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fix(ci): make the dogfood gate .deed-aware - #80

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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>
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[failure] 288-288: Add a default case (*) to handle unexpected values.

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.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh (3)

279-279: Keep the structural identity exemption limited to .a2ml.

is_structural_identity still bypasses the identity check at Line 279 for every file under machine-readable/ or .machine_readable/. The new version_exempt_structural only changes the version check. Therefore, a .deed file in either tree can omit the DEED head and identity keywords and still pass the identity check. Apply the structural exemption only when "$file" ends in .a2ml; keep DEED identity and :schema-version checks active for .deed.


7-7: LGTM!

Also applies to: 92-92, 126-126, 154-176, 189-201, 209-216, 284-289, 325-325, 373-381


355-355: 🎯 Functional Correctness

The find command already includes -type f. Directories and symlinks with .deed or .a2ml suffixes are excluded, so the validator aligns with regular-file detection.

.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml (1)

36-36: LGTM!

Also applies to: 59-59, 248-248, 294-294


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  • New Features

    • Validation and scorecard checks now support both .deed and legacy .a2ml files.
    • DEED files can be recognised using supported identity and schema-version markers.
    • Broader machine-readable paths are now recognised during validation.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Manifest exemptions and missing-content warnings are now applied more accurately.
    • DEED files require an explicit schema version, while legacy structural exemptions remain supported for .a2ml.
    • Validation messages and summaries now distinguish the authored DEED manifest format from legacy .a2ml input.

Walkthrough

The validator now scans .deed files and applies DEED identity and schema-version rules. The workflow gate accepts .deed and legacy .a2ml manifests, with updated warnings and scorecard labels.

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DEED validation and gate support

Layer / File(s) Summary
DEED validation rules
.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh
The validator recognises DEED identity forms, identity keywords, and :schema-version. It excludes :registry-version from version checks. It expands structural identity paths and suppresses manifest attestation warnings.
File discovery and reporting
.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh
The validator scans both .a2ml and .deed files. Messages and empty-result notices name both formats.
Workflow gate integration
.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml
Manifest discovery and scorecard checks accept both formats. Warnings and labels identify 0-AI-MANIFEST.deed as the authored format and .a2ml as legacy input.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a5000

The gate and validator updates consistently support DEED alongside legacy A2ML without an established remaining merge-blocking risk.

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In @.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh:
- Line 350: Update the structural identity detection in the A2ML validation flow
to set is_structural_identity only for .a2ml files, not .deed files. Keep DEED
identity and :schema-version validation active for every .deed candidate while
preserving the existing structural exemption for .a2ml files.

In @.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml:
- Line 294: Update the DEED manifest scorecard label to state that the legacy
.a2ml format is also accepted, while retaining 0-AI-MANIFEST.deed as the primary
target and leaving the existing A2ML_STATUS validation unchanged.
- Line 36: Update the workflow summary that currently reports A2ML files to
mention both .a2ml and .deed formats, while preserving the existing combined
COUNT value and pluralization.
- Line 36: Update both find commands in the workflow: the discovery command at
.github/workflows/dogfood-gate.yml lines 36-36 and the scorecard command at
lines 248-248. Add the regular-file predicate so only matching files, not
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39-39: LGTM!

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36-36: 🎯 Functional Correctness

No validator-exclusion mismatch is established.

PATHS_IGNORE_RAW defaults to an empty value, and this workflow does not set or pass INPUT_PATHS_IGNORE. Therefore, path_ignored has no configured fragments to match in this job. An ignored file cannot cause the stated count mismatch under the shown workflow.

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CodeRabbit raised three findings on the first commit. All three are correct.

1. The step summary reported the combined .a2ml+.deed count as ".a2ml file(s)",
   and the scorecard row was renamed to "DEED manifest" while its status still
   came from a find matching .a2ml too - so a repo holding only legacy manifests
   scored a green DEED row. That is a label asserting one thing while its check
   asks another, which is the exact defect class this branch exists to cure.
   Fixed by aligning the LABELS to the check rather than narrowing the check:
   narrowing to .deed only would red-score essentially every repo in the estate
   today (19,477 tracked .a2ml against 15 .deed), and this branch is
   behaviour-neutral by design.

2. Both find sites now pass -type f. A directory named *.deed is not a manifest.

3. The validator's structural-identity exemption no longer waives the schema
   version for .deed. DEED is the live, grammar-bearing format; legacy .a2ml
   keeps the exemption. Proved by control: two files in one machine-readable
   directory differing only by extension now get different verdicts.

Severity is unchanged (warning, and the gate invokes strict:false), so no repo
can turn red on this.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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