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Completes the field-by-field receipt-validation audit required by #3232 / design #3231.

Audit evidence

• Receipt-validation audit dispositions every artifact envelope and known-kind field, records all five explicit decisions, verifies the Phase 1–2 gate and the contract paragraph already present in artifact.rs from id(artifact): finish the receipt contract — frontier policy is Forbidden, builders refuse what receipt refuses #5576.
• No validation fixes are included; identified gaps are routed to follow-ups.
• Targeted tests: cargo test -p id --lib artifact::tests (37 passed); cargo test -p id --lib directory::tests:: (53 passed).

Follow-ups

• id(artifact): validate known-kind bodies in generic signing helpers #5623 — known-kind validation in generic signing helpers.
• id(directory): validate friend-request IDs before persistence and preserve legacy removals #5624 — incoming friend-request ID validation and legacy removability.
• id(artifact): preserve pre-upgrade log replay for duplicate after and non-NFC fields #5625 — replay compatibility for pre-upgrade duplicate after and non-NFC document/tag values.
• id(artifact): peer pulls halt on pre-upgrade home_declared entries — the #3187 strict receipt needs a trusted historical cutoff for receive_artifact #4459 — existing trusted-cutoff implementation for pre-upgrade home_declared peer pulls.

Closes #3231
Refs #3232

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added an audit record describing receipt validation rules, the scope of envelope and known-kind body checks, and decisions for unknown kinds and other receipt fields.
  • Documented replay-compatibility risks and gaps tracked for follow-up.
  • No implementation changes were included.

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Walkthrough

This PR adds an audit record for pkgs/id receipt validation. It documents validation dispositions, replay exceptions, follow-up gaps, and verification results. It does not change implementation behavior.

Changes: Receipt validation audit

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Gate status and validation dispositions doc/2026-11-04_audit_id3232_receipt_validation.md	Records the Phase 1–2 gate status and dispositions for envelope fields, known-kind bodies, and explicit contract decisions.
Follow-ups and verification doc/2026-11-04_audit_id3232_receipt_validation.md	Lists routed gaps and replay exceptions. Records inspected code, test results, and the all-features attempt failure attributed to missing web assets.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Possibly related issues

• id(artifact): validate known-kind bodies in generic signing helpers #5623 — The audit records the signing-helper gap and routes it to this follow-up without changing signing behavior.
• id(artifact): preserve pre-upgrade log replay for duplicate after and non-NFC fields #5625 — The audit records replay-compatibility gaps involving historical log entries and routes them to this follow-up.
• id(directory): validate friend-request IDs before persistence and preserve legacy removals #5624 — The audit routes the identified envelope-ID admission and removal gaps to this follow-up.
• id(artifact): peer pulls halt on pre-upgrade home_declared entries — the #3187 strict receipt needs a trusted historical cutoff for receive_artifact #4459 — The audit records the peer-pull cutoff question for strict home_declared receipt validation.

Possibly related PRs

• developing-today/code#4432 — This PR documents the audit’s review of the home_declared checks added by #4432.
• developing-today/code#4708 — This PR documents replay-validation behavior that is also relevant to the replay paths added by #4708.

Merge Risk: Low · up to a2723

The audit could mislead readers about signature encoding. Correcting the length is straightforward; no runtime behavior changes, so merge risk is low.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		Issue #3231 requires strict receipt validation, builder symmetry, and replay of legitimate stored chains. The audit documents the completed Phase 1–2 gate, the field-by-field Phase 3 dispositions, and…	Implement and test the documented follow-ups required for #3231. Make generic signing validate known kinds while preserving unknown-kind signing (#5623). Preserve replay of legitimate pre-upgrade artifacts, including duplicate after and n…

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title "audit(id): complete #3232 receipt-validation dispositions" matches the main change. The PR adds an audit record for pkgs/id receipt validation, and the objectives say it completes the field…
Out of Scope Changes check		The only change is doc/2026-11-04_audit_id3232_receipt_validation.md. It records the #3231/#3232 receipt-validation audit, its field dispositions, test evidence, and follow-ups. The change has a dir…
Docstring Coverage		No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…

