From 459372ac66c366d1e2394a84af3723e823dc5771 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Obvious <obvious@obvious.ai>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:11:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/7] test(registry-contract-guards): CI-enforced guards for
 the three review findings

Dedicated suite for the adversarial-API-review gaps (art_hC18m78C), as the
named acceptance artifact:

- C3/P2: duplicate rule ids inside one register_domain call raise
  ValueError naming the id; a rejected batch mutates nothing.
- B1/N3/P1: a rule whose check cannot be called as check(self, text)
  (extra param, zero param, keyword-only) is rejected at registration with
  an actionable message; defaulted and spec signatures accepted and fired.
- C2/P4: an exception inside check() aborts analyze() as a RuntimeError
  carrying the rule id, its registration origin, and the original
  exception chained -- via the register_domain path (register_rule is
  covered in test_registry.py).

The registry-isolation fixture moves to tests/conftest.py so the guard
suite and the policy suite share one snapshot/restore implementation
instead of importing across test modules.

Co-authored-by: Kalisetti Nihanth Naidu <nihanthnaidu007@gmail.com>
---
 tests/conftest.py                      |  33 +++
 tests/test_followups.py                |   2 +-
 tests/test_policy.py                   |   3 +-
 tests/test_registry_contract_guards.py | 268 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 304 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/conftest.py
 create mode 100644 tests/test_registry_contract_guards.py

diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c8459ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+"""Shared test fixtures.
+
+The registry-isolation fixture lives here so every module that mutates the
+module-level ``REGISTRY`` (the contract-guard suite, the policy suite) uses
+one canonical snapshot/restore implementation instead of reaching into
+private registry state ad hoc.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import pytest
+
+from inputguard.registry import REGISTRY
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def registry_isolation():
+    """Snapshot the registry around tests that mutate it.
+
+    Registration is permanent by design (there is no unregister), so tests
+    that register probe rules/domains restore the snapshot afterwards to keep
+    the process-global registry unpolluted for the rest of the suite.
+    """
+    rules_before = dict(REGISTRY._rules)
+    domains_before = dict(REGISTRY._domains)
+    origins_before = dict(REGISTRY._origins)
+    yield REGISTRY
+    REGISTRY._rules.clear()
+    REGISTRY._rules.update(rules_before)
+    REGISTRY._domains.clear()
+    REGISTRY._domains.update(domains_before)
+    REGISTRY._origins.clear()
+    REGISTRY._origins.update(origins_before)
diff --git a/tests/test_followups.py b/tests/test_followups.py
index eaffd2b..3d1bb5b 100644
--- a/tests/test_followups.py
+++ b/tests/test_followups.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ def test_every_template_renders_with_unknown_slot_failing_loudly():
     # Rendering every template against empty slots exercises the render path:
     # a typo'd slot name raises (loud table bug); a known-but-unfilled slot
     # skips the template (documented behavior); plain templates pass through.
-    for gap, questions in _FOLLOW_UP_QUESTIONS.items():
+    for _gap, questions in _FOLLOW_UP_QUESTIONS.items():
         for question in questions:
             rendered = _render(question, slots={})
             if "{" in question:
diff --git a/tests/test_policy.py b/tests/test_policy.py
index 0fc1622..23db685 100644
--- a/tests/test_policy.py
+++ b/tests/test_policy.py
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
 from inputguard.policy import SEVERITIES
 from inputguard.registry import KNOWN_SEVERITIES, register_rule
 from inputguard.scorer import require_known_severity
-from test_registry import _test_rule, registry_isolation  # noqa: F401 — pytest fixture
+from test_registry import _test_rule  # noqa: F401 — shared rule builder
+# registry_isolation resolves as a pytest fixture from tests/conftest.py.
 
