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Add a vendored RSR canon with revision metadata, SHA-256 and shape verification, and a validated typed parser. Derive file-presence requirements from criterion descriptions, handling alternatives and ambiguous paths conservatively. Add upstream drift checks to Rust CI, parser and pin tests, integration coverage, and clarified API documentation.

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Rhodibot's compliance rules were a hand-written table compiled into rsr.rs:
paths, points and severities decided once by hand and edited by hand ever
after. The canon says what that table should be:

  0-canon/rsr/rsr-criteria-v2.a2ml is "the SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH ... Every
  other artefact -- the prose checklist, the one normative checker's rule
  table, and the badge thresholds -- is GENERATED from this file."

So the rule table belongs downstream of the canon. `src/canon.rs` reads the
canon's A2ML record dialect into typed data: 11 weighted categories, 74
criteria, each with its tier, capability gate, detection rule and template
reference. Nothing about the rules is restated in Rust.

The copy is vendored with its released identity recorded in canon/pin.toml --
canon 2.0.4, digest 37cb5f67..., 11 categories, 74 criteria, weights summing
to 88. The digest proves the bytes; the counts prove the shape, because a rule
set that silently shrinks is the failure that matters here, and a hand-edited
file can carry a hand-edited digest.

Parsing is validated rather than trusted, and refusing is the point:

  - a duplicate criterion id, a criterion filed under the wrong category, an
    invented tier, or a misspelt category field is an error
  - the canon's own [weights-check] arithmetic must hold, and must be present:
    that section sits at the end of the file, so a truncated copy loses it
    along with whatever was cut, which is exactly when a missing check would go
    unnoticed
  - an unterminated criteria list is an error rather than a smaller rule set

Rhodibot is not the oracle and this does not make it one. RSR v2.0 designates
hypatia's `rsr-conformance` rule family as the single normative checker, and
the canon explicitly retires the tools of this shape (`rsr-audit.sh` demoted to
a non-normative reference, `rsr-check.scm` retired, `rsr-certifier` named as
"product, not the spec's oracle"). Rhodibot consumes the canon and reports
against canon criterion ids; it stays advisory.

`scripts/check-canon-drift.sh` asks the other question -- has the canon moved
since the copy was pinned? -- and runs on the rhodibot matrix entry in rust.yml.
Upstream is publicly readable, so no secret is needed.

Tests: 18 unit tests for the parser and pin, 4 integration tests for the
binding. 117 in total. Each fail-closed case is a test: duplicates, misfiling,
invented tiers, broken arithmetic, truncation, unterminated lists, a bad pin and
a canon that is internally consistent but smaller than the pin. Both the script
and the pin check were run against a deliberately broken input and fail:

  pinned   37cb5f679b414f6ee99c6bb62c460fd5349ff7d50cc1dab25b1e1a8e8d3c7bb9
  upstream 37cb5f679b414f6ee99c6bb62c460fd5349ff7d50cc1dab25b1e1a8e8d3c7bb9
  -> unchanged since it was pinned

  pinned   deadbeef... (a corrupted pin)
  -> exit 1
The canon names the files a criterion is about in `desc`, not in
`template_ref` -- `template_ref` is where the *template* satisfies it, and
reading it as a requirement invented the pilot's entire false-positive
class (1.2.2 names no directory; a root .pre-commit-config.yaml is
compliant).

`requirement_from` reads the description instead:

- `and`/`+` join required files; `or`/`/`/`,` list acceptable locations
- `{a,b}` expands, and the splitter is brace-aware, so the commas inside
  `.well-known/{security.txt,ai.txt,humans.txt}` do not tear it apart
- the splitter steps by character, not byte: the descriptions carry em
  dashes and byte-stepping cut them in half
- `.gitignore`/`.editorconfig` are files; `.md`/`.a2ml` are extensions
- negations (`No Makefile ...`) and unresolvable alternatives
  (`CHANGELOG.adoc, or .md`) are refused rather than guessed at
- `Requirement::is_anchored` separates `anchors/ANCHOR.a2ml` from a bare
  `STATE.a2ml`: the canon gives the directory in a neighbouring criterion,
  and asserting a root path it never gave is how a check reports every
  repository as missing a file it has

31 of 74 criteria yield a requirement; a lockstep test prints them and
asserts the count stays partial, so a description that stops parsing
fails rather than silently checking less.

Advisory only -- rhodibot reports against canon criterion ids.
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  • New Features

    • Added support for loading, validating and querying the RSR v2 criteria canon.
    • Added pinned canon metadata, integrity checks and file-presence requirement detection.
    • Added safeguards that reject malformed or inconsistent canon data.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive checks for canon parsing, integrity, structure, counts and lockstep consistency.
  • Chores

    • Added CI checks to detect drift between the pinned canon and its upstream source.

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The change adds a pinned RSR criteria source, fail-closed Rust parsing and validation, requirement extraction, lockstep tests, and CI checks for upstream canon drift.

