Check portable policy before verifying compound proofs

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Prepare each portable map's structural policy before resolving keys or checking signatures, then bind the verified key to the cached policy. This avoids cryptographic work on maps that will be rejected anyway.

Parent signatures still cover rejected child proofs, and any failed map still rejects the whole document. Verification reports record each skipped map's policy failure without signature checks.

Closes #1177.

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Compound portable-object verification now prepares each map’s proof policy before resolving keys or checking signatures. Maps rejected by policy skip signature verification and include the policy failure in onRequestFinished reports.

Changes

Compound proof policy

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Policy preparation and key verification packages/fedify/src/sig/proof.ts	Portable-object policy handling now separates structural preparation from verification with a supplied key. The existing verification function composes both steps.
Compound verification ordering and reporting packages/fedify/src/sig/compound-proof.ts, packages/fedify/src/sig/compound-proof-verification.test.ts, CHANGES.md, changes.d/fedify/portable-proof-policy-order.md	Compound verification prepares map policies before proof checks and skips proofs for maps that fail policy. Tests cover gateway and other policy failures, and changelog entries describe the behavior.

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CompoundVerifier
  participant PolicyPreparation
  participant ProofVerification
  CompoundVerifier->>PolicyPreparation: Prepare each portable map policy
  PolicyPreparation-->>CompoundVerifier: Return prepared policy or failure
  CompoundVerifier->>ProofVerification: Verify discovered proofs with policy failures
  ProofVerification-->>CompoundVerifier: Skip rejected maps and record policy reasons

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 3 files. (2 skipped: 2…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: checking portable-object policy before compound-proof verification.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the policy preparation, skipped signature checks, parent-signature behavior, rejection behavior, and verification reporting changes.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue [#1177] requires structural policy checks before cryptographic verification, skipping failed maps while rejecting the compound document. compound-proof.ts prepares policies before `verifyDisco…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within [#1177]. The proof.ts split separates structural policy preparation from verified-key binding. The compound-proof.ts changes use that split to skip cryptographic work and…

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Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 3 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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❌ Patch coverage is 98.85057% with 1 line in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
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