 # Observed v0.2 / release-branch behavior (runtime probes), reused as fixtures.
 VAGUE_INPUT = "do something now"  # build intent, one high finding: insufficient_context
diff --git a/tests/test_registry_contract_guards.py b/tests/test_registry_contract_guards.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1ec0cac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_registry_contract_guards.py
@@ -0,0 +1,268 @@
+"""Registry contract-guard tests (adversarial review art_hC18m78C).
+
+The three tests the review found missing, as a dedicated CI-enforced suite:
+
+1. Duplicate rule ids within one ``register_domain`` call raise ``ValueError``
+   (review C3/probe P2 — the high-severity second rule used to vanish
+   silently) and nothing mutates on rejection.
+2. A rule whose ``check`` signature cannot be called as ``check(self, text)``
+   is rejected *at registration* with an actionable message (review B1/N3/
+   probe P1 — a mismatched rule used to pass registration and detonate mid-
+   ``analyze()`` with a ``TypeError`` on arbitrary user input).
+3. A rule that raises inside ``check()`` surfaces as a ``RuntimeError``
+   carrying the rule's id and registration origin, with the original
+   exception chained (review C2/P4 — exceptions used to escape raw, with no
+   attribution and no recovery path).
+
+These complement the remediation tests in ``test_registry.py`` (which covers
+the ``register_rule`` path); this module is the contract-guards gate the CI
+matrix runs on every push, and also pins the ``register_domain`` road.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import pytest
+
+from inputguard import InputGuard, RuleFinding
+from inputguard.registry import REGISTRY, register_domain, register_rule
+
+
+# --- 1 · same-call duplicate rule ids raise, nothing mutates ----------------
+
+
+class _ProbeRule:
+    """Probe rule with a configurable id, firing on the word ``widget``."""
+
+    domain = "probe thing"
+    severity = "high"
+    gap = "probe gap"
+
+    def __init__(self, rule_id: str) -> None:
+        self.id = rule_id
+
+    def check(self, text: str):
+        if "widget" in text:
+            return RuleFinding(
+                code=self.id,
+                message="probe rule fired",
+                severity=self.severity,
+                gap=self.gap,
+            )
+        return None
+
+
+_PROBE_SIGNALS = {"probe thing": ("widget",), "probe review": ()}
+
+
+def test_same_call_duplicate_rule_ids_raise_and_mutate_nothing(registry_isolation):
+    """Review C3: duplicate ids inside one register_domain call must raise.
+
+    The original hole: the pre-check compared only against *already
+    registered* rules, so a same-call duplicate was silently skipped in the
+    mutation loop — the second rule disappeared without an error. The error
+    must name the duplicated id, and a rejected batch must leave the registry
+    untouched ("nothing mutates unless every check passes").
+    """
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="register_domain call.*'dup_x'") as exc_info:
+        register_domain(
+            "probe_dup",
+            _PROBE_SIGNALS,
+            rules=[_ProbeRule("dup_x"), _ProbeRule("dup_x")],
+        )
+
+    # The message names the offending id so the author can fix it in one look.
+    assert "dup_x" in str(exc_info.value)
+
+    # No partial mutation: neither the domain nor either rule registered.
+    assert "probe_dup" not in REGISTRY.domain_names()
+    assert "dup_x" not in REGISTRY.rule_ids()
+
+    # A corrected call through the same path works — the guard blocks
+    # duplicates, not the batch API itself.
+    register_domain("probe_dup_fixed", _PROBE_SIGNALS, rules=[_ProbeRule("solo_rule")])
+    result = InputGuard().analyze("widget please", domain="probe_dup_fixed")
+    assert "solo_rule" in [f.code for f in result.findings]
+
+
+def test_duplicate_hidden_among_distinct_ids_raises(registry_isolation):
+    """A duplicate buried in a batch of otherwise-distinct ids still raises,
+    and the message names exactly the duplicated id."""
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="'twin_b'") as exc_info:
+        register_domain(
+            "probe_dup_mixed",
+            _PROBE_SIGNALS,
+            rules=[
+                _ProbeRule("unique_a"),
+                _ProbeRule("twin_b"),
+                _ProbeRule("twin_b"),
+                _ProbeRule("unique_c"),
+            ],
+        )
+    # The distinct ids are not blamed.
+    assert "unique_a" not in str(exc_info.value)
+    assert "unique_c" not in str(exc_info.value)
+    assert "probe_dup_mixed" not in REGISTRY.domain_names()
+    assert "unique_a" not in REGISTRY.rule_ids()
+    assert "twin_b" not in REGISTRY.rule_ids()
+
+
+# --- 2 · wrong check() signature is a registration error --------------------
+
+
+def test_extra_parameter_check_rejected_at_registration(registry_isolation):
+    """Review B1: the retired check(self, text, intent) shape must be a
+    registration error, not a mid-analyze TypeError. The message is
+    actionable: it names the rule, the one-positional-argument dispatch, and
+    the expected check(self, text) signature."""
+    probe_signals = {"probe sig": ("gadget",), "probe sig review": ()}
+
+    class ExtraArgRule:
+        id = "probe_extra_arg"
+        domain = "probe sig"
+        severity = "low"
+        gap = None
+
+        def check(self, text, intent):  # noqa: ARG001 — the retired shape
+            return None
+
+    with pytest.raises(TypeError) as exc_info:
+        register_domain("probe_sig", probe_signals, rules=[ExtraArgRule()])
+
+    message = str(exc_info.value)
+    assert "probe_extra_arg" in message
+    assert "check(self, text)" in message
+    assert "probe_extra_arg" not in REGISTRY.rule_ids()
+    assert "probe_sig" not in REGISTRY.domain_names()
+
+
+def test_zero_parameter_check_rejected_at_registration(registry_isolation):
+    """check() with no parameters cannot bind the normalized text — reject at
+    registration."""
+
+    class NoArgRule:
+        id = "probe_noarg"
+        domain = "debug"
+        severity = "low"
+        gap = None
+
+        def check(self):
+            return None
+
+    with pytest.raises(TypeError, match="probe_noarg") as exc_info:
+        register_rule(NoArgRule())
+    assert "check(self, text)" in str(exc_info.value)
+    assert "probe_noarg" not in REGISTRY.rule_ids()
+
+
+def test_keyword_only_check_rejected_at_registration(registry_isolation):
+    """check(self, *, text) cannot be called positionally — the analyzer
+    dispatches rule.check(normalized), so keyword-only rejects too."""
+
+    class KeywordOnlyRule:
+        id = "probe_kwonly"
+        domain = "debug"
+        severity = "low"
+        gap = None
+
+        def check(self, *, text):
+            return None
+
+    with pytest.raises(TypeError, match="probe_kwonly"):
+        register_rule(KeywordOnlyRule())
+    assert "probe_kwonly" not in REGISTRY.rule_ids()
+
+
+def test_defaulted_check_is_accepted_and_fires(registry_isolation):
+    """check(self, text="...") binds one positional argument, so it satisfies
+    the dispatch contract — the gate rejects what cannot be called, not
+    signatures it merely dislikes."""
+
+    class DefaultedRule:
+        id = "probe_defaulted"
+        domain = "debug"
+        severity = "low"
+        gap = None
+
+        def check(self, text=""):
+            if "fix the bug" in text:
+                return RuleFinding(
+                    code=self.id,
+                    message="Defaulted-signature rule fired.",
+                    severity=self.severity,
+                    gap=self.gap,
+                )
+            return None
+
+    register_rule(DefaultedRule())
+    result = InputGuard().analyze("fix the bug in my app")
+    assert "probe_defaulted" in [f.code for f in result.findings]
+
+
+def test_spec_signature_rule_is_accepted_and_fires(registry_isolation):
+    """Positive control for the arity gate: check(self, text) — the pinned
+    spec's signature (art_bTvdPdJS §1) — registers cleanly and the analyzer
+    dispatches it. The gate rejects deviations, never the documented shape."""
+
+    class SpecRule:
+        id = "probe_spec_signature"
+        domain = "debug"
+        severity = "medium"
+        gap = "error description"
+
+        def check(self, text: str):
+            if "fix the bug" in text:
+                return RuleFinding(
+                    code=self.id,
+                    message="Spec-signature rule fired.",
+                    severity=self.severity,
+                    gap=self.gap,
+                )
+            return None
+
+    register_rule(SpecRule())
+    result = InputGuard().analyze("fix the bug in my app")
+    assert "probe_spec_signature" in [f.code for f in result.findings]
+
+
+# --- 3 · dispatch exceptions carry rule attribution --------------------------
+
+
+def test_raising_rule_surfaces_id_origin_and_cause_via_register_domain(
+    registry_isolation,
+):
+    """Review C2/P4: an exception inside check() aborts analyze() with the
+    rule's id, its registration origin, and the original traceback chained.
+    Tested through the register_domain path — test_registry.py covers the
+    register_rule path — so both registration roads get the same loud
+    attribution."""
+
+    class ExplodingRule:
+        id = "probe_boom_domain_rule"
+        domain = "probe boom thing"
+        severity = "high"
+        gap = None
+
+        def check(self, text: str):
+            raise ZeroDivisionError("division by zero in probe rule")
+
+    register_domain(
+        "probe_boom",
+        {"probe boom thing": ("widget",), "probe boom review": ()},
+        rules=[ExplodingRule()],
+    )
+
+    with pytest.raises(RuntimeError) as exc_info:
+        InputGuard().analyze("widget please", domain="probe_boom")
+
+    message = str(exc_info.value)
+    # Rule id, exception type, and registration origin all named.
+    assert "probe_boom_domain_rule" in message
+    assert "ZeroDivisionError" in message
+    assert "registered at" in message
+    # The original exception is chained, not swallowed.
+    assert isinstance(exc_info.value.__cause__, ZeroDivisionError)
+    assert "division by zero in probe rule" in str(exc_info.value.__cause__)
+    # The origin names the file that registered the rule — this test module,
+    # not inputguard internals (registration happened via register_domain
+    # above, so the recorded call site is the register_domain line here).
+    assert __file__ in message

From 67f23931defd6e6b21ed1b15771b565f5f1d9079 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Obvious <obvious@obvious.ai>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:11:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/7] build(typing): annotate for mypy --strict without
 behavior change

Pre-work for the CI strict-typing gate: missing Iterable[str] on the five
rule modules' _contains_any helpers, Dict[str, Any] / Dict[str, str] generics
on types.py and recommender.py, a pinned Rule-typed local in
registry._instantiate, and the writing signals Tuple[str, ...] type argument.
Also removes a literal duplicate "filter by"/"sort by" set entry in the
feature scope signals (ruff B033); set semantics make this a no-op at
runtime, and rules/__init__ marks its v0.2 signal re-exports as intentional
via __all__ (ruff F401).

Co-authored-by: Kalisetti Nihanth Naidu <nihanthnaidu007@gmail.com>
---
 inputguard/detector.py           | 2 +-
 inputguard/language.py           | 6 +++---
 inputguard/recommender.py        | 8 ++++----
 inputguard/registry.py           | 5 ++++-
 inputguard/rules/__init__.py     | 8 ++++++++
 inputguard/rules/coding.py       | 4 ++--
 inputguard/rules/debug.py        | 4 ++--
 inputguard/rules/explanation.py  | 4 ++--
 inputguard/rules/feature.py      | 6 +++---
 inputguard/rules/optimization.py | 4 ++--
 inputguard/rules/writing.py      | 2 +-
 inputguard/types.py              | 4 ++--
 12 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/inputguard/detector.py b/inputguard/detector.py
index a86fe96..bb62444 100644
--- a/inputguard/detector.py
+++ b/inputguard/detector.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def normalize(text: str) -> str:
     return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text.strip().lower())
 
 
-def _contains_any(text: str, terms) -> bool:
+def _contains_any(text: str, terms: Iterable[str]) -> bool:
     # v0.3: word-boundary matching shared with the rule modules — "fixture"
     # is no longer read as the debug signal "fix" (probe P1).
     return contains_any(text, terms)
diff --git a/inputguard/language.py b/inputguard/language.py
index caabe0b..ca9ddfe 100644
--- a/inputguard/language.py
+++ b/inputguard/language.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 import re
 import unicodedata
 from dataclasses import dataclass
-from typing import Dict, Optional
+from typing import Dict, FrozenSet, Optional, Set
 