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RSR canon integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Canon source and pin
bots/rhodibot/canon/rsr-criteria-v2.a2ml, bots/rhodibot/canon/pin.toml
The repository adds the RSR criteria source and metadata for its source, versions, digest, counts, and declared weights.
Rust canon model and validation
bots/rhodibot/src/canon.rs, bots/rhodibot/src/canon/requirement.rs, bots/rhodibot/src/lib.rs, bots/rhodibot/tests/canon_lockstep.rs
The public Rust module parses embedded or filesystem canon data, validates structure and pin values, derives file requirements, and tests these behaviours.
Upstream drift check
scripts/check-canon-drift.sh, .github/workflows/rust.yml
The script compares upstream canon content with the pinned digest and optional lock data. The Rhodibot workflow runs the check.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RustWorkflow as Rust workflow
  participant DriftScript as check-canon-drift.sh
  participant UpstreamCanon as hyperpolymath/standards
  participant Pin as pin.toml
  RustWorkflow->>DriftScript: run canon drift check
  DriftScript->>Pin: read source and SHA-256
  DriftScript->>UpstreamCanon: fetch referenced canon
  UpstreamCanon-->>DriftScript: return canon content
  DriftScript-->>RustWorkflow: pass or fail digest validation
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In `@bots/rhodibot/src/canon.rs`:
- Around line 17-24: Update the module documentation to explicitly state that
Canon::vendored() and Canon::load() only parse and structurally validate canon
data, while pin verification is a separate step using Pin::verify and
Pin::verify_counts. Clarify that Canon::load() accepts arbitrary paths and
therefore does not implicitly verify files against the vendored pin.
- Around line 416-437: Update Pin::verify_counts to validate that canon.version
matches source.criteria_version before the existing structural checks, using the
established ensure! error pattern and reporting both expected and actual
versions.

In `@bots/rhodibot/tests/canon_lockstep.rs`:
- Around line 124-128: Update the canon lockstep assertions around
requirement_from so they explicitly require derived.len() to equal 31, while
retaining the check that the derived count is below canon.criterion_count().
Replace the permissive lower-bound-only validation and update the associated
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The pinned digest matches the vendored canon. The later count returned zero because its regular expressions searched for escaped literals, so it does not contradict the earlier counts. No correction is required.

Comment on lines +17 to +24
//! So the rule table belongs downstream of the canon, not beside it. This module
//! reads the canon's A2ML record dialect into typed data, validates it, and
//! refuses to load a copy that has drifted from its pin.
//!
//! # What this module is not
//!
//! RSR v2.0 designates exactly one *normative* checker — hypatia's
//! `rsr-conformance` rule family — and rhodibot is not it. The canon retires

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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sed -n '1,470p' bots/rhodibot/src/canon.rs
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#!/bin/bash
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printf '%s\n' '--- all relevant Rust references ---'
rg -n -C 3 'Canon::(vendored|load)|Pin::(vendored|parse|verify|verify_counts)|canon::(Canon|Pin)' --glob '*.rs' .
printf '%s\n' '--- canon.rs remaining API and tests ---'
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#!/bin/bash
set -e
printf '%s\n' '--- Canon and Pin references in production source ---'
rg -n -C 4 '\b(Canon|Pin|VENDORED_CRITERIA|VENDORED_PIN)\b|\.vendored\(|\.load\(|\.verify_counts?\(' bots/rhodibot/src --glob '*.rs' --glob '!**/tests/**'
printf '%s\n' '--- loader and pin references across the repository ---'
rg -n -C 2 '\b(Canon|Pin)::|\b(vendored|load|verify_counts?)\s*\(' bots/rhodibot --glob '*.rs'

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Document pin verification as a separate step.

Canon::vendored() and Canon::load() parse and structurally validate canon data. They do not invoke Pin verification. Canon::load() accepts an arbitrary path, so it cannot implicitly verify every file against the vendored pin. Update the module documentation to state that pin verification is performed separately with Pin::verify and Pin::verify_counts.

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In `@bots/rhodibot/src/canon.rs` around lines 17 - 24, Update the module
documentation to explicitly state that Canon::vendored() and Canon::load() only
parse and structurally validate canon data, while pin verification is a separate
step using Pin::verify and Pin::verify_counts. Clarify that Canon::load()
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Closing as superseded — every artefact this coding-agent PR carries has already landed on main in an evolved form via #543 (feat(rhodibot): read the RSR rules from the canon, and pin them, merged).

Evidence, file by file (main vs this branch):

File main PR branch Status
bots/rhodibot/src/canon.rs 1055 lines, modular (canon/local.rs, profile.rs, report.rs, verdict.rs) 990-line monolith main is the refactored descendant
bots/rhodibot/src/canon/requirement.rs 489 lines 490 lines (7-line diff, older doc wording) main superset
bots/rhodibot/tests/canon_lockstep.rs 334 lines 133 lines main 2.5× the coverage
scripts/check-canon-drift.sh 174 lines 98 lines main superset
bots/rhodibot/canon/pin.toml 61 lines incl. the pinned [gates] artefact (sha256 + known = 28 / presets = 11 shape assertions) 40 lines, no [gates] main superset
bots/rhodibot/canon/rsr-criteria-v2.a2ml, template-capability-gates.toml present present / absent main superset
.github/workflows/rust.yml Canon pin drift (rhodibot) gate runs scripts/check-canon-drift.sh on every push older 7-line variant main live

Merging this branch would regress the modular canon tree back to the pre-#543 monolith and drop the gates pin, so it is being closed unmerged rather than conflict-resolved. Nothing on this branch is missing from main (verified by diffing every conflicting file; PR-only lines are stale doc/code wording that main has since rewritten).

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