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  • Implement the first usable ears-manager CLI command set for EM-04/Implement the first ears-manager command set and diagnostics #110.
  • Add deterministic JSON envelopes, human diagnostics, stable exit statuses, help/version handling, and typed CLI views.
  • Add requirement, interface, artifact, check, and minimal proposed change-set operations.
  • Validate candidate snapshots through the merged PR feat(#108): add deterministic specification validation #141 validation engine before writes.
  • Apply governed writes through a rollback-capable, root-confined multi-file transaction with path, symlink, stale-base, observed-file, and structured-store digest checks.
  • Keep symmetric requirement relationships and change-set operations consistent across governed writes.

Architecture alignment

  • Rebases the CLI implementation onto the merged PR feat(#108): add deterministic specification validation #141 baseline and current main architecture.
  • Keeps ears-manager as the deterministic specification-store write gate only; SCM commits, pushes, pull requests, and WMS lifecycle mutations remain outside this CLI.
  • Preserves the first-release scope. Project bootstrap, change-set comparison and impact review commands, projection bootstrap, and governed Git automation remain follow-on work.

Scope

Project bootstrap, change-set comparison/impact analysis, projection bootstrap, and governed Git branch/commit/PR automation remain deferred to their follow-on issues.

Verification

  • go test -count=1 ./... from ears-manager/
  • go vet ./... from ears-manager/
  • CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath -buildvcs=false ./cmd/ears-manager
  • git diff --check
  • pre-commit run --all-files

Closes #110

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  • New Features
    • Added the first release of the ears-manager command-line interface, with help, version information, and human-readable or deterministic JSON output.
    • Run project checks; read and manage requirements, interfaces, and artifacts; and create change-set manifests.
    • Artifact operations support standard input, canonical text and digest verification, and safe project-relative paths.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved protection against unsafe paths, symlinks, stale changes, concurrent updates, and partial writes.
    • Stale impact assessments now include guidance to refresh candidates and record a new assessment.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified first-release support and deferred capabilities, including branch automation and immutable historical reads.

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The pull request adds the first ears-manager CLI. It supports project checks, requirement and interface operations, artifact get and put, and minimal change-set creation. The CLI provides human-readable and JSON output. Mutations undergo validation and transactional writes.

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ears-manager CLI release

Layer / File(s) Summary
CLI entry point and output contract
ears-manager/cmd/ears-manager/main.go, ears-manager/internal/cli/cli.go, ears-manager/internal/cli/views.go, ears-manager/internal/project/project.go
The executable delegates to cli.Run. The CLI parses commands and options, renders help, and writes human-readable or JSON results with exit and mutation metadata. Converters map requirement, interface, artifact, and operation records to output views.
Project validation and transactional writes
ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go, ears-manager/internal/specvalidation/*, ears-manager/internal/storage/storage.go
Project state tracks observed files and repository state, validates snapshots, and applies guarded writes with rollback. Artifact and store validation canonicalize paths and content, support digest overrides, and reject unobserved entries. Stale impact-origin mismatches use the change_set.stale_impact diagnostic.
Command handlers and integration tests
ears-manager/internal/cli/commands.go, ears-manager/internal/cli/cli_test.go
Handlers implement checks, requirement and interface operations, artifact get and put, and minimal change-set creation. Tests cover command results, validation, relationships, write conflicts, rollback, symlink rejection, and mutation classification.
First-release scope and examples
README.md, docs/architecture.md, docs/architecture/*, docs/architecture/agent-harness/*, docs/architecture/fixtures/ears-manager-cli-golden.jsonl, docs/vision.md
Documentation distinguishes the implemented EM-04 scope from target behavior and follow-on work. The CLI contract and golden fixture describe command results, validation diagnostics, and manifest-only change-set creation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Main as main
  participant CLI as cli.Run
  participant Commands as command handlers
  participant State as project state
  participant Files as project files
  Main->>CLI: pass arguments and streams
  CLI->>Commands: dispatch command
  Commands->>State: load and validate project
  State->>Files: observe project files
  Commands->>State: request validated mutation
  State->>Files: write files and reload project
  State-->>CLI: return result and exit status
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The implementation covers the #110 command set, documented request and result behavior, deterministic JSON, diagnostics, stable exit statuses, validation before writes, and rollback safeguards. The CL… Add an automated golden CLI fixture runner. Execute EM-04 fixture cases in a temporary project. Assert request handling, success output, diagnostics, exit statuses, and unchanged working-tree state for valid operations, malformed input, ret…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 6.36% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 236 functions across 23 files. (10 skipped… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: implementation of the first ears-manager command set for issue #110. It is concise and related to the documented CLI scope.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within #110. CLI dispatch, typed views, validation, artifact handling, transactional writes, rollback tests, documentation, and fixture-scope updates support the first command set or …
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The implementation covers the #110 command set, documented request and result behavior, deterministic JSON, diagnostics, stable exit statuses, validation before writes, and rollback safeguards. The CLI tests cover valid operations, malformed input, retirement, dangling references, relationship symmetry, stale bases, symlink paths, and unchanged manifests after failures. The golden-fixture acceptance criterion remains unmet [#110]. TestGoldenFixtureDeclaresFollowOnScope only reads the fixture-scope record. It does not execute fixture cases or compare requests, output, diagnostics, exit statuses, and unchanged-tree results. The fixture itself states that its cases are follow-on acceptance data.

Resolution

Add an automated golden CLI fixture runner. Execute EM-04 fixture cases in a temporary project. Assert request handling, success output, diagnostics, exit statuses, and unchanged working-tree state for valid operations, malformed input, retirement, dangling references, relationship failures, and partial-operation prevention.

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In `@docs/architecture/fixtures/ears-manager-cli-golden.jsonl`:
- Line 2: Update the fixture covering project-init and the related command
sequence so the first-release acceptance data includes only commands implemented
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- Around line 49-56: Update the relationship iteration in
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for index, relationship := range rawValue.Relationships {
validateRelationshipEdge(result, document, rawValue, index, relationship, requirements)
switch relationship.Type {
case relationshipDependsOn, relationshipSupersedes:
if _, exists := requirements[relationship.Target]; !exists {
continue
}
graphs[relationship.Type][value.ID] = append(graphs[relationship.Type][value.ID], relationship.Target)

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Skip edge resolution when the relationship target is empty or malformed.

validateRelationshipsInRecord already reports relationship.missing_target and relationship.invalid_target for these cases. validateRelationshipEdge then looks the target up in requirements, the lookup always fails, and a second diagnostic is emitted. For an empty target the message reads Requirement "" is not registered., which names no requirement and points the author at the wrong fix.