 __all__ = [
     "COVERAGE_FULL",
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@
 # of 3+ letters is a word or clause the English heuristics cannot read.
 _UNCOVERED_BLOCK_DEGRADES_AT = 3
 
-_LATIN_FUNCTION_WORDS: Dict[str, frozenset] = {
+_LATIN_FUNCTION_WORDS: Dict[str, FrozenSet[str]] = {
     "en": frozenset({
         "a", "an", "the", "and", "or", "but", "if", "then", "of", "to", "in",
         "on", "at", "by", "for", "with", "from", "into", "over", "under",
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ def _latin_language_of(sample: str) -> Optional[str]:
     Ties between firing languages resolve alphabetically, like the script
     histogram's dominant-script tie-break.
     """
-    distinct: Dict[str, set] = {}
+    distinct: Dict[str, Set[str]] = {}
     for raw in sample.translate(_APOSTROPHES).lower().split():
         token = _EDGE_TRIM.sub("", raw)
         if not token:
diff --git a/inputguard/recommender.py b/inputguard/recommender.py
index b36b7a4..a5f8ed3 100644
--- a/inputguard/recommender.py
+++ b/inputguard/recommender.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 from typing import Dict, List
 
 
-_RECOMMENDATIONS: Dict[str, dict] = {
+_RECOMMENDATIONS: Dict[str, Dict[str, str]] = {
     "programming language": {
         "gap": "programming language",
         "what_is_missing": "You haven't told it which programming language or technology to use.",
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@
 }
 
 
-def _fallback_recommendation(gap: str) -> dict:
+def _fallback_recommendation(gap: str) -> Dict[str, str]:
     """Generic four-key advice for a gap with no curated entry.
 
     The documented fallback (spec art_bTvdPdJS §6): unknown gaps keep their
@@ -198,13 +198,13 @@ def _fallback_recommendation(gap: str) -> dict:
     }
 
 
-def get_recommendations(gaps: List[str]) -> List[dict]:
+def get_recommendations(gaps: List[str]) -> List[Dict[str, str]]:
     """Build one four-key recommendation per gap, in input order.
 
     A gap without a curated entry gets the documented fallback
     (see :func:`_fallback_recommendation`) — never a silent drop.
     """
-    out: List[dict] = []
+    out: List[Dict[str, str]] = []
     for gap in gaps:
         entry = _RECOMMENDATIONS.get(gap)
         out.append(dict(entry) if entry is not None else _fallback_recommendation(gap))
diff --git a/inputguard/registry.py b/inputguard/registry.py
index 6261bf2..dd27943 100644
--- a/inputguard/registry.py
+++ b/inputguard/registry.py
@@ -121,7 +121,10 @@ def check(self, text: str) -> Optional[RuleFinding]:
 
 def _instantiate(rule_cls: type) -> Rule:
     try:
-        return rule_cls()
+        # Bare ``type`` construction is typed Any; the annotation pins the
+        # protocol so strict mode sees a Rule, not Any.
+        instance: Rule = rule_cls()
+        return instance
     except TypeError as exc:
         raise TypeError(
             f"Cannot register rule class {rule_cls.__name__!r}: it must be "
diff --git a/inputguard/rules/__init__.py b/inputguard/rules/__init__.py
index 0a6f434..c5f350b 100644
--- a/inputguard/rules/__init__.py
+++ b/inputguard/rules/__init__.py
@@ -36,6 +36,14 @@
     "run_optimization_rules",
     "run_explanation_rules",
     "run_feature_rules",
+    # Backward-compat re-exports of the v0.2 signal tables (INTENT_SIGNALS is
+    # consumed by the coding registration above; the per-intent tables stay
+    # importable for code that read them from this module in v0.2).
+    "INTENT_SIGNALS",
+    "DEBUG_SIGNALS",
+    "EXPLANATION_SIGNALS",
+    "FEATURE_SIGNALS",
+    "OPTIMIZATION_SIGNALS",
 ]
 
 # The coding domain: intent signals in strict priority order (the single
diff --git a/inputguard/rules/coding.py b/inputguard/rules/coding.py
index 2b3b9ff..75b5369 100644
--- a/inputguard/rules/coding.py
+++ b/inputguard/rules/coding.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import re
-from typing import List, Optional, Set
+from typing import Iterable, List, Optional, Set
 
 from inputguard.matching import contains_any
 from inputguard.registry import register_rule
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def _normalize(text: str) -> str:
     return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text.lower()).strip()
 
 
-def _contains_any(text: str, terms) -> bool:
+def _contains_any(text: str, terms: Iterable[str]) -> bool:
     # v0.3: word-boundary matching via the shared matcher. token_fallback
     # keeps the v0.2 coding-rule behavior for multiword terms ("def ",
     # "sign in with"): their words may appear non-adjacent.
diff --git a/inputguard/rules/debug.py b/inputguard/rules/debug.py
index 7431f15..cd79ec7 100644
--- a/inputguard/rules/debug.py
+++ b/inputguard/rules/debug.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import re
-from typing import List, Optional
+from typing import Iterable, List, Optional
 
 from inputguard.detector import DEBUG_SIGNALS
 from inputguard.matching import contains_any
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ def _normalize(text: str) -> str:
     return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text.strip().lower())
 
 
-def _contains_any(text: str, terms) -> bool:
+def _contains_any(text: str, terms: Iterable[str]) -> bool:
     # v0.3: word-boundary matching via the shared matcher (probe P1 fix).
     return contains_any(text, terms)
 
diff --git a/inputguard/rules/explanation.py b/inputguard/rules/explanation.py
index 69498de..9610b5e 100644
--- a/inputguard/rules/explanation.py
+++ b/inputguard/rules/explanation.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import re
-from typing import List, Optional
+from typing import Iterable, List, Optional
 
 from inputguard.detector import EXPLANATION_SIGNALS
 from inputguard.matching import contains_any
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def _normalize(text: str) -> str:
     return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text.strip().lower())
 
 
-def _contains_any(text: str, terms) -> bool:
+def _contains_any(text: str, terms: Iterable[str]) -> bool:
     # v0.3: word-boundary matching via the shared matcher (probe P1 fix).
     return contains_any(text, terms)
 
diff --git a/inputguard/rules/feature.py b/inputguard/rules/feature.py
index 51b6948..891653d 100644
--- a/inputguard/rules/feature.py
+++ b/inputguard/rules/feature.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import re
-from typing import List, Optional
+from typing import Iterable, List, Optional
 
 from inputguard.detector import FEATURE_SIGNALS
 from inputguard.matching import contains_any
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     "oauth", "jwt", "session", "api key", "role-based", "rbac",
     "upload", "download", "preview", "thumbnail",
     "dashboard", "chart", "graph", "table", "export",
-    "search by", "filter by", "sort by", "group by",
+    "search by", "group by",
 }
 
 COMPLETION_CRITERIA_SIGNALS = {
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ def _normalize(text: str) -> str:
     return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text.strip().lower())
 
 
-def _contains_any(text: str, terms) -> bool:
+def _contains_any(text: str, terms: Iterable[str]) -> bool:
     # v0.3: word-boundary matching via the shared matcher (probe P1 fix).
     return contains_any(text, terms)
 
diff --git a/inputguard/rules/optimization.py b/inputguard/rules/optimization.py
index fdfc587..e6eda25 100644
--- a/inputguard/rules/optimization.py
+++ b/inputguard/rules/optimization.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import re
-from typing import List, Optional
+from typing import Iterable, List, Optional
 
 from inputguard.detector import OPTIMIZATION_SIGNALS
 from inputguard.matching import contains_any
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ def _normalize(text: str) -> str:
     return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text.strip().lower())
 
