion logic.

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- Line 53: Update the summary message in the workflow step to describe the
combined A2ML_COUNT correctly as scanned “.a2ml/.deed file(s)” instead of only
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# requirement, which DEED-GRAMMAR-SPEC <<version-field>> makes REQUIRED
# on all four heads. Accepting it let a registry-only atlas head pass
# with no schema version at all.
if [[ "$line" =~ ^[[:space:]]*:schema-version[[:space:]] ]]; then

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Require :schema-version separately for DEED files.

This sets the shared has_version flag. A file with (repo-deed ...) and version = "1" passes the version check without the required :schema-version field. Track DEED schema version in a separate flag and require that flag for .deed files.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In @.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh at line 199, Update the validation logic around
the has_version flag to track DEED schema versions separately from the shared
version field. When processing DEED files, set and require a dedicated
schema-version flag for :schema-version, while preserving the existing version
validation for other files.

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hyperpolymath and others added 2 commits September 15, 2026 09:19
CodeRabbit raised three findings on the first commit. All three are correct.

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

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

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

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

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