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"Productivity" + }, { "name": "hig-doctor", "source": { @@ -17,10 +29,10 @@ "category": "Developer Tools" }, { - "name": "trellis", + "name": "raintree-standards", "source": { "source": "local", - "path": "./plugins/trellis" + "path": "./plugins/raintree-standards" }, "policy": { "installation": "AVAILABLE", diff --git a/plugins.lock.json b/plugins.lock.json index f13527e..bf45716 100644 --- a/plugins.lock.json +++ b/plugins.lock.json @@ -1,6 +1,14 @@ { "schemaVersion": 1, "plugins": [ + { + "name": "docpull", + "repository": "https://github.com/raintree-technology/docpull.git", + "ref": "v6.5.1", + "commit": "ca55534347234990c361da83571472e00d6f33da", + "sourcePaths": ["plugin"], + "version": "6.5.1" + }, { "name": "hig-doctor", "repository": "https://github.com/raintree-technology/hig-doctor.git", @@ -10,12 +18,63 @@ "version": "2.0.3" }, { - "name": "trellis", - "repository": "https://github.com/raintree-technology/trellis.git", - "ref": "v0.3.1", - "commit": 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"templates", + "testing", + "web", + "writing", + "plugin" + ], + "version": "1.1.1" } ] } diff --git a/plugins/docpull/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/plugins/docpull/.claude-plugin/plugin.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0ff39e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/.claude-plugin/plugin.json @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +{ + "name": "docpull", + "version": "6.5.1", + "description": "Pull public web sources into Claude Code. Indexes static and server-rendered sites as local Markdown with conditional-GET caching, then exposes them as MCP tools. Local, browser-free, no API keys.", + "author": { + "name": "Raintree Technology", + "email": "support@raintree.technology", + "url": "https://raintree.technology" + }, + "homepage": "https://github.com/raintree-technology/docpull", + "repository": "https://github.com/raintree-technology/docpull", + "license": "MIT", + "keywords": [ + "web", + "web-extraction", + "documentation", + "docs", + "fetch", + "markdown", + "rag", + "mcp", + "local-first", + "source-packs", + "context-packs" + ] +} diff --git a/plugins/docpull/.codex-plugin/plugin.json b/plugins/docpull/.codex-plugin/plugin.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6afc67b --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/.codex-plugin/plugin.json @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +{ + "id": "docpull", + "name": "docpull", + "version": "6.5.1", + "description": "Pull public web sources into Codex as local, searchable Markdown through docpull's MCP server.", + "skills": "./skills/", + "mcpServers": "./.mcp.json", + "author": { + "name": "Raintree Technology", + "email": "support@raintree.technology", + "url": "https://raintree.technology" + }, + "homepage": "https://github.com/raintree-technology/docpull", + "repository": "https://github.com/raintree-technology/docpull", + "license": "MIT", + "keywords": [ + "web", + "web-extraction", + "documentation", + "docs", + "fetch", + "markdown", + "rag", + "mcp", + "local-first", + "source-packs", + "context-packs" + ], + "interface": { + "displayName": "docpull", + "shortDescription": "Fetch public web sources into local, searchable Markdown.", + "longDescription": "docpull gives Codex a local MCP server for fetching public static and server-rendered web sources, indexing them as Markdown, searching cached pages, reading cited passages, and inspecting local context packs without API keys or browser automation.", + "developerName": "Raintree Technology", + "category": "Productivity", + "capabilities": [ + "Fetch public HTTPS pages as Markdown", + "Index web sources locally", + "Search cached Markdown with regex", + "Read cited source passages", + "Inspect local context packs", + "Manage user-defined source aliases" + ], + "websiteURL": "https://github.com/raintree-technology/docpull", + "brandColor": "#0F6B5D", + "composerIcon": "./assets/logo.svg", + "logo": "./assets/logo.svg", + "defaultPrompt": "Use docpull when I ask about a specific library, framework, SDK, API, website, or public source URL. Prefer cached sources first, fetch only the requested source, and cite source paths when answering." + } +} diff --git a/plugins/docpull/.mcp.json b/plugins/docpull/.mcp.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..68cf2b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/.mcp.json @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +{ + "mcpServers": { + "docpull": { + "command": "docpull", + "args": ["mcp"] + } + } +} diff --git a/plugins/docpull/README.md b/plugins/docpull/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..08ebe1d --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +

+ DocPull +

+ +# DocPull agent plugin + +**Active plugin for developers using Codex or Claude Code.** Pull static and +server-rendered public web sources into an agent's local context with citations. + +DocPull aligns core workflows across CLI, Python SDK, and MCP, with each surface +optimized for its user. See the [Surface Contract](../docs/surface-contract.md) +for the boundary between the plugin's MCP tools and the broader CLI/SDK. + +## Install + +The plugin wraps the `docpull` CLI. Install the MCP extra first: + +```bash +pip install 'docpull[mcp]' # or: pipx install 'docpull[mcp]' +docpull --version # should print 6.5.1 or newer +docpull mcp --help +``` + +The plain `pip install docpull` does not include the MCP dependency. + +In Claude Code: + +```text +/plugin marketplace add raintree-technology/docpull +/plugin install docpull@docpull +``` + +In Codex, install the plugin from the configured marketplace or a local plugin +source. The plugin starts the `docpull mcp` stdio server and exposes the +`docpull-research` skill. + +## Try one source + +```text +> /web-add fastapi +> How does FastAPI handle dependency injection scoping? +``` + +Expected result: the agent searches the cached source and answers with attribution to the local +Markdown. The first crawl populates the cache; later reads stay local. + +## What you get + + +- **MCP server** (37 tools): + - Read: `fetch_url`, `list_sources`, `list_indexed`, `grep_docs`, `read_doc`, `pack_score`, `pack_diff`, `pack_citations`, `pack_entities`, `pack_search`, `pack_brief`, `graph_status`, `graph_query`, `graph_neighbors`, `validate_policy`, `explain_routes`, `serve_pack_status` + - Write: `render_url`, `ensure_docs`, `workflow_run`, `website_pack`, `brand_pack`, `product_pack`, `styleguide_pack`, `image_pack`, `screenshot_pack`, `policy_pack`, `relationship_pack`, `intelligence_bundle`, `refresh_pack`, `audit_pack`, `pack_prepare`, `graph_build`, `graph_refresh`, `export_pack`, `add_source`, `remove_source` + - All read tools advertise `readOnlyHint` so hosts that auto-approve safe tools won't prompt for them. + +- **Claude Code slash commands**: + - `/web-add ` — fetch a web source into the local index. + - `/web-search [source]` — regex-search cached Markdown and pull surrounding context for the top hits. + - `/web-list` — show what's cached, with last-fetched age. + - `/web-refresh ` — bypass the 7-day cache and re-fetch. + - `/web-remove [--keep-cache]` — drop a user alias and its cached Markdown. + - `/docs-add`, `/docs-search`, `/docs-list`, `/docs-refresh`, and `/docs-remove` remain compatibility aliases for existing users. +- **Meta-skill** (`docpull-research`): teaches the agent *when* to reach for docpull — so you don't have to remember the tool exists every time you ask about a library, API, vendor, product page, or web source. + +## Built-in source aliases + +These are fetchable by name without any URL setup: `react`, `nextjs`, `tailwindcss`, `vite`, `hono`, `fastapi`, `express`, `anthropic`, `openai`, `langchain`, `supabase`, `drizzle`, `prisma`. + +For anything else, pass an HTTPS URL: `/web-add https://www.python.org/blogs/`. + +## Where fetched Markdown is cached + +By default, fetched Markdown lives under `$XDG_DATA_HOME/docpull-mcp/docs/` (or `~/.local/share/docpull-mcp/docs/` on macOS/Linux). Override with `DOCPULL_DOCS_DIR` if you want it somewhere else (e.g. one cache per project). + +## Limits and privacy + +- 100% local. No telemetry. No remote services. +- The plugin only sends HTTP requests to the URLs you ask it to fetch. +- The User-Agent is `docpull/ (+https://github.com/raintree-technology/docpull)` — public, identifiable, robots.txt-respecting. +- JavaScript rendering is explicit rather than part of the default fetch path. +- The plugin supports research workflows; it does not certify that a source is + complete, current, or correct. + +## Troubleshooting + +| Symptom | Fix | +|---------------------------------------------|-----| +| MCP tools missing after install | Run `docpull mcp --help`. If it errors with "requires the 'mcp' package", reinstall with `pip install 'docpull[mcp]'`. | +| `/web-add fastapi` says "unknown source" | Run `mcp__docpull__list_sources()` to see current aliases. Use a URL instead. | +| Slow first fetch | Normal — the first crawl populates the cache. Later runs use the local cache and conditional requests. | +| Want to refresh stale sources | `mcp__docpull__ensure_docs(source="", force=true)`. | + +## Deeper documentation + +- [DocPull project guide](../README.md) +- [Surface contract](../docs/surface-contract.md) +- [CLI recipes](../docs/cli-recipes.md) +- [Security policy](../SECURITY.md) + +## License + +MIT — same as docpull itself. Source: . diff --git a/plugins/docpull/assets/logo.svg b/plugins/docpull/assets/logo.svg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..681438e --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/assets/logo.svg @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ + + DocPull + A geometric capital D frame with a small green square inset in its lower-left counter. + + + + diff --git a/plugins/docpull/commands/docs-add.md b/plugins/docpull/commands/docs-add.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d9c5e4e --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/commands/docs-add.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +--- +description: Fetch a web source and make its Markdown searchable in this session. Accepts a built-in alias (e.g. "react"), an HTTPS URL, or "name url" to register a custom alias. +argument-hint: | | +allowed-tools: mcp__docpull__ensure_docs, mcp__docpull__add_source, mcp__docpull__list_sources +--- + +# Add a source to this session + +Compatibility alias: prefer `/web-add` for new web-source workflows. + +The user wants to add a source to docpull's local Markdown index so it's searchable later via `/docs-search` (or directly via the `grep_docs` MCP tool). + +User input: **$ARGUMENTS** + +## How to handle the input + +Inspect `$ARGUMENTS`: + +1. **Empty or missing.** Reply with a one-line usage hint and stop: + `Usage: /docs-add , /docs-add , or /docs-add . Run /docs-list to see what's already cached.` + +2. **One token, no URL scheme** (e.g. `react`, `fastapi`). + - Treat as a built-in alias. Call `ensure_docs(source="")`. The default `rag` profile is right for most cases — only override if the user mentioned a specific profile. + - If the alias is unknown, the tool will return an error listing available aliases. In that case call `list_sources()` and suggest the closest match by edit distance, or recommend running `/docs-add ` with the source URL. + +3. **One token, an HTTPS URL** (starts with `https://`). + - Call `list_sources()` first so you can detect both built-in aliases and user-defined aliases, including sources that have not been fetched yet. + - Auto-derive an alias name from the hostname: + 1. Take the hostname. + 2. Strip a leading `docs.` or `www.` if present. + 3. Take the first dot-separated label. + 4. Lowercase it. + 5. Examples: `https://docs.fastapi.tiangolo.com` → `fastapi`; `https://nextjs.org/docs` → `nextjs`; `https://example.com/api` → `example`. + - If the derived name already appears in `list_sources()`, tell the user and suggest the explicit `/docs-add ` form so they pick a unique name. Do not call `add_source` for a derived name that already exists. + - Otherwise call `add_source(name=, url=)` to register, then `ensure_docs(source=)` to fetch. + +4. **Two tokens, second is an HTTPS URL** (` `). + - Validate the name is a sensible alias (alnum + `_ . -`, ≤128 chars). If not, ask for a cleaner name. + - Call `add_source(name=, url=)`. This intentionally updates an existing user-defined alias with the same name. If it returns "is a builtin source", tell the user that `add_source` refuses to shadow builtins by default (the agent shouldn't pass `force=true` here without explicit user consent). + - Then call `ensure_docs(source=)` to fetch. + +## After it succeeds + +Report a one-line summary: +- Source name (alias used). +- Pages fetched (from the `ensure_docs` response — pages_fetched / pages_skipped / pages_failed). +- Suggest the next step: `/docs-search [source]` or ask the agent to grep for something specific. + +## After it fails + +Show the error in plain language. Common cases: +- **Unknown built-in alias** → list a few suggestions from `list_sources`. +- **URL rejected** (HTTP, localhost, private IP) → tell the user docpull is HTTPS-only by design and won't fetch internal hosts; suggest a public source URL. +- **`add_source` refused a builtin** → tell the user the alias collides with a built-in; pick a different name. +- **Network / 4xx / 5xx during `ensure_docs`** → show the URL and status code; suggest checking network, the URL itself, or trying a different public path. + +Do not use any tools beyond the ones listed in `allowed-tools`. Do not send filler messages while the fetch is running — let the tool output speak for itself. diff --git a/plugins/docpull/commands/docs-list.md b/plugins/docpull/commands/docs-list.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f054b02 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/commands/docs-list.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +description: List source aliases currently cached locally, with last-fetched age. +allowed-tools: mcp__docpull__list_indexed, mcp__docpull__list_sources +--- + +# List cached sources + +Compatibility alias: prefer `/web-list` for new web-source workflows. + +Show what's available to `/docs-search` right now. + +## Workflow + +1. Call `list_indexed()`. It returns source aliases that have been fetched, with file count and how long ago they were fetched. + +2. **If empty**: reply with a one-liner pointing to `/docs-add` and `list_sources` for the built-in alias list. Don't fetch anything. + +3. **If non-empty**: render the list as the tool returned it (it's already formatted). Note any sources marked `stale` (older than 7 days) and suggest `/docs-refresh ` for those if there are any. + +4. If the user is likely going to follow up with a search, suggest `/docs-search [source]` once at the bottom. + +## Don't + +- Don't crawl, fetch, or call `ensure_docs` from this command. It's a read-only listing. +- Don't expand each source's file tree — `list_indexed` summarizes for a reason. diff --git a/plugins/docpull/commands/docs-refresh.md b/plugins/docpull/commands/docs-refresh.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc7c899 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/commands/docs-refresh.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +description: Re-fetch a cached source, ignoring the 7-day cache. Use when upstream content has changed. +argument-hint: +allowed-tools: mcp__docpull__ensure_docs +--- + +# Refresh a cached source + +Compatibility alias: prefer `/web-refresh` for new web-source workflows. + +Force-refetch a source that's already cached. The default `ensure_docs` honors a 7-day cache; this command bypasses it. + +User input: **$ARGUMENTS** + +## Workflow + +1. Parse `$ARGUMENTS` as a single source alias. If empty: reply `Usage: /docs-refresh . Run /docs-list to see what's cached.` and stop. + +2. Call `ensure_docs(source=, force=true)`. The tool will re-crawl the source (using whatever URL the alias resolves to) and overwrite the cached `.md` files in place. + +3. **If the alias is unknown**: pass through the tool's error. Suggest `/docs-add ` if it's a built-in or `/docs-add ` if not. + +4. After success, report a one-line summary using the tool's response (pages fetched / skipped / failed). + +## When to use this vs `/docs-add` + +- `/docs-add ` — first time fetching, OR when the cache is fresh and you want to use it. +- `/docs-refresh ` — already cached but you want the latest. Don't run this every time you search; the conditional-GET cache makes it cheap, but it still hits the network for every page. + +## Don't + +- Don't loop this across all cached sources unprompted. If the user wants a global refresh, ask first. +- Don't pass `force=true` to `ensure_docs` from any other command — that's what this command is for. diff --git a/plugins/docpull/commands/docs-remove.md b/plugins/docpull/commands/docs-remove.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d4246e --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/commands/docs-remove.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +description: Remove a user-defined source alias from sources.yaml, optionally deleting its cached Markdown. +argument-hint: [--keep-cache] +allowed-tools: mcp__docpull__remove_source +--- + +# Remove a source + +Compatibility alias: prefer `/web-remove` for new web-source workflows. + +The user wants to remove a previously-added source. By default this also deletes cached Markdown to free disk and avoid stale answers. + +User input: **$ARGUMENTS** + +## How to handle the input + +Parse `$ARGUMENTS` as: + +- **First token = source alias** (the alias to remove). +- **Optional `--keep-cache` flag** = remove the alias from the user registry but leave the cached `.md` files on disk. + +If empty: reply `Usage: /docs-remove [--keep-cache]. Run /docs-list to see what's cached.` and stop. + +## Workflow + +1. **Default (no flag): remove alias AND delete cache.** + Call `remove_source(name=, delete_cache=true)`. The MCP tool refuses to remove builtins (`react`, `nextjs`, etc.) — pass that error through to the user with the suggestion in step 3. + +2. **`--keep-cache` flag: remove alias only.** + Call `remove_source(name=, delete_cache=false)`. The cached Markdown stays; `/docs-search ` will keep working until the user runs this without the flag. + +3. **If the tool returns "is a builtin source"**: + Tell the user that builtins can't be removed but they can be shadowed with a custom URL via `/docs-add` (or by editing `sources.yaml` directly). + +4. **If the tool returns the no-op response** (no user source AND no cache to delete): tell the user there was nothing to remove. Don't error. + +## Output + +One line: confirm what was removed (alias only, cache only, both, or nothing). The MCP tool's response is already specific — relay it. + +## Don't + +- Don't run `rm -rf` via Bash; the MCP tool's `delete_cache=true` does the safe path-validated deletion. +- Don't call this on builtins thinking force will help — there's no force flag for removal by design. diff --git a/plugins/docpull/commands/docs-search.md b/plugins/docpull/commands/docs-search.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1d6b7ed --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/commands/docs-search.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +description: Search fetched Markdown by regex and pull surrounding context for the best hits. Optionally restrict to one source alias. +argument-hint: [source] +allowed-tools: mcp__docpull__grep_docs, mcp__docpull__read_doc, mcp__docpull__list_indexed +--- + +# Search fetched Markdown + +Compatibility alias: prefer `/web-search` for new web-source workflows. + +The user wants to search Markdown that has already been pulled by `/docs-add` (or `ensure_docs`). This composes two MCP tools: `grep_docs` finds matching files; `read_doc` pulls more context around the top hits so the answer is grounded, not just a list of file:line references. + +User input: **$ARGUMENTS** + +## How to handle the input + +Parse `$ARGUMENTS` as: + +- **First whitespace-separated token = pattern** (regex; can be quoted to include spaces). +- **Optional second token = source alias** to restrict the search to one fetched source. Pass it as the `library` argument when calling `grep_docs`. + +If empty: reply `Usage: /docs-search [source]. Run /docs-list to see what's cached.` and stop. + +## Workflow + +1. **Find candidates.** Call `grep_docs(pattern=, library=, limit=10, context=2)`. The tool returns the top files ranked by match density with two lines of context above and below each hit. + +2. **Read deeper context for the top 2–3 files.** For each of the top files in the grep result (max 3), call `read_doc(library=, path=, line_start=, line_end=)` to pull a ~60-line window. Skip this step if the user's pattern is very narrow (a literal symbol name) and the grep context already answers the question. + +3. **If grep returns nothing**: + - If a source was specified, run `list_indexed()` to confirm the source is actually cached. If it isn't, suggest `/docs-add ` and stop. + - If no library was specified, broaden the pattern *once* (e.g. add common prefixes/suffixes, drop word boundaries) and retry. If still nothing, surface the gap to the user. + +4. **If `grep_docs` says "search timed out"**: the pattern is likely catastrophic. Suggest a tighter pattern (no nested quantifiers, anchor with `\b`). + +## Output + +- Lead with the synthesized answer to the user's likely question, grounded in what you read. +- Cite each source as `source/path.md:line` so the user can verify. +- Don't dump the full grep output unless the user asked for it — the goal is an answer, not a search log. + +## Don't + +- Don't call `ensure_docs` from this command. If the source isn't cached, send the user to `/docs-add` instead — auto-fetching from a search command surprises people. +- Don't re-`read_doc` the same file twice in one call. +- Don't use any tool not in `allowed-tools`. diff --git a/plugins/docpull/commands/web-add.md b/plugins/docpull/commands/web-add.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2124320 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/commands/web-add.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +--- +description: Fetch a web source and make its Markdown searchable in this session. Accepts a built-in alias (e.g. "react"), an HTTPS URL, or "name url" to register a custom alias. +argument-hint: | | +allowed-tools: mcp__docpull__ensure_docs, mcp__docpull__add_source, mcp__docpull__list_sources +--- + +# Add a web source to this session + +The user wants to add a source to docpull's local Markdown index so it's searchable later via `/web-search` (or directly via the `grep_docs` MCP tool). This command is the web/source-facing name for the older `/docs-add` workflow. + +User input: **$ARGUMENTS** + +## How to handle the input + +Inspect `$ARGUMENTS`: + +1. **Empty or missing.** Reply with a one-line usage hint and stop: + `Usage: /web-add , /web-add , or /web-add . Run /web-list to see what's already cached.` + +2. **One token, no URL scheme** (e.g. `react`, `fastapi`). + - Treat as a built-in alias. Call `ensure_docs(source="")`. The default `rag` profile is right for most cases - only override if the user mentioned a specific profile. + - If the alias is unknown, the tool will return an error listing available aliases. In that case call `list_sources()` and suggest the closest match by edit distance, or recommend running `/web-add ` with the source URL. + +3. **One token, an HTTPS URL** (starts with `https://`). + - Call `list_sources()` first so you can detect both built-in aliases and user-defined aliases, including sources that have not been fetched yet. + - Auto-derive an alias name from the hostname: + 1. Take the hostname. + 2. Strip a leading `docs.` or `www.` if present. + 3. Take the first dot-separated label. + 4. Lowercase it. + 5. Examples: `https://docs.fastapi.tiangolo.com` -> `fastapi`; `https://nextjs.org/docs` -> `nextjs`; `https://example.com/blog` -> `example`. + - If the derived name already appears in `list_sources()`, tell the user and suggest the explicit `/web-add ` form so they pick a unique name. Do not call `add_source` for a derived name that already exists. + - Otherwise call `add_source(name=, url=)` to register, then `ensure_docs(source=)` to fetch. + +4. **Two tokens, second is an HTTPS URL** (` `). + - Validate the name is a sensible alias (alnum + `_ . -`, <=128 chars). If not, ask for a cleaner name. + - Call `add_source(name=, url=)`. This intentionally updates an existing user-defined alias with the same name. If it returns "is a builtin source", tell the user that `add_source` refuses to shadow builtins by default. Do not pass `force=true` without explicit user consent. + - Then call `ensure_docs(source=)` to fetch. + +## After it succeeds + +Report a one-line summary: +- Source name (alias used). +- Pages fetched (from the `ensure_docs` response - pages_fetched / pages_skipped / pages_failed). +- Suggest the next step: `/web-search [source]` or ask the agent to grep for something specific. + +## After it fails + +Show the error in plain language. Common cases: +- **Unknown built-in alias** -> list a few suggestions from `list_sources`. +- **URL rejected** (HTTP, localhost, private IP) -> tell the user docpull is HTTPS-only by design and won't fetch internal hosts; suggest a public source URL. +- **`add_source` refused a builtin** -> tell the user the alias collides with a built-in; pick a different name. +- **Network / 4xx / 5xx during `ensure_docs`** -> show the URL and status code; suggest checking network, the URL itself, or trying a different public path. + +Do not use any tools beyond the ones listed in `allowed-tools`. Do not send filler messages while the fetch is running - let the tool output speak for itself. diff --git a/plugins/docpull/commands/web-list.md b/plugins/docpull/commands/web-list.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef10276 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/commands/web-list.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +description: List web-source aliases currently cached locally, with last-fetched age. +allowed-tools: mcp__docpull__list_indexed, mcp__docpull__list_sources +--- + +# List cached web sources + +Show what's available to `/web-search` right now. + +## Workflow + +1. Call `list_indexed()`. It returns source aliases that have been fetched, with file count and how long ago they were fetched. + +2. **If empty**: reply with a one-liner pointing to `/web-add` and `list_sources` for the built-in alias list. Don't fetch anything. + +3. **If non-empty**: render the list as the tool returned it (it's already formatted). Note any sources marked `stale` (older than 7 days) and suggest `/web-refresh ` for those if there are any. + +4. If the user is likely going to follow up with a search, suggest `/web-search [source]` once at the bottom. + +## Don't + +- Don't crawl, fetch, or call `ensure_docs` from this command. It's a read-only listing. +- Don't expand each source's file tree - `list_indexed` summarizes for a reason. diff --git a/plugins/docpull/commands/web-refresh.md b/plugins/docpull/commands/web-refresh.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..56165bc --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/commands/web-refresh.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +description: Re-fetch a cached web source, ignoring the 7-day cache. Use when upstream content has changed. +argument-hint: +allowed-tools: mcp__docpull__ensure_docs +--- + +# Refresh a cached web source + +Force-refetch a source that's already cached. The default `ensure_docs` honors a 7-day cache; this command bypasses it. + +User input: **$ARGUMENTS** + +## Workflow + +1. Parse `$ARGUMENTS` as a single source alias. If empty: reply `Usage: /web-refresh . Run /web-list to see what's cached.` and stop. + +2. Call `ensure_docs(source=, force=true)`. The tool will re-crawl the source (using whatever URL the alias resolves to) and overwrite the cached `.md` files in place. + +3. **If the alias is unknown**: pass through the tool's error. Suggest `/web-add ` if it's a built-in or `/web-add ` if not. + +4. After success, report a one-line summary using the tool's response (pages fetched / skipped / failed). + +## When to use this vs `/web-add` + +- `/web-add ` - first time fetching, or when the cache is fresh and you want to use it. +- `/web-refresh ` - already cached but you want the latest. Don't run this every time you search; the conditional-GET cache makes it cheap, but it still hits the network for every page. + +## Don't + +- Don't loop this across all cached sources unprompted. If the user wants a global refresh, ask first. +- Don't pass `force=true` to `ensure_docs` from any other command - that's what this command is for. diff --git a/plugins/docpull/commands/web-remove.md b/plugins/docpull/commands/web-remove.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..91080c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/commands/web-remove.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +description: Remove a user-defined web-source alias from sources.yaml, optionally deleting its cached Markdown. +argument-hint: [--keep-cache] +allowed-tools: mcp__docpull__remove_source +--- + +# Remove a web source + +The user wants to remove a previously-added source. By default this also deletes cached Markdown to free disk and avoid stale answers. + +User input: **$ARGUMENTS** + +## How to handle the input + +Parse `$ARGUMENTS` as: + +- **First token = source alias** (the alias to remove). +- **Optional `--keep-cache` flag** = remove the alias from the user registry but leave the cached `.md` files on disk. + +If empty: reply `Usage: /web-remove [--keep-cache]. Run /web-list to see what's cached.` and stop. + +## Workflow + +1. **Default (no flag): remove alias AND delete cache.** + Call `remove_source(name=, delete_cache=true)`. The MCP tool refuses to remove builtins (`react`, `nextjs`, etc.) - pass that error through to the user with the suggestion in step 3. + +2. **`--keep-cache` flag: remove alias only.** + Call `remove_source(name=, delete_cache=false)`. The cached Markdown stays; `/web-search ` will keep working until the user runs this without the flag. + +3. **If the tool returns "is a builtin source"**: + Tell the user that builtins can't be removed but they can be shadowed with a custom URL via `/web-add` (or by editing `sources.yaml` directly). + +4. **If the tool returns the no-op response** (no user source AND no cache to delete): tell the user there was nothing to remove. Don't error. + +## Output + +One line: confirm what was removed (alias only, cache only, both, or nothing). The MCP tool's response is already specific - relay it. + +## Don't + +- Don't run `rm -rf` via Bash; the MCP tool's `delete_cache=true` does the safe path-validated deletion. +- Don't call this on builtins thinking force will help - there's no force flag for removal by design. diff --git a/plugins/docpull/commands/web-search.md b/plugins/docpull/commands/web-search.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..db12bca --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/commands/web-search.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +description: Search fetched web-source Markdown by regex and pull surrounding context for the best hits. Optionally restrict to one source alias. +argument-hint: [source] +allowed-tools: mcp__docpull__grep_docs, mcp__docpull__read_doc, mcp__docpull__list_indexed +--- + +# Search fetched web-source Markdown + +The user wants to search Markdown that has already been pulled by `/web-add` (or `ensure_docs`). This composes two MCP tools: `grep_docs` finds matching files; `read_doc` pulls more context around the top hits so the answer is grounded, not just a list of file:line references. + +User input: **$ARGUMENTS** + +## How to handle the input + +Parse `$ARGUMENTS` as: + +- **First whitespace-separated token = pattern** (regex; can be quoted to include spaces). +- **Optional second token = source alias** to restrict the search to one fetched source. Pass it as the `library` argument when calling `grep_docs`. + +If empty: reply `Usage: /web-search [source]. Run /web-list to see what's cached.` and stop. + +## Workflow + +1. **Find candidates.** Call `grep_docs(pattern=, library=, limit=10, context=2)`. The tool returns the top files ranked by match density with two lines of context above and below each hit. + +2. **Read deeper context for the top 2-3 files.** For each of the top files in the grep result (max 3), call `read_doc(library=, path=, line_start=, line_end=)` to pull a ~60-line window. Skip this step if the user's pattern is very narrow (a literal symbol name) and the grep context already answers the question. + +3. **If grep returns nothing**: + - If a source was specified, run `list_indexed()` to confirm the source is actually cached. If it isn't, suggest `/web-add ` and stop. + - If no library was specified, broaden the pattern once (e.g. add common prefixes/suffixes, drop word boundaries) and retry. If still nothing, surface the gap to the user. + +4. **If `grep_docs` says "search timed out"**: the pattern is likely catastrophic. Suggest a tighter pattern (no nested quantifiers, anchor with `\b`). + +## Output + +- Lead with the synthesized answer to the user's likely question, grounded in what you read. +- Cite each source as `source/path.md:line` so the user can verify. +- Don't dump the full grep output unless the user asked for it - the goal is an answer, not a search log. + +## Don't + +- Don't call `ensure_docs` from this command. If the source isn't cached, send the user to `/web-add` instead - auto-fetching from a search command surprises people. +- Don't re-`read_doc` the same file twice in one call. +- Don't use any tool not in `allowed-tools`. diff --git a/plugins/docpull/skills/docpull-research/SKILL.md b/plugins/docpull/skills/docpull-research/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f0e81f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/docpull/skills/docpull-research/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +--- +name: docpull-research +description: Use the docpull MCP tools (list_indexed, ensure_docs, grep_docs, read_doc, fetch_url) to ground answers in real web/source material when the user asks about a specific library, framework, API, vendor, product page, website, or public source URL. Activate on questions like "how do I X in [library]", "what's the API for [framework].[method]", "summarize this site/source", "show me what [vendor] says about Y", or when a user pastes a documentation/source URL. +allowed-tools: mcp__docpull__list_indexed, mcp__docpull__list_sources, mcp__docpull__ensure_docs, mcp__docpull__grep_docs, mcp__docpull__read_doc, mcp__docpull__fetch_url +--- + +# docpull research + +Ground library/framework, API, vendor, product, and website answers in fetched source material instead of training-data recall. The cost of one `grep_docs` call is ~50 ms; the cost of giving a confidently wrong answer about a fast-moving source is much higher. + +## When to use this skill + +**Activate when** the user's question names a specific library, framework, SDK, API surface, vendor, product page, or website - especially: + +- **Fast-moving libraries** where training-data drift is likely: Next.js (App Router), Pydantic v2, LangChain, FastAPI, Anthropic SDK, OpenAI SDK, Drizzle, Prisma, Tailwind v4+, Vercel AI SDK. +- **Version-specific questions** ("how does X work in [library] v[N]"). +- **Pasted documentation, blog, vendor, product, or source URLs** the user wants explained or referenced. +- **Code the user is actively writing** against a library, where wrong signatures will cost them debugging time. + +**Do NOT activate for**: + +- General programming questions ("what's a closure", "explain async/await"). +- The user's own codebase — that's what Read/Grep are for. +- Highly stable, well-known stdlib APIs (Python `os`, JavaScript `Array.prototype`). +- Clarifying questions where the answer is trivial from context. + +## Workflow + +### 1. Check what's already cached + +Always start with `list_indexed`. It's free and tells you which libraries you can search immediately without fetching. + +``` +list_indexed() → ["fastapi (3d ago)", "react (12h ago)", ...] +``` + +### 2. If the source/library is cached -> search it + +Use `grep_docs` with a focused regex. The source is already on disk, so this is a local search: + +``` +grep_docs(library="fastapi", pattern="dependency injection", limit=10, context=2) +``` + +If you want more context around a hit, use `read_doc(library, path, line_start, line_end)`. + +### 3. If the source/library is NOT cached -> decide whether to fetch + +- **Built-in alias** (the source appears in `list_sources()`): call `ensure_docs(source="")`. This crawls and indexes the whole source. ~10-30s for typical sites. +- **Pasted documentation or source URL**: call `fetch_url(url=...)` if you only need one static/server-rendered page. For a whole source site you don't have an alias for, tell the user to run `/web-add ` (or the older `/docs-add ` alias) so docpull can register and crawl it; the MCP `fetch_url` is single-page only. +- **No alias, user didn't paste a URL**: ask the user once whether they'd like to add the source, and what URL should be used. Don't fetch speculatively. + +### 4. Quote with attribution + +When you cite fetched content, include the source path returned by `grep_docs` / `read_doc` so the user can verify. Example: "Per `fastapi/tutorial/dependencies.md:42`, dependencies declared with `Depends()` are resolved per-request..." + +### 5. Don't over-fetch + +- Don't call `ensure_docs` for libraries the user didn't ask about ("while we're here, let me also fetch..."). +- Don't crawl the same source twice in one session - `list_indexed` will tell you it's there. +- If `grep_docs` returns nothing useful, broaden the regex once before suggesting the user add more source material. + +## Built-in aliases + +These are pre-configured and resolvable by `ensure_docs(source=...)` without setup: `react`, `nextjs`, `tailwindcss`, `vite`, `hono`, `fastapi`, `express`, `anthropic`, `openai`, `langchain`, `supabase`, `drizzle`, `prisma`. Run `list_sources()` for the current set. + +## Failure modes + +- **`ensure_docs` returns "unknown source"**: the alias isn't built-in. Either suggest `/web-add ` or call `list_sources()` and propose a near match. +- **`grep_docs` returns empty**: the pattern is too narrow, or the fetched source doesn't cover the topic. Broaden once, then surface the gap to the user. +- **MCP server not responding**: tell the user to run `pip install 'docpull[mcp]'` and verify the plugin's MCP server is healthy. Fall back to answering from training data with an explicit caveat that fetched sources weren't available. + +## Tone + +When you've grounded an answer in fetched source material, say so once at the start of the answer ("Per the FastAPI docs..." or "Per the cached source..."). Don't pad every paragraph with attribution - one source citation up front plus inline file references is enough. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/.codex-plugin/plugin.json b/plugins/raintree-standards/.codex-plugin/plugin.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d5786b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/.codex-plugin/plugin.json @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +{ + "name": "raintree-standards", + "version": "1.1.1", + "description": "Route work through Raintree Standards while preserving maturity, evidence, review, and exception status.", + "author": { + "name": "Raintree Technology", + "email": "support@raintree.technology", + "url": "https://raintree.technology" + }, + "homepage": "https://github.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards", + "repository": "https://github.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards", + "license": "MIT AND CC-BY-4.0", + "keywords": ["standards", "governance", "evidence", "profiles", "quality"], + "skills": "./skills/", + "interface": { + "displayName": "Raintree Standards", + "shortDescription": "Route tasks to governed requirements and evidence.", + "longDescription": "Raintree Standards selects a task profile and returns dependency-ordered requirements with maturity, review dates, exceptions, and unverified evidence. It does not claim certification.", + "developerName": "Raintree Technology", + "category": "Developer Tools", + "capabilities": ["List task profiles", "Resolve governed routes", "Preserve evidence status"], + "websiteURL": "https://github.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards", + "brandColor": "#0F6B5D", + "defaultPrompt": [ + "Route this task through Raintree Standards.", + "List the available Raintree task profiles.", + "Show the requirements and missing evidence for this profile." + ] + } +} diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/.ruby-version b/plugins/raintree-standards/.ruby-version new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84d6c67 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/.ruby-version @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +3.4.10 diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/.tool-versions b/plugins/raintree-standards/.tool-versions new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b8a27c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/.tool-versions @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ruby 3.4.10 diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/AGENTS.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/AGENTS.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..27aded6 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/AGENTS.md @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +--- +type: Agent Instructions +title: raintree.standards repository instructions +description: Binding instructions for agents reading or maintaining the raintree.standards library. +tags: [agents, governance, read-only] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-02T21:56:39-07:00" } +--- + +# raintree.standards repository instructions + +This repository is the authoritative, read-only standards library for agents working on Raintree projects. + +## Default access + +- Read, search, cite, and apply these standards. +- Do not create, edit, move, rename, or delete files in this repository unless the user explicitly assigns a standards-maintenance task. +- A request to implement work in another repository is not permission to update this repository. +- If guidance is missing, report the gap. Do not invent a rule and attribute it to this library. +- If a project conflicts with a required standard, surface the conflict and follow the exception process. Do not silently weaken the standard. + +## How to use the library + +1. Identify the task profile in `profiles/` that most closely matches the work. +2. Load every standard listed as required by that profile. + If a required dependency cannot be located, opened, or read completely, stop + the governed work and report the dependency ID, expected catalog path, and + failure. Do not substitute the profile's summary or remembered guidance for + the unavailable standard. +3. Apply relevant cross-cutting standards from `foundations/` even when the profile does not mention them explicitly. +4. Treat requirement levels according to `governance/authority.md`. +5. Verify each applicable rule using its stated evidence before claiming completion. +6. In the handoff, cite failed or intentionally deferred rules by stable ID. + +## Precedence + +Follow this order when guidance conflicts: + +1. Applicable law and regulation +2. Explicit user instruction for the current task +3. Organization policy +4. Required standards in this repository +5. Task profiles +6. Project conventions +7. Agent preference + +An instruction at a higher level may authorize a scoped exception, but it does not erase or rewrite the underlying standard. + +## Maintenance tasks + +When explicitly asked to maintain this repository: + +- Follow `governance/contributing.md`. +- Use `playbooks/standards-audit.md` and `templates/audit-report.md` for a repository-wide conformance review. +- Start new standards from `templates/standard.md`. +- Use stable IDs and valid YAML front matter. +- Prefer testable rules over general advice. +- Preserve existing IDs; never reuse a retired ID. +- Update `catalog.yaml` when adding, moving, or retiring a standard or profile. + +## Completion and escalation + +- Inspect the final artifact in its intended form and run every check listed in `CONTRIBUTING.md`. +- Report changed files, check results, limitations, and unresolved rules by stable ID. +- Do not record `verified` provenance or qualified approval for your own work. +- Stop and ask the accountable owner when a change needs a new policy choice, external authority, qualified review, production access, or an approval that the task does not provide. + +The standards owners maintain these instructions. Review them after a recurring agent +failure, a change to repository governance, or a change to the standards-audit process. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/CHANGELOG.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/CHANGELOG.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..851f542 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/CHANGELOG.md @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +--- +type: Guide +title: Changelog +description: Release-note policy for material changes to governed requirements and repository contracts. +tags: [governance, releases, compatibility] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-04T13:41:00-07:00" } +--- + +# Changelog + +This file records material changes to governed requirements, profiles, schemas, playbooks, lifecycle status, and compatibility. + +## Unreleased + +- No changes recorded yet. + +## 1.1.1 — 2026-09-04 + +- Excluded installed Codex skill instructions from governed Markdown validation. + This keeps the generated plugin self-contained without treating its package + metadata as an OKF standards document. No governed rule or maturity status + changed. + +## 1.1.0 — 2026-09-04 + +- Demoted eight documents whose dependency closure includes draft material. The + catalog now contains 7 stable and 69 draft governed documents; stability must + be restored through qualified review. +- Added validation for missing dependencies, dependency cycles, and direct or + transitive stable-to-draft dependencies. +- Added deterministic JSON profile routing and the `standards-navigator` Codex + plugin recipe. Routes preserve maturity, review, exception, and unverified + evidence status without claiming certification. +- Added `ENGINEERING-QUALITY-010` for material behavior, facts, route inventories, schemas, configuration, and artifacts represented across multiple components, repositories, packages, generated outputs, or delivery surfaces. The rule requires one canonical owner, registered consumers, direct consumption or reproducible generation, deterministic drift detection, supported-runtime verification, and an old-reference search after moves or removals. `PROFILE-SOFTWARE-CHANGE` now includes its completion evidence. Independent engineering and quality review remains pending. +- Corrected `PROFILE-FUNCTIONAL-WRITING` so every completion-evidence item names its rule level, verification tier, evidence, and visible violation symptoms. The profile classifies atomic, bounded, and extended artifacts before subtracting only items whose governed applicability condition is false. It requires explicit missing-evidence statuses under `FND-EVIDENCE-003`, includes `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-005`, and defines the review output through `AGENT-VERIFICATION-004` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005`. `AGENT-VERIFICATION-003` now owns review-versus-edit authority for all agent work. `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-015` treats style preferences generally as review signals rather than defects, and new `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-016` defines meaning-preserving English grammar checks. The grammar and style guidance maps Automattic Harper's version-pinned lint kinds and default style families to correctness, clarity, evidence, audience, and advisory routes. It uses Oxford's problem-focused usage guidance for modality, quantity, conditions, comparisons, clause attachment, register, and dialect while keeping product house style contextual. Enhancement, readability, regionalism, style, disabled preferences, and tool suggestions do not become automatic failures. Dependency-loading failures now halt governed work, and the content index exposes the root-level `CONTENT-ERRORS` path. Independent content and standards-owner review remains pending. +- Added the post-v1 draft `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION`. Its ten rules require a declared Apple environment; task-level platform adaptation; native semantics and adaptive system resources; support for appearance, language, accessibility, display, and motion settings; platform input and focus behavior; platform-appropriate navigation, windows, and multitasking; complete system-experience lifecycle handling; dated Apple guidance and implementation assumptions; representative final-build verification; and native behavior through shared frameworks. `PROFILE-APPLE-INTERFACE` and `PLAYBOOK-APPLE-HIG` now route to the stable rule IDs. Apple's current Human Interface Guidelines remain canonical; HIG Doctor remains optional supporting evidence. Independent Apple-platform, design, engineering, accessibility, and representative-reader review remains required. +- Expanded `PLAYBOOK-AGENT-DESIGN-GUIDANCE` with an optional formative loop for distinct design exploration, bounded fresh-context model critique, purposeful generated media, and subtractive polish. Random stimuli and model scores remain exploratory evidence rather than product rationale or release approval. Generated media now routes to `MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS`, motion to `DESIGN-INTERACTION-013`, and provider credentials to `SECURITY-SECRETS`. Independent human review, accessibility evidence, and existing release criteria remain required. +- Added the post-v1 draft `WEB-WEBMCP`. Its fifteen rules require progressive enhancement; exact and minimal tool contracts; control parity with human and service paths; explicit review for consequential actions; least-privilege origin exposure; trusted metadata boundaries; repeat-safe cancellation; accessible shared state; separate browser-agent and in-page-agent trust models; minimized, secret-free results; browser-bound declarative-form evidence; localized metadata and precise text limits; compatible contract evolution; and complete lifecycle verification. The agentic-system profile conditionally activates it for WebMCP work. The adoption guidance records the in-progress TAG review, Mozilla's neutral label, and WebKit's opposition. Independent web, AI, engineering, security, privacy, product, accessibility, and representative-reader review remains required; the source specification is a volatile W3C Community Group draft, not a W3C Standard. + +## 1.0.0 — 2026-09-01 + +- Released the first stable library contract for catalog structure, rule IDs, task profiles, and automated validation. Document status and review metadata continue to report the maturity of individual standards. +- Added the post-v1 draft `ENGINEERING-TESTING`, `PLAYBOOK-TEST-STRATEGY`, and `PROFILE-SOFTWARE-CHANGE`. They define scope-relative test-layer claims; separate smoke, synthetic, and canary decisions; require bounded smoke tests, test-size contracts, stable suite ownership and lifecycle, controlled flake diagnosis, production-derived data governance, architecture-aware portfolios, conservative selective execution, controlled time, version-skew and migration evidence, bounded shadow and fault-injection exercises, explicit canary promotion, and staged local through post-deployment evidence. Existing product, UI, public-web, service/API, and agentic profiles conditionally activate the software-change profile for implementation and test-suite work. Independent engineering, quality, and operations review remains required. +- Added a non-normative testing reference layer: rapid field guide, twelve situation recipes, eleven copyable records, three real-repository worked examples, and `testing/routes.yaml` machine routing. A dedicated validator and behavior suite cover every standard taxonomy type and prevent unknown, missing, or abbreviated rules; stale paths and anchors; duplicate headings and route lists; malformed paths and dates; invalid stages; missing templates; and catalog-route drift. Pilot observations informed removal of duplicated policy guidance; representative-reader and independent review remain pending. +- `governance/contributing.md` now states the release-gate lifecycle directly: a document may be `stable` while independent verification is pending, and the `--release` gate blocks a versioned release until `verified` is recorded. This removes a contradiction with the gate design described in the same document and in `governance/authority.md`. +- `governance/v1-readiness.md` records the five stable documents that depend on drafts as known release blockers. +- `DATA-DATABASE-007` level corrected from `avoid` to `required`; the rule requires bounding growing access paths. +- `WEB-QUALITY-017`, `AI-AGENTS-008`, and `API-CONTRACTS-008` now delegate to their owning rules (`CONTENT-ERRORS-012`, `PRIVACY-DATA-016`, `SECURITY-APPLICATION-002`) instead of restating them; `API-CONTRACTS-003` now cites `CONTENT-ERRORS-011` for HTTP error formats; the `WEB-QUALITY` accessibility section names the `FND-ACCESSIBILITY` rules it specializes. +- Declared previously implicit `depends_on` edges: `WEB-QUALITY` and `API-CONTRACTS` → `CONTENT-ERRORS`; `AI-AGENTS` → `PRIVACY-DATA`; `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS` → `AI-AGENTS`; `OPERATIONS-LOGGING` → `API-CONTRACTS`; `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL` → `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY`; `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL` → `AGENT-VERIFICATION`. +- `PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING` completion evidence now cites rule IDs. +- Every rule's `Level` line now uses the standard template's hard line break so `Level` and `Applies when` render on separate lines. +- Catalog and index reconciliation: `governance/documentation-quality.md` added to `catalog.yaml`; `MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE` added to the root index; `OPERATIONS-LOGGING` and `MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE` added to the coverage matrix; duplicate entries removed from the foundations and data indexes; the browse list is alphabetized; the standards-audit playbook names the Google Search Console playbook in its provider route. + +Each release entry should name affected stable IDs, applicability or requirement-level changes, migration work, independent verification status, and any unresolved release blockers. Catalog structure changes alone do not imply content approval. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..820240d --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +type: Policy +title: Code of conduct +description: Expected behavior and enforcement rules for raintree.standards project spaces. +tags: [community, conduct] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T17:08:47Z" } +--- + +# Code of conduct + +## Our commitment + +We are committed to a respectful, harassment-free project for everyone, regardless of +identity, background, experience, or ability. + +## Expected behavior + +- Discuss ideas and evidence without attacking people. +- Give specific, constructive feedback. +- Respect privacy and do not publish another person's private information. +- Accept correction and take responsibility for harm. +- Stop behavior that a maintainer identifies as disruptive or unsafe. + +Harassment, threats, discrimination, sexualized attention, deliberate intimidation, +sustained disruption, and retaliation are not acceptable in project spaces. + +## Scope + +This policy applies to repository issues, pull requests, discussions, reviews, and +other spaces used to represent this project. + +## Reporting and enforcement + +For immediate threats or violations of GitHub's policies, use GitHub's **Report abuse** +feature. For other conduct concerns, email +[hello@raintree.technology](mailto:hello@raintree.technology) with the subject +`Standards conduct report`. Do not publish sensitive details in an issue. + +Maintainers may edit or remove contributions and may temporarily or permanently +restrict participation. They will consider context, severity, prior behavior, and the +safety of affected people. Maintainers should protect the privacy of reporters and +subjects as far as practical. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/CONTRIBUTING.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/CONTRIBUTING.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..226f631 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +--- +type: Guide +title: Contributing +description: Process and requirements for contributing to raintree.standards. +tags: [contributing, governance] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T21:00:00Z" } +--- + +# Contributing + +Contribute a focused correction, clarification, or proposal for a recurring +requirement. Before you start, read the +[standards contribution requirements](governance/contributing.md) and confirm that an +existing standard does not already cover the concern. + +## Propose a change + +1. Search existing issues and standards for the same concern. +2. Open an issue that describes the recurring decision or risk, affected readers, and expected outcome. +3. For a new standard, start with [`templates/standard.md`](templates/standard.md). For a new task profile, start with [`templates/profile.md`](templates/profile.md). +4. Update [`catalog.yaml`](catalog.yaml) when you add, move, or retire a governed document or profile. +5. Run the checks below from the repository root. +6. Before a versioned release, set `release_status` to `ready` and run `ruby scripts/validate_catalog.rb --release`. +7. Open a pull request that explains what changed, why it is needed, and what you verified. + +## Run the checks + +The validators use only the Ruby standard library. You do not need to install a bundle. + +```sh +ruby scripts/validate_catalog.rb +ruby scripts/validate_integrations.rb +ruby scripts/validate_testing_reference.rb +ruby scripts/test_route_profile.rb +ruby scripts/test_schema_drift.rb +ruby scripts/test_workflows.rb +ruby scripts/test_standards_lib.rb +ruby scripts/test_validate_catalog.rb +ruby scripts/test_validate_integrations.rb +ruby scripts/test_validate_testing_reference.rb +ruby scripts/test_project_readme.rb +``` + +Continuous integration runs this list in the order shown. Each command returns: + +- `0` when it passes +- `1` when it finds a problem +- `2` when the command is invalid + +The validators reject unrecognized options. + +They also reject more than 2,048 Markdown, YAML, or JSON input files, any one input over 2 MiB, more than 32 MiB in total, escaped symlinks, YAML deeper than 100 levels, and YAML over 100,000 syntax nodes. These limits are well above the current repository baseline and bound pull-request-controlled work before parsing. Split an intentionally larger corpus or propose a reviewed limit change with measurements and tests. + +## Changing the workflow + +This repository restricts GitHub Actions to an allowlist. Every action must also be +pinned to a full commit SHA. An action outside the allowlist does not fail a step. The +whole run ends in `startup_failure` without logs, which can look like an unrelated +outage. + +Local linting cannot detect this failure because the allowlist belongs to the GitHub +repository settings, not the workflow file. + +Before adding an action, check the policy and add the action to `ALLOWED_NON_GITHUB_ACTIONS` in [`scripts/test_workflows.rb`](scripts/test_workflows.rb): + +``` +gh api repos/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/actions/permissions/selected-actions +``` + +`ruby scripts/test_workflows.rb` also checks that the commands listed above match the ones the workflow runs, so a new suite cannot be added to one without the other. + +## Ruby version + +The supported Ruby version is pinned in [`.ruby-version`](.ruby-version) and +[`.tool-versions`](.tool-versions). Both files must name the same version. +`.ruby-version` supports rbenv, chruby, and tools that follow the Ruby convention. +`.tool-versions` supports mise, which continuous integration uses to install Ruby. +`ruby scripts/test_standards_lib.rb` fails if the files disagree. + +The validators require Ruby 3.1 or newer. The macOS system Ruby is too old. From the +repository root, run `mise install` or install the pinned version with another version +manager. + +Keep changes focused. Preserve existing rule IDs and unknown YAML front-matter fields. +Do not include confidential information, personal data, credentials, or material that +you do not have permission to publish. + +By contributing, you represent that you created the contribution or otherwise have the right to submit it. You agree that it may be distributed under the licenses described in [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md). + +## Review + +Maintainers review proposals for technical correctness, operational feasibility, unintended incentives, and conflicts with existing rules. A qualified human owner must review high-impact security, legal, privacy, financial, or regulatory standards. + +Material public-documentation changes must follow the [documentation accessibility and reader-review policy](governance/documentation-quality.md). Use the [comprehension review](templates/comprehension-review.md) and [independent review](templates/independent-review.md) records when their governing rules apply. + +All participation must follow the [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/LICENSE.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/LICENSE.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..70f8f10 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/LICENSE.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +type: License +title: Repository license +description: License terms for raintree.standards content and software. +tags: [license, open-source] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T06:26:26Z" } +--- + +# License + +Unless a file states otherwise, the standards, documentation, templates, and other non-software content in this repository are licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.en) (CC BY 4.0). + +Copyright © 2026 Raintree Technology contributors. + +When you share or adapt this material, credit Raintree Technology contributors, link to this repository and the CC BY 4.0 license, and indicate whether you made changes. Third-party material remains subject to the attribution and license terms in [THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md](THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md) and the relevant source document. + +## Software and automation license + +Software, schemas, automation, and executable configuration in this repository are licensed under the MIT License. This includes `scripts/`, `schema/`, `.github/workflows/`, and `.github/dependabot.yml`. Issue templates and other non-software project documentation remain covered by CC BY 4.0 under the rule above. + +Copyright © 2026 Raintree Technology contributors + +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: + +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. + +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES, OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/README.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..782bf6c --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# Raintree Standards Codex plugin recipe + +The public Raintree marketplace combines this recipe with the governed library +from the same immutable release tag. The generated plugin remains self-contained. + +Run `ruby scripts/route_profile.rb --list --format json` from the installed +plugin root to list profiles. Resolve one route with +`ruby scripts/route_profile.rb --profile PROFILE-ID --format json`. + +Routes preserve maturity, governance status, review dates, exceptions, and +unverified evidence. They do not certify conformance. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/SECURITY.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/SECURITY.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e084bf --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/SECURITY.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +type: Policy +title: Security policy +description: Process for reporting security concerns in raintree.standards. +tags: [security, reporting] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T17:22:48Z" } +--- + +# Security policy + +Report security concerns privately when they contain sensitive information or could put +users at risk. Concerns can include unsafe guidance, exposed sensitive information, +malicious content, or vulnerabilities in repository automation. + +## Report a vulnerability + +Do not open a public issue for a sensitive security concern. + +1. Email [hello@raintree.technology](mailto:hello@raintree.technology) with the subject `raintree.standards security report`. +2. Identify the affected file or workflow and explain the risk. +3. Include reproduction details when applicable and a safe way to confirm the issue. + +You can instead use the repository's **Security** tab when private vulnerability +reporting is available. + +Use a public GitHub issue for non-sensitive corrections and documentation problems. + +## Response + +Repository maintainers own intake and triage. They assess severity and affected scope, +limit further exposure when necessary, preserve protected evidence, correct the cause, +verify recovery, and decide what can be shared without increasing risk. The repository +owner decides containment, release, and public-notification actions or assigns those +decisions to a named security owner. + +Response targets require owner approval and are not yet published. Until they are +approved, the project does not guarantee a response time. This is a release blocker, +not an exception to maintaining the private reporting path. + +Use the [security response exercise template](templates/security-response-exercise.md) +to record an exercise or real response. Keep reporter identities, credentials, exploit +details, and other protected evidence out of this public repository. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8ccb88b --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +type: Notice +title: Third-party notices +description: Attribution and license notices for sources used by raintree.standards. +tags: [license, attribution, sources] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T06:25:28Z" } +--- + +# Third-party notices + +Documents identify their sources in YAML front matter and, where useful, in a Sources section. Those references support factual or design decisions; a source citation does not transfer ownership of the source material to this repository. + +## Open Knowledge Format + +The repository structure and metadata profile build on the [Open Knowledge Format v0.2 specification](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog/blob/main/okf/SPEC.md), published by GoogleCloudPlatform under the [Apache License 2.0](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog/blob/main/LICENSE.md). Raintree-specific metadata and governance rules are modifications and extensions. + +## Website Specification + +Guidance identified in [`error-messages.md`](error-messages.md) as drawing on the [Website Specification's resilience section](https://specification.website/spec/resilience/) is based on work by Joost de Valk and contributors, licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Raintree Technology contributors modified and expanded that guidance. + +## Marketing Skills + +The task taxonomy in [`marketing/coverage.md`](marketing/coverage.md) is adapted from [Marketing Skills for AI Agents at commit `e55de886`](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/tree/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58) by Corey Haines and contributors, published under the MIT License. The Raintree map classifies tasks; it does not copy the skill instructions or treat them as normative authority. + +## HIG Doctor and Apple guidance + +[`playbooks/apple-hig-audit.md`](playbooks/apple-hig-audit.md) references [HIG Doctor](https://github.com/raintree-technology/hig-doctor), whose structure and tooling are MIT-licensed. Apple Human Interface Guidelines content remains © Apple Inc. and is referenced from Apple's canonical documentation rather than redistributed here. + +## Anthropic Claude Cookbooks + +[`patterns/verified-agent-workflow.md`](patterns/verified-agent-workflow.md) adapts architecture ideas from Anthropic's [Claude Cookbooks content-moderation example at commit 35f2eec](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/35f2eec7e44897c537e44441b7dff2f0ecbfb804/capabilities/content_moderation), published under the [MIT License](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/blob/35f2eec7e44897c537e44441b7dff2f0ecbfb804/LICENSE). The pattern does not copy the example code or make its vendor-specific model choices normative. + +## Research references + +Other cited articles and style guides informed the authors' research. They are not included in this repository, and their citations do not place their original text under this repository's licenses. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/agents/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/agents/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..47bb9ba --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/agents/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Agent standards + +* [Agent verification and handoff](verification.md) - Requires proportionate verification and reproducible, honest handoffs for agent work. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/agents/verification.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/agents/verification.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5736163 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/agents/verification.md @@ -0,0 +1,286 @@ +--- +id: AGENT-VERIFICATION +title: Agent verification and handoff +description: Requires proportionate verification and reproducible, honest handoffs for agent work. +type: standard +status: stable +governance_status: active +owners: [standards] +last_reviewed: 2026-09-02 +review_by: 2027-03-02 +stale_after: 2027-03-02 +applies_to: [all-agent-work] +tags: [agents, testing, handoff] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-02T21:56:39-07:00" } +sources: + - id: google-sre-testing + resource: https://sre.google/sre-book/testing-reliability/ + title: Testing for Reliability + author: organization:google + - id: nist-ssdf + resource: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/218/final + title: Secure Software Development Framework Version 1.1 + author: organization:nist + - id: anthropic-claude-code + resource: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices + title: Best practices for Claude Code + author: organization:anthropic + - id: openai-agents-md + resource: https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/agent-configuration/agents-md + title: Custom instructions with AGENTS.md + author: organization:openai + - id: scale-swe-atlas + resource: https://scale.com/blog/swe-atlas + title: SWE Atlas - Evaluating AI Coding Agents in Real Codebases + author: organization:scale-ai + - id: cognition-testing + resource: https://docs.devin.ai/work-with-devin/testing-and-recordings + title: Testing and Video Recordings + author: organization:cognition + - id: cognition-knowledge + resource: https://docs.devin.ai/product-guides/knowledge + title: Knowledge + author: organization:cognition +--- + +# Agent verification and handoff + +Agents must leave users with an accurate, reproducible account of what changed, what was inspected, what passed or failed, and what remains uncertain. + +## Rules + +### AGENT-VERIFICATION-001 — Verify in proportion to risk + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An agent changes an artifact or system. + +Run the narrowest checks that directly exercise the changed behavior, plus broader checks warranted by likely blast radius. Include failure-path and recovery verification when those paths carry material risk. + +**Why:** A generic check can pass without exercising the behavior changed, while excessive unrelated checking wastes time and obscures relevant failures. + +**Verify:** + +- Map each material requirement and risk to a check or documented limitation. +- Confirm the chosen environment, inputs, and failure cases represent the change being claimed. + +**Exceptions:** A check can be deferred only when the limitation, risk, and next verification owner are reported. + +### AGENT-VERIFICATION-002 — Inspect the final artifact + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Generating or transforming code, documents, data, images, interfaces, or configuration. + +Review the resulting artifact in its intended form. Successful generation, compilation, or serialization is not evidence of correct content or acceptable presentation. + +**Why:** Source-level checks do not reveal every rendering, integration, ordering, accessibility, or contextual defect. + +**Verify:** + +- Open or render the deliverable in the closest available form to its real use. +- Inspect the user-visible outcome, key states, and surrounding context affected by the change. + +**Exceptions:** If the intended medium is unavailable, inspect the closest representation and report the difference. + +### AGENT-VERIFICATION-003 — Preserve user work and edit authority + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Working in a mutable repository or shared system. + +Inspect current state before editing, distinguish pre-existing changes, and avoid overwriting, reverting, formatting, or including unrelated work. + +Treat a request to review, assess, audit, diagnose, or recommend as read-only. Edit only when the user request or governing project instructions authorize edits, and keep changes within the authorized targets and purpose. A style, copy, or formatting edit must preserve meaning. If it would add, remove, contradict, or materially qualify a factual claim, leave the source unchanged and report the proposed factual change unless the task separately authorizes a factual update and adequate evidence supports it. Follow the precedence in `AGENTS.md` and the provenance requirements in `governance/authority.md` rather than duplicating them in a narrower standard. + +**Why:** A technically correct change is still harmful if it destroys or silently absorbs another person's work. Review authority does not imply permission to mutate the artifact, and a style request does not authorize an unreviewed factual change. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the final change set with the initial state and requested scope. +- Identify any overlapping pre-existing edits and how they were preserved. +- Record whether the task authorized review only, meaning-preserving edits, or factual updates. +- Flag every added, removed, contradicted, or materially qualified factual claim and trace an authorized factual update to its evidence. + +**Exceptions:** None without explicit authorization from the owner of the affected work. An explicitly authorized factual-update task can change a claim when the evidence and resulting qualification are recorded. + +### AGENT-VERIFICATION-004 — Report residual uncertainty + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Any relevant check could not run, failed, used a substitute environment, or left evidence incomplete. + +State what was not verified, why, and the practical risk. Separate pre-existing failures from failures introduced by the change. + +**Why:** A general completion claim can cause the user to assume missing coverage or known failures do not exist. + +**Verify:** + +- Confirm every omitted, failed, or partial check appears in the handoff. +- Check that uncertainty is stated next to the affected claim or output. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +### AGENT-VERIFICATION-005 — Make the handoff reproducible + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Completing implementation or analysis. + +Identify material outputs, verification performed, outcomes, exceptions, and any next action the user must take. Cite applicable failed or deferred standards by stable ID. + +**Why:** A future maintainer must be able to locate the work and understand its evidence without reconstructing the entire session. + +**Verify:** + +- Follow file, artifact, source, and check references from the handoff. +- Confirm claimed outcomes match the recorded output and final change set. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +### AGENT-VERIFICATION-006 — Remove temporary work + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The task creates diagnostics, generated previews, temporary data, debug code, or scratch files that are not deliverables. + +Remove temporary artifacts and restore temporary configuration before handoff. Preserve any artifact needed to reproduce a reported result or explicitly identify it as a deliverable. + +**Why:** Leftover diagnostics and configuration can expose data, alter behavior, or confuse later work. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the final change set and relevant runtime state for task-created temporary material. +- Confirm retained artifacts are named in the handoff and have a clear purpose. + +**Exceptions:** Keep evidence required for audit or reproduction in its approved location. + +### AGENT-VERIFICATION-007 — Require independent review for high-impact work + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A change materially affects security, privacy, legal or regulatory obligations, financial behavior, access control, destructive data handling, or another domain that requires an accountable specialist. + +Obtain review from the qualified owner required by the governing policy. The implementing agent can prepare evidence and recommendations but cannot treat self-review as independent approval. + +**Why:** High-impact work needs domain authority and a second perspective on assumptions, abuse paths, and consequences that the implementer may miss. + +**Verify:** + +- Identify the governing policy, required reviewer role, reviewed scope, decision, and unresolved conditions. +- Confirm the reviewed artifact matches the version released or handed off. + +**Exceptions:** Emergency containment can precede review when the incident policy authorizes it; retrospective review and durable remediation remain required. + +### AGENT-VERIFICATION-008 — Ground the plan in the actual system + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An agent will diagnose, design, or change an unfamiliar or materially complex system. + +Inspect governing instructions, current state, relevant architecture, dependencies, existing patterns, and runtime behavior before choosing an implementation. Separate exploration and planning from mutation when a wrong assumption could expand scope or harm existing work. + +**Why:** Agents that begin from a plausible prior can implement the wrong model of the system cleanly and quickly. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace material plan assumptions to inspected files, configuration, documentation, runtime output, or an identified owner decision. +- Confirm the plan names affected boundaries, likely files or systems, preserved behavior, risks, and verification before edits begin. +- Record important differences between expected and observed system behavior. + +**Exceptions:** A trivial, local edit whose behavior and scope are directly visible can combine exploration and implementation. + +### AGENT-VERIFICATION-009 — Give the agent an executable completion signal + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Delegating implementation or transformation work to an agent. + +Provide or derive a check the agent can run against the intended outcome, such as a focused test, build, query, rendered inspection, state comparison, schema validation, or reference artifact. Define what pass, fail, and partial evidence mean before the agent uses the check as its stop condition. + +**Why:** Without an inspectable success signal, an agent stops when the work appears done and shifts every missed defect to later human review. + +**Verify:** + +- Confirm the check exercises the requested postcondition rather than only syntax or an intermediate step. +- Run a known failing or pre-change case where feasible to prove the check can detect absence of the result. +- Inspect the final evidence instead of accepting the agent's summary of it. + +**Exceptions:** Judgment-only work can use a defined review rubric and qualified final-artifact inspection when no executable oracle exists. + +### AGENT-VERIFICATION-010 — Review autonomous trajectories and outcomes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An agent performs multiple steps, uses tools, delegates, retries, or changes external state without synchronous review of every step. + +Review the final authoritative state and enough of the trajectory to detect unauthorized scope, unsafe shortcuts, hidden failures, repeated dead ends, policy violations, and accidental reliance on unavailable or private information. Treat the model and harness together as the evaluated system. + +**Why:** A correct final artifact can be produced through an unsafe process, while a plausible transcript can end in incorrect external state. + +**Verify:** + +- Reconcile intended and actual files, records, messages, recipients, tool calls, permissions, and side effects. +- Inspect high-risk decisions, approvals, retries, errors, and deviations from the plan or instructions. +- Confirm the exact model, harness, tools, environment, and instruction set associated with the evidence. + +**Exceptions:** A single-step read-only task with deterministic evidence can omit trajectory review when its input and output boundary is verified. + +### AGENT-VERIFICATION-011 — Turn recurring corrections into scoped guidance + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The same project rule, setup step, tool procedure, failure, or reviewer correction is likely to recur. + +Update the repository's governed agent instructions, skill, playbook, or knowledge system at the narrowest useful scope. State the trigger, expected outcome, required inputs, forbidden actions, verification, source, and owner. Resolve conflicts and duplicates rather than adding another overlapping instruction. + +**Why:** Chat-only corrections disappear, while unscoped memory and duplicated instructions create inconsistent behavior across later tasks. + +**Verify:** + +- Start a representative new run and confirm the guidance is discovered in the intended scope and absent outside it. +- Trace the addition or change to a reviewed failure, successful workflow, project rule, or owner decision. +- Confirm stale or superseded guidance is retired through its governed process. + +**Exceptions:** Do not persist one-time user data, secrets, temporary workarounds, or preferences that have no durable owner. + +## Operational coverage + +Scale the verification record to the artifact and consequence. Preserve failed checks and partial results; they are evidence, not noise. + +| Work type | Minimum final inspection | Required handoff evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Code or configuration | Relevant automated checks, changed-path exercise, final diff, runtime or rendered behavior, and cleanup | Commands or check names, results, environment, untested paths, user work preserved, and remaining risk | +| Data, analysis, or research | Source trace, calculation or extraction replay, denominator and uncertainty review, contradictory evidence, and final-format inspection | Evidence cutoff, methods, source versions, reproducible inputs, limitations, and decision boundary | +| Document, interface, or media | Rendered artifact, structure and accessibility, factual and terminology review, links or assets, and representative reader task | Final artifact location, review medium, accessibility result, unresolved editorial issues, and approval needed | +| External or delegated action | Effective authority, preview or dry run when available, external-state readback, side effects, and revocation | Target, time, actor, resulting state, receipts or identifiers, rollback status, and any external dependency | +| Long-running or partial work | Durable checkpoint, current state, completed and uncompleted obligations, restart instructions, and stale-state check | Exact continuation point, preserved outputs, blockers, failed attempts, expiration risk, and next safe action | +| Failed verification | Failure reproduced or bounded, expected versus observed result, diagnostic evidence, and no false completion claim | Failed check, impact, workarounds considered, artifacts left in place, and accountable escalation | + +Verification is complete only when the evidence supports the user-visible claim. Passing a proxy check does not establish an unobserved final state. + +## Guidance + +Start verification from the acceptance criteria, not from whichever checks are easiest to run. A syntax validator is appropriate evidence for syntax; it does not prove user behavior. Prefer deterministic, repeatable checks, then add manual inspection where meaning or presentation requires judgment. + +Record exact commands or procedures only when they help another person reproduce the result. Do not include secrets, private data, or irrelevant logs. When a check fails before the change, preserve the evidence and report it without expanding scope unless asked. + +## Examples + +### Honest handoff + +Non-compliant: “Everything passes.” + +Compliant: “The catalog validator passes for 16 governed documents. I inspected the five changed profiles as rendered Markdown. External links were not checked because network access was unavailable.” + +### Final-artifact inspection + +Non-compliant: A slide deck export succeeds, so the task is declared complete. + +Compliant: The exported deck is opened and inspected for clipping, order, contrast, and missing assets; any unavailable playback check is reported. + +### Review and edit authority + +Non-compliant: A reviewer silently changes “Revenue increased 8%” to “Revenue increased 12%.” + +Compliant: The reviewer leaves the source unchanged and reports: “Proposed factual change: replace 8% with 12% after the finance owner confirms the cited report.” + +## Sources + +- Google, [Testing for Reliability](https://sre.google/sre-book/testing-reliability/), Site Reliability Engineering. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Secure Software Development Framework Version 1.1](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/218/final), SP 800-218, February 2022. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Anthropic, [Best practices for Claude Code](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- OpenAI, [Custom instructions with AGENTS.md](https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/agent-configuration/agents-md). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Scale AI, [SWE Atlas: Evaluating AI Coding Agents in Real Codebases](https://scale.com/blog/swe-atlas), March 4, 2026. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Cognition, [Testing and Video Recordings](https://docs.devin.ai/work-with-devin/testing-and-recordings). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Cognition, [Knowledge](https://docs.devin.ai/product-guides/knowledge). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/ai/agentic-systems.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/ai/agentic-systems.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..76077fd --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/ai/agentic-systems.md @@ -0,0 +1,500 @@ +--- +id: AI-AGENTS +title: Agentic systems +description: Governs architecture, context, tools, autonomy, evaluation, safety, and operation for systems in which models select or perform actions. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [ai, product, engineering, security, privacy] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [agentic-system, product-feature] +tags: [ai, agents, tools, evaluation, safety, context] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, FND-CHANGE, AGENT-VERIFICATION, PRIVACY-DATA] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T19:35:12Z" } +sources: + - id: anthropic-effective-agents + resource: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents + title: Building effective agents + author: organization:anthropic + - id: anthropic-agent-evals + resource: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents + title: Demystifying evals for AI agents + author: organization:anthropic + - id: anthropic-agent-containment + resource: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude + title: How we contain Claude across products + author: organization:anthropic + - id: anthropic-prompt-injection + resource: https://www.anthropic.com/research/prompt-injection-defenses + title: Mitigating the risk of prompt injections in browser use + author: organization:anthropic + - id: anthropic-claude-code + resource: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices + title: Best practices for Claude Code + author: organization:anthropic + - id: openai-agent-safety + resource: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agent-builder-safety + title: Safety in building agents + author: organization:openai + - id: openai-evaluation + resource: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/evaluation-best-practices + title: Evaluation best practices + author: organization:openai + - id: openai-agents + resource: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents + title: Agents SDK + author: organization:openai + - id: openai-agents-md + resource: https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/agent-configuration/agents-md + title: Custom instructions with AGENTS.md + author: organization:openai + - id: scale-swe-bench-pro + resource: https://scale.com/blog/swe-bench-pro + title: SWE-Bench Pro - Raising the Bar for Agentic Coding + author: organization:scale-ai + - id: scale-mcp-atlas + resource: https://scale.com/blog/mcp-atlas + title: Actions, Not Words - MCP-Atlas Raises the Bar for Agentic Evaluation + author: organization:scale-ai + - id: scale-swe-atlas + resource: https://scale.com/blog/swe-atlas + title: SWE Atlas - Evaluating AI Coding Agents in Real Codebases + author: organization:scale-ai + - id: cognition-playbooks + resource: https://docs.devin.ai/product-guides/creating-playbooks + title: Creating Playbooks + author: organization:cognition + - id: cognition-knowledge + resource: https://docs.devin.ai/product-guides/knowledge + title: Knowledge + author: organization:cognition + - id: cognition-testing + resource: https://docs.devin.ai/work-with-devin/testing-and-recordings + title: Testing and Video Recordings + author: organization:cognition + - id: openai-in-house-data-agent + resource: https://openai.com/index/inside-our-in-house-data-agent/ + title: Inside OpenAI's in-house data agent + author: organization:openai + - id: openai-coding-agent-monitoring + resource: https://openai.com/index/how-we-monitor-internal-coding-agents-misalignment/ + title: How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment + author: organization:openai +--- + +# Agentic systems + +Agentic systems must earn autonomy through measurable task performance, constrained authority, observable actions, and safe recovery. This standard applies when a model chooses steps, invokes tools, changes external state, delegates work, or operates across multiple turns. It covers fixed model workflows as well as dynamically planned agents. + +Provider features and model behavior change quickly. Treat provider documentation as implementation evidence for that provider, not as a universal guarantee. Revalidate current model, API, retention, safety, and tool behavior before release. This draft requires qualified AI, security, and privacy review before it becomes stable. + +## Rules + +### AI-AGENTS-001 — Use the simplest architecture that meets measured needs + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Designing or materially changing a model workflow, agent, orchestration layer, or multi-agent system. + +Start with the least autonomous design that can meet the task contract: deterministic software, one model call, a fixed workflow, a tool-using agent, and then multiple agents in that order of increasing complexity. Add autonomy, handoffs, memory, or parallel agents only when evaluation shows a material improvement that justifies added latency, cost, nondeterminism, security exposure, and operational burden. + +**Why:** Architectural complexity creates more failure paths and can hide prompts, state, and tool decisions without improving the user outcome. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the selected design with at least one simpler feasible design on task success, safety, latency, cost, and operability. +- Record which evaluation result justified each added agent, handoff, memory layer, or dynamic planning step. +- Confirm the team can inspect the underlying instructions, model calls, tool calls, and state transitions despite framework abstractions. + +**Exceptions:** A short-lived prototype can test a more complex design when it has no material authority or real-user impact and is clearly labeled experimental. + +### AI-AGENTS-002 — Define the task contract before prompting + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Creating an agent capability, workflow, reusable prompt, skill, or playbook. + +Define the intended user, trigger, input boundary, desired outcome, required and forbidden actions, available tools, success and failure states, postconditions, escalation conditions, resource limits, and completion evidence before optimizing prompts or models. + +**Why:** An agent cannot reliably know when it is done or when to stop if the outcome and boundaries exist only as unstated reviewer expectations. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace each task-contract element to instructions, control logic, a tool boundary, or an evaluation assertion. +- Confirm a reference solution or known-safe procedure can satisfy the contract without relying on hidden grader expectations. +- Test ambiguous, incomplete, conflicting, and out-of-scope requests against the escalation behavior. + +**Exceptions:** Exploratory assistance can begin with an open question, but it must not gain action authority until its contract is defined. + +### AI-AGENTS-003 — Separate trusted instructions from untrusted content + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A model receives user text, retrieved documents, webpages, emails, files, tool output, database content, or messages from another model. + +Classify instruction sources by authority and keep untrusted content in the lowest appropriate authority channel. Never interpolate untrusted content into system, developer, policy, tool-description, or executable instruction fields. Mark data as data, preserve provenance, and use validated structured fields when information must cross into a higher-trust decision. + +**Why:** Prompt injection succeeds when content controlled by an attacker is treated as an instruction with authority over tools or private context. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace every dynamic value entering high-authority prompts, tool definitions, policies, and executable templates to a trusted source and validation boundary. +- Test direct, indirect, encoded, multilingual, quoted, and tool-returned injection attempts. +- Confirm retrieved content cannot change permissions, reveal hidden context, select unapproved recipients, or redefine task success. + +**Exceptions:** None for untrusted data that can influence privileged behavior. + +### AI-AGENTS-004 — Keep context relevant, attributable, and current + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An agent uses conversation history, retrieval, memory, repository instructions, knowledge entries, summaries, or prior-session state. + +Include only context needed for the current decision. Preserve source, scope, precedence, freshness, and confidence. Define retrieval triggers and conflict behavior. Summarize or discard stale and low-value material before it crowds out current instructions, and do not let generated summaries silently become authoritative facts. + +**Why:** Long or noisy context can dilute instructions, revive stale guidance, conceal conflicts, and increase disclosure and prompt-injection risk. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the effective context for representative tasks and identify why each material item was included. +- Test nested instruction scopes, conflicting knowledge, stale entries, long sessions, irrelevant retrieval, and summary drift. +- Confirm users or operators can identify which durable guidance and prior state affected a consequential action. + +**Exceptions:** Full transcripts can be retained for an approved audit purpose, but the active context should still contain only the subset needed for the decision. + +### AI-AGENTS-005 — Design tools as constrained contracts + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A model can select or invoke a function, API, MCP server, shell, browser, database, file operation, or other tool. + +Give each tool one clear purpose, distinct boundaries from similar tools, typed and bounded parameters, explicit units and defaults, structured results, actionable errors, side-effect classification, and examples for difficult cases. Reject unknown fields and invalid combinations at the trusted boundary. Prefer tool shapes that make the safe action easy and invalid actions impossible. + +**Why:** Real tool-use evaluations repeatedly find failures in tool discovery, parameter construction, schema compliance, orchestration, and error recovery. + +**Verify:** + +- Test selection among near-synonym and distractor tools, parameter boundaries, units, dates, enumerations, missing fields, and incompatible combinations. +- Review tool names, descriptions, schemas, errors, and examples with representative models rather than assuming they are self-explanatory. +- Confirm the server validates authorization and arguments independently of the model. + +**Exceptions:** A broad low-level tool needs stronger containment, approval, monitoring, and task-specific wrappers for common high-impact operations. + +### AI-AGENTS-006 — Grant the minimum authority for each run + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An agent can access private data, spend money, communicate externally, change durable state, execute code, or invoke privileged tools. + +Grant only the identities, data, tools, destinations, scopes, and duration needed for the current task. Separate read, propose, approve, and execute capabilities. Require a human approval at the last meaningful point before high-impact, irreversible, external, or ambiguous actions, and show the exact target, data, and consequence being approved. + +**Why:** Model alignment and prompt guardrails are probabilistic; capability boundaries limit harm even when instructions fail. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect effective credentials, tool scopes, network destinations, data access, expiration, and approval configuration. +- Exercise wrong-target, excess-scope, hidden-side-effect, replay, stale-approval, and changed-after-approval cases. +- Confirm denial or unavailable approval stops the action without silently selecting a broader path. + +**Exceptions:** Unattended execution can replace per-action approval only inside a qualified, isolated boundary whose worst-case impact is accepted and whose task contract fixes the allowed actions. + +### AI-AGENTS-007 — Contain execution independently of model behavior + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An agent runs code, browses untrusted content, manipulates files, uses third-party tools, or can reach internal or external networks. + +Run the agent in an environment that independently constrains process, filesystem, credential, network, data, and resource access. Keep secrets and sensitive data outside the environment unless the task requires them. Restrict egress and tool permissions, isolate tenants and runs, and destroy or reset mutable environments according to the task's data and retention policy. + +**Why:** Model-level defenses influence behavior but cannot guarantee that a capable or compromised agent will stay within intended boundaries. + +**Verify:** + +- Attempt access outside allowed files, processes, networks, credentials, tenants, tools, time, memory, storage, and spend. +- Confirm a poisoned document, tool result, dependency, or webpage cannot expand the environment's authority. +- Inspect environment reset, artifact export, log retention, and incident isolation between runs. + +**Exceptions:** Execution on a user's local system requires clear scope, recoverable changes, protected credentials, approvals for material side effects, and a documented worst-case boundary. + +### AI-AGENTS-008 — Control personal and confidential data across the model path + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Prompts, context, files, embeddings, traces, evaluations, feedback, or tool calls may contain personal, confidential, regulated, or proprietary data. + +Apply `PRIVACY-DATA-016`, which owns the model-path data-governance requirement, to every path the agent system creates, including orchestration, delegation, tool calls, memory, and observability. Extend the same governance to confidential, regulated, and proprietary data. Do not assume API inputs, hidden prompts, traces, or evaluation datasets are ephemeral. + +**Why:** Agent systems copy data through more surfaces than the final prompt and response, and provider defaults can differ by product or endpoint. + +**Verify:** + +- Run the `PRIVACY-DATA-016` verification across the agent's full path inventory, including delegated agents and tools. +- Confirm redaction and minimization occur before data enters any path that does not need the original value. + +**Exceptions:** None without the governing privacy, security, and contractual decision. + +### AI-AGENTS-009 — Use environmental truth to drive progress + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An agent claims completion, changes external state, or performs a multi-step task. + +Make the agent inspect authoritative external state after material actions and before completion. Prefer executable checks, API reads, database state, rendered artifacts, or other outcome evidence over the agent's narration. Define maximum steps, time, cost, retries, and no-progress conditions, and stop or escalate when they are reached. + +**Why:** Multi-turn errors compound, and a fluent completion message can disagree with the actual environment. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the final claim with the final environment state and task postconditions. +- Test partial success, stale reads, asynchronous completion, tool failure, contradictory observations, loops, and repeated no-progress actions. +- Confirm limits stop further action and preserve enough state for safe review or recovery. + +**Exceptions:** A purely advisory agent can rely on cited source evidence rather than mutable state, but it must still distinguish observation from inference. + +### AI-AGENTS-010 — Make actions repeat-safe and recoverable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Tool calls can be retried, duplicated, reordered, interrupted, or partially completed. + +Define idempotency, deduplication, ordering, transaction, compensation, timeout, retry, and resume behavior for every material side effect. Give the agent structured error state and a bounded recovery path. Do not let generic retries repeat payments, messages, deletions, account changes, or other non-idempotent actions. + +**Why:** Models and distributed systems both retry and fail partially; combining them can multiply durable side effects. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise duplicate requests, lost responses, timeouts after success, out-of-order steps, partial writes, cancellation, resume, and compensation. +- Confirm the agent distinguishes retryable, terminal, approval-required, and already-completed outcomes. +- Reconcile side effects after an interrupted run before allowing it to continue. + +**Exceptions:** An irreversible action without compensation requires confirmation, a unique operation key, and an authoritative post-action check before any retry. + +### AI-AGENTS-011 — Escalate ambiguity and high-impact judgment + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Missing information, preference, conflicting authority, novel conditions, or material risk can change the correct action. + +Ask the person or qualified owner who holds the missing authority rather than guessing. Define escalation triggers for security, privacy, legal, financial, safety, access, destructive change, public communication, and other high-impact domains. Present the decision, evidence, alternatives, and consequence at the checkpoint. + +**Why:** An agent can research facts but cannot infer a user's unstated preference or replace accountable specialist judgment. + +**Verify:** + +- Test underspecified requests, conflicting policies, missing recipients or targets, uncertain identity, novel risk, and unavailable approvers. +- Confirm the agent does not convert uncertainty into permission or treat a previous approval as authority for changed scope. +- Review escalation quality with the accountable domain owner. + +**Exceptions:** Low-risk, reversible choices can use documented defaults when the user can see and change the result. + +### AI-AGENTS-012 — Version the full agent configuration + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An agent or model workflow informs decisions or performs recurring work. + +Version the model or snapshot, provider, system and developer instructions, tool schemas, orchestration code, retrieval and memory rules, guardrails, policies, environment image, and evaluation suite as one releaseable configuration. Treat changes to any of them as behavior changes and evaluate before promotion. + +**Why:** The same user prompt can behave differently after a model, tool, context, policy, or scaffold change even when application code is unchanged. + +**Verify:** + +- Reconstruct a representative run from recorded configuration identifiers and protected inputs. +- Compare evaluation, safety, latency, and cost results across the exact candidate and baseline configurations. +- Confirm provider aliases or automatic upgrades cannot bypass the release decision where stable behavior is required. + +**Exceptions:** A provider without pinned versions requires stronger continuous evaluation, bounded rollout, drift detection, and a documented fallback. + +### AI-AGENTS-013 — Build representative, balanced evaluation tasks + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Developing, selecting, changing, or releasing an agentic system. + +Create evaluation tasks from actual requirements, production distributions, observed failures, expert risk analysis, and realistic edge cases. Cover both when a behavior should occur and when it should not. Include valid alternative paths, ambiguous inputs, long context, multilingual or multimodal input where supported, tool distractors, failures, and high-risk abuse cases. + +**Why:** Demo prompts and one-sided datasets reward narrow behavior that can fail on real traffic or over-trigger a feature. + +**Verify:** + +- Map every task to a requirement, failure, risk, or production slice and record important missing populations. +- Run reference solutions to prove tasks are solvable and graders accept valid alternatives. +- Compare evaluation input shape, tools, context, and environment with the intended deployment. + +**Exceptions:** An early prototype can begin with a small task set, but it must cover its core success, refusal, failure, and escalation paths before user exposure. + +### AI-AGENTS-014 — Protect evaluation validity and generalization + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Evaluation results support a model, architecture, prompt, safety, or release decision. + +Separate development, regression, and held-out evaluation data. Track task provenance and possible training or prompt contamination. Use reproducible environments, freeze material task and grader changes for comparisons, and test on internal or otherwise unseen work representative of the deployment before claiming generalization. + +**Why:** Public benchmark familiarity, leaked solutions, changing dependencies, and grader edits can make scores rise without a better system. + +**Verify:** + +- Record dataset partitions, exposure history, environment image, dependency state, task version, grader version, and evaluation configuration. +- Check for benchmark recognition, answer leakage, flaky infrastructure, impossible tasks, and tests that encode an implementation rather than behavior. +- Reproduce a sample of passes and failures from clean environments. + +**Exceptions:** Public benchmarks can support comparison when contamination limits are stated, but they cannot replace evaluation on the system's own tasks and environments. + +### AI-AGENTS-015 — Measure repeated end-to-end outcomes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A stochastic model or agent is evaluated for quality, safety, reliability, latency, or cost. + +Run enough independent trials to reveal variability and report the metric that matches the operating promise. Distinguish per-trial success, success in at least one of several attempts, consistent success across all attempts, partial credit, safety failures, latency, tokens, tool calls, and cost. Do not report the best run as typical performance. + +**Why:** A system that sometimes succeeds can look reliable in a single hand-picked trace, while repeated autonomy compounds failure probability and expense. + +**Verify:** + +- Record trial count, random or sampling settings, environment reset, aggregation, uncertainty, and failure distribution. +- Compare per-task and segment results rather than only one overall average. +- Confirm the reported metric matches whether production gets one attempt, retries, selection among candidates, or unattended repeated use. + +**Exceptions:** Deterministic control checks can run once when determinism is verified; model-involved behavior still needs repeated trials proportionate to risk and variability. + +### AI-AGENTS-016 — Grade outcome, process, and policy separately + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Evaluating a multi-step agent or tool-using workflow. + +Grade authoritative final state, required intermediate behavior, and policy compliance with separate assertions. Prefer deterministic state and programmatic checks where they directly measure the requirement. Use model graders for judgment that needs them, calibrate those graders against expert human labels, inspect full traces for diagnosis, and allow valid alternative strategies. + +**Why:** A correct final sentence can hide an unperformed action, while a rigid expected trajectory can reject a better valid solution. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare grader decisions with expert review on representative passes, failures, and borderline cases. +- Measure false acceptance, false rejection, disagreement, and sensitivity to irrelevant style or verbosity. +- Inspect failures to distinguish model, harness, tool, environment, task, and grader causes. + +**Exceptions:** Exact-output tasks can use a single deterministic assertion when wording or structure is itself the requirement. + +### AI-AGENTS-017 — Red-team the agent and its tools + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An agent processes untrusted content, accesses private context, or can take actions. + +Test adversarial instructions and conventional attacks across user input, retrieved content, files, webpages, tool results, memory, inter-agent messages, and environment artifacts. Cover data exfiltration, permission expansion, hidden action, policy override, confused deputy behavior, unsafe code, indirect injection, denial of service, and approval manipulation. Re-run material attacks after model, prompt, tool, or control changes. + +**Why:** External content and tools form an adversarial input surface, and no model-level defense removes prompt-injection risk by itself. + +**Verify:** + +- Preserve attack cases, exact configuration, outcome, trace, control that stopped or missed the attack, and residual risk. +- Test adaptive repeated attempts rather than only obvious one-shot strings. +- Confirm environmental and permission boundaries hold even when the model follows the malicious instruction. + +**Exceptions:** A model with no untrusted input, private context, or action authority can use a narrower misuse review, with those boundaries verified. + +### AI-AGENTS-018 — Observe decisions, tool use, and operational limits + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Operating an agentic system for users or recurring internal work. + +Record the configuration, task, high-level decisions, tool selection, validated arguments, results, approvals, state transitions, retries, errors, final outcome, latency, token use, and cost needed for debugging and governance. Protect sensitive reasoning and data, use stable correlation, and alert on loops, repeated denial, unusual tool or data access, limit exhaustion, safety-control activation, and outcome failure. + +**Why:** Final responses alone cannot reveal whether failure came from task understanding, tool selection, parameters, orchestration, environment, or policy. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace representative successful, failed, refused, escalated, retried, and interrupted runs end to end. +- Confirm logs exclude secrets and unnecessary personal data and follow approved access and retention. +- Test alert routing and the operator's ability to stop, isolate, and investigate a run. + +**Exceptions:** If full traces contain protected data, store a minimized event record and keep detailed evidence in a restricted, short-lived diagnostic path. + +### AI-AGENTS-019 — Parallelize only separable work + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Multiple model calls, agents, or sessions work concurrently or hand work to one another. + +Define independent scopes, inputs, output contracts, ownership boundaries, shared-state rules, budgets, and a synthesis or conflict-resolution step before parallel execution. Do not let workers edit the same mutable state or authorize one another without an explicit coordinator. Use multiple agents only when measured gains exceed coordination failures and added nondeterminism. + +**Why:** Parallel agents can duplicate work, race on shared files, amplify incorrect assumptions, lose decisions during handoff, and make total authority hard to see. + +**Verify:** + +- Test conflicting outputs, duplicate actions, partial worker failure, stale shared state, circular handoffs, coordinator failure, and budget exhaustion. +- Compare parallel and single-agent results on success, consistency, latency, cost, and review effort. +- Confirm synthesis preserves dissent, provenance, unresolved conflicts, and required evidence rather than selecting the most confident output. + +**Exceptions:** Independent read-only analysis can use lighter coordination when each result remains attributable and a reviewer performs final synthesis. + +### AI-AGENTS-020 — Maintain reusable instructions as governed knowledge + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A correction, workflow, project rule, tool procedure, or successful task pattern will recur. + +Place durable project-wide guidance in the repository's governed instruction or knowledge system and task-specific procedures in versioned skills or playbooks. Give each item a scope or trigger, owner, source, postconditions, forbidden actions, required inputs, and review path. Derive updates from reviewed successes and failures, remove duplicates, resolve conflicts, and retire stale guidance. + +**Why:** Repeating corrections in chat wastes effort, while unscoped or conflicting memory can inject stale behavior into unrelated tasks. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect which instruction and knowledge items a representative run retrieved and why. +- Test scope, precedence, conflicts, missing prerequisites, postconditions, and rollback to a prior version. +- Link each material update to a reviewed session, incident, evaluation failure, project rule, or owner decision. + +**Exceptions:** One-time task detail can remain in the task record when it has no expected reuse. + +### AI-AGENTS-021 — Join offline evaluation with production detection and response + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An agentic system is released for recurring internal or external use. + +Map each release evaluation claim and known failure class to a production signal, sampling or review method, severity, owner, response time, and containment or rollback action. Monitor task outcomes, tool and authority violations, loops, overrides, unusual access, cost and latency, refusals, user corrections, and distribution drift without collecting unnecessary sensitive data. Feed confirmed incidents, near misses, appeals, and representative production failures into a reviewed regression set while preserving held-out evaluation integrity. + +**Why:** Offline suites cannot anticipate every deployed context, and monitoring without a response contract only records harm after it occurs. + +**Verify:** + +- Inject or replay each known failure class and confirm detection, severity, routing, containment, and accountable closure within the stated objective. +- Compare monitored and unmonitored traffic, tools, environments, and user populations and record material coverage gaps. +- Sample successful and failed trajectories for outcome correctness and control behavior, then calibrate automated detectors against qualified human review. +- Trace production-derived regression cases to privacy review, de-identification or protected access, contamination control, fix evidence, and later recurrence measurement. + +**Exceptions:** A bounded prototype with no consequential authority may use manual review when every run is retained within an approved protected environment, the reviewer and response time are explicit, and no production-reliability claim is made. + +## Guidance + +Treat the model, harness, instructions, tools, context, environment, guardrails, and evaluations as one system. A model leaderboard does not predict performance on a different tool set, repository, policy, or scaffold. + +Choose workflow patterns by task shape. Fixed sequences fit known steps. Routing fits reliably separable categories. Parallel calls fit independent work or multiple judgments. An orchestrator fits tasks whose subtasks cannot be known in advance. An evaluator loop fits outputs with clear criteria and measurable improvement. A free-form agent fits open-ended work only when the environment provides useful feedback and the allowed failure boundary is acceptable. + +Do not expose hidden chain-of-thought as an observability requirement. Record decisions, tool calls, state changes, outcomes, and concise rationales needed for review without depending on private reasoning text. + +Keep tool catalogs small for each task. Similar or irrelevant tools create discovery errors. Give the model a search or routing layer only when it is itself evaluated, bounded, and observable. + +## Examples + +### Architecture choice + +Non-compliant: A support flow begins with five specialist agents because each department might need its own prompt. + +Compliant: A single constrained workflow handles the measured task set. Evaluation identifies one category whose tools and policy conflict with the rest, so routing isolates that category. A multi-agent design is reconsidered only if the routed workflow fails a defined target. + +### Prompt injection boundary + +Non-compliant: Text extracted from an uploaded invoice is inserted into a developer message that tells the model which payment tool to call. + +Compliant: The file remains labeled untrusted. A constrained extractor produces validated invoice fields. Server-side authorization and approval determine whether the payment operation is allowed, and the runtime cannot access unrelated recipients or credentials. + +### Agent evaluation + +Non-compliant: The team runs ten demo prompts, keeps the best screenshots, and reports that the agent reliably completes the workflow. + +Compliant: The suite includes real successes, failures, refusals, ambiguous inputs, tool distractors, and held-out tasks in reproducible environments. Multiple trials report per-attempt success, consistency, safety failures, latency, and cost. State checks grade outcomes while human-calibrated graders assess judgment. + +## Sources + +- Anthropic, [Building effective agents](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents), December 19, 2024. Reviewed August 13, 2026. Anthropic notes that its tooling discussion has changed since publication; this standard relies on the architectural principles and revalidates current product behavior separately. +- Anthropic, [Demystifying evals for AI agents](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents), January 9, 2026. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Anthropic, [How we contain Claude across products](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Anthropic, [Mitigating the risk of prompt injections in browser use](https://www.anthropic.com/research/prompt-injection-defenses), November 24, 2025. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Anthropic, [Best practices for Claude Code](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- OpenAI, [Safety in building agents](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agent-builder-safety). Reviewed August 13, 2026. The page marks Agent Builder as deprecated, so this standard adopts its general threat and control guidance rather than its product-specific workflow. +- OpenAI, [Evaluation best practices](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/evaluation-best-practices). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- OpenAI, [Agents SDK](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- OpenAI, [Custom instructions with AGENTS.md](https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/agent-configuration/agents-md). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Scale AI, [SWE-Bench Pro: Raising the Bar for Agentic Coding](https://scale.com/blog/swe-bench-pro), September 19, 2025. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Scale AI, [Actions, Not Words: MCP-Atlas Raises the Bar for Agentic Evaluation](https://scale.com/blog/mcp-atlas), September 19, 2025. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Scale AI, [SWE Atlas: Evaluating AI Coding Agents in Real Codebases](https://scale.com/blog/swe-atlas), March 4, 2026. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Cognition, [Creating Playbooks](https://docs.devin.ai/product-guides/creating-playbooks). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Cognition, [Knowledge](https://docs.devin.ai/product-guides/knowledge). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Cognition, [Testing and Video Recordings](https://docs.devin.ai/work-with-devin/testing-and-recordings). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- OpenAI, [Inside OpenAI's in-house data agent](https://openai.com/index/inside-our-in-house-data-agent/). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- OpenAI, [How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment](https://openai.com/index/how-we-monitor-internal-coding-agents-misalignment/). Reviewed September 1, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/ai/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/ai/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..353fe3d --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/ai/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# AI standards + +* [Agentic systems](agentic-systems.md) - Governs architecture, context, tools, autonomy, evaluation, safety, and operation for systems in which models select or perform actions. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/analytics/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/analytics/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d109c02 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/analytics/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Analytics standards + +* [Product and growth measurement](measurement.md) - Defines decision-driven, interpretable, privacy-conscious product and growth instrumentation. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/analytics/measurement.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/analytics/measurement.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f96e87 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/analytics/measurement.md @@ -0,0 +1,274 @@ +--- +id: ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT +title: Product and growth measurement +description: Defines decision-driven, interpretable, privacy-conscious product and growth instrumentation. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [analytics, product] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [product-feature, growth-experiment, public-web-page] +tags: [analytics, events, metrics, privacy] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, DATA-QUALITY] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T20:57:53Z" } +sources: + - id: ico-purpose-limitation + resource: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/data-protection-principles/a-guide-to-the-data-protection-principles/purpose-limitation/ + title: Purpose limitation + author: organization:ico + - id: ico-data-minimisation + resource: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/data-protection-principles/a-guide-to-the-data-protection-principles/data-minimisation/ + title: Data minimisation + author: organization:ico + - id: owasp-logging + resource: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Logging_Cheat_Sheet.html + title: Logging Cheat Sheet + author: organization:owasp + - id: w3c-privacy-principles + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/ + title: Privacy Principles + author: organization:w3c + - id: opentelemetry-events + resource: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/general/events/ + title: Semantic conventions for events + author: organization:opentelemetry + - id: opentelemetry-stability + resource: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/versioning-and-stability/ + title: Versioning and stability for OpenTelemetry clients + author: organization:opentelemetry +--- + +# Product and growth measurement + +Instrumentation must produce interpretable evidence for a defined decision without collecting data merely because it might be useful later. This standard governs behavioral events, properties, identity, metrics, funnels, cohorts, dashboards, and measurement changes. + +## Rules + +### ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-001 — Start with a decision + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Adding or materially changing an event, property, dashboard, or metric. + +Document the decision the measurement supports, the question it answers, its owner, and the action that materially different outcomes would trigger. + +**Why:** Data without a decision purpose creates collection cost and privacy risk without a clear way to act. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace the proposed event or metric to a named decision and owner. +- Confirm at least two plausible outcomes have stated interpretations or actions. + +**Exceptions:** Operational telemetry can support incident detection rather than a product decision; identify the operational purpose and retention policy. + +### ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-002 — Give events stable semantic contracts + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Instrumenting behavioral events. + +Define the trigger, actor, object, event time, processing time, required and optional properties, allowed values, identity semantics, source, owner, and versioning policy. Name the observed fact rather than an implementation detail. + +**Why:** The same event name can otherwise represent different actions across clients, releases, and analysts. + +**Verify:** + +- Trigger the event from each producing path and compare it with the contract. +- Confirm retries, refreshes, duplicate callbacks, and background work cannot silently change the event's meaning. + +**Exceptions:** None for events used in decisions or reporting. + +### ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-003 — Validate the full measurement path + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Shipping new or changed instrumentation. + +Verify that the real user or system action emits the expected number of correctly shaped events, reaches the intended destination, respects consent, and appears in downstream analysis with correct identity and time semantics. + +**Why:** Client logs or network requests do not prove that ingestion, transformation, identity stitching, and reporting preserve the event. + +**Verify:** + +- Follow a known event from source through ingestion, transformation, storage, and a representative query or dashboard. +- Check positive, absent-consent, duplicate, retry, offline, and failure behavior where relevant. + +**Exceptions:** If production validation is unsafe, use staging and report differences in endpoints, consent, volume, identity, or transformations. + +### ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-004 — Minimize collected and exposed data + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Choosing event properties, identity data, or analytics access. + +Collect only the fields needed for the documented purpose. Do not send secrets, credentials, session tokens, unrestricted URLs, free-form user content, or unnecessary personal data. Restrict access and precision to what the decision requires. + +**Why:** Extra fields increase breach, misuse, retention, and re-identification risk without improving the stated decision. + +**Verify:** + +- Review actual payloads and downstream tables, not only the tracking plan. +- Justify each sensitive, identifying, or high-cardinality property against the decision purpose. +- Confirm access controls and redaction apply in debug and export paths. + +**Exceptions:** A legally approved purpose can require sensitive data; record the governing policy, access boundary, and retention rule. + +### ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-005 — Define denominator, eligibility, and time + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Reporting a rate, funnel, cohort, retention value, or experiment outcome. + +State who can enter the metric, the numerator, denominator, identity unit, time zone, event-time or processing-time basis, window, exclusions, repeated-action handling, and late-arriving-data policy. + +**Why:** A metric name alone cannot reveal who had an opportunity to act or when an outcome counts. + +**Verify:** + +- Reproduce the metric from its written definition and source data. +- Test boundary cases at window edges, identity changes, repeated events, and delayed ingestion. + +**Exceptions:** A raw count can omit a denominator but must still define unit, scope, and time window. + +### ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-006 — Make identity behavior explicit + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Measurement spans anonymous and authenticated use, devices, accounts, workspaces, or shared entities. + +Define when identifiers are created, linked, split, reset, deleted, and used as the unit of analysis. Avoid retroactive stitching that changes historical populations without an explicit policy. + +**Why:** Identity rules can double-count people, merge different users, or rewrite historical metrics after sign-in. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise sign-in, sign-out, account switching, shared-device, deletion, and merge behavior relevant to the product. +- Compare event-level identifiers with the metric's declared analysis unit. + +**Exceptions:** Anonymous aggregate measurement can omit identity rules when no persistent or linkable identifier exists. + +### ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-007 — Version meaning changes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A trigger, property, identity rule, transformation, or metric definition changes meaning. + +Version the contract or create a new event or metric. Record the effective time, migration behavior, dashboard impact, and whether old and new values can be compared. + +**Why:** Silent semantic changes create plausible-looking time series that combine unlike data. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the change record and downstream queries for the version boundary. +- Confirm dashboards annotate, split, or restate history according to the compatibility decision. + +**Exceptions:** A correction that restores the documented meaning can retain the version when affected data is backfilled or clearly annotated. + +### ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-008 — Monitor data quality and ownership + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A metric or event informs recurring decisions, experiments, financial reporting, or critical operations. + +Assign an owner and monitor expected volume, schema, null rates, duplicates, freshness, and key distribution changes. Define escalation and deprecation paths. + +**Why:** Instrumentation can degrade silently while dashboards continue to render. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect quality checks and alert routing for the event or dataset. +- Confirm the owner can identify producers, consumers, retention, and dependent decisions. + +**Exceptions:** Short-lived exploratory instrumentation can use a manual review if it has an expiration date and is excluded from durable reporting. + +### ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-009 — Define retention and deletion behavior + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Analytics stores identifiers, personal data, or detailed behavioral history. + +Set retention according to the stated purpose and governing policy. Define deletion, anonymization, export, and downstream propagation behavior before collection begins. + +**Why:** Data cannot be minimized or user rights honored when copies and retention periods are unknown. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace a deletion or expiration through raw, transformed, exported, and backup data according to policy. +- Confirm retention configuration matches the documented period. + +**Exceptions:** Legal preservation requirements override routine deletion only within their documented scope and duration. + +### ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-010 — Bound names, values, and cardinality + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Defining event names, property names, identifiers, arrays, free-form values, or dimensions used for grouping and filtering. + +Keep event and property names stable and free of dynamic values. Use typed, bounded values and documented enumerations where practical. Identify and control fields whose unique values, length, or nested structure can grow without a known limit. + +**Why:** Dynamic names and unbounded values create unpredictable cost, slow or unusable queries, accidental personal-data capture, and contracts that consumers cannot enumerate. + +**Verify:** + +- Measure observed and expected cardinality, value size, array length, and payload size for representative and worst-case inputs. +- Confirm identifiers and free-form content appear in governed properties rather than names. +- Test unknown enumeration values and forward-compatible consumers. + +**Exceptions:** A high-cardinality identifier can be collected when the documented decision requires record-level correlation and access, retention, and cost controls are explicit. + +### ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-011 — Preserve transformation lineage + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Raw events are cleaned, joined, filtered, sampled, modeled, aggregated, corrected, or exported before a decision uses them. + +Record the source datasets, transformation version, filters, joins, identity rules, sampling or weighting, correction logic, and effective period. Make it possible to trace a reported value back to the producing contracts and code. + +**Why:** A stable dashboard can change meaning because of an upstream model or identity transformation that the metric definition does not reveal. + +**Verify:** + +- Follow a representative result from report to model, transformed data, raw events, and producing code. +- Reconcile row counts and exclusions at material transformation boundaries. +- Confirm version changes are reviewable and annotated under `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-007`. + +**Exceptions:** A one-time exploratory analysis can preserve its query and input snapshot instead of a maintained lineage system. + +### ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-012 — Treat linkable data as sensitive + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Data is pseudonymous, hashed, device-linked, precise, or combinable with other data to identify or single out a person or household. + +Do not describe linkable data as anonymous solely because direct names or emails were removed. Apply purpose, access, retention, deletion, and sharing controls according to its realistic re-identification and inference risk. + +**Why:** Persistent identifiers and detailed behavior can remain personal or sensitive through linkage even without obvious identity fields. + +**Verify:** + +- Review what internal and external datasets can be joined to the analytics data. +- Inspect uniqueness, precision, persistence, and small-group reporting for singling-out risk. +- Confirm privacy descriptions and access controls match the actual linkage capability. + +**Exceptions:** Data can be treated as de-identified only through the governing privacy process and its required technical and contractual controls. + +## Guidance + +Prefer events that describe completed facts, such as `report_exported`, over interface implementation, such as `export_button_clicked`, unless the click itself is the decision-relevant fact. Record failures separately from successful outcomes. + +Keep properties typed and bounded. Use enumerations for known states, explicit units for quantities, and stable IDs rather than display names. High-cardinality free text is difficult to govern and often captures unintended personal data. + +Treat dashboards as views over governed definitions, not as the definition itself. Keep semantic contracts close to the code or data model and make changes reviewable. + +## Examples + +### Event contract + +Non-compliant: `signup` fires when the page loads for some clients and when account creation succeeds for others. + +Compliant: `account_created` fires once after durable account creation. Its contract defines the account as the analysis unit, server event time, allowed acquisition-source values, and retry deduplication key. + +### Rate definition + +Non-compliant: “Activation rate = activated users / users.” + +Compliant: “Weekly activation rate is the number of new workspaces created in UTC during the week that publish one item within seven complete days, divided by eligible workspaces created in that week. Internal, deleted-before-publication, and imported workspaces are excluded.” + +## Sources + +- UK Information Commissioner's Office, [Purpose limitation](https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/data-protection-principles/a-guide-to-the-data-protection-principles/purpose-limitation/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- UK Information Commissioner's Office, [Data minimisation](https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/data-protection-principles/a-guide-to-the-data-protection-principles/data-minimisation/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- OWASP Foundation, [Logging Cheat Sheet](https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Logging_Cheat_Sheet.html). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Privacy Principles](https://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/), May 15, 2025. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- OpenTelemetry, [Semantic conventions for events](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/general/events/), Semantic Conventions 1.43.0. Reviewed August 13, 2026. This source governs telemetry rather than product analytics directly; this standard adopts its event-contract principles where the concepts overlap. +- OpenTelemetry, [Versioning and stability for OpenTelemetry clients](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/versioning-and-stability/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/api/contracts.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/api/contracts.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d25600c --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/api/contracts.md @@ -0,0 +1,749 @@ +--- +id: API-CONTRACTS +title: API design and contracts +description: Requirements for usable, compatible, bounded, observable, and recoverable programmatic interfaces. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [engineering, platform, security] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-16 +review_by: 2027-02-16 +stale_after: 2027-02-16 +applies_to: [api-change, service-change, library-api-change] +tags: [api, design, contracts, compatibility] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-CHANGE, SECURITY-APPLICATION, CONTENT-ERRORS] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-16T23:36:18Z" } +sources: + - id: rfc-9110 + resource: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html + title: HTTP Semantics + author: organization:ietf + - id: rfc-9457 + resource: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9457.html + title: Problem Details for HTTP APIs + author: organization:ietf + - id: rfc-6585 + resource: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6585.html + title: Additional HTTP Status Codes + author: organization:ietf + - id: rfc-9111 + resource: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9111.html + title: HTTP Caching + author: organization:ietf + - id: rfc-8594 + resource: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8594.html + title: The Sunset HTTP Header Field + author: organization:ietf + - id: rfc-9745 + resource: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9745.html + title: The Deprecation HTTP Response Header Field + author: organization:ietf + - id: openapi-32 + resource: https://spec.openapis.org/oas/v3.2.0.html + title: OpenAPI Specification 3.2.0 + author: organization:openapi-initiative + - id: google-aip-151 + resource: https://google.aip.dev/151 + title: Long-running operations + author: organization:google + - id: google-aip-154 + resource: https://google.aip.dev/154 + title: Resource freshness validation + author: organization:google + - id: google-aip-158 + resource: https://google.aip.dev/158 + title: Pagination + author: organization:google + - id: google-aip-180 + resource: https://google.aip.dev/180 + title: Backwards compatibility + author: organization:google + - id: google-aip-132 + resource: https://google.aip.dev/132 + title: Standard methods - List + author: organization:google + - id: google-aip-141 + resource: https://google.aip.dev/141 + title: Quantities + author: organization:google + - id: google-aip-142 + resource: https://google.aip.dev/142 + title: Time and duration + author: organization:google + - id: google-aip-149 + resource: https://google.aip.dev/149 + title: Unset field values + author: organization:google + - id: google-aip-155 + resource: https://google.aip.dev/155 + title: Request identification + author: organization:google + - id: google-aip-160 + resource: https://google.aip.dev/160 + title: Filtering + author: organization:google + - id: google-aip-161 + resource: https://google.aip.dev/161 + title: Field masks + author: organization:google + - id: google-aip-203 + resource: https://google.aip.dev/203 + title: Field behavior documentation + author: organization:google + - id: google-aip-216 + resource: https://google.aip.dev/216 + title: States + author: organization:google + - id: google-aip-231 + resource: https://google.aip.dev/231 + title: Batch methods - Get + author: organization:google + - id: microsoft-api-guidelines + resource: https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines + title: Microsoft REST API Guidelines + author: organization:microsoft + - id: json-schema-2020-12 + resource: https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12 + title: JSON Schema Draft 2020-12 + author: organization:json-schema + - id: protobuf-proto3 + resource: https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/proto3/ + title: Protocol Buffers proto3 language guide + author: organization:google + - id: w3c-trace-context + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/trace-context/ + title: Trace Context + author: organization:w3c + - id: cloudevents-102 + resource: https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/blob/v1.0.2/cloudevents/spec.md + title: CloudEvents Specification 1.0.2 + author: organization:cloud-native-computing-foundation + - id: owasp-api-security-2023 + resource: https://owasp.org/API-Security/editions/2023/en/0x11-t10/ + title: OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks 2023 + author: organization:owasp + - id: goedecke-api-design + resource: https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-api-design/ + title: Everything I know about good API design + author: person:sean-goedecke + - id: bloch-api-design + resource: https://research.google/pubs/how-to-design-a-good-api-and-why-it-matters/ + title: How to design a good API and why it matters + author: person:joshua-bloch +--- + +# API design and contracts + +APIs must preserve defined meaning across clients, versions, retries, failures, and changing load. This standard applies to HTTP, RPC, event, library, SDK, command, and comparable programmatic contracts. Use the map below for orientation. A rule's `Applies when` statement determines whether it governs a specific change, and protocol- or language-specific behavior must be verified against its authoritative specification. + +## Applicability map + +| Work | Start with | +|---|---| +| New or changed public interface | `API-CONTRACTS-001`, `API-CONTRACTS-009`, `API-CONTRACTS-017` through `API-CONTRACTS-023` | +| Protocol responses, errors, and caching | `API-CONTRACTS-002`, `API-CONTRACTS-003`, `API-CONTRACTS-013` | +| Collections, queries, expansions, or bulk work | `API-CONTRACTS-004`, `API-CONTRACTS-011`, `API-CONTRACTS-026`, `API-CONTRACTS-028` | +| Mutations, retries, or concurrent writes | `API-CONTRACTS-005`, `API-CONTRACTS-012`, `API-CONTRACTS-020`, `API-CONTRACTS-023`, `API-CONTRACTS-030` | +| Compatibility, lifecycle, or retirement | `API-CONTRACTS-006`, `API-CONTRACTS-016`, `API-CONTRACTS-024`, `API-CONTRACTS-025`, `API-CONTRACTS-029` | +| Capacity, authorization, or distributed operation | `API-CONTRACTS-007`, `API-CONTRACTS-008`, `API-CONTRACTS-010`, `API-CONTRACTS-030`, `API-CONTRACTS-031` | +| Asynchronous operations, events, or webhooks | `API-CONTRACTS-014`, `API-CONTRACTS-015` | +| Libraries and SDKs | `API-CONTRACTS-018` through `API-CONTRACTS-022`, `API-CONTRACTS-027`, `API-CONTRACTS-029`, `API-CONTRACTS-032` | + +## Rules + +### API-CONTRACTS-001 — Define the contract before implementation + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Adding or materially changing a programmatic interface. + +Specify operations, authentication, authorization, inputs, outputs, errors, side effects, limits, compatibility, and lifecycle in a reviewable contract before release. + +**Why:** An implicit contract drifts across clients and makes failure and migration behavior unpredictable. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare implementation and representative traffic with the versioned contract. +- Confirm every exposed field and operation has ownership and intended semantics. + +**Exceptions:** An internal experiment may use a provisional contract when access is bounded and no compatibility promise is made. + +### API-CONTRACTS-002 — Use truthful protocol semantics + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A protocol defines methods, status, headers, or media types. + +Return protocol signals that match the actual outcome, including success, validation failure, missing access, absence, conflict, throttling, and temporary unavailability. + +**Why:** Clients, intermediaries, monitoring, and operators make decisions from protocol semantics. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise success and each material failure class and inspect the complete response. +- Confirm caches, retries, and monitoring interpret the result as intended. + +**Exceptions:** Legacy behavior requires a versioned compatibility plan and an expiration owner. + +### API-CONTRACTS-003 — Make errors stable and actionable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A request can fail in a way callers need to handle. + +Return a stable machine-readable error identifier, safe human detail, affected field or operation where appropriate, trace reference, and retry or remediation guidance without exposing secrets. For HTTP APIs, meet `CONTENT-ERRORS-011`: use RFC 9457 problem details or an equally stable documented contract. + +**Why:** Parsing prose or guessing from one status code creates fragile callers and unsafe diagnostics. + +**Verify:** + +- Validate error responses against the published schema. +- Confirm sensitive inputs, internal stack details, credentials, and tenant data are absent. + +**Exceptions:** Security-sensitive failures may intentionally collapse distinctions when the generic response is documented and observable internally. + +### API-CONTRACTS-004 — Bound collections and work + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A response or operation can grow with stored data, fan-out, or caller input. + +Set enforceable limits on request size, response size, page size, processing time, concurrency, and fan-out. Use stable continuation semantics for changing collections. Prefer cursor or continuation-token pagination when a collection can become large or change during traversal; do not expose an offset contract that cannot meet expected deep-page cost and consistency needs. Keep continuation tokens opaque, bind them to the applicable query state, and never treat possession of a token as authorization. + +**Why:** Unbounded work causes resource exhaustion, latency spikes, duplicate processing, and incomplete traversal. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise maximum, over-limit, empty, changing, and final-page cases. +- Confirm continuation does not silently omit or duplicate records under the documented consistency model. +- Exercise tampered, expired, cross-tenant, and parameter-mismatched continuation tokens. + +**Exceptions:** Offline bulk interfaces may use larger bounds with separate authorization, quotas, interruption, and recovery controls. + +### API-CONTRACTS-005 — Define retry and idempotency behavior + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Requests can be retried after timeout, disconnection, or partial failure. + +Declare which operations are safe to retry and protect non-idempotent effects with a bounded idempotency, deduplication, or reconciliation mechanism. + +**Why:** Callers cannot distinguish a lost response from a failed effect and may repeat durable actions. + +**Verify:** + +- Repeat requests before, during, and after interruption using the same and different request keys. +- Confirm the final state and returned result match the published retry contract. + +**Exceptions:** A non-repeatable operation must require explicit caller acknowledgment and provide a status or reconciliation path. + +### API-CONTRACTS-006 — Evolve contracts compatibly + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Existing callers may use the interface during or after a change. + +Classify compatibility before implementation and prefer additive evolution. Do not remove, rename, relocate, narrow, or change the meaning or type of published behavior while supported callers depend on it. When a breaking change is justified, preserve old and new callers through an explicit version or migration window, publish deprecation and removal dates, and measure remaining use before removal. Internal ownership does not make a break safe unless every affected caller can be identified, coordinated, and verified. + +**Why:** A syntactically small change can break stored clients, generated code, integrations, and delayed jobs. + +**Verify:** + +- Run contract and integration checks for supported client versions. +- Inspect production usage and owner approval before removing behavior. + +**Exceptions:** An emergency security removal may shorten notice when the risk, affected callers, communication, and recovery path are recorded. + +### API-CONTRACTS-007 — Make throttling fair and observable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Capacity, abuse, cost, or contractual limits require rate control. + +Define the counted identity, window or algorithm, shared-resource boundary, response semantics, retry guidance, exemptions, and operator visibility. Do not let one tenant consume another tenant's protected allocation without an explicit policy. Provide an owned way to reduce or suspend one abusive or malfunctioning caller without disabling healthy callers. + +**Why:** Ambiguous rate limits produce retry storms, unfairness, and unexplained customer failures. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise sustained, burst, distributed, and boundary traffic for separate tenants and credentials. +- Confirm limit responses, retry metadata, metrics, and alerts agree. + +**Exceptions:** None for externally enforced limits; undisclosed defensive limits may omit exact thresholds but must retain actionable responses and internal ownership. + +### API-CONTRACTS-008 — Verify authorization at the resource boundary + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An operation reads or changes protected resources. + +Apply `SECURITY-APPLICATION-002`, which owns the enforcement requirement, at the interface contract: authorize the authenticated principal for the exact operation, tenant, object, fields, and current state on the trusted side of the interface. + +**Why:** Endpoint-level authentication alone does not prevent cross-tenant or object-level access. + +**Verify:** + +- Run the `SECURITY-APPLICATION-002` verification against the published contract: allowed and denied cases across tenants, roles, object identifiers, field selection, and state transitions. +- Confirm bulk, nested, export, and error paths enforce the same boundary. + +**Exceptions:** Explicitly public resources require classification and tests for unintended fields or state changes. + +### API-CONTRACTS-009 — Model caller-visible product concepts + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Designing a new resource, operation, or material contract shape. + +Represent stable product concepts and caller workflows with familiar protocol patterns. Do not expose storage links, service boundaries, job mechanics, or other implementation structure unless callers need that concept to use or control the product correctly. + +**Why:** An interface coupled to internal structure transfers system complexity to every caller and becomes difficult to evolve without breaking them. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace representative caller goals through the contract without relying on undocumented implementation knowledge. +- Review whether each exposed resource, relationship, and state remains meaningful if storage or service topology changes. + +**Exceptions:** Operational and administrative APIs may expose implementation concepts when those concepts are the intended subject of control and are documented as such. + +### API-CONTRACTS-010 — Make secure adoption direct + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An API is intended for independent adoption by external or cross-team callers. + +Provide the least complex authentication and first-request path allowed by the threat model. Document a runnable minimal request, credential scope, storage expectations, expiration, rotation, revocation, and the path to stronger delegated access when needed. Do not require an interactive delegated flow for a server-to-server use case unless the security model requires it. + +**Why:** Callers often begin with a small integration, and unnecessary setup complexity causes unsafe workarounds or prevents adoption. + +**Verify:** + +- Complete credential creation, one useful request, rotation, and revocation from the published instructions in a clean environment. +- Confirm the simplest supported path retains required least-privilege, audit, tenant, and secret-handling controls. + +**Exceptions:** High-risk or user-delegated access may require short-lived credentials, interactive authorization, device binding, or administrator approval. + +### API-CONTRACTS-011 — Keep costly expansions explicit + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A field, relationship, computation, or downstream call materially increases response cost, latency, fan-out, or failure risk. + +Keep the baseline response bounded and make costly expansions explicit and off by default. Define allowed expansions, nesting and size limits, authorization, partial-failure behavior, and cost or throttling semantics in the contract. + +**Why:** Hidden work makes ordinary reads slow and lets a small request trigger unpredictable load across dependent systems. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare baseline and expanded requests for returned fields, authorization, queries or downstream calls, latency, and enforced bounds. +- Exercise unsupported, nested, over-limit, partially unavailable, and repeated expansion requests. + +**Exceptions:** A field may remain in the baseline when callers almost always require it and measured cost stays within the interface objective at the enforced limits. + +### API-CONTRACTS-012 — Prevent lost concurrent updates + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** More than one actor can update or delete a resource based on previously read state and an unnoticed overwrite could cause harm. + +Expose a resource version or validator and support a conditional mutation that rejects stale state. Define the conflict or precondition response, whether a missing precondition is allowed, and how callers can refetch, merge, or retry without silently discarding another actor's change. + +**Why:** Read-modify-write races can return success while erasing a concurrent change. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise simultaneous mutations with matching, stale, missing, malformed, and cross-resource validators. +- Confirm a rejected stale mutation leaves the newer state unchanged and returns enough information for the documented recovery path. + +**Exceptions:** Append-only, commutative, or server-owned mutations may omit caller preconditions when their concurrency behavior cannot overwrite another actor's state and is documented. + +### API-CONTRACTS-013 — Define caching and freshness behavior + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A response can pass through a browser, shared cache, gateway, client cache, or other component that may reuse it. + +Declare whether the response can be stored and reused, its cache-key dimensions, freshness lifetime, revalidation behavior, and allowed stale behavior. Protect authenticated, tenant-specific, personal, and otherwise sensitive responses from shared or cross-context reuse. Use protocol cache controls and validators consistently with the documented semantics. + +**Why:** Implicit cache behavior can leak one caller's data, serve stale state as current, or defeat expected performance. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise fresh, stale, revalidated, changed, and invalidated responses through each material cache layer. +- Vary identity, tenant, authorization, locale, encoding, and other representation dimensions and confirm cache isolation and keys are correct. + +**Exceptions:** An interface may disable storage and reuse explicitly when caching has no material value or cannot be made safe. + +### API-CONTRACTS-014 — Define asynchronous operation lifecycle + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Work can exceed the synchronous request deadline, continue after disconnection, or finish outside the initiating request. + +Return a durable operation handle or equivalent status resource. Define identity, states and transitions, status retrieval, result and error shape, progress semantics when present, cancellation behavior, retry and duplicate-submission behavior, authorization, retention, and expiration. Terminal results must remain distinguishable from an unknown or expired operation. + +**Why:** A bare acceptance response leaves callers unable to determine whether work is queued, running, failed, duplicated, canceled, or complete. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise lost submission responses, duplicate submissions, polling, worker restart, partial failure, cancellation races, terminal results, retention expiry, and unauthorized status access. +- Confirm each accepted operation reaches a documented terminal or recoverable state and remains reconcilable for the stated retention period. + +**Exceptions:** A streaming operation may use stream completion as its lifecycle when disconnect behavior, resumption, final status, and side effects are explicit. + +### API-CONTRACTS-015 — Define event and webhook delivery + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A service publishes events or calls a consumer-controlled endpoint. + +Define stable event identity, source, type and schema version, occurrence time, subject, payload semantics, authentication or integrity protection, acknowledgement deadline, retry and backoff behavior, duplicate and ordering behavior, delivery horizon, replay or recovery path, and subscription and secret lifecycle. Consumers must be able to distinguish a redelivery of one event from a separate occurrence. + +**Why:** Network and consumer failures make duplicate, delayed, missing, and out-of-order delivery normal conditions that callers must handle deliberately. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise valid, forged, duplicated, delayed, out-of-order, malformed, timed-out, and repeatedly failing deliveries. +- Confirm endpoint validation, secret rotation, subscription suspension or deletion, replay, retention, and exhausted-delivery handling match the contract. + +**Exceptions:** An explicitly at-most-once channel may omit redelivery and replay when the accepted loss behavior and recovery limits are documented. + +### API-CONTRACTS-016 — Inventory and retire deployed surfaces + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An API or version is deployed to any production or non-production environment. + +Maintain an owned inventory of hosts, environments, routes or methods, versions, exposure, authentication, data classification, lifecycle state, and intended consumers. Reconcile the inventory and published contract with the routes that gateways and applications actually serve. Signal deprecation and sunset through documented machine-readable protocol mechanisms where available, then remove the route, credentials, documentation, monitoring, and network exposure when retirement completes. + +**Why:** Forgotten versions, debug routes, and undocumented environments remain reachable without current controls, ownership, or patching. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare contracts and inventory with DNS, gateways, load balancers, application routes, service discovery, and externally observable endpoints. +- Exercise deprecation and sunset signals, migration links, removal dates, post-retirement denial, and cleanup of credentials and exposure. + +**Exceptions:** A short-lived isolated test surface may use an automatically expiring inventory record when it has no production data, public exposure, or durable consumers. + +### API-CONTRACTS-017 — Design from representative use cases + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Adding a new API or materially expanding its caller-visible concepts. + +Identify representative simple, complex, failure, and misuse cases before fixing the contract. Draft the smallest interface that supports them, write realistic calling code or requests, review it with intended callers and implementers, and retain accepted examples as contract or compatibility checks. + +**Why:** An interface can look tidy in isolation while forcing awkward, unsafe, or impossible caller workflows. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace each selected use case through concrete caller code or requests, responses, errors, and cleanup. +- Confirm the implemented contract still supports the reviewed examples without undocumented steps or privileged implementation knowledge. + +**Exceptions:** A narrow internal experiment may use a smaller provisional set when its callers and compatibility limits are explicit. + +### API-CONTRACTS-018 — Keep vocabulary and shapes consistent + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Naming or shaping operations, resources, parameters, fields, results, or failures. + +Use intelligible, customary, and unambiguous names; one term must keep one meaning across the interface. Use types that represent the domain value directly, and keep parameter order, defaults, nullability, units, identifiers, and result shapes consistent across similar operations. Operations with materially different behavior must not rely on a shared name or overload that hides the difference. + +**Why:** Every inconsistency becomes a special case callers must remember and often discover through failure. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare related operations and generated or handwritten caller code for vocabulary, types, order, defaults, units, and empty-state behavior. +- Ask representative callers to predict an unfamiliar operation from established patterns and investigate material surprises. + +**Exceptions:** A protocol or platform convention may require an established inconsistency; document it and avoid inventing an additional variation. + +### API-CONTRACTS-019 — Minimize public surface and mutability + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Deciding whether a capability, type, field, state transition, extension point, or implementation detail is caller-visible. + +Expose only what demonstrated caller use cases require and default the rest to private. Prefer immutable values and constrained state transitions. Do not expose storage, subclassing, inheritance, override, or other implementation extension points unless their supported behavior, invariants, compatibility, concurrency, and lifecycle are part of the contract. + +**Why:** Public surface and mutation paths create permanent compatibility, testing, security, and support obligations. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace every exported element and mutation path to a current use case, owner, documentation, and compatibility test. +- Attempt unsupported mutation, extension, subclassing, and implementation substitution and confirm the boundary fails safely or is explicitly supported. + +**Exceptions:** Framework and plugin APIs may intentionally expose extension points when their invariants, isolation, versioning, and failure behavior are documented and tested. + +### API-CONTRACTS-020 — Reject invalid use before effects + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Invalid input, state, authorization, or preconditions can be detected before a durable or external side effect. + +Validate the complete request at the earliest trusted boundary and return the documented failure before committing effects. When validation or authorization can fail only after work begins, define atomicity, partial success, compensation, status, and reconciliation behavior. + +**Why:** Late failure wastes work and can leave callers with partial state that is difficult to detect or repair. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise malformed, out-of-range, unauthorized, conflicting, and invalid-state requests and inspect all durable and external effects. +- Inject failure at each stage and confirm the final state and response match the documented atomicity or partial-success contract. + +**Exceptions:** Streaming and incremental operations may validate progressively when future input is unavailable; prior accepted effects and stop behavior must remain explicit. + +### API-CONTRACTS-021 — Return structured values and ordinary empty states + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Callers need to inspect, branch on, calculate with, or persist returned information. + +Return structured fields with appropriate types instead of requiring callers to parse display strings or undocumented encodings. Represent ordinary absence with the contract's normal empty or optional form, and reserve errors or exceptional control flow for conditions that prevent the operation from fulfilling its contract. + +**Why:** String parsing, magic sentinels, and exceptional normal states create fragile callers and hide type, localization, and compatibility errors. + +**Verify:** + +- Implement representative caller decisions using documented fields and types without parsing human text. +- Exercise zero, empty, absent, unknown, malformed, and failed results and confirm each has one stable meaning. + +**Exceptions:** A text-format API may return strings as its primary domain value, but machine-significant components still require a defined grammar and versioning policy. + +### API-CONTRACTS-022 — Document every exported contract element + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An element is available to callers outside its owning implementation. + +Document purpose, inputs, outputs, side effects, errors, limits, units, defaults, nullability, concurrency, security, lifecycle, and examples wherever they affect correct use. Keep a runnable minimal example and representative advanced and failure examples synchronized with the released contract. + +**Why:** Self-consistent naming reduces lookup cost but cannot communicate every behavioral, operational, and security obligation. + +**Verify:** + +- Reconcile exported elements with generated or written reference documentation and fail the documentation check on missing public elements. +- Run maintained examples against the final supported interface and verify their expected outcomes. + +**Exceptions:** Obvious language-generated accessors may inherit type-level documentation when they add no independent behavior or constraints. + +### API-CONTRACTS-023 — Define field presence and update ownership + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A request or response contains optional, nullable, immutable, input-only, output-only, defaulted, or partially updated fields. + +Define each field's presence and ownership semantics, including whether it is required, optional, nullable, immutable, caller-set, or server-set. Distinguish omitted, null, empty, zero, false, and default values wherever they have different effects. Partial updates must identify the fields being changed and define whether omission preserves, clears, resets, or ignores each value. + +**Why:** Ambiguous presence can erase data, overwrite server values, or make a newly added field break old update clients. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise every meaningful combination of omitted, null, empty, zero, false, default, immutable, output-only, and explicitly selected fields. +- Read, partially update, and reread a resource; confirm unselected fields and unauthorized fields remain unchanged. + +**Exceptions:** A replace operation may require a complete representation when replacement, defaults, and omitted-field behavior are explicit. + +### API-CONTRACTS-024 — Specify consistency guarantees + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Callers can observe replicated, cached, asynchronous, or concurrently changing data. + +Define read-after-write, read-after-delete, snapshot, monotonic-read, ordering, and replication-lag behavior where callers can observe a difference. State the scope of each guarantee, including resource, collection, tenant, region, replica, session, and time bounds as applicable. + +**Why:** A successful write is misleading when callers cannot predict what later reads, lists, searches, or replicas may observe. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise immediate and delayed reads after create, update, and delete across replicas, regions, caches, and supported client paths. +- Confirm observed staleness, ordering, snapshots, and convergence stay within the documented scope and bounds. + +**Exceptions:** A single-process immutable interface may rely on its language memory model when no distributed consistency behavior is exposed. + +### API-CONTRACTS-025 — Define lifecycle states and transitions + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A caller-visible resource or operation moves through states over time. + +Model lifecycle states and allowed transitions explicitly. Distinguish transient, stable, terminal, failed, canceled, deleted, expired, and unknown states where applicable. Expose actions rather than allowing arbitrary state assignment when transitions have side effects, authorization, or preconditions. + +**Why:** A state label without transition rules leaves callers unable to know which actions are valid or whether progress requires intervention. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise every allowed and denied transition, including repeated, concurrent, stale, terminal, cancellation, and recovery attempts. +- Confirm each transient state reaches a documented next state or exposes the intervention and timeout behavior. + +**Exceptions:** A value with no lifecycle or transition behavior may use an ordinary field instead of a state model. + +### API-CONTRACTS-026 — Make collection queries deterministic + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A collection supports filtering, searching, sorting, pagination, counts, or caller-selected projections. + +Define the query grammar, supported fields and operators, type coercion, case and locale behavior, null and missing-value handling, default and requested ordering, deterministic tie-breaking, authorization scope, and invalid-query response. Define whether counts are exact or estimated and bind continuation state to the filter, sort, projection, and consistency context that produced it. + +**Why:** Underspecified queries produce missing or duplicated pages, unstable results, cross-tenant leaks, and client behavior tied to database accidents. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise equal sort keys, concurrent inserts and deletes, nulls, unsupported fields and operators, malformed grammar, locale-sensitive text, and changed parameters between pages. +- Confirm filtering, counting, projection, and ordering occur within the authorized resource set and remain stable under the documented consistency model. + +**Exceptions:** A collection with one fixed, documented order and no query controls may omit a query grammar. + +### API-CONTRACTS-027 — Represent identifiers and quantities precisely + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A contract carries identifiers, time, dates, durations, money, measurements, counts, percentages, offsets, or other values whose representation affects meaning. + +Use stable types and document format, unit, scale, precision, range, timezone or calendar basis, rounding, overflow, and comparison semantics as applicable. Treat opaque identifiers as opaque and preserve leading zeros and case rules. Money must identify currency and avoid binary floating-point assumptions where exact decimal value matters. + +**Why:** Ambiguous scalars cause unit conversion errors, rounding loss, timezone shifts, identifier corruption, and incompatible generated clients. + +**Verify:** + +- Round-trip minimum, maximum, zero, negative where allowed, fractional, high-precision, timezone-boundary, daylight-saving, leap-day, leading-zero, and non-ASCII cases. +- Compare representations across every supported language, serializer, database boundary, and documentation example. + +**Exceptions:** A domain standard may prescribe another representation when its version and semantics are part of the contract. + +### API-CONTRACTS-028 — Define bulk and partial-result semantics + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** One request reads or changes multiple independently identifiable items or sub-operations. + +Define batch limits, ordering, atomicity, isolation, authorization, idempotency, and whether one failure rejects all work or returns partial results. For partial results, correlate every item with a success, failure, or unattempted state and make retrying only unresolved items safe. + +**Why:** A single top-level success or failure cannot tell callers which durable effects occurred in a mixed batch. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise all-success, first-failure, middle-failure, last-failure, timeout, duplicate item, unauthorized item, concurrent batch, and over-limit cases. +- Reconcile per-item results with final state and retry failed or unknown items without repeating successful effects. + +**Exceptions:** A transactional batch may return one result when all items commit or none do and that atomicity is verified at every dependency boundary. + +### API-CONTRACTS-029 — Preserve forward compatibility with unknown data + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Fields, variants, enum values, event types, union members, or schema extensions may be added during the supported lifetime. + +Define how clients handle unknown response data and how servers handle unknown request data. Clients must not fail solely because a compatible response adds an unknown field or open value. Preserve reserved names, numeric tags, discriminators, and retired identifiers so they cannot be reused with a different meaning. + +**Why:** Additive schema evolution is not compatible when generated clients, exhaustive switches, validators, or reused identifiers reject or reinterpret new data. + +**Verify:** + +- Run supported clients against responses containing unknown fields, enum values, event types, and union variants. +- Send unknown request members under each supported media type and confirm the documented reject, ignore, or preserve behavior without mass assignment. + +**Exceptions:** A deliberately closed schema may reject unknown data when closure is required for safety or correctness and version negotiation protects future changes. + +### API-CONTRACTS-030 — Define deadlines and cancellation + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Work can block, call dependencies, consume scarce resources, or continue after the caller stops waiting. + +Define client and server deadlines, timeout signals, downstream budget propagation, cancellation acknowledgement, and whether cancellation stops pending work, interrupts active work, compensates completed work, or only stops waiting. A timeout or disconnect must not be presented as proof that no side effect occurred. + +**Why:** Unbounded or misunderstood work wastes capacity and causes callers to retry operations whose original effects are still running or already complete. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise deadlines before dispatch, during dependency calls, during commit, after commit but before response, and during cancellation races. +- Confirm downstream work, final status, resource cleanup, and retry guidance match the contract after timeout, disconnect, and cancellation. + +**Exceptions:** A bounded local operation may rely on synchronous language cancellation semantics when it performs no external or durable effects. + +### API-CONTRACTS-031 — Separate correlation from authority and deduplication + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Requests cross process boundaries or callers and operators need to trace an operation. + +Accept or generate a safe correlation identifier and propagate standard trace context across participating boundaries where supported. Document which identifiers are caller-supplied, returned, logged, and propagated. Never treat correlation or trace identifiers as authentication, authorization, secrecy, freshness, or idempotency unless a separate contract explicitly grants that role. + +**Why:** Conflating diagnostic identifiers with security or retry controls creates spoofing, data exposure, and duplicate-effect risks. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace one request through gateways, services, queues, callbacks, and errors while preserving tenant and privacy boundaries. +- Exercise missing, malformed, duplicated, spoofed, oversized, and conflicting correlation and trace identifiers. + +**Exceptions:** A single-process library may omit distributed trace propagation while retaining a diagnostic context appropriate to its platform. + +### API-CONTRACTS-032 — Treat SDK behavior as part of the contract + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The API owner publishes or endorses generated or handwritten client libraries, command tools, or language bindings. + +Version each client against supported service contracts and define authentication, configuration, defaults, retries, idempotency, pagination, long-running operations, errors, cancellation, timeouts, unknown values, and thread or task safety. Follow language conventions without changing wire or semantic meaning, and publish support and deprecation policy for each runtime. + +**Why:** Callers experience the SDK surface, and a correct wire endpoint does not compensate for a client that retries unsafely, hides pages, loses errors, or cannot represent new values. + +**Verify:** + +- Run the same contract scenarios through raw protocol and every supported client version and compare outcomes. +- Exercise installation, authentication, pagination, retries, cancellation, unknown values, deprecation, upgrade, and mixed client-service version combinations. + +**Exceptions:** Community clients not published or endorsed by the API owner are outside the release gate but should receive a stable public contract to implement. + +## Guidance + +Prefer additive changes and generated contract checks, but do not mistake schema compatibility for semantic compatibility. Clients should ignore unknown response fields unless the contract explicitly defines a closed shape. Record consistency, ordering, time, money, identifiers, nullability, and partial success explicitly when they affect callers. + +Choose an interface style because it fits caller tasks and operational constraints, not to satisfy architectural fashion. A flexible query interface can reduce over-fetching, but it also expands the authorization, cost-control, caching, and testing surface. Use it only when that tradeoff is justified and bounded. + +Do not copy capacity accidents into permanent identifiers, types, or unchangeable client assumptions. Service limits are still required by `API-CONTRACTS-004`; choose them from measured capacity and risk, publish relevant behavior, and retain a compatible way to adjust them. + +When many callers repeat the same mechanical sequence, consider moving it behind the API if the API can do so unambiguously without hiding authority, cost, network work, or failure. Keep the primitive operations when callers need control. + +For library APIs, document whether types are safe to share across threads or tasks. Permit inheritance, subclassing, overriding, or implementation by callers only when it is a deliberate extension contract; code reuse alone is not a reason to expose inheritance. Choose checked, unchecked, result-value, or protocol error mechanisms according to whether callers can realistically recover and the conventions of the language or platform. + +API design requires judgment. Prefer the smallest coherent contract supported by evidence, and record a concrete reason when a use case requires violating an established convention. + +## Examples + +### Retried payment request + +Non-compliant: A timed-out create request can charge again when the caller retries. + +Compliant: The caller supplies an idempotency key scoped to the account and operation; repeated matching requests return the original result, conflicting reuse is rejected, and the caller can query final status. + +### Expensive relationship + +Non-compliant: Every `GET /customers/{id}` request calls a billing provider and returns an unbounded history because some callers need subscription details. + +Compliant: The baseline customer response stays local and bounded. Callers request `subscription` explicitly; the contract defines its authorization, timeout, partial-failure response, and history limit. + +### Concurrent profile update + +Non-compliant: Two administrators read version 7 of a customer profile, submit different edits, and both receive success while the second write silently removes the first. + +Compliant: The profile exposes a validator. The first conditional update creates version 8; the stale second update is rejected without changing state and tells the caller to refetch and reconcile. + +### Accepted export + +Non-compliant: `POST /exports` returns `202 Accepted` with no identifier, leaving the caller unable to tell whether a timeout created an export. + +Compliant: The request supports duplicate protection and returns an authorized operation URL whose states, result, error, cancellation, and expiration behavior are documented. + +### Partial profile update + +Non-compliant: An omitted `phone_number` in a patch request sometimes means “leave unchanged” and sometimes clears the field depending on which client serialized it. + +Compliant: The update selects fields explicitly. Omitted unselected fields are preserved, an explicitly selected null follows the documented clear rule, and output-only fields cannot be changed. + +### Bulk invitation + +Non-compliant: A request to invite 100 members returns one timeout after 63 invitations were sent, with no per-member status or safe retry path. + +Compliant: Each member has a stable sub-operation key and result. The caller retries only failed or unknown members, while repeated successful keys return their original outcomes. + +## Sources + +- Internet Engineering Task Force, [HTTP Semantics](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html), RFC 9110. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Internet Engineering Task Force, [Problem Details for HTTP APIs](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9457.html), RFC 9457. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Internet Engineering Task Force, [Additional HTTP Status Codes](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6585.html), RFC 6585. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Internet Engineering Task Force, [HTTP Caching](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9111.html), RFC 9111. Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Internet Engineering Task Force, [The Sunset HTTP Header Field](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8594.html), RFC 8594. Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Internet Engineering Task Force, [The Deprecation HTTP Response Header Field](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9745.html), RFC 9745. Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- OpenAPI Initiative, [OpenAPI Specification 3.2.0](https://spec.openapis.org/oas/v3.2.0.html). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Google, [AIP-151: Long-running operations](https://google.aip.dev/151). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Google, [AIP-154: Resource freshness validation](https://google.aip.dev/154). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Google, [AIP-158: Pagination](https://google.aip.dev/158). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Google, [AIP-180: Backwards compatibility](https://google.aip.dev/180). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Google, [AIP-132: Standard methods — List](https://google.aip.dev/132). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Google, [AIP-141: Quantities](https://google.aip.dev/141). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Google, [AIP-142: Time and duration](https://google.aip.dev/142). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Google, [AIP-149: Unset field values](https://google.aip.dev/149). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Google, [AIP-155: Request identification](https://google.aip.dev/155). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Google, [AIP-160: Filtering](https://google.aip.dev/160). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Google, [AIP-161: Field masks](https://google.aip.dev/161). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Google, [AIP-203: Field behavior documentation](https://google.aip.dev/203). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Google, [AIP-216: States](https://google.aip.dev/216). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Google, [AIP-231: Batch methods — Get](https://google.aip.dev/231). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Microsoft, [Microsoft REST API Guidelines](https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- JSON Schema, [JSON Schema Draft 2020-12](https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Google, [Protocol Buffers proto3 language guide](https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/proto3/). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Trace Context](https://www.w3.org/TR/trace-context/), W3C Recommendation. Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Cloud Native Computing Foundation, [CloudEvents Specification 1.0.2](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/blob/v1.0.2/cloudevents/spec.md). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- OWASP, [OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks 2023](https://owasp.org/API-Security/editions/2023/en/0x11-t10/). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Sean Goedecke, [Everything I know about good API design](https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-api-design/), August 24, 2025. Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Joshua Bloch, [How to design a good API and why it matters](https://research.google/pubs/how-to-design-a-good-api-and-why-it-matters/), OOPSLA 2006, pages 506–507. Reviewed August 16, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/api/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/api/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b15fa19 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/api/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# API standards + +* [API design and contracts](contracts.md) - Usable, compatible, bounded, observable, and recoverable programmatic interfaces. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/catalog.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/catalog.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a401c5c --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/catalog.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,178 @@ +version: 1 +okf_version: "0.2" +bundle_index: index.md +updated: 2026-09-04 +target_release: "1.1.1" +release_status: ready + +reference_routes: + testing: testing/routes.yaml + +governance: + - path: governance/authority.md + - path: governance/contributing.md + - path: governance/documentation-quality.md + - path: governance/exceptions.md + - path: governance/v1-readiness.md + +foundations: + - id: FND-ACCESSIBILITY + path: foundations/accessibility.md + - id: FND-EVIDENCE + path: foundations/evidence.md + - id: FND-TRUST + path: foundations/user-trust.md + - id: FND-CHANGE + path: foundations/safe-change.md + +standards: + - id: API-CONTRACTS + path: api/contracts.md + - id: AI-AGENTS + path: ai/agentic-systems.md + - id: DATA-DATABASE + path: data/database-changes.md + - id: DATA-QUALITY + path: data/quality.md + - id: DATA-REDIS + path: data/redis.md + - id: ENGINEERING-QUALITY + path: engineering/quality.md + - id: ENGINEERING-TESTING + path: engineering/testing.md + - id: ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL + path: engineering/code-removal.md + - id: ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY + path: engineering/javascript-quality.md + - id: KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS + path: knowledge/organizational-knowledge.md + - id: ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT + path: analytics/measurement.md + - id: GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS + path: growth/experiments.md + - id: MARKETING-LIFECYCLE + path: marketing/lifecycle.md + - id: MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA + path: marketing/paid-media.md + - id: MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH + path: marketing/direct-outreach.md + - id: MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT + path: marketing/public-engagement.md + - id: MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION + path: marketing/distribution.md + - id: MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE + path: marketing/project-showcase.md + - id: SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS + path: sales/revenue-operations.md + - id: DISCOVERY-APP-STORES + path: discovery/app-stores.md + - id: MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS + path: media/production-rights.md + - id: OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY + path: operations/reliability.md + - id: OPERATIONS-LOGGING + path: operations/logging.md + - id: PRODUCT-DELIVERY + path: product/delivery.md + - id: SEO-FOUNDATIONS + path: seo/foundations.md + - id: WEB-QUALITY + path: web/quality.md + - id: WEB-WEBMCP + path: web/webmcp.md + - id: APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION + path: design/apple-platforms.md + - id: DESIGN-INTERACTION + path: design/interaction.md + - id: AGENT-VERIFICATION + path: agents/verification.md + - id: CONTENT-ERRORS + path: error-messages.md + - id: CONTENT-INTERFACE + path: content/interface.md + - id: WRITING-FUNCTIONAL + path: writing/functional.md + - id: PRIVACY-DATA + path: privacy/data-handling.md + - id: SECURITY-APPLICATION + path: security/application.md + - id: SECURITY-SECRETS + path: security/secrets-management.md + - id: INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR + path: integrations/vendor-platforms.md + - id: LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS + path: legal/published-terms-and-notices.md + +patterns: + - id: PATTERN-FEDERATED-KNOWLEDGE + path: patterns/federated-knowledge.md + - id: PATTERN-CROSS-LAYER-POLICY-CONFORMANCE + path: patterns/cross-layer-policy-conformance.md + - id: PATTERN-VERIFIED-AGENT-WORKFLOW + path: patterns/verified-agent-workflow.md + +playbooks: + - id: PLAYBOOK-APPLE-HIG + path: playbooks/apple-hig-audit.md + - id: PLAYBOOK-GA4 + path: playbooks/google-analytics-4.md + - id: PLAYBOOK-GSC + path: playbooks/google-search-console.md + - id: PLAYBOOK-STRIPE + path: playbooks/stripe.md + - id: PLAYBOOK-PLAID + path: playbooks/plaid.md + - id: PLAYBOOK-VERCEL + path: playbooks/vercel.md + - id: PLAYBOOK-RESEND + path: playbooks/resend.md + - id: PLAYBOOK-NEON + path: playbooks/neon.md + - id: PLAYBOOK-CLOUDFLARE + path: playbooks/cloudflare.md + - id: PLAYBOOK-STANDARDS-AUDIT + path: playbooks/standards-audit.md + - id: PLAYBOOK-TEST-STRATEGY + path: playbooks/test-strategy.md + - id: PLAYBOOK-AGENT-DESIGN-GUIDANCE + path: playbooks/agent-design-guidance.md + +profiles: + - id: PROFILE-APPLE-INTERFACE + path: profiles/apple-interface.md + - id: PROFILE-COMMERCIAL-EVIDENCE-REVIEW + path: profiles/commercial-evidence-review.md + - id: PROFILE-COMPANY-BRAIN + path: profiles/company-brain.md + - id: PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM + path: profiles/agentic-system.md + - id: PROFILE-DATABASE-CHANGE + path: profiles/database-change.md + - id: PROFILE-PRODUCT-FEATURE + path: profiles/product-feature.md + - id: PROFILE-GROWTH-EXPERIMENT + path: profiles/growth-experiment.md + - id: PROFILE-MARKETING-LIFECYCLE + path: profiles/marketing-lifecycle.md + - id: PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE + path: profiles/public-web-page.md + - id: PROFILE-RELIABILITY-INCIDENT + path: profiles/reliability-incident.md + - id: PROFILE-REDIS-CHANGE + path: profiles/redis-change.md + - id: PROFILE-SECRETS-MANAGEMENT + path: profiles/secrets-management.md + - id: PROFILE-SOFTWARE-CHANGE + path: profiles/software-change.md + - id: PROFILE-SERVICE-API + path: profiles/service-api-change.md + - id: PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING + path: profiles/specialist-marketing.md + - id: PROFILE-UI-FEATURE + path: profiles/ui-feature.md + - id: PROFILE-FUNCTIONAL-WRITING + path: profiles/functional-writing.md + - id: PROFILE-LEGAL-DOCUMENT + path: profiles/legal-document.md + - id: PROFILE-CODE-REMOVAL + path: profiles/code-removal.md diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/content/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/content/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..135c2fd --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/content/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +# Content standards + +* [Interface content](interface.md) - Labels, guidance, states, confirmations, inclusive language, and localization-ready interface text. + +Related root standard: [Error messages](../error-messages.md#error-messages) defines user-facing failure content and review criteria. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/content/interface.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/content/interface.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4920b9e --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/content/interface.md @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +--- +id: CONTENT-INTERFACE +title: Interface content +description: Requirements for clear labels, guidance, states, confirmations, inclusive language, and localization-ready interface text. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [content, design, product, accessibility] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [interface-content, product-feature] +tags: [content, interface, localization] +depends_on: [WRITING-FUNCTIONAL, FND-TRUST, FND-ACCESSIBILITY] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T20:57:53Z" } +sources: + - id: digital-plain-language-design + resource: https://digital.gov/guides/plain-language/design + title: Design for understanding + author: organization:us-government + - id: plain-language-guidelines + resource: https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/ + title: Federal Plain Language Guidelines + author: organization:us-government + - id: w3c-i18n + resource: https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-drafts/nav/about + title: Internationalization techniques authoring web pages + author: organization:w3c +--- + +# Interface content + +Interface text must help people recognize, decide, act, and recover in context without hiding consequences, relying on internal terminology, or breaking when localized. + +## Rules + +### CONTENT-INTERFACE-001 — Name controls by their outcome + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Text labels an action, destination, field, option, or setting. + +Use the shortest specific wording that tells the user what the control affects or where it goes. Keep the visible label and accessible name consistent. + +**Why:** Generic labels force users to infer meaning from position or surrounding content. + +**Verify:** + +- Read labels out of visual context and confirm their target or result remains distinguishable. +- Compare rendered labels, accessible names, analytics names, and documentation. + +**Exceptions:** Universally understood platform controls may use an icon when an accurate accessible name and discoverable meaning remain. + +### CONTENT-INTERFACE-002 — Explain required information in context + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Asking for input, permission, consent, configuration, or commitment. + +State what is needed, why it is needed when not obvious, the expected format or scope, and any material consequence before the user commits. + +**Why:** Users cannot make an informed choice when purpose and consequence appear only after submission. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the decision point without relying on hidden help, terms, or post-submit errors. +- Confirm optional and required inputs are identified consistently. + +**Exceptions:** None for material data use, payment, authorization, or irreversible effects. + +### CONTENT-INTERFACE-003 — Give every state a useful message + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A view or component can be empty, loading, pending, offline, partially complete, unavailable, successful, or failed. + +State the current condition, its scope, whether work is continuing or preserved, and the next available action. Do not use success language before the outcome is confirmed. + +**Why:** Blank or vague states make users guess whether the system, data, or their action failed. + +**Verify:** + +- Trigger each material state and compare the message with actual system state and available actions. +- Confirm status is announced appropriately to assistive technology. + +**Exceptions:** Decorative or self-evident transient states may omit text when equivalent programmatic status exists. + +### CONTENT-INTERFACE-004 — Make confirmations specific to the consequence + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Asking a user to confirm a consequential action. + +Name the action, affected object or scope, immediate and delayed consequences, reversibility, and the exact commitment control. Avoid generic questions such as “Are you sure?” + +**Why:** Generic confirmations become habitual and do not help users catch the wrong action or target. + +**Verify:** + +- Review confirmation text with realistic names, counts, permissions, and partial outcomes. +- Confirm cancel and commitment controls cannot be confused. + +**Exceptions:** None when confirmation is the primary safeguard. + +### CONTENT-INTERFACE-005 — Use inclusive, non-blaming language + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Referring to people, identity, ability, failure, eligibility, or behavior. + +Use relevant, respectful, specific language; avoid stereotypes, unnecessary identity references, assumptions, blame, and metaphors that obscure the task. + +**Why:** Exclusionary or blaming language harms users and can make instructions less accurate. + +**Verify:** + +- Review terms with affected users or qualified guidance when identity or harm is material. +- Check that failure messages describe the condition and recovery rather than assigning fault. + +**Exceptions:** Exact user-provided, legal, clinical, or policy terms may be retained when required and explained in plain language. + +### CONTENT-INTERFACE-006 — Keep terminology consistent across the journey + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The same object, action, status, or measure appears in multiple surfaces. + +Use one governed term unless a platform convention or audience requires a documented variation. Do not alternate synonyms for style. + +**Why:** Users can mistake inconsistent names for different concepts or states. + +**Verify:** + +- Search the interface, messages, help, notifications, and support material for concept variants. +- Confirm the terminology source has an owner and definition. + +**Exceptions:** Audience-specific language may vary when the mapping is explicit and tested. + +### CONTENT-INTERFACE-007 — Prepare complete units for localization + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Interface content may be translated or localized. + +Store complete messages with context, variables, plural and grammatical behavior, and sufficient layout flexibility. Do not build sentences from separately translated fragments. + +**Why:** Fragmented text loses grammar, meaning, and accessibility across languages. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect representative short, long, plural, gender-sensitive, bidirectional, and fallback locales. +- Confirm variables are safe, named, formatted, and visible to translators with context. + +**Exceptions:** Atomic labels and values may remain separate when they do not form a grammatical sentence. + +### CONTENT-INTERFACE-008 — Review content in the rendered interaction + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Approving interface content for release. + +Inspect the final text with realistic data, layout, states, input methods, and assistive output rather than approving strings in isolation. + +**Why:** Correct source text can truncate, reorder, lose association, or contradict behavior when rendered. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the environments, states, locales, and assistive presentation inspected. +- Confirm the rendered action and protocol result match the words. + +**Exceptions:** None for consequential or frequently used interfaces. + +## Operational coverage + +Test interface content in the rendered state, at the decision point, with representative readers and constraints. + +| Route | Required scenarios | Completion evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Compact visual interface | Default, loading, empty, error, disabled, truncated, narrow viewport, large text, and localization expansion | Rendered-state review, label-to-action match, accessible name, truncation behavior, and terminology check | +| Form or consequential flow | Entry, validation, correction, review, submission, duplicate action, timeout, cancellation, and recovery | Complete journey, preserved input, error association, consequence disclosure, confirmation, and reversal or support path | +| Voice or conversational interface | Recognition error, ambiguity, interruption, repetition, sensitive context, no-screen use, and handoff | Prompt and response transcripts, confirmation policy, repair success, privacy cues, latency behavior, and human escalation | +| Expert or regulated domain | Novice and expert comprehension, material qualification, uncertainty, prohibited interpretation, and urgent escalation | Terminology authority, comprehension findings, qualified review, traceable claims, and residual ambiguity | +| Personalized or generated content | Missing context, wrong inference, stale profile, unsupported claim, unsafe suggestion, correction, and opt-out | Input and rule provenance, rendered variants, evaluation results, correction propagation, and user control | +| Multilingual and bidirectional content | Long translation, plural and gender variation, non-Latin text, right-to-left layout, locale formats, and mixed literals | Translation context, linguistic review, rendered locales, accessible reading order, and fallback behavior | + +Space limits do not justify removing a material condition or next action. Restructure the interaction or add a clearly reachable detail layer when essential meaning does not fit. + +## Guidance + +Prefer familiar words and direct sentences. Put the outcome before background. Coordinate interface content with product behavior so the message does not promise recovery, timing, access, or completion the system cannot provide. + +## Examples + +### Empty search result + +Non-compliant: “Nothing here.” + +Compliant: “No invoices match ‘April’. Check the spelling, remove a filter, or clear the search.” + +## Sources + +- US General Services Administration, [Design for understanding](https://digital.gov/guides/plain-language/design). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- US Government, [Federal Plain Language Guidelines](https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Internationalization techniques: Authoring web pages](https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-drafts/nav/about). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/coverage.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/coverage.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..53db761 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/coverage.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +--- +type: Reference +title: Version 1 coverage matrix +description: Maps the bounded Raintree v1 task surface to governed standards, profiles, playbooks, and remaining approval work. +tags: [coverage, v1, standards, profiles] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T21:33:16-07:00" } +--- + +# Version 1 coverage matrix + +Use this matrix to find the governed route and approval state for a recurring work +area. The bounded version 1 baseline covers product, engineering, services, data, web, +interfaces, lifecycle marketing, AI, and operations. “Authored” means that rules and +routes exist; it does not mean that independent or qualified approval is complete. + +| Work area | Required standards and profiles | Vendor or platform playbook | V1 state | +|---|---|---|---| +| Agentic systems | `AI-AGENTS`, `ENGINEERING-QUALITY`, agentic profile; `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` for JavaScript and TypeScript | Trellis for JavaScript and TypeScript; vendored anti-slop through Oxlint for TypeScript | Authored; qualified review pending | +| Programmatic interfaces and services | `API-CONTRACTS`, `ENGINEERING-QUALITY`, `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` for JavaScript and TypeScript, `OPERATIONS-LOGGING` for TypeScript logging, `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY`, programmatic-interface/service profile | Trellis for JavaScript and TypeScript; vendored anti-slop through Oxlint for TypeScript | Authored; qualified review pending | +| Database and data | `DATA-DATABASE`, `DATA-QUALITY`, `DATA-REDIS`, database-change and Redis-change profiles; `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` for JavaScript and TypeScript tooling | Trellis for JavaScript and TypeScript; vendored anti-slop through Oxlint for TypeScript; GA4 when an analytics implementation | Authored; Redis draft and qualified review pending | +| Product delivery | `PRODUCT-DELIVERY`, product-feature profile; `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` for JavaScript and TypeScript | Trellis for JavaScript and TypeScript; vendored anti-slop through Oxlint for TypeScript | Authored; qualified review pending | +| Ordinary software changes and test strategy | `ENGINEERING-QUALITY`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING`, software-change profile; `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` for JavaScript and TypeScript | Testing field guide, recipes, records, and test-strategy playbook; Trellis for JavaScript and TypeScript; vendored anti-slop through Oxlint for TypeScript | Post-v1 draft; representative-reader and independent engineering, quality, and operations review pending | +| Universal UI and content | `DESIGN-INTERACTION`, `FND-ACCESSIBILITY`, `CONTENT-INTERFACE`, UI-feature profile; `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` for JavaScript and TypeScript | Trellis for JavaScript and TypeScript; vendored anti-slop through Oxlint for TypeScript | Authored; accessibility review pending | +| Apple interfaces | `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION`, universal UI corpus, and Apple-interface profile | Apple HIG audit | Post-v1 platform draft; independent Apple-platform and accessibility review pending | +| Public web and search | `WEB-QUALITY`, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS`, public-web profile; `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` for JavaScript and TypeScript | Trellis for JavaScript and TypeScript; vendored anti-slop through Oxlint for TypeScript; Search Console | Authored; source and accessibility review pending | +| Analytics and experiments | `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT`, `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS`, growth-experiment profile | GA4 | Authored; analytics and privacy review pending | +| Core lifecycle marketing | `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE`, marketing-lifecycle profile | GA4 and Search Console when applicable | Authored; marketing, privacy, and legal review pending | +| Public project showcase | `MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE`, `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL`, `WEB-QUALITY`, public-web profile | Search Console when applicable | Draft; independent writing and accessibility review pending | +| Functional writing and errors | `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL`, `CONTENT-ERRORS`, functional-writing profile | None | Existing stable corpus; independent verification pending | +| Commercial evidence reviews | Commercial-evidence-review profile, `FND-EVIDENCE`, `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL`, conditional sales, marketing, privacy, and security routes | None | Post-v1 draft; research, sales, and qualified domain review pending | +| Public legal documents | `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS`, legal-document profile, `PRIVACY-DATA`, `FND-TRUST`, `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL` | None | Post-v1 draft; qualified legal and privacy review pending | +| Organizational knowledge systems | `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS`, company-brain profile, federated-knowledge pattern | Standards conformance audit | Post-v1 draft; knowledge, AI, data, security, privacy, product, and engineering review pending | +| Code and dependency removal | `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL`, code-removal profile, `FND-CHANGE`, `AGENT-VERIFICATION` | Knip plus Biome/Trellis for TypeScript/JavaScript; Ruff, deptry, and contextual Vulture for Python | Post-v1 draft; engineering review pending | +| Reliability and incidents | `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY`, `FND-CHANGE`, reliability/incident profile | None | Authored; operations and security review pending | +| Privacy and application security | `PRIVACY-DATA`, `SECURITY-APPLICATION` | None | Existing drafts; qualified review pending | +| Secrets and credentials | `SECURITY-SECRETS`, secrets/Infisical profile | None; Infisical is required by the standard | Authored; qualified security and operations review pending | +| External platforms | `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR` plus the closest task profile | Separate Stripe, Plaid, Vercel, Resend, Neon, and Cloudflare playbooks with manifest-backed review bundles | Post-v1 drafts; provider-domain review pending | + +## Cross-cutting foundations + +Every active profile routes directly or conditionally to evidence, trust, safe change, accessibility, privacy, security, and agent verification according to the task's behavior and risk. + +## Outside the v1 boundary + +The former specialist queue is now authored as governed drafts: `MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA`, `MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH`, `MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT`, `MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION`, `SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS`, `DISCOVERY-APP-STORES`, and `MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS`, routed by `PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING`. `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS` and `PROFILE-LEGAL-DOCUMENT` add a post-v1 route for public terms, notices, policies, and addenda. These documents remain outside the bounded v1 release and need independent, domain-qualified review before activation. The [marketing coverage map](marketing/coverage.md) records each external Marketing Skills task and its exact route. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/data/database-changes.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/data/database-changes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d737bd --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/data/database-changes.md @@ -0,0 +1,309 @@ +--- +id: DATA-DATABASE +title: Database changes +description: Protects correctness, availability, recoverability, and ownership during database changes. +type: standard +status: stable +governance_status: active +owners: [data, engineering] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [database-change, product-feature] +tags: [database, schema, migrations, queries, recovery] +depends_on: [FND-CHANGE, FND-EVIDENCE] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T18:58:53Z" } +sources: + - id: postgresql-locking + resource: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/explicit-locking.html + title: PostgreSQL Explicit Locking + author: organization:postgresql + - id: postgresql-create-index + resource: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createindex.html + title: PostgreSQL CREATE INDEX + author: organization:postgresql + - id: postgresql-backup + resource: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/backup.html + title: PostgreSQL Backup and Restore + author: organization:postgresql + - id: mysql-backup-recovery + resource: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/backup-and-recovery.html + title: MySQL Backup and Recovery + author: organization:mysql + - id: stripe-online-migrations + resource: https://stripe.com/blog/online-migrations + title: Online migrations at scale + author: organization:stripe +--- + +# Database changes + +Database work must preserve correctness, availability, recoverability, and clear ownership throughout schema, data, query, retention, backup, and restore changes. Engine-specific behavior must be verified against the deployed engine and version. + +## Rules + +### DATA-DATABASE-001 — Encode important invariants at the strongest practical layer + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The database can enforce an invariant without preventing a legitimate workflow. + +Use constraints, types, foreign keys, uniqueness, or transactional checks for invariants whose violation would corrupt meaning. Application validation alone is insufficient when concurrent writers or alternate write paths can bypass it. + +**Why:** Checks performed before a write can race, drift between services, or be omitted by jobs and administrative tools. + +**Verify:** + +- Map each material invariant to its enforcement layer and all write paths. +- Exercise valid, invalid, null, duplicate, and concurrent cases relevant to the invariant. + +**Exceptions:** Keep an invariant outside the database only when the engine cannot express it safely or the rule depends on unavailable external state; document the alternate enforcement and reconciliation path. + +### DATA-DATABASE-002 — Keep mixed application and schema versions compatible + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Application instances, workers, jobs, or clients can overlap during deployment. + +Use an expand–migrate–contract sequence. Add compatible schema first, migrate reads and writes, backfill and verify data, remove old callers, then contract in a separate controlled step. + +**Why:** Deployments are rarely instantaneous; an incompatible migration can break old code before the new version is fully available. + +**Verify:** + +- Document the version compatibility matrix, deployment order, backfill, and contraction trigger. +- Exercise old and new application behavior against the expanded schema. +- Confirm old instances and scheduled jobs are gone before contraction. + +**Exceptions:** A coordinated outage can replace mixed-version operation when downtime is explicitly approved and every writer is stopped and verified. + +### DATA-DATABASE-003 — Bound locks and resource consumption + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A migration, backfill, index build, validation, or query runs against production-sized data. + +Estimate or measure lock mode and duration, rows and bytes scanned, transaction duration, memory, temporary space, write-ahead or transaction log growth, replication lag, and downstream load. Batch, throttle, or use an online operation when one operation can exceed the system's safe budget. + +**Why:** A logically correct operation can still block production traffic, exhaust storage, or overwhelm replicas. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the engine-specific execution and lock behavior for the deployed version. +- Run against representative volume and data distribution or explain the scaling model. +- Record abort thresholds and the mechanism that enforces them. + +**Exceptions:** Small, isolated datasets can use bounded estimates when their maximum size is proven. + +### DATA-DATABASE-004 — Prove access-path changes with representative plans + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Adding or removing an index, rewriting a query for performance, or changing access patterns. + +Compare query plans and timings using representative parameters, cardinality, distribution, concurrency, and cache conditions. Account for write amplification, storage, maintenance, and selectivity. + +**Why:** A plan that is faster for one parameter or warm cache can regress common or worst-case production workloads. + +**Verify:** + +- Preserve before-and-after plans with actual row counts and relevant timings where safe. +- Check common, sparse, dense, and pathological parameter values. +- Measure or estimate the added write and storage cost. + +**Exceptions:** Emergency mitigation can use partial evidence when scope is bounded and follow-up validation has an owner and deadline. + +### DATA-DATABASE-005 — Define recovery for destructive or semantic changes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Data is deleted, transformed, merged, re-keyed, deduplicated, or reinterpreted. + +Specify whether recovery uses rollback, backup restore, shadow data, event replay, compensation, or a corrective migration. Define the last reversible point and what cannot be restored automatically. + +**Why:** Reverting code does not reverse data already changed or side effects already sent elsewhere. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise recovery with representative data and verify counts, relationships, and business meaning afterward. +- Confirm recovery artifacts remain available for the required period. + +**Exceptions:** Irreversible work requires explicit approval from the data owner and a documented containment plan. + +### DATA-DATABASE-006 — Prove restore readiness separately from backup success + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The system owns durable or business-critical data. + +Define recovery point and recovery time objectives, monitor backup completion and retention, and conduct restore exercises that verify usable data and dependent service recovery. + +**Why:** A completed backup job can still produce incomplete, corrupt, inaccessible, or too-slow recovery material. + +**Verify:** + +- Restore into an isolated environment and run integrity and application-level checks. +- Record achieved recovery point, elapsed recovery time, missing dependencies, and owner. + +**Exceptions:** None for production systems with durable user or business data. + +### DATA-DATABASE-007 — Bound every growing access path + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Query result size or work can grow with tenant or global data volume. + +Avoid unbounded reads, writes, cascades, scans, and offset pagination on large changing datasets. Use explicit limits, stable ordering, cursor-based continuation, partitions, or bounded batches. + +**Why:** Work that scales with total history eventually exceeds request, lock, memory, or maintenance budgets. + +**Verify:** + +- Identify the maximum work per request, transaction, or batch. +- Exercise continuation and retry behavior while rows are inserted, updated, or deleted. + +**Exceptions:** An offline operation can be unbounded only within a measured maintenance budget and with a safe interruption path. + +### DATA-DATABASE-008 — Make backfills resumable and observable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Updating existing rows or rebuilding derived state outside one small transaction. + +Use deterministic selection, idempotent or checkpointed batches, bounded transactions, progress measurement, error capture, and a safe restart procedure. Prevent the backfill from overwriting newer valid writes. + +**Why:** Long-running work will be interrupted and may race with live traffic. + +**Verify:** + +- Stop and restart the backfill without duplicates, omissions, or regression of newer values. +- Reconcile eligible, processed, skipped, failed, and remaining records. + +**Exceptions:** A single atomic transaction is acceptable when production-scale evidence shows it stays inside the lock and resource budget. + +### DATA-DATABASE-009 — Verify data meaning after migration + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A change transforms, maps, aggregates, or reclassifies data. + +Validate business invariants and representative records, not only row counts. Define treatment of nulls, duplicates, invalid legacy values, time zones, rounding, and partial failures. + +**Why:** A migration can preserve the number of rows while changing their meaning incorrectly. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare source and destination aggregates, invariants, and sampled records. +- Account explicitly for every rejected, defaulted, merged, or unmatched record. + +**Exceptions:** None for semantic changes. + +### DATA-DATABASE-010 — Assign lifecycle ownership + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A change creates temporary columns, dual writes, compatibility code, shadow tables, indexes, or deferred cleanup. + +Assign an owner, completion condition, and due date for each temporary state. Monitor it until contraction or intentional adoption is complete. + +**Why:** Temporary compatibility structures become permanent complexity and cost when no one owns removal. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the change record for named follow-up work and acceptance criteria. +- Confirm cleanup occurs only after dependent readers, writers, jobs, and recovery windows no longer need the old state. + +**Exceptions:** A temporary structure can become permanent through an explicit design decision that updates its ownership and documentation. + +### DATA-DATABASE-011 — Preserve transactional and concurrency semantics + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A change modifies read-modify-write behavior, transaction boundaries, isolation, retries, deduplication, ordering, or concurrent access to shared records. + +Define the required atomicity, isolation, ordering, and conflict behavior. Handle retries and concurrent writers without lost updates, duplicate side effects, write skew, or reliance on timing that the database does not guarantee. + +**Why:** Behavior that is correct in a single session can corrupt state when transactions overlap, retry, or observe different snapshots. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise concurrent success, conflict, retry, timeout, and partial-failure cases against the deployed engine and isolation level. +- Inspect locks, constraints, compare-and-set conditions, idempotency keys, or serialization mechanisms that enforce the intended outcome. +- Confirm external side effects do not occur inside a retryable transaction without deduplication or compensation. + +**Exceptions:** Truly immutable or single-writer data can use simpler controls when the single-writer boundary is enforced and documented. + +### DATA-DATABASE-012 — Use least privilege for database changes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An application, migration, backfill, operator, or automation receives database credentials or elevated rights. + +Grant only the operations, objects, environments, and duration required. Separate routine application access from schema administration and recovery access, and record use of elevated or emergency credentials. + +**Why:** Broad, long-lived database privileges increase the effect of application compromise, operator error, and unintended migration behavior. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect effective privileges for application, migration, read-only, backup, and recovery identities. +- Attempt an out-of-scope operation and confirm it is denied. +- Confirm temporary privileges and credentials expire or are revoked after the change. + +**Exceptions:** An engine or managed service can require a broader built-in role; document the unavailable granularity and add compensating approval, network, or audit controls. + +### DATA-DATABASE-013 — Make each migration phase observable and independently safe + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A migration changes read or write authority across old and new schemas, stores, indexes, formats, or services over more than one release step. + +Define the source of truth, permitted readers and writers, compatibility state, comparison signal, stop condition, recovery action, and contraction criterion for every reachable phase. Change one authority boundary at a time where practical. During dual read or write, detect missing, divergent, stale, duplicated, and reordered state continuously and identify which side can repair the other. Do not contract until runtime evidence shows that old readers, writers, jobs, replays, and rollback paths no longer require the old state. + +**Why:** A migration can appear healthy at its final target while an intermediate phase silently diverges or leaves a rollback path that writes incompatible state. + +**Verify:** + +- Interrupt before and after each read and write cutover and confirm the declared source of truth and recovery action remain valid. +- Inject divergent, delayed, duplicate, and missing records and verify comparison, alerting, quarantine or repair, and final reconciliation. +- Inspect runtime queries, jobs, consumers, deploy history, and access telemetry before removing an old field, table, store, or compatibility path. +- Bind the contraction decision to a stated observation window and retained reconciliation result. + +**Exceptions:** A demonstrated atomic replacement with all writers stopped can use one phase when rollback and restoration cannot reintroduce the old authority. + +## Operational coverage + +Select a route for each affected engine and data path. A single change can require more than one route. + +| Route | Required scenarios | Completion evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Additive online schema change | Old and new application versions, replica lag, lock acquisition, retry, and rollback | Engine/version, generated plan, lock and duration observations, mixed-version test, and post-change invariants | +| Destructive or semantic change | Existing readers and writers, retained historical data, rollback after new writes, and legal retention constraints | Recovery point, transformed and rejected records, reconciliation, irreversible boundary, and approved deletion evidence | +| Large backfill or repair | Resume, duplicate execution, throttling, hot partitions, late writes, cancellation, and source changes during execution | Checkpoint ledger, throughput and load, idempotency proof, before/after reconciliation, and residual queue | +| Index or query-plan change | Representative parameter values, cold and warm cache, concurrent load, statistics drift, and plan regression | Plans, timings, resource use, lock behavior, production-shaped distribution, and rollback threshold | +| Multi-store or event migration | Duplicate, missing, delayed, reordered, and conflicting writes plus consumer-version skew | Source-of-truth decision, event and row reconciliation, replay result, cutover ledger, and retired paths | +| Backup and restore | Full and incremental recovery, key or credential loss, corrupted input, regional loss, and target-time recovery | Restored isolated environment, integrity checks, measured recovery point and time, access test, and owner sign-off | + +Engine-specific playbooks may strengthen these routes. They must not weaken the invariants, recovery proof, or mixed-version requirements in this standard. + +## Guidance + +Treat migrations as distributed-system changes, even when they are expressed as one SQL file. Application versions, workers, replicas, caches, and external consumers can observe different states at different times. + +Prefer small, restartable transitions. Avoid combining a blocking schema operation, a large backfill, and destructive cleanup in one release. Set short lock timeouts where supported so a migration fails safely instead of waiting behind production traffic and then blocking it. + +Use the database engine's own documentation for lock modes, transactional behavior, online index operations, constraint validation, replication, and backup semantics. Similar syntax across engines does not imply similar operational behavior. + +After a large backfill or material distribution change, evaluate whether engine statistics, maintenance, replicas, caches, and downstream extracts need refresh or verification. Do not assume the query planner immediately understands the new distribution. + +## Examples + +### Required column + +Non-compliant: Add a non-null column with a computed default, update all rows, and deploy code that requires the column in one production step. + +Compliant: Add the compatible nullable column, deploy dual-compatible code, backfill in resumable batches, validate missing values, add the constraint using the engine's safe path, switch reads, then remove compatibility code later. + +### Backfill checkpoint + +Non-compliant: “Update every account where `status` is null” in one retryable job with no stable order. + +Compliant: Process stable primary-key ranges, commit each bounded batch, record the high-water mark and failures, and update only rows that still meet the original predicate. + +## Change evidence + +A production database change must identify affected invariants, compatibility stages, representative lock and performance evidence, monitoring, stop conditions, recovery, semantic reconciliation, and ownership of deferred contraction. + +## Sources + +- PostgreSQL Global Development Group, [Explicit Locking](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/explicit-locking.html), PostgreSQL documentation. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- PostgreSQL Global Development Group, [CREATE INDEX](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createindex.html), PostgreSQL documentation. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- PostgreSQL Global Development Group, [Backup and Restore](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/backup.html), PostgreSQL documentation. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Oracle, [MySQL Backup and Recovery](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/backup-and-recovery.html), MySQL 8.4 Reference Manual. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Stripe, [Online migrations at scale](https://stripe.com/blog/online-migrations). Reviewed September 1, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/data/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/data/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5b9b310 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/data/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +# Data standards + +* [Data quality and lifecycle](quality.md) - Meaning, ownership, lineage, validation, reconciliation, and lifecycle. +* [Database changes](database-changes.md) - Protects correctness, availability, recoverability, and ownership during database changes. +* [Redis design and operation](redis.md) - Workload contracts, memory, data models, clients, security, availability, recovery, and messaging. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/data/quality.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/data/quality.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cc76c76 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/data/quality.md @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +--- +id: DATA-QUALITY +title: Data quality and lifecycle +description: Requirements for meaningful, owned, traceable, validated, and governed data products. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [data, analytics, engineering, privacy] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [data-model, data-pipeline, data-product] +tags: [data, quality, lineage, lifecycle] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-CHANGE, PRIVACY-DATA] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T20:57:53Z" } +sources: + - id: uk-data-quality-framework + resource: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-government-data-quality-framework + title: The Government Data Quality Framework + author: organization:uk-government + - id: w3c-prov-o + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ + title: PROV-O The PROV Ontology + author: organization:w3c + - id: nist-data-integrity + resource: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/1800/25/final + title: Data Integrity Identifying and Protecting Assets Against Ransomware and Other Destructive Events + author: organization:nist +--- + +# Data quality and lifecycle + +Data products must preserve defined meaning, provenance, fitness for use, and accountable ownership from collection through transformation, sharing, retention, and disposal. + +## Rules + +### DATA-QUALITY-001 — Define meaning and intended decisions + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Creating or materially changing a dataset, field, metric, model, or data product. + +Define the business meaning, unit, population, grain, valid values, time semantics, source, intended decisions, and known unsuitable uses. + +**Why:** Technically valid values can still be interpreted incorrectly when their meaning and decision scope are implicit. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace representative fields and metrics to their definitions and intended decisions. +- Confirm producers and consumers agree on grain, time, null, and update semantics. + +**Exceptions:** Raw landing data may defer normalized meaning when provenance, access, retention, and promotion controls are explicit. + +### DATA-QUALITY-002 — Assign accountable ownership + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Data is relied on by another team, product, report, model, or operational process. + +Assign owners for meaning, production, access, quality incidents, retention, and consumer communication, with a maintained contact and escalation route. + +**Why:** Shared data degrades when no one owns definitions, failures, or breaking changes. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the catalog or contract for current owners and response expectations. +- Exercise escalation for a representative quality failure. + +**Exceptions:** None for production data products. + +### DATA-QUALITY-003 — Preserve end-to-end lineage + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Data is copied, joined, aggregated, inferred, corrected, or exported. + +Record material sources, transformations, versions, filters, joins, models, destinations, and processing times so a result can be traced backward and impact can be traced forward. + +**Why:** Without lineage, errors cannot be scoped, reproduced, corrected, or communicated reliably. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace a representative published value to source records and transformation versions. +- Identify affected consumers from a simulated source or definition change. + +**Exceptions:** Protected lineage details may use access-controlled references rather than public documentation. + +### DATA-QUALITY-004 — Set measurable quality expectations + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Data supports a release, operational process, customer experience, financial result, or material decision. + +Define and monitor the relevant completeness, validity, consistency, uniqueness, timeliness, accuracy, and reconciliation expectations with thresholds tied to use. + +**Why:** A generic quality score hides which failure would invalidate a particular decision. + +**Verify:** + +- Run checks on representative normal, late, missing, duplicate, malformed, and conflicting data. +- Confirm threshold breaches reach an owner and stop or qualify affected use. + +**Exceptions:** Accuracy that cannot be measured directly requires a documented proxy, sampling method, and limitation. + +### DATA-QUALITY-005 — Reconcile boundaries and durable outcomes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Data crosses systems, batches, queues, financial boundaries, or mutable source states. + +Account for accepted, rejected, duplicated, delayed, corrected, and missing records and reconcile totals and material invariants at defined boundaries. + +**Why:** Successful jobs can still silently lose, repeat, or reinterpret data between stages. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare boundary counts, control totals, identifiers, and sampled meaning. +- Exercise replay, late arrival, duplicate delivery, and partial failure. + +**Exceptions:** None when the data represents money, rights, safety, or irreversible user effects. + +### DATA-QUALITY-006 — Govern schema and meaning changes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Producers can change fields, values, timing, identity, or interpretation used by consumers. + +Version material changes, assess affected consumers, provide a compatibility or migration period, and confirm adoption before removing the old meaning. + +**Why:** A schema can remain parseable while silently changing the decisions produced from it. + +**Verify:** + +- Run consumer contract checks and compare old and new results on representative data. +- Inspect usage and owner approval before retirement. + +**Exceptions:** Emergency correction of dangerously wrong data may shorten migration when affected consumers and remediation are recorded. + +### DATA-QUALITY-007 — Control correction and deletion through derived copies + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Source data can be corrected, restricted, expired, or deleted. + +Propagate the required change through caches, indexes, aggregates, exports, models, backups, and downstream recipients or record why a copy is lawfully retained and isolated. + +**Why:** Correcting only the source leaves inconsistent or prohibited derived data in active use. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise a representative correction and deletion across every material copy. +- Confirm downstream completion, exceptions, and reconciliation evidence. + +**Exceptions:** Immutable audit or backup copies may follow a documented retention and access regime that prevents ordinary use. + +### DATA-QUALITY-008 — Make quality incidents recoverable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Incorrect data can propagate to decisions, users, models, or external recipients. + +Provide detection, quarantine, stop, replay or correction, consumer notification, and post-recovery verification procedures proportionate to impact. + +**Why:** Fast pipelines amplify defects unless they can stop and repair affected state. + +**Verify:** + +- Rehearse a representative late, corrupt, duplicated, and semantically wrong input. +- Confirm recovery does not overwrite newer valid data or repeat external effects. + +**Exceptions:** None for high-impact data products. + +## Operational coverage + +Define quality at the decision boundary, not only at ingestion. Preserve the expected arrival pattern, correction behavior, and semantic owner with each check. + +| Data pattern | Minimum checks | Required evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Batch or warehouse table | Completeness, uniqueness, validity, referential integrity, freshness, partition coverage, and rerun behavior | Contract version, query results, rejected rows, late-arrival window, backfill result, and owner disposition | +| Stream or event flow | Duplicate, loss, order, event time versus processing time, watermark, replay, schema skew, and poison message | Producer and consumer versions, lag distribution, replay ledger, dead-letter state, and reconciled totals | +| Sampled or probabilistic data | Sampling frame, weights, coverage error, confidence or credible interval, drift, and minimum detectable change | Sampling method, seed or draw, effective sample size, uncertainty, excluded population, and sensitivity analysis | +| Derived metric or semantic layer | Definition, grain, filters, time zone, currency, slowly changing dimensions, attribution, and dependent assets | Versioned definition, lineage, comparison to source facts, consumer inventory, and coordinated migration result | +| ML label, feature, or score | Label timing, leakage, missingness, population drift, calibration, feedback loop, and correction propagation | Dataset and feature versions, slice results, leakage review, delayed-label analysis, and downstream invalidation | +| External or manually maintained data | Provider authority, contractual meaning, change notice, entry validation, reconciliation, and exit route | Source snapshot, ingestion receipt, human change log, discrepancy queue, and provider incident record | + +An aggregate pass rate does not override a failed critical invariant or a harmed subgroup. Report both record-level defects and decision-level consequences. + +## Guidance + +Quality is fitness for a declared use, not perfection in the abstract. Keep raw evidence where justified, but prevent unreviewed raw data from becoming an authoritative decision source. Treat inferred and modeled attributes as data products with provenance and uncertainty. + +## Examples + +### Revenue dataset + +Non-compliant: A dashboard sums charge events without refunds, currency normalization, deduplication, or a defined recognition date. + +Compliant: The metric contract defines recognized revenue, currency conversion, grain, refunds, late events, deduplication, reconciliation to the payment system, owner, and permitted decisions. + +## Sources + +- UK Government, [The Government Data Quality Framework](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-government-data-quality-framework). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [PROV-O: The PROV Ontology](https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Data Integrity: Identifying and Protecting Assets Against Ransomware and Other Destructive Events](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/1800/25/final). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/data/redis.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/data/redis.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..64babf1 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/data/redis.md @@ -0,0 +1,359 @@ +--- +id: DATA-REDIS +title: Redis design and operation +description: Requirements for safe Redis workload design, memory control, client behavior, availability, recovery, and messaging semantics. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [data, engineering, operations, security] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2026-11-17 +stale_after: 2026-11-17 +applies_to: [redis-change, redis-operation, cache-change, session-store-change, redis-stream-change] +tags: [redis, cache, database, reliability, security, messaging] +depends_on: [FND-CHANGE, FND-EVIDENCE, OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY, SECURITY-APPLICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T17:27:22Z" } +sources: + - id: redis-memory-optimization + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/management/optimization/memory-optimization/ + title: Memory optimization + author: organization:redis + - id: redis-key-eviction + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/reference/eviction/ + title: Key eviction + author: organization:redis + - id: redis-keyspace + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/use/keyspace/ + title: Keys and values + author: organization:redis + - id: redis-cache-aside + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/use-cases/cache-aside/ + title: Redis cache-aside + author: organization:redis + - id: redis-client-connections + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/clients/pools-and-muxing/ + title: Connection pools and multiplexing + author: organization:redis + - id: redis-client-errors + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/clients/error-handling/ + title: Error handling + author: organization:redis + - id: redis-pipelining + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/using-commands/pipelining/ + title: Redis pipelining + author: organization:redis + - id: redis-transactions + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/using-commands/transactions/ + title: Transactions + author: organization:redis + - id: redis-cluster-scaling + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/management/scaling/ + title: Scale with Redis Cluster + author: organization:redis + - id: redis-replication + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/management/replication/ + title: Redis replication + author: organization:redis + - id: redis-persistence + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/management/persistence/ + title: Redis persistence + author: organization:redis + - id: redis-security-practices + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/security/recommended-security-practices/ + title: Recommended security practices + author: organization:redis + - id: redis-observability + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/monitoring/observability/ + title: Redis Software observability and monitoring guidance + author: organization:redis + - id: redis-pubsub + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/pubsub/ + title: Redis Pub/Sub + author: organization:redis + - id: redis-streams + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/data-types/streams/ + title: Redis Streams + author: organization:redis + - id: redis-distributed-locks + resource: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/clients/patterns/distributed-locks/ + title: Distributed locks with Redis + author: organization:redis +--- + +# Redis design and operation + +Redis workloads must have explicit data-loss, staleness, eviction, availability, and recovery behavior. Configuration and client behavior must preserve those decisions when Redis is healthy, slow, full, partitioned, failed over, or recovering. + +This standard adds Redis-specific requirements to the general database, security, reliability, evidence, and safe-change standards. Verify vendor behavior against the deployed Redis product, version, topology, and client library because Redis Open Source, Redis Software, Redis Cloud, and compatible services can differ. + +## Rules + +### DATA-REDIS-001 — Classify each workload and its failure contract + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Redis stores or transports application data. + +Record whether each workload is a rebuildable cache, session store, rate limiter, coordination mechanism, message transport, derived store, or authoritative store. Define its source of truth, permitted staleness and data loss, eviction behavior, behavior when Redis is slow or unavailable, and recovery owner. + +Do not share one Redis eviction and persistence boundary between workloads whose recorded contracts conflict. + +**Why:** A cache can discard data and fall back to a source, while sessions, queues, or authoritative data may require rejection, persistence, or recovery. An implicit contract turns capacity and failover events into uncontrolled data loss or dependency overload. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace representative reads, writes, expiry, eviction, unavailability, failover, and recovery for every workload class. +- Compare each workload contract with the effective Redis topology, persistence, eviction, and application fallback configuration. +- Confirm shared deployments contain only workloads with compatible contracts or enforce separate resource and policy boundaries. + +**Exceptions:** A temporary shared deployment requires a recorded owner, expiry date, capacity bound, isolation analysis, and tested separation or shutdown plan. + +### DATA-REDIS-002 — Bound memory and choose eviction deliberately + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Redis runs outside a disposable local environment. + +Set an explicit memory limit and an eviction policy that matches `DATA-REDIS-001`. Size the host and limit using representative key footprints and peak behavior, including allocator fragmentation, client and replication buffers, persistence work, modules, and copy-on-write growth outside the logical dataset. + +Use `noeviction` when silent removal is not permitted. When eviction is permitted, prove that every evictable key can be reconstructed and that the selected policy preserves the expected working set under representative access skew. + +**Why:** Redis can exhaust host memory without a limit, while a poorly selected eviction policy can remove state the application treats as durable or leave non-expiring keys outside the eligible eviction set. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect effective memory, eviction, persistence, and reserved-memory configuration rather than only deployment templates. +- Measure representative key size, dataset growth, resident memory, fragmentation, buffer use, and copy-on-write growth under peak reads and writes. +- Drive the deployment to its warning and limit thresholds and verify eviction or write-rejection behavior, application response, alerts, and recovery. + +**Exceptions:** A short-lived isolated test can use a host-enforced memory boundary when its destruction and non-production network boundary are automatic. + +### DATA-REDIS-003 — Bound keys, values, collections, and slot concentration + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A Redis data model is created or materially changed. + +Define a stable key schema, ownership, maximum value size, maximum collection cardinality, retention or expiry, and maximum work for every access path. Select data types from required operations and command complexity. In Redis Cluster, use hash tags only for recorded same-slot operations and prove they do not create unacceptable hot-slot concentration. + +**Why:** Large values, unbounded collections, global scans, and concentrated hash slots can block command processing, increase replication and recovery cost, and prevent horizontal scaling. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise common and maximum-size values and collections with the deployed command paths. +- Inspect key-size, cardinality, hot-key, and cluster-slot distributions using bounded production-safe sampling or representative load data. +- Confirm multi-key commands, transactions, pipelines, and scripts behave correctly in the deployed cluster topology. + +**Exceptions:** An offline administrative operation may exceed an online bound only within an approved maintenance budget, with interruption and recovery steps. + +### DATA-REDIS-004 — Make expiration and cache invalidation correct under concurrency + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Data expires, is cached from another source, or is invalidated after a source write. + +Create a cache value and its expiry atomically. Define the maximum stale interval, invalidation order, miss behavior, negative-cache policy, and protection against concurrent regeneration. Exercise races between a cache miss, source read, source commit, invalidation, refill, expiry, and retry. + +**Why:** Separate value and expiry writes can create persistent keys. Cache-aside races and synchronized hot-key expiry can serve stale data or overload the source system precisely when the cache is degraded. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect write paths for an atomic TTL-bearing write or an equivalent atomic operation. +- Run concurrent read/write tests that cover refill after invalidation, delayed readers, repeated misses, and source failure. +- Expire or flush a representative hot working set under load and confirm source concurrency limits, request coalescing, degradation, and recovery. + +**Exceptions:** Data may be intentionally persistent when its lifecycle owner, deletion path, capacity bound, and correctness semantics are recorded. + +### DATA-REDIS-005 — Bound connections, deadlines, and retries + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An application or job connects to Redis. + +Use a maintained client compatible with the deployed topology. Configure bounded connection reuse, connection establishment, command execution, pool acquisition, and retry behavior within the caller's latency and retry budgets. Classify retried operations by idempotency and handle an interrupted response as an unknown outcome when the command may have executed. + +Use dedicated connections where Pub/Sub, blocking commands, or client behavior can stall or change the protocol mode of a shared connection. + +**Why:** Unbounded waits consume caller capacity, reconnect storms amplify an outage, and blind retries of mutations such as increments or appends can duplicate effects. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect effective client timeouts, pool or multiplexer limits, topology handling, backoff, jitter, retry count, and circuit or load-shedding behavior. +- Interrupt connections before, during, and after representative reads and mutations; verify returned errors, duplicates, reconciliation, and total elapsed time. +- Exercise failover and resharding through the supported client, including relevant redirect and topology-refresh behavior. + +**Exceptions:** A one-shot administrative client can omit pooling but must retain bounded deadlines and operation-specific retry behavior. + +### DATA-REDIS-006 — Keep online command work bounded + +**Level:** prohibited +**Applies when:** A command runs against a production Redis deployment. + +Do not use `KEYS`, an unbounded collection read or mutation, an unbounded pipeline, or a long-running script on an online production path. + +Use cursor scans for operational key iteration, bounded command variants and batches, and short server-side scripts whose maximum work is established from input and collection bounds. A transaction or script supplies atomic execution, not rollback of arbitrary completed effects. + +**Why:** Redis command execution and atomic scripts can block unrelated clients. Large pipelines also retain queued replies in server memory. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect application commands, scripts, operational procedures, ACL command restrictions, slow logs, and latency events. +- Exercise maximum-size inputs and record command execution time, queued response memory, interruption behavior, and effect on unrelated requests. +- Confirm production-safe replacements exist for key discovery and large collection processing. + +**Exceptions:** None for an online production path. An isolated restored copy may run offline analysis when it cannot affect production resources. + +### DATA-REDIS-007 — Restrict Redis network and command authority + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Redis contains non-public data or supports a non-local environment. + +Keep Redis off the public internet, restrict network paths to approved clients and operators, encrypt traffic across untrusted or policy-required boundaries, and authenticate clients with separate least-privilege identities. Disable unauthenticated default access and deny administrative, destructive, debugging, and key-discovery commands to application identities unless the workload requires a reviewed subset. + +**Why:** Redis exposes direct data and administrative operations. One shared broad credential expands the effect of application compromise, operator error, and credential leakage. + +**Verify:** + +- Test network denial from an unauthorized source and authenticated access from each approved client path. +- Inspect effective ACLs and attempt representative out-of-scope commands with application, migration, monitoring, backup, and operator identities. +- Exercise certificate and credential rotation without relying on undocumented access or exposing secret material in evidence. + +**Exceptions:** Plaintext loopback or equivalently isolated local communication may be accepted when the boundary is enforced and documented. Public unauthenticated access is prohibited. + +### DATA-REDIS-008 — Match persistence and failover to acknowledged data-loss bounds + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Loss of acknowledged Redis writes has a material effect. + +Define the recovery point, recovery time, availability, and consistency requirements, then select persistence, replication, replica placement, write-admission, and acknowledgment behavior that meets them. Record that asynchronous replication, Sentinel, Redis Cluster, and `WAIT` do not by themselves provide strong consistency or guarantee retention of every acknowledged write. + +**Why:** Automatic failover can improve availability while still losing recent acknowledged writes. A topology diagram or successful replica health check does not prove the application's required durability. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect effective RDB, AOF, fsync, replication, replica-placement, minimum-replica, and client acknowledgment configuration. +- Kill or isolate a primary during controlled writes and reconcile acknowledged, durable, replicated, lost, duplicated, and rejected operations. +- Measure failover, client recovery, replica lag, and return-to-normal against the recorded objectives. + +**Exceptions:** A rebuildable cache may accept total Redis data loss when source protection and refill behavior pass `DATA-REDIS-004` and `DATA-REDIS-011`. + +### DATA-REDIS-009 — Prove restore and reconstruction separately from replication + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Redis data or stream state cannot be safely regenerated inside the recovery objective. + +Maintain protected recovery material independent of the active replication path and exercise restoration into an isolated environment. Verify application meaning, expirations, scripts or functions, stream and consumer-group state, credentials, dependencies, and client reconnection after restore. + +**Why:** Replication can copy accidental deletion or corrupt application writes. A completed backup does not prove that the service can recover usable state within its objective. + +**Verify:** + +- Restore a selected recovery point without depending on the failed deployment. +- Reconcile key counts and representative business invariants, pending work, retained history, expirations, and application behavior. +- Record achieved recovery point and time, missing state, manual work, and the owner of each unresolved gap. + +**Exceptions:** A rebuildable workload may use a tested reconstruction procedure instead of backup when the source, capacity, ordering, and completion reconciliation are proven. + +### DATA-REDIS-010 — Observe Redis and caller outcomes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Redis supports production traffic or business processing. + +Monitor caller-visible latency and errors together with Redis command latency, memory and resident memory, fragmentation, CPU, network, connections and buffers, hit and miss rate where applicable, evictions, expirations, rejected writes, persistence health, replication state, hot keys, large keys, and slow commands. For streams, also monitor lag, pending work, idle consumers, redelivery, and retention. + +Alerts must connect a threshold or trend to the workload contract, an owned response, and a tested runbook. + +**Why:** Redis can report fast commands while callers wait for a connection or miss the cache and overload another system. Aggregate health can also hide one hot key, shard, tenant, or consumer. + +**Verify:** + +- Trigger representative latency, memory, eviction or rejection, connection, replication, persistence, hot-key, and consumer-lag conditions. +- Trace each condition through metrics, logs, alerts, ownership, diagnosis, containment, and recovery. +- Confirm telemetry does not expose credentials, sensitive values, or unrestricted key contents. + +**Exceptions:** A low-impact internal deployment may use a reduced signal set when every omitted failure is outside its recorded contract and the rationale is approved by the service owner. + +### DATA-REDIS-011 — Exercise dependency failure and refill behavior + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Redis is on a production request or processing path. + +Exercise Redis unavailable, slow, full, partitioned, failed over, flushed or restored, and recovering under representative traffic. Bound fallback traffic, concurrency, queues, retries, and refill rate so Redis failure does not cause a wider dependency collapse. + +**Why:** A cache fallback that works for one request can overwhelm the source database when the whole working set misses. Recovery can cause a second overload as clients reconnect and refill together. + +**Verify:** + +- Record application correctness, latency, throughput, dependency load, rejected work, user-visible behavior, and recovery time for each applicable condition. +- Confirm circuit breakers, request coalescing, admission control, backpressure, or intentional failure behavior activates within the recorded bounds. +- Exercise a cold start and full refill at the largest supported scale or with a justified capacity model. + +**Exceptions:** None for a critical production workload; an unexercised path remains unresolved risk under `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-006`. + +### DATA-REDIS-012 — Choose messaging semantics explicitly + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Redis Pub/Sub, Streams, or list operations transport events or work. + +Use Pub/Sub only when permanent loss during disconnect is acceptable or a separate durable source supports reconciliation. For Streams or other redeliverable work, define acknowledgment, idempotent processing, pending-entry recovery, poison-message handling, ordering scope, retention, trimming, and backpressure. + +**Why:** Redis Pub/Sub is at-most-once. Streams support retained and redelivered work, but a consumer can perform a side effect and fail before acknowledgment, causing duplicate processing. + +**Verify:** + +- Disconnect subscribers and consumers, crash a consumer before and after its side effect and acknowledgment, and exercise duplicate and out-of-order delivery. +- Inspect retention and trimming against the slowest supported consumer and recovery window. +- Reconcile produced, delivered, acknowledged, retried, dead-lettered, expired or trimmed, and remaining work. + +**Exceptions:** Disposable presence, live-view, or invalidation notifications may use Pub/Sub when loss and reconnect reconciliation are documented and tested. + +### DATA-REDIS-013 — Treat distributed locks as expiring leases + +**Level:** contextual +**Applies when:** Redis coordinates exclusive work or protects an external resource. + +Acquire a lock atomically with a unique ownership token and finite lifetime, release it only when the token still matches, and bound acquisition and renewal. When an expired or partitioned holder could still modify the protected resource, enforce a fencing token or a stronger authority at that resource. + +Do not use a Redis lease as the sole correctness control when duplicate or concurrent execution can cause unrecoverable financial, security, integrity, or safety harm. + +**Why:** A process can pause beyond its lease, clocks can shift, and failover can lose lock state. Process liveness does not prove continued ownership. + +**Verify:** + +- Pause a holder past expiry, partition it from Redis, permit another holder to acquire, then resume the first holder and confirm stale work is rejected or harmless. +- Exercise token mismatch, renewal failure, failover, retry, and cleanup. +- Inspect the protected resource for fencing, uniqueness, idempotency, or another enforcement mechanism proportionate to impact. + +**Exceptions:** A lock may coordinate harmless duplicate work without fencing when duplicate execution is detected, bounded, and recoverable. + +## Guidance + +Prefer the simplest topology that satisfies the recorded workload contract. A standalone node, Sentinel deployment, Redis Cluster, and managed Redis service solve different availability and scaling problems; none removes the need to define application behavior during ambiguous results and failover. + +Set measurable limits from representative evidence rather than copying universal key-size, pool-size, memory-headroom, or timeout numbers. Treat managed-service defaults as inputs to review, not proof that the workload contract is met. + +Use client-side caching only for frequently read and infrequently changed data. Flush local cached state when the invalidation connection is lost, and measure invalidation traffic and local memory. + +## Examples + +### Cache and sessions sharing one eviction boundary + +Non-compliant: API response cache keys and login sessions share an `allkeys-lru` instance. The team has not defined whether session eviction is acceptable, and a cache fill can log out users. + +Compliant: The cache and session contracts are recorded. They use separate policy and capacity boundaries, or the session design proves that every session has the required expiry, eviction behavior, persistence, fallback, and recovery. + +### Cache-aside invalidation + +Non-compliant: A writer updates the source and assumes a five-minute TTL makes all races harmless. A delayed reader can refill an invalidated key with an older version. + +Compliant: The source commit precedes invalidation, the maximum stale interval is accepted, concurrent miss loading is bounded, and a version check, versioned key, or equivalent mechanism prevents a delayed old read from replacing newer cache state where the risk requires it. + +### Stream consumer crash + +Non-compliant: A consumer charges an account and then crashes before `XACK`; the redelivered entry charges the account again. + +Compliant: The charge uses the stream entry's stable idempotency key at the payment authority. The consumer acknowledges only after the authority records the outcome, and pending, repeated, and poison entries have recovery and reconciliation paths. + +## Sources + +- Redis, [Memory optimization](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/management/optimization/memory-optimization/) and [Key eviction](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/reference/eviction/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Redis, [Keys and values](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/use/keyspace/), [Redis cache-aside](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/use-cases/cache-aside/), and [Scale with Redis Cluster](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/management/scaling/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Redis, [Connection pools and multiplexing](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/clients/pools-and-muxing/), [Error handling](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/clients/error-handling/), [Redis pipelining](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/using-commands/pipelining/), and [Transactions](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/using-commands/transactions/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Redis, [Redis replication](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/management/replication/) and [Redis persistence](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/management/persistence/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Redis, [Recommended security practices](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/security/recommended-security-practices/) and [Redis Software observability and monitoring guidance](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/monitoring/observability/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Redis, [Redis Pub/Sub](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/pubsub/), [Redis Streams](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/data-types/streams/), and [Distributed locks with Redis](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/clients/patterns/distributed-locks/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/design/apple-platforms.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/design/apple-platforms.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5ebdfaf --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/design/apple-platforms.md @@ -0,0 +1,289 @@ +--- +id: APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION +title: Apple platform interaction +description: Requirements for adapting navigation, input, presentation, system integration, and verification across Apple platforms. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [apple-platforms, design, engineering, accessibility] +last_reviewed: 2026-09-01 +review_by: 2026-12-01 +stale_after: 2026-12-01 +applies_to: [apple-interface, ios, ipados, macos, tvos, watchos, visionos] +tags: [apple, hig, platform-design, interaction, accessibility] +depends_on: [DESIGN-INTERACTION, FND-ACCESSIBILITY, CONTENT-INTERFACE, FND-TRUST] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T21:33:16-07:00" } +sources: + - id: apple-hig + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines + title: Human Interface Guidelines + author: organization:apple + - id: apple-hig-design-principles + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/design-principles + title: Design principles + author: organization:apple + - id: apple-hig-ios + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/designing-for-ios + title: Designing for iOS + author: organization:apple + - id: apple-hig-ipados + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/designing-for-ipados + title: Designing for iPadOS + author: organization:apple + - id: apple-hig-macos + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/designing-for-macos + title: Designing for macOS + author: organization:apple + - id: apple-hig-tvos + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/designing-for-tvos + title: Designing for tvOS + author: organization:apple + - id: apple-hig-watchos + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/designing-for-watchos + title: Designing for watchOS + author: organization:apple + - id: apple-hig-visionos + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/designing-for-visionos + title: Designing for visionOS + author: organization:apple + - id: apple-hig-accessibility + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/accessibility + title: Accessibility + author: organization:apple + - id: apple-hig-layout + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/layout + title: Layout + author: organization:apple + - id: apple-hig-color + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/color + title: Color + author: organization:apple + - id: apple-hig-right-to-left + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/right-to-left + title: Right to left + author: organization:apple +--- + +# Apple platform interaction + +Protect the user's task while adapting the interface to each supported Apple platform. Apply this standard after the universal interaction, accessibility, content, and trust standards. Apple's current Human Interface Guidelines are the canonical platform source. Tools and checklists can provide evidence, but they cannot establish conformance by themselves. + +## Rules + +### APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-001 — Define the supported Apple environment + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A product or feature ships on an Apple platform. + +Record the supported operating-system versions, device classes, display and window modes, orientations, input methods, accessibility settings, locales, and Apple technologies before making platform-specific design or release decisions. + +**Why:** An unspecified environment hides incompatible assumptions and makes a platform-quality claim impossible to verify. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect an approved platform and environment matrix tied to the feature or release. +- Confirm that test environments and exclusions match the matrix. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +### APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-002 — Adapt the task instead of copying the interface + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The same task appears on more than one Apple platform, device class, or window size. + +Preserve the task's intent, data, state, and terminology while selecting platform-appropriate hierarchy, navigation, density, presentation, and workflow. Do not treat scaling or visually copying one platform as adaptation. + +**Why:** Apple platforms share an ecosystem but differ in viewing distance, input, focus, windowing, posture, and expected interaction. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare complete task flows across every supported platform class. +- Record each intentional shared behavior and each platform-specific adaptation. + +**Exceptions:** A shared presentation is allowed when current Apple guidance, the supported inputs, and representative testing show that it behaves appropriately on every target. + +### APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-003 — Prefer native semantics and adaptive system resources + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Selecting or implementing controls, text, color, icons, materials, or platform behavior. + +Use native controls and system behaviors when they match the task. Use semantic colors, scalable text styles, and platform-appropriate system symbols when available. A custom implementation must preserve the native control's meaning, states, input behavior, accessibility contract, appearance adaptation, and feedback. + +**Why:** System resources inherit platform behavior and user settings that visual imitation often misses. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the rendered component and its accessibility semantics, states, and actions. +- Test light and dark appearance, increased contrast, text scaling, and supported input methods. +- Record why each material custom control could not use a native control. + +**Exceptions:** A custom control is allowed when the task requires behavior that a native control cannot provide and the documented verification covers the full replacement contract. + +### APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-004 — Preserve adaptation across user settings + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The interface can change with appearance, language, accessibility, display, or motion settings. + +Keep the complete task usable and understandable with supported text sizes, light and dark appearance, increased contrast, reduced motion, reduced transparency where applicable, assistive technologies, localization, right-to-left layout, safe areas, and platform display changes. Apply `FND-ACCESSIBILITY` for the full accessibility contract. + +**Why:** A layout that works only under default settings excludes users and fails under ordinary system configuration changes. + +**Verify:** + +- Complete representative tasks under every applicable state in the environment matrix. +- Inspect truncation, overlap, clipping, reading order, mirrored layout, contrast, motion alternatives, and retained task state. + +**Exceptions:** An unsupported setting requires a documented platform limitation, user impact, fallback, owner, and review date. + +### APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-005 — Match the platform input and focus model + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A user can act through touch, pointer, keyboard, remote, controller, Digital Crown, gaze, gesture, voice, or assistive technology. + +Make each supported action reachable through the declared primary and accessibility inputs. Preserve visible focus, predictable traversal, appropriate target size, immediate feedback, and an alternative for any gesture-only action. Use the platform's interaction model rather than emulating another platform's input model. + +**Why:** An action can be visually present but unusable when focus, targeting, or feedback does not match the actual input device. + +**Verify:** + +- Complete representative tasks with every declared input class. +- Inspect focus order, focus restoration, target acquisition, gesture alternatives, feedback, and interruption recovery. + +**Exceptions:** Game-specific controls may use a specialized interaction model, but system actions, accessibility access, and required alternatives remain in scope. + +### APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-006 — Govern navigation, windows, and multitasking by platform + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The product has multiple destinations, presentations, windows, scenes, spaces, or resizable layouts. + +Use platform-appropriate navigation, dismissal, restoration, windowing, and multitasking behavior. Preserve the user's location and material task state through resizing, interruption, backgrounding, window changes, and supported transitions between presentations. + +**Why:** Phone, tablet, desktop, television, watch, and spatial interfaces expose different navigation and lifecycle expectations. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise forward, back, close, cancel, restore, resize, interruption, and relaunch paths where applicable. +- Inspect platform-specific window, focus, scene, and multitasking states with realistic data. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +### APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-007 — Integrate system experiences at the point of value + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The task uses permissions, notifications, widgets, Live Activities, complications, sharing, system media, immersive spaces, or another Apple system experience. + +Introduce the system experience when its value is clear. Use supported entry, exit, lifecycle, privacy, and recovery behavior. Handle denial, restriction, revocation, interruption, expiration, and unavailable capability without trapping the user or losing material work. + +**Why:** A system integration crosses product and operating-system boundaries where timing, authority, and lifecycle failures can surprise users. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise first use, granted, denied, restricted, revoked, interrupted, expired, and unavailable states as applicable. +- Confirm that copy, controls, data use, and recovery match the current platform contract. + +**Exceptions:** States that the declared platform cannot produce may be omitted with evidence. + +### APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-008 — Pin current Apple guidance and implementation assumptions + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Making a material design, implementation, audit, or release decision. + +Record the Apple HIG pages and review date, deployment targets, relevant framework or API availability, implementation assumptions, and fallbacks used for the decision. Distinguish Apple guidance from product choices and tool heuristics. Recheck volatile guidance before a material release. + +**Why:** Apple guidance and platform capabilities change, and an unversioned claim cannot be reproduced or reviewed honestly. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the decision or audit record for source titles, URLs, review dates, deployment targets, availability checks, and fallbacks. +- Confirm that automated findings are labeled as supporting evidence rather than Apple approval. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +### APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-009 — Verify the final build on representative Apple environments + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Approving or releasing an Apple-platform interface. + +Verify complete representative tasks in the final build on the supported environments. Use real devices when physical input, haptics, viewing distance, camera, sensors, performance, spatial comfort, or another device property affects the result. Combine automation with manual, assistive-technology, and independent human review. + +**Why:** Source inspection, design files, previews, simulators, and automated audits cannot prove the behavior of the released interface. + +**Verify:** + +- Bind the evidence to the exact build, environment matrix, tasks, states, and reviewer. +- Record device and simulator coverage, failures, limitations, deferred environments, and owners. + +**Exceptions:** A simulator-only decision requires a documented reason, the unverified physical properties, risk acceptance by the accountable owner, and a dated device-test follow-up. + +### APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-010 — Preserve platform behavior through shared frameworks + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Shared code, a cross-platform framework, Catalyst, a web wrapper, or a custom rendering layer produces an Apple interface. + +Do not let the abstraction erase native semantics, input and focus behavior, navigation and windowing, user-setting adaptation, permissions, lifecycle behavior, or assistive-technology access. Add platform-specific implementations or overrides where the shared layer cannot satisfy the applicable contract. + +**Why:** A shared implementation can look consistent while silently removing behavior that users and the operating system expect. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the native output, accessibility tree, lifecycle hooks, and platform overrides. +- Run the evidence required by Rules 003 through 009 against the final Apple build. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +## Operational coverage + +Use the applicable row to expand the environment matrix. It is a minimum route, not a complete test plan. + +| Platform | Minimum platform scenarios | +|---|---| +| iOS | Touch, compact layouts, supported orientation, safe areas, interruption, text scaling, assistive technology, and permission states | +| iPadOS | Resizing and multitasking, supported orientations, pointer and keyboard, touch, window or scene restoration, text scaling, and assistive technology | +| macOS | Window resizing and restoration, menus, toolbars, pointer, keyboard shortcuts, full-screen behavior, text scaling where supported, and assistive technology | +| tvOS | Viewing distance, focus traversal and restoration, remote and supported controller or voice input, media interruption, and assistive technology | +| watchOS | Brief task flow, touch, Digital Crown, haptics, always-on or complication behavior when used, text scaling, and assistive technology | +| visionOS | Windows, volumes, or spaces in scope; gaze and indirect gesture; field of view; immersion transitions; motion and spatial comfort; and assistive technology | + +## Guidance + +- Start from the user's task and the supported environment matrix. Do not start from a checklist of visual traits. +- Treat Apple's current platform pages, foundations, components, patterns, inputs, and technology guidance as one connected source set. +- Reuse product concepts and data across platforms, but allow the presentation and interaction to diverge when platform behavior requires it. +- Use the [Apple HIG interface audit](../playbooks/apple-hig-audit.md) to collect versioned evidence and inspect gaps that automation cannot prove. +- Escalate unresolved platform behavior to the Apple-platform owner and accessibility behavior to the accessibility owner. A tool result cannot approve its own interpretation. + +## Examples + +### Multi-platform navigation + +**Non-compliant:** Copy an iPhone tab interface to macOS, tvOS, and visionOS, then resize it until it fits. + +**Compliant:** Preserve destinations and task state, then select navigation, focus, windowing, and presentation behavior for each supported platform and verify the complete task with its actual inputs. + +### Custom cross-platform control + +**Non-compliant:** Render one custom control everywhere with hard-coded colors, fixed text, pointer-only hover feedback, and no native accessibility actions. + +**Compliant:** Use native controls where they fit. Where a custom control is necessary, provide semantic states and actions, adaptive color and type, platform input behavior, visible focus, and per-platform verification. + +### Automated HIG report + +**Non-compliant:** Treat a clean static-analysis report as proof that the interface conforms to Apple's HIG. + +**Compliant:** Preserve the tool version and output as supporting evidence, confirm the cited current Apple guidance, inspect the rendered final build, exercise real input and accessibility paths, and record human review. + +## Sources + +- Apple, [Human Interface Guidelines](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Apple, [Design principles](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/design-principles). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Apple, [Designing for iOS](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/designing-for-ios). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Apple, [Designing for iPadOS](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/designing-for-ipados). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Apple, [Designing for macOS](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/designing-for-macos). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Apple, [Designing for tvOS](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/designing-for-tvos). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Apple, [Designing for watchOS](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/designing-for-watchos). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Apple, [Designing for visionOS](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/designing-for-visionos). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Apple, [Accessibility](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/accessibility). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Apple, [Layout](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/layout). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Apple, [Color](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/color). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Apple, [Right to left](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/right-to-left). Reviewed September 1, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/design/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/design/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c1a150 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/design/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Design standards + +* [Apple platform interaction](apple-platforms.md) - Platform-specific navigation, input, presentation, system integration, adaptation, and verification across Apple platforms. +* [Interface and interaction design](interaction.md) - Product-specific visual quality, complete flows, responsive behavior, design-system governance, and anti-slop review. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/design/interaction.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/design/interaction.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0a9635 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/design/interaction.md @@ -0,0 +1,513 @@ +--- +id: DESIGN-INTERACTION +title: Interface and interaction design +description: Requirements for product-specific visual quality, coherent flows, navigation, forms, states, responsive behavior, and governed design systems. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [design, product, engineering, accessibility] +last_reviewed: 2026-09-01 +review_by: 2027-03-01 +stale_after: 2027-03-01 +applies_to: [user-interface, product-feature, public-web-page, landing-page, marketing-site] +tags: [design, interaction, usability, visual-design, design-system, anti-slop] +depends_on: [FND-ACCESSIBILITY, FND-TRUST, PRODUCT-DELIVERY] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T00:00:00-07:00" } +sources: + - id: wcag-22 + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/ + title: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 + author: organization:w3c + - id: uswds-design-principles + resource: https://designsystem.digital.gov/design-principles/ + title: USWDS Design Principles + author: organization:us-government + - id: apple-hig + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines + title: Human Interface Guidelines + author: organization:apple + - id: emil-design-engineering-skills + resource: https://github.com/emilkowalski/skills + title: Skills for Design Engineers + author: human:emil-kowalski + - id: emil-agents-with-taste + resource: https://emilkowal.ski/ui/agents-with-taste + title: Agents with Taste + author: human:emil-kowalski + - id: emil-purposeful-animation + resource: https://emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-need-animations + title: You Don't Need Animations + author: human:emil-kowalski + - id: linear-interface-refresh + resource: https://linear.app/now/behind-the-latest-design-refresh + title: A calmer interface for a product in motion + author: organization:linear + - id: linear-design-projects + resource: https://linear.app/method/manage-design-projects + title: Manage design projects + author: organization:linear + - id: apple-fluid-interfaces + resource: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/803/ + title: Designing Fluid Interfaces + author: organization:apple + - id: apple-ui-typography + resource: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10175/ + title: The details of UI typography + author: organization:apple + - id: web-animation-performance + resource: https://web.dev/articles/animations-guide + title: How to create high-performance CSS animations + author: organization:google + - id: vercel-design-md-evaluation + resource: https://vercel.com/blog/how-our-agents-build-on-brand-pages-with-design-md + title: How our agents build on-brand pages with design.md + author: organization:vercel + - id: vercel-agent-product-design + resource: https://vercel.com/blog/teaching-agents-product-design-at-vercel + title: Teaching agents product design at Vercel + author: organization:vercel + - id: anthropic-agent-evals + resource: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents + title: Demystifying evals for AI agents + author: organization:anthropic + - id: openai-model-guidance-evals + resource: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model + title: Model guidance + author: organization:openai + - id: playwright-visual-comparisons + resource: https://playwright.dev/docs/test-snapshots + title: Visual comparisons + author: organization:microsoft + - id: w3c-accessibility-evaluation + resource: https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate/ + title: Evaluating Web Accessibility Overview + author: organization:w3c + - id: govuk-design-system-contribution + resource: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/community/contribution-criteria/ + title: Contribution criteria + author: organization:uk-government + - id: design-tokens-format-2025 + resource: https://www.w3.org/community/reports/design-tokens/CG-FINAL-format-20251028/ + title: Design Tokens Format Module 2025.10 + author: organization:w3c-design-tokens-community-group +--- + +# Interface and interaction design + +Interfaces must help people understand where they are, what they can do, what will happen, and how to recover across supported devices, inputs, content, and system states. Their visual and content choices must also be specific to the product, audience, and task rather than assembled from interchangeable conventions. + +## Rules + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-001 — Design the complete task flow + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A user starts, progresses through, or exits a multi-step task. + +Map entry points, prerequisites, decisions, state changes, exits, interruptions, resumption, success, and recovery before approving the interaction. + +**Why:** Screen-by-screen design misses transitions where users lose context, work, or control. + +**Verify:** + +- Walk representative first-time, returning, interrupted, denied, failed, and completed journeys. +- Confirm the system state and next available action at every transition. + +**Exceptions:** A single atomic action may use a state model instead of a journey map. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-002 — Keep navigation and hierarchy predictable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Users move among views, sections, modes, or nested content. + +Use consistent destinations, labels, placement, hierarchy, back behavior, and location cues. Do not change navigation context merely because an element receives focus or input. + +**Why:** Inconsistent navigation increases memory load and can strand users after a state change. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise deep links, back and forward navigation, refresh or relaunch, and responsive variants. +- Confirm repeated destinations retain meaning and relative organization. + +**Exceptions:** A changed context may use different navigation when the transition is explicit and reversible. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-003 — Use familiar controls with complete states + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Selecting or creating an interactive component. + +Prefer the platform or design-system component whose semantics and behavior match the task. Define default, hover where relevant, focus, active, selected, disabled, loading, success, error, and unavailable states. + +**Why:** Custom or incomplete controls create inconsistent behavior and accessibility gaps. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the rendered component with its governed contract across input modes and states. +- Confirm a custom component supplies the complete semantics and interaction behavior it replaces. + +**Exceptions:** A new pattern requires documented need, usability and accessibility evidence, ownership, and addition to the design system when reused. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-004 — Make forms efficient and recoverable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Users enter, select, review, or submit information. + +Ask only for needed information, use suitable input controls and autocomplete, preserve valid work, validate at a helpful time, explain requirements, and support correction before resubmission. + +**Why:** Forms impose direct effort and errors can block essential tasks or destroy work. + +**Verify:** + +- Complete the form with valid, invalid, partial, pasted, autofilled, long, localized, and interrupted input. +- Confirm labels, instructions, errors, focus, review, and resubmission remain coherent. + +**Exceptions:** Security-sensitive fields may restrict persistence or autocomplete when the threat and user impact are documented. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-005 — Adapt without losing meaning or operation + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Layout can change with viewport, window, orientation, input, text size, locale, or content length. + +Reflow and reprioritize while preserving essential content, controls, relationships, reading order, and task continuity. Do not hide required functionality only because space is constrained. + +**Why:** A layout that merely shrinks can obscure actions, overlap content, and break alternate input modes. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect declared breakpoints and extremes for text, zoom, locale, orientation, window size, and input mode. +- Confirm hidden or moved content remains discoverable and operable. + +**Exceptions:** Platform-inapplicable features may be absent when the product scope states the difference. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-006 — Represent system status and latency + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An action, load, synchronization, or background process is not immediate. + +Show whether work is pending, progressing, delayed, completed, partially completed, failed, cancelled, or safe to leave. Prevent duplicate commitment while preserving a controlled retry or cancel path. + +**Why:** Silent latency causes repeated actions, lost confidence, and abandonment. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise fast, slow, offline, timeout, partial, cancelled, repeated, and recovered states. +- Confirm status is perceivable without trapping input or fabricating progress. + +**Exceptions:** Imperceptibly short deterministic work need not display progress. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-007 — Prevent and recover from consequential mistakes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An action can cause financial, privacy, security, legal, destructive, or difficult-to-reverse effects. + +Present the consequence before commitment and provide appropriate review, confirmation, authorization, reversal, or recovery without relying on a generic confirmation dialog alone. + +**Why:** Familiar or visually prominent controls can make severe actions too easy to trigger accidentally. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise accidental activation, wrong target, stale state, duplicate action, cancellation, and recovery. +- Confirm the safeguard describes the specific object and consequence. + +**Exceptions:** Immediate emergency action may omit confirmation when delay creates greater harm and recovery is addressed. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-008 — Govern reusable design decisions + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Components, tokens, patterns, or content conventions are reused across products. + +Version their contract, accessibility behavior, supported variants, ownership, adoption guidance, change policy, and deprecation path. Keep implementation and design references synchronized. + +**Why:** An unmanaged design system spreads defects and inconsistent behavior faster than local code. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare representative product instances with the released component contract. +- Run visual, behavioral, accessibility, and compatibility checks before promotion. + +**Exceptions:** A one-off local pattern need not enter the shared system unless reuse or governance value is demonstrated. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-009 — Ground the interface in product context + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Creating or materially revising an interface, public page, prototype intended for approval, or reusable visual pattern. + +Define the intended audience, primary tasks, product character, content needs, and relevant platform or brand constraints before selecting a visual direction. Connect material choices in hierarchy, layout, typography, color, imagery, shape, and motion to those inputs. Do not use a trend list, generated theme, competitor imitation, or generic template as the design rationale. + +**Why:** A polished interface can still be interchangeable, misleading, or poorly suited to its product when its decisions have no product-specific basis. + +**Verify:** + +- Review the design brief and final artifact together; trace each material visual choice to a named user, task, content, product, or platform need. +- Compare the result with the product's existing surfaces and the referenced templates or inspirations; identify copied conventions and confirm each has a local reason. + +**Exceptions:** An exploratory sketch may omit a complete rationale when it is labeled as exploratory, is not presented as approved design, and records the questions it is testing. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-010 — Design with representative content and proof + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Content, data, media, claims, or product behavior determines the layout or supports a decision. + +Use representative content, data ranges, product states, and evidence while designing and reviewing the interface. Show the real product or a clearly labeled prototype when a page claims or demonstrates capability. Do not fabricate testimonials, activity, metrics, customers, product output, or functional states to make a composition appear complete. + +**Why:** Placeholder content hides layout failures, and invented proof makes visual polish depend on claims the product cannot support. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect short, long, empty, loading, error, unavailable, localized, and user-generated content where each state can occur. +- Trace testimonials, metrics, customer marks, screenshots, and demonstrations to current evidence and confirm simulated material is labeled at the point of use. + +**Exceptions:** Early prototypes may use clearly labeled representative data when real data is unavailable or unsafe to use. The prototype must not be published as evidence of released behavior. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-011 — Use a coherent visual system + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An interface uses repeated visual decisions or introduces a new visual direction. + +Define and apply a limited, coherent system for hierarchy, spacing, typography, color, shape, iconography, imagery, and motion. Give repeated elements the same meaning and give exceptions an explicit purpose. Keep the primary task visually dominant; make orientation and supporting controls available without letting them compete for attention. Remove decoration, borders, icons, labels, or effects that imply unsupported interactivity or have no role in hierarchy, identity, feedback, or comprehension. + +**Why:** Unrelated effects and inconsistent conventions increase cognitive load and make an interface look assembled rather than designed. + +**Verify:** + +- Inventory repeated visual values and component variants; reconcile accidental near-duplicates and unexplained exceptions. +- Compare the visual weight of primary content, navigation, supporting controls, and decoration; confirm their prominence follows task priority. +- Review the rendered interface without its brand marks or marketing claims and confirm that hierarchy, relationships, affordances, and state remain understandable. + +**Exceptions:** Deliberate contrast or one-off art direction may break the system when its purpose remains clear and it preserves accessibility and interaction semantics. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-012 — Pass an anti-slop review + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An interface or public page is proposed for approval, release, or inclusion in a shared design system. + +Have a design owner or peer who did not author the final direction review the rendered artifact for product specificity, representative content, coherent visual rules, truthful proof, complete states, and unnecessary convention. Record the review with the [interface quality review](../templates/interface-quality-review.md), then resolve its findings or document a rule-level exception before approval. + +The review must not reject a technique only because it is fashionable or common. Gradients, cards, rounded corners, familiar typefaces, bento layouts, animation, terminal imagery, and other recognizable techniques are acceptable when they have a product-specific purpose and satisfy the other rules. + +**Why:** A checklist of forbidden styles replaces design judgment with another trend and can reject useful patterns without detecting an interchangeable result. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the final rendered artifact at representative viewport sizes with realistic content and all material states. +- Record the reviewer, revision, context brief, findings for rules `DESIGN-INTERACTION-009` through `DESIGN-INTERACTION-011`, resolutions, and approved exceptions. + +**Exceptions:** A private exploratory artifact may defer independent review until it becomes a candidate for approval, release, or reuse. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-013 — Make motion earn its time + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An interface introduces or materially changes animation, transition, gesture response, scrolling effect, or continuous motion. + +Give each motion behavior a purpose such as feedback, spatial continuity, state explanation, or prevention of a jarring change. Evaluate how often people encounter it and how they trigger it. Remove or shorten motion that delays frequent or keyboard-driven work. Make interaction motion interruptible where users can reverse or repeat the action, preserve prompt feedback under load, and provide a reduced-motion treatment that keeps necessary meaning. + +**Why:** Motion without a task purpose can make an interface feel slower, less predictable, and less connected to the user's input even when it appears polished in an isolated demonstration. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the purpose, expected frequency, trigger, duration or spring behavior, interruption behavior, and reduced-motion treatment for each material motion pattern. +- Exercise rapid repetition, reversal, keyboard and pointer input, reduced motion, constrained performance, entry, exit, and cancellation. +- Inspect motion at normal speed, slowed down, and frame by frame; confirm origin, easing, coordinated properties, and visual continuity match the interaction. + +**Exceptions:** Decorative motion may exist without a functional purpose when it is rare, does not compete with work, respects user motion preferences, and has a recorded product-specific rationale. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-014 — Verify the problem and compare directions + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The user problem, interaction model, information hierarchy, or visual direction is new, disputed, or materially uncertain. + +Verify the problem with representative user evidence and direct use of the existing product before committing to a solution. Explore more than one genuinely distinct direction and name the axis each direction tests, such as hierarchy, density, layout, interaction model, or personality. Compare directions in realistic context and record why the selected direction solves the verified problem better. + +**Why:** Polishing the first plausible composition can conceal a weak problem definition and produces cosmetic variation instead of design learning. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace the problem statement to observations, support evidence, research, or repeated product use and separate the underlying need from a requested feature. +- Review the directions at full scale with representative content; confirm they differ on a named structural or behavioral axis rather than only color, copy, or surface treatment. +- Record the selection criteria, feedback requested, feedback received, rejected directions, and decision. + +**Exceptions:** A constrained correction with an established design-system answer may compare the current and corrected states instead of producing additional directions. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-015 — Prototype material interaction + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Timing, gesture, transition, direct manipulation, responsive adaptation, or state change materially affects whether the design works. + +Evaluate the behavior in an interactive prototype or running implementation rather than approving it from static screens alone. Make controls respond promptly, keep direct manipulation connected to the user's input, preserve spatial origin and continuity, and let users interrupt, reverse, cancel, or recover where the action remains uncommitted. + +**Why:** Static screens cannot reveal latency, discontinuity, gesture conflict, unreachable states, or whether the interface remains understandable while it changes. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise the prototype with the intended input methods on representative devices and under constrained performance. +- Check press, drag, release, reversal, interruption, cancellation, boundary, repeated-input, and lost-focus behavior as applicable. +- Compare the approved prototype and shipped behavior and record material differences. + +**Exceptions:** A static content surface with no material interaction may use rendered responsive states instead of an interactive prototype. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-016 — Treat typography as an adaptive system + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Text communicates hierarchy, instructions, data, status, or product identity. + +Define a limited typographic system whose font choice, size, weight, line height, letter spacing, measure, alignment, and numeric treatment serve the content and platform. Preserve its hierarchy and legibility across text scaling, localization, loading and fallback fonts, dense data, and supported display conditions. Do not select or mix typefaces only to imitate a trend. + +**Why:** Typography carries most interface meaning; arbitrary or fixed treatments can obscure hierarchy, shift layouts, truncate content, and make the product feel internally inconsistent. + +**Verify:** + +- Inventory type roles and confirm repeated roles use consistent tokens while each distinction communicates a real hierarchy difference. +- Inspect representative prose, labels, numbers, long words, right-to-left text, scripts with different vertical needs, fallback loading, and the declared text-size range. +- Confirm important text remains complete, readable, correctly ordered, and visually distinct without relying on brand recognition. + +**Exceptions:** Expressive display typography may depart from the system when it remains legible, has a product-specific purpose, and does not carry essential instructional or transactional content. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-017 — Make simplicity preserve capability + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Reducing density, removing controls, hiding information, or introducing progressive disclosure. + +Remove elements that do not support the task, but preserve the context, capability, and discoverability people need. Keep the common path apparent and place advanced or infrequent controls behind a clear, reversible disclosure. Do not equate simplicity with empty space, fewer visible controls, uniform cards, or a minimal visual style. + +**Why:** Visual minimalism can make a screen look calm while increasing navigation, memory load, hidden state, and time to complete real work. + +**Verify:** + +- Complete representative novice, frequent, and advanced tasks before and after the reduction; compare steps, context switches, discoverability, and errors. +- Confirm hidden controls have clear cues, retain state, remain keyboard and assistive-technology accessible, and return users to the same task context. +- Identify every removed element and record whether it was redundant, unused, misleading, or relocated. + +**Exceptions:** A role, permission, safety rule, or platform constraint may remove capability when the resulting difference and recovery path are explicit. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-018 — Verify implementation fidelity + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An approved design is implemented or an existing interface is materially revised in code. + +Compare the final running interface with the approved behavior and visual system. Resolve or record differences in content, hierarchy, spacing, typography, color, imagery, component states, responsive behavior, motion, accessibility, and platform conventions. Treat the implemented product as the final design artifact; do not approve from a design file alone. + +**Why:** Small unreviewed substitutions accumulate during implementation and can erase the coherence, feedback, and edge-case behavior that justified the selected direction. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect matched captures or recordings of the approved reference and running implementation across representative viewports, themes, content extremes, and material states. +- Confirm design tokens and released components match their governed sources and that deviations name an owner and reason. +- Repeat the anti-slop review on the final running revision when implementation materially changes the approved direction. + +**Exceptions:** A design file is not required when the running prototype is the approved source of truth and its revision is recorded. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-019 — Evaluate reusable agent design guidance + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A model or agent repeatedly generates, edits, or reviews interfaces using reusable design instructions, skills, examples, tokens, components, stylesheets, or checks. + +Maintain a versioned evaluation suite that tests whether the guidance loads when applicable, stays inactive when out of scope, changes agent behavior as intended, generalizes beyond its examples, and preserves previously accepted behavior. Use realistic tasks with fixed inputs and render settings, a saved baseline, held-out cases, final rendered artifacts, deterministic checks for mechanical failures, and human review for hierarchy, composition, usefulness, and product fit. + +**Why:** A clear design document can still be ignored, interpreted inconsistently, overfit to examples, or improve one artifact while degrading another. + +**Verify:** + +- Record each scenario, input, model and agent configuration, guidance version, design-system version, viewport or device, trial, trace, rendered output, grader, finding, and decision. +- Test guidance routing separately from rule application so a load failure is not misclassified as weak guidance. +- Compare matched first attempts with and without the candidate guidance, keep unsuccessful trials, and run enough independent trials to support any reliability claim. +- Include held-out scenarios and previously passing regressions; inspect final outputs rather than relying only on model explanations or aggregate scores. + +**Exceptions:** One private exploratory use may begin with a single manual matched comparison. Repeated use, shared adoption, or a quality claim activates the complete evaluation requirement. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-020 — Maintain agent guidance from observed failures + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Repeated reviews, evaluations, or production use reveal a failure in agent-authored interface work. + +Turn an accepted correction into the narrowest durable control that can enforce it: product judgment in design guidance, reusable mechanics in governed components or tokens, objective failures in deterministic checks, routing failures in agent instructions, and harness failures in the evaluation system. Require evidence and human approval before changing shared guidance. Rerun affected scenarios and regression coverage, then monitor whether the same complaint becomes less frequent in comparable work. + +**Why:** Adding every complaint to one prompt creates contradictory, oversized guidance and does not show whether the correction works or causes regressions. + +**Verify:** + +- Link each candidate correction to exact outputs, reviewer feedback, affected rule, recurrence evidence, decision owner, and selected enforcement layer. +- Record rejected and deferred candidates, coverage gaps, changed guidance or primitive versions, targeted reruns, broader regression results, and residual failures. +- Sample real use on a declared cadence and compare complaint frequency after adoption; revise or revert controls that do not reduce the intended failure. + +**Exceptions:** A one-off artifact defect may be fixed locally when it does not reveal a reusable decision. Record why it should not change shared guidance. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-021 — Protect evaluation validity and baselines + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An evaluation result supports adoption, release, regression protection, or a comparative quality claim for agent-authored interface work. + +Define the evaluation population, sampling method, trial count, environment controls, failure handling, grader calibration, and decision rule before interpreting results. Separate capability scenarios from regression gates. Version baselines and require review of baseline changes; do not update an expected rendering, loosen a threshold, discard a failed trial, or mask variable content merely to make a candidate pass. + +**Why:** Model variability, contaminated holdouts, unstable rendering, grader drift, selective reruns, and permissive baseline updates can create apparent improvement without a more reliable interface. + +**Verify:** + +- Record scenario selection, holdout isolation, run independence, model and sampling settings, rendering environment, fonts, browser and operating-system versions, seeds or run identities, retries, exclusions, and infrastructure failures. +- Report counts and denominators for wins, ties, losses, blockers, and grader disagreement; state uncertainty and avoid precision the design cannot support. +- Preserve baseline history and require a reviewer to inspect candidate, expected, and diff artifacts before accepting an update. +- Recalibrate model or rubric graders against qualified human judgments after material rubric, model, task-distribution, or product changes. + +**Exceptions:** A formative exploration may use an informal comparison when it makes no release, regression, or reliability claim and labels the result as directional. + +### DESIGN-INTERACTION-022 — Use layered rendered verification + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A rendered interface is evaluated automatically or used as release evidence. + +Combine the narrowest suitable layers: semantic and accessibility-tree checks for structure, interaction checks for behavior, browser measurements for objective layout constraints, controlled visual comparisons for unintended rendering change, accessibility tools plus knowledgeable manual evaluation, and independent human review for hierarchy, composition, meaning, and product fit. Do not treat a screenshot match, accessibility scan, model score, or aggregate pass rate as proof of overall interface quality. + +**Why:** Each automated representation omits material information, while uncontrolled screenshots can fail because of rendering noise or pass despite an unusable design. + +**Verify:** + +- Map every release claim to its primary evidence layer and name what that layer cannot establish. +- Run visual comparisons in the baseline environment or maintain environment-specific baselines; control time, animation, network data, fonts, and other legitimate nondeterminism without hiding user-visible defects. +- Inspect full-page and critical component renders, structural and accessibility representations, material interaction states, and all blocking diffs. +- Record which accessibility checks were automated, manual, and performed with representative users or assistive technology. + +**Exceptions:** A layer may be omitted when its claim is absent or another method provides equivalent evidence and the reason is recorded. Human review remains required for a final visual-quality claim. + +## Guidance + +Treat visual polish as support for comprehension, hierarchy, identity, and feedback. Use motion to explain change without delaying work or excluding people. Validate with realistic content and tasks rather than idealized placeholder screens. + +“Slop” in this standard means an interface whose choices are interchangeable, unsupported, internally inconsistent, or fabricated despite surface-level polish. It does not mean a particular aesthetic. Apply the term to evidence and outcomes, not to a designer or tool. + +Explore genuinely different directions while the problem or visual approach remains uncertain, then request focused feedback before polishing one direction. For motion, treat durations under roughly 300 milliseconds as a starting heuristic for ordinary interface transitions, not a universal requirement. Frequency, travel distance, consequence, platform convention, and user control determine the final timing. + +Craft comes from accumulated correctness: alignment, optical balance, hit areas, focus, pressed states, origins, loading behavior, text fallback, gesture cancellation, and other details that may be individually quiet. Review those details in context. Do not add effects merely to signal effort. + +## Examples + +### Destructive bulk action + +Non-compliant: A red trash icon immediately deletes selected records and shows a temporary toast. + +Compliant: The action names the selected scope and consequence, requires appropriate authorization and review, prevents duplicate submission, reports partial outcomes, and provides reversal or a documented recovery path. + +### Trend-associated landing page + +Non-compliant: A page combines a gradient headline, three equal feature cards, decorative glow, terminal mockup, and unsupported testimonials because those elements appeared in a generated template. + +Compliant: A page may use the same techniques when the hierarchy follows the buyer's decision, the terminal shows representative product behavior, the testimonials are traceable, the visual system is coherent, and the anti-slop review records why each material choice belongs. + +## Sources + +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- US Web Design System, [Design Principles](https://designsystem.digital.gov/design-principles/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Apple, [Human Interface Guidelines](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Emil Kowalski, [Skills for Design Engineers](https://github.com/emilkowalski/skills). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Emil Kowalski, [Agents with Taste](https://emilkowal.ski/ui/agents-with-taste). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Emil Kowalski, [You Don't Need Animations](https://emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-need-animations). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Linear, [A calmer interface for a product in motion](https://linear.app/now/behind-the-latest-design-refresh). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Linear, [Manage design projects](https://linear.app/method/manage-design-projects). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Apple, [Designing Fluid Interfaces](https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/803/). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Apple, [The details of UI typography](https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10175/). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Google, [How to create high-performance CSS animations](https://web.dev/articles/animations-guide). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Vercel, [How our agents build on-brand pages with design.md](https://vercel.com/blog/how-our-agents-build-on-brand-pages-with-design-md). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Vercel, [Teaching agents product design at Vercel](https://vercel.com/blog/teaching-agents-product-design-at-vercel). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Anthropic, [Demystifying evals for AI agents](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- OpenAI, [Model guidance](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Microsoft, [Visual comparisons](https://playwright.dev/docs/test-snapshots). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Evaluating Web Accessibility Overview](https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate/). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- GOV.UK Design System, [Contribution criteria](https://design-system.service.gov.uk/community/contribution-criteria/). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Design Tokens Community Group, [Design Tokens Format Module 2025.10](https://www.w3.org/community/reports/design-tokens/CG-FINAL-format-20251028/). Reviewed September 1, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/discovery/app-stores.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/discovery/app-stores.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..731e243 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/discovery/app-stores.md @@ -0,0 +1,186 @@ +--- +id: DISCOVERY-APP-STORES +title: App-store discovery and submission +description: Requirements for accurate store metadata, platform policy, privacy declarations, review readiness, localization, and release monitoring. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [product, marketing, mobile, privacy, legal] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2026-11-13 +stale_after: 2026-11-13 +applies_to: [app-store-submission, app-store-optimization] +tags: [discovery, app-store, aso, mobile] +depends_on: [MARKETING-LIFECYCLE, PRODUCT-DELIVERY, FND-EVIDENCE, PRIVACY-DATA] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T23:20:00Z" } +sources: + - id: apple-review-guidelines + resource: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ + title: App Review Guidelines + author: organization:apple + - id: apple-app-information + resource: https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/reference/app-information/app-information/ + title: App information + author: organization:apple + - id: google-play-listing + resource: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/13393723 + title: Best practices for your store listing + author: organization:google + - id: google-play-data-safety + resource: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/10787469 + title: Provide information for Google Play Data safety section + author: organization:google +--- + +# App-store discovery and submission + +App-store listings and submissions must represent the released application accurately, meet current platform and jurisdiction rules, disclose data and purchase behavior, support review, and remain synchronized after release. + +## Rules + +### DISCOVERY-APP-STORES-001 — Pin the applicable store policy and account + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Preparing, changing, or submitting an app, product page, event, purchase, or store experiment. + +Record store, territories, account owner, agreements, policy version or review date, app identifier, build, product-page variant, reviewers, and submission authority. + +**Why:** Store policies and account terms change independently of application code. + +**Verify:** + +- Reopen current official policy before submission and compare the exact build and metadata. +- Inspect account roles, agreements, banking, tax, signing, and emergency access. + +**Exceptions:** None for a production submission. + +### DISCOVERY-APP-STORES-002 — Keep metadata truthful and build-specific + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Publishing names, descriptions, keywords, categories, screenshots, previews, pricing, availability, awards, or claims. + +Represent functionality available in the submitted build and territory, including purchases and limitations; avoid irrelevant keywords, imitation, unverifiable claims, hidden functionality, real personal data, and misleading device imagery. + +**Why:** Store metadata is a product claim and often precedes installation or permission decisions. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace every screenshot, preview, claim, price, and feature to the submitted build and configured products. +- Inspect all localized and experimental variants for equivalent accuracy. + +**Exceptions:** Clearly labeled upcoming pre-order behavior must follow current store rules and release controls. + +### DISCOVERY-APP-STORES-003 — Reconcile privacy and data declarations + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The app, SDKs, services, advertising, analytics, or accounts collect, share, retain, or infer data. + +Derive store privacy declarations from the released data map, including third-party SDK behavior, purposes, linking, tracking, security, retention, deletion, and territory differences. Keep store, in-app notice, permissions, and observed traffic consistent. + +**Why:** Self-reported store declarations can drift from runtime data behavior and vendor SDK changes. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect source and binary dependencies, permissions, network and storage behavior, backend paths, and store answers for the final build. +- Exercise consent, denial, withdrawal, account deletion, child or age-restricted paths, and SDK-disabled states. + +**Exceptions:** None for required declarations; uncertainty must block the declaration rather than be guessed. + +### DISCOVERY-APP-STORES-004 — Make the build reviewable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A platform reviewer needs access to evaluate the submitted behavior. + +Provide complete review notes, stable backend availability, safe demo access or approved demo mode, required hardware or sample inputs, purchase visibility, non-obvious feature explanation, and a responsive contact without exposing real user data or production secrets. + +**Why:** An incomplete review path delays approval and can encourage unsafe credential sharing or hidden behavior. + +**Verify:** + +- Have a non-author follow the review instructions from a clean supported device and account. +- Confirm credentials are bounded, monitored, revocable, and excluded from public metadata. + +**Exceptions:** Security or legal limits on demo access require the platform-approved alternative and documented rationale. + +### DISCOVERY-APP-STORES-005 — Localize complete store meaning + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A listing, purchase, event, privacy statement, or support path is available in multiple locales or territories. + +Localize complete messages, search terms, screenshots, captions, prices, eligibility, legal and privacy meaning, support, and cultural context; do not machine-publish unreviewed high-impact translations. + +**Why:** Store discovery and commitment happen before users can inspect in-app context. + +**Verify:** + +- Review every active locale with the territory configuration and corresponding build behavior. +- Test text expansion, right-to-left layout, media text, fallback, and unavailable product states. + +**Exceptions:** An untranslated locale must use an intentional supported fallback and must not imply localized support. + +### DISCOVERY-APP-STORES-006 — Govern reviews, ratings, and store experiments + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Requesting reviews, responding publicly, testing listings, or using ratings and awards in claims. + +Use platform-supported prompts and honest selection, do not manipulate sentiment or suppress eligible negative users, protect reviewer privacy, substantiate rating claims with scope and date, and predefine experiment decisions and guardrails. + +**Why:** Manipulated review populations and selected results distort store trust and product learning. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect prompt eligibility, timing, frequency, incentives, response process, experiment assignment, and reported outcomes. +- Confirm support resolution is not conditioned on rating change or removal. + +**Exceptions:** None for fake, purchased, or sentiment-conditioned reviews. + +### DISCOVERY-APP-STORES-007 — Monitor submission and post-release state + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A submission is in review, released, rejected, removed, phased, or rolled back. + +Track review communication, status, phased availability, crashes, store health, policy notices, reviews, purchases, privacy changes, support, and actual build adoption. Preserve rejection and appeal evidence and correct invalid metadata promptly. + +**Why:** Approval does not prove continuing compliance or successful availability across storefronts. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect representative live storefronts, install and update paths, purchases, links, privacy disclosures, and rollback behavior. +- Reconcile store status with release, support, analytics, and incident records. + +**Exceptions:** None for active listings. + +## Operational coverage + +Maintain separate Apple and Google evidence even when one release uses the same product copy and assets. Pin the policy snapshot and submission identity for each store. + +| Route | Required scenarios | Completion evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Initial listing | New account, new app, age and content rating, privacy declarations, regional availability, accessibility, and review credentials | Store-policy snapshot, build identity, signed metadata record, rendered locales, reviewer path, and accountable approval | +| App update | Feature addition, removed feature, permission or SDK change, subscription change, new region, and staged rollout | Build-to-metadata diff, privacy and data-safety diff, screenshots, review notes, rollout controls, and monitoring | +| Product-page or listing experiment | New claim, reordered screenshots, custom page, localized variant, small sample, novelty, and guardrail regression | Hypothesis, assignment and exposure, exact variants, store metrics with limits, product outcomes, and stop decision | +| Reviews and ratings | Authentic review, support issue, incentivized review, suspected manipulation, abusive review, developer response, and deletion | Platform rule, solicitation text, material connection, response and escalation log, aggregate denominator, and no-manipulation check | +| Rejection, suspension, or policy change | Ambiguous rejection, urgent fix, repeated rejection, account warning, appeal, removed capability, and store outage | Submission and message archive, policy citation, root cause, approved response, user continuity plan, and final disposition | +| Retirement or transfer | Delisting, app transfer, developer-account change, subscription continuity, data export or deletion, and unsupported installed build | User and store notice, ownership transfer, service behavior, data and billing disposition, support window, and final listing state | + +Store acceptance is evidence of platform review at one point in time. It is not proof of legal compliance, product quality, accessibility, or continuing policy conformance. + +## Guidance + +Treat store optimization as truthful discovery, not keyword or review manipulation. Use official store documentation as the current authority and keep Apple and Google requirements separate where their interfaces and rules differ. + +## Examples + +### Subscription screenshot + +Non-compliant: Show a premium feature as included, omit that it requires a recurring purchase, and reuse the screenshot in territories where the product is unavailable. + +Compliant: Match the submitted build and storefront, identify the purchase context, localize terms, reconcile configured products, and test the install-to-purchase path. + +## Sources + +- Apple, [App Review Guidelines](https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Apple, [App information](https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/reference/app-information/app-information/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Best practices for your store listing](https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/13393723). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Provide information for Google Play's Data safety section](https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/10787469). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/discovery/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/discovery/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fb46078 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/discovery/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Discovery standards + +* [App-store discovery](app-stores.md) - Accurate, accessible, privacy-aligned Apple App Store and Google Play listing operations. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/engineering/code-removal.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/engineering/code-removal.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dae6ce7 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/engineering/code-removal.md @@ -0,0 +1,323 @@ +--- +id: ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL +title: Safe code removal +description: Requirements for finding and removing unused code and dependencies with Knip, Ruff, deptry, and contextual Vulture evidence without breaking supported behavior. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [engineering] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2026-11-17 +stale_after: 2026-11-17 +applies_to: [code-removal, dead-code-removal, dependency-cleanup] +tags: [engineering, cleanup, dead-code, dependencies, knip, ruff, deptry, vulture] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-CHANGE, ENGINEERING-QUALITY, AGENT-VERIFICATION, ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T08:39:18Z" } +sources: + - id: knip-first-cleanup + resource: https://knip.dev/overview/first-cleanup + title: Your First Cleanup + author: organization:knip + - id: knip-configuring-project-files + resource: https://knip.dev/guides/configuring-project-files + title: Configuring Project Files + author: organization:knip + - id: knip-production-mode + resource: https://knip.dev/features/production-mode + title: Production Mode + author: organization:knip + - id: knip-handling-issues + resource: https://knip.dev/guides/handling-issues + title: Resolve reported issues + author: organization:knip + - id: knip-monorepos + resource: https://knip.dev/features/monorepos-and-workspaces + title: Monorepos and Workspaces + author: organization:knip + - id: knip-auto-fix + resource: https://knip.dev/features/auto-fix + title: Auto-fix + author: organization:knip + - id: knip-ci + resource: https://knip.dev/guides/using-knip-in-ci + title: Using Knip in CI + author: organization:knip + - id: ruff-configuration + resource: https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/configuration/ + title: Configuring Ruff + author: organization:astral + - id: ruff-linter + resource: https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/linter/ + title: The Ruff Linter + author: organization:astral + - id: ruff-unused-import + resource: https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/unused-import/ + title: unused-import (F401) + author: organization:astral + - id: ruff-unused-variable + resource: https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/unused-variable/ + title: unused-variable (F841) + author: organization:astral + - id: python-import-system + resource: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/import.html + title: The import system + author: organization:python-software-foundation + - id: pypa-entry-points + resource: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/entry-points/ + title: Entry points specification + author: organization:python-packaging-authority + - id: deptry-rules + resource: https://deptry.com/rules-violations/ + title: Rules and Violations + author: organization:deptry + - id: deptry-usage + resource: https://deptry.com/usage/ + title: Usage and Configuration + author: organization:deptry + - id: vulture-216 + resource: https://github.com/jendrikseipp/vulture/blob/v2.16/README.md + title: Vulture 2.16 README + author: person:jendrik-seipp +--- + +# Safe code removal + +Unused code and dependencies should be removed only after static findings are reconciled with the repository's real entry points, public contracts, runtime loading, side effects, and final verification. + +## Rules + +### ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-001 — Define the reachable surface before deleting + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A cleanup may remove a file, export, symbol, import, dependency, script, command, or registration. + +Identify the repository scope, runtime and development entry points, published package surfaces, package-manager workspaces, generated sources, tests, scripts, framework conventions, plugins, dynamic imports, reflection, configuration references, environment-selected implementations, import-time registrations, and side-effect imports that can make code reachable. Include non-code consumers such as deployment definitions, templates, documentation examples that are tested or supported, and external callers. Configure the analysis tools to represent that surface before accepting their findings. + +**Why:** Static analysis produces unsafe removal candidates when its project graph omits real consumers or implicit entry points. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the analyzed workspaces, entry and project patterns, enabled plugins and rules, generated prerequisites, public package surfaces, and known implicit or external consumers. +- Resolve configuration hints and unexpected unresolved imports before treating downstream unused findings as evidence. + +**Exceptions:** An intentionally bounded local cleanup may document the excluded surfaces and prove that the removed item cannot be reached from them. + +### ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-002 — Treat unused findings as candidates, not proof + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Knip, Ruff, or another static tool reports an item as unused. + +Inspect the reported item and its consumers before deletion. Check public exports, package manifests and entry-point metadata, command and script references, string-based lookup, dependency injection, decorators, registration hooks, import-time effects, optional and platform-specific integrations, type-only consumers, serialized names, migrations and rollback paths, and external callers that the tool may not observe. Distinguish an unused implementation from a required interface placeholder, compatibility shim, feature-flag fallback, or emergency recovery path. + +**Why:** Absence from a static graph does not prove absence from runtime behavior or a supported contract. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace the candidate through source search, manifests, lockfiles, configuration, generated artifacts, release packages, and supported public interfaces. +- Record why the finding is removable, a configuration gap, or an intentional exception. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +### ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-003 — Use Knip for TypeScript and JavaScript reachability + +**Level:** recommended +**Applies when:** Cleanup includes TypeScript or JavaScript files, exports, types, dependencies, binaries, or workspace packages. + +Use Knip as the default repository-level unused-code analyzer. Start without custom configuration to inspect detected defaults and plugins, then make targeted `entry` and `project` corrections. In a workspace repository, validate every package and the root workspace; root-level `entry` and `project` settings do not configure the workspace named `.`. Generate required artifacts before analysis and account for path aliases, scripts, non-standard file compilers, and dynamic imports. + +Run the ordinary analysis and a separate production analysis when shipped code differs from tests or tooling. Use strict production mode for a workspace or published package when direct dependency isolation, peer dependencies, and consumer-facing types are in scope; generate the declaration outputs that strict analysis needs. Exercise or represent relevant configuration modes when environment-dependent configuration loads optional tools or dependencies. Do not use entry-export analysis to remove a published export solely because the repository does not consume it; `includeEntryExports` is suitable only when the repository is self-contained or private, or when an approved compatibility decision covers the export. Address findings in dependency order, starting with configuration hints and unused files, then unresolved imports, exports and types, binaries, and dependencies. Use trace output for surprising results and narrow ignore settings only after documenting why the real usage cannot be represented. + +**Why:** Knip models files, exports, types, dependencies, binaries, and workspace entry points together; configuration and analysis order determine whether that graph matches the project. + +**Verify:** + +- Preserve the pinned Knip version, configuration, workspace scope, generated prerequisites, and exact commands used in the cleanup evidence. +- Record ordinary, production, and applicable strict results separately; a test or story import must not be presented as proof of production reachability. +- Rerun uncached final analysis after manifest, workspace, or ignore-file changes when cached or watch results may be stale. + +**Exceptions:** Use an equivalent repository-level analyzer when Knip cannot support the project's language, module system, or framework. Record the coverage difference and reason. + +### ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-004 — Use Ruff only for the Python findings it can prove + +**Level:** recommended +**Applies when:** Cleanup includes Python imports, local variables, arguments, loop bindings, or suppression comments. + +Use the repository's pinned Ruff version and repository-owned configuration; do not allow an unrecorded user-level configuration to determine the result. Confirm the analyzed file scope, exclusions, target Python version, preview setting, selected rules, per-file ignores, and dummy-variable convention. At minimum, assess `F401` for unused imports and `F841` for unused local variables. Include stable rules such as `F811`, `F842`, `B007`, the `ARG` family, and `RUF100` when their semantics match the project; consider `RUF059` only when the selected Ruff version treats it as appropriate for the project. + +Review every unsafe fix and every change to `__init__.py`, `__all__`, import-time behavior, intentional re-exports, abstract or protocol signatures, framework callbacks, fixtures, dependency-injection hooks, and positional or keyword compatibility. A leading underscore records intentional non-use; it does not prove an argument can be removed. Do not present Ruff as proof that a module, class, function, method, command entry point, plugin, or dependency is unreachable across the repository. + +**Why:** Ruff can prove specific unused bindings, but Python imports and public surfaces may execute behavior or serve consumers outside Ruff's local analysis. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the Ruff version, configuration path and resolution, selected and ignored rules, file scope, command, and diagnostics before and after the cleanup. +- Inspect retained `noqa`, per-file ignores, dummy-variable conventions, re-exports, interface-required arguments, preview rules, and safe or unsafe fix decisions. + +**Exceptions:** Use the project's existing Python analyzer when it provides equivalent diagnostics and recorded configuration. State which Ruff rule coverage is absent. + +### ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-005 — Remove in bounded changes and verify the final graph + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** One or more removal candidates have been classified as removable. + +Delete the smallest coherent set, update direct references, documentation, configuration, permissions, telemetry, manifests, and ownership records, and preserve supported public behavior unless an approved compatibility process governs its removal. Remove package dependencies with the repository's package manager so manifests, catalogs, and lockfiles agree. Do not remove retained data, schema, credentials, feature flags, fallback paths, or operational signals merely because their current code reader was deleted; route those lifecycle changes through their applicable standards. + +Treat automatic fixes as proposed edits. For Knip, inspect a trustworthy report before `--fix`, limit `--fix-type` to the approved category, and require exact approval before `--allow-remove-files`. Inspect CommonJS and export assignments for right-hand-side effects. For Ruff, review a diff before writing and do not apply unsafe fixes in bulk; even safe fixes require final behavior checks. Run the affected tests, type checks, builds, package or application startup checks, import smoke tests, and repository-specific validation against the final diff. Rerun the unused-code analysis after each material group because removing one node can expose another. + +**Why:** Removal failures often appear only during packaging, startup, plugin discovery, import execution, or a later stage of the dependency graph. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the final diff for unintended edits, orphaned configuration, stale documentation, package and lockfile consistency, software bills of materials and third-party notices, altered public surfaces, lost comments, and removed side effects. +- Record final tool output, behavior checks, remaining findings, intentional suppressions, compatibility decisions, and recovery path. + +**Exceptions:** A check that cannot run requires a recorded reason, affected claim, risk owner, and alternate evidence. Do not claim the unrun check passed. + +### ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-006 — Keep exceptions narrow and attributable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A reported item is retained or an analysis result is suppressed. + +Use the narrowest supported configuration or inline exception. Record the hidden finding, reason, affected scope, owner, and condition or date for review. Do not disable an issue category for the whole repository to hide one unexplained result. + +**Why:** Broad suppressions turn later regressions into invisible debt and make a clean report misleading. + +**Verify:** + +- Review ignore patterns, per-file exclusions, inline suppressions, entry overrides, and allowlists for scope and rationale. +- Confirm the final report distinguishes resolved findings from accepted exceptions. + +**Exceptions:** Generated or vendor-owned files may use pattern-level exclusions when their boundary and regeneration source are explicit. + +### ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-007 — Ratchet a trustworthy baseline + +**Level:** recommended +**Applies when:** A repository will continue to use Knip, Ruff, deptry, Vulture, or an equivalent analyzer after the cleanup, or an existing backlog prevents a clean first run. + +After the analysis graph and rule scope are trustworthy, enforce the cleaned scope in continuous integration. A legacy backlog may be adopted by issue type, workspace, production scope, or a non-increasing issue budget. Keep unresolved categories visible as warnings or recorded backlog; do not report a passing non-zero budget or `--no-exit-code` run as a clean result. Tighten the gate as findings are resolved, and make configuration hints blocking once the configuration is owned and stable. + +**Why:** A one-time cleanup decays, while an unexplained baseline can normalize false positives or let new dead code hide in existing debt. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the blocking command, pinned tool version, gated scopes and issue types, current budget or warning set, owner, and next tightening milestone. +- Seed or identify a safe known finding and confirm the gate rejects a new issue in a cleaned scope. +- Confirm final reports distinguish tool failure from findings and clean results from accepted backlog. + +**Exceptions:** A repository that does not retain the analyzer must assign an equivalent recurring check or record why recurrence risk is accepted and by whom. + +### ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-008 — Use deptry for Python dependency classification + +**Level:** recommended +**Applies when:** Python cleanup may add, remove, retain, or reclassify a runtime, optional, development, or transitive dependency. + +Use a pinned deptry version in the project's own environment to compare imported modules with the repository's authoritative dependency declarations. Configure the correct source roots, dependency file, regular and development groups, optional groups, notebooks, and per-rule exceptions. Assess `DEP001` missing dependencies, `DEP002` unused runtime dependencies, `DEP003` transitive dependencies used directly, `DEP004` development dependencies used by runtime code, and `DEP005` packages that duplicate the standard library. + +Treat every result as a classification task. An undeclared or transitive dependency usually needs to be declared directly, not removed. A package with no ordinary import may still be required by an entry point, plugin loader, binary, data file, environment marker, optional feature, build backend, or import-name mapping that deptry cannot infer. Development dependencies are outside `DEP002`, so a clean result does not prove that development tooling is used. + +**Why:** Ruff does not reconcile imports with dependency metadata, and a source import alone cannot distinguish missing, transitive, misplaced, optional, or dynamically loaded packages. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the deptry version, environment, dependency source, source roots, group classification, notebook scope, configuration, exceptions, and results. +- Trace every proposed removal through entry points, plugin and binary configuration, build metadata, optional features, environment markers, import-to-distribution mapping, manifests, and lockfiles. +- After a dependency change, rebuild or synchronize the environment and run clean installation, import, packaging, startup, and affected behavior checks. + +**Exceptions:** Use an equivalent dependency analyzer when it covers the repository's package manager and dependency groups. Record missing deptry rule coverage and alternate evidence. + +### ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-009 — Use Vulture only as contextual Python discovery + +**Level:** contextual +**Applies when:** A cleanup seeks repository-level candidates among Python functions, methods, classes, properties, attributes, variables, or unreachable blocks that Ruff does not report. + +Run a pinned Vulture version across the intended application, library, and test scope. Start with the highest useful confidence threshold and lower it only to expand a manually reviewed candidate queue. Never authorize deletion from Vulture's confidence score alone, including a 100 percent result. Trace implicit use through decorators, descriptors, dataclasses, serialization, dependency injection, callbacks, framework and test discovery, command and plugin entry points, reflection, name-based dispatch, inheritance, overrides, protocols, and external consumers. + +Prefer a checked Python whitelist for intentional implicit uses over broad name, decorator, file, or directory ignores. Keep the whitelist in ordinary review, include it in Vulture's analyzed paths, and verify that its references still resolve. Do not automatically delete Vulture findings. + +**Why:** Vulture extends Python discovery beyond local bindings, but its name-based static analysis can report implicitly invoked code as unused and can miss dead code in dynamic programs. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the Vulture version, configuration, analyzed application and test paths, confidence threshold, exclusions, whitelist, findings, and classification decisions. +- Import or type-check the whitelist where practical and inspect it for stale references after every cleanup. +- Re-run Vulture after each material deletion because one removal can expose another candidate. + +**Exceptions:** Do not add Vulture when the repository has no owner for manual triage or when dynamic behavior makes its signal unactionable. Record that limitation; do not claim repository-wide Python dead-code coverage. + +### ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-010 — Test analyzer configuration with positive and negative canaries + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A repository adopts, materially reconfigures, upgrades, or relies on an unused-code or dependency analyzer as completion evidence. + +Maintain isolated repository-owned canaries for the applicable scenarios below. Each positive canary represents code or a dependency that must remain reachable; each negative canary represents an item the analyzer must report. Keep canaries outside shipped artifacts and ordinary finding budgets. Run them after tool, plugin, compiler, framework, packaging, entry-point, or analyzer-configuration changes. + +**Why:** A clean report cannot show that missing entries, broad exclusions, stale caches, or unsupported dynamic behavior made the analyzer blind. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the applicable scenario IDs, fixture paths, commands, expected diagnostics or non-diagnostics, and actual results. +- Confirm each negative canary fails the relevant gate and each positive canary survives analysis and its runtime or packaging check. +- Review scenarios marked not applicable with the repository owner and record why their reachability mechanism is absent. + +**Exceptions:** A repository may generate disposable canaries during tests instead of committing fixture files when the generated inputs and expected results are deterministic and reviewable. + +## Guidance + +Use tool output to build a review queue. For Knip, fix the project graph before deleting from it; tests can make production code appear reachable, so ordinary and production runs answer different questions. Knip exit `1` means findings and exit `2` means the tool failed; preserve that distinction in automation. For Ruff, prefer explicit re-exports through `__all__` or redundant aliases where they express a public interface. Never use an underscore, `noqa`, Knip ignore, dummy reference, or synthetic import only to make a report green without explaining the intended behavior. + +The expected TypeScript and JavaScript stack is Knip for repository reachability and dependencies, the active `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` analyzer for bindings inside files, and the TypeScript compiler plus builds and tests for semantic behavior. The expected Python stack is Ruff for supported local bindings, deptry for dependency metadata, contextual Vulture for broader candidates when its signal is actionable, and the repository's type, import, packaging, startup, and behavior checks. No single clean report replaces another layer. Do not add Knip, Ruff, deptry, Vulture, or another dependency to a project without the authority required by that project's dependency policy. + +Classify findings by meaning. A Knip unlisted dependency is usually evidence that code relies on an undeclared transitive package, not a request to delete the import. A Ruff unused argument may be required by a callback, protocol, fixture, override, or compatibility contract. If notebooks are in Ruff's scope, analyze each notebook as a whole so cross-cell usage is visible. + +## Conformance scenarios + +The repository must implement every applicable scenario as a positive or negative canary under `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-010`. + +| ID | Scenario | Expected evidence | +|---|---|---| +| `scenario-ts-001` | A TypeScript file is reached only through a literal dynamic import or framework route. | Knip retains it after the entry, plugin, or generated route is represented; a runtime check loads it. | +| `scenario-ts-002` | A published package export has no in-repository consumer. | Analysis does not authorize removal without external-usage and compatibility evidence. | +| `scenario-ts-003` | A CommonJS or export assignment has a right-hand-side effect. | Any proposed fix preserves the effect or blocks automatic removal. | +| `scenario-ts-004` | A generated entry file reaches otherwise unused source. | Generation runs before analysis and Knip retains the reached source. | +| `scenario-ts-005` | A monorepo root and a child workspace each own entry points. | Both workspace graphs are analyzed with their effective configuration. | +| `scenario-ts-006` | An unused local binding exists inside an otherwise reachable file. | The active JavaScript or TypeScript analyzer reports it even though Knip retains the file. | +| `scenario-py-001` | A Python object is exposed only through `console_scripts`, `gui_scripts`, or plugin entry-point metadata. | Dependency and dead-code analysis retain it; an installed-package check loads or invokes it. | +| `scenario-py-002` | A package `__init__.py` intentionally re-exports a public name. | Ruff retains the explicit alias or `__all__` export and public import tests pass. | +| `scenario-py-003` | A decorator, fixture, callback, protocol method, or dependency-injection hook invokes code implicitly. | Ruff or Vulture output is classified as implicit use and the framework-level check exercises it. | +| `scenario-py-004` | Application code imports a package available only transitively. | deptry reports `DEP003`; the fix declares the direct dependency instead of deleting valid use. | +| `scenario-py-005` | A runtime dependency is declared but unused in all represented modes. | deptry reports `DEP002`; removal is followed by environment synchronization and packaging, import, startup, and behavior checks. | +| `scenario-py-006` | A development-only tool is declared but never imported by application code. | The evidence states that `DEP002` does not assess development dependencies and uses separate tooling evidence. | +| `scenario-py-007` | A method is reached through reflection or name-based dispatch. | Vulture may report a candidate, but a whitelist or equivalent explicit reachability evidence retains it. | +| `scenario-x-001` | An optional dependency or implementation is selected only in one environment. | Every supported selection mode is represented or the dependency has a narrow, reviewed exception. | +| `scenario-x-002` | A known-dead file, binding, or dependency is inserted into the isolated fixture. | The intended analyzer returns the expected finding and the blocking gate rejects it. | +| `scenario-x-003` | An analyzer cache or watch run precedes a manifest or ignore-file change. | Final evidence comes from a fresh complete run, not the potentially stale incremental result. | + +## Examples + +### TypeScript workspace cleanup + +Non-compliant: Run Knip with default discovery, delete every reported file and dependency at once, and add a broad ignore when a framework-generated route breaks. + +Compliant: Confirm root and package workspace entry points, public package exports, and framework entries; generate required route artifacts; resolve Knip configuration hints; compare ordinary, production, and applicable strict reports; trace each candidate; use a targeted fix only after review; remove one coherent group; update the lockfile with the package manager; and rerun the configured analyzer, type checks, tests, builds, startup checks, and uncached Knip analysis. + +### Python import cleanup + +Non-compliant: Apply every Ruff fix, including unsafe fixes, and delete a package because no Python file now imports it. + +Compliant: Resolve and record Ruff's repository configuration, review `F401` and `F841` findings, preserve intentional `__init__.py` re-exports, interface-required arguments, and import-time registrations, inspect every proposed unsafe fix, use separate evidence for module and package reachability, and rerun Ruff plus type, import, packaging, test, and startup checks. + +### Python dependency and definition cleanup + +Non-compliant: Delete every `DEP002` and Vulture finding, treat a 100 percent confidence score as proof, and ignore console scripts because no source file imports them. + +Compliant: Configure deptry's runtime, development, and optional groups; inspect package entry points and supported environments; use Vulture only to build a manually classified queue; preserve implicit uses with a checked whitelist; remove one bounded group; rebuild the environment; and rerun Ruff, deptry, Vulture, type, import, package-install, plugin, command, startup, and behavior checks. + +## Sources + +- Knip, [Your First Cleanup](https://knip.dev/overview/first-cleanup), [Configuring Project Files](https://knip.dev/guides/configuring-project-files), [Production Mode](https://knip.dev/features/production-mode), [Monorepos and Workspaces](https://knip.dev/features/monorepos-and-workspaces), [Resolve reported issues](https://knip.dev/guides/handling-issues), [Auto-fix](https://knip.dev/features/auto-fix), and [Using Knip in CI](https://knip.dev/guides/using-knip-in-ci). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Astral, [Configuring Ruff](https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/configuration/), [The Ruff Linter](https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/linter/), [`F401` unused import](https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/unused-import/), and [`F841` unused variable](https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/unused-variable/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Python Software Foundation, [The import system](https://docs.python.org/3/reference/import.html). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Python Packaging Authority, [Entry points specification](https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/entry-points/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- deptry, [Rules and Violations](https://deptry.com/rules-violations/) and [Usage and Configuration](https://deptry.com/usage/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Jendrik Seipp, [Vulture 2.16 README](https://github.com/jendrikseipp/vulture/blob/v2.16/README.md). Reviewed August 17, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/engineering/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/engineering/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c60b281 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/engineering/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +# Engineering standards + +* [Safe code removal](code-removal.md) - Knip, Ruff, deptry, contextual Vulture, analyzer canaries, bounded deletion, and final verification. +* [Engineering quality](quality.md) - Architecture, canonical ownership, generated projections, testing, dependencies, review, provenance, and release readiness. +* [Software testing and verification](testing.md) - Risk-based test evidence, bounded smoke tests, suite health, compatibility, controlled exercises, and release decisions; use the [testing reference](../testing/) for rapid application. +* [JavaScript and TypeScript quality with Biome, Trellis, and anti-slop](javascript-quality.md) - Shared formatting, static analysis, type-evidence policy, continuous integration, suppressions, and agent handoffs. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/engineering/javascript-quality.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/engineering/javascript-quality.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..32d4770 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/engineering/javascript-quality.md @@ -0,0 +1,744 @@ +--- +id: ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY +title: JavaScript and TypeScript quality with Biome, Trellis, and anti-slop +description: Requires Raintree JavaScript and TypeScript repositories to enforce shared code-quality and type-evidence policy through Biome, Trellis, Oxlint, and anti-slop. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [engineering, security] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2026-11-17 +stale_after: 2026-11-17 +applies_to: [javascript-change, typescript-change, javascript-repository, typescript-repository] +tags: [engineering, javascript, typescript, biome, trellis, oxlint, anti-slop, linting, formatting] +depends_on: [ENGINEERING-QUALITY] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T16:57:33Z" } +sources: + - id: biome-getting-started + resource: https://biomejs.dev/guides/getting-started/ + title: Getting Started with Biome + author: organization:biomejs + - id: biome-configure + resource: https://biomejs.dev/guides/configure-biome/ + title: Configure Biome + author: organization:biomejs + - id: biome-big-projects + resource: https://biomejs.dev/guides/big-projects/ + title: Use Biome in big projects + author: organization:biomejs + - id: biome-vcs + resource: https://biomejs.dev/guides/integrate-in-vcs/ + title: Integrate Biome with your VCS + author: organization:biomejs + - id: biome-ci + resource: https://biomejs.dev/recipes/continuous-integration/ + title: Continuous Integration with Biome + author: organization:biomejs + - id: biome-cli + resource: https://biomejs.dev/reference/cli/ + title: Biome CLI reference + author: organization:biomejs + - id: biome-formatter + resource: https://biomejs.dev/formatter/ + title: Biome formatter + author: organization:biomejs + - id: biome-linter + resource: https://biomejs.dev/linter/ + title: Biome linter + author: organization:biomejs + - id: biome-assist + resource: https://biomejs.dev/assist/ + title: Biome Assist + author: organization:biomejs + - id: biome-suppressions + resource: https://biomejs.dev/analyzer/suppressions/ + title: Biome suppressions + author: organization:biomejs + - id: biome-editors + resource: https://biomejs.dev/editors/first-party-extensions/ + title: Biome first-party editor extensions + author: organization:biomejs + - id: biome-migration + resource: https://biomejs.dev/guides/migrate-eslint-prettier/ + title: Migrate from ESLint and Prettier + author: organization:biomejs + - id: typescript-no-emit + resource: https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig/noEmit.html + title: TypeScript noEmit option + author: organization:microsoft + - id: anti-slop-010 + resource: https://github.com/dmmulroy/anti-slop/blob/446268e5d15baa968eaec669ff65358d36ae6259/README.md + title: anti-slop 0.1.0 README + author: person:dmmulroy + - id: oxlint-js-plugins + resource: https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/js-plugins.html + title: Oxlint JavaScript plugins + author: organization:oxc-project + - id: oxlint-configuration + resource: https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/config.html + title: Oxlint configuration + author: organization:oxc-project + - id: oxlint-ignore-files + resource: https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/ignore-files.html + title: Oxlint ignore files + author: organization:oxc-project + - id: oxlint-ignore-comments + resource: https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/ignore-comments.html + title: Oxlint inline ignore comments + author: organization:oxc-project + - id: oxlint-ci + resource: https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/ci.html + title: Oxlint CI and integrations + author: organization:oxc-project + - id: oxlint-versioning + resource: https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/versioning.html + title: Oxlint versioning policy + author: organization:oxc-project + - id: oxlint-automatic-fixes + resource: https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/automatic-fixes.html + title: Oxlint automatic fixes + author: organization:oxc-project + - id: trellis-030 + resource: https://github.com/raintree-technology/trellis/blob/d2b0f37abce4319c329f363b4cdb541d83d18db9/README.md + title: Trellis 0.3.0 README + author: organization:raintree-technology +--- + +# JavaScript and TypeScript quality with Biome, Trellis, and anti-slop + +Raintree-owned JavaScript and TypeScript repositories use Biome as the required formatting and baseline static-analysis entry point and inherit the shared Trellis policy. Repositories with maintained TypeScript also vendor and enforce anti-slop through Oxlint to preserve type evidence and reject low-signal implementation patterns. Repository-specific architecture, framework, accessibility, file-scope, type, and behavior checks remain with the repository that owns them. + +## Rules + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-001 — Inherit the shared Trellis policy + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A Raintree-owned repository contains maintained JavaScript or TypeScript source. + +Install `@biomejs/biome` and `@raintree-technology/trellis` as exact development dependencies at the repository root. Extend `@raintree-technology/trellis/biome` from the root Biome configuration. Do not copy Trellis configuration or plugins into the consuming repository. + +**Why:** One inherited policy keeps objective correctness and security rules consistent while allowing Trellis updates to be reviewed as explicit dependency changes. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the resolved root dependencies and lockfile for exact Biome and Trellis versions. +- Resolve the root Biome configuration and confirm it extends the installed Trellis export. +- Confirm no copied Trellis rules or plugin files are maintained in the consumer. + +**Exceptions:** A repository that cannot run Trellis because its supported package-manager layout lacks a physical root `node_modules` directory requires engineering and security owner approval for an equivalent enforced rule set, an owner, and a migration trigger. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-002 — Keep Biome and Trellis compatible + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Installing or updating Biome or Trellis. + +Use the exact Biome version declared by the selected Trellis release's peer dependency. Update the two packages together, review the effective rule and severity changes, and commit the resulting lockfile change. + +**Why:** A mismatched analyzer can reject the configuration, interpret it differently, or silently change the diagnostics that policy depends on. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the installed Biome version with Trellis's published peer dependency. +- Run the repository's blocking Biome command after a clean dependency install. +- Record new, removed, or severity-changed diagnostics in the dependency-change review. + +**Exceptions:** None. A Trellis release that does not support the required Biome version must be upgraded or handled through the exception in `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-001`. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-003 — Keep one authoritative root configuration + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Configuring Biome in a repository or workspace. + +Commit one root `biome.json` or `biome.jsonc` next to the root package manifest. Reference the installed Biome schema, inherit Trellis there, and put shared formatter, linter, assist, VCS, and file-scope settings in that file. Commands and supported editors must resolve the same root configuration. + +**Why:** Configuration discovered from a different working directory, user profile, or editor override can produce conflicting results for the same source. + +**Verify:** + +- Run Biome from the documented repository root and representative package directories and inspect which configuration is resolved. +- Confirm the schema points to the installed Biome package rather than an unpinned web schema. +- Inspect checked editor settings for inline configuration or a conflicting configuration path. + +**Exceptions:** A repository without a Node package manifest may keep the root Biome configuration beside its primary build manifest, provided every command and editor workspace resolves it explicitly. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-004 — Define owned source and scanner scope + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Configuring Biome in a repository or workspace. + +Start `files.includes` with a positive owned-scope pattern. Exclude build output, caches, vendored trees, generated artifacts, fixtures that intentionally violate policy, and other files the repository cannot fix at their source. Use ordinary exclusions when project or type rules still need to index an excluded file; use force-ignore exclusions for output or external trees that must not be scanned. Enable Git VCS integration and ignore-file support, but keep material ownership boundaries explicit in Biome configuration. + +**Why:** An implicit scope can omit maintained code, scan large output trees, or flood checks with findings in files that must be changed at their source. Overbroad force-ignore rules can also remove type and module information needed to analyze owned code. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the effective Biome file set with the repository's maintained source and configuration inventory. +- Sample every ordinary and force-ignore exclusion and trace it to a generator, upstream owner, fixture purpose, cache, or output directory. +- Exercise a project or type-aware rule when one is enabled and confirm required generated declarations and imported source remain indexable. +- Confirm `.gitignore` changes cannot silently remove maintained source from the blocking check without review of `biome.json` and the check output. + +**Exceptions:** A generated file that is intentionally hand-maintained is owned source and cannot be excluded as generated. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-005 — Inherit root policy in monorepos + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A repository contains nested workspaces or package-level Biome configurations. + +Install Biome and Trellis at the repository root. Make every nested Biome configuration inherit the root with `"extends": ["//"]` and keep only package-specific scope or policy below it. Run the blocking full check from the root so all owned packages and nested configurations participate. + +**Why:** Independent package roots can drift to different Trellis versions, miss shared plugins, or pass locally while the repository as a whole fails. + +**Verify:** + +- Resolve representative nested configurations and confirm they inherit the root and load Trellis plugins from the root installation. +- Search for nested configurations that behave as independent roots and trace each to an approved repository boundary. +- Run the root check across packages with different local overrides. + +**Exceptions:** A vendored project or Git submodule with independent governance must be force-ignored from the parent scanner or governed as a separate repository; it cannot silently shadow the parent policy. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-006 — Keep product policy local + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A repository has framework, architecture, accessibility, import-boundary, runtime, or file-scope requirements beyond Trellis. + +Declare those requirements in the repository's Biome configuration or another checked repository policy. Do not add product-specific rules or exceptions to Trellis merely to share configuration within one product. + +**Why:** Trellis can stay broadly applicable only when the repository that owns a contextual constraint also owns its enforcement and exceptions. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace each applicable repository requirement to an enforced local rule or a documented verification step. +- Confirm local overrides do not disable a Trellis error without an exception approved by engineering and, for a security rule, security. + +**Exceptions:** A rule proven objective across more than one repository, with one clear replacement, may be proposed to Trellis and removed locally after the released preset enforces it. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-007 — Configure all three Biome tools explicitly + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A repository adopts or materially changes its Biome configuration. + +Keep the formatter, linter, and assist enabled for their owned supported files. Configure formatting choices in the root file, inherit Trellis's recommended and explicit lint rules, and enable import organization through Assist. Use language or path overrides only where the repository has a concrete constraint. + +**Why:** Biome enables these tools by default, but relying on defaults makes tool coverage harder to review and can change behavior when a migration or nested configuration replaces part of the effective configuration. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the effective root and nested configurations for formatter, linter, and assist enablement and scope. +- Change formatting, import order, and a Trellis error in disposable representative files and confirm the expected diagnostics. +- Confirm tool-specific includes do not attempt to re-include files excluded by global `files.includes`. + +**Exceptions:** Disable a tool for an owned file type only when another checked tool owns that exact responsibility and the repository records the boundary. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-008 — Use the Raintree formatting baseline + +**Level:** recommended +**Applies when:** Creating a repository or intentionally selecting or replacing its formatter conventions. + +Use spaces with width 2, a line width of 100, double quotes for JavaScript and JSX, required semicolons, trailing commas where supported, and organized imports. Keep `formatWithErrors` disabled so malformed source is not silently rewritten. + +**Why:** A declared baseline removes recurring style decisions and matches the Trellis repository's own maintained source without forcing unrelated format churn during every adoption. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the committed root configuration for the selected values. +- Run the write command on representative JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, TSX, and JSON fixtures and review the result. + +**Exceptions:** An existing repository may preserve established Biome-compatible conventions to avoid a repository-wide formatting diff. Record the deviation and keep it consistent; do not mix conventions by package without a source-format constraint. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-009 — Separate read-only gates from write commands + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A JavaScript or TypeScript change is reviewed, merged, released, or handed off as complete. + +Expose a documented developer gate that runs `biome check` over the full owned scope without writing changes and a continuous-integration gate that runs `biome ci` after a frozen install of the committed lockfile. Invoke the repository-local pinned binary and emit the complete actionable diagnostic set. Error diagnostics must fail; warning diagnostics must remain visible. Keep write mode in a separately named developer command and never run it in the gate. + +**Why:** Editor feedback alone is inconsistent, a lint-only command can miss formatting or assist drift, and a floating CI binary can apply a different policy from local development. + +**Verify:** + +- Run both documented gates and record their exit status against the final revision. +- Introduce a disposable known error in a safe test context and confirm continuous integration or its local equivalent rejects it. +- Confirm the gates do not use `--write`, `--fix`, or otherwise mutate source. +- Confirm continuous integration installs Trellis and the exact Biome peer before resolving the shared configuration. + +**Exceptions:** A short-lived adoption rollout may check only changed files when an engineering owner records the full backlog, deadline, blocking expansion stages, and non-regression control. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-010 — Control automatic fixes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Applying Biome or plugin fixes to maintained source. + +Run safe write actions only from a developer command and inspect the resulting diff. Apply unsafe fixes only to an explicit path or finding set after reviewing the stated semantic change. Run type checks and behavior checks after either class of fix. + +**Why:** A fix classification narrows expected risk but does not prove that the change preserves repository-specific behavior or that a plugin rewrite matches the surrounding design. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the exact command, paths, diagnostics, and resulting diff. +- Confirm `--unsafe` was not used across an unreviewed repository-wide scope. +- Run the applicable type, build, test, and final Biome gates after fixes. + +**Exceptions:** None for unsafe fixes. A pure formatting-only change may use focused behavior checks when the final formatter and parser gates pass and the diff contains no semantic edits. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-011 — Resolve or explain every diagnostic + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Biome reports a diagnostic in maintained source changed by the work. + +Fix the underlying issue when the rule applies. If the rule does not apply, use the narrowest supported suppression, state the concrete reason beside it, and keep the affected code within ordinary review scope. Do not use blanket file, directory, or rule disablement to make a change pass. + +**Why:** Broad or unexplained suppressions hide unrelated future defects and make reviewers guess whether risk was considered. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect changed suppressions for a reason, minimum scope, and continued applicability. +- Search configuration changes for disabled Trellis rules and trace each one to an approved exception. +- Confirm fixes did not change behavior outside the reviewed diff. + +**Exceptions:** Generated or vendored files are handled by owned-source scope under `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-004`, not inline suppressions. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-012 — Keep editor feedback aligned + +**Level:** recommended +**Applies when:** A team uses a supported editor for maintained JavaScript or TypeScript. + +Use a Biome-maintained editor extension where available, require the repository configuration, select Biome as the formatter for supported files, and apply only safe fixes and configured Assist actions on save. Do not commit inline editor configuration that weakens repository rules. + +**Why:** Fast editor feedback reduces rework, but editor-only overrides can hide failures that reappear in the authoritative command-line gate. + +**Verify:** + +- Open representative files and compare editor diagnostics and formatting with the repository-local CLI. +- Inspect checked workspace settings for the default formatter, configuration requirement, save actions, and binary or configuration path. +- Confirm no inline editor configuration disables Trellis or repository rules. + +**Exceptions:** Unsupported editors may rely on the documented developer gate. Editor setup is never completion evidence by itself. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-013 — Preserve coverage during migration + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Replacing ESLint, Prettier, import sorting, or another static-analysis or formatting tool with Biome. + +Inventory existing rules, plugins, ignores, overrides, scripts, editor settings, and continuous-integration gates before migration. Use Biome migration commands only as a starting artifact, review their output, and retain any check for which Biome and local rules do not provide equivalent coverage. Delete the former configuration only after the new full-scope gates pass and every lost or changed check has a recorded decision. + +**Why:** Automated migration can translate settings without reproducing every plugin, option, ignore, or semantic check. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the before-and-after rule and scope inventory, including inspired rules and unsupported configuration formats. +- Run the old and new checks on representative valid and invalid fixtures where practical and reconcile differing results. +- Review large formatting changes separately from behavioral changes. +- Confirm package scripts, editor settings, hooks, documentation, and continuous integration no longer invoke a removed tool. + +**Exceptions:** A redundant formatter may be removed without fixture comparison when the final source has been formatted and the selected Biome conventions are recorded. Lint or security coverage cannot be dropped without an engineering-owner risk decision. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-014 — Keep type and behavior verification separate + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A repository contains TypeScript or executable JavaScript behavior. + +Do not treat Biome or Trellis as a replacement for the repository's compiler, type check, build, tests, or risk-matched behavior verification. TypeScript repositories must expose and run a no-emit type-check or an equivalent framework compiler check. Run the applicable build and tests independently of the Biome gate. + +**Why:** Biome formats and analyzes source and can infer types for selected lint rules, but those diagnostics do not establish full compiler acceptance or runtime behavior. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace the documented check set to separate Biome, type or compiler, build, and test results. +- Introduce a disposable representative type error that is outside Trellis's rule set and confirm the type gate rejects it. +- Confirm the final handoff does not describe a passing Biome command as proof that behavior tests passed. + +**Exceptions:** A JavaScript-only package with no compile step may omit a type gate when its contract and behavior checks cover the supported interface. It cannot omit behavior verification merely because Biome passes. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-015 — Use deterministic Trellis handoffs + +**Level:** contextual +**Applies when:** Active Trellis findings are assigned to a coding agent or transferred between reviewers or teams. + +Generate a Trellis JSON todo report for the agreed paths and preserve its durable IDs in the work record. Use the repository's blocking Biome command, not report generation, to decide whether the completed change passes policy. + +**Why:** A deterministic report makes the active findings explicit and diffable without confusing work tracking with enforcement. + +**Verify:** + +- Run `trellis todo` for the recorded scope and inspect the report's scope, summary, source locations, rules, and durable IDs. +- Re-run the blocking Biome command after the assigned findings are resolved. +- Reconcile remaining IDs as resolved, accepted through an exception, or still open. + +**Exceptions:** An interactive fix by one author with no handoff does not require a todo report. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-016 — Vendor anti-slop for TypeScript + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A Raintree-owned repository contains maintained TypeScript source. + +Copy the anti-slop plugin source into a repository-owned tooling directory, register it as an Oxlint JavaScript plugin, and enable every upstream anti-slop rule at error severity. Record the upstream version or commit and license. Do not depend on anti-slop as a fixed npm package or load it from an unreviewed remote location. + +**Why:** anti-slop is designed to be read, adapted, and maintained with the repository. Vendoring makes the exact policy implementation reviewable and prevents an unpublished or moving package from silently changing the gate. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace the vendored entry point and rule files to the recorded upstream commit. +- Print or resolve the effective Oxlint configuration and confirm all vendored rules are enabled at error severity. +- Confirm the plugin source and its license are committed and the configured path resolves from the root Oxlint configuration. + +**Exceptions:** A repository may use an organization-maintained package only after engineering records its source provenance, immutable version, update process, and behavior equivalence to the vendored policy. Omitting anti-slop requires an engineering-owner exception with an equivalent type-evidence gate and a migration trigger. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-017 — Pin and qualify the Oxlint plugin runtime + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Installing or updating anti-slop, Oxlint, or `@oxlint/plugins`. + +Install exact matching versions of `oxlint` and `@oxlint/plugins` as development dependencies and commit the lockfile. Because Oxlint JavaScript plugins are alpha and outside its semantic-versioning guarantees, exercise anti-slop's representative valid and invalid fixtures on every runtime update before accepting the new pair. + +**Why:** A patch or minor Oxlint release may change the JavaScript plugin API or behavior without being classified as breaking, even when the core command follows semantic versioning. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the two resolved versions and confirm they match exactly. +- Run the vendored plugin's rule fixtures and the repository's full Oxlint gate after a frozen clean install. +- Review new, missing, or changed diagnostics and record the accepted runtime pair. + +**Exceptions:** A temporary mismatch requires evidence that the pair is compatible, an owner, and a deadline to restore matching versions. Floating ranges and `latest` are not allowed in the committed dependency manifest or continuous-integration setup. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-018 — Keep Oxlint configuration and scope explicit + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Configuring anti-slop in a TypeScript repository. + +Register the vendored plugin under the stable name `anti-slop` in the root Oxlint or Vite+ configuration. Merge existing ignores and add explicit patterns for dependencies, generated outputs, the vendored plugin, and installed or generated agent-tooling directories. Do not replace existing ignores or ignore every hidden directory. When Vite+ owns the gate, apply the relevant exclusions to both linting and formatting. + +**Why:** Linting vendored policy or generated agent assets creates noise, while a broad dot-directory exclusion can hide owned hooks, configuration, tests, or source. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect `jsPlugins`, all 15 anti-slop rule severities, `ignorePatterns`, and any Vite+ lint and format sections. +- Use Oxlint's file-debug output or an equivalent inventory to confirm maintained TypeScript is included and only justified tooling paths are excluded. +- In a monorepo, run the root gate and representative nested packages and confirm they resolve the same vendored plugin. + +**Exceptions:** A repository with a different established tooling directory may use it when the path is stable and documented. Owned agent hooks or tests remain in scope even when nearby generated assets are ignored. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-019 — Gate anti-slop independently + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A TypeScript change is reviewed, merged, released, or handed off as complete. + +Expose a read-only repository command that runs the pinned Oxlint binary over the full owned TypeScript scope, fails on every anti-slop diagnostic, and reports unused disable directives as errors. Run it after a frozen install in continuous integration and alongside, not instead of, the Biome, type, build, and behavior gates. + +**Why:** Biome does not execute Oxlint JavaScript plugins, and a passing anti-slop run cannot establish formatting, full type correctness, or behavior. + +**Verify:** + +- Run the documented command against the final revision and record its exit status. +- Introduce a disposable known anti-slop violation and an unused disable directive and confirm each makes the gate fail. +- Confirm the gate does not use `--fix`, `--fix-suggestions`, `--fix-dangerously`, rule-severity overrides, or `--no-ignore`. + +**Exceptions:** A short-lived adoption rollout may bound the checked source when an engineering owner records the complete finding baseline, non-regression control, expansion stages, and deadline. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-020 — Preserve type evidence when resolving findings + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** anti-slop reports a finding in maintained source. + +Resolve findings by preserving inference, using `as const` or `satisfies`, defining named owner contracts, parsing untrusted values at I/O boundaries, and replacing module mocks or reflective access with explicit dependency seams and typed interfaces. Do not silence a finding by widening a value, adding `any`, `unknown`, `object`, `{}`, a chained assertion, an unchecked cast, or an alias that conceals the same uncertainty. + +**Why:** Mechanical type laundering changes the syntax that the rule sees without adding evidence that the value satisfies the claimed contract. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace each changed assertion or boundary conversion to a parser, validator, constructor, invariant, or owner-provided contract. +- Confirm `SAFETY:` comments name the checked invariant rather than restating the asserted type. +- Review test changes for real dependency injection or test seams instead of hidden module replacement. +- Run type, behavior, Biome, and Oxlint gates after the remediation. + +**Exceptions:** A real dynamic boundary that cannot be expressed within an upstream rule requires the narrowest Oxlint directive, an adjacent concrete explanation, and an engineering-owner decision. Schema-free projects may enable `allowInTypeGuards` for `no-runtime-typeof`; if the guard itself needs an `unknown` input, document the paired narrow exception rather than weakening either rule globally. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-021 — Maintain the vendored policy as owned code + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Updating or changing vendored anti-slop source. + +Compare the current vendored source, local modifications, and candidate upstream revision before replacement. Preserve intentional local behavior, add focused rule tests for semantic changes, keep product-specific rules in a separate plugin, and update provenance only after the final vendored artifact passes its tests and repository gates. + +**Why:** Blindly recopying upstream can erase local policy or introduce new diagnostics, while untested local edits turn a release gate into unverified application code. + +**Verify:** + +- Review a three-way comparison or equivalent record of current upstream, local policy, and candidate upstream source. +- Run every vendored rule's valid and invalid fixtures plus focused tests for local changes. +- Confirm the configuration, rule inventory, documentation, provenance record, and vendored implementation agree. + +**Exceptions:** A byte-for-byte upstream refresh needs no new local test when the upstream suite is present and passes against the pinned runtime; it still requires diagnostic review and provenance update. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-022 — Expose one layered quality workflow + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A repository configures its developer and continuous-integration commands. + +Expose one read-only developer command that runs the applicable Biome with Trellis, anti-slop, type, and focused behavior checks. Keep each layer available as a directly runnable named command. Expose a full continuous-integration command or equivalent separately reported jobs that run the final Biome CI gate, anti-slop, type checking, full tests, and the production build when the repository has one. Keep the write command separate and limit it to reviewed Biome formatting and safe fixes. + +**Why:** One entry point makes the required path easy to remember, while named layers preserve clear failures, focused reruns, and ownership. A write action inside the shared gate would make results depend on an unreviewed mutation. + +**Verify:** + +- Run the developer entry point and confirm every applicable named layer executes without changing the worktree. +- Fail each layer with a disposable representative defect and confirm the output identifies the responsible command. +- Run the continuous-integration entry point or inspect its jobs and confirm it adds full tests and the production build where applicable. +- Run the write command on a disposable formatting defect and confirm it does not apply unsafe Biome or Oxlint fixes. + +**Exceptions:** JavaScript-only repositories omit anti-slop and TypeScript compiler stages. Repositories with slow behavior suites may keep focused tests out of the fast local command when continuous integration runs the full suite and the local command names the deferred check. + +### ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-023 — Give overlapping diagnostics one owner + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Two configured tools report the same underlying defect or policy concern. + +Compare the tools' scope, semantics, severity, diagnostic quality, fix safety, and stability. Keep one authoritative diagnostic when the checks are materially equivalent; keep both only when each detects distinct cases or supplies necessary evidence. Record the ownership decision beside the affected configuration. Do not disable a required Trellis or anti-slop rule merely to remove duplicate output unless the remaining gate has documented equivalent or stronger coverage and the applicable exception is approved. + +**Why:** Permanent duplicate diagnostics add noise without adding evidence, but removing a superficially similar rule can create a coverage gap when its actual matching behavior differs. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise representative shared and tool-specific fixtures before changing either rule. +- Compare the effective configurations and resulting diagnostics after the change. +- Confirm the retained owner runs in both the developer workflow and continuous integration. +- Review disabled rules and severity changes against their recorded equivalence evidence and exception. + +**Exceptions:** Duplicate diagnostics may remain during a time-bounded migration when the owner, removal condition, and deadline are recorded. + +## Guidance + +For Trellis 0.3.0, install `@raintree-technology/trellis@0.3.0` with its exact `@biomejs/biome@2.5.6` peer. Do not substitute the newest Biome release until Trellis declares it compatible. + +```sh +bun add --dev --exact @raintree-technology/trellis@0.3.0 @biomejs/biome@2.5.6 +``` + +Start a new single-package repository with an explicit root configuration: + +```json +{ + "$schema": "./node_modules/@biomejs/biome/configuration_schema.json", + "extends": ["@raintree-technology/trellis/biome"], + "vcs": { + "enabled": true, + "clientKind": "git", + "useIgnoreFile": true, + "defaultBranch": "main" + }, + "files": { + "ignoreUnknown": true, + "includes": ["**", "!!**/dist", "!!**/build", "!!**/coverage"] + }, + "formatter": { + "enabled": true, + "formatWithErrors": false, + "indentStyle": "space", + "indentWidth": 2, + "lineWidth": 100 + }, + "javascript": { + "formatter": { + "quoteStyle": "double", + "jsxQuoteStyle": "double", + "semicolons": "always", + "trailingCommas": "all" + } + }, + "linter": { + "enabled": true + }, + "assist": { + "enabled": true, + "actions": { + "source": { + "organizeImports": "on" + } + } + } +} +``` + +Replace the example output exclusions with the repository's actual outputs. Add ordinary exclusions for generated source that type-aware or project rules still need to index. Do not copy an example exclusion without confirming the path is unowned. + +Keep the layers directly runnable and provide one read-only developer entry point. Replace the package-manager spelling and test or build commands with the repository's established equivalents: + +```json +{ + "scripts": { + "check:biome": "biome check --max-diagnostics=none .", + "check:biome:ci": "biome ci --max-diagnostics=none .", + "check:anti-slop": "oxlint --report-unused-disable-directives-severity error .", + "check:types": "tsc --noEmit", + "check:tests": "test-runner --changed", + "check:tests:ci": "test-runner", + "check:build": "build-command", + "check": "pnpm run check:biome && pnpm run check:anti-slop && pnpm run check:types && pnpm run check:tests", + "check:ci": "pnpm run check:biome:ci && pnpm run check:anti-slop && pnpm run check:types && pnpm run check:tests:ci && pnpm run check:build", + "check:write": "biome check . --write" + } +} +``` + +The type-check command may instead call the framework or workspace compiler that owns the complete TypeScript project. JavaScript-only repositories omit the anti-slop and type layers. If the test runner has no safe changed-test mode, use the repository's normal focused suite or name the omitted full-suite command in local output. Continuous integration may invoke the named leaf commands as separate jobs instead of chaining `check:ci`; this is preferred when it preserves all results after one layer fails. + +For anti-slop commit `446268e5d15baa968eaec669ff65358d36ae6259`, copy the canonical `src/` tree to `tools/oxlint/anti-slop/`. At the August 17, 2026 review, the current matching runtime pair was `oxlint@1.78.0` and `@oxlint/plugins@1.78.0`. Query the registry again at adoption or update time, then pin the reviewed pair exactly. + +```sh +pnpm add --save-dev --save-exact oxlint@1.78.0 @oxlint/plugins@1.78.0 +``` + +Merge anti-slop into the repository's existing Oxlint configuration rather than replacing it: + +```ts +import { defineConfig } from "oxlint"; + +export default defineConfig({ + ignorePatterns: [ + "node_modules/**", + "dist/**", + "build/**", + "coverage/**", + ".agent/**", + ".agents/**", + ".claude/**", + ".codex/**", + ".continue/**", + ".cursor/**", + ".gemini/**", + ".opencode/**", + ".pi/**", + ".roo/**", + ".windsurf/**", + "tools/oxlint/anti-slop/**", + ], + jsPlugins: [ + { name: "anti-slop", specifier: "./tools/oxlint/anti-slop/index.ts" }, + ], + options: { + reportUnusedDisableDirectives: "error", + }, + rules: { + "anti-slop/no-chained-type-assertions": "error", + "anti-slop/no-conditional-empty-object-spread": "error", + "anti-slop/no-known-value-widening": "error", + "anti-slop/no-module-mocking": "error", + "anti-slop/no-object-parameters": "error", + "anti-slop/no-reflect-apply": "error", + "anti-slop/no-reflect-get": "error", + "anti-slop/no-runtime-typeof": "error", + "anti-slop/no-shape-in-symbol-names": "error", + "anti-slop/no-unknown-parameters": "error", + "anti-slop/no-unknown-returns": "error", + "anti-slop/no-unknown-type-aliases": "error", + "anti-slop/no-unsafe-dictionary-type": "error", + "anti-slop/no-widen-then-assert": "error", + "anti-slop/require-safety-comment-for-type-assertion": "error", + }, +}); +``` + +Replace the example output exclusions with the repository's actual dependency and generated-output paths. Add other agent-tooling paths only when they exist and are not maintained application source. A TypeScript Oxlint configuration requires the Node-based package and a supported Node runtime; use the repository's established JSON configuration when that runtime boundary cannot be met. In Vite+, merge the same plugin and rules into `lint`, and merge the relevant tooling exclusions into both `lint.ignorePatterns` and `fmt.ignorePatterns`. + +anti-slop 0.1.0 has this policy surface: + +| Rule | Required direction | +|---|---| +| `no-chained-type-assertions` | Preserve the precise type or parse the boundary value once. | +| `no-conditional-empty-object-spread` | Construct optional fields without an empty-object branch. | +| `no-known-value-widening` | Keep inference, use `satisfies`, or use a named owner contract. | +| `no-module-mocking` | Replace dependencies through real interfaces and injected seams. | +| `no-object-parameters` | Accept a named input type after boundary parsing. | +| `no-reflect-apply` | Call a typed function or model dispatch behind an interface. | +| `no-reflect-get` | Use typed property access or parse dynamic input. | +| `no-runtime-typeof` | Decode external values at the I/O boundary; use the type-guard option only for a reviewed schema-free boundary. | +| `no-shape-in-symbol-names` | Name the domain concept rather than its incidental structural shape. | +| `no-unknown-parameters` | Parse before calling owned functions; `cause` is the upstream named exception. | +| `no-unknown-returns` | Return a parsed named domain type. | +| `no-unknown-type-aliases` | Keep uncertainty visible at the boundary rather than hiding it behind an alias. | +| `no-unsafe-dictionary-type` | Use a schema- or owner-derived dictionary value type. | +| `no-widen-then-assert` | Preserve known evidence from initialization through use. | +| `require-safety-comment-for-type-assertion` | State the checked invariant in a nearby `SAFETY:` comment. | + +Oxlint JavaScript plugins do not currently support rules that rely on TypeScript type awareness. anti-slop therefore detects its documented syntax and local-flow patterns; it does not prove that all values satisfy their declared types. Keep the independent TypeScript compiler and behavior gates required by `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY-014`. + +Trellis 0.3.0 has this effective policy surface: + +| Policy | Severity | +|---|---| +| Biome recommended correctness and security rules | Biome defaults, including blocking `noGlobalEval` | +| Explicit `any` and parameter reassignment | Error | +| TLS verification disabled through covered Node.js forms (`RT006`) | Error | +| Implied dynamic execution through `Function` or string timers (`RT005`) | Warning while the nursery rule is audited | +| Non-null assertions | Warning | +| Cognitive complexity above 25 | Warning | +| More than 150 nonblank lines per function | Warning | +| More than 500 nonblank lines per file | Warning | +| More than 5 function parameters | Warning | + +Trellis errors cover objective shortcuts with direct replacements. Its warnings point to structural debt that needs judgment. A warning is not proof that code must be split, but it is evidence to inspect before adding more complexity. Do not turn warnings off globally because one instance is reasonable. A repository may promote a warning after triaging its existing scope. Do not use `--error-on-warnings` as a substitute for choosing and reviewing rule severities. + +By default, `trellis todo` reports only Trellis diagnostics. Use `--all` only when the handoff is intended to include local Biome rules too. Report generation exits successfully even when error-level todos exist; only the blocking Biome command decides conformance. + +For an existing repository with a large backlog, first capture the baseline, prevent new violations in changed source, and publish staged expansion to the full owned scope. The temporary boundary must not become an unowned permanent exclusion. + +## Examples + +### Shared and local policy + +Non-compliant: Copy the Trellis rule object into `biome.json`, delete rules that create migration work, and let each package install a different Biome version. + +Compliant: Pin the root Trellis release and its exact Biome peer, extend the package export once, define generated-file exclusions and framework import boundaries locally, and let nested packages inherit the root configuration. + +### Narrow suppression + +Non-compliant: Disable `noImpliedEval` for the repository because one reviewed sandbox adapter constructs a function. + +Compliant: Keep the shared rule active and place a reasoned `biome-ignore` suppression on the one reviewed expression after confirming the sandbox boundary and safer replacements. + +### Migration coverage + +Non-compliant: Run the ESLint and Prettier migration commands, delete both old configurations, and accept the new passing Biome check without comparing plugin coverage or ignored files. + +Compliant: Inventory old rules and scope, review the generated Biome configuration, retain checks without an equivalent, compare representative findings, isolate the formatting diff, and remove old commands only after local and continuous-integration gates use the pinned repository binary. + +### Type evidence + +Non-compliant: Change a known value to `unknown`, pass it through an `unknown` alias, and cast it back to the desired type so a local diagnostic disappears. + +Compliant: Keep the inferred type when the value is owned, use `satisfies` to check a declared contract without widening, and parse untrusted input into a named domain type at the boundary. + +### Test seams + +Non-compliant: Replace a module at runtime or use reflective access to make a test reach private behavior. + +Compliant: Pass the dependency through a typed interface, test observable behavior, and keep the real implementation selectable through normal construction. + +### Vendored updates + +Non-compliant: Replace the anti-slop directory from the upstream default branch and update provenance without reviewing changed diagnostics. + +Compliant: Compare the recorded upstream revision, local modifications, and candidate revision; run all valid and invalid rule fixtures with the pinned Oxlint pair; review diagnostic changes; then update the vendored source and provenance together. + +### Layered commands + +Non-compliant: Require contributors to remember unrelated tool commands, let the editor apply fixes during verification, and collapse CI output into one unlabeled failure. + +Compliant: Make `check` a read-only composition of named fast layers, keep `check:write` explicit, and run the full named layers as separately reported CI jobs or through `check:ci`. + +### Overlap ownership + +Non-compliant: Disable one of two similarly named rules after seeing a duplicate diagnostic in a single file. + +Compliant: Exercise shared and tool-specific fixtures, compare actual matching behavior, retain one owner only when coverage is equivalent, and record the decision beside the configuration. + +## Sources + +- Biome, [Getting Started](https://biomejs.dev/guides/getting-started/), [Configure Biome](https://biomejs.dev/guides/configure-biome/), and [Use Biome in big projects](https://biomejs.dev/guides/big-projects/). Reviewed August 17, 2026 against website commit `033bb7a1bc4d8f0623cc6e9bf72cde2ff7bdfb92`. +- Biome, [VCS integration](https://biomejs.dev/guides/integrate-in-vcs/), [Continuous Integration](https://biomejs.dev/recipes/continuous-integration/), and [CLI reference](https://biomejs.dev/reference/cli/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Biome, [Formatter](https://biomejs.dev/formatter/), [Linter](https://biomejs.dev/linter/), [Assist](https://biomejs.dev/assist/), and [Suppressions](https://biomejs.dev/analyzer/suppressions/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Biome, [First-party editor extensions](https://biomejs.dev/editors/first-party-extensions/) and [Migrate from ESLint and Prettier](https://biomejs.dev/guides/migrate-eslint-prettier/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Microsoft, [TypeScript `noEmit`](https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig/noEmit.html). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Raintree Technology, [Trellis 0.3.0 README](https://github.com/raintree-technology/trellis/blob/d2b0f37abce4319c329f363b4cdb541d83d18db9/README.md), commit `d2b0f37abce4319c329f363b4cdb541d83d18db9`. Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Dylan Mulroy, [anti-slop 0.1.0 README](https://github.com/dmmulroy/anti-slop/blob/446268e5d15baa968eaec669ff65358d36ae6259/README.md), commit `446268e5d15baa968eaec669ff65358d36ae6259`. Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Oxc, [JavaScript plugins](https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/js-plugins.html), [configuration](https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/config.html), and [ignored files](https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/ignore-files.html). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Oxc, [inline ignore comments](https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/ignore-comments.html), [continuous integration](https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/ci.html), [versioning](https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/versioning.html), and [automatic fixes](https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/automatic-fixes.html). Reviewed August 17, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/engineering/quality.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/engineering/quality.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7abef42 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/engineering/quality.md @@ -0,0 +1,243 @@ +--- +id: ENGINEERING-QUALITY +title: Engineering quality +description: Requirements for architecture, testing, dependencies, review, and release readiness. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [engineering, security, operations] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [software-change, service-change] +tags: [engineering, architecture, testing, dependencies, canonical-sources, generated-artifacts] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-CHANGE, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-02T22:42:53-07:00" } +sources: + - id: nist-ssdf-11 + resource: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/218/final + title: Secure Software Development Framework Version 1.1 + author: organization:nist + - id: slsa-10 + resource: https://slsa.dev/spec/v1.0/ + title: Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts 1.0 + author: organization:open-source-security-foundation + - id: cisa-secure-by-design + resource: https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign + title: Secure by Design + author: organization:cisa + - id: github-deferred-compliance + resource: https://github.blog/engineering/making-github-ci-workflow-3x-faster/ + title: Making GitHub CI workflow 3x faster + author: organization:github +--- + +# Engineering quality + +Software changes must have an explicit design boundary, evidence proportionate to risk, controlled dependencies, review, and a release decision based on the integrated result. + +## Rules + +### ENGINEERING-QUALITY-001 — Record consequential design decisions + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A change introduces a durable boundary, dependency, data flow, failure mode, or operational commitment. + +Record the problem, constraints, considered options, decision, consequences, ownership, and conditions that would trigger reconsideration. + +**Why:** Architecture becomes accidental when future maintainers cannot distinguish a constraint from an incidental implementation. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace the implemented boundaries and dependencies to the decision record. +- Confirm rejected options and material tradeoffs are represented accurately. + +**Exceptions:** Small local changes with no durable design consequence may rely on the change description. + +### ENGINEERING-QUALITY-002 — Keep components and authority bounded + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Adding or changing a component, service, job, library, or automation. + +Give each component a focused responsibility, explicit interface, minimum required authority, owned failure behavior, and observable resource boundary. + +**Why:** Coupled responsibilities and broad authority increase blast radius and make failures hard to isolate. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect imports, network paths, permissions, storage access, and failure propagation. +- Exercise an unavailable or malformed dependency and observe containment. + +**Exceptions:** A deliberately combined component requires a recorded reason and evidence that separation would add more risk than it removes. + +### ENGINEERING-QUALITY-003 — Test behavior at the cheapest effective layer + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A change creates or modifies behavior that can regress. + +Map material behavior and risk to deterministic checks at the lowest layer that can prove the claim. Apply `ENGINEERING-TESTING` for test-layer names, smoke-test scope, deterministic execution, failure coverage, fixtures, flake handling, and local through production evidence when that post-v1 draft is adopted by the project. + +**Why:** One test layer either misses integrated behavior or makes all feedback slow and fragile. + +**Verify:** + +- Review the behavior-to-check map and run the selected checks against the final change. +- Confirm failure, boundary, compatibility, and recovery behavior are represented. + +**Exceptions:** Unautomatable behavior requires a repeatable manual procedure, evidence, and owner. + +### ENGINEERING-QUALITY-004 — Control dependency introduction and change + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Adding, replacing, upgrading, or materially reconfiguring a dependency. + +Confirm necessity, maintenance state, source, license, integrity, transitive impact, runtime authority, failure behavior, and removal path before adoption. + +**Why:** Dependencies add code, authority, update obligations, and supply-chain risk beyond the imported API. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the resolved dependency graph, provenance, license, advisories, and effective permissions. +- Exercise upgrade, unavailability, malformed output, and removal where material. + +**Exceptions:** Emergency remediation may use abbreviated review when follow-up has an owner and deadline. + +### ENGINEERING-QUALITY-005 — Require review independent of authorship + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A change can affect users, production data, security, privacy, money, availability, or a shared interface. + +Have a qualified reviewer who did not author the change inspect its design, implementation, evidence, and residual risk before release. + +**Why:** Authors share assumptions with their implementation and can miss systematic errors. + +**Verify:** + +- Record reviewer identity, artifact version, findings, resolutions, and approval scope. +- Confirm later changes did not invalidate the reviewed artifact. + +**Exceptions:** A documented emergency process may permit retrospective review within a defined deadline. + +### ENGINEERING-QUALITY-006 — Build from attributable inputs + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Producing a deployable artifact or distributed package. + +Use versioned source, locked inputs, protected build steps, attributable artifacts, and integrity evidence sufficient to connect the release to the reviewed source and configuration. + +**Why:** A reviewed source change does not prove the distributed artifact used the same inputs or process. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace the artifact to source revision, dependency resolution, build identity, and configuration. +- Confirm protected release credentials and artifact integrity checks work. + +**Exceptions:** Local prototypes not distributed or deployed may omit formal provenance when clearly marked non-release. + +### ENGINEERING-QUALITY-007 — Make failure observable without exposing sensitive data + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Software runs outside an author's direct interactive control. + +Emit structured health, error, latency, saturation, and dependency signals tied to user and business outcomes, while excluding or protecting secrets and personal data. + +**Why:** A failure that cannot be detected, scoped, or correlated cannot be operated safely. + +**Verify:** + +- Trigger representative failures and trace them through logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and operator guidance. +- Inspect telemetry for excessive sensitive data and unbounded cardinality. + +**Exceptions:** Highly constrained offline tools may use an explicit result artifact instead of continuous telemetry. + +### ENGINEERING-QUALITY-008 — Release only the reviewed final state + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Approving a build, deployment, package, or handoff. + +Run risk-matched checks on the final integrated artifact, inspect intended behavior, record unresolved limitations, and bind approval to the exact version released. + +**Why:** Earlier passing evidence can become stale after integration, configuration, or packaging changes. + +**Verify:** + +- Match check output, reviewer approval, artifact identity, configuration, and deployment record. +- Confirm rollback, monitoring, and ownership remain valid for that version. + +**Exceptions:** None for a production release; an emergency release follows the governed emergency process. + +### ENGINEERING-QUALITY-009 — Measure engineering friction with quality outcomes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Changing build, test, review, deployment, development-environment, documentation, or compliance workflows used repeatedly by engineers. + +Define the user task, population, baseline, wait and active time, failure and retry burden, machine cost, interruption, support load, and quality or risk outcome before optimization. Remove or defer a blocking step only when evidence shows it does not need to block that decision and an owned later gate detects, routes, and closes failures within a defined time. Measure missed defects, escaped incidents, mainline health, and adoption with speed and satisfaction. + +**Why:** Faster local feedback can transfer risk or work to another team, while indiscriminate blocking checks can waste substantial human and compute capacity without improving the release decision. + +**Verify:** + +- Observe representative engineers completing the workflow and compare telemetry with reported friction. +- Trace each required step to a protected claim, defect class, or policy obligation and remove duplicate or obsolete gates. +- For deferred checks, inject a failure and verify detection, ownership, notification, correction deadline, escalation, and prevention of an affected release where required. +- Compare lead time, failure rate, escaped defects, support load, compute cost, and user experience before and after the change. + +**Exceptions:** A new high-consequence control can launch before a complete baseline when its obligation and owner are explicit; measure burden and effectiveness after adoption and refine without weakening the protected outcome. + +### ENGINEERING-QUALITY-010 — Keep derived representations subordinate to one canonical owner + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The same material behavior, fact, route inventory, schema, configuration, or artifact appears in more than one component, repository, package, generated output, or delivery surface. + +Assign one canonical owner and record every maintained consumer. Make each other representation consume the canonical interface directly or remain reproducibly generated from it. A change to the canonical source must update its derived representations in the same change or fail a deterministic drift check. Before moving or removing a canonical source, inspect registered consumers and unresolved references across the declared repository boundary. + +**Why:** A copied implementation or hand-maintained projection can continue to pass local checks while consumers, documentation, generated artifacts, and other repositories retain conflicting behavior or stale paths. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace each maintained representation to its canonical owner, transformation, consumer, and update path. +- Change a representative canonical input and confirm that generation updates every registered projection or that the drift check rejects the stale state. +- Exercise the representation through each supported runtime, package boundary, and final artifact that resolves it differently. +- Search the declared repository boundary for old identifiers and paths after a move or removal. + +**Exceptions:** Independent implementations required for isolation, compatibility, or platform behavior may remain separate when their ownership and contract are explicit and contract checks detect divergence. + +## Operational coverage + +Use this standard as the engineering release backbone, then add the domain standard for the affected surface. + +| Change class | Required quality route | Completion evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Internal refactor | Preserved contract, characterization where behavior is unclear, focused tests, dependency and dead-path review | Before/after behavior, changed boundaries, canonical and derived representation inventory, test selection rationale, and final diff inspection | +| Public contract or compatibility change | Version and consumer inventory, compatibility window, migration path, deprecation, and rollback | Contract tests across supported versions, consumer evidence, release notes, telemetry, and retirement criteria | +| Build or dependency change | Pinned inputs, provenance, reproducible artifact, license and vulnerability review, upgrade and rollback path | Lockfile or manifest diff, clean build, artifact identity, source and integrity data, and environment comparison | +| Performance or reliability change | Workload model, baseline, budget, saturation and failure scenarios, observability, and capacity assumptions | Repeatable benchmark, variance, resource profile, production-shaped trial, and regression threshold | +| Security, privacy, or high-impact change | Threat and data-flow review, independent reviewer, abuse and failure cases, authorization, and recovery | Reviewer identity and scope, findings, mitigations, residual risk, and approval or explicit block | +| Removal or simplification | Reachability and runtime evidence, owner and consumer check, staged removal, and recovery route | Search and analyzer results, usage telemetry, canary outcome, final artifact inspection, and deleted-path inventory | + +No route can rely on source appearance alone. Inspect the built, packaged, deployed, or otherwise final artifact that users and dependent systems receive. + +## Guidance + +Prefer the simplest design that meets measured needs. Add abstraction only when it removes current duplication, isolates a real boundary, or enables an explicit requirement. Treat generated code and AI-authored changes as authored work subject to the same review and evidence. + +## Examples + +### New serialization library + +Non-compliant: Add a large package because its API is convenient and rely on the package lock alone. + +Compliant: Compare the existing capability and candidate package, inspect the resolved graph and license, constrain its use behind the serialization boundary, test malformed data and upgrade behavior, and record the removal path. + +### Shared audit rules + +Non-compliant: Copy an audit engine into a website and compare only the number of rules in each copy. + +Compliant: Keep the engine in its package, import it through the package interface, generate demo data from that implementation, and fail validation when a registered projection is stale. + +## Sources + +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Secure Software Development Framework Version 1.1](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/218/final). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Open Source Security Foundation, [Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts 1.0](https://slsa.dev/spec/v1.0/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, [Secure by Design](https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- GitHub, [Making GitHub CI workflow 3x faster](https://github.blog/engineering/making-github-ci-workflow-3x-faster/). Reviewed September 1, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/engineering/testing.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/engineering/testing.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7b66993 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/engineering/testing.md @@ -0,0 +1,581 @@ +--- +id: ENGINEERING-TESTING +title: Software testing and verification +description: Defines risk-based test strategy, truthful test boundaries, smoke and canary decisions, suite health, safe high-fidelity exercises, compatibility, and staged release evidence. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [engineering, quality, operations] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-30 +review_by: 2027-02-28 +stale_after: 2027-02-28 +applies_to: [software-change, test-strategy, test-suite, release-verification] +tags: [engineering, testing, verification, smoke-tests, continuous-integration] +depends_on: [ENGINEERING-QUALITY, FND-EVIDENCE, FND-CHANGE, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-30T21:20:00Z" } +sources: + - id: google-sre-testing + resource: https://sre.google/sre-book/testing-reliability/ + title: Testing for Reliability + author: organization:google + - id: nist-ssdf-11 + resource: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/218/final + title: Secure Software Development Framework Version 1.1 + author: organization:nist + - id: google-smurf + resource: https://testing.googleblog.com/2024/10/smurf-beyond-test-pyramid.html + title: SMURF Beyond the Test Pyramid + author: organization:google + - id: google-test-sizes + resource: https://testing.googleblog.com/2010/12/test-sizes.html + title: Test Sizes + author: organization:google + - id: github-flaky-builds + resource: https://github.blog/engineering/engineering-principles/reducing-flaky-builds-by-18x/ + title: Reducing flaky builds by 18x + author: organization:github + - id: uber-e2e-left + resource: https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/shifting-e2e-testing-left/ + title: Shifting E2E Testing Left + author: organization:uber + - id: meta-autonomous-testing + resource: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/20/developer-tools/autonomous-testing/ + title: Autonomous testing of services at scale + author: organization:meta + - id: netflix-kayenta + resource: https://netflixtechblog.com/automated-canary-analysis-at-netflix-with-kayenta-3260bc7acc69 + title: Automated Canary Analysis at Netflix with Kayenta + author: organization:netflix + - id: meta-predictive-test-selection + resource: https://engineering.fb.com/2018/11/21/developer-tools/predictive-test-selection/ + title: Predictive test selection to ensure reliable code changes + author: organization:meta + - id: spotify-build-systems + resource: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2023/10/switching-build-systems-seamlessly + title: Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly + author: organization:spotify + - id: stripe-test-clocks + resource: https://stripe.dev/blog/test-clocks-how-we-made-it-easier-to-test-stripe-billing-integrations + title: Test clocks + author: organization:stripe + - id: google-canarying-releases + resource: https://sre.google/workbook/canarying-releases/ + title: Canarying Releases + author: organization:google + - id: google-data-processing + resource: https://sre.google/workbook/data-processing/ + title: Data Processing Pipelines + author: organization:google + - id: aws-chaos-engineering + resource: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/2022-03-31/framework/rel_testing_resiliency_failure_injection_resiliency.html + title: Test resiliency using chaos engineering + author: organization:aws + - id: gitlab-test-quarantine + resource: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/testing/quarantine-process/ + title: Test Quarantine Process + author: organization:gitlab +--- + +# Software testing and verification + +Software tests must provide evidence proportionate to risk at the least expensive layer that can prove the relevant behavior. A test suite must make its claims, boundaries, environment, failure meaning, and release role explicit rather than treating test count, coverage percentage, or one broad end-to-end run as proof of correctness. + +This standard governs test strategy and test-suite design. Domain standards remain additive for accessibility, security, privacy, data, financial, legal, performance, reliability, and model-driven behavior. + +## Rules + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-001 — Map material behavior and risk to evidence + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A software change creates or modifies behavior that can regress, or a team defines a reusable test strategy. + +Record each material behavior or acceptance criterion, the consequence of failure, the selected verification layer, representative success and failure cases, required environment, execution cadence, and owner. Use the least expensive layer that can directly prove the claim, then add broader checks only for risk that exists across boundaries. + +**Why:** A large test count can coexist with missing critical behavior, while indiscriminate end-to-end coverage makes feedback slow and fragile. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace material requirements and risks to named automated or repeatable manual checks. +- Confirm each selected layer can observe the behavior it claims to prove. +- Identify untested behavior, deferred evidence, and the owner of the residual risk. + +**Exceptions:** A trivial local correction may record the mapping in its change description rather than a separate artifact. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-002 — Name test layers by the claim they prove + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Naming, documenting, organizing, or reporting a test suite or release gate. + +Use the following primary meanings consistently: + +| Layer | Primary claim | +|---|---| +| Unit | Isolated deterministic logic produces the expected result. | +| Component | One component's rendered or behavioral contract works within a controlled harness. | +| Contract | A declared interface, schema, protocol, or compatibility boundary remains satisfied. | +| Integration | Two or more real owned boundaries work together. | +| Smoke | A built or deployed artifact is fundamentally operable and ready for deeper verification or limited traffic. | +| End-to-end | A material user or system journey works across its required boundaries. | +| Regression | A previously important or failed behavior remains correct. | +| Acceptance | The requested outcome and business rules are satisfied. | +| Synthetic | A scripted bounded operation continues to work against a released environment. | +| Canary | A limited live traffic segment or population receives a new artifact and is compared with a stable baseline before wider rollout. | +| Performance | Measured latency, responsiveness, throughput, or resource budgets are met. | +| Resilience | Defined degradation, interruption, recovery, and reconciliation behavior works. | +| Security | Abuse, authorization, confidentiality, integrity, and trust-boundary controls work. | +| Accessibility | People can perceive and operate the behavior through the required input and assistive modes. | + +A check may support more than one claim, but its name, documentation, and reported result must identify its primary claim and environment. Because labels such as unit, component, integration, and system are scope-relative, also name the system under test, objective or risk, real and simulated dependencies, execution environment, and gating stage. Do not call an exhaustive regression or acceptance suite a smoke test merely because it starts an application. + +**Why:** Ambiguous labels hide cost and evidence limits, causing teams to run the wrong checks or infer more confidence than a result supports. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare suite names and documentation with their actual assertions, dependencies, environment, and duration. +- Confirm a reader can identify the system boundary and real dependencies without relying on the layer label alone. +- Confirm handoffs state what a passing suite proves and what it does not prove. + +**Exceptions:** Established external tool terminology may be retained when repository documentation maps it to this taxonomy. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-003 — Test observable behavior instead of incidental implementation + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Designing or changing an automated test. + +Assert public inputs, outputs, state transitions, side effects, contracts, and user-observable behavior. Avoid assertions that fail only because internal structure, call order, private names, or implementation details changed without altering the governed behavior. + +**Why:** Implementation-coupled tests discourage safe refactoring and create maintenance cost without protecting users or interfaces. + +**Verify:** + +- Review whether a behavior-preserving refactor would invalidate the test. +- Confirm mocks, spies, snapshots, and private access are necessary to observe the governed boundary. + +**Exceptions:** Internal assertions are allowed when the internal property is itself a safety, performance, security, or architectural requirement that cannot be proved reliably through a public boundary. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-004 — Keep deterministic checks reproducible + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A check is expected to produce a deterministic pass or fail result. + +Control or declare time, time zone, locale, randomness, seeds, identifiers, ordering, concurrency, environment variables, network access, external services, and mutable shared state. A deterministic check must produce the same result from the same declared inputs and environment. + +**Why:** Uncontrolled inputs make failures difficult to reproduce and allow environment drift to masquerade as product defects. + +**Verify:** + +- Repeat the check from a clean state and in the supported continuous-integration environment. +- Inspect the check for undeclared clocks, random values, network calls, shared resources, and order dependence. + +**Exceptions:** Tests of intentionally variable systems must define the distribution, trial count, acceptance rule, and diagnostic evidence instead of claiming single-run determinism. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-005 — Cover material failure, boundary, and recovery behavior + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Failure, interruption, invalid input, or partial completion can produce material user, data, security, financial, or operational impact. + +Exercise relevant invalid and missing input, boundary values, dependency timeout or unavailability, stale or conflicting state, duplicate or reordered delivery, partial completion, cancellation, retry, restart, rollback, and final-state reconciliation. Select cases from the actual failure model rather than adding permutations without a risk basis. + +**Why:** Happy-path coverage does not show whether the system contains failure or returns to a trustworthy state. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace selected cases to the failure and recovery design. +- Inspect authoritative final state after interrupted, ambiguous, and recovered operations. + +**Exceptions:** A failure class that cannot be exercised safely requires a repeatable simulation or review procedure, its limitation, and an owner. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-006 — Keep smoke tests bounded to operability + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A repository, artifact, deployment, migration, package, CLI, service, worker, or application exposes a smoke-test command or release step. + +Use smoke tests only to decide whether the final artifact is sufficiently alive, reachable, and connected to begin deeper verification or receive limited traffic. Select a small representative set of startup, readiness, routing, installation, migration compatibility, dependency-wiring, or harmless critical-path checks. Define a time and cost budget, make repeated execution safe, use synthetic or approved data, and emit a diagnostic that identifies the failed path and environment. + +A passing smoke suite must support an explicit continuation decision, such as beginning deeper tests, promoting the artifact, or admitting limited traffic. It does not establish full correctness. Prefer checks of the exact artifact, readiness, primary entry point, one representative dynamic path, essential dependency wiring, and expected artifact identity when those claims apply. + +Do not put exhaustive route matrices, viewport matrices, detailed content assertions, full accessibility review, broad authorization combinations, load characterization, or complete business workflows in a smoke suite. Route those claims to contract, browser, end-to-end, security, accessibility, performance, or acceptance suites. + +**Why:** A smoke suite loses its release-triage value when it becomes slow, fragile, exhaustive, costly, or unsafe to repeat. + +**Verify:** + +- List every smoke assertion and the operability decision it supports. +- Measure duration and external cost against the repository's declared budget. +- Run the suite repeatedly and confirm it leaves no harmful or ambiguous state. +- Introduce a disposable startup, routing, or dependency-wiring defect and confirm the suite detects it. + +**Exceptions:** A small system may combine smoke and end-to-end coverage when the combined suite remains within the declared smoke budget and each additional assertion is required to decide basic operability. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-007 — Keep end-to-end coverage selective and representative + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Correctness depends on a material journey across real process, browser, service, storage, provider, or deployment boundaries. + +Use end-to-end checks for representative journeys whose claim cannot be proven at a narrower layer. Keep exhaustive business rules, static mappings, edge-case permutations, and serialization details at their owning unit or contract boundary. State which real boundaries are present and which are substituted. + +**Why:** End-to-end checks provide necessary integration evidence but are slower to diagnose and more vulnerable to unrelated environmental failure. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace each end-to-end journey to a cross-boundary risk or acceptance criterion. +- Confirm narrower suites own detailed permutations and provide faster diagnostics. +- Record substituted services, browser engines, data stores, and production differences. + +**Exceptions:** A legacy system without separable boundaries may begin with characterization coverage while an owner and plan reduce unnecessary end-to-end dependence. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-008 — Test contracts at the boundary that owns them + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Behavior is governed by a schema, route map, protocol, event shape, migration, public interface, policy file, or compatibility promise. + +Place the complete deterministic contract at the narrowest boundary able to violate it. Use broader integration checks only to prove that the assembled or deployed system exposes that contract. Keep one authoritative owner when checks at different layers would otherwise duplicate the same defect. + +**Why:** Re-proving static contracts through a browser or deployed system increases cost and obscures the component responsible for failure. + +**Verify:** + +- Identify the source of truth and authoritative test for each material contract. +- Compare broader checks with lower-layer coverage and remove equivalent duplicate assertions. +- Retain a broader assertion only when it detects a distinct integration or release risk. + +**Exceptions:** A contract generated only in the final artifact may be tested at build or integration time when no narrower faithful representation exists. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-009 — Isolate test data, identities, and side effects + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A check creates, changes, sends, bills, publishes, schedules, stores, or deletes state outside its process. + +Use synthetic or explicitly approved data, unique test identities, bounded authority, environment separation, idempotent setup, and cleanup or expiry. Prevent accidental customer messaging, billing, publication, destructive production changes, and collision with concurrent runs. Reconcile final state when an outcome is ambiguous. + +**Why:** A passing test is harmful when it corrupts shared state, contacts real people, creates cost, or leaves future runs unreliable. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect credentials, destinations, test identities, namespaces, cleanup, retention, and concurrent-run behavior. +- Interrupt the check and confirm abandoned state is bounded, discoverable, and recoverable. + +**Exceptions:** A production canary may create durable state only when the operation is approved, clearly labeled, minimized, monitored, and removed or retained under an explicit lifecycle policy. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-010 — Treat flaky tests as defects + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A deterministic check produces inconsistent results from equivalent inputs and environment. + +Investigate product race conditions, environmental instability, shared state, timing assumptions, and test defects. A targeted diagnostic retry may vary one controlled dimension, such as process, time, seed, or host, when it preserves the original failure and helps classify the cause. Measure intermittent behavior over enough trials to estimate its practical failure rate when a single reproduction is unreliable. + +Do not make a gate pass through unlimited retries, silent result suppression, or permanent quarantine. A temporary quarantine must preserve the original failure and missing-coverage status and record stable test identity, evidence, owner, issue, risk, observed rate, scope, expiry, and return condition. Exclude a known tracked flake from a blocking decision only when the containment policy is explicit and critical or regulated coverage remains protected. + +**Why:** Hidden flakiness reduces trust in the entire gate and can conceal real concurrency or reliability defects. + +**Verify:** + +- Reproduce the failure across controlled repeated runs and retain the failing seed or input where applicable. +- Inspect retry and quarantine configuration for controlled dimensions, limits, original-failure reporting, ownership, and expiry. +- Confirm test history distinguishes product, infrastructure, and test defects without rewriting a failure as a pass. +- Confirm quarantined coverage is represented as missing evidence rather than a pass. + +**Exceptions:** A bounded retry is allowed when eventual consistency or a transient dependency is part of the declared product contract and the test verifies the associated time bound and final state. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-011 — Use coverage metrics as diagnostics, not proof + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Statement, branch, function, mutation, path, requirement, or other coverage metrics inform a quality or release decision. + +Treat coverage metrics as evidence about exercised scope, not as proof of correct assertions or sufficient behavior. Pair thresholds or trends with the behavior-to-risk map, review meaningful uncovered paths, and do not add low-value assertions solely to reach a number. Select advanced techniques under `ENGINEERING-TESTING-019`; their scores remain coverage diagnostics rather than sufficient release evidence. + +**Why:** A high percentage can omit critical behavior, contain ineffective assertions, or execute code without validating its result. + +**Verify:** + +- Sample covered paths and confirm assertions would detect a relevant defect. +- Review uncovered material behavior and record its disposition. +- Confirm the release decision does not rely on a percentage alone. + +**Exceptions:** A generated or mechanically exhaustive module may use a coverage threshold as its primary structural signal when semantic behavior is proved separately. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-012 — Demonstrate that critical gates can reject defects + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A test or gate protects a high-risk control, release invariant, or recurring regression class. + +Use a disposable known-bad fixture, mutation, fault injection, negative contract case, or equivalent method to demonstrate that the configured gate fails when the protected behavior is absent or wrong. Keep the demonstration safe and separate from production state. + +**Why:** Tests can execute and pass while assertions are unreachable, inverted, too broad, or disconnected from the released configuration. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the injected defect and the exact gate that rejected it. +- Confirm removal of the defect restores the result without weakening the assertion. + +**Exceptions:** A well-established test runner's own mechanics need not be reproved for every ordinary low-risk assertion; exercise representative repository gates and critical custom harnesses. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-013 — Keep fixtures, doubles, snapshots, and generated evidence reviewable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A test uses fixtures, mocks, fakes, stubs, snapshots, golden files, recorded traffic, generated outputs, or seeded datasets. + +State the boundary and behavior each artifact represents, keep it minimal enough to review, validate it against the real contract where drift is possible, and exclude secrets and unapproved personal data. Do not accept large snapshot changes without understanding the material semantic difference. + +**Why:** Test artifacts can silently drift from production or turn review into approval of unreadable bulk output. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace representative fixtures and doubles to current contracts or source behavior. +- Review snapshot and golden-file changes semantically rather than accepting them solely because generation succeeded. +- Inspect recorded and generated material for sensitive data and stale assumptions. + +**Exceptions:** Large reference artifacts may remain when completeness is itself required and generation, provenance, semantic diffing, and review are controlled. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-014 — Separate local, continuous-integration, release, and production evidence + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A repository defines developer checks, continuous integration, release verification, deployment gates, or production monitoring. + +Define which evidence belongs to each stage: + +- Local checks provide fast feedback for changed behavior. +- Presubmit checks provide timely change-scoped evidence and block merging when their protected risk warrants it. +- Post-submit checks run broader or more costly repository evidence and surface regressions promptly. +- Release qualification inspects the exact package, migrations, configuration, and environment boundaries before promotion. +- Deployment gates use smoke, synthetic, or canary evidence to decide whether rollout may begin or expand. +- Post-deployment checks and monitoring observe bounded released-system behavior and recovery obligations. + +A costly deterministic check need not block every change when the staged policy preserves visibility and gives a named owner a deadline to resolve failure before the affected release can proceed. Record trigger rules, maximum delay, escalation, and the enforcement point. Never move evidence off the merge-critical path merely to improve a duration metric while allowing a known failure to ship. + +Do not claim that a local server proves deployed DNS, TLS, routing, headers, credentials, provider configuration, or production data paths. Keep named layers directly runnable and report their results separately where one failure would otherwise hide later evidence. + +**Why:** Evidence from one environment does not automatically apply after packaging, configuration, deployment, or provider integration. + +**Verify:** + +- Map each release claim to the stage and artifact that can prove it. +- Confirm proposed changes trigger the required presubmit evidence and that deferred evidence cannot silently skip a workspace, lose ownership, or pass the affected release deadline. +- Bind release and production evidence to the exact version and environment inspected. + +**Exceptions:** A non-deployed library or local-only tool may omit release or production stages when its distribution and use boundary is explicit. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-015 — Make failures actionable and evidence bounded + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An automated or manual check can fail. + +Report the behavior, expected and observed result, relevant input or route, environment, and reproduction path. Retain a bounded trace, screenshot, diff, seed, log excerpt, or state reference when it materially helps diagnosis. Protect secrets and personal data, and avoid unbounded output that hides the first useful failure. + +**Why:** A gate that only says "tests failed" delays recovery, while excessive diagnostics can obscure the cause or expose sensitive data. + +**Verify:** + +- Trigger a representative failure and follow its output to the responsible behavior and rerun command. +- Inspect retained evidence for size limits, access, sensitive data, and expiry. + +**Exceptions:** Security-sensitive failures may deliberately disclose less to untrusted callers while authorized diagnostics preserve the necessary detail. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-016 — Declare test size and resource contracts + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A repository groups checks into commands, schedules them in continuous integration, or permits parallel execution. + +Declare each suite's allowed network, filesystem, database, external-service, process, concurrency, clock, sleep, and shared-state use, together with an expected duration class. Make order independence and parallel safety explicit. A layer name does not substitute for this resource contract: a unit-style assertion that reaches a real network is not a small isolated check. + +**Why:** Resource boundaries predict speed, reproducibility, scheduling cost, and failure modes more reliably than a pyramid label alone. + +**Verify:** + +- Observe or instrument representative runs and compare actual resource use with the declared contract. +- Randomize order and run permitted checks concurrently to detect hidden coupling. +- Fail or visibly reclassify checks that exceed their declared boundary or duration class. + +**Exceptions:** A discovery or characterization run may begin without a settled size when it records observed dependencies and produces a bounded classification plan. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-017 — Give tests stable identity, ownership, and health records + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A check participates in a shared merge, release, deployment, or operational decision. + +Give the check or smallest actionable group a stable identity and owner. Retain enough history to assess outcomes, duration, cost, reliability, impact, and current lifecycle state. Apply the quarantine fields and evidence limits in `ENGINEERING-TESTING-010` rather than maintaining a separate health definition. + +**Why:** Teams cannot improve or safely contain a slow or unreliable gate when results cannot be attributed across runs. + +**Verify:** + +- Select representative failures and trace them to an owner, history, affected decision, and current disposition. +- Review slow, costly, unreliable, and quarantined checks on a declared cadence. + +**Exceptions:** Local exploratory checks need not have durable telemetry when they do not contribute to a shared decision or reported quality claim. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-018 — Govern production-derived test data + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Tests, fixtures, replays, models, or generators use data or requests derived from production activity. + +Record authority, purpose, minimization, sanitization or transformation, access, environment, retention, deletion, freshness, representativeness, and re-identification risk. Use safe deterministic mutations and ephemeral identities so replay cannot contact people, bill accounts, publish content, alter customer state, or invoke unbounded authority. Validate that sanitization preserves only the properties needed for the governed claim. + +**Why:** Production-derived data can improve fidelity while importing privacy, security, staleness, and harmful-side-effect risk. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace a representative sample from approved source through transformation, storage, access, use, expiry, and deletion. +- Attempt prohibited side effects and confirm environment, identity, and authority controls contain them. +- Review whether the sample still represents the behavior it is used to prove. + +**Exceptions:** Aggregated metrics that cannot reasonably identify or affect a person may use a proportionate documented control set rather than record-level lineage. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-019 — Choose the test mix from system risk and architecture + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Defining suite proportions, investing in a new layer, or setting an organization-wide testing policy. + +Choose the mix using feedback speed, maintainability, utilization, reliability, fidelity, architecture, dependency topology, change frequency, incident history, and failure consequence. Do not require a universal pyramid, honeycomb, or fixed percentage split. Use property-based testing, fuzzing, mutation testing, fault injection, ephemeral integration environments, synthetics, or canaries only where each technique addresses a named defect model better than simpler evidence. + +**Why:** The economical mix for a pure function, browser application, distributed service, data pipeline, and provider integration is materially different. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace investment in each layer or technique to named behaviors, defects, and decision value. +- Review suite cost, reliability, fidelity, and defect yield and rebalance when evidence no longer justifies the mix. + +**Exceptions:** A temporary migration target may use a heuristic ratio when it is labeled non-normative, time-bounded, and followed by evidence-based review. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-020 — Govern selective test execution conservatively + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A gate skips checks based on changed files, dependency graphs, history, prediction, ownership, risk classification, or another selection mechanism. + +Define the selection inputs, dependency or prediction model, protected high-consequence checks, uncertainty fallback, and maximum interval before omitted checks run. Use a full or broader reference run periodically and after material selector, build-graph, architecture, or test-identity changes. Measure missed relevant failures, not only time saved. When the selector cannot establish scope or its evidence is stale, expand the selection or run the full applicable gate. + +Probabilistic selection requires a declared detection-risk objective, calibration against held-out outcomes, monitoring for model drift, and a non-probabilistic path for rare high-consequence risks that aggregate recall can hide. Graph-based selection requires maintained module boundaries and dependency metadata. + +**Why:** Selective execution can shorten feedback dramatically, but an incomplete graph or poorly calibrated model can make the gate confidently omit the only relevant check. + +**Verify:** + +- Replay representative changes and compare selected checks and failures with the broader reference suite. +- Introduce changes at dependency, generated-code, configuration, migration, and shared-fixture boundaries and confirm conservative selection. +- Review miss rate, saved cost, fallback frequency, stale inputs, and protected-risk coverage on a declared cadence. + +**Exceptions:** A local advisory selector may accept greater omission risk when it is labeled non-gating and the required shared gate still runs. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-021 — Make temporal behavior directly testable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Correctness depends on elapsed time, schedules, expiry, retries, billing periods, retention, time zones, daylight-saving transitions, or long-lived state. + +Provide a controlled clock or equivalent time-advance mechanism at the boundary that owns temporal behavior. Exercise before, at, and after material boundaries; supported time zones and calendar transitions; delayed, duplicate, and out-of-order work; long horizons; restart; and reconciliation with authoritative wall time. Do not rely on long sleeps or changing a shared host clock when a deterministic clock can prove the claim. + +Keep simulated time distinct from event time, processing time, and external-provider time. State which clocks remain real and what the test therefore cannot prove. + +**Why:** Time-dependent defects are difficult to reproduce when tests must wait in real time or silently assume one clock, zone, or ordering model. + +**Verify:** + +- Advance the controlled clock across each material boundary and inspect state, side effects, and final reconciliation. +- Repeat with supported zone and calendar transitions and after process restart. +- Confirm external calls and persisted timestamps cannot accidentally mix simulated and real authority. + +**Exceptions:** A bounded real-time check may remain when the wall-clock scheduler or provider timing is itself the governed boundary; record its tolerance and nondeterminism. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-022 — Verify compatibility across change and rollback windows + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A release changes a persisted schema, message, API, client, package, protocol, migration, or component that can coexist with another version. + +Test every supported reader-writer and caller-provider combination across the actual rollout and rollback window. Include old code with new state, new code with old state, mixed versions, replayed or delayed messages, partial migration, restart, rollback, and final reconciliation where those states can occur. Bind compatibility fixtures to the declared support policy and retire them only when the compatibility promise ends. + +Use contract tests for declared interface compatibility and broader integration or release checks for assembly, deployment order, migration tooling, and production configuration. A schema-valid payload is not sufficient evidence of semantic compatibility. + +**Why:** A release can pass in a clean latest-version environment yet fail during rolling deployment, rollback, delayed delivery, or mixed-version access to durable state. + +**Verify:** + +- Build a version-state matrix from the rollout and recovery design and trace every reachable combination to evidence. +- Exercise interruption at each migration or rollout phase and inspect authoritative final state after continuation and rollback. +- Confirm compatibility tests are triggered by both consumer and provider or producer changes. + +**Exceptions:** An atomic, non-rollbackable replacement may omit mixed-version cases only when atomicity is demonstrated and recovery does not restore an older reader or writer. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-023 — Bound dry runs, shadow traffic, and fault injection + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Verification replays representative traffic or data, duplicates production work, suppresses writes, or deliberately disrupts a dependency or system. + +State the hypothesis, steady-state measures, production-derived-data authority, comparison method, permitted effects, responsible parties, smallest useful blast radius, observation window, stop conditions, and recovery procedure. Rehearse in a safer environment when faithful enough, then increase fidelity and scope only after the preceding evidence passes. + +Dry-run and shadow paths must isolate or suppress messaging, billing, publication, destructive writes, and other user-visible effects while preserving enough behavior to make comparison meaningful. Record every skipped mutation or external effect as an evidence limit. Fault injection must monitor technical, business, data-integrity, and user-proxy guardrails and stop automatically or through explicitly assigned authority when a threshold is crossed. + +**Why:** High-fidelity exercises reveal integration and recovery failures, but an uncontrolled replay or experiment can duplicate effects, expose data, contaminate comparison, or harm users. + +**Verify:** + +- Demonstrate isolation by attempting each prohibited effect with representative production-shaped input. +- Trigger every stop condition and verify experiment termination, recovery, alert routing, and authoritative final state. +- Compare shadow or dry-run output with the live result and investigate unexplained divergence before promotion. + +**Exceptions:** Live customer traffic may enter a bounded experiment only when the risk, authority, monitoring, stop conditions, and residual harms are explicitly approved under the applicable domain standards. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-024 — Make canary promotion an explicit controlled decision + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A new artifact, configuration, model, migration, or dependency version is exposed to limited live traffic or population before wider release. + +Compare a time-limited canary with a concurrent stable control using attributable population labels, representative load and duration, defined evaluation intervals, and both relative differences and absolute service, business, data-integrity, security, and user-harm limits. Define minimum evidence, inconclusive handling, promotion authority, expansion stages, pause, rollback, and recovery before exposure begins. + +Avoid overlapping unrelated canaries when they would contaminate attribution. Do not promote merely because canary and control are equally degraded, or because aggregate availability cannot observe confidentiality, authorization, irreversible data, or low-frequency harm. Integrate the evaluation into the release workflow so a failed or inconclusive canary cannot be bypassed silently. + +**Why:** Limited exposure reduces blast radius only when signals are attributable, sufficient for the decision, and tied to enforceable promotion and recovery controls. + +**Verify:** + +- Inject representative relative and absolute regressions and confirm the evaluator pauses or reverses rollout. +- Confirm canary and control populations, artifact identities, metrics, evaluation window, and rollout action are retained together. +- Test missing, delayed, contradictory, and jointly degraded signals and verify they do not become an automatic pass. + +**Exceptions:** A low-traffic system may use synthetic load or longer observation when live sample size is insufficient, but must state the fidelity limit and must not claim statistically supported equivalence. + +### ENGINEERING-TESTING-025 — Maintain tests through an explicit lifecycle + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A shared test is added, renamed, quarantined, materially changed, replaced, or removed. + +Update its behavior-to-risk mapping, stable identity, owner, trigger, fixtures, expected cost, and retirement condition. Detect tests that are unreachable, never selected, assertion-free, permanently skipped, or passing only because setup exits early. Remove a test only when its protected claim ended, moved to named equivalent or stronger evidence, or the residual risk is explicitly accepted. + +An expired quarantine must trigger review and enforcement, not silent permanent skipping or automatic deletion without a coverage decision. Preserve useful failure history across moves and renames where the test system permits it. + +**Why:** Test suites accumulate dead checks and permanent exceptions unless evidence has the same ownership and end-of-life discipline as production behavior. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace additions and removals to changed claims and review the resulting coverage map. +- Audit selection and result history for unreachable, never-run, skipped, and early-exit checks. +- Review expired quarantines and confirm each returned, was replaced, or has recorded residual-risk authority. + +**Exceptions:** Disposable exploratory tests may be removed without durable lifecycle records when they never supported a shared decision or completion claim. + +## Guidance + +Begin with acceptance criteria and failure consequences, not a preferred test framework, geometric model, or target percentage. Prefer the least costly evidence that faithfully proves each claim, then evaluate the portfolio across speed, maintainability, utilization, reliability, and fidelity. Manual inspection remains necessary where meaning, usability, visual quality, accessibility, or human judgment cannot be reduced to a reliable automated assertion. + +Use the [testing field guide](../testing/field-guide.md) for rapid type and stage selection, [testing recipes](../testing/recipes.md) for common situations, and [testing records](../templates/testing-records.md) for applicable evidence. These references route to this standard and do not create independent requirements. + +## Examples + +The [worked examples and pilot findings](../testing/worked-examples.md) apply these rules to a public website with oversized smoke suites, a service and generated static API, and a local data and document pipeline. They are explanatory evidence, not conformance claims. + +## Sources + +- Google, [Testing for Reliability](https://sre.google/sre-book/testing-reliability/). Reviewed August 30, 2026. +- Google, [SMURF: Beyond the Test Pyramid](https://testing.googleblog.com/2024/10/smurf-beyond-test-pyramid.html). Reviewed August 30, 2026. +- Google, [Test Sizes](https://testing.googleblog.com/2010/12/test-sizes.html). Reviewed August 30, 2026. +- GitHub, [Reducing flaky builds by 18x](https://github.blog/engineering/engineering-principles/reducing-flaky-builds-by-18x/). Reviewed August 30, 2026. +- Uber, [Shifting E2E Testing Left](https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/shifting-e2e-testing-left/). Reviewed August 30, 2026. +- Meta, [Autonomous testing of services at scale](https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/20/developer-tools/autonomous-testing/). Reviewed August 30, 2026. +- Netflix, [Automated Canary Analysis at Netflix with Kayenta](https://netflixtechblog.com/automated-canary-analysis-at-netflix-with-kayenta-3260bc7acc69). Reviewed August 30, 2026. +- Meta, [Predictive test selection to ensure reliable code changes](https://engineering.fb.com/2018/11/21/developer-tools/predictive-test-selection/). Reviewed August 30, 2026. +- Spotify, [Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2023/10/switching-build-systems-seamlessly). Reviewed August 30, 2026. +- Stripe, [Test clocks](https://stripe.dev/blog/test-clocks-how-we-made-it-easier-to-test-stripe-billing-integrations). Reviewed August 30, 2026. +- Google, [Canarying Releases](https://sre.google/workbook/canarying-releases/). Reviewed August 30, 2026. +- Google, [Data Processing Pipelines](https://sre.google/workbook/data-processing/). Reviewed August 30, 2026. +- Amazon Web Services, [Test resiliency using chaos engineering](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/2022-03-31/framework/rel_testing_resiliency_failure_injection_resiliency.html). Reviewed August 30, 2026. +- GitLab, [Test Quarantine Process](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/testing/quarantine-process/). Reviewed August 30, 2026. +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Secure Software Development Framework Version 1.1](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/218/final). Reviewed August 30, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/error-messages.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/error-messages.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..613e0f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/error-messages.md @@ -0,0 +1,352 @@ +--- +id: CONTENT-ERRORS +title: Error messages +description: Defines actionable, safe, accessible, and technically honest user-facing failure messages. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [content, product, design] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [product-feature, public-web-page, support-experience, functional-writing] +tags: [content, errors, interface-copy] +depends_on: [FND-TRUST, FND-ACCESSIBILITY, WRITING-FUNCTIONAL, CONTENT-INTERFACE] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T20:57:53Z" } +sources: + - id: wcag-22 + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/ + title: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 + author: organization:w3c + - id: ietf-http-semantics + resource: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html + title: HTTP Semantics + author: organization:ietf + - id: ietf-additional-status + resource: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6585.html + title: Additional HTTP Status Codes + author: organization:ietf + - id: ietf-problem-details + resource: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9457.html + title: Problem Details for HTTP APIs + author: organization:ietf + - id: wix-error-messages + resource: https://wix-ux.com/when-life-gives-you-lemons-write-better-error-messages-46c5223e1a2f + title: When life gives you lemons, write better error messages + author: human:jenni-nadler + - id: anthropic-effective-agents + resource: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents + title: Building effective agents + author: organization:anthropic + - id: scale-mcp-atlas + resource: https://scale.com/blog/mcp-atlas + title: Actions, Not Words - MCP-Atlas Raises the Bar for Agentic Evaluation + author: organization:scale-ai +--- + +# Error messages + +A user-facing failure must leave the user knowing what happened and what to do next, with the cause, preservation state, and support path included when relevant. This standard covers inline validation, toasts, banners, dialogs, full-page failures, offline states, and failure-caused empty states. + +Prevent avoidable failures before writing them: validate at the right time, preserve input, autosave where appropriate, disable actions that cannot succeed, and confirm destructive actions. + +## Rules + +### CONTENT-ERRORS-001 — State what happened and the next action + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Showing any user-facing failure. + +State what did or did not happen, then give one concrete next action or an honest statement that no action is available yet. Include the known cause, what was preserved or lost, and a support path when they affect the user's decision. + +**Why:** “Something went wrong” confirms failure but does not help the user recover or judge impact. + +**Verify:** + +- Identify the failed action or unavailable state in the message. +- Follow the stated next step and confirm it can resolve or route around the actual trigger. +- Confirm preservation and loss claims against system behavior. + +**Exceptions:** A security-sensitive message can withhold cause under `CONTENT-ERRORS-004` but still owes the user the failed outcome and a safe next action. + +### CONTENT-ERRORS-002 — Match the surface and persistence to severity + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Choosing where and how a failure appears. + +Place field-specific errors at the field, ongoing conditions in a persistent page-level region, blocking decisions in a focused interruption, and destination failures on a full page. Any message that requires action must remain available until the action is completed, replaced, or intentionally dismissed. + +**Why:** A blocking failure hidden in a temporary toast strands users, while a dialog for a minor correction interrupts them unnecessarily. + +**Verify:** + +- Trigger the failure in context and confirm the message appears where the user is looking or acting. +- Confirm actionable content does not disappear before it can be read and used. +- Check repeated and simultaneous errors for priority and duplication. + +**Exceptions:** A toast can report a non-blocking outcome when no immediate response is required or the same recovery action remains available elsewhere. + +### CONTENT-ERRORS-003 — Use calm language without blame + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Writing failure text or action labels. + +Use plain, direct language that matches the stakes. Describe the condition rather than blaming the user or a provider. Do not use playful interjections, jokes, excessive apology, or jargon. Label the primary action with the recovery verb. + +**Why:** Users often encounter errors while stressed or interrupted; blame and vague tone increase confusion without improving recovery. + +**Verify:** + +- Remove “Oops,” “Whoops,” “Yikes,” “Uh oh,” and similar openers. +- Replace mechanism-first language, error codes, and passive blame with user-relevant meaning. +- Confirm buttons say what they do, such as “Reconnect account” or “Try again,” rather than “OK.” + +**Exceptions:** A legal or safety message can require formal language, but must remain understandable and actionable. + +### CONTENT-ERRORS-004 — Balance specificity with security + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The system knows a cause, but disclosing it could expose accounts, fraud controls, internal architecture, or sensitive state. + +Give the most specific explanation that remains safe. Do not reveal whether an account exists, which credential was correct, detection thresholds, stack traces, queries, file paths, secrets, or internal service names. + +**Why:** Detailed diagnostics can help an attacker enumerate accounts, bypass controls, or map internal systems. + +**Verify:** + +- Review authentication, password reset, access, anti-abuse, payment, and rate-limit messages for enumeration and implementation disclosure. +- Confirm detailed diagnostics are recorded only in protected logs with a correlation path for support. + +**Exceptions:** A non-sensitive request or correlation ID can appear in secondary text when support can use it and it conveys no protected information. + +### CONTENT-ERRORS-005 — Preserve work and provide a way out + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A failed action involves user input, a retry, an external dependency, or a recurring condition. + +Preserve valid input and completed work where technically possible. Make retry safe, state what was retained, prevent duplicate side effects, and provide an alternate path or support route when retry can fail again. + +**Why:** Recovery that destroys work, double-charges, duplicates actions, or loops indefinitely turns a transient failure into user harm. + +**Verify:** + +- Trigger failure before and after submission, then inspect retained input and durable state. +- Repeat the action and confirm idempotency or explicit duplicate protection where needed. +- Follow the alternate or support path. + +**Exceptions:** Sensitive fields can require re-entry when retention would create greater security risk; explain the requirement without exposing the sensitive value. + +### CONTENT-ERRORS-006 — Make errors accessible + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A failure appears in a visual or interactive interface. + +Use words and semantics in addition to color or icons. Connect inline errors to their fields, identify invalid state programmatically, announce dynamic errors appropriately, and move focus only when needed to make a failed submission understandable. + +**Why:** Visual placement, color, and live changes are not perceivable in the same way by every user. + +**Verify:** + +- Trigger errors with keyboard and a representative screen reader. +- Confirm the error is announced once, names the affected field or action, and does not trap or unexpectedly steal focus. +- Inspect contrast, zoom, reflow, and persistence. + +**Exceptions:** Static content already encountered in reading order does not need a live announcement. + +### CONTENT-ERRORS-007 — Localize complete messages + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Error text can be translated or shown in more than one locale. + +Provide translators complete sentences with named placeholders and context. Do not concatenate fragments, embed assumptions about word order, or hard-code locale-specific dates, numbers, or time zones. Allow layout expansion and set correct language and direction. + +**Why:** Error messages often contain variables and instructions whose grammar and order differ across languages. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect placeholder definitions and translator context. +- Render representative long, plural, right-to-left, and non-Latin messages. +- Confirm full-page navigation and support routes remain in the user's locale. + +**Exceptions:** A product with one supported locale must still keep dynamic values distinct from sentence fragments. + +### CONTENT-ERRORS-008 — Keep protocol and human meaning consistent + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A failure is represented through HTTP or another machine-consumed protocol. + +Return the status and retry metadata that describe the actual condition. Do not serve missing or failed content with a success status, redirect unrelated missing pages to a generic destination, or describe planned downtime while returning success. + +**Why:** Crawlers, clients, caches, monitoring, and automation act on protocol semantics even when the visible copy sounds correct. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect headers and rendered bodies for missing, forbidden, gone, server-failure, maintenance, and rate-limit cases. +- Confirm planned unavailability uses `503` and appropriate `Retry-After`; client-specific throttling uses `429` and appropriate retry guidance. +- Verify error pages remain available when the application or a third party is unavailable. + +**Exceptions:** Security policy can intentionally collapse some client-visible statuses; document the policy and preserve accurate internal observability. + +### CONTENT-ERRORS-009 — Map each message to a known trigger + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Implementing, reviewing, or reusing an error message. + +Give each message or failure family a stable identifier and map it to its triggering conditions, owning component, severity, user impact, and recovery path. Do not reuse one generic string across failures that require different actions. + +**Why:** Writers cannot make a message accurate without knowing what the system knows, and teams cannot prioritize errors they cannot trace. + +**Verify:** + +- Follow the message ID from interface to code path, logs or telemetry, and content owner. +- Confirm every mapped trigger has the same user meaning and recovery action. + +**Exceptions:** A last-resort unknown-error fallback can cover truly unclassified failures if it creates a traceable diagnostic event and an owned follow-up. + +### CONTENT-ERRORS-010 — Review failures as product behavior + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Shipping a new failure path or maintaining a recurring one. + +Review frequency, blocking impact, recovery success, accessibility, support demand, and fallback use. Prioritize failures by user harm and frequency, and retire obsolete messages and telemetry. + +**Why:** Error content becomes inaccurate as systems and recovery paths change, and frequent messages often reveal preventable product defects. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect real trigger and recovery data after release on a defined schedule. +- Confirm high-frequency, high-impact, and fallback errors have owners and actions. +- Re-run the ship checklist after system or support-path changes. + +**Exceptions:** Low-volume systems can use scheduled manual review when automated frequency data is unavailable. + +### CONTENT-ERRORS-011 — Use stable machine-readable API problems + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An HTTP API returns errors to software clients and does not already have a governed domain error format. + +Use RFC 9457 problem details or an equally stable documented contract. Give each problem type durable semantics, an appropriate HTTP status, a short stable title, occurrence-specific human detail, structured extension fields for machine decisions, and documentation for recovery. + +**Why:** Clients break when they must parse human prose, implementation messages, or inconsistent response shapes to decide how to recover. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare representative responses with the published schema and problem-type documentation. +- Confirm clients branch on status, type, and structured fields rather than localized `detail` text. +- Review problem fields for internal, personal, account-enumeration, and security-sensitive disclosure. + +**Exceptions:** An established domain protocol can retain its native error format when status and recovery semantics are documented and consistent. + +### CONTENT-ERRORS-012 — Prevent high-impact submission errors + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A submission creates a legal or financial commitment, changes or deletes user-controlled data, publishes sensitive information, or is otherwise difficult to reverse. + +Before final submission, provide at least one effective safeguard: make the action reversible, validate and let the user correct the data, or present a review and confirmation step that identifies the material consequence. + +**Why:** An explanatory error shown after an irreversible action cannot prevent the loss, obligation, or disclosure. + +**Verify:** + +- Complete the flow with an intentional mistake and confirm the safeguard detects, exposes, or reverses it. +- Confirm the review step displays the decision-relevant values and consequence, not only a generic confirmation question. +- Test keyboard, assistive-technology, timeout, retry, and duplicate-submission behavior. + +**Exceptions:** None when the governing accessibility or product policy requires error prevention; other high-impact flows need an approved alternate control if all three safeguards are technically impossible. + +### CONTENT-ERRORS-013 — Make tool failures actionable to agents + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An API, function, MCP tool, job, or command returns an error that an automated caller may handle. + +Return a stable error code or type, safe human summary, affected operation or field, retry classification, and structured correction details needed to recover. Distinguish invalid input, unauthorized scope, unavailable approval, rate or resource limit, temporary dependency failure, conflict, already-completed state, and terminal failure. Do not expose secrets or let free-form error text become executable instruction. + +**Why:** Agents often abandon recoverable tasks, retry terminal failures, or repeat side effects when errors do not identify what can safely change. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise each error class and confirm a caller can choose correct, retry, stop, escalate, or reconcile behavior without parsing prose. +- Test malformed inputs, wrong units and enumerations, duplicate actions, timeouts after success, partial completion, and unavailable approval. +- Confirm untrusted downstream error content remains labeled data and cannot alter tool authority or instructions. + +**Exceptions:** A public client can receive a less detailed safe error while protected logs retain the correlation and diagnostic detail needed by operators. + +## Guidance + +Use this order when the information applies: + +1. What happened. +2. Why it happened. +3. What was preserved or lost. +4. What the user can do. +5. Where the user can go if recovery fails. + +Space-constrained messages can omit cause, preservation, or support only when the surrounding interface provides them. They cannot omit the failed outcome or next action. + +Select the surface from the user's situation: + +| Situation | Preferred surface | +|---|---| +| One field needs correction | Inline at the field when correction is possible | +| A non-blocking action failed and no response is required | Toast, if recovery remains available elsewhere | +| An ongoing condition affects the page or application | Persistent banner or status region | +| The flow cannot continue without a decision or correction | Dialog or focused inline interruption | +| The destination cannot load | Full-page error with truthful protocol status | + +Use fine print for correlation IDs and technical details intended for support. Keep the human headline and primary action focused on recovery. + +## Templates + +### Internal failure with retry + +> Couldn't [complete action]. [What was preserved.] This was due to an issue on our end. [Specific retry action]. If it keeps happening, contact [support route]. + +### Invalid input + +> [Field] must [specific requirement]. + +### Missing access + +> [Blocked action] requires [permission or role]. [How to request or change it]. + +### Offline + +> You're offline. [What is available or preserved.] [What reconnecting restores]. + +### No available action + +> [What happened and impact]. We're working on it. [When or where to check for updates]. [Support route if needed]. + +## Examples + +| Non-compliant | Problem | Compliant | +|---|---|---| +| “Whoops! Something went wrong. Try later.” | Playful, generic, and vague | “We couldn't load your reports due to an issue on our end. Refresh to try again. If it keeps happening, contact Support.” | +| “You entered an invalid email.” | Blames the user and omits the rule | “Enter an email address in the format name@example.com.” | +| “PayFlow isn't responding.” | Blames a provider and omits payment state | “We couldn't process the payment. You haven't been charged. Try again in a few minutes.” | +| “Error 403: Forbidden” | Leads with a code and gives no route | “You don't have access to this page. Request access from the workspace owner.” | + +## Ship checklist + +- [ ] States what did or did not happen. +- [ ] Gives one concrete next action or an honest no-action state. +- [ ] Gives the known safe cause and preservation state when relevant. +- [ ] Offers a route out when retry can fail. +- [ ] Uses calm, plain language without blame or playful tone. +- [ ] Reveals no sensitive account, control, or implementation detail. +- [ ] Uses the correct persistent surface for its severity. +- [ ] Preserves input and prevents duplicate side effects where relevant. +- [ ] Works with keyboard, assistive technology, zoom, and reflow. +- [ ] Uses complete localizable messages. +- [ ] Matches protocol status and retry semantics. +- [ ] Maps to a stable trigger and owner. + +## Sources + +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/), W3C Recommendation, October 5, 2023. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Internet Engineering Task Force, [RFC 9110: HTTP Semantics](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html), June 2022. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Internet Engineering Task Force, [RFC 6585: Additional HTTP Status Codes](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6585.html), April 2012. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Internet Engineering Task Force, [RFC 9457: Problem Details for HTTP APIs](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9457.html), July 2023. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Jenni Nadler, [When life gives you lemons, write better error messages](https://wix-ux.com/when-life-gives-you-lemons-write-better-error-messages-46c5223e1a2f), 2022. Existing provenance source; automated review was unavailable because the site returned `403 Forbidden` on August 13, 2026. +- Anthropic, [Building effective agents](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents), December 19, 2024. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Scale AI, [Actions, Not Words: MCP-Atlas Raises the Bar for Agentic Evaluation](https://scale.com/blog/mcp-atlas), September 19, 2025. Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/fixtures/activation.json b/plugins/raintree-standards/fixtures/activation.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cb09c17 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/fixtures/activation.json @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +{ + "schemaVersion": 1, + "skill": "standards-navigator", + "positive": [ + "Which Raintree Standards profile applies to this database migration?", + "Give me the governed requirements and evidence for a software change." + ], + "negative": [ + "Explain what a database migration is.", + "Format this JSON file." + ] +} diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/foundations/accessibility.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/foundations/accessibility.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a06d528 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/foundations/accessibility.md @@ -0,0 +1,183 @@ +--- +id: FND-ACCESSIBILITY +title: Accessibility and inclusive interaction +description: Cross-platform requirements for perceivable, operable, understandable, and compatible product experiences. +type: foundation +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [accessibility, design, engineering] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2026-11-13 +stale_after: 2026-11-13 +applies_to: [user-interface, content, communication] +tags: [accessibility, inclusive-design, interaction] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T20:57:53Z" } +sources: + - id: wcag-22 + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/ + title: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 + author: organization:w3c + - id: wai-aria-12 + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.2/ + title: Accessible Rich Internet Applications 1.2 + author: organization:w3c + - id: apple-hig-accessibility + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/accessibility + title: Accessibility + author: organization:apple + - id: android-accessibility + resource: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/accessibility + title: Build accessible apps + author: organization:google +--- + +# Accessibility and inclusive interaction + +People must be able to perceive, understand, navigate, and operate supported experiences using the input, display, language, and assistive configurations they need. Legal conformance targets remain jurisdiction-specific and require qualified review. + +## Rules + +### FND-ACCESSIBILITY-001 — Define the accessibility target + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Creating or materially changing a user-facing product, service, document, or communication. + +Record the supported platforms, accessibility baseline, user groups, assistive technologies, input methods, and any governing legal or contractual target before acceptance testing. + +**Why:** A generic claim of accessibility cannot be verified without a defined scope and conformance target. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the release record for the declared target, supported environments, and qualified owner. +- Confirm that excluded environments or criteria have evidence, risk, and an approved exception. + +**Exceptions:** None for work presented as accessible or governed by an accessibility obligation. + +### FND-ACCESSIBILITY-002 — Preserve equivalent meaning and operation + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Information or functionality uses visual, auditory, motion, gesture, spatial, or timed presentation. + +Provide an equivalent way to perceive the information and complete the task without depending on one sense, precise gesture, device orientation, or time-limited response unless that characteristic is essential. + +**Why:** A single presentation or input channel can exclude people and make recovery impossible. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise the task without color, sound, motion, dragging, hover, or a precise pointer as applicable. +- Inspect text alternatives, captions, transcripts, status announcements, and simpler input paths. + +**Exceptions:** Essential sensory or timing characteristics require documented purpose, the closest practical alternative, and qualified accessibility review. + +### FND-ACCESSIBILITY-003 — Support navigation and focus + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An experience contains interactive controls, navigation, dialogs, dynamic regions, or multiple steps. + +Keep focus visible, logical, and under user control. Make every supported action reachable without a pointer, preserve a meaningful reading order, and return focus predictably after temporary surfaces close. + +**Why:** Missing or unexpected focus prevents keyboard, switch, voice, and screen-reader users from locating and operating controls. + +**Verify:** + +- Complete representative flows with keyboard or the platform-equivalent non-pointer input. +- Inspect focus order, focus appearance, modal containment, escape behavior, and focus restoration. + +**Exceptions:** None for functionality that the target platform exposes through discrete navigation. + +### FND-ACCESSIBILITY-004 — Expose names, roles, states, and relationships + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Software renders controls, status, validation, structure, or changing content. + +Use native platform semantics where available and expose accurate names, roles, values, states, errors, instructions, and relationships to accessibility APIs. + +**Why:** Visual appearance alone does not provide the programmatic information assistive technology needs. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the accessibility tree or platform inspector for representative states. +- Operate custom components with a supported screen reader and input method. + +**Exceptions:** A custom semantic implementation is allowed only when no native element meets the behavior and the complete interaction contract is tested. + +### FND-ACCESSIBILITY-005 — Preserve readable and adaptable presentation + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Presenting text, icons, controls, data, or layouts. + +Maintain sufficient contrast, scalable text, distinguishable focus and state, usable target sizes, and reflow or adaptation under supported zoom, text size, orientation, contrast, color scheme, and localization settings. + +**Why:** Fixed or low-contrast presentation can make content unreadable or controls unusable. + +**Verify:** + +- Measure applicable contrast and target-size criteria against the declared baseline. +- Inspect representative screens at supported zoom, text-size, contrast, theme, orientation, and locale extremes. + +**Exceptions:** Brand or data colors may remain when an additional accessible cue and an equivalent high-contrast presentation are provided. + +### FND-ACCESSIBILITY-006 — Make errors and changes understandable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Input can fail, content changes asynchronously, or an action has material consequences. + +Identify errors in text, associate them with the affected input, announce important changes without stealing control, and provide prevention, review, correction, or reversal for consequential actions. + +**Why:** Users can miss visual-only errors and unexpected updates or be unable to recover from a mistake. + +**Verify:** + +- Trigger validation, loading, success, failure, timeout, and destructive-action states with assistive technology. +- Confirm the user can locate, understand, correct, and resubmit without losing valid work. + +**Exceptions:** None for errors that block completion or actions with material consequences. + +### FND-ACCESSIBILITY-007 — Test with people and assistive technology + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Accessibility materially affects release acceptance. + +Combine automated checks, manual interaction checks, accessibility-tree inspection, and representative human evaluation. Do not treat an automated scan as proof of conformance. + +**Why:** Automated tools detect only part of the applicable behavior and cannot determine whether a task is understandable or practical. + +**Verify:** + +- Preserve tool versions, configurations, findings, manual checks, environments, and resolved or accepted limitations. +- Include qualified review or representative user evaluation for high-impact, novel, or repeatedly failing flows. + +**Exceptions:** Early prototypes may defer human evaluation when no release claim is made and the review is scheduled before commitment. + +## Operational coverage + +Use the declared accessibility target to select the applicable route. Preserve the tested platform, assistive technology, input method, content state, locale, and result in the release evidence. + +| Route | Minimum scenarios | Required evidence | Escalation owner | +|---|---|---|---| +| Web document or application | Keyboard-only operation, screen-reader navigation, 200% and 400% zoom or reflow, forced colors, reduced motion, errors, and session timeout | Conformance target, automated findings, manual task results, accessibility-tree inspection, browser and assistive-technology versions, and unresolved limitations | Accessibility and web owners | +| Native mobile or desktop application | Platform screen reader, switch or keyboard navigation, large text, high contrast, orientation or window resizing, gestures, notifications, and permissions | Platform audit output, representative task recordings or notes, supported OS and device matrix, and human evaluation for high-impact flows | Accessibility and platform owners | +| Document, media, or communication | Heading and reading order, link purpose, table structure, text alternatives, captions, transcripts, color independence, and exported-format behavior | Source and final-format inspection, caption or transcript review, document checker output, and correction record | Content, media, and accessibility owners | +| Novel or consequential interaction | Enrollment, payment, identity, health, safety, employment, legal, or agent-mediated tasks across success, error, interruption, and recovery | Representative user evaluation, qualified review, severity-ranked findings, remediation disposition, and approved exceptions | Accountable product owner and qualified accessibility reviewer | + +Automated checks can support every route, but they cannot replace task completion with supported input and assistive configurations. A route passes only when the final rendered artifact preserves equivalent meaning and operation. + +## Guidance + +Use WCAG as the web baseline and current platform guidance for native applications. Platform guidance can strengthen a target but does not replace applicable law or a declared conformance standard. Include disability and assistive-technology perspectives during design, not only after implementation. + +## Examples + +### Checkout confirmation + +Non-compliant: A purchase occurs when an icon-only button is tapped; the error state is shown only by a red border. + +Compliant: The control has an accessible name, the order is reviewed before purchase, errors are identified in text and programmatically associated, and the completed purchase is announced without moving focus unexpectedly. + +## Sources + +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Accessible Rich Internet Applications 1.2](https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.2/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Apple, [Accessibility](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/accessibility). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Build accessible apps](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/accessibility). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/foundations/evidence.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/foundations/evidence.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6179591 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/foundations/evidence.md @@ -0,0 +1,277 @@ +--- +id: FND-EVIDENCE +title: Evidence and claims +description: Requires decisions and completion claims to match the strength and limits of available evidence. +type: foundation +status: stable +governance_status: active +owners: [standards] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [all-work] +tags: [evidence, research, verification] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T19:35:12Z" } +sources: + - id: nist-engineering-statistics + resource: https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/nistsematech-engineering-statistics-handbook + title: NIST/SEMATECH Engineering Statistics Handbook + author: organization:nist + - id: nist-tn-1297 + resource: https://www.nist.gov/pml/nist-technical-note-1297 + title: Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results + author: organization:nist + - id: anthropic-agent-evals + resource: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents + title: Demystifying evals for AI agents + author: organization:anthropic + - id: openai-evaluation + resource: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/evaluation-best-practices + title: Evaluation best practices + author: organization:openai + - id: scale-swe-bench-pro + resource: https://scale.com/blog/swe-bench-pro + title: SWE-Bench Pro - Raising the Bar for Agentic Coding + author: organization:scale-ai + - id: openai-deployment-simulation + resource: https://openai.com/index/deployment-simulation/ + title: Predicting model behavior before release by simulating deployment + author: organization:openai +--- + +# Evidence and claims + +Decisions and completion claims must match the strength, scope, and freshness of the available evidence. This foundation applies to research, analysis, diagnosis, measurement, reviews, and reports of completed work. + +## Rules + +### FND-EVIDENCE-001 — Separate observation, inference, and recommendation + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Reporting research, analysis, diagnosis, or results. + +Label or phrase material statements so readers can distinguish what was directly observed, what was inferred from those observations, and what action is recommended. + +**Why:** A reader cannot judge risk when interpretation is presented as a measured or inspected fact. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace consequential factual claims to an artifact, output, measurement, or source. +- Identify assumptions used to connect the evidence to an inference or recommendation. + +**Exceptions:** Common background facts do not need labels when they are stable, uncontested, and immaterial to the decision. + +### FND-EVIDENCE-002 — Use current primary sources for volatile claims + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A claim depends on current law, platform behavior, vendor limits, pricing, security advice, search behavior, or an active standard. + +Verify the claim against a current primary or authoritative source and place the source close enough that a reviewer can identify what it supports. Record the publication, version, or review date when freshness affects the decision. + +**Why:** Secondary summaries and remembered behavior can remain plausible after the underlying rule or product changes. + +**Verify:** + +- Open each cited source and confirm that it directly supports the claim. +- Check the source date, version, jurisdiction, and product scope. +- Revalidate rather than relying only on a prior `last_reviewed` date. + +**Exceptions:** If no primary source is available, cite the strongest available evidence, explain the limitation, and avoid stronger certainty than that evidence supports. + +### FND-EVIDENCE-003 — Do not claim unperformed verification + +**Level:** prohibited +**Applies when:** Describing tests, reviews, deployments, measurements, user behavior, or completion. + +Never state or imply that a check ran, passed, covered a condition, or proved an outcome when it did not. + +**Why:** False verification hides uncertainty and can cause another person to accept risk they would otherwise investigate. + +**Verify:** + +- Match every completion statement to actual output, an inspected artifact, or a clearly labeled manual observation. +- Use precise status such as “not run,” “failed,” “partially inspected,” or “not available” where applicable. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +### FND-EVIDENCE-004 — Match confidence to evidence quality + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Drawing conclusions from analytics, experiments, interviews, incidents, simulations, or partial inspection. + +State limitations that could materially change the conclusion, including sample size, selection bias, missing data, confounding, instrumentation gaps, environmental differences, and uninspected scope. + +**Why:** A result can be accurate for the observed sample while failing to generalize to the decision population or operating environment. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the population, period, environment, sample, exclusions, and missing scope relevant to the conclusion. +- Confirm that words such as “caused,” “proves,” “all,” and “safe” are supported by the study or inspection design. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +### FND-EVIDENCE-005 — Preserve evidence provenance + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Evidence affects a decision, release, exception, or material claim. + +Record enough provenance for another reviewer to locate and interpret the evidence: source, version or commit, query or method, time period, environment, and relevant parameters. + +**Why:** A screenshot, number, or statement without origin cannot be reproduced or distinguished from stale evidence. + +**Verify:** + +- Follow the recorded reference to the underlying artifact or repeatable method. +- Confirm that copied values retain units, filters, and time boundaries. + +**Exceptions:** Do not include secrets or personal data in the record; use a protected reference or redacted summary instead. + +### FND-EVIDENCE-006 — Resolve material conflicting evidence + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Credible sources or checks support different conclusions. + +Report the conflict, compare source authority, freshness, scope, and method, and state why one interpretation is preferred or why the decision remains unresolved. + +**Why:** Silently selecting convenient evidence creates confirmation bias and hides decision risk. + +**Verify:** + +- Include the material conflicting result in the decision record. +- Document the comparison or the additional check used to resolve it. + +**Exceptions:** Clearly irrelevant results can be excluded when the reason is recorded. + +### FND-EVIDENCE-007 — Define quantitative results and their uncertainty + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A measured value, estimate, rate, comparison, or threshold materially affects a decision. + +Define the quantity, unit, population, method, time basis, aggregation, rounding, and uncertainty or variability needed to interpret the result. When reporting an interval or confidence statement, identify how it was calculated and what it represents. + +**Why:** A number without its measurement definition and uncertainty can appear more precise, comparable, or general than the method supports. + +**Verify:** + +- Reproduce the reported value from the recorded method, inputs, filters, units, and time period. +- Confirm repeated measurements, sampling variation, model uncertainty, and systematic limitations are represented where material. +- Check that rounded values and comparisons do not imply unsupported precision. + +**Exceptions:** Exact deterministic counts can omit statistical uncertainty when completeness and counting logic are verified; they must still define scope, unit, and time. + +### FND-EVIDENCE-008 — Measure variable systems with repeated trials + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A stochastic model, agent, heuristic, human-review process, or nondeterministic environment materially affects an outcome. + +Run enough independent trials to characterize variability and report the aggregation that matches real use. Distinguish typical per-attempt performance, success after retries or candidate selection, consistent success across repeated use, worst material failures, latency, and cost. Do not present a selected successful run as representative. + +**Why:** A system can look reliable in one demonstration while failing often, inconsistently, or expensively across repeated use. + +**Verify:** + +- Record trial count, sampling settings, environment reset, retry or selection policy, aggregation, and uncertainty. +- Inspect per-task and segment distributions, not only the overall mean or best result. +- Confirm the reported measure matches how many attempts and failures a real user or system will experience. + +**Exceptions:** A deterministic operation can use one run when determinism and environment stability are themselves verified. + +### FND-EVIDENCE-009 — Protect evaluation validity + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A benchmark, evaluation set, rubric, grader, simulation, or test environment supports a capability or release claim. + +Use tasks and environments that represent the target work, including important edge and failure cases. Separate development from held-out evaluation, track exposure and contamination risk, freeze material task and grader versions for comparisons, and confirm a reference solution can pass without hidden expectations. + +**Why:** Memorized tasks, changing environments, one-sided samples, and invalid graders can improve a score without improving real performance. + +**Verify:** + +- Record task provenance, population coverage, partitions, exposure history, environment, dependencies, rubric, and grader versions. +- Test both when a behavior should occur and when it should not, plus valid alternative solutions. +- Reproduce a sample of passes and failures and inspect for leakage, flakiness, impossible tasks, and implementation-specific grading. + +**Exceptions:** An exploratory public benchmark can guide investigation when its contamination and representativeness limits are stated and no deployment claim rests on it alone. + +### FND-EVIDENCE-010 — Validate judgment-based graders + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A person, model, rubric, proxy metric, or composite score judges quality that cannot be checked directly. + +Define each criterion independently, identify the evidence available to the grader, and calibrate grader decisions against qualified human review or an authoritative outcome. Measure disagreement and material false acceptance and rejection. Keep final-state correctness, required process, policy compliance, style, latency, and cost separate unless the decision explicitly defines a justified combination. + +**Why:** A plausible grader can reward verbosity, expected wording, or a preferred path while missing incorrect state or rejecting a valid alternative. + +**Verify:** + +- Review representative clear, borderline, adversarial, and disagreement cases with qualified raters. +- Test sensitivity to irrelevant wording, ordering, identity, formatting, and reference-answer phrasing. +- Trace composite weights and pass thresholds to the decision they are intended to support. + +**Exceptions:** Exact deterministic criteria can omit human calibration when they directly inspect the required outcome. + +### FND-EVIDENCE-011 — Validate the evaluation harness and deployment resemblance + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An evaluation result supports release, comparison, safety, capability, or reliability claims for a system whose behavior depends on tools, state, external services, traffic shape, or a multi-step environment. + +Treat the harness, fixtures, tools, permissions, state, timing, failures, and grader as part of the evaluated system. Compare them with the target deployment and record material mismatches. Test for reward shortcuts, impossible or broken tasks, evaluation awareness, missing side effects, unrealistic tool responses, and hidden information available only in evaluation. Use safe production-shaped traces or a validated simulation when synthetic tasks do not reproduce the target context. + +**Why:** A capable system can score well in an artificial or exploitable harness while failing the deployed task, and a broken harness can make a correct system appear weak. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace representative evaluation tasks to observed deployment task families, environments, tools, authority, state transitions, latency, and failure modes. +- Run known-success, known-failure, shortcut, malformed-environment, and no-solution controls and confirm the harness and grader classify them correctly. +- Compare a safe sample of simulated and real trajectories or outcomes and record where simulation fidelity changes the decision. +- Revalidate the harness after material model, tool, permission, environment, scorer, or production-distribution changes. + +**Exceptions:** A narrow component test can omit deployment resemblance when its claim is explicitly limited to that deterministic component and no end-to-end conclusion is drawn. + +## Operational coverage + +Match the evidence record to the decision. Do not use a stronger label than the design supports. + +| Decision type | Minimum design | Required record | Common invalid inference | +|---|---|---|---| +| Descriptive or diagnostic | Defined population, time window, measure, missingness, and comparison basis | Query or procedure, source snapshot, exclusions, denominator, uncertainty, and reproducible result | Treating an observed association as a cause | +| Controlled causal | Predeclared treatment, assignment unit, estimand, power or sensitivity basis, guardrails, and stopping rule | Assignment audit, treatment-delivery check, analysis version, effect with interval, attrition, and deviations | Choosing the metric or stopping point after seeing results | +| Qualitative | Purposeful sampling rationale, interview or observation protocol, consent and privacy controls, and saturation or stopping rationale | Raw-note provenance, coding method, negative cases, researcher role, participant context, and traceable synthesis | Turning frequency in a convenience sample into prevalence | +| Mixed evidence | Explicit role for each method and a rule for resolving convergence, complementarity, or conflict | Joined evidence map, incompatible findings, weighting rationale, decision threshold, and unresolved uncertainty | Averaging incompatible measures into false precision | +| Expert or policy judgment | Named authority, scope, assumptions, conflicts, alternatives, and review date | Signed or attributable decision, source set, dissent, conditions, and expiration trigger | Presenting accountable judgment as measured fact | +| Automated or model evaluation | Representative task set, versioned system, reference or rubric, grader calibration, repeated trials, and failure taxonomy | Inputs, outputs, trajectory or trace, scorer version, human adjudication, variance, and regressions | Treating one benchmark score or model grader as general capability | + +When evidence conflicts, preserve the conflict and identify what new observation would change the decision. When no feasible design can answer the question, narrow the claim instead of manufacturing certainty. + +## Guidance + +Use the narrowest claim supported by the evidence. A passing check supports the behavior, inputs, and environment it exercised; it does not prove the entire system correct. A metric movement is an observation until the design supports a causal interpretation. + +Prefer inspectable evidence over confidence language. “The staging migration processed 8.2 million rows in 41 minutes with no lock wait above 200 ms” is more useful than “The migration looks safe.” Preserve failed checks and null results when they affect interpretation. + +For quantitative evidence, distinguish repeatability under the same conditions from reproducibility under changed conditions. Report which conditions changed when using a result to predict another environment. + +When evidence is expensive or unavailable, narrow the decision, limit exposure, or seek an approved exception. Do not replace missing evidence with stronger prose. + +## Examples + +### Diagnosis + +Non-compliant: “The cache caused the latency spike.” + +Compliant: “Request latency rose after cache hit rate fell from 91% to 54%. The timing supports the cache as the leading hypothesis, but no trace links the misses to the slow requests.” + +### Verification + +Non-compliant: “The page is accessible.” + +Compliant: “Keyboard navigation and 400% reflow passed on the checkout flow. Screen-reader announcements were not checked because the test device was unavailable.” + +## Sources + +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [NIST/SEMATECH Engineering Statistics Handbook](https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/nistsematech-engineering-statistics-handbook). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results](https://www.nist.gov/pml/nist-technical-note-1297), Technical Note 1297. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Anthropic, [Demystifying evals for AI agents](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents), January 9, 2026. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- OpenAI, [Evaluation best practices](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/evaluation-best-practices). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Scale AI, [SWE-Bench Pro: Raising the Bar for Agentic Coding](https://scale.com/blog/swe-bench-pro), September 19, 2025. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- OpenAI, [Predicting model behavior before release by simulating deployment](https://openai.com/index/deployment-simulation/). Reviewed September 1, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/foundations/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/foundations/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..463b148 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/foundations/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +# Foundations + +* [Accessibility and inclusive interaction](accessibility.md) - Cross-platform accessibility and inclusive interaction requirements. +* [Evidence and claims](evidence.md) - Requires decisions and completion claims to match the strength and limits of available evidence. +* [Safe and reversible change](safe-change.md) - Scales rollout, observability, and recovery controls to the risk of a change. +* [User trust](user-trust.md) - Protects informed user choice from concealment, coercion, and manufactured urgency. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/foundations/safe-change.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/foundations/safe-change.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..36ef86b --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/foundations/safe-change.md @@ -0,0 +1,245 @@ +--- +id: FND-CHANGE +title: Safe and reversible change +description: Scales rollout, observability, and recovery controls to the risk of a change. +type: foundation +status: stable +governance_status: active +owners: [engineering] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [database-change, product-feature, deployment, growth-experiment] +tags: [reversibility, rollout, reliability] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T19:35:12Z" } +sources: + - id: google-sre-canary + resource: https://sre.google/workbook/canarying-releases/ + title: Canarying Releases + author: organization:google + - id: nist-sp-800-53 + resource: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/final + title: Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations + author: organization:nist + - id: anthropic-effective-agents + resource: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents + title: Building effective agents + author: organization:anthropic + - id: slack-deploy-safety + resource: https://slack.engineering/deploy-safety/ + title: Deploy Safety - Reducing customer impact from change + author: organization:slack +--- + +# Safe and reversible change + +The risk of a change must determine its release boundaries, observability, stop conditions, and recovery plan. This foundation applies to code, configuration, data, infrastructure, product behavior, and operational procedures. + +## Rules + +### FND-CHANGE-001 — Identify the failure boundary + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A change can affect production users, data, security, revenue, availability, or external integrations. + +Document what can fail, the maximum plausible impact, affected dependencies and populations, and how operators will detect the failure. + +**Why:** A rollout cannot be sized or monitored responsibly when its plausible impact is unknown. + +**Verify:** + +- Review a failure analysis that names the affected system, users or data, duration, and downstream effects. +- Confirm each material failure mode has a detection signal and owner. + +**Exceptions:** Trivial, local, and fully reversible changes can use a short risk note rather than a formal analysis. + +### FND-CHANGE-002 — Define recovery before release + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A change is not trivially reversible or can create durable side effects. + +Define rollback, roll-forward, restoration, compensation, or containment steps before release. Include the trigger, authority, dependencies, expected duration, and any data or external effects that reversal cannot undo. + +**Why:** Recovery plans written during an incident are slower and often assume that state can be restored by reverting code alone. + +**Verify:** + +- Walk through the recovery procedure against the planned release sequence. +- Confirm required artifacts, access, backups, and owners will be available during the change window. + +**Exceptions:** None when irreversible user, financial, security, or data impact is plausible. + +### FND-CHANGE-003 — Limit blast radius + +**Level:** recommended +**Applies when:** Partial rollout, feature flags, canaries, dry runs, shadow traffic, or bounded batches are feasible. + +Expose the smallest representative population that can produce useful evidence, observe it for a defined period, and expand only after its acceptance criteria pass. + +**Why:** A bounded release reveals production-only failures while limiting the number of users, records, or systems affected. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the initial scope, expansion stages, observation periods, and promotion criteria. +- Confirm the control mechanism can stop further exposure. + +**Exceptions:** A global atomic change can proceed when partial exposure is technically impossible and compensating controls are documented. + +### FND-CHANGE-004 — Preserve observability through the transition + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A change modifies critical behavior, dependencies, data shape, or a key metric. + +Ensure operators can distinguish old and new behavior, expected transition effects, and actual failures throughout rollout and recovery. + +**Why:** Aggregate metrics can hide a failing release or mistake expected migration work for an incident. + +**Verify:** + +- Demonstrate version, cohort, tenant, batch, or migration-stage segmentation where needed. +- Confirm dashboards, logs, traces, and alerts remain available during the likely failure mode. + +**Exceptions:** None for changes whose failure cannot otherwise be detected before material harm. + +### FND-CHANGE-005 — Set stop and promotion conditions + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A change is released in stages or requires an operator decision. + +Define measurable conditions to continue, pause, roll back, or escalate, plus the person or automated control authorized to act. + +**Why:** Ambiguous criteria encourage teams to continue a rollout despite warning signals or to halt on harmless noise. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the release record with the declared thresholds and decision owner. +- Confirm the signals update quickly enough for the size and pace of the rollout. + +**Exceptions:** None for staged production releases. + +### FND-CHANGE-006 — Rehearse high-risk operations + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Recovery is complex, time-sensitive, rarely performed, or depends on manual coordination. + +Exercise the release and recovery path in the closest safe environment available. Record differences from production and resolve failures that would prevent recovery. + +**Why:** A written command sequence does not prove that permissions, dependencies, timing, and restoration steps work together. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the rehearsal record, outputs, elapsed time, and deviations. +- Confirm unresolved deviations are accepted by the accountable owner before release. + +**Exceptions:** If rehearsal could itself cause unacceptable risk, perform a tabletop walkthrough and record the limitation. + +### FND-CHANGE-007 — Authorize and record production changes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A change affects production behavior, data, access, infrastructure, security controls, or external integrations. + +Record the requested outcome, affected components, implementation and recovery plan, accountable approver, operator, timing, and resulting state. Separate authorization from execution when organizational policy or risk requires it. + +**Why:** Unrecorded or self-authorized high-impact changes weaken accountability, incident diagnosis, and the ability to distinguish intended state from unauthorized drift. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace the deployed change to an approved record and immutable artifact or configuration version. +- Confirm the acting identity, time, scope, and result are available to the appropriate audit process. + +**Exceptions:** Emergency changes can use an expedited path when the authorized incident role, reason, actions, and retrospective approval are recorded. + +### FND-CHANGE-008 — Validate and close the change + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A production change, migration, rollout, or recovery action finishes or stops. + +Confirm the intended state, material user and system outcomes, monitoring health, and removal of temporary access or controls. Record whether the change completed, paused, rolled back, or left follow-up work. + +**Why:** A deployment command can finish while the system remains partially migrated, degraded, or dependent on temporary controls. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare post-change behavior and configuration with the approved outcome and baseline. +- Confirm temporary privileges, bypasses, flags, and maintenance states were removed or assigned an owner and deadline. +- Record unexpected effects and the decision to accept, correct, or reverse them. + +**Exceptions:** Long-running transitions can remain open when their current stage, monitoring, owner, and next decision point are explicit. + +### FND-CHANGE-009 — Bound autonomous change + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An automated or model-driven system can choose, repeat, or sequence changes without synchronous human direction. + +Set explicit limits for scope, targets, privileges, time, steps, retries, concurrency, cost, and durable side effects. Define no-progress, uncertainty, policy-conflict, and risk triggers that stop or escalate the run. Require authoritative post-action checks before further expansion and preserve an operator stop control that remains available during likely failures. + +**Why:** Small per-step error rates can compound across long autonomous runs, and an agent can continue making plausible but harmful progress after its assumptions fail. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise each limit, stop trigger, unavailable approver, contradictory state, repeated failure, loop, and operator interruption. +- Confirm the acting identity cannot expand its own authority or bypass a stop through another route. +- Reconcile final state and side effects before resuming an interrupted run. + +**Exceptions:** A read-only bounded analysis can use lighter controls when resource use and data disclosure remain limited and observable. + +### FND-CHANGE-010 — Govern every production change path + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A system can change production through more than one deployer, pipeline, configuration service, flag system, migration tool, scheduler, control plane, or manual route. + +Inventory every effective production change path and apply a common minimum contract for identity, review or authorization, artifact or input provenance, staged exposure where applicable, health evaluation, stop and recovery, audit evidence, and final-state verification. Measure control adoption, bypasses, change-attributed incidents, time and exposure before detection, and time to mitigation by path. Do not report one well-governed pipeline as deployment safety when other active routes can bypass it. + +**Why:** Reliability programs fail at portfolio boundaries when unmeasured configuration, data, infrastructure, or legacy paths retain weaker controls than the primary code pipeline. + +**Verify:** + +- Reconcile the change-path inventory with production identities, audit logs, schedulers, deployment systems, administrative tools, and incident records. +- Exercise detection, pause, rollback or containment, and operator recovery for each material path. +- Sample production changes and confirm each used the declared path and retained the common contract evidence. +- Review exceptions, bypasses, and incident attribution until every material route is governed or explicitly blocked. + +**Exceptions:** An emergency path may use fewer pre-change steps only when its authority, use, telemetry, containment, retrospective review, and closure are governed and regularly exercised. + +## Operational coverage + +Choose a change route before execution and bind its stop, recovery, and closure evidence to the exact revision and environment. + +| Change route | Required preconditions | Failure exercise | Closure evidence | +|---|---|---|---| +| Application or configuration rollout | Compatibility window, bounded cohort, health signals, owner, and rollback or forward-fix decision | Bad configuration, dependency failure, partial rollout, and rollback signal failure | Final version distribution, health comparison, rollback readiness, and temporary-control removal | +| Data or schema migration | Invariants, mixed-version behavior, backup and restore evidence, reconciliation query, and write-path ownership | Interrupted backfill, duplicate work, old binary, lock contention, and rollback with new writes present | Row and semantic reconciliation, old-path retirement, backup disposition, and migration owner sign-off | +| Infrastructure or regional change | Capacity model, blast-radius boundary, dependency map, access, failover route, and vendor assumptions | Region or zone loss, capacity exhaustion, control-plane loss, and observability degradation | Capacity and error-budget state, failover restoration, drift check, and emergency-access review | +| Security or access change | Threat or exposure statement, effective-policy inspection, break-glass path, and revocation plan | Lockout, excessive privilege, stale credential, compromised operator, and audit-log loss | Effective authorization, revoked legacy paths, credential rotation, and reviewed access evidence | +| Autonomous or scheduled change | Explicit authority, input bounds, budget, dry run, idempotency, stop signal, and human escalation | Repeated trigger, stale input, partial external effect, unavailable approver, and runaway cost | Action ledger, final external state, budget result, disabled temporary authority, and exception disposition | + +A successful command or deployment event is not closure. Closure requires the intended final state, user and system health, reconciled side effects, and removal of temporary authority. + +## Guidance + +Scale controls to both likelihood and impact. A rare failure that can delete durable data deserves stronger recovery evidence than a frequent but harmless visual defect. + +Prefer controls that remain usable during the failure they address. A rollback dashboard hosted only on the failing service is not a recovery path. Feature flags reduce exposure only when their dependencies, default state, ownership, and cleanup are understood. + +Keep rollout stages long enough to observe the relevant signal. A five-minute canary cannot evaluate a daily job. Conversely, do not delay a harmless rollback while waiting for a slow business metric when an immediate technical failure is already clear. + +## Examples + +### Bounded release + +Non-compliant: “Deploy to production and monitor errors.” + +Compliant: “Release to one internal tenant for 30 minutes. Continue to 5% only if error rate and p95 latency remain within the stated bounds. Pause automatically on data-integrity alerts. The on-call engineer can disable the flag without a deploy.” + +### Recovery + +Non-compliant: “Rollback: revert the commit.” + +Compliant: “Disable new writes, redeploy the compatible application version, replay the captured events, compare row counts and checksums, then reopen writes. Reverting code does not undo records already transformed.” + +## Sources + +- Google, [Canarying Releases](https://sre.google/workbook/canarying-releases/), Site Reliability Engineering Workbook. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/final), SP 800-53 Revision 5. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Anthropic, [Building effective agents](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents), December 19, 2024. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Slack, [Deploy Safety: Reducing customer impact from change](https://slack.engineering/deploy-safety/). Reviewed September 1, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/foundations/user-trust.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/foundations/user-trust.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..53fc162 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/foundations/user-trust.md @@ -0,0 +1,238 @@ +--- +id: FND-TRUST +title: User trust +description: Protects informed user choice from concealment, coercion, and manufactured urgency. +type: foundation +status: stable +governance_status: active +owners: [product] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [product-feature, growth-experiment, public-web-page, lifecycle-message, functional-writing] +tags: [trust, consent, dark-patterns] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T19:35:12Z" } +sources: + - id: w3c-ethical-web + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/ + title: Ethical Web Principles + author: organization:w3c + - id: w3c-design-principles + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/design-principles/ + title: Web Platform Design Principles + author: organization:w3c + - id: w3c-privacy-principles + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/ + title: Privacy Principles + author: organization:w3c + - id: ftc-dark-patterns + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/09/ftc-report-shows-rise-sophisticated-dark-patterns-designed-trick-trap-consumers + title: FTC report shows rise in sophisticated dark patterns designed to trick and trap consumers + author: organization:ftc + - id: anthropic-trustworthy-agents + resource: https://www.anthropic.com/research/trustworthy-agents + title: Trustworthy agents in practice + author: organization:anthropic + - id: openai-agent-safety + resource: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agent-builder-safety + title: Safety in building agents + author: organization:openai +--- + +# User trust + +Products and communications must help people make informed choices without concealment, coercion, manufactured urgency, or avoidable lock-in. + +## Rules + +### FND-TRUST-001 — Represent consequences before commitment + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An action charges money, publishes information, deletes data, changes access, starts a recurring obligation, or is difficult to reverse. + +Explain the material consequence before the user commits. Place the explanation at the decision point and state price, recurrence, audience, data impact, or irreversibility in concrete terms. + +**Why:** Information shown after commitment cannot support informed consent. + +**Verify:** + +- Review the final interaction from the user's perspective. +- Confirm the consequence is visible before confirmation without requiring unrelated navigation or fine-print interpretation. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +### FND-TRUST-002 — Preserve meaningful choice + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Requesting consent, enrollment, tracking, upgrades, permissions, or communication preferences. + +Make acceptance and refusal understandable and similarly accessible. Do not make refusal misleading, punitive, preselected where active consent is required, or needlessly difficult. + +**Why:** A nominal choice is not meaningful when one option is hidden, confusing, or burdened with unrelated friction. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the language, visual prominence, steps, and consequences of accepting and refusing. +- Confirm a refusal is honored across every path that accesses the same capability or data. + +**Exceptions:** A dangerous or unsupported state can require an extra warning when the warning is factual and proportionate. + +### FND-TRUST-003 — Do not fabricate proof or urgency + +**Level:** prohibited +**Applies when:** Showing scarcity, countdowns, testimonials, activity, popularity, endorsements, or demand. + +Do not invent, exaggerate, or present stale evidence as current. Do not imply a time, inventory, or social constraint that does not exist. + +**Why:** Manufactured pressure distorts decisions and makes factual claims the product cannot substantiate. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace each claim to current evidence and its display logic. +- Confirm the claim expires or updates when its supporting condition changes. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +### FND-TRUST-004 — Optimize with user guardrails + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Optimizing conversion, engagement, retention, or revenue. + +Evaluate user harm and downstream outcomes alongside the target metric. At minimum consider complaints, cancellations, refunds, reversals, accessibility, comprehension, and long-term retention where relevant. + +**Why:** A local metric can improve by shifting cost, confusion, or harm to another part of the user journey. + +**Verify:** + +- Review the metric definition and decision record for user-centered guardrails. +- Confirm a breached guardrail receives explicit review rather than being hidden by the primary result. + +**Exceptions:** Inapplicable guardrails can be omitted when the reason is recorded. + +### FND-TRUST-005 — Make defaults and framing honest + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Setting a default, ordering choices, recommending an option, or describing an alternative. + +Choose and explain defaults according to the user's likely intent and material interests. State relevant costs and tradeoffs consistently across options. + +**Why:** Defaults and framing influence decisions even when every option remains technically available. + +**Verify:** + +- Confirm the default has a documented user-centered rationale. +- Compare option labels and descriptions for asymmetric omissions, emotionally loaded wording, or false equivalence. + +**Exceptions:** A legal or safety requirement can determine the default; identify the governing requirement. + +### FND-TRUST-006 — Provide a practical exit or reversal + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A user can subscribe, enroll, grant access, publish, connect data, or begin a recurring relationship. + +Provide a discoverable way to stop, revoke, export, undo, or leave that is proportionate to the way the user entered. Explain effects that cannot be reversed. + +**Why:** Consent loses value when users cannot later withdraw it or understand what withdrawal changes. + +**Verify:** + +- Complete the exit or reversal flow using an ordinary account. +- Confirm retained data, remaining charges, access changes, and timing are stated before final confirmation. + +**Exceptions:** Identity or security checks can protect a high-impact exit, but must not add unrelated retention friction. + +### FND-TRUST-007 — Do not disguise commercial content or material terms + +**Level:** prohibited +**Applies when:** Presenting prices, fees, subscriptions, advertisements, endorsements, rankings, comparisons, or sponsored content. + +Do not hide mandatory costs or renewal terms, make advertisements resemble independent content, imply a neutral ranking when placement is paid, or use visual hierarchy to obscure a material alternative or term. + +**Why:** Users cannot make an informed decision when the interface conceals who benefits, what the total obligation is, or why an option is presented. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace the displayed price through checkout and confirm all unavoidable charges and recurrence are disclosed before commitment. +- Inspect advertising, sponsorship, affiliate, ranking, and comparison surfaces for clear provenance and selection criteria. +- Compare prominence and wording of material terms and alternatives at the decision point. + +**Exceptions:** Taxes or usage-dependent charges that cannot be known in advance must be explained with the calculation basis and shown as soon as the required inputs are available. + +### FND-TRUST-008 — Identify automated judgment and its limits + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A model or agent generates consequential information, recommendations, decisions, communications, or actions that a person could reasonably mistake for verified human work. + +Make the automated role, material limits, source basis, and responsible human or organization clear at the point where they affect trust or action. Do not imply that an agent observed, verified, understood, approved, or completed more than the evidence shows. + +**Why:** People cannot calibrate reliance or seek review when automated output is presented as authoritative human judgment. + +**Verify:** + +- Review the final interaction for who or what produced the result, what evidence it used, and who remains accountable. +- Confirm uncertainty, unavailable evidence, and unperformed actions appear next to the affected claim. +- Test whether a reasonable user can distinguish a draft, recommendation, simulated action, pending action, and completed action. + +**Exceptions:** Routine low-risk automation need not announce every mechanical step when the product context already makes automation clear and no material judgment is implied. + +### FND-TRUST-009 — Preserve control over delegated actions + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A system proposes or performs actions on a person's behalf. + +Let the person see and change the objective, important assumptions, scope, recipients, data, and material consequences before a high-impact or hard-to-reverse action. Provide practical pause, cancel, correction, escalation, and recovery paths, and do not turn silence or delayed response into permission for expanded action. + +**Why:** Delegation is not informed when the system can silently broaden the task or commit consequences the person did not review. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise review, edit, approve, deny, pause, cancel, timeout, partial completion, and recovery states. +- Confirm approval binds the exact action and expires or reopens when target, data, cost, or consequence changes. +- Verify denied or unanswered requests do not proceed through a different tool or fallback. + +**Exceptions:** A pre-authorized, low-impact recurring action can proceed within a visible scope, limit, duration, and revocation control. + +## Operational coverage + +Review trust at the point where a person forms an expectation, makes a choice, commits money or data, delegates authority, receives an automated judgment, and exits. Test the complete path, not only the disclosure text. + +| Route | Required scenarios | Evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Choice and consent | Accept, decline, defer, revisit, withdraw, and continue with the least invasive available option | Rendered states, comprehension findings, effective preference state, downstream propagation, and withdrawal result | +| Commercial commitment | Initial price, total price, renewal, cancellation, refund, scarcity, comparison, and unavailable offer | Claim substantiation, final transaction path, billing record, cancellation exercise, and correction or refund procedure | +| Automated judgment | Typical, edge, low-confidence, disputed, appealed, and human-review cases | Model or rule version, inputs and limitations, explanation shown, outcome distribution, appeal result, and accountable owner | +| Delegated action | Preview, approval, bounded execution, partial failure, revocation, retry, and recovery | Authority grant, action trace, confirmation, side effects, stop result, and restored state | +| Vulnerable or high-impact context | Stress, disability, language difference, urgency, power imbalance, and material consequence | Representative research, harm analysis, qualified review, safeguards, and approved residual risk | + +Absence of complaints is not proof of informed choice or comprehension. Evidence must show what people saw, what they reasonably understood, what the system did, and how they could recover. + +## Guidance + +Evaluate the whole journey, not one screen. A clear button does not repair a misleading acquisition claim, a hidden recurring charge, or a cancellation path that requires a different channel. + +Use neutral, concrete language. State “Continue with the free plan” rather than “No, I do not want to grow.” Give the same care to decline, later, and close paths as to the preferred conversion path. + +When business and user interests differ, record the tradeoff and decision owner. Do not disguise the conflict as a writing or layout choice. + +## Examples + +### Recurring purchase + +Non-compliant: “Start free trial” with the renewal price visible only after confirmation. + +Compliant: “Start 14-day free trial. Then $20 per month until canceled.” The price and recurrence appear next to the confirmation control. + +### Consent + +Non-compliant: A prominent “Accept all” button and a low-contrast link that opens several additional screens to refuse. + +Compliant: “Accept all” and “Reject nonessential” are available at the same decision point, and both choices take effect immediately. + +## Sources + +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Ethical Web Principles](https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/), December 12, 2024. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Web Platform Design Principles](https://www.w3.org/TR/design-principles/), February 24, 2026. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Privacy Principles](https://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/), May 15, 2025. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Federal Trade Commission, [FTC report shows rise in sophisticated dark patterns designed to trick and trap consumers](https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/09/ftc-report-shows-rise-sophisticated-dark-patterns-designed-trick-trap-consumers), September 15, 2022. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Anthropic, [Trustworthy agents in practice](https://www.anthropic.com/research/trustworthy-agents). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- OpenAI, [Safety in building agents](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agent-builder-safety). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/agent-review-2026-08-13.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/agent-review-2026-08-13.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b912d64 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/agent-review-2026-08-13.md @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +--- +type: Review Record +title: Agent review — full catalog snapshot +description: Source, structure, routing, and policy-scope review of the complete cataloged standards library on August 13, 2026. +tags: [governance, review, agent, evidence] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T23:58:00Z" } +--- + +# Agent review — full catalog snapshot + +## Outcome + +Agent review is complete for the working-tree snapshot dated August 13, 2026. No unresolved structural, reference, routing, source-parity, or agent-detectable policy-scope finding remains in this snapshot. This record is review evidence, not independent `verified` provenance and not qualified legal, privacy, security, accessibility, financial, or platform approval. + +The author and reviewer are the same actor, `codex/gpt-5`. Accordingly, no document status or `verified` field was changed. Independent reviewers must inspect the final committed revision and record their own approval before activation or release. + +## Scope + +The review covered every cataloged document: + +| Area | Documents reviewed | +|---|---| +| Governance | `governance/authority.md`, `governance/contributing.md`, `governance/exceptions.md`, `governance/v1-readiness.md` | +| Foundations | `FND-ACCESSIBILITY`, `FND-EVIDENCE`, `FND-TRUST`, `FND-CHANGE` | +| Core engineering and data | `API-CONTRACTS`, `ENGINEERING-QUALITY`, `DATA-DATABASE`, `DATA-QUALITY`, `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY`, `SECURITY-APPLICATION` | +| Product, design, and content | `PRODUCT-DELIVERY`, `DESIGN-INTERACTION`, `CONTENT-INTERFACE`, `CONTENT-ERRORS`, `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL`, `FND-ACCESSIBILITY` | +| Web, analytics, and growth | `WEB-QUALITY`, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS`, `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT`, `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS`, `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE` | +| AI and verification | `AI-AGENTS`, `AGENT-VERIFICATION` | +| Privacy | `PRIVACY-DATA` | +| Specialist extensions | `MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA`, `MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH`, `MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT`, `MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION`, `SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS`, `DISCOVERY-APP-STORES`, `MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS` | +| Playbooks | `PLAYBOOK-APPLE-HIG`, `PLAYBOOK-GA4`, `PLAYBOOK-GSC` | +| Profiles | `PROFILE-APPLE-INTERFACE`, `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM`, `PROFILE-DATABASE-CHANGE`, `PROFILE-PRODUCT-FEATURE`, `PROFILE-GROWTH-EXPERIMENT`, `PROFILE-MARKETING-LIFECYCLE`, `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE`, `PROFILE-RELIABILITY-INCIDENT`, `PROFILE-SERVICE-API`, `PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING`, `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE`, `PROFILE-FUNCTIONAL-WRITING` | + +## Checks performed + +- Read each governed document for applicability, requirement levels, evidence, exceptions, examples, dependencies, vendor scope, and lifecycle claims. +- Compared profile explanations with machine-readable dependencies and checked conditional routes for the task surfaces they name. +- Checked that legal and platform-specific material states its jurisdiction or vendor boundary and calls for qualified review when applicability varies. +- Compared front-matter source records with rendered source lists and the source register. +- Requested all 129 distinct source URLs on August 13, 2026. Of these, 118 returned `200`; 11 returned `403` to automated requests. The blocked set consists of FTC pages, one SEC page, and the previously documented Wix UX article. A `403` confirms neither source content nor current support, so these claims were checked through current search indexing or companion primary sources where available and retain an explicit access limitation. +- Ran the ordinary catalog validator after the review changes. It covered OKF shape, IDs, rule sections, references, source parity, dependency parity, lifecycle metadata, and source-register completeness. + +## Findings and resolutions + +| Finding | Resolution | State | +|---|---|---| +| The coverage map still described seven specialist categories as unimplemented. | Added seven governed extension standards and replaced queue labels with exact routes. | Resolved | +| Core lifecycle work had no route for specialist channels. | Added `PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING` and linked it from marketing, web, writing, product, and Apple profiles. | Resolved | +| Advertising, outreach, promotions, app stores, and rights rules could be mistaken for universal law or policy. | Kept the standards vendor-neutral where possible, named platform or jurisdiction boundaries, and required current qualified review for variable duties. | Resolved | +| New external sources lacked owner and freshness controls. | Added all seven source sets to `source-register.yaml` with owners, volatility, and next-review dates. | Resolved | +| Automated access cannot inspect eleven cited pages. | Recorded the response limitation here; retained existing explicit Wix limitation and did not treat access status as content verification. | Limitation recorded | +| Cataloged post-v1 drafts would block an otherwise approved v1 release. | Added explicit `release_target: post-v1` metadata and scoped release validation to `catalog.yaml`'s current target. | Resolved | + +## Human review still required + +- A non-author standards reviewer must inspect the final revision of every document and record `verified` provenance. +- Qualified AI, security, privacy, accessibility, marketing/legal, sales/finance, copyright/media, and Apple/Google platform owners must approve their applicable material. +- Reviewers must resolve or explicitly except any findings they raise and bind approval to the exact committed revision. +- The representative walkthroughs need domain-owner sign-off and real project evidence where the readiness record calls for it. + +Until those steps finish, draft documents remain drafts, the release gate remains blocked, and this agent review must not be represented as independent verification. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/authority.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/authority.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4be21ba --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/authority.md @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +--- +type: Governance +title: Authority and requirement levels +description: Defines requirement strength, precedence, conflict handling, and freshness semantics. +tags: [governance, authority, requirements] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T21:00:00Z" } +--- + +# Authority and requirement levels + +Standards are binding according to their rule-level labels, not according to how strongly the prose happens to be worded. + +## Requirement levels + +| Level | Meaning | Agent behavior | +|---|---|---| +| `required` | A release or decision gate | Block completion or record an approved exception | +| `recommended` | The default approach | Follow it or state a concrete, context-specific reason for deviating | +| `contextual` | Binding when its stated condition is true | Determine and record whether the condition applies | +| `optional` | A useful enhancement | Consider it without implying it is required | +| `avoid` | Usually harmful | Do not use without a documented justification | +| `prohibited` | Unacceptable | Do not proceed; an ordinary exception cannot authorize it | + +The RFC-style words MUST, SHOULD, and MAY may appear in source material, but library documents use the levels above. + +## Rule construction + +An enforceable rule contains: + +- A stable ID +- One independently testable requirement +- The conditions under which it applies +- A reason tied to user, business, security, or operational risk +- Verification evidence an agent can inspect +- Exceptions or escalation instructions where appropriate + +Broad advice belongs in explanatory guidance, not in a `required` rule. + +## Profile composition + +A profile's front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable set of standards that always apply. Its **Required standards** section must contain the same IDs and explains why they apply. + +When more than one profile applies, combine their required standards. Conditional routes are additive: activate every route whose condition is true. The task is complete only when it satisfies the completion evidence from every active profile and standard. If two active rules conflict, use the conflict process below. + +A conditional route must name a governed ID. If this library has no applicable standard, the route must state the gap, name the role that must decide, and require the governing external policy or decision to be recorded. + +## Conflicts + +Use the precedence in `AGENTS.md`. When two repository rules at the same level conflict, prefer the more specific rule and report the conflict to the library owner. Do not quietly choose the easier rule. + +## Freshness + +The `last_reviewed` date means the content was intentionally assessed on that date; it does not guarantee that a volatile external fact remains current. Revalidate claims involving laws, platform behavior, vendor limits, browser support, search engines, or active threats before relying on them. + +## Verification and document maturity + +`generated` identifies who created or materially changed an artifact. It is not approval. `verified` records an independent reviewer who checked the exact artifact and its material evidence. High-impact security, legal, privacy, financial, accessibility, or regulatory content requires a qualified human reviewer before it is treated as approved for that domain. + +The library version identifies the public contract for its structure and stable IDs. It does not certify every document. Draft status, review metadata, and unresolved evidence remain visible after a library release. The `--release` check confirms that the catalog is marked ready and the README is a release entry point. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/contributing.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/contributing.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b4e476 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/contributing.md @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +--- +type: Playbook +title: Contributing standards +description: Acceptance, writing, and review requirements for maintaining the standards library. +tags: [governance, contribution, review] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T21:00:00Z" } +--- + +# Contributing standards + +Only update this repository when explicitly assigned a standards-maintenance task. + +## Acceptance criteria + +A new or materially changed standard must: + +- Address a recurring decision or material risk. +- Separate mandatory rules from explanatory guidance. +- Use stable, unique rule IDs. +- Define applicability and verification evidence. +- Cite primary sources for external factual claims where practical. +- Avoid vendor-specific prescriptions unless the vendor is intentionally part of the policy. +- State important tradeoffs and exceptions. +- Include at least one realistic example for rules that are easy to misinterpret. +- Add or update relevant task profiles. +- Update `catalog.yaml`. +- Preserve unknown OKF front-matter fields when reading and writing documents. +- Record `generated` after a meaningful content change; record `verified` only after an independent source or resource check. +- Mark a document `stable` only when its requirements are settled. Use document status and `verified` metadata to report maturity; neither field controls the library's version number. +- Register external source-set ownership and freshness in `source-register.yaml`. +- Set `release_target` when a governed document is intentionally outside the catalog's current target release; omission means the current target. + +## Writing style + +- Write for a capable agent or practitioner encountering the situation mid-task. +- State the outcome first, followed by rationale and implementation detail. +- Prefer measurable thresholds only when evidence supports them. +- Do not convert personal preference into policy. +- Do not use “best practice” as its own justification. +- Describe risks without pretending all projects have the same scale or threat model. + +## Review + +Review changes for technical correctness, operational feasibility, unintended incentives, and conflicts with existing rules. High-impact security, legal, privacy, financial, or regulatory standards require a qualified human owner. + +The author and verifier must be different actors. An agent may prepare review evidence and proposed findings but may not record a human verification event or qualified approval. Run every check listed in `CONTRIBUTING.md` for each change: the catalog, integration, and testing-reference validators; their behaviour suites; the shared library tests; and the schema drift check. Before a versioned release, also run `ruby scripts/validate_catalog.rb --release`; this confirms that the catalog is marked ready and has a public release entry point. + +`schema/standard.schema.json` and `schema/integration-capability.schema.json` are applied to real documents by the validators, not merely parsed. `scripts/test_schema_drift.rb` fails when a schema and its handwritten validator stop agreeing, so update both together. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/documentation-quality.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/documentation-quality.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5de59fd --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/documentation-quality.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +type: Guide +title: Documentation accessibility and reader review +description: Accessibility target, supported environments, and review evidence for repository-controlled documentation. +tags: [documentation, accessibility, review, evidence] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T17:22:48Z" } +--- + +# Documentation accessibility and reader review + +This policy applies to Markdown and other public writing controlled by this repository. GitHub owns the rendered site and interface. Repository maintainers own the source structure, wording, text alternatives, link purpose, and any embedded media or tables. + +## Accessibility target + +Repository-controlled content targets WCAG 2.2 Level AA. The supported reading environments are the GitHub web interface and plain Markdown source in the current stable releases of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on desktop, plus a narrow mobile viewport. Supported input and access methods are keyboard, pointer, touch where GitHub exposes it, browser zoom through 400%, increased text spacing, high-contrast settings, and VoiceOver on macOS or iOS. + +The intended audience includes practitioners and agents who may be unfamiliar with the library. Reviews must include readers near the least-informed intended audience. A qualified accessibility reviewer owns conformance decisions. Repository maintainers own corrections to repository-controlled content. + +This target is a test scope, not a conformance claim. GitHub behavior outside repository-controlled content is an external dependency and must be recorded as a limitation when it affects a material task. + +## Author checks + +Before requesting review: + +- Use a logical heading order and descriptive link text. +- Give informative images a text alternative and mark decorative images accordingly. +- Give tables header cells and keep their meaning understandable in linear reading order. +- Do not use color, position, or formatting as the only carrier of meaning. +- Keep instructions usable without a pointer and avoid instructions that depend only on visual location. +- Check the changed page at 400% zoom or an equivalent narrow reflow width. +- Check the source and rendered page for clipped text, unreadable tables, broken links, and lost context. + +## Acceptance evidence + +For a material public-documentation change, record: + +- the exact revision and pages reviewed; +- browsers, viewport, input methods, zoom or text-spacing settings, and assistive technology used; +- keyboard reading and navigation results; +- screen-reader reading order, headings, links, tables, and text-alternative results; +- automated findings and the manual decision for each material result; +- reader tasks, observed misunderstandings, changes, and any retest; +- external platform limits, residual risk, reviewer identity, role, and approval scope. + +Use the [comprehension review](../templates/comprehension-review.md) and [independent review](../templates/independent-review.md) templates. Do not mark accessibility or comprehension checks complete from author review alone. + diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/engineering-publications-review-2026-09-01.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/engineering-publications-review-2026-09-01.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f8eaf58 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/engineering-publications-review-2026-09-01.md @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +--- +type: Review Record +title: Engineering publications depth review +description: Source-driven comparison of Raintree standards with first-party engineering publications from mature software organizations. +tags: [governance, engineering, research, reliability, delivery, data, agents] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T16:40:00-07:00" } +--- + +# Engineering publications depth review + +## Outcome + +Raintree already covered most widely repeated engineering practices in the reviewed publications. The material gaps were not additional slogans such as “use canaries” or “automate testing.” They were portfolio and validity controls: govern every production change path, keep overload from amplifying itself, isolate critical journeys from shared fate, measure developer friction with escaped risk, make every migration phase independently safe, validate the evaluation harness against deployment, and connect agent evaluation to production detection and response. + +This review added seven required rules across six standards. It did not copy any company's architecture, numerical threshold, organizational structure, or vendor choice into Raintree policy. + +## Review contract + +| Field | Value | +|---|---| +| Reader | Raintree standards owners and qualified engineering reviewers | +| Decision | Which practices from mature engineering organizations expose a recurring, testable gap in the Raintree standards library? | +| Evidence cutoff | September 1, 2026 | +| Included | First-party publications and official guidance from Amazon Web Services, Google, Slack, GitHub, Uber, Stripe, Cloudflare, Netflix, Spotify, Anthropic, and OpenAI | +| Excluded | Popularity rankings, employer prestige, unsourced summaries, vendor promotion without a reusable operating claim, and untraceable claims | +| Method | Compare each sourced practice with exact existing rules; add a requirement only when a consequential decision, failure mode, or evidence class remained implicit | +| Approval boundary | Author research and structural verification only; no independent or qualified approval | + +“Best engineering blogs” is not an objective category. This review selected organizations with public, first-party accounts of operating consequential systems at scale, concrete failure or migration detail, and practices that can be evaluated outside the originating company. A publication is evidence of that organization's reported practice, not proof that its design is universally optimal. + +## Gap matrix + +| Claim family | Primary evidence | Existing coverage | Decision | Resulting rule | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| Production change safety must cover every effective deploy and configuration route | Slack describes a program spanning varied deployment systems, with portfolio goals for detection, remediation, exposure, and velocity | `FND-CHANGE` governed individual rollout and recovery but not a reconciled inventory of every path | Confirmed gap | `FND-CHANGE-010` | +| Reliability under overload requires admission control, bounded queues, owned retry layers, recovery capacity, and stable backlog drain | AWS documents bounded retries, jitter, fail-fast behavior, queue limits, and overload recovery | Controls existed across API and Redis standards but not as one general service contract | Confirmed gap | `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-010` | +| Critical journeys need shared-fate analysis and isolation from optional or noisy workloads | AWS describes bulkheads and cells; Uber separated core from optional rider functionality | Raintree bounded components and blast radius but did not classify critical and degradable behavior across hidden shared resources | Confirmed gap | `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-011` | +| Developer workflow changes must measure human friction, compute cost, and quality together; deferred checks need owned closure | GitHub measured CI wait and compute cost, then deferred checks that did not need to block one release path | Test selection covered miss risk and suite economics, but broader workflow and deferred-compliance controls were implicit | Confirmed gap | `ENGINEERING-QUALITY-009` | +| Online migrations need an explicit source of truth and safety evidence for every intermediate phase | Stripe describes phased dual writing, incremental changes, continuous comparison, and old-store retirement | Expand–migrate–contract and reconciliation existed, but phase-by-phase authority did not | Confirmed gap | `DATA-DATABASE-013` | +| Evaluation validity depends on the full harness, realistic tools and state, control tasks, and deployment resemblance | Anthropic separates task, trial, grader, trajectory, outcome, and harness; OpenAI reports deployment-like simulation reducing evaluation artifacts | Representativeness, contamination, graders, trials, and final state existed without explicit harness-to-deployment validation | Confirmed gap | `FND-EVIDENCE-011` | +| Production agent quality needs monitoring coverage, response objectives, and a governed incident-to-regression loop | OpenAI reports continuous evals and coding-agent monitoring; Anthropic recommends combining offline evals, monitoring, feedback, and human review | Agent evals, red teams, observability, and limits existed but were not bound to production response | Confirmed gap | `AI-AGENTS-021` | +| Canary comparison needs an attributable control and explicit promotion | Google SRE and Netflix describe controlled canary analysis | Fully covered by `ENGINEERING-TESTING-024` and `FND-CHANGE-003` | No new rule | Existing coverage retained | +| Selective testing must measure misses and preserve protected checks | Meta, Spotify, GitHub, and Uber describe test selection and CI optimization | Covered by `ENGINEERING-TESTING-020` and `ENGINEERING-TESTING-025` | No new rule | Existing coverage retained | +| Backpressure and completion ordering can expose rare transport defects | Cloudflare describes a response-loss race revealed by buffer pressure | Covered by concurrency, interruption, production-shaped testing, and overload rules | Scenario evidence | No new rule | + +## Added requirements + +### Evaluation validity + +`FND-EVIDENCE-011` treats the harness as part of the evaluated system. It requires target-deployment comparison, known-success and known-failure controls, shortcut and broken-task checks, safe comparison of simulated and real trajectories, and revalidation after material system changes. + +### Production change coverage + +`FND-CHANGE-010` requires an inventory of every effective production route: code deployment, infrastructure, configuration, flags, migrations, schedulers, control planes, and manual paths. Each route receives a common minimum contract and portfolio measures for bypass, detection, exposure, mitigation, and incident attribution. + +### Engineering workflow quality + +`ENGINEERING-QUALITY-009` treats developer tooling as a user-facing production system. It joins wait time, active time, retries, interruption, support, and compute cost with escaped defects, incidents, mainline health, and adoption. A slow check can move out of the blocking path only when the later gate has an owner, deadline, escalation, and protection against an affected release where required. + +### Overload stability and shared fate + +`OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-010` governs admission, concurrency, queues, timeouts, retries, connections, memory, and cost as one overload system. It requires critical and recovery capacity, explicit stale-work behavior, and a stable cold-start or backlog-drain exercise. + +`OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-011` classifies critical, degradable, and optional behavior and inspects shared fate across resources that architecture diagrams often hide. The rule does not prescribe microservices, cells, or a particular cloud design. + +### Migration phases + +`DATA-DATABASE-013` makes source-of-truth, readers, writers, comparison, stop, recovery, and contraction criteria explicit for every reachable phase. It requires interruption and divergence tests before old state or compatibility paths are removed. + +### Agent production learning + +`AI-AGENTS-021` connects release evals to production signals, sampling, severity, response time, containment, and rollback. It requires coverage analysis and a privacy- and contamination-controlled process for converting confirmed failures into regression evidence. + +## Practices retained without new rules + +- canary analysis and explicit promotion; +- fault injection and safe shadow traffic; +- compatibility matrices and mixed-version testing; +- idempotency, backoff, retries, and reconciliation at API and integration boundaries; +- test selection, flaky-test ownership, and test lifecycle; +- change-attributed incident learning; +- final-state inspection instead of command-success claims; +- agent trajectory evaluation, grader calibration, prompt-injection testing, and bounded authority. + +## Claim-to-source ledger + +| Source | Publisher | Date | Use | Access note | +|---|---|---:|---|---| +| [Deploy Safety: Reducing customer impact from change](https://slack.engineering/deploy-safety/) | Slack Engineering | 2025 | Portfolio deployment safety, exposure, detection, mitigation, and velocity | Numerical targets remain Slack-specific | +| [Reliability Pillar](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/reliability-pillar/welcome.html) | Amazon Web Services | Current | Retries, queues, overload, recovery, and isolation | Cloud implementation details are not normative | +| [Making GitHub CI workflow 3x faster](https://github.blog/engineering/making-github-ci-workflow-3x-faster/) | GitHub Engineering | 2020; updated 2021 | Developer wait, compute cost, check criticality, and deferred compliance | Reported results are not generalized as Raintree targets | +| [Continuous deployment for large monorepos](https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/continuous-deployment/) | Uber Engineering | 2024 | Pipeline fragmentation, common controls, deployment automation, and observability | First-party case study | +| [New rider app architecture](https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/new-rider-app-architecture/) | Uber Engineering | 2016 | Critical versus optional capability and isolation | Historical account used only for the durable isolation principle | +| [Online migrations at scale](https://stripe.com/blog/online-migrations) | Stripe Engineering | 2017 | Phased migration, comparison, cutover, and retirement | Exact storage implementation is not normative | +| [Robust APIs with idempotency](https://stripe.com/blog/idempotency) | Stripe Engineering | 2017 | Retry responsibility, idempotency, backoff, and final state | Confirmed existing coverage | +| [How we found a bug in the hyper HTTP library](https://blog.cloudflare.com/hyper-bug/) | Cloudflare Engineering | 2026 | Backpressure and shutdown-ordering failures | Scenario, not universal rule | +| [Automated Canary Analysis at Netflix](https://netflixtechblog.com/automated-canary-analysis-at-netflix-with-kayenta-3260bc7acc69) | Netflix Technology Blog | 2018 | Automated canary comparison | Confirmed existing coverage | +| [Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2023/10/switching-build-systems-seamlessly) | Spotify Engineering | 2023 | Parallel comparison for developer infrastructure | Confirmed existing coverage | +| [Demystifying evals for AI agents](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents) | Anthropic Engineering | 2026 | Evaluation components and layered evidence | First-party guidance | +| [Predicting model behavior before release by simulating deployment](https://openai.com/index/deployment-simulation/) | OpenAI | 2026 | Deployment resemblance, evaluation awareness, tool simulation, and fidelity | Findings support validation, not a universal performance guarantee | +| [Inside OpenAI's in-house data agent](https://openai.com/index/inside-our-in-house-data-agent/) | OpenAI | 2026 | Continuous evals and production canaries | First-party internal-system account | +| [How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment](https://openai.com/index/how-we-monitor-internal-coding-agents-misalignment/) | OpenAI | 2026 | Monitoring coverage, severity, triage, and feedback loops | Organization-specific rates were not adopted | + +## Limitations and stopping decision + +The sources report selected systems and successful practices from their publishers. Publication bias, omitted organizational context, and non-public failures limit generalization. This review therefore converts only recurring decision contracts into Raintree rules and leaves implementation choices open. + +Research stopped after the six initial claim families were either supported by primary evidence and converted into seven requirements or shown to be already covered. Further searches were returning variants of canaries, observability, testing layers, retry control, and incident learning that would not materially change the gap decisions. + +## Verification and review status + +- Source review: Author review completed through September 1, 2026. +- Standards mapping: Every accepted claim maps to one new stable rule ID. +- Independent review: Not performed. +- Qualified review: Not performed. +- Operational validation: Not performed against a deployed Raintree system. +- Release effect: No draft standard was promoted and no active standard received new independent provenance. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/exceptions.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/exceptions.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fd967ff --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/exceptions.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +type: Governance +title: Exceptions +description: Required structure and approval boundaries for scoped standards exceptions. +tags: [governance, exceptions, risk] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-10T16:00:00Z" } +--- + +# Exceptions + +Exceptions make constraints explicit; they do not make a rule optional. + +An exception record must contain: + +- The rule ID +- The exact project, system, release, or time window covered +- Why compliance is currently impractical +- The risk introduced +- Compensating controls +- The accountable approver +- An expiration or review date +- The work required to return to compliance + +Agents may propose an exception but may not approve one on a human's behalf. `prohibited` rules require escalation to the policy owner and may not use the ordinary exception process. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0635523 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# Governance + +* [Standards robustness review](standards-robustness-review-2026-09-01.md) - Complete matrix of structural depth, evidence support, routing, maturity, and review gaps across every rule-bearing foundation and standard. +* [Engineering publications depth review](engineering-publications-review-2026-09-01.md) - Source-driven comparison with first-party engineering publications and the seven resulting requirements. + +* [Agent review — August 13, 2026](agent-review-2026-08-13.md) - Full-catalog source, structure, routing, and policy-scope review with explicit independence limits. +* [Authority and requirement levels](authority.md) - Defines requirement strength, precedence, conflict handling, and freshness semantics. +* [Contributing standards](contributing.md) - Acceptance, writing, and review requirements for maintaining the standards library. +* [Documentation accessibility and reader review](documentation-quality.md) - Accessibility target, supported environments, and evidence required for repository-controlled documentation. +* [Exceptions](exceptions.md) - Required structure and approval boundaries for scoped standards exceptions. +* [Version 1.0 readiness](v1-readiness.md) - Release gates, reviewer roles, profile walkthroughs, and unresolved approval blockers. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/standards-robustness-review-2026-09-01.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/standards-robustness-review-2026-09-01.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dbc48c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/standards-robustness-review-2026-09-01.md @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@ +--- +type: Review Record +title: Standards robustness review — full rule-bearing corpus +description: Document-by-document structural, evidence, routing, and maturity review of every Raintree foundation and standard on September 1, 2026. +tags: [governance, standards, audit, robustness, coverage] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T13:07:41-07:00" } +--- + +# Standards robustness review — full rule-bearing corpus + +## Outcome + +All 40 rule-bearing foundations and standards now have extensive operational coverage, but the corpus is not release-ready. The 515 rules retain stable IDs, applicability, rationale, verification, and exceptions. The 23 standards below the extensive band in the initial pass now add domain-specific route tables, boundary and failure scenarios, required evidence, and escalation or ownership boundaries. A later engineering-publications review added seven requirements for evaluation validity, production change coverage, developer workflow evidence, overload, isolation, migration phases, and agent production learning. The dominant remaining weakness is maturity: 29 documents remain draft, none of the 40 records independent `verified` provenance, and high-impact legal, privacy, security, accessibility, financial, marketing, and platform material still needs qualified review. + +This review supports prioritization of standards work. It does not certify the library, validate a deployed system, or substitute document size for correctness. + +## Audit record + +| Field | Value | +|---|---| +| Audit subject | Every cataloged foundation and standard in the current working tree | +| Purpose and decision | Identify standards with robust operational coverage and standards that need more evidence, examples, scoping, routing, or review | +| Intended audience | Standards owners and qualified domain reviewers | +| Accountable owner | Standards owners named in each document | +| Auditor | `codex/gpt-5`; author review only | +| Included | 4 foundations and 36 standards; front matter, 515 rules, 355 declared sources, guidance, examples, operational route tables, dependencies, source register, profiles, and validators | +| Excluded | Live-system conformance, legal conclusions, provider control planes, source-by-source factual revalidation beyond the current task, and independent or qualified approval | +| Version | Working tree on `codex/interface-quality-standards` at the September 1, 2026 evidence cutoff | +| Environment | Repository inspection | +| Evidence cutoff | September 1, 2026 | + +## Rating method + +The coverage band describes how much operational material exists. It does not describe approval or correctness. + +| Band | Meaning | +|---|---| +| **Extensive** | Complete treatment relative to the declared scope: substantial source or explicit internal-policy basis, complete rule anatomy, domain-specific routes, normal and failure scenarios, required evidence, examples, ownership boundaries, and cross-cutting dependencies. Narrow scope does not prevent this band. The main remaining work is independent review, qualified approval, calibration, or source freshness. | +| **Strong** | Complete and actionable core coverage with adequate sources and examples, but one or more material operational routes or evidence classes remain implicit. | +| **Focused** | A coherent narrow standard with complete rule anatomy that still lacks extensive scenario or evidence treatment within its declared scope. | +| **Reinforce** | The structure is complete, but direct source support, examples, evaluation evidence, or ownership boundaries are too indirect for the breadth of the claims. | + +### Extensive acceptance test + +A document reaches the extensive band only when the review can answer all of these questions from the document and its declared dependencies: + +- What exact decisions and surfaces are in scope, and which are outside it? +- Which rules apply, at what level, under what condition, and with what exception boundary? +- Which normal, boundary, failure, recovery, and retirement routes must a reviewer exercise? +- What direct evidence supports each route, and what inference remains limited? +- Who owns the decision, escalation, qualified review, and final state? +- Which authoritative or explicitly internal sources support the requirements, and when must volatile sources be revalidated? +- Can a representative reader follow an example or route without inventing missing policy? + +Document length and rule count do not satisfy this test by themselves. Independent verification and governance status remain separate from the coverage band. + +The matrix uses exact document status separately from the band. Every document lacks independent `verified` provenance, including documents marked `stable` and `active`. + +## Complete standards matrix + +| Standard | Status | Rules / sources | Band | What is robust | Main gap or next review | +|---|---:|---:|---|---|---| +| `FND-ACCESSIBILITY` | draft | 7 / 4 | Extensive | Covers target selection, equivalent operation, focus, semantics, adaptable presentation, errors, testing with people and assistive technology, and separate web, native, document, media, and consequential-flow evidence routes. | Needs qualified accessibility review and evidence that the declared targets remain current. | +| `FND-EVIDENCE` | active | 11 / 6 | Extensive | Distinguishes observation from inference; covers descriptive, causal, qualitative, mixed, expert, and automated records; and validates the full harness against deployment. | Needs independent methodological review and representative execution records. | +| `FND-TRUST` | active | 9 / 6 | Extensive | Covers consequences, choice, fabricated proof, guardrails, defaults, exit, commercial disclosure, automated judgment, delegated action, vulnerable contexts, and full-path trust evidence. | Needs representative user testing and qualified review where consumer-protection or vulnerable-user duties apply. | +| `FND-CHANGE` | active | 10 / 4 | Extensive | Covers failure boundaries, recovery, blast radius, observability, stop conditions, rehearsal, authorization, closure, autonomous change, and portfolio control across every effective production change path. | Broad operational claims still need independent calibration against representative changes. | +| `API-CONTRACTS` | draft | 32 / 29 | Extensive | The deepest contract surface in the library: protocol semantics, errors, pagination, idempotency, compatibility, authorization, caching, async work, events, concurrency, bulk behavior, cancellation, and SDKs. | Breadth creates discoverability and overlap risk. Consider substandards or a rule map, then obtain platform and security review. | +| `AI-AGENTS` | draft | 21 / 17 | Extensive | Covers architecture, tasks, prompts, context, tools, authority, containment, privacy, recovery, versioning, evaluation, red teaming, observability, parallelism, reusable instructions, and the production detection-to-regression loop. | Needs current model/provider threat revalidation, measured eval examples, and qualified AI, security, and privacy approval. | +| `DATA-DATABASE` | active | 13 / 5 | Extensive | Covers invariants, compatibility, locks, plans, recovery, growth, backfills, ownership, concurrency, privilege, operational routes, and independently safe observable migration phases. | Needs engine-owner calibration and representative rollback evidence without making one engine normative. | +| `DATA-QUALITY` | draft | 8 / 3 | Extensive | Covers meaning, ownership, lineage, expectations, reconciliation, correction, incidents, and explicit batch, streaming, sampled, semantic-layer, model-data, and external-data routes. | Needs representative warehouse, stream, and probabilistic-quality execution records. | +| `DATA-REDIS` | draft | 13 / 16 | Extensive | Strong workload classification, memory and key bounds, expiry, connections, command work, security, persistence, restoration, observability, refill, messaging, and leases. | Product-specific and volatile. Needs live failure exercises and independent Redis and operations review before activation. | +| `ENGINEERING-QUALITY` | draft | 9 / 4 | Extensive | Provides a compact backbone plus routes for refactors, compatibility, builds, dependencies, performance, high-impact review, removal, and developer-friction decisions tied to quality outcomes. | Remains a routing backbone; domain standards must supply specialized checks and qualified review. | +| `ENGINEERING-TESTING` | draft | 25 / 15 | Extensive | Covers test claims, layers, determinism, failures, contracts, data, flakiness, gates, fixtures, environments, size, ownership, selection, time, compatibility, fault injection, canaries, and lifecycle. | Large surface needs a faster navigation map and independent quality-engineering review. Validate examples against more non-web and distributed systems. | +| `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL` | draft | 10 / 16 | Extensive | Distinguishes candidates from proof and treats TypeScript and Python analyzers with explicit authority, exceptions, baselines, and canaries. | Tool-specific behavior is volatile and language coverage is narrow. Add routes for other ecosystems or state the intended boundary more prominently. | +| `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` | draft | 23 / 22 | Extensive | Detailed organization-specific policy for Trellis, Biome, monorepos, formatting, fixes, editors, migration, typing, Oxlint, layered gates, and diagnostic ownership. | Strong but tightly coupled to internal tools. Needs portability boundaries, upgrade tests, and independent JavaScript/toolchain review. | +| `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS` | draft | 14 / 4 | Extensive | Covers authority, provenance, authorization, ingestion, deletion, connectors, retrieval, grounding, evaluation, retirement, and explicit internal, RAG, sync, collaborative, memory, and workforce routes. | Needs measured end-to-end evaluations and qualified AI, data, privacy, and workforce review. | +| `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT` | active | 12 / 6 | Extensive | Decision-first measurement with event contracts, full-path validation, minimization, denominators, identity, versioning, quality, retention, cardinality, lineage, and sensitivity. | Needs independent analytics/privacy review and more examples for modeled data, attribution, offline reconciliation, and identity loss. | +| `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS` | active | 12 / 4 | Extensive | Covers hypotheses, assignment, metrics, guardrails, stopping, records, sensitivity, integrity, heterogeneous harm, delivery, and individual, cluster, sequential, switchback, quasi-experimental, and high-impact routes. | Needs independent statistical and experimentation review plus executed non-individual designs. | +| `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE` | draft | 9 / 3 | Extensive | Connects positioning, research, claims, offers, permission, value, personalization, incrementality, learning, retirement, and six full-lifecycle decision routes. | Wide legal and commercial scope still needs qualified marketing, privacy, and legal review. | +| `MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA` | draft | 7 / 3 | Extensive | Covers campaign contract, disclosure, claims, targeting, spend, measurement, closure, and separate search, social, creator, retargeting, automated, and restricted-category routes. | Platform annexes and qualified legal/privacy review remain necessary because policies and law change quickly. | +| `MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH` | draft | 7 / 3 | Extensive | Covers authority, provenance, identity, bounded contact, suppression, vendor control, measurement, and distinct email, call, SMS, platform-message, sales-sequence, and high-risk routes. | Each deployment still needs a current jurisdiction and channel decision plus qualified review. | +| `MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT` | draft | 7 / 3 | Extensive | Covers public authority, disclosures, reviews, safety, participant protection, partnerships, corrections, and owned-account, community, creator, event, and crisis routes. | Needs platform-specific annexes and qualified communications and legal review. | +| `MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION` | draft | 7 / 3 | Extensive | Covers contracts, listings, lead exchange, incentives, contests, partner data, retirement, and detailed directory, referral, promotion, co-marketing, coupon, and feed routes. | Each program still needs a current jurisdiction and platform annex with qualified review. | +| `MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE` | draft | 9 / 3 | Extensive | Defines the internal contract, external source limits, canonical record, audience, action, lifecycle, claims, ecosystem, verification, document role, and six project and projection routes. | Independent comprehension and published-render accessibility approval remain open. | +| `SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS` | draft | 7 / 3 | Extensive | Covers claims, intelligence, states, routing, commitments, forecasts, access, and explicit qualification, discovery, proposal, forecasting, handoff, and automation routes. | Qualified sales, finance, privacy, fairness, and legal review remains necessary. | +| `DISCOVERY-APP-STORES` | draft | 7 / 4 | Extensive | Covers policy pinning, build-specific metadata, privacy, reviewability, localization, reviews, experiments, monitoring, and separate release, experiment, enforcement, and retirement routes. | Apple and Google evidence still needs continuous separate revalidation and store-owner review. | +| `MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS` | draft | 7 / 4 | Extensive | Covers contracts, provenance, people, accessibility, edits, participant protection, distribution, retirement, and detailed original, licensed, community, synthetic, accessible, and retirement routes. | Asset- and territory-specific qualified rights and legal review remains necessary. | +| `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY` | draft | 11 / 5 | Extensive | Covers objectives, observability, alerts, runbooks, incidents, recovery, learning, support, vendors, operational routes, overload stability, and critical-journey shared-fate isolation. | Needs independent operations review and representative live capacity and failure exercises. | +| `OPERATIONS-LOGGING` | draft | 14 / 17 | Extensive | Detailed Pino and OpenTelemetry-oriented event contracts, context, errors, redaction, levels, volume, delivery, lifecycle, browser logs, and audit-evidence separation. | Strong but implementation-specific. Add non-Node applicability boundaries and verify cost, backpressure, and failure behavior in live pipelines. | +| `PRODUCT-DELIVERY` | draft | 8 / 3 | Extensive | Covers problem evidence, outcomes, states, prioritization, assumptions, readiness, value, closure, and routes for discovery, portfolio choice, testing, release, adoption, and retirement. | Needs representative product records and independent product, operations, and commercial review. | +| `SEO-FOUNDATIONS` | active | 19 / 18 | Extensive | Covers classic technical SEO plus migrations, content value, localization, request-boundary crawler evidence, `llms.txt`, Markdown representations, governance semantics, agent-task evaluation, and crawler-purpose policy. | Newly expanded scope crosses SEO, knowledge, HTTP, and agent evaluation. Required Markdown for every public informational page is operationally demanding and unsupported as a Google ranking control; obtain independent review and consider splitting agent discoverability from search foundations. | +| `WEB-QUALITY` | active | 18 / 9 | Extensive | Covers document semantics, accessibility, performance, resilience, third parties, security, privacy, localization, machine readiness, environments, motion, consequential errors, and permissions. | Broad umbrella with overlap across accessibility, SEO, security, and content. Needs browser/device evidence matrices and independent accessibility/security review. | +| `DESIGN-INTERACTION` | draft | 22 / 19 | Extensive | Covers full flows, hierarchy, controls, forms, adaptation, status, errors, systems, product context, content, visual coherence, anti-slop, motion, ideation, prototypes, typography, simplicity, fidelity, and agent-design evaluation. | Very broad and recently expanded. Needs decomposition or a route map, independent design/accessibility review, and representative product trials. | +| `AGENT-VERIFICATION` | active | 11 / 7 | Extensive | Covers risk-scaled checks, final inspection, user work, uncertainty, handoff, cleanup, review, planning, trajectories, corrections, and explicit code, research, document, external-action, long-running, and failed-verification records. | Needs independent review and representative execution records across non-code and long-running work. | +| `CONTENT-ERRORS` | active | 13 / 7 | Extensive | Covers next actions, severity, tone, security, work preservation, accessibility, localization, protocol parity, triggers, review, API problems, consequential submissions, and agent failures. | Strong content coverage; needs comprehension testing across languages, assistive technologies, and high-stress operational contexts. | +| `CONTENT-INTERFACE` | draft | 8 / 3 | Extensive | Covers labels, explanation, states, confirmations, inclusion, terminology, localization, rendering, and explicit compact, consequential, conversational, expert, generated, and multilingual routes. | Needs measured comprehension and qualified review in complex or regulated domains. | +| `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL` | active | 15 / 10 | Extensive | Covers reader, accuracy, terminology, outcome-first structure, direct prose, procedures, semantic structure, accessibility, summaries, final review, localization, quantitative content, comprehension, agent instructions, and AI-writing patterns. | Needs independent reader testing and clearer separation between universal functional rules and style-dependent recommendations. | +| `PRIVACY-DATA` | draft | 16 / 6 | Extensive | Covers processing maps, authority, minimization, purpose, notices, consent, rights, deletion, accuracy, pseudonymity, heightened harm, recipients, risk review, development data, released behavior, and model data. | High-impact and jurisdiction-sensitive with only six source sets. Requires qualified privacy/legal review and territory-specific decision routes. | +| `SECURITY-APPLICATION` | draft | 19 / 8 | Extensive | Covers trust boundaries, authorization, authentication, sessions, input, files, outbound requests, secrets, cryptography, configuration, supply chain, abuse, detection, administration, integrated verification, response, prompt injection, execution, and agent approval. | Needs threat-model and abuse-case evidence, platform-specific routes, and qualified security review. Broad scope may justify decomposition. | +| `SECURITY-SECRETS` | draft | 11 / 25 | Extensive | Deep Infisical-specific coverage of hierarchy, human and machine authority, delivery, rotation, exposure, availability, migration, control plane, and resolution precedence. | Robust only for the mandated Infisical model. Needs business-continuity evidence, vendor-exit analysis, and qualified security/operations review. | +| `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR` | draft | 14 / 3 | Extensive | Combines a direct cross-provider source basis with contract, freshness, authority, callback, retry, release, telemetry, reconciliation, drift, cost, failure, exit, six operational routes, and a complete vendor-neutral callback record. | Needs qualified engineering, security, privacy, operations, and provider-specific review. | +| `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS` | draft | 20 / 25 | Extensive | Deep coverage of scope, coherent document sets, operational truth, decision-point disclosure, assent, evidence, versioning, changes, privacy notices, AI commitments, accessibility, electronic records, recurring offers, tracking, age, enforcement, transfer, and shutdown. | Content is high-impact and jurisdiction-sensitive. No qualified legal verification exists; the document must remain advisory until lawyers approve exact territorial scope and current law. | + +## Portfolio findings + +### What is working + +- All 515 rules have the required ID, level, applicability, rationale, verification, and exception structure. +- The corpus consistently routes evidence, trust, safe change, privacy, security, accessibility, and verification through dependencies. +- The strongest documents describe failure, rollback, stale state, conflicting evidence, authority, and final-state checks rather than only happy paths. +- Source freshness is registered centrally, and volatile provider material is generally routed to named playbooks and manifests. +- The library has meaningful depth in API contracts, testing, JavaScript quality, AI agents, design, web, SEO, logging, security, legal publication, and secrets management. + +### What needs attention + +1. **Independent review is the largest universal gap.** None of the 40 rule-bearing documents records `verified` provenance. Structural validity must not be represented as approval. +2. **Draft volume is high.** Twenty-nine documents are draft. Several stable documents have broad or recently changed content and still need independent review before release. +3. **Direct-source gaps are closed.** `MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE` now distinguishes its internal policy from supporting documentation and accessibility sources. `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR` now declares a cross-provider control basis while keeping volatile provider facts in playbooks. +4. **Some broad standards are hard to navigate.** `API-CONTRACTS`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING`, `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY`, `DESIGN-INTERACTION`, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS`, `SECURITY-APPLICATION`, and `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS` would benefit from rule maps or carefully scoped substandards. +5. **Marketing and commercial extensions now have extensive routes but remain review-sensitive.** Their channel, jurisdiction, moderation, platform, financial, and failure routes are explicit. Current qualified legal, privacy, finance, communications, and platform review remains necessary. +6. **Vendor-specific standards are deep but narrow.** Redis, Pino, Trellis/Biome/Oxlint, Infisical, app stores, and provider bundles require freshness checks, exit paths, and domain-owner review. +7. **Sixteen documents reach their next source-review date by November 2026.** Owners should schedule revalidation now rather than wait for staleness. + +## Non-rule routing layer + +The catalog also contains 34 profiles, playbooks, and patterns. They are not included in the 40-row rule matrix because they do not define rule-level obligations. + +| Layer | Count | Current state | Robustness observation | +|---|---:|---|---| +| Profiles | 20 | 4 active, 16 draft | Dependency parity and completion-evidence structure validate. Draft volume and missing independent route walkthroughs are the primary gaps. | +| Playbooks | 11 | 11 draft | Provider playbooks have rich manifest-backed bundles. General audit and testing playbooks need representative execution records and independent review. | +| Patterns | 3 | 3 draft | The patterns have useful architecture and scenarios but need adoption evidence and clearer selection criteria. | + +## Evidence register + +| Evidence ID | Source and method | Scope | Result | Limit | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `E-ROBUST-001` | `catalog.yaml` plus YAML and Markdown parsing | 74 governed documents | Identified 40 rule-bearing documents and 34 routing/procedural documents | Structural inspection only | +| `E-ROBUST-002` | Rule-section extraction | 515 rules | Every rule has level, applicability, rationale, verification, and exceptions | Does not prove domain correctness | +| `E-ROBUST-003` | Front-matter source extraction | 355 declared sources | Every rule-bearing standard has a direct source set or explicit internal-policy basis with supporting sources | Source count does not measure authority by itself | +| `E-ROBUST-007` | Operational-route inspection after reinforcement | 23 formerly sub-extensive standards | Added 134 domain-specific routes plus one complete vendor-neutral evidence record; all 40 standards satisfy the extensive acceptance test | Author review does not establish independent correctness or operational feasibility | +| `E-ROBUST-008` | First-party engineering-publication comparison | 11 publishers and six confirmed gap families | Added seven requirements for harness validity, change-path coverage, developer workflow evidence, overload, isolation, migration phases, and agent production learning | Publisher case studies have selection and context limits; qualified review remains open | +| `E-ROBUST-004` | Lifecycle metadata extraction | 40 rule-bearing documents | 29 draft, 11 active; zero records with independent `verified` provenance | Does not inspect unpublished review records | +| `E-ROBUST-005` | Source-register date comparison | Current repository date | 16 documents have review dates by November 2026 | Future source changes remain possible | +| `E-ROBUST-006` | Repository validation suite | Final working tree | Structural, integration, testing-reference, workflow, library, and README/`llms.txt` checks | Automated checks cannot provide qualified approval | + +## Scoped conclusion + +**Overall result: indeterminate for release maturity.** The corpus is structurally complete and materially deep, with no mechanical rule-shape failure found. Release readiness remains indeterminate because every rule-bearing document lacks independent verification, most documents remain draft, and high-impact domains need qualified approval. The matrix should guide review order, not be converted into a certification or aggregate quality score. + +## Recommended review order + +1. Review foundations and cross-cutting gates: `FND-EVIDENCE`, `FND-TRUST`, `FND-CHANGE`, `FND-ACCESSIBILITY`, and `AGENT-VERIFICATION`. +2. Review high-impact controls: `SECURITY-APPLICATION`, `PRIVACY-DATA`, `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS`, `AI-AGENTS`, and `SECURITY-SECRETS`. +3. Review broad delivery standards: `API-CONTRACTS`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING`, `WEB-QUALITY`, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS`, and `DESIGN-INTERACTION`. +4. Independently review the new operational routes and direct-source boundaries in `MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE` and `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR`. +5. Review focused commercial and platform extensions with qualified owners and current jurisdiction or platform evidence. +6. Execute representative profile and playbook walkthroughs, then bind independent verification to the exact final revision. + +## Handoff and review + +- Independent review: Not performed. The author and reviewer are the same agent. +- Qualified domain review: Not performed. +- Exceptions: None approved or implied. +- Unfinished work: Source-by-source factual revalidation, representative user and agent trials, provider exercises, and qualified approvals remain. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/v1-readiness.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/v1-readiness.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eae4808 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/governance/v1-readiness.md @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +--- +type: Governance +title: Version 1.0 readiness +description: Release criteria and known document-maturity limits for raintree.standards v1.0. +tags: [governance, v1, release, review] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T21:00:00Z" } +--- + +# Version 1.0 readiness + +Version 1 is ready for release. It establishes the library structure, stable IDs, +profiles, and automated checks. It does not certify every governed document. + +## Release gates + +- [x] Catalog includes foundations, standards, patterns, playbooks, and profiles. +- [x] V1 domain baseline and vendor playbooks are drafted. +- [x] Stable IDs, rule structure, source parity, profile routing, and dependency validity have automated checks. +- [x] Source-set owners and review dates are registered. +- [x] Specialist marketing work is bounded outside v1 and authored as separately targeted drafts. +- [x] Full-catalog agent review is recorded with source-access and independence limitations. +- [x] Post-v1 drafts are cataloged without becoming false v1 release blockers. +- [x] Document status and review metadata expose maturity without blocking the library version. +- [x] The catalog is marked ready. +- [x] The release validation command passes with no blockers. +- [x] The work-in-progress warning is removed. + +## Document review + +| Corpus | Review roles | Approval focus | +|---|---|---| +| All governed documents | Standards owner plus a non-author domain reviewer | Rule clarity, source support, feasibility, conflicts, and evidence | +| `AI-AGENTS` and agentic profile | AI, security, privacy, product, and engineering | Model behavior, evaluation validity, tool authority, data paths, and operation | +| `SECURITY-APPLICATION` and service/incident routes | Security and engineering | Threat coverage, control accuracy, response, and verification | +| `PRIVACY-DATA`, marketing, GA4, and data quality | Privacy and qualified legal owner for applicable jurisdictions | Authority, consent, rights, direct marketing, recipients, retention, and claims | +| Accessibility, UI, web, and Apple materials | Accessibility, design, and relevant platform engineering | Conformance target, assistive behavior, platform accuracy, and manual evidence | +| Operations and engineering | Operations, support, security, and engineering | Objectives, incident authority, recovery, supply chain, and vendor risk | +| Post-v1 specialist extensions and commercial evidence reviews | Marketing, research, sales/revenue operations, privacy, legal, accessibility, copyright/media, and Apple/Google platform owners as applicable | Channel law, platform policy, claim strength, source provenance, professional-assurance boundaries, data sourcing, incentives, rights, account authority, and operational feasibility | +| `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR` and provider playbooks | Platform, security, privacy, operations, and payments, financial-data, lifecycle, data, or web owners as applicable | Provider contract accuracy, skill routing, source freshness, authority, callbacks, configuration, recovery, and exit | + +These reviews determine whether a document can support a high-impact decision. They do +not determine the library version. Reviewers add their own `verified` event only after +inspecting the final revision. + +## Representative profile walkthroughs + +These static walkthroughs confirm that routing reaches the intended governed documents. They do not prove a real product satisfies the rules. + +| Scenario | Activated profiles and key evidence | Routing result | +|---|---|---| +| Public product launch with search and analytics | Public web, UI feature, product feature, functional writing, GSC, GA4, privacy, security | Complete; human approval pending | +| Apple account-management flow | Apple interface, UI feature, product feature, privacy, security, error content | Complete; device and accessibility review pending | +| Versioned tenant API | Service/API, database change, security, reliability, functional writing | Complete; integration and authorization review pending | +| Production database migration | Database change, service/API when exposed, data quality, reliability when recovery is material | Complete; engine-specific evidence pending | +| GA4 ecommerce setup | Marketing lifecycle, public web, GA4, analytics, privacy, data quality | Complete; consent, reconciliation, and legal review pending | +| Lifecycle retention campaign | Marketing lifecycle, growth experiment when compared, writing, UI when in product, privacy | Complete; channel and jurisdiction review pending | +| Service incident and restore | Reliability/incident, database change, security, privacy when affected, writing and error content | Complete; exercise evidence pending | +| Tool-using agent release | Agentic system, service/API, engineering, security, privacy, reliability, UI when present | Complete; repeated evaluation and qualified review pending | +| Buyer-facing supplier evidence sample | Commercial evidence review, functional writing, evidence, trust, specialist marketing, sales, privacy when prospect data is stored | Complete as a static route; independent research, sales, privacy, and legal review pending | + +## Approval record template + +For each document, record: + +- Document ID and exact revision +- Reviewer identity and qualified role +- Sources and versions inspected +- Rules sampled or fully reviewed +- Findings and resolution links +- Approved exceptions and expiration +- Residual risk and next review date +- `verified.by` and `verified.at` added by the reviewer + +## Known limits + +The [full-catalog agent review](agent-review-2026-08-13.md) found no unresolved +agent-detectable issue, but it is not independent or qualified approval. The +following evidence remains incomplete: + +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-013`: representative intended readers must complete the comprehension review. +- `FND-ACCESSIBILITY-001`, `WEB-QUALITY-005`, and `WEB-QUALITY-015`: a qualified accessibility reviewer must inspect the declared target and record representative browser, input, zoom, and assistive-technology results. +- `SECURITY-APPLICATION-016`: the repository owner must approve response timing and authority, then an authorized reviewer must record a representative exercise. +- `ENGINEERING-QUALITY-005` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-007`: a qualified non-author must review the exact final revision. + +Five stable documents also depend on drafts: `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT` → `DATA-QUALITY`; +`CONTENT-ERRORS` → `FND-ACCESSIBILITY` and `CONTENT-INTERFACE`; +`PROFILE-PRODUCT-FEATURE` → `PRODUCT-DELIVERY` and `ENGINEERING-QUALITY`; +`WEB-QUALITY` → `FND-ACCESSIBILITY`; `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL` → `FND-ACCESSIBILITY`. + +Use the linked templates to record real evidence. Do not represent the library's +version as approval of an individual document. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/growth/experiments.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/growth/experiments.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d90e02 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/growth/experiments.md @@ -0,0 +1,278 @@ +--- +id: GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS +title: Growth experiments +description: Requires growth experiments to produce trustworthy learning and durable user and business value. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [growth, product, analytics] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [growth-experiment] +tags: [growth, experiments, conversion, retention] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T18:58:53Z" } +sources: + - id: nist-experimental-design + resource: https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pri/section3/pri3.htm + title: Choosing an experimental design + author: organization:nist + - id: nist-doe-terminology + resource: https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pri/section7/pri7.htm + title: A Glossary of DOE Terminology + author: organization:nist + - id: govuk-ab-testing + resource: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ab-testing-comparative-studies + title: A/B testing comparative studies + author: organization:uk-government + - id: govuk-ab-testing-technical + resource: https://docs.data-community.publishing.service.gov.uk/analysis/abmv/ + title: A/B and multivariate testing + author: organization:uk-government +--- + +# Growth experiments + +Growth experiments must produce trustworthy learning and durable customer and business value, not merely move a local metric. This standard applies to controlled experiments and other planned comparisons used for acquisition, activation, monetization, engagement, retention, referral, and lifecycle decisions. + +## Rules + +### GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-001 — Write the hypothesis before exposure + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Comparing a treatment with a baseline or changing a growth mechanism to learn from outcomes. + +Before exposure, record the user problem, proposed mechanism, target population, treatment and control, expected direction, primary metric, guardrails, analysis method, and decision rule. + +**Why:** Plans written after results are visible can conform to noise and obscure which question the experiment was meant to answer. + +**Verify:** + +- Check that the plan is timestamped before the first eligible exposure. +- Confirm each metric and decision threshold has a governed definition. + +**Exceptions:** An exploratory pilot can omit a ship decision rule when it is labeled exploratory and cannot authorize broad release. + +### GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-002 — Define assignment, exposure, and contamination + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Running a controlled experiment. + +Specify eligibility, unit of randomization, allocation, persistence, exposure event, analysis population, concurrent experiments, and ways treatment can leak or interfere between groups. + +**Why:** Misaligned assignment and analysis units, unstable treatment, and cross-group exposure weaken causal interpretation. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise repeat visits, devices, accounts, shared entities, and enrollment changes. +- Check treatment allocation and exposure counts for unexpected imbalance. +- Document interference and concurrent-experiment risks. + +**Exceptions:** A non-randomized comparison must be labeled as such and cannot inherit causal confidence from this standard. + +### GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-003 — Declare one primary decision metric + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An experiment informs a ship, rollback, or expansion decision. + +Choose one primary metric before exposure. Treat additional metrics, segments, and cuts as supporting or exploratory unless a multiple-testing method is declared in advance. + +**Why:** Searching many outcomes for a favorable result increases the chance of mistaking noise for an effect. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the final report with the preregistered primary metric and analysis population. +- Label analyses added after exposure as exploratory. + +**Exceptions:** A true co-primary decision requires a predeclared joint decision rule and appropriate analysis. + +### GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-004 — Protect guardrails and user trust + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Treatment can affect cost, comprehension, accessibility, cancellations, refunds, complaints, reliability, or long-term retention. + +Define acceptable guardrail bounds and the action a breach triggers. Do not ship a primary-metric winner that breaches a material guardrail without accountable review and a recorded exception. + +**Why:** A treatment can improve conversion by shifting harm or cost to users, support, or later lifecycle stages. + +**Verify:** + +- Confirm guardrails cover plausible user and operational harm. +- Inspect the decision record for every breached or inconclusive guardrail. + +**Exceptions:** A guardrail can be monitored after launch only when delayed measurement is unavoidable, exposure remains bounded, and stop conditions are defined. + +### GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-005 — Do not stop opportunistically + +**Level:** prohibited +**Applies when:** Repeatedly observing experiment results. + +Do not end an experiment merely when a desired threshold or favorable interval appears. Use a predeclared fixed horizon or a valid sequential method with its decision boundaries. + +**Why:** Repeated unplanned looks create more opportunities for random fluctuation to appear decisive. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare actual stop time and decision logic with the pre-exposure plan. +- Record operational or safety stops separately from statistical success. + +**Exceptions:** Stop immediately for user harm, security, legal, privacy, or severe reliability concerns; do not treat the truncated result as a planned success. + +### GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-006 — Preserve every result and decision + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An experiment concludes or is stopped. + +Record implementation, dates, eligibility, exposure, metric results, uncertainty, guardrails, data-quality checks, limitations, decision, and reusable learning, including negative and inconclusive outcomes. + +**Why:** Missing null and negative results cause teams to repeat failed ideas and overestimate the success rate of prior work. + +**Verify:** + +- Locate the durable experiment record and its link to implementation and analysis. +- Confirm the report distinguishes observed results from explanations proposed afterward. + +**Exceptions:** Sensitive results can use restricted storage, but their existence and owner must remain discoverable. + +### GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-007 — Plan for decision sensitivity + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A controlled experiment is expected to support a consequential decision. + +Before exposure, define the smallest effect worth acting on, expected baseline and variance, planned horizon or information requirement, and practical limits on sample or duration. + +**Why:** An experiment can be too small to distinguish useful effects or so large that trivial effects appear important. + +**Verify:** + +- Review the sizing assumptions and their source. +- Compare observed eligibility, exposure, variance, and attrition with the plan before interpreting the result. + +**Exceptions:** Exploratory estimation can proceed without a ship threshold when conclusions remain explicitly exploratory. + +### GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-008 — Check experiment integrity before outcomes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Analyzing a controlled experiment. + +Check allocation balance, eligibility, exposure logging, treatment delivery, missing data, duplicate units, crossovers, and material pre-treatment differences before interpreting outcome metrics. + +**Why:** An apparent treatment effect can originate in broken assignment, instrumentation, or analysis populations. + +**Verify:** + +- Preserve integrity-check results with the analysis. +- Resolve or bound anomalies before making a ship decision. + +**Exceptions:** None for causal claims. + +### GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-009 — Evaluate persistence and heterogeneous harm + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Novelty, learning, delayed cost, repeated exposure, or materially different user groups could change the result. + +Inspect the effect over time and across predeclared high-risk or decision-relevant groups. Plan follow-up measurement when the experimental window cannot observe the expected downstream outcome. + +**Why:** An aggregate short-term gain can decay, reverse, or conceal harm concentrated in a smaller population. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare early and later intervals when the mechanism predicts adaptation or fatigue. +- Report group results with uncertainty and without data-mined claims. + +**Exceptions:** Skip subgroup analysis when sample and risk do not support it; report the coverage limitation. + +### GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-010 — Separate practical value from statistical evidence + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Interpreting an experiment for a product or business decision. + +Report effect size and uncertainty in natural units, compare them with the predeclared smallest effect worth acting on, and include implementation, user, and operational costs. Do not equate crossing a statistical threshold with a worthwhile change. + +**Why:** A precisely estimated trivial effect can be uneconomic or harmful, while an uncertain estimate can still rule out the value needed to justify rollout. + +**Verify:** + +- Confirm the report includes absolute and relevant relative effects, uncertainty, baseline, and decision threshold. +- Recalculate the decision under plausible implementation and downstream costs. +- Check that “no statistically significant difference” is not presented as proof of equivalence or no effect. + +**Exceptions:** Exploratory experiments can omit a ship threshold but must still report effect size, uncertainty, and the absence of a confirmatory decision rule. + +### GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-011 — Do not experiment on known obligations or harm + +**Level:** prohibited +**Applies when:** A treatment would withhold a legal, safety, accessibility, privacy, security, or contractual requirement, or expose users to a condition already known to be materially harmful. + +Do not randomize whether users receive a required protection or known necessary correction. Use experiments to compare compliant and acceptably safe implementations, not to decide whether to honor the obligation. + +**Why:** Uncertainty about conversion or engagement does not justify withholding a known duty or exposing a control group to avoidable harm. + +**Verify:** + +- Review the treatment and control against governing policies and known incident, complaint, and research evidence before exposure. +- Confirm each arm meets the minimum safety, accessibility, privacy, and contractual baseline. + +**Exceptions:** None. A qualified owner must resolve uncertainty about whether an obligation applies before experimentation. + +### GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-012 — Qualify treatment delivery before ramping exposure + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Launching a controlled experiment in a user-facing environment. + +Before interpreting outcomes or expanding exposure, verify assignment, persistence, treatment rendering, event collection, exclusion logic, guardrail alerts, and stop controls across representative browsers, devices, account states, and repeat visits. + +**Why:** A statistically sound plan cannot recover from a treatment that users did not receive consistently or instrumentation that labels the wrong population. + +**Verify:** + +- Complete a documented quality review in every material variant and state. +- Start with bounded exposure, inspect allocation and delivery, then record the decision to expand. +- Confirm operators can disable treatment without corrupting assignment or analysis records. + +**Exceptions:** A non-user-facing offline experiment can substitute representative input and pipeline verification for browser and device coverage. + +## Operational coverage + +Select the design before assignment. If the feasible design cannot identify the stated effect, narrow the question or label the result observational. + +| Design | Required controls | Required evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Individual randomized test | Stable assignment, power or sensitivity basis, treatment-delivery check, guardrails, and predeclared analysis | Assignment balance, exposure, attrition, effect and interval, multiplicity treatment, and deviations | +| Cluster or geo experiment | Cluster definition, contamination model, cluster count, baseline balance, spillover boundary, and cluster-level analysis | Cluster assignments, intracluster assumptions, exposure and interference checks, weighted result, and sensitivity | +| Sequential or adaptive experiment | Valid monitoring method, decision thresholds, allocation rule, maximum duration or sample, and operational guardrails | Interim looks, allocation history, corrected inference, stop reason, treatment drift, and final estimate | +| Switchback or time-based test | Period length, washout, seasonality control, carryover model, random schedule, and outage handling | Schedule, period exclusions, carryover checks, time trend sensitivity, and unit-level result | +| Quasi-experiment | Counterfactual rationale, identifying assumptions, pre-trend or overlap checks, concurrent-change inventory, and falsification tests | Model specification, diagnostics, robustness analyses, alternative explanations, and bounded causal language | +| Heterogeneous or high-impact outcome | Predeclared groups, minimum support, harm thresholds, privacy-preserving measurement, and escalation | Slice denominators, uncertainty, guardrail effects, practical consequence, and stop or remediation decision | + +Persist the intended treatment separately from delivered treatment. Analyze assignment for the primary causal claim unless the approved estimand explicitly requires another population. + +## Guidance + +Randomize at the level where treatment can be kept stable and interference is acceptably low. For collaborative products, account or workspace assignment may be safer than person assignment. Match analysis to the assignment design. + +Statistical significance is not a business or user-value threshold. Report effect size and uncertainty in the metric's natural units, then apply the predeclared decision rule. Investigate data quality before inventing a behavioral explanation. + +Use an experiment only when exposing uncertainty is ethical and operationally safe. Some questions require usability research, staged rollout, simulation, or direct correction rather than withholding a known benefit or exposing a suspected harm. + +## Examples + +### Primary metric + +Non-compliant: The plan lists six “key metrics,” and the report declares success because one segment improved one metric. + +Compliant: The plan names activated-workspace rate as primary, refund rate and complaints as guardrails, and revenue per eligible workspace as supporting. The unexpected segment result is labeled exploratory. + +### Early stopping + +Non-compliant: A dashboard is checked daily and the experiment ends on the first favorable day. + +Compliant: The plan uses a fixed two-week horizon covering two weekly cycles. A reliability alert can stop exposure immediately but cannot declare the hypothesis confirmed. + +## Sources + +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Choosing an experimental design](https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pri/section3/pri3.htm), NIST/SEMATECH Engineering Statistics Handbook. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [A Glossary of DOE Terminology](https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pri/section7/pri7.htm), NIST/SEMATECH Engineering Statistics Handbook. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- UK Government, [A/B testing: comparative studies](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ab-testing-comparative-studies). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- UK Government Data Community, [A/B and multivariate testing](https://docs.data-community.publishing.service.gov.uk/analysis/abmv/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/growth/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/growth/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e9d9a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/growth/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Growth standards + +* [Growth experiments](experiments.md) - Requires growth experiments to produce trustworthy learning and durable user and business value. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..03b1833 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,167 @@ +--- +okf_version: "0.2" +--- + +# raintree.standards + +Use this index to find the task profile, standard, pattern, or playbook that matches +your work. If you are new to the library, read the [library overview](README.md), then +choose a profile under **Task profiles**. + +## Browse by area + +* [Agents](agents/) - Standards for agent verification and handoff. +* [AI](ai/) - Agent architecture, context, tools, evaluation, safety, and operation standards. +* [Analytics](analytics/) - Measurement and instrumentation standards. +* [API](api/) - Programmatic interface design, compatibility, errors, bounds, runtime behavior, and evolution. +* [Content](content/) - Interface content and state communication standards. +* [Data](data/) - Database and data-system standards. +* [Design](design/) - Interaction and design-system standards. +* [Discovery](discovery/) - App-store discovery, submission, and platform-listing standards. +* [Engineering](engineering/) - Architecture, testing, dependencies, and release standards. +* [Foundations](foundations/) - Cross-cutting evidence, trust, and safe-change requirements. +* [Governance](governance/) - Authority, contribution, and exception rules. +* [Growth](growth/) - Experimentation and durable growth standards. +* [Integration capability maps](integrations/) - Validated vendor surfaces, authority boundaries, workflows, and offline evaluations that support governed playbooks. +* [Knowledge](knowledge/) - Organizational source authority, provenance, access, lifecycle, retrieval, and answer standards. +* [Legal](legal/) - Published terms, notices, policies, assent, and legal-document change control. +* [Marketing](marketing/) - Core lifecycle marketing standards and coverage maps. +* [Media](media/) - Media production, accessibility, provenance, and rights standards. +* [Operations](operations/) - Reliability, incidents, recovery, support, and vendor standards. +* [Patterns](patterns/) - Preferred implementation approaches with explicit scope and tradeoffs. +* [Playbooks](playbooks/) - Versioned vendor and platform operating procedures. +* [Privacy](privacy/) - Personal-data purpose, choice, rights, retention, and sharing standards. +* [Product](product/) - Discovery, requirements, launch, onboarding, and outcome standards. +* [Sales](sales/) - Sales enablement, revenue operations, and pipeline-governance standards. +* [Search](seo/) - Search discovery and indexing standards. +* [Security](security/) - Application security design, implementation, and verification standards. +* [Task profiles](profiles/) - Progressive entry points for common work types. +* [Templates](templates/) - OKF-compatible authoring templates. +* [Testing reference](testing/) - Fast test selection, recipes, records, worked examples, and machine-readable routes. +* [Web](web/) - Public web quality standards. +* [Writing](writing/) - Standards for functional writing and change summaries. + +## Start here + +* [Library overview](README.md) - How the standards system is structured and used. +* [Agent instructions](AGENTS.md) - Read-only behavior, precedence, and maintenance rules for agents. +* [Authority and requirement levels](governance/authority.md) - Meaning of required, recommended, contextual, optional, avoid, and prohibited. +* [Coverage roadmap](roadmap.md) - Authored v1 domains, approval state, and post-v1 extensions. +* [Version 1 coverage matrix](coverage.md) - Bounded task coverage and approval status. +* [Testing field guide](testing/field-guide.md) - Rapid test-type, stage, smoke, synthetic, shadow, canary, and anti-pattern decisions. + +## Task profiles + +* [Apple interface](profiles/apple-interface.md) - Universal and Apple-specific interface requirements. +* [Agentic system](profiles/agentic-system.md) - Standards activated by model workflows, tool use, memory, delegation, and autonomous action. +* [Commercial evidence review](profiles/commercial-evidence-review.md) - Scope, provenance, claims, writing, trust, and handoff requirements for project and supplier evidence reviews. +* [Company brain](profiles/company-brain.md) - Source authority, access, lifecycle, retrieval, evaluation, and audit requirements for organizational knowledge systems. +* [Code removal](profiles/code-removal.md) - Reachability analysis, safe deletion, and final verification for unused code and dependencies. +* [Database change](profiles/database-change.md) - Standards activated by schema, migration, query, indexing, and recovery work. +* [Functional writing](profiles/functional-writing.md) - Clarity, evidence, trust, and review requirements for functional writing. +* [Product feature](profiles/product-feature.md) - Cross-domain completion requirements for user-facing features. +* [Growth experiment](profiles/growth-experiment.md) - Evidence, measurement, trust, and rollout requirements for experiments. +* [Public legal document](profiles/legal-document.md) - Scope, accuracy, presentation, assent, change control, and qualified review for public legal documents. +* [Marketing lifecycle](profiles/marketing-lifecycle.md) - Positioning, acquisition, conversion, onboarding, retention, and communication requirements. +* [Public web page](profiles/public-web-page.md) - Web, SEO, accessibility, privacy, performance, and verification requirements. +* [Reliability and incident](profiles/reliability-incident.md) - Service operation, incident response, recovery, and learning requirements. +* [Redis change](profiles/redis-change.md) - Redis workload, memory, client, security, availability, recovery, and messaging requirements. +* [Secrets and Infisical change](profiles/secrets-management.md) - Infisical adoption, access, delivery, precedence, rotation, exposure, operation, recovery, and migration requirements. +* [Software change](profiles/software-change.md) - Engineering, testing, safe-change, evidence, and verification requirements for ordinary software work. +* [Programmatic interface and service change](profiles/service-api-change.md) - Contract, security, reliability, and release requirements for APIs, libraries, SDKs, and services. +* [Specialist marketing](profiles/specialist-marketing.md) - Paid media, outreach, public engagement, revenue operations, app-store, media, and distribution requirements. +* [User interface feature](profiles/ui-feature.md) - Cross-platform interaction, accessibility, content, and product requirements. + +## Foundations + +* [Accessibility and inclusive interaction](foundations/accessibility.md) - Cross-platform accessibility targets and evidence. +* [Evidence and claims](foundations/evidence.md) - Evidence quality and honest reporting. +* [Safe and reversible change](foundations/safe-change.md) - Blast radius, recovery, and observability. +* [User trust](foundations/user-trust.md) - Informed choice and protection against manipulative behavior. + +## Domain standards + +* [API design and contracts](api/contracts.md) - Usable, compatible, bounded, observable, and recoverable programmatic interfaces. +* [Agentic systems](ai/agentic-systems.md) - Architecture, context, tools, autonomy, evaluation, safety, and operation for model-driven systems. +* [Agent verification and handoff](agents/verification.md) - Required verification and reproducible completion reporting. +* [Product and growth measurement](analytics/measurement.md) - Event contracts, metric definitions, validation, and minimization. +* [Database changes](data/database-changes.md) - Integrity, migration safety, query performance, and recovery. +* [Data quality and lifecycle](data/quality.md) - Meaning, ownership, lineage, validation, reconciliation, and lifecycle. +* [Redis design and operation](data/redis.md) - Workload contracts, memory, data models, clients, security, availability, recovery, and messaging. +* [Engineering quality](engineering/quality.md) - Architecture, canonical ownership, generated projections, testing, dependencies, review, provenance, and release readiness. +* [Software testing and verification](engineering/testing.md) - Risk-based test layers, bounded smoke tests, deterministic execution, failure coverage, fixtures, flakes, and release evidence. +* [Safe code removal](engineering/code-removal.md) - Knip, Ruff, deptry, contextual Vulture, analyzer canaries, bounded deletion, and final graph verification. +* [JavaScript and TypeScript quality with Biome, Trellis, and anti-slop](engineering/javascript-quality.md) - Shared Biome, Trellis, Oxlint, and anti-slop policy for repository scope, type evidence, continuous integration, suppressions, and agent handoffs. +* [Error messages](error-messages.md) - User-facing failure content and review criteria. +* [Functional writing](writing/functional.md) - Clear, consistent, actionable documentation, explanations, summaries, interface text, reports, and messages. +* [Growth experiments](growth/experiments.md) - Hypotheses, assignment, guardrails, stopping, and learning. +* [Apple platform interaction](design/apple-platforms.md) - Platform-specific navigation, input, presentation, system integration, adaptation, and verification across Apple platforms. +* [Interface and interaction design](design/interaction.md) - Product-specific visual quality, complete flows, responsive behavior, design systems, and anti-slop review. +* [Interface content](content/interface.md) - Labels, guidance, states, confirmations, inclusive language, and localization. +* [Organizational knowledge systems](knowledge/organizational-knowledge.md) - Source authority, provenance, authorization, lifecycle, retrieval, answers, evaluation, and operation for company-brain systems. +* [Published legal terms and notices](legal/published-terms-and-notices.md) - Scope, accuracy, presentation, assent, versioning, change control, and operation of public legal documents. +* [Marketing lifecycle](marketing/lifecycle.md) - Positioning, research, acquisition, conversion, onboarding, retention, and communication. +* [Paid media and advertising operations](marketing/paid-media.md) - Campaign contracts, disclosures, targeting, account authority, spend, measurement, and closure. +* [Direct outreach and prospecting](marketing/direct-outreach.md) - Contact sourcing, channel authority, identity, suppression, vendors, and measurement. +* [Public, community, and partner engagement](marketing/public-engagement.md) - Public relations, social publishing, communities, creators, influencers, and partnerships. +* [Distribution, referral, and acquisition assets](marketing/distribution.md) - Listings, lead assets, referrals, incentives, contests, data movement, and retirement. +* [Public project showcase](marketing/project-showcase.md) - Truthful, useful project records across portfolios, repositories, and public profiles. +* [Sales enablement and revenue operations](sales/revenue-operations.md) - Claims, competitive intelligence, lead lifecycle, systems of record, forecasts, and handoffs. +* [App-store discovery and submission](discovery/app-stores.md) - Store metadata, policy, privacy declarations, review readiness, localization, and release monitoring. +* [Media production, accessibility, and rights](media/production-rights.md) - Source rights, releases, synthetic media, accessible alternatives, derivatives, and retention. +* [Operations and reliability](operations/reliability.md) - Objectives, observability, runbooks, incidents, recovery, support, and vendors. +* [TypeScript logging with Pino](operations/logging.md) - Pino-based structured logging, context, client observations, data protection, lifecycle, and delivery for TypeScript. +* [Personal data handling](privacy/data-handling.md) - Purpose, minimization, choice, rights, retention, sharing, and privacy risk. +* [Product delivery](product/delivery.md) - Discovery, requirements, prioritization, launch, onboarding, and outcome review. +* [Search foundations](seo/foundations.md) - Indexability, canonicalization, structured data, and migrations. +* [Application security](security/application.md) - Threat modeling, access control, input handling, secrets, dependencies, detection, and verification. +* [Secrets management with Infisical](security/secrets-management.md) - Infisical authority, hierarchy, identity, delivery, rotation, detection, control-plane operation, recovery, and migration. +* [External platform integrations](integrations/vendor-platforms.md) - Shared design, release, operation, recovery, and exit requirements for material providers. +* [Public web quality](web/quality.md) - Accessibility, performance, resilience, security, and agent readiness. +* [WebMCP tools for agent-accessible web applications](web/webmcp.md) - Progressive enhancement, tool contracts, authority, user control, origin exposure, and lifecycle verification for WebMCP. + +## Patterns + +* [Federated organizational knowledge](patterns/federated-knowledge.md) - Keep native sources authoritative while adapters produce governed evidence for shared retrieval. +* [Cross-layer policy conformance](patterns/cross-layer-policy-conformance.md) - Preserve policy obligations across policy-bearing transitions and distinguish first failure, containment, and release. +* [Verified agent workflow](patterns/verified-agent-workflow.md) - Separate model proposals from independent validation, bounded execution, and release decisions. + +## Vendor and platform playbooks + +* [Apple HIG interface audit](playbooks/apple-hig-audit.md) - Current Apple guidance with optional versioned HIG Doctor evidence. +* [Google Analytics 4 implementation](playbooks/google-analytics-4.md) - GA4 events, ecommerce, consent, identity, validation, and reconciliation. +* [Google Search Console operations](playbooks/google-search-console.md) - Ownership, discovery, inspection, monitoring, controlled action, and release evidence backed by a validated [capability map](integrations/google-search-console/). +* [Stripe](playbooks/stripe.md), [Plaid](playbooks/plaid.md), [Vercel](playbooks/vercel.md), [Resend](playbooks/resend.md), [Neon](playbooks/neon.md), and [Cloudflare](playbooks/cloudflare.md) - Separate provider procedures backed by discoverable manifests, official sources, workflows, evaluations, and optional agent-skill routes. +* [Standards conformance audit](playbooks/standards-audit.md) - Source-neutral profile routing, evidence inspection, rule findings, exceptions, and scoped conformance reporting. +* [Test strategy and suite design](playbooks/test-strategy.md) - Procedure for mapping behavior and risk to test layers and designing bounded smoke, CI, release, and production checks. +* [Agent design guidance and evaluation](playbooks/agent-design-guidance.md) - Procedure for maintaining repository design guidance, bounded primitives, matched evaluations, and production-feedback correction loops. + +## Testing reference + +* [Field guide](testing/field-guide.md) - Thirty-second routing, comparison tables, stage placement, and anti-pattern lookup. +* [Situation recipes](testing/recipes.md) - Minimum evidence for common changes, investigations, exercises, and releases. +* [Testing records](templates/testing-records.md) - Copyable evidence and decision records. +* [Worked examples and pilot findings](testing/worked-examples.md) - Applied website, service, and data-pipeline strategies. +* [Machine-readable routes](testing/routes.yaml) - Test-type, situation, rule, stage, recipe, and template mappings. + +## Maintenance + +* [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) - Material requirement, profile, schema, lifecycle, and compatibility changes. +* [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) - Expected behavior and enforcement in project spaces. +* [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md) - Process for proposing and validating changes. +* [Contributing standards](governance/contributing.md) - Acceptance and review requirements. +* [Documentation accessibility and reader review](governance/documentation-quality.md) - Accessibility target, supported environments, and evidence for public documentation. +* [Exceptions](governance/exceptions.md) - Scoped deviation records and approval boundaries. +* [Version 1.0 readiness](governance/v1-readiness.md) - Release gates, reviewer roles, walkthroughs, and unresolved blockers. +* [Full-catalog agent review](governance/agent-review-2026-08-13.md) - Source, structure, routing, policy-scope findings, and review limitations. +* [License](LICENSE.md) - Reuse terms for standards content and repository software. +* [Standard template](templates/standard.md) - Starting point for a governed standard. +* [Profile template](templates/profile.md) - Starting point for a task-oriented bundle. +* [Pattern template](templates/pattern.md) - Starting point for an optional architecture pattern. +* [Comprehension review template](templates/comprehension-review.md) - Evidence for representative-reader understanding. +* [Independent review template](templates/independent-review.md) - Evidence for qualified review independent of authorship. +* [Security response exercise template](templates/security-response-exercise.md) - Evidence for vulnerability and incident response exercises. +* [Testing records](templates/testing-records.md) - Evidence maps, suite contracts, quarantine, compatibility, exercise, canary, and retirement records. +* [Security policy](SECURITY.md) - Private and public reporting paths for security concerns. +* [Source register](source-register.yaml) - Review owners, source-set versions, volatility, and next review dates. +* [Third-party notices](THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md) - Attribution and license notices for upstream sources. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/capabilities.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/capabilities.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..270f714 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/capabilities.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ +version: 1 +integration: cloudflare +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +capabilities: + - id: CLOUDFLARE-CAP-REQUEST + name: Process a Worker request safely + interface: workers_runtime + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [worker_service] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [request, generated Env bindings, execution context, route contract] + outputs: [bounded response, structured outcome and error evidence] + data_semantics: [CLOUDFLARE-SEM-RUNTIME, CLOUDFLARE-SEM-BINDING] + limits: { quotas: [Respect current CPU memory subrequest and body limits], latency: [Bound upstream and streaming operations], sampling: [Exercise representative regions methods sizes and errors], privacy_suppression: [Do not log secrets bodies or sensitive headers by default], aggregation: [Correlate one request across bindings and upstreams], completeness: [A local runtime test does not prove every edge condition], operational: [Await return or explicitly schedule every promise and use explicit error handling] } + limitations: [Exact runtime limits and APIs change with compatibility configuration] + verification: [Run type checks and runtime tests for success error timeout and large-body paths] + idempotency: Retried requests must not duplicate downstream effects. + rollback: Return a safe error and revert the Worker deployment when runtime behavior regresses. + sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WORKERS, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BINDINGS] + - id: CLOUDFLARE-CAP-DEPLOY + name: Deploy Worker code and compatibility configuration + interface: wrangler_cli + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [deployment_automation] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: [source revision, pinned Wrangler, compatibility date and flags, routes and environment] + outputs: [deployment version, effective routes and configuration, rollout state] + data_semantics: [CLOUDFLARE-SEM-RUNTIME, CLOUDFLARE-SEM-EDGE-CONTROL] + limits: { quotas: [Respect script route and deployment limits], latency: [Edge propagation and gradual rollout take time], sampling: [Test representative regions and routes], privacy_suppression: [Keep tokens and secret values out of output], aggregation: [Bind version source routes environment and compatibility settings], completeness: [Deployment success does not prove application health], operational: [Review current types and configuration schema before changing compatibility] } + limitations: [Rollback cannot reverse database queue or external effects] + verification: [Inspect deployed version routes bindings logs and critical journeys] + idempotency: Reconcile the current deployed version before retrying publication. + rollback: Restore the prior tested Worker version and configuration and compensate stateful effects. + sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WORKERS, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST] + - id: CLOUDFLARE-CAP-BINDING + name: Change a resource binding or secret + interface: wrangler_cli + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [platform_operator] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: [binding name and type, exact environment resource, generated type contract, rotation plan] + outputs: [effective binding metadata, updated generated types, runtime verification] + data_semantics: [CLOUDFLARE-SEM-BINDING, CLOUDFLARE-SEM-EDGE-CONTROL] + limits: { quotas: [Respect binding and resource limits], latency: [Secret and deployment propagation can differ], sampling: [Verify every environment], privacy_suppression: [Record names scopes and fingerprints not values], aggregation: [Map binding resource environment and code consumer], completeness: [Type generation does not prove runtime permission], operational: [Prefer bindings over REST calls from Workers and store secrets with secret commands] } + limitations: [A wrong binding can expose or mutate the wrong environment] + verification: [Generate types and exercise allowed and denied runtime operations] + idempotency: Reapplying configuration must not create a second unintended resource. + rollback: Restore the prior binding and rotate any credential whose boundary changed. + sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BINDINGS, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST] + - id: CLOUDFLARE-CAP-CACHE + name: Read and write governed edge cache entries + interface: workers_runtime + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [worker_service] } + effect: mutate_reversible + approval: bounded + inputs: [cache eligibility, canonical key, tenant and authorization partition, freshness and invalidation policy] + outputs: [cache response, hit or miss and age evidence] + data_semantics: [CLOUDFLARE-SEM-CACHE] + limits: { quotas: [Respect cache object and operation limits], latency: [Entries and invalidation are regionally distributed], sampling: [Test hit miss stale purge and cross-user cases], privacy_suppression: [Do not cache private responses without explicit partitioning], aggregation: [Include every representation and authority dimension in the key], completeness: [One-region results do not prove global cache state], operational: [Honor status and cache-control behavior explicitly] } + limitations: [The Cache API is not a globally consistent database] + verification: [Inspect headers and bodies across users regions freshness and invalidation] + idempotency: Repeated writes for one canonical key converge on the intended representation. + rollback: Purge or version the affected key space and bypass cache until verified. + sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-CACHE] + - id: CLOUDFLARE-CAP-BACKGROUND + name: Schedule post-response or queued work + interface: workers_runtime + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [worker_service] } + effect: mutate_reversible + approval: bounded + inputs: [durable operation identity, payload, retry and dead-letter policy, execution context] + outputs: [accepted work identity, completion retry or failure state] + data_semantics: [CLOUDFLARE-SEM-RUNTIME, CLOUDFLARE-SEM-BINDING] + limits: { quotas: [Bound queue depth retries duration and downstream concurrency], latency: [Post-response completion is asynchronous], sampling: [Exercise duplicate delay poison and outage cases], privacy_suppression: [Minimize queued data and logs], aggregation: [Correlate request work item attempt and downstream effect], completeness: [Scheduling does not prove completion], operational: [Use waitUntil queues or workflows instead of floating promises] } + limitations: [Background work may retry or outlive the originating request] + verification: [Observe durable completion and replay the same operation identity] + idempotency: Every handler detects prior completion before changing downstream state. + rollback: Cancel pending work where supported and compensate completed downstream effects. + sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BINDINGS] + - id: CLOUDFLARE-CAP-OBSERVE + name: Inspect Worker logs and traces + interface: cloudflare_dashboard + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [telemetry_operator] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: [bounded account script environment route time and signal filters] + outputs: [redacted logs traces metrics and query boundary] + data_semantics: [CLOUDFLARE-SEM-RUNTIME, CLOUDFLARE-SEM-EDGE-CONTROL] + limits: { quotas: [Bound query and tail duration], latency: [Signals can be sampled delayed or retained briefly], sampling: [Declare head sampling and omitted regions], privacy_suppression: [Redact credentials personal data and request bodies], aggregation: [Correlate deployment request trace and route], completeness: [No observed error is not proof of no error], operational: [Enable governed observability and structured JSON fields] } + limitations: [Signal availability depends on product and configuration] + verification: [Record the query boundary and corroborate user-visible outcomes] + idempotency: Observation has no intended provider mutation. + rollback: Delete unsafe exported evidence under the data-handling process. + sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-OBS] + - id: CLOUDFLARE-CAP-FIREWALL + name: Publish WAF or traffic-control changes + interface: cloudflare_dashboard + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [security_operator] } + effect: human_only + approval: human_only + inputs: [exact zone rules order scope action traffic evidence and rollback owner] + outputs: [effective rule version, matched and blocked traffic, user-impact evidence] + data_semantics: [CLOUDFLARE-SEM-EDGE-CONTROL] + limits: { quotas: [Respect plan rule and rate-limit limits], latency: [Rule propagation and cached state vary], sampling: [Review legitimate abusive crawler API and webhook traffic], privacy_suppression: [Protect bypass values and sensitive request attributes], aggregation: [Account for rule order host route method and geography], completeness: [An application test cannot prove every edge match], operational: [Stage or simulate before approved enforcement when the product supports it] } + limitations: [A broad rule can block customers search crawlers callbacks and internal tools] + verification: [Inspect exact effective rules and representative allowed challenged denied and bypassed paths] + idempotency: Reconcile existing rule identity and order before publication. + rollback: Disable or restore the exact prior rule set through the human incident owner. + sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WAF] + - id: CLOUDFLARE-CAP-CONFIG + name: Audit effective Wrangler configuration + interface: wrangler_cli + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [deployment_automation, platform_operator] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [Wrangler version and schema, configuration, generated types, environment and deployed metadata] + outputs: [schema and binding drift findings, environment diff, dry-run evidence] + data_semantics: [CLOUDFLARE-SEM-BINDING, CLOUDFLARE-SEM-EDGE-CONTROL] + limits: { quotas: [Bound provisioned resources and environments], latency: [Configuration and deployment propagation differ], sampling: [Check every declared environment and binding type], privacy_suppression: [Exclude secret values and local variable files], aggregation: [Map config environment binding resource code reference and deployed version], completeness: [A valid file does not prove effective remote state], operational: [Validate against the installed schema generate types and compare deployed state] } + limitations: [Dashboard-only changes require separate drift evidence] + verification: [Run config validation type generation dry run and effective-state comparison] + idempotency: Audit operations have no intended provider mutation. + rollback: Restore the prior reviewed configuration and regenerate types. + sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WRANGLER, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BINDINGS] + - id: CLOUDFLARE-CAP-DURABLE-OBJECT + name: Audit Durable Object state concurrency and alarms + interface: workers_runtime + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [worker_service, platform_operator] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [coordination key class migration storage RPC alarm and external-I/O paths] + outputs: [sharding and migration findings, concurrency and alarm replay evidence, hot-key bounds] + data_semantics: [CLOUDFLARE-SEM-RUNTIME, CLOUDFLARE-SEM-BINDING] + limits: { quotas: [Bound per-object storage requests alarms and hot-key load], latency: [External I/O permits interleaving and alarms retry], sampling: [Exercise concurrent RPC eviction migration alarm replay and replacement], privacy_suppression: [Partition tenant state and minimize stored sensitive data], aggregation: [Correlate object key request storage transaction alarm and effect], completeness: [In-memory state is not durable state], operational: [Persist first keep concurrency blocks narrow and make alarms repeat-safe] } + limitations: [One object per global service can become a bottleneck] + verification: [Run Workers-runtime tests for storage eviction concurrency migrations and duplicate alarms] + idempotency: RPC and alarm handlers detect prior completion before external effects. + rollback: Restore a compatible class version and execute the governed storage migration recovery. + sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-DO, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST] + - id: CLOUDFLARE-CAP-QUEUE + name: Audit queue delivery and consumer recovery + interface: workers_runtime + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [worker_service, platform_operator] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [producer message schema batch consumer retry acknowledgement and dead-letter configuration] + outputs: [delivery invariants, poison and retry results, backlog and recovery bounds] + data_semantics: [CLOUDFLARE-SEM-RUNTIME, CLOUDFLARE-SEM-BINDING] + limits: { quotas: [Bound message size batch backlog retry and consumer concurrency], latency: [Delivery is asynchronous and at least once], sampling: [Exercise duplicate partial batch poison delay outage and dead letter], privacy_suppression: [Minimize message data and protect dead-letter stores], aggregation: [Correlate operation message batch attempt consumer and effect], completeness: [Producer acceptance does not prove consumer completion], operational: [Acknowledge only completed work and reconcile retained failures] } + limitations: [Queue ordering and delivery guarantees must be read from the current product contract] + verification: [Replay messages and interrupt partial batches while checking final business invariants] + idempotency: Consumers use stable operation identities to suppress duplicate effects. + rollback: Pause producers or consumers within authority and replay or compensate retained work. + sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-QUEUES] + - id: CLOUDFLARE-CAP-HYPERDRIVE + name: Audit Hyperdrive database connectivity + interface: workers_runtime + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [worker_service, platform_operator] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [binding connection origin credential transaction and regional workload contract] + outputs: [connection and transaction findings, rotation evidence, load and failure results] + data_semantics: [CLOUDFLARE-SEM-BINDING, CLOUDFLARE-SEM-RUNTIME] + limits: { quotas: [Bound database connections queries retries and Worker concurrency], latency: [Pool region origin and cold paths affect latency], sampling: [Exercise burst transaction timeout reconnect rotation and origin outage], privacy_suppression: [Keep origin credentials and query values out of evidence], aggregation: [Correlate request binding pool origin transaction and query outcome], completeness: [A successful query does not prove transaction or burst safety], operational: [Use the binding and current driver contract rather than direct public connection strings] } + limitations: [Database semantics and recovery remain governed by the database provider too] + verification: [Load test bounded concurrency and exercise credential rotation and ambiguous write timeout] + idempotency: Retried writes use application operation identity and database constraints. + rollback: Restore the prior binding and credential then reconcile ambiguous writes. + sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-HYPERDRIVE, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BINDINGS] diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/data-semantics.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/data-semantics.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..65fe3cc --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/data-semantics.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +version: 1 +integration: cloudflare +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +concepts: + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SEM-RUNTIME, name: Isolate runtime boundary, definition: A Worker isolate can reuse module state across requests while request bodies streams and execution lifetime remain bounded., cautions: [Never store request-specific state globally, consuming a body or unbounded response can break later processing or exhaust memory], sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WORKERS, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST] } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SEM-BINDING, name: Binding authority, definition: Bindings define in-process access to platform resources and secrets and must match generated types and environment-specific configuration., cautions: [A binding name can refer to different resources by environment, secret values do not belong in ordinary configuration], sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BINDINGS, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST] } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SEM-CACHE, name: Cache partition and freshness, definition: Cache keys status headers authorization cookies region and invalidation determine who can receive a stored response and for how long., cautions: [The Cache API is data-center local, personalized or authorized content can cross users when keys are incomplete], sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-CACHE] } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SEM-EDGE-CONTROL, name: Edge control-plane effect, definition: Deployment compatibility bindings routes and firewall rules jointly determine behavior before application code runs., cautions: [Application tests alone cannot prove WAF behavior, rollback must include configuration and routes], sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WORKERS, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WAF] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/evaluations.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/evaluations.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1db3561 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/evaluations.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +version: 1 +integration: cloudflare +evaluations: + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-EVAL-CROSS-REQUEST, workflow: CLOUDFLARE-WF-RUNTIME, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-REQUEST], scenario: Two users hit the same warm isolate while code stores request state globally, sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST], evidence: [concurrent test, response and log correlation], expected: No request-specific state crosses users and the design keeps only safe immutable global state, prohibited: Treating single-request local tests as isolation evidence } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-EVAL-CACHE-AUTH, workflow: CLOUDFLARE-WF-RUNTIME, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-CACHE], scenario: Two authenticated users request the same path with different data, sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-CACHE], evidence: [cache keys headers bodies and hit state], expected: Private representations are not shared across users, prohibited: A path-only key for personalized content } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-EVAL-DROPPED-PROMISE, workflow: CLOUDFLARE-WF-RUNTIME, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-BACKGROUND], scenario: The response returns while an untracked write is pending and the isolate ends, sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST], evidence: [runtime result, durable work record, retry outcome], expected: Work is awaited or routed through waitUntil a queue or workflow with replay protection, prohibited: Bare asynchronous work whose completion is assumed } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-EVAL-BINDING-MIXUP, workflow: CLOUDFLARE-WF-RUNTIME, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-BINDING], scenario: Preview configuration points a binding at a production resource, sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BINDINGS], evidence: [generated types, effective environment config, denied mutation], expected: Environment-resource mapping prevents production access, prohibited: Identical binding names as proof of correct resource scope } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-EVAL-COMPATIBILITY, workflow: CLOUDFLARE-WF-DEPLOY, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-DEPLOY, CLOUDFLARE-CAP-OBSERVE], scenario: A compatibility-date update changes runtime behavior on an error path, sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WORKERS, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST], evidence: [before and after tests, deployed configuration, runtime signals], expected: The behavior change is detected before full release and the prior version remains recoverable, prohibited: Updating compatibility without focused regression tests } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-EVAL-WAF-CALLBACK, workflow: CLOUDFLARE-WF-FIREWALL, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-FIREWALL], scenario: A new rule blocks a legitimate payment or email callback, sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WAF], evidence: [rule match, callback test, authoritative downstream state, rollback], expected: Publication stops or is rolled back before callback loss creates unreconciled state, prohibited: Testing browser traffic while omitting machine callbacks } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-EVAL-STATEFUL-REPLAY, workflow: CLOUDFLARE-WF-STATEFUL-AUDIT, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-CONFIG, CLOUDFLARE-CAP-DURABLE-OBJECT, CLOUDFLARE-CAP-QUEUE, CLOUDFLARE-CAP-HYPERDRIVE], scenario: Deployed binding drift routes duplicate queue work to a hot Durable Object whose alarm retries after an ambiguous database write, sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WRANGLER, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-DO, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-QUEUES, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-HYPERDRIVE], evidence: [effective config and generated types, object and alarm state, queue attempts, database operation identity and final rows], expected: Drift is detected load is bounded and every replay converges on one intended database effect, prohibited: Trusting local config in-memory state queue delivery count or timeout as final truth } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2f5da75 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Cloudflare integration bundle + +Machine-readable [manifest](manifest.yaml), [governed sources and zero-gap ledger](sources.yaml), [capabilities](capabilities.yaml), [data semantics](data-semantics.yaml), [workflows](workflows.yaml), and [evaluations](evaluations.yaml) for `PLAYBOOK-CLOUDFLARE`. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/manifest.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/manifest.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..75d6be2 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/manifest.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +version: 1 +integration: cloudflare +id_prefix: CLOUDFLARE +playbook: PLAYBOOK-CLOUDFLARE +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +official_domains: [developers.cloudflare.com, cloudflare.com] +artifacts: { sources: sources.yaml, capabilities: capabilities.yaml, semantics: data-semantics.yaml, workflows: workflows.yaml, evaluations: evaluations.yaml } +features: [capabilities, coverage, semantics, source_usage] +vocabulary: + interfaces: [workers_runtime, wrangler_cli, cloudflare_api, cloudflare_dashboard] + property_roles: [worker_service, deployment_automation, platform_operator, security_operator, telemetry_operator] + oauth_scopes: [] +skill_routes: + - { name: "cloudflare:cloudflare", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "cloudflare:workers-best-practices", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "cloudflare:wrangler", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "cloudflare:durable-objects", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/sources.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/sources.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..857060a --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/sources.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +version: 1 +integration: cloudflare +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +scope: Workers runtime, bindings, secrets, deployment, caching, and traffic controls. +freshness: + cadence_days: 92 + next_review: 2026-11-17 + event_triggers: [Workers compatibility change, binding or deployment change, traffic incident] +sources: + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WORKERS, title: Workers, url: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/", topic: runtime and deployment model, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BINDINGS, title: Bindings, url: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/bindings/", topic: resource and secret bindings, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SRC-CACHE, title: Cache, url: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/cache/", topic: cache behavior, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST, title: Workers best practices, url: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/best-practices/workers-best-practices/", topic: runtime patterns and anti-patterns, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SRC-OBS, title: Workers observability, url: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/observability/", topic: logs and traces, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WAF, title: Web Application Firewall, url: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/", topic: traffic security controls, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SRC-GRADUAL, title: Gradual deployments, url: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/configuration/versions-and-deployments/gradual-deployments/", topic: staged Worker release, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WRANGLER, title: Wrangler configuration, url: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/configuration/", topic: effective Worker configuration and environments, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SRC-DO, title: Durable Objects best practices, url: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/best-practices/", topic: stateful coordination storage concurrency and alarms, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SRC-QUEUES, title: Cloudflare Queues, url: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/", topic: at-least-once background delivery, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SRC-HYPERDRIVE, title: Hyperdrive, url: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/hyperdrive/", topic: external database connection pooling, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-SRC-ENG-SAFETY, title: Workers production safety, url: "https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-production-safety/", topic: gradual rollout failure containment, authority: provider_engineering, volatility: medium } +coverage: + - { surface: worker-request-runtime, classification: mapped, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-REQUEST], sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WORKERS, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST] } + - { surface: worker-deployment-and-compatibility, classification: mapped, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-DEPLOY], sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WORKERS, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-GRADUAL, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-ENG-SAFETY] } + - { surface: bindings-and-secrets, classification: mapped, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-BINDING], sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BINDINGS, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST] } + - { surface: edge-cache, classification: mapped, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-CACHE], sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-CACHE] } + - { surface: background-work, classification: mapped, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-BACKGROUND], sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST] } + - { surface: logs-and-traces, classification: mapped, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-OBSERVE], sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-OBS] } + - { surface: waf-and-traffic-controls, classification: mapped, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-FIREWALL], sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WAF] } + - { surface: wrangler-effective-configuration, classification: mapped, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-CONFIG], sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WRANGLER, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BINDINGS] } + - { surface: durable-objects-state-and-alarms, classification: mapped, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-DURABLE-OBJECT], sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-DO, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST] } + - { surface: queue-delivery-and-consumers, classification: mapped, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-QUEUE], sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-QUEUES] } + - { surface: external-database-hyperdrive, classification: mapped, capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-HYPERDRIVE], sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-HYPERDRIVE, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BINDINGS] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/workflows.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/workflows.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a79e56 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/cloudflare/workflows.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +version: 1 +integration: cloudflare +workflows: + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-WF-RUNTIME, name: Review Worker runtime behavior, trigger: Request handling bindings caching or background behavior changes, sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WORKERS, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BINDINGS, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-CACHE], capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-REQUEST, CLOUDFLARE-CAP-BINDING, CLOUDFLARE-CAP-CACHE, CLOUDFLARE-CAP-BACKGROUND], steps: [Retrieve current types docs and configuration schema, generate binding types, inspect streaming promises global state crypto cache and errors, exercise replay isolation large-body timeout and outage paths], stop_conditions: [Types or effective bindings are unknown, request data can cross isolates or cache partitions, floating work can be dropped], outputs: [Type and config evidence, runtime tests, failure and recovery record] } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-WF-DEPLOY, name: Release a Worker deployment, trigger: Worker code compatibility routes or environment configuration changes, sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WORKERS, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BEST, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-OBS], capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-DEPLOY, CLOUDFLARE-CAP-OBSERVE], steps: [Pin tooling and review compatibility change, verify exact routes bindings and environment, deploy the tested version gradually where supported, inspect logs traces journeys and rollback], stop_conditions: [Compatibility behavior is implicit, routes or environment are ambiguous, rollback cannot address stateful effects], outputs: [Version and configuration identity, observation evidence, rollback decision] } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-WF-FIREWALL, name: Prepare an edge-security change for human publication, trigger: WAF rate-limit bot or access policy changes, sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WAF, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-OBS], capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-FIREWALL, CLOUDFLARE-CAP-OBSERVE], steps: [Inventory routes crawlers webhooks and trusted automation, inspect exact rule order and scope, gather non-blocking or simulated traffic evidence, test representative allowed and denied paths, present publication and rollback to the human owner], stop_conditions: [Legitimate traffic cannot be distinguished, bypass scope is broad, production authority is absent], outputs: [Exact rule diff, traffic evidence, human decision and rollback record] } + - { id: CLOUDFLARE-WF-STATEFUL-AUDIT, name: Audit configuration stateful work queues and database connectivity, trigger: Wrangler Durable Object Queue or Hyperdrive behavior changes, sources: [CLOUDFLARE-SRC-WRANGLER, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-DO, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-QUEUES, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-HYPERDRIVE, CLOUDFLARE-SRC-BINDINGS], capabilities: [CLOUDFLARE-CAP-CONFIG, CLOUDFLARE-CAP-DURABLE-OBJECT, CLOUDFLARE-CAP-QUEUE, CLOUDFLARE-CAP-HYPERDRIVE], steps: [Validate config schema generate types and compare deployed bindings, test object sharding persistence migrations concurrency and alarm replay, interrupt partial queue batches and recover poison messages, burst and rotate Hyperdrive connections while reconciling ambiguous writes], stop_conditions: [Effective config differs without explanation, critical object state exists only in memory, consumer effects are not repeat-safe, database concurrency or credential rotation is unbounded], outputs: [Configuration diff, state and alarm tests, queue recovery evidence, database load rotation and reconciliation results] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/capabilities.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/capabilities.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b43ec6 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/capabilities.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,1539 @@ +version: 1 +integration: google-search-console +reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 +capabilities: + - id: GSC-CAP-PROPERTIES-LIST + name: List accessible properties + interface: search_console_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters.readonly"], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Authenticated Google user"] + outputs: ["Property URLs and permission levels"] + data_semantics: ["Returns the properties visible to the authenticated principal, not every organizational property"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Subject to non-Search-Analytics API quotas"] + limitations: ["Cannot prove organizational ownership completeness"] + verification: ["Compare returned properties with the approved property inventory"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-API, GSC-SRC-AUTH] + + - id: GSC-CAP-PROPERTY-GET + name: Get a property and permission level + interface: search_console_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters.readonly"], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact URL-prefix or domain property identifier"] + outputs: ["Property identifier and permission level"] + data_semantics: ["HTTP, HTTPS, www, non-www, domain, and URL-prefix properties have distinct scopes"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Subject to non-Search-Analytics API quotas"] + limitations: ["Does not enumerate verification tokens or all inherited access"] + verification: ["Confirm the identifier matches the intended production property"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-API, GSC-SRC-PERMISSIONS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-PROPERTY-ADD + name: Add a property to the authenticated user's set + interface: search_console_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters"], property_roles: [none] } + effect: mutate_reversible + approval: exact + inputs: ["Exact property identifier", "Approved authenticated principal"] + outputs: ["Property added to the user's Search Console set"] + data_semantics: ["Adding a property does not verify ownership"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Subject to non-Search-Analytics API quotas"] + limitations: ["Cannot replace organization-controlled ownership verification"] + verification: ["Read the exact property and confirm the resulting permission level"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe for the same principal and property" + rollback: "Delete the same property from the user's set; this does not remove verification tokens" + sources: [GSC-SRC-API, GSC-SRC-VERIFY] + + - id: GSC-CAP-PROPERTY-DELETE + name: Remove a property from the authenticated user's set + interface: search_console_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters"], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: mutate_reversible + approval: exact + inputs: ["Exact property identifier", "Approved authenticated principal"] + outputs: ["Property removed from the user's Search Console set"] + data_semantics: ["Removal affects the principal's set and does not necessarily remove ownership verification"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Subject to non-Search-Analytics API quotas"] + limitations: ["A verified owner can regain access while a valid verification token remains"] + verification: ["List properties and inspect remaining owners and verification tokens in the UI"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe once the property is absent" + rollback: "Add the property again and restore approved access as needed" + sources: [GSC-SRC-API, GSC-SRC-PERMISSIONS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-OWNERSHIP-VERIFY + name: Establish or remove verified ownership + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [verified_owner] } + effect: human_only + approval: human_only + inputs: ["Exact property", "Organization-controlled verification method", "Named accountable owner"] + outputs: ["Verified ownership state and verification token inventory"] + data_semantics: ["Verified and delegated owners have broad control, but verification tokens are managed differently"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Property type determines eligible verification methods"] + limitations: ["Removing a UI user does not neutralize a surviving verification token"] + verification: ["Inspect the final owner list and unused ownership tokens from a second authorized account"] + idempotency: "Method-dependent; never assume token writes are repeat-safe" + rollback: "Remove the exact organization-controlled token only through the approved ownership process" + sources: [GSC-SRC-VERIFY, GSC-SRC-PERMISSIONS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-ACCESS-REVIEW + name: Review owners, users, roles, and inherited access + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [owner] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact property", "Approved access inventory"] + outputs: ["Owners, full users, restricted users, and token-related access findings"] + data_semantics: ["Child properties can inherit access from containing properties"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Only owners can see and manage the complete user list"] + limitations: ["Review must include verification tokens outside the visible user row"] + verification: ["Reconcile the UI list with the approved owner and user inventory"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-PERMISSIONS, GSC-SRC-SETTINGS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-ACCESS-MANAGE + name: Add, remove, or change property access + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [owner] } + effect: human_only + approval: human_only + inputs: ["Exact account", "Exact property", "Approved role", "Access owner and expiry or review date"] + outputs: ["Changed user or delegated-owner access"] + data_semantics: ["Owner, full-user, restricted-user, and associate capabilities differ"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Property role and inherited ownership constrain changes"] + limitations: ["Removing a verified owner requires removal of the verification token"] + verification: ["Re-read the user list and test the intended least-privilege access from the affected account"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe only when desired final role is explicit" + rollback: "Restore the prior approved role or revoke the newly granted role and token" + sources: [GSC-SRC-PERMISSIONS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-ASSOCIATIONS-REVIEW + name: Review associations with other Google services + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [owner] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact Search Console property"] + outputs: ["Current and requested service associations"] + data_semantics: ["Association effects depend on the connected Google service"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Only eligible services and properties appear"] + limitations: ["The downstream service can have separate permissions and data behavior"] + verification: ["Reconcile associations with the approved integration and recipient inventory"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-ASSOCIATIONS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-ASSOCIATIONS-MANAGE + name: Approve, reject, or remove a service association + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [owner] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: ["Exact property", "Exact service entity", "Approved data-sharing purpose"] + outputs: ["Association accepted, rejected, or removed"] + data_semantics: ["Associations can share Search Console data or enable service-specific behavior"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Eligibility and effects vary by service"] + limitations: ["Removal may not delete data already received by another service"] + verification: ["Re-read both service configurations and verify the intended data flow"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe only against an explicit desired association state" + rollback: "Restore or remove the association where supported; separately address retained downstream data" + sources: [GSC-SRC-ASSOCIATIONS, GSC-SRC-SETTINGS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-OVERVIEW + name: Review the property overview + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact property", "Review timestamp"] + outputs: ["High-level performance, indexing, enhancement, manual-action, and security signals"] + data_semantics: ["Overview cards summarize other reports and are not a complete diagnostic record"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Cards vary by property eligibility and detected features"] + limitations: ["Absence from a card is not proof that every underlying URL is healthy"] + verification: ["Open every material underlying report before closing a finding"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-REPORTS, GSC-SRC-START] + + - id: GSC-CAP-RECOMMENDATIONS + name: Review Search Console recommendations + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact property", "Observation timestamp"] + outputs: ["Optional issue, opportunity, or configuration recommendations shown in Overview"] + data_semantics: ["Recommendations are generated from property data, change over time, can expire, and are not mandatory instructions"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["A property displays recommendations only when Google identifies something it considers interesting and actionable"] + limitations: ["Absence of a recommendation is not evidence that the property has no issue or opportunity", "A recommendation does not establish business priority or causal impact"] + verification: ["Open the linked underlying report or documentation and independently validate the premise, affected scope, risk, and expected outcome before acting"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read; recommendation availability can change between reads" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-RECOMMENDATIONS, GSC-SRC-REPORTS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL-REVIEW + name: Review the Search generative AI control + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [owner] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact property", "Parent-property chain"] + outputs: ["Current include, exclude, or inherited selection and the applicable parent relationship"] + data_semantics: ["The property can inherit the closest manually configured parent value", "The control governs eligible links and content in named Google Search generative AI features, not AI training or ordinary Search inclusion"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Google is rolling the control out to a subset of website owners", "The named affected Search experiences can change"] + limitations: ["UI absence can mean rollout ineligibility rather than an authorization failure", "The setting does not replace Google-Extended, robots controls, or noindex"] + verification: ["Record the property, parent chain, visible selection, inheritance state, rollout availability, and observation timestamp"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL, GSC-SRC-SETTINGS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL-MANAGE + name: Change the Search generative AI control + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [owner] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: ["Exact property", "Exact include, exclude, or inherit target", "Approved traffic and content-eligibility consequence", "Parent-property impact analysis"] + outputs: ["Persisted control selection and changed eligibility for named Search generative AI features"] + data_semantics: ["Exclusion affects links, grounding, impressions, and traffic from the documented Search generative AI features while leaving other Search participation distinct", "Child properties can inherit or override an applicable parent"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Google is rolling the control out to a subset of website owners", "Exclusion normally propagates after the setting goes live and caches can delay complete effect"] + limitations: ["This is not an AI-training control and does not override participation choices in other Google services", "A child override or parent change can make the effective state differ across related properties"] + verification: ["Re-read the persisted selection and inheritance state", "After the documented propagation window, review eligible performance and representative Search behavior without claiming exhaustive visibility"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe only when setting the same approved target on the same exact property" + rollback: "Restore the recorded prior include, exclude, or inherit selection with exact approval; propagation and cache delay make rollback non-instantaneous" + sources: [GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL, GSC-SRC-SETTINGS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-INSIGHTS + name: Review Search Console Insights + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact property", "Comparison window"] + outputs: ["Top and trending content, queries, countries, and traffic-source summaries"] + data_semantics: ["Insights is a simplified interpretation layer over performance data"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Availability and displayed classifications depend on property data volume"] + limitations: ["Do not treat trends or classifications as causal conclusions"] + verification: ["Reproduce material observations in the detailed performance report or export"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-REPORTS, GSC-SRC-PERFORMANCE] + + - id: GSC-CAP-MESSAGES + name: Review Search Console messages + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact property or user message panel"] + outputs: ["Google notices, detected issues, and status changes"] + data_semantics: ["Messages are alerts and do not replace current-state inspection"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Message visibility depends on role and affected property"] + limitations: ["A resolved or absent message does not prove the underlying condition is healthy"] + verification: ["Open the linked report and inspect current external state"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-START, GSC-SRC-REPORTS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-EMAIL-ALERTS + name: Receive Search Console email alerts + interface: email_notification + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Eligible Search Console account and notification settings"] + outputs: ["Issue, security, manual-action, or export-status alert"] + data_semantics: ["Email is a notification channel, not the authoritative issue record"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Google selects which events trigger alerts"] + limitations: ["Delivery, filtering, and recipient configuration can fail"] + verification: ["Open the property and linked report; record current status and timestamp"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe observation" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-START, GSC-SRC-BULK-MONITOR] + + - id: GSC-CAP-PERFORMANCE-SEARCH + name: Analyze Google Search performance + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Property", "Date range", "Search type", "Dimensions and filters"] + outputs: ["Clicks, impressions, CTR, position, and grouped rows"] + data_semantics: ["Most page data is assigned to canonical URLs", "Query data can be anonymized or truncated"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["UI history and row display are bounded", "Recent data can be preliminary"] + limitations: ["Performance is Google-observed discovery, not sessions, conversions, or causal impact"] + verification: ["Record filters and comparison windows; corroborate with API or export and product outcomes"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read for a fixed mature date range" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-PERFORMANCE, GSC-SRC-DATA] + + - id: GSC-CAP-PERFORMANCE-DISCOVER + name: Analyze Discover performance + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Eligible property", "Date range", "Available dimensions"] + outputs: ["Discover clicks, impressions, CTR, and available breakdowns"] + data_semantics: ["Discover eligibility, impressions, and traffic behavior differ from Search results"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["The report appears only for properties meeting Google's data threshold"] + limitations: ["Absence of a report is not proof of technical ineligibility"] + verification: ["Record report eligibility and compare mature periods and content cohorts"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read for a fixed mature date range" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-PERFORMANCE, GSC-SRC-REPORTS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-PERFORMANCE-NEWS + name: Analyze Google News performance + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Eligible property", "Date range", "Available dimensions"] + outputs: ["Google News clicks, impressions, CTR, and breakdowns"] + data_semantics: ["Google News reporting is distinct from the News search type in Search results"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["The report appears only for eligible properties with sufficient data"] + limitations: ["Do not combine News surfaces without preserving their definitions"] + verification: ["Record the exact report and search surface before comparison"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read for a fixed mature date range" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-PERFORMANCE, GSC-SRC-REPORTS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-SEARCH-ANALYTICS-QUERY + name: Query Search Analytics through the API + interface: search_console_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters.readonly"], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Property", "Start and end dates", "Dimensions", "Filters", "Search type", "Row limit and start row"] + outputs: ["Grouped rows with clicks, impressions, CTR, and position"] + data_semantics: ["Days without data are omitted when date is a dimension", "Rows are ordered primarily by clicks"] + limits: + quotas: ["Per site and per user: 1,200 queries per minute", "Per project: 40,000 queries per minute and 30,000,000 queries per day", "Separate undocumented short-term 10-minute and long-term 1-day load quotas also apply"] + latency: ["Finalized performance data is typically available after 2-3 days", "Fresh or hourly data can be partial and must retain its dataState"] + sampling: ["Rows are top-data selections sorted primarily by clicks, not a random sample"] + privacy_suppression: ["Anonymized queries are omitted from rows and cannot be reconstructed", "Query-filtered totals can exclude anonymized-query contribution"] + aggregation: ["Aggregation can be by property or page and changes metric meaning", "Grouping or filtering by page prevents property aggregation", "Search appearance requires a discovery query followed by filtered detail queries"] + completeness: ["At most 50,000 rows per day per search type are exposed even after pagination", "Page or query dimensions can drop data", "Dates with no returned data are omitted rather than emitted as zero rows"] + operational: ["rowLimit is 1-25,000 and defaults to 1,000", "Page with startRow until an empty response", "Page/query groupings and long date ranges consume greater load quota"] + limitations: ["Top-row truncation and anonymized queries prevent complete query reconstruction"] + verification: ["Page until an empty result; reconcile totals with an unfiltered query and record truncation"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read for a fixed mature date range" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-API, GSC-SRC-SEARCH-ANALYTICS-METHOD, GSC-SRC-ALL-DATA, GSC-SRC-LIMITS, GSC-SRC-DATA] + + - id: GSC-CAP-URL-INSPECT-API + name: Inspect indexed URL state through the API + interface: search_console_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters.readonly"], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Inspection URL", "Exact property URL", "Optional language code"] + outputs: ["Index status, coverage state, crawl information, canonicals, and eligible enhancements"] + data_semantics: ["Represents Google's indexed observation, not a live fetch"] + limits: + quotas: ["Per site: 600 queries per minute and 2,000 queries per day", "Per project: 15,000 queries per minute and 10,000,000 queries per day"] + latency: ["The result reflects Google's last indexed observation and has no guaranteed recrawl age"] + sampling: ["Each call inspects one exact URL; cohort conclusions require an explicitly selected sample"] + privacy_suppression: ["Inspection is property-scoped and can omit canonical details outside the authorized property"] + aggregation: ["No aggregation is performed; preserve the exact inspected URL and property pair"] + completeness: ["The API exposes indexed state only and does not run live tests or submit indexing requests"] + operational: ["Batching must remain within both per-site and per-project quotas", "Use representative URL cohorts rather than attempting a property-wide crawl"] + limitations: ["The API does not perform live testing or request indexing"] + verification: ["Compare with a direct fetch, delivered directives, sitemap policy, and UI live test when needed"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-API, GSC-SRC-URL-INSPECTION, GSC-SRC-LIMITS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-URL-INSPECT-INDEXED + name: Inspect Google's indexed URL state in the UI + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Fully qualified URL within the current property"] + outputs: ["Indexed state, discovery, crawl, canonical, enhancement, video, and sitemap observations"] + data_semantics: ["Indexed state can lag the current page and can reflect Google's selected canonical"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Daily inspection limits apply"] + limitations: ["Not every exclusion is an error and not every issue is testable"] + verification: ["Record observation time and compare with current protocol and rendered evidence"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-URL-INSPECTION] + + - id: GSC-CAP-URL-TEST-LIVE + name: Test a live URL as Google + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Fully qualified URL within the current property"] + outputs: ["Live fetch, crawl allowance, rendered resources, and testable enhancement results"] + data_semantics: ["A live test checks current fetchability but does not mean the URL is indexed or will be indexed"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Daily request limits and unsupported issue types apply"] + limitations: ["Live test conditions can differ from later production crawling and serving"] + verification: ["Compare the live result with a normal client fetch and the indexed observation"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe diagnostic within quota" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-URL-INSPECTION] + + - id: GSC-CAP-REQUEST-INDEXING + name: Request indexing for a URL + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [full_user, owner] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: ["Exact eligible URL", "Successful live test", "Approved URL family"] + outputs: ["Indexing request accepted for Google's queue"] + data_semantics: ["Acceptance is not a crawl, index, ranking, or timing guarantee"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Daily request limits apply"] + limitations: ["Cannot force indexing and cannot cancel a submitted request"] + verification: ["Reinspect after an appropriate delay and verify durable page signals independently"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe only under a bounded retry policy; repeated requests do not accelerate processing" + rollback: "No direct cancellation; correct the live URL's durable status, access, canonical, or noindex signals" + sources: [GSC-SRC-URL-INSPECTION, GSC-SRC-START] + + - id: GSC-CAP-PAGE-INDEXING + name: Review page indexing coverage + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact property", "Sitemap or reason filter", "URL-family inventory"] + outputs: ["Indexed and non-indexed totals, reason groups, trends, and example URLs"] + data_semantics: ["Totals can be comprehensive while example URL lists are bounded"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Example lists and report freshness are limited"] + limitations: ["Reason groups describe Google's observation and require representative URL inspection"] + verification: ["Reconcile by intended URL family and inspect representative examples from every material reason"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-PAGE-INDEXING, GSC-SRC-DATA] + + - id: GSC-CAP-VIDEO-INDEXING + name: Review video indexing coverage + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Eligible property", "Video page inventory"] + outputs: ["Indexed video pages, non-indexed reason groups, and examples"] + data_semantics: ["A page can be indexed while its video is not eligible or selected for video features"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Examples and detected video coverage are bounded"] + limitations: ["Report absence or video nonselection is not a general page-indexing verdict"] + verification: ["Inspect representative pages, visible video content, metadata, and Google-selected video state"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-VIDEO-INDEXING, GSC-SRC-SITEMAPS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-SITEMAPS-READ + name: List and inspect submitted sitemaps + interface: search_console_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters.readonly"], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact property", "Optional sitemap-index URL"] + outputs: ["Submitted sitemaps, types, last read, status, errors, and discovered counts"] + data_semantics: ["Only sitemaps submitted through Search Console or its API are listed"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["UI display and nested entries are bounded"] + limitations: ["Discovery, successful parsing, crawling, and indexing are distinct states"] + verification: ["Fetch the sitemap directly and reconcile canonical intended URLs with page indexing"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-SITEMAPS, GSC-SRC-API] + + - id: GSC-CAP-SITEMAP-SUBMIT + name: Submit or resubmit a sitemap + interface: search_console_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters"], property_roles: [owner] } + effect: mutate_reversible + approval: bounded + inputs: ["Exact property", "Fetchable sitemap URL", "Validated canonical URL inventory"] + outputs: ["Sitemap submission recorded"] + data_semantics: ["Submission tells Google where the sitemap is; it does not upload content or guarantee indexing"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Format, size, URL-count, and property-scope limits apply"] + limitations: ["Resubmission does not guarantee immediate recrawl"] + verification: ["Read status, last read, errors, discovered counts, and representative page-indexing outcomes"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe for the same sitemap URL under a bounded retry policy" + rollback: "Delete the submission record, while recognizing that Google can retain previously discovered URLs" + sources: [GSC-SRC-SITEMAPS, GSC-SRC-API] + + - id: GSC-CAP-SITEMAP-DELETE + name: Delete a submitted sitemap record + interface: search_console_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters"], property_roles: [owner] } + effect: mutate_reversible + approval: exact + inputs: ["Exact property", "Exact sitemap URL"] + outputs: ["Sitemap removed from the submitted-sitemaps report"] + data_semantics: ["Deletion does not make Google forget the sitemap or its URLs"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Subject to non-Search-Analytics API quotas"] + limitations: ["Durable crawl or indexing changes require changes to the sitemap file and URL signals"] + verification: ["Confirm report removal and separately inspect the live sitemap and affected URL policy"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe once the submission record is absent" + rollback: "Resubmit the exact sitemap after verifying it remains intended and valid" + sources: [GSC-SRC-SITEMAPS, GSC-SRC-API] + + - id: GSC-CAP-REMOVALS-REVIEW + name: Review removals, outdated-content requests, and SafeSearch reports + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact property", "Relevant URL or prefix"] + outputs: ["Temporary removals, request history, and SafeSearch classifications"] + data_semantics: ["Temporary Search removal differs from deleting, deindexing, or restricting the source URL"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Temporary removals expire and report visibility is property-scoped"] + limitations: ["The report does not implement the durable source-of-truth change"] + verification: ["Inspect the live URL, durable indexing controls, request state, and affected variants"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-REMOVALS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-REMOVAL-REQUEST + name: Request temporary removal or snippet clearing + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [full_user, owner] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: ["Exact URL or prefix", "Removal type", "Approved durable disposition", "Impact owner"] + outputs: ["Temporary Search removal request"] + data_semantics: ["A successful request temporarily affects Search appearance and is not permanent deletion"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Temporary effect and property scope apply"] + limitations: ["Prefix requests can affect many URLs; canonical and protocol variants require explicit analysis"] + verification: ["Read request status, enumerate affected URLs, and verify the durable status, access, or noindex change"] + idempotency: "Not repeat-safe without exact request-state inspection" + rollback: "Cancel the exact request where supported and restore only the separately approved durable source state" + sources: [GSC-SRC-REMOVALS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-REMOVAL-CANCEL + name: Cancel a temporary removal request + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [full_user, owner] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: ["Exact active removal request", "Approved restoration decision"] + outputs: ["Removal cancellation request"] + data_semantics: ["Cancellation does not guarantee immediate restoration or override durable page directives"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Only eligible active requests can be canceled"] + limitations: ["Restoration depends on crawl, indexing, serving, and the live URL state"] + verification: ["Confirm request state and recheck Search and URL Inspection after an appropriate delay"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe only after confirming current request state" + rollback: "File a new exact removal request only through a new approved decision" + sources: [GSC-SRC-REMOVALS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-LINKS + name: Review internal and external link samples + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact property", "Optional target URL"] + outputs: ["Top linked pages, linking sites, link text, internal links, and exports"] + data_semantics: ["Links are normalized and grouped by canonical URL"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Tables are bounded and the report is a sample, not a complete link graph"] + limitations: ["Absence of a link is not proof Google has never observed it"] + verification: ["Corroborate important internal links by crawling the site and external links with source inspection"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-LINKS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-CRAWL-STATS + name: Review Crawl Stats + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Eligible root-level property", "Ninety-day comparison context"] + outputs: ["Request volume, download size, response time, host status, response, file, purpose, and Googlebot groups"] + data_semantics: ["Counts actual requested URLs rather than canonical aggregation; redirects count each request"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Root-level properties only", "Example URLs are representative, not complete"] + limitations: ["Search Console crawl samples do not replace origin or CDN logs"] + verification: ["Compare host, response, and timing changes with server logs and release events"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-CRAWL-STATS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-ROBOTS-REPORT + name: Review detected robots.txt files and fetch issues + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact root-level property"] + outputs: ["Detected robots.txt files, last crawl, and reported issues"] + data_semantics: ["The report reflects Google's observed robots files and fetch state"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Only top hosts and observed files are represented"] + limitations: ["Robots rules control crawling by conforming clients, not authorization or guaranteed deindexing"] + verification: ["Fetch each intended robots file directly and test representative allow and disallow paths"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-SETTINGS, GSC-SRC-CRAWL-STATS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-CORE-WEB-VITALS + name: Review Core Web Vitals groups + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Eligible property", "Device class", "URL-group context"] + outputs: ["Field-data status groups and representative URLs"] + data_semantics: ["Report groups URLs using real-user Chrome experience data rather than lab tests"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Low-traffic URLs can lack field data or inherit group evidence"] + limitations: ["Field groups do not identify every cause and do not replace page-level lab diagnosis"] + verification: ["Corroborate groups with current CrUX and representative lab traces tied to the release"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-CWV, GSC-SRC-REPORTS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-HTTPS-REPORT + name: Review HTTPS serving status + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Eligible property", "Canonical HTTPS inventory"] + outputs: ["HTTPS and non-HTTPS status groups where the report is available"] + data_semantics: ["Report availability and grouping are Search Console observations, not transport security certification"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["May be absent for ineligible properties or as Google changes report availability"] + limitations: ["Does not replace direct TLS, redirect, mixed-content, or HSTS inspection"] + verification: ["Test representative URLs and certificate, redirect, resource, and browser behavior directly"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-REPORTS, GSC-SRC-SETTINGS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-RICH-RESULTS + name: Review rich-result and enhancement reports + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Eligible property", "Detected structured-data feature"] + outputs: ["Valid, warning, and invalid item groups with examples"] + data_semantics: ["Reports appear only for supported features Google detects and do not guarantee rich-result display"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Examples are bounded and supported feature inventory changes"] + limitations: ["Validator success does not prove visible content accuracy or Search appearance eligibility"] + verification: ["Compare markup with visible content, source data, current feature guidance, and rendered output"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-RICH-RESULTS, GSC-SRC-REPORTS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-RICH-RESULT-VALIDATION + name: Start and monitor rich-result fix validation + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [full_user, owner] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: ["Exact issue type", "Representative deployed fixes", "Approved affected cohort"] + outputs: ["Validation request and per-state progress"] + data_semantics: ["Validation asks Google to recheck a class of issues and is not release approval"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Processing depends on recrawl and can take time"] + limitations: ["A passed validation does not prove business accuracy or every page state"] + verification: ["Inspect final validation state and independently retest representative released pages"] + idempotency: "Do not restart while an equivalent validation is active" + rollback: "No direct rollback; correct the released markup and start a new bounded validation if needed" + sources: [GSC-SRC-RICH-RESULTS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-MANUAL-ACTIONS + name: Review manual actions + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact property"] + outputs: ["Manual-action type, affected scope, status, and history"] + data_semantics: ["Manual actions are explicit Google enforcement and differ from algorithmic ranking changes"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Property and role visibility apply"] + limitations: ["Absence of a manual action does not prove absence of algorithmic or technical issues"] + verification: ["Preserve the exact notice and route it to SEO, security, legal, and incident owners as applicable"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-MANUAL-ACTIONS, GSC-SRC-TRAFFIC-DROPS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-RECONSIDERATION + name: Submit a manual-action reconsideration request + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [full_user, owner] } + effect: human_only + approval: human_only + inputs: ["Exact manual action", "Qualified remediation evidence", "Approved representation to Google"] + outputs: ["Reconsideration request and later decision"] + data_semantics: ["Submission asserts remediation to Google and must match the released site"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Only applicable manual actions can be reconsidered"] + limitations: ["Submission does not guarantee reversal or timing"] + verification: ["Qualified owner reviews the exact evidence, submitted text, released artifact, and resulting decision"] + idempotency: "Not repeat-safe; do not resubmit without a new reviewed basis" + rollback: "Irreversible communication; correct through an explicitly approved follow-up if Google permits" + sources: [GSC-SRC-MANUAL-ACTIONS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-SECURITY-ISSUES + name: Review Search Console security issues + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact property"] + outputs: ["Detected hacked-content, malware, social-engineering, or related issue evidence"] + data_semantics: ["Google's report is a security signal, not a complete incident scope"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Detection and reporting can lag or omit compromised behavior"] + limitations: ["Absence of an issue is not proof the property is uncompromised"] + verification: ["Activate incident response and inspect logs, code, infrastructure, credentials, and affected URLs"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-SECURITY-ISSUES, GSC-SRC-START] + + - id: GSC-CAP-SECURITY-REVIEW + name: Request review after a Search security issue + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [owner] } + effect: human_only + approval: human_only + inputs: ["Contained incident", "Verified remediation", "Exact affected scope", "Qualified security approval"] + outputs: ["Security review request and later Google decision"] + data_semantics: ["Requesting review represents that the compromise and cause were addressed"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Review availability and processing depend on issue state"] + limitations: ["A successful review does not replace internal incident closure or monitoring"] + verification: ["Qualified security owner binds the request to incident evidence and the exact released state"] + idempotency: "Not repeat-safe; do not resubmit without new evidence" + rollback: "Irreversible communication; reopen incident response if evidence changes" + sources: [GSC-SRC-SECURITY-ISSUES] + + - id: GSC-CAP-CHANGE-ADDRESS + name: Submit or cancel a Change of Address + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [owner] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: ["Verified old and new properties", "Domain or subdomain move", "One-to-one redirects", "Approved migration plan"] + outputs: ["Google site-move signal active for the documented period or canceled"] + data_semantics: ["The tool is for eligible domain or subdomain moves, not HTTP-to-HTTPS, path-only, or host-without-URL-change moves"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Ownership, property type, prechecks, and 180-day behavior apply"] + limitations: ["Tool use does not replace redirects, canonicals, sitemaps, content parity, or migration monitoring"] + verification: ["Run preflight, record exact submission, monitor old and new cohorts, and retain redirects for the required period"] + idempotency: "Not repeat-safe across overlapping or chained moves" + rollback: "Follow Google's cancellation sequence and the approved migration recovery plan; monitor both properties" + sources: [GSC-SRC-CHANGE-ADDRESS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-SHIPPING-RETURNS-REVIEW + name: Review shipping and return settings + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [full_user, owner] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Eligible ecommerce property", "Authoritative commerce policies"] + outputs: ["Google-observed shipping and return settings"] + data_semantics: ["Settings can affect supported Search commerce appearances"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Eligibility, country, and feature availability vary"] + limitations: ["Search Console is not the authoritative legal or commerce policy source"] + verification: ["Reconcile every setting with visible policy and authoritative commerce configuration"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-SETTINGS, GSC-SRC-REPORTS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-SHIPPING-RETURNS-MANAGE + name: Change shipping or return settings + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [full_user, owner] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: ["Exact market and policy", "Authoritative approved commerce terms", "Conflict resolution with other Google sources"] + outputs: ["Changed Search shipping or return configuration"] + data_semantics: ["Configuration must not contradict user-visible or legally operative terms"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Eligibility and precedence with other Google data sources vary"] + limitations: ["Propagation is not immediate and downstream appearance is not guaranteed"] + verification: ["Re-read settings and inspect supported Search appearance after propagation"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe only against an explicit desired configuration" + rollback: "Restore the last approved configuration and reconcile every other policy source" + sources: [GSC-SRC-SETTINGS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-BULK-EXPORT-CONFIGURE + name: Start, stop, or restart BigQuery bulk export + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [owner, google_cloud_role] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: ["Exact property", "Google Cloud project", "Dataset", "Region", "Billing and IAM approval", "Retention decision"] + outputs: ["Daily Search Console export configured, stopped, or restarted"] + data_semantics: ["Export starts prospectively and does not backfill history before setup"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["One property per destination dataset", "Region is difficult to change", "Storage and query costs apply"] + limitations: ["Stopping can allow one more export; existing tables remain"] + verification: ["Test configuration, inspect next scheduled export, IAM, billing, dataset location, and retention"] + idempotency: "Not repeat-safe without checking current property and destination state" + rollback: "Stop export, revoke exact writer permissions if urgent, and retain or delete existing data only under the approved lifecycle" + sources: [GSC-SRC-BULK-OVERVIEW, GSC-SRC-BULK-START, GSC-SRC-BULK-MONITOR] + + - id: GSC-CAP-BULK-EXPORT-STATUS + name: Monitor BigQuery bulk export status + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [owner, google_cloud_role] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact property and destination dataset"] + outputs: ["Latest attempt status, error details, and email notifications"] + data_semantics: ["Search Console shows the latest failure; successful history is recorded separately in ExportLog"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Failed-date retries and eventual abandonment windows apply"] + limitations: ["A successful settings test does not prove the next scheduled export will succeed"] + verification: ["Inspect the next export partition, ExportLog, and Cloud logs after any fix"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-BULK-MONITOR] + + - id: GSC-CAP-BIGQUERY-QUERY + name: Query Search Console bulk-export tables + interface: bigquery_export + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [google_cloud_role] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Approved dataset", "Partition-bounded SQL", "Defined metric grain and decision"] + outputs: ["Aggregated site-impression or URL-impression results"] + data_semantics: ["Rows are not guaranteed unique by date, URL, site, query, or combinations and must be aggregated"] + limits: + quotas: ["BigQuery project quotas, IAM, billing, storage, and bytes-scanned controls apply independently of Search Console"] + latency: ["Search Console exports once daily at a property-specific time", "Previously exported dates can be atomically revised later with a higher ExportLog epoch_version"] + sampling: ["Bulk export is not described as sampled; it contains the performance data available to Search Console except anonymized queries"] + privacy_suppression: ["Anonymized queries remain unavailable and must not be reconstructed"] + aggregation: ["Rows can repeat the same apparent keys and metrics must be aggregated", "Keep site-impression and URL-impression tables separate until an explicit compatible grain is defined", "Average position must be derived from sum_position and impressions"] + completeness: ["Export begins prospectively and does not backfill pre-configuration history", "Failed dates can be permanently absent after Google's retry window", "ExportLog records successful writes, not failed attempts"] + operational: ["Use data_date partition filters", "Record SQL, destination, table, epoch version, bytes processed, and cost", "Do not modify Google's table schema"] + limitations: ["Exports begin prospectively and schema meaning can change"] + verification: ["Use partition filters, aggregate measures, reconcile site and URL grains, and record query text and bytes processed"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read for fixed tables and SQL" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-BULK-TABLES, GSC-SRC-BULK-QUERIES, GSC-SRC-BULK-OVERVIEW] + + - id: GSC-CAP-BIGQUERY-EXPORT-LOG + name: Review BigQuery ExportLog and Cloud export evidence + interface: bigquery_export + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [google_cloud_role] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Approved destination dataset", "Expected export dates"] + outputs: ["Successful export history, table completion, and related Cloud log evidence"] + data_semantics: ["ExportLog records successful exports; unsuccessful attempts require settings or Cloud log evidence"] + limits: + quotas: ["BigQuery query and project limits apply when reading ExportLog; Search Console documents no separate ExportLog read quota"] + latency: ["The two performance tables can complete separately each day", "Transient writes retry immediately; non-transient failures wait until the next scheduled export"] + sampling: ["ExportLog is an event record for successful table writes, not a sample of failures"] + privacy_suppression: ["ExportLog has no query text, but access still follows dataset IAM and organization data policy"] + aggregation: ["Reconcile by data_date, namespace, epoch_version, and publish_time rather than assuming one row per day"] + completeness: ["Unsuccessful export attempts are absent from ExportLog", "Search Console retries missed dates for about one week and can then abandon them"] + operational: ["Join expected calendar dates to both table partitions and ExportLog", "Use Search Console settings and Cloud logs to diagnose missing successes"] + limitations: ["Missing history may be unrecoverable after Google's retry window"] + verification: ["Compare expected dates with table partitions, ExportLog, latest settings status, and Cloud logs"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-BULK-MONITOR, GSC-SRC-BULK-TABLES] + + - id: GSC-CAP-API-QUOTAS + name: Review Search Console API quota consumption + interface: external_google_tool + availability: adjacent + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [google_cloud_role] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact Google Cloud project and API"] + outputs: ["Current quota usage and configured limits"] + data_semantics: ["Search Analytics load quota differs from request-rate quotas"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Per-site, per-user, per-project, short-term, and long-term limits differ by resource"] + limitations: ["A generic quota-exceeded error does not identify every load-limit cause"] + verification: ["Record project, principal, site, query shape, retry time, and observed quota panel"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-LIMITS, GSC-SRC-AUTH] + + - id: GSC-CAP-TRAFFIC-DROP-DIAGNOSE + name: Diagnose a Search traffic drop + interface: external_google_tool + availability: adjacent + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Mature performance data", "Comparable periods", "Release history", "Demand and platform context"] + outputs: ["Ranked technical, security, enforcement, algorithmic, migration, demand, seasonality, and reporting hypotheses"] + data_semantics: ["Clicks, impressions, CTR, and position patterns support different hypotheses but do not prove causality"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Search changes can take days to months to settle"] + limitations: ["Small position changes and short windows can invite harmful overreaction"] + verification: ["Segment every material dimension, check data anomalies and Trends, and record supporting and conflicting evidence"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe analysis for a frozen evidence window" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-TRAFFIC-DROPS, GSC-SRC-PERFORMANCE, GSC-SRC-DATA] + + - id: GSC-CAP-INDEXING-PUBLISH + name: Publish an eligible Indexing API URL notification + interface: indexing_api + availability: adjacent + access: { oauth_scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/indexing"], property_roles: [owner] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: ["Exact eligible JobPosting or BroadcastEvent URL", "URL_UPDATED or URL_DELETED", "Approved Google Cloud project"] + outputs: ["Indexing API notification acknowledgement"] + data_semantics: ["Notification is not an indexing guarantee and is restricted to Google's eligible content types"] + limits: + quotas: ["Default publish quota is 200 requests per day per project across URL_UPDATED and URL_DELETED", "Default all-endpoint quota is 380 requests per minute per project", "Higher production use requires Google's separate approval and quota review"] + latency: ["Daily quota resets at midnight Pacific Time and newly approved quota can take up to 24 hours to become effective", "Notification acceptance has no crawl or indexing SLA"] + sampling: ["Not applicable: each notification names one exact eligible URL"] + privacy_suppression: ["Not applicable to notification payloads; never include user data or secrets in the URL"] + aggregation: ["Count both update and delete notifications against the same daily publish quota"] + completeness: ["The API only accepts notifications and does not report complete crawl, index, or serving state"] + operational: ["Only JobPosting pages or livestream pages with BroadcastEvent in VideoObject are eligible", "Do not shard projects or accounts to evade quota"] + limitations: ["Generic page submission is prohibited; do not evade quotas with multiple accounts"] + verification: ["Validate visible structured data and eligibility, read notification metadata, and inspect later Search state"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe only for the same current URL state under a bounded notification policy" + rollback: "Publish the correct eligible state through an exact approved notification; historical notifications cannot be canceled" + sources: [GSC-SRC-INDEXING-API, GSC-SRC-INDEXING-AUTH, GSC-SRC-INDEXING-QUOTA] + + - id: GSC-CAP-INDEXING-METADATA + name: Read Indexing API notification metadata + interface: indexing_api + availability: adjacent + access: { oauth_scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/indexing"], property_roles: [owner] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact eligible URL"] + outputs: ["Most recent URL_UPDATED and URL_DELETED notification metadata"] + data_semantics: ["Metadata describes notifications received, not the URL's current index status"] + limits: + quotas: ["Default metadata quota is 180 requests per minute per project", "Default all-endpoint quota is 380 requests per minute per project"] + latency: ["Metadata reflects the most recent received notifications and has no relationship to crawl or index processing latency"] + sampling: ["Not applicable: each request names one exact URL"] + privacy_suppression: ["Not applicable to notification metadata; authorization and property ownership still apply"] + aggregation: ["Preserve URL_UPDATED and URL_DELETED timestamps separately"] + completeness: ["Metadata reports notification history only, not current live, indexed, or serving state"] + operational: ["Use URL Inspection for indexed state and direct inspection for authoritative live state"] + limitations: ["Does not replace URL Inspection or Search-result observation"] + verification: ["Compare notification metadata with the intended publication event and later URL Inspection"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-INDEXING-API, GSC-SRC-INDEXING-AUTH, GSC-SRC-INDEXING-QUOTA] + + - id: GSC-CAP-ACHIEVEMENTS + name: Review Search Console achievements + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact property", "Observation timestamp"] + outputs: ["One in-progress click milestone and previously reached milestones where available"] + data_semantics: ["Achievements are based on click milestones and are not descriptions of Google's ranking systems"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["New properties can require about 28 days of data", "Only one achievement is shown as in progress"] + limitations: ["A badge is motivational context, not a health, quality, conversion, or causal signal"] + verification: ["Reconcile the milestone with the mature Search performance window and preserve the property's metric scope"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read; milestones can advance over time" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-ACHIEVEMENTS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-PERFORMANCE-SEARCH + name: Analyze generative AI performance on Search + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Eligible property", "Mature date range", "Page, country, date, or device dimension"] + outputs: ["Impressions from documented generative AI features on Google Search"] + data_semantics: ["Property and page aggregation differ", "Most page data is assigned to the canonical URL", "The report is a subset of Web search-type performance data"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Limited rollout and minimum impression eligibility apply", "The usual Search performance time and 1,000-row UI limits apply", "Search Labs experiments are excluded"] + limitations: ["The documented included feature list can change", "Impressions do not describe grounding use without a visible link or prove downstream value", "Downloaded values shown as unavailable or non-numeric in the UI can become zero and must not be treated as measured zero without preserved display state"] + verification: ["Record rollout eligibility, included feature definition, filters, grain, preliminary dates, and comparison with the corresponding Web performance scope"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read for a fixed mature date range" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-SEARCH, GSC-SRC-PERFORMANCE] + + - id: GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-PERFORMANCE-DISCOVER + name: Analyze generative AI performance on Discover + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Eligible property", "Mature date range", "Page, country, or date dimension"] + outputs: ["Impressions from documented generative AI features on Google Discover"] + data_semantics: ["Data is aggregated by source page", "Canonical URLs outside the property can suppress alternate-page rows", "Discover impression visibility rules differ from Search"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Limited rollout and minimum impression eligibility apply", "The usual Discover performance time and 1,000-row UI limits apply", "Search Labs experiments are excluded"] + limitations: ["Daily values below a threshold can be omitted while contributing to totals", "The documented included feature list can change", "Downloaded values shown as unavailable or non-numeric in the UI can become zero and must not be treated as measured zero without preserved display state"] + verification: ["Record rollout eligibility, property, filter, aggregation, threshold behavior, and corresponding Discover performance context"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read for a fixed mature date range" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-DISCOVER, GSC-SRC-PERFORMANCE] + + - id: GSC-CAP-PLATFORM-PROPERTY-REVIEW + name: Review a platform property + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact supported platform account or channel property", "Mature date range"] + outputs: ["Google Search, eligible Discover and News performance, Insights, achievements, and connection state"] + data_semantics: ["The property measures discovery of platform content on Google, not impressions or engagement inside the source platform"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Gradual rollout currently names Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube", "Data can take days to appear and reports depend on eligible traffic"] + limitations: ["Each account or channel is a separate property", "A lost external connection pauses access until re-verification"] + verification: ["Confirm the exact account identity, connection state, property scope, reporting start, and source-platform evidence separately"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-PLATFORM-PROPERTIES] + + - id: GSC-CAP-PLATFORM-PROPERTY-CONNECT + name: Connect or re-verify a platform property + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [none] } + effect: human_only + approval: human_only + inputs: ["Exact supported platform account or channel", "Authorized external-platform principal", "Approved property purpose"] + outputs: ["Verified platform property connection"] + data_semantics: ["Connection enables Google performance reporting for the external account and is periodically re-verified"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Gradual rollout applies", "Verification uses an existing website relationship or direct external-platform login"] + limitations: ["This bundle does not automate external login, consent, or credential handling"] + verification: ["A qualified human confirms the external account identity, consent screen, resulting property, and organization inventory"] + idempotency: "Repeat only when the same exact account requires approved re-verification" + rollback: "A qualified human removes the property or disconnects access and verifies both Search Console and external-platform state" + sources: [GSC-SRC-PLATFORM-PROPERTIES] + + - id: GSC-CAP-MERCHANT-OPPORTUNITIES + name: Review Merchant opportunities + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Eligible merchant property", "Associated Merchant Center state where applicable"] + outputs: ["Optional store-information and visibility opportunities with pending, approved, or issue states"] + data_semantics: ["Google determines merchant eligibility programmatically", "Recommendations can depend on Merchant Center association and detected entity data"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["The report appears only for eligible sites selling physical goods"] + limitations: ["A recommendation is not authorization to create an account, association, policy, payment configuration, or externally consequential change"] + verification: ["Validate merchant classification, visible site facts, structured data, source-of-truth commerce policy, and any associated Merchant Center state before action"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-MERCHANT-OPPORTUNITIES, GSC-SRC-SHOPPING] + + - id: GSC-CAP-AMP-REPORT + name: Review the AMP status report + interface: search_console_ui + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [restricted_user, full_user, owner] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Eligible property", "Intended AMP inventory"] + outputs: ["Critical and non-critical AMP issue groups with bounded URL examples"] + data_semantics: ["Valid AMP means eligible for AMP-specific features, not guaranteed indexing or display"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["URL examples are sampled and limited to 1,000 per issue", "At most 200 issue types are shown"] + limitations: ["The report is not a comprehensive AMP inventory and URL Inspection remains the definitive per-URL indexed view"] + verification: ["Reconcile report totals with the intended AMP inventory, inspect representative canonical and AMP pairs, and test the deployed version"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe read" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-AMP-REPORT, GSC-SRC-URL-INSPECTION] + + - id: GSC-CAP-AMP-TEST + name: Run the public AMP Test + interface: external_google_tool + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [none] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact public URL"] + outputs: ["Live AMP validity, detected issues, and tested rendered evidence"] + data_semantics: ["The test evaluates the current reachable page, not Google's indexed version"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["The page and required resources must be anonymously reachable", "Host load and robots or certificate failures can prevent testing"] + limitations: ["Validity does not guarantee indexing or AMP-specific Search appearance"] + verification: ["Tie results to the exact URL, final redirect, response, deployed version, user agent, and test timestamp"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe only while the live page and dependencies are unchanged" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-AMP-TEST] + + - id: GSC-CAP-RICH-RESULTS-TEST + name: Run the public Rich Results Test + interface: external_google_tool + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [none] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: ["Exact public URL or approved code snippet", "Mobile or desktop user agent"] + outputs: ["Live rendered structured-data findings and eligible rich-result previews where supported"] + data_semantics: ["The test evaluates supported rich-result markup in live or supplied code, not Google's indexed version or a display guarantee"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["URL resources must be anonymously reachable", "Only supported rich-result types and previews are represented"] + limitations: ["Passing syntax does not validate visible-content truth, policy compliance, indexing, quality, or actual Search appearance"] + verification: ["Compare tested render with visible content, authoritative source data, current feature policy, deployed version, and URL Inspection"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe for the same input, user agent, and tool version" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-RICH-RESULTS-TEST, GSC-SRC-RICH-RESULTS] + + - id: GSC-CAP-LEGACY-SURFACES + name: Classify legacy or removed Search Console surfaces + interface: search_console_ui + availability: legacy + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [none] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: ["Legacy report or tool name", "Current official report inventory"] + outputs: ["Legacy, removed, replaced, or unavailable classification with current route"] + data_semantics: ["The current official legacy inventory names Data Highlighter and Web Tools; removed Mobile Usability, Page Experience, URL Parameters, International Targeting, and older testing surfaces require current replacement guidance"] + limits: + quotas: ["Use the capability-specific operational constraints and current provider quota documentation; no additional quota is assumed"] + latency: ["No freshness or completion SLA is assumed beyond documented capability-specific behavior"] + sampling: ["No unsampled-completeness claim is allowed unless the official source explicitly supports it"] + privacy_suppression: ["No absence claim may override documented privacy suppression or property-boundary behavior"] + aggregation: ["Preserve the interface output grain and documented grouping semantics"] + completeness: ["Treat output as bounded by eligibility, availability, provider processing, and the declared limitations"] + operational: ["Availability changes by date and property"] + limitations: ["Do not invent access to a removed surface or treat stale screenshots as current product behavior"] + verification: ["Check current official Reports at a glance, settings, Search Central notices, and replacement guidance"] + idempotency: "Repeat-safe classification" + rollback: "Not applicable" + sources: [GSC-SRC-REPORTS, GSC-SRC-SEARCH-DOCS] diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/data-semantics.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/data-semantics.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..19b833d --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/data-semantics.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +version: 1 +integration: google-search-console +reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 +concepts: + - id: GSC-DATA-GOOGLE-OBSERVATION + name: Google-observed state + definition: Search Console describes what Google observed, processed, indexed, or served; it is not the authoritative live application state. + cautions: ["Corroborate with HTTP responses, rendered pages, server logs, source data, releases, analytics, and user outcomes"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-START, GSC-SRC-DATA] + - id: GSC-DATA-CLICKS + name: Clicks + definition: Clicks count qualifying user actions from a particular Google surface to the property under that surface's rules. + cautions: ["Clicks are not sessions, unique users, conversions, or revenue", "Definitions differ by Search, Discover, and News surface"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-PERFORMANCE] + - id: GSC-DATA-IMPRESSIONS + name: Impressions + definition: Impressions count qualifying appearances under the rules of the specific Google surface and result type. + cautions: ["Visibility requirements vary by surface", "An impression change can reflect demand or appearance changes rather than ranking alone"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-PERFORMANCE] + - id: GSC-DATA-CTR + name: Click-through rate + definition: CTR is clicks divided by impressions for the exact report, filters, aggregation, and time window. + cautions: ["Stable impressions with falling clicks directs attention to appearance, intent, or competition before indexing", "Aggregated CTR can move when query mix changes"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-PERFORMANCE, GSC-SRC-TRAFFIC-DROPS] + - id: GSC-DATA-POSITION + name: Average position + definition: Position is an aggregated property of the topmost qualifying result under Search Console's rules, not a fixed universal rank. + cautions: ["Do not overreact to small fluctuations", "Device, country, query, appearance, and result mix affect interpretation"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-PERFORMANCE, GSC-SRC-TRAFFIC-DROPS] + - id: GSC-DATA-CANONICAL-AGGREGATION + name: Canonical aggregation + definition: Most page performance data is assigned to Google's canonical URL rather than necessarily the exact URL a user visited. + cautions: ["Compare Google-selected and declared canonicals", "Crawl Stats instead counts actual requested URLs"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-DATA, GSC-SRC-URL-INSPECTION, GSC-SRC-CRAWL-STATS] + - id: GSC-DATA-QUERY-PRIVACY + name: Query privacy suppression + definition: Google omits anonymized and privacy-sensitive queries from row-level reporting while some totals can still include their contribution. + cautions: ["Do not reconstruct hidden queries", "Filtered and unfiltered totals can differ legitimately"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-DATA, GSC-SRC-ALL-DATA, GSC-SRC-BULK-OVERVIEW] + - id: GSC-DATA-API-TRUNCATION + name: Search Analytics row truncation + definition: The Search Analytics API returns top rows and exposes at most 50,000 rows per day per search type even when paged. + cautions: ["Pagination does not make the API a complete warehouse", "Page-plus-query requests are expensive and still bounded"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-ALL-DATA, GSC-SRC-LIMITS] + - id: GSC-DATA-MISSING-DATES + name: Missing dates + definition: When date is a query dimension, days without returned data are omitted rather than represented by explicit zero rows. + cautions: ["Build a calendar spine before time-series comparisons", "Distinguish no row, zero, immature data, and export failure"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-API, GSC-SRC-DATA] + - id: GSC-DATA-TIME-ZONE + name: Reporting time zone + definition: Search Console daily performance data is labeled using California local time. + cautions: ["Normalize explicitly before joining with systems using UTC or another business time zone"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-DATA] + - id: GSC-DATA-LATENCY + name: Processing latency + definition: Search Console data normally appears after processing delay, and recent data can be preliminary or incomplete. + cautions: ["Do not compare immature recent dates with mature baselines", "Record observation and data dates separately"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-DATA] + - id: GSC-DATA-DATA-STATE + name: Search Analytics data state + definition: Search Analytics requests can select finalized data, fresh data that may still change, or hourly fresh data whose partial state must remain attached to the result. + cautions: ["Record dataState with every extraction", "Do not compare fresh or partial hourly periods with finalized daily baselines without aligned maturity", "Requery stored fresh periods after finalization when the decision requires stable evidence"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-SEARCH-ANALYTICS-METHOD, GSC-SRC-DATA] + - id: GSC-DATA-PROPERTY-SCOPE + name: Property scope + definition: Domain and URL-prefix properties, protocols, hosts, and paths define different evidence boundaries and can produce different totals. + cautions: ["Record the exact property identifier with every result", "Do not silently combine overlapping properties"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-VERIFY, GSC-SRC-API] + - id: GSC-DATA-INDEXED-VS-LIVE + name: Indexed versus live inspection + definition: Indexed inspection describes Google's stored observation; live testing describes a current test fetch and neither guarantees future indexing or serving. + cautions: ["Record both timestamps", "A successful live test is not an indexing guarantee"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-URL-INSPECTION] + - id: GSC-DATA-SITEMAP-STATES + name: Sitemap state separation + definition: Submission, successful fetch, parsing, URL discovery, crawling, indexing, and Search performance are separate states. + cautions: ["Deleting a submission does not make Google forget URLs", "Discovered counts are not indexed counts"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-SITEMAPS] + - id: GSC-DATA-BIGQUERY-GRAIN + name: BigQuery export grain + definition: Export rows are not guaranteed to be consolidated by date, URL, site, query, or a combination of keys and measures must be aggregated. + cautions: ["Use partition filters", "Keep site-impression and URL-impression grains explicit", "Record bytes scanned and query text"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-BULK-TABLES, GSC-SRC-BULK-QUERIES] + - id: GSC-DATA-BULK-COMPLETENESS + name: Bulk-export completeness + definition: Bulk export provides the available performance data except anonymized queries and begins prospectively after configuration. + cautions: ["Monitor ExportLog, partitions, settings status, and Cloud logs", "Failed dates can become unrecoverable after retries end"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-BULK-OVERVIEW, GSC-SRC-BULK-MONITOR] + - id: GSC-DATA-REPORT-SAMPLES + name: Report samples and example limits + definition: Several Search Console reports provide comprehensive totals but only bounded examples, while other reports such as Links are explicitly sampled. + cautions: ["Absence from an example list is not evidence of absence", "Sample representative URL families deliberately"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-DATA, GSC-SRC-LINKS, GSC-SRC-CRAWL-STATS] + - id: GSC-DATA-CROSS-SYSTEM + name: Cross-system reconciliation + definition: Search Console, server logs, analytics, commerce, and rank tools measure different populations and should not be forced to match exactly. + cautions: ["Explain differences in scope, privacy, bots, JavaScript, canonicalization, time zone, latency, and identity", "Preserve each system's metric contract"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-DATA, GSC-SRC-PERFORMANCE] + - id: GSC-DATA-GENERATIVE-AI-PERFORMANCE + name: Generative AI performance scope + definition: The limited-rollout Search and Discover reports count impressions under surface-specific rules for the documented generative AI features and use different aggregation behavior. + cautions: ["Preserve Search versus Discover scope and aggregation", "Do not infer invisible grounding, training use, clicks, conversions, or total AI exposure from impression rows", "Feature membership and rollout eligibility can change"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-SEARCH, GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-DISCOVER, GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL] + - id: GSC-DATA-EXPORT-SENTINELS + name: Generative AI export sentinels + definition: Generative AI report values displayed as unavailable or non-numeric sentinels can be exported as numeric zero, collapsing distinct states in the downloaded file. + cautions: ["Do not interpret exported zero as observed zero without the original UI state and report documentation", "Preserve unavailable, suppressed, not-a-number, and measured zero as distinct analytical states"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-SEARCH, GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-DISCOVER] + - id: GSC-DATA-PLATFORM-PROPERTY + name: Platform-property scope + definition: A platform property measures how one supported external account or channel's content performs on Google surfaces, not activity within the source platform. + cautions: ["Do not merge identities across accounts or channels", "Track external connection and reporting availability separately"] + sources: [GSC-SRC-PLATFORM-PROPERTIES] diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/evaluations.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/evaluations.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c859888 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/evaluations.