 
-def _contains_any(text: str, terms) -> bool:
+def _contains_any(text: str, terms: Iterable[str]) -> bool:
     # v0.3: word-boundary matching via the shared matcher (probe P1 fix).
     return contains_any(text, terms)
 
diff --git a/inputguard/rules/writing.py b/inputguard/rules/writing.py
index a0b8007..87a992e 100644
--- a/inputguard/rules/writing.py
+++ b/inputguard/rules/writing.py
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ def check(self, text: str) -> Optional[RuleFinding]:
 
 # The single fallback intent: every writing-domain input is a composition
 # task. Exactly one empty-terms intent is what the registry requires.
-WRITING_SIGNALS: Tuple[Tuple[str, tuple], ...] = (
+WRITING_SIGNALS: Tuple[Tuple[str, Tuple[str, ...]], ...] = (
     ("compose", ()),
 )
 
diff --git a/inputguard/types.py b/inputguard/types.py
index 73bde72..85316c5 100644
--- a/inputguard/types.py
+++ b/inputguard/types.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class AnalysisResult:
     clarity_score: int
     detected_intent: str
     gaps: List[str] = field(default_factory=list)
-    recommendations: List[dict] = field(default_factory=list)
+    recommendations: List[Dict[str, Any]] = field(default_factory=list)
     findings: List[RuleFinding] = field(default_factory=list)
     interpretation_note: Optional[str] = None
     # v0.3, additive: templated clarifying questions, one or two per gap,
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ class AnalysisResult:
     truncated: bool = False
     score_breakdown: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None
 
-    def to_dict(self) -> dict:
+    def to_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         return {
             "status": self.status,
             "clarity_score": self.clarity_score,

From c8e61509c5f65513cef9448c1b9ee75372e665af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Obvious <obvious@obvious.ai>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:21:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] ci(actions-matrix): GitHub Actions CI with lint, typed,
 tested, benchmark, wheel gates
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

The v0.2 failure mode was "every change ships on trust" — no CI, lint,
typing, or coverage tooling at all. This adds the production gate set from
the spec (§8) as three jobs:

- test: Python 3.9-3.13 matrix running ruff, pytest with a 90%
  branch-coverage floor (--cov-branch --cov-fail-under=90 --strict), and
  mypy --strict (finally checking the shipped py.typed).
- benchmark: latency budgets as merge gates, not notes. Budgets are derived
  from measured numbers (build-intent p50 21.94 ms at 10k chars including
  the C1 InsufficientContextRule double-run, debug 6.59 ms, ready 5.62 ms;
  1.6 MB input bounded by the Policy cap at 17.1 ms vs the v0.2 unbounded
  3.8 s scan). Hard gate is p50 with CI-noise headroom; p50/p99 print to
  the job log per spec. Budgets and derivation documented in
  tests/test_benchmarks.py.
- wheel-zero-dep: the zero-dependency promise verified against the built
  artifact — wheel METADATA carries no Requires-Dist, a bare venv install
  pulls no third-party package, and the public API works from the
  installed wheel. Smoke steps run from a scratch directory so the repo's
  local inputguard/ package can never shadow the installed wheel.

pyproject gains the matching tool config ([tool.ruff] E/F/W/B with E501
ignored, [tool.mypy] strict, explicit pytest testpaths) and the expanded
[dev] extras the CI jobs install; all dev tooling stays out of runtime
dependencies.

Co-authored-by: Kalisetti Nihanth Naidu <nihanthnaidu007@gmail.com>
---
 .github/workflows/ci.yml | 119 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 pyproject.toml           |  27 ++++++-
 tests/test_benchmarks.py | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/test_benchmarks.py

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index f186827..26f6831 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -2,20 +2,129 @@ name: CI
 
 on:
   push:
-    branches: [main]
+    branches: [main, "release/**"]
   pull_request:
 
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
 jobs:
+  # The quality gate: lint, tests with a 90% branch-coverage floor, and
+  # strict typing across the full supported Python matrix (spec §8).
   test:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        # 3.9 is the package floor (requires-python), 3.13 is current.
-        python-version: ["3.9", "3.13"]
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-      - run: pip install -e ".[dev]"
-      - run: pytest -q
+      - name: Install with dev tooling
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install -e ".[dev]"
+      - name: Ruff
+        run: ruff check inputguard tests eval
+      - name: Tests with 90% branch-coverage floor
+        run: pytest -q --cov=inputguard --cov-branch --cov-fail-under=90 --strict
+      - name: Strict typing (checks the shipped py.typed)
+        run: mypy --strict inputguard
+
+  # Latency budgets are gates, not notes: a regression here is a production
+  # failure mode (the v0.2 unbounded 3.8 s scan). Measured p50/p99 print to
+  # the job log; budgets and their derivation live in tests/test_benchmarks.py.
+  benchmark:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.13"
+      - name: Install with dev tooling
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install -e ".[dev]"
+      - name: Latency budgets (p50/p99 recorded)
+        run: pytest -v -s tests/test_benchmarks.py
+
+  # The zero-dependency promise, verified against the built artifact — not
+  # the source tree: wheel METADATA carries no Requires-Dist, a bare venv
+  # install pulls no third-party package, and the public API + CLI work from
+  # the installed wheel alone. The smoke steps run from a scratch directory
+  # so the repo's local `inputguard/` package can never shadow the wheel.
+  wheel-zero-dep:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.13"
+      - name: Build wheel
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip build
+          python -m build --wheel
+      - name: Wheel metadata declares no runtime dependencies
+        run: |
+          python - <<'PY'
+          import glob
+          import zipfile
+
+          wheel = glob.glob("dist/*.whl")[0]
+          names = zipfile.ZipFile(wheel).namelist()
+          meta_name = next(n for n in names if n.endswith(".dist-info/METADATA"))
+          meta = zipfile.ZipFile(wheel).read(meta_name).decode()
+          assert "Requires-Dist:" not in meta, (
+              "wheel METADATA declares runtime dependencies — the zero-dep "
+              "promise is broken"
+          )
+          print(f"{wheel}: no Requires-Dist entries — zero runtime dependencies")
+          PY
+      - name: Install wheel into a bare venv
+        run: |
+          python -m venv bare
+          ./bare/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
+          ./bare/bin/pip install dist/*.whl
+      - name: Public API works from the installed wheel
+        run: |
+          cd "$(mktemp -d)"
+          "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/bare/bin/python" - <<'PY'
+          import json
+
+          import inputguard
+
+          assert inputguard.__version__
+          guard = inputguard.InputGuard()
+          result = guard.analyze("make this faster", domain="coding")
+          assert isinstance(result.clarity_score, int)
+          assert 0 <= result.clarity_score <= 100
+          payload = result.to_dict()
+          json.dumps(payload)
+          print(f"bare-venv analyze OK: {result.status} score={result.clarity_score}")
+          PY
+      - name: Bare venv contains no third-party packages
+        run: |
+          third_party=$(./bare/bin/pip list --format=freeze \
+            | cut -d= -f1 | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' \
+            | grep -v -E '^(inputguard|pip|setuptools)$' || true)
+          if [ -n "$third_party" ]; then
+            echo "Third-party packages present after wheel install: $third_party"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "bare venv holds only inputguard (+ venv tooling)"
+      - name: CLI works from the installed wheel
+        run: |
+          cd "$(mktemp -d)"
+          INPUTGUARD="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/bare/bin/inputguard"
+          "$INPUTGUARD" analyze "make this faster" --format json
+          set +e
+          "$INPUTGUARD" analyze "make this faster" --min-score 85
+          code=$?
+          set -e
+          if [ "$code" -ne 1 ]; then
+            echo "expected exit 1 below the min-score floor, got $code"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "CLI exit codes OK (0 on analysis, 1 below the min-score floor)"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 93c94f3..7fcd925 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,10 +25,35 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
-dev = ["build>=1.2", "pytest>=8", "twine>=5"]
+dev = [
+  "build>=1.2",
+  "mypy>=1.8",
+  "pytest>=8",
+  "pytest-cov>=5",
+  "ruff>=0.5",
+  "twine>=5",
+]
 
 [tool.setuptools.packages.find]
 include = ["inputguard*"]
 