Filter unusable targets before the edge check so each defect produces one diagnostic.

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 		for index, relationship := range rawValue.Relationships {
+			if relationship.Target == "" || records.ValidateRequirementID(relationship.Target) != nil {
+				continue
+			}
 			validateRelationshipEdge(result, document, rawValue, index, relationship, requirements)
 			switch relationship.Type {
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for index, relationship := range rawValue.Relationships {
validateRelationshipEdge(result, document, rawValue, index, relationship, requirements)
switch relationship.Type {
case relationshipDependsOn, relationshipSupersedes:
if _, exists := requirements[relationship.Target]; !exists {
continue
}
graphs[relationship.Type][value.ID] = append(graphs[relationship.Type][value.ID], relationship.Target)
for index, relationship := range rawValue.Relationships {
if relationship.Target == "" || records.ValidateRequirementID(relationship.Target) != nil {
continue
}
validateRelationshipEdge(result, document, rawValue, index, relationship, requirements)
switch relationship.Type {
case relationshipDependsOn, relationshipSupersedes:
if _, exists := requirements[relationship.Target]; !exists {
continue
}
graphs[relationship.Type][value.ID] = append(graphs[relationship.Type][value.ID], relationship.Target)
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In `@ears-manager/internal/specvalidation/relationships.go` around lines 49 - 56,
Update the relationship iteration in validateRelationshipsInRecord to skip edge
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  • [stale-doc] docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:583 — The EM-04 first-release contract in ears-manager-cli.md (and the implementation in runChangeSetCreate) writes a change-set manifest and records base_commit but does not create or check out a branch; the operation table also drops branch from success data and change_set.branch_exists from diagnostics. Several sibling governed documents under docs/ still state the Define the ears-manager CLI Integration Contract #30/Define the Single-Player Git Integration #34 target behavior as unqualified current behavior, contradicting this PR's own narrowed first-release scope: docs/architecture.md:374, docs/vision.md:202, docs/architecture/components.md:115 and :288, docs/architecture/source-control-manager.md:70, :246 (its split-transaction atomicity argument depends on manifest-write and branch-cut happening in one command), :682, :990, :1617, :1682, docs/architecture/agent-harness/adapter-contract.md:519, :544, :1045, :1118, and docs/architecture/agent-harness/codex.md:264, :345, :396. Per AGENTS.md's specification-document rules (rule 5), a PR that changes a documented contract must be checked against all governed docs under docs/, not only the one it touches — this is a real cross-document coherence gap, not a reversal of the target design (branch automation is still named as deferred follow-on work everywhere it matters).
    Remediation: Add a short first-release exception (or a pointer to the ears-manager-cli.md EM-04 first-release scope section) at the sibling passages that currently treat branch-cutting as an unqualified property of change-set create — especially source-control-manager.md's split-transaction row and the Codex/adapter-contract sandbox-refusal text, which is justified only because the command cuts a branch.

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  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:99 — applyStateTransaction (and applyTransaction) treats any write path missing from state.observed as expected-absent (fileExpectation{present:false} at state.go:98-99). observeSnapshot only records configPath, requirement/interface/change-set documents, and snapshot.Config.Artifacts — not arbitrary pre-existing files. runArtifactPut always addRawWrites the artifact path; for action == "add" that path is unobserved. applyTransaction then compares current.present from disk against the absent expectation (state.go:612-613) and returns change_set.concurrent_update whenever the target already exists. This misreports a stable pre-existing file as a mid-command race and blocks first-time registration of a new artifact ID onto an existing path (e.g. newFixtureProject writes unregistered docs/architecture.md; artifact put --id architecture --path docs/architecture.md would fail the same way). TestApplyTransactionRejectsConcurrentCreation correctly encodes create-if-absent for the primitive; artifact put is an overwrite/register. CLI tests only exercise revise of already-registered vision and a symlink-rejected alias — no successful add onto pre-existing untracked content. This PR's head commit is byte-identical to the commit evaluated in the prior review round (zero commits/files changed per the compare API); this finding remains unfixed and unchanged.
    Remediation: Observe the artifact target at load time in runArtifactPut (after loadState, seed state.observed[canonicalPath] via readExpectation) so a pre-existing file becomes the baseline and concurrent_update fires only if those bytes change after load. Do not restat unobserved write paths inside applyStateTransaction at commit time — that would turn genuine post-load creates into overwrites and weaken the create-if-absent OCC that TestApplyTransactionRejectsConcurrentCreation encodes. Keep expected-absent only for paths that were absent at load. Add a test that registers a new artifact ID at a path with pre-existing, previously-untracked file content and asserts success.

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  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:98 — applyStateTransaction (and the applyTransaction it calls) treats any write path missing from state.observed as expected-absent (fileExpectation{present:false} at state.go:97-99). observeSnapshot only records configPath, requirement/interface/change-set documents, and snapshot.Config.Artifacts — it does not observe arbitrary pre-existing files. runArtifactPut always addRawWrites the artifact path; for a new ID (action == "add") that path is unobserved. applyTransaction then compares current.present from disk against that absent expectation (state.go:610-612) and returns change_set.concurrent_update whenever the target already exists. This misreports a stable pre-existing file as a mid-command race and blocks first-time registration of a new artifact ID onto an existing path (e.g. newFixtureProject writes docs/architecture.md but does not register it; artifact put --id architecture --path docs/architecture.md would fail the same way). TestApplyTransactionRejectsConcurrentCreation encodes the primitive's create-if-absent semantics, but artifact put is an overwrite/register, not a create-only. CLI tests only exercise artifact put of already-registered vision (revise) and a symlink-rejected alias path — no successful add onto pre-existing untracked content. This finding is unchanged from the prior review round: state.go is byte-identical to the previously-reviewed commit (b54be143638b07943736bac75d66eb9d8f269c1c), and only docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md changed in this round.
    Remediation: When preparing expected state for a write path not found in observed, check whether the file already exists on disk and, if so, seed its current bytes as the baseline expectation (as is already done for registered/observed paths) so concurrent_update only fires when those bytes change after load. Keep expected-absent only for paths that genuinely do not exist. Add a test that registers a new artifact ID at a path with pre-existing, previously-untracked file content and asserts success.

Resolved since last review: Both previously-flagged documentation staleness findings in docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md are confirmed fixed at this head — the "Atomicity and failure behavior" section no longer claims change-set create checks branch state or the initialization branch-reuse rule (now correctly scoped to project configuration and base-commit availability only, with branch handling deferred to the follow-on Git integration contract), and the failed-envelope example now uses "The specification is not valid.", matching failureFromDiagnostics and the golden fixture. A cross-document coverage check against docs/architecture/components.md, docs/architecture/overview.md, and sibling governed specification documents found no new coverage gaps or unresolved staleness introduced by this round's doc edit.


