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Add docs/EXPLAINER_inside-edict.md, a draft zero-familiarity walkthrough of the toolchain as implemented in crates/, written against the code rather than the specs. It follows the hello-echo fixture from source through the front-end check, Core IR, Target IR, the domain-framed digests (reproduced independently in Python), and the Wasmtime provider crossing, then records a measured claims-versus-code ledger: check accepts a zeroed lawpack digest that the golden check rejects, project cannot take a lawpack and exits 0 with errors, the only in-repo lowerer is a fixture returning CBOR null, the ExecutableOperation build kind has no end-to-end test, and the README's nutrition-label, HOLMES, and reveal passages have no implementation. All five Mermaid diagrams validated with mmdc. Index the document in docs/README.md and note it under Unreleased/Added. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFEnDmv9L1VGJp3PCrG2GX
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WalkthroughThis change adds a draft, non-normative explainer for the Edict ChangesInside Edict documentation
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| no-ambient-authority rule working. The gap: the status record reports `errors: 2` | ||
| and `exitCode: 0`. `run_project_request` in `main.rs` returns `Ok(EXIT_OK)` | ||
| unconditionally. The July audit flagged this and it is unchanged. A second gap is |
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This presents EXIT_OK as a defect even though CLI-REQ-014 explicitly defines compiler-level projection failures as projection data rather than process-level failures, and CLI-TP-020 pins exit 0 so editor adapters can distinguish a bad buffer from broken CLI transport. Calling this a gap—and later making a nonzero exit an acceptance criterion—misstates an intentional public contract that is also documented in the CHANGELOG changed by this commit.
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| Every identity in the repo is computed by one private function in `canonical.rs`: |
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The edict.digest/v1 CBOR frame is not used for every identity in the repository. At the audited commit, provider component identity in verify_component_digest and provider-schema identities use raw Sha256::digest(bytes), while digest_admission_request uses a separate field-framed preimage. A reader applying this statement to those public identities will calculate incompatible digests, so this should be limited to the canonical artifact identities implemented by digest_canonical_value.
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| Read it as a contract, not as a program. Four things are declared up front and none | ||
| of them can be omitted: the **lawpack** it imports (a signed bundle of types, effects, | ||
| and budgets, pinned by digest), the operation **profile** it runs under, the **basis** |
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The implemented ValidatedLawpackBundle verifies canonical manifest/export bytes and their SHA-256 bindings, but it contains no publisher signature, signer identity, or trust-root verification. Calling the bundle “signed” overstates its authentication guarantees: a digest lock can detect substitution relative to a trusted digest, but it does not authenticate who published the lawpack.
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| greeting record") in a way that a compiler can prove bounded: every operation declares | ||
| what authority it needs, what budget it may spend, and which failure it maps to, and | ||
| the compiler refuses anything it cannot pin to an explicit, digest-locked fact. The |
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Not every fact accepted by the compiler is digest-locked: project_compiler_context constructs operation-profile, write-class, and budget facts directly from the request's handwritten compilerContext, and the public CompilerContext stores those facts without provenance or a digest. A caller can therefore compile suitable source to Core using explicit but unauthenticated facts; only the build path derives these facts from the digest-bound lawpack closure. The opening description should preserve that authority distinction.
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| Everything symbolic in the source has become explicit. `hello.smallCreateBudget` is | ||
| now three numbers. `profile hello.createGreeting` is now a Continuum profile | ||
| coordinate. `input.basis` is now a field access on a numbered local. The one | ||
| `else` arm is now an `obstructionMap` entry with its own typed binder. Nothing here | ||
| is a name that still needs looking up. |
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Core has not eliminated every lookup: the shown effect is still stored as the source coordinate hello.createGreeting, and lower_to_target_ir must find it in TargetIrLoweringFacts.effect_lowerings to select the intrinsic and failure mappings, returning MissingEffectLowering when that fact is absent. Saying that no name needs lookup incorrectly makes Core sound self-sufficient for target lowering and contradicts the later target-lowering table.
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| optional Wasm features. `prepare` then verifies the component's digest, checks a | ||
| contract attestation section, checks the export surface, and links with | ||
| `define_unknown_imports_as_traps`, so a component with any host import at all cannot | ||
| be instantiated. Per invocation, the CLI supplies these limits |
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verify_component_surface permits the type-only edict:target-provider/protocol@1.0.0 instance import and rejects only callable, capability-bearing, or unknown imports, so accepted fixture components are not literally import-free. Moreover, define_unknown_imports_as_traps supplies unresolved imports for linking; the preceding surface check is what enforces the authority restriction. Describe this boundary as having no callable or capability-bearing host imports rather than claiming any import prevents instantiation.
