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fix(validator): see .deed at all, and accept every ruled identity form - #9
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deed-validate-action was a THIRD editable upstream of this validator and had
never been fixed. Measured on a fresh clone of main, 2026-09-14:
grep -c '\.deed' validate-a2ml.sh -> 0
discovery glob -> find ... -name '*.a2ml'
So the action published under the DEED name scanned zero files in a converted
repository and exited 0, reporting success. Task #72 recorded "BOTH upstreams
landed" (deed-ecosystem#52, deed-core#3); that was an undercount — there are
three, and this is the one with the widest blast radius: 131 workflows across
the estate reference it by `uses:`.
Five changes, deliberately in ONE commit, because landing the glob alone is
strictly worse than landing nothing:
1. Discovery globs `.deed` as well as `.a2ml`.
2. Identity accepts the DEED keyword form `:canonical-name` (also
`:estate-authority`, `:agent-id`). The existing patterns all require
`=` or `:` as a SEPARATOR, so a leading-colon space-separated keyword
matched none of them.
3. Version accepts `:schema-version`. Matched narrowly on purpose:
`:registry-version` is a distinct optional field and must NOT satisfy
the required-version check.
4. Identity accepts the DEED HEAD FORM. Not every deed carries
`:canonical-name` — ATLAS.deed identifies itself by its head alone,
exactly as the six-file set identifies itself by a `[metadata]` section.
The four ruled heads are ENUMERATED (estate-deed, estate-atlas-deed,
repo-deed, praxis-deed) rather than matched as `*-deed`, so an invented
head is not silently accepted as a fifth. Only the FIRST s-expression
in the file is consulted: a recognised head appearing after some other
form is a misplaced head, not identity, and must still fail.
5. Identity and version accept the s-expression dialect's NESTED forms,
`(metadata (name "…") (version "…"))`, which match neither the TOML
`key =` nor the `[metadata]` bracket patterns. This is the sanctioned
fourth surface, and the conformance corpus lists
valid/s-expression-state.a2ml as expect="pass" while it was failing.
Without 2-5, adding the glob would discover every deed and then fail it — and
report_issue() promotes warnings to errors under strict mode, so those 131
consumers would have gone from a silent no-op straight to a hard red gate.
Fixing one of two disagreeing layers is itself the defect.
`AI.deed` is added beside `AI.a2ml` in the identity exemption so that renaming
a file does not silently TIGHTEN the gate on it.
VERIFIED against deed-ecosystem's conformance corpus — an INDEPENDENTLY
authored expectation table (conformance/manifest.a2ml), not fixtures written
to match this patch. All 15 declared expectations now hold:
8 positive fixtures (expect="pass") -> all clean
incl. one per ruled head, and the
s-expression fixture that was failing
7 negative fixtures (expect="error" or -> all still correctly flagged
"strict-error")
Two further on-disk negatives, not listed in the manifest, discriminate the
new head logic specifically:
deed-head-not-first.deed -> still warns (head is misplaced)
deed-registry-version-only.deed -> warns on VERSION ONLY, proving the
narrow `:schema-version` match holds
and that the head grants identity
Plus a synthetic negative control: `(invented-deed` is rejected while
`(estate-deed` is accepted, proving the enumeration is doing the work.
Assertions are on the discovery COUNT, never the exit code — before this
commit the same tree discovered 0 files and exited 0. Note for future
testing: this script takes its path from INPUT_PATH, NOT from $1, so a
positional argument is silently ignored and it scans `.` instead.
Also retitles the action to "Validate DEED Manifests" with DEED-accurate input
and output descriptions, which is prerequisite to any Marketplace listing: the
listing identity is taken from action.yml at the published tag.
The script FILENAME stays validate-a2ml.sh. It is internal to the action, and
renaming it would break the 120 stamped copies and any direct caller; that
belongs in the #72 sweep, not in a release commit.
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WalkthroughThe action metadata now describes DEED manifests. The validation script scans ChangesDEED validation
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participant Action as action.yml
participant Validator as validate-a2ml.sh
participant DEEDFiles as DEED or A2ML files
Action->>Validator: Run validation
Validator->>DEEDFiles: Discover .deed and .a2ml files
DEEDFiles-->>Validator: Return manifest contents
Validator-->>Action: Report DEED validation result
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In `@action.yml`:
- Line 23: Update the README documentation for the action invocation, path
input, and files-scanned output so it consistently describes validating and
recursively discovering both .deed and superseded .a2ml files, and no longer
presents the action as “Validate A2ML” only.
In `@validate-a2ml.sh`:
- Line 164: Update the version detection condition in validate-a2ml.sh to
recognize `(version` after preceding content on the same line, including nested
metadata forms; remove the start-of-line restriction while preserving whitespace
and token-boundary matching so valid manifests set has_version and strict-mode
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validate-a2ml.sh
[warning] 323-323: Redirect this error message to stderr (>&2).
…ine start
CodeRabbit flagged `(version` on validate-a2ml.sh:164 as unreachable for the
sanctioned nested form. Verified: the `^[[:space:]]*` anchor required
`(version` to open the line, so an INLINED
(state (metadata (name "x") (version "1.0.0")))
set has_version=false and, in strict mode, was REJECTED as a valid manifest.