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  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:98 — applyStateTransaction (and the applyTransaction it calls) treats any write path missing from state.observed as expected-absent (fileExpectation{present:false}). observeSnapshot only records paths already present in snapshot.Config.Artifacts (plus requirement/interface/change-set/project-config paths) — it does not observe arbitrary pre-existing files on disk. Consequently, artifact put registering a brand-new artifact ID (action "add") at a path that already has untracked, pre-existing content on disk (e.g. registering docs/architecture.md, which project bootstrap creates but never adds to Config.Artifacts, as the project's first "architecture" artifact) fails with change_set.concurrent_update, because applyTransaction reads the file's actual current.present=true while expectation.present=false. This misreports a stable pre-existing file as a mid-command race and blocks a normal first-use registration path. cli_test.go's only artifact put coverage (TestCLIArtifactPutGetAndAtomicInvalidWrite) exercises "vision", which newFixtureProject pre-registers in Config.Artifacts (so it takes the "revise" branch and is already observed) — no test exercises "add" of a new artifact ID onto pre-existing untracked file content.
    Remediation: When preparing expected state for a write path not found in observed, check whether the file already exists on disk and, if so, seed its current bytes as the baseline expectation (as is already done for registered/observed paths) so concurrent_update only fires when those bytes change after load. Keep expected-absent only for paths that genuinely do not exist. Add a test that registers a new artifact ID at a path with pre-existing, previously-untracked file content and asserts success.

  • [stale-doc] docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:773 — In the "Atomicity and failure behavior" section (step 4 of the mutating command sequence), the doc states that change-set create verifies "project configuration, base availability, branch state, and the initialization branch-reuse rule." This directly contradicts the EM-04 first-release scope documented earlier in the same file (updated by this round's incremental commit) stating that change-set create "does not create or check out a branch" and that "Branch creation and branch reuse are deferred to the follow-on Git integration." The actual runChangeSetCreate implementation (ears-manager/internal/cli/commands.go:1062) only calls currentCommit (git rev-parse HEAD) — it never checks branch state or any branch-reuse rule. This stale reference was not updated when the incremental commit rewrote the other branch-scope claims in this same document, and it references "the initialization branch-reuse rule," a concept the same edit removed from the change-set create contract section entirely — leaving a dangling reference.
    Remediation: Update step 4 of the mutating command sequence to state that change-set create verifies project configuration and base commit availability only, and that branch-state verification and the initialization branch-reuse rule are deferred to the follow-on Git integration contract — consistent with the narrowed scope language already present elsewhere in this file.

Low

  • [stale-doc] docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:450 — The failed-result envelope example still uses message "The requirement is not valid.", which is stale relative to failureFromDiagnostics and the updated golden invalid-write step, both of which emit "The specification is not valid."
    Remediation: Update the failed-envelope example message in docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:450 from "The requirement is not valid." to "The specification is not valid." to match the actual and fixture-documented behavior.

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Findings

Low

  • [missing-test] docs/architecture/fixtures/ears-manager-cli-golden.jsonl:12 — EM-04 still does not replay implemented golden steps, and those steps still disagree with first-release envelopes. TestGoldenFixtureDeclaresFollowOnScope only checks fixture-scope metadata (check implemented, impact deferred). Direct CLI tests cover the command subset, but not as a golden oracle. Residual mismatches for implemented operations remain: invalid-write error.message is "The requirement is not valid." in the fixture and in docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md's failed-envelope example, while failureFromDiagnostics always emits "The specification is not valid."; requirement add / interface add / change-set create golden mutation.paths omit .protobot/project.yaml even though addConfigWrite always rewrites store digests. Deferred steps (project init, change-set update, compare, impact) are expected given EM-04's out-of-scope list and should not be treated as blockers.
    Remediation: Either replay the implemented golden steps once first-release envelopes are intended to match the target fixture, or document/update those implemented fixture (and spec-example) envelopes to the actual first-release output. Do not treat deferred steps as EM-04 blockers.

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Findings

Medium

  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:145 — proposedChangeSetContext marks every in-tree change-set ID as proposed, so checkState validates impact completeness with allowDraft=false. Writes call validateCandidate(..., true), which drops incomplete/missing impact assessments but not stale ones. Impact recording and change-set update --impact-file are out of EM-04 scope, so a later overlapping change set that creates mechanical candidates can still be written while check becomes unsatisfiable, with no CLI way to record an assessment. cli_test.go never covers that overlapping second change set, mixed diagnostics, or check --change-set with an incomplete assessment.
    Remediation: Until impact recording exists, pass a nil ProposedChangeSets map on check (skip completeness) or otherwise keep allowDraft consistent with that choice. Add tests for overlapping second change sets, mixed diagnostics, and check --change-set with an incomplete assessment.

  • [cli-contract-compatibility] ears-manager/internal/cli/commands.go:964 — artifact put returns artifact.owner_immutable via conflictFailure (exit 5, retry refresh-and-review). The artifact put operation-contract row in docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:531 doesn't mention ownership immutability, and the exit-statuses conflict examples don't include ownership reassignment. The conflict class matches sibling immutability/duplicate failures and the envelope carries exit_code/retry, but the contract table is the documented source of truth for this new command's diagnostics and omits a code the implementation (and its own test, cli_test.go:105) exercises.
    Remediation: Document artifact.owner_immutable and its status-5/conflict semantics in the artifact put Operation contracts row and Write authority section, or return a validation-class failure if that's the intended contract.

Low

  • [missing-test] docs/architecture/fixtures/ears-manager-cli-golden.jsonl:12 — cli_test.go drives a hand-rolled flow and never replays even the implemented steps of ears-manager-cli-golden.jsonl. Those steps still disagree with first-release envelopes (invalid-write message "The requirement is not valid." vs failureFromDiagnostics's "The specification is not valid."; mutation paths omit the .protobot/project.yaml store-digest rewrite addConfigWrite always performs). The PR labels the fixture as the follow-on target contract and documents that EM-04 tests exercise the subset directly; unimplemented steps (project init, change-set update, compare, impact) remain expected given Implement the first ears-manager command set and diagnostics #110's out-of-scope list.
    Remediation: Either replay the implemented golden steps once first-release envelopes are intended to match the target fixture, or update those implemented fixture steps to the actual first-release envelope. Don't treat deferred steps as EM-04 blockers.