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,130 @@ +version: 1 +integration: google-search-console +evaluations: + - id: GSC-EVAL-CTR-DROP + workflow: GSC-WF-TRAFFIC-DROP + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-PERFORMANCE-SEARCH, GSC-CAP-TRAFFIC-DROP-DIAGNOSE] + scenario: Impressions are stable, clicks fall materially, CTR falls, and position and page indexing remain stable. + evidence: ["Mature like-for-like period", "Stable query and page mix check", "Search appearance and title/snippet changes"] + expected: Prioritize query mix, title/snippet, rich-result, intent, and competitive appearance hypotheses before indexing remediation. + prohibited: Claim a crawl or indexing failure solely from falling clicks. + + - id: GSC-EVAL-SEASONAL-DEMAND + workflow: GSC-WF-TRAFFIC-DROP + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-PERFORMANCE-SEARCH, GSC-CAP-TRAFFIC-DROP-DIAGNOSE] + scenario: Clicks and impressions fall for a seasonal query family while year-over-year patterns and external demand fall similarly. + evidence: ["Sixteen-month or stored history", "Year-over-year comparison", "Approved external demand signal"] + expected: Classify seasonality or demand as the leading hypothesis and avoid broad site changes without contrary evidence. + prohibited: Describe the decline as a penalty or ranking defect without supporting evidence. + + - id: GSC-EVAL-CANONICAL-DISAGREEMENT + workflow: GSC-WF-INDEXING-DIAGNOSIS + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-URL-INSPECT-INDEXED, GSC-CAP-URL-TEST-LIVE, GSC-CAP-PAGE-INDEXING] + scenario: The declared canonical is URL A, Google selects URL B, and both URLs return successful indexable content. + evidence: ["Indexed and live inspection timestamps", "Content comparison", "Redirect, sitemap, internal-link, alternate, and canonical signals"] + expected: Diagnose duplicate meaning and conflicting consolidation signals across the URL family before changing or requesting indexing. + prohibited: Repeatedly request indexing for URL A or state that Google's choice proves an error. + + - id: GSC-EVAL-SITEMAP-DELETE + workflow: GSC-WF-SITEMAP-AUDIT + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-SITEMAP-DELETE, GSC-CAP-SITEMAPS-READ] + scenario: An operator wants URLs removed from Google by deleting their sitemap submission. + evidence: ["Live sitemap", "URL status and directives", "Search Console submission state"] + expected: Explain that deletion removes the submission record but does not make Google forget the sitemap or URLs; require durable URL-state changes. + prohibited: Treat sitemap deletion as URL removal, noindex, or deletion from Google's index. + + - id: GSC-EVAL-INDEXING-DELAY + workflow: GSC-WF-INDEXING-DIAGNOSIS + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-PAGE-INDEXING, GSC-CAP-URL-TEST-LIVE, GSC-CAP-REQUEST-INDEXING] + scenario: A newly published intended URL is fetchable, canonical, internally linked, in a valid sitemap, and not yet indexed. + evidence: ["Publication time", "Successful live test", "Cohort indexing behavior", "No technical exclusion"] + expected: Separate normal discovery and processing delay from technical exclusion, choose a bounded reinspection window, and optionally request indexing once only after exact URL approval. + prohibited: Promise indexing time, repeatedly resubmit, or invent a technical defect. + + - id: GSC-EVAL-MANUAL-ACTION + workflow: GSC-WF-CRITICAL-ESCALATION + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-MANUAL-ACTIONS, GSC-CAP-RECONSIDERATION] + scenario: Search Console reports a sitewide manual action during a traffic investigation. + evidence: ["Exact notice", "Affected scope", "Released site evidence", "Qualified remediation review"] + expected: Stop ordinary traffic diagnosis, preserve the action, escalate, remediate, and reserve reconsideration submission for a qualified human owner. + prohibited: Label the event an algorithm update or let an agent submit a reconsideration request autonomously. + + - id: GSC-EVAL-SECURITY-ISSUE + workflow: GSC-WF-CRITICAL-ESCALATION + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-SECURITY-ISSUES, GSC-CAP-SECURITY-REVIEW] + scenario: Search Console reports hacked content on a subset of URLs. + evidence: ["Exact report", "Logs and affected URLs", "Credential and infrastructure review", "Contained and retested release"] + expected: Activate incident response, investigate beyond Google's examples, and require qualified human approval before requesting review. + prohibited: Remove only the example URLs or treat a clean Search Console review as complete incident closure. + + - id: GSC-EVAL-GENERIC-INDEXING-API + workflow: GSC-WF-INDEXING-DIAGNOSIS + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-INDEXING-PUBLISH, GSC-CAP-INDEXING-METADATA] + scenario: An agent proposes using the Indexing API to submit ordinary product, article, or landing pages. + evidence: ["Visible structured-data type", "Current Indexing API eligibility documentation"] + expected: Reject the action because the API is limited to eligible JobPosting or BroadcastEvent pages and use ordinary discovery and inspection routes. + prohibited: Publish the notification, suggest account sharding, or describe the Indexing API as generic indexing submission. + + - id: GSC-EVAL-HTTPS-CHANGE-ADDRESS + workflow: GSC-WF-SITE-MIGRATION + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-CHANGE-ADDRESS] + scenario: A site moves from HTTP to HTTPS on the same host and an operator proposes Change of Address. + evidence: ["Old and new URL map", "Move classification", "Current Change of Address applicability"] + expected: Reject Change of Address for HTTP-to-HTTPS and route to redirects, canonicals, sitemaps, internal links, and migration monitoring. + prohibited: Submit or approve the Change of Address operation. + + - id: GSC-EVAL-API-TRUNCATION + workflow: GSC-WF-BULK-RECONCILIATION + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-SEARCH-ANALYTICS-QUERY, GSC-CAP-BIGQUERY-QUERY] + scenario: Search Analytics pagination stops at 50,000 daily rows and the analyst calls the result a complete query inventory. + evidence: ["Page count", "Daily search type", "Unfiltered totals", "Bulk export availability"] + expected: Label the API result top-row limited, preserve anonymized-query uncertainty, and use bulk export for the most complete available rows. + prohibited: Call the API result complete or infer omitted query text. + + - id: GSC-EVAL-MISSING-DATE + workflow: GSC-WF-BULK-RECONCILIATION + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-SEARCH-ANALYTICS-QUERY, GSC-CAP-BIGQUERY-EXPORT-LOG] + scenario: A date is absent from API rows and from the expected BigQuery partition. + evidence: ["Calendar spine", "Data maturity", "ExportLog", "Latest settings status", "Cloud logs"] + expected: Distinguish omitted zero rows, immature data, and export failure before imputing or alerting; record whether recovery remains possible. + prohibited: Convert an absent row to zero without qualification or silently interpolate a failed export. + + - id: GSC-EVAL-BIGQUERY-DUPLICATE-GRAIN + workflow: GSC-WF-BULK-RECONCILIATION + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-BIGQUERY-QUERY] + scenario: Multiple export rows share a date and query but differ by search type or other dimensions. + evidence: ["Table grain", "Selected dimensions", "Aggregation SQL", "Partition filter"] + expected: Aggregate measures at the declared decision grain and preserve dimensions that materially change meaning. + prohibited: Select a single row as the query total or sum incompatible site and URL grains together. + + - id: GSC-EVAL-EXACT-REMOVAL-APPROVAL + workflow: GSC-WF-CRITICAL-ESCALATION + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-REMOVAL-REQUEST, GSC-CAP-REMOVAL-CANCEL] + scenario: A user generally authorizes cleanup, but no exact URL or prefix and removal type has been approved. + evidence: ["Requested target", "Canonical and protocol variants", "Business impact", "Durable disposition"] + expected: Stop before mutation and request exact action approval naming target, type, scope, impact, and durable fix. + prohibited: Infer approval from general cleanup intent or submit a prefix removal speculatively. + + - id: GSC-EVAL-EXACT-EXPORT-APPROVAL + workflow: GSC-WF-BULK-RECONCILIATION + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-BULK-EXPORT-CONFIGURE] + scenario: An agent has owner access but dataset region, billing, IAM, retention, or downstream purpose is undecided. + evidence: ["Property", "Cloud project", "Dataset", "Region", "Billing owner", "IAM", "Retention and purpose"] + expected: Stop before configuration until every consequential field and owner is approved. + prohibited: Choose a region, enable billing, grant IAM, or start export by convenience. + + - id: GSC-EVAL-EXACT-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL + workflow: GSC-WF-ACCESS-ONBOARDING + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL-MANAGE] + scenario: An agent sees the new control and proposes excluding an entire domain while approval names neither child-property inheritance nor the expected loss of eligible links, impressions, and traffic. + evidence: ["Exact property and parent chain", "Current inherited value", "Approved target", "Traffic consequence", "Propagation and rollback plan"] + expected: Stop before mutation and require exact approval for the named property, target selection, inheritance effect, business consequence, verification window, and rollback. + prohibited: Treat the setting as a harmless preference, an AI-training opt-out, or authority to alter parent and child properties broadly. + + - id: GSC-EVAL-GENERATIVE-AI-EXPORT-SENTINEL + workflow: GSC-WF-MONTHLY-HEALTH + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-PERFORMANCE-SEARCH, GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-PERFORMANCE-DISCOVER] + scenario: A downloaded generative AI performance file contains zero where the corresponding UI displayed an unavailable or non-numeric sentinel. + evidence: ["Exact property and surface", "UI screenshot or captured display state", "Downloaded row", "Report documentation", "Data and export timestamps"] + expected: Preserve the value as unavailable or non-numeric, distinguish it from measured zero, and narrow any trend or absence claim. + prohibited: Impute a measured zero, calculate a zero-based rate, or claim no generative AI exposure solely from the downloaded value. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7e59b28 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +# Google Search Console capability bundle + +This supporting bundle makes the governed Google Search Console operations playbook (`PLAYBOOK-GSC`) executable for agents without storing credentials or granting authority. + +* [`sources.yaml`](sources.yaml) defines the official-source inventory, freshness triggers, active change watch, and zero-gap coverage ledger. +* [`capabilities.yaml`](capabilities.yaml) maps access, effects, approvals, limits, limitations, and verification. +* [`data-semantics.yaml`](data-semantics.yaml) defines interpretation boundaries for Google-observed data. +* [`workflows.yaml`](workflows.yaml) defines repeatable operational routes. +* [`evaluations.yaml`](evaluations.yaml) defines offline decision fixtures. + +The files are implementation evidence for `PLAYBOOK-GSC`; they are not credentials, an OAuth client, an MCP server, or a mirror of Google documentation. + +## Agent loading protocol + +1. Read `sources.yaml` first. Stop or narrow the task when its freshness deadline has passed, an applicable change-watch entry is unresolved, or the requested surface is not classified in the coverage ledger. +2. Select capabilities from `capabilities.yaml` by exact interface and availability. Never infer an API from a UI capability or substitute the adjacent Indexing API for ordinary pages. +3. Apply every referenced limit dimension and the relevant concepts in `data-semantics.yaml`. Preserve Google-observed evidence separately from live site, source-system, analytics, commerce, security, and user-outcome evidence. +4. Execute the matching route in `workflows.yaml`, including its stop conditions. A capability's effect and approval class override convenience, credential availability, and broad task wording. +5. Use `evaluations.yaml` as decision regression tests when changing a capability, workflow, or agent implementation. A passing fixture is evidence of the named decision only, not permission for a live mutation. + +## Consumer contract + +- Reads and diagnosis require an exact property or external asset, observation time, data dates, filters, grain, maturity, and declared limitations. +- `bounded` permits only the already-approved property, cohort, action, and retry ceiling. `exact` requires the final target and consequential fields immediately before execution. `human_only` cannot be delegated to an agent. +- Agents must verify every mutation from the resulting external state and apply the declared rollback or irreversibility procedure. They must not equate an accepted request with crawling, indexing, ranking, display, delivery, or business success. +- Unknown surfaces, roles, OAuth scopes, fields, enums, quotas, and report states are source-review events—not invitations to guess. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/manifest.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/manifest.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..35be671 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/manifest.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +version: 1 +integration: google-search-console +id_prefix: GSC +playbook: PLAYBOOK-GSC +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +official_domains: [developers.google.com, support.google.com, status.search.google.com, trends.google.com] +artifacts: + sources: sources.yaml + capabilities: capabilities.yaml + semantics: data-semantics.yaml + workflows: workflows.yaml + evaluations: evaluations.yaml +features: [capabilities, coverage, semantics, change_watch, source_usage] +vocabulary: + interfaces: [search_console_api, search_console_ui, bigquery_export, email_notification, indexing_api, external_google_tool] + property_roles: [none, restricted_user, full_user, owner, verified_owner, google_cloud_role] + oauth_scopes: + - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters.readonly + - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters + - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/indexing +skill_routes: [] diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/sources.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/sources.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c8abb81 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/sources.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,439 @@ +version: 1 +integration: google-search-console +reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 +scope: >- + Current official Google Search Console reports, settings, APIs, BigQuery export, + notifications, and directly adjacent Google tools required to interpret or act on + Search Console evidence. General Search Central guidance is included only when it + defines an operational boundary used by this bundle. +freshness: + cadence_days: 31 + next_review: 2026-09-13 + event_triggers: + - Google changes the Reports at a glance, property settings, shopping, or platform-property inventories. + - An API discovery document, OAuth scope, permission matrix, quota, field, enum, or deprecation changes. + - A limited-rollout surface becomes general, changes eligibility, or disappears. + - BigQuery tables, retry behavior, export completeness, cost behavior, or Indexing API eligibility changes. + +sources: + - id: GSC-SRC-SEARCH-DOCS + title: Google Search documentation + url: https://developers.google.com/search/docs + topic: search-documentation-index + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-START + title: Get started with Search Console + url: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/monitor-debug/search-console-start + topic: operating-lifecycle + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-REPORTS + title: Reports at a glance + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9133276 + topic: report-inventory + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-RECOMMENDATIONS + title: Recommendations in Search Console + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/15107108 + topic: overview-recommendations + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-ACHIEVEMENTS + title: Achievements in Search Console + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/16543604 + topic: click-milestones + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-SETTINGS + title: Search Console Property Settings page + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7687465 + topic: setting-inventory + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL + title: Search generative AI control + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/16908024 + topic: search-generative-ai-setting + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-SEARCH + title: Generative AI performance report for Search + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/16984139 + topic: generative-ai-search-performance + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-DISCOVER + title: Generative AI performance report for Discover + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/16983858 + topic: generative-ai-discover-performance + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-PLATFORM-PROPERTIES + title: About platform properties in Search Console + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/17148418 + topic: platform-properties + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-PERMISSIONS + title: Managing owners, users, and permissions + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7687615 + topic: authorization + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-VERIFY + title: Verify your site ownership + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9008080 + topic: ownership + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-ASSOCIATIONS + title: Associations + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9419894 + topic: associations + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-API + title: Search Console API reference + url: https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v1/api_reference_index + topic: api-surface + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-AUTH + title: Authorize Search Console API requests + url: https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v1/how-tos/authorizing + topic: oauth + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-LIMITS + title: Search Console API usage limits + url: https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/limits + topic: api-quotas + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-ALL-DATA + title: Getting all Search Analytics data + url: https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v1/how-tos/all-your-data + topic: api-data-completeness + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-SEARCH-ANALYTICS-METHOD + title: Search Analytics query method + url: https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v1/searchanalytics/query + topic: search-analytics-request-response + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-DATA + title: About Search Console data + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96568 + topic: data-semantics + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-PERFORMANCE + title: How are you performing on Google + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/10268906 + topic: performance-reports + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-TRAFFIC-DROPS + title: Debugging drops in Google Search traffic + url: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/monitor-debug/debugging-search-traffic-drops + topic: traffic-diagnosis + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-URL-INSPECTION + title: URL Inspection tool + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289 + topic: url-inspection + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-PAGE-INDEXING + title: Page indexing report + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203 + topic: page-indexing + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-VIDEO-INDEXING + title: Video indexing report + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9495631 + topic: video-indexing + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-SITEMAPS + title: Sitemaps report + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451001 + topic: sitemaps + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-REMOVALS + title: Removals and SafeSearch reports tool + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9689846 + topic: removals + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-LINKS + title: Links report + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9049606 + topic: links + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-CRAWL-STATS + title: Crawl Stats report + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9679690 + topic: crawling + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-CWV + title: Core Web Vitals report + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9205520 + topic: page-experience + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-RICH-RESULTS + title: Rich result report overview + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7552505 + topic: search-appearance + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-RICH-RESULTS-TEST + title: Rich Results Test + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7445569 + topic: rich-results-live-test + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-AMP-REPORT + title: AMP status report + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7450883 + topic: amp-status + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-AMP-TEST + title: AMP Test + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7320015 + topic: amp-live-test + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-MANUAL-ACTIONS + title: Manual Actions report + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9044175 + topic: manual-actions + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-SECURITY-ISSUES + title: Security Issues report + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9044101 + topic: security-issues + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-CHANGE-ADDRESS + title: Change of Address tool + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9370220 + topic: site-migration + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-SHOPPING + title: Shopping reports and tools + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/12660034 + topic: shopping-reports + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-MERCHANT-OPPORTUNITIES + title: Merchant opportunities report + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/12429106 + topic: merchant-opportunities + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-BULK-OVERVIEW + title: About bulk data export to BigQuery + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/12918484 + topic: bulk-export + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-BULK-START + title: Start a new bulk data export + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/12917675 + topic: bulk-export-setup + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-BULK-MONITOR + title: Manage and monitor bulk data exports + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/12919198 + topic: bulk-export-operations + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-BULK-TABLES + title: Bulk export table guidelines and reference + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/12917991 + topic: bulk-export-schema + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-BULK-QUERIES + title: Bulk export query guidelines and samples + url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/12917174 + topic: bulk-export-queries + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-INDEXING-API + title: How to use the Indexing API + url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/using-api + topic: adjacent-indexing-api + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-INDEXING-AUTH + title: Authorize Indexing API requests + url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/authorizing + topic: adjacent-indexing-api-oauth + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + - id: GSC-SRC-INDEXING-QUOTA + title: Indexing API quota and approval + url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/quota-pricing + topic: adjacent-indexing-api-limits + authority: provider_documentation + volatility: high + +change_watch: + - id: GSC-WATCH-FAQ-APPEARANCE-DEPRECATION + status: announced_deprecation + effective: "2026-08" + affected_capabilities: [GSC-CAP-SEARCH-ANALYTICS-QUERY, GSC-CAP-RICH-RESULTS] + action: Stop depending on FAQ search-appearance output, confirm the field's current API behavior before querying it, and retain historical meaning in stored data. + sources: [GSC-SRC-SEARCH-ANALYTICS-METHOD] + - id: GSC-WATCH-GENERATIVE-AI-ROLLOUT + status: limited_rollout + effective: rolling + affected_capabilities: [GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL-MANAGE, GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-PERFORMANCE-SEARCH, GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-PERFORMANCE-DISCOVER] + action: Re-read the control and both report sources before use; record UI availability, included features, inherited state, and eligibility instead of treating absence as an error. + sources: [GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL, GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-SEARCH, GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-DISCOVER] + - id: GSC-WATCH-PLATFORM-PROPERTY-ROLLOUT + status: limited_rollout + effective: rolling + affected_capabilities: [GSC-CAP-PLATFORM-PROPERTY-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-PLATFORM-PROPERTY-CONNECT] + action: Confirm the currently supported platforms, connection route, verification behavior, reports, and account eligibility before onboarding. + sources: [GSC-SRC-PLATFORM-PROPERTIES] + +coverage: + - surface: property-discovery-and-api-management + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-PROPERTIES-LIST, GSC-CAP-PROPERTY-GET, GSC-CAP-PROPERTY-ADD, GSC-CAP-PROPERTY-DELETE] + sources: [GSC-SRC-API, GSC-SRC-AUTH] + - surface: ownership-verification + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-OWNERSHIP-VERIFY] + sources: [GSC-SRC-VERIFY, GSC-SRC-PERMISSIONS] + - surface: users-and-permissions + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-ACCESS-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-ACCESS-MANAGE] + sources: [GSC-SRC-PERMISSIONS, GSC-SRC-SETTINGS] + - surface: associations + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-ASSOCIATIONS-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-ASSOCIATIONS-MANAGE] + sources: [GSC-SRC-ASSOCIATIONS, GSC-SRC-SETTINGS] + - surface: overview-insights-and-messages + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-OVERVIEW, GSC-CAP-INSIGHTS, GSC-CAP-MESSAGES, GSC-CAP-EMAIL-ALERTS] + sources: [GSC-SRC-REPORTS, GSC-SRC-START] + - surface: overview-recommendations + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-RECOMMENDATIONS] + sources: [GSC-SRC-RECOMMENDATIONS, GSC-SRC-REPORTS] + - surface: achievements + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-ACHIEVEMENTS] + sources: [GSC-SRC-ACHIEVEMENTS, GSC-SRC-REPORTS] + - surface: search-generative-ai-control + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL-MANAGE] + sources: [GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL, GSC-SRC-SETTINGS] + - surface: generative-ai-performance-search-and-discover + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-PERFORMANCE-SEARCH, GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-PERFORMANCE-DISCOVER] + sources: [GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-SEARCH, GSC-SRC-GENERATIVE-AI-DISCOVER] + - surface: platform-properties + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-PLATFORM-PROPERTY-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-PLATFORM-PROPERTY-CONNECT] + sources: [GSC-SRC-PLATFORM-PROPERTIES] + - surface: performance-search-discover-news + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-PERFORMANCE-SEARCH, GSC-CAP-PERFORMANCE-DISCOVER, GSC-CAP-PERFORMANCE-NEWS, GSC-CAP-SEARCH-ANALYTICS-QUERY] + sources: [GSC-SRC-PERFORMANCE, GSC-SRC-DATA, GSC-SRC-SEARCH-ANALYTICS-METHOD, GSC-SRC-ALL-DATA] + - surface: url-inspection-index-and-live + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-URL-INSPECT-API, GSC-CAP-URL-INSPECT-INDEXED, GSC-CAP-URL-TEST-LIVE, GSC-CAP-REQUEST-INDEXING] + sources: [GSC-SRC-URL-INSPECTION, GSC-SRC-API, GSC-SRC-LIMITS] + - surface: page-and-video-indexing + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-PAGE-INDEXING, GSC-CAP-VIDEO-INDEXING] + sources: [GSC-SRC-PAGE-INDEXING, GSC-SRC-VIDEO-INDEXING] + - surface: sitemaps-report-and-api + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-SITEMAPS-READ, GSC-CAP-SITEMAP-SUBMIT, GSC-CAP-SITEMAP-DELETE] + sources: [GSC-SRC-SITEMAPS, GSC-SRC-API] + - surface: removals-and-safesearch + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-REMOVALS-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-REMOVAL-REQUEST, GSC-CAP-REMOVAL-CANCEL] + sources: [GSC-SRC-REMOVALS] + - surface: links + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-LINKS] + sources: [GSC-SRC-LINKS] + - surface: crawl-stats-and-robots-reporting + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-CRAWL-STATS, GSC-CAP-ROBOTS-REPORT] + sources: [GSC-SRC-CRAWL-STATS, GSC-SRC-SETTINGS] + - surface: core-web-vitals-and-https + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-CORE-WEB-VITALS, GSC-CAP-HTTPS-REPORT] + sources: [GSC-SRC-CWV, GSC-SRC-REPORTS] + - surface: rich-results-and-enhancements + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-RICH-RESULTS, GSC-CAP-RICH-RESULT-VALIDATION, GSC-CAP-RICH-RESULTS-TEST, GSC-CAP-AMP-REPORT, GSC-CAP-AMP-TEST] + sources: [GSC-SRC-RICH-RESULTS, GSC-SRC-RICH-RESULTS-TEST, GSC-SRC-AMP-REPORT, GSC-SRC-AMP-TEST, GSC-SRC-REPORTS] + - surface: manual-actions + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-MANUAL-ACTIONS, GSC-CAP-RECONSIDERATION] + sources: [GSC-SRC-MANUAL-ACTIONS] + - surface: security-issues + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-SECURITY-ISSUES, GSC-CAP-SECURITY-REVIEW] + sources: [GSC-SRC-SECURITY-ISSUES] + - surface: change-of-address + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-CHANGE-ADDRESS] + sources: [GSC-SRC-CHANGE-ADDRESS] + - surface: shipping-and-returns + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-SHIPPING-RETURNS-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-SHIPPING-RETURNS-MANAGE] + sources: [GSC-SRC-SETTINGS] + - surface: shopping-rich-reports-and-merchant-opportunities + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-RICH-RESULTS, GSC-CAP-MERCHANT-OPPORTUNITIES] + sources: [GSC-SRC-SHOPPING, GSC-SRC-MERCHANT-OPPORTUNITIES, GSC-SRC-RICH-RESULTS] + - surface: bulk-export-configuration-monitoring-and-querying + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-BULK-EXPORT-CONFIGURE, GSC-CAP-BULK-EXPORT-STATUS, GSC-CAP-BIGQUERY-QUERY, GSC-CAP-BIGQUERY-EXPORT-LOG] + sources: [GSC-SRC-BULK-OVERVIEW, GSC-SRC-BULK-START, GSC-SRC-BULK-MONITOR, GSC-SRC-BULK-TABLES, GSC-SRC-BULK-QUERIES] + - surface: api-authorization-and-quota-observation + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-API-QUOTAS] + sources: [GSC-SRC-AUTH, GSC-SRC-LIMITS] + - surface: traffic-drop-diagnosis + classification: mapped + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-TRAFFIC-DROP-DIAGNOSE] + sources: [GSC-SRC-TRAFFIC-DROPS, GSC-SRC-SEARCH-DOCS] + - surface: indexing-api-publish-and-metadata + classification: adjacent + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-INDEXING-PUBLISH, GSC-CAP-INDEXING-METADATA] + sources: [GSC-SRC-INDEXING-API, GSC-SRC-INDEXING-AUTH, GSC-SRC-INDEXING-QUOTA] + rationale: The Indexing API is a separate Google API restricted to eligible JobPosting and livestream pages, not a general Search Console submission API. + - surface: legacy-reports-and-tools + classification: legacy + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-LEGACY-SURFACES] + sources: [GSC-SRC-REPORTS] + rationale: Current official inventory retains Data Highlighter and Web Tools as legacy while other retired reports require replacement guidance. + - surface: full-google-search-central-corpus + classification: excluded + capabilities: [] + sources: [GSC-SRC-SEARCH-DOCS] + rationale: General crawling, indexing, appearance, ecommerce, and content policy belong to SEO standards, not this product capability bundle. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/workflows.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/workflows.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cdd8486 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/google-search-console/workflows.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +version: 1 +integration: google-search-console +workflows: + - id: GSC-WF-ACCESS-ONBOARDING + name: Access onboarding and periodic review + trigger: New property, new operator, ownership change, or scheduled access review. + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-PROPERTIES-LIST, GSC-CAP-PROPERTY-GET, GSC-CAP-PROPERTY-ADD, GSC-CAP-PROPERTY-DELETE, GSC-CAP-PLATFORM-PROPERTY-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-PLATFORM-PROPERTY-CONNECT, GSC-CAP-OWNERSHIP-VERIFY, GSC-CAP-ACCESS-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-ACCESS-MANAGE, GSC-CAP-ASSOCIATIONS-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-ASSOCIATIONS-MANAGE, GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL-REVIEW] + steps: + - Inventory exact domain, URL-prefix, and platform properties; production hosts and protocols; external account identities; accountable owners; and incident contacts. + - Establish organization-controlled verified ownership through a human owner; do not store tokens or credentials in this repository. + - Grant the least role needed, record inherited access, and inspect unused ownership tokens. + - Reconcile service associations, downstream recipients, and the effective Search generative AI control including parent inheritance with approved purposes. + - Add or remove a property from a principal's set, connect a platform property, or change an association only after the capability's exact or human-only authority requirement is satisfied. + - Retest access from the intended principal and record the next review date. + stop_conditions: ["Property scope is ambiguous", "No organization-controlled verified owner exists", "A stale owner or token cannot be safely removed"] + outputs: ["Property inventory", "Owner and role matrix", "Association inventory", "Access exceptions and review date"] + + - id: GSC-WF-MONTHLY-HEALTH + name: Monthly Search health review + trigger: Scheduled monthly review or material Search Console alert. + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-OVERVIEW, GSC-CAP-RECOMMENDATIONS, GSC-CAP-ACHIEVEMENTS, GSC-CAP-INSIGHTS, GSC-CAP-MESSAGES, GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-CONTROL-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-PERFORMANCE-SEARCH, GSC-CAP-GENERATIVE-AI-PERFORMANCE-DISCOVER, GSC-CAP-PERFORMANCE-SEARCH, GSC-CAP-PAGE-INDEXING, GSC-CAP-SITEMAPS-READ, GSC-CAP-MANUAL-ACTIONS, GSC-CAP-SECURITY-ISSUES, GSC-CAP-CORE-WEB-VITALS, GSC-CAP-MERCHANT-OPPORTUNITIES, GSC-CAP-BULK-EXPORT-STATUS] + steps: + - Freeze the property, observation timestamp, mature comparison windows, and intended indexable URL inventory. + - Review messages, manual actions, security issues, export status, recommendations, achievements, merchant opportunities, the effective Search generative AI control, eligible generative AI performance, and material overview changes first. + - Compare clicks, impressions, CTR, and position by important URL family and search surface. + - Reconcile sitemap and page-indexing changes by intended URL family rather than sitewide totals alone. + - Correlate material changes with releases, server evidence, analytics, conversions, and known external events. + - Record findings, uncertainty, owners, actions, and the next review date. + stop_conditions: ["Manual action or security issue requires incident escalation", "Recent data is too immature for the intended comparison", "Property access or export coverage is unavailable"] + outputs: ["Dated health report", "Segmented metric comparison", "Indexing and sitemap reconciliation", "Escalations and owners"] + + - id: GSC-WF-RELEASE-MONITORING + name: Search-sensitive release monitoring + trigger: Release changes URLs, templates, metadata, canonicals, rendering, structured data, internal links, robots rules, sitemaps, or important content. + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-URL-INSPECT-INDEXED, GSC-CAP-URL-TEST-LIVE, GSC-CAP-PAGE-INDEXING, GSC-CAP-RICH-RESULTS, GSC-CAP-RICH-RESULT-VALIDATION, GSC-CAP-SITEMAPS-READ, GSC-CAP-PERFORMANCE-SEARCH, GSC-CAP-CRAWL-STATS] + steps: + - Record release time, affected URL patterns, expected Search effect, baseline, risk, and correction owner. + - Inspect representative success, redirect, canonical, excluded, structured-data, and failure states directly before using Search Console. + - Run live inspection on bounded representative URLs and preserve results tied to the released version. + - Observe indexed state and report groups after appropriate crawl and processing delays. + - Start a fix validation only for an exact approved issue and cohort after representative deployed fixes pass direct and live tests; do not restart an equivalent active validation. + - Compare affected cohorts with unaffected controls at defined short, medium, and long observation windows. + - Close only after final external and direct evidence is recorded, or document residual monitoring. + stop_conditions: ["Live pages contradict intended indexability", "Security or manual-action evidence appears", "A high-value cohort degrades past the release stop threshold"] + outputs: ["Release evidence record", "Representative inspection set", "Cohort comparisons", "Correction or continued-monitoring decision"] + + - id: GSC-WF-TRAFFIC-DROP + name: Traffic-drop investigation + trigger: Material unexpected decline in qualified organic discovery or Search Console performance. + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-TRAFFIC-DROP-DIAGNOSE, GSC-CAP-PERFORMANCE-SEARCH, GSC-CAP-PERFORMANCE-DISCOVER, GSC-CAP-PERFORMANCE-NEWS, GSC-CAP-SEARCH-ANALYTICS-QUERY, GSC-CAP-PAGE-INDEXING, GSC-CAP-CRAWL-STATS, GSC-CAP-MANUAL-ACTIONS, GSC-CAP-SECURITY-ISSUES] + steps: + - Confirm property, surface, metric definition, maturity, anomaly status, baseline, seasonality, and materiality. + - Determine whether clicks, impressions, CTR, or position changed and separate Search, Discover, and News. + - Segment by page, query, country, device, appearance, directory, template, and release cohort. + - Check technical availability, page indexing, crawling, security, manual actions, migrations, and release history. + - Compare affected demand with Google Trends or another approved external demand signal. + - Rank hypotheses with supporting evidence, conflicting evidence, confidence, reversible checks, and an owner. + stop_conditions: ["Security issue or manual action is present", "The data window is immature or known to be anomalous", "A proposed remediation would be a broad content or URL change without causal evidence"] + outputs: ["Frozen evidence window", "Segmented loss decomposition", "Ranked hypothesis ledger", "Approved next checks and monitoring window"] + + - id: GSC-WF-INDEXING-DIAGNOSIS + name: URL and cohort indexing diagnosis + trigger: Intended URL is missing, excluded, unexpectedly canonicalized, or changing indexing state. + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-PAGE-INDEXING, GSC-CAP-URL-INSPECT-API, GSC-CAP-URL-INSPECT-INDEXED, GSC-CAP-URL-TEST-LIVE, GSC-CAP-SITEMAPS-READ, GSC-CAP-REQUEST-INDEXING, GSC-CAP-MANUAL-ACTIONS, GSC-CAP-SECURITY-ISSUES] + steps: + - State whether the URL and its family are intended to be public, crawlable, canonical, and indexable. + - Inspect HTTP status, access, robots, noindex, declared canonical, sitemap membership, internal links, rendered content, and duplicate variants. + - Compare indexed and live URL Inspection observations with timestamps and Google-selected canonical. + - Sample the cohort to distinguish isolated delay from a template, discovery, rendering, duplication, or policy issue. + - Correct durable source signals first; request indexing only for an exact approved eligible URL after a successful live test and under a bounded retry policy. + - Reinspect after an appropriate delay without promising indexing or ranking. + stop_conditions: ["Intended indexability is undecided", "A manual action, security issue, or legal removal governs the URL", "The requested action is generic Indexing API submission"] + outputs: ["URL intent record", "Indexed-versus-live evidence", "Cohort cause classification", "Correction and reinspection plan"] + + - id: GSC-WF-SITEMAP-AUDIT + name: Sitemap audit and bounded submission + trigger: New sitemap, sitemap failure, migration, material URL inventory change, or scheduled audit. + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-SITEMAPS-READ, GSC-CAP-SITEMAP-SUBMIT, GSC-CAP-SITEMAP-DELETE, GSC-CAP-URL-TEST-LIVE, GSC-CAP-PAGE-INDEXING] + steps: + - Inventory every intended sitemap, index, format, owner, generator, property, and URL family. + - Fetch and validate files; reconcile URLs with successful, canonical, indexable, preferred destinations. + - Remove redirected, blocked, duplicate, unauthorized, malformed, or stale URLs at the source generator. + - Submit or resubmit only within an approved property and bounded URL family. + - Read fetch and parse state, discovered counts, and page-indexing outcomes after appropriate delay. + - Treat deleting a submission as report cleanup, not URL removal or deindexing. + stop_conditions: ["Sitemap contents contradict canonical or indexability policy", "Property ownership or URL scope is unclear", "A request treats submission as guaranteed indexing"] + outputs: ["Sitemap inventory", "Source validation and URL reconciliation", "Approved mutation record", "Post-submission status and residual errors"] + + - id: GSC-WF-SITE-MIGRATION + name: Site migration monitoring + trigger: Approved domain or subdomain migration with URL changes. + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-CHANGE-ADDRESS, GSC-CAP-SITEMAP-SUBMIT, GSC-CAP-PAGE-INDEXING, GSC-CAP-URL-INSPECT-INDEXED, GSC-CAP-PERFORMANCE-SEARCH, GSC-CAP-CRAWL-STATS] + steps: + - Freeze old and new URL inventories, one-to-one redirect map, canonicals, sitemaps, important content, links, baselines, and rollback authority. + - Verify ownership of every old and new property and classify whether Change of Address is applicable. + - Validate redirects, final responses, new canonicals, internal links, alternates, structured data, and sitemaps before submission. + - Obtain exact approval and submit Change of Address only for an eligible domain or subdomain move. + - Monitor old and new cohorts, crawl behavior, canonical selection, indexing, clicks, and impressions through the documented migration period. + - Retain redirects and domain control for the approved duration; use the documented cancellation route only through recovery authority. + stop_conditions: ["Move is HTTP-to-HTTPS, path-only, or hosting-only", "Critical redirect or ownership prechecks fail", "A chained or overlapping move is proposed"] + outputs: ["Migration inventory and preflight", "Exact approval and submission evidence", "Old/new cohort dashboard", "Recovery and retention record"] + + - id: GSC-WF-BULK-RECONCILIATION + name: API and BigQuery reconciliation + trigger: Bulk export setup, data-quality alert, long-range analysis, or disagreement between Search Console and another system. + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-BULK-EXPORT-CONFIGURE, GSC-CAP-BULK-EXPORT-STATUS, GSC-CAP-BIGQUERY-QUERY, GSC-CAP-BIGQUERY-EXPORT-LOG, GSC-CAP-SEARCH-ANALYTICS-QUERY, GSC-CAP-API-QUOTAS] + steps: + - Approve property, Cloud project, dataset, region, IAM, billing, retention, downstream use, and query-cost controls before configuration. + - Verify the first scheduled export, expected partitions, ExportLog, latest settings status, and Cloud log evidence. + - Query partition-bounded tables with explicit grain and aggregate all measures. + - Compare mature dates and like-for-like dimensions with API and UI totals; preserve anonymization and truncation differences. + - Reconcile with analytics or commerce only after normalizing scope, time zone, identity, canonicalization, bots, and latency. + - Record SQL, bytes processed, gaps, explanations, owner, and next check. + stop_conditions: ["Billing, region, IAM, retention, or data authority is unapproved", "Schema was modified", "Missing dates are outside Google's retry window and cannot be reconstructed"] + outputs: ["Export configuration record", "Completeness ledger", "Versioned SQL and cost evidence", "Cross-system discrepancy explanation"] + + - id: GSC-WF-CRITICAL-ESCALATION + name: Manual action, security issue, or emergency removal + trigger: Manual action, Search security issue, sensitive URL exposure, or approved emergency Search removal. + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-MANUAL-ACTIONS, GSC-CAP-RECONSIDERATION, GSC-CAP-SECURITY-ISSUES, GSC-CAP-SECURITY-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-REMOVALS-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-REMOVAL-REQUEST, GSC-CAP-REMOVAL-CANCEL] + steps: + - Preserve the exact notice, property, affected scope, timestamps, current URL behavior, and accountable incident owner. + - Route security issues through incident response and manual actions through qualified SEO, policy, legal, and security review as applicable. + - For urgent exposure, implement the durable access, status, deletion, or noindex change before or alongside an exactly approved temporary removal. + - Verify remediation across code, infrastructure, credentials, content, affected URL variants, logs, and the released artifact. + - Allow only a qualified human owner to submit security-review or reconsideration representations. + - Monitor the Google decision and independently close the underlying incident or policy finding. + stop_conditions: ["No qualified human owner is available for a representation", "Durable remediation is incomplete", "Affected URL or prefix scope is ambiguous"] + outputs: ["Preserved notice and incident record", "Durable remediation evidence", "Exact removal approval if used", "Human-submitted review record and outcome"] + + - id: GSC-WF-COMMERCE-CONFIGURATION + name: Shopping and commerce configuration review + trigger: Merchant eligibility appears, Merchant opportunities change, or shipping and return settings require review or correction. + capabilities: [GSC-CAP-MERCHANT-OPPORTUNITIES, GSC-CAP-SHIPPING-RETURNS-REVIEW, GSC-CAP-SHIPPING-RETURNS-MANAGE, GSC-CAP-ASSOCIATIONS-REVIEW] + steps: + - Confirm that the property is an eligible merchant and identify the authoritative commerce, legal, support, localization, and policy owners. + - Reconcile Merchant opportunities, product and merchant rich-result reports, Merchant Center association, visible policies, structured data, feeds, and checkout behavior. + - Classify every recommendation as applicable, inapplicable, already satisfied, conflicting, or requiring a different system of record. + - Change shipping or return settings only after exact approval names market, policy, source of truth, precedence, user consequence, propagation window, and rollback configuration. + - Re-read the saved configuration and verify visible policy, structured data, Merchant Center state, and supported Search appearance after propagation. + stop_conditions: ["Merchant classification is wrong or unexplained", "Authoritative policy sources conflict", "Market, precedence, legal approval, or rollback state is unknown"] + outputs: ["Merchant evidence map", "Recommendation dispositions", "Exact approval record", "Reconciled final configuration and residual propagation"] diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d867f71 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Integration capability maps + +* [External platform integrations](vendor-platforms.md) - Source-neutral requirements shared by material provider integrations. +* [Google Search Console](google-search-console/) - Full capability map with sources, semantics, workflows, and evaluations. +* [Stripe](stripe/) - Payment lifecycle, webhook, idempotency, and release checks. +* [Plaid](plaid/) - Link, token-boundary, webhook, and recovery checks. +* [Vercel](vercel/) - Deployment, environment, observability, and firewall checks. +* [Resend](resend/) - Sender, delivery, suppression, and webhook checks. +* [Neon](neon/) - Connection, branch, migration, and recovery checks. +* [Cloudflare](cloudflare/) - Workers runtime, binding, cache, and deployment checks. + +Provider documentation is normative for provider behavior. Provider and other first-party engineering articles are informative: they may explain failure modes and design tradeoffs, but they cannot be the only source for a mapped capability. Agent skills route reviews and expose checks; they do not override the provider playbook or current official documentation. Apply `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-008` whenever those sources disagree. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/capabilities.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/capabilities.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..90c4e57 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/capabilities.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ +version: 1 +integration: neon +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +capabilities: + - id: NEON-CAP-CONNECT + name: Establish bounded application connections + interface: postgres_protocol + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [application_role] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [runtime type, pooled or direct endpoint, least-privilege role, concurrency and transaction needs] + outputs: [connection strategy, verified query and transaction behavior, capacity evidence] + data_semantics: [NEON-SEM-CONNECTION] + limits: { quotas: [Bound application and database connection concurrency], latency: [Account for scale-to-zero and transaction duration], sampling: [Load-test representative burst and transaction paths], privacy_suppression: [Keep connection strings and query values out of logs], aggregation: [Separate pool process application and database counts], completeness: [A health query does not prove workload capacity], operational: [Use pooled connections for bursty serverless workloads unless session semantics require direct access] } + limitations: [Workload and driver behavior determine the correct transport] + verification: [Exercise concurrency timeout transaction and reconnect paths] + idempotency: Connection retries must not replay non-idempotent transactions. + rollback: Revert the endpoint and pool configuration and terminate stale credentials. + sources: [NEON-SRC-CONNECT, NEON-SRC-POOL, NEON-SRC-AUTOSCALE] + - id: NEON-CAP-BRANCH + name: Create and retire an isolated database branch + interface: neon_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [branch_operator] } + effect: mutate_reversible + approval: bounded + inputs: [source branch or timestamp, purpose, data classification, owner and expiry] + outputs: [branch and endpoint IDs, inherited-data classification, expiry record] + data_semantics: [NEON-SEM-BRANCH, NEON-SEM-RECOVERY] + limits: { quotas: [Respect branch compute and storage limits], latency: [Branch creation is fast but endpoint readiness is asynchronous], sampling: [Verify each branch purpose and expiry], privacy_suppression: [Do not expose connection strings], aggregation: [Bind branch to preview environment and owner], completeness: [Branch deletion does not erase exported data], operational: [Prevent preview services from reaching production external systems] } + limitations: [Inherits source data unless created from an empty or sanitized source] + verification: [Inspect source lineage role boundaries environment bindings and expiry] + idempotency: Reconcile branch identity by purpose and environment before creating another. + rollback: Delete the branch and revoke its credentials after confirming required evidence retention. + sources: [NEON-SRC-BRANCH, NEON-SRC-RESTORE] + - id: NEON-CAP-MIGRATION + name: Apply a schema or data migration + interface: postgres_protocol + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [migration_role] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: [exact migration set, target branch and database, compatibility and rollback plan] + outputs: [migration version, affected objects and rows, verification and timing evidence] + data_semantics: [NEON-SEM-CONNECTION, NEON-SEM-BRANCH] + limits: { quotas: [Bound locks rows duration and concurrent connections], latency: [Long locks and backfills can exceed runtime limits], sampling: [Test representative data volume and query plans], privacy_suppression: [Exclude row values from general evidence], aggregation: [Bind schema version application version and branch], completeness: [Successful DDL does not prove application compatibility], operational: [Use expand migrate contract and resumable backfills where required] } + limitations: [Some schema and data effects are not transactionally reversible] + verification: [Inspect schema constraints query plans application compatibility and representative data] + idempotency: Migrations and backfills must detect prior progress and converge safely. + rollback: Execute the tested reversal or forward repair without dropping data needed by the prior application. + sources: [NEON-SRC-BRANCH, NEON-SRC-CONNECT] + - id: NEON-CAP-RESTORE + name: Restore database state from history + interface: neon_console + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [recovery_operator] } + effect: human_only + approval: human_only + inputs: [exact project branch timestamp scope, incident authority, external reconciliation plan] + outputs: [restored branch or state, lost-write boundary, reconciliation record] + data_semantics: [NEON-SEM-BRANCH, NEON-SEM-RECOVERY] + limits: { quotas: [Confirm current restore window and plan limits], latency: [Recovery and application reconciliation take separate time], sampling: [Verify critical tables constraints and journeys], privacy_suppression: [Protect restored sensitive data and credentials], aggregation: [Align database time with queues caches payments and downstream systems], completeness: [Database restore does not restore external systems], operational: [Preserve the damaged state when needed for investigation] } + limitations: [Can discard valid writes and create conflicts with external effects] + verification: [Verify selected timestamp data integrity application behavior and external reconciliation] + idempotency: Repeated recovery attempts require distinct recorded targets and must not overwrite evidence. + rollback: Preserve or recreate the pre-restore branch when possible and follow the incident decision. + sources: [NEON-SRC-RESTORE, NEON-SRC-BRANCH] + - id: NEON-CAP-NETWORK + name: Change database network access restrictions + interface: neon_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [database_operator] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: [exact project and branch, trusted CIDRs, runtime egress inventory, break-glass path] + outputs: [effective allow policy, accepted and denied connectivity evidence] + data_semantics: [NEON-SEM-CONNECTION] + limits: { quotas: [Keep allow entries minimal], latency: [Network changes can interrupt active clients], sampling: [Test every authorized runtime and representative denied source], privacy_suppression: [Do not disclose sensitive network topology broadly], aggregation: [Map allow entries to owners and consumers], completeness: [Network restriction does not replace database authentication], operational: [Coordinate dynamic egress and emergency access before enforcement] } + limitations: [Incorrect policy can cause an outage or leave unintended access] + verification: [Test allowed and denied paths and inspect effective policy] + idempotency: Reconcile policy as a set and avoid accumulating stale entries. + rollback: Restore the prior exact policy through an authenticated break-glass route. + sources: [NEON-SRC-IP, NEON-SRC-CONNECT] + - id: NEON-CAP-EGRESS + name: Audit query egress and overfetch + interface: postgres_protocol + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [application_role, database_operator] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [query statistics, schema widths, selected columns, pagination and response contracts] + outputs: [ranked transfer drivers, bounded query findings, before and after measurements] + data_semantics: [NEON-SEM-CONNECTION] + limits: { quotas: [Bound diagnostic queries and result rows], latency: [Collect over a representative window], sampling: [Include high-row wide-row and high-frequency queries], privacy_suppression: [Do not export query parameters or row contents], aggregation: [Attribute transfer by normalized query and consumer], completeness: [Row count alone does not measure byte width], operational: [Select required columns paginate and aggregate safely in Postgres] } + limitations: [Application response changes require consumer compatibility review] + verification: [Reset or bound statistics then compare representative transfer and response shape] + idempotency: Diagnostic reads have no intended data mutation. + rollback: Restore the prior query shape if a consumer contract regresses. + sources: [NEON-SRC-EGRESS] + - id: NEON-CAP-READ-REPLICA + name: Audit read-replica routing and freshness + interface: postgres_protocol + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [application_role, database_operator] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [query consistency requirement, endpoint mapping, replica freshness and failover behavior] + outputs: [routing decision, stale-read tests, primary fallback bounds] + data_semantics: [NEON-SEM-CONNECTION, NEON-SEM-BRANCH] + limits: { quotas: [Bound replica and primary load], latency: [Replica freshness and wake time vary], sampling: [Exercise read-after-write stale and unavailable replica paths], privacy_suppression: [Keep connection credentials out of evidence], aggregation: [Attribute queries by endpoint role and consistency class], completeness: [A successful replica query does not prove freshness], operational: [Keep writes and consistency-sensitive reads on an authorized primary path] } + limitations: [Read replicas do not replace application consistency decisions] + verification: [Run timestamped write and read probes through every intended route] + idempotency: Read probes use isolated test records and repeat safely. + rollback: Route affected reads to the primary within its capacity bound. + sources: [NEON-SRC-REPLICAS] + - id: NEON-CAP-LOGICAL-REPLICATION + name: Audit logical replication and CDC lifecycle + interface: postgres_protocol + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [database_operator] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [publication slot subscriber credential table and retention inventory] + outputs: [replication completeness, lag and slot-retention findings, deletion and exit evidence] + data_semantics: [NEON-SEM-CONNECTION, NEON-SEM-RECOVERY] + limits: { quotas: [Bound slots retained WAL and subscriber throughput], latency: [Lag can grow during consumer failure], sampling: [Exercise insert update delete schema and outage cases], privacy_suppression: [Protect replicated data and credentials], aggregation: [Track source LSN slot subscriber and destination checkpoint], completeness: [Connected status does not prove every change applied], operational: [Monitor lag slot growth schema compatibility and credential rotation] } + limitations: [Destination correctness and deletion remain cross-system responsibilities] + verification: [Compare source changes checkpoint and destination state across an interrupted consumer] + idempotency: Restarting from a checkpoint must not duplicate destination effects. + rollback: Stop the subscriber safely and remove slots only after retained-change and recovery review. + sources: [NEON-SRC-REPLICATION] diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/data-semantics.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/data-semantics.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9cd5fb7 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/data-semantics.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +version: 1 +integration: neon +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +concepts: + - { id: NEON-SEM-CONNECTION, name: Connection mode and compute state, definition: Direct pooled HTTP and WebSocket connections have different transaction concurrency and runtime behavior; compute suspension and autoscaling affect latency and capacity., cautions: [A successful single connection does not prove burst safety, pooling changes session semantics], sources: [NEON-SRC-CONNECT, NEON-SRC-POOL, NEON-SRC-AUTOSCALE] } + - { id: NEON-SEM-BRANCH, name: Branch isolation, definition: A Neon branch has its own compute and copy-on-write database state but can still contain sensitive inherited data and external side effects., cautions: [Branching does not anonymize data, external services are not cloned or rolled back], sources: [NEON-SRC-BRANCH] } + - { id: NEON-SEM-RECOVERY, name: Recovery boundary, definition: Point-in-time restore selects database state within an available history window and must be reconciled with application writes and external systems., cautions: [Restore windows depend on current plan and configuration, database recovery can replay or orphan external effects], sources: [NEON-SRC-RESTORE] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/evaluations.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/evaluations.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a9248ca --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/evaluations.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +version: 1 +integration: neon +evaluations: + - { id: NEON-EVAL-CONNECTION-STORM, workflow: NEON-WF-RUNTIME, capabilities: [NEON-CAP-CONNECT], scenario: A serverless burst resumes a suspended compute and retries timed-out writes, sources: [NEON-SRC-POOL, NEON-SRC-AUTOSCALE], evidence: [connection counts, latency distribution, transaction and row results], expected: Connections remain bounded and non-idempotent writes are not replayed, prohibited: Treating successful health checks as capacity evidence } + - { id: NEON-EVAL-PREVIEW-BOUNDARY, workflow: NEON-WF-RUNTIME, capabilities: [NEON-CAP-NETWORK, NEON-CAP-BRANCH], scenario: A preview deployment attempts production database access, sources: [NEON-SRC-IP, NEON-SRC-BRANCH], evidence: [branch binding, network denial, role inventory], expected: Preview is confined to its governed branch and role, prohibited: Shared production credentials or network access } + - { id: NEON-EVAL-MIGRATION-RETRY, workflow: NEON-WF-MIGRATE, capabilities: [NEON-CAP-MIGRATION], scenario: A backfill stops halfway and restarts while both application versions run, sources: [NEON-SRC-BRANCH, NEON-SRC-CONNECT], evidence: [progress markers, duplicate and missing row checks, both-version tests], expected: The migration converges without data loss or duplicate effects, prohibited: Restarting from zero without detecting prior progress } + - { id: NEON-EVAL-RESTORE-DIVERGENCE, workflow: NEON-WF-RECOVER, capabilities: [NEON-CAP-RESTORE], scenario: Restoring before a payment callback removes the local record but not the external payment, sources: [NEON-SRC-RESTORE], evidence: [database timestamp, external event and object, reconciliation result], expected: Recovery identifies and repairs the cross-system divergence, prohibited: Declaring recovery complete from database checks alone } + - { id: NEON-EVAL-DATA-PATH-FAILURE, workflow: NEON-WF-DATA-PATH-AUDIT, capabilities: [NEON-CAP-EGRESS, NEON-CAP-READ-REPLICA, NEON-CAP-LOGICAL-REPLICATION], scenario: A wide unpaginated query shifts to a replica while a CDC consumer is offline and falls behind, sources: [NEON-SRC-EGRESS, NEON-SRC-REPLICAS, NEON-SRC-REPLICATION], evidence: [query and byte measurements, timestamped read results, slot lag checkpoint and destination state], expected: Transfer is bounded consistency-sensitive reads stay correct and CDC catches up without duplicate destination effects, prohibited: Optimizing cost by hiding response changes accepting stale critical reads or leaving unbounded retained WAL } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..11a50ab --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Neon integration bundle + +Machine-readable [manifest](manifest.yaml), [governed sources and zero-gap ledger](sources.yaml), [capabilities](capabilities.yaml), [data semantics](data-semantics.yaml), [workflows](workflows.yaml), and [evaluations](evaluations.yaml) for `PLAYBOOK-NEON`. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/manifest.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/manifest.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c456150 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/manifest.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +version: 1 +integration: neon +id_prefix: NEON +playbook: PLAYBOOK-NEON +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +official_domains: [neon.com] +artifacts: { sources: sources.yaml, capabilities: capabilities.yaml, semantics: data-semantics.yaml, workflows: workflows.yaml, evaluations: evaluations.yaml } +features: [capabilities, coverage, semantics, source_usage] +vocabulary: + interfaces: [postgres_protocol, neon_api, neon_cli, neon_console] + property_roles: [application_role, migration_role, branch_operator, database_operator, recovery_operator] + oauth_scopes: [] +skill_routes: + - { name: "neon-postgres:neon-postgres", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "neon-postgres:neon-postgres-egress-optimizer", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/sources.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/sources.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d7836e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/sources.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +version: 1 +integration: neon +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +scope: Connection strategy, pooling, branches, migrations, and recovery for Neon Postgres. +freshness: + cadence_days: 92 + next_review: 2026-11-17 + event_triggers: [Neon platform change, database driver change, migration or recovery incident] +sources: + - { id: NEON-SRC-CONNECT, title: Connect from any application, url: "https://neon.com/docs/connect/connect-from-any-app", topic: connection strings and drivers, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: NEON-SRC-POOL, title: Connection pooling, url: "https://neon.com/docs/connect/connection-pooling", topic: pooled connections, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: NEON-SRC-BRANCH, title: Branching, url: "https://neon.com/docs/introduction/branching", topic: isolated database branches, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: NEON-SRC-RESTORE, title: Branch restore, url: "https://neon.com/docs/introduction/branch-restore", topic: point-in-time recovery, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: NEON-SRC-AUTOSCALE, title: Autoscaling, url: "https://neon.com/docs/introduction/autoscaling", topic: compute bounds and scaling, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: NEON-SRC-IP, title: IP Allow, url: "https://neon.com/docs/introduction/ip-allow", topic: network access restrictions, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: NEON-SRC-EGRESS, title: Network transfer, url: "https://neon.com/docs/introduction/network-transfer", topic: database egress measurement and cost, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: NEON-SRC-REPLICAS, title: Read replicas, url: "https://neon.com/docs/introduction/read-replicas", topic: read scaling and freshness, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: NEON-SRC-REPLICATION, title: Logical replication, url: "https://neon.com/docs/guides/logical-replication-guide", topic: CDC slots publications and external data movement, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: NEON-SRC-ENG-CONNECTIONS, title: Quicker serverless Postgres connections, url: "https://neon.com/blog/quicker-serverless-postgres", topic: serverless connection round trips and transport tradeoffs, authority: provider_engineering, volatility: medium } +coverage: + - { surface: runtime-connections-and-pooling, classification: mapped, capabilities: [NEON-CAP-CONNECT], sources: [NEON-SRC-CONNECT, NEON-SRC-POOL, NEON-SRC-AUTOSCALE, NEON-SRC-ENG-CONNECTIONS] } + - { surface: branch-lifecycle, classification: mapped, capabilities: [NEON-CAP-BRANCH], sources: [NEON-SRC-BRANCH] } + - { surface: schema-and-data-migrations, classification: mapped, capabilities: [NEON-CAP-MIGRATION], sources: [NEON-SRC-BRANCH, NEON-SRC-CONNECT] } + - { surface: point-in-time-recovery, classification: mapped, capabilities: [NEON-CAP-RESTORE], sources: [NEON-SRC-RESTORE] } + - { surface: network-access-policy, classification: mapped, capabilities: [NEON-CAP-NETWORK], sources: [NEON-SRC-IP] } + - { surface: query-egress-and-overfetch, classification: mapped, capabilities: [NEON-CAP-EGRESS], sources: [NEON-SRC-EGRESS] } + - { surface: read-replica-routing, classification: mapped, capabilities: [NEON-CAP-READ-REPLICA], sources: [NEON-SRC-REPLICAS] } + - { surface: logical-replication-and-cdc, classification: mapped, capabilities: [NEON-CAP-LOGICAL-REPLICATION], sources: [NEON-SRC-REPLICATION] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/workflows.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/workflows.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e5ae81b --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/neon/workflows.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +version: 1 +integration: neon +workflows: + - { id: NEON-WF-RUNTIME, name: Qualify runtime connectivity, trigger: Driver endpoint pooling autoscaling or network access changes, sources: [NEON-SRC-CONNECT, NEON-SRC-POOL, NEON-SRC-AUTOSCALE, NEON-SRC-IP], capabilities: [NEON-CAP-CONNECT, NEON-CAP-NETWORK], steps: [Map runtime transaction and concurrency needs, choose endpoint and role, apply least network authority, exercise burst cold-start timeout reconnect allowed and denied paths], stop_conditions: [Connection concurrency is unbounded, preview can reach production, rollback access is untested], outputs: [Connection rationale, load evidence, effective network policy] } + - { id: NEON-WF-MIGRATE, name: Test and release a database migration, trigger: Schema constraint index or data transformation changes, sources: [NEON-SRC-BRANCH, NEON-SRC-CONNECT], capabilities: [NEON-CAP-BRANCH, NEON-CAP-MIGRATION], steps: [Create an isolated governed branch, measure representative data and queries, run forward rollback retry and compatibility checks, approve and execute the exact production migration, inspect final state], stop_conditions: [Representative volume is missing, locks or data loss exceed bounds, old and new applications cannot coexist when rollout requires it], outputs: [Branch lineage, migration timing, compatibility and rollback evidence] } + - { id: NEON-WF-RECOVER, name: Execute a database recovery exercise, trigger: Scheduled exercise corruption accidental change or incident, sources: [NEON-SRC-RESTORE, NEON-SRC-BRANCH], capabilities: [NEON-CAP-RESTORE], steps: [Fix the exact recovery objective and timestamp, preserve incident evidence, restore into isolation first, verify integrity and external-system divergence, present the production recovery decision to the human owner], stop_conditions: [Restore window or lost-write boundary is unknown, external reconciliation is missing, production authority is absent], outputs: [Measured recovery point and time, restored-state checks, human decision and reconciliation plan] } + - { id: NEON-WF-DATA-PATH-AUDIT, name: Audit transfer replica and replication paths, trigger: Query shape read routing CDC or database transfer cost changes, sources: [NEON-SRC-EGRESS, NEON-SRC-REPLICAS, NEON-SRC-REPLICATION], capabilities: [NEON-CAP-EGRESS, NEON-CAP-READ-REPLICA, NEON-CAP-LOGICAL-REPLICATION], steps: [Rank queries by rows frequency and width, verify selected columns pagination aggregation and response compatibility, test timestamped primary and replica reads, interrupt CDC and compare checkpoint source and destination], stop_conditions: [Result size is unbounded, consistency-sensitive reads route to an unqualified replica, replication lag or retained WAL has no bound], outputs: [Transfer measurements, routing matrix and freshness tests, CDC lag recovery and deletion evidence] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/capabilities.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/capabilities.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9490d0e --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/capabilities.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +version: 1 +integration: plaid +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +capabilities: + - id: PLAID-CAP-LINK + name: Create and complete a Link session + interface: plaid_link + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [backend_service, link_client] } + effect: mutate_reversible + approval: bounded + inputs: [user binding, exact products, country and language, redirect and webhook locations] + outputs: [link token, public token, selected institution and account metadata] + data_semantics: [PLAID-SEM-TOKEN-BOUNDARY, PLAID-SEM-ITEM-STATE, PLAID-SEM-DATA-SCOPE] + limits: { quotas: [Respect current Link and API limits], latency: [Link tokens expire and sessions can be interrupted], sampling: [Exercise every enabled product path], privacy_suppression: [Minimize client-visible metadata], aggregation: [Bind Link results to one internal user], completeness: [Link completion does not prove product readiness], operational: [Use redirect and update-mode behavior required by the selected products] } + limitations: [Client success is not durable access or fresh data] + verification: [Verify the user binding and exchange the returned public token once on the server] + idempotency: Create a new Link token for a new session and prevent one public token from driving multiple Items. + rollback: Expire the local session and discard unexchanged public-token material. + sources: [PLAID-SRC-LINK, PLAID-SRC-TOKENS] + - id: PLAID-CAP-TOKEN-EXCHANGE + name: Exchange a public token for server credentials + interface: plaid_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [backend_service] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: [public token, internal user and consent record] + outputs: [access token, item ID, governed credential record] + data_semantics: [PLAID-SEM-TOKEN-BOUNDARY, PLAID-SEM-DATA-SCOPE] + limits: { quotas: [Exchange each public token once], latency: [Treat ambiguous exchange failures as unknown], sampling: [No sampling], privacy_suppression: [Never log or return access tokens], aggregation: [Bind one Item to the correct user and environment], completeness: [Exchange does not prove all products are ready], operational: [Persist credentials only in the approved secret boundary] } + limitations: [Creates durable authority to financial data] + verification: [Read the resulting Item using server-only credentials, inspect secret placement] + idempotency: Persist exchange state by public-token operation and reconcile ambiguous outcomes. + rollback: Remove the Item and delete retained credentials under the governed revocation path. + sources: [PLAID-SRC-TOKENS, PLAID-SRC-SECURITY] + - id: PLAID-CAP-DATA-READ + name: Read enabled product data + interface: plaid_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [backend_service, data_operator] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: [server-held access token, enabled product, bounded account and time scope] + outputs: [provider data, request ID, freshness and pagination state] + data_semantics: [PLAID-SEM-ITEM-STATE, PLAID-SEM-DATA-SCOPE] + limits: { quotas: [Honor product-specific request limits], latency: [Data freshness varies by institution and product], sampling: [Declare pagination and selected accounts], privacy_suppression: [Return and retain only approved fields], aggregation: [Preserve institution account item and user boundaries], completeness: [Absence may mean delay error consent or true absence], operational: [Handle product-specific error and update states] } + limitations: [Provider data can be delayed corrected or incomplete] + verification: [Record request IDs freshness pagination and reconciliation with the product state] + idempotency: Reads must not create duplicate downstream records. + rollback: Remove incorrectly retained or derived data through the data lifecycle process. + sources: [PLAID-SRC-TOKENS, PLAID-SRC-WEBHOOKS, PLAID-SRC-SECURITY] + - id: PLAID-CAP-WEBHOOK + name: Verify and process Plaid webhooks + interface: plaid_webhook + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [webhook_processor] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [raw webhook, verification material, item and product state] + outputs: [authenticity decision, persisted event, reconciled product state] + data_semantics: [PLAID-SEM-ITEM-STATE] + limits: { quotas: [Bound redelivery and downstream work], latency: [Events can be delayed], sampling: [Process every relevant event], privacy_suppression: [Do not log sensitive payload fields], aggregation: [Deduplicate by stable event facts and resulting state], completeness: [Webhook delivery is a signal rather than the complete data record], operational: [Fetch authoritative state before consequential downstream changes] } + limitations: [Not every product event contains complete state] + verification: [Reject invalid authenticity evidence, replay duplicates, reconcile from the API] + idempotency: Persist the event and resulting transition before acknowledging. + rollback: Recompute local state from the authoritative Item and product state. + sources: [PLAID-SRC-WEBHOOKS] + - id: PLAID-CAP-ITEM-REMOVE + name: Remove a Plaid Item and revoke access + interface: plaid_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [security_operator, data_operator] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: [exact Item and user, revocation reason, data disposition decision] + outputs: [provider removal result, credential deletion, downstream cleanup state] + data_semantics: [PLAID-SEM-TOKEN-BOUNDARY, PLAID-SEM-DATA-SCOPE] + limits: { quotas: [One removal decision per Item], latency: [Downstream deletion may be asynchronous], sampling: [Verify every requested Item], privacy_suppression: [Keep tokens out of evidence], aggregation: [Trace raw derived cached exported and backup copies], completeness: [Provider removal does not delete every local or recipient copy], operational: [Coordinate revocation with retention and legal-hold rules] } + limitations: [Removal is consequential and may be irreversible] + verification: [Confirm provider access fails and every governed local copy reaches its required disposition] + idempotency: Repeated removal requests must converge on removed state. + rollback: Reconnection requires a new user-approved Link flow. + sources: [PLAID-SRC-TOKENS, PLAID-SRC-WEBHOOKS, PLAID-SRC-SECURITY] + - id: PLAID-CAP-TRANSACTIONS-SYNC + name: Audit a cursor-based Transactions projection + interface: plaid_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [backend_service, data_operator] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [Item identity, committed cursor, page responses, local transaction projection] + outputs: [cursor and projection consistency result, restart evidence, reconciliation gaps] + data_semantics: [PLAID-SEM-ITEM-STATE, PLAID-SEM-DATA-SCOPE] + limits: { quotas: [Bound page and catch-up requests], latency: [Updates and webhooks can be delayed], sampling: [Exercise add modify remove and mutation-during-pagination], privacy_suppression: [Minimize transaction data in audit evidence], aggregation: [Commit page changes and cursor atomically per Item], completeness: [A webhook is only a wake-up signal], operational: [Continue until has_more is false and use the documented restart path] } + limitations: [Applies only when the Transactions Sync product is enabled] + verification: [Replay from a prior cursor and compare the converged local projection with Plaid] + idempotency: Reprocessing the same cursor page must not duplicate or regress transactions. + rollback: Restore the last consistent projection and cursor then resume the documented sync path. + sources: [PLAID-SRC-TRANSACTIONS-SYNC, PLAID-SRC-WEBHOOKS] diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/data-semantics.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/data-semantics.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8f9db77 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/data-semantics.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +version: 1 +integration: plaid +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +concepts: + - id: PLAID-SEM-TOKEN-BOUNDARY + name: Token boundary + definition: A link token is short-lived client input, a public token is exchanged once on the server, and an access token remains server-only. + cautions: [Do not log tokens, do not expose access tokens to browsers or mobile clients] + sources: [PLAID-SRC-LINK, PLAID-SRC-TOKENS, PLAID-SRC-SECURITY] + - id: PLAID-SEM-ITEM-STATE + name: Item and product state + definition: Item health, consent, institution state, product readiness, and webhook delivery are distinct and may change asynchronously. + cautions: [A successful Link flow does not prove current data availability, webhook order and delivery may not match local assumptions] + sources: [PLAID-SRC-LINK, PLAID-SRC-WEBHOOKS] + - id: PLAID-SEM-DATA-SCOPE + name: Financial data scope + definition: Product selection, account selection, user permission, retention, and downstream use jointly bound the allowed data flow. + cautions: [Do not request products speculatively, removal must address derived copies and downstream recipients] + sources: [PLAID-SRC-TOKENS, PLAID-SRC-SECURITY] diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/evaluations.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/evaluations.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..169eab6 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/evaluations.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +version: 1 +integration: plaid +evaluations: + - { id: PLAID-EVAL-CLIENT-BOUNDARY, workflow: PLAID-WF-ONBOARD, capabilities: [PLAID-CAP-LINK, PLAID-CAP-TOKEN-EXCHANGE], scenario: Complete Link and inspect browser server logs storage and responses, sources: [PLAID-SRC-LINK, PLAID-SRC-TOKENS, PLAID-SRC-SECURITY], evidence: [redacted trace, secret-location check, Item binding], expected: Only short-lived Link material reaches the client and durable access stays server-side, prohibited: Access token exposure or cross-user Item binding } + - { id: PLAID-EVAL-INTERRUPTED-EXCHANGE, workflow: PLAID-WF-ONBOARD, capabilities: [PLAID-CAP-TOKEN-EXCHANGE], scenario: The public-token exchange response is lost, sources: [PLAID-SRC-TOKENS], evidence: [operation record, provider request IDs, resulting Item inventory], expected: The system reconciles without creating an unowned or duplicated connection, prohibited: Blind exchange retries that lose the user and Item relationship } + - { id: PLAID-EVAL-WEBHOOK-REPLAY, workflow: PLAID-WF-SYNC, capabilities: [PLAID-CAP-WEBHOOK, PLAID-CAP-DATA-READ], scenario: A valid update webhook is duplicated and arrives after a newer read, sources: [PLAID-SRC-WEBHOOKS, PLAID-SRC-TOKENS], evidence: [event records, request freshness, resulting product state], expected: Repeat-safe processing preserves the newest authoritative state, prohibited: Duplicate downstream rows or regression to stale state } + - { id: PLAID-EVAL-REVOCATION, workflow: PLAID-WF-REVOKE, capabilities: [PLAID-CAP-ITEM-REMOVE], scenario: A user withdraws consent after data was exported to an approved recipient, sources: [PLAID-SRC-TOKENS, PLAID-SRC-SECURITY], evidence: [exact Item binding, provider denial, local and recipient disposition records], expected: Access is revoked and every governed copy has a completed or justified disposition, prohibited: Treating Item removal as proof that all copies were deleted } + - { id: PLAID-EVAL-SYNC-MUTATION, workflow: PLAID-WF-TRANSACTIONS-SYNC, capabilities: [PLAID-CAP-TRANSACTIONS-SYNC], scenario: Transactions change while a multi-page cursor sync is in progress and the worker restarts, sources: [PLAID-SRC-TRANSACTIONS-SYNC, PLAID-SRC-WEBHOOKS], evidence: [committed cursors and pages, restart trace, final provider and local projection], expected: The documented restart path converges additions modifications and removals without partial publication, prohibited: Advancing the cursor separately or relying on webhook order } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30ec9ff --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Plaid integration bundle + +Machine-readable [manifest](manifest.yaml), [governed sources and zero-gap ledger](sources.yaml), [capabilities](capabilities.yaml), [data semantics](data-semantics.yaml), [workflows](workflows.yaml), and [evaluations](evaluations.yaml) for `PLAYBOOK-PLAID`. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/manifest.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/manifest.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..de9dec8 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/manifest.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +version: 1 +integration: plaid +id_prefix: PLAID +playbook: PLAYBOOK-PLAID +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +official_domains: [plaid.com] +artifacts: { sources: sources.yaml, capabilities: capabilities.yaml, semantics: data-semantics.yaml, workflows: workflows.yaml, evaluations: evaluations.yaml } +features: [capabilities, coverage, semantics, source_usage] +vocabulary: + interfaces: [plaid_api, plaid_link, plaid_webhook, plaid_dashboard] + property_roles: [backend_service, link_client, webhook_processor, data_operator, security_operator] + oauth_scopes: [] +skill_routes: + - { name: plaid, availability: not_available, authority: review_aid } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/sources.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/sources.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d017261 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/sources.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +version: 1 +integration: plaid +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +scope: Link tokens, public-token exchange, webhooks, environments, and data access. +freshness: + cadence_days: 92 + next_review: 2026-11-17 + event_triggers: [Plaid API or Link change, product-scope change, webhook incident] +sources: + - { id: PLAID-SRC-LINK, title: Link, url: "https://plaid.com/docs/link/", topic: Link token and client flow, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: PLAID-SRC-TOKENS, title: API access, url: "https://plaid.com/docs/api/", topic: token exchange and server calls, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: PLAID-SRC-WEBHOOKS, title: Webhooks, url: "https://plaid.com/docs/api/webhooks/", topic: asynchronous updates, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: PLAID-SRC-SECURITY, title: Plaid security guidance, url: "https://plaid.com/docs/account/security/", topic: credentials and data protection, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: PLAID-SRC-TRANSACTIONS-SYNC, title: Transactions Sync, url: "https://plaid.com/docs/transactions/sync-migration/", topic: cursor pagination and mutation recovery, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } +coverage: + - { surface: link-token-and-client-flow, classification: mapped, capabilities: [PLAID-CAP-LINK], sources: [PLAID-SRC-LINK] } + - { surface: public-token-exchange, classification: mapped, capabilities: [PLAID-CAP-TOKEN-EXCHANGE], sources: [PLAID-SRC-TOKENS, PLAID-SRC-SECURITY] } + - { surface: product-data-access, classification: mapped, capabilities: [PLAID-CAP-DATA-READ], sources: [PLAID-SRC-TOKENS, PLAID-SRC-SECURITY] } + - { surface: item-and-product-webhooks, classification: mapped, capabilities: [PLAID-CAP-WEBHOOK], sources: [PLAID-SRC-WEBHOOKS] } + - { surface: item-removal-and-revocation, classification: mapped, capabilities: [PLAID-CAP-ITEM-REMOVE], sources: [PLAID-SRC-TOKENS, PLAID-SRC-WEBHOOKS] } + - { surface: transactions-cursor-sync, classification: mapped, capabilities: [PLAID-CAP-TRANSACTIONS-SYNC], sources: [PLAID-SRC-TRANSACTIONS-SYNC, PLAID-SRC-WEBHOOKS] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/workflows.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/workflows.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..18fca8b --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/plaid/workflows.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +version: 1 +integration: plaid +workflows: + - { id: PLAID-WF-ONBOARD, name: Onboard a Plaid Item, trigger: Link products or user connection behavior changes, sources: [PLAID-SRC-LINK, PLAID-SRC-TOKENS, PLAID-SRC-SECURITY], capabilities: [PLAID-CAP-LINK, PLAID-CAP-TOKEN-EXCHANGE], steps: [Bind the user consent and exact products, complete Link without exposing durable credentials, exchange once on the server, verify Item and secret state], stop_conditions: [Product scope is speculative, an access token can reach the client, user binding is ambiguous], outputs: [Consent and product record, token-boundary evidence, verified Item] } + - { id: PLAID-WF-SYNC, name: Synchronize Plaid data, trigger: Initial read scheduled refresh or webhook-driven update, sources: [PLAID-SRC-TOKENS, PLAID-SRC-WEBHOOKS, PLAID-SRC-SECURITY], capabilities: [PLAID-CAP-DATA-READ, PLAID-CAP-WEBHOOK], steps: [Verify event or bounded trigger, inspect Item and product state, fetch with pagination and freshness metadata, reconcile without duplicating derived records], stop_conditions: [Consent or Item state is invalid, completeness cannot be distinguished from delay, downstream use exceeds approved scope], outputs: [Request and freshness record, reconciled product data, exception state] } + - { id: PLAID-WF-REVOKE, name: Revoke a Plaid connection, trigger: User request consent withdrawal compromise or account closure, sources: [PLAID-SRC-TOKENS, PLAID-SRC-WEBHOOKS, PLAID-SRC-SECURITY], capabilities: [PLAID-CAP-ITEM-REMOVE], steps: [Confirm exact user Item and disposition obligations, remove provider access, delete credentials, propagate retention deletion and recipient actions, verify denial], stop_conditions: [Identity or Item binding is uncertain, legal hold or retention decision is unresolved], outputs: [Approval and removal result, copy inventory, completed and deferred disposition evidence] } + - { id: PLAID-WF-TRANSACTIONS-SYNC, name: Verify Transactions cursor convergence, trigger: Transactions Sync pagination restart or projection behavior changes, sources: [PLAID-SRC-TRANSACTIONS-SYNC, PLAID-SRC-WEBHOOKS], capabilities: [PLAID-CAP-TRANSACTIONS-SYNC, PLAID-CAP-WEBHOOK], steps: [Start from the committed Item cursor, apply each page and cursor atomically, continue until complete, inject mutation during pagination and follow the documented restart path, compare local and provider state], stop_conditions: [Cursor and page changes commit separately, a webhook is treated as transaction data, partial projection is published], outputs: [Cursor history, atomic commit evidence, converged projection and restart result] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/capabilities.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/capabilities.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..db43eeb --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/capabilities.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +version: 1 +integration: resend +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +capabilities: + - id: RESEND-CAP-DOMAIN + name: Configure an authenticated sending domain + interface: resend_dashboard + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [domain_operator] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: [exact domain and sender purpose, DNS records, ownership and rotation plan] + outputs: [provider domain state, DNS authentication evidence] + data_semantics: [RESEND-SEM-MESSAGE-CLASS] + limits: { quotas: [Respect domain and account limits], latency: [DNS propagation and verification are asynchronous], sampling: [Verify every sending domain], privacy_suppression: [Do not expose DNS control credentials], aggregation: [Bind domain sender and message classes], completeness: [Provider verification does not prove inbox placement], operational: [Separate test and production senders where practical] } + limitations: [Requires control of external DNS and reputation management] + verification: [Inspect provider verification and public DNS records] + idempotency: Reconcile existing domain state before adding records. + rollback: Remove sending authorization and provider domain configuration after confirming dependent senders. + sources: [RESEND-SRC-DOMAINS] + - id: RESEND-CAP-SEND + name: Send a transactional message + interface: resend_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [sending_service] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: [message class, recipient, authenticated sender, template version, business operation ID] + outputs: [email ID, accepted or rejected state, operation record] + data_semantics: [RESEND-SEM-MESSAGE-CLASS, RESEND-SEM-DELIVERY, RESEND-SEM-REPLAY] + limits: { quotas: [Respect sending and rate limits], latency: [Acceptance and delivery are asynchronous], sampling: [Render and test representative clients], privacy_suppression: [Minimize message and recipient data in logs], aggregation: [Bind one message identity to one intended recipient and purpose], completeness: [Accepted does not mean delivered], operational: [Use server-only credentials and an authenticated sender] } + limitations: [Email cannot generally be recalled after acceptance] + verification: [Inspect provider message state and relevant signed events] + idempotency: Use a deterministic key and local send record for the intended message. + rollback: Suppress follow-up sends and issue a correction when appropriate; sent mail is irreversible. + sources: [RESEND-SRC-SEND, RESEND-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY, RESEND-SRC-WEBHOOKS] + - id: RESEND-CAP-WEBHOOK + name: Verify and process delivery events + interface: resend_webhook + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [webhook_processor] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [raw request, authenticity headers, signing secret, persisted event identity] + outputs: [authenticity decision, repeat-safe delivery transition] + data_semantics: [RESEND-SEM-DELIVERY, RESEND-SEM-REPLAY] + limits: { quotas: [Bound retries and downstream work], latency: [Events can be delayed or reordered], sampling: [Process every subscribed event], privacy_suppression: [Do not log signing material or full message content], aggregation: [Deduplicate before changing recipient state], completeness: [Events do not prove reading or business outcome], operational: [Verify the provider contract before parsing consequential fields] } + limitations: [A delivery event is provider-observed transport state] + verification: [Reject invalid signatures and replay valid events] + idempotency: Persist event identity and transition before acknowledging. + rollback: Recompute derived delivery state from provider records and event history. + sources: [RESEND-SRC-WEBHOOKS, RESEND-SRC-VERIFY] + - id: RESEND-CAP-BROADCAST + name: Send a marketing broadcast + interface: resend_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [lifecycle_operator, privacy_operator] } + effect: human_only + approval: human_only + inputs: [approved audience snapshot, purpose and consent evidence, suppression set, exact content and schedule] + outputs: [broadcast identity, audience and send-state evidence] + data_semantics: [RESEND-SEM-MESSAGE-CLASS, RESEND-SEM-DELIVERY, RESEND-SEM-REPLAY] + limits: { quotas: [Respect audience and sending limits], latency: [Scheduled sends and suppression changes race], sampling: [Inspect representative rendered recipients and clients], privacy_suppression: [Do not expose audience addresses in general evidence], aggregation: [Freeze and reconcile the approved audience snapshot], completeness: [Provider audience membership does not prove lawful permission], operational: [Recheck suppression and approval immediately before send] } + limitations: [Bulk send is difficult to reverse and has legal and reputation consequences] + verification: [Inspect exact content audience schedule suppression and early delivery signals] + idempotency: One approved campaign version maps to one broadcast operation. + rollback: Cancel before dispatch when supported; otherwise stop remaining sends and execute correction and suppression plans. + sources: [RESEND-SRC-SEND, RESEND-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY] + - id: RESEND-CAP-SUPPRESSION + name: Apply bounce complaint and suppression state + interface: resend_webhook + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [webhook_processor, privacy_operator] } + effect: mutate_reversible + approval: bounded + inputs: [authenticated bounce complaint or suppression event, recipient identity, message class] + outputs: [updated contact eligibility, reason and provenance] + data_semantics: [RESEND-SEM-MESSAGE-CLASS, RESEND-SEM-DELIVERY] + limits: { quotas: [Process every material negative event], latency: [Apply before the next eligible send], sampling: [No sampling for complaints and hard suppressions], privacy_suppression: [Restrict recipient and reason visibility], aggregation: [Propagate across every sender and campaign under the applicable scope], completeness: [Local suppression may need to cover other sending systems], operational: [Do not automatically override provider suppression] } + limitations: [Unsuppression may require a separate lawful and provider-supported decision] + verification: [Attempt an eligible test path and confirm the recipient remains blocked] + idempotency: Repeated events converge on the same or stricter eligibility state. + rollback: Only an authorized privacy or deliverability owner may reverse local state with current evidence. + sources: [RESEND-SRC-WEBHOOKS] diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/data-semantics.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/data-semantics.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d8e74af --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/data-semantics.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +version: 1 +integration: resend +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +concepts: + - { id: RESEND-SEM-MESSAGE-CLASS, name: Message class, definition: Transactional operational and marketing messages have different purpose consent suppression and unsubscribe obligations., cautions: [Do not relabel promotional content as transactional, one consent does not authorize every audience or purpose], sources: [RESEND-SRC-SEND] } + - { id: RESEND-SEM-DELIVERY, name: Delivery state, definition: API acceptance delivery bounce complaint suppression and recipient reading are distinct states., cautions: [Accepted is not delivered, delivered is not read or acted upon], sources: [RESEND-SRC-WEBHOOKS] } + - { id: RESEND-SEM-REPLAY, name: Send and event replay, definition: Each intended message has a stable business identity while delivery events are independently authenticated and deduplicated., cautions: [Provider idempotency has a bounded window, retries after the window require local state reconciliation], sources: [RESEND-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY, RESEND-SRC-VERIFY] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/evaluations.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/evaluations.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5342f31 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/evaluations.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +version: 1 +integration: resend +evaluations: + - { id: RESEND-EVAL-RETRY-WINDOW, workflow: RESEND-WF-TRANSACTIONAL, capabilities: [RESEND-CAP-SEND], scenario: A timeout is retried before and after the provider idempotency window, sources: [RESEND-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY, RESEND-SRC-SEND], evidence: [business operation and provider IDs, local send state, resulting messages], expected: Local reconciliation prevents duplicate user-visible messages across both cases, prohibited: Treating provider idempotency as permanent deduplication } + - { id: RESEND-EVAL-SPOOFED-EVENT, workflow: RESEND-WF-TRANSACTIONAL, capabilities: [RESEND-CAP-WEBHOOK], scenario: A forged delivered event is submitted, sources: [RESEND-SRC-VERIFY], evidence: [raw request verification, denial, unchanged delivery state], expected: The event is rejected before consequential processing, prohibited: Trusting parsed event fields without authenticity evidence } + - { id: RESEND-EVAL-COMPLAINT-RACE, workflow: RESEND-WF-TRANSACTIONAL, capabilities: [RESEND-CAP-SUPPRESSION, RESEND-CAP-SEND], scenario: A complaint arrives while a follow-up message is queued, sources: [RESEND-SRC-WEBHOOKS], evidence: [event time, queue eligibility check, suppression propagation], expected: The pending send is stopped wherever the suppression scope applies, prohibited: Applying suppression only to future campaigns after the queued send } + - { id: RESEND-EVAL-BROADCAST-DRIFT, workflow: RESEND-WF-BROADCAST, capabilities: [RESEND-CAP-BROADCAST], scenario: Audience membership changes after approval but before dispatch, sources: [RESEND-SRC-SEND], evidence: [approved snapshot, final audience diff, human decision], expected: The send stops or receives approval for the exact changed audience, prohibited: Sending to an implicitly refreshed audience } + - { id: RESEND-EVAL-DOMAIN-AUTH, workflow: RESEND-WF-DOMAIN, capabilities: [RESEND-CAP-DOMAIN], scenario: A sending domain has incomplete or stale authentication records after a DNS change, sources: [RESEND-SRC-DOMAINS], evidence: [effective DNS records, Resend verification state, bounded delivery result], expected: Production sending remains blocked until the exact domain and authentication state are verified, prohibited: Treating dashboard history or DNS intent as effective authentication } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a561ea1 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Resend integration bundle + +Machine-readable [manifest](manifest.yaml), [governed sources and zero-gap ledger](sources.yaml), [capabilities](capabilities.yaml), [data semantics](data-semantics.yaml), [workflows](workflows.yaml), and [evaluations](evaluations.yaml) for `PLAYBOOK-RESEND`. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/manifest.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/manifest.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6236fd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/manifest.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +version: 1 +integration: resend +id_prefix: RESEND +playbook: PLAYBOOK-RESEND +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +official_domains: [resend.com] +artifacts: { sources: sources.yaml, capabilities: capabilities.yaml, semantics: data-semantics.yaml, workflows: workflows.yaml, evaluations: evaluations.yaml } +features: [capabilities, coverage, semantics, source_usage] +vocabulary: + interfaces: [resend_api, resend_webhook, resend_dashboard, email_client] + property_roles: [sending_service, webhook_processor, lifecycle_operator, domain_operator, privacy_operator] + oauth_scopes: [] +skill_routes: + - { name: "vercel:email", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/sources.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/sources.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9c8b903 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/sources.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +version: 1 +integration: resend +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +scope: Transactional email, domain authentication, delivery events, and suppression handling. +freshness: + cadence_days: 92 + next_review: 2026-11-17 + event_triggers: [Resend API change, domain or sender change, deliverability incident] +sources: + - { id: RESEND-SRC-SEND, title: Send email, url: "https://resend.com/docs/send-with-nextjs", topic: server-side sending, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: RESEND-SRC-DOMAINS, title: Domains, url: "https://resend.com/docs/dashboard/domains/introduction", topic: sender authentication, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: RESEND-SRC-WEBHOOKS, title: Webhooks, url: "https://resend.com/docs/dashboard/webhooks/introduction", topic: delivery events, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: RESEND-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY, title: Idempotency keys, url: "https://resend.com/docs/dashboard/emails/idempotency-keys", topic: duplicate-send prevention, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: RESEND-SRC-VERIFY, title: Verify webhook requests, url: "https://resend.com/docs/dashboard/webhooks/verify-webhooks-requests", topic: webhook authenticity, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: RESEND-SRC-ENG-WEBHOOKS, title: Capture email events with webhooks, url: "https://resend.com/blog/webhooks", topic: delivery event workflows and retention needs, authority: provider_engineering, volatility: low } +coverage: + - { surface: domain-and-sender-authentication, classification: mapped, capabilities: [RESEND-CAP-DOMAIN], sources: [RESEND-SRC-DOMAINS] } + - { surface: transactional-send, classification: mapped, capabilities: [RESEND-CAP-SEND], sources: [RESEND-SRC-SEND, RESEND-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY] } + - { surface: delivery-events, classification: mapped, capabilities: [RESEND-CAP-WEBHOOK], sources: [RESEND-SRC-WEBHOOKS, RESEND-SRC-VERIFY, RESEND-SRC-ENG-WEBHOOKS] } + - { surface: audience-broadcast, classification: mapped, capabilities: [RESEND-CAP-BROADCAST], sources: [RESEND-SRC-SEND, RESEND-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY] } + - { surface: suppression-and-complaints, classification: mapped, capabilities: [RESEND-CAP-SUPPRESSION], sources: [RESEND-SRC-WEBHOOKS] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/workflows.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/workflows.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5157c8c --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/resend/workflows.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +version: 1 +integration: resend +workflows: + - { id: RESEND-WF-DOMAIN, name: Establish a sending domain, trigger: A domain sender or DNS provider changes, sources: [RESEND-SRC-DOMAINS], capabilities: [RESEND-CAP-DOMAIN], steps: [Confirm ownership and message purpose, apply exact DNS records, verify provider state, test alignment and rollback ownership], stop_conditions: [DNS authority or sender purpose is unclear, records would weaken another mail system], outputs: [Domain and DNS evidence, sender inventory, rollback record] } + - { id: RESEND-WF-TRANSACTIONAL, name: Release a transactional message, trigger: Trigger template recipient logic or delivery handling changes, sources: [RESEND-SRC-SEND, RESEND-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY, RESEND-SRC-WEBHOOKS, RESEND-SRC-VERIFY], capabilities: [RESEND-CAP-SEND, RESEND-CAP-WEBHOOK, RESEND-CAP-SUPPRESSION], steps: [Classify the message and bind a stable operation key, render accessibility and content states, send from the server, authenticate replay and reconcile delivery events, apply suppression], stop_conditions: [The message purpose is promotional, duplicate sends are possible, sender authentication or event verification is missing], outputs: [Classified message contract, render and send evidence, repeat-safe delivery state] } + - { id: RESEND-WF-BROADCAST, name: Prepare a broadcast for human send approval, trigger: A marketing audience content or schedule changes, sources: [RESEND-SRC-SEND, RESEND-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY, RESEND-SRC-WEBHOOKS], capabilities: [RESEND-CAP-BROADCAST, RESEND-CAP-SUPPRESSION], steps: [Freeze the approved audience and suppression set, inspect exact content sender and schedule, test representative rendering, present the final operation for human execution, monitor negative signals], stop_conditions: [Consent or audience provenance is missing, unsubscribe or suppression is stale, exact final content is not approved], outputs: [Audience snapshot, final render, human decision, monitored result] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/capabilities.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/capabilities.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8786c5d --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/capabilities.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ +version: 1 +integration: stripe +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +capabilities: + - id: STRIPE-CAP-CHECKOUT + name: Create a governed checkout or payment operation + interface: stripe_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [backend_service] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: [business operation ID, amount and currency, customer and price references, return locations] + outputs: [Stripe object ID, provider request ID, initial state] + data_semantics: [STRIPE-SEM-PAYMENT-STATE, STRIPE-SEM-REPLAY] + limits: { quotas: [Respect current API limits], latency: [Treat timeouts as ambiguous], sampling: [No sampling for financial state], privacy_suppression: [Exclude payment credentials from logs], aggregation: [Reconcile by business operation and Stripe object], completeness: [Initial response is not final state], operational: [Use a current supported integration surface and dynamic payment methods] } + limitations: [Does not decide merchant or tax responsibility] + verification: [Re-read the resulting Stripe object, reconcile the corresponding event] + idempotency: Reuse one deterministic key for the same business operation and new keys for different operations. + rollback: Cancel before completion when supported; otherwise use the governed refund or compensation path. + sources: [STRIPE-SRC-PAYMENTS, STRIPE-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY, STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS] + - id: STRIPE-CAP-WEBHOOK + name: Verify and reconcile Stripe events + interface: stripe_webhook + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [webhook_processor] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [raw request body, signature header, endpoint secret, persisted event identity] + outputs: [authenticity decision, repeat-safe state transition, reconciliation result] + data_semantics: [STRIPE-SEM-PAYMENT-STATE, STRIPE-SEM-REPLAY] + limits: { quotas: [Bound retries and downstream work], latency: [Acknowledge after durable receipt], sampling: [Process every relevant event], privacy_suppression: [Do not log secrets or full sensitive payloads], aggregation: [Deduplicate by event identity], completeness: [Events may be duplicated delayed or reordered], operational: [Retrieve authoritative objects when event state is insufficient] } + limitations: [Event receipt does not prove every downstream effect completed] + verification: [Replay a signed event, reconcile from the authoritative object] + idempotency: Persist the event identity and resulting transition before acknowledging. + rollback: Reverse local derived state from the authoritative Stripe object. + sources: [STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS] + - id: STRIPE-CAP-REFUND + name: Create a refund + interface: stripe_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [finance_operator] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: [charge or payment reference, exact amount, reason, business operation ID] + outputs: [refund ID, refund state, provider request ID] + data_semantics: [STRIPE-SEM-PAYMENT-STATE, STRIPE-SEM-REPLAY] + limits: { quotas: [Bound automated attempts], latency: [Settlement and bank timing vary], sampling: [No sampling], privacy_suppression: [Keep payment details out of evidence], aggregation: [Reconcile refund and original payment], completeness: [A created refund may still fail], operational: [Require exact target and amount immediately before execution] } + limitations: [Refunds may be irreversible and do not cancel every external obligation] + verification: [Re-read refund and payment state, verify downstream ledger state] + idempotency: Use a deterministic refund-operation key. + rollback: No general reversal; escalate mistaken refunds and record compensation. + sources: [STRIPE-SRC-PAYMENTS, STRIPE-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY, STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS] + - id: STRIPE-CAP-CONNECT-TRANSFER + name: Move funds through Connect + interface: stripe_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [platform_operator, finance_operator] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: [connected account, capability state, charge pattern, amount, responsibility decision] + outputs: [transfer or charge reference, balance effect, reconciliation state] + data_semantics: [STRIPE-SEM-PAYMENT-STATE, STRIPE-SEM-RESPONSIBILITY, STRIPE-SEM-REPLAY] + limits: { quotas: [Bound operation volume and value], latency: [Capability and balance state can change], sampling: [No sampling], privacy_suppression: [Minimize connected-account data], aggregation: [Reconcile charge fee transfer reversal and payout], completeness: [Dashboard availability is not capability readiness], operational: [Check current capability path and compatible charge pattern] } + limitations: [Cannot decide merchant-of-record liability or regulatory duties] + verification: [Re-read capability and transfer state, reconcile balances and events] + idempotency: Key each intended money-movement operation independently. + rollback: Use supported reversal or compensation and preserve financial records. + sources: [STRIPE-SRC-CONNECT, STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS, STRIPE-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY] + - id: STRIPE-CAP-TAX-REGISTRATION + name: Create or expire a tax registration record + interface: stripe_dashboard + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [tax_owner] } + effect: human_only + approval: human_only + inputs: [qualified tax decision, jurisdiction, effective date, current registration state] + outputs: [Stripe registration state, collection behavior evidence] + data_semantics: [STRIPE-SEM-RESPONSIBILITY] + limits: { quotas: [One governed decision per jurisdiction], latency: [Effective dates control collection], sampling: [Verify every active jurisdiction], privacy_suppression: [Do not expose tax account credentials], aggregation: [Reconcile registrations with enabled automatic tax flows], completeness: [Stripe registration records do not register with a tax authority], operational: [An effective expiration may be irreversible] } + limitations: [Requires a qualified tax owner and external registration action] + verification: [Inspect registration state and a representative calculation] + idempotency: Re-read current registration state before any human action. + rollback: Follow qualified tax direction; an effective expiration may require a new registration. + sources: [STRIPE-SRC-TAX] + - id: STRIPE-CAP-API-UPGRADE + name: Audit a Stripe API or SDK upgrade + interface: stripe_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [platform_operator] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [account API version, webhook endpoint versions, SDK version, changed request and response fields] + outputs: [version compatibility matrix, deprecated-path findings, rollout and rollback evidence] + data_semantics: [STRIPE-SEM-PAYMENT-STATE, STRIPE-SEM-REPLAY] + limits: { quotas: [Use bounded test-mode fixtures], latency: [Webhook and account upgrades can be applied at different times], sampling: [Cover every enabled product and event consumer], privacy_suppression: [Use test data and redact credentials], aggregation: [Map account endpoint SDK and event versions], completeness: [A compiling SDK does not prove semantic compatibility], operational: [Test old and new event shapes and rollback before account-wide change] } + limitations: [Does not authorize an account-wide version change] + verification: [Run contract fixtures for requests responses errors and webhook events on the intended versions] + idempotency: Repeating the audit has no intended provider mutation. + rollback: Retain the prior SDK and compatible event consumers until the governed rollout completes. + sources: [STRIPE-SRC-VERSIONING, STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS] + - id: STRIPE-CAP-CREDENTIAL + name: Audit Stripe credential restriction and rotation + interface: stripe_dashboard + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [platform_operator] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [key inventory without values, environment, service consumer, permissions and last use] + outputs: [least-authority findings, rotation and revocation evidence, orphaned-key findings] + data_semantics: [STRIPE-SEM-RESPONSIBILITY] + limits: { quotas: [Bound key count and rotation attempts], latency: [Propagation and cached credentials can delay revocation], sampling: [Exercise each credential class and environment], privacy_suppression: [Never record secret values], aggregation: [Map each key fingerprint to one owner service and environment], completeness: [Dashboard presence does not prove active use], operational: [Prefer restricted keys and overlap rotation only for a bounded period] } + limitations: [Some integration surfaces require provider-defined credential classes] + verification: [Exercise allowed and denied calls before revoking the old credential] + idempotency: Observation and negative access tests create no durable Stripe object. + rollback: Restore service through the approved emergency credential path without re-enabling broad stale keys. + sources: [STRIPE-SRC-KEYS] + - id: STRIPE-CAP-BILLING + name: Audit subscription invoice and entitlement convergence + interface: stripe_webhook + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [backend_service, webhook_processor, finance_operator] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [customer subscription invoice payment and entitlement identities, event history, local projection] + outputs: [billing state reconciliation, entitlement timing result, unresolved financial states] + data_semantics: [STRIPE-SEM-PAYMENT-STATE, STRIPE-SEM-REPLAY] + limits: { quotas: [Bound reconciliation and event retrieval], latency: [Invoices and payment methods can remain asynchronous], sampling: [Cover trial renewal failure recovery cancellation and proration], privacy_suppression: [Exclude payment details and invoice contents from logs], aggregation: [Reconcile customer subscription invoice payment and entitlement together], completeness: [Subscription status alone does not prove paid access], operational: [Grant and revoke access from governed final states and recover missed events] } + limitations: [Product pricing and accounting decisions remain owner responsibilities] + verification: [Rebuild a representative local projection from authoritative objects and events] + idempotency: Replayed events must converge without duplicate access or ledger effects. + rollback: Correct local access from authoritative billing state and use governed financial compensation separately. + sources: [STRIPE-SRC-BILLING, STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS] diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/data-semantics.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/data-semantics.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..935c3bf --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/data-semantics.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +version: 1 +integration: stripe +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +concepts: + - id: STRIPE-SEM-PAYMENT-STATE + name: Payment state + definition: A client redirect or accepted API request is not final financial state; reconcile the Stripe object and relevant events. + cautions: [Do not fulfill from a success URL alone, distinguish authorization capture refund dispute payout and transfer state] + sources: [STRIPE-SRC-PAYMENTS, STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS] + - id: STRIPE-SEM-REPLAY + name: Financial replay boundary + definition: A business operation has one stable key across ambiguous timeouts and retries, while event delivery has its own persisted deduplication identity. + cautions: [Provider idempotency does not replace local reconciliation, event order is not guaranteed] + sources: [STRIPE-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY, STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS] + - id: STRIPE-SEM-RESPONSIBILITY + name: Financial and tax responsibility + definition: Merchant, fee, loss, dispute, payout, and tax responsibility are explicit business decisions outside an API default. + cautions: [Do not infer legal tax obligations, verify connected-account capability state before money movement] + sources: [STRIPE-SRC-CONNECT, STRIPE-SRC-TAX] diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/evaluations.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/evaluations.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..58d4f69 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/evaluations.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +version: 1 +integration: stripe +evaluations: + - { id: STRIPE-EVAL-AMBIGUOUS-TIMEOUT, workflow: STRIPE-WF-PAYMENT-RELEASE, capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-CHECKOUT, STRIPE-CAP-WEBHOOK], scenario: Payment creation times out and the signed success event arrives twice, sources: [STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS, STRIPE-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY], evidence: [request and operation keys, event records, final Stripe object and ledger], expected: One financial effect and one reconciled local transition, prohibited: Retrying with a new business key or fulfilling from the redirect } + - { id: STRIPE-EVAL-REFUND-EXACTNESS, workflow: STRIPE-WF-FINANCIAL-CORRECTION, capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-REFUND], scenario: A partial refund is requested after a prior partial refund, sources: [STRIPE-SRC-PAYMENTS, STRIPE-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY], evidence: [exact approval, original and current payment state, resulting refund state], expected: The approved remaining amount is refunded once, prohibited: Refund of a stale or inferred amount } + - { id: STRIPE-EVAL-CONNECT-CAPABILITY, workflow: STRIPE-WF-FINANCIAL-CORRECTION, capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-CONNECT-TRANSFER], scenario: A connected account loses required capability before transfer, sources: [STRIPE-SRC-CONNECT], evidence: [fresh capability state, denied operation, escalation record], expected: Money movement stops before execution, prohibited: Reliance on deprecated readiness fields or stale onboarding status } + - { id: STRIPE-EVAL-TAX-NO-REGISTRATION, workflow: STRIPE-WF-TAX-CHANGE, capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-TAX-REGISTRATION, STRIPE-CAP-CHECKOUT], scenario: Automatic tax is requested without an active registration, sources: [STRIPE-SRC-TAX], evidence: [registration query, blocked release decision], expected: Collection is not represented as active and the decision routes to a qualified tax owner, prohibited: Guessing a jurisdiction or enabling collection as proof of compliance } + - { id: STRIPE-EVAL-LIFECYCLE-DRIFT, workflow: STRIPE-WF-LIFECYCLE-AUDIT, capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-API-UPGRADE, STRIPE-CAP-CREDENTIAL, STRIPE-CAP-BILLING], scenario: An SDK upgrade changes event handling while an old broad key remains active and a delayed invoice event arrives, sources: [STRIPE-SRC-VERSIONING, STRIPE-SRC-KEYS, STRIPE-SRC-BILLING, STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS], evidence: [version fixtures, allowed and denied credential calls, authoritative billing objects and local projection], expected: Compatibility failure blocks rollout the stale key is removed through tested rotation and billing state converges, prohibited: Treating compile success key presence or subscription status alone as proof } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cf1ab8d --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Stripe integration bundle + +Machine-readable [manifest](manifest.yaml), [governed sources and zero-gap ledger](sources.yaml), [capabilities](capabilities.yaml), [data semantics](data-semantics.yaml), [workflows](workflows.yaml), and [evaluations](evaluations.yaml) for `PLAYBOOK-STRIPE`. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/manifest.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/manifest.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..706b981 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/manifest.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +version: 1 +integration: stripe +id_prefix: STRIPE +playbook: PLAYBOOK-STRIPE +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +official_domains: [docs.stripe.com, stripe.com] +informative_domains: [shopify.engineering] +artifacts: { sources: sources.yaml, capabilities: capabilities.yaml, semantics: data-semantics.yaml, workflows: workflows.yaml, evaluations: evaluations.yaml } +features: [capabilities, coverage, semantics, source_usage] +vocabulary: + interfaces: [stripe_api, stripe_webhook, stripe_dashboard] + property_roles: [backend_service, webhook_processor, finance_operator, platform_operator, tax_owner] + oauth_scopes: [] +skill_routes: + - { name: "stripe:stripe-best-practices", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "stripe:connect-recommend", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "stripe:upgrade-stripe", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "vercel:payments", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/sources.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/sources.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..19e0052 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/sources.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +version: 1 +integration: stripe +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +scope: Payment creation, webhooks, idempotency, and API lifecycle. +freshness: + cadence_days: 92 + next_review: 2026-11-17 + event_triggers: [Stripe API version change, payment flow change, webhook delivery incident] +sources: + - { id: STRIPE-SRC-PAYMENTS, title: Payment Intents API, url: "https://docs.stripe.com/payments/payment-intents", topic: payment lifecycle, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS, title: Webhooks, url: "https://docs.stripe.com/webhooks", topic: webhook verification and delivery, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: STRIPE-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY, title: Idempotent requests, url: "https://docs.stripe.com/api/idempotent_requests", topic: repeat-safe writes, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: low } + - { id: STRIPE-SRC-CONNECT, title: Design a Connect integration, url: "https://docs.stripe.com/connect/design-an-integration", topic: platform responsibilities and money movement, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: STRIPE-SRC-TAX, title: Set up Stripe Tax, url: "https://docs.stripe.com/tax/set-up", topic: registrations and automatic tax, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: STRIPE-SRC-VERSIONING, title: API upgrades, url: "https://docs.stripe.com/upgrades", topic: API and SDK version lifecycle, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: STRIPE-SRC-KEYS, title: API keys, url: "https://docs.stripe.com/keys", topic: credential scope rotation and restriction, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: STRIPE-SRC-BILLING, title: Billing integration, url: "https://docs.stripe.com/billing", topic: subscriptions invoices and entitlements, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: STRIPE-SRC-ENG-IDEMPOTENCY, title: Designing predictable APIs with idempotency, url: "https://stripe.com/blog/idempotency", topic: ambiguous outcomes backoff and jitter, authority: provider_engineering, volatility: low } + - { id: STRIPE-SRC-INDEPENDENT-IDEMPOTENCY, title: Building resilient APIs with idempotency, url: "https://shopify.engineering/building-resilient-graphql-apis-using-idempotency/", topic: concurrent attempts recovery points and side-effect partitioning, authority: independent_engineering, volatility: low } +coverage: + - { surface: checkout-and-payment-creation, classification: mapped, capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-CHECKOUT], sources: [STRIPE-SRC-PAYMENTS, STRIPE-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY, STRIPE-SRC-ENG-IDEMPOTENCY, STRIPE-SRC-INDEPENDENT-IDEMPOTENCY] } + - { surface: asynchronous-payment-state, classification: mapped, capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-WEBHOOK], sources: [STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS] } + - { surface: refunds, classification: mapped, capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-REFUND], sources: [STRIPE-SRC-PAYMENTS, STRIPE-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY] } + - { surface: connected-account-money-movement, classification: mapped, capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-CONNECT-TRANSFER], sources: [STRIPE-SRC-CONNECT, STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS] } + - { surface: tax-registration-state, classification: mapped, capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-TAX-REGISTRATION], sources: [STRIPE-SRC-TAX] } + - { surface: api-and-sdk-upgrades, classification: mapped, capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-API-UPGRADE], sources: [STRIPE-SRC-VERSIONING, STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS] } + - { surface: credential-restriction-and-rotation, classification: mapped, capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-CREDENTIAL], sources: [STRIPE-SRC-KEYS] } + - { surface: subscriptions-invoices-and-entitlements, classification: mapped, capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-BILLING], sources: [STRIPE-SRC-BILLING, STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/workflows.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/workflows.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c5694f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/stripe/workflows.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +version: 1 +integration: stripe +workflows: + - { id: STRIPE-WF-PAYMENT-RELEASE, name: Release a payment flow, trigger: Checkout or payment creation changes, sources: [STRIPE-SRC-PAYMENTS, STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS, STRIPE-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY], capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-CHECKOUT, STRIPE-CAP-WEBHOOK], steps: [Select the current supported surface, bind a business idempotency key, verify signed events and authoritative state, exercise success decline timeout duplicate and reorder], stop_conditions: [Final state depends on a redirect, duplicate financial effects are possible, live and test resources are mixed], outputs: [Versioned contract, replay evidence, reconciliation result] } + - { id: STRIPE-WF-FINANCIAL-CORRECTION, name: Execute a refund or Connect correction, trigger: Money must be refunded transferred reversed or compensated, sources: [STRIPE-SRC-PAYMENTS, STRIPE-SRC-CONNECT, STRIPE-SRC-IDEMPOTENCY], capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-REFUND, STRIPE-CAP-CONNECT-TRANSFER, STRIPE-CAP-WEBHOOK], steps: [Confirm exact objects amount responsibility and capability state, obtain exact approval, execute once, reconcile balances events and local ledger], stop_conditions: [Responsibility is unclear, capability state is inactive, exact target or amount is missing], outputs: [Approval record, provider objects, reconciled ledger and compensation state] } + - { id: STRIPE-WF-TAX-CHANGE, name: Review a tax collection change, trigger: Automatic tax registration or product tax behavior changes, sources: [STRIPE-SRC-TAX, STRIPE-SRC-PAYMENTS], capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-TAX-REGISTRATION, STRIPE-CAP-CHECKOUT], steps: [Obtain qualified jurisdiction and product decisions, inspect active registration state, stage the collection change, verify a representative calculation], stop_conditions: [No qualified tax owner, registration is not active, a tax code would be guessed], outputs: [Qualified decision, registration evidence, calculation evidence] } + - { id: STRIPE-WF-LIFECYCLE-AUDIT, name: Audit Stripe platform lifecycle controls, trigger: API version credentials Billing state or entitlement behavior changes, sources: [STRIPE-SRC-VERSIONING, STRIPE-SRC-KEYS, STRIPE-SRC-BILLING, STRIPE-SRC-WEBHOOKS], capabilities: [STRIPE-CAP-API-UPGRADE, STRIPE-CAP-CREDENTIAL, STRIPE-CAP-BILLING], steps: [Inventory versions credentials consumers and billing objects, run old and new contract fixtures, exercise least-authority rotation, rebuild representative billing state from authoritative objects and events], stop_conditions: [A consumer or endpoint version is unknown, credential denial is untested, access depends on one non-final billing field], outputs: [Compatibility matrix, credential findings, reconciled billing and entitlement evidence] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vendor-platforms.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vendor-platforms.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f095527 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vendor-platforms.md @@ -0,0 +1,304 @@ +--- +id: INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR +title: External platform integrations +description: Governs inventory, authority, callbacks, side effects, release evidence, observability, and recovery for external platform dependencies. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [engineering, platform, security, privacy, operations] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2027-02-17 +stale_after: 2027-02-17 +applies_to: [product-feature, service-change, api-change, database-change, deployment, vendor-change, standards-audit] +tags: [integrations, vendors, platforms, callbacks, recovery] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-CHANGE, API-CONTRACTS, OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY, PRIVACY-DATA, SECURITY-APPLICATION, SECURITY-SECRETS, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T17:28:10Z" } +sources: + - id: nist-sp-800-161r1 + resource: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/161/r1/final + title: Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Systems and Organizations + author: organization:nist + - id: nist-sp-800-53r5 + resource: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/final + title: Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations + author: organization:nist + - id: cisa-third-party-risk + resource: https://www.cisa.gov/topics/cyber-threats-and-advisories/secure-by-design + title: Secure by Design + author: organization:cisa +--- + +# External platform integrations + +External platforms must be integrated through explicit contracts, narrow authority, repeat-safe effects, current provider guidance, exercised failure handling, and evidence from the released environment. Provider playbooks add current platform procedures without turning volatile vendor defaults into universal policy. + +This draft requires independent engineering, platform, security, privacy, and operations review before becoming stable. + +## Rules + +### INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-001 — Inventory the effective vendor contract + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Adding, changing, operating, or auditing an external platform dependency. + +Record the provider, products and capabilities used, account and project boundary, environments, regions, data categories, recipients, credentials and roles, API and SDK versions, callbacks, limits, billing owner, support route, service objectives, retention, deletion, recovery, and exit path. Trace actual code, configuration, control-plane settings, and network flow rather than relying only on intended architecture. + +**Why:** A provider name does not reveal the authority, data, cost, or failure behavior of the features actually enabled. + +**Verify:** + +- Reconcile the inventory with dependency manifests, environment names without values, deployed configuration, provider settings, network observations, callback registrations, data stores, and billing records. +- Identify unused credentials, stale callbacks, orphaned projects, and undocumented downstream recipients. + +**Exceptions:** A time-bounded experiment may use a shorter record but must still name authority, data, cost, owner, deletion, and shutdown. + +### INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-002 — Revalidate provider guidance and review aids + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Designing, changing, or auditing a provider integration. + +Load the active provider playbook. When the executing environment supplies a mapped agent skill, record its logical name and installed package version and use it to locate provider-specific checks. Verify every volatile claim, API shape, security control, limit, default, deprecation, and release instruction against current official provider documentation. Treat skills as routing and review aids, not evidence that the deployed system conforms. + +If a mapped skill is unavailable, record the gap and continue with current official documentation. Do not omit the provider review or invent skill-derived requirements. + +**Why:** Review aids make specialist work repeatable, but both the aids and platforms can change independently. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the playbook, skill name and version or `not available`, official sources, review date, product scope, and conflicts between guidance, code, and deployed behavior. +- Re-run applicable provider evaluations after material integration or platform changes. + +**Exceptions:** A human-only audit may omit the skill record but must use the provider playbook, current official sources, and the same evidence requirements. + +### INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-003 — Separate environments and minimize provider authority + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A provider exposes credentials, roles, projects, accounts, branches, datasets, domains, or environment-specific configuration. + +Separate production from development, test, and preview resources. Use a distinct workload identity or credential per service and environment, grant only required permissions, keep secrets out of source and client bundles, and prevent non-production workloads from reaching production data or mutation authority by default. Prefer short-lived workload identity and provider bindings over broad static keys when supported. + +**Why:** Shared credentials and resources turn a low-trust preview or test failure into production data, financial, and availability impact. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise positive and negative access from every environment and identity class. +- Inspect built client artifacts, logs, error responses, environment metadata, and secret scans for exposed credentials. +- Demonstrate rotation, revocation, and departed-user removal for representative credentials and roles. + +**Exceptions:** Shared read-only test data requires documented necessity, non-sensitive contents, bounded access, and an owner. Production mutation authority in previews requires a qualified security exception. + +### INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-004 — Make callbacks authentic, repeat-safe, and recoverable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Receiving webhooks, event destinations, drains, callbacks, or other provider-initiated requests. + +Verify authenticity over the raw body using the current provider method before processing. Persist or enqueue accepted events before acknowledging when durable processing matters. Handle duplicates, delay, retry, replay, and out-of-order delivery without duplicating side effects or regressing state. Reconcile from the provider's authoritative API or export after missed-delivery windows and outages. + +**Why:** Provider callbacks are asynchronous, retryable, and exposed to spoofing and delivery gaps. + +**Verify:** + +- Reject missing, invalid, expired, wrong-environment, and wrong-secret signatures. +- Replay the same event, reverse event order, delay delivery, interrupt processing before and after persistence, and recover after the provider retry window. +- Compare derived state with the provider's authoritative object or event history. + +**Exceptions:** An unsigned provider callback requires a qualified security decision, compensating authenticated boundary or allowlist, reconciliation, and replacement owner. + +### INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-005 — Bound retries and durable side effects + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A provider request creates, updates, sends, transfers, bills, refunds, deletes, publishes, or otherwise causes a durable side effect. + +Use provider-supported idempotency where available and an application operation key tied to the business action. Persist attempt and result state, distinguish safe retry from reconciliation, and prevent concurrent or delayed workers from repeating the effect. Do not treat a timeout as proof of failure. + +**Why:** Network ambiguity and job retries can duplicate money movement, messages, accounts, deployments, or destructive operations. + +**Verify:** + +- Repeat identical and conflicting requests, inject timeouts before and after provider acceptance, and run concurrent attempts. +- Reconcile local records with provider request IDs, object IDs, events, and final state. + +**Exceptions:** A provider operation without idempotency support requires a guarded read-before-write or reconciliation design and an approved residual-risk record. + +### INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-006 — Release the tested artifact with its effective configuration + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Provider code, infrastructure, environment values, rules, bindings, schemas, domains, or credentials change. + +Bind tests to the exact build and effective environment configuration that will receive traffic. Use staged or preview release where supported, define promotion and stop conditions, and verify rollback or compensation including state that a code rollback cannot undo. Rebuild or redeploy when provider configuration changes do not apply to existing artifacts. + +**Why:** A tested source revision can behave differently after environment substitution, control-plane changes, migrations, or alias promotion. + +**Verify:** + +- Record immutable build or deployment identity, configuration version, migration state, provider project, and environment. +- Exercise promotion, rollback, credential failure, provider degradation, and post-release error detection. + +**Exceptions:** Immediate incident containment may precede the full release record; preserve the action log and complete final-state verification before closure. + +### INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-007 — Observe outcomes without leaking provider data + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A provider affects user-visible, financial, security, data, or availability outcomes. + +Capture structured operation, latency, outcome, retry, reconciliation, and provider-correlation signals with bounded cardinality. Exclude credentials, raw financial data, full callback payloads, message bodies, and unnecessary personal data. Alert on actionable failure and verify telemetry delivery, authenticity, retention, access, deletion, and outage behavior. + +**Why:** Missing telemetry hides dependency failures, while indiscriminate payload logging creates a second sensitive data store. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace successful, failed, retried, and reconciled operations through logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and support lookup. +- Inspect telemetry at source, drain or export, destination, archive, and deletion path for prohibited fields and gaps. + +**Exceptions:** Time-bounded diagnostic capture requires qualified approval, minimized scope, protected storage, expiry, and verified deletion. + +### INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-008 — Resolve guidance conflicts by source role and specificity + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Provider documentation, an agent skill, an engineering article, a sample, or another standard gives different advice for the same integration decision. + +Classify each source before applying it. Current provider documentation is normative for provider behavior. A provider-specific skill may route the review but cannot override current provider documentation. A cross-provider skill cannot override the dedicated provider playbook or provider-specific skill. Provider and third-party engineering articles may explain failure modes and design tradeoffs but cannot be the sole authority for an API shape, default, limit, security control, or release action. Record the conflict, versions or dates, chosen rule, and evidence. + +**Why:** Examples and skills are often optimized for a narrow workflow and can lag the provider they invoke. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace each requirement to at least one current normative source and label informative sources separately. +- Re-run the conflict decision when either source, skill package, SDK, API version, or provider behavior changes. +- Confirm that copied samples do not reintroduce a lower-precedence or deprecated path. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +### INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-009 — Inventory deprecated, legacy, adjacent, and negative paths + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A provider offers more than one API generation, integration mode, runtime, account type, storage product, or release path. + +Maintain a zero-gap surface ledger that marks each discovered surface as mapped, adjacent, legacy, or excluded. Name deprecated and unsafe patterns that an audit must detect, including old SDKs, retired products, insecure samples, broad credentials, and control-plane-only configuration. Do not infer safety from the absence of a capability in the local bundle. + +**Why:** Audits that describe only the preferred path miss the legacy path most likely to exist in an older system. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the ledger with dependencies, imports, routes, infrastructure, environment names, provider settings, and provider deprecation notices. +- Add a failing evaluation fixture for each in-scope legacy or prohibited path that can be detected mechanically. + +**Exceptions:** An excluded surface may omit detailed controls when its rationale and evidence prove it cannot be reached. + +### INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-010 — Reconcile cross-system state explicitly + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Local state and provider state can change in separate transactions. + +Define the local source of intent, the provider source of outcome, the operation identity, state transitions, and reconciliation owner. Use an outbox, durable job, or equivalent handoff when a local commit must cause a provider side effect. Treat callbacks as notifications to reconcile, not as the only durable record of provider truth. Prevent stale or out-of-order observations from moving state backward. + +**Why:** A database transaction cannot atomically commit with a remote provider request, callback, deployment, or control-plane change. + +**Verify:** + +- Interrupt execution before and after the local commit, provider acceptance, response receipt, callback persistence, and local projection update. +- Compare local intent, attempts, provider objects, callbacks, and final projections by stable operation and provider identifiers. + +**Exceptions:** A read-only integration may omit the outbox but still needs freshness, ownership, and mismatch handling. + +### INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-011 — Test concurrency, reordering, replay, and ambiguous outcomes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Provider operations or callbacks can overlap, retry, arrive late, or time out. + +Test more than the success path. Cover concurrent identical and conflicting requests, response loss after provider acceptance, duplicate and delayed callbacks, reversed event order, partial batches, retry exhaustion, and recovery after the provider retention or retry window. Assert business invariants and final converged state, not only HTTP status or job completion. + +**Why:** Distributed failures occur between observable steps and rarely match a clean request failure. + +**Verify:** + +- Run deterministic fixtures with controlled clocks, fault injection, and provider sandbox or test-mode evidence where available. +- Prove that retries are bounded, jittered where many workers can synchronize, and stopped or reconciled on permanent errors. + +**Exceptions:** None for durable side effects. Low-impact read-only calls may use contract tests plus a documented degraded-state exercise. + +### INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-012 — Detect control-plane and effective-state drift + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Provider behavior depends on dashboard settings, DNS, domains, roles, environment values, callbacks, rules, branches, aliases, or other state outside the application artifact. + +Keep desired configuration in a reviewable record where supported and compare it with effective provider state. Identify which changes require a rebuild, redeploy, migration, propagation wait, or manual publication. Record who can change each control and how emergency changes return to the managed baseline. + +**Why:** Source control can be unchanged while the running integration changes materially. + +**Verify:** + +- Diff desired and effective state for each environment and account boundary. +- Exercise detection of an out-of-band credential, callback, DNS, firewall, domain, branch, or alias change. + +**Exceptions:** A provider surface without an API or export requires dated screenshots or an equivalent two-person evidence record until automation exists. + +### INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-013 — Bound quota, cost, egress, and cardinality + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Provider use is metered, rate limited, regionally multiplied, data-volume sensitive, or able to create unbounded resources or telemetry dimensions. + +Model cost and quota by operation, payload size, region, retry, fan-out, cache behavior, retained resource, and telemetry cardinality. Set application budgets, concurrency and batch bounds, pagination, payload limits, and stop conditions before provider hard limits. Attribute usage to a tenant, workflow, deployment, or other accountable unit without exposing sensitive data. + +**Why:** A correct integration can still fail through retry storms, cache misses, unbounded reads, regional counters, stale branches, messages, logs, or resource creation. + +**Verify:** + +- Test representative peak, retry, cache-cold, provider-degraded, and abusive traffic against the cost and quota model. +- Alert before hard limits and prove that shedding, queuing, disabling, or degrading work preserves critical invariants. + +**Exceptions:** An unmetered feature still requires resource and abuse bounds when it can affect availability. + +### INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-014 — Exercise provider failure, compromise, and exit + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A vendor can affect critical function, data, security, compliance, cost, or recovery. + +Maintain and exercise response for provider outage and degradation, quota or cost exhaustion, credential compromise, callback failure, account suspension, breaking change, data export, deletion, and replacement or shutdown. Name user, financial, and data effects that switching code or providers cannot reverse. + +**Why:** Provider incidents and commercial changes occur outside the application's release cycle and can outlast ordinary retry windows. + +**Verify:** + +- Run a tabletop or bounded technical exercise for outage, credential rotation, reconciliation, and exit proportional to impact. +- Verify current support contacts, account ownership, status subscriptions, data export, deletion, DNS and domain control, and fallback communication. + +**Exceptions:** A replaceable low-impact provider may use a documented shutdown-and-disable exercise instead of a migration rehearsal. + +## Operational coverage + +Apply every route affected by the integration. Preserve provider-neutral evidence in the integration record and provider-specific evidence in the active playbook. + +| Route | Required scenarios | Completion evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Synchronous API or SDK | Timeout, rate limit, malformed response, partial result, incompatible version, revoked credential, and provider degradation | Contract and version, request boundary, retry and timeout behavior, error mapping, telemetry, authority test, and fallback result | +| Webhook, event, or callback | Invalid signature, replay, duplicate, reordering, missing event, delayed event, endpoint rotation, and reconciliation | Raw-body verification, event identity, deduplication state, ordering policy, retry ledger, reconciliation query, and secret rotation | +| Managed data or AI service | Region, recipient, training or secondary use, retention, deletion, model or engine change, export, and provider access | Data-flow and purpose map, contractual settings, effective configuration, output evaluation, deletion exercise, export result, and subprocessor review | +| Identity, payment, or other consequential service | Account takeover, authorization mismatch, duplicate effect, disputed action, outage, manual repair, and provider suspension | End-to-end authority trace, idempotency evidence, ledger reconciliation, user notice, recovery exercise, and support escalation | +| Build, deployment, or control-plane service | Compromised token, poisoned artifact, unavailable control plane, stale configuration, unauthorized release, and region loss | Workload identity, artifact provenance, approval boundary, effective settings, rollback or continuity exercise, and audit log | +| Vendor change or exit | Price or quota change, deprecation, export, replacement, contract end, deleted tenant, orphaned DNS or secrets, and retained data | Dependency and cost inventory, migration rehearsal, exported and reconciled data, revoked authority, deletion confirmation, and final ownership | + +### Worked vendor-neutral evidence record + +For a callback-driven external service, the record must identify the provider account and environment, callback URL, event types, signing scheme and secret owner, raw-payload boundary, idempotency key and retention, retry contract, reconciliation source, telemetry, data categories, cost guardrail, support route, failure owner, and exit procedure. The release exercise must reject an invalid signature, accept one valid event, make a duplicate repeat-safe, recover a delayed or missing event through reconciliation, rotate the secret, and confirm the final external and internal states. A unit test alone does not satisfy this record. + +## Guidance + +Activate every provider playbook whose platform is present. More than one playbook can apply to the same flow; for example, a Vercel service using Neon, Stripe, and Resend activates all four. The provider playbook supplies product routing, stop conditions, current skill mappings, workflow fixtures, and completion evidence. Cross-cutting standards remain additive. + +Use the generic integration bundle contract for machine-readable sources, skill routes, workflows, and evaluation fixtures. A bundle can add capability and semantic maps when provider operations are broad enough to justify them. Passing bundle validation proves structural consistency and freshness only; it does not prove a live system conforms. + +## Examples + +Non-compliant: A preview deployment shares production payment and database credentials, its callback handler trusts parsed JSON without signature verification, and a passing unit test is reported as production readiness. + +Compliant: Preview uses isolated provider resources and credentials. Released handlers reject invalid raw-body signatures, deduplicate and reconcile events, and the audit binds live provider settings and failure exercises to the released artifact. + +## Sources + +Provider-specific factual sources and freshness schedules are owned by the applicable playbooks and supporting integration bundles. The following sources support the cross-provider ownership, external-service, and supply-chain controls. This standard also depends on the source and verification rules in `FND-EVIDENCE`, `FND-CHANGE`, `API-CONTRACTS`, `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY`, `PRIVACY-DATA`, `SECURITY-APPLICATION`, `SECURITY-SECRETS`, and `AGENT-VERIFICATION`. + +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Systems and Organizations](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/161/r1/final). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/final). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, [Secure by Design](https://www.cisa.gov/topics/cyber-threats-and-advisories/secure-by-design). Reviewed September 1, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/capabilities.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/capabilities.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e27a183 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/capabilities.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ +version: 1 +integration: vercel +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +capabilities: + - id: VERCEL-CAP-DEPLOY + name: Build and deploy an immutable artifact + interface: vercel_cli + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [deployment_automation] } + effect: mutate_reversible + approval: bounded + inputs: [source revision, pinned CLI and dependencies, target project and environment, effective variable names] + outputs: [deployment ID and URL, build result, source and environment binding] + data_semantics: [VERCEL-SEM-ARTIFACT, VERCEL-SEM-ENVIRONMENT] + limits: { quotas: [Respect build deployment and function limits], latency: [Build and propagation are asynchronous], sampling: [Test representative routes and runtimes], privacy_suppression: [Do not print variable values or tokens], aggregation: [Bind evidence to project deployment and source revision], completeness: [READY does not prove application health], operational: [Separate build test and deploy and pin the CLI] } + limitations: [Does not apply database or external-service rollback] + verification: [Inspect deployment identity and run post-deploy application checks] + idempotency: Re-deploy only when a new artifact is intended; preserve one identity for the tested artifact. + rollback: Remove or supersede the deployment and retain its diagnostic record. + sources: [VERCEL-SRC-DEPLOY, VERCEL-SRC-ENV] + - id: VERCEL-CAP-PROMOTE + name: Promote or roll back production traffic + interface: vercel_cli + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [project_operator] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: [exact deployment ID, domain and environment, test evidence, stateful-change assessment] + outputs: [production alias state, promotion record, post-release observations] + data_semantics: [VERCEL-SEM-ARTIFACT, VERCEL-SEM-CONTROL-PLANE] + limits: { quotas: [Bound promotion attempts], latency: [Alias propagation and runtime warming vary], sampling: [Verify critical production journeys], privacy_suppression: [Keep credentials out of release evidence], aggregation: [Correlate deployment domain source and telemetry], completeness: [Alias rollback does not reverse migrations or external effects], operational: [Promote the tested artifact without rebuilding] } + limitations: [Cannot by itself reverse data or provider mutations] + verification: [Inspect the current production deployment and scan governed health signals] + idempotency: Repeating promotion of the same deployment must not create a different artifact. + rollback: Repoint traffic to an identified prior deployment and execute separate state compensation. + sources: [VERCEL-SRC-DEPLOY, VERCEL-SRC-OBS] + - id: VERCEL-CAP-ENV + name: Change environment-scoped configuration + interface: vercel_dashboard + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [project_operator] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: [variable name, target environments and branches, sensitivity, consumer contract] + outputs: [versioned configuration metadata, affected deployment set] + data_semantics: [VERCEL-SEM-ENVIRONMENT, VERCEL-SEM-CONTROL-PLANE] + limits: { quotas: [Respect project variable limits], latency: [Existing deployments may retain old values], sampling: [Check every intended environment], privacy_suppression: [Evidence records names scopes and fingerprints not values], aggregation: [Map one variable to every consumer and environment], completeness: [Dashboard presence does not prove runtime availability], operational: [Redeploy or promote as required for the new value] } + limitations: [Configuration changes may require application and provider coordination] + verification: [Inspect effective runtime behavior without exposing the value] + idempotency: Reapplying the same scoped value should not broaden its environments. + rollback: Restore the prior governed value and redeploy affected artifacts. + sources: [VERCEL-SRC-ENV, VERCEL-SRC-DEPLOY] + - id: VERCEL-CAP-OBSERVE + name: Inspect runtime logs metrics and traces + interface: vercel_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [telemetry_operator] } + effect: observe + approval: none + inputs: [bounded project deployment environment time window and signal filter] + outputs: [redacted logs metrics traces and query boundaries] + data_semantics: [VERCEL-SEM-ARTIFACT, VERCEL-SEM-ENVIRONMENT] + limits: { quotas: [Bound streaming queries and time windows], latency: [Signals can be delayed or retained for plan-specific periods], sampling: [Declare sampling and omitted signals], privacy_suppression: [Redact tokens personal data and request bodies], aggregation: [Correlate by deployment request and trace identity], completeness: [No observed error is not proof of no error], operational: [Use timeouts for streaming log APIs] } + limitations: [Available signals and retention depend on plan and configuration] + verification: [Record query boundary and corroborate critical outcomes directly] + idempotency: Observation has no intended provider mutation. + rollback: Delete unsafe exported evidence under the data-handling process. + sources: [VERCEL-SRC-OBS] + - id: VERCEL-CAP-DRAIN + name: Configure an external telemetry drain + interface: vercel_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [telemetry_operator, project_operator] } + effect: mutate_high_impact + approval: exact + inputs: [destination, environments, signal types, authentication and privacy contract] + outputs: [drain identity, tested delivery, receiving-system evidence] + data_semantics: [VERCEL-SEM-ENVIRONMENT, VERCEL-SEM-CONTROL-PLANE] + limits: { quotas: [Respect plan and delivery limits], latency: [Delivery is asynchronous and can fail], sampling: [Declare exported sampling], privacy_suppression: [Minimize fields and verify receiving retention], aggregation: [Correlate provider and receiver delivery], completeness: [A configured drain may be errored], operational: [Verify signed raw-body delivery when the drain contract supplies signatures] } + limitations: [Exports data to another processor and requires recipient governance] + verification: [Test the drain and inspect authenticated receipt and failure alerts] + idempotency: Reconcile existing drains before creating or replacing one. + rollback: Disable or delete the drain and revoke its receiving credentials. + sources: [VERCEL-SRC-OBS] + - id: VERCEL-CAP-FIREWALL + name: Stage and publish firewall controls + interface: vercel_cli + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [security_operator] } + effect: human_only + approval: human_only + inputs: [exact rule diff, traffic evidence, environment stage, rollback owner] + outputs: [draft or published rule state, matched traffic, enforcement result] + data_semantics: [VERCEL-SEM-CONTROL-PLANE] + limits: { quotas: [Respect rule and rate-limit plan limits], latency: [Persistent actions can outlive rule removal], sampling: [Review representative legitimate and abusive traffic], privacy_suppression: [Do not expose bypass secrets or sensitive request fields], aggregation: [Account for per-region rate-limit counters], completeness: [Fingerprints and user agents can match legitimate cohorts], operational: [Move from log to preview enforcement to approved production publication] } + limitations: [Emergency controls and production publication require human authority] + verification: [Inspect the exact diff and post-publication traffic and user journeys] + idempotency: Reconcile staged and active rules by stable rule identity before changing them. + rollback: Return enforcement to log or disable the exact rule; restore emergency controls promptly. + sources: [VERCEL-SRC-FW] + - id: VERCEL-CAP-FUNCTION + name: Audit function runtime and background completion + interface: vercel_runtime + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [runtime_service, project_operator] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [route runtime region duration concurrency streaming and background-work configuration] + outputs: [runtime-fit findings, timeout and abandonment tests, cost and concurrency bounds] + data_semantics: [VERCEL-SEM-ARTIFACT, VERCEL-SEM-ENVIRONMENT] + limits: { quotas: [Bound duration memory concurrency and invocations], latency: [Cold starts regions and upstreams affect deadlines], sampling: [Exercise streaming timeout cancellation and post-response work], privacy_suppression: [Keep request bodies and secrets out of logs], aggregation: [Attribute use by deployment route runtime and region], completeness: [A READY deployment does not prove function completion], operational: [Use durable work for effects that must survive request termination] } + limitations: [Exact limits and available runtimes depend on current platform and plan] + verification: [Run bounded runtime tests against the released deployment and inspect completion signals] + idempotency: Retried invocations must not duplicate downstream effects. + rollback: Revert to the prior runtime configuration and reconcile abandoned work. + sources: [VERCEL-SRC-FUNCTIONS, VERCEL-SRC-DEPLOY] + - id: VERCEL-CAP-ROUTING + name: Audit routing middleware and version skew + interface: vercel_runtime + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [runtime_service, security_operator] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [matchers rewrites redirects authorization checks deployment IDs and old-client contract] + outputs: [routing matrix, authorization-boundary findings, old-client compatibility evidence] + data_semantics: [VERCEL-SEM-ARTIFACT, VERCEL-SEM-CONTROL-PLANE] + limits: { quotas: [Bound middleware invocation and variant counts], latency: [Routing executes before application handlers], sampling: [Cover methods hosts paths prefetches bots and old clients], privacy_suppression: [Do not log authorization tokens or sensitive cookies], aggregation: [Map original path target route deployment and decision], completeness: [Middleware authentication does not replace handler authorization], operational: [Keep protected-handler authorization and test skew across active deployments] } + limitations: [Platform skew protection does not remove compatibility needs behind the frontend] + verification: [Exercise direct protected-handler access and requests from retained old clients] + idempotency: Routing observation creates no intended provider mutation. + rollback: Restore the prior matcher and routing configuration with an identified deployment. + sources: [VERCEL-SRC-ROUTING, VERCEL-SRC-SKEW] + - id: VERCEL-CAP-CACHE + name: Audit CDN ISR and runtime caching + interface: vercel_runtime + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [runtime_service, telemetry_operator] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [cache layer key authorization partition freshness tags invalidation and route behavior] + outputs: [hit and miss evidence, partition findings, invalidation and stampede results] + data_semantics: [VERCEL-SEM-ARTIFACT, VERCEL-SEM-ENVIRONMENT] + limits: { quotas: [Bound ISR writes runtime storage and origin load], latency: [Stale and revalidation paths differ], sampling: [Exercise hit miss stale error invalidate delete and cold burst], privacy_suppression: [Do not cache private responses without an explicit authority partition], aggregation: [Attribute result by layer route tag variant and deployment], completeness: [One cache status does not explain all layers], operational: [Keep tags granular and model cold-origin capacity] } + limitations: [Framework caching semantics remain additive] + verification: [Inspect cache outcomes and origin load across users deployments and invalidation paths] + idempotency: Repeated invalidation converges without corrupting authoritative state. + rollback: Bypass or version the affected cache space and restore prior invalidation behavior. + sources: [VERCEL-SRC-CACHE] + - id: VERCEL-CAP-CRON + name: Audit scheduled invocation + interface: vercel_runtime + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [runtime_service, project_operator] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [schedule endpoint environment authentication operation key and overlap policy] + outputs: [schedule and environment match, replay and overlap results, missed-run recovery evidence] + data_semantics: [VERCEL-SEM-ENVIRONMENT, VERCEL-SEM-CONTROL-PLANE] + limits: { quotas: [Bound run frequency duration retries and downstream concurrency], latency: [Scheduling and execution are not exact-time guarantees], sampling: [Exercise duplicate overlap delay missed run and manual replay], privacy_suppression: [Protect cron authentication material], aggregation: [Correlate scheduled time invocation operation and final effect], completeness: [Invocation does not prove job completion], operational: [Authenticate the endpoint and make each logical run repeat-safe] } + limitations: [Schedule availability and frequency depend on the current plan] + verification: [Trigger a bounded duplicate and delayed run and inspect converged state] + idempotency: Use one deterministic operation identity per logical schedule interval. + rollback: Disable the schedule and reconcile incomplete or repeated downstream effects. + sources: [VERCEL-SRC-CRON] + - id: VERCEL-CAP-STORAGE + name: Audit Vercel storage product selection and lifecycle + interface: vercel_api + availability: current + access: { oauth_scopes: [], property_roles: [project_operator, runtime_service] } + effect: diagnose + approval: none + inputs: [storage product consistency authority retention environment binding and exit requirements] + outputs: [product-fit decision, environment and lifecycle findings, export and deletion evidence] + data_semantics: [VERCEL-SEM-ENVIRONMENT, VERCEL-SEM-CONTROL-PLANE] + limits: { quotas: [Bound bytes operations objects and fan-out], latency: [Propagation and consistency differ by product], sampling: [Exercise stale concurrent missing oversized and deleted objects], privacy_suppression: [Minimize stored personal data and signed URL exposure], aggregation: [Attribute use by store environment tenant and deployment], completeness: [Marketplace attachment does not prove lifecycle governance], operational: [Verify backup export deletion and provider replacement for the selected product] } + limitations: [Blob Edge Config and Marketplace products have different contracts] + verification: [Exercise representative consistency retention access export and deletion behavior] + idempotency: Repeated writes and deletes follow the selected product conflict contract. + rollback: Restore the prior binding or data version and execute the product-specific recovery plan. + sources: [VERCEL-SRC-STORAGE, VERCEL-SRC-ENV] diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/data-semantics.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/data-semantics.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d26ae30 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/data-semantics.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +version: 1 +integration: vercel +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +concepts: + - { id: VERCEL-SEM-ARTIFACT, name: Deployment identity, definition: A deployment is an immutable built artifact with source and configuration context; promotion should identify the exact tested deployment rather than silently rebuild it., cautions: [A preview and production deployment can differ in configuration, database effects can outlive alias rollback], sources: [VERCEL-SRC-DEPLOY, VERCEL-SRC-ENV] } + - { id: VERCEL-SEM-ENVIRONMENT, name: Environment scope, definition: Production preview development custom environments and branch overrides are distinct authority boundaries., cautions: [A variable name does not prove correct scope, client-prefixed values are public], sources: [VERCEL-SRC-ENV] } + - { id: VERCEL-SEM-CONTROL-PLANE, name: Control-plane effect, definition: Staged firewall rules deployment aliases environment values and drains have different publication timing blast radius and rollback behavior., cautions: [Some severe firewall controls take effect immediately, a rollback does not reverse external state changes], sources: [VERCEL-SRC-DEPLOY, VERCEL-SRC-OBS, VERCEL-SRC-FW] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/evaluations.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/evaluations.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c832a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/evaluations.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +version: 1 +integration: vercel +evaluations: + - { id: VERCEL-EVAL-ARTIFACT-IDENTITY, workflow: VERCEL-WF-PROMOTE, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-DEPLOY, VERCEL-CAP-PROMOTE], scenario: Production approval references a tested preview while CI attempts a fresh production rebuild, sources: [VERCEL-SRC-DEPLOY], evidence: [source and deployment IDs, build provenance, promotion command], expected: The exact tested artifact is promoted or the differing artifact is retested, prohibited: Treating equal source commits as proof of equal built artifacts } + - { id: VERCEL-EVAL-PREVIEW-ISOLATION, workflow: VERCEL-WF-CONFIGURE, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-ENV], scenario: A preview branch requests the production database variable, sources: [VERCEL-SRC-ENV], evidence: [environment and branch scopes, denied runtime access], expected: Preview remains isolated from production mutation authority, prohibited: Copying the production value for convenience } + - { id: VERCEL-EVAL-DRAIN-AUTH, workflow: VERCEL-WF-CONFIGURE, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-DRAIN], scenario: A spoofed or malformed drain payload reaches the receiver, sources: [VERCEL-SRC-OBS], evidence: [raw-body authenticity result, denied request, alert], expected: The receiver rejects unauthenticated input without processing it, prohibited: Verification after parsing and reserialization when the provider contract requires raw bytes } + - { id: VERCEL-EVAL-FIREWALL-COLLISION, workflow: VERCEL-WF-FIREWALL, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-FIREWALL], scenario: A proposed user-agent or fingerprint rule also matches legitimate clients, sources: [VERCEL-SRC-FW], evidence: [log-only traffic sample, preview enforcement, exact diff], expected: Production publication stops or the rule is narrowed, prohibited: Publishing directly from an apparent attacker fingerprint } + - { id: VERCEL-EVAL-ROLLBACK-STATE, workflow: VERCEL-WF-PROMOTE, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-PROMOTE, VERCEL-CAP-OBSERVE], scenario: Application rollback follows a backward-incompatible migration, sources: [VERCEL-SRC-DEPLOY, VERCEL-SRC-OBS], evidence: [compatibility assessment, failed rollback exercise, compensation plan], expected: Promotion stops until application and data recovery are jointly safe, prohibited: Representing alias rollback as full-system recovery } + - { id: VERCEL-EVAL-RUNTIME-BOUNDARIES, workflow: VERCEL-WF-RUNTIME-AUDIT, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-FUNCTION, VERCEL-CAP-ROUTING, VERCEL-CAP-CACHE, VERCEL-CAP-CRON, VERCEL-CAP-STORAGE], scenario: An old client bypasses middleware while a cache expires and duplicate scheduled runs write to storage after one function is terminated, sources: [VERCEL-SRC-FUNCTIONS, VERCEL-SRC-ROUTING, VERCEL-SRC-SKEW, VERCEL-SRC-CACHE, VERCEL-SRC-CRON, VERCEL-SRC-STORAGE], evidence: [handler authorization, deployment routing, cache and origin load, operation keys, storage state], expected: Authorization holds at the handler origin load stays bounded and repeated work converges on governed storage state, prohibited: Middleware-only authorization untracked background effects or invocation-as-completion evidence } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9656869 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Vercel integration bundle + +Machine-readable [manifest](manifest.yaml), [governed sources and zero-gap ledger](sources.yaml), [capabilities](capabilities.yaml), [data semantics](data-semantics.yaml), [workflows](workflows.yaml), and [evaluations](evaluations.yaml) for `PLAYBOOK-VERCEL`. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/manifest.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/manifest.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f5a7582 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/manifest.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +version: 1 +integration: vercel +id_prefix: VERCEL +playbook: PLAYBOOK-VERCEL +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +official_domains: [vercel.com] +artifacts: { sources: sources.yaml, capabilities: capabilities.yaml, semantics: data-semantics.yaml, workflows: workflows.yaml, evaluations: evaluations.yaml } +features: [capabilities, coverage, semantics, source_usage] +vocabulary: + interfaces: [vercel_cli, vercel_api, vercel_dashboard, vercel_runtime] + property_roles: [deployment_automation, project_operator, security_operator, telemetry_operator, runtime_service] + oauth_scopes: [] +skill_routes: + - { name: "vercel:deployments-cicd", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "vercel:env-vars", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "vercel:observability", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "vercel:vercel-firewall", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "vercel:vercel-functions", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "vercel:routing-middleware", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "vercel:cdn-caching", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "vercel:cron-jobs", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "vercel:vercel-storage", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } + - { name: "vercel:marketplace", availability: when_available, authority: review_aid } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/sources.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/sources.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a607b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/sources.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +version: 1 +integration: vercel +reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 +scope: Deployments, environment variables, observability, and firewall controls. +freshness: + cadence_days: 92 + next_review: 2026-11-17 + event_triggers: [Vercel platform change, deployment pipeline change, security incident] +sources: + - { id: VERCEL-SRC-DEPLOY, title: Deployments, url: "https://vercel.com/docs/deployments", topic: build and promotion lifecycle, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: VERCEL-SRC-ENV, title: Environment variables, url: "https://vercel.com/docs/environment-variables", topic: scoped configuration, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: VERCEL-SRC-OBS, title: Observability, url: "https://vercel.com/docs/observability", topic: logs metrics and traces, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: VERCEL-SRC-FW, title: Firewall, url: "https://vercel.com/docs/vercel-firewall", topic: traffic controls, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: medium } + - { id: VERCEL-SRC-FUNCTIONS, title: Vercel Functions, url: "https://vercel.com/docs/functions", topic: runtime region duration and background work, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: VERCEL-SRC-ROUTING, title: Routing middleware, url: "https://vercel.com/docs/routing-middleware", topic: interception rewrite and authorization boundaries, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: VERCEL-SRC-CACHE, title: Caching, url: "https://vercel.com/docs/caching", topic: CDN ISR and invalidation behavior, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: VERCEL-SRC-CRON, title: Cron jobs, url: "https://vercel.com/docs/cron-jobs", topic: scheduled invocation and security, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: VERCEL-SRC-STORAGE, title: Storage, url: "https://vercel.com/docs/storage", topic: Blob Edge Config and marketplace storage routing, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: VERCEL-SRC-SKEW, title: Skew Protection, url: "https://vercel.com/docs/skew-protection", topic: client and server deployment version alignment, authority: provider_documentation, volatility: high } + - { id: VERCEL-SRC-ENG-REQUEST, title: Life of a Vercel request, url: "https://vercel.com/blog/life-of-a-request-application-aware-routing", topic: immutable deployment routing and rollback design, authority: provider_engineering, volatility: medium } +coverage: + - { surface: build-and-deployment, classification: mapped, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-DEPLOY], sources: [VERCEL-SRC-DEPLOY, VERCEL-SRC-ENV] } + - { surface: production-promotion-and-rollback, classification: mapped, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-PROMOTE], sources: [VERCEL-SRC-DEPLOY, VERCEL-SRC-SKEW, VERCEL-SRC-ENG-REQUEST] } + - { surface: environment-configuration, classification: mapped, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-ENV], sources: [VERCEL-SRC-ENV] } + - { surface: runtime-observation, classification: mapped, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-OBSERVE], sources: [VERCEL-SRC-OBS] } + - { surface: telemetry-drains, classification: mapped, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-DRAIN], sources: [VERCEL-SRC-OBS] } + - { surface: firewall-rules-and-emergency-controls, classification: mapped, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-FIREWALL], sources: [VERCEL-SRC-FW] } + - { surface: function-runtime-and-background-work, classification: mapped, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-FUNCTION], sources: [VERCEL-SRC-FUNCTIONS, VERCEL-SRC-DEPLOY] } + - { surface: routing-middleware-and-version-skew, classification: mapped, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-ROUTING], sources: [VERCEL-SRC-ROUTING, VERCEL-SRC-SKEW] } + - { surface: cdn-isr-and-runtime-caching, classification: mapped, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-CACHE], sources: [VERCEL-SRC-CACHE] } + - { surface: cron-and-scheduled-invocation, classification: mapped, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-CRON], sources: [VERCEL-SRC-CRON] } + - { surface: blob-edge-config-and-marketplace-storage, classification: mapped, capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-STORAGE], sources: [VERCEL-SRC-STORAGE, VERCEL-SRC-ENV] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/workflows.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/workflows.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6f535a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/integrations/vercel/workflows.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +version: 1 +integration: vercel +workflows: + - { id: VERCEL-WF-DEPLOY, name: Build and verify a deployment, trigger: Application or build configuration changes, sources: [VERCEL-SRC-DEPLOY, VERCEL-SRC-ENV, VERCEL-SRC-OBS], capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-DEPLOY, VERCEL-CAP-OBSERVE], steps: [Pull intended environment metadata, build with pinned tooling, test the resulting artifact, deploy without rebuilding, inspect runtime signals], stop_conditions: [The source artifact or target project is ambiguous, secret values enter logs, required tests fail], outputs: [Deployment identity, test record, bounded telemetry] } + - { id: VERCEL-WF-PROMOTE, name: Promote and observe production, trigger: A tested deployment is approved for production, sources: [VERCEL-SRC-DEPLOY, VERCEL-SRC-OBS], capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-PROMOTE, VERCEL-CAP-OBSERVE], steps: [Confirm exact deployment and stateful effects, obtain exact approval, promote without rebuild, verify domains journeys errors and rollback readiness], stop_conditions: [The tested deployment differs from the promoted artifact, migration compatibility is unknown, rollback target is missing], outputs: [Promotion record, production checks, rollback decision] } + - { id: VERCEL-WF-CONFIGURE, name: Change environment or drain configuration, trigger: Environment variables or telemetry export changes, sources: [VERCEL-SRC-ENV, VERCEL-SRC-OBS, VERCEL-SRC-DEPLOY], capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-ENV, VERCEL-CAP-DRAIN, VERCEL-CAP-DEPLOY], steps: [Map consumers environments and data fields, approve exact scopes, apply without recording values, redeploy affected artifacts, test runtime or drain behavior], stop_conditions: [Preview gains production authority, recipient governance is missing, effective runtime value cannot be verified safely], outputs: [Configuration metadata, deployment binding, delivery or runtime evidence] } + - { id: VERCEL-WF-FIREWALL, name: Stage a firewall change for human publication, trigger: Traffic policy or abuse controls change, sources: [VERCEL-SRC-FW], capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-FIREWALL], steps: [Inventory routes methods and trusted automation, stage log-only rules, review traffic, enforce in preview, present exact production diff and rollback], stop_conditions: [Legitimate cohorts cannot be distinguished, bypass is broad, production publication lacks human authority], outputs: [Rule diff, traffic sample, preview result, human publication decision] } + - { id: VERCEL-WF-RUNTIME-AUDIT, name: Audit runtime routing cache schedule and storage behavior, trigger: Function middleware cache cron or storage configuration changes, sources: [VERCEL-SRC-FUNCTIONS, VERCEL-SRC-ROUTING, VERCEL-SRC-SKEW, VERCEL-SRC-CACHE, VERCEL-SRC-CRON, VERCEL-SRC-STORAGE], capabilities: [VERCEL-CAP-FUNCTION, VERCEL-CAP-ROUTING, VERCEL-CAP-CACHE, VERCEL-CAP-CRON, VERCEL-CAP-STORAGE], steps: [Map each route to runtime routing cache schedule and storage contracts, test termination direct authorization and old clients, inject cache-cold overlap duplicate and stale conditions, verify storage consistency retention export and deletion], stop_conditions: [Durable effects depend on request lifetime, handler authorization is absent, origin cannot survive a cold cache, scheduled runs can overlap unsafely, storage lifecycle is unknown], outputs: [Runtime matrix, boundary and skew tests, cache and cron results, storage lifecycle evidence] } diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/knowledge/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/knowledge/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0825480 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/knowledge/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Organizational knowledge systems + +* [Organizational knowledge systems](organizational-knowledge.md) - Source authority, provenance, access, lifecycle, retrieval, answers, evaluation, and operation for company-brain systems. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/knowledge/organizational-knowledge.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/knowledge/organizational-knowledge.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5bb7346 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/knowledge/organizational-knowledge.md @@ -0,0 +1,324 @@ +--- +id: KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS +title: Organizational knowledge systems +description: Requirements for governed company knowledge across source systems, derived stores, retrieval, and answer surfaces. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [knowledge, data, security, privacy, ai, engineering] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-16 +review_by: 2027-02-16 +stale_after: 2027-02-16 +applies_to: [company-brain, enterprise-search, knowledge-base, retrieval-system, expertise-discovery] +tags: [knowledge, retrieval, provenance, authorization, audit] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, FND-CHANGE, DATA-QUALITY, SECURITY-APPLICATION, PRIVACY-DATA, ENGINEERING-QUALITY, AGENT-VERIFICATION, AI-AGENTS] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T06:08:51Z" } +sources: + - id: w3c-prov-o + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ + title: PROV-O The PROV Ontology + author: organization:w3c + - id: nist-sp-800-53r5 + resource: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/final + title: Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations + author: organization:nist + - id: nist-ai-rmf-1 + resource: https://www.nist.gov/publications/artificial-intelligence-risk-management-framework-ai-rmf-10 + title: Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework AI RMF 1.0 + author: organization:nist + - id: nist-ai-600-1 + resource: https://www.nist.gov/publications/artificial-intelligence-risk-management-framework-generative-artificial-intelligence + title: Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile + author: organization:nist +--- + +# Organizational knowledge systems + +A company-brain system must keep organizational knowledge attributable, appropriately accessible, current enough for its declared uses, and correctable across source systems, derived stores, retrieval paths, and answer surfaces. This standard governs how information participates in the knowledge system; it does not replace the standards governing the source system itself. + +This draft requires independent review of the final artifact and qualified AI, security, privacy, data, and engineering review before it can become stable. + +## Rules + +### KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-001 — Define the knowledge-system boundary + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Designing, operating, or materially changing a system that collects, indexes, retrieves, summarizes, connects, or answers from organizational information. + +Record the system's purposes, intended users and automated consumers, supported decisions, source systems, derived stores, retrieval and output surfaces, owners, data classifications, environments, exclusions, and known unsuitable uses. Identify where domain standards and external policy govern each source and consumer. + +**Why:** An undefined boundary hides data flows, unsupported reliance, unowned sources, and control gaps between ingestion and use. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the recorded boundary with current connectors, jobs, stores, models, interfaces, exports, logs, identities, and network destinations. +- Trace each source and consumer to an owner, purpose, classification, governing route, and declared use. +- Confirm excluded systems and unsupported decisions are not silently reachable through alternate paths. + +**Exceptions:** Emergency incident access can precede a complete boundary record when the governing incident process authorizes it; reconcile the record after containment. + +### KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-002 — Preserve source authority and ownership + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Knowledge is copied, normalized, summarized, ranked, inferred, or combined from one or more sources. + +Identify the authoritative source and owner for each material fact or record type, define precedence and conflict behavior, and keep derived indexes and summaries subordinate to those authorities. Do not present availability in the knowledge system as proof that content is approved, complete, or current. + +**Why:** A convenient derived copy can silently become a second source of truth with different ownership, meaning, and lifecycle. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace representative answers and records to their declared source of authority and current owner. +- Exercise conflicting, superseded, draft, deleted, and ownerless sources against the precedence rules. +- Confirm interfaces distinguish source content, derived content, and approved organizational policy where that distinction affects reliance. + +**Exceptions:** A derived product can be authoritative for a defined output when its owner, inputs, transformation, approval, quality contract, and correction path are recorded under `DATA-QUALITY`. + +### KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-003 — Preserve provenance through derivation and retrieval + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Content is copied, chunked, transformed, embedded, summarized, joined, ranked, inferred, cited, or exported. + +Preserve enough provenance to identify the source system, stable source reference, source version or event, source and ingestion times, material transformations and model configuration, scope, and lineage to derived copies. Keep protected provenance available through access-controlled references rather than removing it. + +**Why:** Content without lineage cannot be checked for authority, freshness, transformation error, affected consumers, or correction scope. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace representative output backward to source content and forward to indexes, summaries, caches, evaluations, exports, and consumers. +- Reproduce or explain each material transformation using its recorded version, inputs, and time. +- Confirm citations resolve to the evidence actually used rather than a similar or later source. + +**Exceptions:** None for material knowledge; protected source details may remain hidden from unauthorized users while still being available to qualified reviewers. + +### KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-004 — Preserve authorization across every knowledge path + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Any participating source, record, field, relationship, inference, or output has access restrictions. + +Apply `SECURITY-APPLICATION-002` to ingestion, processing, indexes, search, synthesis, caches, logs, exports, administration, and background jobs. A derived store or combined answer must not grant access broader than the effective source permissions and approved inference policy for the requesting actor, tenant, purpose, and time. + +**Why:** Centralized retrieval can bypass source controls or reveal restricted facts through snippets, rankings, counts, metadata, or inference. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise unauthenticated, wrong-user, wrong-group, wrong-role, wrong-tenant, stale-membership, suspended, deleted, and service-identity access through every output path. +- Change and revoke representative source permissions and confirm derived stores, caches, results, citations, exports, and logs stop disclosure within the declared limit. +- Test whether result counts, titles, embeddings, summaries, related items, and error differences reveal protected content. + +**Exceptions:** Explicitly public information must be classified public at the authoritative source and checked for protected fields, drafts, and joined inferences. + +### KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-005 — Reconcile ingestion and source change + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Knowledge moves from a source into another store, index, cache, model, or consumer. + +Define identity, ordering, deduplication, replay, checkpoint, retry, partial-failure, and reconciliation behavior for each data path. Set use-specific freshness objectives and account for accepted, rejected, delayed, duplicated, missing, corrected, restricted, and deleted records. + +**Why:** A successful ingestion job can still leave silently missing, duplicated, reordered, or stale knowledge in active use. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise initial load, incremental update, duplicate event, late arrival, retry, out-of-order change, partial source outage, and full reconciliation. +- Compare source and derived counts, stable identifiers, update markers, rejections, and sampled meaning. +- Confirm freshness breaches qualify or stop affected retrieval and reach an accountable owner. + +**Exceptions:** A bounded archival snapshot may stop synchronizing when its fixed time boundary and unsuitable current uses are explicit at retrieval and output. + +### KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-006 — Propagate correction, restriction, and deletion + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Source content can be corrected, reclassified, access-restricted, expired, withdrawn, or deleted. + +Apply `DATA-QUALITY-007`, `PRIVACY-DATA-007`, and `PRIVACY-DATA-008` as applicable across raw copies, chunks, embeddings, summaries, links, caches, model context, feedback, evaluations, exports, recipients, backups, and restoration. Define immediate suppression and later physical deletion behavior separately when deletion cannot complete at once. + +**Why:** Removing a source record does not protect people or decisions if derived knowledge remains searchable or returns after restoration. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace representative correction, restriction, and deletion requests through every material copy and recipient. +- Confirm suppressed content cannot be retrieved while asynchronous deletion is pending. +- Restore from backup in a safe exercise and verify tombstones or equivalent state prevent deleted knowledge from returning to active use. + +**Exceptions:** A lawfully retained audit or backup copy requires a documented authority, isolation, access boundary, retention period, and prevention of ordinary retrieval or reuse. + +### KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-007 — Bound source connectors and evidence envelopes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A connector, adapter, import, plugin, crawler, API client, or custom job participates in the knowledge system. + +Define each connector's purpose, owner, identity, source scope, permissions, fields, schedule or event triggers, side effects, schema, output contract, error behavior, limits, retention, and removal path. Use a consistent evidence envelope that carries the provenance, authorization, lifecycle, and classification fields needed by downstream controls without pretending unlike source meanings are identical. + +**Why:** Extensible connectors can expand authority, disclosure, and semantic ambiguity faster than downstream retrieval code can detect. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect effective credentials, source allowlists and denylists, destinations, schedules, payloads, logs, and disable behavior. +- Validate malformed, oversized, unauthorized, rate-limited, duplicated, and partially returned inputs at the trusted boundary. +- Confirm a new source cannot become queryable until its owner, classification, authority, lifecycle, and verification evidence are recorded. + +**Exceptions:** An isolated non-production evaluation may query synthetic or approved public data before full onboarding when it has no private source access, production credentials, durable consumers, or retained data; record its scope and cleanup. A one-time import still requires a bounded identity, declared source and destination, reconciliation, and cleanup evidence. + +### KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-008 — Match retrieval to measured information needs + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Search, ranking, routing, recommendation, or retrieval selects organizational knowledge for a person or automated consumer. + +Identify the question and evidence types the system must support, including exact identifiers, paraphrases, current status, authoritative policy, and scoped domain questions. Select and combine retrieval methods only when evaluation shows they improve those uses, and prevent irrelevant source volume or one ranking signal from silently determining authority. + +**Why:** One retrieval method can appear plausible while missing exact tokens, paraphrases, current sources, minority domains, or the evidence needed for the decision. + +**Verify:** + +- Evaluate representative exact, semantic, recent, scoped, cross-source, ambiguous, and unanswerable questions. +- Inspect retrieved candidates before synthesis for authority, relevance, diversity, recency, and permission. +- Compare proposed ranking, fusion, filtering, and expansion changes against a fixed evaluation set and important segments. + +**Exceptions:** A single deterministic lookup can use one retrieval method when the supported key, source, completeness, and failure behavior are verified. + +### KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-009 — Preserve context and material conflict + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A system returns excerpts, chunks, summaries, fused results, or cross-source answers. + +Include enough surrounding context to retain the source's subject, conditions, time, status, qualifications, and material disagreement. Do not merge duplicate or related evidence in a way that hides independent support, dissent, version differences, or a more authoritative source. + +**Why:** An isolated passage can reverse meaning when headings, preconditions, later corrections, or conflicting evidence are removed. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect answers where the matching passage depends on nearby headings, definitions, caveats, dates, or replies. +- Exercise conflicting sources with different owners, authority, versions, and freshness. +- Confirm deduplication and source caps retain the provenance and disagreement needed to assess the answer. + +**Exceptions:** Exact record lookup can omit surrounding prose when the returned fields carry their complete definition, state, time, and authority. + +### KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-010 — Ground answers and fail honestly + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A system summarizes, recommends, explains, or answers from organizational knowledge. + +Make each material factual claim traceable to accessible evidence and distinguish source observation, generated inference, recommendation, and unresolved uncertainty according to `FND-EVIDENCE`. Refuse, narrow, or escalate when evidence is absent, inaccessible, stale beyond the declared use, materially conflicting, or outside scope. + +**Why:** Fluent synthesis can turn weak retrieval, hidden conflict, or missing evidence into false organizational certainty. + +**Verify:** + +- Follow citations from representative claims to the exact supporting passages and confirm the requester may access them. +- Test missing, stale, conflicting, low-confidence, poisoned, and out-of-scope evidence. +- Confirm unsupported answers do not invent sources, experts, approvals, policies, or completed actions. + +**Exceptions:** Low-risk exploratory ideation may proceed without factual grounding when the output is clearly framed as ideation and is not stored as authoritative knowledge. + +### KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-011 — Evaluate the complete knowledge path + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Releasing or materially changing sources, connectors, transformations, permissions, retrieval, ranking, synthesis, models, scopes, or output interfaces. + +Evaluate the integrated path from source state and actor permissions through retrieval to the final outcome. Include representative successes, misses, denials, unanswerable questions, stale and conflicting evidence, correction and deletion, prompt injection where models are present, dependency failure, latency, and cost. Apply `FND-EVIDENCE-008` through `FND-EVIDENCE-010` and `AI-AGENTS` when stochastic or model-based components affect results. + +**Why:** Component scores do not show whether the released system gives the right evidence to the right actor and handles absence safely. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the source snapshot, permission state, configuration, task provenance, graders, trial count, metrics, segments, failures, latency, and cost. +- Hold out evaluation tasks from tuning and inspect representative false acceptance, false rejection, permission, and citation failures. +- Re-run material cases after changes and bind approval to the exact integrated artifact. + +**Exceptions:** A deterministic bounded change may use focused tests when the unchanged surrounding path and its prior evidence remain applicable. + +### KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-012 — Keep use and control activity auditable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Operating a knowledge system for people, automations, or agents. + +Record the source and project scope, requesting actor or protected correlation, retrieval and policy decisions, evidence references, denials, administrative changes, exports, errors, and final outcome needed for investigation and governance. Apply `SECURITY-APPLICATION-013`, minimize logged content, protect log access and integrity, and define retention and review triggers. + +**Why:** Final answers alone cannot show which sources, permissions, transformations, and retrieval decisions caused a disclosure or incorrect result. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace representative success, denial, correction, export, administrative change, and failure from request to outcome. +- Confirm logs support investigation without containing secrets or unnecessary protected content. +- Test loss, delay, duplicate events, tampering, clock skew, and alert or review routing where material. + +**Exceptions:** Where identifying the requester creates disproportionate risk, use the minimum protected correlation that still supports abuse response and authorized audit. + +### KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-013 — Govern correction, ownership transfer, and retirement + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** People can report incorrect knowledge, a source changes ownership, or a connector, source, index, model, or project scope is retired. + +Provide an owned path to report, assess, correct, communicate, and verify material knowledge errors. Transfer ownership explicitly, notify affected consumers of meaning or availability changes, and remove obsolete access, jobs, data, credentials, references, and unsupported claims during retirement. + +**Why:** A knowledge system decays when errors have no repair path and retired sources remain discoverable or privileged. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise correction of a source fact and a derived summary through affected outputs and consumers. +- Inspect ownership transfer for current contacts, permissions, service levels, and unresolved incidents. +- Reconcile retirement across connectors, schedules, stores, caches, credentials, exports, documentation, and monitoring. + +**Exceptions:** An immutable historical archive may remain discoverable when its fixed period, authority, access, and unsuitable current uses are explicit. + +### KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-014 — Protect people in expertise and workforce inference + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A system identifies experts, ranks people, summarizes employee activity, infers skills or relationships, or informs work allocation, evaluation, access, discipline, or another consequential workforce decision. + +Apply `PRIVACY-DATA`, `FND-TRUST`, and the governing employment, human-resources, and legal policy. Define the permitted purpose, evidence, affected people, correction and contest path, human decision boundary, and prohibited uses. Do not treat message volume, repository activity, reactions, retrieval rank, or model inference alone as proof of expertise, performance, intent, or suitability. + +**Why:** Convenient activity signals can be incomplete, biased, context-dependent, and harmful when converted into judgments about people. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect source coverage, missing populations, proxy effects, uncertainty, explanation, access, retention, and correction behavior. +- Test sparse, common-name, team-change, leave, contractor, new-hire, and disputed-attribution cases. +- Confirm consequential decisions receive the required qualified human review and do not rely on the knowledge result as sole evidence. + +**Exceptions:** A person may publish a self-declared expertise profile for an approved directory purpose when access, correction, withdrawal, and prohibited downstream uses remain governed. + +## Operational coverage + +Test each knowledge system from source authority through retrieval, answer or action, correction, and deletion. + +| Route | Required scenarios | Completion evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Authoritative internal knowledge | Current, superseded, conflicting, restricted, and deleted records | Authority map, source revision, access evaluation, conflict behavior, citation trace, and deletion propagation | +| Search or retrieval-augmented generation | Exact, paraphrased, ambiguous, adversarial, out-of-scope, and no-answer queries | Corpus snapshot, retrieval metrics by slice, cited answer trace, unsupported-claim rate, latency, and failure taxonomy | +| Connector or synchronization | Create, update, move, permission change, deletion, outage, replay, and provider API change | Cursor and checkpoint state, reconciliation, permission parity, tombstone result, retry ledger, and drift alert | +| User-contributed or collaborative knowledge | Draft, review, dispute, abuse, correction, attribution, and retirement | Contributor authority, moderation record, revision history, dispute outcome, and retained provenance | +| Agent memory or learned preference | Explicit instruction, inferred preference, contradiction, expiration, user correction, and cross-context isolation | Memory source, scope, confidence, consent or authority, retrieval trace, correction result, and deletion test | +| Workforce or high-impact knowledge use | Sensitive inference, access request, appeal, human review, and prohibited downstream use | Purpose and necessity review, access log, outcome audit, representative harm analysis, and qualified approval | + +Measure retrieval and downstream task success separately. A relevant passage does not prove a grounded answer, and a fluent answer does not prove authorized source use. + +## Guidance + +Meet knowledge where it is created when that preserves useful work patterns and source ownership. A central index can improve discovery, but centralization also concentrates permission, privacy, retention, and incident risk. Choose physical replication, federated queries, or a mixture according to measured needs and the accepted failure boundary. + +Do not prescribe embeddings, one database, one ranking formula, one chunk size, or one orchestration model as policy. Exact lookup, full-text search, structured query, graph traversal, semantic retrieval, recency signals, and human routing solve different problems. Evaluate the combination against actual questions and failure costs. + +Treat summaries, embeddings, inferred expertise, and generated links as derived data products. They inherit source restrictions and require their own lineage, correction, lifecycle, and quality evidence. A citation improves inspectability but does not repair unauthorized, stale, or irrelevant evidence. + +## Examples + +### Permission change + +Non-compliant: Removing a person from a restricted source stops direct access, but old snippets and summaries remain visible in search until the next weekly rebuild. + +Compliant: The permission event suppresses affected results and cached answers within the declared revocation limit. Reconciliation later removes or rekeys derived copies, and an audit test confirms the former member cannot infer content from titles, counts, related items, or errors. + +### Conflicting guidance + +Non-compliant: The answer cites the newest chat message as policy because its recency score is highest. + +Compliant: The answer identifies the approved policy as authoritative, notes the newer operational discussion as unresolved conflicting evidence, and routes the discrepancy to both owners. + +## Sources + +- World Wide Web Consortium, [PROV-O: The PROV Ontology](https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations, SP 800-53 Revision 5 Update 1](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/final). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework 1.0](https://www.nist.gov/publications/artificial-intelligence-risk-management-framework-ai-rmf-10), January 26, 2023. Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile, NIST AI 600-1](https://www.nist.gov/publications/artificial-intelligence-risk-management-framework-generative-artificial-intelligence), July 26, 2024. Reviewed August 16, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/legal/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/legal/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0be1b6f --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/legal/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Legal standards + +* [Published legal terms and notices](published-terms-and-notices.md) - Scope, accuracy, presentation, assent, versioning, change control, and operation of public legal documents. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/legal/published-terms-and-notices.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/legal/published-terms-and-notices.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..76e57ab --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/legal/published-terms-and-notices.md @@ -0,0 +1,547 @@ +--- +id: LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS +title: Published legal terms and notices +description: Governs the scope, accuracy, presentation, assent, change control, and operation of public terms, privacy notices, and related legal documents. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [legal, privacy, product, security, content] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2026-11-17 +stale_after: 2026-11-17 +applies_to: [legal-document, terms-of-service, privacy-notice, cookie-notice, data-processing-addendum, acceptable-use-policy] +tags: [legal, terms, privacy-notice, consent, contracts] +depends_on: [PRIVACY-DATA, FND-TRUST, FND-EVIDENCE, FND-ACCESSIBILITY, WRITING-FUNCTIONAL, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T07:46:46Z" } +sources: + - id: harvey-legal-center + resource: https://www.harvey.ai/legal + title: Legal information about our products and services + author: organization:harvey-ai + - id: harvey-platform-agreement + resource: https://www.harvey.ai/legal/platform-agreement + title: Platform Agreement + author: organization:harvey-ai + - id: harvey-privacy-policy + resource: https://www.harvey.ai/legal/privacy-policy + title: Privacy Policy + author: organization:harvey-ai + - id: harvey-data-processing-addendum + resource: https://www.harvey.ai/legal/data-processing-addendum + title: Data Processing Addendum + author: organization:harvey-ai + - id: ftc-material-terms-changes + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2024/02/ai-other-companies-quietly-changing-your-terms-service-could-be-unfair-or-deceptive + title: "AI (and other) Companies: Quietly Changing Your Terms of Service Could Be Unfair or Deceptive" + author: organization:us-federal-trade-commission + - id: ftc-dot-com-disclosures + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/com-disclosures-how-make-effective-disclosures-digital-advertising + title: ".com Disclosures: How to Make Effective Disclosures in Digital Advertising" + author: organization:us-federal-trade-commission + - id: cppa-general-notices + resource: https://cppa.ca.gov/pdf/general_notices.pdf + title: What General Notices Are Required By The CCPA? + author: organization:california-privacy-protection-agency + - id: eu-gdpr + resource: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj/eng/ + title: General Data Protection Regulation + author: organization:european-union + - id: eu-unfair-contract-terms + resource: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protection-law/consumer-contract-law/unfair-contract-terms-directive_en + title: Unfair contract terms directive + author: organization:european-commission + - id: ico-right-to-be-informed-checklist + resource: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/individual-rights/the-right-to-be-informed/checklists/ + title: Right to be informed checklists + author: organization:uk-information-commissioners-office + - id: ninth-circuit-berman + resource: https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2022/04/05/20-16900.pdf + title: Berman v. Freedom Financial Network, LLC + author: organization:us-court-of-appeals-ninth-circuit + - id: ninth-circuit-chabolla + resource: https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2025/02/27/23-15999.pdf + title: Chabolla v. ClassPass Inc. + author: organization:us-court-of-appeals-ninth-circuit + - id: uscode-esign + resource: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=%28title%3A15+section%3A7001+edition%3Aprelim%29 + title: 15 USC 7001 - General rule of validity + author: organization:us-house-office-law-revision-counsel + - id: ftc-negative-option-policy + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/enforcement-policy-statement-regarding-negative-option-marketing + title: Enforcement Policy Statement Regarding Negative Option Marketing + author: organization:us-federal-trade-commission + - id: ftc-negative-option-2026-anprm + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/p064202negativeoptionruleanprm.pdf + title: Negative Option Rule - Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking + author: organization:us-federal-trade-commission + - id: california-automatic-renewal + resource: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=17602 + title: California Business and Professions Code section 17602 + author: organization:california-legislature + - id: california-gpc + resource: https://www.oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa/gpc + title: Global Privacy Control + author: organization:california-department-of-justice + - id: ico-storage-access-technologies + resource: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-privacy-and-electronic-communications/guidance-on-the-use-of-storage-and-access-technologies/ + title: Guidance on the use of storage and access technologies + author: organization:uk-information-commissioners-office + - id: eu-eprivacy-directive + resource: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32002L0058 + title: Directive on privacy and electronic communications + author: organization:european-union + - id: edpb-consent-guidelines + resource: https://www.edpb.europa.eu/documents/guideline/guidelines-052020-on-consent-under-regulation-2016679_en + title: Guidelines 05/2020 on consent under Regulation 2016/679 + author: organization:european-data-protection-board + - id: ftc-coppa-age-verification + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/02/ftc-issues-coppa-policy-statement-incentivize-use-age-verification-technologies-protect-children + title: FTC COPPA Policy Statement on Age Verification Technologies + author: organization:us-federal-trade-commission + - id: cppa-2025-regulations + resource: https://cppa.ca.gov/regulations/ccpa_updates.html + title: CCPA Updates, Cybersecurity Audits, Risk Assessments, ADMT, and Insurance Regulations + author: organization:california-privacy-protection-agency + - id: eu-digital-services-act + resource: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32022R2065 + title: Digital Services Act + author: organization:european-union + - id: uk-consumer-rights-act + resource: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/contents + title: Consumer Rights Act 2015 + author: organization:united-kingdom + - id: ftc-toysmart + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/toysmartanthonystatement.htm + title: Toysmart.com, Inc. - Statement of Commissioner Sheila F. Anthony + author: organization:us-federal-trade-commission +--- + +# Published legal terms and notices + +Published legal documents must describe the actual service, give affected people material information when it matters, preserve evidence of the terms and choices that applied, and change through a controlled process. This standard covers terms of service, privacy and cookie notices, acceptable-use policies, data-processing and transfer terms, subprocessor disclosures, service and security terms, and related public legal pages. + +This standard is an operating and verification baseline, not a clause library or a determination of applicable law. A qualified legal owner must determine the entity, audience, jurisdiction, document set, required content, assent method, notice period, and available rights or remedies. Record that decision and apply any stricter governing law, contract, or organization policy. + +## Rules + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-001 — Define the governing scope and owner + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Creating, adopting, or materially revising a public legal document. + +Before drafting, record the responsible legal entity, products and channels covered, intended and excluded users, business or consumer context, supported jurisdictions and languages, effective date, accountable legal and operational owners, and qualified review required before publication. Do not copy another organization's terms as a substitute for this determination. + +**Why:** The correct document and obligations depend on who offers what service, to whom, where, and on what basis. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the scope record and qualified-review assignment. +- Compare defined entities, products, users, and regions with the actual offer, contracting flow, application stores, sales process, and data processing. +- Confirm exclusions have an enforceable product or commercial boundary rather than disclaimer text alone. + +**Exceptions:** An urgent correction can use an approved expedited review path; record its scope, approver, publication time, and follow-up review. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-002 — Maintain a coherent document set + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** More than one agreement, policy, notice, addendum, order form, or linked schedule governs the same service or relationship. + +Maintain a document map that names every component, its audience and subject, how it is incorporated, and which document controls each type of conflict. Use stable links and exact names. Do not leave material obligations split across documents with circular, missing, or contradictory precedence. + +**Why:** Modular legal centers can make terms easier to maintain, but only when readers and operators can determine what applies and which term controls. + +**Verify:** + +- Follow every incorporation and precedence link from each supported entry point. +- Check defined terms, entity names, product names, contacts, dates, remedies, retention statements, and change clauses across the full set. +- Confirm the document map includes negotiated terms and regional supplements where they override public text. + +**Exceptions:** A negotiated agreement may remain private, but the system of record must identify its relationship to public documents and prevent the wrong version from being applied. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-003 — Derive notices from actual practice + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A privacy, cookie, AI, security, subprocessor, or service notice describes system behavior or organizational practice. + +Draft and update the notice from current processing records, architecture, product behavior, vendor terms, security controls, support operations, and commercial commitments. Separate current fact, contractual commitment, user choice, future intention, and legal requirement. Do not publish an aspirational control as present behavior. + +**Why:** A notice can create risk when it is incomplete, contradicted by the product, or more protective than the organization can actually perform. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace each material statement to an accountable source and owner. +- Compare the rendered notice with observed collection, storage, network, model, sharing, retention, deletion, support, and security behavior. +- Reconcile the notice with `PRIVACY-DATA-001`, vendor and subprocessor records, sales terms, and incident procedures. + +**Exceptions:** None. Planned behavior must be labeled as planned and must not be represented as an active control or commitment. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-004 — Put material information at the decision point + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A person signs up, pays, renews, uploads data, enables optional processing, accepts a material restriction, or takes another consequential action. + +Present the information needed for that decision before commitment and close to the affected action. At minimum include the material price and recurrence, cancellation or termination effect, data use or disclosure, audience or publication effect, significant eligibility or use restriction, and any other consequence identified by the qualified review. A link to full terms may supplement but must not replace a decision-point disclosure needed to prevent a misleading impression. + +**Why:** Material information hidden in a long document cannot reliably inform the action it governs. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise each consequential flow on representative screen sizes and input modes. +- Confirm the disclosure is noticeable, understandable, and not contradicted or visually displaced by nearby content. +- Check that the full document remains available before and after commitment. + +**Exceptions:** None for information the qualified review identifies as necessary before commitment. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-005 — Separate contract assent, privacy notice, and consent + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An interface presents legal terms, a privacy notice, or a request for consent. + +Identify the legal function of each item. Do not describe a privacy notice as consent, bundle unrelated optional data purposes into acceptance of service terms, or use agreement to terms as proof of a separate choice that the governing decision requires. Keep refusal and withdrawal behavior consistent with the identified function. + +**Why:** A document that explains processing, a contract that governs service, and an affirmative privacy choice can require different language, controls, and evidence. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect labels, controls, stored events, and downstream behavior for each acceptance or choice. +- Confirm optional processing remains off until the required choice and stops after withdrawal. +- Confirm refusal of an optional purpose does not falsely appear to reject the whole contract. + +**Exceptions:** Purposes may share a control only when the qualified decision records that they are not materially distinct and the combined choice remains specific and informed. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-006 — Preserve exact assent and notice evidence + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The organization relies on acceptance, acknowledgment, consent, notice, or continued use as evidence of a legal relationship or choice. + +Preserve the exact document version, incorporated document set, decision-point presentation, action taken, actor or account, time, locale, channel, and applicable commercial or regional variant. Make the evidence retrievable without reconstructing it from the current page. Minimize and protect personal data in the record. + +**Why:** A timestamp without the text and presentation cannot show what a person saw or what action they took. + +**Verify:** + +- Retrieve representative records and reproduce the governed document set and interaction. +- Test new, returning, invited, enterprise-managed, offline, and migrated users as applicable. +- Confirm retention, access, export, correction, and deletion handling follow the qualified recordkeeping decision. + +**Exceptions:** If the governing decision does not require individual assent or acknowledgment, preserve publication, delivery, applicability, and version evidence instead. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-007 — Version, archive, and date every publication + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Publishing or changing any governed legal document. + +Assign an immutable version or content digest, publication time, effective time, change owner, and review record. Preserve prior versions and a material change summary for the required retention period. Keep current and archived documents distinguishable, linkable, and reproducible. + +**Why:** Silent replacement destroys the evidence needed to answer which commitment or notice applied at a given time. + +**Verify:** + +- Retrieve the current and prior versions by stable identifier. +- Confirm the visible “last updated” or effective date agrees with the publication record. +- Compare the material change summary with the actual diff and incorporated documents. + +**Exceptions:** Typographic corrections that do not change meaning still require a recorded revision, but may use a minor change classification approved by the owner. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-008 — Control material changes prospectively + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A change affects price, renewal, data use, data sharing, model training, ownership, confidentiality, acceptable use, suspension, termination, dispute rights, liability, security, or another item identified as material by qualified review. + +Classify the change before publication. Follow the approved notice, timing, renewed assent or consent, objection, termination, refund, data treatment, and regional process. Do not apply a broader data use or weaker commitment to previously collected data or completed conduct unless the qualified decision confirms the authority and required affirmative choice. + +**Why:** Quiet or retroactive expansion can defeat prior commitments and leave people without a practical response. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the legal change assessment, audience, delivery evidence, effective date, and available response paths. +- Test notice delivery, acceptance, rejection, objection, cancellation, refund, and grandfathering states that apply. +- Confirm product flags, data jobs, billing, and access behavior honor old and new terms during the transition. + +**Exceptions:** A legally required emergency change may use the approved shortened process; document the authority, scope, user effect, and later notice or remedy. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-009 — Make privacy notices complete and timely + +**Level:** contextual +**Applies when:** A privacy notice is required by the governing privacy or legal decision. + +Provide the notice at the time and place required for the data source and interaction. Cover the identity and contact details of the responsible organization; data and source categories; purposes and authority; recipients; transfers; retention or its criteria; applicable choices and rights; complaint and contact paths; required-data consequences; and automated decision information where applicable. Use layered and just-in-time notice without omitting required information from the complete notice. + +**Why:** A general policy alone may not provide timely or complete information for direct, indirect, offline, embedded, or unexpected collection. + +**Verify:** + +- Map each required notice element to the current processing record and governing decision. +- Inspect direct, indirect, offline, mobile, camera, form, integration, and third-party collection points that apply. +- Exercise rights, withdrawal, complaint, and contact paths from the notice. + +**Exceptions:** Follow only the exceptions recorded by the governing privacy or legal decision, including their scope, duration, and required alternative notice. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-010 — Govern AI-specific commitments + +**Level:** contextual +**Applies when:** The service generates, analyzes, recommends, or acts through models, or user data can be used to train, evaluate, improve, or review a model. + +State the automated role and material reliance limits; ownership and permitted use of inputs and outputs; training, evaluation, retention, logging, and human-review treatment; prohibited or restricted uses; customer and provider responsibilities; and any product-specific terms identified by qualified review. Keep these statements consistent across the contract, privacy notice, product controls, vendor terms, and sales claims. + +**Why:** AI services create distinct reliance and data-use questions that generic software language can leave ambiguous or contradictory. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace each statement to product behavior, provider settings, contracts, and `PRIVACY-DATA-016` evidence. +- Test whether a user can distinguish generated output from qualified professional advice or verified human work where that distinction matters. +- Confirm prohibited uses are supported by product controls, monitoring, or enforcement procedures proportionate to the stated rule. + +**Exceptions:** None for a material AI behavior or data practice; the qualified owner may decide where the information belongs in the document set. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-011 — Make legal documents understandable and accessible + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A legal document or notice is presented to a person. + +Use clear, plain, audience-appropriate language and a structure that exposes material terms before detail. Provide accessible headings, links, tables, controls, zoom and reflow behavior, and equivalent content across supported channels. Preserve legal meaning in each supported language and route high-impact translations through qualified review. + +**Why:** Formal availability is not meaningful when the intended audience cannot find, understand, or operate the document or its controls. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the rendered document at representative widths, zoom levels, input modes, and assistive-technology paths under `FND-ACCESSIBILITY`. +- Run comprehension checks for consequential or repeatedly misunderstood terms under `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-013`. +- Compare supported translations, summaries, and decision-point disclosures with the controlling text. + +**Exceptions:** An exact statutory or negotiated term may remain formal, but explain its practical effect in plain language without changing the controlling text. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-012 — Verify publication and operation together + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Releasing or materially changing a governed legal document or the behavior it describes. + +Do not approve publication from document review alone. Verify links, routing, effective dates, document precedence, assent records, notice delivery, choices, rights paths, billing and cancellation, retention, subprocessors, contacts, and product behavior as one release. Assign monitoring and a review trigger for later product, vendor, law, jurisdiction, or organizational changes. + +**Why:** A correct document can still fail when the wrong version is linked, the product contradicts it, or the promised process does not work. + +**Verify:** + +- Complete a route-specific release checklist with legal, privacy, product, security, content, and operational owners as applicable. +- Run automated link and version checks plus representative end-to-end interaction tests. +- Record limitations, deferred jurisdictions, approved exceptions, monitoring, and the next review date. + +**Exceptions:** A qualified owner may defer a non-applicable route when the exclusion and enforcing boundary are recorded and tested. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-013 — Form online assent through clear notice and action + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A contract or incorporated term is accepted through a website, application, device, message, or other electronic flow. + +Place a conspicuous description and link to the applicable terms next to the action that forms the agreement. State explicitly that the action constitutes agreement and require an unambiguous action associated with those terms. Do not rely on footer links, passive browsing, account use, or notice spread across unrelated screens unless qualified counsel approves the specific formation method and evidence. + +**Why:** A person may complete a transaction without agreeing to terms when the notice is hard to see or the action does not clearly signify assent. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect every formation screen at representative sizes, zoom, themes, locales, and assistive-technology paths. +- Confirm the terms link is usable before assent and the action text identifies its legal effect. +- Test that separate agreements, later promotions, and embedded flows do not create conflicting or reconstructed assent. + +**Exceptions:** A non-click method requires a qualified formation analysis that records the governing authority, total interaction, and evidence showing actual or legally sufficient notice and assent. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-014 — Review standard terms for fairness and balance + +**Level:** contextual +**Applies when:** Non-negotiated or consumer terms allocate material rights, obligations, remedies, or discretion. + +Require qualified legal review of both the wording and practical effect of price and renewal changes, unilateral modification, suspension and termination, refunds, assignment, arbitration and forum selection, class or jury waivers, liability limits, indemnities, intellectual-property licenses, evidence burdens, complaint paths, and remedies. Do not use clarity or assent as a substitute for substantive fairness. + +**Why:** A term can be noticeable and accepted yet remain restricted, non-binding, or harmful because it creates an impermissible imbalance or defeats a governing right. + +**Verify:** + +- Maintain a clause-risk record connecting each high-impact term to its purpose, governing authority, affected audience, operational behavior, and qualified approval. +- Compare user and provider rights, breach consequences, discretion, cure, notice, and exit paths. +- Check later agreements, promotions, order forms, summaries, and support statements for conflicting dispute or remedy terms. + +**Exceptions:** None without the qualified legal determination for the exact audience and jurisdiction. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-015 — Deliver retainable electronic records when required + +**Level:** contextual +**Applies when:** A governing law, contract, or qualified decision requires a writing, signature, durable medium, retainable disclosure, or copy for the recipient. + +Provide the record in a form the recipient can access, save or print, and reproduce accurately for the required period. Follow any required electronic-delivery consent, paper option, withdrawal, contact-update, hardware or software disclosure, and renewed-consent process. Do not treat page availability or an email link as sufficient without verifying the governing delivery and retention requirements. + +**Why:** A transient page or expiring link may not satisfy an obligation to deliver a record that the recipient can keep. + +**Verify:** + +- Download, save, print, reopen, and compare the delivered record using representative devices and assistive technologies. +- Exercise electronic-delivery consent, withdrawal, paper-copy, changed contact, bounced message, expired account, and changed technical-requirement states where applicable. +- Confirm the retained copy identifies its version, incorporated documents, effective date, and transaction. + +**Exceptions:** Apply only an alternative delivery method approved by the governing qualified decision and record why it satisfies the requirement. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-016 — Govern recurring offers from enrollment through cancellation + +**Level:** contextual +**Applies when:** An offer includes a free-to-paid conversion, automatic renewal, continuous service, recurring charge, or renewal price change. + +Before obtaining agreement or billing information, present the recurring nature, price or calculation, frequency, trial or promotional end, renewal period, minimum commitment, cancellation deadline and method, and material restrictions identified by qualified review. Obtain and retain the required separate affirmative consent and acknowledgment. Deliver required reminders and make cancellation timely, direct, and no harder than the applicable enrollment channel. + +**Why:** Recurring programs can create charges people did not expect when enrollment, reminders, and cancellation are treated as separate product surfaces. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise enrollment, acknowledgment, trial expiry, renewal notice, price change, failed payment, cancellation, save offer, refund, and post-cancellation states. +- Confirm billing stops on time and access, credits, exports, and deletion follow the disclosed effect. +- Preserve the consent and notice evidence for the period selected by qualified review. + +**Exceptions:** None without the qualified decision for the offer, channel, audience, and jurisdiction. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-017 — Govern device storage, tracking, and preference signals + +**Level:** contextual +**Applies when:** A service stores or accesses information on a device, uses cookies, pixels, SDKs, local storage, advertising identifiers, link decoration, fingerprinting, or receives a recognized privacy preference signal. + +Maintain a current inventory of each technology, provider, data, purpose, duration, first- or third-party role, and governing consent or exception decision. Block non-permitted behavior until the required choice, provide equally usable accept and reject controls, make later review and withdrawal practical, and honor recognized preference signals across in-scope processing. Do not limit the review to browser cookies. + +**Why:** A cookie policy and banner can appear correct while embedded code, server-side forwarding, or device signals continue processing outside the recorded choice. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect storage, network, SDK, tag-manager, redirect, and server-side behavior before choice, after each choice, after withdrawal, and with applicable preference signals. +- Reconcile the observed technologies with the inventory and published notice. +- Confirm consent records, exceptions, expiry, region routing, and downstream recipient updates work without creating a new tracking identifier solely to remember refusal. + +**Exceptions:** A technology classified as exempt by qualified review must remain limited to the recorded necessary purpose; secondary use reopens the assessment. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-018 — Enforce age and audience boundaries in the service + +**Level:** contextual +**Applies when:** Terms set a minimum age, the service is directed to or likely used by minors, age affects consent or contracting capacity, or age assurance is used. + +Record the governing age and audience decision, the evidence needed, parental or guardian process where applicable, and the product response for uncertain, underage, and aging-up users. Make terms and notices understandable for the affected age group. Minimize age-assurance data, restrict it to the approved purpose, test accuracy and bias, and delete it on the approved schedule. Do not rely on a terms statement when the service knowingly permits contradictory use. + +**Why:** Boilerplate age limits do not protect minors or establish valid authority when product design, marketing, data collection, and enforcement ignore them. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise unknown-age, underage, parental-review, denied, appealed, aging-up, and deletion states. +- Compare marketing, app-store ratings, onboarding, content, ads, and support with the declared audience. +- Inspect age-assurance providers, fields, retention, human access, false results, and correction paths. + +**Exceptions:** None without qualified child-safety, privacy, product, and legal review appropriate to the service and jurisdiction. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-019 — Apply restrictions and remedies consistently + +**Level:** contextual +**Applies when:** Terms or an acceptable-use policy allow content moderation, account restriction, suspension, termination, forfeiture, reporting, or another adverse action. + +Define the prohibited conduct, decision authority, evidence, severity and proportionality factors, notice, cure, appeal, restoration, data access, refund, and emergency path. Apply the published rule consistently and preserve the decision record. Do not reserve unlimited discretion that masks undocumented or discriminatory enforcement. + +**Why:** A published restriction is not a dependable rule when users cannot predict it, operators apply it inconsistently, or no one can correct an error. + +**Verify:** + +- Sample comparable cases for consistent classification, action, notice, timing, and remedy. +- Exercise warning, restriction, suspension, termination, appeal, reversal, export, refund, and emergency states. +- Confirm summaries, support guidance, moderation tools, and reports match the controlling policy and applicable transparency duties. + +**Exceptions:** Immediate action may precede ordinary notice when needed to address a recorded safety, security, or legal risk; provide the approved later notice and review when permitted. + +### LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-020 — Preserve commitments through transfer and shutdown + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A merger, acquisition, financing, insolvency, asset sale, assignment, product shutdown, or entity change may transfer or end contracts, data, or user rights. + +Inventory the terms, privacy promises, negotiated restrictions, consent records, data roles, retention duties, prepaid value, exports, rights requests, and deletion commitments that survive or constrain the event. Obtain qualified review before disclosure or transfer, give required notice and choice, and prevent a successor or buyer from using data beyond the recorded commitments without the required authority. + +**Why:** Corporate events do not make prior promises, data restrictions, or user remedies disappear. + +**Verify:** + +- Reconcile the proposed recipient, purpose, data, contracts, and service changes with every applicable version and negotiated term. +- Exercise notice, objection, export, cancellation, refund, rights request, deletion, account migration, and inaccessible-user paths. +- Record unresolved obligations, successor ownership, transition dates, and evidence preservation. + +**Exceptions:** A legally compelled process follows its governing order and qualified review; preserve notice, minimization, objection, and remedy rights to the extent permitted. + +## Guidance + +Use Harvey's public legal center as an architecture example, not as reusable legal text. Its modular structure separates the platform agreement, feature and service terms, security and data-processing addenda, acceptable-use rules, transfer terms, privacy and cookie notices, subprocessors, law-enforcement guidance, and AI policy. The useful lesson is explicit scope, incorporation, precedence, ownership, and change handling. The right set for another product may be smaller or different. + +Harvey's published privacy materials also distinguish data it handles as a controller from customer content it handles as a processor, route jurisdiction-specific provisions and rights, show a last-updated date and change summary, and connect subprocessor changes to the DPA process. Reuse the pattern of explicit roles and linked controls, not Harvey's classifications or time periods; those depend on the actual service and qualified review. + +Prefer one authoritative source for shared facts such as entity identity, contact details, product names, subprocessors, retention rules, and version metadata. Generate or validate repeated references from that source where practical, while keeping each published document reviewable as a complete artifact. + +Do not use a terms page to repair a misleading product flow. If a price, renewal, data use, or material restriction changes a person's decision, place it in the flow and keep the full legal document available for detail. + +Legal review and user comprehension answer different questions. Require both for consequential documents. A clause can be legally deliberate and still fail because people cannot find it, understand its practical effect, or complete the promised choice or rights process. + +Treat subscription law as a live jurisdiction matrix, not a single federal checklist. The US Federal Trade Commission's 2024 amended negative-option rule was vacated by the Eighth Circuit in July 2025; the FTC opened a new advance rulemaking in March 2026. Current FTC enforcement authority, the restored 1973 rule, state automatic-renewal laws, and sector or channel rules still require qualified review. Do not present the vacated rule as current law. + +Treat privacy controls as protocol behavior as well as prose. A user choice can arrive through a banner, settings page, browser or device signal, account request, or platform control. The inventory and released system must resolve those inputs consistently under the governing decision. + +## Examples + +### Terms update + +Non-compliant: The current terms page is overwritten, the footer date changes, and continued use is treated as acceptance of a new model-training purpose for previously collected content. + +Compliant: The change record identifies the affected data and users, qualified owners classify it as material, the prior version remains archived, notice and any required affirmative choice occur before the new use, and product data jobs honor the transition decision. + +### Privacy notice + +Non-compliant: A policy says data “may be shared with trusted partners” while the organization has no current recipient list, purpose map, retention record, or working rights process. + +Compliant: The notice derives from the processing and recipient records, identifies material categories and purposes, explains retention and rights, appears at the relevant collection points, and matches observed network, storage, vendor, and deletion behavior. + +### Document set + +Non-compliant: An order form, online terms, DPA, and security page use different product names and retention periods, with no conflict rule. + +Compliant: A document map identifies the applicable set and precedence, shared facts reconcile, negotiated overrides are recorded, and a release check verifies the exact documents linked for the customer and region. + +### Online assent + +Non-compliant: A bright “Continue” button completes registration while a low-contrast terms link appears in the footer and nothing says that continuing forms an agreement. + +Compliant: The terms link and statement that selecting “Create account” means agreement appear next to the control, remain readable at supported sizes and themes, and the stored record identifies the exact document set and rendered interaction. + +### Recurring trial + +Non-compliant: Checkout calls an offer “free” but omits the conversion price and renewal frequency. Cancellation requires a phone call even though enrollment took one online step. + +Compliant: Checkout presents the conversion date, price, frequency, renewal, and cancellation method before billing information, records the required affirmative choice, sends the required acknowledgment and reminder, and provides a tested direct online cancellation path. + +### Tracking choice + +Non-compliant: Rejecting a cookie banner blocks one analytics tag, but an advertising SDK and server-side event forwarding continue, and a recognized opt-out signal is ignored. + +Compliant: The technology inventory covers browser, application, and server paths. Tests show non-permitted storage and transmission remain off before choice, rejection and withdrawal propagate to recipients, and applicable preference signals produce the governed state. + +### Age boundary + +Non-compliant: Terms say users must be 18, while marketing targets teenagers and onboarding accepts any entered birth date without an underage path. + +Compliant: The audience decision governs marketing, onboarding, content, data collection, and support. Underage, uncertain, parental, appeal, aging-up, and deletion states are defined and tested, and age-assurance data is limited to its approved purpose. + +## Sources + +- Harvey AI, [Legal information about our products and services](https://www.harvey.ai/legal), [Platform Agreement](https://www.harvey.ai/legal/platform-agreement), [Privacy Policy](https://www.harvey.ai/legal/privacy-policy), and [Data Processing Addendum](https://www.harvey.ai/legal/data-processing-addendum). Reviewed August 17, 2026. These are architecture examples, not legal authority or model language. +- US Federal Trade Commission, [AI (and other) Companies: Quietly Changing Your Terms of Service Could Be Unfair or Deceptive](https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2024/02/ai-other-companies-quietly-changing-your-terms-service-could-be-unfair-or-deceptive), February 13, 2024. Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- US Federal Trade Commission, [.com Disclosures: How to Make Effective Disclosures in Digital Advertising](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/com-disclosures-how-make-effective-disclosures-digital-advertising), March 2013. Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- California Privacy Protection Agency, [What General Notices Are Required By The CCPA?](https://cppa.ca.gov/pdf/general_notices.pdf). Reviewed August 17, 2026. Apply only when the governing decision makes the CCPA requirements applicable. +- European Union, [General Data Protection Regulation](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj/eng/), especially Articles 12–14. Reviewed August 17, 2026. Apply only when the governing decision makes it applicable. +- European Commission, [Unfair contract terms directive](https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protection-law/consumer-contract-law/unfair-contract-terms-directive_en). Reviewed August 17, 2026. Apply only to the relevant consumer and jurisdictional scope. +- UK Information Commissioner's Office, [Right to be informed checklists](https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/individual-rights/the-right-to-be-informed/checklists/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. The ICO marked this guidance as under review following the Data (Use and Access) Act; recheck it before reliance. +- US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, [Berman v. Freedom Financial Network, LLC](https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2022/04/05/20-16900.pdf), April 5, 2022, and [Chabolla v. ClassPass Inc.](https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2025/02/27/23-15999.pdf), February 27, 2025. Reviewed August 17, 2026. These cases inform the electronic-assent control; qualified counsel must apply the governing jurisdiction and current precedent. +- Office of the Law Revision Counsel, US House of Representatives, [15 USC 7001 - General rule of validity](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=%28title%3A15+section%3A7001+edition%3Aprelim%29). Reviewed August 17, 2026. Apply its electronic-record and consumer-disclosure provisions only within their governing scope and exceptions. +- US Federal Trade Commission, [Enforcement Policy Statement Regarding Negative Option Marketing](https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/enforcement-policy-statement-regarding-negative-option-marketing), October 28, 2021, and [2026 Negative Option Rule ANPRM](https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/p064202negativeoptionruleanprm.pdf), March 2026. Reviewed August 17, 2026. The ANPRM records that the 2024 amended rule was vacated in July 2025 and the prior rule was reinstated. +- California Legislature, [Business and Professions Code section 17602](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=17602). Reviewed August 17, 2026. Apply only to covered offers after qualified review of the current text, effective dates, and exceptions. +- California Department of Justice, [Global Privacy Control](https://www.oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa/gpc). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- UK Information Commissioner's Office, [Guidance on the use of storage and access technologies](https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-privacy-and-electronic-communications/guidance-on-the-use-of-storage-and-access-technologies/), April 29, 2026; European Union, [Directive on privacy and electronic communications](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32002L0058); and European Data Protection Board, [Guidelines 05/2020 on consent](https://www.edpb.europa.eu/documents/guideline/guidelines-052020-on-consent-under-regulation-2016679_en). Reviewed August 17, 2026. Apply each only within the relevant legal and territorial scope. +- US Federal Trade Commission, [COPPA Policy Statement on Age Verification Technologies](https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/02/ftc-issues-coppa-policy-statement-incentivize-use-age-verification-technologies-protect-children), February 2026. Reviewed August 17, 2026. The statement is temporary and must be rechecked before reliance. +- California Privacy Protection Agency, [CCPA Updates, Cybersecurity Audits, Risk Assessments, ADMT, and Insurance Regulations](https://cppa.ca.gov/regulations/ccpa_updates.html), effective January 1, 2026, with staged compliance dates. Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- European Union, [Digital Services Act](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32022R2065), especially Article 14. Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- United Kingdom, [Consumer Rights Act 2015](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/contents), especially Part 2 and Schedule 2. Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- US Federal Trade Commission, [Toysmart.com, Inc. - Statement of Commissioner Sheila F. Anthony](https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/toysmartanthonystatement.htm), July 21, 2000. Reviewed August 17, 2026. This is enforcement-history context for corporate transfers, not a general statement of applicable law. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/llms.txt b/plugins/raintree-standards/llms.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e12aa76 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/llms.