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Docs only. Adds the FoT-everywhere design draft (docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-07-fot-everywhere-design.adoc): stocktake of main against the docs, standards and rsr-template; the Gemini-episode timeline; why the project went backwards; the design (one core, many doors; ladder L0–L5; privacy ledger; priority calibrator; volume governor; model/effort/advisor); install and distribution; decomposition SP1–SP7; and the owner's six rulings of 2026-09-07.

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Stocktake of origin/main against the docs, standards and rsr-template,
the Gemini-episode timeline, why the project went backwards, and the
design for one core with many doors: ladder L0-L5, privacy ledger,
priority calibrator, volume governor, model/effort/advisor policy,
install and distribution, standards alignment, decomposition SP1-SP7.
Six rulings recorded; the product name is still open.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • Documentation
    • Revised the “FoT Everywhere” design draft with updated decisions, proposed functionality, personalisation, privacy controls, provider selection, media handling, local-record retention, installation, distribution, and standards alignment.
    • Added a planned build sequence, naming guidance, a defined state for when no permitted provider is available, and proposals awaiting review.
    • This release contains design documentation only; the described functionality is not yet implemented.

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Adds a revised 609-line AsciiDoc design for “FoT Everywhere”. It records the current FoT state, defines architecture and policy controls, adds provider and privacy decisions, and extends the build order through SP8.

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FoT Everywhere design

Layer / File(s) Summary
Current state and design basis
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-07-fot-everywhere-design.adoc
Records requirements R1–R10, existing FoT components, unimplemented areas, standards drift, and usability regression.
Core architecture and extension model
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-07-fot-everywhere-design.adoc
Defines revised design principles, the single-process architecture, extension levels L0–L5, personas, and signed profile layers.
Privacy, priority, volume, and advisor controls
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-07-fot-everywhere-design.adoc
Adds media redaction, local-record lifecycle rules, S0 circuit breaking, usefulness validation, provider selection, and the no-permitted-provider state.
Installation, standards, and build order
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-07-fot-everywhere-design.adoc
Defines naming, installation and distribution, standards alignment, excluded features, SP1a–SP8 sequencing, owner rulings, and pending proposals.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4da8f

This PR does not change the running product, but the proposed implementation plan still permits ambiguous or unsafe behavior around sensitive-data handling, emergency reports, advisor rejection, and sender quotas. Resolve these design gaps before merging the draft as the build contract.