  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:307 — validateScopedCheck re-sorts merged diagnostics with {Path, RecordID, Field, Code, Message, Hint}, while specvalidation.compareDiagnostics (used by plain Validate/check) uses {Path, Code, RecordID, Field, Severity, Message, Hint}, which the CLI contract documents. check --change-set can therefore emit the same underlying findings in a different order than unscoped check. Output of each variant is still internally deterministic; the break is cross-variant/contract key order.
    Remediation: Sort with the same key order as specvalidation.compareDiagnostics (Path, Code, RecordID, Field, Severity, Message, Hint), preferably by exporting/reusing that comparator instead of re-implementing an inline one.

  • [stale-doc] README.md:91 — The "First ears-manager release" section defers project bootstrap, change-set comparison and impact analysis, and governed Git automation, but doesn't mention immutable historical reads (--at). docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md's EM-04 scope section (updated in this PR) marks --at as follow-on work; implemented read commands reject --at as an unknown option (usage.invalid_request, exit 2).
    Remediation: Add immutable --at revision reads to the deferred follow-on notes in README.md (around lines 91-92) to align with docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md.

  • [cli-contract-compatibility] docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:531 — The Artifacts operation-contract "Diagnostic result" cells omit codes the implementation returns: artifact get also emits artifact.invalid_id and artifact.unknown_kind; artifact put also emits artifact.invalid_id and artifact.invalid_content. Sibling tables (requirement/interface add) do list their *.invalid_id codes, so this is an inconsistency within the same contract document rather than an established convention of omission.
    Remediation: Add artifact.invalid_id to both the artifact get and artifact put diagnostic-result cells, artifact.unknown_kind to artifact get, and artifact.invalid_content to artifact put, matching the enumeration style used for requirement/interface operations.

These findings should be addressed before merge — the medium-severity items identify a functional gap in impact-assessment detection after overlapping writes and an undocumented conflict-class diagnostic on the new artifact put command; all findings above have concrete remediations.


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Findings

Medium

  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:146 — proposedChangeSetContext marks every in-tree change-set ID as proposed. ValidationContext documents that a nil map skips impact completeness and that approved manifests are not re-evaluated against later specification state; checkState then validates with allowDraft=false. Writes still call validateCandidate(..., true), so incomplete/stale impact is ignored on the governed write path while check fails on it. impact and change-set update --impact-file are out of this issue's scope, so once a later overlapping change set creates mechanical candidates there is still no CLI way to record an assessment. cli_test.go never covers stale mechanical extras, mixed diagnostics, check --change-set with an incomplete assessment, or check after a second overlapping change set.
    Remediation: Until impact recording exists, pass a nil ProposedChangeSets map (skip completeness) or populate it only for unapproved/in-progress manifests rather than every store file. Keep allowDraft on writes consistent with that choice. Add tests for overlapping second change sets, mixed diagnostics, and check --change-set with an incomplete assessment.

  • [missing-test] docs/architecture/fixtures/ears-manager-cli-golden.jsonl:12 — Issue Implement the first ears-manager command set and diagnostics #110 calls for golden CLI fixtures, but cli_test.go drives a hand-rolled flow and never replays ears-manager-cli-golden.jsonl. For implemented steps the fixture already disagrees with this PR: invalid-write expects error.message "The requirement is not valid." with a diagnostic containing only field/text, while failureFromDiagnostics emits "The specification is not valid." and also sets path/record_id; mutation path lists omit the .protobot/project.yaml store-digest rewrite that addConfigWrite always performs (including change-set create). Unimplemented fixture steps (project init, change-set update, compare, impact) are expected given Implement the first ears-manager command set and diagnostics #110's out-of-scope list and do not themselves need to be implemented here.
    Remediation: Wire an integration test that replays the implemented golden steps, and align the validator/CLI diagnostic message, diagnostic envelope, and mutation paths (including store-digest rewrites) with the fixture — or update the fixture's implemented steps to the actual envelope.

  • [stale-doc] docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:98 — The contract documents an optional --at <full-commit-sha> selector on implemented read/analysis commands (check, requirement list/show, interface list/show, artifact get). None of those commands accept --at; unknown options fail closed with usage.invalid_request (exit 2). README's first-release section defers Git branch/commit/PR automation but never names --at, so a caller following the contract for shipped commands will hit a usage error.
    Remediation: Mark --at as deferred Git-inspection scope in ears-manager-cli.md (selector description and command tables) and list it in the README first-release deferred-scope notes.

Low

  • [injection-vuln] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:196 — readExpectation still calls ValidatePathWithinNoSymlinks (Lstat walk) then os.ReadFile(absolute). Sibling helpers readRootExpectation and readRegularFile open via OpenRoot+O_NOFOLLOW and Fstat the fd. A final-component swap to an absolute symlink between validation and ReadFile can copy out-of-root bytes into the in-memory expected snapshot. Those bytes are not printed; applyTransaction re-reads with Root+O_NOFOLLOW before writing, so this does not by itself escape a governed write, but it remains an inconsistent confinement gap versus the other read helpers.
    Remediation: Reuse readRootExpectation (or OpenRoot+O_NOFOLLOW+Fstat) in readExpectation instead of os.ReadFile on the validated absolute path.

  • [architecture-fit] ears-manager/internal/cli/commands.go:1126 — runChangeSetCreate() computes a branch name via branchName() and returns it in the success payload (matching the golden fixture), but it never invokes git to create/checkout that branch — only git rev-parse HEAD is exercised. The CLI contract still says normal creation cuts the branch. Reporting a branch name without creating the ref can mislead a caller into assuming the ref exists.
    Remediation: Either have change-set create invoke git to cut the branch, or explicitly document in README.md/ears-manager-cli.md that branch creation is deferred to Git-integration follow-on work, including that the branch named in this command's output is not materialized.

  • [error-handling-idiom] ears-manager/internal/cli/commands.go:945 — runArtifactPut forwards specvalidation.CanonicalText/CanonicalTextDigest err.Error() into validationFailure, producing lowercase, unpunctuated envelope messages (e.g., "artifact content is not valid UTF-8") unlike the rest of the CLI's capitalized, period-terminated sentences.
    Remediation: Format the validation failure as a capitalized, period-terminated sentence instead of forwarding err.Error() verbatim.

  • [api-shape] ears-manager/internal/storage/storage.go:124 — ValidatePathWithinNoSymlinks is a one-line wrapper around ValidatePathWithin. ValidatePathWithin already Lstats every component and rejects symlinks, including a symlinked final target. The new doc comment calling this a "stricter form" is misleading.
    Remediation: Remove ValidatePathWithinNoSymlinks and use ValidatePathWithin at call sites, or update the doc comment to state that it is an alias.