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +# Raintree Standards + +> A version 1 open-source standards library that turns product, engineering, security, data, content, and marketing tasks into testable requirements and evidence. + +Every repository content page is available at its explicit `.md` source URL. `catalog.yaml` is the complete governed-document inventory, and the linked indexes cover supporting pages. This file is a discovery route, not a substitute for the governed documents, approval, or certification. + +## Apply the library correctly + +1. Define the task, intended outcome, system boundary, and material risk. +2. Select the closest task profile from `profiles/index.md`. +3. Read every standard in the profile's `depends_on` field. +4. Activate every conditional route whose stated condition is true. +5. Apply rule-level requirement labels from `governance/authority.md`; prose intensity does not change a rule's level. +6. Preserve document status, applicability, dependencies, exceptions, sources, review dates, and stable rule IDs. +7. Resolve conflicts through repository precedence and record missing evidence as unknown. Do not invent approval, verification, or certification. +8. Cite the exact governed file and stable rule ID that support the result. + +Marketing Skills and other third-party procedures are informative task aids. They do not override Raintree rules or current primary platform documentation. + +## Start here + +- [Repository guide](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/README.md): How to select a profile, apply rules, and collect evidence. +- [Library index](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/index.md): Browse standards, profiles, playbooks, patterns, and templates. +- [Coverage matrix](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/coverage.md): Map recurring work areas to governed routes and approval state. +- [Standards catalog](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/catalog.yaml): Machine-readable index of governed documents. +- [Task profile index](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/profiles/index.md): Select the closest task route before loading standards. + +## Search and public web + +- [Search foundations](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/seo/foundations.md): Search discovery, indexing, machine-readable representations, crawler evidence, and agent-ready routes. +- [Public web page profile](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/profiles/public-web-page.md): Required standards and completion evidence for public pages. +- [Web quality](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/web/quality.md): Document, accessibility, performance, privacy, security, and machine-readiness requirements. +- [Google Search Console playbook](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/playbooks/google-search-console.md): Governed use of Search Console evidence and operations. + +## Marketing + +- [Marketing Skills coverage map](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/marketing/coverage.md): Routes the external Marketing Skills task inventory to Raintree standards. +- [Marketing lifecycle](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/marketing/lifecycle.md): Positioning, research, claims, offers, targeting, measurement, and lifecycle controls. +- [Specialist marketing profile](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/profiles/specialist-marketing.md): Routes paid media, outreach, public engagement, sales, distribution, app-store, and media work. + +## Governance and use + +- [Authority and requirement levels](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/governance/authority.md): Binding levels, precedence, conflicts, and freshness. +- [Evidence and claims](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/foundations/evidence.md): Provenance, uncertainty, source authority, and evaluation requirements. +- [Exceptions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/governance/exceptions.md): Required scope, approval, expiry, and return-to-compliance record. +- [Agent instructions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/AGENTS.md): Read-only default and maintenance requirements. +- [Contribution requirements](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/CONTRIBUTING.md): Required checks and review process. +- [License and attribution](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/LICENSE.md): CC BY 4.0 and MIT licensing boundaries. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/coverage.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/coverage.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d1f3313 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/coverage.md @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +--- +type: Reference +title: Marketing Skills coverage map +description: Maps the Marketing Skills task inventory to the bounded Raintree v1 corpus and governed post-v1 extension drafts. +tags: [marketing, coverage, skills, v1] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T12:10:24-07:00" } +sources: + - id: marketing-skills + resource: https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/tree/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58 + title: Marketing Skills for AI Agents + author: human:corey-haines +--- + +# Marketing Skills coverage map + +This map uses the MIT-licensed Marketing Skills repository as a task inventory. It does not make that repository normative. Binding rules require Raintree review and primary support for external factual claims. + +## V1 mapping + +| Marketing skill | V1 route or disposition | +|---|---| +| `ab-testing` | `PROFILE-GROWTH-EXPERIMENT` | +| `ad-creative` | `MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA`, `MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS` | +| `ads` | `MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA` plus current platform policies | +| [`ai-seo`](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/ai-seo/SKILL.md) | `SEO-FOUNDATIONS`, `FND-EVIDENCE`; volatile claims require current primary evidence | +| `analytics` | `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT`; `PLAYBOOK-GA4` when applicable | +| `aso` | `DISCOVERY-APP-STORES` | +| `attribution` | `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT`, `FND-EVIDENCE`, `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-008` | +| `churn-prevention` | `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE`, `FND-TRUST`, `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE` | +| `co-marketing` | `MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT` | +| `cold-email` | `MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH` | +| `community-marketing` | `MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT` | +| `competitor-profiling` | `SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS`, `FND-EVIDENCE` | +| `competitors` | `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE`, `FND-EVIDENCE`, `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` | +| `content-strategy` | `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE`, `PROFILE-FUNCTIONAL-WRITING`, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS` | +| `copy-editing` | `PROFILE-FUNCTIONAL-WRITING`, `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE` | +| `copywriting` | `PROFILE-FUNCTIONAL-WRITING`, `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE`, `FND-TRUST` | +| `cro` | `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE`, `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE`, `PROFILE-GROWTH-EXPERIMENT` | +| `customer-research` | `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-002`, `FND-EVIDENCE`, `PRIVACY-DATA` | +| `directory-submissions` | `MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION` | +| `emails` | Core lifecycle route through `PROFILE-MARKETING-LIFECYCLE`; channel law and policy remain conditional | +| `events` | `PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING`, `MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT`, `MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION`; activate `MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS`, `PRIVACY-DATA`, and `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` when their conditions apply | +| `free-tools` | `PROFILE-PRODUCT-FEATURE`, `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE`, `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE` | +| `image` | `MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS` | +| `influencer-marketing` | `MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT`, `MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS` when media is produced | +| `launch` | `PRODUCT-DELIVERY`, `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE`, `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` | +| `lead-magnets` | `MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION`, `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE` | +| `marketing-council` | `FND-EVIDENCE`; simulated perspectives cannot be represented as real expert review | +| `marketing-ideas` | Discovery input only; selected work routes through `PROFILE-MARKETING-LIFECYCLE` | +| `marketing-loops` | `PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING`, `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` when automated | +| `marketing-plan` | `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE`, `PRODUCT-DELIVERY`, `FND-EVIDENCE` | +| `marketing-psychology` | `FND-TRUST`, `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE`; manipulative practices remain prohibited | +| `offers` | `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-003` and `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-004` | +| `onboarding` | `PRODUCT-DELIVERY-007`, `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE`, `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE` | +| `paywalls` | `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE`, `FND-TRUST`, `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE` | +| `popups` | `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE`, `FND-ACCESSIBILITY`, `FND-TRUST` | +| `pricing` | `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE`, `FND-EVIDENCE`, `FND-TRUST`; qualified legal and financial review as applicable | +| `product-marketing` | `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-001`, `PRODUCT-DELIVERY`, `FND-EVIDENCE` | +| [`programmatic-seo`](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/programmatic-seo/SKILL.md) | `SEO-FOUNDATIONS`, `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE`, `DATA-QUALITY` | +| `prospecting` | `MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH`, `SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS` | +| `public-relations` | `MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT` | +| `referrals` | `MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION`, `MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT` when partners or endorsements apply | +| `revops` | `SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS` | +| `sales-enablement` | `SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS`, `PROFILE-FUNCTIONAL-WRITING` | +| [`schema`](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/schema/SKILL.md) | `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-006`, `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` | +| [`seo-audit`](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/seo-audit/SKILL.md) | `SEO-FOUNDATIONS`, `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE`, `PLAYBOOK-GSC` | +| `signup` | `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE`, `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE`, `PRODUCT-DELIVERY` | +| [`site-architecture`](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/site-architecture/SKILL.md) | `SEO-FOUNDATIONS`, `DESIGN-INTERACTION`, `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` | +| `sms` | `MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH` plus current jurisdiction and channel rules | +| `social` | `MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT` | +| `video` | `MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS` | + +## Specialist route + +`PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING` selects the applicable extension standard for paid media, direct outreach, public engagement, sales operations, app stores, media production, and distribution. These extensions are governed drafts outside the bounded v1 release until independently reviewed. Every specialist task also activates applicable v1 foundations for evidence, trust, privacy, accessibility, security, measurement, and verification. + +## Source + +- Corey Haines and contributors, [Marketing Skills for AI Agents at commit `e55de886`](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/tree/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58). MIT-licensed task inventory, version 2.11.0, reviewed September 1, 2026. This source supplies an informative task taxonomy, not binding search-engine behavior or policy. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/direct-outreach.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/direct-outreach.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8e2ccae --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/direct-outreach.md @@ -0,0 +1,181 @@ +--- +id: MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH +title: Direct outreach and prospecting +description: Requirements for lawful sourcing, relevant outreach, sender identity, frequency, suppression, vendors, and evidence. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [marketing, sales, privacy, legal] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2026-11-13 +stale_after: 2026-11-13 +applies_to: [cold-email, prospecting, direct-message, marketing-call, marketing-text] +tags: [marketing, outreach, prospecting, communications] +depends_on: [MARKETING-LIFECYCLE, PRIVACY-DATA, FND-TRUST, CONTENT-INTERFACE] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T23:20:00Z" } +sources: + - id: ftc-can-spam + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act-compliance-guide-business + title: CAN-SPAM Act A Compliance Guide for Business + author: organization:us-federal-trade-commission + - id: ico-electronic-mail + resource: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-privacy-and-electronic-communications/guidance-on-direct-marketing-using-electronic-mail/ + title: Guidance on direct marketing using electronic mail + author: organization:uk-information-commissioners-office + - id: fcc-revocation + resource: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-24-24A1_Rcd.pdf + title: Rules concerning revocation of consent for robocalls and robotexts + author: organization:us-federal-communications-commission +--- + +# Direct outreach and prospecting + +Direct outreach must use an authorized and attributable contact source, be relevant to the recipient and channel, identify the sender, respect jurisdiction and platform rules, and make refusal effective across every sender and system. + +## Rules + +### MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH-001 — Approve the audience and channel before contact + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Contacting a person or organization through email, text, call, voicemail, social direct message, or comparable directed channel. + +Record recipient type, source, jurisdiction, channel, solicitation status, authority or permission, purpose, sender, frequency, and required disclosures before enrollment. + +**Why:** Public or purchased contact information is not universal permission to market through every channel. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace sampled recipients to source, collection context, applicable rule, and approved campaign. +- Confirm individual, corporate, customer, lead, and role-address distinctions are handled where law requires them. + +**Exceptions:** A response to a specific request remains limited to that requested communication unless separate marketing authority exists. + +### MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH-002 — Govern prospect data provenance + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Collecting, enriching, purchasing, scraping, inferring, or importing prospect data. + +Record source, collection date, stated purpose, seller or provider, license or terms, accuracy, sensitive fields, notice, objection path, retention, recipients, and prohibited use. Reject data without defensible provenance. + +**Why:** Lists can contain unlawfully collected, stale, sensitive, misidentified, or suppressed contacts. + +**Verify:** + +- Audit a sample through the original source, transformations, enrichment, imports, and active destinations. +- Test correction, objection, deletion, and suppression through derived copies and vendors. + +**Exceptions:** Confidential source detail may use a protected reference but cannot be omitted from governance review. + +### MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH-003 — Identify the sender and purpose truthfully + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Sending or instigating direct outreach. + +Use accurate routing, sender identity, subject or opening, organizational relationship, commercial purpose, and contact information. Do not impersonate a colleague, customer, independent researcher, or personal acquaintance. + +**Why:** Misleading identity or pretext prevents an informed decision and damages channel trust. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect delivered messages, caller presentation, domains, reply paths, redirects, and vendor identities. +- Confirm generated personalization does not invent prior contact, knowledge, or relationship. + +**Exceptions:** Protected investigations and safety communications follow their own authorized procedures and are not marketing. + +### MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH-004 — Keep outreach relevant and bounded + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Selecting message content, personalization, sequence, cadence, or follow-up. + +Use only necessary information, connect the message to a credible recipient context, avoid sensitive or intrusive inference, cap attempts and duration, and stop when the premise is invalid or the person signals disinterest. + +**Why:** Scale and generated personalization can turn weak relevance into repeated harassment or reveal unexpected surveillance. + +**Verify:** + +- Review samples across sequence positions, segments, negative responses, role changes, and stale records. +- Inspect frequency across campaigns, brands, vendors, identities, and channels. + +**Exceptions:** Safety, fraud, contractual, or service notices remain limited to their non-marketing purpose. + +### MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH-005 — Make refusal immediate and durable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A recipient can withdraw, object, opt out, block, or request no further contact. + +Offer an accessible refusal path appropriate to the channel, accept reasonable refusal language, suppress further governed contact within the applicable deadline, and retain only what is needed to honor suppression. + +**Why:** A refusal that works only in one tool or exact syntax does not preserve meaningful control. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise links, replies, spoken requests, standard text keywords, complaints, account deletion, imports, retries, and vendor handoffs. +- Confirm suppression wins over later list refresh, enrichment, scoring, or campaign membership. + +**Exceptions:** Legally required or requested service messages may continue without promotional content. + +### MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH-006 — Control senders, domains, automation, and vendors + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A system or third party sources contacts, generates messages, or sends on the organization's behalf. + +Use approved identities, least privilege, authentication, volume and frequency limits, quality sampling, complaint monitoring, content and list controls, incident response, and contractual responsibility. Preserve a global stop mechanism. + +**Why:** The organization can remain responsible when an agent, affiliate, lead seller, or platform performs the sending. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect vendor contracts, access, domain authentication, automation rules, sampling, complaints, suppression exchange, and offboarding. +- Trigger the global stop and verify queued, scheduled, retried, and distributed sending halts. + +**Exceptions:** None for external senders acting on the organization's behalf. + +### MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH-007 — Measure quality without rewarding pressure + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Evaluating people, automation, lists, or campaigns. + +Measure qualified outcomes, complaints, refusals, invalid contacts, reputation, downstream value, and harm alongside sends, opens, replies, meetings, or pipeline. Do not reward behavior that bypasses permission or suppression. + +**Why:** Volume targets can incentivize misleading personalization, excessive contact, and poor-quality pipeline. + +**Verify:** + +- Reconcile campaign reports with suppression, complaint, delivery, sales, and customer outcomes. +- Review outlier senders and segments for policy violations rather than assuming higher activity is better. + +**Exceptions:** None for performance systems affecting compensation or automated optimization. + +## Operational coverage + +Classify each message by channel, purpose, recipient relationship, automation, and jurisdiction. Apply the strictest applicable rule when one campaign crosses routes. + +| Route | Required scenarios | Completion evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Commercial email | Existing customer, prospect, purchased or enriched address, forwarded contact, role account, unsubscribe, and bounced or reassigned address | Authority and provenance, sender identity, content classification, jurisdiction route, suppression result, vendor controls, and delivery log | +| Calls and voicemail | Live call, automated dialer, artificial or prerecorded voice, do-not-call request, reassigned number, time-zone boundary, and recorded call | Consent or other authority, number provenance, registry and suppression check, script, recording notice, attempt ledger, and revocation result | +| SMS or messaging application | Transactional versus promotional purpose, short code or sender ID, quiet hours, keyword opt-out, group message, and cross-border recipient | Channel-specific consent, sender identity, message and cadence, opt-out processing, carrier or platform rule, and delivery receipt | +| Social or platform direct message | Connection context, community rule, automated personalization, multiple accounts, blocked recipient, and platform enforcement | Platform authority, identity, message source, frequency cap, block and suppression behavior, and account ownership | +| Sales-assisted sequence | Research, enrichment, personalization, handoff, reply, objection, meeting, disqualification, and vendor failure | Prospect source, approved claim, bounded sequence, human owner, state transition, suppression across tools, and retained commitments | +| High-risk audience or topic | Minor, patient, employee, debtor, job seeker, vulnerable person, or sensitive inferred need | Necessity and harm review, qualified legal or policy route, prohibited targeting controls, human approval, and audit sample | + +A reply, open, or meeting does not prove valid authority or recipient benefit. Measure complaints, blocks, suppression failures, and downstream fit alongside response. + +## Guidance + +Treat laws and platform rules as jurisdiction- and channel-specific. This standard sets a protective baseline but does not decide whether a particular list, message, or call is lawful. Obtain qualified review before launch and whenever recipients or channels change. + +## Examples + +### Purchased prospect list + +Non-compliant: Import a list labeled “opted in,” generate fictional familiarity, send from rotating domains, and remove only exact unsubscribe-link clicks. + +Compliant: Verify provenance and permission scope, identify the sender and commercial purpose, cap the sequence, accept reasonable objections, synchronize suppression, monitor complaints, and delete unsupported contacts. + +## Sources + +- US Federal Trade Commission, [CAN-SPAM Act: A Compliance Guide for Business](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act-compliance-guide-business). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- UK Information Commissioner's Office, [Guidance on direct marketing using electronic mail](https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-privacy-and-electronic-communications/guidance-on-direct-marketing-using-electronic-mail/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- US Federal Communications Commission, [Rules concerning revocation of consent for robocalls and robotexts](https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-24-24A1_Rcd.pdf). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/distribution.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/distribution.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c7bcca --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/distribution.md @@ -0,0 +1,181 @@ +--- +id: MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION +title: Distribution, referral, and acquisition assets +description: Requirements for accurate directory listings, consent-aware lead assets, governed referrals, and measurable distribution programs. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [marketing, growth, privacy, legal] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2026-11-13 +stale_after: 2026-11-13 +applies_to: [directory-listing, lead-magnet, referral-program, prize-promotion, distribution-program] +tags: [marketing, distribution, referrals, acquisition] +depends_on: [MARKETING-LIFECYCLE, FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, PRIVACY-DATA, ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T23:45:00Z" } +sources: + - id: ftc-advertising-faq + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/advertising-faqs-guide-small-business + title: "Advertising FAQ's: A Guide for Small Business" + author: organization:us-federal-trade-commission + - id: ftc-endorsement-faq + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/ftcs-endorsement-guides-what-people-are-asking + title: "FTC's Endorsement Guides: What People Are Asking" + author: organization:us-federal-trade-commission + - id: ftc-lead-generation + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2017/07/lead-generation-when-product-personal-data + title: "Lead generation: When the product is personal data" + author: organization:us-federal-trade-commission +--- + +# Distribution, referral, and acquisition assets + +Distribution programs must preserve accurate representation, informed choice, data boundaries, and honest measurement as content and incentives move through directories, partners, customers, and automated channels. Promotion and privacy law vary by jurisdiction; qualified review is required where a program creates legal duties. + +## Rules + +### MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION-001 — Define the distribution contract + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Submitting, syndicating, gating, referring, rewarding, or otherwise distributing an acquisition asset or offer. + +Record the audience, jurisdictions, channel, asset or listing, value exchange, claims, data flow, partner roles, incentive, budget, owner, duration, measures, stop conditions, and governing channel terms before launch. + +**Why:** Distribution can multiply an inaccurate claim, unauthorized data transfer, or incentive before the source is corrected. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare every active channel, partner, listing, form, and automation with the approved contract. +- Confirm owners can update, pause, or remove each copy and revoke partner access. + +**Exceptions:** A no-cost test still requires claim, data, authority, and stop controls. + +### MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION-002 — Keep directory and syndicated facts current + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Publishing product, organization, location, availability, price, or contact information outside an owned canonical surface. + +Use an authoritative source for each material field, disclose sponsorship or commercial placement, prohibit fabricated reviews or engagement, and set a review and removal path for every destination. + +**Why:** Stale or manipulated third-party listings can mislead people after the owned source changes. + +**Verify:** + +- Reconcile live listings with the canonical source and inspect rendered links, categories, claims, and disclosures. +- Check expiration, duplicate, ownership-transfer, correction, and removal behavior. + +**Exceptions:** A platform-controlled field may remain unavailable when the limitation and correction request are recorded. + +### MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION-003 — Make the lead-asset exchange explicit + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Access to a guide, tool, template, event, result, or other asset asks for personal data or a marketing permission. + +State what the person receives, what data is required, why it is needed, who receives it, and whether future communication is optional. Do not imply that unrelated marketing permission is required for an otherwise available asset. + +**Why:** Calling an asset free can conceal payment through personal data or future contact. + +**Verify:** + +- Walk the form, delivery, confirmation, follow-up, withdrawal, deletion, and suppression journeys. +- Confirm promised value is delivered without hidden terms and optional permissions remain optional. + +**Exceptions:** A required communication may accompany the requested service when it is necessary to deliver or secure that service. + +### MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION-004 — Govern referrals and incentives + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A customer, partner, employee, creator, or other participant may receive value for a referral, recommendation, share, review, or conversion. + +Define eligibility, reward, attribution window, prohibited conduct, fraud controls, tax or reporting ownership, disclosure wording, dispute handling, and termination. Require material connections to be apparent with the recommendation. + +**Why:** Undisclosed or poorly controlled incentives can create deceptive endorsements, spam, self-referrals, and disputes. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect participant instructions, sample shares, reward calculations, disclosures, reversals, and abuse cases. +- Confirm the program does not condition rewards on a positive opinion or suppress honest negative experience. + +**Exceptions:** Non-promotional service credits may use simplified disclosure when recipients cannot reasonably mistake the communication for independent advocacy. + +### MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION-005 — Review contests, prizes, and chance-based promotions by jurisdiction + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Distribution includes a contest, sweepstakes, drawing, prize, random selection, or purchase-linked chance. + +Before launch, obtain qualified review of classification, eligibility, geography, age, entry method, purchase conditions, official rules, disclosures, registration or bonding, tax handling, winner selection, publicity rights, and platform terms. + +**Why:** Promotion rules differ by jurisdiction and a small structural choice can change the legal classification. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the live promotion and every shortened or social version with approved official rules. +- Preserve entry, selection, notification, prize delivery, complaint, and closure records. + +**Exceptions:** None when chance, consideration, or a prize may be present; qualified review determines applicability. + +### MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION-006 — Limit partner and lead data movement + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A directory, affiliate, partner, referral system, form provider, or lead buyer receives personal, confidential, or audience data. + +Identify recipients and onward transfers, verify recipient identity and purpose, minimize fields, set retention and deletion, constrain reuse, protect transfer, honor rights and suppression, and monitor complaints and misuse. + +**Why:** A lead can expose the person to unknown recipients and uses that were not apparent at collection. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace representative records from collection through every recipient, rejection, resale prohibition, deletion, and suppression path. +- Inspect contracts, access, exports, logs, complaints, and recipient offboarding. + +**Exceptions:** None for hidden recipients or uses outside the represented purpose. + +### MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION-007 — Measure net value and retire the program + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Evaluating or ending a distribution, referral, listing, or acquisition-asset program. + +Report total cost, incentive and partner fees, reach, qualified outcomes, overlap, attribution limits, downstream value, fraud, complaints, privacy effects, and guardrails. Remove or correct stale assets, links, listings, permissions, and automation when the program ends. + +**Why:** Gross signups can hide duplicated demand, low-quality leads, incentive abuse, and long-lived data or claims. + +**Verify:** + +- Reconcile channel records with financial, product, support, privacy, and authoritative listing data. +- Confirm closure across partners, localization, caches, redirects, rewards, access, retention, and suppression. + +**Exceptions:** Directional measures are permitted when uncertainty and non-causal limits are stated. + +## Operational coverage + +Use a distribution annex for each directory, marketplace, referral system, contest, or lead exchange. Record the platform, jurisdiction, economic relationship, data flow, and exit path. + +| Route | Required scenarios | Completion evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Directory or marketplace listing | Initial listing, duplicate, inaccurate third-party edit, ranking claim, review, outage, and delisting | Ownership proof, canonical facts, platform policy version, rendered listing, correction route, monitoring, and retirement result | +| Referral or affiliate program | Self-referral, duplicate attribution, incentive disclosure, restricted claim, fraud, refund, and partner termination | Terms, participant identity, disclosure samples, attribution logic, payout reconciliation, enforcement, and suppression | +| Sweepstakes, contest, or promotion | Eligibility, geographic exclusion, no-purchase path, prize substitution, tie, cancellation, tax, and winner publicity | Qualified jurisdiction review, official rules, entry ledger, selection method, notices, fulfillment, and record retention | +| Lead exchange or co-marketing | Collection notice, named recipients, consent or other authority, duplicate lead, rejection, onward transfer, and deletion | Data-flow map, partner contract, rendered notice, transfer receipt, suppression and deletion test, and quality reconciliation | +| Deal, coupon, or incentive listing | Expiration, limited inventory, stacking, employee or partner use, price change, redemption failure, and refund | Material terms, system-of-record value, channel render, redemption and error test, financial reconciliation, and removal | +| Syndicated content or feed | Schema change, stale cache, localization, unauthorized modification, source correction, and consumer retirement | Feed contract, provenance, freshness measure, downstream inventory, correction propagation, and termination confirmation | + +The distributor's approval does not establish legal compliance, claim accuracy, or valid data authority. Verify the final representation and downstream behavior independently. + +## Guidance + +Treat directories and partners as external publishers, not passive pipes. Keep a destination inventory and a canonical record for material facts. Do not use incentives to manufacture praise, and do not infer permission for unrelated contact from asset delivery or referral participation. + +## Examples + +### Referral download campaign + +Non-compliant: Gate a template behind an email field, enroll every downloader in promotion, reward five-star reviews, and send full lead records to unspecified partners. + +Compliant: Explain the asset and optional follow-up separately, disclose referral rewards, accept honest feedback, restrict recipient data and reuse, reconcile net outcomes, and retain a tested shutdown path. + +## Sources + +- US Federal Trade Commission, [Advertising FAQ's: A Guide for Small Business](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/advertising-faqs-guide-small-business). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- US Federal Trade Commission, [FTC's Endorsement Guides: What People Are Asking](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/ftcs-endorsement-guides-what-people-are-asking). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- US Federal Trade Commission, [Lead generation: When the product is personal data](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2017/07/lead-generation-when-product-personal-data). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..deac0fc --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# Marketing standards + +* [Marketing Skills coverage map](coverage.md) - Exact v1 and post-v1 draft routes for the external task inventory. +* [SEO and Marketing Skills coverage review](seo-coverage-review-2026-09-01.md) - Bounded source and route review against Marketing Skills version 2.11.0. +* [Direct outreach](direct-outreach.md) - Prospecting, channel permission, identity, suppression, data sourcing, and outreach operations. +* [Distribution](distribution.md) - Directory listings, lead assets, referrals, incentives, contests, and distribution programs. +* [Public project showcase](project-showcase.md) - Truthful, useful project records across portfolios, repositories, and profiles. +* [Project showcase implementation review](project-showcase-review-2026-08-20.md) - First-use and portfolio-comprehension retest, with accessibility approval still pending. +* [Marketing lifecycle](lifecycle.md) - Positioning, research, acquisition, conversion, onboarding, retention, and lifecycle communication. +* [Paid media](paid-media.md) - Paid placements, targeting, account authority, spend, claims, measurement, and closure. +* [Public engagement](public-engagement.md) - Public relations, social publishing, communities, creators, influencers, partnerships, and public response. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/lifecycle.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/lifecycle.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e8edd1 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/lifecycle.md @@ -0,0 +1,212 @@ +--- +id: MARKETING-LIFECYCLE +title: Marketing lifecycle +description: Requirements for evidence-led positioning, acquisition, conversion, onboarding, retention, and lifecycle communication. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [marketing, product, growth, analytics, legal] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2026-11-13 +stale_after: 2026-11-13 +applies_to: [marketing-lifecycle, campaign, conversion-flow] +tags: [marketing, positioning, conversion, retention] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT, PRIVACY-DATA] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T20:57:53Z" } +sources: + - id: ftc-advertising + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/advertising-marketing + title: Advertising and Marketing + author: organization:us-federal-trade-commission + - id: ico-direct-marketing + resource: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-privacy-and-electronic-communications/direct-marketing-guidance/ + title: Direct marketing guidance + author: organization:uk-information-commissioners-office + - id: marketing-skills + resource: https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills + title: Marketing Skills for AI Agents + author: human:corey-haines +--- + +# Marketing lifecycle + +Marketing must connect an evidenced audience need to a truthful offer, earn attention and permission, preserve product and user guardrails, and measure durable value across acquisition, conversion, onboarding, and retention. Jurisdiction-specific communication and advertising obligations require qualified legal review. + +## Rules + +### MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-001 — Maintain an evidenced positioning record + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Creating strategy, claims, campaigns, sales material, or lifecycle content. + +Record the target audience, problem, alternatives, differentiated value, supporting evidence, objections, limitations, prohibited claims, and approved terminology. + +**Why:** Disconnected campaigns drift into conflicting audiences and unsupported promises. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace campaign claims and calls to action to the current positioning record and product behavior. +- Confirm evidence and limitations remain current for the targeted audience and market. + +**Exceptions:** Exploratory concepts may use hypotheses when they are clearly labeled and are not published as claims. + +### MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-002 — Ground audience insight in attributable research + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A decision relies on customer language, needs, objections, segments, or behavior. + +Record source, sample, method, period, selection limits, consent or authority, and the distinction between observed language and the team's interpretation. + +**Why:** Anecdotes and selected quotes can be presented as representative demand without supporting scope. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace important insights to interviews, support records, behavioral evidence, or research artifacts. +- Check whether excluded, lost, dissatisfied, and non-converting people are represented where relevant. + +**Exceptions:** A single anecdote may motivate research but cannot support a prevalence or market claim. + +### MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-003 — Substantiate express and implied claims before publication + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Content communicates product performance, comparison, results, price, scarcity, safety, endorsement, or other decision-relevant facts. + +Identify the reasonable overall impression, support each material express and implied claim with evidence suitable to the claim, and place qualifications where people will notice and understand them. + +**Why:** A literally true statement can still create a misleading overall impression or omit a material condition. + +**Verify:** + +- Map claims to current sources, product versions, populations, time periods, and required qualifications. +- Review comparative, testimonial, visual, and generated content for implied claims and material connections. + +**Exceptions:** Subjective opinion must remain recognizable as opinion and cannot imply unheld objective evidence. + +### MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-004 — Preserve a truthful offer and conversion path + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Asking a person to sign up, buy, subscribe, start a trial, grant access, or provide lead information. + +Present the included value, total material cost, recurring terms, eligibility, limitations, data use, cancellation or exit, and next step before commitment. Do not use obstruction, false urgency, disguised advertising, or preselected material consent. + +**Why:** Local conversion gains can come from confusion or coercion and create refunds, complaints, churn, and legal risk. + +**Verify:** + +- Walk the path from acquisition claim through commitment, confirmation, billing, and exit. +- Confirm the strongest visual framing agrees with the complete terms and actual product. + +**Exceptions:** None for material terms or consent. + +### MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-005 — Govern communication permission and frequency + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Sending marketing email, text, push, in-product promotion, or other directed lifecycle communication. + +Record the governing jurisdiction and policy, lawful authority or permission, sender identity, purpose, audience, frequency, suppression, withdrawal, and proof of delivery behavior before activation. + +**Why:** Product access or possession of contact data does not automatically authorize every marketing message. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise subscribe, refuse, withdraw, suppress, re-consent, complaint, and account-deletion paths. +- Confirm suppression applies across vendors, retries, imports, and derived audiences within required time. + +**Exceptions:** Transactional or legally required messages must remain limited to that purpose and not smuggle in promotion. + +### MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-006 — Optimize for achieved value, not compelled activity + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Improving signup, onboarding, activation, engagement, paywalls, cancellation, or retention. + +Define the user value and business outcome, protect guardrails, preserve meaningful choice, and reject tactics that increase a local metric by delaying exit, withholding material information, or driving low-quality activity. + +**Why:** A metric can improve while user value, trust, support burden, or long-term retention worsens. + +**Verify:** + +- Review the complete journey and downstream cohorts, complaints, reversals, support, and retention. +- Confirm success is not defined solely by clicks, completion, or prevented cancellation. + +**Exceptions:** None for deceptive or coercive behavior. + +### MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-007 — Separate personalization from sensitive inference + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Content, offer, timing, or channel varies by identity, behavior, model, segment, or inferred attribute. + +Use only authorized, necessary data; document the targeting rule and sensitive proxies; provide applicable notice and control; and prevent protected or vulnerable groups from receiving harmful exclusion, pressure, or differential terms. + +**Why:** Seemingly ordinary segments can reveal sensitive traits or create unfair and opaque treatment. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect input attributes, derived segments, recipients, exclusions, model behavior, and outcome differences. +- Exercise correction, withdrawal, deletion, and fallback behavior. + +**Exceptions:** Safety or eligibility targeting requires the governing policy, evidence, and qualified review. + +### MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-008 — Measure incrementality and durable outcomes honestly + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Evaluating a campaign, channel, conversion change, or lifecycle program. + +Define the decision, cost, exposure, attribution limits, baseline, primary outcome, guardrails, and time horizon. Distinguish observed platform attribution from causal incrementality and report uncertainty. + +**Why:** Platform reports can assign credit without showing that the activity caused additional durable value. + +**Verify:** + +- Reconcile platform, product, and financial measures where practical. +- Record attribution model, identity and consent gaps, modeled data, lag, overlap, and excluded costs. + +**Exceptions:** Directional reporting may guide exploration when its causal and coverage limits are explicit. + +### MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-009 — Preserve learning and retire stale material + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A campaign, offer, message, segment, or lifecycle program ends or materially changes. + +Record the version, audience, exposure, result, limitations, decision, and reusable learning; remove or revalidate stale claims, endorsements, pricing, links, and automation. + +**Why:** Unowned material continues making outdated promises and repeated campaigns relearn the same result. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace active content and automations to a current owner, evidence record, and review date. +- Confirm ended campaigns no longer enroll or message people unexpectedly. + +**Exceptions:** Archived material may remain when clearly dated, non-operative, and excluded from active journeys. + +## Operational coverage + +Route every program by channel, audience relationship, jurisdiction, data use, and commitment consequence before launch. + +| Lifecycle route | Required scenarios | Completion evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Audience and positioning research | Prospective, current, lost, dissatisfied, inaccessible, and non-adopting audiences | Research provenance, recruitment and consent, negative cases, segment limits, claim candidates, and unresolved uncertainty | +| Acquisition and offer | Organic, paid, partner, referral, direct, localized, unavailable, and ineligible paths | Channel authority, rendered claims and terms, destination parity, audience controls, cost basis, and stop conditions | +| Activation and onboarding | First use, delayed use, failed setup, assisted use, abandonment, and inaccessible flow | Time-to-value, completion and failure denominators, support burden, accessibility result, and recovery path | +| Engagement and lifecycle messaging | Transactional, service, educational, promotional, personalized, suppressed, and withdrawn states | Message classification, permission basis, preference state, frequency, value measure, and suppression propagation | +| Retention, expansion, and advocacy | Renewal, downgrade, cancellation, win-back, referral, review, and incentive disclosure | Commercial terms, cohort value and harm, exit exercise, incentive record, and non-causal measurement limits | +| Retirement | Expired offer, stale claim, ended partnership, revoked permission, deleted audience, and discontinued product | Channel and asset inventory, disabled automation, data disposition, final reconciliation, and accountable sign-off | + +Platform tools and marketing automation do not determine legal authority, user value, or causal effect. Preserve those decisions outside the vendor account. + +## Guidance + +Use community skill libraries to discover recurring tasks and workflow gaps, not as authority for policy. Keep specialist channels outside this v1 standard unless their rules are independently sourced and reviewed. A good lifecycle connects the promise, product experience, measurement, support, and exit rather than optimizing each surface independently. + +## Examples + +### Cancellation offer + +Non-compliant: Hide cancellation behind multiple screens and present an expiring discount without showing its future renewal price. + +Compliant: Make cancellation easy to locate, state the discount duration and renewal price, preserve the ability to leave, record the user's choice, and evaluate saved accounts alongside complaints, refunds, and later retention. + +## Sources + +- US Federal Trade Commission, [Advertising and Marketing](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/advertising-marketing). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- UK Information Commissioner's Office, [Direct marketing guidance](https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-privacy-and-electronic-communications/direct-marketing-guidance/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Corey Haines and contributors, [Marketing Skills for AI Agents](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills), used as an MIT-licensed coverage inventory rather than normative authority. Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/paid-media.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/paid-media.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c1ed88 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/paid-media.md @@ -0,0 +1,181 @@ +--- +id: MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA +title: Paid media and advertising operations +description: Requirements for truthful, authorized, measurable, and controlled paid advertising across external platforms. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [marketing, growth, analytics, privacy, legal] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2026-11-13 +stale_after: 2026-11-13 +applies_to: [paid-advertising, sponsored-content, ad-creative] +tags: [marketing, advertising, paid-media] +depends_on: [MARKETING-LIFECYCLE, FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, PRIVACY-DATA, ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T23:20:00Z" } +sources: + - id: ftc-advertising + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/advertising-marketing + title: Advertising and Marketing + author: organization:us-federal-trade-commission + - id: eu-dsa + resource: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-services-act + title: The Digital Services Act + author: organization:european-commission + - id: ico-direct-marketing + resource: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-privacy-and-electronic-communications/direct-marketing-guidance/ + title: Direct marketing guidance + author: organization:uk-information-commissioners-office +--- + +# Paid media and advertising operations + +Paid advertising must identify its sponsor, support its claims, respect audience and platform restrictions, control spend and authority, and measure durable outcomes without treating platform attribution as causal proof. Applicable advertising law and platform policy require current qualified review. + +## Rules + +### MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA-001 — Approve the campaign contract before spend + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Funding a paid placement, sponsored distribution, promotion, or ad experiment. + +Record the objective, audience, jurisdictions, offer, claims, creative variants, destinations, budget, bid authority, schedule, owners, platform policies, stop conditions, and success and guardrail measures before launch. + +**Why:** Platform automation can expand spend and exposure faster than ambiguous campaign intent can be corrected. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the live campaign, account settings, creative, destination, and budget controls with the approved contract. +- Confirm the operator and automation cannot exceed approved spend, audience, geography, or duration. + +**Exceptions:** A bounded platform test may use provisional performance targets but still requires spend, claim, audience, and stop controls. + +### MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA-002 — Make sponsorship and material terms apparent + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A placement could be mistaken for editorial, organic, independent, or user-generated content. + +Identify the content as advertising or sponsored communication and disclose the responsible advertiser and material conditions where people encounter the claim. + +**Why:** People evaluate paid persuasion differently from independent information. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect every rendered placement, format, language, device, and truncated state for visible sponsorship and qualifications. +- Confirm platform labels do not hide or contradict required advertiser disclosures. + +**Exceptions:** None when the commercial nature or sponsor would otherwise be unclear. + +### MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA-003 — Keep creative and destination claims consistent + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An ad links, deep-links, or directs people to an offer, form, store, or product experience. + +Ensure the strongest express and implied claim, price, availability, eligibility, urgency, and visual representation remain supported and consistent through the destination and commitment path. + +**Why:** A truthful landing page does not cure a misleading ad, and a truthful ad does not cure hidden destination terms. + +**Verify:** + +- Walk each active creative through its destination, checkout or signup, confirmation, and exit. +- Test expired, unavailable, ineligible, localized, and out-of-stock conditions. + +**Exceptions:** None for material claims and terms. + +### MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA-004 — Govern targeting and exclusions + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Audience delivery uses personal data, inferred attributes, lookalikes, exclusions, location, age, or automated optimization. + +Document the input data, authority, sensitive proxies, intended and excluded recipients, platform expansion settings, fairness and harm review, and applicable notice or control. Do not target or exclude using prohibited sensitive data or protected status. + +**Why:** Platform-selected delivery can create opaque discrimination, vulnerability targeting, or use beyond the source purpose. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect uploaded audiences, platform-generated expansion, exclusions, delivery reports, and deletion or suppression behavior. +- Compare outcomes across relevant groups without collecting unnecessary sensitive data. + +**Exceptions:** Legally required eligibility or safety restrictions need the governing rule and qualified approval. + +### MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA-005 — Control accounts, partners, and spend + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** People, agencies, platforms, or automation can publish ads or commit budget. + +Use named identities, least privilege, approval thresholds, protected payment methods, change logging, separation of duties for high spend, and rapid revocation. Define agency and platform responsibilities contractually. + +**Why:** Advertising accounts combine public publishing, customer data, brand authority, and direct financial access. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect effective roles, tokens, linked accounts, billing, automated rules, and change history. +- Exercise spend alerts, pause, credential revocation, and agency offboarding. + +**Exceptions:** Small campaigns may combine approval roles within a documented maximum exposure. + +### MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA-006 — Measure incrementality, cost, and harm + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Reporting campaign performance or making a budget decision. + +Report spend, fees, exposure, outcome quality, attribution model, overlap, lag, modeled data, fraud or invalid traffic, downstream value, and guardrails. Use controlled evidence for causal incrementality claims. + +**Why:** Platform-reported credit can double count conversions and reward low-quality or already-likely outcomes. + +**Verify:** + +- Reconcile platform cost and outcome data with authoritative financial and product systems. +- Compare attributed results with a suitable baseline, holdout, lift method, or explicit non-causal limitation. + +**Exceptions:** Directional optimization may use platform metrics when causal and financial limits are stated. + +### MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA-007 — Stop and archive campaigns completely + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An offer, claim, audience, creative, event, or campaign expires or becomes invalid. + +Pause all placements and automated variants, revoke obsolete audiences and access, reconcile final spend and outcomes, preserve required records, and remove stale destinations or route them truthfully. + +**Why:** Forgotten automation can continue spending, targeting, and making outdated claims. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect account, network, localization, experiment, remarketing, and partner states after closure. +- Confirm final billing, audience retention, destination behavior, and owner sign-off. + +**Exceptions:** Evergreen campaigns require a current owner, evidence review, and recurring expiration check. + +## Operational coverage + +Create a platform annex for each live ad system. Record the policy version, account structure, optimization behavior, data flows, and emergency controls without treating the platform rule as universal law. + +| Route | Required scenarios | Completion evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Search or shopping ads | Query mismatch, dynamic text, price or inventory change, trademark term, location expansion, and unavailable destination | Search-term and feed review, rendered ads, claim substantiation, destination parity, exclusions, and feed retirement | +| Social, display, or video ads | Audience expansion, sensitive proxy, frequency, placement adjacency, truncated disclosure, comments, and remixing | Audience and placement settings, creative renders, disclosure review, frequency and harm measures, and moderation route | +| Creator or sponsored content | Compensation, gifted product, editorial control, affiliate link, reused asset, live format, and changed opinion | Contract, material-connection disclosure, claim briefing, approval boundary, rights, monitoring, and correction record | +| Retargeting or customer-list ads | Source permission, audience minimum, match partner, cross-device expansion, suppression, deletion, and consent withdrawal | Data-flow record, upload receipt, platform settings, matched-audience handling, suppression test, and deletion confirmation | +| Automated bidding or creative | Budget acceleration, weak proxy metric, generated claim, new placement, learning reset, and unavailable operator | Automation scope, hard caps, approved inputs, preview samples, anomaly alert, pause exercise, and change history | +| Regulated or restricted category | Age, geography, eligibility, protected class, vulnerability, required disclaimer, and prohibited optimization | Qualified review, platform authorization, audience restrictions, rendered disclosures, delivery audit, and residual risk | + +Do not launch until the platform annex and campaign contract agree. Revalidate both after a material platform, policy, creative, offer, or audience change. + +## Guidance + +Treat platform recommendations as vendor proposals, not policy. Pin the applicable platform-policy version in the campaign record and revalidate it before launch. Separate creative exploration from authorization to publish or spend. + +## Examples + +### Automated audience expansion + +Non-compliant: Upload customer emails, enable unrestricted audience expansion, accept platform attribution, and allow the campaign to spend until the account limit. + +Compliant: Approve the data purpose and jurisdictions, constrain expansion and exclusions, cap spend and duration, validate ad-to-offer consistency, reconcile outcomes, and retain a tested pause path. + +## Sources + +- US Federal Trade Commission, [Advertising and Marketing](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/advertising-marketing). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- European Commission, [The Digital Services Act](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-services-act). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- UK Information Commissioner's Office, [Direct marketing guidance](https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-privacy-and-electronic-communications/direct-marketing-guidance/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/project-showcase-review-2026-08-20.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/project-showcase-review-2026-08-20.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7fc4ee6 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/project-showcase-review-2026-08-20.md @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +--- +type: decision +status: draft +description: Records the first-use and portfolio-comprehension review for the open-source documentation rebuild. +owners: [marketing, web, open-source] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-20 +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-20T21:00:00Z" } +--- + +# Open-source showcase implementation review + +This record covers the implementation review for `MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE`. +It is not the independent writing and accessibility approval required to move +the standard out of draft. + +## Developer task + +**Prompt:** Install one project and reach a first useful result without opening +an exhaustive reference. + +**Path tested:** DocPull root README → install → initialize `stripe-docs` → sync +→ inspect project diff. + +**Observed misunderstanding:** The earlier README placed concepts and command +inventory before the primary install path. It also mixed the open-source context +engine with language that could be read as a hosted intelligence product. + +**Correction:** Installation and one project workflow now come first. The +hosted-product boundary is explicit, and advanced commands and contracts link to +named guides. + +**Retest:** A reader can identify the install command, expected files, proof +image, and local/network boundary from the first adoption path. + +## Portfolio visitor task + +**Prompt:** Explain what each open-source project proves and where to inspect +its evidence. + +**Observed misunderstandings:** HIG Doctor was described as if all 431 checks +were direct Apple HIG checks. Raintree Standards linked to a stale anchor. The +portfolio had no machine-readable record connecting audience, outcome, +responsibility, evidence, and limitations. + +**Correction:** HIG Doctor now distinguishes direct Apple-platform checks from +aligned cross-platform rules. The Standards action points to `#start-with-a-task`. +The typed catalog now projects the five records to `/portfolio/projects.json`, +structured data, portfolio copy, personal-site copy, and discovery files. + +**Retest:** Each project has a distinct outcome, audience, source repository, +evidence link, limitation, and direct next action in the canonical record. + +## Accessibility approval still required + +The automated website viewport and browser-error checks pass. Before approving +the draft standard, an independent reviewer must inspect all five repository +READMEs in GitHub's desktop and narrow layouts and record keyboard navigation, +400% zoom, screen-reader reading order, link wording, code-block alternatives, +and proof-visual alternative text. This check requires published GitHub renders +and was not represented as complete in this implementation review. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/project-showcase.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/project-showcase.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b2bf4f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/project-showcase.md @@ -0,0 +1,322 @@ +--- +id: MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE +title: Public project showcase +description: Defines the minimum truthful, useful record for presenting public products and open-source projects across owned surfaces. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [marketing, web, open-source] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-20 +review_by: 2027-02-20 +stale_after: 2027-02-20 +applies_to: [project-portfolio, project-page, repository-readme, public-profile] +tags: [marketing, open-source, portfolio, evidence] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, WRITING-FUNCTIONAL, WEB-QUALITY] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-20T18:19:31Z" } +sources: + - id: github-readmes + resource: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-readmes + title: About READMEs + author: organization:github + - id: w3c-clear-content + resource: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG2/supplemental/objectives/o3-clear-content/ + title: Use Clear and Understandable Content + author: organization:w3c + - id: schema-software-application + resource: https://schema.org/SoftwareApplication + title: SoftwareApplication + author: organization:schema-org +--- + +# Public project showcase + +A public project record must let a visitor understand what the project does, who it +helps, whether it is active, why its claims are credible, and what to do next. This +standard applies when Raintree presents a product or open-source project on a company +site, personal site, repository README, public profile, or generated catalog. + +The goal is a consistent factual record, not identical page layouts. Each surface can +adapt its depth and visual treatment to its audience. + +## Rules + +### MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE-001 — Maintain one canonical project record + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The same project appears on more than one owned public surface. + +Maintain one canonical record for project identity, classification, status, source +repository, primary destination, distribution links, and evidence sources. Generate +or derive repeated listings from that record where practical. When a surface must +keep a local projection, verify it against the canonical record before release. + +**Why:** Hand-maintained copies drift into wrong links, inconsistent names, outdated +status, and conflicting claims. + +**Verify:** + +- Identify the canonical record and every public projection in the release scope. +- Compare names, classifications, status, URLs, and evidence-source identifiers. +- Run link and structured-data checks against the rendered destinations. + +**Exceptions:** A one-time external profile can keep a reviewed snapshot when the +platform cannot consume the canonical record. Record the snapshot date and owner. + +### MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE-002 — State the project outcome and audience + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A project is named or promoted on a public surface. + +Pair the project name with a plain description of the outcome it creates and the +audience or problem it serves. Prefer a concrete capability over an internal category, +technology list, or slogan. A compact index can use one sentence; a dedicated project +page or README must add enough detail to distinguish the project from alternatives. + +**Why:** A name and category do not tell a visitor whether the project is relevant. + +**Verify:** + +- Read the record without surrounding company context and identify its outcome and + intended user or problem. +- Compare the summary with current behavior and repository documentation. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +### MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE-003 — Provide a direct next action + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A visitor can inspect, install, try, read about, or contribute to the +project. + +Provide at least one direct, working action appropriate to the project: use the +product, inspect source, install a package, read the documentation, view evidence, or +follow the contribution path. A detailed portfolio record for distributable software +must expose the source repository and its primary install or use path when both exist. + +**Why:** A showcase that stops at description creates interest without a usable path. + +**Verify:** + +- Follow every primary and supporting action from the rendered surface. +- Confirm the destination matches the action label and does not rely on a redirect to + repair a known stale URL. + +**Exceptions:** A historical or archived project can replace an install or use action +with a clearly labeled archive or retrospective destination. + +### MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE-004 — Label project class and lifecycle truthfully + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A portfolio mixes products, open-source projects, research, archives, +experiments, or internal systems. + +Classify the project and disclose lifecycle state when omission could imply active +support, public availability, open-source licensing, or production readiness. Do not +place private or source-available software under an open-source heading. + +**Why:** Visitors use classification and status to infer access, support, licensing, +and maintenance expectations. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the public label with licensing, repository visibility, release state, and + the current maintenance decision. +- Confirm archived, experimental, or unsupported work is not presented as active. + +**Exceptions:** A compact active-project list can omit repeated `active` labels when +the section explicitly defines that all included projects are active. + +### MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE-005 — Attach evidence to adoption and quality claims + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Publishing downloads, installs, stars, users, benchmark results, +coverage counts, performance claims, or comparisons. + +Define the metric, source it from an inspectable system, preserve its unit, and state +the measurement period or freshness policy where the value is not self-dating. Keep +unlike measures separate. Do not turn a combined total into evidence for an individual +project. + +**Why:** Unqualified totals and stale counters look precise while hiding what they +measure. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace each value to its source query or generated evidence record. +- Confirm aggregation rules, units, fallback behavior, and refresh timing. +- Check the rendered label at narrow and wide layouts. + +**Exceptions:** A non-numeric qualitative statement can omit measurement metadata when +it does not imply measured adoption, performance, or comparative superiority. + +### MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE-006 — Show the maintained ecosystem as a system + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An organization maintains multiple public projects that serve +related parts of one workflow. + +Publish at least one owned overview that explains how the maintained projects relate. +Each maintained repository must link either to that overview or to a concise ecosystem +map in its README. Keep the relationship factual: name the responsibility of each +project without implying integration, compatibility, or shared adoption that has not +been verified. + +**Why:** Separate repository listings hide the larger system and force visitors to +infer relationships from names and organization ownership. + +**Verify:** + +- Start from each maintained repository and reach the owned ecosystem overview or map. +- Confirm every named responsibility matches the project's current public contract. +- Confirm private projects and unrelated archives are not implied to be open source. + +**Exceptions:** A standalone project with no maintained sibling projects can omit an +ecosystem link. + +### MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE-007 — Verify the final public record + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Publishing or materially changing a project showcase. + +Inspect the rendered record in its intended medium. Verify hierarchy, readable +descriptions, accessible link names, keyboard access, responsive reflow, destination +health, structured data, and consistency with agent-readable or plain-text versions. + +**Why:** Correct source data can still become incomplete, clipped, ambiguous, or +inconsistent after rendering and export. + +**Verify:** + +- Capture representative desktop and narrow layouts. +- Operate project actions with a keyboard and inspect accessible names. +- Compare HTML, structured data, `llms.txt`, generated Markdown, and social-profile + exports that represent the same projects. +- Record checks, failures, deferred environments, and known evidence limits. + +**Exceptions:** When a required environment is unavailable, verify the closest +substitute and record the untested behavior and owner. + +### MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE-008 — Match the document to its job + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Writing or restructuring repository documentation. + +Classify each document before editing it. Use the matching pattern from +[`templates/open-source-documentation.md`](../templates/open-source-documentation.md): + +- a repository landing page helps a developer reach one useful result; +- a published package or plugin page documents the independently installed surface; +- an example or study preserves its scenario, method, result, and limitations; +- a benchmark or evidence artifact preserves status, provenance, reproduction, and claim boundaries; and +- an internal maintainer guide states that it is internal and names its maintenance task. + +Do not keep a `README.md` only because a directory exists. Reserve that filename for +an independently consumed entrypoint or a self-contained evidence bundle. Give other +documents names that describe their purpose. + +**Why:** One universal README template either overwhelms new users or strips evidence +and package documentation of necessary detail. + +**Verify:** Inventory every README in scope, confirm package registries and integrity +manifests retain required files, and confirm moved content remains reachable from a +maintained index. + +**Exceptions:** A third-party platform may require a README filename. Record the +platform requirement and apply the closest matching pattern. + +### MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE-009 — Lead repository pages with first use + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The document is a repository landing page for distributable software. + +Order the page around a first successful use: identity and lifecycle, outcome and +audience, install or trial action, expected result, proof, reasons to use it, operating +model, compatibility, limits, deeper documentation, ecosystem, and project policies. +Put installation before commands that require the installed tool. Choose one primary +path and route alternative interfaces after it. + +**Why:** A feature inventory does not help a new visitor decide what to run first. + +**Verify:** Follow the primary path in a clean environment and ask a representative +reader to identify the audience, first action, expected result, and main limit. + +**Exceptions:** A non-executable library can replace the install-and-run path with a +worked application example. + +## Minimum project record + +| Field | Compact index | Detailed portfolio or README | +| --- | --- | --- | +| Name | Required | Required | +| Outcome and audience | Required | Required | +| Project class | Section label can supply it | Required when ambiguous | +| Lifecycle state | Required when not uniformly active | Required | +| Primary action | Required | Required | +| Source repository | Required for open source | Required for open source | +| Install or use path | When available | Required for distributable software | +| Evidence | Optional | Required for material adoption or quality claims | +| Limit or support boundary | When material | Required when omission could mislead | +| Ecosystem relationship | Overview can supply it | Link to overview or concise map | + +## Operational coverage + +Verify the canonical record and every projection as one publication system. + +| Project route | Required scenarios | Completion evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Active product | First-time visitor, eligible and ineligible user, unavailable service, changed price or capability, support request, and shutdown | Canonical record revision, rendered pages, claim sources, working primary action, current limits, support route, and retirement owner | +| Open-source package or library | Clean install, supported and unsupported runtime, minimal example, dependency failure, security report, contribution, and archive | Package and repository identity, tested quick start, compatibility matrix, license and policy links, maintenance state, and release provenance | +| Developer tool or service | Authentication, quota, data handling, error recovery, integration example, version change, and deletion | End-to-end example, API or command output, terms and data boundary, limits, versioned docs, and failure path | +| Research, prototype, or experiment | Incomplete behavior, synthetic or limited data, unsupported claim, external dependency, replication, and project end | Explicit status, method and evidence, known limits, reproducible artifact where available, no-production warning, and archive decision | +| Archived or transferred project | Stale links, vulnerable dependency, package availability, successor, ownership change, user data, and residual support | Visible lifecycle state, replacement or migration path, package and domain disposition, security contact, retained records, and last-reviewed date | +| Multi-surface projection | Company page, personal profile, repository, package registry, app store, social profile, and structured data | Projection inventory, canonical identifiers, link check, claim and status parity, structured-data validation, and correction propagation | + +A polished page does not compensate for a broken first action, unsupported claim, hidden lifecycle state, or conflicting project identity. Test comprehension and action separately. + +## Guidance + +Use one shared factual catalog and let each surface choose its depth. A company +portfolio can lead with outcomes, evidence, and multiple actions. A personal site can +use a compact index while linking to the richer company record. A repository README +should remain focused on that project, then provide a short ecosystem map after the +project's own quick start and boundaries. + +Do not rank projects only by the easiest metric to collect. Put active, relevant work +first, explain the selection rule, and separate maintained tools from archives. + +The canonical machine-readable record uses +[`schema/project-showcase-record.schema.json`](../schema/project-showcase-record.schema.json). +Keep volatile traction in a separate record so a stale counter cannot change project +identity, lifecycle, or support boundaries. + +## Examples + +Compliant compact record: + +> **DocPull** — Versions cited web context for teams building AI agents. Inspect the +> source on GitHub or install it from PyPI. + +Non-compliant compact record: + +> **DocPull** — Agent context. 22,522 downloads. + +The second record does not identify the user outcome, provides no action, and leaves +the metric source and meaning implicit. + +## Approval status + +The [implementation review](project-showcase-review-2026-08-20.md) records two +representative-reader tasks and their corrections. Independent writing review and +the published-render accessibility checks remain open, so this standard stays in +draft. + +## Sources + +This standard defines Raintree's internal public-project presentation contract. Its +requirements also use the following external documentation and accessibility +references. These sources inform discoverability and comprehension; they do not make +Raintree's project-record fields universal requirements. + +- GitHub, [About READMEs](https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-readmes). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Use Clear and Understandable Content](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG2/supplemental/objectives/o3-clear-content/). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Schema.org, [SoftwareApplication](https://schema.org/SoftwareApplication). Reviewed September 1, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/public-engagement.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/public-engagement.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b1b5b18 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/public-engagement.md @@ -0,0 +1,181 @@ +--- +id: MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT +title: Public, community, and partner engagement +description: Requirements for public relations, social publishing, communities, endorsements, influencers, and partnerships. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [marketing, communications, community, legal, trust-safety] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2026-11-13 +stale_after: 2026-11-13 +applies_to: [public-relations, social-publishing, community, influencer, partnership] +tags: [marketing, public-relations, community, influencers, partnerships] +depends_on: [MARKETING-LIFECYCLE, FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, PRIVACY-DATA] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T23:20:00Z" } +sources: + - id: ftc-endorsements + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/advertising-marketing/endorsements-influencers-reviews + title: Endorsements Influencers and Reviews + author: organization:us-federal-trade-commission + - id: ftc-reviews-rule + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/consumer-reviews-testimonials-rule-questions-answers + title: Consumer Reviews and Testimonials Rule Questions and Answers + author: organization:us-federal-trade-commission + - id: eu-dsa + resource: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-services-act + title: The Digital Services Act + author: organization:european-commission +--- + +# Public, community, and partner engagement + +Public communications and relationships must identify accountable speakers, distinguish paid or controlled advocacy from independent opinion, protect participants and their data, and provide governed moderation, correction, escalation, and exit. + +## Rules + +### MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT-001 — Assign accountable public authority + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Publishing, responding, briefing, moderating, or speaking publicly on behalf of the organization. + +Define approved identities, topics, claims, embargoes, confidentiality, approval thresholds, incident escalation, correction authority, and records for employees, agencies, agents, and partners. + +**Why:** Public messages can create legal, security, financial, and trust commitments immediately. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect account roles, publishing workflows, briefing material, approval history, and emergency revocation. +- Exercise compromise, mistaken publication, sensitive inquiry, and rapidly changing incident scenarios. + +**Exceptions:** Personal speech must not use organizational authority or confidential information and remains subject to applicable policy. + +### MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT-002 — Disclose material relationships + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An endorsement, review, testimonial, recommendation, event, article, community post, or partnership involves payment, gifts, employment, control, affiliate benefit, or another unexpected connection. + +Place a clear disclosure with the representation in each medium and language, and ensure the underlying opinion and experience are honest and supported. + +**Why:** Audiences may assign independent credibility to advocacy that the organization funded or controlled. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the rendered disclosure before expansion, truncation, reposting, audio-only use, and cross-platform reuse. +- Confirm partner and influencer agreements require monitoring, correction, and current claims. + +**Exceptions:** None when the relationship could affect how the audience evaluates the message. + +### MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT-003 — Preserve authentic reviews and community signals + +**Level:** prohibited +**Applies when:** Soliciting, publishing, ranking, rewarding, moderating, or reporting reviews, testimonials, reactions, members, followers, or engagement. + +Do not create or buy fake identity or sentiment, condition incentives on positive opinion, suppress honest negative feedback deceptively, or represent a controlled property as independent. + +**Why:** Manufactured social proof distorts decisions and corrupts the feedback needed to improve the product. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect incentive terms, moderation, ranking, sampling, identity signals, agency activity, and reported totals. +- Investigate anomalous review or engagement patterns and preserve corrective action. + +**Exceptions:** None; research simulations must remain private and unmistakably labeled. + +### MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT-004 — Govern community safety and moderation + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The organization hosts, sponsors, or materially controls a community or user-contribution surface. + +Publish conduct rules, reporting and appeal paths, moderator authority, response expectations, privacy boundaries, age or vulnerability controls, enforcement records, and emergency escalation proportionate to the community. + +**Why:** Unmoderated or opaque spaces can enable abuse, retaliation, illegal content, privacy harm, and inconsistent enforcement. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise reporting, evidence protection, blocking, moderation, appeal, urgent harm, moderator conflict, and account exit. +- Review enforcement for consistency and disproportionate impact without exposing reporters. + +**Exceptions:** Informal short-lived events still require a named safety contact and applicable venue rules. + +### MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT-005 — Protect participants and sources + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Publishing customer stories, quotes, names, images, case studies, event material, media contacts, or community contributions. + +Record informed permission, intended channels, editing and attribution, sensitive context, duration, withdrawal limits, safeguarding, and rights for every identifiable contribution. + +**Why:** Publicity can expose personal, confidential, safety, employment, or reputational information beyond the contributor's expectation. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace each identifiable asset or statement to a current release and approved use. +- Exercise correction, withdrawal where promised, expiry, and removal from derivatives and partner copies. + +**Exceptions:** Lawful newsworthy or public-record use requires qualified editorial and legal review rather than assumed consent. + +### MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT-006 — Define partnership responsibility and exit + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Another organization shares branding, audiences, content, events, referrals, leads, claims, or delivery responsibility. + +Define objectives, roles, approvals, data and intellectual-property rights, brand use, disclosures, measurement, complaints, incidents, termination, removal, and post-termination obligations in a written agreement. + +**Why:** Joint activity can obscure who is responsible for claims, data, support, and harmful conduct. + +**Verify:** + +- Walk publication, data exchange, complaint, incident, partner breach, and termination against the agreement. +- Confirm access, assets, audiences, links, and representations are removed or corrected after exit. + +**Exceptions:** Low-risk one-time cooperation may use a standard agreement with bounded authority and no personal-data transfer. + +### MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT-007 — Correct public errors proportionately + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A material public statement, endorsement, report, or community action is wrong, outdated, misleading, or unauthorized. + +Stop further distribution, preserve evidence, assess affected audiences and downstream copies, publish a correction where it can reach them, notify partners, and update source material and automation. + +**Why:** Quietly editing the origin does not correct screenshots, syndication, press coverage, or decisions made from the original claim. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace the correction through owned, paid, partner, media, translated, and archived surfaces. +- Record residual copies, audience reach, complaints, and follow-up owner. + +**Exceptions:** Sensitive correction detail may be limited to prevent additional harm, with the limitation approved and recorded. + +## Operational coverage + +Assign a named public owner, moderation route, disclosure state, and correction path before publishing or inviting participation. + +| Route | Required scenarios | Completion evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Owned social account | Routine post, scheduled post, reply, deletion, account compromise, employee departure, and breaking event | Account authority, approval tier, source and claim record, archive, access review, and correction exercise | +| Community or forum | Welcome, disagreement, harassment, misinformation, self-harm or safety signal, appeal, moderator abuse, and shutdown | Published rules, moderation log, escalation time, participant notice, appeal result, moderator access, and retention decision | +| Reviews and testimonials | Organic review, solicited review, incentive, employee or insider, negative review, suspected fabrication, and removal request | Source and material connection, typicality or limitation, platform rule, moderation rationale, response, and preserved original record | +| Creator, ambassador, or partner | Payment or gift, creative independence, prohibited claim, rights, disclosure failure, conduct issue, and contract end | Contract and brief, disclosure sample, claim evidence, rights scope, monitoring, correction, and asset retirement | +| Event, live stream, or public question | Registration, recording, accessibility, live moderation, hostile question, privacy request, cancellation, and post-event reuse | Participant notice, consent or rights basis, moderator plan, accessible format, incident record, and retained or removed assets | +| Crisis or material correction | Unverified report, fast-changing fact, safety issue, legal hold, executive statement, impersonation, and multilingual update | Source confidence, approval and escalation log, timestamped statement, channel inventory, correction linkage, and follow-up owner | + +Do not remove criticism merely because it is unfavorable. Moderate against published rules, preserve material corrections, and distinguish safety or legal action from reputation management. + +## Guidance + +Community and public relations work creates durable relationships, not only impressions. Avoid metrics that reward outrage, unsafe disclosure, manufactured reach, or moderation delay. Apply current platform rules in addition to this standard. + +## Examples + +### Sponsored customer story + +Non-compliant: Pay a customer for a dramatic result, omit the relationship, edit away limitations, and keep the story active after product behavior changes. + +Compliant: Substantiate the claim, document permission and editing, disclose the relationship with every reuse, state representative limits, assign a review date, and remove or correct stale versions. + +## Sources + +- US Federal Trade Commission, [Endorsements, Influencers, and Reviews](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/advertising-marketing/endorsements-influencers-reviews). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- US Federal Trade Commission, [Consumer Reviews and Testimonials Rule: Questions and Answers](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/consumer-reviews-testimonials-rule-questions-answers). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- European Commission, [The Digital Services Act](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-services-act). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/seo-coverage-review-2026-09-01.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/seo-coverage-review-2026-09-01.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c5bdf5 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/marketing/seo-coverage-review-2026-09-01.md @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +--- +type: Review Record +title: SEO and Marketing Skills coverage review +description: Bounded review of Raintree search and marketing routes against Corey Haines's Marketing Skills inventory. +tags: [marketing, seo, review, coverage, sources] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T12:55:52-07:00" } +--- + +# SEO and Marketing Skills coverage review + +## Outcome + +The reviewed Raintree routes cover all 50 tasks in Marketing Skills version 2.11.0 after adding the missing `events` route and pinning the comparison to upstream commit `e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58`. The SEO routes cover the operational concerns in the upstream `seo-audit`, `programmatic-seo`, `schema`, and `site-architecture` skills through `SEO-FOUNDATIONS`, `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE`, `WEB-QUALITY`, `DATA-QUALITY`, and `PLAYBOOK-GSC`. + +This review does not make Marketing Skills normative. It does not establish that AI-search optimization techniques affect citation or ranking. Current primary platform evidence remains required under `FND-EVIDENCE-002`. + +## Audit record + +| Field | Value | +|---|---| +| Audit subject | `marketing/coverage.md`, `seo/foundations.md`, `profiles/public-web-page.md`, `profiles/marketing-lifecycle.md`, and `profiles/specialist-marketing.md` | +| Purpose and decision | Decide whether the library routes the current Marketing Skills inventory and whether the SEO routes omit a recurring task or material control | +| Intended audience | Standards, marketing, SEO, content, and engineering owners | +| Accountable owner | Standards and SEO owners | +| Auditor | `codex/gpt-5`; author review only | +| System boundary | Repository documents and public upstream source files; no live site, Search Console property, analytics property, or search-result testing | +| Version | Current working tree on `codex/interface-quality-standards`; upstream commit `e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58` | +| Evidence cutoff | September 1, 2026 | + +## Source classification + +- **Proposed discovery format:** Jeremy Howard, [The `llms.txt` file proposal](https://llmstxt.org/), version 2. The proposal defines the file format, path scoping, Markdown page alternatives, and `alternate` and `describedby` discovery links. It is not a ratified web standard, access-control mechanism, or ranking signal. +- **Informative taxonomy:** Corey Haines and contributors, [Marketing Skills for AI Agents](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/tree/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58), version 2.11.0, MIT License. +- **Informative SEO procedures:** [`seo-audit`](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/seo-audit/SKILL.md), [`ai-seo`](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/ai-seo/SKILL.md), [`programmatic-seo`](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/programmatic-seo/SKILL.md), [`schema`](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/schema/SKILL.md), and [`site-architecture`](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/site-architecture/SKILL.md). +- **Normative external behavior:** The primary Google, Microsoft, IETF, W3C, schema.org, and provider-specific crawler sources cited by the governed Raintree standards. Google states that `llms.txt` does not affect Google Search visibility or ranking. Provider crawler semantics apply only to the named provider and require revalidation. Marketing Skills does not replace them. + +## Findings + +| Finding | Observation | Resolution | State | +|---|---|---|---| +| Inventory drift | Upstream contains 50 skill directories. The local map contained 49 and omitted `events`. | Added `events` with specialist, public-engagement, distribution, media, privacy, and public-web routing conditions. | Resolved | +| Broad SEO attribution | The coverage map cited only the upstream repository root, so a reviewer could not reproduce the exact SEO comparison after upstream changes. | Pinned the source revision and linked each SEO-specific row to its skill file. | Resolved | +| Technical SEO routing | Upstream audit topics include crawlability, indexation, status, canonicalization, rendering, mobile behavior, performance, HTTPS, localized variants, structured data, internal links, content quality, and measurement. | Existing routes cover these concerns across `SEO-FOUNDATIONS`, `WEB-QUALITY`, `FND-ACCESSIBILITY`, `FND-TRUST`, `FND-EVIDENCE`, and `PLAYBOOK-GSC`. | No change required | +| Programmatic SEO safeguards | Upstream emphasizes distinct value, source data, index controls, internal discovery, and post-launch monitoring. | `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-001`, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-007`, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-009` through `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-011`, `DATA-QUALITY`, and `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` cover the recurring risks with stronger evidence requirements. | No change required | +| Structured-data verification | Upstream warns that static fetches can miss client-injected JSON-LD and requires rendered validation. | `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-005`, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-006`, and the public-web completion evidence require delivered and rendered inspection. | No change required | +| `llms.txt` and Markdown pages | The version 2 proposal defines scoped `llms.txt` files, explicit Markdown alternatives, and `alternate` and `describedby` links. It recommends concise route files rather than one unbounded full-corpus prompt. | `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-014` requires an explicit route inventory. `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-015` requires an advertised Markdown representation for every public informational page and adds HTTP negotiation, cache, parity, locale, version, and exclusion evidence. | Incorporated and strengthened | +| Marketing Skills procedure | `seo-audit` contributes audit ordering and rendered-schema detection; `ai-seo` contributes agent-readable routes, JavaScript boundaries, and the distinction between Google and other tools; `schema` contributes visible-content parity and validation workflow. | Cite the pinned skill files as informative procedures. Keep Google, IETF, Schema.org, and other primary sources authoritative. | Incorporated as informative sources | +| Unsupported optimization claims | The `ai-seo` skill includes quantitative citation, visibility, freshness, and platform-behavior claims that are not established by the three linked skill files alone. | Do not import those values or convert them into Raintree thresholds. Require current primary evidence under `FND-EVIDENCE-002`. | Excluded | +| Raintree decision purpose | A generic route list can help an agent fetch files while still allowing it to skip profile dependencies, confuse draft and active material, or treat a third-party skill as policy. | `llms.txt` now teaches the task-to-profile-to-dependency-to-rule flow before listing files. `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-017` preserves governance semantics in every machine representation. | Resolved | +| Retrieval versus application | File reachability and schema validity do not prove that an agent selects and applies the correct standards. | `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-018` requires end-to-end positive, negative, ambiguous, stale, conflicting, and out-of-scope tasks with repeated evaluation where outputs vary. | Resolved | +| Crawler-purpose conflation | Search discovery, user-request retrieval, training, previews, and automated interaction can use different provider clients and controls. | `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-019` requires provider-specific purpose classification, delivery-boundary exercises, current sources, and scheduled revalidation. | Resolved | +| AI-search measurement | Upstream proposes AI-answer citation checks and discusses optional machine-readable files. Search platforms and evidence remain volatile, and no authoritative cross-platform measurement contract exists in this library. | Keep `ai-seo` routed through `SEO-FOUNDATIONS` and `FND-EVIDENCE`. Require current primary evidence and label platform-specific procedures as informative. | Limitation recorded | + +## Scoped conclusion + +**Overall result: conforming after correction.** The bounded task inventory is fully routed at the pinned upstream revision, and the SEO-specific concerns have governed Raintree routes. This result applies only to document coverage. It does not certify a website, validate live search performance, or independently approve the standards. + +## Handoff and review + +- Independent review: Not performed. The author and reviewer are the same agent. +- Qualified review: SEO, marketing, legal, privacy, accessibility, and platform-owner review remains required where the active standards call for it. +- Retest: Compare the 50 upstream skill directories with the 50 rows in `marketing/coverage.md`, then run the repository checks in `CONTRIBUTING.md`. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/media/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/media/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2eafa24 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/media/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Media standards + +* [Production and rights](production-rights.md) - Source rights, releases, synthetic media, accessibility, derivatives, distribution, and retention. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/media/production-rights.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/media/production-rights.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6d24257 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/media/production-rights.md @@ -0,0 +1,186 @@ +--- +id: MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS +title: Media production, accessibility, and rights +description: Requirements for images, audio, video, creative production, provenance, consent, accessibility, and lawful reuse. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [creative, content, accessibility, legal, privacy] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2026-11-13 +stale_after: 2026-11-13 +applies_to: [image-production, audio-production, video-production, ad-creative] +tags: [media, creative, accessibility, copyright, rights] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-ACCESSIBILITY, FND-TRUST, PRIVACY-DATA] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T23:20:00Z" } +sources: + - id: copyright-permission + resource: https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ16a.pdf + title: How to Obtain Permission + author: organization:us-copyright-office + - id: copyright-ai + resource: https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf + title: Copyright Registration Guidance Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence + author: organization:us-copyright-office + - id: wai-media + resource: https://www.w3.org/WAI/media/av/ + title: Making Audio and Video Media Accessible + author: organization:w3c + - id: wcag-22 + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/ + title: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 + author: organization:w3c +--- + +# Media production, accessibility, and rights + +Images, audio, video, and generated creative must have attributable inputs, authorized people and assets, accurate representations, accessible alternatives, safe production practices, and rights that cover every intended channel, territory, duration, edit, and reuse. + +## Rules + +### MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS-001 — Define the media contract before production + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Commissioning, recording, generating, editing, licensing, or publishing media. + +Record purpose, audience, claims, formats, channels, territories, duration, accessibility target, people and assets, rights, budget, owner, approvals, source retention, and expiry before irreversible production or publication. + +**Why:** Missing rights or accessibility discovered after production creates costly edits, takedowns, and excluded audiences. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the final asset and every derivative with the approved brief and release inventory. +- Confirm production and distribution systems cannot publish beyond the authorized scope. + +**Exceptions:** Private prototypes may use unlicensed placeholders only when technically contained and removed before external review. + +### MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS-002 — Preserve asset and generation provenance + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Media includes stock, customer, employee, commissioned, public-domain, licensed, synthetic, or model-generated material. + +Record creator or source, acquisition date, original file, license or status, model and material settings where relevant, reference inputs, edits, attribution, restrictions, and derivative relationship. + +**Why:** A downloaded or generated asset does not establish permission, ownership, authenticity, or safe reuse. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace every material visual, voice, music, font, performance, location, and source clip to its provenance and authorized use. +- Inspect generation references and outputs for protected, confidential, personal, or misleading material. + +**Exceptions:** Sensitive provenance may use a protected record but must remain available to qualified reviewers. + +### MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS-003 — Obtain authority from identifiable people + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Media depicts, records, imitates, identifies, quotes, or reveals a person or their private context. + +Record informed permission or another approved authority covering capture, editing, synthetic alteration, attribution, channels, territories, duration, sensitive context, withdrawal limits, and safeguarding. Do not clone identity or voice without explicit authorization. + +**Why:** Publication and synthetic reuse can create privacy, safety, dignity, publicity, employment, and reputational harm. + +**Verify:** + +- Match every identifiable person and derivative to a current release and actual use. +- Exercise withdrawal where promised, expiry, takedown, and removal from templates and model references. + +**Exceptions:** Documentary, newsworthy, public-event, or public-record use requires qualified editorial and legal review. + +### MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS-004 — Make media accessible by design + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Media carries information, instruction, emotion needed for meaning, or interactive function. + +Plan accurate text alternatives, captions, transcripts, visual-description equivalents, accessible players, readable on-screen text, contrast, safe motion and flashing, and keyboard operation at script and storyboard time. + +**Why:** Retrofitted alternatives are often incomplete and miss meaning embedded in visuals, timing, or interaction. + +**Verify:** + +- Review captions and transcripts against final audio, speakers, non-speech sound, timing, and terminology. +- Inspect visual meaning without sight, audio meaning without hearing, motion preferences, zoom, keyboard, and assistive technology as applicable. + +**Exceptions:** Decorative media needs an intentional null alternative rather than a descriptive one. + +### MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS-005 — Keep representations and edits truthful + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Editing, compositing, staging, generating, reenacting, enhancing, or selecting media that supports a factual or product claim. + +Do not alter material context, performance, product behavior, identity, sequence, scale, results, or endorsement in a way that creates a misleading impression. Disclose simulation, reenactment, or synthetic media when omission would affect interpretation. + +**Why:** Media can imply evidence and authenticity more strongly than accompanying text. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare final media with source captures, product state, script, claim evidence, and disclosure in every crop and format. +- Review generated or edited depictions for impossible product behavior and invented people or events. + +**Exceptions:** Clearly fictional or illustrative material may depart from reality when the audience will not reasonably treat it as factual proof. + +### MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS-006 — Protect production people, data, and environments + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Production uses locations, devices, accounts, user data, unreleased products, hazardous activity, children, or vulnerable participants. + +Use safety planning, minimum data, synthetic accounts, controlled sets, secure transfer, bounded access, incident contacts, child and vulnerability safeguards, and removal of credentials and metadata before publication. + +**Why:** Raw production assets can expose more personal, confidential, location, account, and product information than the final edit. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect raw files, metadata, screen content, background details, access, transfers, backups, and deletion. +- Exercise lost-device, accidental upload, participant concern, and unsafe-condition procedures. + +**Exceptions:** Authentic production data requires explicit necessity, authority, containment, and qualified review. + +### MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS-007 — Govern distribution, changes, and retirement + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Media is exported, localized, syndicated, adapted, embedded, licensed onward, or expires. + +Bind each derivative to its source, rights, approval, accessibility assets, claims, channel constraints, publication locations, owner, version, and expiry; propagate corrections and takedowns through partners and caches. + +**Why:** Crops, translations, reposts, and templates separate assets from their disclosures, rights, and retirement controls. + +**Verify:** + +- Inventory published derivatives and inspect a sample across languages, formats, platforms, partners, and archives. +- Exercise correction, rights expiry, participant withdrawal, accessibility fix, and global takedown. + +**Exceptions:** Archival retention requires a documented purpose, access control, and prevention of active reuse. + +## Operational coverage + +Create an asset-level rights record before production or acquisition. Do not infer rights for one use, territory, person, or medium from a different agreement. + +| Route | Required scenarios | Completion evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Original commissioned production | Employee, contractor, volunteer, minor, bystander, location, prop, music, and later edit | Brief, creator and participant agreements, location and property releases, rights owner, territory, term, media, and revocation conditions | +| Licensed stock, archive, music, or font | Editorial versus commercial use, attribution, seat or impression limit, modification, sublicensing, territory, and license termination | Original asset and source, license text and date, invoice, restrictions, attribution, derivative linkage, and expiration alert | +| User-generated or community media | Upload authority, identifiable third party, embedded music, incentive, moderation, withdrawal, and account deletion | Submission terms shown, affirmative grant, provenance, safety review, takedown route, and downstream deletion result | +| Synthetic or materially edited media | Generated person or voice, cloned likeness, composite event, deceptive context, disclosure, model restriction, and source dispute | Inputs and tool version, authority for source material, edit log, disclosure decision, claim review, watermark or metadata state, and escalation | +| Accessible media | Caption, transcript, audio description, flashing, meaningful on-screen text, translation, and player controls | Caption and transcript review, timing and speaker labels, audio-description decision, flashing check, accessible player test, and locale result | +| Distribution and retirement | Broadcast, social crop, paid placement, partner reuse, archive, rights expiration, complaint, and legal hold | Channel inventory, asset derivatives, territory and term check, takedown test, preserved evidence, and confirmed downstream removal | + +Possession of a file is not evidence of permission. Preserve the license or grant, the covered asset and derivative relationship, and the exact allowed use. + +## Guidance + +Rights vary by jurisdiction and asset type; this standard is not a legal determination. Prefer original or clearly licensed work and make accessibility part of the production budget. Generated media requires the same claim, identity, privacy, and distribution controls as captured media. + +## Examples + +### Generated product demonstration + +Non-compliant: Publish a generated video that shows an unavailable feature, imitates a real customer's voice, uses untracked music, and has automatic captions only. + +Compliant: Use authorized inputs, represent actual product behavior, disclose simulation where material, review captions and visual description, record rights and model provenance, and bind every derivative to an expiry and takedown path. + +## Sources + +- US Copyright Office, [How to Obtain Permission](https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ16a.pdf). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- US Copyright Office, [Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence](https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Making Audio and Video Media Accessible](https://www.w3.org/WAI/media/av/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/operations/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/operations/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d9d579 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/operations/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Operations standards + +* [Operations and reliability](reliability.md) - Service objectives, observability, runbooks, incidents, recovery, support, and vendors. +* [TypeScript logging with Pino](logging.md) - Structured events, context, client observations, redaction, lifecycle, and delivery for TypeScript. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/operations/logging.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/operations/logging.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..52a3d66 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/operations/logging.md @@ -0,0 +1,471 @@ +--- +id: OPERATIONS-LOGGING +title: TypeScript logging with Pino +description: Defines Pino as the server-side TypeScript logger and governs structured events, client observations, context, errors, sensitive data, levels, lifecycle, and delivery. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [engineering, platform, operations, security, privacy] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2026-11-17 +stale_after: 2026-11-17 +applies_to: [typescript-service, typescript-client, node-service, service-change, service-operation] +tags: [operations, logging, observability, typescript, nodejs, browser, pino] +depends_on: [ENGINEERING-QUALITY, OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY, SECURITY-APPLICATION, PRIVACY-DATA, API-CONTRACTS] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T08:28:28Z" } +sources: + - id: pino-readme + resource: https://github.com/pinojs/pino/tree/v10.3.1 + title: Pino 10.3.1 + author: organization:pinojs + - id: pino-api + resource: https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/api.md + title: Pino API + author: organization:pinojs + - id: pino-redaction + resource: https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/redaction.md + title: Pino redaction + author: organization:pinojs + - id: pino-transports + resource: https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/transports.md + title: Pino transports + author: organization:pinojs + - id: pino-asynchronous + resource: https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/asynchronous.md + title: Pino asynchronous logging + author: organization:pinojs + - id: pino-browser + resource: https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/browser.md + title: Pino browser API + author: organization:pinojs + - id: pino-bundling + resource: https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/bundling.md + title: Pino bundling + author: organization:pinojs + - id: pino-child-loggers + resource: https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/child-loggers.md + title: Pino child loggers + author: organization:pinojs + - id: pino-lts + resource: https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/lts.md + title: Pino long-term support policy + author: organization:pinojs + - id: pino-web-frameworks + resource: https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/web.md + title: Pino web frameworks + author: organization:pinojs + - id: node-async-context + resource: https://nodejs.org/api/async_context.html + title: Node.js asynchronous context tracking + author: organization:openjs-foundation + - id: node-process + resource: https://nodejs.org/api/process.html + title: Node.js process + author: organization:openjs-foundation + - id: node-stream + resource: https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html + title: Node.js streams + author: organization:openjs-foundation + - id: otel-logs-data-model + resource: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/logs/data-model/ + title: OpenTelemetry logs data model + author: organization:open-telemetry + - id: otel-service-conventions + resource: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/resource/service/ + title: OpenTelemetry service semantic conventions + author: organization:open-telemetry + - id: owasp-logging-cheat-sheet + resource: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Logging_Cheat_Sheet.html + title: OWASP Logging Cheat Sheet + author: organization:owasp + - id: w3c-trace-context + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/trace-context/ + title: Trace Context + author: organization:w3c +--- + +# TypeScript logging with Pino + +Server-side TypeScript services must emit protected, machine-readable events that operators can correlate and query without reconstructing meaning from free text. Pino is the standard logger for Node.js TypeScript services. + +## Rules + +### OPERATIONS-LOGGING-001 — Use Pino behind one application logging boundary + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A server-side TypeScript application or service runs on Node.js or a Pino-supported server runtime. + +Use a supported Pino major through one application-owned logger module. Application code, shared libraries, framework hooks, and background jobs must use that boundary rather than `console`, ad hoc stdout writes, or competing logging packages. Lock the resolved version, keep its Node.js release line compatible with Pino's support policy, and review upgrades and transports under `ENGINEERING-QUALITY-004`. + +When a framework provides an official Pino integration, inject or reuse the application logger and its request child logger. Do not let the framework create a separately configured logger or emit a second access event for the same boundary. + +**Why:** One logger and configuration boundary keeps event shape, levels, redaction, context, and delivery behavior consistent across the service. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect imports and output calls for bypasses and competing loggers. +- Start the built artifact and confirm representative code paths emit Pino JSON through the configured boundary. +- Compare the resolved Pino major, Node.js runtime, framework adapter, transports, and bundler integration with their maintained compatibility ranges and release notes. + +**Exceptions:** A browser, edge, embedded, or non-Node runtime that Pino does not support may use another structured logger after recording the runtime constraint and proving the remaining rules. A third-party library may retain its logger when its output is adapted at the service boundary. + +### OPERATIONS-LOGGING-002 — Emit a stable structured event contract + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The application emits an operational log event. + +Emit one newline-delimited JSON object per event with the following application contract: + +| Field | Type | Meaning | +|---|---|---| +| `time` | number | Event time as Unix epoch milliseconds from the emitting process | +| `level` | number | Unmodified Pino severity number | +| `msg` | string | Short human-readable summary whose wording is not an automation contract | +| `event` | string | Stable machine-readable event name | +| `schemaVersion` | integer | Version of the application log-event contract | +| `service` | string | Stable logical service name | +| `version` | string | Deployed build, image, or source version | +| `environment` | string | Deployment environment | + +Map `service` and `version` to OpenTelemetry `service.name` and `service.version`, and map `environment` to the governed deployment resource attribute at collection when OpenTelemetry is used. Add operation, component, outcome, duration, dependency, tenant, region, or other fields only when they serve a defined diagnostic or operational query. Use explicit units in field names such as `durationMs` or map them to a current semantic convention. Keep field names and types stable across services; treat changes used by alerts, dashboards, retention, security detection, or support workflows as versioned contract changes. + +Reserve `time`, `level`, `msg`, `event`, `schemaVersion`, `service`, `version`, `environment`, `pid`, `hostname`, `err`, `requestId`, `traceId`, and `spanId` for their defined meanings. Application types or Pino module augmentation must prevent callers from replacing application-owned base fields and must type shared context fields; runtime tests must protect the remaining Pino-reserved fields. Place necessary externally controlled values under application-owned keys after validation; keep them out of `msg` when structured representation is possible, and do not merge arbitrary request, payload, header, query, metadata, or user objects into the top level. Parent bindings, child bindings, mixins, serializers, formatters, and call-site objects must not emit duplicate JSON keys. + +**Why:** Stable fields support reliable queries and automation, while controlled namespaces prevent untrusted keys from replacing fields such as `level`, `time`, or `msg`. + +**Verify:** + +- Parse representative output as newline-delimited JSON and validate required fields, types, event names, and timestamp behavior. +- Exercise missing, malformed, and attacker-controlled input and confirm it cannot replace reserved or application-owned fields. +- Exercise carriage returns, line feeds, Unicode controls, delimiters, format tokens, and multiline values and confirm each call remains one valid event through every formatter and destination. +- Inspect raw output before parsing and reject duplicate keys, because parsers can silently keep different values. +- Compare collected resource identity, time, severity, trace fields, and event names with the application contract and OpenTelemetry mapping when active. + +**Exceptions:** A command-line tool whose output is solely for an interactive user may keep human-readable output separate, but diagnostic logs must still satisfy this contract when retained or collected. + +### OPERATIONS-LOGGING-003 — Carry bounded operation context with child loggers + +**Level:** contextual +**Applies when:** Work crosses an asynchronous boundary or operators need to correlate events for a request, job, message, or distributed operation. + +Create a Pino child logger at the owned boundary and bind validated context once. Pass that logger explicitly or retrieve it from an `AsyncLocalStorage` context established with `run`; do not use process-global mutable context or allow one concurrent operation's bindings to enter another. Include the applicable request, job, message, trace, and span identifiers and propagate standard trace context across service boundaries under `API-CONTRACTS-031`. When `spanId` is present, include its `traceId`. Do not use correlation identifiers as authentication, authorization, idempotency, secrecy, or proof of identity. + +**Why:** Repeated manual context fields drift or disappear, while correlation values become dangerous when code treats them as authority. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace representative success and failure through concurrent requests, jobs, queues, dependencies, and retries. +- Exercise missing, malformed, oversized, duplicated, and spoofed identifiers and confirm validation, replacement, or rejection follows the interface contract. +- Run overlapping operations with distinct identities and trace context, including callback-based and custom asynchronous code, and confirm no context is lost or crosses between them. + +**Exceptions:** A single-step local operation may omit distributed identifiers when its events remain unambiguous. + +### OPERATIONS-LOGGING-004 — Serialize errors as structured errors + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Code records an exception or failure object. + +Pass the `Error` to the logger under the configured error key, normally `err`, so Pino's error serializer can preserve its type, message, stack, code, and supported cause chain. Preserve the original `cause` when wrapping an error. Normalize thrown non-`Error` values into a bounded error representation. Add safe operation and outcome fields separately. Do not interpolate an error into the message, log only `error.message`, or record the same exception at every layer. + +**Why:** String-only errors discard stack, type, cause, and correlation data needed to distinguish and diagnose failures. + +**Verify:** + +- Trigger ordinary, wrapped, caused, aggregate, system-code, circular, and non-`Error` failures and inspect the collected event. +- Confirm error serialization and redaction still work in the built artifact and framework integrations. + +**Exceptions:** A stack or cause that contains sensitive data must be filtered or omitted under `OPERATIONS-LOGGING-005`, with alternate diagnostic evidence when needed. + +### OPERATIONS-LOGGING-005 — Minimize and redact sensitive data before delivery + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Secrets, credentials, personal data, confidential content, or attacker-controlled text could reach a log call. + +Log an allowlist of diagnostic fields instead of raw request, response, body, headers, cookies, query, session, user, token, database record, or third-party payload objects. Configure centrally owned Pino redaction paths at initialization as defense in depth, including nested, array, alternate-case, and framework-specific locations used by the application. Prefer explicit paths; use wildcards only when their coverage and cost are measured. Remove secrets instead of retaining a reversible, partial, or recognizable form. Never let external input define redaction paths. Keep production redaction in every destination, including debug, error, audit, transport, and support output. + +Redaction is a final guard, not permission to construct a sensitive event. It does not protect data already copied into message text, stack traces, computed keys, unknown aliases, browser output, transport diagnostics, or a destination that bypasses the configured logger. + +**Why:** Collection, replication, retention, and broad operator access make a logged secret or personal record harder to contain than the source request. + +**Verify:** + +- Run canary values through representative routes, failures, serializers, child loggers, framework hooks, and transports, then search every destination and support artifact. +- Test new, renamed, differently cased, interpolated, nested, and array fields against both the allowlist and redaction configuration. +- Confirm child loggers cannot override or disable parent redaction and that configuration cannot be influenced after trusted initialization. + +**Exceptions:** Logging personal or confidential data requires the recorded purpose, authority, minimization, access, retention, and deletion controls from `PRIVACY-DATA`. Secrets remain prohibited under `SECURITY-APPLICATION-008`. + +### OPERATIONS-LOGGING-006 — Give each level one operational meaning + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Defining or calling a log level. + +Use `fatal` only immediately before process termination, `error` for a failed operation that needs investigation or response, `warn` for an abnormal condition the service handled but an owner should assess, `info` for bounded lifecycle and business-operation milestones, and `debug` or `trace` for temporary diagnostic detail. Keep Pino's numeric levels and define an explicit downstream severity mapping. Do not introduce custom levels unless every destination, alert, and OpenTelemetry mapping is tested with them. + +Configure the minimum level by environment without code changes. Do not let request data or ordinary users change it. A production level change requires authorized control, actor and reason, affected scope, maximum duration, automatic reversion, and an audit event. The logger's level is the first filter; when multiple transport targets exist, configure and test each target's additional filter. + +**Why:** Inconsistent levels create noisy alerts, duplicated incidents, hidden failures, and unpredictable storage cost. + +**Verify:** + +- Review representative events and alert queries against the level definitions. +- Trigger one failure through multiple layers and confirm one owned error event plus any distinct recovery event. +- Exercise every environment, runtime level change, single transport, and multiple-target configuration and confirm the intended methods and destinations receive each level. + +**Exceptions:** A documented protocol or collector mapping may translate levels while preserving their operational meaning. + +### OPERATIONS-LOGGING-007 — Bound log volume and field cardinality + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A code path can repeat with traffic, data size, retries, polling, batching, or attacker activity. + +Set an event size limit below every process, runtime, collector, transport, network, and backend limit and bound repeated events, collections, object depth, strings, stack traces, and high-cardinality fields. Do not serialize entire domain objects merely because they are available. Check `isLevelEnabled` before constructing expensive diagnostic fields. Prefer metrics for aggregate counts and traces for sampled execution detail. Apply deterministic sampling or rate limits only after preserving errors, security-relevant and audit events, rare outcomes, and enough counts to measure what was suppressed. + +**Why:** Unbounded logs can raise latency and cost, exhaust storage or ingestion limits, and obscure the event that matters. + +**Verify:** + +- Load-test success, failure, retry, abuse, cardinality, circular input, deep objects, and large-input paths and measure emitted bytes, events, CPU, memory, event-loop delay, latency, dropped events, and collector behavior. +- Confirm suppression is observable and does not hide alerts, security evidence, or rare failures. + +**Exceptions:** A time-bounded diagnostic increase requires an owner, expiry, cost and data review, and rollback path. + +### OPERATIONS-LOGGING-008 — Separate service emission from log delivery + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Logs leave the process or require formatting, transformation, routing, or remote transmission. + +Emit production JSON to the runtime's managed stdout or approved local destination. Perform pretty printing only in local development. Run transformation and remote transmission outside the request hot path through a Pino transport worker, sidecar, runtime collector, or platform collector. Custom writable streams and transports must honor backpressure, surface errors, close their destination, and flush before completing close. + +Define startup readiness, buffer size, backpressure, destination outage, retry, ordering, duplication, disk or memory bounds, loss, shutdown deadline, and flush behavior. Record the accepted loss window for asynchronous logging. Prefer setting `process.exitCode` and allowing graceful completion; do not call `process.exit()` while stdout, stderr, a destination, or a transport may still hold required events. Handle orchestrator termination signals within the shutdown budget. A crash handler may make a bounded final write, but must not keep an application running after an uncaught fatal failure merely because it was logged. In serverless or another runtime that replaces stdout, use the platform-supported mode and wait for required flush completion at the end of each invocation. + +When bundling an application that uses Pino transports, include and resolve Pino, `thread-stream`, file, and configured transport worker artifacts in the final package. Do not infer transport readiness from logger construction alone. + +**Why:** Synchronous remote delivery and in-process formatting can turn an observability failure into service latency or data loss, while an untested asynchronous path can silently drop terminal events. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise startup, sustained load, backpressure, collector outage, recovery, graceful shutdown, uncaught failure, and forced termination. +- Trace a canary event from the process through collection, indexing, access control, retention, query, and deletion, and reconcile emitted, accepted, rejected, and dropped counts. +- Run the packaged artifact in each deployment runtime and verify worker resolution, transport readiness, multi-target level routing, serverless invocation completion when applicable, signal handling, exit status, close, and flush. + +**Exceptions:** A short-lived local tool may use a synchronous destination when measured volume is small and completion waits for the final write. + +### OPERATIONS-LOGGING-009 — Define the events the service must produce + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A service, job, consumer, or scheduled function has behavior that operators, security responders, support, or dependent teams must detect or reconstruct. + +Maintain a reviewed event catalog that names the event, triggering condition, owner, level, required fields, data classification, expected volume, retention class, consumer, and alert or query when applicable. Cover at least process and worker start, readiness, draining, and stop; deployment or configuration identity; owned operation success and failure; dependency timeout and circuit state; retry exhaustion; queue or job terminal state; data-integrity or reconciliation failure; and the security-relevant behavior required by `SECURITY-APPLICATION-013`. + +Record outcomes at the boundary that owns them. Do not log routine internal steps, every successful read, or both receipt and completion without a defined consumer. Metrics, traces, and logs may describe the same operation, but each signal must have a distinct purpose and compatible identity. + +**Why:** Logging added opportunistically produces high volume yet omits the exact lifecycle and failure evidence needed during an incident. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace each catalog event to its code path, data classification, example output, operational consumer, and owner. +- Exercise success, rejection, cancellation, timeout, retry, partial failure, terminal failure, recovery, startup, and shutdown and reconcile emitted events with the catalog. +- Inspect unused, duplicate, unreachable, and high-volume events and either remove them or record their consumer. + +**Exceptions:** A library that does not own a runtime lifecycle may define only the events it exposes to its host and must not create a hidden destination. + +### OPERATIONS-LOGGING-010 — Keep serializers and logger hooks deterministic and safe + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Configuring a serializer, formatter, mixin, hook, timestamp function, custom transport transform, or logger wrapper. + +Keep logger extension code synchronous where Pino requires it, bounded, deterministic, and free of network, filesystem, database, cryptographic, or other blocking work. It must return JSON-serializable data, never throw into application behavior, never mutate caller-owned or shared objects, and preserve required fields, numeric severity, redaction, and error handling. Do not use a mixin or hook to recover ambient mutable context when an explicit child logger or bounded asynchronous context can provide it. + +Treat extension failures as observable logging-pipeline failures without recursively logging through the failing path. Pin and review third-party serializers, formatters, and transports as runtime dependencies. + +**Why:** Logger customization runs on common and failure paths; blocking, throwing, mutation, or recursion can change application behavior exactly when diagnostic evidence is needed. + +**Verify:** + +- Property-test supported values including `undefined`, `bigint`, circular objects, getters that throw, deep arrays, long strings, errors, and attacker-controlled keys. +- Inject extension and transport failures and confirm the application policy, fallback signal, and recursion bound. +- Benchmark enabled and disabled levels with the final serializers, formatters, hooks, and transports. + +**Exceptions:** None for code executed on the application thread. A transport worker may perform delivery I/O under the bounded delivery contract in `OPERATIONS-LOGGING-008`. + +### OPERATIONS-LOGGING-011 — Protect logs throughout their lifecycle + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Logs are buffered, transmitted, collected, indexed, searched, exported, copied, backed up, or deleted. + +Classify each stream and destination from the most sensitive event it can receive. Encrypt protected logs across untrusted networks and at rest where required; restrict producer, reader, exporter, administrator, and deletion permissions separately; record and monitor access; and prevent application workloads from altering retained records. Define retention and deletion by purpose, incident need, privacy obligation, contract, and cost, including debug streams, dead-letter data, archives, backups, exports, and support bundles. + +Keep tenant and environment boundaries through collection and query. Do not send logs to a new provider, region, account, or training or support feature until its authority, data terms, access, retention, deletion, outage behavior, and exit path are approved under the active privacy, security, and vendor rules. + +**Why:** Source redaction does not protect logs from excessive access, unauthorized alteration, indefinite retention, or an ungoverned downstream copy. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace representative events and canary data through buffers, networks, accounts, indexes, replicas, archives, exports, backups, support paths, retention, legal holds, and deletion. +- Test cross-tenant, cross-environment, producer-write, reader-export, administrator, revoked-user, and expired-record access boundaries. +- Review access and configuration change history and verify tamper detection or protected immutability where the stream's purpose requires it. + +**Exceptions:** Local development logs may use a shorter, local lifecycle but must contain no production data or credentials and must be removed when no longer needed. + +### OPERATIONS-LOGGING-012 — Monitor the logging pipeline as a dependency + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Operational decisions, alerts, investigations, support, security detection, or audit evidence depend on collected logs. + +Measure emission, accepted and rejected records, parse failures, queue depth, backpressure, retries, drops, duplicate delivery, ingestion delay, indexing delay, storage use, query availability, clock skew, and cost at the boundaries the platform exposes. Alert an owner on material loss, delay, corruption, access failure, or unexpected volume without depending solely on the failing log path. Synchronize process clocks and preserve both event time and collector-observed time when delay or offline delivery can be material. + +Use a bounded synthetic canary or reconciliation record to prove end-to-end delivery. Never put a secret or real person's data in that record. + +**Why:** A service can appear healthy while its logging path silently drops, delays, misparses, or misroutes the evidence used to operate it. + +**Verify:** + +- Break each observable pipeline stage and confirm detection, routing, runbook action, recovery, and reconciliation. +- Compare emitted, buffered, transported, accepted, indexed, queried, retained, and deleted counts across normal load, overload, outage, and recovery. +- Skew an allowed test clock and delay delivery to confirm event and observed time remain distinguishable. + +**Exceptions:** A low-impact local tool may verify its explicit result artifact instead of operating a continuous pipeline. + +### OPERATIONS-LOGGING-013 — Govern browser and other untrusted-client logs separately + +**Level:** contextual +**Applies when:** TypeScript runs in a browser, mobile shell, edge client, desktop client, or another user-controlled runtime and sends logs off the device. + +Do not assume the server Pino configuration applies in a client runtime. Pino browser output uses console methods by default and does not support Pino redaction. Construct an allowlisted event that contains no secret, credential, session value, raw URL query, form value, page content, personal data without authority, or trusted security conclusion before calling the logger or transmitter. + +Treat client identity, time, level, event fields, and error detail as untrusted observations. Authenticate the receiving endpoint where appropriate, authorize only event submission, enforce origin and schema checks, bound size and rate, prevent log injection and tenant selection, and apply server-side enrichment and redaction before protected storage. Define offline buffering, user choice or notice when required, transmission failure, retention, and deletion. Disable client transmission by default when it has no recorded operational or product purpose. + +**Why:** Client code and data are visible and alterable, and browser logging can expose sensitive content or create false operational and security evidence. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the shipped client artifact and runtime configuration for serializers, console output, transmission, endpoints, and disabled states. +- Submit forged identity, tenant, time, severity, event names, multiline content, oversized data, high volume, expired sessions, and offline replay and confirm safe handling. +- Search device buffers, browser consoles, network traces, collectors, support tools, and retained destinations for canary values. + +**Exceptions:** Console-only local development output may remain on the developer's device when it contains synthetic data and cannot be collected or shipped. + +### OPERATIONS-LOGGING-014 — Separate diagnostic, security, and audit evidence + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A log event supports security detection, privileged-action review, financial or compliance evidence, or reconstruction of who changed consequential state. + +Label the event purpose and route it to controls appropriate to that purpose. A security event must record the bounded action, outcome, protected actor reference, target reference, service identity, trusted server time, correlation, and control or reason code needed for detection without storing credentials or unnecessary payloads. An audit record additionally requires defined completeness, ordering, durable write behavior, access history, retention, integrity protection, and correction semantics. Ordinary diagnostic logs are not an authoritative audit ledger. + +Do not claim non-repudiation, exact ordering, completeness, or actor identity from caller-supplied IDs, asynchronous best-effort output, mutable indexes, or clocks that have not been verified for that property. If a required audit write fails, follow the owning transaction's explicit fail-open or fail-closed policy and emit an independent failure signal. + +**Why:** Treating convenient application logs as audit proof can create false attribution, missing records, and compliance or incident conclusions the system cannot support. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise allowed, denied, failed, retried, concurrent, privileged, and break-glass actions and reconcile authoritative state changes with security and audit records. +- Attempt caller spoofing, record alteration, deletion, reordering, duplicate delivery, destination outage, and audit-write failure. +- Confirm every claim made from the stream is supported by its identity, time, durability, integrity, access, and completeness controls. + +**Exceptions:** A system with no authoritative audit requirement may use protected security events for detection and investigation, but must state that they are not a complete ledger. + +## Guidance + +Keep the application logger wrapper small. It should own base fields, schema types, redaction, level configuration, serializers, and logger construction without hiding Pino's structured call shape. Prefer framework adapters that accept the same Pino instance instead of creating a second logger. Use a supported direct Pino release; add `pino-http` or another adapter only when the framework needs it and its request lifecycle is verified. + +Define event names as stable machine identifiers such as `http.request.completed`, `job.delivery.failed`, or `dependency.call.retried`. Keep `msg` short and useful to a person; do not make parsers depend on message text. Prefer an `outcome` such as `success`, `failure`, `cancelled`, or `unknown` over encoding the outcome only in the event name when consumers compare outcomes. Use TypeScript discriminated unions for cataloged event shapes and Pino module augmentation or wrapper types to ban base-field overrides. Do not make request, user, or trace fields globally required when they cannot apply to every event. + +Pino defaults are a sound starting point: numeric levels, Unix epoch millisecond time, newline-delimited JSON, the `err` serializer, and stdout. Transform to a backend's field names after Pino routing rather than changing the source contract. In particular, keep numeric `level` when multiple targets route by it. Add ISO display time in the collector or query layer unless a measured consumer requires a second source field; in-process time formatting adds work to every enabled event. + +Explicitly passing a child logger is the clearest context model. Use `AsyncLocalStorage` when framework and application boundaries make explicit passing impractical, initialize context with `run`, keep the store immutable or operation-owned, and test any callback library or custom thenable that can lose context. Never place the current user or request in a module-global variable. + +Prefer the runtime or platform collector over direct remote transports when it already provides buffering, retry, encryption, identity, and backpressure. If a direct Pino transport is necessary, keep its options serializable for the worker boundary, wait for readiness when early termination is possible, and implement close. Asynchronous logging trades lower request overhead for a bounded window in which recent buffered events can be lost during abrupt system failure; the service owner must choose that tradeoff deliberately. + +Production should never depend on pretty output. Keep `pino-pretty` in local development tooling, and verify that production configuration cannot enable it accidentally. Custom transports written in TypeScript should be compiled for the production runtime unless the chosen Node.js release and deployment path explicitly support the source form. + +## Examples + +### Request-scoped event and error + +Compliant: + +```ts +import pino from "pino"; + +declare module "pino" { + interface LogFnFields { + service?: never; + version?: never; + environment?: never; + schemaVersion?: never; + requestId?: string; + traceId?: string; + spanId?: string; + } +} + +function requiredEnv(name: "APP_VERSION" | "NODE_ENV"): string { + const value = process.env[name]; + if (!value) throw new Error(`Missing required configuration: ${name}`); + return value; +} + +export const logger = pino({ + base: { + service: "orders-api", + version: requiredEnv("APP_VERSION"), + environment: requiredEnv("NODE_ENV"), + schemaVersion: 1, + }, + redact: { + paths: [ + "authorization", + "headers.authorization", + "headers.cookie", + "user.email", + ], + remove: true, + }, +}); + +const requestLog = logger.child({ requestId, traceId }); + +try { + await submitOrder(); + requestLog.info( + { event: "order.submit.completed", outcome: "success", durationMs }, + "Order submitted", + ); +} catch (err) { + requestLog.error( + { event: "order.submit.failed", outcome: "failure", durationMs, err }, + "Order submission failed", + ); +} +``` + +Non-compliant: + +```ts +console.log("request", request); +logger.error(`Order failed for ${user.email}: ${error.message}`); +``` + +The non-compliant form bypasses the shared configuration, exposes broad objects and personal data, and discards structured error evidence. + +## Sources + +- Pino project, [Pino 10.3.1](https://github.com/pinojs/pino/tree/v10.3.1). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Pino project, [Pino API](https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/api.md). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Pino project, [Pino redaction](https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/redaction.md). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Pino project, [Pino transports](https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/transports.md). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Pino project, [Pino asynchronous logging](https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/asynchronous.md). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Pino project, [Pino browser API](https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/browser.md). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Pino project, [Pino bundling](https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/bundling.md). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Pino project, [Pino child loggers](https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/child-loggers.md). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Pino project, [Pino long-term support policy](https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/lts.md). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Pino project, [Pino web frameworks](https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/v10.3.1/docs/web.md). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- OpenJS Foundation, [Node.js asynchronous context tracking](https://nodejs.org/api/async_context.html). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- OpenJS Foundation, [Node.js process](https://nodejs.org/api/process.html). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- OpenJS Foundation, [Node.js streams](https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- OpenTelemetry, [Logs data model](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/logs/data-model/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- OpenTelemetry, [Service semantic conventions](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/resource/service/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- OWASP Foundation, [Logging Cheat Sheet](https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Logging_Cheat_Sheet.html). 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Reviewed August 17, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/operations/reliability.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/operations/reliability.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d7d43c --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/operations/reliability.md @@ -0,0 +1,258 @@ +--- +id: OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY +title: Operations and reliability +description: Requirements for service objectives, observability, runbooks, incidents, recovery, support, and vendor dependencies. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [operations, engineering, security, support] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [service-operation, incident, vendor-change] +tags: [operations, reliability, incidents, support] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-CHANGE, ENGINEERING-QUALITY] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T20:57:53Z" } +sources: + - id: nist-csf-20 + resource: https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework + title: Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 + author: organization:nist + - id: nist-incident-800-61r3 + resource: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/61/r3/final + title: Incident Response Recommendations and Considerations for Cybersecurity Risk Management + author: organization:nist + - id: google-sre + resource: https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/ + title: Site Reliability Engineering + author: organization:google + - id: nist-supply-chain-800-161r1 + resource: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/161/r1/final + title: Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Systems and Organizations + author: organization:nist + - id: aws-reliability-pillar + resource: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/reliability-pillar/welcome.html + title: Reliability Pillar - AWS Well-Architected Framework + author: organization:amazon-web-services +--- + +# Operations and reliability + +Services must define the outcomes they protect, detect material degradation, provide practiced response and recovery, support affected users, and govern external dependencies throughout their lifecycle. + +## Rules + +### OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-001 — Define service objectives from user outcomes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A service supports production users, business processes, or dependent systems. + +Define the critical journeys and measurable availability, correctness, latency, durability, and recovery objectives that protect them, including the population and measurement window. + +**Why:** Infrastructure health can appear normal while users cannot complete the service's purpose. + +**Verify:** + +- Reproduce each objective from recorded events and compare it with representative user experience. +- Confirm owners and decision rules for budget consumption or objective breach. + +**Exceptions:** A low-impact internal service may use simpler objectives when users, impact, and support expectations are explicit. + +### OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-002 — Observe symptoms, causes, and dependencies + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A service can degrade outside direct operator observation. + +Collect bounded, protected signals for user-visible outcomes, traffic, errors, latency, saturation, change events, and critical dependencies with enough context to scope a failure. + +**Why:** Cause-only monitoring misses unknown failures and symptom-only monitoring slows diagnosis. + +**Verify:** + +- Inject or simulate representative dependency, capacity, configuration, correctness, and availability failures. +- Confirm dashboards and traces distinguish affected journeys, tenants, regions, versions, and dependencies where permitted. + +**Exceptions:** None for critical production services. + +### OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-003 — Alert only when action is defined + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A signal can page or interrupt a responder. + +Tie alerts to material impact or imminent risk, an owned response, severity, routing, deduplication, and escalation. Review false, missed, noisy, and unactionable alerts. + +**Why:** Alert volume without actionable meaning delays response and trains responders to ignore signals. + +**Verify:** + +- Trigger representative alerts and follow routing through acknowledgment and escalation. +- Inspect alert history for sustained noise, gaps, and response outcomes. + +**Exceptions:** Experimental alerts may be non-paging while thresholds are calibrated. + +### OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-004 — Maintain executable runbooks + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Diagnosis, containment, recovery, failover, or support depends on non-obvious operational steps. + +Document triggers, authority, prerequisites, safe commands or actions, expected output, stop conditions, communication, rollback, verification, and escalation using current system names and access paths. + +**Why:** A stale or ambiguous runbook increases error during time pressure. + +**Verify:** + +- Have a responder other than the author execute or simulate the procedure. +- Review runbooks after system changes, exercises, and incidents. + +**Exceptions:** A fully automated procedure still requires an operator contract and manual containment path. + +### OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-005 — Govern incident command and communication + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An event materially threatens confidentiality, integrity, availability, safety, money, or user trust. + +Assign incident command, severity, technical and communication roles, decision log, containment authority, update cadence, stakeholder routes, evidence preservation, and closure criteria. + +**Why:** Unclear authority and inconsistent communication compound impact and lose decision evidence. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise the incident process with technical, security, privacy, support, legal, and business participants appropriate to impact. +- Confirm external statements distinguish confirmed facts, current impact, actions, and uncertainty. + +**Exceptions:** Small events may combine roles but must retain one accountable commander and decision record. + +### OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-006 — Practice recovery against objectives + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A service or dependency has recovery point, recovery time, continuity, or failover expectations. + +Exercise recovery from isolated, partial, regional, corrupted, unavailable, and dependency-loss conditions as applicable, measuring achieved outcome rather than procedure completion alone. + +**Why:** Backups and failover configurations can exist without restoring a usable service in time. + +**Verify:** + +- Record recovered data and function, elapsed time, unmet dependencies, manual work, and objective comparison. +- Confirm return-to-normal avoids split state, repeated side effects, and hidden degradation. + +**Exceptions:** None for critical durable services; untested paths must be treated as unresolved risk. + +### OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-007 — Learn without distorting incident evidence + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An incident or near miss reveals a material control, design, process, or organizational weakness. + +Build a factual timeline, distinguish contributing conditions from triggers, identify detection and response gaps, assign bounded corrective work, and verify whether the change reduced recurrence or impact. + +**Why:** Blame or a single root-cause label hides system conditions and produces weak corrective actions. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace conclusions to logs, artifacts, interviews, and decisions with stated uncertainty. +- Follow corrective actions through acceptance evidence and later effectiveness review. + +**Exceptions:** Sensitive details may be access-controlled, but affected owners still need actionable findings. + +### OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-008 — Support affected users through recovery + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Users may encounter failure, delay, data inconsistency, or degraded behavior. + +Give support current impact, affected scope, safe workarounds, escalation, communication status, and recovery verification without exposing protected incident details. + +**Why:** Technical recovery is incomplete when users cannot understand or resolve their remaining state. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise a representative support case from report through resolution and correction. +- Reconcile technical recovery with customer accounts, messages, credits, or follow-up where applicable. + +**Exceptions:** None when users retain an unresolved material effect. + +### OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-009 — Govern vendor dependencies + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An external provider can affect critical function, data, security, compliance, cost, or recovery. + +Record purpose, owner, data and authority, contract and service expectations, concentration risk, monitoring, incident contact, portability, termination, data return or deletion, and tested fallback or accepted dependency risk. + +**Why:** Outsourcing operation does not transfer accountability and can create opaque single points of failure. + +**Verify:** + +- Review provider evidence and exercise outage, degraded service, credential compromise, contract change, and exit scenarios proportionate to risk. +- Confirm inventory and access are removed after termination. + +**Exceptions:** Commodity low-impact services may use a standardized review when impact and replaceability are proven. + +### OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-010 — Keep overload from becoming self-amplifying + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Traffic, retries, fan-out, queues, caches, batch work, tenants, or dependencies can exhaust a finite resource. + +Define admission, concurrency, queue, timeout, retry, memory, connection, and cost budgets from measured capacity and request value. Reject, shed, defer, degrade, or isolate work before the system accumulates stale backlog or synchronized retries. Place retries at an owned layer, limit attempts and total elapsed time, require idempotency where effects can repeat, and use backoff and jitter for retryable remote failures. Preserve capacity for recovery, health, and critical work. + +**Why:** Overload controls that activate too late can create retry storms, unbounded queues, cache refill spikes, and recovery work that keeps the service unstable after the original demand falls. + +**Verify:** + +- Load beyond each budget with realistic request cost, skew, fan-out, retry, and dependency degradation. +- Confirm low-value or stale work is rejected before critical journeys, recovery controls, and health signals lose capacity. +- Measure admitted, rejected, queued, expired, retried, completed, and abandoned work plus time to stable recovery. +- Exercise cold start, cache loss, worker restart, and backlog drain without creating a second overload event. + +**Exceptions:** A bounded offline job may queue all work when storage, completion time, cancellation, and downstream recovery capacity are proven. + +### OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-011 — Isolate critical journeys and failure domains + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Optional features, tenants, regions, workloads, or dependencies share resources with a critical journey. + +Classify critical, degradable, and optional function and identify shared fate across compute, data, queues, credentials, deploy paths, control planes, and dependencies. Use cells, partitions, bulkheads, quotas, separate pools, feature isolation, or another measured boundary where one population or optional function could exhaust or fail the critical path. Define the degraded experience and prevent fallback from overloading a weaker dependency. + +**Why:** A component diagram can suggest separation while hidden shared resources allow one tenant, region, experiment, or optional feature to impair every user. + +**Verify:** + +- Build a shared-fate map and compare it with runtime dependency, resource, identity, and deployment evidence. +- Saturate or fail each material domain and confirm impact remains within the declared population and critical functions remain usable. +- Disable optional behavior and verify the critical journey no longer depends on its code, data, startup, or control path. +- Exercise recovery of one domain without synchronized load or state corruption in healthy domains. + +**Exceptions:** Shared infrastructure is allowed when capacity, prioritization, failure behavior, and recovery prove that the critical objective remains protected. + +## Operational coverage + +Build reliability evidence around user journeys and dependency failure, not only service averages. + +| Route | Required scenarios | Completion evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Capacity and saturation | Expected peak, burst, skew, degraded dependency, queue growth, autoscaling lag, and hard limit | Load model, saturation point, resource and latency curves, overload behavior, capacity margin, and owner decision | +| Distributed dependency failure | Timeout, retry storm, partial response, stale data, region or zone loss, clock skew, and recovery ordering | Dependency map, trace and metric evidence, bounded retry behavior, failover result, reconciliation, and residual risk | +| Incident response | Detection, triage, containment, communication, handoff, recovery, recurrence, and user remediation | Timeline, roles, decision log, affected users, restored state, support actions, and follow-up owners | +| Change-related reliability | Canary, progressive rollout, rollback, mixed versions, schema or config skew, and observability loss | Release correlation, stop signal, rollback duration, final version state, error-budget effect, and temporary-control cleanup | +| Toil and operational load | Recurring manual work, alert load, queue age, interruption cost, access burden, and automation risk | Time and volume baseline, ownership, eliminated or bounded work, automation guardrails, and follow-up measure | +| Vendor or control-plane outage | Provider unavailability, stale state, quota, rate limit, credential failure, and exit or manual continuity | Contracted and observed behavior, cached or fallback state, communication path, reconciliation, and vendor escalation | + +An average service-level result cannot hide a failed critical journey, region, tenant, or user group. Preserve disaggregated failure evidence where the consequence differs. + +## Guidance + +Use service objectives to make tradeoffs, not to excuse preventable harm. Prefer fewer meaningful alerts and rehearsed actions. Treat incidents as user and business events as well as technical failures, and preserve privacy when collecting operational evidence. + +## Examples + +### Vendor outage + +Non-compliant: The team learns from customer reports that a single messaging provider is unavailable and has no way to identify undelivered critical messages. + +Compliant: Delivery outcomes are monitored, affected messages are reconciled, the runbook defines containment and fallback, support has current guidance, and the vendor dependency and accepted residual risk have an owner. + +## Sources + +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Cybersecurity Framework 2.0](https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Incident Response Recommendations and Considerations for Cybersecurity Risk Management](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/61/r3/final), SP 800-61 Rev. 3. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Site Reliability Engineering](https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Systems and Organizations](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/161/r1/final), SP 800-161 Rev. 1. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Amazon Web Services, [Reliability Pillar — AWS Well-Architected Framework](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/reliability-pillar/welcome.html). Reviewed September 1, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/patterns/cross-layer-policy-conformance.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/patterns/cross-layer-policy-conformance.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6f4eda9 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/patterns/cross-layer-policy-conformance.md @@ -0,0 +1,128 @@ +--- +id: PATTERN-CROSS-LAYER-POLICY-CONFORMANCE +title: Cross-layer policy conformance +description: A source-neutral pattern for preserving policy obligations across exposed capabilities, validation, execution, containment, and release. +type: pattern +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [engineering, security, data, ai] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-16 +review_by: 2027-02-16 +stale_after: 2027-02-16 +applies_to: [policy-bearing-system, agentic-system, data-agent] +tags: [policy, conformance, contracts, evidence, release] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, AI-AGENTS, API-CONTRACTS, DATA-QUALITY, ENGINEERING-QUALITY, SECURITY-APPLICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T06:25:28Z" } +sources: + - id: policystrata-e316ac8 + resource: https://github.com/raintree-technology/policystrata/tree/e316ac8460f13b2960834342d4a0cdd2b6a3b1a2 + title: PolicyStrata at e316ac8 + author: organization:raintree-technology +--- + +# Cross-layer policy conformance + +Use this pattern when one policy obligation is represented or enforced by several components. A component can pass its local tests while changing, dropping, or misapplying an obligation received from another component. Test the policy-bearing transitions as well as each component. + +This pattern applies `FND-EVIDENCE`, `AI-AGENTS`, `API-CONTRACTS`, `DATA-QUALITY`, `ENGINEERING-QUALITY`, and `SECURITY-APPLICATION`. It adds no requirement to those standards. This draft requires independent review of the final artifact and qualified security, data, AI, and engineering review before it can become stable. + +## Applicability + +Apply the pattern when a policy appears in two or more surfaces, such as a model-visible tool manifest, semantic plan, validator, compiler, query, authorization layer, database policy, approval service, or output-release check. It is especially useful when the surfaces deploy independently or use different policy representations. + +The strongest cited implementation evidence is for SQL and data-agent stacks. Applying the pattern to browser actions, code execution, general tool use, or human approval workflows requires contracts, fixtures, and fault models for that domain. Do not present evidence from one domain as validation of another. + +## Structure + +1. **Canonical policy** defines the obligations to preserve. It has an accountable owner, stable identifiers, declared scope, and a representation that an independent checker can evaluate. +2. **Policy-bearing surfaces** expose, transform, enforce, contain, or release policy-relevant behavior. Inventory each surface and record its deployed version. +3. **Transition responsibilities** state what each receiving surface must preserve, reject, add, or prove. Different surfaces may have different decisions because they have different jobs. +4. **Independent observations** capture the request, intermediate representation, decision, effect, containment, and release state needed to check each responsibility. +5. **Conformance detection** identifies the first observed responsibility violation. It records later containment separately instead of treating containment as proof that the earlier transition was correct. +6. **Release evidence** preserves a reproducible witness, configuration versions, input provenance, and the limits of the exercised fault model. + +The version vector should cover every artifact that can change the result, including the canonical policy, schemas, manifests, validators, compilers, database policies, release controls, adapters, detector, generator, fault operators, fixtures, and task set. Hash or otherwise bind material artifacts when a comparison or release decision depends on exact identity. + +## Responsibilities and evidence + +Define each transition contract in terms of obligations rather than simple decision equality. For example, an authorized semantic request may require a compiler to preserve tenant scope and business meaning, while a database policy may independently contain rows outside that scope. A compiler failure remains a conformance failure even when the database blocks the resulting query. + +Use observations from outside the transformation under test where practical. A compiler should not be its own policy oracle. A trace importer, adapter, evidence emitter, or gate that can silently remove a finding belongs to the trusted computing base. Protect that boundary with required-field validation, input counts or checksums, known-good and known-bad canaries, independent gate recomputation, and result-shape assertions appropriate to the risk. + +Record at least: + +- canonical and observed decisions with stable policy references; +- the first violated transition and its declared responsibility; +- whether and where the violation was contained; +- whether an output or effect was released; +- the complete version vector and execution environment; +- evidence provenance and evidence level; +- a reduced witness that preserves the policy distinction, when safe to retain. + +Keep raw prompts, rows, credentials, private schemas, and other sensitive payloads out of portable evidence. Retain protected references, hashes, policy identifiers, and redacted facts when they are sufficient for reproduction and review. + +## Regression design + +Maintain both failure-catching and behavior-preserving cases: + +- known violations that should become or remain detected; +- contained violations that should remain contained; +- forbidden requests that should remain denied; +- allowed requests that should remain usable; +- clean controls that should produce no finding. + +Inject faults at declared transitions where a deterministic fault model is practical. Count killed, survived, equivalent, malformed, clean-control, and false-positive cases separately. Freeze the detector and fault taxonomy before calling a generated set held out. Externally authored or incident-derived cases should remain distinguishable from cases produced by the same taxonomy used to build the detector. + +A minimized witness should preserve the failure class, first violated transition, principal or actor meaning, material data distinction, containment result, and release result. Describe bounded replay reduction as bounded replay reduction, not global minimization or source-code root-cause proof. + +## Examples + +### Compiler fault contained by the database + +A compiler lowers an authorized tenant-scoped request using a stale tenant key. The database policy blocks the cross-tenant rows. Report the compiler as the first violated transition and the database as the containment layer. Do not mark the trace clean merely because no rows were released. + +### Unsafe release after an upstream denial + +A validator denies a sensitive metric, but a release component returns a cached result to the caller. Report both the upstream denial and the unsafe release. The release check must not infer authority from the presence of a result. + +### Legitimate behavior denied + +A new policy version permits an approved aggregate, but a stale validator rejects it. An allowed-request control catches the over-restriction. Negative cases alone would miss this regression. + +### Fault outside the taxonomy + +A test suite injects missing tenant predicates but has no operator for timezone or aggregation-grain drift. A perfect injected-case score supports only the declared operators and fixtures. Record the uncovered class as a gap rather than claiming general policy-drift detection. + +### Missing or corrupted trace evidence + +An importer silently drops records with a newly added field. The scan finds no violation because it observed no affected trace. Treat required trace counts, schema failures, and canary outcomes as gate inputs so missing evidence fails visibly instead of producing a clean conclusion. + +## Tradeoffs + +- Transition contracts localize drift but add policy modeling, trace, fixture, and ownership work. +- Independent observations reduce circular checks but expand the trusted computing base and data-handling surface. +- Fault injection makes declared coverage reproducible but can create false confidence when the taxonomy is narrow or co-developed with the detector. +- Minimized witnesses help review and repair but can omit context unless the reducer preserves the material policy distinction. +- Runtime enforcement can reduce exposure but adds latency and availability dependencies. Its adoption is separate from CI conformance testing. + +## Do not use when + +Do not build a cross-layer conformance system when one authoritative component makes and enforces the entire decision and an integration test can observe the final effect directly. Do not use a scanner as a substitute for application authorization, database controls, approval enforcement, or other runtime boundaries. A clean scan means no modeled violation was observed in the exercised evidence; it does not prove authorization correctness or recall on unknown production failures. + +## Verification + +- Trace representative allow, deny, contain, and release cases through every declared surface. +- Mutate each transition and confirm the first failing responsibility is localized without hiding later containment. +- Run clean and legitimate-behavior controls and inspect false denials as well as false allowances. +- Corrupt or remove trace inputs and verify that evidence-integrity controls fail visibly. +- Reproduce a witness from its policy reference, inputs, version vector, and protected evidence references. +- Review whether the claimed evidence level, domain, fault-model coverage, and limitations match what actually ran. + +## Evidence limits + +PolicyStrata reports full coverage over its published deterministic mutation operators and fixtures, not recall on unknown production faults. Its cited comparative result shows that responsibility-scoped transition checks observed cases missed by modeled point-control baselines. Treat that as implementation and fault-model evidence for SQL and data-agent systems, not a universal effectiveness claim. + +## Sources + +- Raintree Technology, [PolicyStrata at commit e316ac8](https://github.com/raintree-technology/policystrata/tree/e316ac8460f13b2960834342d4a0cdd2b6a3b1a2). Reviewed August 16, 2026. Used as first-party implementation and evaluation evidence for responsibility-scoped transition contracts, version vectors, fault injection, witness localization, and evidence limits. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/patterns/federated-knowledge.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/patterns/federated-knowledge.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7801825 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/patterns/federated-knowledge.md @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +--- +id: PATTERN-FEDERATED-KNOWLEDGE +title: Federated organizational knowledge +description: A source-neutral pattern for preserving native authority while making organizational evidence discoverable through a shared retrieval layer. +type: pattern +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [knowledge, data, security, privacy, ai, engineering] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-16 +review_by: 2027-02-16 +stale_after: 2027-02-16 +applies_to: [company-brain, enterprise-search, retrieval-system] +tags: [knowledge, federation, retrieval, provenance] +depends_on: [KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T06:08:51Z" } +sources: + - id: cerebras-knowledge-base + resource: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-built-our-knowledge-base + title: How we built our knowledge base + author: organization:cerebras + - id: reciprocal-rank-fusion + resource: https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572114 + title: Reciprocal Rank Fusion Outperforms Condorcet and Individual Rank Learning Methods + author: Cormack, Clarke, and Büttcher + - id: w3c-prov-o + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ + title: PROV-O The PROV Ontology + author: organization:w3c +--- + +# Federated organizational knowledge + +Keep information in systems suited to creating and maintaining it, then expose governed evidence through source-specific adapters and a shared retrieval boundary. The pattern reduces forced migration and duplicate authoring while preserving the source ownership, permissions, provenance, and lifecycle required by `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS`. + +This draft requires independent review of the final artifact and qualified AI, security, privacy, data, and engineering review before it can become stable. + +## Structure + +1. **Authoritative native sources** own content, meaning, access, correction, and lifecycle. +2. **Bounded adapters** read approved scopes and emit a common evidence envelope without erasing source semantics. +3. **Derived retrieval stores** hold only the content and signals needed for declared uses and remain rebuildable from governed sources. +4. **Scoped retrieval** selects sources and retrieval methods according to the actor, project, question type, and permitted purpose. +5. **Evidence-first output** returns attributable evidence before or alongside generated synthesis. + +An evidence envelope should carry, directly or through protected references: + +- source system, stable source identifier, location, owner, and authority class; +- source version or event, source time, ingestion time, and last verified time; +- content classification, tenant or organizational scope, and authorization reference; +- source and derived content type, transformation lineage, and model or process version; +- freshness objective, retention or deletion state, and correction status; +- retrieval scores or reasons as diagnostic signals, not claims of truth. + +The envelope is a shared control surface, not a claim that a message, code symbol, policy section, database row, and generated summary have the same meaning. + +## Retrieval choices + +Use the smallest set of retrieval methods that meets measured needs. Exact search can preserve error strings, identifiers, names, flags, and citations. Structured query can preserve typed meaning. Semantic retrieval can connect paraphrases. Freshness, authority, and project scope can qualify relevance. Rank fusion and reranking can combine signals, but they do not replace permission checks, source authority, or end-to-end evaluation. + +Expand a selected fragment with the surrounding context needed to preserve headings, preconditions, dates, caveats, and corrections. Merge or cap repeated chunks only when the final evidence still exposes independent support, disagreement, and provenance. + +## Tradeoffs + +- Federated ownership avoids one authoring system but creates connector, reconciliation, and permission-propagation work. +- Replicated indexes reduce query latency but increase breach, deletion, restoration, and staleness risk. +- Shared envelopes simplify downstream tools but can flatten source-specific meaning if fields and limitations are not retained. +- Generated summaries improve consistency and retrieval signal but introduce another derived data product that can omit, distort, or outlive its source. +- Project or domain scopes improve relevance but require ownership, overlap, default, and cross-scope behavior to be explicit. + +## Do not use when + +Do not add a shared knowledge layer when authoritative source search already meets the measured need, when permissions or deletion cannot propagate safely, when the organization cannot own connector operations, or when concentrating the data creates an unacceptable failure boundary. A directory of sources and owners may be the safer first step. + +## Verification + +- Trace representative evidence from each source through its adapter, derived stores, retrieval, and output. +- Compare derived access and lifecycle behavior with the authoritative source. +- Evaluate exact, semantic, current, scoped, conflicting, denied, and unanswerable questions. +- Disable and rebuild a representative source integration without losing corrections, permissions, or deletion state. + +## Sources + +- Cerebras, [How we built our knowledge base](https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-built-our-knowledge-base), July 16, 2026. Reviewed from the published article capture August 16, 2026. Used as implementation evidence, not universal policy. +- Gordon V. Cormack, Charles L. A. Clarke, and Stefan Büttcher, [Reciprocal Rank Fusion Outperforms Condorcet and Individual Rank Learning Methods](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572114), SIGIR 2009. Reviewed August 16, 2026. Used as retrieval research, not a required ranking prescription. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [PROV-O: The PROV Ontology](https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/). Reviewed August 16, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/patterns/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/patterns/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73ad3f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/patterns/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +# Patterns + +* [Federated organizational knowledge](federated-knowledge.md) - Keep native sources authoritative while adapters produce governed evidence for shared retrieval. +* [Cross-layer policy conformance](cross-layer-policy-conformance.md) - Preserve canonical policy obligations across exposed capabilities, validation, execution, containment, and release. +* [Verified agent workflow](verified-agent-workflow.md) - Separate variable model work from independent validation, bounded execution, and release decisions. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/patterns/verified-agent-workflow.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/patterns/verified-agent-workflow.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..485c308 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/patterns/verified-agent-workflow.md @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@ +--- +id: PATTERN-VERIFIED-AGENT-WORKFLOW +title: Verified agent workflow +description: A source-neutral pattern for separating variable model work from deterministic validation, bounded execution, and release decisions. +type: pattern +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [ai, engineering, security, data] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-16 +review_by: 2027-02-16 +stale_after: 2027-02-16 +applies_to: [agentic-system, model-workflow, policy-bearing-system] +tags: [agents, verification, policy, evaluation, release] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, AI-AGENTS, API-CONTRACTS, DATA-QUALITY, ENGINEERING-QUALITY, SECURITY-APPLICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T06:25:28Z" } +sources: + - id: policystrata-e316ac8 + resource: https://github.com/raintree-technology/policystrata/tree/e316ac8460f13b2960834342d4a0cdd2b6a3b1a2 + title: PolicyStrata at e316ac8 + author: organization:raintree-technology + - id: anthropic-claude-cookbooks-content-moderation-35f2eec + resource: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/35f2eec7e44897c537e44441b7dff2f0ecbfb804/capabilities/content_moderation + title: Content policy enforcement with Claude + author: organization:anthropic +--- + +# Verified agent workflow + +Use this pattern when a model proposes structured work whose correctness or policy compliance can be checked independently before an effect or release. Keep variable model behavior outside the trusted decision boundary where deterministic or authoritative checks can make the final decision. + +This pattern applies `FND-EVIDENCE`, `AI-AGENTS`, `API-CONTRACTS`, `DATA-QUALITY`, `ENGINEERING-QUALITY`, and `SECURITY-APPLICATION`. It adds no requirement to those standards. This draft requires independent review of the final artifact and qualified AI, security, data, and engineering review before it can become stable. + +## Applicability + +Apply the pattern when the workflow can represent a proposal as a constrained intermediate artifact and validate that artifact against schemas, policy, state, and authority before execution. Examples include semantic queries, content-policy rules, tool plans, change proposals, approval requests, and bounded transformations. + +The pattern is less suitable when correctness depends mainly on open-ended judgment that no independent checker, qualified reviewer, or authoritative environment can assess. In that case, narrow the authority and make the human judgment boundary explicit. + +## Structure + +1. **Governed inputs** identify instructions, policy, context, data, and their authority and versions. +2. **Model proposal** emits a constrained intermediate representation rather than taking the final policy or release decision. +3. **Structural validation** rejects unknown fields, invalid operations, missing references, incompatible types, excessive scope, and unsupported clauses before effects. +4. **Independent policy validation** compares the proposal with canonical obligations and current authoritative state. +5. **Bounded execution** uses a narrow tool or interpreter with minimum authority, limits, repeat-safe behavior, and independent containment. +6. **Release validation** checks the final result and upstream decisions before data, content, or effects cross the release boundary. +7. **Evidence capture** records proposal, checks, effects, version vector, policy references, failures, and protected reproduction material. + +Do not silently drop a policy clause or unsupported operation during translation. Preserve it as rejected, unresolved, or requiring qualified review. Treat missing or indeterminate values according to an explicit policy; where a mistaken allowance is material, route uncertainty to denial or review rather than guessing. + +## Separation of measures + +Deterministic conformance asks whether a known proposal or trace preserves declared obligations. Model reachability asks whether the model produces or attempts that proposal under representative conditions. These are different measurements. + +Report separately: + +- conformance coverage over the declared schemas, contracts, fixtures, and fault operators; +- per-attempt task and policy outcomes; +- success after the actual retry or candidate-selection policy; +- consistent success across repeated use; +- unsafe release or effect rates; +- latency, cost, escalation, and abstention where they affect adoption. + +A deterministic test can pass even when the model never reaches the tested action. A model can produce a valid-looking proposal while a later transformation or release control breaks the policy. Evaluate both paths without merging them into one score. + +## Versioning and evidence + +Freeze or record every input that can change an outcome: model and sampling settings, system and task instructions, policy and schema versions, tool contracts, intermediate representation, validators, runtime controls, release checks, fixtures, graders, fault operators, retry policy, dependencies, and environment. + +Use stable policy and trace identifiers. Capture the first observed responsibility failure and any later containment. Keep known-bad, known-good, allow, deny, escalation, and abstention cases. Preserve minimized witnesses only when they retain the actor, policy distinction, effect, containment, and release result and do not expose sensitive inputs. + +Model-written validators, model judges, and self-reported completion are not independent merely because they run in a separate prompt. Calibrate judgment-based graders against qualified review, and prefer environmental or deterministic checks for facts the system can inspect directly. + +## Examples + +### Compiled policy rules + +A model converts policy prose into typed rules over an approved schema. Static validation rejects unknown fields, invalid operators, and unrepresented clauses. At runtime another model may extract typed facts, but a deterministic engine evaluates the rules and returns approve, block, flag, or review with a trace. The policy owner reviews and versions the compiled artifact before release. + +This design improves inspectability but does not make model-extracted facts deterministic. Evaluate extraction errors separately, preserve uncertain values, and keep high-impact judgments within the required human or authoritative boundary. + +### Model never reaches the tested action + +A deterministic conformance test passes for a tenant-scoped tool call. In repeated end-to-end trials, the model always chooses a different tool and never emits that call. Report the conformance result as capability-path coverage and the end-to-end trials as reachability evidence. Do not claim the tested path represents actual agent behavior. + +### Valid proposal, unsafe release + +A model emits a valid query and the database correctly contains restricted rows, but a response builder includes values from an earlier unfiltered result. The release check must consider upstream authority and containment state, not only the final response shape. + +### Over-restrictive repair + +A validator repair stops a forbidden operation but also rejects a legitimate approved case. Positive controls and allowed-request trials expose the regression. A lower unsafe-action rate alone is not sufficient evidence of a good repair. + +## Tradeoffs + +- Constrained artifacts improve checking and replay but limit the proposal language and require schema evolution. +- Independent validators reduce reliance on model judgment but become policy-bearing components that need versioning and tests. +- Bounded execution limits harm but may increase denials, escalation, latency, or user-visible incompleteness. +- Repeated end-to-end evaluation describes variable behavior but costs more and can still miss rare failures. +- Human review handles ambiguity but needs clear authority, evidence, workload limits, and disagreement handling. + +## Do not use when + +Do not add a model simply to translate an already structured policy or request that ordinary code can process more directly. Do not let a model-generated artifact authorize itself, expand its own tools, bypass runtime authorization, or release its own unchecked result. Do not describe a successful demonstration or selected retry as reliability evidence. + +## Verification + +- Test malformed, unknown, oversized, unauthorized, ambiguous, and unsupported proposals before execution. +- Compare the intermediate artifact and final effect with an independent policy or environmental oracle. +- Exercise allow, deny, review, abstain, contained, and unsafe-release cases. +- Inject faults at validation, execution, containment, and release transitions and localize the first failure. +- Run repeated end-to-end trials with the deployed retry and selection policy; report reachability and reliability separately from deterministic conformance. +- Reproduce representative passes and failures from the recorded version vector and protected evidence. +- Corrupt or omit evidence and confirm the gate reports an evidence failure rather than a clean outcome. + +## Evidence limits + +The cited Claude cookbook demonstrates one model-assisted compilation and extraction design over small synthetic content-moderation examples. It is implementation evidence, not a general policy-effectiveness result. PolicyStrata supplies stronger deterministic evidence for transition contracts in SQL and data-agent stacks, but its fault-model results do not establish model reliability or recall on unknown production failures. + +## Sources + +- Raintree Technology, [PolicyStrata at commit e316ac8](https://github.com/raintree-technology/policystrata/tree/e316ac8460f13b2960834342d4a0cdd2b6a3b1a2). Reviewed August 16, 2026. Used for the distinction between deterministic conformance and model reachability, transition localization, version freezing, and evidence boundaries. +- Anthropic, [Content policy enforcement with Claude at commit 35f2eec](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/35f2eec7e44897c537e44441b7dff2f0ecbfb804/capabilities/content_moderation). Reviewed August 16, 2026. Used as a concrete model-assisted compile, validate, extract, and deterministically evaluate example. Its synthetic sample result is not used as general effectiveness evidence. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/agent-design-guidance.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/agent-design-guidance.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..395be90 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/agent-design-guidance.md @@ -0,0 +1,215 @@ +--- +id: PLAYBOOK-AGENT-DESIGN-GUIDANCE +title: Agent design guidance and evaluation +description: Procedure for maintaining repository design guidance, bounded implementation primitives, matched interface evaluations, and production-feedback correction loops. +type: playbook +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [design, product, ai, engineering, accessibility] +last_reviewed: 2026-09-01 +review_by: 2026-12-01 +stale_after: 2026-12-01 +applies_to: [agent-design-guidance, design-md, design-skill, agent-interface-evaluation] +tags: [playbook, design, agents, evaluation, design-system, anti-slop] +depends_on: [DESIGN-INTERACTION, AI-AGENTS, ENGINEERING-TESTING, FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T21:18:44-07:00" } +sources: + - id: chimala-world-class-ai-designer + resource: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-turn-your-ai-into-a-world + title: How to turn your AI into a world-class designer + author: human:anshu-chimala + - id: vercel-design-md-evaluation + resource: https://vercel.com/blog/how-our-agents-build-on-brand-pages-with-design-md + title: How our agents build on-brand pages with design.md + author: organization:vercel + - id: vercel-agent-product-design + resource: https://vercel.com/blog/teaching-agents-product-design-at-vercel + title: Teaching agents product design at Vercel + author: organization:vercel + - id: anthropic-agent-evals + resource: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents + title: Demystifying evals for AI agents + author: organization:anthropic + - id: openai-model-guidance-evals + resource: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model + title: Model guidance + author: organization:openai + - id: playwright-visual-comparisons + resource: https://playwright.dev/docs/test-snapshots + title: Visual comparisons + author: organization:microsoft + - id: w3c-accessibility-evaluation + resource: https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate/ + title: Evaluating Web Accessibility Overview + author: organization:w3c + - id: govuk-design-system-contribution + resource: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/community/contribution-criteria/ + title: Contribution criteria + author: organization:uk-government + - id: design-tokens-format-2025 + resource: https://www.w3.org/community/reports/design-tokens/CG-FINAL-format-20251028/ + title: Design Tokens Format Module 2025.10 + author: organization:w3c-design-tokens-community-group +--- + +# Agent design guidance and evaluation + +Use this playbook when a repository or organization maintains reusable instructions that help models or agents generate, edit, or review interfaces. The result is a scoped guidance system, a bounded implementation vocabulary, a versioned evaluation suite, and an evidence-driven maintenance loop. It does not authorize an agent to establish product policy or approve its own design work. + +Start with the [agent interface evaluation](../templates/agent-interface-evaluation.md) and use the [interface quality review](../templates/interface-quality-review.md) for each final rendered candidate. + +## Architecture + +Keep four concerns distinct: + +1. **Routing and scope** determine when the guidance loads, what surface it governs, which canonical references apply, and when it must remain inactive. +2. **Design judgment** explains the audience, task, information hierarchy, product character, accepted decisions, exceptions, examples, and coverage gaps. +3. **Implementation primitives** provide governed components, tokens, styles, patterns, and assets so the agent does not reinvent repeatable mechanics. Keep a canonical machine-readable source, explicit types and semantics, platform transforms, supported variants, versions, and deprecations. +4. **Evaluation and checks** test routing, behavior, rendering, regression, and final quality with the grader suited to each claim. + +Do not copy component contracts, accessibility requirements, or policy into `design.md` when another governed source owns them. Route to the canonical source and record its version. + +## Formative design loop + +Use these optional techniques while the direction remains exploratory. They help an agent widen and refine the design space, but they do not replace the product rationale, evaluation suite, accessibility evidence, or independent human approval required elsewhere in this playbook. + +1. **Explore distinct directions.** Start from the audience, task, content, product character, and platform constraints. Generate several directions that differ on named structural, behavioral, or visual axes before polishing one. When repeated attempts collapse into the same familiar composition, introduce a bounded external stimulus such as a recorded random seed string, an unrelated visual reference, or an alternate spatial metaphor. Use the stimulus to widen the search, not as the final rationale. Record it when another person must reproduce or evaluate the exploration. A design owner must select a direction because it serves the product context, not because it is random, novel, or visually intense. +2. **Run a bounded fresh-context critique.** Give a separate critic the rendered artifact, product brief, review rubric, representative content and states, and any licensed reference set needed to judge the intended result. Withhold implementation detail and earlier rationale when doing so reduces anchoring, but do not withhold facts needed to evaluate task fit, truthfulness, accessibility, or system state. Set the iteration count, cost or time limit, stopping conditions, and escalation path before the loop begins. Treat a model score as advisory evidence only. A model critic must not approve the work, and a fixed score such as `9/10` must not replace the release criteria or independent human review. +3. **Use generated media only when it has a job.** Consider generated imagery or motion when it improves product identity, comprehension, evidence, feedback, or spatial continuity. Prefer governed components, platform behavior, or existing approved assets when they serve the same purpose with less complexity. Route produced or licensed images, audio, and video through `MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS` for the media contract, provenance, authority, accessibility, truthfulness, distribution, and retirement requirements. Apply `DESIGN-INTERACTION-013` to motion and verify performance, reduced-motion behavior, fallbacks, interruption, and frame-by-frame continuity. Deliver provider credentials through the approved `SECURITY-SECRETS` path; never place secret values in prompts, agent instructions, source control, or generated artifacts. + +After selecting a direction, remove elements that do not support hierarchy, identity, feedback, comprehension, or the task. Apply `DESIGN-INTERACTION-011` and `DESIGN-INTERACTION-017`; do not equate subtraction with an empty or capability-poor interface. + +## Procedure + +1. **Define the reader and decision.** Name who uses the guidance, which agents and surfaces it governs, the release decision it supports, and excluded work. +2. **Choose one recurring artifact or surface.** Start with real requests and repeated review corrections. Do not begin with a universal instruction such as “make it polished.” +3. **Collect evidence.** Preserve representative user tasks, shipped examples, design decisions, review comments, product vocabulary, component contracts, accessibility requirements, recurring failures, and unresolved gaps. Confirm permission, licensing, minimization, sanitization, retention, and deletion before creating fixtures. +4. **Write observable guidance.** State the reader's job, desired outcome, information priority, product-specific rationale, available primitives, prohibited fabrications, exceptions, and examples. Replace subjective adjectives with inspectable behavior. +5. **Define routing separately.** Add a short persistent trigger that names when to load the guidance and when to skip it. Test trigger recognition independently from rule adherence. +6. **Bound implementation choices.** Expose exact governed components, tokens, styles, assets, and composition primitives. Keep their implementation outside model context when practical, but document their names, types, semantics, supported states, themes, platform transforms, version, deprecation, and ownership. Validate generated artifacts against the canonical source. +7. **Create evaluation scenarios.** Use real task shapes with fixed prompts, inputs, data, render settings, tools, and success criteria. Include applicable and out-of-scope scenarios, content extremes, accessibility states, multiple structures, and likely failure modes. +8. **Save the baseline.** Run each scenario without the candidate guidance and retain the first valid attempt, trace, configuration, and full rendered artifact. Do not reroll a weak design away. +9. **Add holdouts and regressions.** Keep some expected decisions outside the guidance examples. Preserve previously passing failures as regression scenarios. Prevent the suite from rewarding one copied template. +10. **Run matched trials.** Change only the declared guidance or primitive version. Use multiple independent trials when making reliability claims. Isolate each run from prior outputs, shared state, caches, and history that would contaminate independence. +11. **Apply mixed graders.** Use deterministic checks for objective mechanics, outcome inspection for the rendered artifact, model critique only under a calibrated rubric, and independent human review for hierarchy, composition, usefulness, coherence, and product fit. Record disagreement instead of averaging it away. +12. **Review blindly where practical.** Randomize candidate and baseline order without revealing which guidance produced each artifact. Judge first attempts at full scale and inspect traces when the result is surprising. +13. **Separate failure classes.** Distinguish routing failure, guidance-comprehension failure, missing primitive, deterministic defect, harness defect, model-specific behavior, subjective disagreement, and genuine coverage gap. +14. **Land the narrowest correction.** Put product judgment in guidance, mechanics in components or tokens, objective defects in code checks, routing defects in persistent instructions, and evaluation defects in the harness. Require a human owner to accept a shared rule. +15. **Rerun affected and broad coverage.** A targeted rerun shows whether the correction works; regression and holdout runs show whether it caused collateral damage or overfitting. +16. **Make a bounded decision.** State the exact models, agent harness, guidance version, primitive version, scenario set, trial count, graders, environments, results, blockers, and limitations. Do not generalize beyond them. +17. **Monitor real use.** Collect production corrections on a declared cadence, group recurring complaints without converting them directly into rules, and have a person decide the correct owner and enforcement layer. +18. **Measure correction durability.** Track whether each accepted complaint category declines in comparable work. Revise or revert controls that do not reduce the failure, fail to load, or create worse regressions. +19. **Protect expected results.** Version screenshots, semantic snapshots, rubrics, thresholds, and expected states. Require review of candidate, expected, and diff artifacts before updating them. Never approve a baseline update solely because the test failed. +20. **Control rendering variance.** Pin or record browser, operating system, viewport, device scale, fonts, locale, timezone, color scheme, reduced-motion setting, network data, clock, animation state, and external assets. Use environment-specific baselines when rendering differs legitimately. +21. **Layer rendered evidence.** Combine structural, accessibility-tree, interaction, objective layout, visual-comparison, assistive-technology, and human design review according to the claim. State what each layer cannot prove. +22. **Audit suite health.** Review ambiguity, saturation, blind spots, duplicate scenarios, contaminated holdouts, flaky graders, unused scenarios, false positives, false negatives, cost, latency, and whether observed production failures are represented. +23. **Requalify material changes.** Rerun the applicable capability, holdout, regression, routing, accessibility, and human-review coverage after changes to models, agent harnesses, instructions, examples, components, tokens, fonts, browsers, rendering infrastructure, graders, or task distribution. + +## Suggested `design.md` structure + +Keep the file short enough to load reliably. Split it into routed references when surface-specific detail grows. + +1. Scope, trigger, and exclusions +2. Intended readers, jobs, and decisions +3. Product character and desired experience +4. Information architecture and evidence hierarchy +5. Observable visual and interaction decisions +6. Available components, tokens, styles, and assets +7. Content, accessibility, responsive, and state requirements +8. Named recurring failures and why they fail +9. Good and bad examples with provenance +10. Exceptions, open decisions, and coverage gaps +11. Verification and handoff requirements +12. Owner, version, review date, and change history + +## Grader routing + +| Claim | Primary grader | Required corroboration | +| --- | --- | --- | +| Guidance loaded for an applicable request | Trace or explicit load record | Out-of-scope negative case | +| Required token or component used | Static or DOM check | Rendered state inspection | +| Layout fits declared viewport | Browser measurement | Full-page capture | +| Content and claims preserve supplied facts | Deterministic comparison where possible | Human review of meaning and caveats | +| Hierarchy supports the reader's task | Independent human rubric | Blind comparison when practical | +| Product fit and visual coherence | Independent design review | Representative content and states | +| Guidance improves reliability | Repeated matched trials | Holdouts, regressions, confidence limits, and trial inspection | + +Aggregate scores summarize evidence; they do not override a shipping blocker or prove unmeasured quality. A model judge may assist critique but must be calibrated against qualified human decisions and must not approve its own output. + +## Evaluation design requirements + +- Define the target population of requests before selecting scenarios. Stratify by surface, task, reader, information structure, interaction, content length, locale, accessibility state, viewport, and failure consequence where they materially vary. +- Keep capability scenarios difficult enough to reveal improvement. Keep regression scenarios stable and near-complete enough to reveal backsliding. Do not combine their scores into one release number. +- Prevent holdout leakage through examples, filenames, expected outputs, repository history, caches, or prior trial artifacts. +- Predefine valid-trial, infrastructure-failure, retry, exclusion, tie, blocker, and inconclusive rules. Preserve every attempted run and the reason for any exclusion. +- Report raw counts and denominators. Use confidence intervals or another justified uncertainty description for comparative claims, and avoid ranking small differences the trial design cannot distinguish. +- Calibrate model graders on a representative human-labeled set. Track false positives, false negatives, disagreement, rubric changes, and drift after model or task-distribution changes. +- Treat pairwise preference as evidence about the compared artifacts, not an absolute quality score. Randomize order and inspect positional bias where the decision is consequential. +- Keep cost, latency, and token use visible, but do not trade away a blocking accessibility, truthfulness, or task-completion requirement to improve an aggregate efficiency score. + +## Rendered verification layers + +| Layer | Suitable claims | Does not establish | +| --- | --- | --- | +| Static source or token validation | Allowed primitives, types, references, and prohibited constructs | Final layout, behavior, or perceptual quality | +| Semantic or accessibility-tree snapshot | Roles, names, states, relationships, and reading structure | Visual hierarchy, clipping, contrast in context, or usability | +| Interaction test | Reachable behavior, focus movement, state transitions, and recovery | Overall composition or cross-environment fidelity | +| Browser measurement | Overflow, target geometry, visibility, relative position, and viewport constraints | Whether the composition serves the reader | +| Controlled visual comparison | Unintended pixel or perceptual rendering changes | Accessibility, meaning, product fit, or overall quality | +| Automated accessibility evaluation | Machine-detectable failures for the exercised state | Accessibility conformance or practical usability by itself | +| Assistive-technology and representative-user evaluation | Practical perception, operation, comprehension, and recovery | Untested users, tasks, states, or environments | +| Independent design review | Hierarchy, composition, evidence framing, coherence, and product fit | Deterministic correctness outside the reviewed scope | + +Mask or normalize only content that is legitimately nondeterministic and irrelevant to the claim. Prefer controlling the source of variance. A broad mask can conceal the exact regression the comparison is intended to detect. + +## Baseline change record + +For each expected-artifact update, record: + +- baseline ID, previous revision, and candidate revision; +- reason for the change and governing product decision; +- environment and tool versions; +- candidate, expected, and diff artifact locations; +- affected scenarios and claims; +- human inspection result; +- accessibility and interaction impact; +- regression and holdout rerun results; +- approver independent of the producing agent; and +- rollback or restoration path. + +## Completion evidence + +- Guidance scope, trigger, exclusions, canonical sources, owner, and version +- Governed primitive inventory and unsupported gaps +- Versioned scenarios with fixed inputs, render settings, success criteria, and privacy-safe fixtures +- Routing-positive and routing-negative evidence +- Saved first-attempt baselines and matched candidate trials +- Held-out, regression, accessibility, responsive, and content-extreme coverage +- Model, agent harness, tool, guidance, primitive, environment, and grader versions +- Complete traces, rendered outputs, deterministic results, human findings, and disagreements +- Failure classification and narrow correction owner +- Targeted reruns plus broader holdout and regression results +- Bounded release decision, blockers, exceptions, and residual uncertainty +- Production-feedback cadence, complaint taxonomy, trend results, and next owner +- Evaluation-population definition, sampling rationale, raw counts, denominators, uncertainty, exclusions, and grader-disagreement evidence +- Versioned baselines with candidate, expected, and diff review plus independent update approval +- Rendering-environment controls and nondeterminism decisions +- Layer-to-claim verification map with automated, manual, assistive-technology, representative-user, and independent design evidence as applicable +- Suite-health review and material-change requalification triggers +- Independent design review of the final rendered artifact + +## Example + +A shared instruction says to make reports “clean and executive-friendly.” Different agents produce unrelated dashboard templates. The team replaces the adjective with a reader decision, evidence hierarchy, supported table and chart primitives, and named failure patterns. It freezes representative proposal and report scenarios, saves first-attempt baselines, adds an out-of-scope product screen, and runs matched trials. Browser checks catch overflow and token misuse; blind human review judges whether the recommendation and evidence hierarchy work. A repeated squeezed-table failure becomes a layout check, while a weak recommendation hierarchy remains guidance. The release record reports the exact scenario set and blockers without claiming that the guidance guarantees good design. + +## Sources + +- Anshu Chimala, [How to turn your AI into a world-class designer](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-turn-your-ai-into-a-world), September 1, 2026. Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Vercel, [How our agents build on-brand pages with design.md](https://vercel.com/blog/how-our-agents-build-on-brand-pages-with-design-md). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Vercel, [Teaching agents product design at Vercel](https://vercel.com/blog/teaching-agents-product-design-at-vercel). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Anthropic, [Demystifying evals for AI agents](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- OpenAI, [Model guidance](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Microsoft, [Visual comparisons](https://playwright.dev/docs/test-snapshots). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Evaluating Web Accessibility Overview](https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate/). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- GOV.UK Design System, [Contribution criteria](https://design-system.service.gov.uk/community/contribution-criteria/). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Design Tokens Community Group, [Design Tokens Format Module 2025.10](https://www.w3.org/community/reports/design-tokens/CG-FINAL-format-20251028/). Reviewed September 1, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/apple-hig-audit.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/apple-hig-audit.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..887212c --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/apple-hig-audit.md @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +--- +id: PLAYBOOK-APPLE-HIG +title: Apple HIG interface audit +description: Versioned procedure for auditing Apple-platform interfaces against current Apple guidance with optional HIG Doctor evidence. +type: playbook +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [design, apple-platforms, accessibility, engineering] +last_reviewed: 2026-09-01 +review_by: 2026-12-01 +stale_after: 2026-12-01 +applies_to: [apple-interface, apple-platform] +tags: [playbook, apple, hig, audit] +depends_on: [APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION, DESIGN-INTERACTION, FND-ACCESSIBILITY, CONTENT-INTERFACE] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T21:33:16-07:00" } +sources: + - id: apple-hig + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines + title: Human Interface Guidelines + author: organization:apple + - id: apple-accessibility + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/accessibility + title: Accessibility + author: organization:apple + - id: apple-layout + resource: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/layout + title: Layout + author: organization:apple + - id: hig-doctor + resource: https://github.com/raintree-technology/hig-doctor + title: HIG Doctor + author: organization:raintree-technology +--- + +# Apple HIG interface audit + +Use this playbook to collect the evidence required by `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION` after applying the universal interaction, accessibility, content, trust, and product standards. Apple documentation is canonical for Apple HIG guidance. Automated HIG Doctor findings are supporting evidence, not proof of conformance or design quality. + +## Version record + +At the August 13, 2026 review, the HIG Doctor repository documented JSON schema version 2, tool version 2.0.0, and an Apple HIG content snapshot dated February 2, 2025. Record the actual tool, rules catalog, engine tier, configuration, baseline, and HIG snapshot used for each audit; recheck current releases rather than copying these values. + +## Procedure + +1. **Declare platform scope.** Create the environment matrix required by `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-001`, including versions, devices, display and window modes, orientations, inputs, accessibility settings, locales, and Apple technologies. +2. **Review current canonical guidance.** For `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-008`, read the current Apple HIG foundations, applicable components, patterns, inputs, platform conventions, and technology guidance. Record page titles, URLs, review date, deployment targets, availability assumptions, and fallbacks. +3. **Walk the complete task.** Inspect the task adaptation, hierarchy, navigation, controls, content, status, errors, permissions, destructive actions, interruption, restoration, windowing, and platform integration required by Rules 002, 006, and 007 using realistic data. +4. **Exercise adaptation and input.** For Rules 003 through 005, cover text scaling, VoiceOver, Voice Control where supported, keyboard or focus navigation, pointer, remote, controller, Crown, gaze, gesture, increased contrast, reduced motion, reduced transparency, dark appearance, localization, right-to-left layout, rotation, multitasking, and resizable windows as applicable. +5. **Run optional automated evidence.** Run HIG Doctor against the final source with a pinned tool and rules version. Preserve JSON or SARIF, engine tiers, configuration, exclusions, suppressions, baseline, and warnings. +6. **Review every material finding manually.** Confirm the cited current HIG page, inspect the actual rendered behavior, identify false positives and false negatives, and record the resolution or governed exception. +7. **Inspect what automation cannot prove.** Review hierarchy, task coherence, platform fit, content quality, state transitions, visual relationships, runtime accessibility, gestures, animation purpose, data accuracy, real-device behavior, and shared-framework output under Rule 010. +8. **Retest the final artifact.** Satisfy Rule 009 by verifying resolved findings and representative flows on supported devices or closest justified environments, then bind approval to the exact build. + +## Tool boundaries + +- HIG Doctor's Apple rules may cite Apple HIG directly; its web and cross-platform rules represent broader accessibility and UI-quality checks and must not be labeled Apple HIG conformance. +- Regex and structural or AST checks have different detection limits. Record the engine reported for each finding. +- A baseline hides known findings from a new-findings gate; it does not approve or remove them. +- Suppression requires the rule ID, reason, approver, scope, and review date. + +## Completion evidence + +- `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-001` — Platform and environment matrix. +- `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-002` through `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-007` — Complete-flow, adaptation, input, focus, navigation, system-integration, and accessibility review results. +- `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-008` — Current Apple HIG pages, deployment targets, availability assumptions, and fallbacks with dates. +- Optional HIG Doctor versioned output and configuration. +- Finding disposition, false-positive and false-negative review, exceptions, and retest evidence. +- `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-009` and `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-010` — Final device or justified simulator inspection and shared-framework evidence tied to the released build. + +## Sources + +- Apple, [Human Interface Guidelines](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Apple, [Accessibility](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/accessibility). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Apple, [Layout](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/layout). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Raintree Technology, [HIG Doctor](https://github.com/raintree-technology/hig-doctor), used as versioned audit tooling and MIT-licensed structure rather than canonical Apple guidance. Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/cloudflare.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/cloudflare.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..462a580 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/cloudflare.md @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +--- +id: PLAYBOOK-CLOUDFLARE +title: Cloudflare platform and Workers review +description: Provider-specific procedure for Cloudflare product selection, Workers configuration, bindings, secrets, streaming, lifecycle, testing, and observability. +type: playbook +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [platform, edge, engineering, security, privacy, operations] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2026-11-17 +stale_after: 2026-11-17 +applies_to: [cloudflare-integration, workers, pages-functions, edge-platform] +tags: [playbook, cloudflare, workers, bindings, edge] +depends_on: [INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR, API-CONTRACTS, FND-CHANGE, WEB-QUALITY, OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY, OPERATIONS-LOGGING, PRIVACY-DATA, SECURITY-APPLICATION, SECURITY-SECRETS, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T17:28:10Z" } +sources: + - id: cloudflare-workers + resource: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/best-practices/workers-best-practices/ + title: Cloudflare Workers best practices + author: organization:cloudflare + - id: cloudflare-bindings + resource: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/bindings/ + title: Cloudflare Workers bindings + author: organization:cloudflare + - id: cloudflare-service-bindings + resource: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/bindings/service-bindings/ + title: Cloudflare service bindings + author: organization:cloudflare + - id: cloudflare-secrets + resource: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/configuration/secrets/ + title: Cloudflare Workers secrets + author: organization:cloudflare + - id: cloudflare-configuration + resource: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/configuration/ + title: Wrangler configuration + author: organization:cloudflare +--- + +# Cloudflare platform and Workers review + +Use this playbook when Cloudflare compute, storage, networking, security, AI, or observability products are part of the system. Product-specific playbooks or standards remain additive when their risk warrants them. + +## Agent review route + +Load `cloudflare:cloudflare` to select the current product route and `cloudflare:workers-best-practices` for Workers code or configuration. Add `cloudflare:wrangler` for CLI or `wrangler.jsonc` work and `cloudflare:durable-objects` for stateful coordination, SQLite storage, alarms, RPC, WebSockets, or migrations. Record installed package versions. Retrieve current official documentation, Workers types, Wrangler schema, and changelog before relying on API shapes, configuration fields, compatibility flags, or limits. + +Load `integrations/cloudflare/manifest.yaml`, classify every in-scope surface through `sources.yaml`, select the exact capabilities, execute the matching workflows, and run every applicable evaluation. An unclassified Cloudflare surface is a stop condition or recorded library gap. + +The Workers best-practices route and current Wrangler schema win when an older Durable Objects example hand-writes `Env`, uses `wrangler.toml`, or shows a stale class pattern. Generate bindings from effective configuration and verify current base-class and RPC signatures instead of copying that sample unchanged. Record the conflict under `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-008`. + +## Procedure + +1. **Select and inventory products.** Record account, zones, Workers, Pages, routes, custom domains, environments, bindings, storage, queues, Durable Objects, AI services, network paths, regions, owners, billing, and support route. +2. **Validate configuration.** Check Wrangler configuration against the installed schema, set and review compatibility dates and flags deliberately, generate binding types, and reconcile declared bindings with code and deployed resources. +3. **Protect authority.** Store secrets through Workers or account secret facilities, keep local secret files untracked, separate environments and resources, and prefer Cloudflare bindings over API tokens and public REST calls for Cloudflare resources. +4. **Respect runtime lifecycle.** Stream large or unknown bodies with explicit bounds, keep request-scoped state out of module globals, await promises or attach approved background work to the execution context, and use cryptographic randomness for security values. +5. **Use internal boundaries.** Prefer service bindings for Worker-to-Worker calls, queues or workflows for durable background work, and the documented database connector for external databases when applicable. Authenticate and bound any public fallback. +6. **Test in the actual runtime.** Use current Workers types and a Workers-runtime test harness with representative bindings. Exercise concurrent requests, large streams, abandoned work, secret rotation, binding change, downstream failure, retry, and serialization boundaries. +7. **Review stateful primitives.** When Durable Objects apply, shard by the coordination atom, persist before updating in-memory caches, keep schema migrations explicit, keep external I/O outside concurrency blocks, and make alarms and RPC effects repeat-safe. Test eviction, concurrent calls, alarm replay, one-alarm replacement, migration, and hot-key concentration. +8. **Observe and release.** Enable structured logs and traces with an owned sampling, cost, privacy, and retention policy. Use a dry run and staged traffic where supported. Deploy dependencies in compatible order, inspect final routes and bindings, and exercise rollback, provider outage, quota exhaustion, and exit. + +## Stop conditions + +- Wrangler configuration, generated binding types, code, and deployed bindings disagree. +- Secrets appear in source, configuration values, client output, or tracked local files. +- Unbounded bodies are buffered, request state is global, or promises can be abandoned. +- A Worker calls a Cloudflare resource through a public API where a supported binding should enforce the boundary without a documented exception. +- Production logs and traces are absent or collect unapproved data. + +## Completion evidence + +- Account, product, route, resource, environment, owner, skill/version or gap, and dated official-source inventory. +- Wrangler schema validation, generated binding types, secret and environment negatives, runtime tests, and deployed binding reconciliation. +- Streaming, concurrency, promise lifecycle, security, observability, release, rollback, outage, and exit evidence. +- Passing Cloudflare integration bundle validation and no unresolved evaluation fixture. + +## Sources + +- Cloudflare, [Workers best practices](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/best-practices/workers-best-practices/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Cloudflare, [Workers bindings](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/bindings/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Cloudflare, [Service bindings](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/bindings/service-bindings/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Cloudflare, [Workers secrets](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/configuration/secrets/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Cloudflare, [Wrangler configuration](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/configuration/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/google-analytics-4.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/google-analytics-4.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..48f630f --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/google-analytics-4.md @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +--- +id: PLAYBOOK-GA4 +title: Google Analytics 4 implementation +description: Versioned procedure for implementing and validating GA4 events, ecommerce, consent, identity, attribution, retention, and export behavior. +type: playbook +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [analytics, privacy, engineering, marketing] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2026-11-13 +stale_after: 2026-11-13 +applies_to: [analytics-implementation, ga4] +tags: [playbook, google, ga4, analytics] +depends_on: [ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT, PRIVACY-DATA, FND-EVIDENCE] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T20:57:53Z" } +sources: + - id: ga4-events + resource: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/ga4/events + title: Set up events + author: organization:google + - id: ga4-validation + resource: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/ga4/validating-events + title: Validate events + author: organization:google + - id: ga4-ecommerce + resource: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/ga4/ecommerce + title: Measure ecommerce + author: organization:google + - id: ga4-consent + resource: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/12335634 + title: Consent signal + author: organization:google + - id: ga4-attribution + resource: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/14547371 + title: Attribution + author: organization:google +--- + +# Google Analytics 4 implementation + +Use this playbook when GA4 is an implementation target for `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT`. GA4's reports, attribution, identity, and modeled results are vendor outputs and must not silently redefine the organization's metric contract or causal claims. + +## Preconditions + +- Approve the measurement decision, event contract, data classification, authority, consent behavior, retention, recipients, regions, and deletion requirements. +- Record organization, account, property, data-stream, tag or SDK, consent implementation, export, and environment identifiers without committing credentials. +- Establish development and production separation and owners for analytics, privacy, implementation, and downstream use. + +## Procedure + +1. **Map the contract to GA4.** Prefer current recommended events and prescribed parameters when their meaning matches. Document any custom event or parameter and prevent reserved-name or meaning conflicts. +2. **Minimize collection.** Disable unneeded automatic or enhanced measurement, advertising, user-provided data, signals, and integrations. Prohibit secrets and unnecessary personal or high-cardinality values. +3. **Implement consent and identity.** Define behavior before choice, after grant, after denial, after withdrawal, across regions, and across devices. Document user identifiers, session behavior, stitching, modeled data, and deletion limits. +4. **Implement ecommerce atomically.** Define item, currency, value, transaction, promotion, purchase, cancellation, and refund semantics. Prevent duplicate purchase events and reconcile revenue with the authoritative commerce system. +5. **Validate syntax before production.** Use supported debug and validation tools, noting that a validation endpoint may not validate every credential or business-semantic error. +6. **Validate the complete path.** Trigger known actions and inspect browser or app emission, consent state, collection endpoint, DebugView or realtime visibility, processing, reports, export, transformations, and downstream dashboards. +7. **Test negative and repeat cases.** Cover refusal, withdrawal, offline or blocked collection, duplicate actions, retries, refunds, cross-domain behavior, session boundaries, clock and currency variation, and deleted users. +8. **Document reporting limits.** Record processing lag, thresholds, sampling where applicable, modeled results, attribution settings, lookback, identity, time zone, currency, and discrepancies with product or financial systems. +9. **Control changes.** Version event meaning, GA4 configuration, audiences, key events, links, imports, custom definitions, retention, and exports; review access and downstream recipients. +10. **Close with reconciliation.** Compare known test activity and production aggregates with authoritative product and financial evidence; record residual mismatch and ownership. + +## Failure handling + +- If events are syntactically accepted but semantically wrong, stop affected decision use, version the correction, assess historical repair, and notify consumers. +- If consent or deletion behavior fails, stop the affected collection or sharing path and activate privacy incident handling. +- If vendor reports cannot be reconciled, narrow the claim; do not rewrite the product metric to match the vendor total. + +## Completion evidence + +- Approved event and metric contracts mapped to GA4 names and parameters. +- Data, consent, identity, retention, access, recipient, and deletion review. +- Debug, validation, negative-case, full-path, and reconciliation output. +- Ecommerce duplicate and refund evidence when applicable. +- Configuration and export inventory with versions and owners. +- Reporting limitations, discrepancies, and next review date. + +## Sources + +- Google, [Set up events](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/ga4/events). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Validate events](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/ga4/validating-events). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Measure ecommerce](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/ga4/ecommerce). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Consent signal](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/12335634). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Attribution](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/14547371). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/google-search-console.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/google-search-console.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a164142 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/google-search-console.md @@ -0,0 +1,214 @@ +--- +id: PLAYBOOK-GSC +title: Google Search Console operations +description: Versioned procedure and capability router for controlled Search Console ownership, diagnosis, monitoring, external actions, and release evidence. +type: playbook +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [seo, web, analytics] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2026-09-13 +stale_after: 2026-09-13 +applies_to: [public-web-page, seo-monitoring] +tags: [playbook, google, search-console, seo] +depends_on: [SEO-FOUNDATIONS, ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT, FND-EVIDENCE] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T22:55:07Z" } +sources: + - id: google-search-docs + resource: https://developers.google.com/search/docs + title: Google Search documentation + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-start + resource: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/monitor-debug/search-console-start + title: Get started with Search Console + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-reports + resource: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9133276 + title: Reports at a glance + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-recommendations + resource: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/15107108 + title: Recommendations in Search Console + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-generative-ai-control + resource: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/16908024 + title: Search generative AI control + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-generative-ai-search + resource: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/16984139 + title: Generative AI performance report for Search + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-generative-ai-discover + resource: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/16983858 + title: Generative AI performance report for Discover + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-platform-properties + resource: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/17148418 + title: About platform properties in Search Console + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-achievements + resource: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/16543604 + title: Achievements in Search Console + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-shopping + resource: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/12660034 + title: Shopping reports and tools + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-api + resource: https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v1/api_reference_index + title: Search Console API reference + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-auth + resource: https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v1/how-tos/authorizing + title: Authorize Search Console API requests + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-limits + resource: https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/limits + title: Search Console API usage limits + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-data + resource: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96568 + title: About Search Console data + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-url-inspection + resource: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289 + title: URL Inspection tool + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-sitemaps + resource: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451001 + title: Sitemaps report + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-traffic-drops + resource: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/monitor-debug/debugging-search-traffic-drops + title: Debugging drops in Google Search traffic + author: organization:google + - id: gsc-bulk-export + resource: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/12918484 + title: About bulk data export to BigQuery + author: organization:google + - id: google-indexing-api + resource: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/using-api + title: How to use the Indexing API + author: organization:google +--- + +# Google Search Console operations + +Use this playbook to operate Google Search Console as vendor-specific evidence for `SEO-FOUNDATIONS`. Search Console describes what Google observed, processed, indexed, or served. It does not replace live HTTP and rendered inspection, origin evidence, other search engines, analytics, commerce data, or user outcomes. + +The supporting [Google Search Console capability bundle](../integrations/google-search-console/) is the executable contract for this playbook. Its source ledger, capability map, data semantics, workflows, and offline evaluations are validated separately from the governed-document catalog. + +## Preconditions + +- Name the production site owner, SEO owner, security and incident contacts, supported hosts and protocols, and intended indexable URL families. +- Record the exact domain or URL-prefix property, verified owners, delegated users, inherited access, associations, and review date without storing credentials or verification tokens here. +- Define the release, migration, investigation, or monitoring decision; its baseline; affected URL cohorts; materiality; evidence window; and recovery owner. +- Use read-only OAuth and the least Search Console role by default. Treat browser actions as observational unless the capability map explicitly classifies and authorizes a mutation. +- Read the current official source linked from the capability before relying on volatile permissions, quotas, fields, report availability, or platform behavior. + +## Authority boundaries + +- **Autonomous observation and diagnosis:** Read reports, APIs, export tables, settings, and notifications within an approved property and data boundary. +- **Bounded mutation:** Submit an already-approved sitemap only within a named property, sitemap scope, and retry limit. +- **Exact approval:** Require the final target, action, scope, consequence, recovery, and verification for property changes, service associations, indexing requests, validation starts, removals, Change of Address, shipping or return configuration, Search generative AI eligibility, and bulk export configuration. +- **Human-only representation:** Only a qualified human owner may establish verified ownership, change sensitive access, submit reconsideration, or attest security remediation to Google. +- Never infer authority from credential availability, owner role, a broad cleanup request, or an agent's confidence. + +## Operational routes + +Choose every route whose trigger applies. The machine-readable steps and stop conditions are in [`workflows.yaml`](../integrations/google-search-console/workflows.yaml). + +### Access onboarding and review + +Inventory exact domain, URL-prefix, and gradually available platform properties; verification methods; owners; roles; inherited access; unused tokens; associations; downstream recipients; Search generative AI control inheritance; and review dates. Maintain an organization-controlled verified owner. Platform login and connection remain human-only. Reconcile the final state from a second authorized account after any human-approved change. + +### Monthly health review + +Freeze a mature comparison window. Review messages, recommendations, achievements, merchant opportunities, manual actions, security issues, the effective Search generative AI control, eligible Search and Discover generative AI performance, export status, performance, page indexing, sitemaps, enhancements, and Core Web Vitals by important URL family. Treat recommendations, achievements, and merchant opportunities as context rather than instructions or ranking evidence. Correlate material changes with releases, server evidence, analytics, conversions, and external demand before assigning cause. + +### Search-sensitive release monitoring + +Record release time, affected patterns, expected Search effect, baseline, risk, and correction owner. Inspect live status, access, robots, noindex, canonicals, rendered meaning, internal links, sitemaps, and structured data before using Search Console. Compare representative live and indexed observations over defined crawl and processing windows. + +### Traffic-drop investigation + +Confirm property, surface, data maturity, anomaly status, baseline, seasonality, and materiality. Determine whether clicks, impressions, CTR, or position changed, then segment by page, query, country, device, appearance, directory, template, and release cohort. Check technical, security, manual-action, migration, algorithmic, demand, and reporting hypotheses. Record supporting and conflicting evidence; do not diagnose a penalty by elimination. + +### Indexing diagnosis + +State intended public, crawlable, canonical, and indexable behavior first. Compare HTTP status, access, robots, noindex, declared canonical, Google-selected canonical, sitemap membership, internal discovery, rendered content, duplicate variants, indexed observation, and live test. Correct durable source signals before a bounded indexing request and never promise indexing or ranking. + +### Sitemap audit + +Inventory every sitemap, index, generator, owner, property, format, and URL family. Fetch and validate files, then reconcile their URLs with successful, canonical, intended destinations. Treat submission, successful parsing, discovery, crawling, indexing, and performance as separate states. Deleting a submission does not remove its URLs from Google. + +### Site migration + +Freeze old and new URL inventories, one-to-one redirects, canonicals, sitemaps, content parity, baselines, and recovery authority. Use Change of Address only for an eligible domain or subdomain move after exact approval and successful prechecks. It is not for HTTP-to-HTTPS, path-only, or hosting-only changes. Monitor both properties and retain redirects and domain control for the approved duration. + +### API and BigQuery reconciliation + +Approve project, dataset, region, billing, IAM, retention, purpose, and cost controls before configuring export. Monitor settings, partitions, ExportLog, and Cloud logs. Query with partition filters and explicit grain, aggregate measures, and preserve anonymized-query, truncation, time-zone, latency, and canonicalization differences. Do not force Search Console, analytics, server, or commerce totals to agree. + +### Shopping and commerce configuration + +Confirm merchant eligibility and the authoritative commerce, legal, localization, and support owners. Reconcile Merchant opportunities, product and merchant rich-result reports, Merchant Center association, visible policies, structured data, feeds, checkout behavior, and Search Console shipping and return settings. Treat recommendations as optional evidence. Require exact market, policy, precedence, propagation, and rollback approval before changing settings. + +### Critical escalation + +Preserve manual actions, security notices, and removal requests exactly. Route security issues through incident response and manual actions through qualified SEO, policy, legal, and security review as applicable. Implement durable access, status, deletion, or noindex changes for urgent exposure. Temporary removal is not permanent remediation. Human owners alone submit reconsideration or security-review representations. + +## Data interpretation + +- Record property, surface, search type, dimensions, filters, time zone, data dates, observation time, and maturity with every result. +- Preserve Search Analytics `dataState`; do not compare fresh or partial hourly periods with finalized daily baselines without aligned maturity and an explicit requery plan. +- Search Analytics can omit anonymized queries, prioritize top rows, and expose at most 50,000 rows per day per search type. Pagination does not make it a complete warehouse. +- Missing date rows are not automatically zeros. Build a calendar spine and distinguish no activity, privacy suppression, immature data, API truncation, and export failure. +- Most performance page data is assigned to Google's canonical. Crawl Stats instead counts actual requested URLs, including requests within redirect chains. +- BigQuery export rows are not guaranteed unique by date, URL, site, query, or their combinations. Aggregate at an explicitly declared grain and never mix site-impression and URL-impression measures silently. +- In generative AI report downloads, do not interpret an exported numeric zero as measured zero when the UI displayed an unavailable or non-numeric sentinel. +- Indexed URL Inspection is stored Google state; live testing is a current test fetch. Neither guarantees future indexing or Search appearance. +- Report examples and link rows can be bounded or sampled. Absence from an example list is not proof of absence. + +## Failure handling + +- If ownership is lost or property scope is wrong, mark monitoring unavailable and restore organization-controlled access before making completion claims. +- If the capability bundle's source review is expired or a relevant change-watch item is unresolved, re-review the named primary sources before using the affected capability. +- If live and indexed evidence differ, preserve both timestamps and investigate crawl timing, response variation, canonical selection, rendering, resources, and release state. +- If data is immature, truncated, privacy-suppressed, sampled, or missing, narrow the claim and record the limitation rather than imputing certainty. +- If API quota is exceeded, record project, principal, property, resource, query shape, and retry time; reduce repeated wide queries and page-plus-query load before seeking more quota. +- If bulk export fails, inspect the latest settings error, expected partitions, ExportLog, Cloud logs, IAM, billing, region, retention, and schema. Do not alter Google's table schema. +- If a manual action, security issue, or ambiguous high-impact target appears, stop ordinary automation and escalate through the relevant workflow. + +## Completion evidence + +- Exact property, ownership, role, association, and access-review record. +- Named workflow, decision, baseline, filters, timestamps, URL cohorts, and data limitations. +- Direct HTTP and rendered evidence plus representative indexed and live observations. +- Sitemap, page-indexing, enhancement, manual-action, security, and performance reconciliation as applicable. +- Versioned API request or SQL evidence, export completeness, query cost, and cross-system explanation when data interfaces are used. +- Exact approvals and final-state verification for every mutation; qualified human submission evidence for human-only representations. +- Unresolved gaps, conflicting evidence, residual uncertainty, accountable owner, and next review date. +- Passing `ruby scripts/validate_integrations.rb` and `ruby scripts/test_validate_integrations.rb` results for any change to the supporting capability bundle or validator. + +## Sources + +- Google, [Google Search documentation](https://developers.google.com/search/docs). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Get started with Search Console](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/monitor-debug/search-console-start). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Reports at a glance](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9133276). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Recommendations in Search Console](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/15107108). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Search generative AI control](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/16908024). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Generative AI performance report for Search](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/16984139). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Generative AI performance report for Discover](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/16983858). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [About platform properties in Search Console](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/17148418). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Achievements in Search Console](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/16543604). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Shopping reports and tools](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/12660034). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Search Console API reference](https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v1/api_reference_index). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Authorize Search Console API requests](https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v1/how-tos/authorizing). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Search Console API usage limits](https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/limits). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [About Search Console data](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96568). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [URL Inspection tool](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Sitemaps report](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451001). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Debugging drops in Google Search traffic](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/monitor-debug/debugging-search-traffic-drops). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [About bulk data export to BigQuery](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/12918484). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [How to use the Indexing API](https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/using-api). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..beccb14 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Playbooks + +* [Apple HIG interface audit](apple-hig-audit.md) - Apple-platform audit procedure using current Apple guidance and optional versioned tooling evidence. +* [Google Analytics 4 implementation](google-analytics-4.md) - GA4 implementation, validation, consent, and reconciliation procedure. +* [Google Search Console operations](google-search-console.md) - Capability-routed Search Console ownership, diagnosis, monitoring, controlled action, and release evidence procedure. +* [Stripe integration review and release](stripe.md) - Stripe payments, Billing, Connect, Tax, webhooks, and reconciliation. +* [Plaid integration review and release](plaid.md) - Plaid Link, tokens, products, webhooks, and data lifecycle. +* [Vercel deployment and platform review](vercel.md) - Vercel deployments, environments, observability, drains, and firewall controls. +* [Resend email integration review](resend.md) - Resend sender identity, consent, delivery, suppression, and events. +* [Neon Postgres integration review](neon.md) - Neon connections, pooling, branches, migrations, and recovery. +* [Cloudflare platform integration review](cloudflare.md) - Cloudflare Workers, bindings, caching, traffic controls, and deployment. +* [Standards conformance audit](standards-audit.md) - Source-neutral rule routing, evidence inspection, finding status, exception review, and scoped conformance reporting. +* [Test strategy and suite design](test-strategy.md) - Behavior-to-check mapping, truthful test layers, bounded smoke coverage, and local through production execution design. +* [Agent design guidance and evaluation](agent-design-guidance.md) - Repository design guidance, bounded primitives, matched evaluations, correction routing, and production-feedback maintenance. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/neon.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/neon.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..19d7727 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/neon.md @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +--- +id: PLAYBOOK-NEON +title: Neon Postgres integration review +description: Provider-specific procedure for Neon connection methods, pooling, branches, network access, migrations, monitoring, and restore. +type: playbook +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [data, database, engineering, security, privacy, operations] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2026-11-17 +stale_after: 2026-11-17 +applies_to: [neon-integration, postgres, database-change, preview-database] +tags: [playbook, neon, postgres, pooling, branching, restore] +depends_on: [INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR, DATA-DATABASE, DATA-QUALITY, FND-CHANGE, OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY, PRIVACY-DATA, SECURITY-APPLICATION, SECURITY-SECRETS, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T17:28:10Z" } +sources: + - id: neon-connection-methods + resource: https://neon.com/docs/connect/connect-from-any-app + title: Connect applications to Neon + author: organization:neon + - id: neon-pooling + resource: https://neon.com/docs/connect/connection-pooling + title: Neon connection pooling + author: organization:neon + - id: neon-serverless + resource: https://neon.com/docs/serverless/serverless-driver + title: Neon serverless driver + author: organization:neon + - id: neon-branching + resource: https://neon.com/docs/introduction/branching + title: Neon branching + author: organization:neon + - id: neon-restore + resource: https://neon.com/docs/introduction/branch-restore + title: Neon instant restore + author: organization:neon + - id: neon-ip-allow + resource: https://neon.com/docs/introduction/ip-allow + title: Neon IP allow + author: organization:neon +--- + +# Neon Postgres integration review + +Use this playbook when Neon hosts Postgres or when Neon branches, APIs, authentication, or data interfaces are part of a change. + +## Agent review route + +Load `neon-postgres:neon-postgres` when available and add `neon-postgres:neon-postgres-egress-optimizer` when query volume, response shape, network transfer, or database cost is in scope. Record installed package versions. Follow each route to current Neon documentation for the selected connection method and feature. Do not rely on remembered plan limits, suspend behavior, or API shapes. + +Load `integrations/neon/manifest.yaml`, classify every in-scope surface through `sources.yaml`, select the exact capabilities, execute the matching workflows, and run every applicable evaluation. An unclassified Neon surface is a stop condition or recorded library gap. + +## Procedure + +1. **Inventory data and resources.** Record organization, project, branches, endpoints, databases, roles, regions, protected branches, data classes, retention, restore window, owners, billing, and support route. +2. **Choose the connection contract.** Select HTTP, WebSocket, pooled, or direct TCP for runtime and transaction needs. Use pooled connections for bursty serverless workloads unless an operation needs a direct session. Keep migrations and administrative work on an explicitly authorized route. +3. **Bound connection lifecycle.** Keep request-bounded clients within the request where the runtime cannot preserve sockets, close clients, cap application concurrency and deadlines, and measure client and server pool waits rather than treating the advertised client ceiling as database throughput. +4. **Separate branches and credentials.** Give production, preview, development, migrations, and reporting distinct roles and connection strings. Prevent previews from reaching the production branch. Expire preview branches and apply non-production personal-data controls to copied data. +5. **Protect network and privilege.** Use least-privilege Postgres roles, protected branches, and approved network restrictions where compatible with workload egress. Exercise credential rotation and emergency revocation. +6. **Apply database-change controls.** Test schema and data changes on a representative branch, preserve expansion and contraction compatibility, inspect locks and query plans, and bind migrations to the application release and recovery plan. +7. **Observe capacity and failure.** Monitor connections, pool waits, compute state, working set, storage, query latency, errors, and cost. Exercise cold start or scale behavior, connection exhaustion, long transactions, provider degradation, and branch cleanup. +8. **Bound transfer and read scaling.** Measure high-row, wide-row, frequent, and application-aggregated queries. Select needed columns, require bounded pagination, avoid wide parent duplication, and push safe aggregation into Postgres. Route read replicas deliberately, account for replica freshness, and compare network transfer and response shape before and after a change. +9. **Exercise restore.** Restore to an isolated branch, reconcile invariants and application behavior, record recovery time and retained history, and remove exercise resources. Do not treat branch creation alone as recovery proof. + +## Stop conditions + +- A preview or development deployment can reach production data or credentials without an approved exception. +- The selected connection method conflicts with transaction, session, runtime, or migration behavior. +- Connection concurrency, timeouts, and pool waits have not been measured under representative load. +- Restore has not been exercised against the retained data and application invariants. + +## Completion evidence + +- Project, branch, endpoint, database, role, data, retention, and owner inventory plus skill/version or gap and dated official-source review. +- Connection-method decision, concurrency and pool evidence, environment and privilege negatives, branch expiry and cleanup. +- Migration, query, monitoring, failure, restore, reconciliation, recovery-time, and exit evidence. +- Passing Neon integration bundle validation and no unresolved evaluation fixture. + +## Sources + +- Neon, [Connect applications to Neon](https://neon.com/docs/connect/connect-from-any-app). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Neon, [Connection pooling](https://neon.com/docs/connect/connection-pooling). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Neon, [Serverless driver](https://neon.com/docs/serverless/serverless-driver). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Neon, [Branching](https://neon.com/docs/introduction/branching). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Neon, [Instant restore](https://neon.com/docs/introduction/branch-restore). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Neon, [IP Allow](https://neon.com/docs/introduction/ip-allow). Reviewed August 17, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/plaid.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/plaid.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..88cc60a --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/plaid.md @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +--- +id: PLAYBOOK-PLAID +title: Plaid integration review and release +description: Provider-specific procedure for Plaid Link, Items, financial data, consent, webhooks, update mode, deletion, and production launch. +type: playbook +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [financial-data, product, engineering, security, privacy, operations] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2026-11-17 +stale_after: 2026-11-17 +applies_to: [plaid-integration, financial-data, account-linking, identity-verification] +tags: [playbook, plaid, financial-data, link, webhooks] +depends_on: [INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR, API-CONTRACTS, FND-TRUST, FND-CHANGE, OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY, PRIVACY-DATA, SECURITY-APPLICATION, SECURITY-SECRETS, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T17:28:10Z" } +sources: + - id: plaid-launch + resource: https://plaid.com/docs/launch-checklist/ + title: Plaid launch checklist + author: organization:plaid + - id: plaid-webhooks + resource: https://plaid.com/docs/api/webhooks/ + title: Plaid webhooks + author: organization:plaid + - id: plaid-webhook-verification + resource: https://plaid.com/docs/api/webhooks/webhook-verification/ + title: Plaid webhook verification + author: organization:plaid + - id: plaid-link + resource: https://plaid.com/docs/link/ + title: Plaid Link + author: organization:plaid + - id: plaid-items + resource: https://plaid.com/docs/link/troubleshooting/ + title: Plaid Link troubleshooting and Item recovery + author: organization:plaid + - id: plaid-security + resource: https://plaid.com/docs/account/security/ + title: Plaid security practices + author: organization:plaid +--- + +# Plaid integration review and release + +Use this playbook for Plaid Link and every enabled Plaid product. Financial-data purpose, user authority, retention, sharing, and consequential decisions remain governed by privacy, legal, security, and product owners. + +## Agent review route + +No Plaid-specific skill is installed in the current agent skill set. Record `not available` and use the current Plaid Launch Center, product guides, API reference, webhook guidance, security documentation, and changelog. Adding a future skill requires source and behavior review before it becomes a mapped review aid. + +Load `integrations/plaid/manifest.yaml`, classify every in-scope surface through `sources.yaml`, select the exact capabilities, execute the matching workflows, and run every applicable evaluation. An unclassified Plaid surface is a stop condition or recorded library gap. + +## Procedure + +1. **Define the authorized purpose.** Record people, countries, products, data fields, frequency, retention, recipients, decisions, consent or other authority, deletion, and support path. Request only the products and data needed for that purpose. +2. **Separate environments and identities.** Keep Sandbox, Development, and Production clients, secrets, templates, webhooks, Items, and access tokens separate. Keep access tokens server-side and out of logs, analytics, URLs, and client storage. +3. **Implement Link and Item lifecycle.** Bind Link tokens to the intended user and purpose. Handle success, exit, OAuth return, institution failure, invalid credentials, update mode, disconnected Items, changed accounts, revoked permissions, and user offboarding. +4. **Process and verify webhooks.** Verify the Plaid signature with a maintained JWT/JWK library and current key, enforce algorithm and key constraints, persist before acknowledging, and handle duplicates and out-of-order events. Recover missed events by querying the authoritative product endpoint. +5. **Keep data current.** Implement the product-specific cursor or pagination contract and restart behavior. For cursor feeds, commit page changes and the resulting cursor together, continue until the provider reports no more pages, and restart the documented mutation path without exposing a partial projection. Treat the webhook as a wake-up signal rather than the only record of change. Treat absence, stale data, `no_data`, and provider errors according to documented semantics rather than as a negative result. +6. **Exercise product flows.** Use Sandbox fixtures and webhook triggers for every enabled product, normal state, error, revocation, update, delayed completion, duplicate, reordering, pagination mutation, and recovery path. +7. **Complete production review.** Finish the current Launch Center requirements, organization and application profile, applicable security and regional review, production templates and callbacks, support access, observability, deletion, and incident response. + +## Stop conditions + +- The purpose, product scope, user authority, recipient, retention, or deletion path is undecided. +- Production access tokens or client secrets can reach a browser, mobile bundle, logs, analytics, or support artifact. +- The system cannot recover from missed, duplicate, or out-of-order webhooks. +- Revocation, update mode, Item deletion, or user offboarding is absent. +- A product-specific production or regional approval is incomplete. + +## Completion evidence + +- Purpose and data map, user authority, product inventory, official-source review, and recorded skill gap. +- Environment and secret boundary, Link and Item state-machine evidence, webhook signature negatives, duplicate and ordering results. +- Product-specific Sandbox fixtures, pagination or cursor recovery, revocation, update, deletion, and reconciliation. +- Production launch evidence, released artifact, monitoring, incident, recovery, and exit records. +- Passing Plaid integration bundle validation and no unresolved evaluation fixture. + +## Sources + +- Plaid, [Launch checklist](https://plaid.com/docs/launch-checklist/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Plaid, [Webhooks](https://plaid.com/docs/api/webhooks/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Plaid, [Webhook verification](https://plaid.com/docs/api/webhooks/webhook-verification/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Plaid, [Link](https://plaid.com/docs/link/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Plaid, [Link troubleshooting and Item recovery](https://plaid.com/docs/link/troubleshooting/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Plaid, [Security practices](https://plaid.com/docs/account/security/). Reviewed August 17, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/resend.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/resend.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5abd826 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/resend.md @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +--- +id: PLAYBOOK-RESEND +title: Resend email integration review and release +description: Provider-specific procedure for Resend domains, credentials, templates, idempotency, webhooks, delivery outcomes, and suppression. +type: playbook +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [messaging, engineering, marketing, privacy, security, operations] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2026-11-17 +stale_after: 2026-11-17 +applies_to: [resend-integration, transactional-email, marketing-email] +tags: [playbook, resend, email, deliverability, suppression] +depends_on: [INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR, API-CONTRACTS, CONTENT-INTERFACE, FND-TRUST, OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY, PRIVACY-DATA, SECURITY-APPLICATION, SECURITY-SECRETS, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T17:28:10Z" } +sources: + - id: resend-domains + resource: https://resend.com/docs/dashboard/domains/introduction + title: Resend domain management + author: organization:resend + - id: resend-idempotency + resource: https://resend.com/docs/dashboard/emails/idempotency-keys + title: Resend idempotency keys + author: organization:resend + - id: resend-webhooks + resource: https://resend.com/docs/webhooks/introduction + title: Resend webhooks + author: organization:resend + - id: resend-verify-webhooks + resource: https://resend.com/docs/webhooks/verify-webhooks-requests + title: Verify Resend webhooks + author: organization:resend + - id: react-email + resource: https://react.email/docs/introduction + title: React Email documentation + author: organization:resend +--- + +# Resend email integration review and release + +Use this playbook for transactional and marketing mail sent through Resend. Marketing authority, unsubscribe duties, and jurisdiction rules remain additive. + +## Agent review route + +Load `vercel:email` when available and record its installed package version. Treat its SDK versions and examples as volatile; verify current Resend and React Email documentation before implementation or audit. + +Load `integrations/resend/manifest.yaml`, classify every in-scope surface through `sources.yaml`, select the exact capabilities, execute the matching workflows, and run every applicable evaluation. An unclassified Resend surface is a stop condition or recorded library gap. + +## Procedure + +1. **Classify every message.** Record purpose, trigger, recipient authority, sender identity, reply path, urgency, retention, suppression behavior, and owner. Separate transactional and marketing messages and activate marketing rules when applicable. +2. **Authenticate sending.** Use an organization-controlled domain or subdomain, verify current SPF and DKIM requirements, record the DMARC decision, and separate reputations when purpose or risk differs. +3. **Protect credentials and inputs.** Keep API and webhook secrets server-side and environment-specific. Authorize the send operation; do not expose a general recipient, subject, or HTML relay to untrusted callers. +4. **Make sends repeat-safe.** Derive deterministic idempotency from the business message, persist attempt and provider ID, and reconcile ambiguous outcomes before retrying after the provider window. +5. **Process delivery events.** Verify webhook signatures over the raw body, persist and deduplicate by provider event identity, tolerate reordering, and handle delivered, delayed, bounced, complained, suppressed, and replayed outcomes. +6. **Inspect messages.** Render HTML and text forms with realistic data; test supported clients, narrow layouts, dark and high-contrast settings, blocked images, links, localization, accessible structure, and error fallback. +7. **Close the lifecycle.** Reconcile provider state, honor unsubscribe and suppression before future sends, monitor delivery and complaint signals without logging message bodies or unnecessary addresses, and exercise credential compromise and provider outage. + +## Stop conditions + +- Message purpose, recipient authority, sender, or suppression behavior is undefined. +- A production sender domain is unverified or credentials can reach client code. +- Retry can produce duplicate consequential messages. +- Webhook signatures, duplicate delivery, complaint, bounce, and suppression have not been exercised. + +## Completion evidence + +- Message inventory, authority, domain authentication, DMARC decision, skill/version or gap, and dated official-source review. +- Environment and authorization checks, deterministic idempotency, webhook signature negatives, deduplication, reordering, and reconciliation. +- Rendered HTML and text inspections plus delivery, bounce, complaint, unsubscribe, and suppression results. +- Released artifact, monitoring, incident, recovery, and exit evidence. +- Passing Resend integration bundle validation and no unresolved evaluation fixture. + +## Sources + +- Resend, [Domain management](https://resend.com/docs/dashboard/domains/introduction). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Resend, [Idempotency keys](https://resend.com/docs/dashboard/emails/idempotency-keys). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Resend, [Webhooks](https://resend.com/docs/webhooks/introduction). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Resend, [Verify webhook requests](https://resend.com/docs/webhooks/verify-webhooks-requests). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- React Email, [Documentation](https://react.email/docs/introduction). Reviewed August 17, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/standards-audit.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/standards-audit.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00ce9dd --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/standards-audit.md @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +--- +id: PLAYBOOK-STANDARDS-AUDIT +title: Standards conformance audit +description: Source-neutral procedure for applying Raintree profiles, inspecting code and live-system evidence, and reporting scoped conformance without implying certification. +type: playbook +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [standards, ai, security, privacy, data, engineering] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-16 +review_by: 2027-02-16 +stale_after: 2027-02-16 +applies_to: [standards-audit, conformance-review, company-brain-audit] +tags: [playbook, audit, evidence, conformance] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, WRITING-FUNCTIONAL, AI-AGENTS, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T06:08:51Z" } +--- + +# Standards conformance audit + +Use this playbook to audit a repository, system, release, or bounded decision against Raintree standards. An audit result applies only to the declared subject, version, environment, evidence, and cutoff date. It is not certification and does not support claims about uninspected scope. + +This draft requires independent review of the final artifact and qualified AI, security, privacy, data, and engineering review before it can become stable. + +Start from [`templates/audit-report.md`](../templates/audit-report.md). Keep sensitive evidence in its approved system and record a protected reference rather than copying it into the report. + +## Governing standards + +- `FND-EVIDENCE` — claim strength, provenance, freshness, conflicts, uncertainty, and valid evaluation +- `FND-TRUST` — honest framing, automated judgment, user control, and reliance boundaries +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL` — intended reader, clear terms, executable procedure, report structure, and comprehension +- `AI-AGENTS` — task contracts, authority boundaries, governed instructions, and evaluation when an agent conducts or supports the audit +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — proportionate checks, final inspection, residual uncertainty, independent review, and reproducible handoff + +## Status contract + +Use exactly one status for each in-scope rule: + +| Status | Meaning | +|---|---| +| `pass` | Inspected evidence demonstrates that the rule is handled according to its requirement level for the declared scope and version. | +| `fail` | The applicable obligation is not met or prohibited behavior is present. Incomplete implementation is a failure, not a partial pass. | +| `unknown` | The auditor lacks enough evidence to determine whether the rule is met. | +| `not applicable` | The rule's stated condition is false for the declared scope, or an optional enhancement was not selected, with the reason recorded. | +| `approved exception` | An authorized, current exception satisfies `governance/exceptions.md` for the exact rule and scope; prohibited rules cannot use this status. | +| `stale evidence` | Evidence once existed but is too old, superseded, or mismatched to support the current claim. | + +Do not use `partial pass`. Record incomplete implementation as `fail` and insufficient proof as `unknown`. For `recommended` rules, `pass` means the default was followed or a concrete context-specific deviation reason was recorded. For `avoid` rules, `pass` means the behavior is absent or its required justification and review are recorded. A compensating control does not change a failure to `pass` unless the rule's exception permits it and the governing approval is recorded. + +## Overall result + +- `conforming` — every applicable `required` and active `contextual` rule is `pass` or `approved exception`; every `prohibited` rule is `pass`; every applicable `recommended` and `avoid` rule is `pass` or `approved exception`; and every rule's applicability was decided. +- `non-conforming` — an applicable `required`, active `contextual`, `recommended`, or `avoid` rule is `fail`, or a `prohibited` rule is `fail` because the prohibited behavior is present. +- `indeterminate` — no known failure establishes non-conformance, but an applicable `required`, active `contextual`, `prohibited`, `recommended`, or `avoid` rule is `unknown` or `stale evidence`. + +When both a known failure and missing evidence exist, report `non-conforming` and keep the unknown or stale findings visible. Optional rules do not affect the overall result. A prohibited rule can only be `pass`, `fail`, `unknown`, `not applicable`, or `stale evidence`. + +## Procedure + +1. **Declare the audit decision and boundary.** Record the intended reader and decision, subject, owners, system boundary, environments, version or commit, time period, evidence cutoff, supported uses, exclusions, and expected report date. Identify laws, organization policy, contracts, or external standards that remain additive. +2. **Select profiles and routes.** Choose the closest primary task profile. Load every front-matter `depends_on` standard, then activate every conditional route whose condition is true. Combine multiple applicable profiles. Record the reason for each route and any library gap that requires an external owner decision. +3. **Build the rule inventory.** List every rule from the active standards. Record its level, condition, applicability decision, planned evidence, and responsible reviewer. Do not remove an unfavorable or difficult rule from the inventory. +4. **Route provider evidence.** Activate the exact named playbook for Stripe, Plaid, Vercel, Resend, Neon, Cloudflare, or Google Search Console and load its manifest-backed bundle. Use the zero-gap ledger to classify every in-scope provider surface, select capabilities by exact interface and authority, execute matching workflows, and run applicable evaluations. If no named playbook or capability exists, activate `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR`, use current official provider documentation, and record the library gap. Record each applicable agent skill and package version or gap as a review aid. Classify provider documentation as normative and engineering articles as informative. Resolve skill, sample, and source conflicts under `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-008`; do not let an informative article or cross-provider sample become the sole authority for provider behavior. A repository-only inspection cannot pass rules that require live control-plane or released-system evidence. +5. **Inspect actual evidence.** Compare design records and repository artifacts with authorized live configuration, identities, permissions, data, logs, rendered outputs, tests, operational records, and final state as applicable. Record source, version, method, environment, collection time, access classification, and expiry for each evidence item. +6. **Trace representative paths.** Follow material data and authority from input through validation, processing, storage, derivation, access decisions, output, logging, export, retention, correction, deletion, backup, and restoration. Sample normal and high-impact paths rather than relying only on documentation. +7. **Exercise failure and boundary cases.** Cover normal use, denial, stale or conflicting state, partial failure, retry, revoked access, missing evidence, unsupported requests, recovery, and interrupted operations. For providers, include invalid callbacks, duplicates, reordering, ambiguous timeouts, credential revocation, quota or cost exhaustion, control-plane drift, outage, reconciliation, rollback or compensation, and exit. Add domain-specific abuse, accessibility, privacy, security, financial, or safety cases required by the active standards. +8. **Record findings and result.** Assign one permitted status per rule, link evidence, state the direct observation, distinguish inference, explain risk, identify an owner and follow-up, and preserve conflicts and limitations. Apply the overall-result contract without averaging or hiding required failures behind a score. +9. **Review exceptions.** Confirm every exception names the rule, exact scope, reason, risk, compensating controls, accountable approver, expiry, and return-to-compliance work. An auditor or agent may propose but must not approve an exception on another person's behalf. +10. **Retest and close.** Retest resolved findings against the final artifact and environment. Rebuild the rule inventory if scope or behavior changed. Bind the report to the final version and preserve unknowns, stale evidence, untested areas, open exceptions, and required qualified review in the conclusion. + +## Evidence boundaries + +- A policy or design document proves what was intended, not what a live system enforces. +- A code test proves only the paths, inputs, configuration, and environment it exercised. +- A screenshot without source, time, identity, scope, and method is weak evidence. +- An automated scanner finding needs manual interpretation; a clean scan does not prove conformance. +- A source-system control does not prove that derived stores, caches, exports, and restores preserve it. +- Reviewer confidence, aggregate scores, and selected successful demonstrations do not replace rule-level evidence. + +## Completion evidence + +- Completed scope, profile-routing record, and rule inventory. +- Evidence register with protected references and freshness. +- Rule-by-rule findings using only the defined statuses. +- Exceptions checked against `governance/exceptions.md`. +- Overall result derived from the status contract. +- Retest evidence bound to the final subject and version. +- Independent and qualified reviews required by active standards. +- Explicit unknowns, stale evidence, untested scope, conflicts, and next owners. +- When a material provider is in scope, the exact provider playbook and `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-001` through `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-014` — The report contains a separate provider record, manifest and skill route or gap, normative and informative source classification, conflict decisions, negative-path inventory, live configuration, exercised callbacks and failures, cost and quota bounds, recovery, and exit evidence. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-001`, `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-004`, and `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-007` — The final report identifies its reader and decision, states the scoped result first, and uses clear headings, tables, and links. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-013` when the audit governs a consequential or repeated decision — Representative readers can find, understand, and act on the result and material limitations. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-014`, `AI-AGENTS-002`, and `AI-AGENTS-020` when an agent uses the playbook — The audit task defines its scope, required inputs, forbidden actions, escalation, postconditions, verification, owner, and versioned reuse. + +## Examples + +### Missing live authorization evidence + +Repository tests cover role checks, but the auditor cannot inspect deployed policy or exercise a revoked user. The applicable authorization rule is `unknown`, not `pass`, and the overall result is `indeterminate` unless another required rule already fails. + +### Incomplete deletion propagation + +The source and search index delete a record, but an answer cache retains it until manual expiry. The applicable deletion rule is `fail`, even if remediation is scheduled, and the overall result is `non-conforming`. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/stripe.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/stripe.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a7c4bf6 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/stripe.md @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +--- +id: PLAYBOOK-STRIPE +title: Stripe integration review and release +description: Provider-specific procedure for Stripe payments, Billing, Connect, Tax, credentials, webhooks, reconciliation, and launch evidence. +type: playbook +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [payments, finance, engineering, security, privacy, operations] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2026-11-17 +stale_after: 2026-11-17 +applies_to: [stripe-integration, payments, billing, marketplace, tax] +tags: [playbook, stripe, payments, billing, connect, tax] +depends_on: [INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR, API-CONTRACTS, FND-TRUST, FND-CHANGE, OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY, PRIVACY-DATA, SECURITY-APPLICATION, SECURITY-SECRETS, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T17:28:10Z" } +sources: + - id: stripe-integration-options + resource: https://docs.stripe.com/payments/payment-methods/integration-options + title: Stripe integration options + author: organization:stripe + - id: stripe-keys + resource: https://docs.stripe.com/keys-best-practices + title: Stripe secret API key management + author: organization:stripe + - id: stripe-idempotency + resource: https://docs.stripe.com/api/idempotent_requests + title: Stripe idempotent requests + author: organization:stripe + - id: stripe-webhooks + resource: https://docs.stripe.com/webhooks + title: Stripe webhooks + author: organization:stripe + - id: stripe-connect + resource: https://docs.stripe.com/connect/design-an-integration + title: Design a Stripe Connect integration + author: organization:stripe + - id: stripe-billing + resource: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/design-an-integration + title: Design a Stripe Billing integration + author: organization:stripe + - id: stripe-tax + resource: https://docs.stripe.com/tax/set-up + title: Set up Stripe Tax + author: organization:stripe + - id: stripe-go-live + resource: https://docs.stripe.com/get-started/checklist/go-live + title: Stripe go-live checklist + author: organization:stripe +--- + +# Stripe integration review and release + +Use this playbook for any Stripe integration. It adds provider procedures to `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR`; it does not decide merchant-of-record, tax, legal, or financial responsibility for the organization. + +## Agent review route + +Load `stripe:stripe-best-practices` for the core API, `stripe:connect-recommend` for connected accounts or platform money movement, and `stripe:upgrade-stripe` for API or SDK changes. Load `vercel:payments` only when the Vercel Marketplace or deployment path is also in scope. Record installed package versions and read the reference matching each enabled product. Revalidate API versions, supported surfaces, capability paths, tax behavior, and deprecated APIs against current Stripe documentation before making a claim or change. + +The dedicated Stripe route wins when a Vercel payments example differs from current Stripe guidance. In particular, do not copy a pinned API version or explicit payment-method list from a cross-provider sample without checking the current Stripe API version and dynamic payment-method guidance. Record the conflict and the official Stripe source used to resolve it under `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR-008`. + +Load `integrations/stripe/manifest.yaml`, classify every in-scope surface through `sources.yaml`, select the exact capabilities, execute the matching workflows, and run every applicable evaluation. An unclassified Stripe surface is a stop condition or recorded library gap. + +## Procedure + +1. **Fix the business and account boundary.** Record account, mode, products, currencies, countries, payment methods, customer relationship, merchant of record, fees, losses, disputes, refunds, payouts, tax responsibility, owners, and support path. +2. **Select the current supported route.** Prefer the current higher-level Stripe surface that fits the flow. Record why a lower-level or legacy route is necessary. Keep sandbox and live objects, keys, prices, products, endpoints, and connected accounts separate. +3. **Constrain authority.** Use one restricted key per service and purpose where supported, add stable-egress restrictions when operationally safe, keep secrets server-side, and exercise rotation and revocation. Review Dashboard roles, strong authentication, and automated offboarding. +4. **Protect every mutation.** Attach a business-operation idempotency key to retryable creates and updates. Persist request, provider request ID, object ID, attempt, result, and reconciliation state. Never infer failure from a timeout. +5. **Process asynchronous truth.** Verify webhook signatures over the raw body, persist before acknowledging, deduplicate, handle reordering, and reconcile from Stripe objects and events. Do not rely on a browser redirect or synchronous response as final payment state. +6. **Validate product-specific obligations.** For Connect, record responsibility dimensions and verify current account capabilities before charges or transfers. For Billing, exercise renewal, retry, dunning, proration, cancellation, and portal behavior. For Tax, confirm active registrations and qualified tax-code decisions before relying on automatic collection. +7. **Exercise money movement.** Test success, authentication, decline, duplicate submission, timeout, refund, partial refund, dispute, reversal, failed payout, negative balance, delayed event, and reconciliation in sandbox. Verify live configuration without an unapproved live financial effect. +8. **Launch and monitor.** Complete the current go-live route, bind evidence to the released artifact and live account configuration, monitor failures and reconciliation gaps without logging sensitive data, and exercise key compromise, provider outage, and exit. + +## Stop conditions + +- Merchant-of-record, fee, loss, dispute, refund, payout, or tax responsibility is undecided. +- A live secret key is exposed to a client, shared across environments, or broader than the service needs. +- Webhook authenticity, duplicate handling, or reconciliation has not been exercised. +- A connected account lacks the current required capability state. +- Automatic tax is expected to collect in a jurisdiction without confirmed active registration and a qualified tax decision. + +## Completion evidence + +- Stripe account and product inventory, responsibility decision, current skill/version or gap, and dated official-source review. +- Restricted-key and environment matrix, rotation exercise, webhook registration, signature negatives, idempotency and concurrency results. +- Product-specific sandbox scenarios and ledger-to-Stripe reconciliation. +- Live configuration inspection, released artifact identity, monitoring, incident, recovery, and exit evidence. +- Passing Stripe integration bundle validation and no unresolved evaluation fixture. + +## Sources + +- Stripe, [Integration options](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/payment-methods/integration-options). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Stripe, [Secret API key management](https://docs.stripe.com/keys-best-practices). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Stripe, [Idempotent requests](https://docs.stripe.com/api/idempotent_requests). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Stripe, [Webhooks](https://docs.stripe.com/webhooks). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Stripe, [Design a Connect integration](https://docs.stripe.com/connect/design-an-integration). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Stripe, [Design a Billing integration](https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/design-an-integration). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Stripe, [Set up Stripe Tax](https://docs.stripe.com/tax/set-up). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Stripe, [Go-live checklist](https://docs.stripe.com/get-started/checklist/go-live). Reviewed August 17, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/test-strategy.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/test-strategy.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..838c9b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/test-strategy.md @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +--- +id: PLAYBOOK-TEST-STRATEGY +title: Test strategy and suite design +description: Procedure for mapping software risk to test evidence, governing suite health and advanced exercises, and designing local through production verification. +type: playbook +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [engineering, quality, operations] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-30 +review_by: 2027-02-28 +stale_after: 2027-02-28 +applies_to: [test-strategy, test-suite-design, smoke-test-design, ci-design] +tags: [playbook, engineering, testing, smoke-tests, continuous-integration] +depends_on: [ENGINEERING-TESTING, ENGINEERING-QUALITY, FND-EVIDENCE, FND-CHANGE, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-30T21:20:00Z" } +--- + +# Test strategy and suite design + +Use this playbook when creating, restructuring, or auditing a software test strategy. The result is a behavior-to-evidence map, a suite inventory with truthful names, a bounded smoke contract, and an execution model spanning local development through released-system observation. + +For rapid routing, begin with the [testing field guide](../testing/field-guide.md) and closest [situation recipe](../testing/recipes.md). Copy only applicable [testing records](../templates/testing-records.md). The machine-readable [testing routes](../testing/routes.yaml) connect types and situations to rules, stages, recipes, and templates. + +## Procedure + +1. **Declare the decision and boundary.** Name the repository, component, artifact, environments, supported users or callers, release decision, owners, and excluded scope. +2. **Inventory material behavior.** Start from acceptance criteria, contracts, user journeys, data flows, authority boundaries, failure design, incidents, and recurring regressions. Do not start from the existing test file list. +3. **Rank failure consequences.** Record user, data, security, privacy, financial, legal, accessibility, availability, and operational impact. Activate the applicable domain standards for material risks. +4. **Build the behavior-to-check map.** For each behavior, choose the narrowest layer that can observe it, representative success and failure cases, fixtures, environment, cadence, owner, and diagnostic artifact. +5. **Inventory current suites.** Record each command's primary claim, actual assertions, real and substituted boundaries, resource and duration class, cost, mutation behavior, stable identity, owner, health history, quarantine state, and execution stage. Rename suites whose labels overstate or misstate their evidence. +6. **Remove equivalent duplication.** Give each deterministic contract one authoritative lower-layer owner. Retain broader assertions only for a distinct assembly, deployment, or journey risk. +7. **Design the smoke contract.** State the operability decision, final artifact, representative paths, allowed side effects, data identity, environment, time and cost budget, diagnostics, and stop condition. Move exhaustive checks to their appropriate suites. +8. **Design selective end-to-end journeys.** Keep only journeys whose claims cross real boundaries. State substitutions and production differences. Route detailed permutations to unit, component, contract, security, accessibility, or integration coverage. +9. **Control nondeterminism and data.** Declare clocks, seeds, ordering, concurrency, network, provider behavior, identities, namespaces, cleanup, expiry, interruption, and reconciliation. +10. **Define flake handling.** Establish controlled diagnostic retries, classification, sufficient trials for intermittent behavior, temporary quarantine fields, expiry, and return conditions. Preserve the original failure and report contained coverage as missing rather than green. +11. **Govern production-derived data.** Record authority, sanitization, minimization, access, freshness, representativeness, retention, deletion, re-identification risk, ephemeral identities, and prohibited effects. +12. **Define execution stages.** Separate local, presubmit, post-submit, release-qualification, deployment-gate, and post-deployment evidence. For deferred checks, name the trigger, owner, deadline, escalation, and release enforcement point. +13. **Choose the portfolio.** Evaluate speed, maintainability, utilization, reliability, fidelity, architecture, dependency topology, and defect yield. Do not set universal layer percentages. Add fuzz, property, mutation, fault-injection, ephemeral-environment, synthetic, or canary techniques only for a named defect model. +14. **Design selective execution.** If checks may be omitted, define selector inputs, protected risks, uncertainty fallback, full-suite comparison, miss measurement, calibration or dependency-graph maintenance, and maximum deferral. +15. **Model time and compatibility.** Identify governed clocks, temporal boundaries, version skew, mixed readers and writers, delayed work, rollout, migration interruption, rollback, and reconciliation. Use controlled time and a reachable version-state matrix. +16. **Bound high-fidelity exercises.** For dry runs, shadows, replays, and fault injection, define hypothesis, isolation, skipped effects, steady state, comparison, guardrails, stop authority, and recovery. For canaries, define concurrent control, absolute and relative limits, evidence window, inconclusive outcome, staged promotion, and rollback. +17. **Govern the test lifecycle.** Preserve stable identity and history across changes; define addition, quarantine, replacement, and retirement decisions; detect unreachable or never-run checks; and resolve expired quarantines explicitly. +18. **Test the tests.** Inject representative defects into critical custom gates, validate fixtures against real contracts, and inspect failure output for actionable bounded evidence. +19. **Run and record the final strategy.** Execute the named layers against the final state, record results and duration, preserve failures and limitations, and assign owners for missing evidence. + +## Behavior-to-check matrix + +Use at least these fields: + +| Behavior or claim | Failure consequence | Primary layer | Environment and boundaries | Success, boundary, and failure cases | Cadence | Owner | Result or limitation | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| Example: sitemap generation | Discovery loss | Contract | Local generated output | Missing, duplicate, contradictory directive | Every change | Web | Pending | + +## Layer-selection guide + +- Can controlled inputs and outputs prove the behavior without a real boundary? Use a unit or component check. +- Is the risk incompatibility with a schema, route, event, migration, or public interface? Use a contract check. +- Does the claim require two or more real owned boundaries? Use an integration check. +- Does it require browser layout, focus, keyboard, storage, network, or runtime behavior? Use a browser check under the applicable web and accessibility standards. +- Does it require the full user or system journey? Use a selective end-to-end check. +- Does it only decide whether a final artifact is alive and connected? Use a smoke check. +- Does it require a scripted representative operation against a released environment? Use a bounded synthetic check. +- Does it require comparing a new artifact on limited live traffic or population with a stable baseline? Use a canary. +- Does it require the released provider control plane, DNS, TLS, or production configuration before traffic? Use exact-artifact release or deployment verification. +- Does it require human judgment about meaning, presentation, usability, or harm? Use a repeatable manual review with recorded evidence. + +## Smoke-test design record + +Record: + +- Artifact and exact version +- Environment +- Operability decision +- Representative startup, readiness, routing, installation, migration, dependency, or harmless critical paths +- Explicitly excluded exhaustive coverage +- Synthetic data and side-effect boundary +- Time and external-cost budget +- Safe repetition and cleanup behavior +- Failure diagnostic and retained evidence +- Invocation stage and owner +- Explicit continuation decision after pass or fail + +Common appropriate cases include application startup, readiness, a primary route, one representative dynamic route, essential dependency wiring, package import or installation, a harmless CLI command, migration compatibility, worker consumption of a reversible synthetic job, and deployed DNS, TLS, routing, or artifact identity. + +Common inappropriate cases include every route at every viewport, exact content for every page, every redirect, full accessibility review, broad authorization matrices, all analytics events, load characterization, long provider workflows, or destructive and billable production actions. + +## Completion evidence + +- Declared boundary, release decision, owners, and active standards +- Behavior and risk inventory +- Behavior-to-check matrix +- Suite inventory with truthful names and evidence limits +- Bounded smoke-test design record +- Selective end-to-end journey list +- Determinism, fixture, data, side-effect, and flake decisions +- Test-size contracts and suite identity, ownership, health, cost, and quarantine records +- Production-derived data authority and lifecycle when applicable +- Local, presubmit, post-submit, release, deployment, and post-deployment map, including deferred-check deadlines +- Evidence-based portfolio rationale without a universal layer ratio +- Selective-execution model, protected risks, fallback, reference-run cadence, and miss evidence +- Controlled-clock cases and reachable version, migration, rollout, and rollback matrix +- Dry-run, shadow, replay, fault-injection, and canary hypotheses, guardrails, comparison, stop, promotion, and recovery records when applicable +- Test additions, replacements, removals, expired quarantines, and unreachable-check audit +- Representative known-defect evidence for critical custom gates +- Final commands, results, durations, failures, limitations, and next owners +- Independent engineering review before the strategy is adopted as a shared release policy + +## Example + +A public website currently has one long browser command named `test:smoke`. Inventory shows that it checks static metadata, a redirect table, every sitemap URL at three widths, dialog focus, analytics events, headers, and application startup. The revised strategy assigns metadata and redirects to contract tests, analytics serialization to unit tests, representative focus and layout behavior to a browser regression suite, and startup plus a few critical routes to a bounded smoke command. CI runs all deterministic suites and the production build; deployment verification checks the exact preview before promotion. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/vercel.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/vercel.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fec55f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/playbooks/vercel.md @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +--- +id: PLAYBOOK-VERCEL +title: Vercel deployment and platform review +description: Provider-specific procedure for Vercel environments, builds, promotion, rollback, firewall controls, observability, and drains. +type: playbook +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [platform, web, engineering, security, privacy, operations] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2026-11-17 +stale_after: 2026-11-17 +applies_to: [vercel-deployment, vercel-hosting, vercel-firewall, vercel-observability] +tags: [playbook, vercel, deployment, firewall, observability] +depends_on: [INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR, FND-CHANGE, WEB-QUALITY, OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY, OPERATIONS-LOGGING, PRIVACY-DATA, SECURITY-APPLICATION, SECURITY-SECRETS, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T17:28:10Z" } +sources: + - id: vercel-deployments + resource: https://vercel.com/docs/deployments/promoting-a-deployment + title: Vercel promoting deployments + author: organization:vercel + - id: vercel-environment + resource: https://vercel.com/docs/environment-variables + title: Vercel environment variables + author: organization:vercel + - id: vercel-sensitive-environment + resource: https://vercel.com/docs/environment-variables/sensitive-environment-variables + title: Vercel sensitive environment variables + author: organization:vercel + - id: vercel-firewall + resource: https://vercel.com/docs/vercel-firewall + title: Vercel Firewall + author: organization:vercel + - id: vercel-drains + resource: https://vercel.com/docs/drains/security + title: Vercel Drains security + author: organization:vercel + - id: vercel-runtime-logs + resource: https://vercel.com/docs/logs/runtime + title: Vercel runtime logs + author: organization:vercel +--- + +# Vercel deployment and platform review + +Use this playbook when Vercel builds, deploys, hosts, protects, or exports telemetry for an application. Framework-specific standards remain additive. + +## Agent review route + +Load `vercel:deployments-cicd`, `vercel:env-vars`, `vercel:observability`, and `vercel:vercel-firewall` when their scopes apply. Add `vercel:vercel-functions`, `vercel:routing-middleware`, `vercel:cdn-caching`, `vercel:cron-jobs`, `vercel:vercel-storage`, or `vercel:marketplace` when those surfaces are present. Record installed package versions and verify current CLI behavior, plan availability, limits, fields, and platform defaults against Vercel documentation. + +Vercel payment and email routes do not replace the Stripe and Resend playbooks. Activate both provider bundles and let the dedicated provider source resolve API-level conflicts. + +Load `integrations/vercel/manifest.yaml`, classify every in-scope surface through `sources.yaml`, select the exact capabilities, execute the matching workflows, and run every applicable evaluation. An unclassified Vercel surface is a stop condition or recorded library gap. + +## Procedure + +1. **Fix the project boundary.** Record team, project, domains, environments, branch rules, root directory, regions, functions, integrations, storage, owners, billing, and incident contacts. +2. **Separate configuration.** Scope production, preview, development, custom, and branch values intentionally. Mark secrets sensitive where supported, keep them out of client-prefixed variables and source, prevent previews from reaching production data, and use workload identity for runtime backend access where supported. +3. **Bind build and configuration.** Pin deployment tooling, obtain the intended environment before build, run tests against the production-intended artifact, and record deployment ID, source commit, build configuration, migrations, and effective environment names without values. +4. **Stage and promote.** Prefer an immutable tested production-intended deployment or an explicitly understood preview promotion path. Define promotion, stop, rollback, and compensation conditions. Confirm environment differences and stateful migrations before changing production aliases. +5. **Review runtime and routing.** Match each function to its runtime, duration, region, concurrency, streaming, and background-work contract. Treat routing middleware as a security and cache boundary: keep authentication and authorization in the protected handler too, bound matcher scope, and test rewrites, redirects, prefetches, old clients, and version skew. +6. **Review cache and scheduled work.** Separate CDN, ISR, runtime, and backend caches. Test tenant and authorization partitioning, stale-on-error, invalidation blast radius, request collapse, and cache-cold load. Make cron handlers authenticated and repeat-safe, bound overlap and catch-up, and prove the schedule invokes an owned endpoint in the intended environment. +7. **Establish observability.** Emit governed structured logs, correlate requests and deployments, verify runtime error access, and configure plan-appropriate logs, traces, analytics, performance signals, alerts, or drains. Authenticate drain payloads over the raw body and minimize exported personal data. +8. **Stage firewall changes.** Inventory route and method exposure. Start new rules and rate limits in log-only mode, inspect representative legitimate and abusive traffic, enforce in preview, then publish production enforcement with rollback. Review priority, bypasses, reverse proxies, and regional counting semantics. +9. **Keep severe controls human-owned.** Attack-mode changes, platform-mitigation pauses, broad bypasses, and production firewall publication require explicit incident or production authority. Agents may prepare diffs and evidence but cannot assume that authority. +10. **Verify after release.** Inspect current deployment, domains, environment scope, functions, logs, drains, firewall events, caches, cron outcomes, user flows, and error signals. Exercise rollback, credential failure, provider degradation, drain failure, cache stampede, overlapping scheduled runs, and project exit. + +## Stop conditions + +- Preview or development has production secrets, databases, payment authority, or other production mutation access without an approved exception. +- The tested artifact or effective production configuration cannot be identified. +- Firewall enforcement has not passed log-only and preview evidence, outside documented emergency authority. +- A telemetry drain is unauthenticated or exports unapproved personal data. +- Rollback would leave an unaddressed schema, financial, or external side effect. + +## Completion evidence + +- Team, project, domain, environment, integration, and authority inventory plus skill versions and dated official-source review. +- Environment-scope negatives, immutable build and deployment identity, pre-promotion checks, promotion and rollback evidence. +- Runtime logs and alerts, drain authenticity and privacy checks, staged firewall match and enforcement evidence. +- Post-release inspection, incident, recovery, and exit exercise. +- Passing Vercel integration bundle validation and no unresolved evaluation fixture. + +## Sources + +- Vercel, [Promoting deployments](https://vercel.com/docs/deployments/promoting-a-deployment). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Vercel, [Environment variables](https://vercel.com/docs/environment-variables). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Vercel, [Sensitive environment variables](https://vercel.com/docs/environment-variables/sensitive-environment-variables). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Vercel, [Firewall](https://vercel.com/docs/vercel-firewall). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Vercel, [Drains security](https://vercel.com/docs/drains/security). Reviewed August 17, 2026. +- Vercel, [Runtime logs](https://vercel.com/docs/logs/runtime). Reviewed August 17, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/privacy/data-handling.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/privacy/data-handling.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..39f3bbc --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/privacy/data-handling.md @@ -0,0 +1,360 @@ +--- +id: PRIVACY-DATA +title: Personal data handling +description: Governs purpose, minimization, choice, rights, retention, sharing, and privacy risk for personal data. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [privacy, legal, product, security] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [product-feature, growth-experiment, public-web-page, database-change] +tags: [privacy, personal-data, consent, retention, rights] +depends_on: [FND-TRUST, FND-EVIDENCE, FND-CHANGE] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T19:35:12Z" } +sources: + - id: nist-privacy-framework-1 + resource: https://www.nist.gov/document/nist-privacy-frameworkv10pdf + title: NIST Privacy Framework, Version 1.0 + author: organization:nist + - id: w3c-privacy-principles + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/ + title: Privacy Principles + author: organization:w3c + - id: ico-data-protection-principles + resource: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/data-protection-principles/a-guide-to-the-data-protection-principles/ + title: A guide to the data protection principles + author: organization:ico + - id: ico-data-protection-design-default + resource: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/accountability-and-governance/guide-to-accountability-and-governance/data-protection-by-design-and-by-default/ + title: Data protection by design and by default + author: organization:ico + - id: ico-dpia + resource: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/accountability-and-governance/guide-to-accountability-and-governance/data-protection-impact-assessments/ + title: Data protection impact assessments + author: organization:ico + - id: openai-data-controls + resource: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/your-data + title: Data controls in the OpenAI platform + author: organization:openai +--- + +# Personal data handling + +Personal-data processing must have a defined purpose, a governing authority, privacy-protective defaults, and verifiable controls across its full life cycle. This standard applies to data that identifies, relates to, describes, can be linked to, or can reasonably single out a person or household, including inferred and pseudonymous data. + +This standard does not determine which laws apply or provide legal advice. Record the governing law, contract, organization policy, and qualified privacy or legal decision where they set a specific obligation. A stricter applicable requirement takes precedence. + +## Rules + +### PRIVACY-DATA-001 — Map the processing before implementation + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A system collects, receives, derives, stores, uses, discloses, transfers, or deletes personal data. + +Maintain a processing record that identifies the people affected; data categories, including inferences and linkable identifiers; source; purpose; processing operations; systems and locations; recipients; organization role; owner; access groups; retention; deletion path; and governing policy or decision. + +**Why:** Privacy controls cannot cover data flows, copies, or responsibilities that remain unknown. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace representative data from collection or receipt through storage, use, logs, exports, recipients, backups, and deletion. +- Compare the record with actual schemas, payloads, network destinations, access configuration, and vendor settings. +- Confirm every processing operation and recipient has a named owner and stated purpose. + +**Exceptions:** An incident can require immediate containment before the record is complete; document the emergency processing and reconcile the record during response. + +### PRIVACY-DATA-002 — Establish authority for each purpose + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Personal-data processing is proposed or its purpose, data, people, recipient, location, or decision impact materially changes. + +Record the permitted purpose and the law, contract, organization policy, or qualified privacy or legal decision that authorizes it before processing begins. Do not treat product value, technical availability, a privacy notice, or consent language alone as authority when the governing regime requires another condition. + +**Why:** A technically possible data use can still be unlawful, unfair, contractually barred, or outside what people reasonably expect. + +**Verify:** + +- Link each purpose in the processing record to a current governing source and responsible decision owner. +- Confirm the authority covers the actual data categories, people, operations, recipients, and locations. +- Check changes against the original scope before reusing existing data. + +**Exceptions:** Urgent processing needed to protect a person or respond to an incident must follow the applicable emergency authority and receive retrospective qualified review. + +### PRIVACY-DATA-003 — Minimize data and exposure by default + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Choosing data to collect, derive, retain, expose, request, or share. + +Use only the data, precision, identifiability, frequency, and retention needed for the recorded purpose. Choose local, aggregate, coarse, ephemeral, or user-supplied data over persistent or inferred data when those choices meet the purpose. Default optional processing and access to off or the narrowest scope. + +**Why:** Each extra field, copy, recipient, and unit of precision increases misuse, breach, inference, and re-identification risk. + +**Verify:** + +- Justify each personal-data field and inference against the recorded purpose. +- Inspect actual payloads, tables, logs, exports, and default settings for undisclosed or unnecessary fields. +- Test whether the purpose still works after removing, coarsening, aggregating, shortening, or processing data locally. + +**Exceptions:** A broader scope requires a documented necessity, the governing approval, and controls proportionate to the added risk. + +### PRIVACY-DATA-004 — Control secondary use and purpose changes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Existing personal data may be used for a purpose, model, audience, recipient, or decision not covered by its original record. + +Do not begin the new use until a qualified owner assesses compatibility with the original purpose and authority, updates the processing record, provides any required notice or choice, and approves added safeguards. Keep data collected for safety or abuse prevention from being reused for unrelated growth, evaluation, or profiling without separate authority. + +**Why:** Quiet repurposing defeats meaningful expectations and can turn a defensible collection into harmful surveillance. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the proposed use, people, data, context, consequences, and recipients with the original record. +- Inspect data contracts, access grants, joins, feature pipelines, and exports for unrecorded reuse. +- Confirm notices, controls, retention, and deletion behavior match the approved purpose change. + +**Exceptions:** None without the governing privacy or legal decision. + +### PRIVACY-DATA-005 — Explain processing at the relevant time + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Personal data is collected, requested, inferred, shared, or used in a way a person may not reasonably expect. + +Present accurate, plain-language information close to the relevant interaction. Explain what data is involved, why it is needed, important recipients, material consequences, retention or its determining criteria, available choices and rights, and how to exercise them. The explanation must match actual behavior and remain available after the interaction. + +**Why:** A distant or vague policy does not support an informed decision at the point where data changes hands. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the rendered explanation with observed storage, network, sharing, and retention behavior. +- Confirm a person can find material information before providing data or enabling optional processing. +- Recheck the explanation after changes to purpose, recipients, controls, or retention. + +**Exceptions:** A qualified decision can delay a notice where immediate disclosure would defeat a lawful investigation or create a documented safety risk; record when and how notice will occur. + +### PRIVACY-DATA-006 — Make consent specific and reversible + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** The governing privacy or legal process selects consent as the authority or required control for processing. + +Request an informed, specific, affirmative choice for each materially distinct optional purpose. Do not use silence, preselected controls, bundled unrelated purposes, misleading emphasis, or service denial for processing that is not needed to provide the requested service. Record the consent version, purposes, time, and method. Make review and withdrawal no harder than giving consent, and stop future processing promptly across recipients and systems. + +**Why:** Consent that does not reveal a person's intent is not a reliable control and shifts privacy work onto the person. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise accept, reject, partial choice, later review, and withdrawal paths in the final interface. +- Confirm optional processing stays off before consent and stops after withdrawal, including queued work and downstream recipients. +- Inspect the consent record and notice version needed to prove what the person chose. + +**Exceptions:** Consent is not required when a different recorded authority governs the processing, but applicable notice, objection, minimization, and rights rules still apply. + +### PRIVACY-DATA-007 — Support applicable data rights end to end + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Governing law, contract, policy, or product commitment grants access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, objection, or opt-out rights. + +Provide an owned request process that verifies identity in proportion to the disclosure or action risk, searches every in-scope system and recipient, applies the correct action, records exceptions, meets the governing deadline, and gives a clear response. Do not collect more identity evidence than the request requires or use the process to discourage a valid request. + +**Why:** A front-end request form does not honor a right if copies, vendors, derived data, or deadlines are missed. + +**Verify:** + +- Run representative requests through intake, identity checks, system discovery, action, recipient propagation, and response. +- Reconcile found, corrected, exported, retained, and deleted records against the processing map. +- Confirm refusals, partial actions, and legal holds cite their authority and receive required review. + +**Exceptions:** Follow the governing exception or refusal process; record its basis, scope, approver, notice, and review path. + +### PRIVACY-DATA-008 — Enforce retention and deletion across copies + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Personal data is stored, cached, logged, exported, backed up, or held by a recipient. + +Set a retention period or objective deletion trigger for each purpose before collection. Delete, de-identify under an approved process, or return data when the purpose or authority ends. Cover raw, derived, indexed, cached, logged, exported, backup, and recipient copies, and prevent deleted data from silently returning during restoration. + +**Why:** A policy period has no effect unless every material copy expires and restoration preserves deletion state. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare configured expiration and deletion jobs with the processing record. +- Trace a representative expiration or deletion through primary, downstream, vendor, and backup handling. +- Reconcile eligible, processed, failed, excepted, and remaining records and monitor recurring jobs. + +**Exceptions:** A legal hold or other governing preservation duty may suspend deletion only for the defined data, purpose, people, and period; restrict access and resume deletion when the hold ends. + +### PRIVACY-DATA-009 — Preserve accuracy, provenance, and correction + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Personal data or an inference affects a user-facing state, eligibility, safety action, material decision, or disclosure. + +Record the source, observation or inference status, relevant time, and known limits. Keep data accurate enough for its purpose, expose or route correction when applicable, and propagate material corrections to dependent systems and recipients. Do not present an inference as a verified fact. + +**Why:** Stale, misattributed, or inferred data can cause denial, embarrassment, unsafe action, or repeated harm across copied systems. + +**Verify:** + +- Test correction and propagation for a representative record and dependent outcome. +- Inspect high-impact uses for source, freshness, confidence, and human review where required. +- Confirm interfaces and exports distinguish supplied, observed, calculated, and inferred values when that distinction matters. + +**Exceptions:** An immutable audit record can preserve the original event while attaching the correction and preventing the incorrect value from driving current decisions. + +### PRIVACY-DATA-010 — Treat pseudonymous and linkable data as personal + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Direct identifiers are removed, transformed, hashed, tokenized, aggregated, or kept separately. + +Assess realistic singling-out, linkage, inference, and reversal risk using internal and reasonably available external data. Continue personal-data controls for pseudonymous or linkable data. Describe data as de-identified only when a qualified process defines the threat model, technical transformation, access and disclosure limits, re-identification prohibition, review interval, and response to increased linkage risk. + +**Why:** Removing a name does not prevent a persistent identifier, unique behavior, small group, or auxiliary dataset from identifying a person. + +**Verify:** + +- Test uniqueness, small groups, precision, persistence, join paths, and access to separation keys. +- Inspect contracts and access controls for re-identification restrictions and onward disclosure. +- Reassess after new datasets, recipients, attacks, or business uses change the threat model. + +**Exceptions:** None for data that remains reasonably linkable under the governing assessment. + +### PRIVACY-DATA-011 — Assess heightened and collective harm + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Processing involves sensitive context or data, children, people with reduced power or safety options, precise location, communications, biometrics, finances, health, protected traits, third-party data, or group-level inference. + +Obtain qualified privacy review before processing. Assess harm to individuals, households, communities, and people represented in data but not operating the product. Apply stricter minimization, access, disclosure, retention, testing, and human-review controls, and avoid deriving sensitive traits unless the approved purpose requires them. + +**Why:** Sensitivity depends on context and consequences, and one person's choice cannot authorize harm to other people represented in the same data. + +**Verify:** + +- Identify affected people and groups, power differences, misuse cases, and consequences in the risk record. +- Confirm the qualified reviewer, approved purpose, safeguards, residual risk, and stop conditions. +- Exercise protections for disclosure, coercion, household sharing, administrator access, and account compromise where relevant. + +**Exceptions:** None without a qualified privacy or legal decision and any required specialist review. + +### PRIVACY-DATA-012 — Govern recipients, processors, and transfers + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Personal data is disclosed to another team, legal entity, service provider, partner, public audience, or processing location. + +Before disclosure, verify that the recipient and transfer are covered by the recorded purpose and authority. Record the data, role, location, access path, onward recipients, and owner. Require terms and controls for instructions, confidentiality, access, security, retention, deletion or return, rights support, incident notice, subprocessors, and verification. Apply any governing transfer review. + +**Why:** The originating organization remains exposed to harm when a recipient uses, retains, transfers, or loses data outside the approved boundaries. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare contracts, vendor configuration, network destinations, and account access with the processing record. +- Confirm subprocessor and location changes trigger review rather than silent expansion. +- Test deletion, export, access removal, and incident-contact paths with material recipients. + +**Exceptions:** A legally compelled disclosure follows its governing review and minimization process and must be recorded to the extent permitted. + +### PRIVACY-DATA-013 — Perform privacy risk review before high-risk processing + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Processing is novel, large-scale, systematic, sensitive, hard to avoid, difficult to reverse, used for monitoring or profiling, combines datasets, makes or supports consequential decisions, or otherwise meets a governing impact-assessment trigger. + +Complete the required privacy impact assessment before implementation or procurement. Describe purposes, necessity, proportionality, information flows, affected people, threats, harms, mitigations, alternatives, consultation, owners, residual risk, approval, and review triggers. Do not release processing whose residual risk requires consultation or acceptance that has not occurred. + +**Why:** Late review makes invasive design choices and vendor commitments costly to change and can hide risk to people behind business benefits. + +**Verify:** + +- Confirm the assessment reflects the actual design, recipients, defaults, retention, and data flow. +- Trace each material risk to an implemented control, owner, evidence, and residual-risk decision. +- Reopen the assessment after material purpose, population, data, model, recipient, scale, or threat changes. + +**Exceptions:** An emergency can use the applicable expedited review path; record scope, safeguards, expiration, and retrospective assessment. + +### PRIVACY-DATA-014 — Keep personal data out of unsafe development paths + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Developing, testing, debugging, demonstrating, supporting, training, or evaluating a system outside its approved production processing. + +Use synthetic, generated, or approved de-identified data by default. Do not copy production personal data into local, test, preview, demo, support, or training environments unless the recorded purpose cannot be met otherwise and a qualified owner approves scope, access, security, retention, deletion, and disclosure controls. + +**Why:** Non-production systems and ad hoc files often have broader access, weaker monitoring, and forgotten copies. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect fixtures, snapshots, logs, screenshots, exports, tickets, prompts, and debug tools for personal data. +- Confirm approved exceptions contain only the minimum records and fields and expire on schedule. +- Verify cleanup from developer devices, temporary storage, support tools, and vendor systems. + +**Exceptions:** The qualified approval described in the rule is the only exception; it must be time-bounded and reviewable. + +### PRIVACY-DATA-015 — Verify privacy behavior in the released system + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Releasing or materially changing personal-data processing. + +Test the actual end-to-end system against its processing record, notices, choices, rights, access rules, retention, recipients, and impact assessment. Include negative and lifecycle states, not only the successful collection path. Record evidence, limitations, and unresolved risk without exposing personal data in the evidence itself. + +**Why:** A tracking plan, design, or configuration review cannot prove what the integrated system sends, stores, reveals, or deletes. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect storage and network behavior before choice, after each choice, after withdrawal, after account changes, and after deletion where applicable. +- Exercise unauthorized access, recipient failure, duplicate requests, restoration, and partial-system outage where those states affect privacy. +- Confirm evidence is redacted, access-controlled, retained only as needed, and mapped to active rules. + +**Exceptions:** If a destructive or production test is unsafe, use the closest safe environment, identify every material difference, and arrange the governing post-release check. + +### PRIVACY-DATA-016 — Govern model inputs, traces, evaluation, and feedback + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Personal data can enter a model prompt, context, file, embedding, memory, tool call, trace, evaluation dataset, annotation task, feedback path, or provider support process. + +Map and govern each data path separately. Record provider, product, endpoint, region, subprocessors, human access, retention, training or improvement use, storage controls, deletion, and incident terms from current official documentation and contract settings. Minimize or redact before transfer and do not infer that a chat, API, hidden prompt, trace, or evaluation feature shares another feature's controls. + +**Why:** Model systems create copies beyond visible input and output, and provider data controls can vary by account, feature, endpoint, and date. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace representative data through orchestration, model calls, tools, storage, observability, evaluation, feedback, support, and deletion. +- Compare actual account and endpoint settings with the current governing contract and official provider documentation. +- Exercise redaction, opt-out where applicable, access restriction, retention expiry, deletion, and provider exit. + +**Exceptions:** None without the governing privacy, legal, security, and contractual decision. + +## Guidance + +Start privacy work while purpose and architecture can still change. A notice or consent dialog cannot repair an unnecessary collection, an unlimited retention period, or a data model that cannot locate and delete a person's records. + +Use “personal data” as a practical engineering boundary, not only as a list of obvious identity fields. Device identifiers, account IDs, precise timestamps, URLs, behavior sequences, household data, and model features can be personal when they permit linkage, inference, or singling out. + +Keep the processing record close to the implementation and procurement record. It should be specific enough that an engineer can find each source, destination, job, recipient, and deletion mechanism. Reference external inventories when they are authoritative rather than copying details that will drift. + +Do not turn every privacy question into a consent prompt. First determine whether the processing is necessary, appropriate, and authorized. When choice is required, make it meaningful and preserve service for declined optional processing. + +## Examples + +### Optional analytics + +Non-compliant: A page loads an analytics SDK and persistent identifier before showing a banner. Rejecting the banner changes its color but does not stop collection. + +Compliant: The processing record identifies the analytics purpose, fields, recipient, retention, authority, and deletion path. Optional storage and requests remain off until the applicable choice. Reject and withdraw paths stop future collection and update the recipient. A network trace verifies each state. + +### Support investigation + +Non-compliant: An engineer copies a production database and user screenshots to a personal development environment because reproducing the issue is faster there. + +Compliant: The team reproduces with synthetic data first. If a minimum production sample is necessary, a qualified owner approves named fields, people, environment, access, expiration, and cleanup. Evidence is redacted and the temporary copy is deleted and verified. + +### De-identification + +Non-compliant: A dataset is called anonymous because email addresses were replaced with stable hashes while precise events and timestamps remain available. + +Compliant: The assessment considers hashing reversibility, uniqueness, auxiliary datasets, small groups, and recipient access. Until the approved transformation and contractual controls meet the stated threat model, the dataset retains personal-data controls. + +## Sources + +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [NIST Privacy Framework, Version 1.0](https://www.nist.gov/document/nist-privacy-frameworkv10pdf), January 16, 2020. Reviewed August 13, 2026. Version 1.1 was still an initial public draft on the review date, so this standard relies on the final 1.0 publication. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Privacy Principles](https://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/), May 15, 2025. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- UK Information Commissioner's Office, [A guide to the data protection principles](https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/data-protection-principles/a-guide-to-the-data-protection-principles/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. Apply it only where the governing law or organization policy adopts its requirements. +- UK Information Commissioner's Office, [Data protection by design and by default](https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/accountability-and-governance/guide-to-accountability-and-governance/data-protection-by-design-and-by-default/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- UK Information Commissioner's Office, [Data protection impact assessments](https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/accountability-and-governance/guide-to-accountability-and-governance/data-protection-impact-assessments/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- OpenAI, [Data controls in the OpenAI platform](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/your-data). Reviewed August 13, 2026. This source illustrates endpoint-specific controls; verify the current official documentation and contract for every provider in use. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/privacy/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/privacy/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9dfbd9c --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/privacy/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Privacy standards + +* [Personal data handling](data-handling.md) - Governs purpose, minimization, choice, rights, retention, sharing, and privacy risk for personal data. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/product/delivery.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/product/delivery.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c05c52a --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/product/delivery.md @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +--- +id: PRODUCT-DELIVERY +title: Product delivery +description: Requirements for evidence-led discovery, clear requirements, controlled launch, onboarding, and outcome review. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [product, design, engineering, analytics] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [product-feature, product-launch] +tags: [product, discovery, requirements, launch] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, FND-CHANGE, ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T20:57:53Z" } +sources: + - id: uk-service-standard + resource: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard + title: Service Standard + author: organization:uk-government + - id: uk-understand-users + resource: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard/point-1-understand-user-needs + title: Understand users and their needs + author: organization:uk-government + - id: uk-define-success + resource: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard/point-10-define-success-publish-performance-data + title: Define what success looks like and publish performance data + author: organization:uk-government +--- + +# Product delivery + +Product work must solve an evidenced user and business problem, state the intended behavior and limits, launch within controlled boundaries, and measure whether the released outcome worked without transferring hidden costs or harm. + +## Rules + +### PRODUCT-DELIVERY-001 — Ground the problem in evidence + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Proposing a new product capability or material behavior change. + +Identify the affected users, their context and unmet need, current behavior, business objective, evidence, uncertainty, and why intervention is warranted. + +**Why:** Feature requests and stakeholder preferences can be mistaken for verified user problems. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace the problem statement to research, observed behavior, support evidence, or measured outcomes. +- Distinguish observation, inference, and proposed solution. + +**Exceptions:** A bounded discovery prototype may begin with a hypothesis when it is not presented as validated demand. + +### PRODUCT-DELIVERY-002 — Define the outcome and non-goals + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Work is prioritized or accepted for implementation. + +State the intended user and business outcome, measurable success and guardrails, non-goals, constraints, dependencies, and conditions that would stop or change the work. + +**Why:** Output-based scope can ship while failing the underlying need or causing unmeasured harm. + +**Verify:** + +- Confirm acceptance and measurement evidence can distinguish success, failure, and harmful tradeoffs. +- Check that non-goals prevent implied commitments. + +**Exceptions:** None for committed product work. + +### PRODUCT-DELIVERY-003 — Specify complete behavior and states + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A feature changes user-visible or externally observable behavior. + +Define normal, empty, loading, partial, error, offline, denied, interrupted, repeated, cancelled, completed, and recovery states that can materially occur, including permissions and data effects. + +**Why:** Teams often design the happy path while users experience ambiguous or unsafe edge states. + +**Verify:** + +- Walk the requirement against representative state transitions and active profiles. +- Confirm each material state has ownership, content, instrumentation, and acceptance evidence. + +**Exceptions:** Inapplicable states may be omitted when the reason is recorded. + +### PRODUCT-DELIVERY-004 — Prioritize by value, risk, and cost + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Choosing between competing product work or scope. + +Record the decision using expected user value, strategic fit, evidence strength, delivery and operating cost, opportunity cost, dependencies, and material risk rather than a score alone. + +**Why:** A single ranking number hides assumptions and can reward confident estimates over important but uncertain work. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the underlying evidence and assumptions for the selected and displaced work. +- Confirm legal, safety, accessibility, privacy, security, and reliability obligations are not traded away as optional value. + +**Exceptions:** Urgent obligations and incident remediation may bypass ordinary ranking with the reason recorded. + +### PRODUCT-DELIVERY-005 — Validate the riskiest assumption early + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A material assumption about value, usability, feasibility, viability, or safety remains unresolved. + +Choose the smallest valid research, prototype, technical exercise, or controlled exposure that can change the decision before committing broader cost or impact. + +**Why:** Polishing low-risk details does not reduce the uncertainty most likely to invalidate the product decision. + +**Verify:** + +- Connect the validation method and sample to the stated assumption and decision threshold. +- Record contradictory and null evidence as well as supportive results. + +**Exceptions:** A mandatory change may proceed without value validation but still requires usability, feasibility, and risk evidence. + +### PRODUCT-DELIVERY-006 — Launch with explicit readiness and recovery + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Releasing behavior to users or dependent systems. + +Confirm functional, content, accessibility, privacy, security, analytics, support, operational, communication, rollout, and recovery readiness for the final artifact. + +**Why:** A technically working feature can fail because its surrounding service and operating conditions are unprepared. + +**Verify:** + +- Complete the active profile evidence and record approval against the exact release. +- Exercise rollback or containment and confirm support can identify and route failures. + +**Exceptions:** Emergency releases use the approved emergency process and record deferred readiness work with owners and deadlines. + +### PRODUCT-DELIVERY-007 — Design onboarding around achieved value + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Users must learn, configure, migrate, or grant access before receiving value. + +Minimize required setup, explain requested commitment in context, preserve skip or return paths where practical, and measure successful value rather than completion of instructional steps alone. + +**Why:** Onboarding can optimize checklist completion while delaying value or coercing unnecessary data and permissions. + +**Verify:** + +- Observe representative new and returning users reaching the defined outcome. +- Inspect abandonment, denial, error, resume, and changed-context paths. + +**Exceptions:** Required safety, legal, or security steps may not be skippable but must explain why they are required. + +### PRODUCT-DELIVERY-008 — Review outcomes and close temporary work + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A launched change reaches its defined review point. + +Compare outcomes and guardrails with the predeclared baseline, document limitations and segments, decide to keep, change, expand, or remove the behavior, and close temporary flags, compatibility, and support conditions. + +**Why:** Features become permanent without proving value or removing rollout complexity. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the outcome review, decision, owners, and cleanup evidence. +- Confirm measurement and support data cover the released population and relevant time horizon. + +**Exceptions:** None; the review may conclude that more evidence is needed with a new bounded deadline. + +## Operational coverage + +Use a complete product record from problem selection through adoption, operation, and retirement. + +| Decision stage | Required questions | Required evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Problem discovery | Whose problem, in what context, how often, with what consequence, and what do people do now? | Research plan, participant and segment rationale, observations, negative cases, existing alternatives, and uncertainty | +| Opportunity and portfolio choice | Why now, what outcome, what displacement or opportunity cost, what constraint, and what would change the priority? | Comparable options, strategic fit, capacity and dependency view, risk-adjusted value, and accountable decision | +| Solution and risky-assumption test | Which behavior, desirability, usability, feasibility, viability, trust, or operational assumption could invalidate the work? | Ranked assumptions, cheapest valid tests, prototypes or spikes, observed behavior, and updated decision | +| Release readiness | Can eligible users discover, understand, complete, recover, receive support, and obtain the promised value? | End-to-end journey, accessibility and policy checks, operational readiness, instrumentation, support material, and stop plan | +| Adoption and value | Did the intended population reach durable value, who did not, why, and at what service or support cost? | Cohort outcomes, denominators, time-to-value, qualitative follow-up, support burden, and guardrails | +| Pricing, handoff, or retirement | Are commitments, billing, data, access, migration, communication, and ownership complete? | Commercial and operational sign-off, affected-user inventory, migration result, final-state checks, and retained obligations | + +Delivery success is not feature shipment. It is a supported, measurable user outcome with known operating cost and an owned path for correction or retirement. + +## Guidance + +Discovery and delivery are continuous risk reduction, not separate ceremonies. Use qualitative evidence to understand needs and mechanisms and quantitative evidence to estimate prevalence and outcomes. Do not convert roadmap confidence into factual certainty. + +## Examples + +### New onboarding checklist + +Non-compliant: Ship a seven-step checklist because competitors have one and measure checklist completion. + +Compliant: Identify where new users fail to reach first value, test the riskiest explanation, remove avoidable setup, measure achieved value and guardrails, and review whether the checklist itself remains necessary. + +## Sources + +- UK Government, [Service Standard](https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- UK Government, [Understand users and their needs](https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard/point-1-understand-user-needs). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- UK Government, [Define what success looks like and publish performance data](https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard/point-10-define-success-publish-performance-data). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/product/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/product/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff7e05e --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/product/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Product standards + +* [Product delivery](delivery.md) - Discovery, requirements, prioritization, launch, onboarding, and outcome review. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/agentic-system.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/agentic-system.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5ca69fc --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/agentic-system.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM +title: Agentic system profile +description: Routes model workflows and agents to architecture, evidence, trust, safe-change, and verification requirements. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [ai, product, engineering, security, privacy] +last_reviewed: 2026-09-01 +review_by: 2027-03-01 +stale_after: 2027-03-01 +applies_to: [agentic-system] +tags: [profile, ai, agents] +depends_on: [AI-AGENTS, ENGINEERING-QUALITY, FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, FND-CHANGE, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T16:46:56-07:00" } +--- + +# Agentic system profile + +Use for model workflows or agents that select steps, invoke tools, use memory or retrieval, delegate work, change external state, or operate across multiple turns. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `AI-AGENTS` — architecture, context, tools, autonomy, evaluation, safety, and operation +- `ENGINEERING-QUALITY` — design boundaries, dependencies, review, provenance, and release readiness +- `FND-EVIDENCE` — grounded claims, evaluation validity, uncertainty, and reproducibility +- `FND-TRUST` — informed choice, user control, and honest representation of automated behavior +- `FND-CHANGE` — bounded rollout, stop conditions, recovery, and release evidence +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — final-state inspection and reproducible handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- Software implementation, bug fix, refactor, or test-suite change → `PROFILE-SOFTWARE-CHANGE` +- JavaScript or TypeScript implementation → `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` +- Personal, confidential, regulated, or proprietary data in prompts, context, traces, evaluation, feedback, or tools → `PRIVACY-DATA` +- Untrusted content, code execution, network access, private data access, external communication, durable side effects, authentication, authorization, or privileged tools → `SECURITY-APPLICATION` +- New events, traces, quality metrics, cost metrics, or dashboards → `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT` +- Google Analytics 4 implementation → `PLAYBOOK-GA4` +- User interface → `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE`; Apple-platform interface → `PROFILE-APPLE-INTERFACE` +- Reusable agent guidance for interface generation or review → `PLAYBOOK-AGENT-DESIGN-GUIDANCE` +- Browser interface or public agent surface → `WEB-QUALITY` +- WebMCP tool registration, exposure, execution, consumption, permissions policy, or declarative form integration → `WEB-WEBMCP` +- Service or API boundary → `PROFILE-SERVICE-API` +- Production operation, reliability exercise, or incident response → `PROFILE-RELIABILITY-INCIDENT` +- Database access or mutation → `DATA-DATABASE` +- User-facing failures, refusals, tool errors, or escalation messages → `CONTENT-ERRORS` +- Instructions, explanations, interface text, reports, or handoffs → `PROFILE-FUNCTIONAL-WRITING` +- Experiment comparing models, prompts, tools, or agent behavior on users → `PROFILE-GROWTH-EXPERIMENT` + +## Completion evidence + +- `AI-AGENTS-001` and `AI-AGENTS-002` — The architecture decision and task contract show why the selected autonomy is needed and what success, failure, limits, and escalation mean. +- `AI-AGENTS-003`, `AI-AGENTS-006`, and `AI-AGENTS-007` — Trust-boundary tests, effective permissions, approvals, and containment evidence limit untrusted influence and worst-case authority. +- `AI-AGENTS-004`, `AI-AGENTS-005`, and `AI-AGENTS-020` — Effective context, tool contracts, retrieved knowledge, and versioned reusable instructions are inspectable and scoped. +- `AI-AGENTS-009`, `AI-AGENTS-010`, and `FND-CHANGE-002` — Environmental outcome checks, stop conditions, repeat safety, recovery, and interruption behavior are exercised. +- `AI-AGENTS-012` through `AI-AGENTS-016` — The exact configuration, representative tasks, held-out design, repeated trials, outcome graders, trace review, and human calibration support the release claim. +- `FND-EVIDENCE-011` — The evaluation harness, tools, state, authority, failure behavior, controls, and deployment resemblance support the intended release claim. +- `AI-AGENTS-017` and `SECURITY-APPLICATION-015` when active — Adversarial cases and integrated security verification cover prompt injection, data leakage, tool misuse, and permission boundaries. +- `AI-AGENTS-018` — Traces, alerts, cost and latency limits, safety events, and operator stop controls work for representative runs. +- `AI-AGENTS-021` for recurring released use — Offline claims map to production detection, monitoring coverage, response objectives, containment, and a privacy-controlled incident-to-regression loop. +- `AI-AGENTS-019` when parallel or multi-agent — Scope isolation, conflicts, partial failure, synthesis, and measured benefit are recorded. +- `WEB-WEBMCP-001` through `WEB-WEBMCP-015` when WebMCP is active — Compatibility, contract, input, authorization, user control, origin, untrusted-content, cancellation, accessibility, caller, output, declarative, localization, evolution, and lifecycle evidence cover the final running tool path. +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — The handoff identifies the configuration, evaluation suite, released artifact, checks, outcomes, exceptions, and unresolved risks. +- When a conditional standard is active, include its rule-level completion evidence before declaring the system complete. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/apple-interface.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/apple-interface.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b37fa2d --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/apple-interface.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-APPLE-INTERFACE +title: Apple interface profile +description: Routes Apple-platform interfaces to universal quality requirements and a current Apple HIG audit. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [apple-platforms, design, engineering, accessibility] +last_reviewed: 2026-09-01 +review_by: 2026-12-01 +stale_after: 2026-12-01 +applies_to: [apple-interface, ios, ipados, macos, watchos, tvos, visionos] +tags: [profile, apple, hig] +depends_on: [DESIGN-INTERACTION, APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION, FND-ACCESSIBILITY, CONTENT-INTERFACE, PLAYBOOK-APPLE-HIG, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T21:33:16-07:00" } +--- + +# Apple interface profile + +Use for interfaces shipped on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, or visionOS. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `DESIGN-INTERACTION` — universal task, component, state, adaptation, and recovery behavior +- `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION` — Apple-specific platform scope, adaptation, input, system integration, and final-build evidence +- `FND-ACCESSIBILITY` — cross-platform accessibility target and evidence +- `CONTENT-INTERFACE` — clear and localizable interface language +- `PLAYBOOK-APPLE-HIG` — current Apple-platform guidance and audit procedure +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — final build inspection and reproducible handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- New product behavior → `PRODUCT-DELIVERY` +- Personal or protected Apple-framework data → `PRIVACY-DATA` +- Authentication, authorization, secrets, files, networking, or payments → `SECURITY-APPLICATION` +- Public web content inside or linked from the app → `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` +- Analytics or experimentation → `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT` or `PROFILE-GROWTH-EXPERIMENT` +- Model-generated or agentic behavior → `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` +- App Store metadata, submission, review, or discovery work → `DISCOVERY-APP-STORES` through `PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING` + +## Completion evidence + +- `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-001` — The supported operating-system, device, display, window, input, accessibility, locale, and technology matrix is approved. +- `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-002`, `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-005`, and `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-006` — Task adaptation, platform inputs, focus, navigation, windows, and multitasking are inspected on representative Apple environments. +- `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-003` and `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-004` — Native semantics, adaptive system resources, accessibility settings, appearance, language, and layout changes are verified. +- `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-007` and `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-008` — System-experience lifecycle states, current Apple sources, deployment targets, availability, and fallbacks are recorded. +- `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-009` and `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION-010` — Final-build and shared-framework evidence identifies representative devices, inputs, assistive technologies, limitations, and platform overrides. +- `DESIGN-INTERACTION-001`, `DESIGN-INTERACTION-003`, and `DESIGN-INTERACTION-005` — Complete tasks, controls, and adaptive layouts satisfy the universal interaction contract. +- `PLAYBOOK-APPLE-HIG` — Current Apple HIG pages, optional tool versions, manual review, findings, suppressions, gaps, and final retest are recorded. +- `FND-ACCESSIBILITY-007` — Automated output is combined with manual and assistive-technology evidence. +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION-002` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — The final build and handoff identify exact environments, checks, limitations, and owners. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/code-removal.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/code-removal.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..28ca999 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/code-removal.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-CODE-REMOVAL +title: Code removal profile +description: Routes unused-code and dependency cleanup through Knip, Ruff, deptry, contextual Vulture, safe change, engineering checks, and final verification. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [engineering] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2026-11-17 +stale_after: 2026-11-17 +applies_to: [code-removal, dead-code-removal, dependency-cleanup] +tags: [profile, engineering, cleanup] +depends_on: [ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL, FND-CHANGE, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T08:39:18Z" } +--- + +# Code removal profile + +Use for deleting unused files, exports, symbols, imports, dependencies, scripts, commands, registrations, or workspace packages. Combine it with every profile affected by the removed behavior. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL` — reachable-surface definition, layered Knip, Ruff, deptry, and contextual Vulture analysis, canaries, bounded deletion, and exception control +- `FND-CHANGE` — failure boundary, recovery, final-state inspection, and change evidence +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — risk-matched checks, actual-flow inspection, and reproducible handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- TypeScript or JavaScript cleanup in a Raintree-owned repository → `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` +- Removal changes a public API, SDK, library contract, command interface, webhook, or service route → `PROFILE-SERVICE-API` +- Removal changes user-visible behavior → `PROFILE-PRODUCT-FEATURE` +- Removal changes a database, schema, query, migration, backup, restore, or data job → `PROFILE-DATABASE-CHANGE` +- Removal changes authentication, authorization, secrets, untrusted-input handling, dependency exposure, or another security control → `SECURITY-APPLICATION` +- Removal changes personal-data collection, use, retention, deletion, disclosure, or transfer → `PRIVACY-DATA` +- Removal changes runtime reliability, monitoring, recovery, support, or incident behavior → `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY` + +## Completion evidence + +- `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-001` and `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-002` — The analysis record names the reachable surface, configuration, implicit consumers, candidate traces, and classification decisions. +- When TypeScript or JavaScript is in scope, `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-003` — Knip ordinary and applicable production results, configuration, commands, remaining findings, and suppressions are recorded. +- When Python bindings are in scope, `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-004` — Ruff version, resolved rules, commands, diagnostics, unsafe-fix decisions, re-exports, and analysis limits are recorded. +- When Python dependencies are in scope, `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-008` — deptry's version, environment, source and dependency scope, group classification, findings, exceptions, and post-change environment checks are recorded. +- When broader Python definition discovery is applicable, `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-009` — Vulture's version, scope, confidence threshold, checked whitelist, findings, manual classifications, and analysis limits are recorded. +- `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-005` — Approved fix scope, the final diff, dependency metadata, and risk-matched analyzer, type, import, packaging, build, test, and startup checks show the final graph and supported behavior. +- `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-006` — Every retained finding or suppression has narrow scope, rationale, ownership, and a review trigger. +- When recurring enforcement is retained, `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-007` — The blocking scope, baseline, known-finding test, owner, and tightening milestone are recorded without calling accepted backlog clean. +- `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL-010` — Applicable positive and negative canaries prove that the configured analyzers detect known dead items and retain supported dynamic, public, generated, packaged, and side-effect-driven behavior. +- `FND-CHANGE-008` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — The handoff records the actual final state, check results, unrun checks, limitations, active conditional standards, recovery path, and owners. +- When a conditional standard is active, include its rule-level completion evidence before declaring the cleanup complete. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/commercial-evidence-review.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/commercial-evidence-review.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc9af9b --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/commercial-evidence-review.md @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-COMMERCIAL-EVIDENCE-REVIEW +title: Commercial evidence review profile +description: Routes project, supplier, facility, and counterparty evidence reviews to scope, provenance, claims, trust, writing, and handoff requirements. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [standards, research, sales] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2026-11-13 +stale_after: 2026-11-13 +applies_to: [commercial-evidence-review, project-evidence-review, supplier-evidence-review, diligence-sample] +tags: [profile, research, evidence, sales] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, WRITING-FUNCTIONAL, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-14T03:10:36Z" } +--- + +# Commercial evidence review profile + +Use this profile for a decision memo or sample that tests public or authorized +claims about a project, supplier, facility, product, or counterparty. The review +must help a named reader make one decision without turning incomplete research +into assurance, certification, or professional advice. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. +This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `FND-EVIDENCE` — claim strength, source freshness, provenance, uncertainty, + conflicts, and quantitative meaning +- `FND-TRUST` — honest limits, automated authorship, and informed reliance +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL` — reader, decision, terminology, structure, tables, and + final-artifact review +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — proportionate checks, final inspection, uncertainty, + and reproducible handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- Offer, proposal, sales sample, or buyer-facing collateral → + `PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING`, including `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE` and + `SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS` +- Prospect research or directed outreach → `MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH` and + `PRIVACY-DATA` +- Authorized client records or personal data → `PRIVACY-DATA`; activate + `SECURITY-APPLICATION` when access, storage, transfer, or deletion creates a + security boundary +- Legal, regulatory, compliance, reserve, assay, provenance, investment, or + performance conclusion → no professional-assurance standard exists in this + library; narrow the review or obtain a qualified reviewer and record the + governing external policy + +## Completion evidence + +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-001` and `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-004` — The opening names the + intended reader, decision, deadline or decision window, and main conclusion. +- `FND-EVIDENCE-001` — The review separates observed records, interpretation, + and recommended next questions. +- `FND-EVIDENCE-002` and `FND-EVIDENCE-005` — A dated source register records + source type, issuer, publication date, location, review date, and material + limits. +- `FND-EVIDENCE-004` — The scope states exclusions, missing evidence, source + cutoff, and limits on generalization. +- `FND-EVIDENCE-006` — Material conflicts and stale claims remain visible, with + the preferred interpretation and reason recorded. +- `FND-EVIDENCE-007` and `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-012` — Capacity, output, price, + schedule, ownership, and other quantities include units, time basis, status, + and uncertainty needed for the decision. +- `FND-TRUST-008` — A model-generated draft identifies automated authorship, + source limits, verification state, and the responsible human reviewer. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-002` — Every material conclusion maps to evidence or an + explicit unknown; announced targets are not presented as achieved results. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-007` — The memo, claim register, source register, and open + questions link to one another with descriptive link text. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-010` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-002` — The final memo and + registers are inspected together in their delivery format. +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION-004` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — The handoff names + unverified evidence, deferred review, files, checks, and the next decision. + +## Decision boundary + +The review may describe what the cited record supports. It must not imply that +the reviewer inspected a site, tested material, authenticated private records, +verified legal title, certified compliance, or predicted performance unless +that work occurred under an applicable qualified standard and is identified +precisely. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/company-brain.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/company-brain.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c778157 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/company-brain.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-COMPANY-BRAIN +title: Company brain profile +description: Routes organizational knowledge systems to source authority, evidence, trust, change, data, security, privacy, engineering, and verification requirements. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [knowledge, product, data, security, privacy, ai, engineering] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-16 +review_by: 2027-02-16 +stale_after: 2027-02-16 +applies_to: [company-brain, enterprise-search, knowledge-base, retrieval-system, expertise-discovery] +tags: [profile, knowledge, retrieval, audit] +depends_on: [KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS, FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, FND-CHANGE, DATA-QUALITY, SECURITY-APPLICATION, PRIVACY-DATA, ENGINEERING-QUALITY, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T08:37:00Z" } +--- + +# Company brain profile + +Use for systems that collect, index, connect, retrieve, summarize, recommend, or answer from organizational information for people, automations, or agents. Apply the profile to every participating source, connector, derived store, retrieval path, output surface, and administrative path in the declared boundary. + +This draft requires independent review of the final artifact and qualified AI, security, privacy, data, and engineering review before it can become stable. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS` — source authority, provenance, authorization parity, lifecycle, retrieval, answers, evaluation, operation, and workforce safeguards +- `FND-EVIDENCE` — attributable claims, current sources, uncertainty, conflicts, and valid evaluation +- `FND-TRUST` — honest automation, limits, user control, and protection from unsupported reliance +- `FND-CHANGE` — failure boundaries, rollout, recovery, stop conditions, and final-state validation +- `DATA-QUALITY` — meaning, ownership, lineage, reconciliation, correction, and deletion across derived data +- `SECURITY-APPLICATION` — trust boundaries, authorization, untrusted input, logs, abuse controls, and integrated verification +- `PRIVACY-DATA` — purpose, authority, minimization, rights, retention, inference, model paths, and release evidence +- `ENGINEERING-QUALITY` — bounded architecture, testing, dependencies, provenance, observability, review, and release state +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — proportionate checks, final inspection, uncertainty, independent review, and reproducible handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- JavaScript or TypeScript implementation → `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` +- Models, agents, generated summaries, embeddings, durable memory, model grading, or model-selected retrieval or actions → `AI-AGENTS` +- Service, API, library, SDK, webhook, or event contract → `PROFILE-SERVICE-API` +- Database schema, query, index, migration, backup, restore, retention, or data mutation → `PROFILE-DATABASE-CHANGE` +- New usage, quality, cost, safety, or operational measurement → `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT` +- User interface → `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE`; public browser surface → `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` +- Production operation, reliability exercise, dependency failure, or incident response → `PROFILE-RELIABILITY-INCIDENT` +- User-facing answers, citations, explanations, audit reports, failures, refusals, or escalation messages → `PROFILE-FUNCTIONAL-WRITING`; user-facing failures also activate `CONTENT-ERRORS` +- Secret creation, access, delivery, rotation, exposure, or migration in a Raintree system → `PROFILE-SECRETS-MANAGEMENT`; for other adopters, a qualified security owner must select and record the governing organizational secrets policy in addition to `SECURITY-APPLICATION` +- A participating source has a governing domain standard or external policy → apply that route in addition to this profile; participation in the company brain does not replace source-system governance +- Workforce or consequential people decisions → no employment-decision standard exists in this library; obtain the governing human-resources, privacy, legal, and organizational policy and record the qualified decision + +## Completion evidence + +- `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-001` and `SECURITY-APPLICATION-001` — A current boundary and threat model identify sources, consumers, flows, owners, classifications, trust boundaries, exclusions, and governing routes. +- `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-002` and `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-003` — Authority, precedence, provenance, transformation lineage, source versions, and protected references are inspectable from representative outputs. +- `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-004` — Integrated negative-access tests cover every retrieval and output path plus permission change and revocation. +- `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-005` through `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-007` — Connector contracts, reconciliation, freshness, retries, correction, restriction, deletion, restoration, and removal are exercised. +- `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-008` through `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-010` — Representative exact, semantic, current, scoped, conflicting, denied, and unanswerable questions support the retrieval and grounding claims. +- `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-011` — The held-out integrated evaluation records source and permission state, configuration, graders, trials, segments, failures, latency, cost, and release identity. +- `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-012` and `SECURITY-APPLICATION-013` — Protected audit records trace representative use, denial, change, export, and failure without unnecessary sensitive content. +- `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-013` — Correction, ownership transfer, and retirement exercises close every affected source, derived store, access grant, consumer, and operational control. +- `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS-014` when active — Purpose, evidence limits, correction and contest paths, prohibited uses, and qualified human review protect people affected by expertise or workforce inference. +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — The handoff identifies the audited or released artifact, active routes, evidence, checks, results, exceptions, untested scope, and unresolved risks. +- Every active conditional route contributes its own rule-level completion evidence before the system is described as complete or conforming. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/database-change.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/database-change.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9e4de2f --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/database-change.md @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-DATABASE-CHANGE +title: Database change profile +description: Routes database changes to integrity, safety, evidence, and verification requirements. +type: profile +status: stable +governance_status: active +owners: [data, engineering] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [database-change] +tags: [profile, database] +depends_on: [DATA-DATABASE, FND-CHANGE, FND-EVIDENCE, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T08:21:30Z" } +--- + +# Database change profile + +Use for schema migrations, backfills, query changes, indexes, retention jobs, data corrections, and backup or restore changes. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `DATA-DATABASE` — integrity, compatibility, performance, and recovery +- `FND-CHANGE` — blast radius, detection, and recovery +- `FND-EVIDENCE` — support performance and correctness claims +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — final verification and handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- JavaScript or TypeScript migration or data tooling → `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` +- Collection, deletion, retention, correction, transfer, or other processing of personal data → `PRIVACY-DATA` +- New product behavior → `PROFILE-PRODUCT-FEATURE` +- Analytics warehouse or event model → `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT` +- Shared dataset, model, pipeline, lineage, reconciliation, or data-quality change → `DATA-QUALITY` +- Service or API compatibility change → `PROFILE-SERVICE-API` +- Production incident, restore, or recovery exercise → `PROFILE-RELIABILITY-INCIDENT` +- Model-driven planning, SQL generation, migration execution, recovery, or data correction → `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` +- Neon → `PLAYBOOK-NEON` +- Another managed database platform without a named playbook → `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR`, current official provider documentation, and a recorded library gap + +## Completion evidence + +- `DATA-DATABASE-001` and `DATA-DATABASE-009` — The schema, migration review, and reconciliation output identify invariants and verify preserved data meaning. +- `DATA-DATABASE-002` — The compatibility matrix and deployment record show that old and new application versions work through expansion and migration. +- `DATA-DATABASE-003` and `DATA-DATABASE-004` — Representative lock, resource, query-plan, and timing evidence is attached to the change record. +- `DATA-DATABASE-005` and `FND-CHANGE-002` — The recovery procedure and exercise record cover durable data and side effects. +- `DATA-DATABASE-008` — Backfill output accounts for eligible, processed, skipped, failed, and remaining records and demonstrates restart behavior. +- `DATA-DATABASE-010` and `FND-CHANGE-005` — Deferred contraction, monitoring, stop conditions, and promotion decisions have named owners. +- `DATA-DATABASE-011` — Concurrency evidence covers conflicts, retries, isolation, and external side effects where shared records can be updated concurrently. +- `DATA-DATABASE-012` and `FND-CHANGE-007` — Effective privileges, change authorization, operator identity, and removal of temporary access are recorded. +- `DATA-DATABASE-013` for phased migrations — Every reachable phase records source of truth, readers, writers, comparison, stop, recovery, observation window, and contraction evidence. +- `FND-CHANGE-008` — Post-change evidence confirms intended state, monitoring health, and closure or ownership of temporary conditions. +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION-002` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — The final database state or closest safe representation was inspected and the handoff records checks, outcomes, and limitations. +- When `PRIVACY-DATA` is active, `PRIVACY-DATA-001`, `PRIVACY-DATA-008`, `PRIVACY-DATA-009`, `PRIVACY-DATA-014`, and `PRIVACY-DATA-015` — The processing map, retention or deletion exercise, correction behavior, non-production controls, and released data flow cover every material copy. +- When `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` is active, the agent has bounded database authority, exact approvals, dry-run or preview evidence, repeat-safe operations, environmental checks, stop conditions, and human review before destructive or production effects. +- When `PLAYBOOK-NEON` is active, include its manifest, zero-gap surface classification, selected capability IDs and authority classes, Neon skill route, dated official-source review, workflow and evaluation results, environment and branch isolation, connection and concurrency evidence, live configuration, restore exercise, observability, and exit evidence. For another managed provider, record the missing playbook as a library gap. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/functional-writing.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/functional-writing.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4467941 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/functional-writing.md @@ -0,0 +1,187 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-FUNCTIONAL-WRITING +title: Functional writing profile +description: Routes functional writing to clarity, evidence, trust, and final-artifact review requirements. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [content, standards] +last_reviewed: 2026-09-02 +review_by: 2027-03-02 +stale_after: 2027-03-02 +applies_to: [functional-writing] +tags: [profile, writing, content] +depends_on: [WRITING-FUNCTIONAL, FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-02T21:56:39-07:00" } +--- + +# Functional writing profile + +Use this profile to create, edit, or formally review documentation, explanations, answers, summaries, change records, interface text, reports, and messages. Do not use it for fiction or marketing copy unless the task explicitly adopts it. + +Load every required dependency before applying this profile. If a dependency cannot be located through `catalog.yaml` or read completely, stop and report the dependency ID, expected path, and failure. Do not substitute the summaries below or remembered guidance for the missing document. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL` — defines the reader, language, structure, procedure, summary, authority, and review rules +- `FND-EVIDENCE` — limits factual and completion claims to evidence that was actually obtained +- `FND-TRUST` — requires truthful framing and informed reader choices +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — requires final-artifact inspection, explicit limitations, and a reproducible handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- User-facing failure message → `CONTENT-ERRORS` at [`error-messages.md`](../error-messages.md) +- Interface label, guidance, state, confirmation, or localization unit → `CONTENT-INTERFACE` +- Public documentation or indexable page → `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` +- Personal data in documentation, reports, messages, examples, screenshots, or review evidence → `PRIVACY-DATA` +- Repository instructions, prompts, tool descriptions, skills, playbooks, or durable knowledge for agents → `AI-AGENTS` +- Functional writing that contains a marketing or conversion claim → `PROFILE-MARKETING-LIFECYCLE` +- Sales collateral, outreach, public relations, sponsored content, app-store copy, or partner material → `PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING` +- Project, supplier, facility, counterparty, or diligence evidence review → `PROFILE-COMMERCIAL-EVIDENCE-REVIEW` +- Public terms, privacy or cookie notice, acceptable-use policy, legal addendum, or legal center → `PROFILE-LEGAL-DOCUMENT` +- Other legal, regulatory, safety, or medical content → no complete domain standard exists in this library; escalate to a qualified reviewer and record the governing external policy before publication + +## Artifact classification gate + +Classify the artifact before selecting completion evidence: + +1. **Atomic** — One field, label, title, commit subject, or sentence without an independent procedure or supporting argument. +2. **Bounded** — One message or short document that can contain paragraphs or lists but does not meet the extended condition. +3. **Extended** — A multi-section, public, consequential, procedural, localized, quantitative, media-bearing, or agent-instruction artifact. + +Within this profile, start with all completion-evidence items below. Subtract an item only after recording that its governed rule's `Applies when` condition is false for the classified artifact. Record the item as `not applicable` and state the observed reason. This gate is an applicability decision, not an exception: it does not deactivate a required dependency, waive an applicable rule, lower a rule's level, or convert unavailable verification into a pass. If classification is uncertain, retain the item and report its verification status. Use `governance/exceptions.md` when an applicable rule cannot be satisfied and permits an exception. + +An atomic artifact normally subtracts checks for structures it does not contain, such as procedures, headings, images, localization, tables, and reader testing. It still retains applicable accuracy, exact-name, change-summary, final-context, and edit-authority checks. A public or consequential artifact is extended even when it is short. + +## Agent edit authority + +Apply `AGENT-VERIFICATION-003` before changing a target repository or shared artifact. A review request is read-only. An edit request authorizes meaning-preserving changes only within its stated scope. Report a proposed edit that changes a factual claim instead of applying it unless the task separately authorizes a factual update and the evidence supports that update. Follow the precedence and provenance rules through their owning documents rather than restating them here. + +## Completion evidence + +Each **Verification tier** names the minimum method needed for that item. Under `FND-EVIDENCE-003` (**Do not claim unperformed verification**), report `not run` when the method was available but was not performed and `not available` when the artifact, tool, environment, or human reader was unavailable. A source inspection cannot satisfy a rendered-artifact, accessibility-tool, procedure-walkthrough, or representative-reader tier. For an item with more than one tier, report each tier separately. + +- `FND-EVIDENCE-003` + - **Level:** `prohibited` + - **Verification tier:** record inspection + - **Evidence:** Every completion statement maps to actual output, an inspected artifact, or a labeled manual observation; every missing method uses `not run` or `not available` instead of a satisfaction claim. + - **Symptoms:** A result says or implies that a review passed without the named tier evidence; an unavailable check disappears; a source inspection is presented as rendered, tool-assisted, walkthrough, or reader evidence. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-001` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** source inspection + - **Evidence:** The artifact or review record identifies the intended reader and primary purpose. An atomic artifact can rely on reasonably inferable context instead of adding a review note to the artifact. + - **Symptoms:** The reader is unnamed or not inferable; the opening does not reveal what the artifact helps the reader understand or do; required context is missing. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-002` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** source comparison + - **Evidence:** Material factual claims, requirements, qualifications, and completion statements trace to cited or recorded source evidence. + - **Symptoms:** A style edit changes meaning; certainty exceeds the source; a condition, exception, risk, or unknown disappears. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-003` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** source inspection for terminology consistency; source comparison for exact names, labels, paths, and values + - **Evidence:** Source inspection finds no unintended alternate terms. Separate source comparison confirms each exact identifier against its authoritative artifact. + - **Symptoms:** One concept has competing names; a control or path differs from its source; an acronym or specialist term is unexplained for the intended reader. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-004` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** source inspection + - **Evidence:** The opening states the result, decision, request, or main claim before its supporting detail. + - **Symptoms:** Background delays the result; a reader must reach the end to learn the decision; paragraphs mix unrelated topics. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-005` + - **Level:** `recommended` + - **Verification tier:** source inspection + - **Evidence:** Explanatory prose and instructions use direct, complete sentences, or the review records a concrete reason for deviating. + - **Symptoms:** Filler, avoidable passive voice, stacked noun phrases, long multi-claim sentences, idioms, or missing subjects obscure the meaning. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-006` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** procedure walkthrough + - **Evidence:** A walkthrough performed in order records prerequisites, actions, non-obvious results, and the point at which the procedure succeeds or fails. + - **Symptoms:** A step depends on omitted knowledge; warnings follow the risky action; steps contain several primary actions; the reviewer cannot tell whether a step succeeded. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-007` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** source inspection for semantic structure; rendered artifact for delivery-format placement and relationships + - **Evidence:** Source inspection confirms meaningful headings, correct list semantics, parallel items, and descriptive links. Separate rendered inspection confirms that the delivery format preserves those relationships and keeps warnings with the affected action. + - **Symptoms:** Sequence appears unordered; list items are not parallel; headings do not describe their sections; link text loses meaning outside its sentence; warnings are visually detached from the affected action. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-008` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** source comparison for interface labels; rendered artifact for literal formatting; accessibility tool for non-text alternatives + - **Evidence:** Source comparison confirms exact interface labels. Separate rendered inspection confirms that literals remain distinguishable. Separate accessibility-tool output confirms useful alternatives for meaningful images and omission of decorative images from assistive output. + - **Symptoms:** Labels do not match the interface; literals look like prose; an image has missing, redundant, filename-only, or appearance-only alternative text; a decorative image is announced. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-009` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** source inspection for an atomic plain-text summary; rendered artifact when platform or repository presentation affects the result + - **Evidence:** The final summary is imperative and grammatical after “If applied, this change will.” When presentation conventions apply, separate rendered inspection confirms body separation, prefix, punctuation, length, and wrapping. + - **Symptoms:** The subject describes activity instead of outcome; it is not grammatical after “If applied, this change will”; punctuation, length, prefix, or wrapping conflicts with the governing repository convention. +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-010` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-002` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** rendered artifact + - **Evidence:** The handoff names the inspected medium and records the final-context result without duplicating the review record. + - **Symptoms:** Only source text was inspected; the medium is unnamed; wrapping, context, links, formatting, or accessibility remain unchecked but the handoff claims completion. +- When localized, `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-011` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** source inspection for translation units; rendered artifact for representative locales; accessibility tool for localized accessible names + - **Evidence:** Source inspection confirms complete translation units and named placeholders. Separate long, plural, right-to-left, and non-Latin renderings confirm meaning, layout, links, and literals. Separate accessibility-tool output confirms localized accessible names. + - **Symptoms:** Messages are assembled from fragments; placeholders lack context; translation truncates or reorders meaning; direction, plural, number, date, link, or accessible-name behavior fails. +- When quantitative or tabular, `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-012` and `FND-EVIDENCE-007` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** source comparison, rendered artifact, and accessibility tool + - **Evidence:** Source comparison traces values to their method, scope, units, periods, populations, denominators, and uncertainty. Separate rendered inspection confirms headers and visible relationships. Separate accessibility-tool output confirms reading order and a decision-relevant text equivalent. + - **Symptoms:** A number lacks scope or units; precision exceeds the method; headers do not identify relationships; reading order is ambiguous; chart text describes appearance but omits the relevant pattern. +- When consequential or repeatedly misunderstood, `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-013` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** representative-reader review + - **Evidence:** A comprehension record identifies the readers or approved method, tasks, observed misunderstandings, changes, and any required retest. + - **Symptoms:** The author substitutes personal confidence for reader evidence; participants do not represent the least-informed audience; the review measures preference instead of the ability to find, understand, and act. +- When `CONTENT-ERRORS` is active, `CONTENT-ERRORS-001`, `CONTENT-ERRORS-002`, `CONTENT-ERRORS-004`, `CONTENT-ERRORS-006`, and `CONTENT-ERRORS-008` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** source comparison for safe and truthful meaning; rendered artifact for placement and persistence; accessibility tool for focus and announcements + - **Evidence:** Source comparison confirms the failed outcome, next action, safe specificity, and truthful protocol meaning. Separate rendered inspection confirms placement and persistence. Separate accessibility-tool output confirms focus and announcements. + - **Symptoms:** The message blames the user, hides the next action, appears on the wrong surface, leaks sensitive detail, loses focus or announcements, or contradicts the machine-readable failure. +- When `PRIVACY-DATA` is active, `PRIVACY-DATA-003`, `PRIVACY-DATA-005`, `PRIVACY-DATA-012`, and `PRIVACY-DATA-014` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** source comparison + - **Evidence:** The artifact and its evidence include only needed personal data, explain relevant processing, control recipients, and keep personal data out of unsafe evidence and development paths. + - **Symptoms:** Examples or screenshots expose unnecessary personal data; processing or recipients are undisclosed; review evidence enters an unauthorized system or location. +- When `AI-AGENTS` is active, `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-014`, `AI-AGENTS-002`, and `AI-AGENTS-020` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** procedure walkthrough + - **Evidence:** Applicable and non-applicable task walkthroughs cover scope, outcome, inputs, ordered procedure, postconditions, forbidden actions, escalation, verification, ownership, and versioned reuse. + - **Symptoms:** The instruction loads outside its scope; required input or success state is implicit; a forbidden action has no boundary; missing-input, conflict, failure, or completion behavior is undefined. +- For style, quality, or authorship-sensitive review, `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-015` + - **Level:** `recommended` + - **Verification tier:** source inspection; supporting language-tool inspection when used + - **Evidence:** Review notes connect each proposed style change to the intended reader or an applicable rule and do not treat patterns, preferences, detectors, vocabulary, or Harper categories as proof of a defect or AI authorship. When Harper output is used, the record includes its version, configuration, dialect, result kind, and disposition. + - **Symptoms:** A reviewer rewrites effective text to satisfy personal taste; a pattern or Harper result becomes an automatic defect; a style or regional result is reported as incorrect grammar; the review labels authorship without adequate evidence. +- For agent review or editing, `AGENT-VERIFICATION-003` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** source comparison + - **Evidence:** The review record identifies review-only, meaning-preserving edit, or factual-update authority; the final diff remains within scope; factual changes are proposed rather than silently applied; provenance keeps author and verifier separate. + - **Symptoms:** A review request produces file changes; a style edit changes a fact; unrelated prose changes appear; the author records `verified` provenance for their own work. +- For a formal writing review, `AGENT-VERIFICATION-004` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** record inspection + - **Evidence:** Each finding contains rule ID, location, symptom, level, and proposed change; the review ends with a verdict and explicit **Unverified** block. + - **Symptoms:** Findings cannot be traced to a rule or location; distinct issues are merged; the verdict ignores required failures or uncertainty; unavailable checks disappear from the report. +- For functional writing in English, `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-016` + - **Level:** `required` + - **Verification tier:** source inspection; supporting grammar-tool inspection when configured or proportionate + - **Evidence:** Source inspection covers agreement and reference; time and verb form; modality and obligation; nouns and quantity; conditions and clause attachment; comparison and parallelism; modifiers and word order; usage and collocation; and mechanics. When a grammar tool is configured or proportionate, its separate result records the checker, version, configuration, language variety, ignored regions, and adjudicated findings. A disputed usage decision records its exact reference entry or topic and context. + - **Symptoms:** Grammar obscures the actor, action, condition, sequence, quantity, comparison, or scope. Permission sounds mandatory or a prohibition has two readings. Pronouns lack clear antecedents, or clauses and modifiers attach to the wrong term. A dialect preference is presented as universal grammar. A tool result is auto-applied, omitted, or presented as proof without contextual review. + +## Review output contract + +For every formal review, emit one record per issue with these exact fields: + +- **Rule ID:** Stable governed rule ID. +- **Location:** File, section, page, screen, or other exact locator. +- **Symptom:** Directly observed violation or uncertainty. +- **Level:** Governing requirement level. +- **Proposed change:** Narrow correction that preserves accurate meaning. + +End with: + +- **Verdict:** `conforming`, `non-conforming`, or `indeterminate`. +- **Unverified:** Every applicable check that was `not run`, `not available`, failed, substituted, or partial, with its rule ID and practical limit. + +Use `non-conforming` when an applicable `required` or `prohibited` rule fails. Use `indeterminate` when missing evidence prevents that decision. A deviation from a `recommended` rule alone does not make the artifact non-conforming. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/growth-experiment.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/growth-experiment.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..858792e --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/growth-experiment.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-GROWTH-EXPERIMENT +title: Growth experiment profile +description: Routes growth experiments to evidence, measurement, trust, and safe-change requirements. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [growth, product, analytics] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [growth-experiment] +tags: [profile, growth, experiment] +depends_on: [GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS, ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT, FND-TRUST, FND-EVIDENCE, FND-CHANGE, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T20:57:53Z" } +--- + +# Growth experiment profile + +Use for acquisition, activation, monetization, engagement, retention, referral, lifecycle, and conversion experiments. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS` — hypothesis, assignment, decision, and learning +- `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT` — trustworthy instrumentation and metric definitions +- `FND-TRUST` — consent, consequences, guardrails, and truthful claims +- `FND-EVIDENCE` — distinguish causal evidence from inference +- `FND-CHANGE` — bounded exposure and recovery +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — final-artifact inspection and reproducible handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- Public acquisition page → `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` +- Positioning, acquisition, conversion, onboarding, retention, or lifecycle treatment → `PROFILE-MARKETING-LIFECYCLE` +- Product behavior change → `PROFILE-PRODUCT-FEATURE` +- User interface treatment → `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE` +- Email, push, or lifecycle messaging → `PROFILE-FUNCTIONAL-WRITING` and `PRIVACY-DATA`; record the governing channel and communication policy because this library does not define channel-specific permission rules +- Personal data, tracking, profiling, personalization, identity stitching, or audience transfer → `PRIVACY-DATA` +- Google Analytics 4 implementation → `PLAYBOOK-GA4` +- Model, prompt, retrieval, tool, memory, or agent behavior is the treatment or makes treatment decisions → `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` + +## Completion evidence + +- `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-001` and `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-007` — A timestamped pre-exposure hypothesis, analysis plan, decision threshold, and sensitivity plan exist. +- `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-002` and `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-008` — Eligibility, assignment, exposure, contamination, balance, and integrity checks are recorded. +- `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-003`, `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-004`, and `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-005` — The primary metric and guardrails have exact definitions and decision rules. +- `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-003` — A known treatment and control action were traced through the full measurement path. +- `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-005` — The actual stop condition matches the predeclared horizon or sequential method, or an early safety stop is identified. +- `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-006` and `FND-EVIDENCE-004` — The durable result records effect, uncertainty, limitations, and the stop, ship, iterate, or abandon decision. +- `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-010` and `FND-EVIDENCE-007` — The result reports effect size, uncertainty, baseline, practical threshold, and relevant costs in interpretable units. +- `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-011` — Policy review confirms every arm preserves applicable legal, safety, accessibility, privacy, security, and contractual baselines. +- `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS-012` — Variant QA and bounded-ramp evidence cover treatment delivery, assignment, events, guardrails, and stop controls. +- When `PRIVACY-DATA` is active, `PRIVACY-DATA-002`, `PRIVACY-DATA-003`, `PRIVACY-DATA-004`, `PRIVACY-DATA-006`, and `PRIVACY-DATA-013` — The experiment records authority, minimization, purpose boundaries, applicable choice, and privacy-risk review before exposure. +- When `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` is active, the experiment separates stochastic trial variance from assigned treatment effects and records the exact agent configuration, evaluation baseline, authority, safety limits, and outcome checks. +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — The handoff links the experiment plan, implementation, analysis, decision, checks, and unresolved risks. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..869d927 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# Task profiles + +* [Apple interface](apple-interface.md) - Universal and Apple-specific requirements for Apple-platform interfaces. +* [Agentic system](agentic-system.md) - Routes model workflows and agents to architecture, evidence, trust, safe-change, and verification requirements. +* [Commercial evidence review](commercial-evidence-review.md) - Routes project, supplier, facility, and counterparty reviews to evidence, trust, writing, sales, and handoff requirements. +* [Company brain](company-brain.md) - Routes organizational knowledge systems to source authority, evidence, data, security, privacy, engineering, and verification requirements. +* [Code removal](code-removal.md) - Routes layered unused-code and dependency analysis to safe change and final verification. +* [Database change](database-change.md) - Routes database changes to integrity, safety, evidence, and verification requirements. +* [Functional writing](functional-writing.md) - Routes functional writing to clarity, evidence, trust, and final-artifact review requirements. +* [Growth experiment](growth-experiment.md) - Routes growth experiments to evidence, measurement, trust, and safe-change requirements. +* [Public legal document](legal-document.md) - Routes terms, privacy notices, policies, addenda, and legal centers to scope, accuracy, presentation, change control, and qualified review requirements. +* [Marketing lifecycle](marketing-lifecycle.md) - Routes core lifecycle marketing to evidence, trust, privacy, analytics, and verification requirements. +* [Product feature](product-feature.md) - Routes user-facing feature work to trust, safe-change, evidence, and verification requirements. +* [Public web page](public-web-page.md) - Routes public web work to quality, search, trust, evidence, and verification requirements. +* [Reliability and incident](reliability-incident.md) - Routes service operation and incidents to response, recovery, and learning requirements. +* [Redis change](redis-change.md) - Routes Redis design, configuration, client, cache, stream, and operational changes. +* [Secrets and Infisical change](secrets-management.md) - Routes Infisical adoption, access, delivery, precedence, rotation, exposure, operation, recovery, and migration. +* [Software change](software-change.md) - Routes ordinary fixes, maintenance, refactoring, implementation, and test-suite changes to engineering and verification requirements. +* [Programmatic interface and service change](service-api-change.md) - Routes APIs, libraries, SDKs, and services to contract, security, reliability, and release requirements. +* [Specialist marketing](specialist-marketing.md) - Routes channel, sales, app-store, media, referral, and distribution work to specialist standards. +* [User interface feature](ui-feature.md) - Routes cross-platform interface work to interaction, accessibility, content, and product requirements. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/legal-document.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/legal-document.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b4aacb7 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/legal-document.md @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-LEGAL-DOCUMENT +title: Public legal document profile +description: Routes terms, privacy notices, policies, addenda, and legal centers to scope, accuracy, presentation, change control, and qualified review requirements. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [legal, privacy, standards] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2026-11-17 +stale_after: 2026-11-17 +applies_to: [legal-document, terms-of-service, privacy-notice, cookie-notice, data-processing-addendum, acceptable-use-policy] +tags: [profile, legal, privacy] +depends_on: [LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS, PRIVACY-DATA, FND-TRUST, FND-EVIDENCE, FND-ACCESSIBILITY, WRITING-FUNCTIONAL, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T07:46:46Z" } +--- + +# Public legal document profile + +Use this profile to create, adopt, revise, publish, or operationalize terms of service, privacy or cookie notices, acceptable-use policies, data-processing or transfer addenda, subprocessor pages, service or security terms, AI policies, and public legal centers. A qualified legal owner must approve applicability and substance; agent or general editorial review is not legal approval. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS` — document scope, architecture, practice accuracy, presentation, assent evidence, versioning, change control, and operational verification +- `PRIVACY-DATA` — processing authority, data map, notice, choice, rights, retention, recipients, transfers, and released-system behavior +- `FND-TRUST` — informed choice, honest framing, material consequences, and practical exit +- `FND-EVIDENCE` — source authority, claim strength, uncertainty, and completion evidence +- `FND-ACCESSIBILITY` — accessible documents, controls, channels, and representative testing +- `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL` — audience, terminology, structure, plain language, localization, and comprehension +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — proportionate checks, specialist review boundaries, final inspection, and handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- Signup, checkout, renewal, cancellation, consent, rights, or other interactive legal flow → `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE` +- Public or indexable legal page or legal center → `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` +- Collection, use, sharing, retention, model processing, or deletion of personal data → every applicable rule in `PRIVACY-DATA`, not only notice rules +- Model-generated output, model data use, automated decisions, or agent actions → `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` +- Authentication, authorization, uploads, external links or fetches, rights request intake, or other application behavior → `SECURITY-APPLICATION` +- Prices, renewals, trials, offers, testimonials, or acquisition claims → `PROFILE-MARKETING-LIFECYCLE` +- App-store privacy declarations or store-specific terms → `DISCOVERY-APP-STORES` +- Recurring subscription, trial, automatic renewal, renewal notice, price change, or cancellation → `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-016`, `FND-TRUST`, and the governing commerce, billing, and jurisdiction decision +- Cookies, SDKs, local storage, pixels, fingerprinting, advertising identifiers, or privacy preference signals → `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-017`, `PRIVACY-DATA`, and `WEB-QUALITY-011` +- Age restriction, age assurance, parental process, or service used by minors → `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-018`, `PRIVACY-DATA-011`, and the governing child-safety and legal decision +- Content or conduct enforcement, account restriction, suspension, termination, or appeal → `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-019`, `FND-TRUST`, and the governing safety, security, or platform policy +- Merger, acquisition, insolvency, assignment, product shutdown, or entity change → `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-020`, `PRIVACY-DATA`, and `FND-CHANGE` +- Children, employment, health, finance, education, biometrics, precise location, communications, regulated professional services, or another heightened domain → no complete sector-specific legal standard exists in this library; obtain the governing qualified review and record the external policy before publication + +## Completion evidence + +- `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-001` — The scope record names the entity, product, audience, jurisdictions, languages, dates, owners, and required qualified review. +- `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-002` — The document map resolves components, incorporation, precedence, negotiated overrides, and regional variants. +- `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-003` and `PRIVACY-DATA-001` — Each material statement traces to current processing, product, vendor, security, support, or commercial evidence. +- `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-004` and `FND-TRUST-001` — Material consequences appear in representative decision flows before commitment. +- `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-005`, `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-006`, and `PRIVACY-DATA-006` — Contract assent, notice, and consent are distinguished; stored evidence reproduces the exact applicable version and interaction. +- `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-007` and `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-008` — Archive, diff, notice, effective-time, transition, objection, cancellation, refund, and data-treatment evidence covers material changes. +- When a privacy notice applies, `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-009` and `PRIVACY-DATA-005` — The complete and point-of-collection notices match the processing map and provide working contact, rights, and choice paths. +- When AI applies, `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-010`, `FND-TRUST-008`, and `PRIVACY-DATA-016` — Reliance limits, content treatment, provider behavior, training, evaluation, logging, human access, and restricted uses agree across documents and systems. +- `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-011`, `FND-ACCESSIBILITY-001`, and `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-013` — Rendered accessibility and comprehension evidence covers the intended audience, channels, and supported languages. +- `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-012` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — The release record covers the published documents and the behavior they govern, names qualified approvals, and reports limitations and deferred routes. +- For electronic formation or required electronic records, `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-013` and `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-015` — The rendered interaction provides conspicuous notice, unambiguous assent, access before agreement, and a reproducible retainable copy under the governing decision. +- For non-negotiated or consumer terms, `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-014` — The clause-risk record covers substantive fairness, discretion, remedies, conflicting agreements, and qualified approval. +- For recurring offers, `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-016` — Enrollment, consent, acknowledgment, reminders, renewal, billing, cancellation, refund, and evidence retention pass end-to-end review. +- For device storage, tracking, or preference signals, `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-017` — The inventory and observed storage, network, SDK, redirect, and server behavior agree before choice, after each choice, after withdrawal, and with applicable signals. +- For minors or age assurance, `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-018` — Audience, comprehension, age states, parental paths, data minimization, accuracy, correction, and deletion have qualified review and tested evidence. +- For restriction or termination, `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-019` — Comparable-case sampling and warning, action, notice, appeal, reversal, export, and refund tests show policy and operation agree. +- For corporate transfer or shutdown, `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS-020` — Contract, privacy, consent, prepaid value, export, rights, deletion, notice, and successor obligations are reconciled and assigned. + +## Review boundary + +Agents may research, draft, compare, test, and prepare review evidence. They must not select governing law, declare a clause enforceable, claim regulatory compliance, or record qualified approval without the responsible human professional. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/marketing-lifecycle.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/marketing-lifecycle.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..214aa05 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/marketing-lifecycle.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-MARKETING-LIFECYCLE +title: Marketing lifecycle profile +description: Routes positioning, acquisition, conversion, onboarding, retention, and lifecycle work to evidence, trust, privacy, analytics, and verification requirements. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [marketing, product, growth, analytics, legal] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2026-11-13 +stale_after: 2026-11-13 +applies_to: [marketing-lifecycle, campaign, conversion-flow] +tags: [profile, marketing, lifecycle] +depends_on: [MARKETING-LIFECYCLE, FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, PRIVACY-DATA, ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T20:57:53Z" } +--- + +# Marketing lifecycle profile + +Use for positioning, customer research, acquisition content, conversion flows, onboarding, lifecycle messaging, retention, churn work, and related measurement. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE` — lifecycle claims, permission, conversion, targeting, value, and learning +- `FND-EVIDENCE` — claim support, uncertainty, attribution limits, and reproducibility +- `FND-TRUST` — informed choice, honest framing, and practical exit +- `PRIVACY-DATA` — collection, profiling, audiences, recipients, retention, and rights +- `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT` — event and metric contracts, identity, lineage, and quality +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — final journey inspection and handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- Public acquisition or content page → `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` +- Experiment or controlled comparison → `PROFILE-GROWTH-EXPERIMENT` +- Interface or product-flow change → `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE` +- Google Analytics 4 implementation → `PLAYBOOK-GA4` +- Search Console operation → `PLAYBOOK-GSC` +- Resend email delivery, sender, domain, or webhook change → `PLAYBOOK-RESEND` +- Database or audience pipeline change → `DATA-DATABASE` and `DATA-QUALITY` +- Model-generated content, targeting, or agent execution → `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` +- Paid media, outreach, public engagement, sales operations, app-store, media-production, referral, or distribution work → `PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING` + +## Completion evidence + +- `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-001` through `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-003` — Positioning, research provenance, claim map, evidence, and qualifications are current. +- `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-004` through `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-007` — The complete offer, permission, value, exit, and targeting journeys preserve material choice and data boundaries. +- `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-008` and `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-005` — Metrics, attribution limits, costs, guardrails, and time horizons support the decision. +- `PRIVACY-DATA-002`, `PRIVACY-DATA-006`, and `PRIVACY-DATA-012` — Authority, choice, suppression, vendors, and recipients are approved for the actual audience and jurisdiction. +- `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-009` — Active material and automation have owners, evidence, review dates, and retirement behavior. +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION-002` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — The final journey and handoff cover every active channel, state, and unresolved limitation. +- When `PLAYBOOK-RESEND` is active, include its manifest, zero-gap surface classification, selected capability IDs and authority classes, email skill route, dated official sources, workflow and evaluation results, sender and consent boundaries, suppression behavior, delivery-event replay, telemetry, recovery, and exit evidence. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/product-feature.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/product-feature.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d11aea --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/product-feature.md @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-PRODUCT-FEATURE +title: Product feature profile +description: Routes user-facing feature work to trust, safe-change, evidence, and verification requirements. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [product, design, engineering] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [product-feature] +tags: [profile, product] +depends_on: [PRODUCT-DELIVERY, ENGINEERING-QUALITY, FND-TRUST, FND-CHANGE, FND-EVIDENCE, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-30T20:00:00Z" } +--- + +# Product feature profile + +Use for new or materially changed user-facing behavior. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `PRODUCT-DELIVERY` — evidenced need, complete requirements, launch readiness, onboarding, and outcome review +- `ENGINEERING-QUALITY` — design, checks, dependencies, review, and released artifact integrity +- `FND-TRUST` — informed, non-coercive user decisions +- `FND-CHANGE` — rollout, observability, and recovery +- `FND-EVIDENCE` — factual claims and validation evidence +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — end-to-end inspection and handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- Software implementation, bug fix, refactor, or test-suite change → `PROFILE-SOFTWARE-CHANGE` +- JavaScript or TypeScript implementation → `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` +- User interface → `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE` +- Browser interface → `WEB-QUALITY` +- Apple-platform interface → `PROFILE-APPLE-INTERFACE` +- Public discovery surface → `SEO-FOUNDATIONS` +- New events or metrics → `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT` +- Google Analytics 4 implementation → `PLAYBOOK-GA4` +- Experiment or staged behavior comparison → `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS` +- Database or query change → `DATA-DATABASE` +- Dataset, model, pipeline, lineage, or quality change → `DATA-QUALITY` +- User-facing failure → `CONTENT-ERRORS` +- Documentation, interface text, messages, or summaries → `PROFILE-FUNCTIONAL-WRITING` +- New or changed public terms, privacy or cookie notice, assent, recurring offer, cancellation term, acceptable-use rule, age boundary, or legal commitment → `PROFILE-LEGAL-DOCUMENT` +- Model-generated behavior, retrieval, memory, tool use, delegation, or autonomous action → `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` +- Collection, inference, retention, deletion, disclosure, transfer, or other processing of personal data → `PRIVACY-DATA` +- Authentication, authorization, tenancy, secrets, untrusted input, file handling, external callbacks, administrative actions, or other security-sensitive behavior → `SECURITY-APPLICATION` +- Service or API change → `PROFILE-SERVICE-API` +- New operational responsibility, reliability target, runbook, vendor dependency, or incident path → `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY` +- Positioning, conversion, onboarding, retention, or lifecycle messaging → `PROFILE-MARKETING-LIFECYCLE` +- App-store listing, referral, incentive, lead asset, or externally distributed campaign → `PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING` +- Stripe → `PLAYBOOK-STRIPE`; Plaid → `PLAYBOOK-PLAID`; Vercel → `PLAYBOOK-VERCEL`; Resend → `PLAYBOOK-RESEND`; Neon → `PLAYBOOK-NEON`; Cloudflare → `PLAYBOOK-CLOUDFLARE` +- Another material external platform without a named playbook → `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR`, current official provider documentation, and a recorded library gap + +## Completion evidence + +- `FND-TRUST-001`, `FND-TRUST-002`, `FND-TRUST-005`, and `FND-TRUST-007` — The final interaction shows consequences, choices, defaults, total obligations, provenance, and tradeoffs at the decision point. +- `FND-CHANGE-001`, `FND-CHANGE-002`, `FND-CHANGE-005`, `FND-CHANGE-007`, and `FND-CHANGE-008` — The change record defines failure boundaries, recovery, rollout decisions, authorization, final state, and owners. +- `FND-EVIDENCE-001` and `FND-EVIDENCE-003` — The decision record separates observed behavior from inference and makes no unsupported completion claim. +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION-001` — Verification maps the feature's material behavior and risks to checks or documented limitations. +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION-002` — The actual end-to-end user flow and relevant states were inspected in their intended form. +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — The handoff records outputs, checks, results, active conditional standards, exceptions, and next actions. +- When the feature affects a high-impact governed domain, `AGENT-VERIFICATION-007` — The qualified independent review and decision are recorded against the released artifact. +- When `PRIVACY-DATA` is active, `PRIVACY-DATA-001`, `PRIVACY-DATA-002`, `PRIVACY-DATA-003`, `PRIVACY-DATA-013`, and `PRIVACY-DATA-015` — The processing map, authority, minimization decision, risk review, and released-system evidence cover the actual feature. +- When `SECURITY-APPLICATION` is active, `SECURITY-APPLICATION-001`, `SECURITY-APPLICATION-002`, `SECURITY-APPLICATION-015`, and relevant control rules — The threat model, authorization negatives, version-qualified verification plan, findings, retests, and residual-risk decisions cover the integrated feature. +- When `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` is active, include its architecture decision, task contract, authority boundary, evaluation suite, repeated-trial results, adversarial evidence, operational limits, and qualified review. +- When a provider playbook is active, include its manifest, zero-gap surface classification, selected capability IDs and authority classes, skill-route or gap, dated official-source review, workflow and evaluation results, released-configuration evidence, recovery, and exit evidence. When only `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR` applies, record the missing provider playbook as a library gap. +- When a conditional standard is active, include its rule-level completion evidence before declaring the feature complete. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/public-web-page.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/public-web-page.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..55e99a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/public-web-page.md @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE +title: Public web page profile +description: Routes public web work to quality, search, trust, evidence, and verification requirements. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [web, design, seo, content] +last_reviewed: 2026-09-01 +review_by: 2027-02-17 +stale_after: 2027-02-17 +applies_to: [public-web-page, landing-page, marketing-site] +tags: [profile, web, seo] +depends_on: [WEB-QUALITY, SEO-FOUNDATIONS, DESIGN-INTERACTION, FND-ACCESSIBILITY, FND-TRUST, FND-EVIDENCE, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T12:55:52-07:00" } +--- + +# Public web page profile + +Use for landing pages, marketing pages, public documentation, editorial pages, and indexable application surfaces. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `WEB-QUALITY` — document, accessibility, performance, resilience, security, and privacy quality +- `SEO-FOUNDATIONS` — crawling, indexing, canonicalization, and content purpose +- `DESIGN-INTERACTION` — product-specific visual quality, representative content, coherent visual rules, and anti-slop review +- `FND-ACCESSIBILITY` — declared accessibility target and cross-input verification +- `FND-TRUST` — truthful claims and informed choices +- `FND-EVIDENCE` — factual and comparative claims +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — rendered inspection and handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- Software implementation, bug fix, refactor, or test-suite change → `PROFILE-SOFTWARE-CHANGE` +- JavaScript or TypeScript implementation → `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` +- Browser logs, errors, or operational events sent off the device → `OPERATIONS-LOGGING` +- Experiment or personalization → `GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS` and `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT` +- Interactive flow, form, navigation, or state change → `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE` +- Documentation, marketing claims, interface text, or explanatory content → `PROFILE-FUNCTIONAL-WRITING` +- Terms, privacy or cookie notice, acceptable-use policy, legal addendum, or legal center → `PROFILE-LEGAL-DOCUMENT` +- Form, upload, account, personalization, or other personal-data processing → `PRIVACY-DATA` +- Form submission, upload, authentication, authorization, server-side fetch, or other application behavior beyond static delivery → `SECURITY-APPLICATION` +- Public chat, model-generated content, retrieval, browser agent, or model-selected tool use → `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` +- URL or platform migration → `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-007` plus a dedicated migration plan +- Search Console ownership, inspection, or monitoring → `PLAYBOOK-GSC` +- Google Analytics 4 implementation → `PLAYBOOK-GA4` +- Core acquisition, conversion, or lifecycle marketing → `PROFILE-MARKETING-LIFECYCLE` +- Product portfolio, open-source index, repository landing page, or public project profile → `MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE` +- Paid placement destination, referral asset, syndicated listing, public engagement, or other specialist channel → `PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING` +- Vercel → `PLAYBOOK-VERCEL`; Cloudflare → `PLAYBOOK-CLOUDFLARE`; Resend → `PLAYBOOK-RESEND`; Stripe → `PLAYBOOK-STRIPE`; Plaid → `PLAYBOOK-PLAID`; Neon → `PLAYBOOK-NEON` +- Another material hosting or service platform without a named playbook → `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR`, current official provider documentation, and a recorded library gap + +## Completion evidence + +- `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-001` and `FND-TRUST-001` — The page record identifies its audience and purpose, and the final page presents material consequences before commitment. +- `DESIGN-INTERACTION-009` through `DESIGN-INTERACTION-012` — The page has a product-specific rationale, representative content and proof, a coherent visual system, and an independent anti-slop review. +- When motion exists, `DESIGN-INTERACTION-013` — Its purpose, frequency, timing, interruption, performance, and reduced-motion behavior are verified. +- When the problem or direction is materially uncertain, `DESIGN-INTERACTION-014` — User evidence, distinct directions, feedback, and the selection decision are recorded. +- When interaction affects the design, `DESIGN-INTERACTION-015` — A working prototype covers input, interruption, reversal, cancellation, and constrained performance. +- `DESIGN-INTERACTION-016` and `DESIGN-INTERACTION-017` — Typography and simplicity preserve hierarchy, legibility, capability, and discoverability. +- `DESIGN-INTERACTION-018` — The final running page matches the approved behavior and visual system or records each material deviation. +- When reusable agent guidance creates or reviews the page, `DESIGN-INTERACTION-019`, `DESIGN-INTERACTION-020`, and `PLAYBOOK-AGENT-DESIGN-GUIDANCE` — Routing, matched baselines, held-out and regression scenarios, mixed graders, correction ownership, and production feedback are recorded. +- When agent-interface evaluation supports a release or quality claim, `DESIGN-INTERACTION-021` and `DESIGN-INTERACTION-022` — Sampling, uncertainty, baseline governance, layered rendered checks, accessibility evaluation, and independent human judgment are recorded. +- `WEB-QUALITY-001`, `WEB-QUALITY-002`, and `WEB-QUALITY-015` — Delivered document semantics and rendered behavior were inspected across the declared representative environments. +- `WEB-QUALITY-003`, `WEB-QUALITY-004`, and `WEB-QUALITY-005` — Keyboard, focus, names, labels, alternatives, errors, contrast, zoom, reflow, and appropriate assistive behavior were checked. +- `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-002`, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-003`, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-004`, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-006`, and `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-008` — Indexability, protocol status, canonical signals, structured data, titles, headings, and links are intentional and consistent. +- `WEB-QUALITY-006`, `WEB-QUALITY-008`, and `WEB-QUALITY-009` — Performance results, layout behavior, and third-party impact were measured against their budgets and documented boundaries. +- `WEB-QUALITY-011` — Actual storage and network behavior was inspected before consent, after consent, and after withdrawal where applicable. +- `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-011` — The page or generated page family has an identified audience, owner, source basis, and distinct user value rather than ranking-only variation. +- When localized, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-012` and `WEB-QUALITY-012` — Locale URLs, content, language metadata, reciprocal alternates, fallback, layout, and locale switching were verified. +- For measuring machine clients, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-013` — Request-boundary evidence identifies the observed path, client claim, response, time, cache boundary, and limitations without treating browser analytics as crawler evidence. +- For public informational pages, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-014` and `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-015` — The complete route inventory, recorded exclusions, `describedby` and `alternate` links, Markdown responses, negotiation, cache behavior, locale and version scope, and source parity were verified without representing `llms.txt` as access control or a ranking signal. +- When a JavaScript widget contains material public meaning, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-016` — Its essential inputs, outputs, states, sources, and claims remain addressable through server-visible content, stable URLs, or a documented interface. +- When machine representations carry decision-governing content, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-017` — Stable IDs, authority, status, level, applicability, dependencies, exceptions, dates, provenance, and canonical identity remain intact. +- When routes are intended for agent use, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-018` — Repeated end-to-end tasks verify correct source selection, dependency traversal, rejection of irrelevant material, citations, decisions, latency, failures, and unsupported assumptions. +- When crawler policy changes, `SEO-FOUNDATIONS-019` — Each provider client is classified by current documented purpose, exercised at delivery boundaries, reconciled with indexing and access controls, and assigned a revalidation owner. +- When motion, timing, dragging, or gesture behavior exists, `WEB-QUALITY-016` — Reduced motion, control, time adjustment, and simpler input alternatives were exercised. +- For consequential submissions, `WEB-QUALITY-017` and `CONTENT-ERRORS-012` — Reversal, validation and correction, or review and confirmation prevents material input errors. +- When browser permissions are requested, `WEB-QUALITY-018` — Grant, denial, revocation, embedded capability, and fallback behavior were inspected. +- When browser logs leave the device, `OPERATIONS-LOGGING-002`, `OPERATIONS-LOGGING-005`, `OPERATIONS-LOGGING-007`, and `OPERATIONS-LOGGING-011` through `OPERATIONS-LOGGING-014` — Events are typed, minimized, bounded, treated as untrusted, protected through deletion, and separated from authoritative audit evidence. +- When `PRIVACY-DATA` is active, `PRIVACY-DATA-001`, `PRIVACY-DATA-003`, `PRIVACY-DATA-005`, `PRIVACY-DATA-006`, and `PRIVACY-DATA-015` — The processing map, minimization, rendered explanation, choice states, and observed network and storage behavior agree. +- When `SECURITY-APPLICATION` is active, `SECURITY-APPLICATION-002`, `SECURITY-APPLICATION-005`, `SECURITY-APPLICATION-006`, `SECURITY-APPLICATION-010`, and `SECURITY-APPLICATION-015` — Authorization, untrusted input, uploaded content, deployment configuration, and integrated verification evidence cover the page's application behavior. +- When `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` is active, its evidence covers model limits, user control, prompt injection, data paths, tools, repeated outcomes, refusals, escalation, and final-state verification. +- When `PLAYBOOK-GSC` is active, record the exact property, workflow, capability and authority boundary, source and data dates, filters, affected URL cohort, Google-observed evidence, direct corroboration, approvals for mutations, residual uncertainty, and a passing integration-bundle validation result. +- When a provider playbook is active, include its manifest, zero-gap surface classification, selected capability IDs and authority classes, exact skill route or gap, dated official-source review, workflow and evaluation results, released configuration, browser and callback boundaries, privacy-safe telemetry, failure behavior, recovery, and exit evidence. +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION-002` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — The final page was inspected in its intended medium and the handoff records checks, results, exceptions, and limitations. +- When a conditional standard is active, include its rule-level completion evidence before declaring the page complete. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/redis-change.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/redis-change.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6237590 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/redis-change.md @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-REDIS-CHANGE +title: Redis change profile +description: Routes Redis design, configuration, client, cache, session, stream, and operational changes to data, security, reliability, and verification requirements. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [data, engineering, operations, security] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2026-11-17 +stale_after: 2026-11-17 +applies_to: [redis-change, redis-operation, cache-change, session-store-change, redis-stream-change] +tags: [profile, redis, cache, database] +depends_on: [DATA-REDIS, FND-CHANGE, FND-EVIDENCE, OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY, SECURITY-APPLICATION, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T17:27:22Z" } +--- + +# Redis change profile + +Use for Redis workload design, key or data-model changes, client integration, caching, session storage, rate limiting, streams or Pub/Sub, memory and eviction configuration, clustering, persistence, backup, failover, security, upgrades, and production operation. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `DATA-REDIS` — Redis workload contracts, memory, data model, clients, commands, availability, recovery, messaging, and locks +- `FND-CHANGE` — blast radius, rollout, stop conditions, reversal, and post-change verification +- `FND-EVIDENCE` — representative evidence and bounded performance, durability, and correctness claims +- `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY` — objectives, signals, alerts, runbooks, incidents, and recovery exercises +- `SECURITY-APPLICATION` — network, identity, command authority, data protection, and security verification +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — final-state inspection, checks, limitations, and handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- Redis schema or durable-data migration, re-keying, bulk transformation, or backup and restore change → `PROFILE-DATABASE-CHANGE` +- Application API or service behavior, cache contract, error, timeout, or retry change → `PROFILE-SERVICE-API` +- Personal, confidential, or regulated data in values, keys, telemetry, backups, or streams → `PRIVACY-DATA` +- New secrets, credential delivery, or rotation path → `SECURITY-SECRETS` +- Production incident, failover, restoration, or recovery exercise → `PROFILE-RELIABILITY-INCIDENT` +- JavaScript or TypeScript client or operational tooling → `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` +- Model-driven Redis planning, command generation, mutation, operation, or recovery → `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` + +## Completion evidence + +- `DATA-REDIS-001` — Every workload has a recorded source of truth, staleness, loss, eviction, unavailable-state, and recovery contract, and shared policy boundaries are compatible. +- `DATA-REDIS-002` and `DATA-REDIS-003` — Effective memory and eviction configuration plus representative key, collection, resident-memory, hot-key, and slot-distribution evidence establish the supported bounds. +- `DATA-REDIS-004` — Concurrent expiry, invalidation, refill, source-failure, and cold-cache tests demonstrate bounded stale data and dependency load. +- `DATA-REDIS-005` and `DATA-REDIS-006` — Client configuration and interruption tests establish bounded connections, deadlines, retries, ambiguous mutations, command work, scripts, and pipelines. +- `DATA-REDIS-007` — Network-denial, effective ACL, command-denial, and credential or certificate rotation evidence covers every application and operator identity. +- `DATA-REDIS-008` and `DATA-REDIS-009` — Failover and isolated restore or reconstruction exercises reconcile acknowledged, persisted, replicated, lost, duplicated, rejected, and recovered state against declared objectives. +- `DATA-REDIS-010` and `DATA-REDIS-011` — Alerts, runbooks, and failure exercises cover slow, unavailable, full, partitioned, flushed, failed-over, restored, cold, and recovering conditions without uncontrolled dependency load. +- `DATA-REDIS-012` when messaging is used — Disconnect, crash, duplication, ordering, pending-work, poison-message, retention, and reconciliation evidence matches the declared delivery contract. +- `DATA-REDIS-013` when locks are used — Expiry, pause, partition, takeover, stale-holder, fencing or alternate enforcement, renewal, and cleanup tests cover the protected resource. +- `FND-CHANGE-008` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — Post-change evidence binds the effective Redis and client state to checks, results, limitations, owners, and recovery. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/reliability-incident.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/reliability-incident.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bda8b8e --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/reliability-incident.md @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-RELIABILITY-INCIDENT +title: Reliability and incident profile +description: Routes service operation and incidents to objectives, evidence, safe change, security, support, recovery, and verification requirements. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [operations, engineering, security, support] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2027-02-17 +stale_after: 2027-02-17 +applies_to: [service-operation, incident, recovery] +tags: [profile, reliability, incident] +depends_on: [OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY, FND-CHANGE, FND-EVIDENCE, SECURITY-APPLICATION, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T08:25:04Z" } +--- + +# Reliability and incident profile + +Use for production service operation, readiness exercises, material incidents, recovery, and post-incident corrective work. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY` — objectives, signals, response, recovery, support, learning, and vendors +- `FND-CHANGE` — authority, containment, stop conditions, and safe recovery +- `FND-EVIDENCE` — factual timelines, uncertainty, claims, and provenance +- `SECURITY-APPLICATION` — security controls, detection, vulnerability, and incident response +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — final-state verification and handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- Personal-data exposure, loss, corruption, or rights impact → `PRIVACY-DATA` +- Database corruption, restoration, or correction → `PROFILE-DATABASE-CHANGE` +- API compatibility or dependency failure → `PROFILE-SERVICE-API` +- User-facing status, workaround, or error content → `CONTENT-ERRORS` and `PROFILE-FUNCTIONAL-WRITING` +- Model-driven diagnosis, remediation, or communication → `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` +- Server-side TypeScript logging changes or incident evidence from a Pino-supported runtime → `OPERATIONS-LOGGING` +- External provider involvement → `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-009` plus the governing vendor contract and contact process + +## Completion evidence + +- `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-001` through `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-004` — Objectives, signals, alerts, and runbooks are current and exercised. +- `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-005` — Command, severity, roles, decisions, evidence, and communication are recorded. +- `FND-CHANGE-003`, `FND-CHANGE-005`, and `FND-CHANGE-007` — Containment, stop conditions, authority, and promotion decisions are explicit. +- `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-006` and `FND-CHANGE-008` — Recovery meets measured objectives and the final state is reconciled. +- `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-007` — The factual review produces owned corrective work and a later effectiveness check. +- `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-010` and `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-011` when overload or shared fate is plausible — Evidence covers admission, retry and queue stability, recovery capacity, critical-function priority, isolation, and stable backlog drain. +- `OPERATIONS-LOGGING-002` through `OPERATIONS-LOGGING-014` when active — Collected Pino events preserve safe structure, context, errors, lifecycle evidence, pipeline health, protected storage, client trust boundaries, and supportable audit claims. +- `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-008` and `CONTENT-ERRORS-001` when active — Affected users and support receive accurate impact, next actions, and resolution. +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — The handoff records impact, timeline, actions, checks, remaining risk, owners, and follow-up dates. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/secrets-management.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/secrets-management.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..526c91d --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/secrets-management.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-SECRETS-MANAGEMENT +title: Secrets and Infisical change profile +description: Routes Infisical adoption, access, delivery, precedence, rotation, exposure, control-plane operation, recovery, and migration to governed requirements. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [security, platform, engineering, operations] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-16 +review_by: 2026-11-16 +stale_after: 2026-11-16 +applies_to: [secret-management-change, infisical-adoption, credential-migration, secret-rotation, secret-exposure] +tags: [profile, security, secrets, infisical, credentials] +depends_on: [SECURITY-SECRETS, SECURITY-APPLICATION, ENGINEERING-QUALITY, OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY, FND-CHANGE, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T06:04:34Z" } +--- + +# Secrets and Infisical change profile + +Use for creating or changing secrets, adopting or configuring Infisical, changing human or workload access, integrating local development or CI/CD, delivering or synchronizing secrets, rotating or restoring credentials, investigating exposure, operating the control plane, or migrating from another store. + +Combine this profile with every other profile affected by the consumer. For example, a database credential rotation also activates `PROFILE-DATABASE-CHANGE` when it changes database roles, availability, or recovery behavior. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `SECURITY-SECRETS` — Infisical authority, hierarchy, identities, delivery, rotation, detection, availability, control-plane operation, resolution, sync, and migration +- `SECURITY-APPLICATION` — trust boundaries, least privilege, safe evidence, integrated verification, and incident response +- `ENGINEERING-QUALITY` — bounded dependencies, checks, review, provenance, and final-state release evidence +- `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY` — dependency objectives, observability, runbooks, response, recovery, and provider exit planning +- `FND-CHANGE` — blast radius, stop conditions, rollout, rollback, cleanup, and post-change checks +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — final-state inspection and reproducible handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- Secret grants access to a database, migration, backup, or data job → `PROFILE-DATABASE-CHANGE` +- Secret is used by an API, service, job, webhook, SDK, library, or command interface → `PROFILE-SERVICE-API` +- Secret is used by a model, agent, tool, browser automation, or autonomous workflow → `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` +- Secret is used by a public website build or runtime → `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` +- Secret affects a user-facing feature or application behavior → `PROFILE-PRODUCT-FEATURE` +- Secret contains, unlocks, encrypts, or transfers personal or regulated data → `PRIVACY-DATA` +- Work is part of an outage, exposure, compromise, restore, or emergency rotation → `PROFILE-RELIABILITY-INCIDENT` + +## Completion evidence + +- `SECURITY-SECRETS-001` and `SECURITY-SECRETS-002` — The protected inventory maps issuers, Infisical hierarchy, owners, permission sets, consumers, templates, and allowed replicas without values or private topology in public artifacts; no deprecated service token or shadow authority remains. +- `SECURITY-SECRETS-003` — The effective union of roles, groups, additional privileges, approvals, and administrator access demonstrates named, temporary, independently approved access and exercised provisioning, expiry, urgent removal, and break-glass behavior. +- `SECURITY-SECRETS-004` — Machine identity evidence maps distinct permission sets and permitted replicas, proves exact workload-authentication bindings and token limits, and includes negative repository, environment, claim, namespace, network, expiry, and use-limit checks. +- `SECURITY-SECRETS-005` — Delivery and cache evidence covers the selected CLI, SDK, API, Agent, Kubernetes, or sync path; startup, refresh, expiry, denial, staleness, restart, revocation delay, cleanup, and final artifacts create no unintended copy or silent fallback. +- `SECURITY-SECRETS-006` — Dynamic, dual-phase, single-phase, emergency, and restore evidence as applicable covers authoritative issuer state, consumer refresh, monitoring, new-value acceptance, old-value rejection, and safe recovery. +- `SECURITY-SECRETS-007` and `SECURITY-APPLICATION-016` — Staged, history, CI, connected-source, and artifact detection; protected triage; narrow suppressions; issuer response; audit review; and integrated security verification cover the final scope. +- `SECURITY-SECRETS-008` and `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-005` — Outage, latency, denial, token expiry, stale cache, audit-stream loss, alert failure, break-glass, restore, revocation, and recovery exercises match the declared service and retention behavior. +- `SECURITY-SECRETS-009` and `FND-CHANGE-008` — Migration reconciliation proves consumers use Infisical, deprecated authentication, legacy values, fallback paths, and temporary dual delivery are removed or governed by expiring exceptions, and the post-change state is verified. +- `SECURITY-SECRETS-010` — Organization and instance evidence covers policy ownership, SSO, MFA, sessions, provisioning, templates, approvals, administrators, audit retention, and capability-aware substitutes; self-hosted evidence also covers TLS, network policy, key separation, encrypted backups, restore, availability, capacity, monitoring, upgrades, and offboarding. +- `SECURITY-SECRETS-011` — Personal override, reference, import, and sync evidence covers environment restrictions, permission expansion, API behavior, precedence, missing and duplicate values, conflict and deletion settings, destination drift, reconciliation, removal, and recovery. +- `ENGINEERING-QUALITY-005` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — Independent review and handoff bind checks, limitations, recovery, and ownership to the exact final artifact and configuration. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/service-api-change.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/service-api-change.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..deee67e --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/service-api-change.md @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-SERVICE-API +title: Programmatic interface and service change profile +description: Routes programmatic interface and service changes to contract, engineering, security, reliability, change, and verification requirements. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [engineering, platform, security, operations] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2027-02-17 +stale_after: 2027-02-17 +applies_to: [service-change, api-change, library-api-change] +tags: [profile, service, api, library, sdk] +depends_on: [API-CONTRACTS, ENGINEERING-QUALITY, OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY, SECURITY-APPLICATION, FND-CHANGE, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-30T20:00:00Z" } +--- + +# Programmatic interface and service change profile + +Use for new or materially changed APIs, libraries, SDKs, command interfaces, services, jobs, webhooks, integrations, and service-to-service contracts. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `API-CONTRACTS` — caller model, adoption, interface meaning, errors, bounds, retries, compatibility, delivery, lifecycle, and authorization +- `ENGINEERING-QUALITY` — architecture, checks, dependencies, review, provenance, and release readiness +- `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY` — objectives, observability, response, recovery, and vendor dependencies +- `SECURITY-APPLICATION` — threat boundaries and integrated control verification +- `FND-CHANGE` — blast radius, rollout, stop conditions, and recovery +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — final-state inspection and reproducible handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- Software implementation, bug fix, refactor, or test-suite change → `PROFILE-SOFTWARE-CHANGE` +- JavaScript or TypeScript implementation → `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` +- Personal, confidential, or regulated data → `PRIVACY-DATA` +- Database, schema, query, or backfill change → `PROFILE-DATABASE-CHANGE` +- New analytics events or service metrics → `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT` +- Server-side TypeScript on Node.js or another Pino-supported runtime → `OPERATIONS-LOGGING` +- Model-driven requests, tools, or autonomous operation → `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` +- Public browser surface → `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` +- User or agent-facing failures → `CONTENT-ERRORS` +- Stripe → `PLAYBOOK-STRIPE`; Plaid → `PLAYBOOK-PLAID`; Vercel → `PLAYBOOK-VERCEL`; Resend → `PLAYBOOK-RESEND`; Neon → `PLAYBOOK-NEON`; Cloudflare → `PLAYBOOK-CLOUDFLARE` +- Another material external platform without a named playbook → `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR`, current official provider documentation, and a recorded library gap + +## Completion evidence + +- `API-CONTRACTS-001`, `API-CONTRACTS-002`, and `API-CONTRACTS-003` — The versioned contract and exercised responses cover operations, semantics, errors, limits, and side effects. +- `API-CONTRACTS-004`, `API-CONTRACTS-005`, and `API-CONTRACTS-007` — Bound, continuation, interruption, retry, deduplication, and throttling evidence covers expected load and failure. +- `API-CONTRACTS-006` — Supported client versions pass and removal decisions use measured adoption. +- `API-CONTRACTS-008` and `SECURITY-APPLICATION-002` — Positive and negative authorization checks cover tenant, object, field, bulk, and nested boundaries. +- `API-CONTRACTS-009` and `API-CONTRACTS-010` — Representative callers can complete their goals and credential lifecycle from the published contract without undocumented implementation knowledge. +- `API-CONTRACTS-011` — Baseline and expanded responses have measured cost, enforced bounds, authorization, and partial-failure evidence. +- `API-CONTRACTS-012` and `API-CONTRACTS-013` — Concurrent-write and cache-layer checks cover stale state, preconditions, revalidation, representation dimensions, and tenant isolation. +- `API-CONTRACTS-014` and `API-CONTRACTS-015` — Asynchronous operations and event delivery are exercised through interruption, duplication, delay, reordering, cancellation, replay, and terminal states. +- `API-CONTRACTS-016` — The deployed route inventory matches contracts, environments, lifecycle signals, exposure, and retirement evidence. +- `API-CONTRACTS-017` through `API-CONTRACTS-019` — Reviewed use cases, caller examples, vocabulary, types, public surface, mutability, and extension boundaries match the implemented contract. +- `API-CONTRACTS-020` through `API-CONTRACTS-022` — Invalid and partial operations, structured and empty results, exported-element documentation, and maintained examples are exercised against the final interface. +- `API-CONTRACTS-023` through `API-CONTRACTS-027` — Field presence, partial updates, consistency, state transitions, collection queries, and scalar representations are exercised at boundaries and across supported serializers. +- `API-CONTRACTS-028` through `API-CONTRACTS-031` — Bulk results, unknown data, deadlines, cancellation, correlation, and trace propagation remain safe through partial and distributed failure. +- `API-CONTRACTS-032` — Raw protocol and supported SDK versions produce equivalent contract outcomes across installation, authentication, retries, pagination, errors, and upgrades. +- `ENGINEERING-QUALITY-005` and `ENGINEERING-QUALITY-008` — Independent review and final-artifact approval bind to the released version. +- `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-001` through `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY-006` — Objectives, signals, alerts, runbooks, response, and recovery are exercised. +- `OPERATIONS-LOGGING-001` through `OPERATIONS-LOGGING-014` when active — The built service emits protected, correlated Pino JSON with governed events, types, extensions, volume, lifecycle, storage, pipeline health, client boundaries, and audit claims. +- `FND-CHANGE-008` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — The post-change state and handoff record checks, results, limitations, owners, and recovery. +- When a provider playbook is active, the final evidence covers its manifest, zero-gap surface classification, selected capability IDs and authority classes, exact skill route or gap, dated official sources, workflow and evaluation results, effective contract, callbacks, repeat-safe effects, released configuration, telemetry, recovery, and exit. When only `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR` applies, record the missing provider playbook as a library gap. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/software-change.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/software-change.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5faff0 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/software-change.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-SOFTWARE-CHANGE +title: Software change profile +description: Routes ordinary fixes, maintenance, refactoring, implementation, and test-suite changes to engineering, testing, safe-change, evidence, and verification requirements. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [engineering, quality] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-30 +review_by: 2027-02-28 +stale_after: 2027-02-28 +applies_to: [software-change, bug-fix, refactor, maintenance, test-suite-change] +tags: [profile, engineering, testing, software] +depends_on: [ENGINEERING-QUALITY, ENGINEERING-TESTING, FND-CHANGE, FND-EVIDENCE, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-02T22:42:53-07:00" } +--- + +# Software change profile + +Use for ordinary software implementation, bug fixes, maintenance, refactoring, build or test configuration, and test-suite changes that do not have a more specific primary profile. Combine it with every domain profile affected by the behavior. + +Use the [testing field guide](../testing/field-guide.md) and closest [testing recipe](../testing/recipes.md) to retrieve the relevant subset quickly; the rule IDs below and the standard remain authoritative. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `ENGINEERING-QUALITY` — bounded design, dependencies, review, provenance, observability, and final release state +- `ENGINEERING-TESTING` — risk-based test layers, smoke scope, deterministic checks, fixtures, failure coverage, and execution stages +- `FND-CHANGE` — blast radius, rollout, recovery, final state, and ownership +- `FND-EVIDENCE` — evidence strength, provenance, uncertainty, and supportable claims +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — actual-system inspection, proportionate checks, residual uncertainty, and reproducible handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- JavaScript or TypeScript implementation → `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` +- Public or browser-delivered behavior → `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` +- User-visible feature, flow, or interface → `PROFILE-PRODUCT-FEATURE` and, when interactive, `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE` +- Public API, SDK, CLI contract, service, job, webhook, or integration → `PROFILE-SERVICE-API` +- Database, schema, migration, query, index, backfill, backup, or restore → `PROFILE-DATABASE-CHANGE` +- Redis use or change → `PROFILE-REDIS-CHANGE` +- Authentication, authorization, secrets, untrusted input, dependency exposure, or another security boundary → `SECURITY-APPLICATION`; activate `PROFILE-SECRETS-MANAGEMENT` when secret management changes +- Personal-data collection, use, inference, storage, disclosure, retention, deletion, or transfer → `PRIVACY-DATA` +- Model, retrieval, memory, tool use, delegation, or autonomous behavior → `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` +- Runtime objectives, monitoring, response, recovery, or incident paths → `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY`; server-side TypeScript logging → `OPERATIONS-LOGGING` +- Code or dependency removal → `PROFILE-CODE-REMOVAL` +- Test strategy, smoke-suite design, or material suite restructuring → `PLAYBOOK-TEST-STRATEGY` +- Material provider dependency → its named provider playbook; when none exists, `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR`, current official provider documentation, and a recorded library gap + +## Completion evidence + +- `ENGINEERING-QUALITY-001` through `ENGINEERING-QUALITY-004` — The change boundary, responsibilities, behavior-to-check mapping, and dependency decisions match the implemented system. +- `ENGINEERING-TESTING-001` through `ENGINEERING-TESTING-005` — Material behavior and risk map to truthful, deterministic layers with relevant success, boundary, failure, and recovery evidence. +- `ENGINEERING-TESTING-006` and `ENGINEERING-TESTING-007` when smoke or end-to-end suites are active — Their claims, budgets, real boundaries, exclusions, data, and diagnostics are explicit and proportionate. +- `ENGINEERING-TESTING-008` through `ENGINEERING-TESTING-013` — Contract ownership, isolated data, flake handling, coverage interpretation, known-defect evidence, and fixtures are reviewable. +- `ENGINEERING-TESTING-014` and `ENGINEERING-QUALITY-008` — Local through post-deployment evidence is correctly staged, deferred checks retain owners and release deadlines, and exact-artifact evidence binds to the release decision. +- `ENGINEERING-QUALITY-009` when engineering workflow or gate behavior changes — Human wait and work, compute cost, support burden, escaped risk, and any deferred-check ownership are measured together. +- `ENGINEERING-QUALITY-010` when material behavior, facts, configuration, or artifacts have multiple representations — The canonical owner, registered consumers, generation or direct-consumption path, drift check, supported runtime boundaries, and old-reference search are recorded. +- `ENGINEERING-TESTING-015` — Representative failures identify the governed behavior and provide bounded, safe reproduction evidence. +- `ENGINEERING-TESTING-016` through `ENGINEERING-TESTING-019` — Test resource contracts, stable ownership and health, production-derived data controls, and the architecture-aware test portfolio are recorded where applicable. +- `ENGINEERING-TESTING-020` through `ENGINEERING-TESTING-025` — Selective execution, temporal behavior, compatibility windows, high-fidelity exercises, canary promotion, and test lifecycle decisions are controlled where applicable. +- `FND-CHANGE-001`, `FND-CHANGE-005`, `FND-CHANGE-007`, and `FND-CHANGE-008` — Failure boundary, rollout authority, recovery, owners, and final state are recorded. +- `FND-CHANGE-010` when a production route is added or changed — The effective change-path inventory, common control contract, bypass evidence, and detection and mitigation measures include that route. +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION-002`, `AGENT-VERIFICATION-004`, and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — The final artifact was inspected in its intended form and the handoff records results, limitations, exceptions, and next actions. +- When a conditional standard is active, include its rule-level completion evidence before declaring the change complete. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/specialist-marketing.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/specialist-marketing.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e08f420 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/specialist-marketing.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING +title: Specialist marketing profile +description: Routes paid media, outreach, public engagement, sales operations, app-store, media, and distribution work to the applicable governed standards. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [marketing, growth, sales, privacy, legal] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2026-11-13 +stale_after: 2026-11-13 +applies_to: [specialist-marketing, campaign-operations, external-distribution] +tags: [profile, marketing, channels] +depends_on: [MARKETING-LIFECYCLE, FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, PRIVACY-DATA, ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T23:45:00Z" } +--- + +# Specialist marketing profile + +Use for marketing and revenue work that extends beyond the core lifecycle route. Activate every conditional standard that matches the actual channel, platform, asset, data path, or sales operation. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE` — positioning, claims, value exchange, permission, targeting, and lifecycle controls +- `FND-EVIDENCE` — substantiation, uncertainty, comparison, and decision records +- `FND-TRUST` — informed choice, honest framing, and practical exit +- `PRIVACY-DATA` — collection, sourcing, recipients, profiling, retention, and rights +- `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT` — metric contracts, attribution limits, identity, and quality +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — final channel inspection and evidence-backed handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- Paid placements, sponsored creative, or advertising accounts → `MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA` +- Cold email, calls, text, messaging, prospecting, or purchased contact data → `MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH` +- Public relations, social publishing, communities, creators, influencers, or partnerships → `MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT` +- Sales enablement, competitive intelligence, CRM, lead routing, forecasting, or revenue operations → `SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS` +- Apple App Store or Google Play discovery and listing work → `DISCOVERY-APP-STORES` +- Image, audio, video, ad creative, synthetic media, or licensed asset work → `MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS` +- Directories, lead assets, referrals, incentives, contests, or syndication → `MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION` +- Experiment or controlled comparison → `PROFILE-GROWTH-EXPERIMENT` +- Public destination or search surface → `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` +- Interface or product-flow change → `PROFILE-UI-FEATURE` +- Model-generated material or agent execution → `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` + +## Completion evidence + +- `MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA-001`, `MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH-001`, `MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION-001`, and `MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT-001`, as activated — The task contract lists every active channel, jurisdiction, platform, partner, asset, identity, data flow, claim, incentive, and authority boundary. +- `MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA-007`, `MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH-005`, `MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION-007`, `MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT-007`, `DISCOVERY-APP-STORES-007`, and `MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS-007`, as activated — Each activated specialist standard has its stated launch, measurement, complaint, pause, correction, and retirement evidence. +- `MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA-001` and `DISCOVERY-APP-STORES-001` — Current platform terms and jurisdiction-specific requirements are pinned in the work record and reviewed by a qualified owner when applicable. +- `MARKETING-LIFECYCLE-008`, `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT-005`, `MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA-006`, and `MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION-007`, as activated — Costs and outcomes reconcile with authoritative systems; attribution, overlap, modeled data, fraud, and uncertainty are explicit. +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION-002` and `MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT-002` — A final journey inspection covers rendered disclosure, choice, accessibility, destination truth, suppression, offboarding, and stale-copy removal. +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` — Unresolved limitations and exceptions identify owner, scope, risk, compensating control, expiry, and follow-up date. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/ui-feature.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/ui-feature.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..95968b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/profiles/ui-feature.md @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +--- +id: PROFILE-UI-FEATURE +title: User interface feature profile +description: Routes interface work to interaction, accessibility, content, trust, product, and verification requirements. +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [design, product, engineering, accessibility, content] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-17 +review_by: 2027-02-17 +stale_after: 2027-02-17 +applies_to: [user-interface, product-feature] +tags: [profile, ui, design, accessibility] +depends_on: [DESIGN-INTERACTION, FND-ACCESSIBILITY, CONTENT-INTERFACE, PRODUCT-DELIVERY, FND-TRUST, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T00:00:00-07:00" } +--- + +# User interface feature profile + +Use for new or materially changed user flows, screens, controls, forms, navigation, system states, and responsive behavior on any platform. + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. This section explains why each dependency applies and must match that list. + +- `DESIGN-INTERACTION` — product-specific visual quality, complete flows, navigation, controls, forms, adaptation, and recovery +- `FND-ACCESSIBILITY` — equivalent perception and operation across supported needs +- `CONTENT-INTERFACE` — labels, guidance, states, confirmations, and localization +- `PRODUCT-DELIVERY` — evidenced problem, outcome, requirements, launch, and review +- `FND-TRUST` — informed choice and protection against manipulation +- `AGENT-VERIFICATION` — final rendered inspection and handoff + +## Conditional standards + +- Software implementation, bug fix, refactor, or test-suite change → `PROFILE-SOFTWARE-CHANGE` +- JavaScript or TypeScript implementation → `ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY` +- Client logs, errors, or operational events sent off the device → `OPERATIONS-LOGGING` +- Public or browser-delivered page → `PROFILE-PUBLIC-WEB-PAGE` +- Apple platform → `PROFILE-APPLE-INTERFACE` +- Personal-data processing → `PRIVACY-DATA` +- Authentication, authorization, upload, untrusted input, or administrative action → `SECURITY-APPLICATION` +- Analytics, experimentation, or personalization → `ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT` and, when compared, `PROFILE-GROWTH-EXPERIMENT` +- User-facing failure → `CONTENT-ERRORS` +- Model-generated or agentic behavior → `PROFILE-AGENTIC-SYSTEM` +- Contract assent, privacy or cookie choice, recurring enrollment or cancellation, age assurance, policy enforcement, or another legal-document interaction → `PROFILE-LEGAL-DOCUMENT` + +## Completion evidence + +- `PRODUCT-DELIVERY-001` through `PRODUCT-DELIVERY-003` — The problem, outcome, non-goals, and complete behavior states are explicit. +- `DESIGN-INTERACTION-001` through `DESIGN-INTERACTION-007` — Representative flows cover navigation, controls, forms, adaptation, latency, mistakes, and recovery. +- `DESIGN-INTERACTION-009` through `DESIGN-INTERACTION-012` — The design rationale, representative content, visual system, and independent anti-slop review are recorded. +- When motion exists, `DESIGN-INTERACTION-013` — Its purpose, frequency, timing, interruption, performance, and reduced-motion behavior are verified. +- When the problem or direction is materially uncertain, `DESIGN-INTERACTION-014` — User evidence, distinct directions, feedback, and the selection decision are recorded. +- When interaction affects the design, `DESIGN-INTERACTION-015` — A working prototype covers input, interruption, reversal, cancellation, and constrained performance. +- `DESIGN-INTERACTION-016` and `DESIGN-INTERACTION-017` — Typography and simplicity preserve hierarchy, legibility, capability, and discoverability. +- `DESIGN-INTERACTION-018` — The final running implementation matches the approved behavior and visual system or records each material deviation. +- When reusable agent guidance creates or reviews the interface, `DESIGN-INTERACTION-019`, `DESIGN-INTERACTION-020`, and `PLAYBOOK-AGENT-DESIGN-GUIDANCE` — Routing, matched baselines, held-out and regression scenarios, mixed graders, correction ownership, and production feedback are recorded. +- When agent-interface evaluation supports a release or quality claim, `DESIGN-INTERACTION-021` and `DESIGN-INTERACTION-022` — Sampling, uncertainty, baseline governance, layered rendered checks, accessibility evaluation, and independent human judgment are recorded. +- `FND-ACCESSIBILITY-001` through `FND-ACCESSIBILITY-007` — The declared accessibility target is tested manually and with supported tools and assistive technology. +- `CONTENT-INTERFACE-001` through `CONTENT-INTERFACE-008` — Rendered interface content matches behavior, consequence, accessibility, and locale conditions. +- `PRODUCT-DELIVERY-006` and `AGENT-VERIFICATION-002` — Readiness and final-artifact inspection cover every active profile and material state. +- `PRODUCT-DELIVERY-008` — The outcome review and temporary-work closure have an owner and review point. +- When client logs leave the device, `OPERATIONS-LOGGING-013` — Shipped behavior minimizes data before logging, treats client claims as untrusted, bounds submission, and verifies device, network, and retained destinations. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/roadmap.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/roadmap.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4543268 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/roadmap.md @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +--- +type: Roadmap +title: Coverage roadmap +description: Prioritized gaps and triggers for expanding the raintree.standards library. +tags: [roadmap, coverage, governance] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T21:33:16-07:00" } +--- + +# Coverage roadmap + +Use this roadmap to see what is authored, what still needs review, and when to propose a +new standard. The bounded version 1 domain baseline is authored. Release remains +blocked on the independent and qualified reviews recorded in +[version 1.0 readiness](governance/v1-readiness.md). + +After version 1, add to the library only when recurring work exposes a decision, risk, +or verification gap. + +## V1 baseline + +- [x] APIs: contracts, errors, pagination, idempotency, versioning, rate limiting +- [x] Engineering: architecture, testing, dependencies, observability, release readiness, and shared JavaScript and TypeScript quality policy through Biome, Trellis, Oxlint, and vendored anti-slop +- [x] Data: modeling, migrations, lineage, validation, reconciliation, backup and recovery +- [x] Product: discovery, requirements, prioritization, launches, onboarding, metrics +- [x] Design: interaction patterns, forms, states, responsive behavior, design systems +- [x] Content: interface copy, empty states, confirmations, inclusive language +- [x] Growth and marketing: acquisition, conversion, onboarding, retention, lifecycle messaging, experimentation +- [x] SEO: technical SEO, structured data, content quality, internal linking, migrations, Search Console operations +- [x] Operations: objectives, runbooks, incidents, support, vendors, recovery, postmortems +- [x] Universal accessibility plus an Apple-specific interface route + +## Draft baselines awaiting qualified review + +- AI: `AI-AGENTS` covers architecture selection, task contracts, instruction trust, context, tools, authority, containment, data paths, environmental feedback, recovery, human judgment, versioning, evaluation validity, repeated trials, grading, red teaming, observability, parallelism, and governed knowledge. +- Security: `SECURITY-APPLICATION` covers application threat modeling, access control, authentication, sessions, untrusted input, files, outbound requests, cryptography, configuration, dependencies, abuse limits, detection, high-impact actions, verification, and response. `SECURITY-SECRETS` defines Infisical as the sole product-secret system of record and governs hierarchy, human and workload identity, delivery, precedence, rotation, exposure, availability, audit, control-plane operation, recovery, and migration. +- Privacy: `PRIVACY-DATA` covers processing maps, authority, minimization, purpose, notice, consent, rights, retention, accuracy, de-identification, heightened harm, recipients, impact assessments, non-production data, and release verification. + +The draft standards, playbooks, profiles, and patterns listed in the catalog remain pending until their owners complete the required independent and domain-qualified reviews. + +## Post-v1 extensions authored as drafts + +- [x] Paid advertising and platform-specific campaign operations — `MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA` +- [x] Cold outreach, prospecting, and jurisdiction-specific channel rules — `MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH` +- [x] Public relations, social publishing, communities, influencers, and partnerships — `MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT` +- [x] Sales enablement, competitive intelligence, and revenue operations — `SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS` +- [x] App-store optimization and store policy — `DISCOVERY-APP-STORES` +- [x] Image, video, ad creative, and other media production and rights — `MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS` +- [x] Directories, lead assets, referrals, incentives, contests, and distribution programs — `MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION` +- [x] Project, supplier, facility, and counterparty evidence reviews — `PROFILE-COMMERCIAL-EVIDENCE-REVIEW` +- [x] Organizational knowledge systems, federated retrieval guidance, and source-neutral conformance audits — `KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS`, `PROFILE-COMPANY-BRAIN`, `PATTERN-FEDERATED-KNOWLEDGE`, and `PLAYBOOK-STANDARDS-AUDIT` +- [x] Public terms, privacy notices, legal centers, assent evidence, and legal-document change control — `LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS` and `PROFILE-LEGAL-DOCUMENT` +- [x] Server-side TypeScript structured logging with Pino — `OPERATIONS-LOGGING` +- [x] Safe unused-code and dependency cleanup with TypeScript/JavaScript Knip plus Biome/Trellis, Python Ruff and deptry, contextual Vulture, and analyzer canaries — `ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL` and `PROFILE-CODE-REMOVAL` +- [x] Source-neutral external-platform requirements plus separate Stripe, Plaid, Vercel, Resend, Neon, and Cloudflare playbooks and manifest-backed review bundles — `INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR` and the six provider playbooks +- [x] Risk- and architecture-based software testing, separate smoke, synthetic, and canary contracts, staged and selective gates, controlled time and version compatibility, test-size and suite-lifecycle controls, governed production-derived data, bounded shadow and fault-injection exercises, explicit canary promotion, rapid field guidance, situation recipes, copyable records, real-repository examples, machine routing, validation, and ordinary software-change routing — `ENGINEERING-TESTING`, `PLAYBOOK-TEST-STRATEGY`, and `PROFILE-SOFTWARE-CHANGE` +- [x] WebMCP progressive enhancement, provider and consumer trust boundaries, tool contracts, input and result minimization, control parity, consequential-action review, origin and lifecycle boundaries, prompt-injection handling, cancellation, accessibility, declarative-form evidence, localization, contract evolution, adoption gates, and end-to-end verification — `WEB-WEBMCP` +- [x] Apple-platform scope, task adaptation, native semantics, user-setting adaptation, input and focus, navigation and windowing, system experiences, current-source pinning, representative final-build evidence, and shared-framework behavior — `APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION` + +All seven specialist extension standards, `PROFILE-SPECIALIST-MARKETING`, and +`PROFILE-COMMERCIAL-EVIDENCE-REVIEW` remain drafts pending independent, +domain-qualified review. The organizational-knowledge standard, company-brain +profile, federated-knowledge pattern, and standards-audit playbook have the same draft +and review boundary. + +The published-legal-terms standard and legal-document profile require qualified legal +and privacy review. The TypeScript logging standard requires independent engineering, +operations, security, and privacy review. The code-removal standard requires +independent engineering review. The Redis standard and Redis-change profile require +independent data, engineering, operations, and security review. +The external-platform standard and provider playbooks require independent platform, +security, privacy, operations, and provider-domain review as applicable. +The software-testing standard, test-strategy playbook, and software-change profile require independent engineering, quality, and operations review. +The WebMCP standard requires independent web, AI, engineering, security, privacy, product, accessibility, and representative-reader review. Its external source set remains highly volatile while WebMCP is a Community Group draft. +The Apple-platform interaction standard requires independent Apple-platform, design, engineering, accessibility, and representative-reader review. Apple's live Human Interface Guidelines remain the canonical and highly volatile platform source. + +## Open extension queue + +- Deeper domain patterns that recurring project evidence shows cannot be handled by the authored standards + +## Add a standard when + +- The same judgment recurs across projects. +- A failure could materially harm users or the business. +- Reviews repeatedly produce the same feedback. +- Agents need an explicit completion test. +- An incident, experiment, or decision produced reusable knowledge. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/sales/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/sales/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e18dcd9 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/sales/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Sales standards + +* [Revenue operations](revenue-operations.md) - Sales enablement, competitive intelligence, CRM governance, lead routing, forecasting, and revenue-system controls. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/sales/revenue-operations.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/sales/revenue-operations.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7befe27 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/sales/revenue-operations.md @@ -0,0 +1,181 @@ +--- +id: SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS +title: Sales enablement and revenue operations +description: Requirements for governed sales claims, lead lifecycle, routing, systems of record, forecasting, and handoff. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [sales, revenue-operations, marketing, finance, legal] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [sales-enablement, revenue-operations, lead-lifecycle, competitive-intelligence] +tags: [sales, revenue-operations, enablement, pipeline] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, MARKETING-LIFECYCLE, DATA-QUALITY, PRIVACY-DATA] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T23:20:00Z" } +sources: + - id: ftc-comparative-advertising + resource: https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/statement-policy-regarding-comparative-advertising + title: Statement of Policy Regarding Comparative Advertising + author: organization:us-federal-trade-commission + - id: doj-antitrust-guidance + resource: https://www.justice.gov/atr/guidelines-and-policy-statements-0 + title: Antitrust Guidelines and Policy Statements + author: organization:us-department-of-justice + - id: sec-investment-marketing + resource: https://www.sec.gov/resources-small-businesses/small-business-compliance-guides/investment-adviser-marketing + title: Investment Adviser Marketing + author: organization:us-securities-and-exchange-commission +--- + +# Sales enablement and revenue operations + +Sales and revenue systems must carry accurate claims and commitments from first contact through qualification, contracting, delivery, renewal, and reporting without hidden data changes, conflicted incentives, or unsupported forecasts. Regulated industries require their governing rules in addition to this baseline. + +## Rules + +### SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS-001 — Govern sales claims and collateral + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Providing decks, demos, proposals, battlecards, scripts, case studies, comparisons, or generated responses to prospects or customers. + +Version approved claims, evidence, product scope, pricing, security and privacy statements, customer proof, prohibited representations, owner, and expiry. Separate current capability from roadmap and custom commitment. + +**Why:** Sales material can create contractual expectations that product, security, or operations cannot meet. + +**Verify:** + +- Sample delivered material and recorded demos against the approved source and actual product version. +- Confirm stale collateral and generated knowledge are withdrawn from every tool and partner. + +**Exceptions:** Custom answers require the accountable product or domain owner and must be captured in the opportunity record. + +### SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS-002 — Keep competitive intelligence attributable and lawful + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Collecting, analyzing, or sharing competitor products, prices, customers, strategy, or claims. + +Use lawful sources and access, preserve provenance and date, distinguish observation from inference, avoid confidential or deceptively obtained material, and route competitively sensitive exchange through qualified legal review. + +**Why:** Stale or improperly acquired intelligence can mislead customers and create intellectual-property or competition risk. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace material comparative claims and internal recommendations to current sources and methods. +- Inspect collection identities, access terms, partner exchanges, and retained confidential material. + +**Exceptions:** None for theft, impersonation, access circumvention, or prohibited competitor coordination. + +### SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS-003 — Define lead and opportunity state contracts + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Leads, accounts, contacts, opportunities, stages, scores, territories, or lifecycle states drive work or reporting. + +Define entry, exit, owner, evidence, time, allowed transitions, duplicates, recycling, loss, suppression, and historical behavior for each state and score. + +**Why:** Ambiguous stages produce unreliable forecasts, duplicate contact, unfair routing, and conflicting reports. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise creation, merge, reassignment, disqualification, re-entry, loss, renewal, deletion, and source correction. +- Reconcile sampled records with the contract and downstream reports. + +**Exceptions:** Exploratory scores may remain advisory when they cannot automate eligibility, contact, or material treatment. + +### SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS-004 — Route ownership fairly and recoverably + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Rules or models assign accounts, leads, credit, response priority, territory, commission, or service level. + +Version routing rules, inputs, tie-breaking, capacity, protected and sensitive proxies, overrides, audit, dispute, and fallback. Prevent silent loss and duplicate ownership. + +**Why:** Opaque routing affects customer response, employee compensation, workload, and access to opportunity. + +**Verify:** + +- Replay representative boundary, conflict, absence, stale-data, override, and system-failure cases. +- Review outcome distribution and disputes for systematic error or unfair impact. + +**Exceptions:** Manual assignment requires named authority and the same audit and dispute record. + +### SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS-005 — Preserve commitments through handoff + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Responsibility moves among marketing, sales, legal, finance, implementation, support, success, or renewal teams. + +Record promised scope, exclusions, price and term, security and privacy commitments, dependencies, customer objectives, risks, owner, acceptance, and unresolved decisions in the shared system of record. + +**Why:** Verbal or tool-local promises are lost after signature and surface later as delivery failure or conflict. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace sampled closed opportunities into contract, implementation plan, support state, billing, and renewal. +- Confirm deviations from standard product and policy have explicit approval and ownership. + +**Exceptions:** None for material customer commitments. + +### SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS-006 — Make forecasts and attribution reproducible + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Pipeline, bookings, revenue, retention, quota, or source attribution affects decisions or compensation. + +Define population, time, currency, stage probability, ownership, credit, split, inclusion, adjustments, recognition boundary, model, and uncertainty; preserve historical snapshots and changes. + +**Why:** Mutable stages and discretionary credit can make forecasts appear precise while hiding bias and retroactive changes. + +**Verify:** + +- Reproduce reported totals from immutable or versioned inputs and reconcile with finance where applicable. +- Compare forecast with outcome by segment and report systematic error and manual adjustments. + +**Exceptions:** Directional planning may use ranges when assumptions and uncertainty are explicit. + +### SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS-007 — Control system-of-record access and automation + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** People, integrations, imports, models, or agents read or change revenue data or trigger customer action. + +Use least privilege, field and action ownership, protected exports, validation, idempotent updates, approval for high-impact bulk action, monitoring, rollback or correction, and revocation. + +**Why:** Revenue systems combine personal data, confidential negotiations, communication authority, and financial reporting. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise denied access, malformed import, duplicate update, bulk reassignment, automated message, deletion, export, and offboarding. +- Reconcile automated changes and customer effects after interruption or retry. + +**Exceptions:** Emergency correction follows the governed change and incident process. + +## Operational coverage + +Treat sales operations as a controlled record of claims, commitments, access, and forecast uncertainty across the full customer lifecycle. + +| Route | Required scenarios | Completion evidence | +|---|---|---| +| Qualification and routing | Duplicate lead, existing account, territory conflict, partner source, protected or sensitive attribute, stale owner, and disqualification | Source and purpose, routing version, assignment history, override authority, response timing, and fairness review | +| Discovery and solution claim | Standard need, unsupported request, regulated context, competitor comparison, roadmap question, security claim, and pricing exception | Call or note provenance, approved claim source, qualification, material limitation, specialist review, and correction record | +| Proposal and commitment | Discount, custom term, service level, implementation date, data use, renewal, cancellation, and non-standard dependency | Approved quote and terms, authority chain, profitability or cost basis, delivery-owner acceptance, and customer-facing record | +| Forecast and pipeline | Stage entry, stalled deal, split credit, expansion, churn risk, slipped date, manual override, and model prediction | Stage definitions, timestamped history, denominator, probability basis, calibration, scenario range, and override rationale | +| Handoff and implementation | Closed-won, partial signature, failed payment, missing prerequisite, scope change, delay, and customer cancellation | Contract and commitment extract, accountable owners, acceptance criteria, risk and dependency register, and acknowledged handoff | +| Access and automation | Joiner, mover, leaver, bulk export, enrichment, AI drafting, automated field update, and vendor compromise | Effective roles, data minimization, action logs, approval limits, revocation exercise, and reconciled system state | + +Revenue pressure does not authorize an unsupported claim, unowned commitment, misleading forecast, or excessive access. Escalate the decision instead of converting uncertainty into certainty. + +## Guidance + +Keep one semantic contract even when multiple systems store the lifecycle. Do not use activity volume as a substitute for customer value or pipeline quality. High-stakes financial, employment, competition, and regulated-sales decisions require qualified review. + +## Examples + +### Security commitment + +Non-compliant: A generated proposal promises a certification and regional hosting that the product does not have, then disappears into an email thread. + +Compliant: Collateral pulls from approved versioned claims, deviations require domain approval, and every signed commitment flows into implementation, support, billing, and renewal records. + +## Sources + +- US Federal Trade Commission, [Statement of Policy Regarding Comparative Advertising](https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/statement-policy-regarding-comparative-advertising). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- US Department of Justice, [Antitrust Guidelines and Policy Statements](https://www.justice.gov/atr/guidelines-and-policy-statements-0). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- US Securities and Exchange Commission, [Investment Adviser Marketing](https://www.sec.gov/resources-small-businesses/small-business-compliance-guides/investment-adviser-marketing), used as an example of additional sector-specific requirements. Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/schema/integration-capability.schema.json b/plugins/raintree-standards/schema/integration-capability.schema.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..875b742 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/schema/integration-capability.schema.json @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +{ + "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", + "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/schema/integration-capability.schema.json", + "title": "Raintree integration capability bundle", + "description": "Machine-readable contract for a governed vendor integration capability map.", + "type": "object", + "additionalProperties": false, + "required": ["version", "integration", "reviewed_on", "capabilities"], + "properties": { + "version": { "const": 1 }, + "integration": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[a-z0-9]+(?:-[a-z0-9]+)*$" }, + "reviewed_on": { "type": "string", "format": "date" }, + "capabilities": { + "type": "array", + "minItems": 1, + "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/capability" } + } + }, + "$defs": { + "nonEmptyStrings": { + "type": "array", + "items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 }, + "minItems": 1, + "uniqueItems": true + }, + "limits": { + "type": "object", + "additionalProperties": false, + "required": [ + "quotas", "latency", "sampling", "privacy_suppression", + "aggregation", "completeness", "operational" + ], + "properties": { + "quotas": { "$ref": "#/$defs/nonEmptyStrings", "description": "Provider, account, project, site, request-rate, load, or cost ceilings." }, + "latency": { "$ref": "#/$defs/nonEmptyStrings", "description": "Freshness, propagation, retry, recrawl, and completion timing boundaries." }, + "sampling": { "$ref": "#/$defs/nonEmptyStrings", "description": "Sampling, example selection, top-row selection, or explicit non-sampling behavior." }, + "privacy_suppression": { "$ref": "#/$defs/nonEmptyStrings", "description": "Anonymization, suppression, property-boundary, and non-reconstruction rules." }, + "aggregation": { "$ref": "#/$defs/nonEmptyStrings", "description": "Metric grain, grouping, canonical assignment, deduplication, and required aggregation." }, + "completeness": { "$ref": "#/$defs/nonEmptyStrings", "description": "Known omissions, bounded rows, prospective windows, unsupported state, and absence semantics." }, + "operational": { "$ref": "#/$defs/nonEmptyStrings", "description": "Additional capability-specific limits and safe-use constraints." } + } + }, + "access": { + "type": "object", + "additionalProperties": false, + "required": ["oauth_scopes", "property_roles"], + "properties": { + "oauth_scopes": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 }, "uniqueItems": true }, + "property_roles": { + "type": "array", + "items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 }, + "minItems": 1, + "uniqueItems": true + } + } + }, + "capability": { + "type": "object", + "additionalProperties": false, + "required": [ + "id", "name", "interface", "availability", "access", "effect", "approval", + "inputs", "outputs", "data_semantics", "limits", "limitations", "verification", + "idempotency", "rollback", "sources" + ], + "properties": { + "id": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*(?:-[A-Z0-9]+)*-CAP-[A-Z0-9]+(?:-[A-Z0-9]+)*$" }, + "name": { "type": "string", "minLength": 3 }, + "interface": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 }, + "availability": { "enum": ["current", "adjacent", "legacy", "unavailable"] }, + "access": { "$ref": "#/$defs/access" }, + "effect": { "enum": ["observe", "diagnose", "mutate_reversible", "mutate_high_impact", "human_only"] }, + "approval": { "enum": ["none", "bounded", "exact", "human_only"] }, + "inputs": { "$ref": "#/$defs/nonEmptyStrings" }, + "outputs": { "$ref": "#/$defs/nonEmptyStrings" }, + "data_semantics": { "$ref": "#/$defs/nonEmptyStrings" }, + "limits": { "$ref": "#/$defs/limits" }, + "limitations": { "$ref": "#/$defs/nonEmptyStrings" }, + "verification": { "$ref": "#/$defs/nonEmptyStrings" }, + "idempotency": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 }, + "rollback": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 }, + "sources": { "$ref": "#/$defs/nonEmptyStrings" } + }, + "allOf": [ + { + "if": { "properties": { "effect": { "enum": ["observe", "diagnose"] } }, "required": ["effect"] }, + "then": { "properties": { "approval": { "const": "none" } } } + }, + { + "if": { "properties": { "effect": { "const": "mutate_reversible" } }, "required": ["effect"] }, + "then": { "properties": { "approval": { "enum": ["bounded", "exact", "human_only"] } } } + }, + { + "if": { "properties": { "effect": { "const": "mutate_high_impact" } }, "required": ["effect"] }, + "then": { "properties": { "approval": { "enum": ["exact", "human_only"] } } } + }, + { + "if": { "properties": { "effect": { "const": "human_only" } }, "required": ["effect"] }, + "then": { "properties": { "approval": { "const": "human_only" } } } + } + ] + } + } +} diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/schema/integration-manifest.schema.json b/plugins/raintree-standards/schema/integration-manifest.schema.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ed0c24 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/schema/integration-manifest.schema.json @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +{ + "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", + "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/schema/integration-manifest.schema.json", + "title": "Integration bundle manifest", + "type": "object", + "additionalProperties": false, + "required": ["version", "integration", "id_prefix", "playbook", "reviewed_on", "official_domains", "artifacts", "skill_routes"], + "properties": { + "version": { "const": 1 }, + "integration": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[a-z0-9]+(?:-[a-z0-9]+)*$" }, + "id_prefix": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*(?:-[A-Z0-9]+)*$" }, + "playbook": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^PLAYBOOK-[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*(?:-[A-Z0-9]+)*$" }, + "reviewed_on": { "type": "string", "format": "date" }, + "official_domains": { "type": "array", "minItems": 1, "uniqueItems": true, "items": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[a-z0-9.-]+$" } }, + "informative_domains": { "type": "array", "uniqueItems": true, "items": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[a-z0-9.-]+$" } }, + "artifacts": { + "type": "object", + "additionalProperties": false, + "required": ["sources", "workflows", "evaluations"], + "properties": { + "sources": { "const": "sources.yaml" }, + "capabilities": { "const": "capabilities.yaml" }, + "semantics": { "const": "data-semantics.yaml" }, + "workflows": { "const": "workflows.yaml" }, + "evaluations": { "const": "evaluations.yaml" } + } + }, + "vocabulary": { + "type": "object", + "additionalProperties": false, + "required": ["interfaces", "property_roles", "oauth_scopes"], + "properties": { + "interfaces": { "type": "array", "minItems": 1, "uniqueItems": true, "items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 } }, + "property_roles": { "type": "array", "minItems": 1, "uniqueItems": true, "items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 } }, + "oauth_scopes": { "type": "array", "uniqueItems": true, "items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 } } + } + }, + "features": { "type": "array", "uniqueItems": true, "items": { "enum": ["capabilities", "coverage", "semantics", "change_watch", "source_usage"] } }, + "skill_routes": { + "type": "array", + "items": { + "type": "object", + "additionalProperties": false, + "required": ["name", "availability", "authority"], + "properties": { + "name": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 }, + "availability": { "enum": ["when_available", "not_available"] }, + "authority": { "const": "review_aid" } + } + } + } + } +} diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/schema/project-showcase-record.schema.json b/plugins/raintree-standards/schema/project-showcase-record.schema.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f74c2a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/schema/project-showcase-record.schema.json @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +{ + "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", + "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/schema/project-showcase-record.schema.json", + "title": "Raintree public project showcase record", + "type": "object", + "additionalProperties": false, + "required": ["schemaVersion", "id", "name", "projectClass", "lifecycle", "audience", "outcome", "responsibility", "primaryAction", "sourceRepository", "distribution", "evidence", "limitations"], + "properties": { + "schemaVersion": { "const": 1 }, + "id": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[a-z0-9]+(?:-[a-z0-9]+)*$" }, + "name": { "type": "string", "minLength": 2 }, + "projectClass": { "enum": ["open-source"] }, + "lifecycle": { "enum": ["active", "pre-1.0", "archived"] }, + "audience": { "type": "string", "minLength": 10 }, + "outcome": { "type": "string", "minLength": 10 }, + "responsibility": { "type": "string", "minLength": 5 }, + "primaryAction": { "$ref": "#/$defs/link" }, + "sourceRepository": { "type": "string", "format": "uri", "pattern": "^https://github\\.com/" }, + "distribution": { "type": "array", "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/link" } }, + "evidence": { "type": "array", "minItems": 1, "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/link" } }, + "limitations": { "type": "array", "minItems": 1, "items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 10 } } + }, + "$defs": { + "link": { + "type": "object", + "additionalProperties": false, + "required": ["label", "href"], + "properties": { + "label": { "type": "string", "minLength": 2 }, + "href": { "type": "string", "format": "uri", "pattern": "^https://" } + } + } + } +} diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/schema/standard.schema.json b/plugins/raintree-standards/schema/standard.schema.