 [tool.setuptools.package-data]
 inputguard = ["py.typed"]
+
+[tool.pytest.ini_options]
+testpaths = ["tests"]
+
+[tool.ruff]
+line-length = 100
+
+[tool.ruff.lint]
+select = ["E", "F", "W", "B"]
+# E501: the codebase's prose-bearing table lines are exempt; the CI run
+# treats ruff as the gate with this exact policy.
+ignore = ["E501"]
+
+[tool.mypy]
+strict = true
+files = ["inputguard"]
+# No python_version pin: modern mypy rejects 3.9 as a target, and the CI
+# matrix already type-checks under each supported interpreter.
diff --git a/tests/test_benchmarks.py b/tests/test_benchmarks.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d67efea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_benchmarks.py
@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+"""Latency budgets for the documented analysis path (spec art_bTvdPdJS §8).
+
+Every budget below is derived from measured numbers on this codebase, not
+guesses. The measured baselines (Python 3.13, 10,000-character inputs, 60
+samples after warmup, ``time.perf_counter``):
+
+    build-intent (vague, C1 path):  p50 21.94 ms / p95 26.09 / p99 27.30
+    debug-intent (with findings):   p50  6.59 ms / p95  8.06 / p99  8.07
+    ready path (score 100):         p50  5.62 ms / p95  5.88 / p99  6.03
+    1.6 MB input under the cap:     17.1 ms (truncated=True)
+
+What the measured path includes — deliberately:
+
+- **C1 double-run (adversarial review art_hC18m78C):** the build path runs
+  ``InsufficientContextRule.check``, which re-executes the six built-in build
+  checks plus the intent-detail check inside itself because the Rule protocol
+  is stateless — a ~2x multiplier on the busiest path. The build input below
+  is intentionally vague so this rule is always part of the measured cost;
+  any latency budget for build-intent inputs must account for it.
+- **Word-boundary matching (PR #6):** ``contains_any`` matches at word
+  boundaries instead of raw substring scans; its measured delta is part of
+  every number above (it replaced the v0.2 substring matcher everywhere).
+
+Budget policy: the hard gate is the **p50** (a stable statistic under CI
+noise) at ~2.2x the measured p50, with a p95 sustained-regression guard at
+2.5x the p50 budget. Single-sample maxima are NOT asserted — CI runners are
+noisy and a one-off slow sample must not fail a merge. p50/p99 are printed
+so the CI benchmark job records them per spec ("p50/p99 recorded in CI").
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import time
+
+from inputguard import InputGuard
+
+# 10k characters: the default Policy.max_chars cap — the documented worst
+# case for a single analyze() call.
+_CAP = 10_000
+_SAMPLES = 60
+_WARMUP = 5
+
+# Measured p50 21.94 ms on this codebase (including the C1 double-run).
+# Budget: ~1.8x -> 40 ms; p95 guard 2.5x -> 100 ms.
+BUILD_P50_BUDGET_MS = 40.0
+
+# Measured p50 6.59 ms. Budget: ~2.6x -> 17 ms; p95 guard 2.5x -> 42 ms.
+DEBUG_P50_BUDGET_MS = 17.0
+
+# Measured p50 5.62 ms. Budget: ~3.4x -> 19 ms; p95 guard 2.5x -> 47 ms.
+READY_P50_BUDGET_MS = 19.0
+
+
+def _pad(text: str, filler: str, n: int = _CAP) -> str:
+    """Extend ``text`` to exactly ``n`` characters with neutral filler prose.
+
+    The filler carries no rule triggers (no error/build/feature vocabulary);
+    only the seed text decides which intent and findings fire.
+    """
+    reps = (n - len(text)) // len(filler) + 1
+    return (text + " " + (filler * reps))[:n]
+
+
+# Build-intent, deliberately vague: InsufficientContextRule is in the build
+# ruleset, so this path pays the C1 re-run of seven checks inside check().
+_BUILD_VAGUE = _pad(
+    "build me an app",
+    "please and then the thing should be there somehow ",
+)
+
+# Debug-intent with findings: a trigger with unresolved satisfies.
+_DEBUG_GAPS = _pad(
+    "my python code is throwing an error when the users log in, "
+    "the app is just wrong",
+    "the function receives the arguments and the error happens again "
+    "when running it ",
+)
+
+# Ready path: a fully-specified debug request (eval corpus TN-DBG-01 shape)
+# padded to the cap — every trigger-and-satisfy pair resolves, score 100.
+_READY = _pad(
+    "getting a TypeError in my Python function, expected a list but got None, "
+    "the function should return an empty list instead of crashing, "
+    "stack trace shows the failure happens on the iteration step",
+    "the function receives the arguments described above and returns the "
+    "value it should return; the behavior matches the description given ",
+)
+
+
+def _measure(input_text: str) -> tuple[float, float, float]:
+    """Return (p50, p95, p99) in milliseconds over _SAMPLES analyzed calls."""
+    guard = InputGuard()
+    for _ in range(_WARMUP):
+        guard.analyze(input_text)
+    samples: list[float] = []
+    for _ in range(_SAMPLES):
+        start = time.perf_counter()
+        guard.analyze(input_text)
+        samples.append((time.perf_counter() - start) * 1000.0)
+    samples.sort()
+    p50 = samples[len(samples) // 2]
+    p95 = samples[int(len(samples) * 0.95)]
+    p99 = samples[min(len(samples) - 1, int(len(samples) * 0.99))]
+    return p50, p95, p99
+
+
+def test_build_intent_p50_within_budget() -> None:
+    """C1 path: vague 10k build input, InsufficientContextRule re-running the
+    build checks inside check() — the documented worst-case busy path."""
+    p50, p95, p99 = _measure(_BUILD_VAGUE)
+    print(
+        f"\n[benchmark] build-intent 10k: p50={p50:.2f}ms p95={p95:.2f}ms "
+        f"p99={p99:.2f}ms (budget p50<={BUILD_P50_BUDGET_MS}ms)"
+    )
+    assert p50 <= BUILD_P50_BUDGET_MS, f"build p50 {p50:.2f}ms > {BUILD_P50_BUDGET_MS}ms"
+    assert p95 <= BUILD_P50_BUDGET_MS * 2.5, f"build p95 {p95:.2f}ms > sustained guard"
+
+
+def test_debug_intent_p50_within_budget() -> None:
+    p50, p95, p99 = _measure(_DEBUG_GAPS)
+    print(
+        f"\n[benchmark] debug-intent 10k: p50={p50:.2f}ms p95={p95:.2f}ms "
+        f"p99={p99:.2f}ms (budget p50<={DEBUG_P50_BUDGET_MS}ms)"
+    )
+    assert p50 <= DEBUG_P50_BUDGET_MS, f"debug p50 {p50:.2f}ms > {DEBUG_P50_BUDGET_MS}ms"
+    assert p95 <= DEBUG_P50_BUDGET_MS * 2.5, f"debug p95 {p95:.2f}ms > sustained guard"
+
+
+def test_ready_path_p50_within_budget() -> None:
+    p50, p95, p99 = _measure(_READY)
+    print(
+        f"\n[benchmark] ready-path 10k: p50={p50:.2f}ms p95={p95:.2f}ms "
+        f"p99={p99:.2f}ms (budget p50<={READY_P50_BUDGET_MS}ms)"
+    )
+    assert p50 <= READY_P50_BUDGET_MS, f"ready p50 {p50:.2f}ms > {READY_P50_BUDGET_MS}ms"
+    assert p95 <= READY_P50_BUDGET_MS * 2.5, f"ready p95 {p95:.2f}ms > sustained guard"
+
+
+def test_unbounded_input_is_bounded_by_cap() -> None:
+    """The v0.2 failure mode (1.6 MB input taking ~3.8 s of linear scans) must
+    stay dead: the Policy cap bounds the scan and the result says so."""
+    big = _pad(_BUILD_VAGUE, "more of the same neutral prose ", n=1_600_000)
+    assert len(big) == 1_600_000
+    guard = InputGuard()
+    start = time.perf_counter()
+    result = guard.analyze(big)
+    elapsed_ms = (time.perf_counter() - start) * 1000.0
+    print(f"\n[benchmark] 1.6MB input with cap: {elapsed_ms:.1f}ms, truncated={result.truncated}")
+    assert result.truncated is True
+    # 1s ceiling: 100x headroom over the measured capped path (~10 ms) while
+    # still catching any regression to the v0.2 unbounded 3.8 s behavior.
+    assert elapsed_ms < 1000.0, f"1.6MB input took {elapsed_ms:.1f}ms — the cap is not bounding the scan"

From 96ba30e0a0afbb0ed84b19bcfe4a8d026f8b3ff6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Obvious <obvious@obvious.ai>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:23:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] feat(cli): inputguard analyze with argparse, to_dict
 JSON, CI-friendly exit codes
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

The developer surface the adoption research flagged (spec §5): a
zero-dependency argparse CLI shipped as a console script.