  • [contract-schema-mismatch] ears-manager/internal/specvalidation/artifacts.go:138 — The contract's artifact put diagnostic column lists artifact.validator_unavailable. A kind mismatch instead emits artifact.validator_incompatible (also asserted by validation_test.go:199). No path in this PR emits validator_unavailable or checks that a validator binary is present at runtime. This vocabulary split already existed in the merged validation engine; this CLI is the first time it is caller-visible.
    Remediation: Update ears-manager-cli.md's artifact put diagnostic column to artifact.validator_incompatible for kind mismatch, and add a distinct artifact.validator_unavailable code only if runtime tool-availability checking is still planned.

These findings should be addressed before merge — the medium-severity items identify functional gaps in impact-assessment detection and golden-fixture drift, and all findings above have concrete remediations.


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Findings

High

  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/commands.go:255 — ADR-0002 requires conflicts-with/related-to relationships to be stored symmetrically on both records. requirement add and requirement update (commands.go:404) serialize only the source record plus the change-set. specvalidation.validateRelationshipEdge (relationships.go:78) then rejects the candidate with relationship.not_symmetric unless the inverse already exists on the target; writing the inverse first fails with reference.not_found because the new ID doesn't exist yet. No sequencing of CLI commands can create a symmetric pair — this relationship class cannot be created through the only governed write path.
    Remediation: In the same transaction as the source write, add/remove the inverse edge on the target record when the relationship type is conflicts-with or related-to, validate the combined candidate snapshot, and commit both files together. Add an integration test that successfully creates a symmetric relationship pair.

Medium

  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/cli.go:137 — ioFailure hard-codes Mutation: "unknown", reserved by the contract for writes whose rollback cannot be proven, but it's also used on read-only paths and after a successful rollback (storage.write_failed). Callers following the documented retry table will treat non-write failures as if a write may have landed.
    Remediation: Pass the mutation class into ioFailure; use "none" unless a write was attempted and rollback could not be confirmed. Keep "unknown" only for storage.write_unknown paths.

  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:70 — loadState/checkState call specvalidation.Load/ValidateProject with an empty ValidationContext, so ProposedChangeSets stays nil and validateImpactAssessment never runs — check cannot detect incomplete or stale impact assessments at all. Secondarily, if that context were supplied, origin/candidate mismatches are classified change_set.invalid_impact (exit 4), and failureFromDiagnostics prefers exit 5 whenever any draft-only diagnostic is present even alongside real EARS/reference errors, masking genuine failures.
    Remediation: When loading for check (and for write validation of proposed manifests), mark in-tree unapproved change sets in ValidationContext.ProposedChangeSets. Classify origin/candidate mismatches as stale impact (exit 5); prefer exit 4 when non-impact validation errors are also present. Add tests for stale mechanical extras, mixed diagnostics, and check --change-set with an incomplete assessment.

  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/commands.go:583 — requirementOperation's transition table has no path for add+retire within the same proposed change-set (add+revise is allowed, revise+retire is rewritten to retire, but add+retire returns change_set.duplicate_operation). requirement update --status retired is also rejected with requirement.use_retire, and change-set update isn't implemented in this slice — so an accidental add cannot be undone through the governed CLI.
    Remediation: Define add+retire in the same manifest as a valid transition (replace the add with retire, or drop the uncommitted add and delete the new record file in the same transaction). Add a same-change-set add-then-retire test.

  • [missing-test] docs/architecture/fixtures/ears-manager-cli-golden.jsonl:12 — The contract names this fixture the harness-neutral acceptance suite, but it includes project init, change-set update, compare, and impact steps that dispatch() does not implement, and no test replays the file (cli_test.go drives a hand-rolled flow instead). Even the implemented invalid-write step expects error.message "The requirement is not valid." with a diagnostic containing only field/text; failureFromDiagnostics actually emits "The specification is not valid." and also sets path/record_id.
    Remediation: Reduce the fixture (and the "Golden fixture" doc section) to operations this PR actually implements, or implement the remaining commands. Wire an integration test that replays the implemented steps, and align the validator/CLI diagnostic message and shape with the fixture (including store-digest paths on mutations) or update the fixture to the actual envelope.

  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:504 — observeSnapshot only records expectations for paths that exist at load time. applyTransaction backfills any missing write-path expectation by re-reading the file at apply time, then compares that live snapshot to itself. A file created at a new-record path during the load/apply window is silently overwritten instead of raising change_set.concurrent_update.
    Remediation: Record an expectation (including present: false) for every intended write path at load/prepare time; never backfill inside applyTransaction from a live read. Add a concurrent-creation test that creates the target path between load and apply and expects change_set.concurrent_update.

  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/specvalidation/integrity.go:60 — CanonicalStoreDigestWithOverrides rebuilds the digest from a live directory listing plus overrides, run after candidate validation; only the transaction write-set is covered by observeSnapshot. A valid extra record file dropped into a store during the load/apply window gets hashed into store_digests (not flagged concurrent_update), and a well-formed record is silently absorbed into a successful CLI transaction and hidden from later digest checks.
    Remediation: Compute the candidate digest from the observed snapshot file set plus the transaction overrides (or fail if the live directory listing is not a subset of observed paths plus write targets). Do not bless files that were not loaded or written by this command.

  • [fail-open] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:548 — applyTransaction validates writes via ValidatePathWithinNoSymlinks/os.Lstat, then creates/replaces files with os.MkdirAll/os.CreateTemp/os.Rename on resolved absolute path strings instead of the package's own os.Root-confined storage.atomicWrite (ensureParent also walks parents with os.Stat, which follows symlinks). A parent directory swapped for an out-of-root symlink between validation and write can make the governed write (and rollback) escape the project root — contradicting the CLI's claimed symlink confinement.
    Remediation: Route the whole transaction through os.OpenRoot(state.root)/os.Root, reusing storage.atomicWrite. Add a test that swaps a parent directory for an out-of-root symlink between validation and write.

  • [injection-vuln] ears-manager/internal/cli/commands.go:918 — readContentSource validates --content-file with os.Lstat then reads with os.ReadFile, which follows symlinks — a TOCTOU gap against the contract's requirement that content sources be regular files with symlinks rejected.
    Remediation: Open with O_NOFOLLOW, Fstat the resulting descriptor to confirm a regular file, and read from that descriptor.