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In `@docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-07-fot-everywhere-design.adoc`:
- Line 16: Update the stale section references in the design specification:
refer to “Rulings” as Section 16, “advisor” as Section 11, and “Recipient side”
as Section 6. Revise the status note to state that only the overall product name
remains open.
- Around line 60-63: Define “door” consistently throughout the stocktake: either
rename the MCP and HTTP entry points as host wrappers and update the “No door
other than boj” statement, or explicitly include them in the door inventory.
Apply the same terminology and scope consistently in the referenced stocktake
sections so SP2 is not mis-scoped.
- Around line 122-123: Revise the Deno removal statements in the stocktake and
standards-plan sections to scope the claim to the product/runtime path, or
explicitly enumerate the remaining Deno and TypeScript exceptions, including
examples/web-project-deno.json, mise.toml, and mint.ts. Keep the documented
remnants accurate and consistent across all referenced sections.
- Around line 239-240: Update the L3 Evidence acceptance criteria to define
media inspection and redaction for screenshots and other images, including a
user-visible redaction diff before sending; alternatively remove media evidence
from the L3 scope. Ensure the related redaction design section around the
corresponding media references reflects the same supported behavior.
- Around line 308-309: Update the S0 emergency-routing policy to retain fast
handling while enforcing a hard per-sender and per-destination volume quota,
with escalation or an abuse circuit breaker for persistent over-declaration.
Ensure repeated credible-harm claims cannot bypass all batching, clustering,
budget, or send-limit protections, preserving the same controls in the related
S0 section.
- Around line 282-285: Update the SP3 local ledger requirements near the Classes
definition to specify retention duration, user-controlled deletion, access
restrictions, and encryption at rest for all captured evidence classes,
including identity, device, network, logs, and media. Ensure the lifecycle
requirements prevent evidence from remaining indefinitely on disk and define the
expected handling for deletion and access.
- Around line 360-365: Update the provider-selection rules for host sampling,
configured providers, and local fallback so the effective privacy profile is
evaluated first; only select providers whose destinations are permitted,
preventing host sampling or cloud providers from receiving data when the profile
requires local-only processing. Apply the same ledger-controlled destination
requirement to the advisor flow described in the affected provider-order and
privacy-policy sections.
- Around line 407-410: Align the SP2 host criterion with the advertised
integrations by explicitly requiring all six hosts—antigravity, vscode,
claude-code, cursor, zed, and gemini-cli—and define handshake tests for each, or
revise the advertised list to match the four hosts supported by fot doctor. Keep
the host wiring and installation criteria consistent.
- Around line 75-78: Update the design specification’s build order and done
criteria to explicitly assign owners, dependencies, and acceptance tests for the
model/provider abstraction, host sampling, configured providers, credentials,
fallback behavior, and L2 coverage; also add acceptance criteria for the
promised fot_send(json) interface and Zig C header/static library, or remove
those promises if they are out of scope.
- Around line 445-446: Reconcile the milestone definitions for SP1 and SP2 with
the final ruling: assign each criterion to the milestone that implements it,
including the workflow fixes, `fot serve` engine/intake/MCP integration,
stranger end-to-end report, CLI, MCP-native stdio server, doctor command,
cartridge alias, and release artifacts. If a milestone cannot contain all its
current criteria, split the work into explicit milestones and update the
corresponding acceptance rows consistently.
- Around line 166-171: Update the FoT provider design around the “The host is
the model” section to avoid making deprecated MCP Sampling the unconditional
default: pin the supported MCP protocol revision, define behavior when Sampling
is unavailable or removed, and retain a configured direct provider or local
fallback as the working default.
- Around line 123-124: Update both references in the stocktake and ruling to use
elixir-mcp/ARCHITECTURE.adoc, replacing the incorrect .md extension while
preserving the surrounding content.

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The startup failures were caused by callers granting only contents:read
while the reusables at standards HEAD request actions:read, not by an
unreachable sha. Recorded as witnessed on PR #88.

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Owner ruling 2026-09-08: the name is Feedback-o-Tron, spelled o-tron on
every surface; fot is a typing alias only; a-tron is retired from
user-facing surfaces. No naming question remains open.

Review findings on #87, all verified against the document and, for the
MCP claim, against the specification's own deprecation table:

- section numbers replaced by anchors and xrefs (one more, "section 9",
  was also wrong and is fixed)
- "door" defined: protocol door vs host door; the stocktake now says
  "no host door other than boj"
- Deno removal scoped to the product/runtime path; remnants named and
  assigned to SP1b and SP7
- P2 flipped to configured-provider-first because MCP Sampling is
  deprecated from spec revision 2026-07-28 (SEP-2577); sampling is now
  opportunistic on revisions 2025-06-18..2026-07-28 and marked as a
  proposal awaiting ruling
- media redaction path (OCR, scrubbers, blur, diff); L3 sends no media
  until it lands; SP3 test plants an IP in a screenshot
- local-record lifecycle: redacted copy plus hash only, 0600, encrypted
  at rest, 90-day default, fot ledger purge
- model providers are ledger-controlled destinations; model_locality is
  evaluated before provider selection; the "no permitted provider" state
  is defined so the L2-L3 advisor ruling and local-only profiles do not
  contradict
- S0 keeps its fast path but gains a per-(sender, destination) circuit
  breaker with human escalation, marked as a proposal awaiting ruling
- SP2 names its four hosts; cursor and zed move to SP5
- SP1 split into SP1a (CI, #88) and SP1b (fot serve, README stranger
  test); provider abstraction and the L2 tests assigned to SP2; SP8
  added for the Zig C ABI
- ruling 4 corrected: elixir-mcp/ARCHITECTURE.adoc is what main carries

SPDX header aligned to the repository's documentation licence
(CC-BY-SA-4.0, as on the other eighteen AsciiDoc files).