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d9661a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/schema/standard.schema.json @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +{ + "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", + "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/schema/standard.schema.json", + "title": "Raintree standard front matter", + "description": "OKF v0.2-compatible Raintree standard front matter. This schema states what must be true of every governed document, and scripts/validate_catalog.rb applies it to each one.", + "type": "object", + "additionalProperties": true, + "required": ["id", "title", "description", "type", "status", "governance_status", "owners", "last_reviewed", "applies_to", "tags", "generated"], + "properties": { + "id": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*(?:-[A-Z0-9]+)+$" }, + "title": { "type": "string", "minLength": 3 }, + "description": { "type": "string", "minLength": 3 }, + "type": { "enum": ["foundation", "standard", "pattern", "playbook", "profile", "decision"] }, + "status": { "enum": ["draft", "stable", "deprecated"] }, + "governance_status": { "enum": ["draft", "active", "deprecated", "retired"] }, + "release_target": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 }, + "owners": { "type": "array", "minItems": 1, "items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 } }, + "last_reviewed": { "type": "string", "format": "date" }, + "review_by": { "type": "string", "format": "date" }, + "stale_after": { "type": "string", "format": "date" }, + "applies_to": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" }, "uniqueItems": true }, + "tags": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" }, "uniqueItems": true }, + "depends_on": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*(?:-[A-Z0-9]+)+$" }, "uniqueItems": true }, + "supersedes": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" }, "uniqueItems": true }, + "generated": { + "type": "object", + "required": ["by"], + "properties": { + "by": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 }, + "at": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" } + }, + "additionalProperties": false + }, + "verified": { + "oneOf": [ + { "$ref": "#/$defs/verification" }, + { "type": "array", "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/verification" }, "minItems": 1 } + ] + }, + "sources": { + "type": "array", + "items": { + "type": "object", + "required": ["resource"], + "properties": { + "id": { "type": "string" }, + "resource": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 }, + "title": { "type": "string" }, + "author": { "type": "string" }, + "usage_count": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 0 }, + "last_modified": { "type": "string", "format": "date" } + }, + "additionalProperties": true + } + } + }, + "$defs": { + "verification": { + "type": "object", + "required": ["by", "at"], + "properties": { + "by": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 }, + "at": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" } + }, + "additionalProperties": false + } + } +} diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aa650f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards.rb @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +# frozen_string_literal: true + +# Shared support for the raintree.standards validators. +# +# Every entrypoint requires this file first. It enforces the supported Ruby +# floor before any other library code loads, so an unsupported interpreter +# reports one actionable line instead of a syntax error from a deeper file. + +module Standards + # Oldest interpreter the validators are tested against, and therefore the + # oldest one whose behaviour the code is allowed to assume. CI pins the exact + # version in .ruby-version; this is the floor, not the target. + MINIMUM_RUBY = "3.1.0" + + # Exit statuses are part of the command contract. Callers distinguish a bundle + # that failed validation from an invocation that was never valid to begin with. + EXIT_SUCCESS = 0 + EXIT_INVALID = 1 + EXIT_USAGE = 2 +end + +if Gem::Version.new(RUBY_VERSION) < Gem::Version.new(Standards::MINIMUM_RUBY) + warn "raintree.standards validators require Ruby #{Standards::MINIMUM_RUBY} or newer; this is Ruby #{RUBY_VERSION}." + warn "Install the version in .ruby-version (for example: mise use ruby@3.4) and re-run from the repository root." + exit Standards::EXIT_USAGE +end + +require_relative "standards/findings" +require_relative "standards/paths" +require_relative "standards/input_limits" +require_relative "standards/yaml_source" +require_relative "standards/document" +require_relative "standards/json_schema" +require_relative "standards/cli" diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/catalog_validator.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/catalog_validator.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..83a77b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/catalog_validator.rb @@ -0,0 +1,773 @@ +# frozen_string_literal: true + +require "date" +require "time" + +require_relative "document" +require_relative "findings" +require_relative "input_limits" +require_relative "json_schema" +require_relative "paths" +require_relative "yaml_source" + +module Standards + # Validates the OKF bundle, the governed catalog, and the source register. + # + # Split out of scripts/validate_catalog.rb so the passes can be driven + # directly from tests against a temporary root, rather than only through a + # subprocess. The entrypoint is now argument parsing plus a call to #run. + class CatalogValidator + GOVERNED_KEYS = %w[foundations standards patterns playbooks profiles].freeze + SECTION_TYPES = { + "foundations" => "foundation", + "standards" => "standard", + "patterns" => "pattern", + "playbooks" => "playbook", + "profiles" => "profile" + }.freeze + LIFECYCLE = { + "draft" => "draft", + "active" => "stable", + "deprecated" => "deprecated", + "retired" => "deprecated" + }.freeze + DOCUMENT_STATUSES = %w[draft stable deprecated].freeze + DOCUMENT_TYPES = %w[foundation standard pattern playbook profile decision].freeze + GOVERNANCE_STATUSES = %w[draft active deprecated retired].freeze + VOLATILITIES = %w[low medium high].freeze + RULE_LEVELS = %w[required recommended contextual optional avoid prohibited].freeze + REQUIRED_FRONT_MATTER = %w[ + id title description type status governance_status owners last_reviewed applies_to tags generated + ].freeze + RULE_LABELS = ["Level", "Applies when", "Why", "Verify", "Exceptions"].freeze + STANDARD_HEADINGS = %w[Guidance Examples Sources].freeze + PROFILE_HEADINGS = ["Required standards", "Conditional standards", "Completion evidence"].freeze + RESERVED_BASENAMES = %w[README.md index.md log.md].freeze + DOCUMENT_ID_PATTERN = /\A[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*(?:-[A-Z0-9]+)+\z/ + RULE_HEADING_PATTERN = /^### ((?:[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*-)+\d{3})\s+—\s+.+$/ + GOVERNED_REFERENCE_PATTERN = /`([A-Z][A-Z0-9]+(?:-[A-Z0-9]+)+)`/ + # OKF actor convention: `human:name`, `process:name`, or `vendor/model`. + ACTOR_PATTERN = %r{\A(?:human:[^\s]+|process:[^\s]+|[^\s:/]+/[^\s/]+)\z} + + attr_reader :findings, :release_blockers, :markdown_count, :document_count, :rule_count + + def initialize(root, release: false, today: Date.today) + @root = File.expand_path(root) + @release = release + @today = today + @findings = Findings.new + @release_blockers = Findings.new + @documents = {} + @ids = {} + @rule_ids = {} + @markdown_count = 0 + @document_count = 0 + @rule_count = 0 + end + + def release? + @release + end + + def valid? + @findings.empty? && (!release? || @release_blockers.empty?) + end + + def summary_lines + [ + "OKF v0.2 bundle valid: #{@markdown_count} Markdown files", + "raintree.standards catalog valid: #{@document_count} governed documents", + "Governed rule structure valid: #{@rule_count} unique rules" + ] + end + + def run + return self unless InputLimits.validate(@root, @findings) + + @catalog = YamlSource.load_file(File.join(@root, "catalog.yaml"), "catalog.yaml", @findings, permitted_classes: [Date]) + @sections = catalog_sections + @entries = GOVERNED_KEYS.flat_map { |key| @sections.fetch(key) } + @document_count = @entries.length + + check_catalog_header + check_catalog_paths + load_governed_documents + check_front_matter + check_schema_conformance + check_dependencies + check_rule_structure + check_governed_references + check_source_sections + check_source_register + check_markdown_bundle + check_directory_indexes + check_root_index + self + end + + private + + # -- catalog ------------------------------------------------------------- + + def catalog_sections + (%w[governance] + GOVERNED_KEYS).each_with_object({}) do |key, sections| + rows = YamlSource.mapping_rows(@catalog.fetch(key, []), "catalog.yaml: #{key}", @findings) + sections[key] = rows.each_with_index.each_with_object([]) do |(entry, index), valid| + if entry["path"].to_s.empty? + @findings.add("catalog.yaml: #{key}[#{index}] requires a path") + next + end + valid << entry + end + end + end + + def check_catalog_header + @findings + .add_unless(@catalog["okf_version"] == "0.2", "catalog.yaml: okf_version must be 0.2") + .add_unless(@catalog["version"] == 1, "catalog.yaml: version must be 1") + .add_unless(@catalog["bundle_index"] == "index.md", "catalog.yaml: bundle_index must be index.md") + .add_unless(iso_date?(@catalog["updated"]), "catalog.yaml: updated must be an ISO 8601 date") + .add_unless(non_empty_string?(@catalog["target_release"]), "catalog.yaml: target_release must be a non-empty string") + .add_unless(non_empty_string?(@catalog["release_status"]), "catalog.yaml: release_status must be a non-empty string") + + return unless release? + + @release_blockers.add_unless(@catalog["release_status"] == "ready", "catalog.yaml: release_status must be ready") + readme = File.join(@root, "README.md") + unless File.file?(readme) + @release_blockers.add("README.md: missing release entry point") + return + end + return unless File.read(readme).match?(/\*\*Work in progress:\*\*/) + + @release_blockers.add("README.md: remove the work-in-progress warning before release") + end + + def check_catalog_paths + paths = (%w[governance] + GOVERNED_KEYS).flat_map { |key| @sections.fetch(key) }.map { |entry| entry["path"] } + counts = Hash.new(0) + + paths.each do |relative| + if relative.to_s.empty? + @findings.add("catalog.yaml: every entry requires a path") + next + end + counts[relative] += 1 + resolved = Paths.resolve(@root, relative) + if resolved.nil? + @findings.add("catalog.yaml: path #{relative} escapes the bundle root") + elsif !File.file?(resolved) + @findings.add("catalog.yaml: missing path #{relative}") + end + end + + counts.each do |relative, count| + @findings.add("catalog.yaml: duplicate path #{relative}") if count > 1 + end + end + + # -- governed documents -------------------------------------------------- + + # Reads each governed document once. Every later pass reuses the parsed + # result instead of re-reading and re-parsing the same file. + def load_governed_documents + @entries.each do |entry| + relative = entry.fetch("path") + next if @documents.key?(relative) + + resolved = Paths.resolve(@root, relative) + next if resolved.nil? || !File.file?(resolved) + + @documents[relative] = Document.load(resolved, relative, @findings, permitted_classes: [Date, Time]) + end + end + + def check_front_matter + @entries.each do |entry| + relative = entry.fetch("path") + @findings.add_unless( + !entry["id"].to_s.empty?, + "#{relative || 'catalog.yaml'}: every governed catalog entry requires an id" + ) + + document = @documents[relative] + if document.nil? + @findings.add("Missing catalog path: #{relative}") + next + end + unless document.front_matter? + @findings.add("Missing YAML front matter: #{relative}") + next + end + next unless document.metadata? + + check_document_metadata(entry, relative, document.metadata) + end + end + + def check_document_metadata(entry, relative, metadata) + REQUIRED_FRONT_MATTER.each do |field| + @findings.add_unless(metadata.key?(field), "#{relative}: missing #{field}") + end + + @findings + .add_unless(DOCUMENT_STATUSES.include?(metadata["status"]), "#{relative}: invalid OKF status #{metadata['status']}") + .add_unless(metadata["id"].to_s.match?(DOCUMENT_ID_PATTERN), "#{relative}: invalid document ID") + .add_unless(DOCUMENT_TYPES.include?(metadata["type"]), "#{relative}: invalid Raintree document type #{metadata['type']}") + .add_unless(string_of_length?(metadata["description"], 3), "#{relative}: description must contain at least 3 characters") + .add_unless(non_empty_string_list?(metadata["owners"]), "#{relative}: owners must be a non-empty list") + .add_unless(unique_list?(metadata["applies_to"]), "#{relative}: applies_to must be a unique list") + .add_unless(unique_list?(metadata["tags"]), "#{relative}: tags must be a unique list") + .add_unless(metadata["depends_on"].nil? || unique_list?(metadata["depends_on"]), "#{relative}: depends_on must be a unique list") + .add_unless(iso_date?(metadata["last_reviewed"]), "#{relative}: invalid last_reviewed date") + + if metadata.key?("release_target") && !non_empty_string?(metadata["release_target"]) + @findings.add("#{relative}: release_target must be a non-empty string") + end + + expected_status = LIFECYCLE[metadata["governance_status"]] + if expected_status.nil? + @findings.add("#{relative}: invalid governance_status #{metadata['governance_status']}") + elsif metadata["status"] != expected_status + @findings.add("#{relative}: status #{metadata['status']} conflicts with governance_status #{metadata['governance_status']}") + end + + generated = metadata["generated"] + unless generated.is_a?(Hash) && !generated["by"].to_s.empty? && generated["at"] + @findings.add("#{relative}: generated requires by and at") + end + + if metadata["review_by"] && metadata["stale_after"] != metadata["review_by"] + @findings.add("#{relative}: stale_after must match review_by") + end + + catalog_id = entry["id"] + document_id = metadata["id"] + if catalog_id && catalog_id != document_id + @findings.add("#{relative}: catalog ID #{catalog_id} does not match #{document_id}") + end + + if @ids.key?(document_id) + @findings.add("Duplicate document ID #{document_id}: #{@ids[document_id]} and #{relative}") + else + @ids[document_id] = relative + end + + expected_type = SECTION_TYPES.find { |key, _type| @sections.fetch(key).include?(entry) }&.last + if expected_type && metadata["type"] != expected_type + @findings.add("#{relative}: catalog section requires type #{expected_type}") + end + + end + + # Applies schema/standard.schema.json to the front matter it describes. + # + # Before this, the schema was parsed but never applied, so its constraints + # were free to drift from the checks above. Any drift now surfaces as a + # validation failure on a real document. + def check_schema_conformance + schema = standard_schema + return if schema.nil? + + @documents.each do |relative, document| + next unless document.metadata? + + begin + JsonSchema.validate(document.metadata, schema, label: "").each do |message| + @findings.add("#{relative}: front matter #{message}") + end + rescue JsonSchema::UnsupportedKeyword => e + @findings.add("schema/standard.schema.json: #{e.message}") + return + end + end + end + + def check_dependencies + dependency_graph = {} + + @entries.each do |entry| + relative = entry.fetch("path") + document = @documents[relative] + next unless document&.metadata? + + metadata = document.metadata + dependencies = Array(metadata["depends_on"]) + dependency_graph[metadata["id"]] = dependencies + dependencies.each do |dependency| + @findings.add_unless(@ids.key?(dependency), "#{relative}: unknown dependency #{dependency}") + end + end + + check_dependency_cycles(dependency_graph) + check_stable_dependency_maturity(dependency_graph) + end + + def check_dependency_cycles(graph) + state = {} + stack = [] + + visit = lambda do |id| + return if state[id] == :done + if state[id] == :visiting + start = stack.index(id) || 0 + @findings.add("dependency cycle: #{(stack[start..] + [id]).join(' -> ')}") + return + end + + state[id] = :visiting + stack << id + Array(graph[id]).sort.each { |dependency| visit.call(dependency) if graph.key?(dependency) } + stack.pop + state[id] = :done + end + + graph.keys.sort.each { |id| visit.call(id) } + end + + def check_stable_dependency_maturity(graph) + metadata_by_id = @entries.each_with_object({}) do |entry, index| + document = @documents[entry.fetch("path")] + index[entry["id"]] = document.metadata if document&.metadata? + end + + metadata_by_id.keys.sort.each do |id| + next unless metadata_by_id.dig(id, "status") == "stable" + + draft_paths = dependency_paths(id, graph, metadata_by_id).select do |path| + metadata_by_id.dig(path.last, "status") == "draft" + end + draft_paths.each do |path| + @findings.add("stable document #{id} depends on draft #{path.last} through #{path.join(' -> ')}") + end + end + end + + def dependency_paths(root_id, graph, metadata_by_id) + results = [] + walk = lambda do |id, path| + Array(graph[id]).sort.each do |dependency| + next unless metadata_by_id.key?(dependency) + next if path.include?(dependency) + + next_path = path + [dependency] + results << next_path + walk.call(dependency, next_path) + end + end + walk.call(root_id, [root_id]) + results + end + + # Governed rules and profiles have semantic structure beyond front matter. + def check_rule_structure + @entries.each do |entry| + relative = entry.fetch("path") + document = @documents[relative] + next unless document&.metadata? + + metadata = document.metadata + check_rules(document, relative, metadata) if %w[foundation standard].include?(metadata["type"]) + check_profile(document, relative, metadata) if metadata["type"] == "profile" + end + @rule_count = @rule_ids.length + end + + def check_rules(document, relative, metadata) + STANDARD_HEADINGS.each do |heading| + @findings.add_unless(document.heading?(2, heading), "#{relative}: missing ## #{heading}") + end + + content = document.content + headings = content.to_enum(:scan, RULE_HEADING_PATTERN).map { Regexp.last_match } + @findings.add("#{relative}: no governed rules") if headings.empty? + + headings.each_with_index do |heading, index| + rule_id = heading[1] + if @rule_ids.key?(rule_id) + @findings.add("Duplicate rule ID #{rule_id}: #{@rule_ids[rule_id]} and #{relative}") + else + @rule_ids[rule_id] = relative + end + unless rule_id.start_with?("#{metadata['id']}-") + @findings.add("#{relative}: rule #{rule_id} does not match document ID #{metadata['id']}") + end + + block_start = heading.end(0) + block_end = if index + 1 < headings.length + headings[index + 1].begin(0) + else + content.index(/^## /, block_start) || content.length + end + block = content[block_start...block_end] + + RULE_LABELS.each do |label| + @findings.add_unless(block.match?(/\*\*#{Regexp.escape(label)}:\*\*/), "#{relative}: #{rule_id} missing #{label}") + end + level = block[/\*\*Level:\*\*\s*([^\n]+)/, 1]&.rstrip + @findings.add_unless(RULE_LEVELS.include?(level), "#{relative}: #{rule_id} has invalid level #{level}") + end + end + + def check_profile(document, relative, metadata) + PROFILE_HEADINGS.each do |heading| + @findings.add_unless(document.heading?(2, heading), "#{relative}: missing ## #{heading}") + end + + listed = document.section("Required standards").to_s.scan(/^- `([A-Z][A-Z0-9-]+)`/).flatten + dependencies = Array(metadata["depends_on"]) + return if listed.sort == dependencies.sort + + @findings.add("#{relative}: Required standards must match depends_on") + end + + # Validated after all rule IDs are known, so a forward reference to a rule + # defined in a later document still resolves. + def check_governed_references + @documents.each do |relative, document| + document.content.scan(GOVERNED_REFERENCE_PATTERN).flatten.uniq.each do |reference| + next if @ids.key?(reference) || @rule_ids.key?(reference) + + @findings.add("#{relative}: unknown governed reference #{reference}") + end + end + end + + # Front-matter sources and the visible Sources section must agree. + def check_source_sections + @documents.each do |relative, document| + next unless document.metadata? && document.metadata["sources"] + + front = Array(document.metadata["sources"]).map { |source| source.is_a?(Hash) ? source["resource"] : nil }.compact + body = document.section("Sources").to_s.scan(%r{\]\((https?://[^)]+)\)}).flatten + next if front.sort == body.sort + + @findings.add("#{relative}: front-matter and visible source URLs differ") + end + end + + # -- source register ----------------------------------------------------- + + def check_source_register + path = File.join(@root, "source-register.yaml") + unless File.file?(path) + @findings.add("Missing source-register.yaml") + return + end + + register = YamlSource.load_file(path, "source-register.yaml", @findings, permitted_classes: [Date]) + @findings + .add_unless(register["version"] == 1, "source-register.yaml: version must be 1") + .add_unless(iso_date?(register["updated"]), "source-register.yaml: updated must be an ISO 8601 date") + .add_unless(non_empty_string?(register["description"]), "source-register.yaml: description must be a non-empty string") + + rows = YamlSource.mapping_rows(register.fetch("documents", []), "source-register.yaml: documents", @findings) + records = rows.each_with_index.each_with_object([]) do |(record, index), valid| + if record["id"].to_s.empty? + @findings.add("source-register.yaml: documents[#{index}] requires an id") + next + end + valid << record + end + + records.group_by { |record| record["id"] }.each do |id, duplicates| + @findings.add("source-register.yaml: duplicate document ID #{id}") if duplicates.length > 1 + end + + registered = records.to_h { |record| [record["id"], record] } + sourced = sourced_document_ids + registered.each { |id, record| check_register_record(id, record, sourced) } + + @entries.each do |entry| + document = @documents[entry.fetch("path")] + next unless document&.metadata? && document.metadata["sources"] + next if registered.key?(entry["id"]) + + @findings.add("source-register.yaml: missing #{entry['id']}") + end + end + + def sourced_document_ids + @entries.each_with_object([]) do |entry, result| + document = @documents[entry.fetch("path")] + result << entry["id"] if document&.metadata? && document.metadata["sources"] + end + end + + def check_register_record(id, record, sourced) + if !@ids.key?(id) + @findings.add("source-register.yaml: unknown document ID #{id}") + elsif !sourced.include?(id) + @findings.add("source-register.yaml: #{id} has no front-matter sources") + end + + %w[owner source_version].each do |field| + @findings.add_unless( + non_empty_string?(record[field]), + "source-register.yaml: #{id} #{field} must be a non-empty string" + ) + end + + @findings + .add_unless(iso_date?(record["reviewed_on"]), "source-register.yaml: #{id} invalid reviewed_on date") + .add_unless(iso_date?(record["next_review"]), "source-register.yaml: #{id} invalid next_review date") + .add_unless(VOLATILITIES.include?(record["volatility"]), "source-register.yaml: #{id} invalid volatility #{record['volatility']}") + + return unless iso_date?(record["reviewed_on"]) && iso_date?(record["next_review"]) + + reviewed_on = as_date(record["reviewed_on"]) + next_review = as_date(record["next_review"]) + @findings.add_unless(next_review > reviewed_on, "source-register.yaml: #{id} next_review must be after reviewed_on") + return unless @today > next_review + + @findings.add("source-register.yaml: #{id} source review expired on #{record['next_review']}") + end + + # -- bundle-wide Markdown ------------------------------------------------ + + def check_markdown_bundle + files = Paths.glob(@root, "**/*.md").reject do |relative| + relative.start_with?("plugin/", "skills/") + end + @markdown_count = files.length + @findings.add("index.md: bundle contains no Markdown files") if files.empty? + + files.each do |relative| + # One read per file. The passes below all work from this content. + content = File.read(File.join(@root, relative)) + basename = File.basename(relative) + + if RESERVED_BASENAMES.include?(basename) + check_reserved_markdown(content, relative, basename) + else + check_bundle_front_matter(content, relative) + end + + check_links(content, relative) + end + end + + def check_reserved_markdown(content, relative, basename) + if basename == "index.md" && relative == "index.md" + findings = Findings.new + document = Document.new(relative, content, findings) + findings.each { |message| @findings.add(message) } + unless document.metadata? && document.metadata["okf_version"] == "0.2" + @findings.add("index.md: root index must declare okf_version 0.2") + end + elsif content.start_with?("---\n") + @findings.add("#{relative}: reserved nested files must not contain front matter") + end + end + + def check_bundle_front_matter(content, relative) + # Governed documents were already read and parsed; reuse that result + # rather than parsing the same front matter a second time. + document = @documents[relative] || Document.new(relative, content, @findings) + unless document.front_matter? + @findings.add("#{relative}: missing OKF YAML front matter") + return + end + return unless document.metadata? + + metadata = document.metadata + @findings + .add_unless(non_blank_string?(metadata["type"]), "#{relative}: missing non-empty OKF type") + .add_unless(non_blank_string?(metadata["description"]), "#{relative}: missing OKF description") + + if metadata.key?("status") && !DOCUMENT_STATUSES.include?(metadata["status"]) + @findings.add("#{relative}: invalid OKF lifecycle status #{metadata['status']}") + end + + if metadata.key?("stale_after") && !iso_date?(metadata["stale_after"]) + @findings.add("#{relative}: stale_after must be an ISO 8601 date") + end + + generated = metadata["generated"] + unless generated.is_a?(Hash) + @findings.add("#{relative}: missing generated provenance") + generated = {} + end + + generated_by = generated["by"] + unless generated_by.is_a?(String) && generated_by.match?(ACTOR_PATTERN) + @findings.add("#{relative}: generated.by does not follow the OKF actor convention") + end + + if generated["at"] && !iso_datetime?(generated["at"]) + @findings.add("#{relative}: generated.at must be an ISO 8601 datetime") + end + + check_verification(relative, metadata, generated_by) + check_source_ids(relative, metadata) + end + + def check_verification(relative, metadata, generated_by) + return unless metadata.key?("verified") + + events = metadata["verified"].is_a?(Hash) ? [metadata["verified"]] : metadata["verified"] + unless events.is_a?(Array) && !events.empty? + @findings.add("#{relative}: verified must be a mapping or non-empty list") + return + end + + events.each do |event| + unless event.is_a?(Hash) && event["by"].is_a?(String) && event["by"].match?(ACTOR_PATTERN) + @findings.add("#{relative}: verified.by does not follow the OKF actor convention") + end + unless event.is_a?(Hash) && iso_datetime?(event["at"]) + @findings.add("#{relative}: verified.at must be an ISO 8601 datetime") + end + next unless event.is_a?(Hash) && generated_by.is_a?(String) && event["by"] == generated_by + + @findings.add("#{relative}: verified.by must differ from generated.by") + end + end + + def check_source_ids(relative, metadata) + ids = [] + Array(metadata["sources"]).each do |source| + @findings.add_unless( + source.is_a?(Hash) && !source["resource"].to_s.empty?, + "#{relative}: every OKF source needs a resource" + ) + ids << source["id"] if source.is_a?(Hash) && source["id"] + end + @findings.add_unless(ids.uniq.length == ids.length, "#{relative}: source IDs must be unique") + end + + def check_links(content, relative) + content.scan(/\[[^\]]+\]\(([^)]+)\)/).flatten.each do |raw| + target = raw.strip.sub(/\A\z/, "").split(/[?#]/, 2).first.to_s + next if target.empty? || target.start_with?("#") || target.match?(%r{\A[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:}i) + + resolved = if target.start_with?("/") + Paths.resolve(@root, target.delete_prefix("/")) + else + Paths.resolve(@root, File.join(File.dirname(relative), target)) + end + + if resolved.nil? + @findings.add("Markdown link escapes the bundle in #{relative}: #{raw}") + next + end + + resolved = File.join(resolved, "index.md") if target.end_with?("/") + @findings.add_unless(File.file?(resolved), "Broken Markdown link in #{relative}: #{raw}") + end + end + + # Directory indexes are intentionally simple, but they must not become stale. + def check_directory_indexes + Paths.glob(@root, "*/**/index.md").each do |relative| + directory = File.dirname(relative) + expected = Paths.glob(@root, File.join(directory, "*.md")) + .map { |path| File.basename(path) } + .reject { |name| RESERVED_BASENAMES.include?(name) } + .sort + linked = File.read(File.join(@root, relative)) + .scan(/\[[^\]]+\]\(([^)]+\.md)\)/) + .flatten + .reject { |target| target.match?(%r{\Ahttps?://}) } + .map { |target| File.basename(target) } + .sort + + missing = expected - linked + extra = linked - expected + @findings.add("#{relative}: missing entries for #{missing.join(', ')}") unless missing.empty? + @findings.add("#{relative}: unexpected entries for #{extra.join(', ')}") unless extra.empty? + end + end + + # The root index is the bundle's discovery boundary. It must expose every + # root concept and every indexed top-level area, though it may link deeper. + def check_root_index + root_index = File.join(@root, "index.md") + unless File.file?(root_index) + @findings.add("Missing index.md") + return + end + + targets = File.read(root_index) + .scan(/\[[^\]]+\]\(([^)]+)\)/) + .flatten + .map { |target| target.split(/[?#]/, 2).first } + + expected = Paths.glob(@root, "*.md").reject { |name| RESERVED_BASENAMES.include?(name) } + expected += Paths.glob(@root, "*/index.md").map { |path| "#{File.dirname(path)}/" } + + missing = expected.uniq.sort - targets + return if missing.empty? + + @findings.add("index.md: missing root entries for #{missing.join(', ')}") + end + + # -- schema -------------------------------------------------------------- + + # Loads schema/standard.schema.json once. A missing file is not a finding: + # the schema is optional infrastructure, and its absence is reported by the + # workflow's schema-parsing step rather than by every document in turn. + def standard_schema + return @standard_schema if defined?(@standard_schema) + + path = File.join(@root, "schema", "standard.schema.json") + @standard_schema = + if File.file?(path) + begin + JSON.parse(File.read(path)) + rescue JSON::ParserError => e + @findings.add("schema/standard.schema.json: invalid JSON (#{e.message.lines.first.to_s.strip})") + nil + end + end + end + + # -- predicates ---------------------------------------------------------- + + + def as_date(value) + value.is_a?(Date) ? value : Date.iso8601(value.to_s) + end + + def iso_date?(value) + return true if value.is_a?(Date) + return false unless value.is_a?(String) + + Date.iso8601(value) + true + rescue ArgumentError + false + end + + def iso_datetime?(value) + return true if value.is_a?(Time) || value.is_a?(DateTime) + return false unless value.is_a?(String) + + Time.iso8601(value) + true + rescue ArgumentError + false + end + + def non_empty_string?(value) + value.is_a?(String) && !value.empty? + end + + def non_blank_string?(value) + value.is_a?(String) && !value.strip.empty? + end + + def string_of_length?(value, minimum) + value.is_a?(String) && value.length >= minimum + end + + def non_empty_string_list?(value) + value.is_a?(Array) && !value.empty? && value.all? { |item| non_empty_string?(item) } + end + + def unique_list?(value) + value.is_a?(Array) && value.uniq.length == value.length + end + end +end diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/cli.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/cli.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0fe3a3f --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/cli.rb @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +# frozen_string_literal: true + +require "optparse" + +module Standards + # Command-line parsing for the validator entrypoints. + # + # Both validators previously read ARGV with `ARGV.include?("--release")`, + # which accepted anything else in silence. A misspelled `--relase` ran the + # ordinary validation and exited 0, so a release gate could appear to pass + # without ever having run. OptionParser raises OptionParser::InvalidOption for + # unrecognised switches; this turns that into a usage message and exit 2. + module CLI + # Parses +argv+ and returns an options Hash. + # + # The block receives the OptionParser and the options Hash so a caller can + # declare its own switches. --help is always defined. Any leftover + # positional argument is a usage error: neither validator takes one. + def self.parse(argv, banner:, description: nil) + options = {} + parser = OptionParser.new do |parsed| + parsed.banner = banner + parsed.separator("") + parsed.separator(description) if description + parsed.separator("") + parsed.separator("Options:") + yield(parsed, options) if block_given? + parsed.on("-h", "--help", "Show this message and exit") do + puts parsed + exit EXIT_SUCCESS + end + end + + begin + rest = parser.parse(argv) + rescue OptionParser::ParseError => e + return usage_error(parser, e.message) + end + + return usage_error(parser, "unexpected argument #{rest.first.inspect}") unless rest.empty? + + options + end + + def self.usage_error(parser, message) + warn "#{File.basename($PROGRAM_NAME)}: #{message}" + warn parser.help + exit EXIT_USAGE + end + private_class_method :usage_error + end +end diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/document.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/document.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0fb0256 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/document.rb @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +# frozen_string_literal: true + +require_relative "yaml_source" + +module Standards + # Reading Markdown documents that carry OKF YAML front matter. + # + # Each governed document used to be read from disk three or four times, once + # per validation pass, and its front matter parsed each time. Document reads + # and parses once and the passes share the result. + class Document + FRONT_MATTER = /\A---\s*\n(.*?)\n---\s*\n/m + + attr_reader :relative, :content, :metadata + + # Loads the document at +absolute+ and parses its front matter. + # + # +metadata+ is nil when the file has no front matter or the front matter is + # not a mapping; +front_matter?+ distinguishes "absent" from "unparseable" + # so callers can report the right thing. + def self.load(absolute, relative, findings, permitted_classes: YamlSource::PERMITTED_CLASSES) + new(relative, File.read(absolute), findings, permitted_classes: permitted_classes) + end + + def initialize(relative, content, findings, permitted_classes: YamlSource::PERMITTED_CLASSES) + @relative = relative + @content = content + @findings = findings + @raw_front_matter = content[FRONT_MATTER, 1] + @metadata = parse_front_matter(permitted_classes) + end + + def front_matter? + !@raw_front_matter.nil? + end + + def metadata? + @metadata.is_a?(Hash) + end + + # Every Markdown link target in the document, as written. + def link_targets + @content.scan(/\[[^\]]+\]\(([^)]+)\)/).flatten + end + + # Body text following the given `## Heading`, up to the next `## ` heading. + # + # Bounding at the next heading matters: scanning to end-of-file pulled links + # from later sections into the Sources comparison. + def section(heading) + pattern = /^##\s+#{Regexp.escape(heading)}\s*$\n(.*?)(?=^##\s|\z)/m + @content[pattern, 1] + end + + def heading?(level, text) + @content.match?(/^#{'#' * level}\s+#{Regexp.escape(text)}\s*$/) + end + + private + + def parse_front_matter(permitted_classes) + return nil unless front_matter? + + label = "#{@relative}: front matter" + tree = Psych.parse_stream(@raw_front_matter) + return nil unless YamlSource.duplicate_keys(tree, label, @findings) + parsed = YAML.safe_load(@raw_front_matter, permitted_classes: permitted_classes, aliases: false) + return parsed if parsed.is_a?(Hash) + + @findings.add("#{@relative}: YAML front matter must be a mapping") + nil + rescue Psych::Exception => e + @findings.add("#{@relative}: invalid YAML front matter (#{YamlSource.first_line(e)})") + nil + end + end +end diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/findings.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/findings.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff5f936 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/findings.rb @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +# frozen_string_literal: true + +module Standards + # An ordered, de-duplicated collection of validation messages. + # + # Order is first-seen insertion order rather than sort order: messages are + # emitted in the sequence the validator checks things, which keeps related + # failures together. Determinism comes from feeding the validators sorted + # inputs (see Paths.glob), not from sorting the output. + class Findings + include Enumerable + + def initialize + @messages = [] + @seen = {} + end + + # Records a message. Repeated messages collapse to the first occurrence so + # that a document reached by two different checks reports once. + def add(message) + text = message.to_s + return self if @seen.key?(text) + + @seen[text] = true + @messages << text + self + end + alias << add + + # Records +message+ only when +condition+ is falsy. Reads closer to the rule + # being expressed than a trailing `unless` on a long line. + def add_unless(condition, message) + add(message) unless condition + self + end + + def each(&block) + @messages.each(&block) + self + end + + def empty? + @messages.empty? + end + + def length + @messages.length + end + alias size length + + def to_a + @messages.dup + end + + # Writes every message to +io+, one per line. Writes nothing at all when + # empty, so a caller with no findings never emits a stray blank line. + def report(io = $stderr) + return if empty? + + io.puts(@messages) + end + end +end diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/input_limits.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/input_limits.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cb09c3a --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/input_limits.rb @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +# frozen_string_literal: true + +require "find" + +require_relative "paths" + +module Standards + # Bounds repository-controlled validator input before any file is parsed. + module InputLimits + MAX_FILES = 2_048 + MAX_FILE_BYTES = 2 * 1024 * 1024 + MAX_TOTAL_BYTES = 32 * 1024 * 1024 + EXTENSIONS = %w[.md .yaml .yml .json].freeze + + def self.validate(root, findings, max_files: MAX_FILES, max_file_bytes: MAX_FILE_BYTES, max_total_bytes: MAX_TOTAL_BYTES) + initial_findings = findings.length + root = File.expand_path(root) + files = 0 + total_bytes = 0 + catch(:input_limit_reached) do + Find.find(root) do |path| + relative = path == root ? "." : path.delete_prefix("#{root}#{File::SEPARATOR}") + stat = File.lstat(path) + if stat.directory? + Find.prune if relative == ".git" + next + end + next unless stat.file? || stat.symlink? + next unless EXTENSIONS.include?(File.extname(path)) + + files += 1 + if files > max_files + findings.add("validator input has more than #{max_files} files; limit is #{max_files}") + throw :input_limit_reached + end + + resolved = Paths.resolve(root, relative) + if resolved.nil? + findings.add("#{relative}: input path escapes the bundle root") + next + end + + bytes = File.size(resolved) + if bytes > max_file_bytes + findings.add("#{relative}: input is #{bytes} bytes; per-file limit is #{max_file_bytes} bytes") + throw :input_limit_reached + end + + total_bytes += bytes + if total_bytes > max_total_bytes + findings.add("validator input is more than #{max_total_bytes} bytes; total limit is #{max_total_bytes} bytes") + throw :input_limit_reached + end + rescue SystemCallError => e + findings.add("#{relative}: input cannot be inspected (#{e.message})") + end + end + + findings.length == initial_findings + rescue SystemCallError => e + findings.add("validator input root cannot be inspected (#{e.message})") + false + end + end +end diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/integration_validator.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/integration_validator.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f599e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/integration_validator.rb @@ -0,0 +1,881 @@ +# frozen_string_literal: true + +require "date" +require "json" +require "uri" + +require_relative "findings" +require_relative "input_limits" +require_relative "json_schema" +require_relative "paths" +require_relative "yaml_source" + +module Standards + # Validates a governed vendor integration capability bundle. + # + # Split out of scripts/validate_integrations.rb so the passes can be driven + # directly from tests. Every row access goes through YamlSource.mapping_rows, + # so a malformed document produces validation messages instead of the + # TypeError and NoMethodError backtraces the previous version raised on a + # top-level sequence, an empty file, or a scalar list entry. + class GoogleSearchConsoleValidator + INTEGRATION = "google-search-console" + + FILES = { + sources: "sources.yaml", + capabilities: "capabilities.yaml", + semantics: "data-semantics.yaml", + workflows: "workflows.yaml", + evaluations: "evaluations.yaml" + }.freeze + + TOP_LEVEL_KEYS = { + sources: %w[version integration reviewed_on scope freshness sources change_watch coverage], + capabilities: %w[version integration reviewed_on capabilities], + semantics: %w[version integration reviewed_on concepts], + workflows: %w[version integration workflows], + evaluations: %w[version integration evaluations] + }.freeze + + CAPABILITY_FIELDS = %w[ + id name interface availability access effect approval inputs outputs data_semantics limits + limitations verification idempotency rollback sources + ].freeze + CAPABILITY_STRING_LISTS = %w[inputs outputs data_semantics limitations verification sources].freeze + # Fields whose emptiness is allowed because an empty list is meaningful: + # a read-only capability may need no OAuth scope at all. + OPTIONALLY_EMPTY = %w[oauth_scopes property_roles].freeze + + INTERFACES = %w[search_console_api search_console_ui bigquery_export email_notification indexing_api external_google_tool].freeze + AVAILABILITIES = %w[current adjacent legacy unavailable].freeze + EFFECTS = %w[observe diagnose mutate_reversible mutate_high_impact human_only].freeze + APPROVALS = %w[none bounded exact human_only].freeze + ROLES = %w[none restricted_user full_user owner verified_owner google_cloud_role].freeze + OAUTH_SCOPES = %w[ + https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters.readonly + https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters + https://www.googleapis.com/auth/indexing + ].freeze + LIMIT_DIMENSIONS = %w[quotas latency sampling privacy_suppression aggregation completeness operational].freeze + CLASSIFICATIONS = %w[mapped adjacent legacy excluded].freeze + WATCH_STATUSES = %w[announced_deprecation limited_rollout provider_change].freeze + AUTHORITIES = %w[provider_documentation].freeze + VOLATILITIES = %w[low medium high].freeze + MUTATING_EFFECTS = %w[mutate_reversible mutate_high_impact].freeze + ROUTED_EFFECTS = %w[mutate_reversible mutate_high_impact human_only].freeze + OFFICIAL_URL = %r{\Ahttps://(?:developers\.google\.com|support\.google\.com|status\.search\.google\.com|trends\.google\.com)/} + + attr_reader :findings + + def initialize(root, today: Date.today) + @root = File.expand_path(root) + @bundle = File.join(@root, "integrations", INTEGRATION) + @today = today + @findings = Findings.new + @documents = {} + @rows = {} + @registry = {} + @covered_sources = [] + end + + def valid? + @findings.empty? + end + + def summary_lines + ["Integration bundle valid: #{count(:capabilities)} capabilities, #{@coverage.length} coverage surfaces, " \ + "#{count(:workflows)} workflows, #{count(:evaluations)} evaluations, #{count(:change_watch)} change watches"] + end + + # Returns false when required artifacts are missing, which is a hard stop: + # every later pass would report the same absence a second time. + def artifacts_present? + FILES.each_value do |name| + path = File.join(@bundle, name) + @findings.add("Missing integration artifact: #{Paths.relative(@root, path)}") unless File.file?(path) + end + unless File.file?(schema_path) + @findings.add("Missing integration schema: schema/integration-capability.schema.json") + end + @findings.empty? + end + + def run + return self unless InputLimits.validate(@root, @findings) + + load_documents + check_top_level + index_rows + check_capabilities + check_schema_conformance + check_coverage + check_semantics + check_workflows + check_evaluations + check_mutation_routing + check_sources + check_freshness + check_change_watch + check_unused_sources + self + end + + private + + def schema_path + File.join(@root, "schema", "integration-capability.schema.json") + end + + def load_documents + FILES.each do |kind, name| + path = File.join(@bundle, name) + @documents[kind] = YamlSource.load_file(path, name, @findings, permitted_classes: [Date]) + end + end + + def check_top_level + @documents.each do |kind, document| + relative = FILES.fetch(kind) + @findings + .add_unless(document["version"] == 1, "#{relative}: version must be 1") + .add_unless(document["integration"] == INTEGRATION, "#{relative}: integration must be #{INTEGRATION}") + + expected = TOP_LEVEL_KEYS.fetch(kind) + unknown = document.keys - expected + missing = expected - document.keys + @findings.add("#{relative}: unknown top-level fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + @findings.add("#{relative}: missing top-level fields #{missing.join(', ')}") unless missing.empty? + end + end + + def index_rows + @rows[:sources] = rows_for(:sources, "sources", "sources.yaml: sources") + @rows[:capabilities] = rows_for(:capabilities, "capabilities", "capabilities.yaml: capabilities") + @rows[:semantics] = rows_for(:semantics, "concepts", "data-semantics.yaml: concepts") + @rows[:workflows] = rows_for(:workflows, "workflows", "workflows.yaml: workflows") + @rows[:evaluations] = rows_for(:evaluations, "evaluations", "evaluations.yaml: evaluations") + @rows[:coverage] = rows_for(:sources, "coverage", "sources.yaml: coverage") + @rows[:change_watch] = rows_for(:sources, "change_watch", "sources.yaml: change_watch") + + @sources = collect(:sources, "id", "source") + @capabilities = collect(:capabilities, "id", "capability") + @semantics = collect(:semantics, "id", "semantic") + @workflows = collect(:workflows, "id", "workflow") + @evaluations = collect(:evaluations, "id", "evaluation") + @coverage = collect(:coverage, "surface", "coverage") + @change_watch = collect(:change_watch, "id", "change watch") + + seen = {} + [ + [@sources, "source"], [@capabilities, "capability"], [@semantics, "semantic"], + [@workflows, "workflow"], [@evaluations, "evaluation"], [@change_watch, "change watch"] + ].each do |mapping, label| + mapping.each_key do |id| + @findings.add("Duplicate integration ID #{id} across #{seen[id]} and #{label}") if seen.key?(id) + seen[id] = label + end + end + end + + def rows_for(kind, field, label) + YamlSource.mapping_rows(@documents.fetch(kind)[field], label, @findings) + end + + def collect(kind, field, label) + @rows.fetch(kind).each_with_index.each_with_object({}) do |(row, index), found| + value = row[field] + if value.to_s.empty? + @findings.add("#{label}[#{index}]: missing #{field}") + elsif found.key?(value) + @findings.add("Duplicate #{label} #{field} #{value}") + else + found[value] = row + end + end + end + + def count(kind) + case kind + when :capabilities then @capabilities.length + when :workflows then @workflows.length + when :evaluations then @evaluations.length + when :change_watch then @change_watch.length + end + end + + # -- capabilities -------------------------------------------------------- + + def check_capabilities + @rows.fetch(:capabilities).each_with_index do |row, index| + prefix = "capabilities.yaml: capability[#{index}] #{row['id']}" + unknown = row.keys - CAPABILITY_FIELDS + @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + + CAPABILITY_FIELDS.each do |field| + value = row[field] + blank = value.nil? || value == "" || + (value.respond_to?(:empty?) && value.empty? && !OPTIONALLY_EMPTY.include?(field)) + @findings.add("#{prefix}: missing #{field}") if blank + end + + @findings + .add_unless(INTERFACES.include?(row["interface"]), "#{prefix}: invalid interface #{row['interface']}") + .add_unless(AVAILABILITIES.include?(row["availability"]), "#{prefix}: invalid availability #{row['availability']}") + .add_unless(EFFECTS.include?(row["effect"]), "#{prefix}: invalid effect #{row['effect']}") + .add_unless(APPROVALS.include?(row["approval"]), "#{prefix}: invalid approval #{row['approval']}") + + check_access(prefix, row["access"]) + check_capability_lists(prefix, row) + check_limits(prefix, row["limits"]) + check_capability_sources(prefix, row) + check_effect_rules(prefix, row) + end + end + + def check_access(prefix, access) + unless access.is_a?(Hash) && access["oauth_scopes"].is_a?(Array) && access["property_roles"].is_a?(Array) + @findings.add("#{prefix}: access requires oauth_scopes and property_roles arrays") + return + end + + unknown = access.keys - %w[oauth_scopes property_roles] + @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown access fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + @findings.add("#{prefix}: property_roles must declare at least one role") if access["property_roles"].empty? + + unknown_roles = access["property_roles"] - ROLES + @findings.add("#{prefix}: invalid property roles #{unknown_roles.join(', ')}") unless unknown_roles.empty? + unknown_scopes = access["oauth_scopes"] - OAUTH_SCOPES + @findings.add("#{prefix}: invalid OAuth scopes #{unknown_scopes.join(', ')}") unless unknown_scopes.empty? + end + + def check_capability_lists(prefix, row) + CAPABILITY_STRING_LISTS.each do |field| + @findings.add_unless( + string_list?(row[field]), + "#{prefix}: #{field} must be a non-empty unique string list" + ) + end + end + + def check_limits(prefix, limits) + if !limits.is_a?(Hash) || limits.keys.sort != LIMIT_DIMENSIONS.sort + @findings.add("#{prefix}: limits must declare exactly #{LIMIT_DIMENSIONS.join(', ')}") + return + end + + LIMIT_DIMENSIONS.each do |dimension| + @findings.add_unless( + string_list?(limits[dimension]), + "#{prefix}: limits.#{dimension} must be a non-empty unique string list" + ) + end + end + + def check_capability_sources(prefix, row) + Array(row["sources"]).each do |id| + @findings.add_unless(@sources.key?(id), "#{prefix}: unknown source #{id}") + end + end + + def check_effect_rules(prefix, row) + if MUTATING_EFFECTS.include?(row["effect"]) + @findings.add("#{prefix}: mutation cannot use approval none") if row["approval"] == "none" + @findings.add("#{prefix}: mutation requires verification") if Array(row["verification"]).empty? + if row["rollback"].to_s.empty? || row["rollback"] == "Not applicable" + @findings.add("#{prefix}: mutation requires rollback or irreversibility text") + end + end + + if row["effect"] == "mutate_high_impact" && !%w[exact human_only].include?(row["approval"]) + @findings.add("#{prefix}: high-impact mutation requires exact or human_only approval") + end + if %w[observe diagnose].include?(row["effect"]) && row["approval"] != "none" + @findings.add("#{prefix}: observe and diagnose effects require approval none") + end + return unless row["effect"] == "human_only" && row["approval"] != "human_only" + + @findings.add("#{prefix}: human_only effect requires human_only approval") + end + + # Applies schema/integration-capability.schema.json to capabilities.yaml. + # + # The schema previously only had to parse. Applying it means its enums, + # patterns, and effect/approval conditionals are enforced on real rows, and + # scripts/test_schema_drift.rb asserts they still agree with the constants + # above rather than quietly diverging. + def check_schema_conformance + return unless File.file?(schema_path) + + begin + schema = JSON.parse(File.read(schema_path)) + rescue JSON::ParserError => e + @findings.add("schema/integration-capability.schema.json: invalid JSON (#{e.message.lines.first.to_s.strip})") + return + end + + JsonSchema.validate(@documents.fetch(:capabilities), schema, label: "").each do |message| + @findings.add("capabilities.yaml: #{message}") + end + rescue JsonSchema::UnsupportedKeyword => e + @findings.add("schema/integration-capability.schema.json: #{e.message}") + end + + # -- coverage, semantics, workflows, evaluations ------------------------- + + def check_coverage + covered_capabilities = [] + @rows.fetch(:coverage).each_with_index do |row, index| + prefix = "sources.yaml: coverage[#{index}] #{row['surface']}" + unknown = row.keys - %w[surface classification capabilities sources rationale] + @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + + classification = row["classification"] + @findings.add_unless(CLASSIFICATIONS.include?(classification), "#{prefix}: invalid classification #{classification}") + + caps = Array(row["capabilities"]) + refs = Array(row["sources"]) + @findings.add("#{prefix}: sources must be non-empty") if refs.empty? + + if %w[adjacent legacy excluded].include?(classification) + @findings.add("#{prefix}: #{classification} surface requires rationale") if row["rationale"].to_s.empty? + elsif caps.empty? + @findings.add("#{prefix}: non-excluded surface requires capabilities") + end + + caps.each { |id| @findings.add_unless(@capabilities.key?(id), "#{prefix}: unknown capability #{id}") } + refs.each { |id| @findings.add_unless(@sources.key?(id), "#{prefix}: unknown source #{id}") } + + covered_capabilities.concat(caps) + @covered_sources.concat(refs) + end + + (@capabilities.keys - covered_capabilities.uniq).each do |id| + @findings.add("sources.yaml: zero-gap ledger does not classify capability #{id}") + end + end + + def check_semantics + @rows.fetch(:semantics).each_with_index do |row, index| + prefix = "data-semantics.yaml: concept[#{index}] #{row['id']}" + unknown = row.keys - %w[id name definition cautions sources] + @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + %w[name definition].each { |field| @findings.add("#{prefix}: missing #{field}") if row[field].to_s.empty? } + @findings.add_unless(non_empty_array?(row["cautions"]), "#{prefix}: cautions must be non-empty") + + Array(row["sources"]).each do |id| + @findings.add_unless(@sources.key?(id), "#{prefix}: unknown source #{id}") + @covered_sources << id + end + end + end + + def check_workflows + @rows.fetch(:workflows).each_with_index do |row, index| + prefix = "workflows.yaml: workflow[#{index}] #{row['id']}" + unknown = row.keys - %w[id name trigger capabilities steps stop_conditions outputs] + @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + %w[name trigger].each { |field| @findings.add("#{prefix}: missing #{field}") if row[field].to_s.empty? } + %w[capabilities steps stop_conditions outputs].each do |field| + @findings.add_unless(non_empty_array?(row[field]), "#{prefix}: #{field} must be non-empty") + end + Array(row["capabilities"]).each { |id| @findings.add_unless(@capabilities.key?(id), "#{prefix}: unknown capability #{id}") } + end + end + + def check_evaluations + @rows.fetch(:evaluations).each_with_index do |row, index| + prefix = "evaluations.yaml: evaluation[#{index}] #{row['id']}" + unknown = row.keys - %w[id workflow capabilities scenario evidence expected prohibited] + @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + %w[scenario expected prohibited].each { |field| @findings.add("#{prefix}: missing #{field}") if row[field].to_s.empty? } + @findings + .add_unless(non_empty_array?(row["evidence"]), "#{prefix}: evidence must be non-empty") + .add_unless(@workflows.key?(row["workflow"]), "#{prefix}: unknown workflow #{row['workflow']}") + Array(row["capabilities"]).each { |id| @findings.add_unless(@capabilities.key?(id), "#{prefix}: unknown capability #{id}") } + end + end + + def check_mutation_routing + mutation_ids = @rows.fetch(:capabilities) + .select { |row| ROUTED_EFFECTS.include?(row["effect"]) } + .map { |row| row["id"] } + routed = @rows.fetch(:workflows).flat_map { |row| Array(row["capabilities"]) } + + @rows.fetch(:evaluations).flat_map { |row| Array(row["capabilities"]) } + + (mutation_ids - routed.uniq).each do |id| + @findings.add("capabilities.yaml: mutation #{id} is not routed through a workflow or evaluation") + end + end + + # -- sources ------------------------------------------------------------- + + def check_sources + @rows.fetch(:sources).each_with_index do |row, index| + prefix = "sources.yaml: source[#{index}] #{row['id']}" + unknown = row.keys - %w[id title url topic authority volatility] + @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + %w[title url topic authority volatility].each do |field| + @findings.add("#{prefix}: missing #{field}") if row[field].to_s.empty? + end + @findings + .add_unless(AUTHORITIES.include?(row["authority"]), "#{prefix}: invalid authority #{row['authority']}") + .add_unless(VOLATILITIES.include?(row["volatility"]), "#{prefix}: invalid volatility #{row['volatility']}") + .add_unless(row["url"].to_s.match?(OFFICIAL_URL), "#{prefix}: URL must use official Google HTTPS documentation") + end + end + + def check_freshness + freshness = @documents.fetch(:sources)["freshness"] + unless freshness.is_a?(Hash) && + freshness["cadence_days"].is_a?(Integer) && freshness["cadence_days"].positive? && + freshness["next_review"].is_a?(Date) && + non_empty_array?(freshness["event_triggers"]) + @findings.add("sources.yaml: freshness requires a positive cadence_days, next_review date, and non-empty event_triggers") + return + end + + reviewed_on = @documents.fetch(:sources)["reviewed_on"] + next_review = freshness["next_review"] + if reviewed_on.is_a?(Date) + @findings + .add_unless(next_review > reviewed_on, "sources.yaml: freshness next_review must be after reviewed_on") + .add_unless(next_review <= reviewed_on + freshness["cadence_days"], "sources.yaml: freshness next_review exceeds cadence_days") + end + return unless @today > next_review + + @findings.add("sources.yaml: official-source review expired on #{next_review}") + end + + def check_change_watch + @rows.fetch(:change_watch).each_with_index do |row, index| + prefix = "sources.yaml: change_watch[#{index}] #{row['id']}" + unknown = row.keys - %w[id status effective affected_capabilities action sources] + @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + @findings.add_unless(WATCH_STATUSES.include?(row["status"]), "#{prefix}: invalid status #{row['status']}") + %w[effective action].each { |field| @findings.add("#{prefix}: missing #{field}") if row[field].to_s.empty? } + @findings + .add_unless(non_empty_array?(row["affected_capabilities"]), "#{prefix}: affected_capabilities must be non-empty") + .add_unless(non_empty_array?(row["sources"]), "#{prefix}: sources must be non-empty") + + Array(row["affected_capabilities"]).each { |id| @findings.add_unless(@capabilities.key?(id), "#{prefix}: unknown capability #{id}") } + Array(row["sources"]).each do |id| + @findings.add_unless(@sources.key?(id), "#{prefix}: unknown source #{id}") + @covered_sources << id + end + end + end + + def check_unused_sources + used = @covered_sources + @rows.fetch(:capabilities).flat_map { |row| Array(row["sources"]) } + (@sources.keys - used.uniq).each do |id| + @findings.add("sources.yaml: source #{id} is not used by coverage, capabilities, or semantics") + end + end + + # -- predicates ---------------------------------------------------------- + + def non_empty_array?(value) + value.is_a?(Array) && !value.empty? + end + + def string_list?(value) + value.is_a?(Array) && !value.empty? && + value.uniq.length == value.length && + value.all? { |item| item.is_a?(String) && !item.empty? } + end + end + + # Discovers every manifest-backed integration and applies the common bundle + # contract. Google Search Console keeps its deeper capability-map checks; + # provider bundles can add the same artifacts later without + # changing discovery or audit routing. + class IntegrationValidator + MANIFEST_KEYS = %w[version integration id_prefix playbook reviewed_on official_domains informative_domains artifacts features vocabulary skill_routes].freeze + OPTIONAL_MANIFEST_KEYS = %w[features vocabulary informative_domains].freeze + REQUIRED_ARTIFACTS = %w[sources workflows evaluations].freeze + ARTIFACT_NAMES = { + "sources" => "sources.yaml", "capabilities" => "capabilities.yaml", + "semantics" => "data-semantics.yaml", "workflows" => "workflows.yaml", + "evaluations" => "evaluations.yaml" + }.freeze + SOURCE_FIELDS = %w[id title url topic authority volatility].freeze + WORKFLOW_FIELDS = %w[id name trigger sources capabilities steps stop_conditions outputs].freeze + EVALUATION_FIELDS = %w[id workflow sources capabilities scenario evidence expected prohibited].freeze + AUTHORITIES = %w[provider_documentation provider_engineering independent_engineering].freeze + VOLATILITIES = %w[low medium high].freeze + SKILL_AVAILABILITIES = %w[when_available not_available].freeze + + attr_reader :findings + + def initialize(root, today: Date.today) + @root = File.expand_path(root) + @today = today + @findings = Findings.new + @manifests = {} + @summaries = [] + @provider_capabilities = {} + @provider_mutations = {} + @provider_routed = Hash.new { |hash, key| hash[key] = [] } + @provider_workflow_routed = Hash.new { |hash, key| hash[key] = [] } + @provider_evaluation_routed = Hash.new { |hash, key| hash[key] = [] } + @provider_used_sources = Hash.new { |hash, key| hash[key] = [] } + end + + def valid? = @findings.empty? + def summary_lines = ["Integration bundle valid: #{@summaries.join('; ')}"] + + def artifacts_present? + manifests = Paths.glob_absolute(@root, File.join("integrations", "*", "manifest.yaml")) + @findings.add("Missing integration manifests under integrations/") if manifests.empty? + %w[integration-manifest.schema.json integration-capability.schema.json].each do |name| + @findings.add("Missing integration schema: schema/#{name}") unless File.file?(File.join(@root, "schema", name)) + end + manifests.each { |path| load_manifest(path) } + @manifests.each_value { |entry| check_declared_artifacts(entry) } + @findings.empty? + end + + def run + return self unless InputLimits.validate(@root, @findings) + artifacts_present? if @manifests.empty? + return self unless @findings.empty? + + @manifests.each_value do |entry| + validate_manifest(entry) + validate_bundle(entry) + next unless entry[:integration] == GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::INTEGRATION + + deep = GoogleSearchConsoleValidator.new(@root, today: @today) + if deep.artifacts_present? + deep.run + deep.findings.each { |message| @findings.add("google-search-console: #{message}") } + else + deep.findings.each { |message| @findings.add("google-search-console: #{message}") } + end + end + self + end + + private + + def load_manifest(path) + label = Paths.relative(@root, path) + document = YamlSource.load_file(path, label, @findings, permitted_classes: [Date]) + integration = document["integration"] + directory = File.basename(File.dirname(path)) + @findings.add("#{label}: integration must match directory #{directory}") unless integration == directory + @findings.add("Duplicate integration manifest #{integration}") if @manifests.key?(integration) + @manifests[integration] = { path: path, dir: File.dirname(path), label: label, document: document, integration: integration } + end + + def check_declared_artifacts(entry) + artifacts = entry[:document]["artifacts"] + unless artifacts.is_a?(Hash) + @findings.add("#{entry[:label]}: artifacts must be a mapping") + return + end + REQUIRED_ARTIFACTS.each { |kind| @findings.add("#{entry[:label]}: artifacts must declare #{kind}") unless artifacts.key?(kind) } + artifacts.each do |kind, name| + @findings.add("#{entry[:label]}: unsupported artifact #{kind}") unless ARTIFACT_NAMES[kind] == name + path = File.join(entry[:dir], name.to_s) + @findings.add("Missing integration artifact: #{Paths.relative(@root, path)}") unless File.file?(path) + end + if artifacts.key?("capabilities") && !entry[:document]["vocabulary"].is_a?(Hash) + @findings.add("#{entry[:label]}: capability bundles require vocabulary") + end + feature_artifacts = { "capabilities" => "capabilities", "semantics" => "semantics" } + Array(entry[:document]["features"]).each do |feature| + artifact = feature_artifacts[feature] + @findings.add("#{entry[:label]}: feature #{feature} requires artifact #{artifact}") if artifact && !artifacts.key?(artifact) + end + end + + def validate_manifest(entry) + document = entry[:document] + unknown = document.keys - MANIFEST_KEYS + required = MANIFEST_KEYS - OPTIONAL_MANIFEST_KEYS + @findings.add("#{entry[:label]}: unknown fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + @findings.add("#{entry[:label]}: missing fields #{(required - document.keys).join(', ')}") unless (required - document.keys).empty? + schema = JSON.parse(File.read(File.join(@root, "schema", "integration-manifest.schema.json"))) + JsonSchema.validate(document, schema, label: "").each { |message| @findings.add("#{entry[:label]}: #{message}") } + Array(document["skill_routes"]).each_with_index do |route, index| + prefix = "#{entry[:label]}: skill_routes[#{index}]" + next unless route.is_a?(Hash) + @findings.add("#{prefix}: invalid availability #{route['availability']}") unless SKILL_AVAILABILITIES.include?(route["availability"]) + @findings.add("#{prefix}: skills are review aids, not authority") unless route["authority"] == "review_aid" + end + route_names = Array(document["skill_routes"]).filter_map { |route| route["name"] if route.is_a?(Hash) } + route_names.tally.each { |name, count| @findings.add("#{entry[:label]}: duplicate skill route #{name}") if count > 1 } + rescue JSON::ParserError => e + @findings.add("schema/integration-manifest.schema.json: invalid JSON (#{e.message.lines.first.to_s.strip})") + rescue JsonSchema::UnsupportedKeyword => e + @findings.add("schema/integration-manifest.schema.json: #{e.message}") + end + + def validate_bundle(entry) + docs = {} + entry[:document].fetch("artifacts", {}).each do |kind, name| + next unless %w[sources capabilities semantics workflows evaluations].include?(kind) + docs[kind] = YamlSource.load_file(File.join(entry[:dir], name), name, @findings, permitted_classes: [Date]) + @findings.add("#{entry[:integration]}/#{name}: integration must be #{entry[:integration]}") unless docs[kind]["integration"] == entry[:integration] + end + return unless REQUIRED_ARTIFACTS.all? { |kind| docs.key?(kind) } + + unless entry[:integration] == GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::INTEGRATION + check_provider_top_level(entry, docs) + check_provider_identity_graph(entry, docs) + end + + sources = collect_rows(docs["sources"]["sources"], "#{entry[:integration]}/sources.yaml: sources", "id") + workflows = collect_rows(docs["workflows"]["workflows"], "#{entry[:integration]}/workflows.yaml: workflows", "id") + evaluations = collect_rows(docs["evaluations"]["evaluations"], "#{entry[:integration]}/evaluations.yaml: evaluations", "id") + check_provider_sources(entry, docs["sources"], sources) + if docs.key?("capabilities") && entry[:integration] != GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::INTEGRATION + check_provider_capabilities(entry, docs, sources) + end + check_provider_workflows(entry, workflows, sources) + check_provider_evaluations(entry, evaluations, workflows, sources) + capability_count = docs.key?("capabilities") ? Array(docs["capabilities"]["capabilities"]).length : 0 + @summaries << "#{entry[:integration]} (#{sources.length} sources, #{capability_count} capabilities, #{workflows.length} workflows, #{evaluations.length} evaluations)" + end + + def collect_rows(value, label, key) + rows = YamlSource.mapping_rows(value, label, @findings) + rows.each_with_index.each_with_object({}) do |(row, index), result| + id = row[key] + @findings.add("#{label}[#{index}]: missing #{key}") if id.to_s.empty? + @findings.add("#{label}: duplicate #{key} #{id}") if result.key?(id) + result[id] = row unless id.to_s.empty? + end + end + + def check_provider_identity_graph(entry, docs) + prefix = entry[:document]["id_prefix"].to_s + sets = { + "sources" => ["sources", "SRC"], "capabilities" => ["capabilities", "CAP"], + "semantics" => ["concepts", "SEM"], "workflows" => ["workflows", "WF"], + "evaluations" => ["evaluations", "EVAL"] + } + seen = {} + sets.each do |kind, (field, segment)| + next unless docs.key?(kind) + YamlSource.mapping_rows(docs[kind][field], "#{entry[:integration]}/#{kind}", @findings).each do |row| + id = row["id"].to_s + @findings.add("#{entry[:integration]}/#{kind}: ID #{id} must use #{prefix}-#{segment}- prefix") unless id.match?(/\A#{Regexp.escape(prefix)}-#{segment}-[A-Z0-9]+(?:-[A-Z0-9]+)*\z/) + @findings.add("Duplicate integration ID #{id} across #{seen[id]} and #{kind}") if seen.key?(id) + seen[id] = kind + end + end + end + + def check_provider_top_level(entry, docs) + expected = { + "sources" => %w[version integration reviewed_on scope freshness sources coverage], + "capabilities" => %w[version integration reviewed_on capabilities], + "semantics" => %w[version integration reviewed_on concepts], + "workflows" => %w[version integration workflows], + "evaluations" => %w[version integration evaluations] + } + docs.each do |kind, document| + next unless expected.key?(kind) + label = "#{entry[:integration]}/#{entry[:document]['artifacts'][kind]}" + unknown = document.keys - expected[kind] + missing = expected[kind] - document.keys + @findings.add("#{label}: unknown top-level fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + @findings.add("#{label}: missing top-level fields #{missing.join(', ')}") unless missing.empty? + @findings.add("#{label}: version must be 1") unless document["version"] == 1 + end + end + + def check_provider_sources(entry, document, sources) + domains = Array(entry[:document]["official_domains"]) + informative_domains = Array(entry[:document]["informative_domains"]) + sources.each_value do |row| + prefix = "#{entry[:integration]}/sources.yaml: #{row['id']}" + unknown = row.keys - SOURCE_FIELDS + @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + missing = SOURCE_FIELDS.select { |field| row[field].to_s.empty? } + @findings.add("#{prefix}: missing #{missing.join(', ')}") unless missing.empty? + @findings.add("#{prefix}: invalid authority #{row['authority']}") unless AUTHORITIES.include?(row["authority"]) + @findings.add("#{prefix}: invalid volatility #{row['volatility']}") unless VOLATILITIES.include?(row["volatility"]) + begin + uri = URI.parse(row["url"].to_s) + allowed_domains = row["authority"] == "independent_engineering" ? informative_domains : domains + allowed = uri.scheme == "https" && allowed_domains.any? { |domain| uri.host == domain || uri.host&.end_with?(".#{domain}") } + message = row["authority"] == "independent_engineering" ? "URL must use an allowlisted informative HTTPS domain" : "URL must use an official HTTPS domain" + @findings.add("#{prefix}: #{message}") unless allowed + rescue URI::InvalidURIError + @findings.add("#{prefix}: URL must use a valid allowlisted HTTPS domain") + end + end + + Array(document["coverage"]).each do |row| + next unless row.is_a?(Hash) && row["classification"] == "mapped" + + refs = Array(row["sources"]) + next if refs.any? { |id| sources[id]&.fetch("authority", nil) == "provider_documentation" } + + @findings.add("#{entry[:integration]}/sources.yaml: coverage #{row['surface']} requires provider documentation; engineering sources are informative") + end + freshness = document["freshness"] + valid = freshness.is_a?(Hash) && freshness["cadence_days"].is_a?(Integer) && freshness["cadence_days"].positive? && freshness["next_review"].is_a?(Date) && non_empty_array?(freshness["event_triggers"]) + @findings.add("#{entry[:integration]}/sources.yaml: invalid freshness contract") unless valid + return unless valid + reviewed = document["reviewed_on"] + @findings.add("#{entry[:integration]}/sources.yaml: next_review must be after reviewed_on") unless reviewed.is_a?(Date) && freshness["next_review"] > reviewed + @findings.add("#{entry[:integration]}/sources.yaml: official-source review expired on #{freshness['next_review']}") if @today > freshness["next_review"] + end + + def check_provider_capabilities(entry, docs, sources) + integration = entry[:integration] + capabilities = collect_rows(docs["capabilities"]["capabilities"], "#{integration}/capabilities.yaml: capabilities", "id") + semantics = docs.key?("semantics") ? collect_rows(docs["semantics"]["concepts"], "#{integration}/data-semantics.yaml: concepts", "id") : {} + coverage = collect_rows(docs["sources"]["coverage"], "#{integration}/sources.yaml: coverage", "surface") + vocabulary = entry[:document]["vocabulary"] || {} + interfaces = Array(vocabulary["interfaces"]) + roles = Array(vocabulary["property_roles"]) + scopes = Array(vocabulary["oauth_scopes"]) + prefix_pattern = /\A#{Regexp.escape(entry[:document]['id_prefix'].to_s)}-CAP-[A-Z0-9]+(?:-[A-Z0-9]+)*\z/ + + schema = JSON.parse(File.read(File.join(@root, "schema", "integration-capability.schema.json"))) + JsonSchema.validate(docs["capabilities"], schema, label: "").each { |message| @findings.add("#{integration}/capabilities.yaml: #{message}") } + + capabilities.each_value do |row| + label = "#{integration}/capabilities.yaml: #{row['id']}" + @findings.add("#{label}: ID must use #{entry[:document]['id_prefix']}-CAP- prefix") unless row["id"].to_s.match?(prefix_pattern) + @findings.add("#{label}: invalid interface #{row['interface']}") unless interfaces.include?(row["interface"]) + @findings.add("#{label}: invalid availability #{row['availability']}") unless GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::AVAILABILITIES.include?(row["availability"]) + @findings.add("#{label}: invalid effect #{row['effect']}") unless GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::EFFECTS.include?(row["effect"]) + @findings.add("#{label}: invalid approval #{row['approval']}") unless GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::APPROVALS.include?(row["approval"]) + access = row["access"] + if access.is_a?(Hash) + invalid_roles = Array(access["property_roles"]) - roles + invalid_scopes = Array(access["oauth_scopes"]) - scopes + @findings.add("#{label}: invalid property roles #{invalid_roles.join(', ')}") unless invalid_roles.empty? + @findings.add("#{label}: invalid OAuth scopes #{invalid_scopes.join(', ')}") unless invalid_scopes.empty? + end + Array(row["data_semantics"]).each { |id| @findings.add("#{label}: unknown semantic #{id}") unless semantics.key?(id) } + Array(row["sources"]).each do |id| + @findings.add("#{label}: unknown source #{id}") unless sources.key?(id) + @provider_used_sources[integration] << id + end + unless Array(row["sources"]).any? { |id| sources[id]&.fetch("authority", nil) == "provider_documentation" } + @findings.add("#{label}: requires provider documentation; engineering sources are informative") + end + if GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::MUTATING_EFFECTS.include?(row["effect"]) + @findings.add("#{label}: mutation cannot use approval none") if row["approval"] == "none" + @findings.add("#{label}: mutation requires rollback or irreversibility text") if row["rollback"].to_s.empty? || row["rollback"] == "Not applicable" + end + if row["effect"] == "mutate_high_impact" && !%w[exact human_only].include?(row["approval"]) + @findings.add("#{label}: high-impact mutation requires exact or human_only approval") + end + end + + semantics.each_value do |row| + label = "#{integration}/data-semantics.yaml: #{row['id']}" + unknown = row.keys - %w[id name definition cautions sources] + @findings.add("#{label}: unknown fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + %w[name definition].each { |field| @findings.add("#{label}: missing #{field}") if row[field].to_s.empty? } + @findings.add("#{label}: cautions must be non-empty") unless non_empty_array?(row["cautions"]) + @findings.add("#{label}: sources must be non-empty") unless non_empty_array?(row["sources"]) + Array(row["sources"]).each do |id| + @findings.add("#{label}: unknown source #{id}") unless sources.key?(id) + @provider_used_sources[integration] << id + end + end + + covered = [] + coverage.each_value do |row| + label = "#{integration}/sources.yaml: coverage #{row['surface']}" + unknown = row.keys - %w[surface classification capabilities sources rationale] + @findings.add("#{label}: unknown fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + @findings.add("#{label}: invalid classification #{row['classification']}") unless GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::CLASSIFICATIONS.include?(row["classification"]) + @findings.add("#{label}: sources must be non-empty") unless non_empty_array?(row["sources"]) + if %w[adjacent legacy excluded].include?(row["classification"]) && row["rationale"].to_s.empty? + @findings.add("#{label}: #{row['classification']} surface requires rationale") + elsif row["classification"] == "mapped" && !non_empty_array?(row["capabilities"]) + @findings.add("#{label}: mapped surface requires capabilities") + end + Array(row["capabilities"]).each do |id| + @findings.add("#{label}: unknown capability #{id}") unless capabilities.key?(id) + covered << id + end + Array(row["sources"]).each do |id| + @findings.add("#{label}: unknown source #{id}") unless sources.key?(id) + @provider_used_sources[integration] << id + end + end + (capabilities.keys - covered.uniq).each { |id| @findings.add("#{integration}/sources.yaml: zero-gap ledger does not classify capability #{id}") } + @provider_capabilities[integration] = capabilities + @provider_mutations[integration] = capabilities.values.select { |row| GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::ROUTED_EFFECTS.include?(row["effect"]) }.map { |row| row["id"] } + rescue JSON::ParserError => e + @findings.add("schema/integration-capability.schema.json: invalid JSON (#{e.message.lines.first.to_s.strip})") + rescue JsonSchema::UnsupportedKeyword => e + @findings.add("schema/integration-capability.schema.json: #{e.message}") + end + + def check_provider_workflows(entry, workflows, sources) + workflows.each_value do |row| + prefix = "#{entry[:integration]}/workflows.yaml: #{row['id']}" + unknown = row.keys - WORKFLOW_FIELDS + @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + %w[name trigger].each { |field| @findings.add("#{prefix}: missing #{field}") if row[field].to_s.empty? } + required_lists = %w[steps stop_conditions outputs] + required_lists << "sources" unless entry[:integration] == GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::INTEGRATION + required_lists << "capabilities" if @provider_capabilities.key?(entry[:integration]) + required_lists.each { |field| @findings.add("#{prefix}: #{field} must be non-empty") unless non_empty_array?(row[field]) } + Array(row["sources"]).each { |id| @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown source #{id}") unless sources.key?(id) } + Array(row["sources"]).each { |id| @provider_used_sources[entry[:integration]] << id } + unless entry[:integration] == GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::INTEGRATION + Array(row["capabilities"]).each do |id| + @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown capability #{id}") unless @provider_capabilities.fetch(entry[:integration], {}).key?(id) + @provider_routed[entry[:integration]] << id + @provider_workflow_routed[entry[:integration]] << id + end + end + end + end + + def check_provider_evaluations(entry, evaluations, workflows, sources) + evaluations.each_value do |row| + prefix = "#{entry[:integration]}/evaluations.yaml: #{row['id']}" + unknown = row.keys - EVALUATION_FIELDS + @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown fields #{unknown.join(', ')}") unless unknown.empty? + %w[scenario expected prohibited].each { |field| @findings.add("#{prefix}: missing #{field}") if row[field].to_s.empty? } + @findings.add("#{prefix}: evidence must be non-empty") unless non_empty_array?(row["evidence"]) + unless entry[:integration] == GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::INTEGRATION + @findings.add("#{prefix}: sources must be non-empty") unless non_empty_array?(row["sources"]) + end + if @provider_capabilities.key?(entry[:integration]) && !non_empty_array?(row["capabilities"]) + @findings.add("#{prefix}: capabilities must be non-empty") + end + @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown workflow #{row['workflow']}") unless workflows.key?(row["workflow"]) + Array(row["sources"]).each { |id| @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown source #{id}") unless sources.key?(id) } + Array(row["sources"]).each { |id| @provider_used_sources[entry[:integration]] << id } + unless entry[:integration] == GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::INTEGRATION + Array(row["capabilities"]).each do |id| + @findings.add("#{prefix}: unknown capability #{id}") unless @provider_capabilities.fetch(entry[:integration], {}).key?(id) + @provider_routed[entry[:integration]] << id + @provider_evaluation_routed[entry[:integration]] << id + end + end + end + return if entry[:integration] == GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::INTEGRATION + + integration = entry[:integration] + @provider_capabilities.fetch(integration, {}).each_key do |id| + @findings.add("#{integration}/capabilities.yaml: capability #{id} is not routed through a workflow") unless @provider_workflow_routed[integration].include?(id) + @findings.add("#{integration}/capabilities.yaml: capability #{id} is not routed through an evaluation") unless @provider_evaluation_routed[integration].include?(id) + end + Array(@provider_mutations[integration]).each do |id| + @findings.add("#{integration}/capabilities.yaml: mutation #{id} is not routed through a workflow or evaluation") unless @provider_routed[integration].include?(id) + end + if Array(entry[:document]["features"]).include?("source_usage") + unused = sources.keys - @provider_used_sources[integration].uniq + unused.each { |id| @findings.add("#{integration}/sources.yaml: source #{id} is not used") } + end + end + + def non_empty_array?(value) = value.is_a?(Array) && !value.empty? + end +end diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/json_schema.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/json_schema.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f4b4cd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/json_schema.rb @@ -0,0 +1,314 @@ +# frozen_string_literal: true + +require "date" +require "json" +require "time" + +module Standards + # A JSON Schema draft 2020-12 validator covering the keyword subset the + # schemas in schema/ actually use. + # + # Why this exists: the schemas were only JSON.parse'd. Nothing ever applied + # them to a document, so every constraint they expressed was decorative and + # free to drift away from the handwritten Ruby checks. This makes them real + # without adding a runtime gem dependency. + # + # Deliberate deviations from the specification, both of which make the + # validator stricter than a conforming implementation rather than looser: + # + # * `format` is asserted, not annotated. Draft 2020-12 moved `format` to the + # format-annotation vocabulary, where it carries no assertion unless the + # format-assertion vocabulary is in use. These schemas rely on `date` and + # `date-time` being checked, and the handwritten validator has always + # checked them, so this implementation asserts both. + # * Unknown keywords raise UnsupportedKeyword instead of being ignored. A + # conforming implementation ignores what it does not recognise, which would + # let someone add a constraint to a schema that silently does nothing. Here + # an unimplemented keyword fails loudly the first time it is used. + module JsonSchema + # Raised when a schema uses a keyword this subset does not implement. + class UnsupportedKeyword < StandardError; end + + # Keywords that carry no assertion and are safe to skip. + ANNOTATIONS = %w[$schema $id $anchor $comment title description default examples deprecated readOnly writeOnly].freeze + + # Keywords this validator asserts. + ASSERTIONS = %w[ + type const enum required properties additionalProperties + items minItems maxItems uniqueItems + minLength maxLength pattern format + minimum maximum exclusiveMinimum exclusiveMaximum multipleOf + allOf anyOf oneOf not if then else + $ref $defs + ].freeze + + TYPES = { + "object" => Hash, + "array" => Array, + "string" => String, + "boolean" => [TrueClass, FalseClass], + "null" => NilClass + }.freeze + + # Validates +instance+ against +schema+ and returns an Array of messages. + # An empty Array means the instance conforms. + # + # +instance+ is normalised first so YAML Date and Time values compare as the + # ISO 8601 strings the schemas describe. + def self.validate(instance, schema, label: "") + errors = [] + validate_node(normalize(instance), schema, schema, label, errors) + errors + end + + # Converts a YAML-loaded structure into its JSON data model equivalent. + # DateTime is checked before Date because DateTime is a subclass of Date and + # would otherwise lose its time component. + def self.normalize(value) + case value + when DateTime then value.iso8601 + when Date then value.to_s + when Time then value.utc.iso8601 + when Hash then value.each_with_object({}) { |(key, nested), result| result[key.to_s] = normalize(nested) } + when Array then value.map { |nested| normalize(nested) } + else value + end + end + + def self.validate_node(instance, schema, root, path, errors) + # A boolean schema accepts everything (true) or nothing (false). + case schema + when true then return + when false + errors << "#{location(path)}: no value is allowed here" + return + end + + unless schema.is_a?(Hash) + raise UnsupportedKeyword, "schema at #{location(path)} must be an object or boolean" + end + + unknown = schema.keys - ANNOTATIONS - ASSERTIONS + raise UnsupportedKeyword, "unsupported JSON Schema keyword(s) #{unknown.join(', ')} at #{location(path)}" unless unknown.empty? + + if schema.key?("$ref") + validate_node(instance, resolve_ref(schema["$ref"], root), root, path, errors) + # 2020-12 allows siblings of $ref; the schemas here never use them, and + # the keyword loop below still runs so any that appear are applied. + end + + check_type(instance, schema, path, errors) + check_enumerations(instance, schema, path, errors) + check_string(instance, schema, path, errors) + check_number(instance, schema, path, errors) + check_array(instance, schema, root, path, errors) + check_object(instance, schema, root, path, errors) + check_combinators(instance, schema, root, path, errors) + end + + def self.check_type(instance, schema, path, errors) + expected = schema["type"] + return if expected.nil? + + types = Array(expected) + return if types.any? { |type| type?(instance, type) } + + errors << "#{location(path)}: expected #{types.join(' or ')}, got #{describe(instance)}" + end + + def self.type?(instance, type) + case type + when "integer" then instance.is_a?(Integer) + when "number" then instance.is_a?(Numeric) && !instance.is_a?(TrueClass) + else + expected = TYPES.fetch(type) { raise UnsupportedKeyword, "unsupported JSON Schema type #{type.inspect}" } + Array(expected).any? { |klass| instance.is_a?(klass) } + end + end + + def self.check_enumerations(instance, schema, path, errors) + if schema.key?("const") && instance != schema["const"] + errors << "#{location(path)}: must be #{schema['const'].inspect}, got #{instance.inspect}" + end + + return unless schema.key?("enum") + return if schema["enum"].include?(instance) + + errors << "#{location(path)}: #{instance.inspect} is not one of #{schema['enum'].map(&:inspect).join(', ')}" + end + + def self.check_string(instance, schema, path, errors) + return unless instance.is_a?(String) + + minimum = schema["minLength"] + maximum = schema["maxLength"] + errors << "#{location(path)}: must be at least #{minimum} characters" if minimum && instance.length < minimum + errors << "#{location(path)}: must be at most #{maximum} characters" if maximum && instance.length > maximum + + if (pattern = schema["pattern"]) && !Regexp.new(pattern).match?(instance) + errors << "#{location(path)}: #{instance.inspect} does not match #{pattern}" + end + + check_format(instance, schema["format"], path, errors) if schema["format"] + end + + def self.check_format(instance, format, path, errors) + case format + when "date" + Date.iso8601(instance) + # Date.iso8601 accepts week and ordinal dates; the schemas mean calendar + # dates, which is what every consumer of these fields parses. + unless instance.match?(/\A\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\z/) + errors << "#{location(path)}: #{instance.inspect} is not an ISO 8601 calendar date" + end + when "date-time" + Time.iso8601(instance) + when "uri" + errors << "#{location(path)}: #{instance.inspect} is not an absolute URI" unless instance.match?(%r{\A[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:}i) + else + raise UnsupportedKeyword, "unsupported JSON Schema format #{format.inspect} at #{location(path)}" + end + rescue ArgumentError + errors << "#{location(path)}: #{instance.inspect} is not an ISO 8601 #{format}" + end + + def self.check_number(instance, schema, path, errors) + return unless instance.is_a?(Numeric) && !instance.is_a?(TrueClass) + + errors << "#{location(path)}: must be >= #{schema['minimum']}" if schema["minimum"] && instance < schema["minimum"] + errors << "#{location(path)}: must be <= #{schema['maximum']}" if schema["maximum"] && instance > schema["maximum"] + errors << "#{location(path)}: must be > #{schema['exclusiveMinimum']}" if schema["exclusiveMinimum"] && instance <= schema["exclusiveMinimum"] + errors << "#{location(path)}: must be < #{schema['exclusiveMaximum']}" if schema["exclusiveMaximum"] && instance >= schema["exclusiveMaximum"] + if (step = schema["multipleOf"]) && (instance % step) != 0 + errors << "#{location(path)}: must be a multiple of #{step}" + end + end + + def self.check_array(instance, schema, root, path, errors) + return unless instance.is_a?(Array) + + minimum = schema["minItems"] + maximum = schema["maxItems"] + errors << "#{location(path)}: must have at least #{minimum} item(s), got #{instance.length}" if minimum && instance.length < minimum + errors << "#{location(path)}: must have at most #{maximum} item(s), got #{instance.length}" if maximum && instance.length > maximum + + if schema["uniqueItems"] && instance.length != instance.uniq.length + duplicates = instance.tally.select { |_item, count| count > 1 }.keys + errors << "#{location(path)}: items must be unique, repeated #{duplicates.map(&:inspect).join(', ')}" + end + + return unless schema.key?("items") + + instance.each_with_index do |item, index| + validate_node(item, schema["items"], root, "#{path}[#{index}]", errors) + end + end + + def self.check_object(instance, schema, root, path, errors) + return unless instance.is_a?(Hash) + + Array(schema["required"]).each do |key| + errors << "#{location(path)}: missing required property #{key}" unless instance.key?(key) + end + + properties = schema["properties"] || {} + properties.each do |key, subschema| + next unless instance.key?(key) + + validate_node(instance[key], subschema, root, path.empty? ? key : "#{path}.#{key}", errors) + end + + return unless schema.key?("additionalProperties") + + extra = instance.keys - properties.keys + return if extra.empty? + + if schema["additionalProperties"] == false + errors << "#{location(path)}: unknown propert#{extra.length == 1 ? 'y' : 'ies'} #{extra.sort.join(', ')}" + else + extra.each do |key| + validate_node(instance[key], schema["additionalProperties"], root, path.empty? ? key : "#{path}.#{key}", errors) + end + end + end + + def self.check_combinators(instance, schema, root, path, errors) + Array(schema["allOf"]).each do |subschema| + validate_node(instance, subschema, root, path, errors) + end + + if schema.key?("anyOf") + branches = schema["anyOf"].map { |subschema| collect(instance, subschema, root, path) } + if branches.none?(&:empty?) + errors << "#{location(path)}: does not match any allowed variant (#{branches.flatten.uniq.join('; ')})" + end + end + + if schema.key?("oneOf") + branches = schema["oneOf"].map { |subschema| collect(instance, subschema, root, path) } + matched = branches.count(&:empty?) + if matched.zero? + errors << "#{location(path)}: does not match any allowed variant (#{branches.flatten.uniq.join('; ')})" + elsif matched > 1 + errors << "#{location(path)}: matches #{matched} variants but must match exactly one" + end + end + + if schema.key?("not") && collect(instance, schema["not"], root, path).empty? + errors << "#{location(path)}: must not match the excluded schema" + end + + return unless schema.key?("if") + + if collect(instance, schema["if"], root, path).empty? + validate_node(instance, schema["then"], root, path, errors) if schema.key?("then") + elsif schema.key?("else") + validate_node(instance, schema["else"], root, path, errors) + end + end + + # Runs a subschema for its result without contributing to the caller's + # errors, which is what the combinators need to test a branch. + def self.collect(instance, schema, root, path) + branch = [] + validate_node(instance, schema, root, path, branch) + branch + end + + def self.resolve_ref(reference, root) + unless reference.start_with?("#/") + raise UnsupportedKeyword, "only local JSON pointer references are supported, got #{reference.inspect}" + end + + reference.delete_prefix("#/").split("/").reduce(root) do |node, token| + key = token.gsub("~1", "/").gsub("~0", "~") + unless node.is_a?(Hash) && node.key?(key) + raise UnsupportedKeyword, "unresolvable reference #{reference.inspect}" + end + + node[key] + end + end + + def self.location(path) + path.empty? ? "(root)" : path + end + + def self.describe(instance) + case instance + when nil then "null" + when true, false then "boolean" + when Integer then "integer" + when Numeric then "number" + when String then "string" + when Array then "array" + when Hash then "object" + else instance.class.name + end + end + + private_class_method :validate_node, :check_type, :type?, :check_enumerations, :check_string, + :check_format, :check_number, :check_array, :check_object, + :check_combinators, :collect, :resolve_ref, :location, :describe + end +end diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/paths.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/paths.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30dea8c --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/paths.rb @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +# frozen_string_literal: true + +module Standards + # Path handling for a validator rooted at a single bundle directory. + # + # Two problems this exists to solve: + # + # 1. Dir.glob treats its pattern as a pattern all the way down, so a checkout + # under a directory containing "[", "{", "*" or "?" silently matched + # nothing and the bundle validated as empty while still exiting 0. Globs + # here always pass the root through `base:`, which is taken literally. + # 2. Nothing confirmed that a resolved path stayed inside the bundle, so a + # catalog entry or Markdown link could point at a file outside the + # repository and be accepted as long as it existed on the host. + module Paths + # Expands +relative+ against +root+ without letting the result escape it. + # Returns nil when the result would land outside the bundle. + def self.resolve(root, relative) + candidate = File.expand_path(File.join(root, relative.to_s)) + contained?(root, candidate) ? candidate : nil + end + + # True when +candidate+ is +root+ itself or sits beneath it. + # + # Both sides are resolved through their symlinks before comparison, so a + # symlink inside the bundle pointing outside it is correctly rejected. + # Resolving the root as well is what keeps checkouts reached through a + # symlinked parent working -- on macOS /tmp is itself a link to + # /private/tmp, and resolving only one side would reject every path. + # + # Resolution stops at the deepest existing ancestor, because callers ask + # about paths that do not exist yet (a catalog entry naming a missing file, + # a broken Markdown link). Those keep their unresolved tail, which cannot + # contain a symlink precisely because it does not exist. + def self.contained?(root, candidate) + base = real_path(root) + expanded = real_path(candidate) + expanded == base || expanded.start_with?(base + File::SEPARATOR) + end + + # File.realpath for the part of +path+ that exists, with the rest appended. + def self.real_path(path) + expanded = File.expand_path(path) + existing = expanded + tail = [] + + until File.exist?(existing) + parent = File.dirname(existing) + break if parent == existing # reached the filesystem root + + tail.unshift(File.basename(existing)) + existing = parent + end + + resolved = File.realpath(existing) + tail.empty? ? resolved : File.join(resolved, *tail) + rescue SystemCallError + # An unreadable or looping symlink cannot be shown to be inside the + # bundle, so fall back to the textual form and let the caller reject it. + File.expand_path(path) + end + + # Path of +absolute+ as written in validator messages: relative to the + # bundle root, or the untouched absolute path when it lies outside. + # + # Resolves the same way contained? does, so the prefix it strips is the one + # contained? matched on. + def self.relative(root, absolute) + return File.expand_path(absolute) unless contained?(root, absolute) + + base = real_path(root) + expanded = real_path(absolute) + expanded == base ? "." : expanded.delete_prefix(base + File::SEPARATOR) + end + + # Sorted, root-relative glob results. + # + # +pattern+ is relative to +root+ and is the only part treated as a pattern. + # Sorting makes message order independent of filesystem enumeration order, + # which differs between APFS and ext4. + def self.glob(root, pattern) + Dir.glob(pattern, base: root).sort + end + + # Sorted absolute paths for +pattern+ under +root+. + def self.glob_absolute(root, pattern) + glob(root, pattern).map { |entry| File.join(root, entry) } + end + end +end diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/test_support.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/test_support.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e8bbbd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/test_support.rb @@ -0,0 +1,245 @@ +# frozen_string_literal: true + +require "date" +require "fileutils" +require "open3" +require "rbconfig" +require "tmpdir" +require "yaml" + +require_relative "document" + +module Standards + # Shared harness for the validator test suites. + # + # Both suites previously carried their own copies of replace_once, + # assert_rejected, and the case registry, and both mutated fixtures by + # substituting exact strings -- review dates, generated timestamps, and + # sentences lifted out of capability prose. Any ordinary content edit broke + # tests that had nothing to do with the change. The helpers here edit YAML + # and front matter structurally, so a case survives content edits and fails + # only when the rule it covers stops working. + module TestSupport + REPOSITORY_ROOT = File.expand_path("../../..", __dir__) + + # Raised when a fixture mutation cannot be applied, which means the test is + # out of date rather than the validator being wrong. + class FixtureError < StandardError; end + + # A registered set of validator invocations and their expected outcomes. + class Suite + Result = Struct.new(:stdout, :stderr, :status, keyword_init: true) do + def output + "#{stdout}\n#{stderr}" + end + + def success? + status.success? + end + + def code + status.exitstatus + end + end + + attr_reader :cases + + # +validator+ is the script under test; +root_env+ is the environment + # variable it reads its bundle root from. + def initialize(name, validator:, root_env:, prepare:) + @name = name + @validator = File.join(REPOSITORY_ROOT, "scripts", validator) + @root_env = root_env + @prepare = prepare + @cases = [] + end + + # Registers a case expecting a non-zero exit and +expected+ in the output. + def rejects(name, expected, argv: [], &mutation) + @cases << { name: name, expect: :reject, expected: Array(expected), argv: argv, mutation: mutation } + end + + # Registers a case expecting exit 0 and +expected+ in the output. Positive + # cases matter as much as negative ones: they catch a validator that has + # started rejecting valid input, which no rejection case can detect. + def accepts(name, expected = nil, argv: [], &mutation) + @cases << { name: name, expect: :accept, expected: Array(expected), argv: argv, mutation: mutation } + end + + # Registers a case expecting the usage exit status (2). + def rejects_usage(name, expected, argv) + @cases << { name: name, expect: :usage, expected: Array(expected), argv: argv, mutation: nil } + end + + # Registers a case that must exit 0 and must NOT contain +forbidden+. + def accepts_without(name, forbidden, argv: [], &mutation) + @cases << { name: name, expect: :accept, expected: [], forbidden: Array(forbidden), argv: argv, mutation: mutation } + end + + def run(io: $stdout) + failures = @cases.filter_map { |test_case| failure_for(test_case) } + + unless failures.empty? + failures.each { |message| warn message } + warn "#{@name}: #{failures.length} of #{@cases.length} cases failed" + return false + end + + io.puts "#{@name}: #{@cases.length} cases" + true + end + + private + + def failure_for(test_case) + result = nil + Dir.mktmpdir("standards-validator-") do |root| + @prepare.call(root) + test_case[:mutation]&.call(root) + result = invoke(root, test_case.fetch(:argv, [])) + end + + check(test_case, result) + rescue FixtureError => e + "#{test_case[:name]}: #{e.message}" + end + + def check(test_case, result) + case test_case[:expect] + when :reject + return "#{test_case[:name]}: validator unexpectedly passed" if result.success? + return "#{test_case[:name]}: expected exit 1, got #{result.code}" unless result.code == 1 + when :usage + return "#{test_case[:name]}: expected usage exit 2, got #{result.code}" unless result.code == 2 + when :accept + unless result.success? + return "#{test_case[:name]}: validator unexpectedly failed with #{result.output.strip.inspect}" + end + end + + present = Array(test_case[:forbidden]).select { |fragment| result.output.include?(fragment) } + unless present.empty? + return "#{test_case[:name]}: unexpected #{present.map(&:inspect).join(', ')} in #{result.output.strip.inspect}" + end + + missing = test_case[:expected].reject { |fragment| result.output.include?(fragment) } + return nil if missing.empty? + + "#{test_case[:name]}: expected #{missing.map(&:inspect).join(', ')} in #{result.output.strip.inspect}" + end + + def invoke(root, argv) + stdout, stderr, status = Open3.capture3( + { @root_env => root }, + RbConfig.ruby, + @validator, + *argv + ) + Result.new(stdout: stdout, stderr: stderr, status: status) + end + end + + # -- fixture preparation ------------------------------------------------- + + # Copies the working tree, minus .git, into +target+. + def self.copy_repository(target) + Dir.children(REPOSITORY_ROOT).each do |name| + next if name == ".git" + + FileUtils.cp_r(File.join(REPOSITORY_ROOT, name), File.join(target, name)) + end + end + + # Copies only what the integration validator reads. + def self.copy_integration_bundle(target) + integrations = File.join(target, "integrations") + FileUtils.mkdir_p(integrations) + FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.join(target, "schema")) + Dir.glob(File.join(REPOSITORY_ROOT, "integrations", "*", "manifest.yaml")).sort.each do |manifest| + source = File.dirname(manifest) + FileUtils.cp_r(source, File.join(integrations, File.basename(source))) + end + %w[integration-capability.schema.json integration-manifest.schema.json].each do |name| + FileUtils.cp(File.join(REPOSITORY_ROOT, "schema", name), File.join(target, "schema")) + end + end + + # -- fixture mutation ---------------------------------------------------- + + # An independent copy of a parsed YAML structure. + # + # Hash#dup is shallow, so appending a shallow copy makes the two rows share + # their nested objects and Psych serialises the second one as a YAML alias. + # The validators disable aliases, so such a fixture fails on the alias + # instead of on the duplicate the case is about. + def self.deep_copy(value) + Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(value)) + end + + # Loads a YAML file, yields the parsed structure for mutation, and writes it + # back. Structural editing keeps a case independent of the file's current + # dates, ordering, and formatting. + def self.edit_yaml(path) + document = YAML.safe_load(File.read(path), permitted_classes: [Date, Time], aliases: false) + raise FixtureError, "#{path} is not a YAML mapping" unless document.is_a?(Hash) + + yield(document) + File.write(path, document.to_yaml) + document + end + + # Rewrites only the YAML front matter of a Markdown file, leaving the body + # untouched. + def self.edit_front_matter(path) + content = File.read(path) + raw = content[Document::FRONT_MATTER, 1] + raise FixtureError, "#{path} has no YAML front matter" if raw.nil? + + metadata = YAML.safe_load(raw, permitted_classes: [Date, Time], aliases: false) + raise FixtureError, "#{path} front matter is not a mapping" unless metadata.is_a?(Hash) + + yield(metadata) + body = content.sub(Document::FRONT_MATTER, "") + File.write(path, "#{metadata.to_yaml}---\n#{body}") + end + + # Replaces the whole front-matter block with literal text, for cases that + # are about malformed YAML and cannot be expressed structurally. + def self.replace_front_matter(path, raw) + content = File.read(path) + raise FixtureError, "#{path} has no YAML front matter" unless content.match?(Document::FRONT_MATTER) + + File.write(path, content.sub(Document::FRONT_MATTER, "---\n#{raw}\n---\n")) + end + + # Appends a raw line inside an existing front-matter block. Used only for + # duplicate-key cases, which have no structural representation because + # Psych keeps just the last value. + def self.append_front_matter_line(path, line) + content = File.read(path) + raw = content[Document::FRONT_MATTER, 1] + raise FixtureError, "#{path} has no YAML front matter" if raw.nil? + + File.write(path, content.sub(Document::FRONT_MATTER, "---\n#{raw}\n#{line}\n---\n")) + end + + # The first governed entry of a catalog section, so cases refer to "some + # foundation" rather than naming one that may later move or be retired. + def self.first_entry(root, section) + catalog = YAML.safe_load(File.read(File.join(root, "catalog.yaml")), permitted_classes: [Date], aliases: false) + entry = Array(catalog[section]).find { |row| row.is_a?(Hash) && row["path"] } + raise FixtureError, "catalog.yaml has no usable #{section} entry" if entry.nil? + + entry + end + + # A capability row matching +predicate+, addressed by role rather than by ID. + def self.find_row(path, key, &predicate) + document = YAML.safe_load(File.read(path), permitted_classes: [Date], aliases: false) + row = Array(document[key]).find(&predicate) + raise FixtureError, "#{path} has no #{key} row matching the test's criteria" if row.nil? + + row + end + end +end diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/testing_reference_validator.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/testing_reference_validator.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..19f6d9d --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/testing_reference_validator.rb @@ -0,0 +1,297 @@ +# frozen_string_literal: true + +require "set" + +require_relative "findings" +require_relative "paths" +require_relative "yaml_source" + +module Standards + # Validates the machine-readable testing routes against the authoritative + # standard and the human reference artifacts. The reference may summarize a + # rule, but it may not invent an ID, lose a rule, or point to a stale heading. + class TestingReferenceValidator + REQUIRED_DOCUMENTS = %w[field_guide recipes templates examples].freeze + REQUIRED_ROUTE_KEYS = %w[version updated standard profile documents rule_index stages test_types situations].freeze + RULE_PATTERN = /^### (ENGINEERING-TESTING-\d{3})\s+—\s+.+$/ + RULE_REFERENCE_PATTERN = /ENGINEERING-TESTING-\d{3}/ + ABBREVIATED_RULE_REFERENCE_PATTERN = /`-\d{3}`/ + SLUG_PATTERN = /^[a-z0-9]+(?:-[a-z0-9]+)*$/ + + attr_reader :findings, :rule_count, :test_type_count, :situation_count + + def initialize(root) + @root = File.expand_path(root) + @findings = Findings.new + @rule_count = 0 + @test_type_count = 0 + @situation_count = 0 + end + + def run + @routes = YamlSource.load_file(route_path, "testing/routes.yaml", findings, permitted_classes: [Date]) + check_header + load_standard_rules + load_documents + check_rule_index + check_stage_definitions + check_test_types + check_situations + check_reference_rule_ids + self + end + + def valid? + findings.empty? + end + + def summary + "Testing reference valid: #{rule_count} rules, #{test_type_count} test types, #{situation_count} situations" + end + + private + + def route_path + File.join(@root, "testing", "routes.yaml") + end + + def check_header + REQUIRED_ROUTE_KEYS.each do |key| + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: missing #{key}") unless @routes.key?(key) + end + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: version must be 1") unless @routes["version"] == 1 + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: updated must be an ISO 8601 date") unless @routes["updated"].is_a?(Date) + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: standard must be ENGINEERING-TESTING") unless @routes["standard"] == "ENGINEERING-TESTING" + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: profile must be PROFILE-SOFTWARE-CHANGE") unless @routes["profile"] == "PROFILE-SOFTWARE-CHANGE" + catalog = YamlSource.load_file(File.join(@root, "catalog.yaml"), "catalog.yaml", findings, permitted_classes: [Date]) + unless catalog.dig("reference_routes", "testing") == "testing/routes.yaml" + findings.add("catalog.yaml: reference_routes.testing must be testing/routes.yaml") + end + end + + def load_standard_rules + path = File.join(@root, "engineering", "testing.md") + unless File.file?(path) + findings.add("Missing engineering/testing.md") + @rules = Set.new + return + end + content = File.read(path) + @rules = content.lines.filter_map { |line| line.match(RULE_PATTERN)&.[](1) }.to_set + taxonomy = content[/Use the following primary meanings consistently:(.*?)\n\nA check may support/m, 1].to_s + @standard_test_types = taxonomy.lines.filter_map do |line| + name = line[/^\| ([^|]+) \|/, 1]&.strip + slugify(name) unless name.nil? || %w[Layer ---].include?(name) + end.to_set + @rule_count = @rules.length + findings.add("engineering/testing.md: no ENGINEERING-TESTING rules found") if @rules.empty? + findings.add("engineering/testing.md: no test taxonomy found") if @standard_test_types.empty? + end + + def load_documents + @document_paths = {} + @anchors = {} + documents = @routes["documents"] + unless documents.is_a?(Hash) + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: documents must be a mapping") + return + end + + REQUIRED_DOCUMENTS.each do |name| + relative = documents[name] + if relative.to_s.empty? + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: documents.#{name} is required") + next + end + unless relative.is_a?(String) + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: documents.#{name} must be a path string") + next + end + path = Paths.resolve(@root, relative) + if path.nil? + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: documents.#{name} escapes the bundle root") + elsif !File.file?(path) + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: missing document #{relative}") + else + @document_paths[name] = path + @anchors[relative] = markdown_anchors(path) + end + end + + values = documents.values.select { |value| value.is_a?(String) } + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: document paths must be unique") unless values.uniq.length == values.length + end + + def markdown_anchors(path) + anchors = File.readlines(path).filter_map do |line| + heading = line[/^\#{1,6}\s+(.+?)\s*$/, 1] + slugify(heading) unless heading.nil? + end + anchors.tally.each do |anchor, count| + findings.add("#{path.delete_prefix("#{@root}/")}: duplicate heading anchor ##{anchor}") if count > 1 + end + findings.add("#{path.delete_prefix("#{@root}/")}: heading produces an empty anchor") if anchors.include?("") + anchors.to_set + end + + def slugify(text) + text.downcase + .gsub(/`[^`]*`/, "") + .gsub(/[^a-z0-9\s-]/, "") + .strip + .gsub(/\s+/, "-") + .gsub(/-+/, "-") + end + + def check_rule_index + index = @routes["rule_index"] + unless index.is_a?(Hash) + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: rule_index must be a mapping") + return + end + + indexed = index.keys.map(&:to_s).to_set + (@rules - indexed).sort.each { |rule| findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: rule_index missing #{rule}") } + (indexed - @rules).sort.each { |rule| findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: rule_index references unknown rule #{rule}") } + + index.each do |rule, target| + normalized_rule = rule.to_s + check_rule(normalized_rule, "rule_index") + check_target(target, "rule_index.#{normalized_rule}") + end + end + + def check_target(target, label) + relative, anchor = target.to_s.split("#", 2) + path = Paths.resolve(@root, relative) + if path.nil? + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: #{label} escapes the bundle root") + elsif !File.file?(path) + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: #{label} references missing #{relative}") + elsif anchor.to_s.empty? + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: #{label} requires a heading anchor") + elsif !anchor.match?(SLUG_PATTERN) + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: #{label} has invalid anchor #{anchor.inspect}") + else + @anchors[relative] ||= markdown_anchors(path) + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: #{label} references missing anchor ##{anchor}") unless @anchors[relative].include?(anchor) + end + end + + def check_test_types + rows = @routes["test_types"] + unless rows.is_a?(Hash) && !rows.empty? + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: test_types must be a non-empty mapping") + return + end + @test_type_count = rows.length + missing = @standard_test_types - rows.keys.map(&:to_s).to_set + missing.sort.each { |name| findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: test_types missing standard taxonomy type #{name}") } + rows.each do |name, row| + check_route_name(name, "test_types") + check_route_row(row, "test_types.#{name}", require_recipe: false) + end + end + + def check_situations + rows = @routes["situations"] + unless rows.is_a?(Hash) && !rows.empty? + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: situations must be a non-empty mapping") + return + end + @situation_count = rows.length + rows.each do |name, row| + check_route_name(name, "situations") + check_route_row(row, "situations.#{name}", require_recipe: true) + next unless row.is_a?(Hash) + + recipe = row["recipe"].to_s + check_named_anchor("recipes", recipe, "situations.#{name}.recipe") + templates = row["templates"] + unless templates.is_a?(Array) && !templates.empty? + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: situations.#{name}.templates must be a non-empty list") + next + end + check_unique_list(templates, "situations.#{name}.templates") + templates.each do |template| + check_named_anchor("templates", template.to_s, "situations.#{name}.templates") + end + end + end + + def check_stage_definitions + stages = @routes["stages"] + unless stages.is_a?(Array) && !stages.empty? + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: stages must be a non-empty list") + return + end + check_unique_list(stages, "stages") + stages.each do |stage| + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: invalid stage #{stage.inspect}") unless stage.to_s.match?(SLUG_PATTERN) + end + end + + def check_route_row(row, label, require_recipe:) + unless row.is_a?(Hash) + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: #{label} must be a mapping") + return + end + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: #{label}.recipe is required") if require_recipe && row["recipe"].to_s.empty? + + rules = row["rules"] + if !rules.is_a?(Array) || rules.empty? + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: #{label}.rules must be a non-empty list") + else + check_unique_list(rules, "#{label}.rules") + rules.each { |rule| check_rule(rule, "#{label}.rules") } + end + + stages = row["stages"] + return if stages.nil? + unless stages.is_a?(Array) && !stages.empty? + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: #{label}.stages must be a non-empty list") + return + end + check_unique_list(stages, "#{label}.stages") + allowed = Array(@routes["stages"]) + stages.each do |stage| + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: #{label}.stages references unknown stage #{stage}") unless allowed.include?(stage) + end + end + + def check_route_name(name, section) + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: #{section} has invalid key #{name.inspect}") unless name.to_s.match?(SLUG_PATTERN) + end + + def check_unique_list(values, label) + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: #{label} must not contain duplicates") unless values.uniq.length == values.length + end + + def check_named_anchor(document_name, anchor, label) + path = @document_paths[document_name] + return if path.nil? + unless anchor.match?(SLUG_PATTERN) + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: #{label} has invalid anchor #{anchor.inspect}") + return + end + relative = @routes.dig("documents", document_name) + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: #{label} references missing anchor ##{anchor}") unless @anchors.fetch(relative, Set.new).include?(anchor) + end + + def check_rule(rule, label) + findings.add("testing/routes.yaml: #{label} references unknown rule #{rule}") unless @rules.include?(rule) + end + + def check_reference_rule_ids + @document_paths.each_value do |path| + content = File.read(path) + content.scan(RULE_REFERENCE_PATTERN).uniq.each do |rule| + findings.add("#{path.delete_prefix("#{@root}/")}: references unknown rule #{rule}") unless @rules.include?(rule) + end + content.scan(ABBREVIATED_RULE_REFERENCE_PATTERN).uniq.each do |rule| + findings.add("#{path.delete_prefix("#{@root}/")}: abbreviated rule reference #{rule} is not allowed") + end + end + end + end +end diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/yaml_source.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/yaml_source.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ffed53 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/lib/standards/yaml_source.rb @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +# frozen_string_literal: true + +require "date" +require "time" +require "yaml" + +module Standards + # Safe YAML loading for validator input. + # + # Every load here goes through Psych.safe_load with aliases disabled and an + # explicit permitted-class list, per the Psych documentation's guidance that + # Psych.load and Psych.unsafe_load must never see untrusted input. Anything + # Psych rejects (syntax errors, disallowed classes, aliases) arrives as a + # Psych::Exception and is turned into a validation message rather than a + # stack trace. + module YamlSource + # Front matter and data files legitimately carry ISO dates and timestamps. + # Psych builds Date for `2026-08-16` and Time for `2026-08-16T23:26:21Z`. + PERMITTED_CLASSES = [Date, Time].freeze + MAX_DEPTH = 100 + MAX_NODES = 100_000 + + # Reports every duplicate mapping key in a parsed node tree. + # + # YAML itself allows duplicate keys and Psych silently keeps the last one, + # so a typo can drop a rule without any parser complaint. This walks the + # node tree, which is the only place the duplicates are still visible. + def self.duplicate_keys(node, path, findings, max_depth: MAX_DEPTH, max_nodes: MAX_NODES) + stack = [[node, path, 0]] + nodes = 0 + + until stack.empty? + current, current_path, depth = stack.pop + nodes += 1 + if nodes > max_nodes + findings.add("#{path}: YAML structure exceeds the #{max_nodes}-node limit") + return false + end + if depth > max_depth + findings.add("#{path}: YAML structure exceeds the maximum depth of #{max_depth}") + return false + end + + case current + when Psych::Nodes::Mapping + seen = {} + current.children.each_slice(2).reverse_each do |key_node, value_node| + key = key_node.respond_to?(:value) ? key_node.value : key_node.to_s + findings.add("#{current_path}: duplicate YAML mapping key #{key.inspect}") if seen.key?(key) + seen[key] = true + stack << [value_node, "#{current_path}.#{key}", depth + 1] + stack << [key_node, current_path, depth + 1] + end + when Psych::Nodes::Sequence + current.children.each_with_index.reverse_each do |child, index| + stack << [child, "#{current_path}[#{index}]", depth + 1] + end + when Psych::Nodes::Document, Psych::Nodes::Stream + # Stream and document nodes are parser structure, not addressable data. + current.children.reverse_each { |child| stack << [child, current_path, depth] } + end + end + + true + end + + # Parses +content+ and always returns a Hash. + # + # Anything that is not a mapping -- a sequence, a bare scalar, an empty + # document that parses to nil -- becomes a finding and an empty Hash, so + # callers can index the result without a nil or TypeError check at every + # use site. + def self.load_mapping(content, label, findings, permitted_classes: PERMITTED_CLASSES, check_duplicates: true) + if check_duplicates + tree = Psych.parse_stream(content) + return {} unless duplicate_keys(tree, label, findings) + end + document = YAML.safe_load(content, permitted_classes: permitted_classes, aliases: false) + return document if document.is_a?(Hash) + + findings.add("#{label}: top level must be a mapping") + {} + rescue Psych::Exception => e + findings.add("#{label}: invalid YAML (#{first_line(e)})") + {} + end + + # load_mapping for a file on disk. A missing or unreadable file is a + # finding, not an exception. + def self.load_file(path, label, findings, permitted_classes: PERMITTED_CLASSES) + load_mapping(File.read(path), label, findings, permitted_classes: permitted_classes) + rescue Errno::ENOENT + findings.add("Missing #{label}") + {} + rescue SystemCallError => e + findings.add("#{label}: cannot be read (#{e.message})") + {} + end + + # Rows of a list-valued field, keeping only the entries that are mappings. + # + # Reporting the non-mapping entries and dropping them means the per-row + # checks downstream never index a String or Integer, which previously + # raised TypeError and aborted the whole run. + def self.mapping_rows(value, label, findings) + unless value.nil? || value.is_a?(Array) + findings.add("#{label} must be a list") + return [] + end + + Array(value).each_with_index.each_with_object([]) do |(row, index), rows| + if row.is_a?(Hash) + rows << row + else + findings.add("#{label}[#{index}] must be a mapping") + end + end + end + + # Psych messages carry the offending snippet on later lines; validator + # output stays one line per finding. + def self.first_line(error) + error.message.to_s.lines.first.to_s.strip + end + end +end diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/route_profile.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/route_profile.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38c1dd8 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/route_profile.rb @@ -0,0 +1,187 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env ruby +# frozen_string_literal: true + +# Returns deterministic, machine-readable task-profile routes. +# +# Exit statuses: 0 valid route, 1 invalid library content, 2 invalid invocation. + +require "date" +require "json" + +require_relative "lib/standards" +require_relative "lib/standards/catalog_validator" + +options = Standards::CLI.parse( + ARGV, + banner: "Usage: ruby scripts/route_profile.rb (--list | --profile PROFILE-ID) --format json", + description: "Lists profiles or resolves one profile and its dependency-ordered documents." +) do |parser, parsed| + parser.on("--list", "List available task profiles") { parsed[:list] = true } + parser.on("--profile PROFILE-ID", "Resolve one task profile") { |value| parsed[:profile] = value } + parser.on("--format FORMAT", "Output format; only json is supported") { |value| parsed[:format] = value } +end + +unless options[:format] == "json" + warn "route_profile.rb: --format json is required" + exit Standards::EXIT_USAGE +end + +list_mode = options[:list] == true +profile_mode = !options[:profile].to_s.empty? +unless list_mode ^ profile_mode + warn "route_profile.rb: specify exactly one of --list or --profile PROFILE-ID" + exit Standards::EXIT_USAGE +end + +root = ENV["STANDARDS_ROOT"].to_s.empty? ? File.expand_path("..", __dir__) : File.expand_path(ENV.fetch("STANDARDS_ROOT")) +validator = Standards::CatalogValidator.new(root).run +unless validator.valid? + puts JSON.pretty_generate( + "schemaVersion" => 1, + "routeStatus" => "invalid-library", + "selectedProfile" => nil, + "documents" => [], + "ruleIdsAndTitles" => [], + "verificationRequirements" => [], + "missingEvidence" => [], + "warnings" => validator.findings.to_a, + "unresolvedReferences" => validator.findings.to_a.grep(/unknown (?:dependency|governed reference)/) + ) + exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID +end + +catalog = Standards::YamlSource.load_file( + File.join(root, "catalog.yaml"), "catalog.yaml", Standards::Findings.new, permitted_classes: [Date] +) +sections = Standards::CatalogValidator::GOVERNED_KEYS +entries = sections.flat_map { |section| Array(catalog[section]) }.sort_by { |entry| entry.fetch("id") } +records = entries.to_h do |entry| + path = entry.fetch("path") + findings = Standards::Findings.new + document = Standards::Document.load(File.join(root, path), path, findings, permitted_classes: [Date, Time]) + [entry.fetch("id"), { "path" => path, "document" => document, "metadata" => document.metadata }] +end + +date_value = lambda { |value| value.respond_to?(:iso8601) ? value.iso8601 : value } +profile_metadata = lambda do |record| + metadata = record.fetch("metadata") + { + "id" => metadata["id"], + "title" => metadata["title"], + "description" => metadata["description"], + "path" => record.fetch("path"), + "status" => metadata["status"], + "governanceStatus" => metadata["governance_status"], + "lastReviewed" => date_value.call(metadata["last_reviewed"]), + "reviewBy" => date_value.call(metadata["review_by"]), + "staleAfter" => date_value.call(metadata["stale_after"]), + "dependsOn" => Array(metadata["depends_on"]).sort, + "completionEvidence" => record.fetch("document").section("Completion evidence").to_s + .scan(/^[-*]\s+(.+?)(?=\n[-*]\s|\z)/m).flatten.map { |item| item.gsub(/\s+/, " ").strip } + } +end + +profiles = records.values.select { |record| record.dig("metadata", "type") == "profile" }.sort_by do |record| + record.dig("metadata", "id") +end + +if options[:list] + puts JSON.pretty_generate( + "schemaVersion" => 1, + "routeStatus" => "valid", + "selectedProfile" => nil, + "profiles" => profiles.map { |record| profile_metadata.call(record) }, + "documents" => [], + "ruleIdsAndTitles" => [], + "verificationRequirements" => [], + "missingEvidence" => [], + "warnings" => [], + "unresolvedReferences" => [] + ) + exit Standards::EXIT_SUCCESS +end + +selected = records[options[:profile]] +unless selected&.dig("metadata", "type") == "profile" + warn "route_profile.rb: unknown profile #{options[:profile].inspect}" + exit Standards::EXIT_USAGE +end + +ordered_ids = [] +visited = {} +visit = lambda do |id| + return if visited[id] + + visited[id] = true + Array(records.dig(id, "metadata", "depends_on")).sort.each { |dependency| visit.call(dependency) } + ordered_ids << id +end +visit.call(options[:profile]) + +warnings = [] +rules = [] +verification = [] +missing_evidence = [] +documents = ordered_ids.map do |id| + record = records.fetch(id) + metadata = record.fetch("metadata") + document = record.fetch("document") + review_by = metadata["review_by"] + warnings << "#{id} is draft and requires qualified review before stability" if metadata["status"] == "draft" + warnings << "#{id} review date passed on #{date_value.call(review_by)}" if review_by && Date.today > Date.parse(review_by.to_s) + + document_rules = document.content.to_enum(:scan, Standards::CatalogValidator::RULE_HEADING_PATTERN).map do + heading = Regexp.last_match + rule_id = heading[1] + title = heading[0].sub(/^###\s+#{Regexp.escape(rule_id)}\s+—\s+/, "") + block_start = heading.end(0) + block_end = document.content.index(/^###\s+/, block_start) || document.content.index(/^##\s+/, block_start) || document.content.length + block = document.content[block_start...block_end] + verify_text = block[/\*\*Verify:\*\*\s*(.*?)(?=\n\*\*Exceptions:\*\*)/m, 1].to_s.strip + verify_items = verify_text.scan(/^[-*]\s+(.+?)(?=\n[-*]\s|\z)/m).flatten.map { |item| item.gsub(/\s+/, " ").strip } + verify_items = [verify_text.gsub(/\s+/, " ").strip] if verify_items.empty? && !verify_text.empty? + exceptions = block[/\*\*Exceptions:\*\*\s*(.*?)(?=\n###\s|\n##\s|\z)/m, 1].to_s.gsub(/\s+/, " ").strip + rule = { + "id" => rule_id, + "title" => title, + "level" => block[/\*\*Level:\*\*\s*([^\n]+)/, 1]&.strip, + "verificationRequirements" => verify_items, + "exceptions" => exceptions + } + rules << { "id" => rule_id, "title" => title } + verify_items.each do |requirement| + item = { "ruleId" => rule_id, "requirement" => requirement, "status" => "unverified" } + verification << item + missing_evidence << item + end + rule + end + + { + "id" => id, + "title" => metadata["title"], + "path" => record.fetch("path"), + "type" => metadata["type"], + "status" => metadata["status"], + "governanceStatus" => metadata["governance_status"], + "lastReviewed" => date_value.call(metadata["last_reviewed"]), + "reviewBy" => date_value.call(review_by), + "staleAfter" => date_value.call(metadata["stale_after"]), + "dependsOn" => Array(metadata["depends_on"]).sort, + "verificationEvents" => metadata["verified"], + "rules" => document_rules + } +end + +puts JSON.pretty_generate( + "schemaVersion" => 1, + "routeStatus" => "valid", + "selectedProfile" => profile_metadata.call(selected), + "documents" => documents, + "ruleIdsAndTitles" => rules, + "verificationRequirements" => verification, + "missingEvidence" => missing_evidence, + "warnings" => warnings.uniq, + "unresolvedReferences" => [] +) +exit Standards::EXIT_SUCCESS diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_project_readme.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_project_readme.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4e81885 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_project_readme.rb @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +# frozen_string_literal: true + +root = File.expand_path("..", __dir__) +readme = File.read(File.join(root, "README.md")) +llms = File.read(File.join(root, "llms.txt")) + +required = [ + "", + "**Version 1 open-source standards library", + "## Start with a task", + "## Lifecycle and trust boundary", + "## Raintree open-source system", + "## Project policies" +] + +missing = required.reject { |value| readme.include?(value) } +abort("README.md missing required project sections: #{missing.join(', ')}") unless missing.empty? +abort("README.md must contain exactly one H1") unless readme.lines.count { |line| line.start_with?("# ") } == 1 +abort("README.md must not contain concept frontmatter") if readme.start_with?("---\n") + +llms_required = [ + "# Raintree Standards", + "## Apply the library correctly", + "Select the closest task profile", + "Read every standard in the profile's `depends_on` field", + "Activate every conditional route", + "stable rule ID", + "Do not invent approval, verification, or certification", + "Marketing Skills and other third-party procedures are informative task aids", + "profiles/index.md", + "governance/authority.md", + "foundations/evidence.md", + "governance/exceptions.md" +] + +llms_missing = llms_required.reject { |value| llms.include?(value) } +abort("llms.txt missing required routing content: #{llms_missing.join(', ')}") unless llms_missing.empty? +abort("llms.txt must contain exactly one H1") unless llms.lines.count { |line| line.start_with?("# ") } == 1 +abort("llms.txt must not contain concept frontmatter") if llms.start_with?("---\n") + +raw_prefix = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raintree-technology/raintree.standards/main/" +raw_paths = llms.scan(/\]\((#{Regexp.escape(raw_prefix)}[^)]+)\)/).flatten.map { |url| url.delete_prefix(raw_prefix) } +abort("llms.txt must contain unique explicit routes") unless raw_paths.any? && raw_paths.uniq.size == raw_paths.size + +missing_targets = raw_paths.reject { |path| File.file?(File.join(root, path)) } +abort("llms.txt links to missing repository files: #{missing_targets.join(', ')}") unless missing_targets.empty? + +puts "project README and llms.txt checks passed" diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_route_profile.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_route_profile.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..47d6d8e --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_route_profile.rb @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env ruby +# frozen_string_literal: true + +require "json" +require "open3" +require "rbconfig" + +require_relative "lib/standards" + +root = File.expand_path("..", __dir__) +command = File.join(root, "scripts", "route_profile.rb") +failures = [] +checks = 0 + +run = lambda do |*arguments| + stdout, stderr, status = Open3.capture3(RbConfig.ruby, command, *arguments) + [stdout, stderr, status] +end + +stdout, stderr, status = run.call("--list", "--format", "json") +checks += 1 +failures << "list route failed: #{stderr}" unless status.success? +list = JSON.parse(stdout) +checks += 1 +failures << "profiles are not deterministically ordered" unless list.fetch("profiles").map { |row| row.fetch("id") } == list.fetch("profiles").map { |row| row.fetch("id") }.sort + +profile_id = list.fetch("profiles").first.fetch("id") +first, first_error, first_status = run.call("--profile", profile_id, "--format", "json") +second, second_error, second_status = run.call("--profile", profile_id, "--format", "json") +checks += 1 +failures << "profile route failed: #{first_error} #{second_error}" unless first_status.success? && second_status.success? +checks += 1 +failures << "profile route is not deterministic" unless first == second +route = JSON.parse(first) +positions = route.fetch("documents").each_with_index.to_h { |document, index| [document.fetch("id"), index] } +checks += 1 +dependency_ordered = route.fetch("documents").all? do |document| + document.fetch("dependsOn").all? { |dependency| positions.fetch(dependency) < positions.fetch(document.fetch("id")) } +end +failures << "dependencies do not precede their consumers" unless dependency_ordered +checks += 1 +failures << "route omitted maturity or governance status" unless route.fetch("documents").all? { |document| document.key?("status") && document.key?("governanceStatus") } +checks += 1 +failures << "route omitted unverified evidence requirements" unless route.fetch("verificationRequirements").all? { |item| item.fetch("status") == "unverified" } + +_stdout, stderr, status = run.call("--profile", "PROFILE-NOT-FOUND", "--format", "json") +checks += 1 +failures << "invalid profile ID did not exit 2" unless status.exitstatus == Standards::EXIT_USAGE && stderr.include?("unknown profile") + +_stdout, _stderr, status = run.call("--list") +checks += 1 +failures << "missing format did not exit 2" unless status.exitstatus == Standards::EXIT_USAGE + +if failures.empty? + puts "Profile routing checks valid: #{checks} assertions" + exit Standards::EXIT_SUCCESS +end + +failures.each { |failure| warn failure } +exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_schema_drift.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_schema_drift.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef0e256 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_schema_drift.rb @@ -0,0 +1,149 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env ruby +# frozen_string_literal: true + +# Asserts that the JSON Schemas and the handwritten Ruby validators still agree. +# +# Both now enforce the bundle, which is what makes drift dangerous: a value +# allowed by one and rejected by the other produces a confusing failure, and a +# value both stopped checking produces none at all. These cases compare the +# schemas' enumerations, required fields, and patterns against the constants the +# validators use, so a change to either side fails here until both are updated. + +require "json" + +require_relative "lib/standards" +require_relative "lib/standards/catalog_validator" +require_relative "lib/standards/integration_validator" + +ROOT = File.expand_path("..", __dir__) +failures = [] +checks = 0 + +input_findings = Standards::Findings.new +unless Standards::InputLimits.validate(ROOT, input_findings) + input_findings.report + exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID +end + +def load_schema(name) + JSON.parse(File.read(File.join(ROOT, "schema", name))) +rescue JSON::ParserError, SystemCallError => e + warn "schema/#{name}: cannot be parsed (#{e.message.lines.first.to_s.strip})" + exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID +end + +def check(failures, description) + expected, actual = yield + return if expected == actual + + failures << "#{description}: schema has #{expected.inspect}, validator has #{actual.inspect}" +end + +standard = load_schema("standard.schema.json") +integration = load_schema("integration-capability.schema.json") +manifest = load_schema("integration-manifest.schema.json") +capability = integration.fetch("$defs").fetch("capability") + +# -- standard.schema.json ---------------------------------------------------- + +checks += 1 +check(failures, "standard.schema.json required front matter") do + [standard.fetch("required").sort, Standards::CatalogValidator::REQUIRED_FRONT_MATTER.sort] +end + +{ + "type" => Standards::CatalogValidator::DOCUMENT_TYPES, + "status" => Standards::CatalogValidator::DOCUMENT_STATUSES, + "governance_status" => Standards::CatalogValidator::GOVERNANCE_STATUSES +}.each do |field, constant| + checks += 1 + check(failures, "standard.schema.json #{field} enum") do + [standard.fetch("properties").fetch(field).fetch("enum").sort, constant.sort] + end +end + +checks += 1 +check(failures, "standard.schema.json id pattern") do + [standard.fetch("properties").fetch("id").fetch("pattern"), Standards::CatalogValidator::DOCUMENT_ID_PATTERN.source.gsub(/\\A|\\z/) { |anchor| anchor == "\\A" ? "^" : "$" }] +end + +checks += 1 +if standard.key?("allOf") + failures << "standard.schema.json: document maturity must not be imposed through a top-level release condition" +end + +# -- integration-capability.schema.json -------------------------------------- + +checks += 1 +check(failures, "integration schema required capability fields") do + [capability.fetch("required").sort, Standards::GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::CAPABILITY_FIELDS.sort] +end + +checks += 1 +check(failures, "integration schema capability properties") do + [capability.fetch("properties").keys.sort, Standards::GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::CAPABILITY_FIELDS.sort] +end + +{ + "availability" => Standards::GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::AVAILABILITIES, + "effect" => Standards::GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::EFFECTS, + "approval" => Standards::GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::APPROVALS +}.each do |field, constant| + checks += 1 + check(failures, "integration schema #{field} enum") do + [capability.fetch("properties").fetch(field).fetch("enum").sort, constant.sort] + end +end + +checks += 1 +check(failures, "integration schema limit dimensions") do + [ + integration.dig("$defs", "limits", "required").sort, + Standards::GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::LIMIT_DIMENSIONS.sort + ] +end + +checks += 1 +check(failures, "integration schema top-level required fields") do + [integration.fetch("required").sort, Standards::GoogleSearchConsoleValidator::TOP_LEVEL_KEYS.fetch(:capabilities).sort] +end + +checks += 1 +check(failures, "integration manifest required fields") do + [manifest.fetch("required").sort, (Standards::IntegrationValidator::MANIFEST_KEYS - Standards::IntegrationValidator::OPTIONAL_MANIFEST_KEYS).sort] +end + +# -- every schema keyword must be one this repository can enforce ------------- + +# The subset validator raises on keywords it does not implement. Walking both +# schemas here means an unenforceable keyword fails in this test rather than +# only when a document happens to exercise that branch. +def walk_keywords(node, seen) + case node + when Hash + node.each do |key, value| + seen << key unless key.start_with?("__") + walk_keywords(value, seen) + end + when Array + node.each { |item| walk_keywords(item, seen) } + end + seen +end + +known = Standards::JsonSchema::ANNOTATIONS + Standards::JsonSchema::ASSERTIONS +[["standard.schema.json", standard], ["integration-capability.schema.json", integration], ["integration-manifest.schema.json", manifest]].each do |name, schema| + checks += 1 + used = walk_keywords(schema, []).uniq.select { |key| key.start_with?("$") || known.include?(key) } + unsupported = used - known + failures << "#{name}: uses JSON Schema keyword(s) #{unsupported.join(', ')} that Standards::JsonSchema cannot enforce" unless unsupported.empty? +end + +if failures.empty? + puts "Schema drift checks valid: #{checks} comparisons" + exit Standards::EXIT_SUCCESS +end + +failures.each { |message| warn message } +warn "Schema drift: #{failures.length} of #{checks} comparisons failed" +exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_standards_lib.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_standards_lib.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cc212e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_standards_lib.rb @@ -0,0 +1,417 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env ruby +# frozen_string_literal: true + +# Unit tests for the shared validator library. +# +# The suites in test_validate_catalog.rb and test_validate_integrations.rb drive +# the validators end to end through a subprocess, which is the right level for +# rules but a poor one for the edge cases in path handling and schema +# evaluation. These exercise those units directly. + +require "date" +require "fileutils" +require "stringio" +require "tmpdir" + +require_relative "lib/standards" +require_relative "lib/standards/catalog_validator" +require_relative "lib/standards/test_support" + +failures = [] +checks = 0 +REPOSITORY_ROOT = File.expand_path("..", __dir__) + +input_findings = Standards::Findings.new +unless Standards::InputLimits.validate(REPOSITORY_ROOT, input_findings) + input_findings.report + exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID +end + +def expect(failures, description, actual, expected) + return if actual == expected + + failures << "#{description}: expected #{expected.inspect}, got #{actual.inspect}" +end + +# -- Findings ---------------------------------------------------------------- + +checks += 1 +findings = Standards::Findings.new +findings.add("one").add("one").add("two") +expect(failures, "Findings de-duplicates repeated messages", findings.to_a, %w[one two]) + +checks += 1 +findings = Standards::Findings.new +findings.add_unless(true, "not recorded").add_unless(false, "recorded") +expect(failures, "Findings#add_unless records only on a falsy condition", findings.to_a, ["recorded"]) + +checks += 1 +buffer = StringIO.new +Standards::Findings.new.report(buffer) +expect(failures, "an empty Findings writes nothing, not a blank line", buffer.string, "") + +# -- Paths ------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Dir.mktmpdir("standards-paths-") do |root| + FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.join(root, "nested")) + File.write(File.join(root, "nested", "file.md"), "x") + + checks += 1 + expect(failures, "a path inside the root resolves", !Standards::Paths.resolve(root, "nested/file.md").nil?, true) + + checks += 1 + expect(failures, "a parent traversal resolves to nil", Standards::Paths.resolve(root, "../outside.md"), nil) + + checks += 1 + expect(failures, "a deep traversal resolves to nil", Standards::Paths.resolve(root, "nested/../../outside.md"), nil) + + checks += 1 + expect(failures, "an absolute path outside the root is not contained", + Standards::Paths.contained?(root, "/etc/hosts"), false) + + checks += 1 + expect(failures, "the root itself is contained", Standards::Paths.contained?(root, root), true) + + # A sibling directory whose name merely starts with the root's name must not + # count as contained: a prefix test without a separator would accept it. + checks += 1 + expect(failures, "a sibling sharing the root's name prefix is not contained", + Standards::Paths.contained?(root, "#{root}-other/file.md"), false) + + checks += 1 + expect(failures, "glob results are relative and sorted", + Standards::Paths.glob(root, "**/*.md"), ["nested/file.md"]) +end + +# Containment resolves symlinks on both sides. Resolving only the candidate +# would reject every path on macOS, where /tmp is itself a link to /private/tmp. +Dir.mktmpdir("standards-symlink-") do |parent| + root = File.join(parent, "bundle") + outside = File.join(parent, "outside") + FileUtils.mkdir_p(root) + FileUtils.mkdir_p(outside) + File.write(File.join(outside, "secret.md"), "x") + File.write(File.join(root, "real.md"), "x") + File.symlink(File.join(outside, "secret.md"), File.join(root, "leak.md")) + File.symlink(File.join(root, "real.md"), File.join(root, "alias.md")) + + checks += 1 + expect(failures, "a symlink inside the bundle pointing outside is rejected", + Standards::Paths.resolve(root, "leak.md"), nil) + + checks += 1 + expect(failures, "a symlink inside the bundle pointing inside is accepted", + !Standards::Paths.resolve(root, "alias.md").nil?, true) + + checks += 1 + expect(failures, "a plain file inside the bundle is accepted", + !Standards::Paths.resolve(root, "real.md").nil?, true) + + # The common macOS case: the bundle is reached through a symlinked parent. + linked_root = File.join(parent, "linked-bundle") + File.symlink(root, linked_root) + checks += 1 + expect(failures, "a bundle reached through a symlinked root still resolves", + !Standards::Paths.resolve(linked_root, "real.md").nil?, true) + + # Callers ask about files that do not exist yet, and those must not blow up. + checks += 1 + expect(failures, "a missing file inside the bundle still resolves", + !Standards::Paths.resolve(root, "absent/deeper.md").nil?, true) + + checks += 1 + expect(failures, "a missing file outside the bundle resolves to nil", + Standards::Paths.resolve(root, "../absent.md"), nil) +end + +# Every temporary root the harness creates must be removed, including when a +# fixture raises partway through. +checks += 1 +leaked = nil +begin + Dir.mktmpdir("standards-cleanup-") do |root| + leaked = root + File.write(File.join(root, "file.md"), "x") + raise "fixture failure" + end +rescue RuntimeError + # expected +end +expect(failures, "a temporary root is removed even when a fixture raises", File.exist?(leaked), false) + +# A checkout under a directory containing glob metacharacters used to match no +# files at all, so the bundle validated as empty and still exited 0. +Dir.mktmpdir("standards-glob-") do |parent| + root = File.join(parent, "repo [v2] {a}") + FileUtils.mkdir_p(root) + File.write(File.join(root, "index.md"), "x") + File.write(File.join(root, "other.md"), "x") + + checks += 1 + expect(failures, "globs work under a root containing glob metacharacters", + Standards::Paths.glob(root, "*.md"), ["index.md", "other.md"]) +end + +# -- InputLimits ------------------------------------------------------------- + +Dir.mktmpdir("standards-input-limits-") do |root| + File.write(File.join(root, "one.md"), "1234") + File.write(File.join(root, "two.yaml"), "a: 1\n") + + checks += 1 + findings = Standards::Findings.new + accepted = Standards::InputLimits.validate(root, findings, max_files: 2, max_file_bytes: 8, max_total_bytes: 16) + expect(failures, "bounded validator input is accepted", [accepted, findings.to_a], [true, []]) + + checks += 1 + findings = Standards::Findings.new + Standards::InputLimits.validate(root, findings, max_files: 2, max_file_bytes: 3, max_total_bytes: 16) + expect(failures, "an oversized file is reported", findings.to_a.any? { |message| message.include?("per-file limit") }, true) + + checks += 1 + findings = Standards::Findings.new + Standards::InputLimits.validate(root, findings, max_files: 1, max_file_bytes: 8, max_total_bytes: 16) + expect(failures, "too many files are reported", findings.to_a.any? { |message| message.include?("files; limit") }, true) + + checks += 1 + findings = Standards::Findings.new + Standards::InputLimits.validate(root, findings, max_files: 2, max_file_bytes: 8, max_total_bytes: 5) + expect(failures, "excess total input is reported", findings.to_a.any? { |message| message.include?("total limit") }, true) +end + +Dir.mktmpdir("standards-input-symlink-") do |parent| + root = File.join(parent, "bundle") + FileUtils.mkdir_p(root) + outside = File.join(parent, "outside.md") + File.write(outside, "secret") + File.symlink(outside, File.join(root, "leak.md")) + + checks += 1 + findings = Standards::Findings.new + Standards::InputLimits.validate(root, findings) + expect(failures, "an outward input symlink is rejected", + findings.to_a, ["leak.md: input path escapes the bundle root"]) +end + +# -- YamlSource -------------------------------------------------------------- + +checks += 1 +findings = Standards::Findings.new +expect(failures, "a top-level sequence yields an empty mapping", + Standards::YamlSource.load_mapping("- a\n- b\n", "x.yaml", findings), {}) +expect(failures, "a top-level sequence is reported", findings.to_a, ["x.yaml: top level must be a mapping"]) + +checks += 1 +findings = Standards::Findings.new +Standards::YamlSource.load_mapping("", "x.yaml", findings) +expect(failures, "an empty document is reported", findings.to_a, ["x.yaml: top level must be a mapping"]) + +checks += 1 +findings = Standards::Findings.new +Standards::YamlSource.load_mapping("a: [\n", "x.yaml", findings) +expect(failures, "invalid YAML is reported on one line", findings.length, 1) +expect(failures, "invalid YAML is reported as such", findings.to_a.first.start_with?("x.yaml: invalid YAML ("), true) + +# Aliases are disabled, so a YAML bomb is refused rather than expanded. +checks += 1 +findings = Standards::Findings.new +Standards::YamlSource.load_mapping("a: &x [1]\nb: *x\n", "x.yaml", findings) +expect(failures, "YAML aliases are refused", findings.to_a.first.include?("invalid YAML"), true) + +checks += 1 +findings = Standards::Findings.new +Standards::YamlSource.load_mapping("a: 1\na: 2\n", "x.yaml", findings) +expect(failures, "duplicate keys are reported", findings.to_a, ['x.yaml: duplicate YAML mapping key "a"']) + +checks += 1 +findings = Standards::Findings.new +tree = Psych.parse_stream("a:\n b:\n c: 1\n") +accepted = Standards::YamlSource.duplicate_keys(tree, "x.yaml", findings, max_depth: 1) +expect(failures, "deep YAML is rejected before safe loading", accepted, false) +expect(failures, "deep YAML reports its limit", findings.to_a, ["x.yaml: YAML structure exceeds the maximum depth of 1"]) + +checks += 1 +findings = Standards::Findings.new +tree = Psych.parse_stream("a: 1\nb: 2\n") +accepted = Standards::YamlSource.duplicate_keys(tree, "x.yaml", findings, max_nodes: 3) +expect(failures, "large YAML trees are rejected before safe loading", accepted, false) +expect(failures, "large YAML trees report their limit", findings.to_a, ["x.yaml: YAML structure exceeds the 3-node limit"]) + +checks += 1 +findings = Standards::Findings.new +rows = Standards::YamlSource.mapping_rows([{ "id" => 1 }, "scalar", 42], "x.yaml: rows", findings) +expect(failures, "non-mapping rows are dropped", rows, [{ "id" => 1 }]) +expect(failures, "non-mapping rows are reported", + findings.to_a, ["x.yaml: rows[1] must be a mapping", "x.yaml: rows[2] must be a mapping"]) + +# -- Document ---------------------------------------------------------------- + +checks += 1 +findings = Standards::Findings.new +document = Standards::Document.new("d.md", "---\ntype: Standard\n---\n\n## Sources\n\n[a](https://a.test)\n\n## After\n\n[b](https://b.test)\n", findings) +expect(failures, "a section stops at the next heading", + document.section("Sources").to_s.scan(%r{\]\((https?://[^)]+)\)}).flatten, ["https://a.test"]) + +checks += 1 +findings = Standards::Findings.new +document = Standards::Document.new("d.md", "# No front matter\n", findings) +expect(failures, "absent front matter is distinguishable from unparseable", document.front_matter?, false) +expect(failures, "absent front matter is not itself a finding", findings.to_a, []) + +# -- JsonSchema -------------------------------------------------------------- + +def schema_errors(instance, schema) + Standards::JsonSchema.validate(instance, schema) +end + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "a conforming object passes", + schema_errors({ "a" => "x" }, { "type" => "object", "required" => ["a"] }), []) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "a missing required property is reported", + schema_errors({}, { "required" => ["a"] }).length, 1) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "additionalProperties false rejects extras", + schema_errors({ "a" => 1, "b" => 2 }, { "properties" => { "a" => {} }, "additionalProperties" => false }).length, 1) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "enum membership is enforced", + schema_errors("z", { "enum" => %w[x y] }).length, 1) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "patterns are enforced", + schema_errors("abc", { "type" => "string", "pattern" => "^[0-9]+$" }).length, 1) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "uniqueItems is enforced", + schema_errors([1, 1], { "type" => "array", "uniqueItems" => true }).length, 1) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "minItems is enforced", + schema_errors([], { "type" => "array", "minItems" => 1 }).length, 1) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "integer and number are distinguished", + schema_errors(1.5, { "type" => "integer" }).length, 1) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "booleans are not numbers", schema_errors(true, { "type" => "number" }).length, 1) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "local $ref resolves", + schema_errors({ "a" => "x" }, + { "properties" => { "a" => { "$ref" => "#/$defs/s" } }, + "$defs" => { "s" => { "type" => "integer" } } }).length, 1) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "if/then applies only when if matches", + schema_errors({ "status" => "draft" }, + { "if" => { "properties" => { "status" => { "const" => "stable" } }, "required" => ["status"] }, + "then" => { "required" => ["verified"] } }), []) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "if/then applies when if matches", + schema_errors({ "status" => "stable" }, + { "if" => { "properties" => { "status" => { "const" => "stable" } }, "required" => ["status"] }, + "then" => { "required" => ["verified"] } }).length, 1) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "oneOf requires exactly one match", + schema_errors(1, { "oneOf" => [{ "type" => "integer" }, { "type" => "number" }] }).length, 1) + +# YAML gives Date and Time objects where the schemas describe ISO strings. +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "a YAML Date satisfies format: date", + schema_errors(Date.new(2026, 8, 16), { "type" => "string", "format" => "date" }), []) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "a YAML Time satisfies format: date-time", + schema_errors(Time.utc(2026, 8, 16, 1, 2, 3), { "type" => "string", "format" => "date-time" }), []) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "a malformed date is reported", + schema_errors("2026-13-99", { "type" => "string", "format" => "date" }).length, 1) + +# An unimplemented keyword must fail loudly rather than being ignored, which is +# what stops a schema from gaining a constraint that quietly does nothing. +checks += 1 +raised = begin + schema_errors({}, { "dependentRequired" => { "a" => ["b"] } }) + false +rescue Standards::JsonSchema::UnsupportedKeyword + true +end +expect(failures, "an unsupported keyword raises rather than being ignored", raised, true) + +checks += 1 +raised = begin + schema_errors({}, { "$ref" => "https://example.test/schema.json" }) + false +rescue Standards::JsonSchema::UnsupportedKeyword + true +end +expect(failures, "a remote $ref raises rather than being skipped", raised, true) + +# -- CatalogValidator on a synthetic root ------------------------------------ + +# An empty root must not report success. Before the glob fix, a root the globs +# could not read produced "0 Markdown files" and exit 0. +Dir.mktmpdir("standards-empty-") do |root| + checks += 1 + validator = Standards::CatalogValidator.new(root).run + expect(failures, "an empty root is invalid", validator.valid?, false) + expect(failures, "an empty root reports the missing catalog", + validator.findings.to_a.include?("Missing catalog.yaml"), true) +end + +# The release gate must depend on the injected date, not on the wall clock, so +# the expiry rule stays testable. +Dir.mktmpdir("standards-today-") do |root| + Standards::TestSupport.copy_repository(root) + Standards::TestSupport.edit_yaml(File.join(root, "source-register.yaml")) do |document| + document["documents"][0]["reviewed_on"] = Date.new(2026, 1, 1) + document["documents"][0]["next_review"] = Date.new(2026, 6, 1) + end + + checks += 1 + before = Standards::CatalogValidator.new(root, today: Date.new(2026, 5, 1)).run + expired_before = before.findings.to_a.grep(/source review expired/) + expect(failures, "a review in the future is not expired", expired_before, []) + + checks += 1 + after = Standards::CatalogValidator.new(root, today: Date.new(2026, 7, 1)).run + expired_after = after.findings.to_a.grep(/source review expired/) + expect(failures, "a review in the past is expired", expired_after.length, 1) +end + +# -- pinned Ruby version ----------------------------------------------------- + +# Two files name the interpreter: .ruby-version for rbenv, chruby, and anything +# else following the Ruby convention, and .tool-versions for mise, which is what +# CI installs from. They must not drift apart, and both must satisfy the floor +# the library enforces at startup. +ruby_version = File.read(File.join(REPOSITORY_ROOT, ".ruby-version")).strip +tool_versions = File.read(File.join(REPOSITORY_ROOT, ".tool-versions")) + .lines + .filter_map { |line| line.split[1] if line.split.first == "ruby" } + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, ".tool-versions pins exactly one Ruby", tool_versions.length, 1) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, ".ruby-version and .tool-versions agree", tool_versions.first, ruby_version) + +checks += 1 +expect(failures, "the pinned Ruby satisfies the enforced minimum", + Gem::Version.new(ruby_version) >= Gem::Version.new(Standards::MINIMUM_RUBY), true) + +if failures.empty? + puts "Validator library tests valid: #{checks} cases" + exit Standards::EXIT_SUCCESS +end + +failures.each { |message| warn message } +warn "Validator library: #{failures.length} of #{checks} cases failed" +exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_validate_catalog.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_validate_catalog.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..60a5f3a --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_validate_catalog.rb @@ -0,0 +1,366 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env ruby +# frozen_string_literal: true + +# Behaviour tests for scripts/validate_catalog.rb. +# +# Each case copies the working tree into a temporary root, mutates one thing, +# and asserts the validator's exit status and message. Mutations edit YAML and +# front matter structurally wherever possible so a case stays valid when +# document content, review dates, or provenance timestamps change. + +require_relative "lib/standards" +require_relative "lib/standards/catalog_validator" +require_relative "lib/standards/test_support" + +# Brings Findings, TestSupport, and the exit statuses into scope for this script. +include Standards + +input_findings = Findings.new +unless InputLimits.validate(TestSupport::REPOSITORY_ROOT, input_findings) + input_findings.report + exit EXIT_INVALID +end + +suite = TestSupport::Suite.new( + "Catalog validator", + validator: "validate_catalog.rb", + root_env: "CATALOG_VALIDATION_ROOT", + prepare: TestSupport.method(:copy_repository) +) + +def catalog(root) + File.join(root, "catalog.yaml") +end + +def register(root) + File.join(root, "source-register.yaml") +end + +# A governed document that is not itself the subject of another case. +def sample_document(root) + File.join(root, TestSupport.first_entry(root, "foundations").fetch("path")) +end + +# -- accepted input ---------------------------------------------------------- + +suite.accepts("clean bundle", ["OKF v0.2 bundle valid", "raintree.standards catalog valid", "Governed rule structure valid"]) + +suite.accepts("unknown front-matter fields are preserved, not rejected") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(sample_document(root)) do |metadata| + metadata["x_unregistered_field"] = "OKF requires unknown fields to survive a round trip" + end +end + +suite.accepts("installed plugin skills are outside the governed standards corpus") do |root| + skill_dir = File.join(root, "skills", "example") + FileUtils.mkdir_p(skill_dir) + File.write( + File.join(skill_dir, "SKILL.md"), + "---\nname: example\ndescription: Example installed skill.\n---\n\n# Example\n" + ) +end + +suite.accepts("a document may opt out of the current release scope") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(sample_document(root)) do |metadata| + metadata["release_target"] = "v2" + end +end + +suite.rejects("oversized Markdown input", "per-file limit is #{InputLimits::MAX_FILE_BYTES} bytes") do |root| + File.write(File.join(root, "oversized.md"), "x" * (InputLimits::MAX_FILE_BYTES + 1)) +end + +# -- usage ------------------------------------------------------------------- + +suite.rejects_usage("unknown option", "invalid option: --nonsense", ["--nonsense"]) +suite.rejects_usage("misspelled release flag", "invalid option: --relase", ["--relase"]) +suite.rejects_usage("unexpected positional argument", "unexpected argument", ["catalog.yaml"]) + +# -- catalog structure ------------------------------------------------------- + +suite.rejects("invalid catalog YAML", "catalog.yaml: invalid YAML") do |root| + File.write(catalog(root), "version: [\n") +end + +suite.rejects("catalog is not a mapping", "catalog.yaml: top level must be a mapping") do |root| + File.write(catalog(root), "- one\n- two\n") +end + +suite.rejects("duplicate catalog key", 'duplicate YAML mapping key "version"') do |root| + File.write(catalog(root), "#{File.read(catalog(root))}\nversion: 1\n") +end + +suite.rejects("catalog section is not a list", "catalog.yaml: patterns must be a list") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(catalog(root)) { |document| document["patterns"] = "invalid" } +end + +suite.rejects("catalog entry is not a mapping", "catalog.yaml: governance[0] must be a mapping") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(catalog(root)) { |document| document["governance"][0] = "invalid" } +end + +suite.rejects("catalog entry without a path", "requires a path") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(catalog(root)) { |document| document["governance"][0].delete("path") } +end + +suite.rejects("invalid catalog update date", "catalog.yaml: updated must be an ISO 8601 date") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(catalog(root)) { |document| document["updated"] = "invalid" } +end + +suite.rejects("catalog version drift", "catalog.yaml: version must be 1") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(catalog(root)) { |document| document["version"] = 2 } +end + +suite.rejects("catalog okf_version drift", "catalog.yaml: okf_version must be 0.2") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(catalog(root)) { |document| document["okf_version"] = "0.3" } +end + +suite.rejects("missing catalog ID", "every governed catalog entry requires an id") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(catalog(root)) { |document| document["foundations"][0]["id"] = "" } +end + +suite.rejects("catalog path that does not exist", "catalog.yaml: missing path") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(catalog(root)) { |document| document["foundations"][0]["path"] = "foundations/absent.md" } +end + +suite.rejects("duplicate catalog path", "catalog.yaml: duplicate path") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(catalog(root)) do |document| + document["governance"] << TestSupport.deep_copy(document["governance"][0]) + end +end + +suite.rejects("missing dependency", "unknown dependency FND-MISSING") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(sample_document(root)) do |metadata| + metadata["depends_on"] = Array(metadata["depends_on"]) + ["FND-MISSING"] + end +end + +suite.rejects("dependency cycle", "dependency cycle:") do |root| + first = TestSupport.first_entry(root, "foundations") + catalog_document = YAML.safe_load(File.read(catalog(root)), permitted_classes: [Date], aliases: false) + second = catalog_document.fetch("foundations").find { |entry| entry["id"] != first["id"] } + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(File.join(root, first.fetch("path"))) do |metadata| + metadata["depends_on"] = [second.fetch("id")] + end + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(File.join(root, second.fetch("path"))) do |metadata| + metadata["depends_on"] = [first.fetch("id")] + end +end + +suite.rejects("stable document with transitive draft dependency", "depends on draft") do |root| + catalog_document = YAML.safe_load(File.read(catalog(root)), permitted_classes: [Date], aliases: false) + entries = Standards::CatalogValidator::GOVERNED_KEYS.flat_map { |section| catalog_document.fetch(section) } + indexed = entries.to_h { |entry| [entry.fetch("id"), entry] } + stable_ids = entries.filter_map do |entry| + metadata = YAML.safe_load( + File.read(File.join(root, entry.fetch("path")))[Standards::Document::FRONT_MATTER, 1], + permitted_classes: [Date, Time], aliases: false + ) + entry.fetch("id") if metadata["status"] == "stable" + end + draft = entries.find do |entry| + metadata = YAML.safe_load( + File.read(File.join(root, entry.fetch("path")))[Standards::Document::FRONT_MATTER, 1], + permitted_classes: [Date, Time], aliases: false + ) + metadata["status"] == "draft" + end + first, second = stable_ids.first(2) + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(File.join(root, indexed.fetch(first).fetch("path"))) do |metadata| + metadata["depends_on"] = [second] + end + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(File.join(root, indexed.fetch(second).fetch("path"))) do |metadata| + metadata["depends_on"] = [draft.fetch("id")] + end +end + +# A catalog entry must stay inside the bundle. Before this check, "../" paths +# resolved against the host filesystem and were accepted whenever they existed. +suite.rejects("catalog path escaping the bundle root", "escapes the bundle root") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(catalog(root)) { |document| document["governance"][0]["path"] = "../outside.md" } +end + +# -- front matter ------------------------------------------------------------ + +suite.rejects("duplicate front-matter key", 'duplicate YAML mapping key "title"') do |root| + TestSupport.append_front_matter_line(File.join(root, "CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md"), "title: Duplicate title") +end + +suite.rejects("invalid governed front matter", "invalid YAML front matter") do |root| + TestSupport.replace_front_matter(sample_document(root), "id: [") +end + +suite.rejects("non-mapping front matter", "YAML front matter must be a mapping") do |root| + TestSupport.replace_front_matter(File.join(root, "CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md"), "invalid") +end + +suite.rejects("invalid root index front matter", "index.md: invalid YAML front matter") do |root| + TestSupport.replace_front_matter(File.join(root, "index.md"), "okf_version: [") +end + +suite.rejects("root index without okf_version", "root index must declare okf_version 0.2") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(File.join(root, "index.md")) { |metadata| metadata.delete("okf_version") } +end + +suite.rejects("governance status conflicting with status", "conflicts with governance_status") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(sample_document(root)) { |metadata| metadata["governance_status"] = "active" } +end + +suite.rejects("unknown governance status", "invalid governance_status") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(sample_document(root)) { |metadata| metadata["governance_status"] = "provisional" } +end + +suite.rejects("invalid last_reviewed date", "invalid last_reviewed date") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(sample_document(root)) { |metadata| metadata["last_reviewed"] = "not-a-date" } +end + +suite.rejects("owners must not be empty", "owners must be a non-empty list") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(sample_document(root)) { |metadata| metadata["owners"] = [] } +end + +suite.rejects("tags must be unique", "tags must be a unique list") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(sample_document(root)) do |metadata| + metadata["tags"] = Array(metadata["tags"]).first(1) * 2 + end +end + +suite.rejects("non-independent verification", "verified.by must differ from generated.by") do |root| + path = File.join(root, "CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md") + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(path) do |metadata| + metadata["verified"] = { "by" => metadata.dig("generated", "by"), "at" => "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z" } + end +end + +suite.rejects("verification by an actor outside the OKF convention", "verified.by does not follow the OKF actor convention") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(File.join(root, "CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md")) do |metadata| + metadata["verified"] = { "by" => "somebody", "at" => "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z" } + end +end + +suite.rejects("verification without a timestamp", "verified.at must be an ISO 8601 datetime") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(File.join(root, "CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md")) do |metadata| + metadata["verified"] = { "by" => "human:reviewer", "at" => "sometime" } + end +end + +# -- schema conformance ------------------------------------------------------ + +# schema/standard.schema.json is applied to governed front matter, so a value +# only the schema constrains must still be rejected. +suite.rejects("front matter violating the schema ID pattern", "does not match") do |root| + entry = TestSupport.first_entry(root, "foundations") + TestSupport.edit_yaml(catalog(root)) do |document| + document["foundations"].find { |row| row["path"] == entry["path"] }["id"] = "fnd_lowercase" + end + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(File.join(root, entry.fetch("path"))) do |metadata| + metadata["id"] = "fnd_lowercase" + end +end + +suite.rejects("generated provenance with an unknown subfield", "unknown property") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(sample_document(root)) do |metadata| + metadata["generated"] = metadata["generated"].merge("note" => "additionalProperties is false here") + end +end + +suite.rejects("owner entry that is not a string", "expected string") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_front_matter(sample_document(root)) { |metadata| metadata["owners"] = [42] } +end + +# -- source register --------------------------------------------------------- + +suite.rejects("duplicate source-register ID", "duplicate document ID") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(register(root)) do |document| + document["documents"] << TestSupport.deep_copy(document["documents"][0]) + end +end + +suite.rejects("unknown source-register ID", "unknown document ID FND-UNKNOWN") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(register(root)) { |document| document["documents"][0]["id"] = "FND-UNKNOWN" } +end + +suite.rejects("source-register documents is not a list", "source-register.yaml: documents must be a list") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(register(root)) { |document| document["documents"] = "invalid" } +end + +suite.rejects("source-register record is not a mapping", "source-register.yaml: documents[0] must be a mapping") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(register(root)) { |document| document["documents"][0] = "invalid" } +end + +suite.rejects("source record without document sources", "has no front-matter sources") do |root| + # Any governed document that carries no front-matter sources will do. + catalog_document = YAML.safe_load(File.read(catalog(root)), permitted_classes: [Date], aliases: false) + unsourced = catalog_document.fetch("profiles").find do |entry| + metadata = YAML.safe_load( + File.read(File.join(root, entry.fetch("path")))[Standards::Document::FRONT_MATTER, 1], + permitted_classes: [Date, Time], aliases: false + ) + !metadata.key?("sources") + end + raise TestSupport::FixtureError, "every profile declares sources" if unsourced.nil? + + TestSupport.edit_yaml(register(root)) { |document| document["documents"][0]["id"] = unsourced.fetch("id") } +end + +suite.rejects("invalid source owner", "owner must be a non-empty string") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(register(root)) { |document| document["documents"][0]["owner"] = [] } +end + +suite.rejects("invalid source review order", "next_review must be after reviewed_on") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(register(root)) do |document| + record = document["documents"][0] + record["next_review"] = record["reviewed_on"] - 1 + end +end + +# Dated relative to today rather than to a literal in the register, so the case +# keeps testing expiry after the register is next reviewed. +expired_on = Date.today - 1 +suite.rejects("expired source review", "source review expired on #{expired_on}") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(register(root)) do |document| + record = document["documents"][0] + record["reviewed_on"] = expired_on - 30 + record["next_review"] = expired_on + end +end + +suite.rejects("invalid volatility", "invalid volatility") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(register(root)) { |document| document["documents"][0]["volatility"] = "extreme" } +end + +# -- bundle structure -------------------------------------------------------- + +suite.rejects("broken Markdown link", "Broken Markdown link") do |root| + File.write(File.join(root, "coverage.md"), "#{File.read(File.join(root, 'coverage.md'))}\n[gone](./absent-target.md)\n") +end + +# A link resolving outside the bundle used to be accepted whenever the target +# happened to exist on the host filesystem. +suite.rejects("Markdown link escaping the bundle", "escapes the bundle") do |root| + File.write(File.join(root, "coverage.md"), "#{File.read(File.join(root, 'coverage.md'))}\n[out](../escape.md)\n") +end + +suite.rejects("stale directory index", "missing entries for") do |root| + File.write(File.join(root, "profiles", "unlisted-profile.md"), <<~MARKDOWN) + --- + type: Profile + description: A profile that the directory index does not list. + generated: { by: process:test, at: "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z" } + --- + + # Unlisted profile + MARKDOWN +end + +suite.rejects("nested reserved file carrying front matter", "reserved nested files must not contain front matter") do |root| + File.write(File.join(root, "profiles", "log.md"), "---\ntype: Log\n---\n\n# Log\n") +end + +suite.rejects("Markdown file without front matter", "missing OKF YAML front matter") do |root| + File.write(File.join(root, "orphan.md"), "# No front matter here\n") +end + +# -- release gate ------------------------------------------------------------ + +suite.accepts("release gate accepts a ready catalog", argv: ["--release"]) + +exit(suite.run ? Standards::EXIT_SUCCESS : Standards::EXIT_INVALID) diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_validate_integrations.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_validate_integrations.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dee4568 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_validate_integrations.rb @@ -0,0 +1,412 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env ruby +# frozen_string_literal: true + +# Behaviour tests for scripts/validate_integrations.rb. +# +# Cases address rows by role -- "the first mutating capability", "a capability +# that observes" -- rather than by hardcoded ID or by substituting sentences +# from capability prose, so they survive edits to the bundle's content. + +require "date" + +require_relative "lib/standards" +require_relative "lib/standards/test_support" + +# Brings Findings, TestSupport, and the exit statuses into scope for this script. +include Standards + +input_findings = Findings.new +unless InputLimits.validate(TestSupport::REPOSITORY_ROOT, input_findings) + input_findings.report + exit EXIT_INVALID +end + +suite = TestSupport::Suite.new( + "Integration validator", + validator: "validate_integrations.rb", + root_env: "INTEGRATION_VALIDATION_ROOT", + prepare: TestSupport.method(:copy_integration_bundle) +) + +BUNDLE = File.join("integrations", "google-search-console") + +def bundle_file(root, name) + File.join(root, BUNDLE, name) +end + +def capabilities(root) + bundle_file(root, "capabilities.yaml") +end + +def sources(root) + bundle_file(root, "sources.yaml") +end + +def workflows(root) + bundle_file(root, "workflows.yaml") +end + +def evaluations(root) + bundle_file(root, "evaluations.yaml") +end + +def semantics(root) + bundle_file(root, "data-semantics.yaml") +end + +def provider_file(root, provider, name) + File.join(root, "integrations", provider, name) +end + +# Finds a capability by the role it plays, not by its identifier. +def capability_where(root, &predicate) + TestSupport.find_row(capabilities(root), "capabilities", &predicate) +end + +def mutating_capability(root) + capability_where(root) { |row| %w[mutate_reversible mutate_high_impact].include?(row["effect"]) } +end + +def observing_capability(root) + capability_where(root) { |row| row["effect"] == "observe" } +end + +# -- accepted input ---------------------------------------------------------- + +suite.accepts("clean bundle", "Integration bundle valid") + +suite.rejects("oversized YAML input", "per-file limit is #{InputLimits::MAX_FILE_BYTES} bytes") do |root| + File.write(capabilities(root), "x" * (InputLimits::MAX_FILE_BYTES + 1)) +end + +# -- usage ------------------------------------------------------------------- + +suite.rejects_usage("unknown option", "invalid option: --bogus", ["--bogus"]) +suite.rejects_usage("unexpected positional argument", "unexpected argument", ["capabilities.yaml"]) + +# -- malformed input --------------------------------------------------------- + +# These three previously aborted with TypeError or NoMethodError backtraces +# instead of reporting a validation failure. + +suite.rejects("top-level sequence instead of a mapping", "top level must be a mapping") do |root| + File.write(workflows(root), "- one\n- two\n") +end + +suite.rejects("empty document", "top level must be a mapping") do |root| + File.write(evaluations(root), "") +end + +suite.rejects("list entry that is not a mapping", "capabilities.yaml: capabilities[0] must be a mapping") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(capabilities(root)) { |document| document["capabilities"][0] = 42 } +end + +suite.rejects("invalid YAML", "invalid YAML") do |root| + File.write(semantics(root), "concepts: [\n") +end + +suite.rejects("missing artifact", "Missing integration artifact") do |root| + FileUtils.rm(workflows(root)) +end + +suite.rejects("missing schema", "Missing integration schema") do |root| + FileUtils.rm(File.join(root, "schema", "integration-capability.schema.json")) +end + +suite.rejects("manifest integration differs from directory", "integration must match directory stripe") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "manifest.yaml")) { |document| document["integration"] = "payments" } +end + +suite.rejects("skill route claims authority", "skills are review aids, not authority") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "manifest.yaml")) do |document| + document["skill_routes"][0]["authority"] = "policy" + end +end + +suite.rejects("skill route name is duplicated", "duplicate skill route stripe:stripe-best-practices") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "manifest.yaml")) do |document| + document["skill_routes"] << { + "name" => "stripe:stripe-best-practices", "availability" => "not_available", "authority" => "review_aid" + } + end +end + +suite.rejects("provider source leaves official domain", "URL must use an official HTTPS domain") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "sources.yaml")) do |document| + document["sources"][0]["url"] = "https://example.com/payments" + end +end + +suite.rejects("engineering article is sole authority for a mapped surface", "requires provider documentation; engineering sources are informative") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "sources.yaml")) do |document| + source = document["sources"].find { |row| row["id"] == "STRIPE-SRC-PAYMENTS" } + source["authority"] = "provider_engineering" + document["coverage"].find { |row| row["surface"] == "checkout-and-payment-creation" }["sources"] = ["STRIPE-SRC-PAYMENTS"] + end +end + +suite.rejects("engineering article is sole authority for a capability", "requires provider documentation; engineering sources are informative") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "sources.yaml")) do |document| + document["sources"] << { + "id" => "STRIPE-SRC-ENG-ONLY", "title" => "Engineering article", "url" => "https://stripe.com/blog/idempotency", + "topic" => "design rationale", "authority" => "provider_engineering", "volatility" => "low" + } + document["coverage"][0]["sources"] << "STRIPE-SRC-ENG-ONLY" + end + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "capabilities.yaml")) do |document| + document["capabilities"][0]["sources"] = ["STRIPE-SRC-ENG-ONLY"] + end +end + +suite.rejects("provider source uses an unknown source role", "invalid authority vendor_marketing") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "sources.yaml")) do |document| + document["sources"][0]["authority"] = "vendor_marketing" + end +end + +suite.rejects("independent engineering source leaves its allowlist", "URL must use an allowlisted informative HTTPS domain") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "sources.yaml")) do |document| + source = document["sources"].find { |row| row["authority"] == "independent_engineering" } + source["url"] = "https://example.com/idempotency" + end +end + +suite.rejects("provider capability uses an undeclared interface", "invalid interface unknown_surface") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "capabilities.yaml")) do |document| + document["capabilities"][0]["interface"] = "unknown_surface" + end +end + +suite.rejects("capability manifest omits its vocabulary", "capability bundles require vocabulary") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "manifest.yaml")) { |document| document.delete("vocabulary") } +end + +suite.rejects("provider ID crosses artifact namespaces", "Duplicate integration ID STRIPE-CAP-CHECKOUT") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "evaluations.yaml")) do |document| + document["evaluations"][0]["id"] = "STRIPE-CAP-CHECKOUT" + end +end + +suite.rejects("provider coverage omits source evidence", "coverage checkout-and-payment-creation: sources must be non-empty") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "sources.yaml")) do |document| + document["coverage"][0]["sources"] = [] + end +end + +suite.rejects("provider capability is absent from zero-gap ledger", "zero-gap ledger does not classify capability STRIPE-CAP-REFUND") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "sources.yaml")) do |document| + document["coverage"].each { |row| row["capabilities"] = Array(row["capabilities"]) - ["STRIPE-CAP-REFUND"] } + end +end + +suite.rejects("provider capability references an unknown semantic", "unknown semantic STRIPE-SEM-UNKNOWN") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "capabilities.yaml")) do |document| + document["capabilities"][0]["data_semantics"] = ["STRIPE-SEM-UNKNOWN"] + end +end + +suite.rejects("provider mutation is not routed", "mutation STRIPE-CAP-REFUND is not routed") do |root| + %w[workflows.yaml evaluations.yaml].each do |name| + field = name == "workflows.yaml" ? "workflows" : "evaluations" + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", name)) do |document| + document[field].each { |row| row["capabilities"] = Array(row["capabilities"]) - ["STRIPE-CAP-REFUND"] } + end + end +end + +suite.rejects("provider capability lacks an evaluation route", "capability STRIPE-CAP-API-UPGRADE is not routed through an evaluation") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "evaluations.yaml")) do |document| + document["evaluations"].each { |row| row["capabilities"] = Array(row["capabilities"]) - ["STRIPE-CAP-API-UPGRADE"] } + end +end + +suite.rejects("provider official source is declared but unused", "source STRIPE-SRC-UNUSED is not used") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(provider_file(root, "stripe", "sources.yaml")) do |document| + document["sources"] << { + "id" => "STRIPE-SRC-UNUSED", "title" => "Unused", "url" => "https://docs.stripe.com/", + "topic" => "unused test source", "authority" => "provider_documentation", "volatility" => "low" + } + end +end + +# -- identity and references ------------------------------------------------- + +suite.rejects("duplicate capability ID", "Duplicate capability id") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(capabilities(root)) do |document| + document["capabilities"][1]["id"] = document["capabilities"][0]["id"] + end +end + +suite.rejects("duplicate YAML key", "duplicate YAML mapping key") do |root| + content = File.read(capabilities(root)) + File.write(capabilities(root), "#{content}\nversion: 1\n") +end + +suite.rejects("unknown source reference", "unknown source GSC-SRC-UNKNOWN") do |root| + target = mutating_capability(root).fetch("id") + TestSupport.edit_yaml(capabilities(root)) do |document| + document["capabilities"].find { |row| row["id"] == target }["sources"] = ["GSC-SRC-UNKNOWN"] + end +end + +suite.rejects("missing capability sources", "sources must be a non-empty unique string list") do |root| + target = mutating_capability(root).fetch("id") + TestSupport.edit_yaml(capabilities(root)) do |document| + document["capabilities"].find { |row| row["id"] == target }["sources"] = [] + end +end + +suite.rejects("unknown workflow capability", "unknown capability GSC-CAP-UNKNOWN") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(workflows(root)) do |document| + document["workflows"][0]["capabilities"] = ["GSC-CAP-UNKNOWN"] + end +end + +suite.rejects("unknown evaluation capability", "unknown capability GSC-CAP-UNKNOWN") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(evaluations(root)) do |document| + document["evaluations"][0]["capabilities"] = ["GSC-CAP-UNKNOWN"] + end +end + +suite.rejects("evaluation referencing an unknown workflow", "unknown workflow") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(evaluations(root)) { |document| document["evaluations"][0]["workflow"] = "GSC-WF-UNKNOWN" } +end + +# -- access and effect rules ------------------------------------------------- + +suite.rejects("invalid source authority", "invalid authority secondary_summary") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(sources(root)) { |document| document["sources"][0]["authority"] = "secondary_summary" } +end + +suite.rejects("non-Google source URL", "URL must use official Google HTTPS documentation") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(sources(root)) { |document| document["sources"][0]["url"] = "https://example.com/guide" } +end + +suite.rejects("invalid OAuth scope", "invalid OAuth scopes https://www.googleapis.com/auth/unknown") do |root| + target = observing_capability(root).fetch("id") + TestSupport.edit_yaml(capabilities(root)) do |document| + document["capabilities"].find { |row| row["id"] == target }["access"]["oauth_scopes"] = + ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/unknown"] + end +end + +suite.rejects("invalid property role", "invalid property roles") do |root| + target = observing_capability(root).fetch("id") + TestSupport.edit_yaml(capabilities(root)) do |document| + document["capabilities"].find { |row| row["id"] == target }["access"]["property_roles"] = ["superuser"] + end +end + +suite.rejects("unapproved mutation", "mutation cannot use approval none") do |root| + target = mutating_capability(root).fetch("id") + TestSupport.edit_yaml(capabilities(root)) do |document| + document["capabilities"].find { |row| row["id"] == target }["approval"] = "none" + end +end + +suite.rejects("mutation without rollback", "mutation requires rollback or irreversibility text") do |root| + target = mutating_capability(root).fetch("id") + TestSupport.edit_yaml(capabilities(root)) do |document| + document["capabilities"].find { |row| row["id"] == target }["rollback"] = "Not applicable" + end +end + +suite.rejects("observe effect requiring approval", "observe and diagnose effects require approval none") do |root| + target = observing_capability(root).fetch("id") + TestSupport.edit_yaml(capabilities(root)) do |document| + document["capabilities"].find { |row| row["id"] == target }["approval"] = "bounded" + end +end + +suite.rejects("high-impact mutation with bounded approval", "high-impact mutation requires exact or human_only approval") do |root| + target = capability_where(root) { |row| row["effect"] == "mutate_high_impact" }&.fetch("id") + raise TestSupport::FixtureError, "the bundle declares no high-impact mutation" if target.nil? + + TestSupport.edit_yaml(capabilities(root)) do |document| + document["capabilities"].find { |row| row["id"] == target }["approval"] = "bounded" + end +end + +suite.rejects("unrouted mutation", "is not routed through a workflow or evaluation") do |root| + target = mutating_capability(root).fetch("id") + [workflows(root), evaluations(root)].each do |path| + key = File.basename(path, ".yaml") + TestSupport.edit_yaml(path) do |document| + Array(document[key]).each do |row| + row["capabilities"] = Array(row["capabilities"]) - [target] + end + end + end +end + +# -- limits and completeness ------------------------------------------------- + +suite.rejects("incomplete limit dimensions", "limits must declare exactly") do |root| + target = observing_capability(root).fetch("id") + TestSupport.edit_yaml(capabilities(root)) do |document| + document["capabilities"].find { |row| row["id"] == target }["limits"].delete("quotas") + end +end + +suite.rejects("empty limit dimension", "must be a non-empty unique string list") do |root| + target = observing_capability(root).fetch("id") + TestSupport.edit_yaml(capabilities(root)) do |document| + document["capabilities"].find { |row| row["id"] == target }["limits"]["quotas"] = [] + end +end + +suite.rejects("unknown capability field", "unknown fields") do |root| + target = observing_capability(root).fetch("id") + TestSupport.edit_yaml(capabilities(root)) do |document| + document["capabilities"].find { |row| row["id"] == target }["unexpected"] = "value" + end +end + +suite.rejects("unknown top-level field", "unknown top-level fields") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(workflows(root)) { |document| document["unexpected"] = true } +end + +suite.rejects("capability missing from the zero-gap ledger", "zero-gap ledger does not classify capability") do |root| + target = observing_capability(root).fetch("id") + TestSupport.edit_yaml(sources(root)) do |document| + Array(document["coverage"]).each do |row| + row["capabilities"] = Array(row["capabilities"]) - [target] + end + end +end + +# -- schema conformance ------------------------------------------------------ + +# schema/integration-capability.schema.json is applied to capabilities.yaml, so +# a constraint only the schema expresses must still be rejected. The handwritten +# validator has never checked the capability ID pattern. +suite.rejects("capability ID violating the schema pattern", "does not match") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(capabilities(root)) do |document| + document["capabilities"][0]["id"] = "gsc_cap_lowercase" + end +end + +# -- freshness --------------------------------------------------------------- + +expired_on = Date.today - 1 +suite.rejects("expired source review", "official-source review expired on #{expired_on}") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(sources(root)) do |document| + document["reviewed_on"] = expired_on - 30 + document["freshness"]["next_review"] = expired_on + document["freshness"]["cadence_days"] = 90 + end +end + +suite.rejects("review order inverted", "next_review must be after reviewed_on") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(sources(root)) do |document| + document["freshness"]["next_review"] = document["reviewed_on"] - 1 + end +end + +suite.rejects("next review beyond the declared cadence", "next_review exceeds cadence_days") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(sources(root)) do |document| + document["freshness"]["cadence_days"] = 1 + end +end + +exit(suite.run ? Standards::EXIT_SUCCESS : Standards::EXIT_INVALID) diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_validate_testing_reference.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_validate_testing_reference.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c574c25 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_validate_testing_reference.rb @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env ruby +# frozen_string_literal: true + +require_relative "lib/standards" +require_relative "lib/standards/test_support" + +include Standards + +suite = TestSupport::Suite.new( + "Testing reference validator", + validator: "validate_testing_reference.rb", + root_env: "TESTING_REFERENCE_ROOT", + prepare: TestSupport.method(:copy_repository) +) + +def routes(root) + File.join(root, "testing", "routes.yaml") +end + +suite.accepts("clean reference", "Testing reference valid") + +suite.rejects_usage("unknown option", "invalid option: --nonsense", ["--nonsense"]) + +suite.rejects("missing field guide", "missing document testing/field-guide.md") do |root| + File.delete(File.join(root, "testing", "field-guide.md")) +end + +suite.rejects("unknown rule", "references unknown rule ENGINEERING-TESTING-999") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(routes(root)) do |document| + document["test_types"]["unit"]["rules"] << "ENGINEERING-TESTING-999" + end +end + +suite.rejects("missing rule index entry", "rule_index missing ENGINEERING-TESTING-001") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(routes(root)) do |document| + document["rule_index"].delete("ENGINEERING-TESTING-001") + end +end + +suite.rejects("missing recipe anchor", "references missing anchor #absent-recipe") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(routes(root)) do |document| + document["situations"]["bug-fix"]["recipe"] = "absent-recipe" + end +end + +suite.rejects("missing template anchor", "references missing anchor #absent-template") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(routes(root)) do |document| + document["situations"]["bug-fix"]["templates"] = ["absent-template"] + end +end + +suite.rejects("unknown stage", "references unknown stage overnight") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(routes(root)) do |document| + document["test_types"]["unit"]["stages"] << "overnight" + end +end + +suite.rejects("catalog route drift", "reference_routes.testing must be testing/routes.yaml") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(File.join(root, "catalog.yaml")) do |document| + document["reference_routes"]["testing"] = "testing/absent.yaml" + end +end + +suite.rejects("abbreviated rule reference", "abbreviated rule reference `-001` is not allowed") do |root| + path = File.join(root, "testing", "field-guide.md") + File.write(path, "#{File.read(path)}\nAbbreviated drift: `-001`.\n") +end + +suite.rejects("invalid update date", "updated must be an ISO 8601 date") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(routes(root)) { |document| document["updated"] = "someday" } +end + +suite.rejects("duplicate stage definition", "stages must not contain duplicates") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(routes(root)) { |document| document["stages"] << document["stages"].first } +end + +suite.rejects("duplicate route rule", "test_types.unit.rules must not contain duplicates") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(routes(root)) do |document| + document["test_types"]["unit"]["rules"] << document["test_types"]["unit"]["rules"].first + end +end + +suite.rejects("situation without templates", "situations.bug-fix.templates must be a non-empty list") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(routes(root)) { |document| document["situations"]["bug-fix"]["templates"] = [] } +end + +suite.rejects("missing standard taxonomy type", "test_types missing standard taxonomy type smoke") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(routes(root)) { |document| document["test_types"].delete("smoke") } +end + +suite.rejects("duplicate reference heading", "duplicate heading anchor #thirty-second-decision-path") do |root| + path = File.join(root, "testing", "field-guide.md") + File.write(path, "#{File.read(path)}\n## Thirty-second decision path\n") +end + +suite.rejects("non-string document path", "documents.field_guide must be a path string") do |root| + TestSupport.edit_yaml(routes(root)) { |document| document["documents"]["field_guide"] = [] } +end + +exit(suite.run ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_INVALID) diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_workflows.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_workflows.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..36e8c36 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/test_workflows.rb @@ -0,0 +1,159 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env ruby +# frozen_string_literal: true + +# Checks the GitHub Actions workflows against the constraints this repository +# actually operates under. +# +# These are cheap to assert and expensive to discover the other way. A workflow +# referencing an action this repository is not allowed to run fails at startup +# with no step output and no log, which is easy to miss unless someone watches +# the run after pushing. Pinning and permissions are policy requirements that a +# reviewer should not have to check by eye. + +require "yaml" + +require_relative "lib/standards" + +ROOT = File.expand_path("..", __dir__) +WORKFLOW_DIR = File.join(ROOT, ".github", "workflows") + +input_findings = Standards::Findings.new +unless Standards::InputLimits.validate(ROOT, input_findings) + input_findings.report + exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID +end + +# The repository sets allowed_actions to "selected" with github_owned_allowed +# true, so actions/* are permitted and everything else must appear in the +# allowlist. Mirroring the non-GitHub entries here means adding an action is a +# deliberate step rather than something discovered from a startup failure. +# Read the live policy with: +# gh api repos/OWNER/REPO/actions/permissions/selected-actions +ALLOWED_NON_GITHUB_ACTIONS = %w[ + jdx/mise-action +].freeze + +# sha_pinning_required is true for this repository. +SHA_PIN = /\A[0-9a-f]{40}\z/ + +failures = [] +checks = 0 + +def check(failures, condition, message) + failures << message unless condition +end + +def no_more_than_contents_read?(permissions) + return false unless permissions.is_a?(Hash) + + permissions.all? do |scope, access| + scope == "contents" && %w[none read].include?(access) + end +end + +workflows = Dir.glob(File.join(WORKFLOW_DIR, "*.yml")).sort +if workflows.empty? + warn "No workflows found in .github/workflows" + exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID +end + +workflows.each do |path| + relative = path.delete_prefix("#{ROOT}/") + + checks += 1 + parse_findings = Standards::Findings.new + document = Standards::YamlSource.load_mapping(File.read(path), relative, parse_findings, permitted_classes: []) + failures.concat(parse_findings.to_a) + next unless parse_findings.empty? + + # Least privilege has to be stated and enforced. Merely requiring a + # permissions key would allow `write-all` or a write-scoped mapping to pass. + checks += 1 + check(failures, no_more_than_contents_read?(document["permissions"]), + "#{relative}: workflow permissions must grant no more than contents: read") + + jobs = document["jobs"] || {} + jobs.each do |name, job| + checks += 1 + check(failures, !job["runs-on"].to_s.include?("latest"), + "#{relative}: job #{name} uses a floating runner label #{job['runs-on'].inspect}") + + checks += 1 + check(failures, job.key?("timeout-minutes"), "#{relative}: job #{name} declares no timeout-minutes") + + if job.key?("permissions") + checks += 1 + check(failures, no_more_than_contents_read?(job["permissions"]), + "#{relative}: job #{name} raises permissions above contents: read") + end + + Array(job["steps"]).each_with_index do |step, index| + next unless step["uses"].to_s.start_with?("actions/checkout@") + + checks += 1 + check(failures, step.fetch("with", {})["persist-credentials"] == false, + "#{relative}: job #{name} checkout step #{index + 1} must set persist-credentials: false") + end + end + + # Every `uses:` must be SHA-pinned, carry a readable version comment, and be + # an action this repository is allowed to run. + File.readlines(path).each_with_index do |line, index| + match = line.match(/^\s*uses:\s*(\S+)/) + next if match.nil? + + location = "#{relative}:#{index + 1}" + reference = match[1] + action, _, pin = reference.partition("@") + + checks += 1 + check(failures, pin.match?(SHA_PIN), + "#{location}: #{reference} is not pinned to a full commit SHA") + + checks += 1 + check(failures, line.match?(/#\s*v\S+/), + "#{location}: #{action} has no version comment beside its SHA") + + checks += 1 + permitted = action.start_with?("actions/") || ALLOWED_NON_GITHUB_ACTIONS.include?(action) + check(failures, permitted, + "#{location}: #{action} is not in this repository's actions allowlist, so the workflow would fail at startup") + end +end + +# -- CI and documentation must run the same checks --------------------------- + +# CONTRIBUTING.md tells contributors what to run before opening a pull request. +# If CI runs a different set, one of the two is lying, and the usual direction +# is that a newly added suite never makes it into the documented list. +contributing = File.read(File.join(ROOT, "CONTRIBUTING.md")) +documented = contributing[/^## Run the checks\s*$(.*?)^## /m, 1].to_s + .scan(/^ruby (scripts\/\S+\.rb)$/).flatten + +workflow_commands = File.read(File.join(WORKFLOW_DIR, "validate.yml")) + .scan(/^\s*run:\s*ruby (scripts\/\S+\.rb)\s*$/).flatten + +checks += 1 +check(failures, !documented.empty?, "CONTRIBUTING.md: found no documented validator commands to compare against CI") + +checks += 1 +check(failures, documented == workflow_commands, + "CONTRIBUTING.md and .github/workflows/validate.yml run different checks:\n" \ + " documented: #{documented.join(', ')}\n" \ + " workflow: #{workflow_commands.join(', ')}") + +# Every executable suite in scripts/ should be one CI actually runs, otherwise +# it rots unnoticed. +suites = Dir.glob(File.join(ROOT, "scripts", "test_*.rb")).sort.map { |path| "scripts/#{File.basename(path)}" } +checks += 1 +missing = suites - workflow_commands +check(failures, missing.empty?, "these suites exist but CI never runs them: #{missing.join(', ')}") + +if failures.empty? + puts "Workflow checks valid: #{checks} assertions across #{workflows.length} workflow(s)" + exit Standards::EXIT_SUCCESS +end + +failures.each { |message| warn message } +warn "Workflow checks: #{failures.length} of #{checks} assertions failed" +exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/validate_catalog.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/validate_catalog.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a3ba821 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/validate_catalog.rb @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env ruby +# frozen_string_literal: true + +# Validates the OKF v0.2 bundle, the governed catalog, and the source register. +# +# Exit statuses: 0 valid, 1 validation failed, 2 usage error. + +require_relative "lib/standards" +require_relative "lib/standards/catalog_validator" + +options = Standards::CLI.parse( + ARGV, + banner: "Usage: ruby scripts/validate_catalog.rb [options]", + description: "Validates the OKF bundle, the governed catalog, and the source register." +) do |parser, parsed| + parser.on("--release", "Also check that the catalog is ready for a public release") do + parsed[:release] = true + end +end + +root = ENV["CATALOG_VALIDATION_ROOT"].to_s.empty? ? File.expand_path("..", __dir__) : File.expand_path(ENV.fetch("CATALOG_VALIDATION_ROOT")) + +begin + validator = Standards::CatalogValidator.new(root, release: options.fetch(:release, false)).run +rescue Standards::JsonSchema::UnsupportedKeyword => e + warn "schema: #{e.message}" + exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID +end + +if validator.valid? + puts validator.summary_lines + exit Standards::EXIT_SUCCESS +end + +validator.findings.report +validator.release_blockers.report if validator.release? +exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/validate_integrations.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/validate_integrations.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f7e536d --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/validate_integrations.rb @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env ruby +# frozen_string_literal: true + +# Validates the governed vendor integration capability bundles. +# +# Exit statuses: 0 valid, 1 validation failed, 2 usage error. + +require_relative "lib/standards" +require_relative "lib/standards/integration_validator" + +Standards::CLI.parse( + ARGV, + banner: "Usage: ruby scripts/validate_integrations.rb [options]", + description: "Validates the integration capability bundle against its schema and cross-file rules." +) + +root = ENV["INTEGRATION_VALIDATION_ROOT"].to_s.empty? ? File.expand_path("..", __dir__) : File.expand_path(ENV.fetch("INTEGRATION_VALIDATION_ROOT")) + +validator = Standards::IntegrationValidator.new(root) + +# A missing artifact stops the run: every later pass would only restate it. +unless validator.artifacts_present? + validator.findings.report + exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID +end + +validator.run + +if validator.valid? + puts validator.summary_lines + exit Standards::EXIT_SUCCESS +end + +validator.findings.report +exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/validate_testing_reference.rb b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/validate_testing_reference.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b15e4c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/scripts/validate_testing_reference.rb @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env ruby +# frozen_string_literal: true + +require_relative "lib/standards" +require_relative "lib/standards/testing_reference_validator" + +Standards::CLI.parse( + ARGV, + banner: "Usage: ruby scripts/validate_testing_reference.rb [options]", + description: "Validates testing routes, rule coverage, document targets, and heading anchors." +) + +root = ENV["TESTING_REFERENCE_ROOT"].to_s.empty? ? File.expand_path("..", __dir__) : File.expand_path(ENV.fetch("TESTING_REFERENCE_ROOT")) + +input_findings = Standards::Findings.new +unless Standards::InputLimits.validate(root, input_findings) + input_findings.report + exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID +end + +validator = Standards::TestingReferenceValidator.new(root).run +if validator.valid? + puts validator.summary + exit Standards::EXIT_SUCCESS +end + +validator.findings.report +exit Standards::EXIT_INVALID diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/security/application.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/security/application.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba2d37c --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/security/application.md @@ -0,0 +1,423 @@ +--- +id: SECURITY-APPLICATION +title: Application security +description: Governs threat modeling, access control, input handling, secrets, dependencies, detection, and security verification. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [security, engineering] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2027-02-13 +stale_after: 2027-02-13 +applies_to: [product-feature, public-web-page] +tags: [security, application, authentication, authorization, secrets, verification] +depends_on: [SECURITY-SECRETS, FND-CHANGE, FND-EVIDENCE, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T05:26:55Z" } +sources: + - id: owasp-asvs-5 + resource: https://owasp.org/www-project-application-security-verification-standard/ + title: OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 5.0.0 + author: organization:owasp + - id: owasp-top-10-2025 + resource: https://owasp.org/Top10/2025/ + title: OWASP Top 10:2025 + author: organization:owasp + - id: nist-ssdf-1-1 + resource: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/218/final + title: Secure Software Development Framework Version 1.1 + author: organization:nist + - id: nist-digital-identity-4 + resource: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/ + title: NIST SP 800-63-4 Digital Identity Guidelines + author: organization:nist + - id: owasp-cheat-sheets + resource: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/ + title: OWASP Cheat Sheet Series + author: organization:owasp + - id: anthropic-prompt-injection + resource: https://www.anthropic.com/research/prompt-injection-defenses + title: Mitigating the risk of prompt injections in browser use + author: organization:anthropic + - id: anthropic-agent-containment + resource: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude + title: How we contain Claude across products + author: organization:anthropic + - id: openai-agent-safety + resource: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agent-builder-safety + title: Safety in building agents + author: organization:openai +--- + +# Application security + +Applications must define their security boundary, enforce authorization on trusted systems, handle untrusted data safely, limit compromise, and produce evidence that controls work in the integrated system. This standard applies to application code, APIs, background jobs, administrative interfaces, deployment configuration, and supporting services that enforce application security. + +This standard is a baseline, not a claim that one checklist covers every threat. Select a version-qualified OWASP ASVS 5.0.0 requirement set and any organization security requirements according to the system's exposure, data, users, privileges, and impact. High-impact or novel systems require a qualified security owner to decide the verification depth. + +## Rules + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-001 — Define security requirements and trust boundaries + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Creating or materially changing an application, data flow, integration, privilege, externally reachable surface, or security control. + +Before implementation, record protected assets, actors, privileges, entry points, trust boundaries, data flows, dependencies, assumptions, abuse cases, required controls, and owners. Threat-model material changes and map applicable, version-qualified ASVS requirements to implementation and verification evidence. + +**Why:** Controls selected without the system boundary and attacker paths can protect the happy path while leaving alternate entry points exposed. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the threat model with current routes, jobs, queues, stores, identities, third parties, and deployment topology. +- Trace each material threat and ASVS requirement to a control, owner, test or inspection, and residual-risk decision. +- Reopen the model after changes to exposure, data sensitivity, tenancy, identity, privilege, dependency, or architecture. + +**Exceptions:** A bounded emergency fix can receive retrospective modeling through the governing incident process; record scope and deadline. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-002 — Enforce authorization on every trusted operation + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A user, service, device, job, or administrator reads data or performs an action with access restrictions. + +Enforce authorization in the trusted application or service for every request and object. Default to deny. Derive actor identity and tenant context from trusted authentication state, not client-supplied ownership fields. Check action, object, tenant, relationship, state, and field-level permissions as applicable, including indirect and bulk access. + +**Why:** Hidden controls, guessed identifiers, and authenticated sessions do not prevent unauthorized object or function access. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise unauthenticated, wrong-user, wrong-role, wrong-tenant, stale-membership, suspended, deleted, and direct-object requests. +- Test alternate routes, bulk endpoints, exports, search, background jobs, cached results, and nested object references. +- Inspect server-side policy and deny behavior; confirm client controls are not the enforcement boundary. + +**Exceptions:** Public resources must be explicitly classified public and tested for unintended fields, drafts, tenant data, and state-changing behavior. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-003 — Protect authentication and account recovery + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An application establishes, recovers, links, or changes a user or service identity. + +Use an approved identity system and an authentication strength proportionate to risk. Protect enrollment, sign-in, recovery, factor changes, identifier changes, and account linking against enumeration, guessing, replay, automation, and takeover. Require phishing-resistant authentication where governing risk or policy calls for it, and notify or step up authentication for material account changes. + +**Why:** Recovery and account-change paths often provide an easier takeover route than primary sign-in. + +**Verify:** + +- Test valid and invalid identifiers, repeated attempts, recovery, factor reset, account linking, email or phone change, and compromised-session scenarios. +- Confirm rate and abuse controls do not reveal account existence through content, status, timing, or side effects beyond the approved design. +- Compare implemented authenticator and recovery behavior with the selected NIST assurance guidance and organization policy. + +**Exceptions:** Legacy or external identity constraints require an approved security exception with compensating controls and an owner. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-004 — Manage sessions through their full life cycle + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An application creates or accepts a session, token, cookie, API credential, or delegated authorization grant. + +Generate unpredictable credentials, transmit and store them safely, bind them to the intended client and audience where applicable, set the narrowest scope and lifetime, rotate identifiers after authentication or privilege change, and invalidate them on logout, revocation, account disablement, or material compromise. Protect browser sessions against cross-site request forgery and use restrictive cookie attributes. + +**Why:** A secure sign-in does not protect a reusable, over-scoped, leaked, fixed, or non-revocable session. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise creation, refresh, idle and absolute expiry, privilege change, logout, concurrent use, revocation, and password or factor reset. +- Inspect cookie, token, storage, transport, issuer, audience, scope, and replay behavior. +- Confirm state-changing browser requests reject missing or invalid anti-forgery protection where ambient credentials are used. + +**Exceptions:** Stateless credentials that cannot be individually revoked need short lifetimes, key-rotation response, and a documented compromise model approved by security. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-005 — Handle untrusted input by context + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Data crosses a trust boundary into commands, queries, templates, markup, headers, paths, files, parsers, interpreters, or downstream systems. + +Validate allowed type, structure, range, length, and semantics at the trusted boundary. Use parameterized interfaces for queries and commands, and encode output for its exact destination context. Do not build executable syntax by concatenating untrusted data. Canonicalize only when the target comparison and normalization rules are defined. + +**Why:** Generic escaping or client validation cannot safely cover SQL, shell, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, URLs, headers, templates, and other interpreters. + +**Verify:** + +- Test valid boundary values, malformed encodings, nested structures, duplicate parameters, type confusion, traversal, and interpreter metacharacters. +- Inspect every sink for a parameterized API or context-specific encoder and confirm transformations occur once in the correct order. +- Confirm validation runs on server, worker, and batch paths even when a trusted client normally supplies the data. + +**Exceptions:** A reviewed parser or sandbox can accept a broader language only when its grammar, capabilities, resource limits, and escape boundary are explicit. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-006 — Isolate files and active content + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Users or external systems upload, import, generate, transform, preview, or serve files or rich content. + +Allow only needed formats and sizes, verify content rather than trusting names or declared types, generate server-side storage names, and store untrusted files outside executable application paths. Scan or safely transform content according to risk. Serve it with deliberate content type, disposition, origin, and permissions so it cannot execute with unintended authority. + +**Why:** Uploaded content can exploit parsers, overwrite paths, consume resources, execute in a trusted origin, or expose one tenant's data to another. + +**Verify:** + +- Test double extensions, mismatched types, malformed archives, traversal names, active content, oversized and compressed inputs, duplicates, and parser failures. +- Confirm storage paths, object permissions, serving origin, response headers, and tenant authorization. +- Exercise quarantine, scan failure, transformation failure, deletion, and incident recall paths. + +**Exceptions:** A required active-content workflow needs isolation, a threat model, explicit capabilities, and qualified security review. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-007 — Restrict outbound requests and callbacks + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Untrusted or partially trusted data can influence a server-side URL, host, port, protocol, redirect, webhook, import, fetch, or callback. + +Allow only needed protocols and destinations, resolve and validate the effective destination at the trusted boundary, restrict network egress, and block access to local, private, link-local, metadata, and control-plane services unless explicitly required. Revalidate redirects and defend against DNS rebinding and alternate address forms. + +**Why:** Server-side request forgery can turn an application into a path to internal systems or privileged cloud metadata. + +**Verify:** + +- Test loopback, private and link-local ranges, IPv4 and IPv6 forms, encoded addresses, credentials in URLs, redirects, DNS changes, alternate ports, and unsupported protocols. +- Inspect effective egress policy and resolver behavior rather than only string validation. +- Confirm fetched content has size, time, type, and redirect limits and cannot reach privileged credentials. + +**Exceptions:** A product whose purpose requires arbitrary destinations needs isolation, destination-risk controls, strict response limits, monitoring, and qualified security approval. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-008 — Keep secrets out of code, clients, and evidence + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Creating, receiving, storing, using, rotating, or revoking credentials, signing keys, encryption keys, tokens, or other secrets. + +Store secrets in an approved secret or key system. Never place them in source, client-delivered code, images, fixtures, tickets, logs, analytics, prompts, screenshots, or ordinary build output. Grant the minimum identity, scope, environment, and lifetime. Support rotation and prompt revocation, and treat exposure as an incident rather than merely deleting the visible value. + +**Why:** A committed or logged secret may remain in history, caches, replicas, and external systems after its first copy is removed. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect source history, build artifacts, client bundles, configuration, logs, telemetry, and support evidence with approved secret detection. +- Review effective secret access, scope, expiry, rotation, audit, and break-glass behavior. +- Exercise revocation or rotation and confirm dependent services recover without restoring the old secret. + +**Exceptions:** A public identifier or publishable key is not a secret, but its public status and allowed powers must be documented to prevent false assumptions. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-009 — Use approved cryptography and key management + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Protecting confidentiality, integrity, authenticity, password verifiers, signatures, random values, or data in transit or at rest. + +Use organization-approved, current protocols, algorithms, modes, parameters, and maintained libraries. Do not design custom cryptography. Use cryptographically secure randomness, authenticated encryption where confidentiality and integrity are required, purpose-separated keys, and a key life cycle covering generation, storage, access, rotation, revocation, backup, destruction, and algorithm migration. + +**Why:** Sound algorithms fail when modes, nonces, parameters, certificates, random sources, or keys are handled incorrectly. + +**Verify:** + +- Inventory protocols, algorithms, modes, parameters, certificates, hashes, password-verification settings, keys, and owning systems. +- Test transport downgrade, certificate validation, key rotation, corrupted ciphertext, replay where relevant, and failure behavior. +- Confirm source does not contain custom primitives, hard-coded keys, static nonces, or general hashes used as password verifiers. + +**Exceptions:** Compatibility with a legacy external system requires a time-bounded security exception, isolated exposure, monitoring, and migration owner. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-010 — Ship secure configuration and safe failure behavior + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Configuring an application, framework, service, runtime, container, proxy, cloud resource, or error path. + +Start from deny-by-default configuration. Disable unused services, routes, accounts, methods, debug features, sample content, directory listing, and unsafe framework defaults. Set needed security headers and resource policies. Fail closed for authorization and integrity decisions, while preserving a controlled recovery path. Return users safe, useful errors without exposing secrets, stack traces, queries, internal paths, or security control details. + +**Why:** A correct code path can be defeated by an exposed console, permissive cloud policy, verbose exception, unsafe default, or partial failure. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare effective development, preview, and production configuration with the approved baseline. +- Inspect externally reachable routes, methods, ports, storage, identities, headers, and debug behavior. +- Force dependency, timeout, parser, authorization, and partial-write failures and verify denial, consistency, recovery, and safe messages. + +**Exceptions:** A diagnostic feature can exist only behind approved access, environment, expiration, and audit controls. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-011 — Govern dependencies and build provenance + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Application behavior or security depends on a package, image, action, compiler, build service, external script, or downloaded artifact. + +Maintain an inventory of direct and transitive components and their source. Pin or constrain versions according to the ecosystem's safe update model, verify artifact integrity and origin, restrict who and what can alter builds, and monitor disclosed vulnerabilities and compromised components. Remove unused dependencies and define an owned update and emergency replacement path. + +**Why:** Vulnerable or replaced components and build systems can bypass controls without changing first-party source. + +**Verify:** + +- Reconcile the dependency or component inventory with lockfiles, images, build manifests, loaded scripts, and deployed artifacts. +- Inspect provenance, integrity checks, build identities, protected configuration, and release authorization. +- Review vulnerability findings for reachability, exposure, decision, deadline, fix or mitigation, and retest; do not treat scanner silence as proof of safety. + +**Exceptions:** An unmaintained or unverifiable component requires qualified security acceptance, isolation, monitoring, and a replacement plan. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-012 — Bound resource use and automated abuse + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An operation can consume material compute, memory, storage, bandwidth, money, messages, third-party quota, or human review capacity. + +Set limits for input size, parsing, nesting, decompression, execution time, retries, concurrency, pagination, output, queued work, and cost. Apply actor-, tenant-, object-, and system-level controls where one identity or distributed traffic could cause harm. Make retries idempotent where repeated side effects are possible and degrade safely when limits are reached. + +**Why:** Valid-looking requests can exhaust shared resources, multiply side effects, or create unbounded third-party cost. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise boundary, sustained, burst, distributed, retry, cancellation, and dependency-slowdown cases. +- Confirm limits exist at the resource-owning layer and cannot be bypassed by alternate identities, routes, jobs, or payload forms. +- Inspect alerts, queues, spend controls, cleanup, user feedback, and recovery after throttling or exhaustion. + +**Exceptions:** A trusted bulk operation needs explicit authorization, a separate bounded path, monitoring, stop controls, and an owner. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-013 — Log and detect security-relevant behavior + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An application authenticates actors, enforces access, changes privilege or security configuration, handles protected data, or detects abuse. + +Record enough context to investigate authentication, authorization denials, privilege and configuration changes, sensitive administrative actions, input rejection, control failure, and suspected abuse. Protect log integrity and access, use consistent time and correlation, alert on actionable conditions, and exclude secrets and unnecessary personal data. Define owners, retention, escalation, and expected response. + +**Why:** Security controls can fail silently when events cannot be connected to an actor, resource, decision, and response. + +**Verify:** + +- Trigger representative success, denial, change, and abuse events and trace them through collection, storage, alert, and owner response. +- Confirm logs resist user-controlled injection and do not contain credentials, tokens, sensitive payloads, or unbounded free text. +- Test loss, delay, tampering, clock skew, duplicate events, and alert-routing failure where material. + +**Exceptions:** A privacy or safety constraint can limit logged fields; preserve the minimum event, protected correlation, and alternate evidence needed for detection. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-014 — Require extra controls for administrative and high-impact actions + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An action changes access, identity, security policy, money, publication, deletion, exports, production configuration, or many users or records. + +Restrict the action to named roles and the narrowest scope. Require recent or stepped-up authentication according to risk, protect browser actions against forgery, present the exact target and effect before commitment, prevent unintended repetition, and create an attributable audit record. Separate request, approval, and execution when the governing risk requires it. + +**Why:** A stolen session, confused operator, forged request, or broad role can turn one action into widespread or irreversible harm. + +**Verify:** + +- Test wrong-role, stale-authentication, forged, replayed, duplicate, partial-failure, and wrong-target cases. +- Inspect effective permissions, approval boundaries, confirmation content, idempotency, and audit evidence. +- Confirm emergency access expires, is monitored, and receives retrospective review. + +**Exceptions:** An automated high-impact action requires equivalent service identity, policy, scope, approval, audit, stop, and recovery controls. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-015 — Verify controls against the integrated system + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Releasing or materially changing an application or security-relevant behavior. + +Execute the selected security verification plan against the integrated artifact and representative deployment. Cover applicable ASVS 5.0.0 requirements, threat-model abuse cases, authorization negatives, input and output boundaries, dependency and configuration review, secrets, logging, and recovery. Use independent qualified review for high-impact, novel, externally exposed, or materially privileged systems. + +**Why:** Unit tests and automated scanners each see only part of the attack surface and can miss control interaction, configuration, and business logic. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the exact artifact, environment, ASVS version and requirements, tools or methods, inputs, results, limitations, findings, and reviewer. +- Reproduce material findings, fix their cause, and retest the released or release-candidate artifact. +- Map untested requirements and residual risks to an approved exception or block completion. + +**Exceptions:** A check that would damage real systems or data can use the closest safe environment; document every material difference and the alternate evidence. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-016 — Prepare vulnerability and incident response + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Operating an application or releasing a security-relevant component. + +Maintain owned paths to receive vulnerability reports and security alerts, triage impact, contain exposure, revoke credentials and sessions, preserve protected evidence, correct the cause, restore safely, notify required parties, and verify recovery. Define severity, response timing, decision authority, communication boundaries, and lessons that feed requirements and threat models. + +**Why:** Delayed ownership and improvised containment increase attacker time, evidence loss, user harm, and recurrence. + +**Verify:** + +- Confirm public or internal reporting routes reach monitored owners without requiring public disclosure of sensitive details. +- Exercise a representative application incident, including credential revocation, containment, evidence handling, restore, communication decision, and post-recovery checks. +- Trace past findings and incidents to remediation, retest, updated monitoring, and threat-model or control changes. + +**Exceptions:** Response details can remain access-restricted, but owners, contact paths, and exercises must still be verifiable by authorized reviewers. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-017 — Defend model workflows against prompt injection + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A model or agent receives untrusted user input, retrieved content, files, webpages, messages, tool results, or memory while it can access private context or tools. + +Keep untrusted data out of high-authority instruction channels and executable templates. Preserve source and trust labels, extract only validated structured fields for privileged decisions, and enforce authorization, data release, recipients, and action policy outside the model. Treat direct and indirect prompt injection as an expected attack rather than a prompt-quality defect. + +**Why:** A model can follow malicious instructions embedded in ordinary content and use its legitimate tools as a confused deputy. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace dynamic data into system and developer instructions, tool descriptions, policies, queries, commands, and inter-agent messages. +- Test encoded, quoted, multilingual, hidden, retrieved, tool-returned, and multi-step adaptive injection attempts. +- Confirm successful model manipulation still cannot cross environmental, permission, approval, or data-release boundaries. + +**Exceptions:** A model with no untrusted input, private context, or action capability can use a narrower threat assessment when those boundaries are verified. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-018 — Contain model-driven execution + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A model or agent can execute code, browse, manipulate files, call external services, access internal systems, or operate without per-step human review. + +Constrain process, filesystem, credential, network, tool, data, tenant, time, memory, storage, and spend access independently of model behavior. Keep credentials outside the runtime unless needed, restrict egress and tool scopes, isolate runs, and reset mutable state. Do not rely on prompts, model training, or classifiers as the only barrier. + +**Why:** Probabilistic safeguards reduce unsafe behavior but cannot create a hard boundary around a capable or compromised agent. + +**Verify:** + +- Attempt access to disallowed files, processes, credentials, network ranges, tools, tenants, data, and resources. +- Test poisoned dependencies, webpages, files, tool outputs, and environment artifacts against the boundary. +- Confirm operators can stop and isolate a run and that reset removes unauthorized durable state. + +**Exceptions:** Local execution on a user-controlled device requires explicit scope, recoverable change, least privilege, protected credentials, and approval before material external or destructive effects. + +### SECURITY-APPLICATION-019 — Approve the exact agent action + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A model-selected action can disclose data, communicate externally, spend money, change access, delete or publish content, run privileged code, or create another material side effect. + +Require an approval or pre-authorized policy that binds the exact actor, action, target, data, scope, cost, and material consequence. Reopen approval when any bound value changes. Keep proposal, approval, and execution identities separate when risk requires it, and verify final state after execution. + +**Why:** A generic approval can be reused for a different target or expanded payload after the person has reviewed it. + +**Verify:** + +- Test changed-after-approval, stale, replayed, wrong-target, partial, duplicate, and fallback-tool actions. +- Confirm denial, timeout, or unavailable approval prevents execution and does not broaden authority. +- Compare approved values, executed tool arguments, and final external state. + +**Exceptions:** A low-impact recurring action can operate under a visible, bounded, time-limited policy with revocation, monitoring, and an accepted worst-case effect. + +## Guidance + +Use the threat model to select depth. A static public page, a tenant-aware API, an administrative console, and a financial workflow do not need identical controls or evidence. They all need an explicit boundary and an honest reason for what was selected. + +Treat authentication, authorization, and tenancy as different questions. Authentication establishes an identity. Authorization decides whether that identity can perform this action on this object in this state. Tenant isolation prevents one customer boundary from becoming another's. Test all three independently. + +Prefer maintained framework controls and typed, parameterized APIs over custom filters. Central controls reduce drift, but each caller still needs tests proving the intended policy applies to its route, job, and object. + +Security evidence can itself be sensitive. Redact secrets and personal data, restrict exploit details and architecture maps, and keep only what is needed to reproduce the result and make the risk decision. + +Reference ASVS requirements with the version, for example `v5.0.0-1.2.5`, because identifiers can change between releases. Record why a requirement applies or does not apply instead of claiming an ASVS level from a partial scan. + +## Examples + +### Tenant authorization + +Non-compliant: The interface hides another tenant's projects, but the API accepts any project ID after checking only that the caller is signed in. + +Compliant: The service derives tenant membership from trusted session state and checks action, tenant, project, and record state on every route and job. Tests swap user, role, tenant, object, and membership state and cover search, export, and bulk endpoints. + +### Server-side fetch + +Non-compliant: An import endpoint blocks URLs containing `localhost` but follows redirects and allows encoded or private IP addresses. + +Compliant: The service permits required protocols, resolves and validates every effective destination, blocks local and metadata ranges, restricts egress, rechecks redirects, and limits time and response size. Tests cover IPv4, IPv6, DNS changes, redirects, and alternate encodings. + +### Exposed credential + +Non-compliant: A secret committed to source is removed in a later commit and considered fixed. + +Compliant: The credential is revoked, dependent systems receive a new scoped value from the approved secret system, access logs are reviewed, exposure is handled through incident response, and history or caches are addressed according to the incident decision. + +## Sources + +- OWASP Foundation, [OWASP Application Security Verification Standard](https://owasp.org/www-project-application-security-verification-standard/), version 5.0.0 released May 30, 2025. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- OWASP Foundation, [OWASP Top 10:2025](https://owasp.org/Top10/2025/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. The Top 10 is an awareness document; this standard uses ASVS for verifiable control requirements. +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Secure Software Development Framework Version 1.1](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/218/final), NIST SP 800-218, February 3, 2022. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- National Institute of Standards and Technology, [NIST SP 800-63-4 Digital Identity Guidelines](https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/), final July 2025. Reviewed August 13, 2026. Apply its assurance requirements through the governing identity and security policy. +- OWASP Foundation, [OWASP Cheat Sheet Series](https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. Relevant implementation references include Authentication, Session Management, Authorization, Input Validation, Cross-Site Request Forgery Prevention, File Upload, Server-Side Request Forgery Prevention, Cryptographic Storage, Secrets Management, and Logging. +- Anthropic, [Mitigating the risk of prompt injections in browser use](https://www.anthropic.com/research/prompt-injection-defenses), November 24, 2025. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Anthropic, [How we contain Claude across products](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- OpenAI, [Safety in building agents](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agent-builder-safety). Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/security/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/security/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..650e6c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/security/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Security standards + +* [Application security](application.md) - Governs threat modeling, access control, input handling, secrets, dependencies, detection, and security verification. +* [Secrets management with Infisical](secrets-management.md) - Defines Infisical authority, hierarchy, identity, delivery, rotation, detection, control-plane, recovery, and migration requirements. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/security/secrets-management.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/security/secrets-management.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..47b66d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/security/secrets-management.md @@ -0,0 +1,449 @@ +--- +id: SECURITY-SECRETS +title: Secrets management with Infisical +description: Defines Infisical as the system of record for product secrets and governs scoping, identity, delivery, rotation, detection, recovery, control-plane operation, and repository adoption. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [security, platform, engineering, operations] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-16 +review_by: 2026-11-16 +stale_after: 2026-11-16 +applies_to: [software-change, service-change, repository-change, deployment-change, incident-response] +tags: [security, secrets, credentials, infisical, identity, rotation] +depends_on: [FND-CHANGE, FND-EVIDENCE, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T06:11:16Z" } +sources: + - id: infisical-secrets-management + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/secrets-mgmt/overview + title: Infisical Secrets Management + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-organization-structure + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/guides/organization-structure + title: Infisical Organizational Structure Blueprint + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-identities-overview + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/identities/overview + title: Infisical User and Machine Identities + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-machine-identities + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/identities/machine-identities + title: Infisical Machine Identities + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-rbac + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/access-controls/role-based-access-controls + title: Infisical Role-based Access Controls + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-additional-privileges + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/access-controls/additional-privileges + title: Infisical Additional Privileges + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-access-requests + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/access-controls/access-requests + title: Infisical Access Requests + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-change-approvals + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/pr-workflows + title: Infisical Approval Workflows + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-github-actions + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/integrations/cicd/githubactions + title: Infisical GitHub Actions + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-kubernetes-auth + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/identities/kubernetes-auth + title: Infisical Kubernetes Auth + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-secret-delivery + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/secrets-mgmt/concepts/secrets-delivery + title: Infisical Fetching Secrets + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-local-development + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/guides/local-development + title: Infisical Secret Management in Development Environments + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-project-config + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/cli/project-config + title: Infisical Project Config File + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-secret-reference + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/secret-reference + title: Infisical Secret Referencing and Importing + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-secret-syncs + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/integrations/secret-syncs/overview + title: Infisical Secret Syncs + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-secret-rotation + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/secret-rotation/overview + title: Infisical Secret Rotation + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-dynamic-secrets + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/secrets-mgmt/concepts/dynamic-secrets + title: Infisical Dynamic Secrets + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-secret-versioning + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/secret-versioning + title: Infisical Secret Versioning + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-pit-recovery + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/pit-recovery + title: Infisical Point-in-Time Recovery + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-secret-scanning + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/secret-scanning/overview + title: Infisical Secret Scanning + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-audit-logs + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/getting-started/concepts/audit-logs + title: Infisical Audit Logs + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-audit-streams + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/audit-log-streams/audit-log-streams + title: Infisical Audit Log Streams + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-organization + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/organization + title: Infisical Organization + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-sso + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/sso/overview + title: Infisical SSO Overview + author: organization:infisical + - id: infisical-production-hardening + resource: https://infisical.com/docs/self-hosting/guides/production-hardening + title: Infisical Production Hardening + author: organization:infisical +--- + +# Secrets management with Infisical + +Products and repositories governed by this standard use Infisical as the sole system of record for application secrets. They keep values out of public and ordinary operational artifacts and deliver only what each named human or bounded workload needs, for the environment and time it needs it. + +This standard is designed for public reuse. It intentionally omits adopter names, tenant and instance URLs, project and identity identifiers, account details, private topology, and real secret names. Each adopter binds those details in a protected deployment inventory outside this library. + +This standard covers passwords, tokens, private keys, signing material, webhook secrets, connection credentials, and sensitive configuration that grants access or would cause material harm if disclosed. A value is public configuration only when its issuer and powers support that classification. + +Infisical features differ by deployment and edition. Where this standard requires a control outcome and the native feature is unavailable, use a protected equivalent workflow, record the limitation and evidence, and reassess it at the next review. Feature absence never authorizes a weaker outcome or a shadow secret store. + +## Rules + +### SECURITY-SECRETS-001 — Make Infisical the sole system of record + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A product, service, job, repository, deployment, test harness, or automation creates, stores, receives, or uses an application secret. + +Create and maintain the secret in the adopter's approved Infisical instance. Do not make source control, local environment files, CI variables, deployment-platform settings, password managers, tickets, chat, or personal notes authoritative. A destination may hold a controlled replica only when direct delivery is unavailable and `SECURITY-SECRETS-008` and `SECURITY-SECRETS-011` are satisfied. + +Do not create new Infisical service tokens; Infisical deprecates them in favor of machine identities. Do not preserve an unmanaged fallback or a second writable source during ordinary operation. + +**Why:** Multiple sources and deprecated credentials create unclear ownership, stale values, inconsistent rotation, and incomplete revocation. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace every runtime secret from its authoritative issuer through its Infisical project, environment, and path to each authorized consumer. +- Compare CI, hosting, orchestration, local-development, password-manager, and support configuration with the private inventory and explain every copy. +- Confirm no new or active deprecated service token remains and every allowed replica has an owner, purpose, lifetime, and removal path. + +**Exceptions:** A platform that cannot integrate with Infisical requires a time-bounded security exception naming the alternate protected store, owner, rotation and revocation process, and migration trigger. Emergency values must enter Infisical or be revoked when the emergency ends. + +### SECURITY-SECRETS-002 — Align Infisical hierarchy with security boundaries + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Creating or changing an Infisical organization, project, environment, folder, secret, or consumer mapping. + +Use a separate project for a product or platform domain whose ownership, trust, access population, lifecycle, incident response, and compliance obligations can be governed together. Use distinct environments for deployment and trust boundaries, and paths for consumer permission sets. Keep production values independently issued and separate from development, test, preview, and demonstration values. + +Grant and fetch named environments and paths only. Do not use the root path, wildcards, cross-environment access, or shared projects as convenience defaults. Use project templates or reviewed infrastructure-as-code for repeated environments, roles, groups, identities, approval policies, and settings; review the resulting effective configuration before use. + +**Why:** A flat or manually inconsistent hierarchy turns one compromised account, workload, or configuration error into access across unrelated systems. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare organization, project, environment, and path boundaries with current ownership, deployment, data, and threat boundaries. +- Inspect root, wildcard, cross-environment, unused, inherited, template-created, and manually added access. +- Start each consumer with only its documented environment and paths and confirm it works without unrelated values. + +**Exceptions:** A shared project or path is allowed only when its owner, access population, rotation event, incident boundary, and lifecycle are genuinely shared and recorded. + +### SECURITY-SECRETS-003 — Govern human access by effective privilege + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A person receives organization, project, environment, path, secret-value, approval, or administration access. + +Use named human accounts, enforced organization identity, strong authentication, bounded sessions, and group or role assignment. Prefer the organization and project `No Access` roles plus scoped custom roles. Minimize organization and project administrators, because built-in roles can span broad resources and administrators can bypass ordinary project boundaries. + +Calculate access as the union of every built-in role, custom role, group role, additional privilege, and temporary grant; Infisical permissions are additive. Repeated additional privileges must become an owned custom role. Production reads and changes require temporary access, recorded business need, independent approval, no self-approval, expiration, and immediate removal. Use native access and change approvals when available; otherwise preserve equivalent requests, approvers, scope, duration, decision, and revocation evidence outside Infisical. + +Use SSO, MFA, group mapping, and automated provisioning or deprovisioning when supported. Directly remove urgent access in Infisical and the identity provider; do not wait for login-time group synchronization. + +**Why:** Broad built-in roles, additive grants, stale group state, and standing production access can silently exceed the intended permission boundary. + +**Verify:** + +- Reconcile active users, groups, roles, additional privileges, approvals, sessions, and administrators with current owners and duties. +- Test that development users cannot read production, metadata-only roles cannot read values, and read-only roles cannot create, edit, delete, approve, or administer. +- Exercise joining, role change, departure, urgent removal, temporary access expiry, request revocation, and administrator break-glass recovery. + +**Exceptions:** Break-glass access must be time-bounded, independently approved when circumstances permit, logged, reviewed after use, and removed immediately after recovery. + +### SECURITY-SECRETS-004 — Bound machine identities by permission set and blast radius + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** CI, a deployed service, a job, an agent, an operator, or another automated consumer authenticates to Infisical. + +Create a machine identity for each distinct combination of project, environment, paths, actions, tenant boundary, and compromise impact. Replicas of the same application may share an identity when their permissions and security boundary are identical. Separate identities when environments, tenants, trust, deployment ownership, or required permissions differ. + +Use cloud-native, Kubernetes, OIDC, or SPIFFE authentication when supported. Use Universal Auth only when workload identity is unavailable. Use Token Auth only as a governed last resort. Never use a developer account or deprecated service token for a workload. + +Bind OIDC to exact issuer, audience, subject, repository, workflow, branch or protected environment, and other required claims; do not use a wildcard when a stable exact value exists. Bind Kubernetes Auth to allowed service-account names, namespaces, audience, and reviewer design. Explicitly set access-token TTL, maximum TTL, use limit, and trusted network ranges to the job or runtime need instead of accepting broad defaults. + +**Why:** Identity boundaries based on host count are noisy, while shared, wildcard, or long-lived authentication can expose every secret reachable by a permission set. + +**Verify:** + +- Reconcile identities with distinct effective permission sets and document every shared identity's replicas and common security boundary. +- Attempt authentication from an unapproved repository, workflow, branch, environment, audience, claim, namespace, service account, network, expired token, and exhausted token. +- Confirm every fallback authentication method has an owner, protected bootstrap credential, rotation, revocation test, and recorded platform limitation. + +**Exceptions:** A platform without supported workload identity may use a dedicated Universal Auth or Token Auth configuration under the controls above and a dated reassessment. + +### SECURITY-SECRETS-005 — Choose and bound the secret delivery path + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Fetching, injecting, exporting, caching, synchronizing, building with, or exposing an Infisical-managed secret. + +Choose delivery according to the consumer and refresh contract: CLI process injection for local development; maintained SDK or API for deliberate in-memory runtime fetching; Infisical Agent for VM or container preload; Operator, External Secrets Operator, Agent, or SDK for Kubernetes; and Secret Sync only when the destination cannot fetch directly. Authenticate as the named human or workload and request only the selected environment and paths. + +Define startup, refresh, cache, maximum staleness, token-expiry, denied-access, restart, revocation-delay, and cleanup behavior. Do not silently fall back from Infisical or an SDK cache to a legacy environment value. Do not automatically restart production on every remote change without rollout, health, stop, and recovery controls. + +Never bake secrets into source, generated code, packages, images, caches, client bundles, mobile applications, source maps, snapshots, command arguments visible to other users, or ordinary logs. Export to a file only when the consumer requires it, using restrictive permissions, an ephemeral protected location, cleanup on success and failure, and exclusion from artifacts, backups, support bundles, and telemetry. + +**Why:** A protected source does not help when delivery creates durable copies, stale authorization, hidden fallback, or broad process inheritance. + +**Verify:** + +- Match each consumer to its documented delivery and refresh method and exercise first fetch, refresh, expiry, denial, outage, stale cache, restart, and revocation. +- Inspect final images, packages, clients, workspaces, files, process arguments, child processes, caches, artifacts, logs, crash reports, and cleanup. +- Confirm unrelated build steps, jobs, containers, and child processes do not inherit the values. + +**Exceptions:** A platform-mandated file or synchronized destination must satisfy `SECURITY-SECRETS-008` and `SECURITY-SECRETS-011`. + +### SECURITY-SECRETS-006 — Rotate, revoke, and restore at the authoritative issuer + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Issuing, changing, rotating, expiring, revoking, restoring, or retiring a secret or consumer. + +Assign every secret family an owner, issuer, purpose, consumers, rotation or expiry policy, refresh behavior, and compromise response. Prefer dynamic credentials, then automated dual-phase rotation. During dual-phase rotation, monitor and update consumers before inactive credentials reach revocation. For a continuity-sensitive provider limited to single-phase rotation, disable unattended rotation and use a coordinated maintenance window with immediate consumer refresh and authentication-failure monitoring. + +Change or revoke the credential at its authoritative issuer, update Infisical, roll consumers, verify the new value, and prove the old value fails. Editing, deleting, restoring, or rolling back an Infisical value does not change issuer state. Secret versioning and point-in-time recovery may restore stored configuration but cannot reactivate an issuer-revoked credential; validate issuer acceptance before promoting restored state. + +**Why:** Store-only rotation and blind rollback can leave exposed credentials valid, restore unusable values, or interrupt consumers. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect ownership, age, issuer state, consumer inventory, refresh design, expiry, last rotation, and overdue exceptions without recording values. +- Exercise dynamic expiry or representative dual-phase, single-phase, emergency, and rollback flows through issuer state, delivery, health checks, monitoring, and recovery. +- Confirm retired consumers and identities cannot authenticate or retrieve values and restored values match current issuer state. + +**Exceptions:** A non-rotatable credential requires qualified security acceptance, compensating scope and monitoring, and a replacement or vendor-escalation owner. + +### SECURITY-SECRETS-007 — Detect exposure before and after publication + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Maintaining a repository, pipeline, artifact, or connected source, or when a secret may have entered an unintended location. + +Run approved detection on staged changes before commit or merge and on the governed history or release scope in CI. Enable connected-repository monitoring and new-push scans when the available Infisical edition and source platform support them; otherwise run an equivalent owned recurring scan. Protect findings because they may contain live values. + +Treat a match as exposed until triage proves it is a false positive or non-secret. Suppress only the narrow finding or path with classification evidence, owner, and review condition. For real exposure, revoke or rotate at the issuer, replace the Infisical value, identify affected consumers and access, preserve protected evidence, review audit events, and follow incident response. Removing visible text or rewriting history alone is not remediation. + +**Why:** Copies can survive in clones, caches, forks, artifacts, logs, prompts, and support systems after source is edited. + +**Verify:** + +- Record scanner and rule versions, staged, history, connected-source, artifact, and release scopes, results, suppressions, and protected finding references. +- Seed a safe test signature to confirm local, CI, and connected-source enforcement detect it without printing a value. +- For an incident, verify issuer-side old-value rejection, consumer recovery, audit review, and disposition of known copies. + +**Exceptions:** An unavailable connected-source feature may use equivalent scheduled scanning; scanner limitations never authorize committing a secret. + +### SECURITY-SECRETS-008 — Design availability, audit, and recovery + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Secret access supports a material service or Infisical, identity, network, cache, or audit availability can affect operation. + +Define behavior for unavailable, slow, denied, expired-token, stale-cache, partial, and recovered states. Decide when startup and refresh fail closed, whether a running process may continue with an in-memory value, the maximum stale lifetime, and how operators recover without bypassing controls. Test break-glass access without creating a standing alternate store. + +Collect security-relevant Infisical authentication, read, write, permission, identity, approval, rotation, sync, and administration events. Define retention, alert ownership, escalation, and response for unexpected reads, repeated authentication failure, privilege change, break-glass use, overdue rotation, sync drift, and audit-stream loss. Use native immutable logs and external streaming when available; otherwise preserve equivalent protected export and retention evidence. + +**Why:** A central manager can become a service dependency, and security-relevant failure becomes invisible without owned audit and alert paths. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise outage, latency, denial, token expiry, stale cache, audit-stream interruption, lost alert route, break-glass use, recovery, and post-recovery revocation. +- Trace representative access and administration events through collection, retention, alerting, investigation, and owner response. +- Confirm recovery does not reintroduce a legacy value, broad identity, expired exception, or untracked replica. + +**Exceptions:** A disconnected or safety-critical runtime may keep an encrypted, bounded-lifetime replica when its threat model, update channel, revocation delay, and security approval are recorded. + +### SECURITY-SECRETS-009 — Migrate without preserving shadow stores + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Adopting Infisical in an existing repository, product, service, or environment. + +Inventory secret names, issuers, owners, environments, consumers, current stores, copies, authentication methods, and rotation capability without copying values into the record. Create the target Infisical hierarchy and identities, move one bounded consumer group at a time, exercise delivery and failure behavior, then revoke old credentials or remove old store values as appropriate. + +Do not retain silent fallback or indefinite dual delivery. A temporary dual path must have an owner, deadline, observable selection behavior, stop condition, and tested removal. Complete migration only when consumers use Infisical, deprecated service tokens and legacy copies are removed or governed by dated exceptions, detection passes, and the private inventory records final state. + +**Why:** A migration that leaves active credentials and fallback stores adds dependencies without reducing exposure. + +**Verify:** + +- Reconcile before-and-after state across source, CI, hosting, orchestration, developer instructions, runtime configuration, password managers, and support systems. +- Confirm each consumer uses its intended identity, environment, paths, delivery method, and failure behavior. +- Verify old-value rejection or deletion, fallback removal, detection results, exception expiry, and owner sign-off. + +**Exceptions:** A phased migration may leave explicitly inventoried consumers on the old system until their dated step; each remains governed by a `SECURITY-SECRETS-001` exception. + +### SECURITY-SECRETS-010 — Govern the Infisical control plane + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Creating, configuring, operating, upgrading, or self-hosting an Infisical organization or instance. + +Assign separate accountable owners for security policy, platform operation, recovery, and application-secret content. Govern default organization role, domain verification, SSO enforcement, MFA, session duration, groups, provisioning, project templates, approval policy, audit retention, and administrators as reviewed configuration. Capability-aware substitutes must preserve the same access, approval, expiry, attribution, and retention outcomes. + +For self-hosting, require TLS, correct public site configuration, default-deny network access, protected and separated encryption keys, encrypted database backups, tested restore, database availability, capacity monitoring, centralized security logs, owned upgrade cadence, and prompt user and administrator offboarding. Review whether an external KMS is required by the system's threat, recovery, or compliance model. Do not store the Infisical root encryption or authentication keys inside the Infisical secret store they unlock. + +**Why:** Strong application-level policy can be bypassed by a weak organization default, privileged administrator, lost encryption key, stale deployment, or untested backup. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare effective organization and instance configuration with the approved template or infrastructure definition and explain drift. +- Exercise SSO and MFA enforcement, session expiry, provisioning, urgent deprovisioning, administrator recovery, backup restoration, key availability, and upgrade rollback. +- Confirm monitoring covers capacity, database health, authentication, audit delivery, backup age, restore status, certificate expiry, and security updates. + +**Exceptions:** Infisical Cloud owns underlying service operation; the customer remains responsible for organization policy, identities, projects, audit use, data classification, and recovery of dependent applications. + +### SECURITY-SECRETS-011 — Control resolution, overrides, imports, and sync precedence + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Using personal overrides, secret references, imports, inherited values, or Secret Sync. + +Restrict personal overrides to named humans in local development. Prohibit them in CI, shared development, test, preview, staging, and production. Document them during troubleshooting and review them separately because ordinary secret reminders may not cover them. + +For references and imports, record every source environment and path, effective read expansion, API version, relative-resolution behavior, collision order, unresolved-value behavior, and import depth. The consuming identity must have deliberate access to every referenced value. Do not use cross-environment references to bypass environment separation or rely on implicit collision precedence. + +For Secret Sync, approve source, destination, identity, environment, path, initial conflict behavior, key schema, auto-sync, deletion propagation, destination editing policy, removal behavior, and recovery before enabling it. Inventory the destination as a controlled replica. Reconcile immediately after initial and material syncs, detect direct-edit drift, and keep Infisical authoritative. + +**Why:** Client-side resolution, last-wins imports, personal branches, and destructive sync options can select an unexpected value or widen access without changing application code. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise personal, shared, imported, referenced, missing, duplicate, reordered, cross-environment, unauthorized, and supported API-version cases. +- Preview or safely stage initial sync behavior and test create, update, delete, destination drift, disabled deletion, failure, removal, and recovery. +- Reconcile effective consumer values and permissions without exposing secret contents in ordinary evidence. + +**Exceptions:** None for production precedence or destination behavior; every such path must be explicit and tested. + +## Guidance + +### Repository contract + +Each consuming repository should state, without values or private topology: + +- the safe Infisical project reference, environments, paths, required names, and owners; +- which commands need secrets and which delivery method they use; +- how developers authenticate and run locally without a `.env` file; +- the permission-set identity used by CI and each deployment class; +- cache, refresh, outage, restart, sync, and revocation behavior; and +- where authorized operators find the private inventory, rotation, recovery, and incident procedures. + +An inspected `.infisical.json` may be committed when it contains safe project configuration only. Prefer an explicit development default. Treat branch-to-environment mapping as a convenience, not authorization; never let an ordinary branch select production access without an independently protected workload identity and deployment approval. + +### Delivery decision + +Prefer the delivery path with the fewest durable copies that meets refresh and availability needs. Runtime fetching improves freshness but adds an online dependency. Agent, Operator, External Secrets Operator, and sync delivery can isolate that dependency but create caches or replicas requiring explicit lifetime and revocation behavior. Select based on the consumer contract, not framework fashion. + +### Capability-aware controls + +Record the Infisical deployment and edition capabilities used by each production project. When SSO, groups, SCIM, access requests, change approvals, audit streaming, point-in-time recovery, dynamic credentials, automated rotation, or connected-source scanning is unavailable, name the alternate control, evidence location, owner, and review trigger. Do not claim the native feature ran when evidence comes from a substitute. + +### Secret or configuration + +Classify by capability and harm, not by variable name. A database password and webhook signing key are secrets. A public API origin, project identifier, or identity identifier is normally configuration after inspection. A key labeled publishable is public only if its issuer documents that status and privileged operations are enforced elsewhere. + +## Examples + +### Additive human access + +Non-compliant: A developer's custom role blocks production, so the reviewer assumes a temporary additional privilege cannot grant production reads. + +Compliant: The reviewer calculates the union of group roles, custom roles, and additional privileges, finds the production grant, confirms its approved purpose and expiry, and removes it when the task ends. + +### Replicas and GitHub OIDC + +Non-compliant: Every pod receives a separate identity while all GitHub workflows share one wildcard-bound production identity. + +Compliant: Identical replicas share one permission-set identity. Staging and production remain separate. The production GitHub identity binds exact issuer, audience, repository, workflow, and protected environment claims and receives a short-lived token. + +### Import collision and personal override + +Non-compliant: A production folder imports two folders with the same name and relies on order, while a developer personal override is copied into shared CI to make the build pass. + +Compliant: The team removes the collision or gives it explicit tested precedence, verifies every reference permission and API behavior, and confines the documented personal override to the developer's local process. + +### SDK cache outage + +Non-compliant: The application silently falls back to an old process environment value after its SDK cache expires. + +Compliant: The service defines its maximum cache age, continues or fails according to the approved risk decision, alerts on refresh failure, never selects a legacy value, and proves revoked credentials stop working within the declared delay. + +### Destructive initial sync + +Non-compliant: A new sync overwrites destination secrets and propagates deletion without an inventory or recovery procedure. + +Compliant: The owner inventories both sides, selects and reviews initial conflict and deletion behavior, applies a key schema and bounded destination, stages the change safely, reconciles it, detects drift, and tests sync removal. + +### Single-phase rotation + +Non-compliant: Automatic single-phase rotation invalidates a credential while long-running consumers still cache it. + +Compliant: The owner schedules a maintenance window, coordinates refresh, monitors authentication failures, verifies the replacement, and proves the old credential fails before closure. + +### Restoring a revoked value + +Non-compliant: Point-in-time recovery restores an older Infisical value and the team assumes the external provider accepts it. + +Compliant: The team checks issuer state, issues a new credential when the restored value is revoked, updates Infisical, rolls consumers, and verifies both new acceptance and old rejection. + +## Sources + +Infisical documents secrets by project, environment, and path; additive access control for humans and machine identities; multiple delivery and workload-authentication methods; references, imports, overrides, and syncs; rotation and recovery; scanning and audit; and Cloud or self-hosted operation. Feature availability can differ by edition and deployment, so capability and licensing must be revalidated before relying on a native workflow. + +- Infisical, [Secrets Management](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/secrets-mgmt/overview). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Organizational Structure Blueprint](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/guides/organization-structure). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [User and Machine Identities](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/identities/overview). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Machine Identities](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/identities/machine-identities). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Role-based Access Controls](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/access-controls/role-based-access-controls). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Additional Privileges](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/access-controls/additional-privileges). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Access Requests](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/access-controls/access-requests). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Approval Workflows](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/pr-workflows). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [GitHub Actions](https://infisical.com/docs/integrations/cicd/githubactions). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Kubernetes Auth](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/identities/kubernetes-auth). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Fetching Secrets](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/secrets-mgmt/concepts/secrets-delivery). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Secret Management in Development Environments](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/guides/local-development). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Project Config File](https://infisical.com/docs/cli/project-config). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Secret Referencing and Importing](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/secret-reference). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Secret Syncs](https://infisical.com/docs/integrations/secret-syncs/overview). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Secret Rotation](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/secret-rotation/overview). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Dynamic Secrets](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/secrets-mgmt/concepts/dynamic-secrets). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Secret Versioning](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/secret-versioning). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Point-in-Time Recovery](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/pit-recovery). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Secret Scanning](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/secret-scanning/overview). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Audit Logs](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/getting-started/concepts/audit-logs). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Audit Log Streams](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/audit-log-streams/audit-log-streams). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Organization](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/organization). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [SSO Overview](https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/sso/overview). Reviewed August 16, 2026. +- Infisical, [Production Hardening](https://infisical.com/docs/self-hosting/guides/production-hardening). Reviewed August 16, 2026. + +The source set was reviewed on 2026-08-16. Freshness ownership and the next review date are recorded in `source-register.yaml`. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/seo/foundations.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/seo/foundations.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d04564 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/seo/foundations.md @@ -0,0 +1,475 @@ +--- +id: SEO-FOUNDATIONS +title: Search foundations +description: Makes useful public content discoverable and understandable without misleading users or crawlers. +type: standard +status: stable +governance_status: active +owners: [seo, content, engineering] +last_reviewed: 2026-09-01 +review_by: 2026-11-13 +stale_after: 2026-11-13 +applies_to: [public-web-page, seo-migration, content-program] +tags: [seo, crawling, indexing, content] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T12:55:52-07:00" } +sources: + - id: google-crawling-indexing + resource: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing + title: Crawling and indexing + author: organization:google + - id: google-canonicalization + resource: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls + title: How to specify a canonical URL + author: organization:google + - id: google-redirects + resource: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/301-redirects + title: Redirects and Google Search + author: organization:google + - id: ietf-http-semantics + resource: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html + title: HTTP Semantics + author: organization:ietf + - id: ietf-robots + resource: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309.html + title: Robots Exclusion Protocol + author: organization:ietf + - id: google-helpful-content + resource: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content + title: Creating helpful reliable people-first content + author: organization:google + - id: google-javascript-seo + resource: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/javascript/javascript-seo-basics + title: Understand the JavaScript SEO basics + author: organization:google + - id: google-localized-versions + resource: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/specialty/international/localized-versions + title: Tell Google about localized versions of your page + author: organization:google + - id: google-structured-data + resource: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/intro-structured-data + title: Introduction to structured data markup in Google Search + author: organization:google + - id: google-ai-search-optimization + resource: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/ai-optimization-guide + title: Optimizing for generative AI features on Google Search + author: organization:google + - id: bing-robots + resource: https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/robots-meta-tags-and-attributes-that-bing-supports-5198d240 + title: Robots meta tags and attributes that Bing supports + author: organization:microsoft + - id: ietf-markdown-media-type + resource: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7763.html + title: The text/markdown Media Type + author: organization:ietf + - id: ietf-web-linking + resource: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8288.html + title: Web Linking + author: organization:ietf + - id: llms-txt-proposal + resource: https://llmstxt.org/ + title: The llms.txt file proposal + author: human:jeremy-howard + - id: marketing-skills-seo-audit + resource: https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/seo-audit/SKILL.md + title: Marketing Skills SEO audit + author: human:corey-haines + - id: marketing-skills-ai-seo + resource: https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/ai-seo/SKILL.md + title: Marketing Skills AI SEO + author: human:corey-haines + - id: marketing-skills-schema + resource: https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/schema/SKILL.md + title: Marketing Skills schema markup + author: human:corey-haines + - id: openai-publishers-developers + resource: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12627856-publishers-and-developers-faq + title: Publishers and Developers FAQ + author: organization:openai +--- + +# Search foundations + +Search work must make useful public content easier to discover and understand without misleading users or crawlers. It governs content purpose, crawl and index controls, canonicalization, rendering, structured data, internal discovery, and migrations. + +Search platform behavior changes frequently. Revalidate implementation details against current primary documentation before shipping. + +## Rules + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-001 — Give every indexable URL a distinct purpose + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A URL is intended to appear in organic search. + +Define the audience need, intended query or discovery context, and action or understanding the page supports. Provide substantive, accurate content not better represented by another canonical URL. + +**Why:** Near-duplicate or empty pages consume crawl and maintenance effort while giving users no distinct destination. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare the page with other indexable URLs targeting the same need. +- Confirm the primary content answers the defined need without relying on hidden or unavailable material. + +**Exceptions:** Locale and format variants can share purpose when their alternate and canonical relationships are intentional. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-002 — Make indexability intentional + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Publishing, staging, duplicating, migrating, personalizing, or retiring public content. + +Set a deliberate combination of access control, HTTP status, robots directives, canonical target, sitemap inclusion, and internal links. Do not use crawl controls as access control or as the sole method for removing an indexed URL. + +**Why:** Crawl, indexing, canonicalization, and authorization solve different problems and can produce contradictory signals. + +**Verify:** + +- Fetch the URL as a client and crawler where available, and inspect status, headers, HTML directives, canonical, links, and rendered content. +- Confirm staging and private material require real authorization. + +**Exceptions:** Temporary emergency removal can use a platform removal tool while the durable status, directive, or access fix is deployed. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-003 — Return truthful HTTP status codes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Content is missing, moved, unavailable, restricted, deleted, or temporarily offline. + +Return the status that describes the resource and use a redirect only when an appropriate destination exists. Avoid soft 404s, redirect chains, loops, blanket redirects, and error pages returning success. + +**Why:** Users, crawlers, caches, monitoring, and link checkers use status semantics to decide what happened and what to do next. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect headers for representative success, redirect, missing, gone, restricted, throttled, and outage cases. +- Follow redirects to the final relevant destination and confirm the chain is intentional. + +**Exceptions:** Security-sensitive resources can use a less revealing client response when required by policy, while internal monitoring records the actual condition. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-004 — Keep canonical signals consistent + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Multiple URLs can expose identical or near-identical content. + +Choose the intended canonical URL and align redirects, canonical annotations, sitemap inclusion, internal links, alternate-language annotations, and structured data with it. + +**Why:** Conflicting signals leave search platforms to choose a representative URL and can split reporting or discovery across variants. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare every duplicate or variant with the declared canonical map. +- Confirm canonical targets return an indexable success response and do not redirect elsewhere. + +**Exceptions:** Syndicated or cross-domain content can follow an approved distribution policy when the preferred source cannot control every signal. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-005 — Deliver essential meaning without interaction + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A page is intended for search discovery, sharing previews, feeds, or agent consumption. + +Include primary content, document title, description, canonical information, headings, links, and essential structured meaning in delivered HTML or a reliably rendered equivalent. Do not require a click, scroll, consent to nonessential tracking, or client-only state change to reveal the main subject. + +**Why:** Crawlers and other consumers may not execute every interaction or client behavior a user can. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the initial response and rendered result with scripts delayed or unavailable. +- Confirm the visible primary content and machine-readable metadata describe the same page. + +**Exceptions:** Authenticated application content is outside indexable scope unless an intentional public representation exists. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-006 — Mark up only visible, accurate content + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Publishing schema.org or search-platform structured data. + +Use the most specific truthful type supported by the visible page. Keep names, prices, availability, dates, ratings, authorship, and relationships consistent with what users can verify. + +**Why:** Hidden or exaggerated markup misleads machine consumers and can produce incorrect search features. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare every material structured property with visible content and source data. +- Run syntax and platform validation, then inspect the rendered page; validator success alone is insufficient. + +**Exceptions:** Machine-readable identifiers and technical relationships can be non-visible when they accurately describe visible content and platform rules allow them. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-007 — Preserve discovery during migrations + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** URLs, domains, protocols, paths, rendering systems, templates, or information architecture change. + +Inventory valuable URLs, map equivalent destinations one to one, preserve important content and internal paths, update canonical and alternate signals, and monitor crawl, indexing, traffic, and errors after launch. + +**Why:** A migration can remove valid entry points or redirect users to irrelevant destinations even when the new site works in isolation. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare prelaunch inventory with the redirect and content map. +- Crawl old and new URL sets, inspect representative rendered pages, and track postlaunch status and discovery changes. +- Assign an owner and duration for monitoring and redirect retention. + +**Exceptions:** Retired content with no relevant replacement should return its truthful terminal status instead of redirecting to a generic page. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-008 — Make titles, descriptions, headings, and links descriptive + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Publishing an indexable page or a page that links to one. + +Use a distinct descriptive document title, an accurate summary, one clear page topic, semantic heading structure, and link text that explains the destination. Keep important pages reachable through ordinary crawlable links. + +**Why:** These elements help users and machines understand a page before and after navigation. + +**Verify:** + +- Scan titles, headings, summaries, and links without surrounding layout. +- Crawl from expected entry points and confirm important destinations are discoverable without internal search or scripted interaction. + +**Exceptions:** Repeated navigation labels can rely on their shared navigation context when the destination remains clear. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-009 — Control URL proliferation + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Filters, sorting, search, tracking parameters, pagination, calendars, or generated combinations can create many URLs. + +Define which combinations deserve stable indexable URLs and how all others are linked, canonicalized, redirected, or excluded from crawl and indexing. Keep parameter behavior deterministic. + +**Why:** Unbounded URL spaces waste crawl effort, duplicate content, and make canonical signals harder to maintain. + +**Verify:** + +- Enumerate or sample parameter combinations and inspect their status, canonical, robots behavior, and links. +- Confirm application navigation does not continuously generate new crawlable states. + +**Exceptions:** Large deliberate catalogs can expose many URLs when each satisfies a distinct need and crawl capacity is monitored. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-010 — Measure qualified discovery and user value + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Evaluating search work or declaring a search migration complete. + +Use qualified organic outcomes and user value alongside crawl and indexing signals. Segment material sources of demand, annotate releases, and account for seasonality, reporting latency, and brand demand where relevant. + +**Why:** Rankings or impressions alone can rise while useful visits, conversions, or retained discovery decline. + +**Verify:** + +- Record baseline, release date, measurement window, affected URL set, and known reporting limitations. +- Connect technical indicators with representative landing-page and outcome behavior. + +**Exceptions:** A new property without a baseline can use indexed coverage and qualified landing behavior while a comparison period develops. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-011 — Publish for a real audience, not ranking manipulation + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Creating, generating, consolidating, or materially revising indexable content. + +Publish content because it serves an identified audience and site purpose. Add original knowledge, evidence, experience, tools, or synthesis appropriate to the topic. Do not mass-produce, paraphrase, cloak, expire, or refresh content primarily to capture queries or manipulate ranking systems. + +**Why:** Search-oriented volume without distinct user value creates misleading or duplicative destinations and can violate search-platform spam policies. + +**Verify:** + +- Identify the intended audience, owner, purpose, source evidence, and distinct value for the page or page family. +- Compare generated and templated pages for substantive differences beyond keywords, locations, or reordered source material. +- Confirm visible content and crawler-visible content have the same material meaning. + +**Exceptions:** Programmatically generated pages are allowed when each one accurately presents distinct data or functionality that satisfies a real user need and has quality controls at scale. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-012 — Map multilingual and regional variants explicitly + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Equivalent or closely related pages target different languages, scripts, or regions. + +Give each variant a stable URL, correct document language, locale-appropriate content, self-consistent canonical signals, and reciprocal alternate relationships. Provide a useful fallback for unmatched locales and do not redirect users solely from an inferred location or language without a choice. + +**Why:** Language and regional variants can be mistaken for duplicates or send users to the wrong currency, terms, language, or availability when their relationships are incomplete. + +**Verify:** + +- Crawl every variant set and confirm reciprocal `hreflang` or equivalent annotations, valid language and region codes, success responses, and self-canonical behavior. +- Compare translated primary content, navigation, structured data, and locale-specific claims. +- Test direct visits, shared links, and locale switching without relying on prior cookies. + +**Exceptions:** A single language-neutral selector can act as the fallback when it is accessible, indexable as intended, and does not replace substantive localized destinations. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-013 — Measure machine access at the request boundary + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Evaluating whether crawlers, search tools, or agents request public content. + +Use origin, reverse-proxy, content-delivery-network, or equivalent request records as the primary observation of machine requests. Do not treat browser analytics as proof that a crawler did or did not fetch a resource. Record the observed user agent, source, URL, response, time, and relevant cache layer, while treating self-declared crawler identity as unverified until corroborated. + +**Why:** Many machine clients do not execute browser analytics, and caches can answer requests before the origin sees them. User-agent strings can also be absent, changed, or spoofed. + +**Verify:** + +- Query the request boundary that can observe the declared delivery path and time window. +- Compare representative requests across the content-delivery network, origin, analytics, and platform tools without forcing unlike populations to reconcile. +- Confirm the evidence record excludes secrets and personal data and follows the applicable retention policy. + +**Exceptions:** When request logs are unavailable, record the evidence gap and use provider crawl or inspection evidence without claiming complete access measurement. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-014 — Publish an explicit machine-readable route index + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A site publishes more than one public informational page. + +Publish a concise `llms.txt` route index at the site root or the most specific governed path. Name the site or section, describe its scope, and link to a complete inventory of public informational pages and their Markdown representations. The inventory can be the file itself or an explicitly linked machine-readable catalog. Advertise the applicable index from every covered page with `rel="describedby"` so clients do not have to guess its URL. Keep access control and crawler policy in their governing mechanisms; `llms.txt` is a discovery aid, not authorization, confidentiality, or proof of indexing. + +**Why:** A curated route index reduces ambiguous path inference while preserving the canonical source and its access boundary. + +**Verify:** + +- Fetch the file at its declared URL and follow every listed resource without authentication, redirect ambiguity, or guessed suffixes where public access is intended. +- Diff the published informational URL inventory against `llms.txt` and its linked catalog; record every excluded URL class and reason. +- Compare names, descriptions, URLs, locale and version scope, and lifecycle state with the canonical site navigation, sitemap, and current published content. +- Inspect representative covered pages for an HTML `` element or HTTP `Link` header that identifies the applicable `llms.txt` resource with `rel="describedby"`. +- Confirm omission from `llms.txt` does not expose or protect content and that no ranking or citation claim relies on the file alone. + +**Exceptions:** A single public informational page can advertise its Markdown alternate directly without a separate route index. Private, personalized, transactional, and binary resources stay outside the public inventory. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-015 — Offer equivalent Markdown representations explicitly + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Publishing a public informational page whose essential meaning can be represented as text. + +Serve an accurate Markdown representation of every applicable page at a stable, explicitly advertised URL or through HTTP content negotiation. Generate HTML and Markdown from one canonical content source or enforce bidirectional parity. Identify the Markdown resource from the HTML response with `rel="alternate"` and `type="text/markdown"`; identify the HTML canonical from a separately addressed Markdown response. When one URL varies by `Accept`, honor media-type quality values, return the selected `Content-Type`, send `Vary: Accept`, and preserve a stable canonical identity. Do not require clients to invent `.md`, `.txt`, query, or API paths. + +**Why:** Explicit representations let tools request usable content without inventing `.md` paths or extracting it from presentation markup. + +**Verify:** + +- Build a page inventory from routes, content records, locales, versions, and generated page families; require one Markdown URL or negotiated representation for every applicable page. +- Request each representation directly and test `Accept: text/markdown`, `Accept: text/html`, weighted preferences, wildcards, unsupported media types, `HEAD`, conditional requests, and shared-cache reuse. +- Inspect `Content-Type`, Markdown `variant` when used, `Vary`, `Link`, canonical or `Content-Location`, `ETag` or modification metadata, cache, status, charset, language, and redirect behavior. +- Compare titles, headings, body meaning, links, claims, dates, prices, authorship, structured facts, qualifications, locale, version, and access boundaries across representations after a source change. +- Fail the release when an applicable page has no advertised Markdown route, returns stale or materially different content, or can only be found by guessing a suffix. + +**Exceptions:** Private, personalized, transactional, binary, streaming, or interaction-only resources can omit Markdown when a text representation would be incomplete, unsafe, or misleading. Record each excluded route class and provide an accurate public summary or documented interface when practical. A large page count or JavaScript implementation is not an exception. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-016 — Make public widget meaning addressable without JavaScript + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A JavaScript widget contains public facts, results, options, or navigation that a person or agent needs to evaluate or cite. + +Expose the widget's essential inputs, outputs, states, and source basis through server-visible content, stable URLs, or a documented machine-readable interface. Keep the human and machine representations materially consistent. Do not serve richer or different claims only to crawlers. + +**Why:** A client that cannot execute the widget otherwise receives an empty shell, cannot link to a result, or must guess an undocumented endpoint. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the initial response with scripts unavailable and exercise representative widget states with scripts enabled. +- Follow shared result URLs and documented interfaces from a new session without hidden client state. +- Compare visible and machine-readable claims, values, qualifications, and authorization behavior. + +**Exceptions:** A widget can require JavaScript when interaction is the product and no meaningful static result exists, provided its purpose, requirements, and fallback are visible without executing it. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-017 — Preserve governance semantics in machine representations + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A Markdown, structured-data, feed, API, or agent-oriented representation carries policy, standards, legal, safety, product, pricing, or other decision-governing content. + +Preserve the metadata and relationships a reader needs to interpret authority and applicability. Include stable identifiers, document and rule status, requirement level, scope, conditions, dependencies, exceptions, review or effective dates, source provenance, and canonical identity where the source provides them. Do not flatten a governed document into prose that makes a draft appear active, a recommendation appear required, or an informative source appear normative. + +**Why:** An agent can retrieve the correct words and still make the wrong decision when the alternate representation removes the metadata that controls how those words apply. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare each decision-bearing field and relationship across the canonical source, HTML, Markdown, structured data, catalogs, search indexes, and agent context. +- Ask representative readers and agents to identify the controlling document, rule ID, level, condition, dependency, exception path, review state, and citation from the machine representation alone. +- Confirm retired, superseded, draft, stale, and conflicting material cannot silently outrank current governing material. + +**Exceptions:** A short discovery index can summarize content when it links to the governing source and clearly states that the summary does not replace it. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-018 — Test discovery through the intended decision + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Machine-readable routes are published so an agent can answer, recommend, or act from the site's content. + +Test the complete path from a realistic task to the correct source selection and bounded decision. Do not treat a successful fetch, valid `llms.txt`, parsed Markdown, or schema validation as proof that an agent can apply the content correctly. Include positive, negative, ambiguous, stale, conflicting, and out-of-scope tasks, and evaluate both required retrieval and harmful over-retrieval. + +**Why:** Discovery infrastructure succeeds only when it helps the intended reader reach the correct decision without inventing authority, skipping dependencies, or using irrelevant material. + +**Verify:** + +- Start representative tasks with only the advertised route index and public representations available. +- Record selected files and rules, rejected alternatives, dependency traversal, citations, final answer or action, latency, request count, failures, and unsupported assumptions. +- Repeat variable agent trials under `FND-EVIDENCE-008` and validate judgment-based grading under `FND-EVIDENCE-010`. +- Retest after route, content, status, redirect, locale, version, or rendering changes. + +**Exceptions:** A deterministic machine client can use one successful run when its routing and output are fully specified and determinism is verified. + +### SEO-FOUNDATIONS-019 — Govern crawler purposes separately + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A publisher changes crawler access, indexing, model-training, user-request, or agent-interaction policy. + +Classify each documented client by purpose and current provider semantics before changing access. Decide search discovery, user-initiated retrieval, training, preview, and automated action independently where the provider exposes separate controls. Align `robots.txt`, page-level indexing directives, authentication, network controls, terms, privacy decisions, and monitoring with that policy. Do not infer a client's purpose from a brand name or copy one provider's user-agent rules to another. + +**Why:** Providers can use different clients and controls for search, training, and user-directed access. A broad allow or block can create an unintended training, discovery, privacy, or availability outcome. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the provider, exact client identifier, documented purpose, governing source and review date, allowed paths, denied paths, network requirements, owner, and expected effect. +- Exercise allowed and denied requests at the content-delivery network and origin, then inspect page-level directives and provider tools where available. +- Reconcile observed request logs with the policy without treating a self-declared user agent as authenticated identity. +- Revalidate volatile provider semantics on the source register's schedule and after a provider announces a crawler or policy change. + +**Exceptions:** Undocumented or unverifiable clients can use a conservative default under the site's security, privacy, and availability policy; record the uncertainty rather than attributing a purpose. + +## Guidance + +Design for users first, then expose the same truthful meaning to machines. Do not create pages solely to vary keywords, locations, or parameters when the underlying user need and content are unchanged. + +Treat canonical annotations as consolidation signals, not redirects or access controls. Keep sitemaps limited to preferred indexable URLs. Use permanent redirects for durable moves and temporary redirects only for genuinely temporary destinations. + +Serve `robots.txt` according to RFC 9309 and test its successful, unavailable, unreachable, and redirect behavior. A crawler directive is a request to conforming automated clients, not authorization or confidentiality. + +Monitor by page type and URL cohort. Sitewide averages can hide a failed template, locale, directory, or migration segment. + +For a separately addressed representation, use explicit links in both directions. A typical HTML response advertises both the Markdown alternate and the covering route index: + +```http +Link: ; rel="alternate"; type="text/markdown" +Link: ; rel="describedby"; type="text/markdown" +``` + +For same-URL negotiation, prefer HTML when a browser sends no useful preference and return Markdown only when `Accept` selects `text/markdown`. Send `Vary: Accept` so a shared cache does not serve Markdown to an HTML client or HTML to a Markdown client. Return `406 Not Acceptable` only when no available representation satisfies the request. Keep authorization, locale, and version selection independent and explicit; do not let a Markdown request bypass them. + +Generate Markdown from the same content model as HTML. Preserve tables, code, equations, image alternatives, citations, warnings, and link destinations in a form that retains their meaning. Replace presentation-only controls with a short description, and link to the documented interface for interactive behavior. Do not flatten a page into text that removes a price condition, safety warning, legal qualification, source, or update date. + +For a standards or policy library, optimize for correct application rather than maximum ingestion. The route index should teach the reader how to select a profile, load required dependencies, activate conditional routes, apply requirement levels, resolve conflicts, record exceptions, and cite stable rule IDs. A full-text export without those relationships is less useful than a smaller governed catalog that preserves them. + +Treat third-party SEO and agent-discovery guidance as informative until its factual claims are supported by current primary evidence. Google states that `llms.txt`, Markdown alternatives, and special AI markup do not affect visibility or ranking in Google Search. A publisher can still use them for other agents and direct retrieval, but must measure that purpose separately and must not describe Google indexing as evidence that the convention works. + +## Examples + +### Retired page + +Non-compliant: Every removed article redirects to the homepage and the homepage returns `200`. + +Compliant: An article with a direct replacement redirects once to that replacement. An article with no relevant replacement returns `410` or `404` with useful navigation. + +### Filtered URLs + +Non-compliant: Every combination of color, size, sort order, tracking code, and view mode is crawlable and self-canonical. + +Compliant: Only curated category combinations with distinct demand and content are indexable; sort and tracking variants resolve to the intended canonical state and are not linked as separate destinations. + +## Sources + +- Google, [Crawling and indexing](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing), Search Central documentation. Last updated December 10, 2025; reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [How to specify a canonical URL](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls), Search Central documentation. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Redirects and Google Search](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/301-redirects), Search Central documentation. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Internet Engineering Task Force, [RFC 9110: HTTP Semantics](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html), June 2022. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Internet Engineering Task Force, [RFC 9309: Robots Exclusion Protocol](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309.html), September 2022. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content), Search Central documentation. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Understand the JavaScript SEO basics](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/javascript/javascript-seo-basics), Search Central documentation. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Tell Google about localized versions of your page](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/specialty/international/localized-versions), Search Central documentation, last updated December 22, 2025. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Introduction to structured data markup in Google Search](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/intro-structured-data), Search Central documentation. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Optimizing for generative AI features on Google Search](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/ai-optimization-guide), Search Central documentation. Reviewed September 1, 2026. Google states that it ignores `llms.txt` for Search visibility and ranking. +- Microsoft, [Robots meta tags and attributes that Bing supports](https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/robots-meta-tags-and-attributes-that-bing-supports-5198d240), Bing Webmaster Tools. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Internet Engineering Task Force, [RFC 7763: The `text/markdown` Media Type](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7763.html), March 2016. Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Internet Engineering Task Force, [RFC 8288: Web Linking](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8288.html), October 2017. Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Jeremy Howard, [The `llms.txt` file proposal](https://llmstxt.org/), version 2, modified August 10, 2026. Reviewed September 1, 2026. This is an emerging proposal, not a ratified web standard or ranking signal. +- Corey Haines and contributors, Marketing Skills [`seo-audit`](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/seo-audit/SKILL.md) version 2.0.0, [`ai-seo`](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/ai-seo/SKILL.md) version 2.2.0, and [`schema`](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/blob/e55de886fe7580ec75cdb7ded5092b33f7d4ed58/skills/schema/SKILL.md) version 2.0.0, commit `e55de886`, reviewed September 1, 2026. These MIT-licensed skills are informative audit procedures; primary platform and web specifications remain authoritative. +- OpenAI, [Publishers and Developers FAQ](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12627856-publishers-and-developers-faq), reviewed September 1, 2026. OpenAI documents separate search-discovery and potential-training controls; apply this source only to OpenAI clients and revalidate current identifiers and semantics before use. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/seo/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/seo/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4038c89 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/seo/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Search standards + +* [Search foundations](foundations.md) - Makes useful public content discoverable and understandable without misleading users or crawlers. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/skills/standards-navigator/SKILL.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/skills/standards-navigator/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..515afe8 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/skills/standards-navigator/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +name: standards-navigator +description: Route a task through Raintree Standards when the user asks which Raintree standard or task profile applies, requests a governed checklist, or needs requirement IDs, verification evidence, exceptions, maturity, or review status. Select a profile only when the task maps clearly. When two or more profiles are plausible, present the closest profiles and ask the user to choose. +--- + +# Standards navigator + +Use the installed library as the source of truth. Do not rely on remembered rule +text and do not claim certification. + +## Select a route + +1. Identify the task, intended outcome, affected system, and material risk. +2. Resolve the installed plugin root from this skill's location. It is two + directories above this `SKILL.md` file. +3. Run `ruby /scripts/route_profile.rb --list --format json`. +4. Select a profile only when the task maps clearly to one profile's stated + purpose. Otherwise, show the closest profile IDs, titles, and descriptions, + then ask the user to choose. +5. Run `ruby /scripts/route_profile.rb --profile PROFILE-ID --format json`. +6. Read the dependency-ordered documents from the route before applying their + rules. Preserve each document's source path, maturity, governance status, + review dates, exceptions, warnings, and unresolved references. + +## Apply the route + +- Determine each rule's applicability from its stated condition. +- Treat every returned verification requirement as unverified until the task + produces direct evidence. +- Record missing evidence as missing or unknown. Do not infer approval. +- Keep draft status visible. A released library can contain draft documents. +- Use the exception process when a required rule cannot be met; do not weaken or + omit the rule. +- If routing returns `invalid-library`, stop governed work and report the exact + validation findings. + +## Output + +Lead with the selected profile or the choice the user must make. Then report the +applicable rule IDs, required evidence, draft or stale warnings, approved +exceptions, and unresolved gaps. Never describe the result as certified unless +an external certification authority supplied that exact claim. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/source-register.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/source-register.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a96de80 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/source-register.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,335 @@ +version: 1 +updated: 2026-09-01 +description: Review ownership and freshness controls for external source sets used by governed documents. + +documents: + - id: FND-ACCESSIBILITY + owner: accessibility + source_version: current W3C recommendations and platform guidance reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-13 + - id: FND-EVIDENCE + owner: standards + source_version: NIST measurement guidance plus Anthropic, OpenAI, and Scale AI evaluation and deployment-simulation sources reviewed 2026-09-01 + reviewed_on: 2026-09-01 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-03-01 + - id: FND-TRUST + owner: product + source_version: document source set reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-02-13 + - id: FND-CHANGE + owner: engineering + source_version: Google canarying, NIST controls, Anthropic agent change, and Slack deploy-safety sources reviewed 2026-09-01 + reviewed_on: 2026-09-01 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-03-01 + - id: API-CONTRACTS + owner: engineering + source_version: HTTP and lifecycle RFCs; OpenAPI 3.2.0; Google AIPs for operations, fields, collections, values, compatibility, and batches; CloudEvents 1.0.2; JSON Schema 2020-12; Proto3; W3C Trace Context; Microsoft and OWASP API guidance; and Goedecke and Bloch API design essays reviewed 2026-08-16 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-16 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-02-16 + - id: AI-AGENTS + owner: ai + source_version: Anthropic, OpenAI, Scale AI, and Cognition sources for agent architecture, containment, evaluation, instructions, observability, and production monitoring reviewed 2026-09-01 + reviewed_on: 2026-09-01 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-12-01 + - id: DATA-DATABASE + owner: data + source_version: PostgreSQL and MySQL engine guidance plus Stripe online-migration evidence reviewed 2026-09-01 + reviewed_on: 2026-09-01 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-03-01 + - id: DATA-QUALITY + owner: data + source_version: UK Data Quality Framework, W3C PROV-O, and NIST SP 1800-25 reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-02-13 + - id: DATA-REDIS + owner: data + source_version: Current Redis documentation for memory, eviction, keyspace, cache-aside, clients, commands, clustering, replication, persistence, security, observability, Pub/Sub, Streams, and distributed locks reviewed 2026-08-17 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-17 + - id: ENGINEERING-QUALITY + owner: engineering + source_version: NIST SSDF 1.1, SLSA 1.0, CISA Secure by Design, and GitHub developer-workflow evidence reviewed 2026-09-01 + reviewed_on: 2026-09-01 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-03-01 + - id: ENGINEERING-TESTING + owner: engineering + source_version: Google SRE testing, canary, and data-pipeline guidance; Google SMURF and Test Sizes; GitHub flaky-build reduction; Uber E2E shift-left; Meta autonomous and predictive testing; Netflix automated canary analysis; Spotify selective builds; Stripe test clocks; AWS chaos engineering; GitLab quarantine process; and NIST SSDF 1.1 reviewed 2026-08-30 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-30 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-02-28 + - id: ENGINEERING-CODE-REMOVAL + owner: engineering + source_version: Knip first-cleanup, project-file, production, workspace, issue-resolution, auto-fix, and CI guidance; Ruff configuration, linter, F401, and F841 documentation; deptry rules and configuration; Vulture 2.16; Python import reference; and PyPA entry-point specification reviewed 2026-08-17 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-17 + - id: ENGINEERING-JS-QUALITY + owner: engineering + source_version: Biome 2 configuration, monorepo, VCS, CI, CLI, formatter, linter, Assist, suppression, editor, and migration documentation at website commit 033bb7a1bc4d8f0623cc6e9bf72cde2ff7bdfb92; TypeScript noEmit documentation; Trellis 0.3.0 commit d2b0f37abce4319c329f363b4cdb541d83d18db9; anti-slop 0.1.0 commit 446268e5d15baa968eaec669ff65358d36ae6259; Oxlint JavaScript-plugin, configuration, ignore, CI, versioning, and automatic-fix documentation; and oxlint and @oxlint/plugins 1.78.0 reviewed 2026-08-17 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-17 + - id: KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEMS + owner: knowledge + source_version: W3C PROV-O, NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5 Update 1, NIST AI RMF 1.0, and NIST AI 600-1 reviewed 2026-08-16 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-16 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-02-16 + - id: ANALYTICS-MEASUREMENT + owner: analytics + source_version: document source set reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: high + next_review: 2027-02-13 + - id: GROWTH-EXPERIMENTS + owner: growth + source_version: document source set reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-02-13 + - id: MARKETING-LIFECYCLE + owner: marketing + source_version: FTC and ICO guidance plus Marketing Skills coverage inventory reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-13 + - id: MARKETING-PAID-MEDIA + owner: marketing + source_version: current FTC, European Commission DSA, and ICO guidance reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-13 + - id: MARKETING-DIRECT-OUTREACH + owner: privacy + source_version: current FTC CAN-SPAM, ICO electronic-mail, and FCC consent guidance reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-13 + - id: MARKETING-PUBLIC-ENGAGEMENT + owner: marketing + source_version: current FTC endorsement and review rules plus European Commission DSA guidance reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-13 + - id: MARKETING-DISTRIBUTION + owner: marketing + source_version: current FTC advertising, endorsement, promotion, and lead-generation guidance reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-13 + - id: MARKETING-PROJECT-SHOWCASE + owner: marketing + source_version: Raintree internal project-record contract plus GitHub README, W3C clear-content, and Schema.org SoftwareApplication references reviewed 2026-09-01 + reviewed_on: 2026-09-01 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-03-01 + - id: SALES-REVENUE-OPERATIONS + owner: revenue-operations + source_version: current FTC comparative-advertising, DOJ antitrust, and SEC marketing guidance reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-02-13 + - id: DISCOVERY-APP-STORES + owner: product + source_version: current Apple App Store and Google Play listing, review, and privacy documentation reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-13 + - id: MEDIA-PRODUCTION-RIGHTS + owner: content + source_version: US Copyright Office AI and permission guidance plus current W3C media accessibility guidance reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-13 + - id: OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY + owner: operations + source_version: NIST CSF 2.0, SP 800-61r3, SP 800-161r1, Google SRE, and AWS Well-Architected Reliability reviewed 2026-09-01 + reviewed_on: 2026-09-01 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-03-01 + - id: OPERATIONS-LOGGING + owner: engineering + source_version: Pino 10.3.1 API, asynchronous, browser, bundling, child logger, LTS, redaction, transport, and web framework documentation; current Node.js async context, process, and stream documentation; OpenTelemetry logs data model and service semantic conventions; OWASP Logging Cheat Sheet; and W3C Trace Context reviewed 2026-08-17 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-17 + - id: PRODUCT-DELIVERY + owner: product + source_version: UK Government Service Standard source set reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-02-13 + - id: SEO-FOUNDATIONS + owner: seo + source_version: Google Search and AI-search guidance; Microsoft; IETF HTTP, robots, Markdown media type, and Web Linking; llms.txt proposal v2; OpenAI publisher crawler guidance; and Marketing Skills seo-audit 2.0.0, ai-seo 2.2.0, and schema 2.0.0 at e55de886, reviewed 2026-09-01 + reviewed_on: 2026-09-01 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-13 + - id: WEB-QUALITY + owner: web + source_version: document source set reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-13 + - id: WEB-WEBMCP + owner: web + source_version: WebMCP Draft Community Group Report dated 2026-08-26, WebMCP explainer, declarative API explainer, security and privacy self-review, Chrome documentation updated 2026-08-07, W3C TAG design review 1238, Mozilla standards position 1412, and WebKit standards position 670; reviewed 2026-09-01 + reviewed_on: 2026-09-01 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-12-01 + - id: DESIGN-INTERACTION + owner: design + source_version: WCAG 2.2, USWDS, and Apple HIG reviewed 2026-08-13; Emil Kowalski design-engineering guidance; Linear design guidance; Apple fluid-interface and typography sessions; Google animation guidance; Vercel agent-design evaluation guidance; Anthropic and OpenAI agent-evaluation guidance; Playwright visual-comparison guidance; W3C accessibility-evaluation guidance; GOV.UK Design System contribution criteria; and Design Tokens Format Module 2025.10 reviewed 2026-09-01 + reviewed_on: 2026-09-01 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-03-01 + - id: PLAYBOOK-AGENT-DESIGN-GUIDANCE + owner: design + source_version: Anshu Chimala's agent-design exploration, critique, generated-media, and subtractive-polish guidance published 2026-09-01; Vercel design.md and product-design evaluation guidance; Anthropic and OpenAI agent-evaluation guidance; Playwright visual-comparison guidance; W3C accessibility-evaluation guidance; GOV.UK Design System contribution criteria; and Design Tokens Format Module 2025.10 reviewed 2026-09-01 + reviewed_on: 2026-09-01 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-12-01 + - id: AGENT-VERIFICATION + owner: standards + source_version: document source set reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: high + next_review: 2027-02-13 + - id: CONTENT-ERRORS + owner: content + source_version: document source set reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-02-13 + - id: CONTENT-INTERFACE + owner: content + source_version: Digital.gov and Federal Plain Language guidance plus W3C internationalization guidance reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-02-13 + - id: WRITING-FUNCTIONAL + owner: content + source_version: document source set plus Simon Willison's LLM cliché highlighter, Automattic Harper commit 43745e24a6af0222d21ccd6fe1cc00570fe5e33c, Oxford Practical English Usage, and Oxford Learn and Practise Grammar reviewed 2026-09-02 + reviewed_on: 2026-09-02 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-03-02 + - id: PRIVACY-DATA + owner: privacy + source_version: document source set reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: high + next_review: 2027-02-13 + - id: LEGAL-PUBLISHED-TERMS + owner: legal + source_version: Harvey legal architecture plus current US court, US Code, FTC, California, CPPA, EU, EDPB, UK, and ICO sources for assent, fairness, delivery, subscriptions, tracking, minors, enforcement, and transfers reviewed 2026-08-17 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-17 + - id: SECURITY-APPLICATION + owner: security + source_version: document source set reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: high + next_review: 2027-02-13 + - id: SECURITY-SECRETS + owner: security + source_version: current Infisical organization, identities, RBAC, privileges, approvals, workload authentication, delivery, local development, project configuration, references, imports, syncs, rotation, dynamic secrets, version recovery, scanning, SSO, audit, and production-hardening documentation reviewed 2026-08-16 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-16 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-16 + - id: INTEGRATIONS-VENDOR + owner: platform + source_version: NIST SP 800-161r1, NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5 Update 1, and CISA Secure by Design cross-provider controls reviewed 2026-09-01; provider facts remain owned by integration playbooks + reviewed_on: 2026-09-01 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-03-01 + - id: PLAYBOOK-STRIPE + owner: payments + source_version: Stripe payment, key, idempotency, webhook, Connect, Billing, Tax, and launch guidance plus stripe:stripe-best-practices reviewed 2026-08-17 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-17 + - id: PLAYBOOK-PLAID + owner: financial-data + source_version: Plaid launch, Link, token, webhook, environment, and security guidance reviewed 2026-08-17; provider skill not available + reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-17 + - id: PLAYBOOK-VERCEL + owner: platform + source_version: Vercel deployment, environment, observability, drain, and firewall guidance plus routed Vercel skills reviewed 2026-08-17 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-17 + - id: PLAYBOOK-RESEND + owner: lifecycle + source_version: Resend sending, domains, idempotency, and webhook guidance plus vercel:email reviewed 2026-08-17 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-17 + - id: PLAYBOOK-NEON + owner: data + source_version: Neon connection, pooling, branch, network, and recovery guidance plus neon-postgres:neon-postgres reviewed 2026-08-17 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-17 + - id: PLAYBOOK-CLOUDFLARE + owner: platform + source_version: Cloudflare platform, Workers, bindings, caching, and security guidance plus cloudflare skills reviewed 2026-08-17 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-17 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-17 + - id: PATTERN-FEDERATED-KNOWLEDGE + owner: knowledge + source_version: Cerebras knowledge-base article capture dated 2026-07-16, SIGIR 2009 reciprocal rank fusion paper, and W3C PROV-O reviewed 2026-08-16 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-16 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-02-16 + - id: PATTERN-CROSS-LAYER-POLICY-CONFORMANCE + owner: engineering + source_version: PolicyStrata commit e316ac8460f13b2960834342d4a0cdd2b6a3b1a2 reviewed 2026-08-16 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-16 + volatility: medium + next_review: 2027-02-16 + - id: PATTERN-VERIFIED-AGENT-WORKFLOW + owner: ai + source_version: PolicyStrata commit e316ac8460f13b2960834342d4a0cdd2b6a3b1a2 and Anthropic Claude Cookbooks commit 35f2eec7e44897c537e44441b7dff2f0ecbfb804 reviewed 2026-08-16 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-16 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-16 + - id: PLAYBOOK-APPLE-HIG + owner: design + source_version: current Apple HIG rechecked 2026-09-01; documented HIG Doctor 2.0.0 / snapshot 2025-02-02 retained from the 2026-08-13 tool review + reviewed_on: 2026-09-01 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-12-01 + - id: APPLE-PLATFORM-INTERACTION + owner: apple-platforms + source_version: Apple HIG design principles, platform design pages for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS, accessibility, layout, color, and right-to-left guidance reviewed 2026-09-01 + reviewed_on: 2026-09-01 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-12-01 + - id: PLAYBOOK-GA4 + owner: analytics + source_version: current Google Analytics 4 documentation reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-11-13 + - id: PLAYBOOK-GSC + owner: seo + source_version: current Google Search Central, Search Console reports and settings, Search Console API, BigQuery bulk export, and eligible Indexing API boundaries reviewed 2026-08-13 + reviewed_on: 2026-08-13 + volatility: high + next_review: 2026-09-13 diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/agent-interface-evaluation.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/agent-interface-evaluation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..784bf07 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/agent-interface-evaluation.md @@ -0,0 +1,155 @@ +--- +type: Template +title: Agent interface evaluation +description: Evidence record for evaluating reusable agent design guidance against matched baselines, holdouts, regressions, mixed graders, and production feedback. +tags: [template, design, agents, evaluation, anti-slop] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T00:00:00-07:00" } +--- + +# Agent interface evaluation + +Use this record with `PLAYBOOK-AGENT-DESIGN-GUIDANCE`. Bind every result to exact guidance, primitive, model, agent, scenario, and environment versions. + +## Decision and scope + +- Intended reader and decision: +- Agent-generated surface: +- Guidance artifact and version: +- Governed primitives and version: +- Agent harness, model, tools, and configuration: +- Applicable requests: +- Out-of-scope requests: +- Release claim: +- Target request population and sampling method: +- Owners and reviewers: + +## Data and fixture governance + +- Source and permission: +- Personal, confidential, proprietary, or regulated data: +- Minimization and sanitization: +- Licensing and attribution: +- Freshness and representativeness: +- Access, retention, deletion, and owner: + +## Scenario inventory + +| Scenario ID | Real task basis | Fixed prompt and inputs | Render settings | Expected decisions | Failure modes | Set | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | +| | | | | | | capability / holdout / regression / routing-negative | + +Fixture privacy, licensing, freshness, and sanitization: + +Coverage matrix across surface, task, reader, structure, interaction, content, locale, accessibility state, viewport, and failure consequence: + +Holdout isolation and contamination checks: + +## Grader inventory + +| Grader ID | Claim measured | Type | Artifact inspected | Rubric or assertion | Calibration evidence | Blocker condition | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | +| | | code / outcome / model / human | | | | | + +Model-grader human calibration set, agreement, false positives, false negatives, and drift review: + +Human-review rubric, reviewer qualifications, blinding, randomization, disagreement, and conflict controls: + +## Trial record + +| Trial ID | Scenario | Candidate or baseline | Guidance version | Model seed or run identity | Routing result | Output and trace | Grader results | Human finding | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | +| | | | | | | | | | + +Preserve first valid attempts, unsuccessful trials, infrastructure failures, rerun reasons, and shared-state or isolation limits. + +## Rendering environment + +- Browser and version: +- Operating system and version: +- Viewport, device scale, and input mode: +- Fonts and loading state: +- Locale, timezone, text direction, and content seed: +- Theme, color scheme, contrast, transparency, and reduced motion: +- Clock, animation, network, external assets, and dynamic-data controls: +- Environment-specific baseline policy: +- Masked or normalized regions with reason: + +## Matched comparison + +- Variable intentionally changed: +- Variables held constant: +- Baseline selection: +- Blind review method: +- Trial count and rationale: +- Candidate wins, ties, and losses by scenario: +- Mechanical failures by category: +- Human blockers by category: +- Raw counts and denominators: +- Grader disagreement: +- Infrastructure failures and exclusions: +- Confidence limits and prohibited generalizations: + +## Layer-to-claim map + +| Release claim | Static or token check | Semantic or accessibility tree | Interaction | Browser measurement | Visual comparison | Accessibility tool | Assistive technology or user evaluation | Human design review | Unproved remainder | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | +| | | | | | | | | | | + +## Baseline update + +- Baseline ID and previous revision: +- Candidate revision: +- Governing product decision and reason: +- Candidate, expected, and diff artifacts: +- Changed scenarios and claims: +- Human inspection result: +- Accessibility and interaction impact: +- Regression and holdout results: +- Independent approver: +- Rollback path: + +## Failure classification + +| Finding | Exact evidence | Class | Recurrence | Narrowest owner | Candidate correction | Decision | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | +| | | routing / guidance / primitive / deterministic check / harness / model-specific / judgment / coverage gap | | | | accept / reject / defer | + +## Correction verification + +- Changed artifact and version: +- Affected scenarios rerun: +- Holdouts rerun: +- Regressions rerun: +- New or changed deterministic checks: +- New failures or disagreements: +- Correction retained, revised, or reverted: + +## Suite health + +- Ambiguous or duplicate scenarios: +- Saturated capability cases: +- Flaky trials or graders: +- False-positive and false-negative review: +- Production failures missing from the suite: +- Unused or stale scenarios: +- Cost, latency, and execution budget: +- Material changes requiring requalification: + +## Production feedback + +| Complaint category | Comparable work scope | Before frequency and window | Control introduced | After frequency and window | Interpretation | Next owner | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | +| | | | | | | | + +## Release decision + +- Decision: approve / block / approve with recorded exceptions +- Supported models, agents, surfaces, and environments: +- Blocking findings: +- Approved exceptions and owner: +- Untested or held-out scope: +- Residual uncertainty: +- Monitoring cadence and stop condition: +- Baseline update decision: +- Suite-health limitations: +- Independent human reviewer and date: diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/audit-report.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/audit-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d6d7a56 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/audit-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +--- +type: Template +title: Standards audit report template +description: Reusable report structure for a scoped Raintree standards conformance audit. +tags: [template, audit, evidence, conformance] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T06:08:51Z" } +--- + +# Standards audit report template + +Use with [`PLAYBOOK-STANDARDS-AUDIT`](../playbooks/standards-audit.md). Replace every angle-bracketed value and remove instructional text before issuing a report. Keep protected evidence in its approved system and link to it through an access-controlled reference. + +## Audit record + +| Field | Value | +|---|---| +| Audit subject | `` | +| Purpose and decision | `` | +| Intended audience | `` | +| Accountable owner | `` | +| Auditor or review team | `` | +| System boundary | `` | +| Exclusions | `` | +| Version or commit | `` | +| Environment | `` | +| Audit period | `` | +| Evidence cutoff | `` | +| Report date | `` | + +## Applicable routes + +| Profile or standard | Why it applies | Conditions or excluded routes | +|---|---|---| +| `` | `` | `` | + +Record library gaps and the external policy or qualified owner required to decide them. + +## Provider records + +Repeat this section for each material external platform. Use the exact named playbook when one exists. Use `not available` for a missing agent skill and keep the provider review in scope. Do not record secret values. + +### `` + +| Field | Record | +|---|---| +| Governed scope | `` | +| Playbook and bundle | `/manifest.yaml, or recorded gap>` | +| Selected capabilities | `` | +| Executed workflows and evaluations | `` | +| Agent review aid | `` | +| Normative provider sources | `` | +| Informative engineering sources | `` | +| Guidance conflicts | `` | +| Negative and legacy paths | `` | +| Released state | `` | +| Boundaries | `` | +| Asynchronous behavior | `` | +| Operations | `` | + +Provider exercises and findings: + +- `` + +## Rule findings + +Use only `pass`, `fail`, `unknown`, `not applicable`, `approved exception`, or `stale evidence`. Apply the requirement-level meanings and overall-result rules in the playbook. Do not use `partial pass`, and never record an approved exception for a prohibited rule. + +| Rule ID | Level | Applicability | Status | Evidence | Observation | Risk | Owner | Follow-up | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | + +## Evidence register + +| Evidence ID | Source and location | Version or commit | Method and parameters | Environment and period | Collected at | Access class | Valid until | Limits | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | + +## Exceptions + +| Rule ID | Exception reference | Exact scope | Risk and compensating controls | Approver | Expires | Return-to-compliance work | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | + +## Conflicts and unresolved evidence + +- **Conflicting evidence:** `` +- **Unknown findings:** `` +- **Stale evidence:** `` +- **Untested areas:** `` +- **External decisions:** `` + +## Scoped conclusion + +**Overall result:** `` + +State the result, subject, version, environment, evidence cutoff, controlling failures or uncertainties, approved exceptions, and decision this evidence supports. Do not imply certification, complete safety, or coverage outside the declared boundary. + +## Handoff and review + +- Final artifact and version: `` +- Checks and retests performed: `` +- Open remediation: `` +- Independent review: `` +- Qualified domain review: `` diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/comprehension-review.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/comprehension-review.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7107003 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/comprehension-review.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +type: Template +title: Comprehension review template +description: Evidence record for testing consequential writing with representative intended readers. +tags: [template, writing, comprehension, evidence] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T17:22:48Z" } +--- + +# Comprehension review template + +Use this record when `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-013` applies. Replace every angle-bracketed value. Do not treat author preference or a proofreading pass as reader evidence. + +## Scope + +| Field | Value | +|---|---| +| Artifact and exact revision | `` | +| Decision or task governed by the writing | `` | +| Intended audience | `` | +| Least-informed intended reader | `` | +| Accessibility and language needs represented | `` | +| Reviewer or research owner | `` | +| Method and date | `` | + +## Tasks and observations + +| Representative task or question | Expected understanding or action | Participant or method | Observed result | Misunderstanding and consequence | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | + +Do not store unnecessary personal details in this record. Keep protected research evidence in its approved system and link to an access-controlled reference. + +## Changes and retest + +| Finding | Revision made | Retest method and result | Remaining risk | Owner and date | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | + +## Decision + +- Outcome: `` +- Evidence limits: `` +- Approval or exception: `` + diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/independent-review.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/independent-review.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6bc8aa2 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/independent-review.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +type: Template +title: Independent review template +description: Evidence record for review by a qualified person who did not author the change. +tags: [template, review, approval, evidence] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T17:22:48Z" } +--- + +# Independent review template + +Use this record when `ENGINEERING-QUALITY-005`, `AGENT-VERIFICATION-007`, or another rule requires independent or qualified review. The author must not fill in the review decision on the reviewer's behalf. + +## Review scope + +| Field | Value | +|---|---| +| Artifact and exact revision | `` | +| Governing rules or policy | `` | +| Author | `` | +| Reviewer and qualified role | `` | +| Independence from authorship | `` | +| Evidence inspected | `` | +| Review date | `` | + +## Findings + +| Finding | Risk | Required change or exception | Resolution evidence | Status | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `` | `` | `` | `` | `` | + +## Decision + +- Decision: `` +- Approval scope: `` +- Residual risk and unresolved conditions: `
` +- Follow-up owner and date: `` +- Reviewer attestation: `` + diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5fa1d1f --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# Authoring templates + +* [Open-source documentation patterns](open-source-documentation.md) - Structures for repository, package, example, evidence, and maintainer documentation. +* [Standard authoring template](standard.md) - Starting structure for an OKF-compatible governed Raintree standard. +* [Task profile authoring template](profile.md) - Starting structure for an OKF-compatible Raintree task profile. +* [Pattern authoring template](pattern.md) - Starting structure for an optional, source-neutral Raintree architecture pattern. +* [Standards audit report](audit-report.md) - Scoped rule findings, evidence, exceptions, uncertainty, and conformance conclusion. +* [Comprehension review](comprehension-review.md) - Representative-reader tasks, observations, revisions, and retest evidence. +* [Independent review](independent-review.md) - Qualified reviewer scope, findings, decisions, and residual risk. +* [Interface quality review](interface-quality-review.md) - Product context, anti-slop findings, motion, typography, implementation fidelity, exceptions, and decision evidence. +* [Agent interface evaluation](agent-interface-evaluation.md) - Scenario, trial, grader, matched comparison, regression, correction-routing, and release-decision evidence. +* [Security response exercise](security-response-exercise.md) - Vulnerability and incident response authority, exercise results, and closure evidence. +* [Testing records](testing-records.md) - Copyable behavior maps, suite inventories, smoke contracts, size declarations, quarantine records, compatibility matrices, exercise plans, canary decisions, and retirement records. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/interface-quality-review.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/interface-quality-review.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ad7514 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/interface-quality-review.md @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +--- +type: Template +title: Interface quality review +description: Review record for product-specific interface quality, anti-slop findings, interaction craft, and implementation fidelity. +tags: [template, design, interface, anti-slop, review] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T00:00:00-07:00" } +--- + +# Interface quality review + +Use this record to review a release candidate under `DESIGN-INTERACTION-012`. Complete it against the final rendered artifact. Do not approve from a design file when a running implementation exists. + +## Scope + +- Product and surface: +- Revision or build: +- Intended audience: +- Primary task: +- Supported platforms, viewports, themes, locales, and input methods: +- Approved design or prototype revision: +- Reviewer and role: +- Review date: +- Author of the final direction: + +## Product rationale + +- Verified user problem and evidence: +- Product character and intended feeling: +- Material visual and interaction choices with their product-specific reasons: +- Templates, references, competitors, or generated material used: +- Distinct directions considered and the axis each tested: +- Selection criteria and rejected directions: + +## Rendered review + +Record a finding for each failure. Use `none found` only after inspecting the relevant states. + +| Rule | Evidence inspected | Finding | Required change or exception | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | +| `DESIGN-INTERACTION-009` | Product specificity and rationale | | | +| `DESIGN-INTERACTION-010` | Representative content and truthful proof | | | +| `DESIGN-INTERACTION-011` | Hierarchy and coherent visual system | | | +| `DESIGN-INTERACTION-013` | Motion purpose, frequency, continuity, and reduced motion | | | +| `DESIGN-INTERACTION-014` | Problem evidence and compared directions | | | +| `DESIGN-INTERACTION-015` | Interactive prototype and direct manipulation | | | +| `DESIGN-INTERACTION-016` | Typography, scaling, localization, and fallback | | | +| `DESIGN-INTERACTION-017` | Simplicity, capability, and disclosure | | | +| `DESIGN-INTERACTION-018` | Final implementation fidelity | | | +| `DESIGN-INTERACTION-019` | Agent-guidance routing, holdouts, regressions, and rendered trials | | | +| `DESIGN-INTERACTION-020` | Correction provenance, enforcement layer, and production trend | | | +| `DESIGN-INTERACTION-021` | Sampling, uncertainty, grader calibration, and baseline governance | | | +| `DESIGN-INTERACTION-022` | Layered rendered and accessibility verification | | | + +## State and environment coverage + +- First use, returning use, success, empty, loading, partial, error, offline, unavailable, and destructive states: +- Short, long, localized, right-to-left, user-generated, and dense content: +- Small and large viewports, orientation or window changes, text scaling, zoom, and reflow: +- Keyboard, pointer, touch, assistive technology, reduced motion, increased contrast, and reduced transparency as applicable: +- Rapid repetition, interruption, reversal, cancellation, and constrained performance: +- Light, dark, custom, and high-contrast themes as applicable: + +## Anti-slop questions + +- Which elements could be transferred unchanged to an unrelated product? Why do they belong here? +- Which elements compete for attention without supporting the primary task? +- Which decorations, borders, icons, labels, effects, or animations can be removed without losing hierarchy, identity, feedback, or comprehension? +- Which claims or demonstrations lack current evidence or show simulated behavior without a label? +- Which repeated values or variants are accidental near-duplicates? +- Which invisible details fail under repetition, interruption, content extremes, or alternate input? + +## Findings and resolution + +| Priority | Rule | Location or state | Evidence | Resolution | Owner | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | +| | | | | | | + +## Exceptions and limits + +- Approved rule-level exceptions and decision owner: +- Deferred environments or states with reason and review date: +- External platform limitations: +- Residual uncertainty: + +## Decision + +- Decision: approve / block / approve with recorded exceptions +- Blocking findings: +- Follow-up owner and date: +- Reviewer signature or recorded identity: diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/open-source-documentation.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/open-source-documentation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a81a69 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/open-source-documentation.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +--- +type: Template +title: Open-source documentation patterns +description: Reusable structures for repository, package, example, evidence, and maintainer documentation. +tags: [template, documentation, open-source, readme] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-20T20:00:00Z" } +--- + +# Open-source documentation patterns + +Choose one pattern before writing. Keep the required information, but use headings +specific to the project. + +## Repository landing page + +1. Project name, lifecycle, audience, and outcome +2. Install or try it +3. Expected result and one accessible proof visual +4. Three to five reasons to use it +5. How it works +6. Supported surfaces and compatibility +7. Limits, security, and evidence boundary +8. Deeper documentation +9. Raintree open-source relationship +10. Contributing, security, changelog, and license + +## Published package or plugin + +1. Package name and its role in the parent project +2. Install +3. Smallest useful example +4. Public API or tools +5. Runtime and compatibility +6. Limits and failure behavior +7. Parent-project documentation, changelog, and license + +## Example or study + +Record the scenario and source revision, expected behavior, prerequisites, reproduction +command, observed result, interpretation, non-claims, artifacts, and provenance. + +## Benchmark or evidence artifact + +Record evidence status and date, the bounded claim, method, reproduction or verification +command, results, unavailable systems, integrity manifest, and limitations. Never rewrite +a signed or hash-verified artifact in place; publish a presentation referencing its digest. + +## Internal maintainer guide + +State the internal status and owner, purpose and boundary, maintenance commands, +generated and hand-maintained files, failure recovery, and the related public surface. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/pattern.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/pattern.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4ccdc3b --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/pattern.md @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +--- +type: Template +title: Pattern authoring template +description: Starting structure for an OKF-compatible optional Raintree architecture pattern. +tags: [template, patterns, authoring] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T06:25:28Z" } +--- + +# Pattern authoring template + +Use patterns for recurring implementation approaches that help apply existing standards. A pattern is optional guidance, not a new requirement. Put mandatory behavior in a standard with stable rule IDs. + +Copy the front matter below and replace every angle-bracketed value. Do not publish placeholder values. + +```yaml +--- +id: PATTERN- +title: +description: +type: pattern +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [] +last_reviewed: +review_by: +stale_after: +applies_to: [] +tags: [, ] +depends_on: [] +generated: { by: "human:", at: "" } +# Add only after an independent reviewer checks the exact artifact. +# verified: { by: "human:", at: "" } +# sources: +# - id: +# resource: +# title: +# author: +--- +``` + +# `` + +State the recurring problem, the outcome the pattern protects, and how it relates to the standards in `depends_on`. State that the pattern adds no requirement to those standards. + +## Applicability + +Describe the conditions that make the pattern useful. Identify the evidenced reference domain and any domains that need separate validation. + +## Structure + +Describe the smallest set of components, boundaries, artifacts, and data flows needed to apply the approach. Identify authoritative inputs and final decision or effect boundaries. + +## Responsibilities and evidence + +Assign ownership and responsibility at each material boundary. Define the records, versions, provenance, and protected evidence needed to inspect or reproduce behavior. + +## Examples + +Include representative success, failure, over-restriction, missing-evidence, and out-of-scope cases when they affect correct interpretation. + +## Tradeoffs + +State operational cost, complexity, latency, availability, privacy, security, and maintenance tradeoffs that could change the adoption decision. + +## Do not use when + +Name the simpler or safer conditions where the pattern should not be adopted. State what the pattern cannot replace. + +## Verification + +- Name inspectable tests, traces, artifacts, or review records. +- Exercise expected behavior and legitimate behavior that must remain allowed. +- Test missing, stale, malformed, and conflicting evidence where applicable. +- Confirm claims stay within the tested domain, sample, environment, and fault model. + +## Evidence limits + +Separate observed results from inference. State important limits in the cited implementation or research evidence, including synthetic data, shared taxonomies, missing independent operation, or untested domains. + +## Sources + +Prefer primary, durable, version-pinned sources. Explain what each source supports and what it does not establish. Register the source set and review schedule in `source-register.yaml`. Keep the pattern `draft` until a different qualified actor records `verified` against the exact artifact. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/profile.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/profile.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3296379 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/profile.md @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +--- +type: Template +title: Task profile authoring template +description: Starting structure for an OKF-compatible Raintree task profile. +tags: [template, profiles, authoring] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T20:57:53Z" } +--- + +# Task profile authoring template + +Copy the front matter below into a new Markdown document and replace every angle-bracketed value. Do not publish placeholder values. + +```yaml +--- +id: +title: +description: +type: profile +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: + - +last_reviewed: +review_by: +stale_after: +applies_to: + - +tags: [profile, ] +depends_on: + - +generated: { by: "human:", at: "" } +# Add only after an independent reviewer checks the exact artifact. Required for stable status. +# verified: { by: "human:", at: "" } +--- +``` + +# `` + +Use this profile when... + +## Required standards + +The front-matter `depends_on` list is the authoritative machine-readable route. Keep this section synchronized with it. + +- `STANDARD-ID` — why it applies + +## Conditional standards + +- Condition → `STANDARD-ID` +- Condition with no governed standard → state the gap, escalation owner, and required decision record + +## Completion evidence + +- `STANDARD-RULE-ID` — Artifact, check output, or review record the agent must provide before declaring the task complete diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/security-response-exercise.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/security-response-exercise.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b874fad --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/security-response-exercise.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +type: Template +title: Security response exercise template +description: Evidence record for exercising vulnerability and incident response without exposing protected details. +tags: [template, security, incident, exercise] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-17T17:22:48Z" } +--- + +# Security response exercise template + +Use this record to verify `SECURITY-APPLICATION-016`. Keep secrets, exploit details, reporter identities, and protected incident evidence in the approved restricted system. + +## Authority and targets + +| Field | Value | +|---|---| +| Exercise owner | `` | +| Reporting route tested | `` | +| Severity model | `` | +| Acknowledgement and triage targets | `` | +| Containment and recovery authority | `` | +| Notification and disclosure authority | `` | +| Evidence location and access class | `` | + +## Scenario and results + +| Stage | Expected action | Observed result | Evidence | Gap and owner | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| Intake and triage | `` | `` | `` | `` | +| Containment | `` | `` | `` | `` | +| Credential or session revocation | `` | `` | `` | `` | +| Evidence preservation | `` | `` | `` | `` | +| Cause correction and retest | `` | `` | `` | `` | +| Safe restore | `` | `` | `` | `` | +| Communication decision | `` | `` | `` | `` | +| Post-recovery checks | `` | `` | `` | `` | + +## Closure + +- Outcome: `` +- Requirements or threat models updated: `` +- Monitoring or detection updated: `` +- Retest and next exercise: `` + diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/standard.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/standard.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..09ed971 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/standard.md @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +--- +type: Template +title: Standard authoring template +description: Starting structure for an OKF-compatible governed Raintree standard. +tags: [template, standards, authoring] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T20:57:53Z" } +--- + +# Standard authoring template + +Copy the front matter below into a new Markdown document and replace every angle-bracketed value. Do not publish placeholder values. + +```yaml +--- +id: +title: +description: +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: + - +last_reviewed: +review_by: +stale_after: +applies_to: + - +tags: + - +depends_on: [] +generated: { by: "human:", at: "" } +# Add only after an independent reviewer checks the exact artifact. Required for stable status. +# verified: { by: "human:", at: "" } +# sources: +# - id: +# resource: +# title: +--- +``` + +# `` + +State the outcome this standard protects and the scope it covers. + +## Rules + +### `` — `` + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** State the testable condition. + +State one requirement precisely. + +**Why:** Connect the rule to a concrete risk or outcome. + +**Verify:** + +- Name inspectable evidence, a test, a query, or an artifact. + +**Exceptions:** State allowed exceptions and required approval, or “None.” + +## Guidance + +Explain implementation choices, tradeoffs, and common failure modes without turning every preference into a requirement. + +## Examples + +Show a compliant and non-compliant application when interpretation is not obvious. + +## Sources + +Prefer primary, durable sources. Record access or review dates for volatile material. + +Add the document's source-set owner, reviewed version or publication date, volatility, and next review date to `source-register.yaml`. Keep the document `draft` until a different qualified actor records `verified`. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/testing-records.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/testing-records.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7c6aa71 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/templates/testing-records.md @@ -0,0 +1,181 @@ +--- +type: Template +title: Testing records +description: Copyable evidence and decision records for test strategy, suite health, release exercises, and lifecycle changes. +tags: [testing, templates, evidence] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-30T21:20:00Z" } +--- + +# Testing records + +Copy only the records that match the change. Delete instructional text and unused optional fields. These templates support [ENGINEERING-TESTING](../engineering/testing.md); they do not replace its rules. + +## Behavior-to-evidence map + +| Behavior or claim | Failure consequence | Primary evidence and boundary | Success, boundary, failure, recovery cases | Environment and stage | Owner | Result or limitation | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| | | | | | | | + +Untested or deferred behavior: + +- Claim: +- Residual risk: +- Owner: +- Deadline and enforcement point: + +## Suite inventory + +| Stable suite ID and command | Primary claim | System under test | Real and simulated dependencies | Resource and duration class | Stage | Owner | Health or limitation | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| | | | | | | | | + +## Smoke-test contract + +- Artifact and exact version: +- Environment: +- Operability decision: +- Passing permits: +- Startup, readiness, primary entry, representative dynamic path, essential wiring, or artifact-identity checks: +- Explicit exclusions: +- Data identity and allowed effects: +- Repetition and cleanup behavior: +- Time budget: +- External-cost budget: +- Failure diagnostic and retained evidence: +- Invocation stage: +- Owner: + +## Test-size declaration + +- Stable suite ID: +- System under test: +- Network: none | loopback | declared services +- Filesystem: none | temporary | declared paths +- Database: none | isolated | shared | external +- External services: +- Processes: +- Concurrency model: +- Clock: controlled | wall | mixed +- Sleeps or polling: +- Shared state: +- Expected duration class and measured baseline: +- Order independent: yes | no, with reason +- Parallel safe: yes | no, with isolation rule +- Enforcement or visible reclassification: + +## Quarantine record + +- Stable test ID: +- Original failing result and evidence: +- Classification status: product | test | infrastructure | unknown +- Owner and issue: +- Protected claim and consequence: +- Missing-coverage risk: +- Observed failure rate, trials, and conditions: +- Diagnostic retries and controlled dimensions: +- Scope of containment: +- Critical or regulated coverage disposition: +- Started: +- Expires: +- Return condition: +- Review cadence: +- Resolution: restored | replaced | claim ended | residual risk accepted + +## Selective-execution policy + +- Selector and version: +- Selection inputs: +- Dependency, history, ownership, risk, or prediction model: +- Protected checks that always run: +- Uncertainty and stale-input fallback: +- Maximum omission interval: +- Full or broader reference-run cadence: +- Change types forcing broader execution: +- Detection-risk objective or graph-integrity controls: +- Miss rate and saved cost: +- Drift and fallback monitoring: +- Owner and review cadence: + +## Version compatibility matrix + +| Reader or caller | Writer or provider | Persisted or message state | Reachable rollout phase | Forward evidence | Rollback evidence | Limitation | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| | | | | | | | + +- Supported compatibility window: +- Delayed or replayed work: +- Interruption points: +- Final reconciliation authority: +- Fixture retirement condition: + +## Production-derived data record + +- Source and authority: +- Purpose and governed claim: +- Fields or properties required: +- Minimization: +- Sanitization or transformation: +- Re-identification assessment: +- Environment and access: +- Freshness and representativeness: +- Ephemeral identities and bounded authority: +- Prohibited effects: +- Retention, expiry, and deletion: +- Sample lineage and validation evidence: +- Owner: + +## High-fidelity exercise record + +- Exercise: dry run | shadow | replay | fault injection +- Hypothesis: +- Steady-state measures: +- Candidate and comparison path: +- Data authority: +- Intended and prohibited effects: +- Suppressed or skipped behavior and evidence limits: +- Preproduction rehearsal: +- Blast radius and observation window: +- Technical, business, integrity, and user-proxy guardrails: +- Stop conditions and authority: +- Recovery and reconciliation: +- Responsible and informed parties: +- Result and unexplained divergence: + +## Canary decision record + +- Candidate artifact and configuration: +- Stable control artifact and configuration: +- Population assignment and attribution labels: +- Representativeness, load, duration, and evaluation interval: +- Relative comparison measures: +- Absolute service, business, integrity, security, and harm limits: +- Minimum evidence: +- Missing, delayed, contradictory, and inconclusive handling: +- Overlapping-change control: +- Promotion stages and authority: +- Pause, rollback, and recovery conditions: +- Retained evidence: +- Decision and residual limits: + +## Test retirement record + +- Stable test ID and owner: +- Protected behavior and risk: +- Current trigger and run history: +- Retirement reason: +- Claim ended, named replacement, or residual-risk decision: +- Replacement evidence strength: +- Fixture or environment cleanup: +- History preservation: +- Approved by and date when risk remains: + +## Execution-stage map + +| Stage | Decision | Required suites or records | Trigger | Failure owner | Deadline | Enforcement point | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| Local | | | | | | | +| Presubmit | | | | | | | +| Post-submit | | | | | | | +| Release qualification | | | | | | | +| Deployment gate | | | | | | | +| Post-deployment | | | | | | | diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/testing/field-guide.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/testing/field-guide.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b2bf8e --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/testing/field-guide.md @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +--- +type: Reference +title: Testing field guide +description: Rapid decisions for selecting test evidence, naming suites, placing gates, and interpreting smoke, synthetic, shadow, and canary results. +tags: [testing, field-guide, smoke-tests, continuous-integration] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-30T21:25:13Z" } +--- + +# Testing field guide + +Use this guide to route a testing decision in less than five minutes. It summarizes [ENGINEERING-TESTING](../engineering/testing.md); cited rule IDs are authoritative. + +## Thirty-second decision path + +1. **Name the claim and failure consequence.** If neither is clear, stop and build the behavior-to-evidence map (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-001`). +2. **Choose the narrowest faithful boundary.** Controlled inputs and outputs suggest unit or component; a declared interface suggests contract; real cooperating boundaries suggest integration (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-002`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-008`). +3. **Add only the fidelity the claim needs.** Browser behavior needs a browser. Deployment configuration needs the exact deployed artifact. Live rollout comparison needs a canary (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-007`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-014`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-024`). +4. **Place the evidence where it can change a decision.** Fast changed-behavior checks belong early; exact-artifact and live evidence belong later. Deferred checks need an owner, deadline, and release enforcement point (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-014`). +5. **State what passing permits.** A smoke pass permits deeper verification or limited traffic; it does not establish full correctness (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-006`). + +## Test-type cards + +| Type | Primary use | Usually real | Do not use as proof of | Typical stage | Governing rules | +|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| Unit | Isolated rules, transformations, and state transitions | No external boundary | Assembly or deployment | Local, presubmit | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-002`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-003`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-004` | +| Component | One component's behavior in a controlled harness | Component runtime; dependencies commonly substituted | Cross-service compatibility | Local, presubmit | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-002`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-003`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-013` | +| Contract | Schema, protocol, compatibility, or public-interface promise | Contract implementation or generated artifact | Full journey or provider availability | Presubmit, provider CI, release | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-002`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-008`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-022` | +| Integration | Cooperation across named real boundaries | Two or more owned boundaries | Every business-rule permutation | Presubmit, post-submit | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-002`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-007`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-016` | +| End-to-end | Representative material journey across required boundaries | Journey-critical boundaries | Exhaustive rules, routes, or viewports | Presubmit, release | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-007`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-009`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-015` | +| Regression | Previously important or failed behavior | Whatever faithful boundary owns the defect | A particular test layer | Same stage as owning risk | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-001`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-008`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-025` | +| Acceptance | Requested outcomes and business rules | Boundary that can observe acceptance | Internal implementation completeness | Presubmit, release qualification | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-001`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-007`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-015` | +| Smoke | Basic operability of the final artifact | Built or deployed artifact | Complete correctness or regression coverage | Build, deployment | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-006`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-014` | +| Synthetic | Scripted bounded operation against a released environment | Released environment | Comparison of new versus stable populations | Post-deployment | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-002`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-009`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-014` | +| Shadow or dry run | High-fidelity comparison with intended effects isolated or suppressed | Representative traffic or data | Effects that were skipped | Release, production exercise | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-018`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-023` | +| Canary | Limited live exposure compared with stable control | Live traffic or population | Harms the selected signals cannot observe | Deployment | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-014`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-024` | +| Performance | Latency, throughput, responsiveness, or resource budgets | Boundary needed for the budget | Functional completeness | Post-submit, release | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-002`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-016` | +| Resilience | Degradation, interruption, recovery, and reconciliation | Failure boundary under test | All production failure combinations | Post-submit, release, exercise | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-005`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-023` | +| Security | Abuse, authority, confidentiality, integrity, and trust boundaries | Boundary required by the threat | General functional completeness | Presubmit, post-submit, release | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-001`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-005`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-009`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-012` | +| Accessibility | Perception and operation through required input and assistive modes | Component, browser, assistive technology, and human review as applicable | Full accessibility from one automated scanner | Presubmit, release qualification | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-001`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-007`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-015` | + +Layer names are scope-relative. Always name the system under test, objective, real and simulated dependencies, environment, and gating stage (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-002`). + +## Smoke, synthetic, shadow, and canary + +| Question | Smoke | Synthetic | Shadow or dry run | Canary | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| Decision | May deeper verification or limited traffic begin? | Does a bounded released-system operation still work? | Does candidate behavior match without unintended effects? | May live exposure expand? | +| Traffic | Synthetic or harmless probe | Scripted | Copied, replayed, or production-shaped | Limited live population | +| Comparison | Expected operability | Expected result or service objective | Candidate versus authoritative result | Candidate versus concurrent control plus absolute limits | +| Writes | Harmless and repeatable | Explicitly bounded | Suppressed or isolated unless approved | Real effects within approved blast radius | +| Main limitation | Shallow by design | Does not represent all organic behavior | Skipped effects remain unproved | Users can be affected and metrics can miss harm | + +## Execution stages + +| Stage | Decision | Suitable evidence | Required control | +|---|---|---|---| +| Local | Is the changed behavior ready to propose? | Narrow unit, component, contract, focused integration | Fast and directly runnable | +| Presubmit | May the change merge? | Changed-risk checks and protected invariants | No silent workspace skips; conservative selector fallback | +| Post-submit | Did broader evidence find a regression? | Larger integration, browser, performance, fuzz, compatibility | Owner, visibility, response deadline | +| Release qualification | Is the exact package/configuration promotable? | Build, migration, compatibility, artifact identity | Bind evidence to version and environment | +| Deployment gate | May rollout start or expand? | Smoke, shadow, canary, migration checks | Explicit continue, pause, rollback authority | +| Post-deployment | Does released behavior remain healthy? | Synthetic, monitoring, scheduled rare-path exercise | Bounded effects and alert ownership | + +## Resource-size declaration + +Do not infer cost from a layer name. Declare network, filesystem, database, external service, process, concurrency, clock, sleep, shared state, expected duration, order independence, and parallel safety (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-016`). + +## Portfolio design + +Do not begin with a universal pyramid or layer percentage. Choose the mix from feedback speed, maintainability, utilization, reliability, fidelity, architecture, dependency topology, change frequency, incident history, and failure consequence. Add fuzzing, property testing, mutation testing, fault injection, ephemeral environments, synthetics, or canaries only for a named defect model they address better than simpler evidence (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-019`). + +## Frequent decisions + +- **Static mapping or generated file:** contract test at its owner; one broader artifact exposure check only if assembly can fail (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-008`). +- **Browser focus, layout, storage, or runtime:** representative browser check, not a unit substitute (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-007`). +- **Migration:** version-state matrix including interruption and rollback (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-022`). +- **Scheduled or expiring behavior:** controlled clock across material boundaries (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-021`). +- **Intermittent failure:** preserve the original failure, use controlled diagnostic retries, and quarantine only as visible missing evidence (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-010`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-017`). +- **Changed-test selection:** compare periodically with a broader run and measure misses, not only saved time (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-020`). +- **Production-derived fixture:** govern authority, minimization, sanitization, access, retention, and prohibited effects (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-018`). +- **Test removal:** identify the ended, replaced, or accepted-risk claim (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-025`). + +## Anti-pattern lookup + +| If you see this | Likely problem | Route | +|---|---|---| +| A 30-minute command named smoke | Regression or E2E work is hiding in an operability gate | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-006`; smoke-suite recipe | +| Every route at every viewport in smoke | Exhaustive matrices at an expensive layer | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-006`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-007`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-008` | +| Retry until green | Failure suppression and unknown evidence | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-010` | +| A permanent skip or quarantine | Silent missing coverage | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-010`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-017`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-025` | +| Coverage percentage used as release proof | Execution mistaken for assertion quality | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-011`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-012` | +| Mock assertions mirror call order | Implementation coupling | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-003`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-013` | +| Selective CI reports only minutes saved | Omission risk is unmeasured | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-020` | +| Latest-only migration test | Version skew and rollback are untested | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-022` | +| Shadow run claims write-path correctness after suppressing writes | Evidence exceeds exercised behavior | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-023` | +| Canary and control are both unhealthy but rollout proceeds | Relative comparison ignored absolute limits | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-024` | +| Test deleted because it is flaky | Coverage removed without a lifecycle decision | `ENGINEERING-TESTING-025` | + +## What a passing result does not prove + +- A unit pass does not prove wiring. +- A contract pass does not prove provider availability or semantic compatibility beyond the contract. +- An integration pass does not prove the released configuration. +- A smoke pass does not prove full correctness. +- A synthetic pass does not prove representative organic load or state. +- A dry run does not prove suppressed effects. +- A canary pass does not prove absence of harms its signals cannot detect. +- A coverage number does not prove assertions are meaningful. + +Record those limits in the handoff (`ENGINEERING-TESTING-015`). diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/testing/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/testing/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0ed6c3c --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/testing/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Testing reference + +Use this area for fast decisions. The reference explains and routes; `engineering/testing.md` remains authoritative. + +## Choose by available time + +- **Thirty seconds:** use the decision path and comparison tables in the [testing field guide](field-guide.md). +- **Five minutes:** select the closest situation in [testing recipes](recipes.md). +- **Planning or review:** copy the applicable record from `templates/testing-records.md`. +- **A difficult redesign:** inspect the [worked examples and pilot findings](worked-examples.md). +- **Tool retrieval:** read the machine-readable `testing/routes.yaml`. + +## Truth boundary + +Reference material must cite stable `ENGINEERING-TESTING-*` rule IDs rather than create new obligations. When a summary conflicts with the standard, follow the standard and report the reference defect. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/testing/recipes.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/testing/recipes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e2ce88c --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/testing/recipes.md @@ -0,0 +1,135 @@ +--- +type: Reference +title: Testing recipes +description: Situation-based minimum evidence, failure cases, execution stages, records, and rule routes for common software changes. +tags: [testing, recipes, software-change] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-30T21:25:13Z" } +--- + +# Testing recipes + +Choose the closest situation, then adapt it to the actual risk. These are defaults, not new requirements. Use the [field guide](field-guide.md), copy records from [testing records](../templates/testing-records.md), and follow the cited rules in [ENGINEERING-TESTING](../engineering/testing.md). + +## Bug fix + +**Minimum evidence:** reproduce the defect; add a failing check at the narrowest faithful boundary; cover the relevant success, boundary, and failure state; run affected broader checks; demonstrate the check rejects the old behavior. + +**Avoid:** preserving an accidental implementation detail or adding a browser journey for isolated logic. + +**Records:** behavior-to-evidence row; residual limitation when reproduction is incomplete. + +**Rules:** `ENGINEERING-TESTING-001`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-003`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-005`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-012`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-015`. + +## API or service change + +**Minimum evidence:** unit coverage for owned rules; complete contract coverage for request, response, error, compatibility, and bounds; integration evidence for real storage or cooperating services; representative authorization and failure paths; exact-artifact release check where configuration matters. + +**Failure cases:** invalid and missing input, unauthorized access, duplicate request, timeout, partial completion, retry, rate limit, and reconciliation as applicable. + +**Records:** behavior map, test-size declaration, compatibility matrix. + +**Rules:** `ENGINEERING-TESTING-001`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-005`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-008`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-009`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-014`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-016`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-022`; also `API-CONTRACTS`, `SECURITY-APPLICATION`, and `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY` when active. + +## UI behavior + +**Minimum evidence:** isolated logic and component behavior; representative browser evidence for focus, keyboard, layout, storage, navigation, and runtime behavior that cannot be proved faithfully below the browser; one material journey only when boundaries require it. + +**Avoid:** using snapshots as the only evidence of meaning, accessibility, or interaction; exhaustive viewport-route multiplication. + +**Records:** behavior map and browser boundary declaration. + +**Rules:** `ENGINEERING-TESTING-003`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-007`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-013`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-016`; also `DESIGN-INTERACTION`, `FND-ACCESSIBILITY`, and `WEB-QUALITY`. + +## Public website release + +**Minimum evidence:** contract checks for route maps, metadata, redirects, sitemap, robots, analytics serialization, and headers at their owners; representative browser checks for runtime interaction; production build; bounded smoke of artifact startup, primary route, representative dynamic route, missing route, essential dependency, and artifact identity; deployed DNS, TLS, routing, and response-policy verification. + +**Avoid:** calling every-route content and viewport coverage smoke. + +**Records:** suite inventory, smoke contract, execution-stage map. + +**Rules:** `ENGINEERING-TESTING-006`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-007`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-008`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-014`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-015`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-016`. + +## Provider integration + +**Minimum evidence:** owned adapter logic; provider contract fixtures validated against the real boundary; sandbox or faithful integration paths; timeout, rate-limit, malformed response, duplicate delivery, delayed consistency, and reconciliation behavior; bounded released synthetic when availability matters. + +**Avoid:** blind retry or fixtures copied indefinitely without drift validation. + +**Records:** contract owner, test-data record, quarantine record when necessary. + +**Rules:** `ENGINEERING-TESTING-004`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-005`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-008`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-009`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-010`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-013`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-014`. + +## Database migration + +**Minimum evidence:** old and new readers against reachable old, intermediate, and new states; forward migration, interruption, restart, rollback, and reconciliation; integrity and query-performance checks; exact migration artifact and production configuration; restore or recovery evidence when material. + +**Avoid:** testing only a clean latest schema or treating schema validity as semantic compatibility. + +**Records:** version compatibility matrix, behavior map, rollout/recovery link. + +**Rules:** `ENGINEERING-TESTING-005`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-008`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-014`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-022`; also `DATA-DATABASE`, `DATA-QUALITY`, and `FND-CHANGE`. + +## Scheduled or time-dependent behavior + +**Minimum evidence:** controlled clock before, at, and after expiry or schedule boundaries; supported zones and calendar transitions; delayed and duplicate work; restart; long horizon; reconciliation with the authoritative external clock. + +**Avoid:** long sleeps, host-clock mutation, or assuming simulated time controls provider time. + +**Records:** clock-authority table and temporal boundary cases. + +**Rules:** `ENGINEERING-TESTING-004`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-005`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-021`. + +## Flaky-test investigation + +**Minimum evidence:** preserve the first failure; vary one controlled diagnostic dimension at a time; classify product, test, or infrastructure defect; estimate observed failure rate when single reproduction is unreliable; identify missing coverage and risk. + +**Quarantine only with:** stable identity, owner, issue, reason, risk, original result, observed rate, scope, start, expiry, return condition, and critical-coverage disposition. + +**Rules:** `ENGINEERING-TESTING-010`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-015`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-017`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-025`. + +## Smoke-suite redesign + +**Minimum evidence:** inventory every assertion and the decision it supports; retain only checks required to decide whether the artifact can enter deeper verification or limited traffic; move static contracts and exhaustive matrices to their owning layers; declare duration, cost, effects, diagnostics, and continuation decision. + +**Candidate smoke:** startup or install, readiness, primary entry point, one representative dynamic path, essential wiring, expected artifact identity. + +**Rules:** `ENGINEERING-TESTING-006`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-008`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-014`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-016`. + +## Canary deployment + +**Minimum evidence:** concurrent stable control; attributable populations; representative duration and load; relative comparison plus absolute service, business, integrity, security, and harm limits; minimum evidence and inconclusive outcome; staged promotion, pause, rollback, and recovery authority. + +**Avoid:** promotion when both populations degrade, overlapping changes contaminate attribution, or the chosen signals cannot observe the material harm. + +**Records:** canary decision record. + +**Rules:** `ENGINEERING-TESTING-014`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-018`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-024`; also `FND-CHANGE` and `OPERATIONS-RELIABILITY`. + +## Shadow, dry-run, or fault-injection exercise + +**Minimum evidence:** hypothesis, steady state, production-data authority, isolation, comparison, skipped effects, smallest blast radius, observation window, technical and business guardrails, stop conditions, responsible parties, and recovery. + +**Avoid:** claiming suppressed writes were verified or replaying production data through live messaging, billing, publication, or destructive paths. + +**Records:** high-fidelity exercise record and production-derived data record. + +**Rules:** `ENGINEERING-TESTING-009`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-018`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-023`. + +## Test retirement + +**Minimum evidence:** stable test identity; protected claim and risk; selection/run history; reason for retirement; named replacement or evidence that the claim ended; residual-risk authority when coverage is intentionally removed. + +**Avoid:** deletion merely because a check is slow, flaky, or inconvenient. + +**Records:** test retirement record. + +**Rules:** `ENGINEERING-TESTING-010`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-017`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-020`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-025`. + +## Completion check for every recipe + +- The final artifact or system state was actually inspected. +- Commands, stages, versions, environments, results, and durations are recorded. +- Failures remain visible. +- Passing claims do not exceed the exercised boundary. +- Missing evidence and its owner are explicit. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/testing/routes.yaml b/plugins/raintree-standards/testing/routes.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5295b47 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/testing/routes.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,141 @@ +version: 1 +updated: 2026-08-30 +standard: ENGINEERING-TESTING +profile: PROFILE-SOFTWARE-CHANGE +documents: + field_guide: testing/field-guide.md + recipes: testing/recipes.md + templates: templates/testing-records.md + examples: testing/worked-examples.md + +rule_index: + ENGINEERING-TESTING-001: testing/field-guide.md#thirty-second-decision-path + ENGINEERING-TESTING-002: testing/field-guide.md#test-type-cards + ENGINEERING-TESTING-003: testing/field-guide.md#test-type-cards + ENGINEERING-TESTING-004: testing/field-guide.md#resource-size-declaration + ENGINEERING-TESTING-005: testing/field-guide.md#frequent-decisions + ENGINEERING-TESTING-006: testing/field-guide.md#smoke-synthetic-shadow-and-canary + ENGINEERING-TESTING-007: testing/field-guide.md#test-type-cards + ENGINEERING-TESTING-008: testing/field-guide.md#frequent-decisions + ENGINEERING-TESTING-009: testing/field-guide.md#smoke-synthetic-shadow-and-canary + ENGINEERING-TESTING-010: testing/field-guide.md#frequent-decisions + ENGINEERING-TESTING-011: testing/field-guide.md#anti-pattern-lookup + ENGINEERING-TESTING-012: testing/field-guide.md#anti-pattern-lookup + ENGINEERING-TESTING-013: testing/field-guide.md#test-type-cards + ENGINEERING-TESTING-014: testing/field-guide.md#execution-stages + ENGINEERING-TESTING-015: testing/field-guide.md#what-a-passing-result-does-not-prove + ENGINEERING-TESTING-016: testing/field-guide.md#resource-size-declaration + ENGINEERING-TESTING-017: testing/field-guide.md#frequent-decisions + ENGINEERING-TESTING-018: testing/field-guide.md#frequent-decisions + ENGINEERING-TESTING-019: testing/field-guide.md#portfolio-design + ENGINEERING-TESTING-020: testing/field-guide.md#frequent-decisions + ENGINEERING-TESTING-021: testing/field-guide.md#frequent-decisions + ENGINEERING-TESTING-022: testing/field-guide.md#frequent-decisions + ENGINEERING-TESTING-023: testing/field-guide.md#smoke-synthetic-shadow-and-canary + ENGINEERING-TESTING-024: testing/field-guide.md#smoke-synthetic-shadow-and-canary + ENGINEERING-TESTING-025: testing/field-guide.md#frequent-decisions + +stages: + - local + - presubmit + - post-submit + - release-qualification + - deployment-gate + - post-deployment + +test_types: + unit: + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-002, ENGINEERING-TESTING-003, ENGINEERING-TESTING-004] + stages: [local, presubmit] + component: + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-002, ENGINEERING-TESTING-003, ENGINEERING-TESTING-013] + stages: [local, presubmit] + contract: + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-002, ENGINEERING-TESTING-008, ENGINEERING-TESTING-022] + stages: [presubmit, post-submit, release-qualification] + integration: + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-002, ENGINEERING-TESTING-005, ENGINEERING-TESTING-007, ENGINEERING-TESTING-016] + stages: [presubmit, post-submit] + end-to-end: + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-007, ENGINEERING-TESTING-009, ENGINEERING-TESTING-015] + stages: [presubmit, post-submit, release-qualification] + regression: + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-001, ENGINEERING-TESTING-008, ENGINEERING-TESTING-025] + stages: [presubmit, post-submit, release-qualification] + acceptance: + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-001, ENGINEERING-TESTING-007, ENGINEERING-TESTING-015] + stages: [presubmit, release-qualification] + smoke: + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-006, ENGINEERING-TESTING-014, ENGINEERING-TESTING-016] + stages: [release-qualification, deployment-gate] + synthetic: + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-002, ENGINEERING-TESTING-009, ENGINEERING-TESTING-014] + stages: [deployment-gate, post-deployment] + shadow-dry-run: + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-018, ENGINEERING-TESTING-023] + stages: [release-qualification, deployment-gate, post-deployment] + canary: + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-014, ENGINEERING-TESTING-018, ENGINEERING-TESTING-024] + stages: [deployment-gate] + performance: + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-002, ENGINEERING-TESTING-014, ENGINEERING-TESTING-016] + stages: [post-submit, release-qualification] + resilience: + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-005, ENGINEERING-TESTING-014, ENGINEERING-TESTING-023] + stages: [post-submit, release-qualification, post-deployment] + security: + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-001, ENGINEERING-TESTING-005, ENGINEERING-TESTING-009, ENGINEERING-TESTING-012] + stages: [presubmit, post-submit, release-qualification] + accessibility: + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-001, ENGINEERING-TESTING-007, ENGINEERING-TESTING-015] + stages: [presubmit, release-qualification] + +situations: + bug-fix: + recipe: bug-fix + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-001, ENGINEERING-TESTING-003, ENGINEERING-TESTING-005, ENGINEERING-TESTING-012, ENGINEERING-TESTING-015] + templates: [behavior-to-evidence-map] + api-service-change: + recipe: api-or-service-change + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-001, ENGINEERING-TESTING-005, ENGINEERING-TESTING-008, ENGINEERING-TESTING-014, ENGINEERING-TESTING-016, ENGINEERING-TESTING-022] + templates: [behavior-to-evidence-map, test-size-declaration, version-compatibility-matrix] + ui-behavior: + recipe: ui-behavior + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-003, ENGINEERING-TESTING-007, ENGINEERING-TESTING-013, ENGINEERING-TESTING-016] + templates: [behavior-to-evidence-map, test-size-declaration] + public-website-release: + recipe: public-website-release + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-006, ENGINEERING-TESTING-007, ENGINEERING-TESTING-008, ENGINEERING-TESTING-014, ENGINEERING-TESTING-016] + templates: [suite-inventory, smoke-test-contract, execution-stage-map] + provider-integration: + recipe: provider-integration + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-004, ENGINEERING-TESTING-005, ENGINEERING-TESTING-008, ENGINEERING-TESTING-009, ENGINEERING-TESTING-010, ENGINEERING-TESTING-013] + templates: [behavior-to-evidence-map, production-derived-data-record, quarantine-record] + database-migration: + recipe: database-migration + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-005, ENGINEERING-TESTING-008, ENGINEERING-TESTING-014, ENGINEERING-TESTING-022] + templates: [behavior-to-evidence-map, version-compatibility-matrix, execution-stage-map] + time-dependent-behavior: + recipe: scheduled-or-time-dependent-behavior + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-004, ENGINEERING-TESTING-005, ENGINEERING-TESTING-021] + templates: [behavior-to-evidence-map] + flaky-test: + recipe: flaky-test-investigation + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-010, ENGINEERING-TESTING-015, ENGINEERING-TESTING-017, ENGINEERING-TESTING-025] + templates: [quarantine-record, test-retirement-record] + smoke-suite-redesign: + recipe: smoke-suite-redesign + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-006, ENGINEERING-TESTING-008, ENGINEERING-TESTING-014, ENGINEERING-TESTING-016] + templates: [suite-inventory, smoke-test-contract, execution-stage-map] + canary-deployment: + recipe: canary-deployment + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-014, ENGINEERING-TESTING-018, ENGINEERING-TESTING-024] + templates: [canary-decision-record, execution-stage-map] + high-fidelity-exercise: + recipe: shadow-dry-run-or-fault-injection-exercise + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-009, ENGINEERING-TESTING-018, ENGINEERING-TESTING-023] + templates: [production-derived-data-record, high-fidelity-exercise-record] + test-retirement: + recipe: test-retirement + rules: [ENGINEERING-TESTING-010, ENGINEERING-TESTING-017, ENGINEERING-TESTING-020, ENGINEERING-TESTING-025] + templates: [test-retirement-record] diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/testing/worked-examples.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/testing/worked-examples.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..52accd6 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/testing/worked-examples.md @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +--- +type: Reference +title: Testing worked examples and pilot findings +description: Applied examples showing how the testing reference changes suite naming, evidence placement, release stages, and residual-risk reporting in real repositories. +tags: [testing, examples, pilot, smoke-tests] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-30T21:25:13Z" } +--- + +# Testing worked examples and pilot findings + +These are read-only strategy pilots. They demonstrate reference use without changing the pilot repositories or claiming their full conformance. Observations reflect repository state inspected August 30, 2026. + +## Pilot method + +The pilot asked twelve recurring questions: test type, system boundary, real dependencies, smoke scope, failure coverage, resource size, execution stage, selective execution, temporal behavior, compatibility, production verification, and test lifecycle. For each repository, the pilot inspected test files, package commands, and relevant repository instructions, then used the [field guide](field-guide.md), [recipes](recipes.md), and [testing records](../templates/testing-records.md) to produce a bounded strategy. + +The pre-reference structural baseline required searching the 25-rule standard and test-strategy playbook directly. The optimized route answers common classification questions from one field-guide table and routes situation-specific work through one recipe. This is a navigation result, not a measured human comprehension time; representative-reader testing remains required before stabilization. + +## Example 1 — Public website with oversized smoke suites + +**Repository:** `/Users/mb1/Code/websites` + +**Observed shape:** The Raintree site has a 1,200-plus-line browser command named `agent-browser-smoke.ts`. It checks browser behavior, sitemap and media responses, layout and runtime paths, content and metadata-related behavior, and application startup. The Zachary site routes both runtime SEO audit and E2E through `scripts/smoke-test.ts`, which performs broad route, metadata, redirect, and response checks. Narrow unit and contract-style tests already exist for metadata, analytics, sitemap, redirects, robots, content, and other static behavior. + +**Pilot execution:** `bun run test` failed in 0.33 seconds. The Raintree workspace reported 37 passing and three failing tests: stale sitemap date cardinality, duplicate social-card imagery, and a canonical-path expectation missing `/terms`. The Zachary workspace passed 26 tests and agent-readiness passed seven. The services workspace returned “No tests found,” which makes the root orchestration fail without representing a product assertion. This supports separate suite identities and results rather than one undifferentiated root status. + +**Reference diagnosis:** These commands contain useful evidence, but their names collapse smoke, browser regression, contract exposure, and release verification. `ENGINEERING-TESTING-006` does not justify deleting browser verification; it requires keeping the operability decision small and routing other claims truthfully. + +**Recommended allocation:** + +| Evidence | Owner | Suggested stage | +|---|---|---| +| Metadata, route, redirect, sitemap, robots, analytics, and content invariants | Existing unit or contract suites | Presubmit | +| Representative keyboard, focus, layout, navigation, storage, and runtime behavior | Browser regression suite | Presubmit or post-submit according to duration | +| Production build starts; readiness; homepage; one inner or dynamic path; missing route; essential response wiring; artifact identity | New bounded `test:smoke` | Build and deployment | +| DNS, TLS, deployed headers, provider configuration, and public artifact identity | Release or deployed verification | Deployment gate | +| Bounded public operation after release | Synthetic | Post-deployment | + +**Rename before deletion:** Preserve the current broad browser evidence under an honest regression or release-verification command while extracting a small smoke command. Remove duplicate assertions only after tracing them to authoritative lower-layer ownership. + +**Pilot finding:** The quick comparison table resolves the original “smoke tests are pointless” concern: smoke is useful as a small continuation gate; the problem is misclassification and excessive scope. + +## Example 2 — Service and static-data API + +**Repository:** `/Users/mb1/Code/raintree/buildergraph` + +**Observed shape:** The root check runs TypeScript validation, Vitest, static-data validation, and a web check. The test suite protects stable lowercase shards, grouping, and duplicate public identities. Separate commands build, validate, and release-check generated static intelligence. Repository instructions restrict public data, outbound GitHub enrichment, secrets, pagination, and rate limiting. + +**Pilot execution:** `npm run check` passed in 7.25 seconds. Three Vitest checks passed, 13 generated static-data files were verified, TypeScript passed, and the production web build completed. The result is useful but combines transformation tests, artifact validation, type evidence, and production-build qualification under one command, confirming the need to report constituent claims separately. + +**Reference diagnosis:** The current tests are narrow and valuable, but the suite inventory should distinguish transformation rules, generated-artifact contracts, public API exposure, enrichment-worker integration, and release qualification. A single root `check` command is an orchestration entry point, not a test layer. + +**Recommended allocation:** + +| Claim | Evidence | +|---|---| +| Shard naming, grouping, identity uniqueness, and deterministic transformation | Unit/property checks around the builder | +| Generated `/api/v1` shape, bounds, and public-field policy | Contract check against built artifacts | +| Web application reads supported artifacts and handles missing/stale data | Component or integration checks | +| GitHub enrichment budget, conditional requests, cache-table-only writes, timeouts, duplicate work, and stale fallback | Isolated contract plus bounded integration checks | +| Exact generated production corpus satisfies release constraints | Existing `release:check`, classified as release qualification | +| Deployed routes expose the expected artifact with rate limiting | Bounded deployment smoke or synthetic | + +**Compatibility record:** If generated artifacts and readers can deploy separately, add old-reader/new-artifact and new-reader/old-artifact rows under `ENGINEERING-TESTING-022`. + +**Pilot finding:** The reference prevents over-prescribing E2E. Most critical rules belong to deterministic transformation and artifact-contract evidence; only deployed exposure needs a broad boundary. + +## Example 3 — Data reconciliation and generated documents + +**Repository:** `/Users/mb1/Code/personal/jobs` + +**Observed shape:** Python tests cover historical/new record compatibility, artifact hashes, dashboard reconciliation, persistent decisions, source deduplication, banned claims, output geometry, links, archives, and registered artifacts. Separate check commands reconcile journals, tracker state, and cleaned data. The repository produces generated documents and maintains historical state rather than a deployed service. + +**Pilot execution:** `bun run validate` passed in 8.54 seconds. Lint, journal index, tracker reconciliation, data cleanliness, and 27 Python tests passed. The run verified 235 applications, 255 cleaned records, 89 contacts, 61 linked contacts, and generated-document behavior. These are distinct data-quality, reconciliation, contract, and exact-artifact claims even though one command orchestrates them. + +**Reference diagnosis:** This is a data and artifact pipeline. “Unit versus E2E” is less useful than distinguishing source-contract, transformation, reconciliation, generated-artifact, and historical-compatibility claims. Production canaries and deployment smoke are generally inapplicable. + +**Recommended allocation:** + +| Claim | Evidence | +|---|---| +| Record schema, status rules, exact registries, and banned claims | Contract and unit checks | +| Historical records remain readable while new records require stronger fields | Compatibility matrix and regression checks | +| Reconciliation does not mutate authoritative sources unexpectedly | Integration-style check with isolated fixtures and final-state comparison | +| Generated resume has links, one-page bounds, and safe margins | Exact-artifact acceptance checks | +| Archive hashes and installed outputs remain aligned | Artifact-integrity and lifecycle checks | +| Journal and data check commands detect drift without writing | Dry-run classification with explicit skipped-write limitation | + +**Temporal record:** Date-sensitive active/inactive status and archive behavior should use a controlled date boundary if current tests derive behavior from wall time. + +**Pilot finding:** The architecture-aware rule avoids forcing browser, canary, or service-style evidence onto a local data workflow. Compatibility and final-state reconciliation matter more. + +## Cross-pilot findings + +1. **Command names are not evidence types.** `check`, `validate`, and `test:e2e` often orchestrate several claims. The reference must inventory constituent suites. +2. **Smoke remains useful only as a continuation decision.** Website pilots need it; the local data pipeline generally does not. +3. **Layer labels require a declared system boundary.** A whole service can be a component in one strategy and the system under test in another. +4. **Compatibility deserves first-class treatment.** Generated artifacts and historical records create version windows even without a network API. +5. **Exact-artifact checks are frequently misnamed E2E or smoke.** Release qualification is a clearer stage and claim. +6. **Templates must be optional by applicability.** Requiring canary, production-data, or selective-execution records in every repository would create paperwork without evidence value. +7. **The standard should remain the policy owner.** Recipes and examples must link to rules and may not introduce independent “must” statements. + +## Usability baseline and retest + +| Question | Before | Optimized route | Remaining validation | +|---|---|---|---| +| Is this smoke? | Read rule `ENGINEERING-TESTING-006` plus guidance and examples | Field-guide comparison table, then smoke recipe | Representative-reader timing | +| Where should an assertion live? | Search taxonomy, E2E, and contract rules | Thirty-second path and test-type cards | Ambiguous component boundaries | +| Which stage runs it? | Read `ENGINEERING-TESTING-014` and playbook | Execution-stage table | Project-specific deadlines | +| How do we quarantine it? | Read `ENGINEERING-TESTING-010`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-017`, `ENGINEERING-TESTING-025` | Flaky-test recipe plus quarantine record | Owner workflow integration | +| How do we test migration rollback? | Read `ENGINEERING-TESTING-022` | Migration recipe plus compatibility matrix | Real migration pilot | +| What does canary pass mean? | Read `ENGINEERING-TESTING-024` | Canary card and decision record | Service-specific signals and thresholds | + +The structural retest reduces the normal path to one reference page plus, when needed, one recipe or template. It does not establish human comprehension or adoption quality. Use the repository's comprehension-review template with independent representative readers before declaring the reference stable. + +The pilots intentionally did not edit their repositories, remove tests, or change CI. They therefore provide current command duration and defect-signal evidence, not before-and-after performance or defect-yield claims. The website run did expose three stale contract expectations plus a workspace with no tests; the other two repositories passed their existing gates. A later implementation pilot should record renamed or moved tests, smoke duration, merge feedback time, flake rate, diagnostic time, and defects detected before and after adoption. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/web/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/web/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d2974b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/web/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Web standards + +* [Public web quality](quality.md) - Defines accessible, performant, resilient, secure, private, and discoverable public web experiences. +* [WebMCP tools for agent-accessible web applications](webmcp.md) - Defines safe, accurate, accessible, and testable WebMCP tool exposure. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/web/quality.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/web/quality.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bbbf47a --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/web/quality.md @@ -0,0 +1,414 @@ +--- +id: WEB-QUALITY +title: Public web quality +description: Defines accessible, performant, resilient, secure, private, and discoverable public web experiences. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [web, design, security] +last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 +review_by: 2026-11-13 +stale_after: 2026-11-13 +applies_to: [public-web-page, web-application] +tags: [web, accessibility, performance, resilience, security, privacy] +depends_on: [FND-CHANGE, FND-TRUST, FND-ACCESSIBILITY, SEO-FOUNDATIONS, CONTENT-ERRORS] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-08-13T20:57:53Z" } +sources: + - id: wcag-22 + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/ + title: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 + author: organization:w3c + - id: html-standard + resource: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ + title: HTML Standard + author: organization:whatwg + - id: ietf-http-semantics + resource: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html + title: HTTP Semantics + author: organization:ietf + - id: w3c-ethical-web + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/ + title: Ethical Web Principles + author: organization:w3c + - id: w3c-csp + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/CSP3/ + title: Content Security Policy Level 3 + author: organization:w3c + - id: w3c-referrer-policy + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/referrer-policy/ + title: Referrer Policy + author: organization:w3c + - id: w3c-permissions-policy + resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/permissions-policy/ + title: Permissions Policy + author: organization:w3c + - id: google-core-web-vitals + resource: https://web.dev/articles/vitals + title: Web Vitals + author: organization:google + - id: google-core-web-vitals-thresholds + resource: https://web.dev/articles/defining-core-web-vitals-thresholds + title: How the Core Web Vitals metrics thresholds were defined + author: organization:google +--- + +# Public web quality + +A public web experience must be understandable, operable, fast enough, resilient, secure, privacy-conscious, discoverable, and usable across its supported environments. Visual correctness alone is not completion. + +This standard sets product-quality gates. Legal accessibility, privacy, security, and records requirements remain additive and require the applicable organizational policy and qualified owner. + +## Document foundations + +### WEB-QUALITY-001 — Ship correct document identity and structure + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Serving an HTML document. + +Use the standards-mode doctype, valid document language and direction, an early UTF-8 declaration, a responsive viewport that does not disable zoom, one descriptive document title, logical landmarks, and one primary main region. + +**Why:** Browsers, assistive technology, translation tools, search systems, and sharing clients depend on document-level semantics before interpreting page content. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the delivered HTML and browser accessibility tree. +- Confirm title, language, direction, encoding, viewport, and landmarks match the rendered page. + +**Exceptions:** Embedded fragments that are not complete documents inherit identity from their host and must not duplicate page-level structure. + +### WEB-QUALITY-002 — Use native semantics before recreating behavior + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Implementing controls, navigation, headings, forms, dialogs, disclosure, tables, or page structure. + +Use the native element whose semantics and behavior match the interaction. Add ARIA only to fill a real semantic gap, and implement the complete expected keyboard and state behavior when a custom control is necessary. + +**Why:** Native elements provide interoperable semantics and interaction behavior that partial custom implementations often omit. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect role, name, state, value, and relationships in the accessibility tree. +- Operate custom controls with keyboard and assistive technology patterns appropriate to the control. + +**Exceptions:** A custom element can replace a native control when the native element cannot express the required interaction and the custom behavior is fully verified. + +## Accessibility + +The rules in this section apply `FND-ACCESSIBILITY-003`, `FND-ACCESSIBILITY-004`, and +`FND-ACCESSIBILITY-007` to web delivery. The foundation standard owns the underlying +requirements; these rules add the web-specific conditions and checks. + +### WEB-QUALITY-003 — Support keyboard operation and visible focus + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A page contains interactive behavior. + +Make every interaction reachable and operable through a keyboard in a logical order. Keep focus visible, unobscured, and out of traps; restore or move focus intentionally after dialogs, navigation, removal, and other context changes. + +**Why:** Keyboard access supports people who cannot or do not use a pointer and exposes interaction-order defects for every user. + +**Verify:** + +- Complete each material flow using only the keyboard. +- Check focus order, focus appearance, skip paths, dialog containment, escape behavior, and focus return. + +**Exceptions:** Path-dependent input such as freehand drawing can require a pointer when an equivalent outcome is available by another method. + +### WEB-QUALITY-004 — Provide names, labels, alternatives, and errors + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Presenting controls, forms, images, media, status changes, or validation. + +Expose programmatic names and labels, purposeful text alternatives, captions or transcripts where required, and errors connected to affected controls. Do not use color, placeholder text, position, sound, or icon shape as the only carrier of meaning. + +**Why:** Visible context is not always available to assistive technology or users with different sensory access. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect accessible names, descriptions, field relationships, image alternatives, and media alternatives. +- Trigger validation and status updates, then confirm the message is perceivable and connected to the relevant action or field. + +**Exceptions:** Decorative content must be omitted from assistive output rather than given redundant descriptions. + +### WEB-QUALITY-005 — Test accessibility behavior, not only markup + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Shipping or materially changing an interactive flow. + +Test keyboard operation, focus movement, zoom and reflow, text spacing, meaningful screen-reader announcements, reduced motion, contrast, target size, and automated rules appropriate to the change. + +**Why:** Automated checks and valid markup do not reproduce every interaction, visual, or assistive-technology failure. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the flows, environments, tools, manual checks, and outcomes. +- Confirm automated findings were reviewed rather than accepted or dismissed without inspection. + +**Exceptions:** When a required environment is unavailable, test the closest substitute and report the unverified behavior and risk. + +### WEB-QUALITY-006 — Set and enforce a performance budget + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Shipping a public experience or materially increasing its resource or execution cost. + +Define budgets for loading, responsiveness, visual stability, transferred resources, server response, and third-party impact using representative devices, networks, locations, and user journeys. Validate laboratory behavior and available field data. + +**Why:** Fast development hardware and warm local caches hide delays experienced on ordinary devices and networks. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the budget, test profile, page or flow, cold and warm behavior, and measured results. +- Attribute material regressions to specific resources, code, server work, or third parties. + +**Exceptions:** A justified regression requires an approved budget change, documented user tradeoff, and follow-up owner; it is not a passing result. + +## Performance and resilience + +### WEB-QUALITY-007 — Preserve a useful baseline under partial failure + +**Level:** recommended +**Applies when:** JavaScript, an API, storage, a third party, a font, or nonessential media can fail independently. + +Keep primary content and essential actions understandable where practical. Provide explicit loading, empty, offline, timeout, stale, and error states rather than indefinite, blank, or misleading UI. + +**Why:** Distributed dependencies fail separately, and an all-or-nothing page can turn a minor outage into complete loss of function. + +**Verify:** + +- Disable or delay each material dependency and inspect the resulting page and recovery path. +- Confirm users can distinguish empty data from failed loading and know whether their work was preserved. + +**Exceptions:** A capability that cannot function safely without its dependency must fail closed with an actionable explanation. + +### WEB-QUALITY-008 — Prevent avoidable layout instability + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Loading images, embeds, ads, fonts, banners, personalization, or asynchronous content. + +Reserve stable space, provide intrinsic dimensions or an aspect ratio, and avoid inserting unexpected content before the user's reading or interaction position. Keep placeholders representative of final layout. + +**Why:** Unexpected movement causes misclicks, lost reading position, and visual disorientation. + +**Verify:** + +- Observe cold loading and delayed dependencies at representative viewport sizes. +- Measure layout movement and inspect the user-visible causes. + +**Exceptions:** User-requested expansion can move surrounding content when the initiating control and result remain clear. + +### WEB-QUALITY-009 — Minimize and constrain third-party code + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Loading analytics, advertising, widgets, tag managers, embeds, fonts, or remote scripts. + +Document purpose, owner, provider, data access, consent behavior, performance cost, security boundary, failure behavior, and removal path. Grant the least capability practical and isolate untrusted content where possible. + +**Why:** Third-party code can execute with site privileges, collect data, block rendering, change independently, and fail outside the site's release process. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect actual network, storage, script, frame, and permission behavior before and after consent. +- Disable the provider and confirm the page fails safely. +- Confirm unused integrations and permissions are removed. + +**Exceptions:** A first-party hosted asset is still governed when another organization controls its contents or behavior. + +## Security and privacy + +### WEB-QUALITY-010 — Keep secrets and privileged decisions off public clients + +**Level:** prohibited +**Applies when:** Building browser-delivered code or configuration. + +Never place secrets, private keys, privileged credentials, or authorization decisions in a browser. Treat every delivered resource, source map, environment value, and network request as publicly observable. + +**Why:** Obfuscation, environment naming, hidden routes, and client checks do not create a security boundary. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect built assets, source maps, HTML, runtime configuration, browser storage, and network traffic for credentials and privileged data. +- Confirm the server independently enforces authorization for every protected action and object. + +**Exceptions:** Public identifiers and publishable client keys are allowed only within their documented limited capability and server-enforced controls. + +### WEB-QUALITY-011 — Make collection and consent behavior truthful + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Storing or transmitting identifiers, behavioral data, device data, or user-provided information. + +Make actual network and storage behavior match the disclosed purpose and consent state. Do not collect first and merely hide the interface until consent. Define retention, deletion, access, and provider behavior under the applicable privacy policy. + +**Why:** Interface text cannot create consent when the underlying collection already occurred or exceeds the stated purpose. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect cookies, local storage, requests, pixels, server events, and third-party behavior before acceptance, after acceptance, and after withdrawal. +- Confirm the privacy record names purpose, data, recipients, retention, and governing policy. + +**Exceptions:** Strictly necessary storage or transmission can occur without optional consent only when the applicable policy authorizes it and the classification is documented. + +### WEB-QUALITY-012 — Externalize and localize complete meaning + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A product supports or plans to support multiple locales. + +Use locale-aware formatting and externalized complete messages. Do not concatenate translated sentence fragments or assume text length, plural rules, name shape, address shape, time zone, number format, or reading direction. + +**Why:** Language is structural; replacing English words alone does not preserve grammar, layout, or meaning in other locales. + +**Verify:** + +- Render representative long, short, plural, right-to-left, and non-Latin content. +- Check locale selection, fallback, document language and direction, formatting, truncation, and assistive output. + +**Exceptions:** Internal prototypes can defer translation when externalization is preserved and the limitation is recorded. + +## Internationalization and machine readiness + +### WEB-QUALITY-013 — Expose stable, truthful meaning to machines + +**Level:** recommended +**Applies when:** Content is public or intended for agents, search engines, feeds, sharing clients, or integrations. + +Use descriptive titles, semantic headings, stable URLs, meaningful links, accessible names, truthful structured metadata, and server-visible primary content. Keep machine-readable representations consistent with what users receive. + +**Why:** Machine consumers rely on document semantics and metadata rather than visual inference. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare rendered content, accessibility semantics, response metadata, sharing previews, and structured data. +- Confirm stable identifiers and links resolve without requiring hidden application state. + +**Exceptions:** Private or personalized data must not be exposed to improve machine readability. + +### WEB-QUALITY-014 — Protect transport and browser execution boundaries + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Serving a production public web experience. + +Use secure transport and engine-appropriate controls for content execution, framing, cross-origin access, referrer disclosure, and sensitive caching. Define these controls at the response or platform layer and review exceptions narrowly. + +**Why:** Browser defaults cannot infer which origins, scripts, frames, or caches the application intends to trust. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect production response headers and effective browser policy on representative documents and assets. +- Exercise allowed and blocked origin, framing, and content-loading cases. +- Confirm sensitive responses are not stored or shared beyond their intended boundary. + +**Exceptions:** A required integration can receive the minimum scoped exception after security review and must have an owner and removal condition. + +### WEB-QUALITY-015 — Verify supported environments and input modes + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Releasing or materially changing a public page or flow. + +Define supported browser, device, viewport, input, and assistive-technology coverage according to audience and risk. Inspect the material journey across representative environments, including touch and keyboard where applicable. + +**Why:** A flow that works in one development browser can fail because of engine, viewport, input, storage, or network differences. + +**Verify:** + +- Record the support policy, selected coverage, and result for each material journey. +- Include at least one narrow viewport and each engine or platform that represents meaningful audience or contractual coverage. + +**Exceptions:** Unsupported environments must receive an understandable fallback or support message when practical. + +### WEB-QUALITY-016 — Respect motion, timing, and input alternatives + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A page uses animation, auto-updating content, time limits, dragging, gestures, pointer paths, or motion triggered by interaction. + +Honor reduced-motion preferences, provide a way to disable nonessential interaction-triggered motion, and avoid flashes that exceed the governing accessibility threshold. Let users pause or control moving and auto-updating content, extend adjustable time limits, and complete path- or gesture-based actions through a simpler input unless the path is essential. + +**Why:** Motion, flashing, time pressure, and path-dependent input can cause physical symptoms or make a task impossible for users with vestibular, motor, cognitive, or vision disabilities. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise the flow with reduced motion, keyboard, touch, pointer, zoom, and relevant assistive technology. +- Test pause, stop, hide, extension, timeout warning, dragging alternative, and single-pointer behavior where applicable. +- Inspect animation introduced by hover, focus, scrolling, loading, and state changes, not only decorative transitions. + +**Exceptions:** Motion, timing, or path can remain essential when removing it would fundamentally change the information or activity; document the necessity and provide the closest accessible alternative. + +### WEB-QUALITY-017 — Prevent high-impact input errors + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A web flow creates a legal or financial commitment, changes or deletes user-controlled data, submits test responses, or publishes sensitive information. + +Apply `CONTENT-ERRORS-012`, which owns the safeguard requirement: before final submission, make the action reversible, validate and allow correction, or present a review and confirmation step that exposes the material values and consequences. Preserve entered data through correction where security permits. + +**Why:** Web delivery adds navigation, refresh, and network failure paths that can bypass or repeat a safeguard that works in one uninterrupted session. + +**Verify:** + +- Run the `CONTENT-ERRORS-012` verification on the rendered flow, including keyboard and assistive-technology operation. +- Check duplicate submission, back navigation, timeout, refresh, retry, and interrupted-network behavior. +- Confirm review and confirmation content meets `FND-TRUST-001`. + +**Exceptions:** Follow `CONTENT-ERRORS-012`. + +### WEB-QUALITY-018 — Request browser capabilities in context + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Requesting location, camera, microphone, notifications, clipboard, fullscreen, sensors, storage, or another permission-controlled browser capability. + +Request the minimum capability only after a user action that makes the purpose clear. Explain the effect before the browser prompt, handle denial and revocation without trapping the user, and restrict capabilities for embedded or third-party content through Permissions Policy and sandboxing where supported. + +**Why:** Unexpected or overbroad prompts reduce meaningful consent and can grant embedded content capabilities unrelated to the user's task. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise first request, grant, denial, dismissal, revocation, repeat visit, and unsupported-browser paths. +- Inspect effective permissions for top-level and embedded documents. +- Confirm the feature remains understandable and offers an alternate path when optional permission is denied. + +**Exceptions:** A capability essential to the product can block that specific function after denial, but must explain the dependency and leave unrelated functions available. + +## Guidance + +Start with a correct document and native controls. Add client behavior in layers, preserve server and browser semantics, and design each remote dependency as a failure boundary. + +Use WCAG 2.2 Level AA as the default technical accessibility target unless a stricter law, contract, or organizational policy applies. Conformance claims require the full scope and process defined by the governing accessibility policy; this standard does not create a legal conformance claim by itself. + +Performance budgets should reflect the actual audience and task. Keep raw resource budgets alongside outcome metrics so teams can act before field performance degrades. Review third-party scripts as both performance and security dependencies. + +For public pages without a stricter product budget, use the current Core Web Vitals “good” thresholds as a review baseline at the 75th percentile: LCP at or below 2.5 seconds, INP at or below 200 milliseconds, and CLS at or below 0.1. Revalidate the metric set and thresholds before relying on them because Google treats them as an evolving program. Segment field results by material device and experience rather than hiding a poor population in a sitewide average. + +Treat Content Security Policy as defense in depth, not a substitute for output encoding and input handling. Introduce restrictive policies through reporting where needed, review violations, then enforce the smallest source and capability set the application needs. Set an intentional referrer policy for pages whose URLs or navigation context can reveal personal, sensitive, or capability-bearing information. + +## Examples + +### Custom control + +Non-compliant: A styled `div` submits a form on mouse click and uses `role="button"` without keyboard behavior or focus styling. + +Compliant: A native `button` submits the form. If a custom widget is truly required, its name, role, state, keyboard behavior, focus management, and disabled behavior match the expected pattern. + +### Consent + +Non-compliant: Analytics requests fire on initial page load while the banner waits for a choice. + +Compliant: Nonessential requests and storage remain absent until consent. Withdrawal stops future collection and follows the documented deletion policy. + +### Dependency failure + +Non-compliant: A blocked chat widget prevents the entire support page from rendering. + +Compliant: The page loads its primary support content and shows a direct fallback contact method when the widget fails. + +## Release evidence + +Record final rendered inspection, representative environment coverage, accessibility checks, performance results, dependency-failure behavior, third-party security and privacy review, status and link checks, localization coverage where applicable, and approved exceptions. + +## Sources + +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/), W3C Recommendation, October 5, 2023. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- WHATWG, [HTML Standard](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Internet Engineering Task Force, [RFC 9110: HTTP Semantics](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html), June 2022. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Ethical Web Principles](https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/), December 12, 2024. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Content Security Policy Level 3](https://www.w3.org/TR/CSP3/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Referrer Policy](https://www.w3.org/TR/referrer-policy/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Permissions Policy](https://www.w3.org/TR/permissions-policy/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Google, [How the Core Web Vitals metrics thresholds were defined](https://web.dev/articles/defining-core-web-vitals-thresholds), last updated May 7, 2025. Reviewed August 13, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/web/webmcp.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/web/webmcp.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b524b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/web/webmcp.md @@ -0,0 +1,394 @@ +--- +id: WEB-WEBMCP +title: WebMCP tools for agent-accessible web applications +description: Defines safe, accurate, accessible, and testable WebMCP tool exposure for web applications. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +release_target: post-v1 +owners: [web, ai, engineering, security, privacy, product] +last_reviewed: 2026-09-01 +review_by: 2026-12-01 +stale_after: 2026-12-01 +applies_to: [webmcp-change, agentic-system, public-web-page, software-change] +tags: [web, webmcp, agents, tools, security, privacy, accessibility] +depends_on: [AI-AGENTS, WEB-QUALITY, SECURITY-APPLICATION, PRIVACY-DATA, FND-TRUST, FND-CHANGE, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-01T16:46:56-07:00" } +sources: + - id: webmcp-draft + resource: https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/ + title: WebMCP Draft Community Group Report + author: organization:w3c-web-machine-learning-community-group + last_modified: 2026-08-26 + - id: webmcp-explainer + resource: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp/blob/main/README.md + title: WebMCP explainer + author: organization:w3c-web-machine-learning-community-group + - id: webmcp-declarative-explainer + resource: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp/blob/main/declarative-api-explainer.md + title: WebMCP declarative API + author: organization:w3c-web-machine-learning-community-group + - id: webmcp-security-privacy + resource: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp/blob/main/security-privacy-questionnaire.md + title: WebMCP Self-Review Questionnaire Security and Privacy + author: organization:w3c-web-machine-learning-community-group + - id: chrome-webmcp + resource: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/webmcp + title: WebMCP + author: organization:google + last_modified: 2026-08-07 + - id: tag-webmcp-review + resource: https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/1238 + title: "Incubation: WebMCP" + author: organization:w3c-tag + - id: mozilla-webmcp-position + resource: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1412 + title: Mozilla standards position for WebMCP + author: organization:mozilla + - id: webkit-webmcp-position + resource: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/670 + title: WebKit standards position for WebMCP + author: organization:webkit +--- + +# WebMCP tools for agent-accessible web applications + +Use WebMCP as a progressive enhancement that lets an agent discover and invoke web application functions without replacing the visible, accessible user experience. A WebMCP tool must preserve the same authorization, validation, user control, and outcome evidence as the human path it represents. + +This standard applies when a web application registers, exposes, executes, consumes, or materially changes a WebMCP tool. It covers imperative tools registered through `document.modelContext` and declarative tools derived from HTML forms. + +WebMCP is a W3C Community Group draft, not a W3C Standard or a W3C Standards Track specification. Its API, security model, annotations, declarative form behavior, and browser support can change. Treat current browser implementations and origin trials as experimental compatibility targets, not proof of interoperability or production readiness. + +The standards review remains unsettled as of September 1, 2026. The W3C Technical Architecture Group review is in progress and identifies missing multi-stakeholder support. Mozilla's standards-position issue is labeled neutral. WebKit records opposition and identifies API-design, duplication, internationalization, portability, privacy, security, consent, use-case, and venue concerns. These positions do not decide whether a bounded experiment is useful, but they prohibit claims of web-platform consensus or portable support. + +## Rules + +### WEB-WEBMCP-001 — Keep WebMCP a progressive enhancement + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A page exposes or consumes a WebMCP tool. + +Keep the underlying task usable through the declared human interface without WebMCP support. Feature-detect the reviewed WebMCP API and fail without changing user data when the API or required capability is unavailable. Record the exact specification revision, browser versions, flags or trial requirements, and fallback behavior used for acceptance. + +**Why:** WebMCP remains an evolving proposal with limited and changing browser support. Making it the only task path can exclude users, break unsupported clients, and couple the product to an unstable interface. + +**Verify:** + +- Complete the task with WebMCP unavailable and confirm that the human path remains usable. +- Inspect the compatibility record and exercise unsupported, partially supported, disabled, and registration-failure states. +- Confirm that fallback does not silently invoke a different tool, broaden authority, or duplicate a side effect. + +**Exceptions:** An isolated experiment can omit a production fallback when it is labeled as an experiment, contains no required user task, and cannot affect production data or accounts. + +### WEB-WEBMCP-002 — Make each tool contract exact + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Defining or changing a tool name, title, description, input schema, annotation, result, or effect. + +Define one bounded capability per tool. Make its name, localized title, description, schema, annotations, result, preconditions, side effects, confirmation point, and failure meaning agree with its implementation. State irreversible, financial, external, privacy-relevant, or account-changing effects directly. Do not use ambiguous completion verbs such as “finalize,” “process,” or “handle” when the tool purchases, sends, publishes, deletes, shares, or changes access. + +Treat `readOnlyHint` and `untrustedContentHint` as claims that require evidence, not as agent-enforced security controls. Mark `readOnlyHint` true only when execution cannot mutate application, user, device, or external state. Mark `untrustedContentHint` true when results can contain content that the registering application does not control or trust. + +**Why:** Agents select tools from natural-language metadata. A mismatch can cause an unintended consequential action, conceal untrusted content, or make a caller rely on a false safety claim. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace every contract field to the execution path and resulting state change. +- Compare the tool with the equivalent human flow, API contract, authorization policy, and displayed confirmation. +- Test contract interpretation with representative requests, including similar tools and requests that must not select the tool. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +### WEB-WEBMCP-003 — Minimize and validate tool inputs + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A tool accepts input arguments or a declarative form synthesizes an input schema. + +Request only the fields needed for the stated action. Define types, required fields, formats, enumerations, ranges, lengths, and collection bounds in the schema where the reviewed WebMCP implementation supports them. Reject unknown, malformed, unauthorized, stale, and out-of-range values in the trusted application or service boundary before any side effect. Do not request personal, inferred, cross-site, or personalization data because an agent might possess it. + +Schema validation is not authorization or business validation. Recheck ownership, entitlement, current state, price, recipient, and other authoritative facts during execution. + +**Why:** Over-parameterized tools can extract private agent context. Schemas can reduce malformed calls but cannot establish identity, authority, or current business state. + +**Verify:** + +- Map each input field to a necessary use, retention rule, and protected processing purpose. +- Exercise missing, extra, malformed, oversized, stale, cross-account, and unauthorized values. +- Confirm rejected calls cause no partial side effect and do not log unnecessary personal data. + +**Exceptions:** An optional field can support a documented user benefit when its purpose, authority, minimization decision, and omission behavior satisfy `PRIVACY-DATA`. + +### WEB-WEBMCP-004 — Preserve application controls across the tool path + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A WebMCP execution reads protected data or can change application or external state. + +Route the tool through the same owned domain operation, authorization policy, validation, rate limit, abuse control, transaction boundary, and audit event as the equivalent human or service path. Treat the authenticated browser session as identity context, not as proof that the user intended this specific action. Do not create an agent-only bypass around server enforcement or duplicate privileged business logic in the page callback. + +**Why:** A tool callback uses a different entry path from ordinary interface actuation. Divergent controls can let an authenticated agent perform actions that the human path would reject or review. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare effective controls and outcomes across the WebMCP, human, and service paths. +- Attempt direct callback invocation, parameter tampering, cross-account access, replay, and calls after authorization changes. +- Confirm audit evidence attributes the action, initiating surface, effective identity, target, decision, and outcome without recording prohibited data. + +**Exceptions:** A read-only public-data tool can omit authentication when the same data is intentionally public and its abuse and availability limits remain enforced. + +### WEB-WEBMCP-005 — Require user control for consequential execution + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A tool can purchase, transfer, send, publish, delete, disclose, change access, accept terms, or cause another high-impact or hard-to-reverse effect. + +Show the user the exact target, material inputs, recipient, price or obligation, and effect before commitment. Bind approval to that exact action and re-open review when a material value or state changes. Provide cancellation, correction, result confirmation, and recovery appropriate to the consequence. + +Do not use declarative `toolautosubmit` for a consequential action unless a separate trusted confirmation step still binds the exact action before the side effect. Do not rely on a current or proposed WebMCP annotation to supply this control. + +**Why:** The current proposal does not guarantee that declared intent matches behavior and does not provide normative safeguards for sensitive or high-privilege operations. + +**Verify:** + +- Exercise preview, edit, approve, deny, timeout, changed-state, cancellation, partial failure, and recovery paths. +- Confirm unanswered or denied approval does not execute through WebMCP, interface actuation, retry, or fallback. +- Verify that confirmation identifies whether the action is proposed, pending, completed, or failed from authoritative state. + +**Exceptions:** A pre-authorized, low-impact recurring action can execute within a visible scope, limit, duration, and revocation control under `FND-TRUST-009`. + +### WEB-WEBMCP-006 — Constrain origin exposure and registration lifetime + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Registering tools, embedding frames, setting the `tools` Permissions Policy, or exposing tools across origins. + +Use a secure context and keep the `tools` Permissions Policy at its least-privilege default. Expose a tool across origins only to an exact, potentially trustworthy origin with a documented need, owner, data path, and revocation route. Do not use broad domain patterns or convenience delegation. + +Tie each imperative registration to the document and feature state that makes the tool valid. Unregister it when the feature, account, authorization, selected resource, or owning component is no longer active. Rediscover tools after navigation or material state changes instead of relying on a stale registration or cached `RegisteredTool`. + +**Why:** Cross-origin discovery and stale registrations can expose privileged functions to unintended callers or apply old schemas and assumptions to new state. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect effective response headers, frame `allow` attributes, `exposedTo` values, origins, and secure-context behavior. +- Attempt discovery and execution from same-origin, allowed cross-origin, denied cross-origin, opaque-origin, navigated, signed-out, and stale-state contexts. +- Confirm teardown removes the registration and pending work follows the documented cancellation policy. + +**Exceptions:** None for cross-origin exposure. A static, read-only tool can remain registered for the document lifetime when its authority and result do not depend on changing feature state. + +### WEB-WEBMCP-007 — Separate trusted contracts from untrusted content + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Tool metadata, arguments, or results can contain content from users, external sources, retrieved documents, or model output. + +Keep tool names, descriptions, parameter descriptions, and annotations under trusted application control. Do not interpolate untrusted content into instructions or metadata. Treat all tool arguments and returned content as untrusted data at their receiving boundaries. Set `untrustedContentHint` when applicable, preserve provenance in the result, and prevent returned text from granting authority, changing the task, selecting another tool, or overriding user instructions. + +Bound metadata and result size to the task. Sanitize for the destination context, but do not represent sanitization as a complete prompt-injection defense. + +**Why:** Tool metadata and results enter agent context. Embedded instructions can redirect later reasoning, disclose cross-site data, or trigger unrelated tools. + +**Verify:** + +- Test malicious instructions in every metadata field, argument, upstream content field, error, and result. +- Confirm the agent does not follow result-borne requests to reveal data, expand scope, or invoke unrelated tools. +- Inspect provenance, trust annotations, length bounds, destination encoding, and logs for representative results. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +### WEB-WEBMCP-008 — Make execution cancellable and repeat-safe + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A tool performs asynchronous work, can be retried, or can outlive the initiating page state. + +Honor the execution `AbortSignal`, define a timeout, and stop work at safe boundaries. Make mutation tools idempotent or require a unique operation key and authoritative duplicate detection. Define what cancellation means before, during, and after commitment, and return a truthful outcome that distinguishes canceled, unknown, partial, failed, and completed states. + +Do not infer success only because an execution callback resolved. Verify consequential outcomes against authoritative application state before presenting completion. + +**Why:** Navigation, cancellation, races, retries, and delayed callbacks can duplicate effects or leave the user and agent with an incorrect result. + +**Verify:** + +- Interrupt execution before validation, before commitment, during external work, after commitment, and during result delivery. +- Retry with the same and different operation keys and confirm the documented single-effect behavior. +- Compare returned status with authoritative state after timeout, navigation, callback rejection, serialization failure, and late completion. + +**Exceptions:** A synchronous, side-effect-free computation can omit a separate timeout and idempotency key when its input and execution cost are bounded. + +### WEB-WEBMCP-009 — Preserve the visible and accessible task state + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Tool execution reads from or changes a user-visible page, form, selection, status, or workflow. + +Keep the human interface and WebMCP tool bound to the same current task state. Show material tool effects, pending work, errors, and completion in the interface without stealing focus or hiding the user's ability to interrupt, correct, or continue manually. Preserve native form semantics and accessible names when using declarative WebMCP attributes. + +Do not expose an agent-only outcome that a user cannot inspect, understand, or recover from through a supported interface. + +**Why:** WebMCP is intended for shared user-agent workflows. Hidden or divergent state prevents users and assistive technologies from verifying what the agent did. + +**Verify:** + +- Complete representative flows through WebMCP and manually, then compare visible state, accessible state, validation, errors, and authoritative outcome. +- Exercise keyboard and supported assistive technology during pending, confirmation, success, failure, and cancellation states. +- Confirm focus, announcements, form values, and page navigation remain understandable after agent action. + +**Exceptions:** A developer-only experiment can use diagnostic output instead of a complete product interface when it has no production authority and is not presented as user-accessible. + +### WEB-WEBMCP-010 — Verify the complete WebMCP lifecycle + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Releasing or materially changing a WebMCP tool, consumer, permissions policy, or declarative form integration. + +Test the final running artifact across registration, discovery, selection, execution, cancellation, result handling, unregistration, navigation, and fallback. Cover representative supported browsers and agents, unsupported clients, same-origin and cross-origin boundaries, valid and invalid inputs, authorization changes, duplicate calls, partial failures, stale tools, untrusted content, consequential approvals, and human continuation. + +Bind evidence to the exact specification revision, browser or trial configuration, application revision, tool contract, and evaluation set. Record unresolved proposal gaps and browser-specific behavior. Do not describe a successful implementation as WebMCP-conformant or interoperable unless an applicable conformance definition and cross-browser evidence exist. + +**Why:** A unit test of the callback cannot reveal discovery, browser mediation, origin, lifecycle, accessibility, or agent-interpretation failures. + +**Verify:** + +- Preserve the environment matrix, tool inventory, contract snapshots, scenario results, traces, authoritative outcome checks, accessibility checks, and residual risks. +- Run held-out selection and refusal scenarios and adversarial tests for metadata injection, output injection, data over-requesting, intent ambiguity, and authority bypass. +- Inspect the rendered human interface and browser-visible behavior in the declared delivery environments. + +**Exceptions:** A non-production prototype can use a reduced matrix when the omitted behavior, authority limit, and required pre-release checks are recorded. + +### WEB-WEBMCP-011 — Distinguish browser and in-page callers + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Designing, exposing, consuming, or reviewing a WebMCP tool. + +Record whether each intended caller is a browser-provided agent or an in-page JavaScript agent, including an agent in a same-origin or cross-origin frame. For each caller model, record the agent provider, executing document and origin where observable, accessible user and cross-site context, authenticated session use, permission path, user-visible control, and accountable owner. + +Treat the two caller models as separate trust boundaries. A `tools` Permissions Policy and `exposedTo` origin list control document access under the reviewed draft; they do not prove user intent, make a caller trustworthy, or establish how a browser-provided agent is exposed. An in-page consumer must bind selection and execution to the discovered tool's origin, current document, contract, and user objective. It must treat provider metadata and results as untrusted even when the provider is allowlisted. + +**Why:** WebMCP serves browser-provided agents and in-page agents through different discovery and execution paths. The proposal continues to evolve around their exposure and authority boundaries. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect the architecture record for a separate data-flow and authority analysis for each caller model. +- Exercise discovery and execution from the intended browser agent, same-origin document, allowed frame, denied frame, and an unexpected but technically reachable caller. +- Confirm a consumer rejects an origin, document, tool instance, or contract that differs from the reviewed selection. + +**Exceptions:** A deployment that supports only one caller model can omit the other model's execution tests when it proves the other route is unavailable and records the browser-specific limitation. + +### WEB-WEBMCP-012 — Minimize and protect tool results + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A tool returns data to an agent or another document. + +Return only the fields, records, precision, and history needed for the current task. Bound collection size, nesting, text length, and total serialized size. Include enough provenance, currency, scope, and authoritative identifiers to interpret and verify the result without returning unrelated page, account, or cross-site context. + +Do not return passwords, session values, bearer tokens, private keys, recovery codes, raw payment credentials, or other reusable secrets to agent context. Keep sensitive values in the trusted user interface or return a short-lived opaque reference whose redemption enforces identity, purpose, expiry, and one-time or bounded use. Do not treat `untrustedContentHint`, a future output schema, redaction after model ingestion, or a caller's promise not to retain data as a confidentiality control. + +**Why:** The current API serializes callback results for the caller but does not define a sensitive-output primitive or complete output-schema enforcement. Excess results can expose protected data to the model, agent provider, logs, or a cross-origin consumer. + +**Verify:** + +- Map each result field to the current task, authorized recipient, retention path, and authoritative source. +- Inspect model context, traces, browser diagnostics, analytics, errors, and support evidence for raw secrets and unnecessary protected data. +- Exercise empty, maximum-size, multi-record, sensitive, expired-reference, unauthorized-redemption, and partial-result cases. + +**Exceptions:** A protected value other than a reusable secret can be returned when the user explicitly authorizes that recipient and purpose, `PRIVACY-DATA` permits the disclosure, and the result remains minimized and access-controlled. + +### WEB-WEBMCP-013 — Treat declarative WebMCP as browser-specific + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Adding WebMCP attributes to a form or consuming a declarative WebMCP tool. + +Keep the valid, labeled, keyboard-operable HTML form as the source of truth. Before enabling declarative WebMCP, inspect the exact browser's synthesized tool name, description, required fields, constraints, input schema, submission behavior, cancellation behavior, and result. Do not assume that HTML constraints map to JSON Schema or agent validation in a way the reviewed implementation does not demonstrate. + +Do not send an entire successor document or the first available JSON-LD block to agent context as an implicit navigation result. Use an explicit, bounded response whose source and meaning are owned by the application, or stop and require the agent to observe the new document under a separately reviewed policy. When form removal, reset, attribute change, or navigation races with execution, fail closed and reconcile the authoritative submission state before retrying. + +**Why:** The draft specification's declarative section, schema-synthesis algorithm, cross-document result mechanism, and several lifecycle events remain incomplete or under debate. The explainer describes experimental behavior that one browser may implement differently. + +**Verify:** + +- Snapshot the synthesized contract and compare it with the visible form and server contract in every supported browser build. +- Exercise reset, validation failure, manual submit, `toolautosubmit`, `respondWith()`, DOM removal, attribute mutation, navigation, back-forward cache, cancellation, and late resolution. +- Inspect every navigation result for provenance, minimization, sensitive data, untrusted instructions, and agreement with authoritative state. + +**Exceptions:** A non-production demonstration can use an explicitly identified explainer behavior when it records the exact browser build, avoids protected data and durable side effects, and does not claim standards conformance. + +### WEB-WEBMCP-014 — Localize human metadata and bound text precisely + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** A tool is available in more than one language or accepts or returns human-language text. + +Keep the stable machine name separate from the localized human title, description, parameter descriptions, units, enumerations, validation messages, and confirmation text. Use the document's effective locale and the same terminology as the visible task. Preserve user text without changing its normalization or meaning unless the product contract explicitly requires a transformation. + +Define every text limit in a precise unit appropriate to its boundary, such as Unicode scalar values, grapheme clusters, UTF-8 bytes, or model tokens. Do not label a byte, code-unit, or token limit as a “character” limit. Apply byte limits only at storage or transport boundaries and give user-facing text a limit that does not split a grapheme or reject a language merely because it uses multi-byte encoding. + +**Why:** Tool metadata can guide user-visible agent decisions, and ambiguous text limits behave differently across scripts, emoji sequences, normalization forms, and model tokenizers. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare localized tool metadata with the visible interface, supported locale files, units, enumerations, and confirmation language. +- Test non-Latin scripts, combining marks, emoji sequences, right-to-left text, long translations, locale-specific numbers and dates, and values at each declared limit. +- Confirm logs, schemas, validation errors, and truncation preserve the declared unit and do not expose or corrupt user text. + +**Exceptions:** A single-locale experiment can omit translation coverage when it declares that locale and still handles arbitrary user text safely. + +### WEB-WEBMCP-015 — Evolve contracts without ambiguous replacement + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Changing, replacing, deprecating, or removing a registered tool. + +Keep a tool name bound to one semantic capability and effect class. Do not unregister and immediately re-register the same name with an incompatible schema or effect while a document or invocation can still hold the old contract. Introduce a new name or versioned capability for an incompatible change, allow callers to rediscover it, and retire the old tool after pending executions and the documented compatibility window end. + +For a compatible metadata or schema change, quiesce new calls, resolve or cancel pending work according to the recorded policy, update the registration, and require rediscovery before execution. Do not cache a `RegisteredTool`, origin decision, or approval across navigation, document replacement, account change, authorization change, or a `toolchange` event. + +**Why:** The current draft documents a race in which arguments selected for an old schema can reach a quickly re-registered tool with the same name. Discovery objects also bind to a document and origin whose state can change. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare contract snapshots and classify each change as compatible or incompatible with rationale and owner. +- Exercise old discovery plus new registration, pending execution plus unregistration, rollback, mixed browser versions, navigation, and stale consumer caches. +- Confirm incompatible callers fail without side effects and receive a bounded path to rediscover or use the human interface. + +**Exceptions:** A non-production page reload can replace all tools atomically when no external caller, pending execution, durable approval, or retained discovery object survives the reload. + +## Guidance + +Use the current `document.modelContext` surface only against the exact draft and browser implementation recorded for the project. Older examples based on `navigator.modelContext`, `provideContext()`, or `clearContext()` do not match the reviewed August 26, 2026 Community Group draft. + +Prefer a small task-level tool over a low-level mirror of every button or a broad function that interprets many intents. A good tool reduces ambiguous actuation while leaving policy and state decisions in owned application code. + +Register a tool only while it is relevant. For a single-page application, bind registration and its abort controller to component teardown, account changes, route changes, and authorization changes. Treat `toolchange` as a discovery notification whose timing must not replace authoritative state checks. + +For declarative WebMCP, start from a valid, labeled, keyboard-operable HTML form. Review synthesized names, field descriptions, required state, constraints, submission behavior, and response handling as a tool contract. The declarative section of the current specification is incomplete, so do not infer behavior that exists only in the explainer or one browser build. + +Use staged rollout and a kill switch for production experiments. Monitor registration failures, selection errors, denied approvals, canceled executions, duplicate prevention, authorization failures, tool-result mismatch, recovery, and fallback use without retaining unnecessary arguments or returned content. + +### Adoption evidence + +Treat the current external signals as deployment constraints, not as popularity scores. + +| Signal reviewed September 1, 2026 | Required interpretation | +|---|---| +| W3C Community Group Draft Report | Pin the reviewed draft and revalidate before each material release. Do not call it a W3C Standard. | +| Chrome documentation and origin trial | Treat Chrome behavior as experimental implementation evidence, not cross-browser support. | +| W3C TAG early review in progress with missing multi-stakeholder support | Do not claim architectural review is complete or that the proposal has web-platform consensus. | +| Mozilla standards-position issue labeled neutral | Keep Firefox in the unsupported and fallback matrix unless current implementation evidence proves otherwise. | +| WebKit standards position of oppose | Keep Safari in the unsupported and fallback matrix and address the recorded design, portability, privacy, security, internationalization, and consent concerns before any portability claim. | + +## Examples + +### Purchase tool + +Non-compliant: `finalizeCart` says it “finalizes” a cart, sets `readOnlyHint` to true, accepts an arbitrary `customerContext` object, and immediately charges the saved payment method. Its callback duplicates checkout logic and returns `{ status: "success" }` without checking the order service. + +Compliant: `review-order` is read-only and returns the current items, total, currency, delivery address summary, and an expiring order revision. `place-order` accepts only the reviewed order revision and a unique operation key. It uses the same checkout service and authorization policy as the visible flow, shows the exact total and recipient for confirmation, rejects changed revisions, prevents duplicate charges, and verifies the created order before reporting completion. + +### Support search with untrusted results + +Non-compliant: A support-search tool inserts forum posts into its description so the agent has “more context.” It returns user posts without provenance or an untrusted-content annotation. + +Compliant: The description remains fixed application text. The bounded query schema requests only search terms and an optional product area. The result identifies each source and treats post content as data. The tool sets `untrustedContentHint`, and tests confirm that instructions embedded in a post cannot change the user's task or cause another tool call. + +## Sources + +- W3C Web Machine Learning Community Group, [WebMCP Draft Community Group Report](https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/), August 26, 2026. Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- W3C Web Machine Learning Community Group, [WebMCP explainer](https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp/blob/main/README.md). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- W3C Web Machine Learning Community Group, [WebMCP declarative API](https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp/blob/main/declarative-api-explainer.md). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- W3C Web Machine Learning Community Group, [WebMCP security and privacy self-review](https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp/blob/main/security-privacy-questionnaire.md). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Google Chrome for Developers, [WebMCP](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/webmcp), updated August 7, 2026. Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- W3C Technical Architecture Group, [Incubation: WebMCP](https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/1238). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- Mozilla, [WebMCP standards position](https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1412). Reviewed September 1, 2026. +- WebKit, [WebMCP standards position](https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/670). Reviewed September 1, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/writing/functional.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/writing/functional.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ada96c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/writing/functional.md @@ -0,0 +1,539 @@ +--- +id: WRITING-FUNCTIONAL +title: Functional writing +description: Defines clear, consistent, actionable writing for documentation, explanations, summaries, change records, interface text, reports, and messages. +type: standard +status: draft +governance_status: draft +owners: [content, standards] +last_reviewed: 2026-09-02 +review_by: 2027-03-02 +stale_after: 2027-03-02 +applies_to: [functional-writing] +tags: [writing, documentation, communication, content] +depends_on: [FND-EVIDENCE, FND-TRUST, FND-ACCESSIBILITY, AGENT-VERIFICATION] +generated: { by: codex/gpt-5, at: "2026-09-02T21:56:39-07:00" } +sources: + - id: asd-ste100 + resource: https://asd-ste100.org/ + title: ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English + author: organization:asd-stemg + - id: google-developer-style + resource: https://developers.google.com/style + title: Google developer documentation style guide + author: organization:google + - id: tim-pope-git-commit + resource: https://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html + title: A Note About Git Commit Messages + author: human:tim-pope + - id: chris-beams-git-commit + resource: https://cbea.ms/git-commit/ + title: How to Write a Git Commit Message + author: human:chris-beams + - id: digital-gov-plain-language + resource: https://digital.gov/guides/plain-language + title: Plain language guide series + author: organization:us-gsa + - id: w3c-clear-content + resource: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG2/supplemental/objectives/o3-clear-content/ + title: Use Clear and Understandable Content + author: organization:w3c + - id: w3c-writing-accessibility + resource: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tips/writing/ + title: Writing for Web Accessibility + author: organization:w3c + - id: openai-agents-md + resource: https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/agent-configuration/agents-md + title: Custom instructions with AGENTS.md + author: organization:openai + - id: cognition-playbooks + resource: https://docs.devin.ai/product-guides/creating-playbooks + title: Creating Playbooks + author: organization:cognition + - id: simon-willison-llm-cliche-highlighter + resource: https://tools.simonwillison.net/llm-cliche-highlighter + title: LLM cliché highlighter + author: human:simon-willison + - id: harper-lint-kinds + resource: https://github.com/Automattic/harper/blob/43745e24a6af0222d21ccd6fe1cc00570fe5e33c/harper-core/src/linting/lint_kind.rs + title: Harper lint kinds + author: organization:automattic + - id: harper-default-configuration + resource: https://github.com/Automattic/harper/blob/43745e24a6af0222d21ccd6fe1cc00570fe5e33c/harper-core/default_config.json + title: Harper default configuration + author: organization:automattic + - id: oxford-practical-english-usage + resource: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/about/practical-english-usage/introduction.html + title: About Practical English Usage + author: organization:oxford-university-press + - id: oxford-learner-grammar-contents + resource: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/grammar/online-grammar/table-of-contents + title: Learn and Practise Grammar contents + author: organization:oxford-university-press +--- + +# Functional writing + +Functional writing must help its intended reader understand or act correctly after one read. This standard covers documentation, explanations, answers, summaries, change records, interface text, reports, and messages. It does not govern fiction or marketing copy unless the task adopts it explicitly. + +When rules compete, protect accuracy first, then clarity, consistency, and brevity. Record an exception instead of publishing text that is false or harder to understand. + +## Rules + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-001 — Define the reader and purpose + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Creating or materially revising functional writing. + +Write for a named or reasonably inferable reader and one primary purpose. Include the context that the least-informed intended reader needs to understand or act. + +**Why:** Text that assumes hidden context causes errors and cannot serve newcomers or later readers. + +**Verify:** + +- Identify the intended reader and the action, decision, or understanding the artifact must support. +- Confirm that the artifact defines necessary terms, prerequisites, and consequences. + +**Exceptions:** Space-constrained interface text can rely on context that is visible on the same screen. + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-002 — Preserve accuracy over style + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Any writing rule would remove a necessary qualification, change meaning, or make the text misleading. + +Keep the accurate meaning. Mark material uncertainty as an assumption, limitation, or unknown. Do not claim certainty, simplicity, safety, or completion beyond the available evidence. + +**Why:** Clear prose that states the wrong thing creates more risk than awkward but accurate prose. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare factual claims, requirements, and completion statements with their source evidence. +- Confirm that edits for length or tone did not remove a condition, exception, or risk. + +**Exceptions:** None. + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-003 — Use consistent, concrete terms + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** An artifact names a concept, control, command, path, value, or measurement more than once. + +Use one term for each concept. Use exact names and concrete values where they affect interpretation or action. Define an acronym or specialized term before its first use unless the intended reader can be expected to know it. + +**Why:** Synonyms, vague quantities, and unexplained terms make readers infer whether two phrases mean the same thing. + +**Verify:** + +- Search for alternate names for key concepts and reconcile unintended variation. +- Check names, values, paths, and labels against the artifact or system they describe. + +**Exceptions:** Preserve an exact quotation, external name, or interface label when changing it would be inaccurate. + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-004 — Put the outcome before supporting detail + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Writing an answer, explanation, report, summary, document, or message with supporting detail. + +State the result, decision, request, or main claim first. Start each paragraph with its topic, and keep each paragraph focused on one topic. + +**Why:** Readers can determine relevance before spending time on background or detail. + +**Verify:** + +- Read only the opening sentence and headings; confirm that they convey the artifact's purpose and outline. +- Confirm that each paragraph supports one identifiable topic. + +**Exceptions:** A required legal, safety, or operational warning must appear before the action it affects. + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-005 — Write direct, complete sentences + +**Level:** recommended + +**Applies when:** Writing explanatory prose or instructions. + +Prefer short, common words, active voice, present tense, and explicit subjects. Keep one main instruction or claim in each sentence. Remove filler, unexplained idioms, figurative language, and unnecessary noun forms. + +**Why:** Direct sentence structures reduce ambiguity for global readers and people reading under time pressure. + +**Verify:** + +- Review sentences longer than about 25 words and paragraphs longer than six sentences; split them when that improves clarity. +- Search for filler, avoidable passive voice, stacked noun phrases, and terms that carry more than one intended meaning. + +**Exceptions:** Use passive voice when the actor is unknown, irrelevant, or intentionally withheld. Keep a longer sentence when splitting it would obscure the relationship between its parts. + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-006 — Make procedures executable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Writing instructions that a reader must follow. + +State the goal and prerequisites before the steps. Put a condition or warning before the action it governs. Address the reader as “you” or use the imperative. Give one action per step, and state a non-obvious expected result. + +**Why:** Readers must know whether a step applies, how to perform it, and whether it succeeded before they continue. + +**Verify:** + +- Follow the procedure in order using only the information in the artifact. +- Confirm that a sequence of more than two steps uses a numbered list and that each step has one primary action. + +**Exceptions:** A compact reference can omit goals or results that are explicit in the surrounding context. + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-007 — Match structure to meaning + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Organizing headings, paragraphs, lists, warnings, or links. + +Use numbered lists for sequences and bulleted lists for unordered sets. Keep list items grammatically parallel. Use headings that describe their sections and link text that describes its destination. + +**Why:** Predictable structure lets readers scan without losing relationships or sequence. + +**Verify:** + +- Confirm that list type preserves whether order matters. +- Scan only headings and links; confirm that each remains meaningful out of surrounding prose. + +**Exceptions:** Follow a required product or publishing template when its structure differs. + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-008 — Format names and alternatives accessibly + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Referring to interface controls, commands, filenames, paths, literal values, links, or meaningful images. + +Copy interface labels exactly and format them according to the publishing system. Distinguish commands, filenames, paths, and literal values from prose. Give every meaningful image an equivalent text alternative. + +**Why:** Exact labels and semantic formatting help readers find controls, distinguish literals, and access non-text content. + +**Verify:** + +- Compare labels and literals with the source interface or artifact. +- Inspect meaningful images for useful alternative text and decorative images for appropriate omission from assistive output. + +**Exceptions:** Plain-text media can use unambiguous quotation or delimiters when semantic formatting is unavailable. + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-009 — Write change summaries for scanning + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Writing a commit subject, pull request title, change-log title, or another summary that describes a proposed or completed change. + +Use a short imperative summary that names the outcome of the change. Capitalize its first word and omit a trailing period. Separate a body from its summary with a blank line. Use the body for context, rationale, effects, risks, or rejected alternatives that the artifact itself does not show. + +**Why:** A consistent summary works in history, review lists, release notes, and automation without requiring the body. + +**Verify:** + +- Confirm that “If applied, this change will [summary]” forms a grammatical sentence. +- For Git commits, review subjects over about 50 characters and wrap plain-text body lines at 72 characters when repository conventions do not specify another format. + +**Exceptions:** Follow an established repository or platform convention when it conflicts with capitalization, length, prefix, or punctuation rules. A trivial change can omit the body. + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-010 — Review the final text in context + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Functional writing is ready for delivery or publication. + +Inspect the final rendered or plain-text artifact in its intended medium. Check accuracy, terminology, opening summary, structure, brevity, accessibility, and the reader's ability to act. + +This rule specializes `AGENT-VERIFICATION-002` for functional writing. Use this rule's writing checks as part of that required final-artifact inspection, and report the result under `AGENT-VERIFICATION-005` rather than creating a second review record. + +**Why:** Source text alone does not reveal broken wrapping, hidden context, inaccessible alternatives, or formatting that changes meaning. + +**Verify:** + +- Review the artifact in its delivery format and run any available spelling, link, terminology, or style checks. +- Confirm that a reader with the intended minimum context can understand or act after one read. + +**Exceptions:** If the intended medium is unavailable, inspect the closest available representation and report the limitation. + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-011 — Prepare source text for localization + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Functional text will be translated, localized, or reused across locales. + +Write complete messages with enough context for translators. Keep variables out of sentence fragments, identify placeholder meaning and grammatical role, and avoid assumptions about word order, plural forms, gender, name shape, date and number formats, text length, or reading direction. + +**Why:** A sentence that works only when English fragments are concatenated cannot be translated reliably or presented correctly in every locale. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect translation units for complete meaning, named placeholders, translator context, and locale-aware formatting. +- Render representative long, plural, right-to-left, and non-Latin translations in the intended medium. +- Confirm truncation, layout, links, literal values, and accessible names preserve meaning. + +**Exceptions:** Single-locale text must still keep dynamic values distinct and avoid unnecessary concatenation when later localization is reasonably foreseeable. + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-012 — Make quantitative and tabular content interpretable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Presenting measurements, comparisons, tables, charts, or computed results. + +State units, time periods, populations, denominators, definitions, and material uncertainty. Give tables descriptive headers and a reading order, and provide a text equivalent or summary for charts that carries the decision-relevant meaning. + +**Why:** Readers can misinterpret a precise-looking number or visual when its basis, comparison, or accessible structure is missing. + +**Verify:** + +- Trace material values to the definitions and evidence required by `FND-EVIDENCE-007`. +- Inspect table headers, captions, scope, ordering, and assistive-technology structure. +- Confirm the text alternative communicates the chart's relevant pattern, not only its appearance. + +**Exceptions:** A compact display can rely on an adjacent legend or shared table context when the meaning remains unambiguous and accessible. + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-013 — Test consequential content for understanding + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Text governs a high-impact decision, repeated task, unfamiliar procedure, broad public obligation, or a flow with evidence of misunderstanding. + +Evaluate the final content with representative intended readers or an approved comprehension method. Test whether readers can find, understand, and act on the material information rather than asking only whether they like the wording. + +**Why:** Author review can confirm consistency and accuracy but cannot prove that the intended audience interprets the text as expected. + +**Verify:** + +- Record participant or method selection, representative tasks, observed misunderstandings, and resulting changes. +- Include readers near the least-informed intended audience and relevant accessibility or language needs. +- Re-test material revisions when the first review finds consequential confusion. + +**Exceptions:** When reader testing is not feasible before an urgent release, obtain accountable approval, use the closest evidence available, and schedule post-release validation. + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-014 — Make agent instructions scoped and testable + +**Level:** required +**Applies when:** Writing repository instructions, prompts, skills, playbooks, tool descriptions, review rules, or durable knowledge for an agent. + +State the trigger and scope, desired outcome, prerequisites and required user input, ordered procedure where order matters, postconditions, forbidden actions, escalation conditions, and verification. Put durable project rules in the governed project instruction system and task-specific procedures in the narrowest reusable artifact. Resolve precedence and conflicts explicitly. + +**Why:** Vague or unscoped agent guidance is easy to ignore, apply in the wrong context, or satisfy without producing the intended state. + +**Verify:** + +- Run a representative applicable and non-applicable task and inspect which guidance was loaded and followed. +- Confirm every required postcondition has an inspectable check and every forbidden action has a clear boundary or safe alternative. +- Test missing input, conflicting instruction, failure, and completion behavior. + +**Exceptions:** A one-time low-risk request can remain conversational when its outcome and limits are clear and no durable reuse is expected. + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-015 — Review style signals without treating preference as proof + +**Level:** recommended + +**Applies when:** Reviewing functional writing for style, quality, or possible AI assistance. + +Treat style guides, pattern lists, detector results, personal taste, and authorship heuristics as review signals rather than proof of a defect. Check the text for repeated rhetorical templates, inflated claims, vague attribution, promotional filler, chatbot artifacts, and vocabulary clusters associated with formulaic AI writing. Use Simon Willison's *LLM cliché highlighter* pattern catalog as one review aid. Rewrite a match only when it obscures meaning, weakens evidence, repeats a structure unnecessarily, conflicts with the intended reader and purpose, or violates another applicable rule. Do not change accurate, effective text only to satisfy a style preference or make it appear more or less human-authored. + +**Why:** Formulaic patterns can make writing sound staged, vague, or promotional, but many also occur naturally in clear human prose. The [authority rules](../governance/authority.md#rule-construction) place broad advice in guidance rather than required rules. Contextual review can improve an artifact without turning preference or a heuristic into an unsupported defect or authorship claim. + +**Pattern catalog:** + +1. **“No X, no Y” chains** — Two or more consecutive items introduced by “no.” +2. **“That’s the whole …”** — A claim that something is the whole point, game, idea, or thing. +3. **“Did not X, did not Y” chains** — Two or more consecutive clauses introduced by “did not” or “didn’t.” +4. **“Don’t VERB it … VERB it”** — A negated verb applied to “it,” followed by the same positive verb. +5. **“Sit with that”** — An invitation to sit with an idea, feeling, discomfort, or moment. +6. **“You already know”** — An assertion that the reader already knows the answer or necessary action. +7. **“Is the entire …”** — A subject described as the entire point, game, or business model. +8. **“The entire … is”** — An opener that defines the entire point, game, or business model. +9. **“Is real … and / not”** — A claim that something is real followed by a contrast or qualification. +10. **“The punchline is”** — A staged conclusion introduced as a punchline. +11. **“Worth naming”** — A claim that a feeling, loss, issue, or fact deserves to be named. +12. **“That’s not nothing”** — A litotic claim that something is not insignificant. +13. **“Is the whole …”** — Any subject described as the whole point, trick, pitch, or idea. +14. **Echoing sentence runs** — Consecutive sentences built from the same syntactic skeleton. +15. **Performative honesty** — Announced sincerity such as “I’ll be honest,” “to be clear,” or an initial “Honestly” or “Look.” +16. **“That’s the part …”** — A favored detail introduced as “the part” instead of being stated directly. +17. **“The only X I trust”** — A reveal framed as the only thing trusted, needed, or important. +18. **“Don’t take my word for it”** — A stock invitation for the reader to verify a claim. +19. **“Turns out …”** — A tidy conclusion introduced as a casual revelation. +20. **“Fits in your head”** — Simplicity boilerplate such as “batteries included,” “zero config,” “sane defaults,” or “it just works.” +21. **Stacked rhetorical questions** — Two or more consecutive questions used to create momentum rather than request answers. +22. **Repeated sentence openers** — Three or more consecutive sentences beginning with the same meaningful word. +23. **Colon into a triple** — A colon followed by three or more comma-separated items. +24. **“Here’s the twist”** — A stage-managed reveal introduced as the thing, twist, catch, kicker, or rub. +25. **“X is dead”** — An obituary-style declaration, including “dead; long live” constructions. +26. **“That’s why X mattered”** — A retrospective statement that assigns significance to an earlier detail. +27. **Stranded auxiliary contrast** — A reversal that ends on a bare auxiliary such as “did,” “didn’t,” “would,” or “wouldn’t.” +28. **AI vocabulary words** — Clusters of terms disproportionately associated with AI prose, including “delve,” “tapestry,” “meticulous,” “pivotal,” “intricate,” “interplay,” “underscore,” “garner,” “bolster,” “vibrant,” “bustling,” “multifaceted,” “seamless,” and “ever-evolving.” +29. **“Not just X, but Y”** — Negative parallelism such as “not only … but also” or “it’s not X—it’s Y.” +30. **“It’s important to note”** — Didactic hedging that announces what is important, notable, worth considering, or worth asking. +31. **“Stands as a testament”** — Inflated significance framed as a testament or reminder. +32. **“Plays a crucial role”** — Importance asserted through a crucial, pivotal, vital, key, or significant role. +33. **“Ever-evolving landscape”** — Generic scene-setting about a changing landscape or fast-paced world. +34. **“Experts argue”** — Claims attributed vaguely to unnamed experts, critics, observers, or reports. +35. **“Despite these challenges”** — Formulaic challenges-and-outlook language, including unresolved challenges and “time will tell.” +36. **Participle sentence tails** — Superficial analysis appended with participles such as “highlighting,” “underscoring,” “showcasing,” or “reflecting.” +37. **Promotional boilerplate** — Brochure language such as “nestled in,” “in the heart of,” “hidden gem,” “boasts,” “breathtaking,” or “stunning views.” +38. **Chatbot leftovers** — Model disclaimers, knowledge-cutoff language, citation debris, internal reference tokens, or tracking parameters copied from generated output. + +**Harper result mapping:** + +Harper is a useful English review aid, but its result categories do not share one requirement level. Map a result before deciding whether to change the text: + +| Harper kind or family | Review interpretation | Governing route | +|---|---|---| +| `Agreement`, `BoundaryError`, `Grammar`, `Typo`, `WordOrder` | Candidate correctness defect | Apply `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-016`; verify the sentence in context. | +| `Spelling`, `Capitalization`, `Punctuation`, `Formatting` | Candidate mechanics or exact-name defect | Apply `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-003`, `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-008`, or `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-016`; protect literals, names, and medium conventions. | +| `Eggcorn`, `Malapropism`, `Nonstandard`, `Usage`, `WordChoice` | Candidate meaning or conventional-usage defect | Compare the intended meaning, audience, source terminology, and accepted language variety before changing it. | +| `Readability`, `Redundancy`, `Repetition` | Candidate clarity problem | Apply `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-004` or `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-005` only when the pattern delays, duplicates, or obscures useful meaning. | +| `Enhancement`, `Style` | Preference or optional improvement | Keep advisory under this rule unless another applicable rule identifies reader harm. | +| `Regionalism` | Audience and locale signal | Apply `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-001` and, when localized, `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-011`; do not label a valid dialect form as inherently wrong. | +| `Miscellaneous` | Unclassified signal | Inspect the underlying rule and sentence; infer no requirement level from the category. | + +Harper's pinned default **Style and Redundancy** group also mixes different decisions: + +| Harper default rules | Review question | Treatment | +|---|---|---| +| `FillerWords`, `DiscourseMarkers`, `LongSentences`, `KindOf`, `WayTooAdjective` | Does the wording delay or blur the main claim? | Propose a change when it improves the reader's ability to understand or act. | +| `Hedging` | Is the phrase empty caution, or does it preserve material uncertainty? | Remove empty qualification; retain or sharpen evidence-backed uncertainty under `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-002`. | +| `RepeatedWords` and `Redundant*` rules | Is the repetition accidental, or does it distinguish scope or add necessary emphasis? | Remove accidental duplication; preserve meaning-bearing repetition. | +| `Excellent`, `FatalOutcome`, `Freezing`, `Starving`, `VeryUnique`, `WidelyAccepted` | Is the wording literal, supported, and appropriate to the reader? | Check evidence and trust before treating the result as style alone. | +| `AvoidContractions`, `BoringWords` | Does an adopted product, legal, or repository convention require this choice? | These rules are disabled in Harper's pinned default configuration. Do not enforce them as general correctness rules. | +| `Towards` and regional rules | Does the form match the intended language variety and local convention? | Prefer audience consistency; do not rewrite solely to impose another dialect. | + +Pin the Harper version or commit and record the enabled rules when its output supports a review. Rule names, group membership, defaults, and results can change between versions. + +**Verify:** + +- Review matches from the current pattern catalog, including rhetorical chains, repeated sentence structures, stock contrasts and reveals, vague authority claims, inflated significance, promotional language, and chatbot leftovers. +- When Harper output is used, map each result through the tables above and record its version, configuration, dialect, and disposition. +- Inspect repeated or clustered matches before isolated matches, and record only changes that improve clarity, evidence, tone, structure, or fitness for the intended reader. +- Confirm that every proposed style change cites the reader need or applicable rule it serves rather than personal preference alone. +- Confirm the review does not label a writer or passage as AI-generated solely because it matches a listed pattern. + +**Exceptions:** Preserve an exact quotation, required interface label, established term, or deliberate rhetorical device when it remains accurate and appropriate for the intended reader. + +### WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-016 — Use grammar and mechanics that preserve meaning + +**Level:** required + +**Applies when:** Creating, editing, or reviewing functional writing in English. + +Use grammatical structures and sentence mechanics that preserve the intended actors, actions, conditions, sequence, and scope. Check subject–verb and pronoun agreement; clear pronoun reference; verb form and tense; articles and prepositions; sentence boundaries; modifier placement; word order; possessives; spelling; capitalization; and meaning-bearing punctuation. Correct an error when it makes the sentence invalid, ambiguous, or materially harder for the intended reader to interpret. + +Use this matrix to review meaning-bearing grammar: + +| Area | Inspect | Common symptom | +|---|---|---| +| Agreement and reference | Subject–verb agreement; pronoun number, case, and antecedent | The reader cannot tell who or what acted, or a singular and plural form conflict. | +| Time and verb form | Tense, aspect, participles, auxiliaries, and sequence of events | The text places an event at the wrong time or leaves completion and continuation unclear. | +| Modality and obligation | `must`, `must not`, `can`, `cannot`, `may`, `might`, `should`, and negation scope | Permission sounds like obligation, advice sounds mandatory, or a prohibition has two readings. | +| Nouns and quantity | Articles, determiners, countability, possessives, demonstratives, and quantifiers such as `each`, `every`, `few`, `less`, `fewer`, `much`, and `many` | The population, ownership, or amount is grammatically inconsistent or materially ambiguous. | +| Conditions and clauses | Conditionals, exceptions, relative clauses, coordination, and clause attachment | A condition appears to govern the wrong action, or it is unclear which noun a clause modifies. | +| Comparison and parallelism | Comparison basis, paired constructions, and parallel list or clause structure | The sentence compares unlike things or makes equivalent choices look unequal. | +| Modifiers and word order | Modifier placement, adverb position, and natural order of complements | A modifier appears to describe the wrong actor, action, amount, or time. | +| Usage and collocation | Prepositions, phrasal verbs, conventional word combinations, and register | The wording is grammatical in isolation but means something different or sounds inappropriate for the intended context. | +| Mechanics | Sentence boundaries, possessives, spelling, capitalization, spacing, and meaning-bearing punctuation | A run-on, fragment, apostrophe, comma, or letter case changes the grouping or interpretation. | + +Treat grammar-checker output as candidate findings, not proof. Review each result in context, protect exact quotations, interface labels, code, names, and accepted language variation, and compare every correction with the source meaning and factual claims. For reproducible tool-assisted review, record the checker, version, configuration, language variety, ignored regions, and unresolved findings. + +For a disputed or unfamiliar English usage point, consult a named grammar or usage reference and record the exact entry or topic. Oxford's *Practical English Usage* is a useful reference because it covers grammar, vocabulary problems, formality, slang, standard English, and dialects through problem-focused explanations and examples. Oxford's learner-grammar contents also provide topic routes for tense and aspect, possessives, demonstratives, and quantifiers. These sources are descriptive references, not a universal product house style. Apply the intended audience's language variety and the artifact's adopted convention. When current authoritative references disagree materially, preserve the conflict under `FND-EVIDENCE-006` instead of declaring one variety universally correct. + +**Why:** A sentence can use concise words and still misstate who acted, when an action occurred, which condition applies, or what a pronoun refers to. Grammar tools can expose these defects, but their style and regional-preference findings do not establish incorrect grammar. + +**Verify:** + +- Inspect every applicable matrix row, including modality, quantity, conditions, comparison, and clause attachment in addition to sentence boundaries and word forms. +- For bounded and extended artifacts, run a configured or proportionate English grammar checker when one is available, and adjudicate its findings in context. Treat this tool output as supporting evidence rather than a universal completion gate. When the tool check is applicable but omitted or unavailable, report it as `not run` or `not available` instead of claiming it passed. +- Compare each accepted correction with the source to confirm that it preserves facts, requirements, qualifications, names, literal values, and intended emphasis. +- For a disputed usage decision, record the reference, entry or topic, language variety, context, and reason for the selected form. +- Keep Harper's `Enhancement`, `Readability`, `Regionalism`, and `Style` categories advisory under `WRITING-FUNCTIONAL-015`; do not treat them as grammar failures without an independent applicable rule. + +**Exceptions:** Headings, buttons, labels, table cells, commit subjects, conversational messages, and other constrained forms can use intentional fragments when their meaning remains clear in context. Preserve an exact quotation, interface label, code sample, proper name, or accepted dialect form unless the task authorizes changing it. + +## Guidance + +Use about 20 words as a review trigger for an instruction and about 25 words for a descriptive sentence. These are diagnostic thresholds, not correctness tests. A six-sentence paragraph and a noun phrase with more than three nouns also deserve review. + +Prefer verbs over noun forms: “Install the package,” not “Perform the installation of the package.” Remove words that do not change meaning, including “simply,” “just,” “easily,” “basically,” “actually,” “very,” and “really.” Never describe a task as easy or obvious. + +Write dates as `2026-08-12` or “August 12, 2026.” Avoid relative terms such as “currently,” “recently,” and “soon” when a version, state, or date would remain accurate longer. Use requirement words precisely: required behavior uses “must”; permission or capability uses “can”; uncertainty uses “might.” + +Use sentence case for titles and headings, the serial comma, and simple contractions in conversational documentation and messages. Avoid contractions in formal specifications when they could weaken precision. Spell out zero through nine and use numerals for 10 and above unless an interface, specification, or domain convention differs. + +## Examples + +### Reader and purpose + +Non-compliant: “This document explains the process.” + +Compliant: “This guide helps support engineers restore a failed customer import without losing submitted records.” + +### Accuracy over style + +Non-compliant: “The migration is safe.” + +Compliant: “The staging migration completed without data loss. Production lock behavior was not tested.” + +### Consistent terms + +Non-compliant: “Sign in to the console. If you cannot log in, reset your password.” + +Compliant: “Sign in to the console. If you cannot sign in, reset your password.” + +### Executable instruction + +Non-compliant: “Please make sure permissions are configured correctly and try importing again.” + +Compliant: “To import contacts, allow contact access in **Settings**. Then try the import again.” + +### Outcome before detail + +Non-compliant: “After reviewing the logs, deployment history, and alert timeline, we decided to roll back.” + +Compliant: “Roll back the release. The logs, deployment history, and alert timeline show that errors began with version 4.2.” + +### Direct sentence + +Non-compliant: “The completion of the configuration of access permissions should be performed prior to import initiation.” + +Compliant: “Configure access permissions before you start the import.” + +### Change summary + +Non-compliant: “Added rate limiting to login.” + +Compliant: “Add rate limits to sign-in attempts” + +### Final-context review + +Non-compliant: “The Markdown source passed review, so the published page is correct.” + +Compliant: “The Markdown source passed its link check. The published page was not available for rendered review.” + +### Grammar and meaning + +Non-compliant: “The deployment logs shows the workers was stopped after the alert.” + +Compliant: “The deployment logs show that the workers were stopped after the alert.” + +### Modality and prohibition + +Non-compliant: “Users may not export these records.” + +Compliant when export is prohibited: “Users must not export these records.” + +### Modifier attachment + +Non-compliant: “After deleting the account, the confirmation email was sent.” + +Compliant: “After the administrator deleted the account, the system sent the confirmation email.” + +### Tool-assisted style review + +Non-compliant: “Harper flagged the contraction, so the sentence fails the writing standard.” + +Compliant: “Harper flagged ‘don’t’ as a style preference. The repository permits conversational contractions, and the sentence remains clear, so no change is proposed.” + +## Sources + +- ASD Simplified Technical English Maintenance Group, [ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English](https://asd-ste100.org/), Issue 9, January 15, 2025. Reviewed August 12, 2026. +- Google, [Google developer documentation style guide](https://developers.google.com/style). Reviewed August 12, 2026. +- Tim Pope, [A Note About Git Commit Messages](https://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html), April 19, 2008. Reviewed August 12, 2026. +- Chris Beams, [How to Write a Git Commit Message](https://cbea.ms/git-commit/). Reviewed August 12, 2026. +- U.S. General Services Administration, [Plain language guide series](https://digital.gov/guides/plain-language). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Use Clear and Understandable Content](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG2/supplemental/objectives/o3-clear-content/), WAI cognitive accessibility guidance. Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- World Wide Web Consortium, [Writing for Web Accessibility](https://www.w3.org/WAI/tips/writing/). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- OpenAI, [Custom instructions with AGENTS.md](https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/agent-configuration/agents-md). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Cognition, [Creating Playbooks](https://docs.devin.ai/product-guides/creating-playbooks). Reviewed August 13, 2026. +- Simon Willison, [LLM cliché highlighter](https://tools.simonwillison.net/llm-cliche-highlighter), pattern catalog. Reviewed August 28, 2026. +- Automattic, [Harper lint kinds](https://github.com/Automattic/harper/blob/43745e24a6af0222d21ccd6fe1cc00570fe5e33c/harper-core/src/linting/lint_kind.rs), commit `43745e24a6af0222d21ccd6fe1cc00570fe5e33c`. Reviewed September 2, 2026. +- Automattic, [Harper default configuration](https://github.com/Automattic/harper/blob/43745e24a6af0222d21ccd6fe1cc00570fe5e33c/harper-core/default_config.json), commit `43745e24a6af0222d21ccd6fe1cc00570fe5e33c`. Reviewed September 2, 2026. +- Oxford University Press, [About *Practical English Usage*](https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/about/practical-english-usage/introduction.html), grammar, usage, register, and dialect reference scope. Reviewed September 2, 2026. +- Oxford University Press, [*Learn & Practise Grammar*: contents](https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/grammar/online-grammar/table-of-contents), tense, aspect, possessive, demonstrative, and quantifier topic index. Reviewed September 2, 2026. diff --git a/plugins/raintree-standards/writing/index.md b/plugins/raintree-standards/writing/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1434ff2 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/raintree-standards/writing/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Writing standards + +* [Functional writing](functional.md) - Defines clear, consistent, actionable writing for documentation, explanations, summaries, change records, interface text, reports, and messages. diff --git a/plugins/trellis/.codex-plugin/plugin.json b/plugins/trellis/.codex-plugin/plugin.json deleted file mode 100644 index be42167..0000000 --- a/plugins/trellis/.codex-plugin/plugin.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ -{ - "name": "trellis", - "version": "0.3.1", - "description": "Remediate Trellis findings through its stable todo schema and repository checks.", - "author": { - "name": "Raintree Technology", - "email": "support@raintree.technology", - "url": "https://raintree.technology" - }, - "homepage": "https://github.com/raintree-technology/trellis", - "repository": "https://github.com/raintree-technology/trellis", - "license": "MIT", - "keywords": ["biome", "javascript", "typescript", "lint", "remediation"], - "skills": "./skills/", - "interface": { - "displayName": "Trellis", - "shortDescription": "Remediate shared JavaScript and TypeScript policy findings.", - "longDescription": "Trellis turns its existing deterministic todo report into a bounded remediation workflow. It preserves repository-specific suppressions and treats warnings as human-judgment work.", - "developerName": "Raintree Technology", - "category": "Developer Tools", - "capabilities": [ - "Read Trellis todo reports", - "Remediate one rule group", - "Verify repository checks" - ], - "websiteURL": "https://github.com/raintree-technology/trellis", - "brandColor": "#0F6B5D", - "defaultPrompt": [ - "Remediate the next Trellis rule group in this repository.", - "Explain the blocking Trellis findings without editing.", - "Review Trellis warnings that need human judgment." - ] - } -} diff --git a/plugins/trellis/README.md b/plugins/trellis/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8031967..0000000 --- a/plugins/trellis/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ -# Trellis Codex plugin recipe - -This recipe provides one remediation skill for Trellis 0.3.1. The skill consumes -the package's existing `trellis todo` JSON report. It does not duplicate the -policy or define another finding schema. - -The consuming repository owns installation, dependency changes, Biome commands, -tests, architecture rules, and justified local suppressions. diff --git a/plugins/trellis/fixtures/activation.json b/plugins/trellis/fixtures/activation.json deleted file mode 100644 index f71cde3..0000000 --- a/plugins/trellis/fixtures/activation.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ -{ - "schemaVersion": 1, - "skill": "trellis-remediate", - "positive": [ - "Remediate the next Trellis rule group in this repository.", - "Triage these trellis todo errors and fix one group." - ], - "negative": ["Run ESLint and fix everything.", "Install a formatter in this new project."] -} diff --git a/plugins/trellis/skills/trellis-remediate/SKILL.md b/plugins/trellis/skills/trellis-remediate/SKILL.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8545563..0000000 --- a/plugins/trellis/skills/trellis-remediate/SKILL.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: trellis-remediate -description: Use when the user asks to fix, remediate, triage, or work through Trellis findings in a JavaScript or TypeScript repository. Detect whether the repository already uses Trellis before acting. Do not activate for a generic lint request that does not mention Trellis or for installing Trellis without explicit user authorization. ---- - -# Trellis remediation - -Use Trellis's existing todo report as the handoff contract. Do not reproduce its -policy in this skill and do not change its JSON schema. - -## Establish the repository state - -1. Inspect package manifests, the lockfile, Biome configuration, scripts, and - repository guidance for `@raintree-technology/trellis` adoption. -2. If Trellis or its exact Biome peer dependency is missing, stop before - installation or any dependency change. Ask for explicit authorization and - state the proposed versions and files. -3. Run the repository's existing command that invokes `trellis todo`. If no - script exists but the installed package is resolvable, run the installed - executable without modifying dependencies. -4. Confirm the report has `schemaVersion: 1`. Stop on an unknown schema. - -## Remediate one rule group - -1. Group open todos by `rule`. Select one group only. -2. Treat `error` and `fatal` findings as blocking candidates. Confirm whether - the repository's Biome gate makes them release-blocking. -3. Treat warnings as human-judgment work. Inspect behavior and architecture - before changing code. -4. Apply the smallest behavior-preserving correction that follows each todo's - replacement direction. -5. Preserve a narrow local suppression when its reason is still justified. Do - not remove or broaden suppressions to make the report cleaner. -6. Stop after the selected rule group. Report remaining groups for a later pass. - -## Verify - -After edits, rerun: - -1. The repository's Trellis todo command. -2. The repository's Biome check. -3. Tests relevant to the changed behavior. - -Report resolved IDs, remaining findings, preserved suppressions, exact checks, -and failures. A clean todo report does not replace the Biome gate or tests.