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| | "If an operation tries to access unauthorized state, mutate a forbidden table, or exceed its execution budget, it fails to compile." | 5 | True only against explicitly supplied facts. With none, the result is `blocked`, exit 0 (section 5.3). | | ||
| | "WASM Sandbox (Enforced limits & auto-rollback)" in the four-stage diagram, and the banner "the WASM sandbox are not implemented yet" | 13, 22 | Both wrong in different directions. A sandbox exists (section 4.4) but it runs the *provider's* lowerer and verifier, not Edict operations. "rollback" has 63 hits, all filesystem publication rollback in the build modules. | |
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The README's diagram labels its final sandbox stage “Execute Safely,” and the adjacent status banner groups that sandbox with participant admission and runtime execution. The implemented Wasmtime host instead runs build-time provider lowerer and verifier components and never executes the resulting Edict operation. Consequently, the runtime-sandbox statement is not stale “in the code's favor”; treating these two sandboxes as the same misreports which part of the advertised architecture exists.
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| fuzzer. There is no `fuzz/` directory and no `proptest`, `quickcheck`, or `arbitrary` | ||
| dependency anywhere in the workspace; the three grep hits for "arbitrary" are English | ||
| words in doc comments. |
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At the audited e4fa81dd commit, Cargo.lock contains arbitrary 1.4.2 and lists it as a dependency of cranelift-codegen, so the assertion that there is no arbitrary dependency anywhere in the workspace—and that all grep hits are English prose—is false. This does not establish that Edict has a fuzz target, but the audit should distinguish “no project-owned fuzz target or direct fuzz dependency” from the actual resolved dependency inventory.
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| itself. Second, the `ExternalAction` early exit at the middle of the function is the | ||
| *public* build path the README describes; everything after it, the provider crossing, | ||
| is the `ExecutableOperation` build kind. Section 5 returns to that line. |
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Both application build kinds are exposed through the public JSONL build surface, and buildKind actually defaults to executableOperation; callers must explicitly select externalAction. Italicizing only the external-action branch as the “public” path suggests the provider-crossing route is internal or unavailable, when it is public but lacks the end-to-end test discussed later.
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- Line 566: Update the prose containing “proven end to end” to use the compound
modifier “proven end-to-end,” without changing the surrounding documentation.
- Around line 17-24: Update the explanatory body of the document so each
material technical claim receives a [claim:<claim-id>, confidence:<value>] tag
at its first occurrence, followed by a repository-relative path, line number,
and Git SHA citation. Add a collapsed citations appendix at the end of the
explanatory body containing the referenced evidence, while preserving the
existing claims and structure.
- Line 5: Restructure the documentation so this page has one primary job: a
zero-familiarity walkthrough of the Edict toolchain. Move sections 5–7,
including the audit report, evidence map, and maturity roadmap, to a separate
audit page and link to it from this walkthrough, preserving the existing content
without mixing reader goals.
- Around line 94-96: Update the Hello Echo output, size and digest examples,
test total, and CI ledger in the inside-edict explainer so they are generated
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[style] ~484-~484: Consider an alternative for the overused word “exactly”.
Context: ...the promise and the mechanism, which is exactly the kind of gap Edict exists to close i...
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[style] ~497-~497: ‘by accident’ might be wordy. Consider a shorter alternative.
Context: ... untampered run. This is by design, not by accident: check in lib.rs is documented as "...
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[style] ~565-~565: Consider an alternative for the overused word “exactly”.
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[uncategorized] ~714-~714: The official name of this software platform is spelled with a capital “H”.
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460-461: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security ReviewRetain the import-isolation statement.
ProviderComponentHost::preparevalidates the component surface before linking, and preflight rejects callable imports withComponentContractMismatch.define_unknown_imports_as_trapsis not the sole basis for this guarantee.
| title: "Inside Edict: One Greeting, Compiled and Locked" | ||
| date: 2026-09-10 | ||
| author: James Ross | ||
| description: "A guided walkthrough of what the Edict toolchain actually does to one source file, traced through the Rust crates rather than the specs, plus where the code's reality diverges from the README's claims and how that gap was measured." |
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Split the reader jobs before publishing this page.
The front matter defines a zero-familiarity walkthrough, but the page also contains an audit report, an evidence map, and a maturity roadmap. Move sections 5–7 to a separate audit page, or make this page the walkthrough and link to those artifacts.