  • [injection-vuln] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:692 — readRegularFile (used by artifact get) validates containment with ValidatePathWithinNoSymlinks, Lstats the target, then os.ReadFiles the same absolute path — unlike specvalidation.readArtifactData, which already reads via os.Root. A swap of the registered artifact to an absolute symlink between Lstat and ReadFile can dump an out-of-root file into command output, bypassing the project-root read confinement claim.
    Remediation: Open the path with os.OpenRoot(root) (or O_NOFOLLOW), Fstat the fd to confirm a regular file, and read from that fd — matching specvalidation.readArtifactData.

  • [stale-doc] docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:540 — The contract documents requirement update/retire success as a before/after summary, but the implementation returns the full record plus the operation (requirementMutationData{requirement, operation}). Callers expecting data.before/data.after will fail to parse the actual response.
    Remediation: Update the contract to describe the actual full-record-plus-operation shape, matching requirement add.

  • [stale-doc] docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:96 — The contract documents a --at <sha> selector on all read/analysis commands — calling it out as the mechanism CI and the Job Site Materializer use for immutable-commit reads — but none of the implemented read commands accept it (usage error, exit 2), and neither the contract nor the deferred-scope list marks it deferred. No live CI or Job Site caller invokes --at today, so this is a documentation-scoping gap rather than a live break; the implemented commands fail closed on the unknown option.
    Remediation: Mark --at as deferred Git-inspection scope in the contract doc, and add it to the README/PR's explicit deferred-scope list.

  • [stale-doc] docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:550 — The contract documents change-set create's success payload as including the empty proposed manifest, but the implementation and updated golden fixture omit the manifest body, returning only id/base_commit/branch/manifest_path.
    Remediation: Update the documented payload to match the actual metadata-only response.

  • [missing-doc] docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:201 — The contract presents the full 18-command surface (including project init, artifact list, interface update, change-set list/show/update/compare, and impact) as the current stable boundary, and states every command accepts --help. dispatch()/helpText() only implement check, requirement add/list/show/update/retire, interface add/list/show, artifact get/put, and change-set create — everything else returns usage.invalid_request. README and issue Implement the first ears-manager command set and diagnostics #110 already defer project bootstrap, compare, impact, and governed Git automation to EM-05–EM-08, but the normative contract doc edited in this PR was not scoped to match. No in-repo caller invokes the missing subcommands yet (CI only runs generic go build/vet/test), so this is a documentation/contract-scoping gap rather than a live consumer break.
    Remediation: Add a Release Scope section (or per-command status) to ears-manager-cli.md distinguishing implemented vs. deferred commands, and adjust the "complete command surface"/"Decision for Q18"/help claims so they don't read as already-current for this increment.

Low

  • [error-handling-idiom] ears-manager/internal/cli/commands.go:178 — Identifier-validation call sites forward err.Error() from records.Validate*ID directly, producing lowercase/unpunctuated envelope messages inconsistent with the rest of the CLI's capitalized, period-terminated error sentences.
    Remediation: Format these messages consistently (e.g., "Requirement ID %q is invalid.") instead of forwarding err.Error() verbatim.

  • [doc-style] ears-manager/internal/cli/cli.go:49 — The exported Mutation type and Run function lack doc comments, unlike every exported symbol in the new specvalidation/storage packages.
    Remediation: Add // Name ... doc comments to both.

  • [api-shape] ears-manager/internal/cli/cli.go:49 — Mutation is exported but never referenced outside package cli, unlike its unexported sibling envelope types (successEnvelope, failureEnvelope, etc.).
    Remediation: Unexport Mutation unless external consumers are planned.

  • [code-organization] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:38 — resolveRoot() duplicates internal/project.systemGitRoot's git-root-resolution logic (both invoke git rev-parse --show-toplevel) with slightly different symlink-handling semantics, creating parallel maintenance of the same external-process invocation.
    Remediation: Extract a single shared git-root-resolution helper used by both packages.


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Findings

High

  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/commands.go:252 — ADR-0002 requires conflicts-with/related-to relationships to be stored symmetrically on both records. requirement add (commands.go:252) and requirement update (commands.go:433) write the relationship onto only the source record plus the change-set. specvalidation.validateRelationshipEdge (relationships.go:74) then rejects the candidate with relationship.not_symmetric unless the inverse already exists on the target; adding the inverse first fails with reference.not_found because the new ID does not exist yet. Symmetric relationship types therefore cannot be created through the only governed write path.
    Remediation: In the same transaction as the source write, add/remove the inverse edge on the target record when the relationship type is conflicts-with or related-to, validate the combined candidate snapshot, and commit both files together. Add an integration test that successfully creates a symmetric relationship pair.

Medium

  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/cli.go:137 — ioFailure hard-codes Mutation: "unknown", reserved by the contract for writes whose rollback cannot be proven. It is used on read-only paths and after a successful rollback, so callers following the documented retry table treat non-write failures as if a write may have landed.
    Remediation: Pass the mutation class into ioFailure; use "none" unless a write was attempted and rollback could not be confirmed.

  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:196 — check must exit 5 for a stale/mismatched impact assessment, but a mechanical-candidate mismatch is classified change_set.invalid_impact (exit 4), and failureFromDiagnostics returns 5 whenever any draft-only diagnostic is present even alongside real EARS/reference validation errors — masking genuine failures.
    Remediation: Classify origin/candidate mismatches as stale impact (exit 5); prefer exit 4 when non-impact validation errors are also present. Add tests for stale mechanical extras and mixed diagnostics.

  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/commands.go:554 — requirementOperation's transition table has no path for add+retire within the same proposed change-set (change_set.duplicate_operation, no delete/un-add). A requirement added in a change-set cannot be retired or removed from that same change-set.
    Remediation: Define add+retire in the same manifest as a valid transition (replace/drop the add). Add a same-change-set add-then-retire test.

  • [missing-test] docs/architecture/fixtures/ears-manager-cli-golden.jsonl:12 — Issue Implement the first ears-manager command set and diagnostics #110 designates this fixture as the acceptance harness, but nothing drives commands from it; the invalid-write step's expected message and fields don't match the validator's actual output.
    Remediation: Wire an integration test that drives the implemented golden steps from this fixture, and align the validator's diagnostic message/shape with it (or update the fixture).

  • [incorrect-doc] docs/architecture/git-integration.md:856 — This PR changes the golden check-valid artifact count from 4 to 2, but the Git-integration fixture table (edited in the same PR) still describes "the four default registry entries," now internally inconsistent.
    Remediation: Update the table to two default registry entries (Vision, Architecture) and two projection paths, or reconcile otherwise.

