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This repo's Dogfood Gate enforced A2ML, a format that no longer exists. A2ML was
retired after a name clash with the ML community; the live s-expression format is
.deed, which has a grammar (DEED-GRAMMAR-SPEC) and is bound for IANA.

There are two defects here, and fixing only the first would have been a fake cure.

1. The validator was frozen before the rename

.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh was vendored at 13,737 bytes by commit d5f229d
(2026-07-27, "ci: vendor validation scripts and remove remote action pins") — six weeks
before the 09-03 DEED rename. It contains zero .deed references.

Replaced with the canonical dual-accept body from
hyperpolymath/deed-ecosystem/validate-action @ f9d999b6 (17,544 b), which dispatches on
the DEED s-expression head — (estate-deed|repo-deed|estate-atlas-deed|praxis-deed) on the
first form, per DEED-GRAMMAR-SPEC <<concrete-syntax>> — and keeps .a2ml passing as
legacy
. This repo's own SPDX-License-Identifier line is preserved, not overwritten.

2. 🚨 The step that gates that validator counted only *.a2ml

COUNT=$(find . -name '*.a2ml' -not -path './.git/*' | wc -l)
- name: Validate A2ML manifests
  if: steps.detect.outputs.count > 0      # <- the actual gate
  run: bash .githooks/validate-a2ml.sh

On a repo that had migrated to .deed, COUNT would be 0, the validate step would be
skipped, and the job would report green having validated nothing. Upgrading the
validator alone would have been invisible.

The selector now admits both extensions — the same shape the K9 job in this very file
already uses
(find . \( -name '*.k9' -o -name '*.k9.ncl' \)).

3. The gate was instructing maintainers to author the dead format

The warning and summary told every RSR repo to create 0-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml and to run
a2mliser init. Reworded to name .deed as the format to author, .a2ml as legacy.

Measured, one denominator

Census across the 75 repos carrying a vendored .githooks/validate-a2ml.sh
(75 unique repos; an earlier figure of 79 was a row count — 4 slugs were duplicated by
two local checkouts reaching one remote):

property count
detect step counts only *.a2ml 75 / 75
workflow mentions deed at all 0 / 75
carry any .deed file at origin/main 0 / 75
validator at 13,737 b / md5 8f61f8da / MPL-2.0 74
echidna — 13,747 b / c1769fc4 / AGPL-3.0-or-later 1

Why edit 2 is safe

It is behaviour-neutral today. find A -o B is a strict superset of find A, and
0 of 75 repos carry a .deed file, so COUNT is unchanged on every repo in the
population. The change is purely forward-correct: it stops the gate going silently green
the day a repo migrates.

Verification

  • bash -n on the new validator: clean.
  • python3 -c 'yaml.safe_load(...)' on the edited workflow: parses.
  • The sweep asserts its own precondition per repo — exact size and md5 and SPDX
    before any write — and refuses (skips + flags) on any mismatch rather than overwriting an
    unrecognised file. echidna is handled by the same assert, which is what prevented a
    blanket copy from silently relicensing it AGPL-3.0-or-later → MPL-2.0.
  • Post-edit asserts: the restored SPDX line is present, the widened selector is present, and
    no a2ml-only find survived.
  • Upstream regression evidence: the 17,544-byte body is already merged on origin/main in
    both a2ml-ecosystem and deed-ecosystem; 14 repos / 725 .a2ml files produced
    identical exit codes under old and new validators, with a planted positive and negative.

Not changed here

  • strict stays false. Flipping it is a separate, measured decision: 8 of 10 sampled
    repos go rc=0 → rc=1.
  • No .a2ml file is renamed. Extension migration is explicitly held pending a dry-run
    manifest (19,477 tracked .a2ml vs 15 .deed).
  • The canonical validator's own line 5 still reads
    # validate-a2ml.sh — A2ML manifest validation script. Left byte-identical to upstream
    on purpose, so "is this repo at canonical?" stays answerable by md5. Flagged for an
    upstream fix in deed-ecosystem
    , where it corrects once for every consumer.