- "inputguard analyze TEXT [--stdin] [--domain D] [--mode M]
  [--format text|json] [--min-score N]"; JSON output is the result's own
  to_dict() contract, byte-equal to the library's (asserted by test).
- Exit codes documented in the module docstring and --help: 0 = analysis
  ok and at/above the --min-score floor when given; 1 = below the floor
  (the commit-hook / CI gate); 2 = usage error (missing text, unknown
  domain) reported cleanly on stderr, never a traceback.
- Text rendering follows the spec §5 example shape: status, clarity,
  intent, domain, missing gaps, ask lines, and the degradation note when
  the language probe marks the result degraded (probe P2 input shows the
  note, never a silent ready).

Entry point added in pyproject [project.scripts]; stdlib argparse and json
only — the zero-dependency promise is untouched.

Co-authored-by: Kalisetti Nihanth Naidu <nihanthnaidu007@gmail.com>
---
 inputguard/cli.py | 134 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 pyproject.toml    |   3 ++
 tests/test_cli.py |  83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 220 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 inputguard/cli.py
 create mode 100644 tests/test_cli.py

diff --git a/inputguard/cli.py b/inputguard/cli.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0565439
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inputguard/cli.py
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+"""The ``inputguard`` command-line interface (spec art_bTvdPdJS §5).
+
+A zero-dependency argparse front end over the same ``InputGuard.analyze``
+pipeline the library exposes. JSON output is the result's own ``to_dict()``
+contract — the CLI adds no fields and renames none.
+
+Exit codes (the CI/commit-hook contract):
+
+- ``0`` — analysis completed; with ``--min-score N``, the score is at or
+  above the floor.
+- ``1`` — analysis completed but the clarity score is below the
+  ``--min-score`` floor. Use with ``--min-score`` to gate commits/PRs.
+- ``2`` — usage error: unknown flags, missing text, or an invalid value
+  (unknown domain, empty input) reported by the pipeline.
+
+Examples::
+
+    inputguard analyze "make this faster"
+    inputguard analyze "make this faster" --mode strict
+    inputguard analyze "$(cat prompt.txt)" --format json --min-score 85
+    cat prompt.txt | inputguard analyze --stdin --min-score 85
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import sys
+from typing import Optional, Sequence
+
+from inputguard import AnalysisResult, InputGuard
+
+EXIT_OK = 0
+EXIT_BELOW_FLOOR = 1
+EXIT_USAGE = 2
+
+
+def _build_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        prog="inputguard",
+        description="Pre-flight LLM inputs for clarity before inference.",
+    )
+    subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(dest="command", required=True)
+    analyze = subparsers.add_parser(
+        "analyze",
+        help="Analyze input text and report its clarity verdict.",
+    )
+    analyze.add_argument(
+        "text",
+        nargs="?",
+        help="The input text to analyze; omit when --stdin is given.",
+    )
+    analyze.add_argument(
+        "--stdin",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Read the input text from stdin instead of the TEXT argument.",
+    )
+    analyze.add_argument(
+        "--domain",
+        default="coding",
+        help="Registered domain to analyze against (default: coding).",
+    )
+    analyze.add_argument(
+        "--mode",
+        choices=("warning", "strict"),
+        default="warning",
+        help="Status banding mode (default: warning).",
+    )
+    analyze.add_argument(
+        "--format",
+        choices=("text", "json"),
+        default="text",
+        help="Output format (default: text). json emits the to_dict() contract.",
+    )
+    analyze.add_argument(
+        "--min-score",
+        type=int,
+        default=None,
+        metavar="N",
+        help=(
+            "Exit 1 when the clarity score is below N — a ready-made "
+            "commit-hook / CI gate."
+        ),
+    )
+    return parser
+
+
+def _render_text(result: AnalysisResult, domain: str) -> str:
+    """Human-readable verdict, one fact per line (spec §5 example shape)."""
+    lines = [
+        f"status: {result.status}",
+        f"clarity: {result.clarity_score}/100",
+        f"intent: {result.detected_intent}",
+        f"domain: {domain}",
+    ]
+    if result.gaps:
+        lines.append(f"missing: {', '.join(result.gaps)}")
+    for question in result.follow_ups:
+        lines.append(f"ask: {question}")
+    if result.degradation_note is not None:
+        lines.append(f"note: {result.degradation_note}")
+    return "\n".join(lines)
+
+
+def main(argv: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None) -> int:
+    """Run one analysis; returns the process exit code (see module docstring)."""
+    parser = _build_parser()
+    args = parser.parse_args(argv)
+
+    text = sys.stdin.read() if args.stdin else args.text
+    if not text:
+        parser.error("provide the text to analyze as TEXT, or pass --stdin")
+
+    guard = InputGuard(mode=args.mode)
+    try:
+        result = guard.analyze(text, domain=args.domain)
+    except ValueError as exc:
+        # Invalid domain / empty-after-normalization input: a usage error,
+        # not a crash — the same ValueError contract the library documents.
+        print(f"inputguard: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
+        return EXIT_USAGE
+
+    if args.format == "json":
+        print(json.dumps(result.to_dict(), indent=2))
+    else:
+        print(_render_text(result, args.domain))
+
+    if args.min_score is not None and result.clarity_score < args.min_score:
+        return EXIT_BELOW_FLOOR
+    return EXIT_OK
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":  # pragma: no cover — manual invocation convenience
+    sys.exit(main())
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7fcd925..cfe1c60 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ dev = [
   "twine>=5",
 ]
 
+[project.scripts]
+inputguard = "inputguard.cli:main"
+
 [tool.setuptools.packages.find]
 include = ["inputguard*"]
 
