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Summary

  • add the strict shared request/result/authority contracts for open-world provisional publication
  • keep provisional publication separate from the existing GEPA publication protocol
  • seal authority and full-snapshot validation against subclasses and permissive coercions
  • expose the storage surface needed by the enterprise atomic publisher

Behavior

An accepted open-world candidate can be represented as a content-only provisional successor with an exact qualification-authority reference. Shared code defines the contract only; enterprise storage remains responsible for transactional publication, proof binding, governance, retention, aggregation exclusion, and billing non-effect.

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  • Phase 4 exact-head gate: PASS (12/12)
  • Phase 1 matrix: 597 passed, 9 skipped
  • Phase 2 evidence: 826 passed, 9 skipped
  • Phase 3 analysis: 1,718 passed, 9 skipped
  • Phase 4 publication inventory: 280 passed
  • Ruff: clean
  • Pyright: 0 errors, 0 warnings

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  • New Features

    • Added provisional playbook publication using open-world optimization.
    • Added deployment lifecycle tracking for provisional, confirmed, restored, displaced, and erased states.
    • Added qualification records, authority references, decision proofs, and evaluation diagnostics.
    • Added validation for snapshots, epochs, integrity digests, and evidence completeness.
    • Added support for staging, committing, claiming, cleaning up, and retrieving provisional publication results.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Preserved existing publication behavior by keeping open-world optimization separate from legacy publication requests.

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The change adds open-world lifecycle and qualification contracts, separates legacy and decision-proof optimizer validation, defines provisional publication request and result models, and adds provisional publication storage operations with contract tests.

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Open-world optimizer boundaries

Layer / File(s) Summary
Optimizer boundaries and lifecycle types
reflexio/models/api_schema/domain/entities.py, reflexio/server/services/playbook/publication.py, tests/server/services/playbook/test_publication_models.py
The API exports open-world lifecycle and qualification types. Decision proofs accept offline_tuner_open_world, while ordinary publication requests reject it. Tests cover the public literals, field partitions, and legacy rejection.
Qualification data contracts
reflexio/models/api_schema/domain/entities.py
Immutable qualification count and record models enforce canonical counts, digest ordering, uniqueness, and pass-all validation. Evaluation results include diagnosis and evidence fields.

Provisional publication contracts

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provisional request and result contracts
reflexio/server/services/playbook/publication.py, tests/server/services/playbook/test_provisional_publication_contract.py
The new models validate authority references, incumbent snapshots, candidate and proof bindings, subject epochs, digests, optimizer restrictions, and terminal outcome fields. Tests cover valid and invalid bindings, exact subcontract types, serialization, fingerprint drift, and result-state combinations.

Provisional publication storage contract

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provisional publication storage contract
reflexio/server/services/playbook/publication.py, reflexio/server/services/storage/storage_base/playbook/_user.py, tests/server/services/playbook/test_provisional_publication_contract.py
The provisional store protocol and user playbook mixin define claim, cleanup, stage, commit, and terminal-result loading operations. Tests verify separation from the legacy store and required method signatures.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 992c5

This PR adds provisional publication contracts while preserving the existing publication path. It is mergeable with owner awareness that duplicated request validation could let the two publication paths diverge if future contract rules change.

Suggested reviewers: yyiilluu, yilu331

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  participant Optimizer
  participant ProvisionalPublicationRequest
  participant UserPlaybookProvisionalPublicationStore
  participant ProvisionalPublicationResult
  Optimizer->>ProvisionalPublicationRequest: submit validated open-world publication data
  ProvisionalPublicationRequest->>UserPlaybookProvisionalPublicationStore: claim and stage provisional publication
  UserPlaybookProvisionalPublicationStore->>UserPlaybookProvisionalPublicationStore: commit terminal result
  UserPlaybookProvisionalPublicationStore-->>ProvisionalPublicationResult: return committed result
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reflexio/server/services/playbook/publication.py (2)

458-483: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract the duplicated subject-epoch validation.

Lines 458-483 repeat PublicationRequest.__post_init__ lines 310-335 exactly. Both contracts feed the same subject_epochs_json wire shape to storage. If one copy changes later, the two publication paths accept different epoch payloads. Extract one module-level helper and call it from both contracts.