  • [fail-open] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:497 — applyTransaction validates paths via an Lstat walk but then writes with os.MkdirAll/os.CreateTemp/os.Rename on resolved absolute paths instead of the package's own os.Root-confined storage.atomicWrite. A parent directory swapped for an out-of-root symlink between validation and write can cause the governed write (and rollback) to escape the project root — a check-then-use gap in the exact symlink-safety guarantee this PR claims.
    Remediation: Route the whole transaction through os.OpenRoot(state.root)/os.Root, reusing storage.atomicWrite. Add a test simulating a parent-directory symlink swap between validation and write.

  • [logic-error] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:130 — observeSnapshot only records expectations for paths that exist at load time; new-file writes get their expectation backfilled at apply time instead of a load-time baseline, so a file created in the load/apply window is silently overwritten instead of raising change_set.concurrent_update.
    Remediation: Record an expectation (including present: false) for every write path at load time; never backfill inside applyTransaction. Add a concurrent-creation test.

  • [injection-vuln] ears-manager/internal/cli/commands.go:902 — readContentSource validates --content-file with os.Lstat then reads with os.ReadFile, which follows symlinks — a TOCTOU gap against the contract's requirement that content sources be regular files with symlinks rejected.
    Remediation: Open with O_NOFOLLOW, Fstat the resulting descriptor to confirm a regular file, and read from that descriptor.

  • [stale-doc] docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:531 — The contract documents requirement update/retire success as a before/after summary, but the implementation returns the full record plus the operation. Callers expecting data.before/data.after will fail to parse the actual response.
    Remediation: Update the contract to describe the actual full-record-plus-operation shape, matching requirement add.

  • [stale-doc] docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:101 — The contract documents a --at <sha> selector on all read/analysis commands, but none of the implemented read commands accept it (usage error, exit 2), and neither the contract nor the PR's deferred-scope list says it's deferred.
    Remediation: Mark --at as deferred Git-inspection scope in the contract doc, and add it to the README/PR's explicit deferred-scope list.

  • [stale-doc] docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:550 — The contract documents change-set create's success payload as including the empty proposed manifest, but the implementation and updated golden fixture omit the manifest body, returning only id/base_commit/branch/manifest_path.
    Remediation: Update the documented payload to match the actual metadata-only response.

  • [missing-doc] docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:201 — The contract presents the full 18-command surface without marking which commands this first release implements, even though issue Implement the first ears-manager command set and diagnostics #110 requires deferred commands to be documented; README was updated but the normative contract doc was not.
    Remediation: Add a Release Scope section (or per-command status) distinguishing implemented vs. deferred commands (EM-05–EM-08).

Low

  • [fail-open] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:83 — loadState/checkState discard the currentCommit error, so applyStateTransaction skips its apply-time stale-base comparison on a transient git failure. Mutating commands independently fail closed elsewhere via proposedChangeSet, so impact is limited to the extra load-to-apply HEAD-drift check, not base_commit matching itself.
    Remediation: Don't discard the error; fail the command (or treat empty head as a conflict) instead of skipping the comparison.

  • [error-handling-idiom] ears-manager/internal/cli/commands.go:178 — Identifier-validation call sites forward err.Error() from records.Validate*ID directly, producing lowercase/unpunctuated envelope messages inconsistent with the rest of the CLI's capitalized, period-terminated error sentences.
    Remediation: Format these messages consistently (e.g., "Requirement ID %q is invalid.") instead of forwarding err.Error() verbatim.

  • [doc-style] ears-manager/internal/cli/cli.go:49 — The exported Mutation type and Run function lack doc comments, unlike every exported symbol in the new specvalidation/storage packages.
    Remediation: Add // Name ... doc comments to both.

  • [api-shape] ears-manager/internal/cli/cli.go:49 — Mutation is exported but never referenced outside package cli, unlike its unexported sibling envelope types (successEnvelope, failureEnvelope, etc.).
    Remediation: Unexport Mutation unless external consumers are planned.

  • [code-organization] ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go:38 — resolveRoot() duplicates internal/project.systemGitRoot's git-root-resolution logic with slightly different symlink-handling semantics, creating parallel maintenance of the same external-process invocation.
    Remediation: Extract a single shared git-root-resolution helper used by both packages.


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ears-manager/internal/storage/storage.go (1)

124-157: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the duplicate symlink walk. ValidatePathWithin already rejects every existing symlink component, including the final target. Keep ValidatePathWithinNoSymlinks as a named alias because write callers use it to state that requirement explicitly.

func ValidatePathWithinNoSymlinks(root, relativePath string) (string, error) {
	return ValidatePathWithin(root, relativePath)
}

The extra walk adds filesystem calls and separate error handling. It can also observe a filesystem change between the two walks and return a different result.

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In `@ears-manager/internal/storage/storage.go` around lines 124 - 157, Replace the
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ValidatePathWithin(root, relativePath). Preserve the named wrapper so callers
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In `@docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md`:
- Around line 278-280: Update the architecture documentation to mark project
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consistently so they no longer describe project init as creating schema,
store-digest, artifact, or projection state.

In `@docs/decisions/0002-ears-specification-record-schema.md`:
- Around line 390-398: Update ADR-0002 to normatively define the complete
structured-store digest algorithm used by CanonicalStoreDigestWithOverrides:
canonical-text rules, UTF-8 path encoding, bytewise sorted slash-separated
paths, ASCII “sha256:” plus lowercase hexadecimal record digests, 0x00
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lowercase output. Update ADR-0003 to reference ADR-0002’s algorithm rather than
restating the incomplete path-and-digest pairing rule.

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- Around line 124-157: Replace the implementation of
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Comment thread docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md
Comment on lines +390 to +398
The `store_digests` block in `.protobot/project.yaml` records one
canonical digest for each requirement, interface, and change-set store.
The digest input is the sorted set of visible YAML record paths paired
with each record's canonical text digest. Adding, deleting, renaming, or
editing a record therefore changes the store digest. Hidden temporary
entries are excluded, while non-YAML or symlinked entries are validation
errors. Governed writes update the affected store digest atomically with
the record change; pre-stage comparison and `ears-manager check` compare
the recorded values before a change can reach the default branch.

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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printf '%s\n' '--- ADR-0002 surrounding canonical text rules ---'
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Define the byte-exact structured-store digest stream.