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The dogfood gate enforced a format that no longer exists. Two defects, and
fixing only the first would have been a fake cure.

1. .githooks/validate-a2ml.sh was frozen at a pre-DEED revision (13,737 b) with
   zero .deed references. Replaced with the canonical dual-accept body from
   deed-ecosystem/validate-action (17,544 b), which dispatches on the DEED
   s-expression head and keeps .a2ml passing as legacy. This repo's own
   SPDX-License-Identifier line is preserved.

2. The detect step that GATES that validator counted only *.a2ml:

       COUNT=$(find . -name '*.a2ml' ...)
     - name: Validate A2ML manifests
       if: steps.detect.outputs.count > 0

   So on a repo that had migrated to .deed, COUNT would be 0, the validate step
   would be SKIPPED, and the job would report green having validated nothing.
   The selector now admits both extensions -- the same shape the K9 job in this
   file already uses.

Edit 2 is behaviour-neutral today: this repo carries no .deed file, so COUNT is
unchanged. It is purely forward-correct.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0168Bgpez8mFBcAqYAj8VgEx
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.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml (2)

36-36: Apply the regular-file filter in both discovery checks.

find matches directory names as well as files. A directory named example.deed or example.a2ml can make COUNT non-zero and award the scorecard point although no manifest file exists. Add -type f to both commands.

This repeats the unresolved finding from the previous review.

Also applies to: 276-276


39-39: LGTM!

Also applies to: 52-54, 59-59, 322-322

.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh (1)

7-7: LGTM!

Also applies to: 92-92, 126-126, 154-176, 189-201, 209-215, 247-277, 284-284, 320-320, 342-350, 368-376


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  • New Features

    • Validation now supports both .deed and .a2ml manifest files.
    • DEED manifests are checked for identity information and a required schema version.
    • Structural identity exemptions support current and legacy directory layouts.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Registry version fields no longer satisfy the schema-version requirement.
    • Attestation warnings are suppressed for exempt AI manifests.
  • Documentation

    • Dogfooding guidance identifies 0-AI-MANIFEST.deed as the required manifest and directs users to the template repository for setup.

Walkthrough

The validator now scans .a2ml and .deed files. It validates DEED identity and schema fields, updates exemptions and messages, and aligns the dogfood workflow with 0-AI-MANIFEST.deed.

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DEED validation and dogfood manifest integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
DEED identity and version checks
.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh
The validator recognises DEED identity heads and identity keywords. It requires :schema-version and does not treat :registry-version as a version.
Validator discovery and exemptions
.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh
The validator supports both structural identity path forms, limits the AI-manifest exemption to .a2ml files, suppresses a specific AI-manifest attestation warning, and reports both file types during scanning.
Dogfood manifest integration
.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml
The workflow counts both extensions. Its warnings and scorecard identify 0-AI-MANIFEST.deed as the required manifest and describe .a2ml as legacy.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: metadatastician

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A directory named like a manifest can suppress the missing-manifest warning and incorrectly receive scorecard credit; restrict both searches to regular files before merging.

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hyperpolymath and others added 2 commits September 15, 2026 09:13
Structural location under machine-readable/ or .machine_readable/ exempts a
file from the IDENTITY requirement only. It must still declare a version:
dropping is_structural_identity from the version check stops that check
passing vacuously for every file in those trees. Proven by mutant -- a
.deed with a canonical-name and no schema-version now warns, and did not
before. Warnings do not fail the job, so ATLAS.deed (which carries
:registry-version and legitimately no :schema-version) is unaffected.

The gate now accepts both formats, so its own prose must not name only one:
the step summary says "manifest file(s)" and the scorecard row is the
format-neutral "A2ML/DEED manifest".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0178nN4Nm3neFRy5K9StZKnB
Scope the version-check tightening to *.deed: legacy *.a2ml keeps its
structural-identity exemption, which is what the review asked for. Add
-type f so a directory named foo.deed cannot be counted as a manifest.
The gate accepts both formats, so its summary line and scorecard row now
name both rather than only one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0178nN4Nm3neFRy5K9StZKnB
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