feat(brain): validate the claim-property envelope on write (brain#21) (#102)
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First half of brain#21: half_life (volatile|seasonal|durable), applies
(local|homelab|universal), claim_provenance (asserted|inferred).

writeHallNote already passed unknown frontmatter keys through verbatim, so
preservation was free — a test now pins it so a refactor of the merge loop
cannot silently drop the fields. What was missing is validation, and it
fails closed: a value outside the enum is rejected (a lint skips what it
cannot parse, so the note would read as classified while nothing acts on
it); an envelope field without claim_provenance is rejected (a value a
model inferred must never be indistinguishable from one a human asserted,
or a single classifier pass launders guesses into apparent judgement
across the corpus); provenance alone is rejected too.

Validation runs before MkdirAll, so a rejected write leaves nothing behind.

The field is `applies`, not `scope`: scope: has been in use since brain#5
for glossary terms (homelab-core, project:<repo>), a disjoint value space
on the same key. The shipped schema keeps the name.

Notes with none of these fields are byte-identical to before. Bulk
backfill stays out of scope.

Schema documented in brain/CLAUDE.md via brain_edit_root, which produced
the hyperguild#97 audit record for the rewrite.

Refs brain#21, brain#19 (superseded), brain#5, hyperguild#97.

Co-authored-by: Mathias <mthbqv@gmail.com>
This commit was merged in pull request #102.
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2026-08-22 08:58:34 +00:00
committed by mathias
parent b6ceccca26
commit 54237af7ad
4 changed files with 277 additions and 4 deletions
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@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
"time"
"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brain"
"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/claim"
"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/extract"
"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/pipeline"
"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/search"
@@ -152,15 +153,24 @@ func writeHallNote(brainDir string, opts WriteNoteOptions) (string, error) {
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(dest), 0o755); err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("create hall dir: %w", err)
}
existingFields, body := splitFrontmatter(opts.Content)
existingByKey := make(map[string]frontmatterField, len(existingFields))
for _, f := range existingFields {
existingByKey[f.key] = f
}
// Validate the claim-property envelope BEFORE creating the directory, so a
// rejected write leaves nothing behind — not even an empty hall dir
// (brain#21). Fail closed: a value outside the enum is worse than an absent
// one, because a lint skips what it cannot parse and the note then reads as
// classified while nothing acts on it.
if err := claim.ValidateEnvelope(scalarValues(existingFields)); err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("claim envelope: %w", err)
}
if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(dest), 0o755); err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("create hall dir: %w", err)
}
emitted := make(map[string]bool, 6)
var fm strings.Builder
@@ -218,6 +228,25 @@ func writeHallNote(brainDir string, opts WriteNoteOptions) (string, error) {
return filepath.ToSlash(rel), nil
}
// scalarValues flattens frontmatter fields to key -> scalar value for
// validation. Multi-line values (lists, nested blocks) yield the text after
// the colon on the first line, which is empty for a list — correct here,
// since every claim-property field is a scalar enum.
func scalarValues(fields []frontmatterField) map[string]string {
out := make(map[string]string, len(fields))
for _, f := range fields {
if len(f.lines) == 0 {
continue
}
_, value, found := strings.Cut(f.lines[0], ":")
if !found {
continue
}
out[f.key] = strings.TrimSpace(value)
}
return out
}
// frontmatterField is one top-level YAML key from a frontmatter block,
// along with its raw line and any indented continuation lines (e.g. a
// bulleted list value spanning multiple lines).