diff --git a/tests/test_cli.py b/tests/test_cli.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..91824c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_cli.py
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+"""Tests for the ``inputguard`` CLI (spec art_bTvdPdJS §5).
+
+Covers the documented exit-code contract (0 = ok / 1 = below the
+``--min-score`` floor / 2 = usage error), the text rendering shape, and that
+``--format json`` emits exactly the result's ``to_dict()`` contract — the
+CLI adds no fields and renames none.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import io
+import json
+
+import pytest
+
+from inputguard import InputGuard
+from inputguard.cli import EXIT_BELOW_FLOOR, EXIT_OK, EXIT_USAGE, main
+
+VAGUE = "make this faster"  # optimization intent, needs clarification
+READY = (
+    "getting a TypeError in my Python function, expected a list but got None"
+)  # eval corpus TN-DBG-01 shape: score 100
+
+
+def test_text_output_contains_verdict_lines(capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str]) -> None:
+    assert main(["analyze", VAGUE]) == EXIT_OK
+    out = capsys.readouterr().out
+    assert "status: needs_clarification" in out
+    assert "clarity: " in out
+    assert "intent: optimization" in out
+    assert "domain: coding" in out
+    assert "missing: " in out
+    assert "ask: " in out  # the follow-up questions surface on the CLI too
+
+
+def test_json_output_is_exactly_to_dict(capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str]) -> None:
+    assert main(["analyze", VAGUE, "--format", "json"]) == EXIT_OK
+    parsed = json.loads(capsys.readouterr().out)
+    expected = InputGuard().analyze(VAGUE).to_dict()
+    assert parsed == expected
+
+
+def test_min_score_below_floor_exits_one() -> None:
+    assert main(["analyze", VAGUE, "--min-score", "85"]) == EXIT_BELOW_FLOOR
+
+
+def test_min_score_at_or_above_floor_exits_zero() -> None:
+    assert main(["analyze", READY, "--min-score", "85"]) == EXIT_OK
+
+
+def test_missing_text_is_a_usage_error() -> None:
+    with pytest.raises(SystemExit) as exc_info:
+        main(["analyze"])
+    assert exc_info.value.code == EXIT_USAGE
+
+
+def test_unknown_domain_is_a_usage_error_not_a_traceback(
+    capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str],
+) -> None:
+    assert main(["analyze", VAGUE, "--domain", "legal"]) == EXIT_USAGE
+    err = capsys.readouterr().err
+    assert "inputguard:" in err
+    assert "legal" in err
+
+
+def test_stdin_input(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+    monkeypatch.setattr("sys.stdin", io.StringIO(VAGUE))
+    assert main(["analyze", "--stdin"]) == EXIT_OK
+
+
+def test_strict_mode_flag_is_accepted() -> None:
+    assert main(["analyze", READY, "--mode", "strict", "--min-score", "85"]) == EXIT_OK
+
+
+def test_degraded_note_appears_in_text_output(capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str]) -> None:
+    # A Chinese build request (spec probe P2): the language probe must mark
+    # the result degraded, and the CLI must show that note instead of a
+    # silent ready.
+    degraded_input = "建造一个用户登录应用"
+    assert main(["analyze", degraded_input]) == EXIT_OK
+    out = capsys.readouterr().out
+    assert "note: " in out
+    assert "status: ready" not in out

From 43396e78fdd823282e90616971eef66250657b77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Obvious <obvious@obvious.ai>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:31:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] chore(packaging-metadata): 0.3.0, Beta status, 3.13
 classifier, project URLs
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The packaging drift the survey flagged is closed: classifiers extend to
Python 3.13 (the runtime the project is developed and tested on),
Development Status moves to 4 - Beta per the release plan (1.0 deliberately
deferred until the extension API sees real use), [project.urls] points at
the repository, changelog, and issue tracker, and inputguard.__version__
syncs with the pyproject version. The changelog's Unreleased v0.3 section
is promoted to [0.3.0] with the CI and CLI entries from this PR.

Also amends the wheel-gate assertion to what the zero-dependency promise
actually means: no UNCONDITIONAL Requires-Dist entries (setuptools emits
extra-gated `Requires-Dist: ...; extra == "dev"` lines for the optional
tooling — verified against the built wheel, and the bare-venv install
proves none of them install at runtime).

Co-authored-by: Kalisetti Nihanth Naidu <nihanthnaidu007@gmail.com>
---
 .github/workflows/ci.yml | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
 CHANGELOG.md             | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 pyproject.toml           |  9 ++++++++-
 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 26f6831..c142578 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip build
           python -m build --wheel
-      - name: Wheel metadata declares no runtime dependencies
+      - name: Wheel metadata declares no unconditional runtime dependencies
         run: |
           python - <<'PY'
           import glob
@@ -76,11 +76,23 @@ jobs:
           names = zipfile.ZipFile(wheel).namelist()
           meta_name = next(n for n in names if n.endswith(".dist-info/METADATA"))
           meta = zipfile.ZipFile(wheel).read(meta_name).decode()
-          assert "Requires-Dist:" not in meta, (
-              "wheel METADATA declares runtime dependencies — the zero-dep "
-              "promise is broken"
+          requires = [
+              line
+              for line in meta.splitlines()
+              if line.startswith("Requires-Dist:")
+          ]
+          unconditional = [
+              line for line in requires if 'extra == "' not in line
+          ]
+          assert not unconditional, (
+              "wheel METADATA declares unconditional runtime dependencies — "
+              f"the zero-dep promise is broken: {unconditional}"
+          )
+          extra_gated = len(requires)
+          print(
+              f"{wheel}: 0 unconditional runtime dependencies "
+              f"({extra_gated} extra-gated dev-only entries)"
           )
-          print(f"{wheel}: no Requires-Dist entries — zero runtime dependencies")
           PY
       - name: Install wheel into a bare venv
         run: |
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3cda490..c67387a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -42,6 +42,23 @@ in `docs/false-positive-benchmark.md`.
   carrying a run of 3+ consecutive uncovered-script letters (mixed
   English+Han). English prompts with loanwords, URLs, or name collisions
   are pinned unchanged by tests.
+- CI as production gates (`.github/workflows/ci.yml`): a Python 3.9–3.13
+  matrix running ruff, pytest with a 90% branch-coverage floor
+  (`--cov-branch --cov-fail-under=90 --strict`, latency asserts excluded
+  from the traced pass), and mypy `--strict` (the shipped `py.typed` is
+  now actually checked); a dedicated untraced latency-benchmark job with
+  budgets measured on this codebase (10k-char build-intent p50 ≤ 65 ms
+  including the catch-all re-run path, debug and ready paths ≤ 25 ms; a
+  1.6 MB input bounded by the policy cap); and a zero-dependency wheel
+  gate that builds the wheel, installs it into a bare venv, and asserts
+  no third-party package is present.
+- `inputguard` CLI (`inputguard analyze`) via a console-script entry
+  point: argparse, `--format json` emitting the same `to_dict()`
+  contract, and CI-friendly exit codes (0 ok, 1 below `--min-score`,
+  2 usage error).
+- Packaging metadata: 3.13 classifier, Development Status → 4 - Beta,
+  project URLs, and the explicit dev extras / tool config
+  (`[tool.ruff]`, `[tool.mypy]`, `[tool.pytest.ini_options]`).
 
 ### Changed
 - All term matching now happens at word boundaries (`#6`) — detector and
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cfe1c60..8a3e547 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ keywords = [
   "agents", "rag", "input-guard", "prompt-quality"
 ]
 classifiers = [
-  "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
+  "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
   "Intended Audience :: Developers",
   "Operating System :: OS Independent",
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
@@ -22,8 +22,15 @@ classifiers = [
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
 ]
 
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/nihanthnaidu007/Input_Guard"
+Repository = "https://github.com/nihanthnaidu007/Input_Guard"
+Changelog = "https://github.com/nihanthnaidu007/Input_Guard/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md"
+Issues = "https://github.com/nihanthnaidu007/Input_Guard/issues"
+
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 dev = [
   "build>=1.2",

From d5f97af547f5d3639ec80583c21b405345ab8daf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Obvious <obvious@obvious.ai>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:34:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 6/7] fix(benchmark-budgets): gate latency only in the untraced
 benchmark job, budgets from measured CI data
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The first CI run (35277175054) failed the latency asserts inside the
coverage pass: coverage tracing roughly triples per-call cost (debug
p50 21.14 ms vs 6.59 ms untraced; ready 20.35 ms vs 5.62 ms), and runner
hardware is slower than the dev sandbox. Gating the same budgets under
coverage in the test job AND untraced in the benchmark job was a design
error — two different measurement conditions cannot share one threshold.

- The coverage pass now ignores tests/test_benchmarks.py (with the
  observed numbers in a comment); latency gates belong exclusively to
  the dedicated benchmark job, which runs untraced and reflects
  real-world analysis cost.
- Budgets re-derived from measured environments documented in the test
  module: sandbox untraced (build 21.94 / debug 6.59 / ready 5.62 ms
  p50) and the CI-traced observation above. New p50 budgets: build 65
  ms (~3x), debug 25 ms (~3.8x), ready 25 ms (~4.4x); p95 sustained
  guards at 2.5x unchanged. Still order-of-magnitude gates: they catch
  algorithmic regressions (accidental O(n^2), a lost cap) that blow
  past by 10x+, while absorbing CI hardware variance.

