feat(gates): deterministic floor (GATE 0) under the fresh verifier

GATE 1 is an LLM dispatch and the verifier's mandatory PROOF: line is a line
the verifier writes — nothing structurally stops it being produced without
anything being executed. Nothing deterministic sat between the executor and
that dispatch.

An acceptance criterion can now carry an oracle: indented CHECK: (command),
EXPECT: (success-only marker), EVIDENCE: (slot). lib/gates.sh runs them
fail-closed — MET requires exit 0 AND the marker, so a nonzero process never
passes on its error text carrying the token — and writes the outcome back
into the contract, so the fresh verifier reads evidence as fact rather than
trusting the executor's report.

GATE 0 runs that floor before any verifier is dispatched; a red build sends
the executor back for free, on its own iteration budget. ABANDON: <id>
<reason> turns an impossible criterion into a visible handoff that blocks
CONFORME and routes to the human gate, via the new ABANDONED(n) verdict —
a distinct token because it routes distinctly, never a dev loop. feater and
bugfixer gain a four-pass completion discipline, scoped so a pass can never
widen the contract.

The runner's parse fails closed on partial oracles, duplicate ids,
unindented attributes and runnable criteria with no EVIDENCE: line, and
executes nothing at all when the ledger is malformed. status never executes
and never writes; run always re-executes, since trusting written evidence is
the failure being closed.

Adapted from the unlazy skill (Leonxlnx/unlazy, MIT). Its Stop hook,
approval store, .unlazy/ tree, depth-tree arithmetic and Node checker were
deliberately refused — BDR-083 records each reason.