ADR-0002 defines only a sorted path set paired with canonical text digests. It does not define path encoding, bytewise ordering, digest representation, or separators. CanonicalStoreDigestWithOverrides currently hashes each bytewise-sorted slash-separated path as:

UTF-8(path) || 0x00 || ASCII("sha256:" + lowercase_hex_digest) || 0x00

It then hashes the complete stream with SHA-256 and renders sha256:<64 lowercase hexadecimal characters>. Make this algorithm, including the existing canonical-text rules, normative in ADR-0002. Make ADR-0003 reference that algorithm instead of restating the incomplete pairing rule. Otherwise, independent consumers can produce different store digests for the same records.

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- Around line 815-823: In state.go, update the error ordering around
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(AI Response) Addressed the latest Fullsend artifact-validator documentation finding in bd392f2: the CLI contract now names artifact.validator_incompatible, matching the validation engine and its regression test. The first-release scope also explicitly identifies deferred validator/runtime and Git integration behavior.

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(AI Response) Review follow-up summary

Addressed the latest Fullsend and CodeRabbit findings:

  • Corrected specific file-read error ordering and preserved non-regular/read failure classification.
  • Scoped proposed-change-set validation to the active mutation and closed the observed-file symlink TOCTOU gap.
  • Removed the uncreated branch from first-release change-set create results and documented branch automation as follow-on scope.
  • Normalized artifact-content diagnostics and corrected the artifact.validator_incompatible contract vocabulary.
  • Clarified the ValidatePathWithinNoSymlinks alias documentation.
  • Added/updated regression coverage and marked the complete golden fixture as follow-on acceptance data.

Changes are in commit bd392f2, pushed to the PR branch. Local go test, go vet, CGO-free build, git diff --check, and all pre-commit hooks pass. No remaining definite code findings are known. Remaining scope is the intentionally deferred project bootstrap, impact/comparison commands, and governed Git automation.

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(AI Response) Latest Fullsend review follow-up summary

Commit 2e4b580 addresses all six findings from the latest Fullsend review:

  • First-release checks no longer require impact-review commands that are intentionally deferred.
  • Artifact ownership and all current artifact diagnostics are documented.
  • The golden fixture's follow-on scope is regression-checked.
  • Scoped diagnostic ordering now matches the validator.
  • README scope now includes deferred immutable historical reads.

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🟡 Minor · Remove the EM-04 branch-creation contract. · ears-manager-cli.md:575

docs/architecture/ears-manager-cli.md:575
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the EM-04 branch-creation contract.

The EM-04 scope states that change-set create does not create or check out a branch. Lines 581-590 still document normal branch creation and project-init branch reuse. Replace that paragraph with the first-release behavior and mark branch handling as follow-on work.

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-`change-set create` allocates the next unused sequence number and records a
-full 40-character `base_commit`. Normal creation cuts the branch named by
-`repository.branch_prefix` and the slug rules in `#34`. Project initialization
-is the documented exception: when the working tree is already on the
-pre-cut `cs/<nnnnn>-project-init` branch, the project is not yet approved, and
-that branch has no manifest, `change-set create` records the existing branch
-and does not return `change_set.branch_exists`. This is the only branch
-reuse case and corresponds to [Git and Project-Repository
-Integration](git-integration.md#project-initialization). A failed creation
-leaves neither a manifest nor a new branch.
+In the EM-04 first release, `change-set create` allocates the next unused
+sequence number, records a full 40-character `base_commit`, and writes the
+manifest. It does not create or check out a branch. Branch creation and
+branch reuse remain deferred to the follow-on Git integration. A failed
+creation leaves no manifest.
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Keep the target contract and preservation of approved manifests’ historical
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In `@ears-manager/internal/cli/state.go`:
- Line 252: Update draftIncompleteDiagnostic to stop classifying
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(AI Response) Addressed the latest CodeRabbit outside-diff branch-contract comment in b54be14: the old normal-branch-creation paragraph was replaced with the EM-04 first-release behavior, and branch creation/reuse is explicitly deferred to follow-on Git integration.

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(AI Response) Latest Fullsend/CodeRabbit follow-up summary

Commit b54be14 addresses the newest review findings:

  • Impact-completeness status-5 behavior is explicitly follow-on scope, and stale impact is no longer suppressed as incomplete draft data.
  • The branch-creation target paragraph now matches the first-release CLI behavior.
  • Golden fixture envelopes and mutation paths match current output, with a regression test for its implemented/deferred scope.

Local tests, vet, CGO-free build, diff checks, and all pre-commit hooks pass. The branch was pushed, and the remaining project/bootstrap, impact/comparison, immutable-read, and Git automation capabilities remain intentionally deferred.

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(AI Response) Rebased the PR onto upstream/main at 926abc4 and pushed the updated branch at 7115c26. The README conflict was resolved by preserving both the SCM layout and the ears-manager/internal/... packages.

  • Addressed Fullsend's latest cross-document branch-creation finding in 7115c26: the docs now distinguish the target branch-cut contract from EM-04's manifest-only first release, and Codex's sandbox behavior reflects that scope. Replied to and resolved the review thread.
  • Verified CodeRabbit's latest openAndReadRegularFile error-order finding is already fixed in the current branch; its comment has CodeRabbit's confirmation that it was addressed. No newer CodeRabbit finding appeared after that review.
  • Validation passed: targeted pre-commit, go test, go vet, go build, and git diff --check; quality_delta reported zero regressions.

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Retro on PR #151 ("implement first ears-manager command set", closes #110). Key finding: issue #110 never reached ready-to-code (blocked on open deps at triage) and was never picked up by the code agent — JohnStrunk authored and merged the ~3.5k-line implementation himself, iterating against automated review over 5 days. This isn't itself a defect; a human is free to pick up blocked work.

Review coverage was heavy: coderabbitai (4 rounds) plus fullsend-ai-review (11+ completed rounds, 1 cancelled, ~$4-10/round) caught real, valid issues (a symmetric-relationship-write gap, a TOCTOU-shaped symlink race, contract-doc drift, an unwired test fixture) — all confirmed fixed in the merged code by direct inspection. One real bug (a rollbackFiles exit-code masking a successful rollback as unknown/ENOTEMPTY) was caught only by human reviewer lukaskellerstein, not either AI reviewer — a useful data point on where human review still adds distinct value, though one instance isn't enough to justify a scope change.

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Two new proposals below: (1) the review pipeline has no debounce, so rapid successive pushes (8 full $4-10 review rounds in one day) each pay the full fixed harness cost even though the review agent's own round-tracking logic (severity anchoring, prior-review fetch) is designed to make re-reviews cheaper analytically — the saving never materializes because nothing coalesces the triggers. (2) issue #110 is still labeled blocked despite being closed — a small label-hygiene gap with no owning check.

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Implement the first ears-manager command set and diagnostics

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