The conformance corpus did not catch this because
valid/s-expression-state.a2ml writes the form MULTI-LINE, putting `(version`
at the start of its own line. A corpus that passes is not proof the regex is
right -- it is proof the corpus does not exercise the shape.
Both layers are fixed, not one: the identity check on the line above carried
the same anchor, so `(state (metadata ...))` inlined also warned "No identity
found". It survived only when the head happened to be one of the four ruled
heads and the head-form check rescued it. Fixing `version` alone would have
left the two checks disagreeing.
Token boundaries are preserved -- the `(` prefix and the trailing
whitespace/EOL mean `:registry-version` and `(versioning` still do not match.
Measured against conformance/ (deed-ecosystem), before and after:
valid/ 8 files, 0 errors, 0 warnings (unchanged)
invalid/ 10 files, 10 warnings non-strict / 10 errors strict (unchanged)
The invalid/ set is the positive control: it proves the run could have
reported non-zero. shellcheck -S warning clean.
README.adoc (CodeRabbit's second finding): the action is "Validate DEED
Manifests" in action.yml but the README still said "Validate A2ML" and
documented `.a2ml`-only discovery. Also corrected while here, because this
README is the Marketplace landing page:
- the spec link pointed at standards/tree/main/a2ml, which is a 404;
the live path is standards/tree/main/deed
- the usage snippet named hyperpolymath/standards/a2ml/actions/validate@main,
which is not this action at all
- `link:../../README.adoc` was a relative link left over from when this
action lived inside the standards monorepo, and resolves nowhere here
- "Attested Markup Language" -> "Attestation Markup Language" (ruled)
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The action had no self-test workflow, and its own repository contained not
one .deed file -- so nothing it did was ever exercised against the format it
is named for. That is why a validator which could not see .deed at all
shipped and stayed shipped.
Adds .github/workflows/self-test.yml and a fixture corpus under test/fixtures/.
Two rules are load-bearing in the workflow, both learned from this defect:
1. Assert on discovery COUNT, never on exit code. A validator that finds
nothing exits 0. Run the pre-fix validator against test/fixtures/deed-only
and it emits `::notice::No .a2ml files found` -- a notice, not a warning --
sets no outputs and exits 0. An exit-code assertion calls that a pass.
2. Always run a positive control. The invalid-corpus job must report a
non-zero error count; if it ever reports zero, the run has lost the
ability to see failure and every other green result is worthless.
Both regression tests were proven to FAIL against the versions carrying the
defects they target, rather than merely passing against the fixed one:
- validator at d06e559^ (no .deed glob) vs deed-only/ -> 0 discovered, exit 0
- validator at d06e559 (glob fixed, ^ anchors intact) vs valid/ -> 2 errors,
on inline-nested.deed and legacy-superseded.a2ml, both inlined forms
- validator at HEAD vs valid/ -> 5 discovered, 0 errors
The corpus covers all four identity shapes including head-form-alone, both the
inlined and multi-line nested forms, and the superseded .a2ml extension. Two
invalid fixtures pin the token boundary: removing the ^ anchors widens what
matches, and `(versioning` / `:registry-version` must still fail.
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The defect
deed-validate-actionis the third upstream of the shared validator, and itwas never fixed. PR #72's "both landed" was an undercount: this repo is a
separate lineage, so drift-counting against the other two missed it entirely —
and it is the Marketplace-bound copy, referenced by 131
uses:lines.The headline measurement:
The script globbed
*.a2mlonly. Every.deedfile in the estate was invisibleto it, and it exited 0 while seeing nothing. A green check meant "found
nothing to look at", not "validated".
Five parts, and they must land together
find … \( -name '*.a2ml' -o -name '*.deed' \).:canonical-name,:estate-authority,:agent-id.:schema-version(narrowly;:registry-versiondoes not satisfy it).ATLAS.deedcarries no:canonical-name. Itidentifies itself by its head alone. The four ruled heads are enumerated,
not matched as
*-deed, so an invented fifth head cannot be silently accepted.Only the first s-expression is consulted: a recognised head appearing later
is a misplaced head, not identity, and still warns.
(metadata (name "…") (version "…")), which matches neither the TOMLkey =nor the
[metadata]bracket patterns.⛔ The glob alone would have been worse than nothing: it would have made the
validator see
.deedfiles and then reject every one of them on identity andversion, turning a silent bypass into an estate-wide false failure.
Verification
Not against fixtures written by the same hand as the regex — that is circular.
Verified against the independently authored conformance corpus in
deed-ecosystem(conformance/manifest.a2ml, PR #52), which declares its ownexpectations:
That corpus immediately exposed two defects my own fixtures could not have
shown:
valid/ATLAS.deed(head-form identity) andvalid/s-expression-state.a2ml(nested forms). The fix went from three parts tofive because of it.
Three discriminating controls, beyond the corpus:
deed-head-not-first.deeddeed-registry-version-only.deed(invented-deedvs(estate-deedshellcheckclean.Note for anyone running this by hand
validate-a2ml.shreadsINPUT_PATH, not$1. A positional argument issilently ignored and it scans
.instead.Known gap, filed separately
This repo has no self-test workflow — none of its 11 workflows runs its own
action against its own tree. That is the sibling of the pinned-self-validator
trap and is filed as a follow-up, not fixed here.
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