64 assertions in lib/tests/gates.test.sh, non-execution proved by sentinel
with its own positive control asserted first.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Deterministic floor under GATE 1: execute the acceptance criteria that the
# contract itself declares as oracles, fail-closed, and persist the evidence
# INTO the contract file.
#
# bash ~/.claude/lib/gates.sh status <contract> # parse only, never runs
# bash ~/.claude/lib/gates.sh run <contract> # execute + write evidence
#
# rc 0 = MET every runnable criterion passed, no abandonment standing
# 2 = UNMET a runnable criterion failed, or the ledger is malformed
# 3 = ABANDONED runnable criteria all passed, an abandonment still stands
#
# WHY: GATE 1 (lib/verify-secure-loop.md) is an LLM dispatch, and the
# verifier's mandatory `PROOF:` line is a line the verifier WRITES — nothing
# structurally stops it from being produced without anything being executed.
# This runs what the contract declares BEFORE a verifier is ever spawned: a
# red floor sends the executor back for free. Adapted from the `unlazy` skill
# (Leonxlnx/unlazy) — its gate ledger, minus the machinery we do not need.
#
# `run` always re-executes every runnable criterion, including ones already
# recorded MET. Trusting written evidence is exactly the failure this closes,
# so there is no incremental mode to get it wrong with.
#
# TRUST BOUNDARY: `CHECK:` is shell code, run with this process's privileges
# and environment. That is safe here only because the contract is authored by
# our own orchestrator in our own repo — which is why there is no approval
# store (we never execute ledgers inherited from a foreign repo). NEVER build
# a `CHECK:` out of externally-supplied text; route such values through
# lib/url-guard.sh first.
set -uo pipefail
TIMEOUT="${GATES_TIMEOUT:-120}"
EVIDENCE_CAP=140
# Module-level parse tables, index-aligned. Bash has no record type; threading
# eight parallel arrays through every call would cost more readability than
# the explicit data flow buys.
_ID=(); _TEXT=(); _CHECK=(); _EXPECT=(); _EVLINE=(); _EVTEXT=()
_STATUS=(); _EVID=()
_ABANDON_ID=(); _ABANDON_WHY=()
_ERRORS=()
_CUR=-1
_die() { printf 'GATES — VERDICT: ERROR(%s)\n' "$1"; exit 2; }
_err() { _ERRORS+=("$1"); }
_trim() {
local s="$1"
s="${s#"${s%%[![:space:]]*}"}"
printf '%s' "${s%"${s##*[![:space:]]}"}"
}
# ── parse ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
_new_crit() { # _new_crit <id> <text>
local i
for ((i = 0; i < ${#_ID[@]}; i++)); do
if [ "${_ID[i]}" = "$1" ]; then
_err "duplicate criterion id: $1"
# Orphan what follows instead of aliasing it onto the previous
# criterion, which would hand one gate another gate's oracle.
_CUR=-1
return 0
fi
done
_ID+=("$1"); _TEXT+=("$2")
_CHECK+=(""); _EXPECT+=(""); _EVLINE+=("0"); _EVTEXT+=("")
_CUR=$((${#_ID[@]} - 1))
}
_set_attr() { # _set_attr <CHECK|EXPECT|EVIDENCE> <value> <lineno>
if [ "$_CUR" -lt 0 ]; then
_err "$1 at line $3 belongs to no criterion"
return 0
fi
case "$1" in
CHECK) _CHECK[_CUR]="$2" ;;
EXPECT) _EXPECT[_CUR]="$2" ;;
EVIDENCE) _EVLINE[_CUR]="$3"; _EVTEXT[_CUR]="$2" ;;
esac
}
# An UNINDENTED attribute is diagnosed, never absorbed: silently ignoring it
# would demote a runnable criterion to a manual one, which is the one parse
# bug that turns this checker into a rubber stamp.
_absorb() { # _absorb <raw-line> <lineno>
local body
if [[ "$1" =~ ^([0-9]+)\.[[:space:]]+(.*)$ ]]; then
_new_crit "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}" "${BASH_REMATCH[2]}"
elif [[ "$1" =~ ^ABANDON:[[:space:]]*([0-9]+)?[[:space:]]*(.*)$ ]]; then
_ABANDON_ID+=("${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"); _ABANDON_WHY+=("${BASH_REMATCH[2]}")
elif [[ "$1" =~ ^(CHECK|EXPECT|EVIDENCE): ]]; then
_err "unindented ${BASH_REMATCH[1]}: at line $2"
elif [[ "$1" =~ ^[[:space:]]+(CHECK|EXPECT|EVIDENCE):(.*)$ ]]; then
body="$(_trim "${BASH_REMATCH[2]}")"
_set_attr "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}" "$body" "$2"
fi
}
_parse() { # _parse <file>
local line n=0 fence=0 inblock=0
while IFS= read -r line || [ -n "$line" ]; do
n=$((n + 1))
case "$line" in '```'*) fence=$((1 - fence)); continue ;; esac
[ "$fence" -eq 1 ] && continue
case "$line" in
'## ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA'*) inblock=1; continue ;;
'## '*) inblock=0; continue ;;
esac
[ "$inblock" -eq 1 ] && _absorb "$line" "$n"
done < "$1"
}
# ── validation ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
_validate_oracles() {
local i
for ((i = 0; i < ${#_ID[@]}; i++)); do
if [ -n "${_CHECK[i]}" ] && [ -z "${_EXPECT[i]}" ]; then
_err "criterion ${_ID[i]}: CHECK without EXPECT (partial oracle)"
elif [ -z "${_CHECK[i]}" ] && [ -n "${_EXPECT[i]}" ]; then
_err "criterion ${_ID[i]}: EXPECT without CHECK (partial oracle)"
elif [ -n "${_CHECK[i]}" ] && [ "${_EVLINE[i]}" = "0" ]; then
_err "criterion ${_ID[i]}: runnable but has no EVIDENCE: line"
fi
done
}
_validate_abandons() {
local i j found
for ((i = 0; i < ${#_ABANDON_ID[@]}; i++)); do
found=0
for ((j = 0; j < ${#_ID[@]}; j++)); do
[ "${_ID[j]}" = "${_ABANDON_ID[i]}" ] && found=1