♻️ Proposed refactor
+def _validate_subject_epochs(value: str) -> None:
+    epochs = _canonical_payload("subject_epochs_json", value)
+    if (
+        not isinstance(epochs, dict)
+        or set(epochs) != {"subjects"}
+        or not isinstance(epochs.get("subjects"), list)
+        or not epochs["subjects"]
+    ):
+        raise ValueError("subject epochs must contain a non-empty subjects list")
+    subject_refs: set[str] = set()
+    for item in epochs["subjects"]:
+        if not isinstance(item, dict):
+            raise ValueError("subject epochs must contain objects")
+        if set(item) != {"ref", "epoch"}:
+            raise ValueError("subject epochs must use ref and epoch fields")
+        subject_ref = item["ref"]
+        epoch = item["epoch"]
+        if (
+            not isinstance(subject_ref, str)
+            or not subject_ref
+            or type(epoch) is not int
+            or epoch < 0
+        ):
+            raise ValueError("subject epochs contain an invalid identity or epoch")
+        if subject_ref in subject_refs:
+            raise ValueError("subject epochs must contain unique subject refs")
+        subject_refs.add(subject_ref)

Then replace both inline blocks with _validate_subject_epochs(self.subject_epochs_json). The error messages stay identical, so the existing tests keep passing.

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In `@reflexio/server/services/playbook/publication.py` around lines 458 - 483,
Extract the duplicated subject-epoch validation from
PublicationRequest.__post_init__ and the publication contract block into one
module-level _validate_subject_epochs helper. Have both call
_validate_subject_epochs(self.subject_epochs_json), preserving the existing
validation rules and error messages.

354-365: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Derive the digest field list from the dataclass fields.

The tuple of nine field names duplicates the dataclass declaration. If a future digest field is added to QualificationAuthorityRef and not added to this tuple, the new field skips digest validation silently. Use dataclasses.fields and exclude epoch instead.

♻️ Proposed refactor
     def __post_init__(self) -> None:
         if type(self.epoch) is not int or self.epoch <= 0:
             raise ValueError("qualification authority epoch must be positive")
-        for field in (
-            "authority_digest",
-            "discovery_component_identity_digest",
-            "discovery_qualification_suite_digest",
-            "discovery_qualification_result_digest",
-            "held_out_component_identity_digest",
-            "held_out_qualification_suite_digest",
-            "held_out_qualification_result_digest",
-            "candidate_generator_identity_digest",
-            "candidate_generator_authorization_digest",
-        ):
-            _require_digest(f"qualification authority {field}", getattr(self, field))
+        for field in fields(self):
+            if field.name == "epoch":
+                continue
+            _require_digest(
+                f"qualification authority {field.name}", getattr(self, field.name)
+            )

This needs from dataclasses import dataclass, fields at the top of the file.

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In `@reflexio/server/services/playbook/publication.py` around lines 354 - 365,
Update the qualification authority validation loop in QualificationAuthorityRef
to derive field names via dataclasses.fields, excluding the epoch field, instead
of maintaining the hard-coded digest tuple; import fields alongside dataclass
and continue passing each selected value to _require_digest.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@reflexio/server/services/playbook/publication.py`:
- Around line 458-483: Extract the duplicated subject-epoch validation from
PublicationRequest.__post_init__ and the publication contract block into one
module-level _validate_subject_epochs helper. Have both call
_validate_subject_epochs(self.subject_epochs_json), preserving the existing
validation rules and error messages.
- Around line 354-365: Update the qualification authority validation loop in
QualificationAuthorityRef to derive field names via dataclasses.fields,
excluding the epoch field, instead of maintaining the hard-coded digest tuple;
import fields alongside dataclass and continue passing each selected value to
_require_digest.

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  • Duplicated subject-epoch validation: fixed in 8bc177dd by extracting one private helper used by both request contracts. Validation order, rules, messages, and public API are unchanged.
  • Derive authority digest fields from dataclasses.fields: intentionally not applied. The explicit tuple is a closed-schema allowlist; auto-validating every future non-epoch field as a digest would incorrectly constrain future non-digest metadata and silently broaden validation. Current digest fields remain parametrically covered.

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@yilu331, understood. The explicit authority-digest tuple is a closed-schema allowlist. A new review will assess the current PR state.