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All twelve findings from the 2026-09-07 review are addressed in 4da8fb8; each thread carries a reply naming the change. Two of the changes (provider order, S0 circuit breaker) alter design the owner approved on 2026-09-07 and are marked in the document as proposals awaiting ruling rather than as settled text.

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In `@docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-07-fot-everywhere-design.adoc`:
- Around line 548-550: Update the relevant SP completion criteria to explicitly
assign ownership for the L0 offline path and define acceptance tests covering
offline queueing, replay, and portable report-file output. Ensure the criteria
also cover the P1 promises, rather than leaving SP1b limited to online GitHub
submission.
- Around line 548-550: Update the roadmap dependencies so no network-enabled
release can send externally before the privacy ledger in SP3 is implemented:
either make SP3 a prerequisite for SP1b’s real GitHub issue acceptance test, or
restrict SP1b to local/dry-run behavior and place the stranger test after SP3.
Preserve the ledger requirement for every external send.
- Around line 383-385: Update the S0 fast-path specification to define an
explicit fail-safe destination or hold state when no known safety/security
channel and no profiled human recipient exist, including for the first credible
S0 report. Keep the existing direct-routing, human-notification, and
no-downgrade behavior unchanged.
- Around line 470-473: Update the advisor flow specification to define rejection
as a blocking result for both own-provider and host-sampling paths: when the
advisor returns “no,” including a reason, hold the report and do not return or
send it. Ensure every door honors this rejection rather than continuing.
- Around line 345-355: The lifecycle and transparency sections must align on
audit export guarantees: either qualify the “exactly what was sent” export
promise to apply only during the configured retention period, or retain a
restorable redacted payload for the full promised audit period. Update the
relevant guarantee near the local-record retention behavior without changing the
existing purge semantics.
- Around line 551-552: Add a dedicated usefulness-gate build-order item with a
named owner, an explicit dependency on the Idris2 contract, and a negative
acceptance test proving non-actionable reports are rejected. Include an
Idris2/Elixir parity check in its completion criteria so no SP can pass while
the Elixir implementation bypasses the gate.
- Around line 440-442: Align the sampling retirement cutoff with the MCP
specification-removal boundary defined in P2, removing the extra FoT release of
support. Update the affected revision range and retirement wording consistently,
and add a negotiated-version test covering the exact retirement boundary.
- Line 462: Update the advisor input definition to explicitly exclude media,
limiting it to text and metadata, or specify a separately approved media path
consistent with the specification. Apply the same media-exclusion rule to the
sampling call while preserving the existing advisor eligibility and review
requirements.
- Around line 386-392: Define a non-spoofable sender-attribution mechanism for
the per-(sender, destination) circuit breaker and volume governor, including how
sender identity is derived and bound to credentials, how caller-supplied or
rotated sender values are rejected, and how identity persistence, rotation, and
reset semantics work. Integrate these rules into the signed-profile and
claim-ingress design before relying on per-sender controls.

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SP1b requires the fot CLI to start fot serve and support the fresh-machine test, but SP2 owns the CLI and release artefact. With the stated order, SP1b cannot run from the artefact it describes. Move the CLI bootstrap into SP1b, or make SP2 a prerequisite.


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- P2 (configured provider first) and the S0 circuit breaker move from
  proposed to ruled
- the rulings list gains provider order, the S0 breaker at N = 3, and the
  funding and attributes decision
- the proposals section is retitled and kept for the reasoning
- revnumber 0.3

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Audit export bounded by retention; S0 fallback via RFC 9116 security.txt
then held draft; sender identity derived from the signed profile at every
door with the anonymous profile lowest; sampling cutoff tied to the spec's
removal with a negotiated-version test in SP2; advisor limited to text and
metadata, media never in any model pass; an advisor "no" holds the report
as a draft that no door can override; L0 offline queue and portable file
assigned to SP2 with tests; usefulness gate assigned to SP4 with an
Idris2/Elixir parity test and a negative test.

The SP1b-before-SP3 conflict with P3 (ledger before wire) is recorded in
the proposals section with its three options and awaits the owner's ruling.

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