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The title "audit(id): complete #3232 receipt-validation dispositions" matches the main change. The PR adds an audit record for pkgs/id receipt validation, and the objectives say it completes the field-by-field audit tied to #3232. The title is specific and names the scope. It does not claim any validation fixes, which matches the PR, since the author says no fixes are included.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The only change is doc/2026-11-04_audit_id3232_receipt_validation.md. It records the #3231/#3232 receipt-validation audit, its field dispositions, test evidence, and follow-ups. The change has a direct connection to the linked issue.

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No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Explanation

Issue #3231 requires strict receipt validation, builder symmetry, and replay of legitimate stored chains. The audit documents the completed Phase 1–2 gate, the field-by-field Phase 3 dispositions, and the existing contract text in artifact.rs. However, it also confirms unmet requirements: generic SignedArtifact::sign can create known-kind artifacts that parsed() rejects (#5623); pre-upgrade duplicate after and non-NFC document/tag artifacts can fail replay (#5625); and legacy home_declared peer pulls can fail (#4459). The PR adds documentation only and does not resolve these gaps.

Resolution

Implement and test the documented follow-ups required for #3231. Make generic signing validate known kinds while preserving unknown-kind signing (#5623). Preserve replay of legitimate pre-upgrade artifacts, including duplicate after and non-NFC document/tag values (#5625). Implement the accepted legacy peer-pull compatibility behavior for home_declared artifacts (#4459). Recheck the incoming request-ID path and removal compatibility in #5624.

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- Line 34: Update the signature row in the audit document to state that the
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Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

sed -n '390,418p' pkgs/id/src/artifact.rs; sed -n '2210,2230p' pkgs/id/src/directory.rs

Repository: developing-today/code

Length of output: 1881

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Script executed:

nl -ba doc/2026-11-04_audit_id3232_receipt_validation.md | sed -n '30,40p'
echo '--- grep length wording in doc'
rg -n -F -e '64' -e '128' -e 'hex' -- doc/2026-11-04_audit_id3232_receipt_validation.md || test "$?" -eq 1
echo '--- artifact.rs signature field and producer'
rg -n -F -e 'signature' -e 'hex_encode' -- pkgs/id/src/artifact.rs | head -n 60 || test "$?" -eq 1
echo '--- directory.rs signature caller'
nl -ba pkgs/id/src/directory.rs | sed -n '2205,2235p'

Repository: developing-today/code

Length of output: 10950

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Correct the signature length to 128 hex characters.

The signature row says the decoder requires "64 bytes of ASCII hex." The decoder requires 64 decoded bytes, which is 128 ASCII hex characters. The same document uses "64-hex" for a 32-byte hash, so a reader who follows this row would build a 64-character signature that the decoder rejects. State the encoded length as 128 hex characters, or 64 decoded bytes.

Suggested fix

-| `signature` | (a), with (b) for hex case | The decoder requires 64 bytes of ASCII hex and verifies the Ed25519 signature strictly against `author` (`artifact.rs:407–416`; `directory.rs:2215–2227`). The producer writes lowercase hex. The decoder accepts uppercase hex as an equivalent encoding of the same signature bytes; no separate case rule is imposed because signature validity is over the decoded bytes. |
+| `signature` | (a), with (b) for hex case | The decoder requires 128 ASCII hex characters (64 decoded bytes) and verifies the Ed25519 signature strictly against `author` (`artifact.rs:407–416`; `directory.rs:2215–2227`). The producer writes lowercase hex. The decoder accepts uppercase hex as an equivalent encoding of the same signature bytes; no separate case rule is imposed because signature validity is over the decoded bytes. |

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Review comment at @doc/2026-11-04_audit_id3232_receipt_validation.md at line 34:
Update the signature row in the audit document to state that the decoder
requires 128 ASCII hex characters, equivalent to 64 decoded bytes. Keep the
surrounding description of case handling and signature verification unchanged.

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