As per coding guidelines: documentation pages must have one primary reader job and must separate user task help from contributor architecture and evidence maps.
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this page has one primary job: a zero-familiarity walkthrough of the Edict
toolchain. Move sections 5–7, including the audit report, evidence map, and
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| > **Ground rule for this document.** Every claim below about what Edict *does* comes | ||
| > from the Rust code in `crates/`, `xtask/`, and from running the built binary at commit | ||
| > `e4fa81dd` (2026-09-10). The prose docs and the README appear only on the *claims* side | ||
| > of the ledger in the "Where reality diverges" section. If a sentence here disagrees | ||
| > with a spec, trust the code path cited next to it. Between `e4fa81dd` and the `main` | ||
| > this document landed on (`3f81f759`), the only change under `crates/` is the new | ||
| > `crates/edict` facade package (a 53-line re-export library plus tests); no path | ||
| > described below moved. |
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Add the required claim evidence structure.
The opening says that every claim is code-backed, but the body has no [claim:<claim-id>, confidence:<value>] tags, no repository-relative path, line number, and Git SHA citation at first occurrence, and no collapsed citations appendix. The opening policy does not replace the required evidence format.
As per coding guidelines: tag each material technical claim at first occurrence, cite repository-relative paths with line numbers and Git SHAs, and end the explanatory body with a collapsed citations appendix.
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In `@docs/EXPLAINER_inside-edict.md` around lines 17 - 24, Update the explanatory
body of the document so each material technical claim receives a
[claim:<claim-id>, confidence:<value>] tag at its first occurrence, followed by
a repository-relative path, line number, and Git SHA citation. Add a collapsed
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| ```json | ||
| {"command":"check","input":{"kind":"source","name":"create-greeting.edict"},"schema":"edict.cli.check-result/v1","status":"ok","type":"checkResult"} | ||
| {"checked":1,"command":"check","errors":0,"exitCode":0,"schema":"edict.cli.event/v1","status":"ok","type":"status"} |
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In `@docs/EXPLAINER_inside-edict.md` around lines 94 - 96, Update the Hello Echo
output, size and digest examples, test total, and CI ledger in the inside-edict
explainer so they are generated from or explicitly recorded as dated evidence
from the existing lawpack-goldens and cli-goldens fixtures, preventing the
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| The artifact it emits is one byte, `0xf6`, which is CBOR `null`. The other branches | ||
| spin forever, trap, allocate 128 MiB, flood output, or return malformed envelopes, | ||
| which is exactly what a host test suite needs. But it means the sequence below is | ||
| proven end to end only against a stub, and the `ExecutableOperation` build kind that |
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Use the compound modifier end-to-end.
Change “proven end to end” to “proven end-to-end”.
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In `@docs/EXPLAINER_inside-edict.md` at line 566, Update the prose containing
“proven end to end” to use the compound modifier “proven end-to-end,” without
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docs/EXPLAINER_inside-edict.md, a draft zero-familiarity walkthrough of the toolchain as implemented incrates/, written against the code and real binary runs rather than the specs. The README and specs appear only on the claims side of a claims-versus-code ledger.The document follows the
fixtures/lawpack/hello-echo/example end to end:edict checkJSONL, the decoded Core module, the decoded Target IR step, and the digest chain (manifest digest pinned in source → Coreimports→ Target IRsemanticClosure→ Target IR digest);["edict.digest/v1", <domain>, <value>], reproduced independently in Python for both the Core and Target IR goldens;compile_to_core), the lawpack digest check inprepare_lawpack_compilation, thebuild_applicationcrossing, and the Wasmtime host configuration and limits.Findings recorded (all at
e4fa81dd; onlycrates/edictwas added onmainsince)edict checkis parse + surface validation and accepts a zeroed lawpack digest with exit 0;cargo xtask lawpack-goldens --checkrejects the same tamper.projectcannot take a lawpack, so the canonical example cannot be projected through the CLI; without facts it reportsstate: blocked/MissingContextFactand still exits 0.0xf6(CBORnull); theExecutableOperationbuild kind has no end-to-end test inedict-cli.reveal(not a keyword), the sandbox banner wrong in both directions, Current Status still says "beyond JSONLcheck" although the CLI has three operations.xtask verify, the goldens loop,contract-check, and any fuzzing.include_bytes!inedict-syntax/tests/lawpack.rs; what CI lacks is the xtask regenerate-and-diff loop.Closes with a "what mature looks like" checklist ordered by how much of the README each item would make true.
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