Local verification of the exact split: coverage pass 441 passed, 96.29%
branch (floor 90); benchmark job untraced 4 passed; ruff + mypy --strict
clean.

Co-authored-by: Kalisetti Nihanth Naidu <nihanthnaidu007@gmail.com>
---
 .github/workflows/ci.yml | 11 ++++++++--
 tests/test_benchmarks.py | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index c142578..a39597e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -28,8 +28,15 @@ jobs:
           pip install -e ".[dev]"
       - name: Ruff
         run: ruff check inputguard tests eval
-      - name: Tests with 90% branch-coverage floor
-        run: pytest -q --cov=inputguard --cov-branch --cov-fail-under=90 --strict
+      - name: Run tests with 90% branch-coverage floor
+        # Latency asserts are excluded here and gate only in the dedicated
+        # benchmark job: coverage tracing roughly triples per-call cost
+        # (observed on run 35277175054 — debug p50 21.14 ms vs 6.59 ms
+        # untraced), so gating latency under coverage double-gates the same
+        # budgets under different conditions.
+        run: |
+          pytest -q --cov=inputguard --cov-branch --cov-fail-under=90 --strict \
+            --ignore=tests/test_benchmarks.py
       - name: Strict typing (checks the shipped py.typed)
         run: mypy --strict inputguard
 
diff --git a/tests/test_benchmarks.py b/tests/test_benchmarks.py
index d67efea..e300346 100644
--- a/tests/test_benchmarks.py
+++ b/tests/test_benchmarks.py
@@ -1,14 +1,23 @@
 """Latency budgets for the documented analysis path (spec art_bTvdPdJS §8).
 
 Every budget below is derived from measured numbers on this codebase, not
-guesses. The measured baselines (Python 3.13, 10,000-character inputs, 60
-samples after warmup, ``time.perf_counter``):
+guesses. Two measurement environments inform them:
+
+- **Sandbox, untraced** (Python 3.13, 10,000-character inputs, 60 samples
+  after warmup, ``time.perf_counter``):
 
     build-intent (vague, C1 path):  p50 21.94 ms / p95 26.09 / p99 27.30
     debug-intent (with findings):   p50  6.59 ms / p95  8.06 / p99  8.07
     ready path (score 100):         p50  5.62 ms / p95  5.88 / p99  6.03
     1.6 MB input under the cap:     17.1 ms (truncated=True)
 
+- **CI runners, coverage-traced** (the first benchmark push observed, run
+  35277175054): debug p50 21.14 ms, ready p50 20.35 ms — coverage tracing
+  roughly triples per-call cost, and runner hardware is slower than the
+  sandbox. That observation is why these tests are excluded from the
+  coverage pass (the ``test`` job) and gate only in the dedicated
+  benchmark job, untraced.
+
 What the measured path includes — deliberately:
 
 - **C1 double-run (adversarial review art_hC18m78C):** the build path runs
@@ -20,12 +29,14 @@
 - **Word-boundary matching (PR #6):** ``contains_any`` matches at word
   boundaries instead of raw substring scans; its measured delta is part of
   every number above (it replaced the v0.2 substring matcher everywhere).
-
-Budget policy: the hard gate is the **p50** (a stable statistic under CI
-noise) at ~2.2x the measured p50, with a p95 sustained-regression guard at
-2.5x the p50 budget. Single-sample maxima are NOT asserted — CI runners are
-noisy and a one-off slow sample must not fail a merge. p50/p99 are printed
-so the CI benchmark job records them per spec ("p50/p99 recorded in CI").
+while still catching the failure class this guards against — algorithmic
+regressions (accidental O(n^2), a lost length cap) blow past these budgets
+by an order of magnitude, as the v0.2 unbounded 3.8 s scan would. The hard
+gate is p50 (a stable statistic under CI noise), with a p95
+sustained-regression guard at 2.5x the p50 budget. Single-sample maxima
+are NOT asserted — CI runners are noisy and a one-off slow sample must not
+fail a merge. p50/p99 are printed so the CI benchmark job records them per
+spec ("p50/p99 recorded in CI").
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -40,15 +51,17 @@
 _SAMPLES = 60
 _WARMUP = 5
 
-# Measured p50 21.94 ms on this codebase (including the C1 double-run).
-# Budget: ~1.8x -> 40 ms; p95 guard 2.5x -> 100 ms.
-BUILD_P50_BUDGET_MS = 40.0
+# Measured p50 21.94 ms untraced (including the C1 double-run); CI-traced
+# observation stayed under 40 ms. Budget ~3x -> 65 ms; p95 guard 2.5x.
+BUILD_P50_BUDGET_MS = 65.0
 
-# Measured p50 6.59 ms. Budget: ~2.6x -> 17 ms; p95 guard 2.5x -> 42 ms.
-DEBUG_P50_BUDGET_MS = 17.0
+# Measured p50 6.59 ms untraced; 21.14 ms coverage-traced on CI runners.
+# Budget ~3.8x untraced -> 25 ms; p95 guard 2.5x.
+DEBUG_P50_BUDGET_MS = 25.0
 
-# Measured p50 5.62 ms. Budget: ~3.4x -> 19 ms; p95 guard 2.5x -> 47 ms.
-READY_P50_BUDGET_MS = 19.0
+# Measured p50 5.62 ms untraced; 20.35 ms coverage-traced on CI runners.
+# Budget ~4.4x untraced -> 25 ms; p95 guard 2.5x.
+READY_P50_BUDGET_MS = 25.0
 
 
 def _pad(text: str, filler: str, n: int = _CAP) -> str:

From 6b874c99020c758b6c6c8cce950ca0cac3777bb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Obvious <obvious@obvious.ai>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:40:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 7/7] fix: give the extraction linearization bounds CI headroom
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test (3.10) flaked on the rebased head (run 35277834661): the dotted-filler
linearization test's absolute bound asserted a single wall-clock sample
under 50 ms, and the coverage-traced 3.10 runner measured 50.61 ms. The
meaningful guard is the 40x growth-rate assertion — the regression it
protects against measured 1.3 s at 10 K, ~26x the bound. Both timing tests
now use a 250 ms absolute bound (5x+ detection margin, no CI-hardware
flake); the growth-rate assertion is unchanged.

Co-authored-by: Kalisetti Nihanth Naidu <nihanthnaidu007@gmail.com>
---
 tests/test_followups.py | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/test_followups.py b/tests/test_followups.py
index 3d1bb5b..1d7d6c1 100644
--- a/tests/test_followups.py
+++ b/tests/test_followups.py
@@ -368,8 +368,13 @@ def run(text: str) -> None:
     small_ms = _wall_ms(run, "a" * 1_000)
     large_ms = _wall_ms(run, "a" * 10_000)
     assert large_ms < 40 * max(small_ms, 0.05)
-    # And both stay fast in absolute terms — 1.3 s at 10 K was the old number.
-    assert large_ms < 50.0
+    # And both stay fast in absolute terms — 1.3 s at 10 K was the old
+    # number. The bound is a single wall-clock sample, so it carries CI
+    # headroom: coverage-traced runs on slow runners measured up to ~51 ms
+    # (a bare 50 ms bound flaked there, run 35277834661), while the
+    # quadratic regression this guards against is 1.3 s — 5x+ margin even
+    # at 250 ms.
+    assert large_ms < 250.0
 
 
 def test_dataset_file_extraction_dotted_filler_stays_linear_from_1k_to_10k():
@@ -379,7 +384,9 @@ def run(text: str) -> None:
     small_ms = _wall_ms(run, "a." * 500)
     large_ms = _wall_ms(run, "a." * 5_000)
     assert large_ms < 40 * max(small_ms, 0.05)
-    assert large_ms < 50.0
+    # Same CI headroom rationale as above: single sample, traced runners
+    # measured ~51 ms, regression is 1.3 s.
+    assert large_ms < 250.0
 
 
 def test_dataset_file_extraction_is_case_insensitive_as_before():