done
[ "$found" -eq 1 ] ||
_err "ABANDON names unknown criterion: '${_ABANDON_ID[i]}'"
[ -n "$(_trim "${_ABANDON_WHY[i]}")" ] ||
_err "ABANDON ${_ABANDON_ID[i]}: blank reason (a handoff needs one)"
done
}
_is_abandoned() { # _is_abandoned <criterion-id>
local i
for ((i = 0; i < ${#_ABANDON_ID[@]}; i++)); do
[ "${_ABANDON_ID[i]}" = "$1" ] && return 0
done
return 1
}
# ── execution ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# One line, capped, newlines flattened: the smallest output that proves the
# outcome. Full logs stay in the terminal, never in the contract.
_decisive() { # _decisive <combined-output>
local flat
flat="$(printf '%s' "$1" | tr '\n\r\t' ' ' | tr -s ' ')"
flat="$(_trim "$flat")"
if [ "${#flat}" -gt "$EVIDENCE_CAP" ]; then
printf '%s…' "${flat:0:$EVIDENCE_CAP}"
else
printf '%s' "$flat"
fi
}
# Fail-closed: exit 0 AND the marker. A nonzero process never passes because
# its error text happens to contain the expected token.
_run_one() { # _run_one <idx>
local i="$1" out rc
out="$(timeout "$TIMEOUT" bash -c "${_CHECK[i]}" 2>&1)"
rc=$?
_STATUS[i]="NOT-MET"
if [ "$rc" -eq 124 ]; then
_EVID[i]="NOT-MET timeout=${TIMEOUT}s"
elif [ "$rc" -ne 0 ]; then
_EVID[i]="NOT-MET exit=$rc (nonzero) :: $(_decisive "$out")"
elif [[ "$out" != *"${_EXPECT[i]}"* ]]; then
_EVID[i]="NOT-MET exit=0 marker-absent :: $(_decisive "$out")"
else
_STATUS[i]="MET"
_EVID[i]="MET exit=0 marker-found :: $(_decisive "$out")"
fi
}
_run_all() {
local i
for ((i = 0; i < ${#_ID[@]}; i++)); do
_STATUS[i]=""; _EVID[i]=""
[ -n "${_CHECK[i]}" ] && _run_one "$i"
done
}
_evline_owner() { # _evline_owner <lineno> — echoes idx, or nothing
local i
for ((i = 0; i < ${#_ID[@]}; i++)); do
if [ "${_EVLINE[i]}" = "$1" ] && [ -n "${_EVID[i]}" ]; then
printf '%s' "$i"
return 0
fi
done
}
# Rewrites only the EVIDENCE lines of criteria that actually ran; every other
# byte of the contract is copied through, indentation included.
_write_back() { # _write_back <file>
local tmp line n=0 idx
tmp="$(mktemp)" || _die "mktemp failed"
while IFS= read -r line || [ -n "$line" ]; do
n=$((n + 1))
idx="$(_evline_owner "$n")"
if [ -n "$idx" ]; then
printf '%s%s\n' "${line%%[![:space:]]*}" "EVIDENCE: ${_EVID[idx]}"
else
printf '%s\n' "$line"
fi
done < "$1" > "$tmp"
cat "$tmp" > "$1" && rm -f "$tmp"
}
# ── report ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# A recorded `pending`, or a criterion that never ran, is PENDING — never MET.
# `status` reports what the file says; it does not revalidate old evidence.
_row_state() { # _row_state <idx>
local i="$1"
_is_abandoned "${_ID[i]}" && { printf 'ABANDONED'; return 0; }
[ -z "${_CHECK[i]}" ] && { printf 'MANUAL'; return 0; }
[ -n "${_STATUS[i]:-}" ] && { printf '%s' "${_STATUS[i]}"; return 0; }
case "${_EVTEXT[i]}" in
MET' '*) printf 'MET-RECORDED' ;;
*) printf 'PENDING' ;;
esac
}
_report_rows() {
local i state
for ((i = 0; i < ${#_ID[@]}; i++)); do
state="$(_row_state "$i")"
printf ' %-3s %-13s %s\n' "${_ID[i]}" "$state" "${_TEXT[i]}"
done
}
_report_abandons() {
local i
for ((i = 0; i < ${#_ABANDON_ID[@]}; i++)); do
printf ' ABANDONED %s — %s\n' "${_ABANDON_ID[i]}" "${_ABANDON_WHY[i]}"
done
}
_count_state() { # _count_state <state>
local i n=0
for ((i = 0; i < ${#_ID[@]}; i++)); do
[ "$(_row_state "$i")" = "$1" ] && n=$((n + 1))
done
printf '%s' "$n"
}
_verdict() { # _verdict <mode> — prints the line, returns the rc
local unmet pending abandoned
if [ "${#_ERRORS[@]}" -gt 0 ]; then
printf 'GATES — VERDICT: ERROR(%s)\n' "${#_ERRORS[@]}"
return 2
fi
unmet="$(_count_state NOT-MET)"
pending="$(_count_state PENDING)"
abandoned="$(_count_state ABANDONED)"
[ "$unmet" -gt 0 ] &&
{ printf 'GATES — VERDICT: UNMET(%s)\n' "$unmet"; return 2; }
if [ "$1" = "status" ] && [ "$pending" -gt 0 ]; then
printf 'GATES — VERDICT: PENDING(%s)\n' "$pending"
return 2
fi
[ "$abandoned" -gt 0 ] &&
{ printf 'GATES — VERDICT: ABANDONED(%s)\n' "$abandoned"; return 3; }
printf 'GATES — VERDICT: MET\n'
return 0
}
_report() { # _report <mode> <file>
local rc
printf 'GATES — %s (%s)\n' "$2" "$1"
_report_rows
_report_abandons
[ "${#_ERRORS[@]}" -gt 0 ] && printf ' ERROR %s\n' "${_ERRORS[@]}"
printf 'RUNNABLE: %s of %s criteria; timeout %ss\n' \
"$(_runnable_count)" "${#_ID[@]}" "$TIMEOUT"
_verdict "$1"
rc=$?
return "$rc"
}
_runnable_count() {
local i n=0
for ((i = 0; i < ${#_ID[@]}; i++)); do
[ -n "${_CHECK[i]}" ] && n=$((n + 1))
done
printf '%s' "$n"
}
# ── entry point ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
main() { # main <status|run> <contract>
local mode="$1" file="$2"
[ -r "$file" ] || _die "contract unreadable: $file"
_parse "$file"
[ "${#_ID[@]}" -gt 0 ] ||
_die "no numbered criteria under ## ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA"
_validate_oracles
_validate_abandons
if [ "$mode" = "run" ] && [ "${#_ERRORS[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
_run_all
_write_back "$file"
fi
_report "$mode" "$file"
}
case "${1:-}" in
status|run)
[ $# -eq 2 ] || _die "usage: gates.sh {status|run} <contract-path>"
main "$1" "$2"
;;
*) _die "usage: gates.sh {status|run} <contract-path>" ;;
esac