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Learning: In `reflexio/server/services/playbook/publication.py`, the explicit tuple of qualification-authority digest fields is a closed-schema allowlist. Do not derive the fields from `dataclasses.fields`, because future non-`epoch` authority metadata might not be a digest and automatic derivation would silently broaden validation.

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@yilu331, understood.

The shared helper in 8bc177dd addresses the duplicated subject-epoch validation. The explicit authority-digest tuple remains a closed-schema allowlist. The reported focused verification is clean.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (3)
reflexio/server/services/playbook/publication.py (2)

20-23: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Derive the decision-proof set from the legacy set.

_DECISION_PROOF_OPTIMIZERS restates the two legacy members. A future legacy addition must be duplicated in both places. Deriving the set removes that drift risk.

♻️ Proposed refactor
 _LEGACY_PUBLICATION_OPTIMIZERS = frozenset({"gepa", "offline_tuner_replay"})
-_DECISION_PROOF_OPTIMIZERS = frozenset(
-    {"gepa", "offline_tuner_replay", "offline_tuner_open_world"}
-)
+_DECISION_PROOF_OPTIMIZERS = _LEGACY_PUBLICATION_OPTIMIZERS | {
+    "offline_tuner_open_world"
+}
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In `@reflexio/server/services/playbook/publication.py` around lines 20 - 23,
Derive _DECISION_PROOF_OPTIMIZERS from _LEGACY_PUBLICATION_OPTIMIZERS by
extending or combining the existing set with only the additional
offline_tuner_open_world optimizer, rather than repeating the legacy members.
Preserve both legacy optimizers and the current decision-proof membership.

434-445: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Share the common request validation with PublicationRequest.

Lines 434-445 repeat the job_id, attempt_key, claim job_id, worker_fence, and incumbent_user_playbook_id rules from PublicationRequest.__post_init__ (Lines 309-320). Lines 451-461 repeat the revised_content, trigger-preservation, and content-digest rules. A shared private helper for this common subset keeps the two contracts from drifting, in the same way _validate_subject_epochs_json was extracted.

The incumbent identity fields differ between the two contracts, so keep those checks local to each class.

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In `@reflexio/server/services/playbook/publication.py` around lines 434 - 445,
Extract the shared validation for job_id, attempt_key, publication_claim.job_id,
worker_fence, revised_content, trigger preservation, and content digest into a
private helper, following the pattern of _validate_subject_epochs_json. Call
that helper from both PublicationRequest.__post_init__ and the provisional
publication validation, while keeping each class’s incumbent identity checks
local.
tests/server/services/playbook/test_provisional_publication_contract.py (1)

298-316: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add negative cases for the remaining request-level rules.

The suite does not exercise evidence_bundle_digest, candidate_digest, or subject_epochs_json rejection on ProvisionalPublicationRequest. These are new contract rules in this PR. A short parametrized test locks them.

💚 Proposed additional test
`@pytest.mark.parametrize`(
    ("field", "value", "message"),
    [
        ("evidence_bundle_digest", "invalid", "lowercase SHA-256"),
        ("candidate_digest", "4" * 63, "lowercase SHA-256"),
        ("subject_epochs_json", _canonical({"subjects": []}), "non-empty subjects"),
    ],
)
def test_provisional_publication_rejects_invalid_evidence_and_epochs(
    field: str, value: object, message: str
) -> None:
    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=message):
        _request(**{field: value})
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In `@tests/server/services/playbook/test_provisional_publication_contract.py`
around lines 298 - 316, Add a parametrized negative test for
ProvisionalPublicationRequest covering invalid evidence_bundle_digest,
candidate_digest, and subject_epochs_json values, asserting ValueError with the
corresponding validation message. Reuse the existing _request helper and
established canonical-payload utilities, alongside
test_provisional_publication_rejects_coerced_full_snapshot_scalars.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@reflexio/server/services/playbook/publication.py`:
- Around line 20-23: Derive _DECISION_PROOF_OPTIMIZERS from
_LEGACY_PUBLICATION_OPTIMIZERS by extending or combining the existing set with
only the additional offline_tuner_open_world optimizer, rather than repeating
the legacy members. Preserve both legacy optimizers and the current
decision-proof membership.
- Around line 434-445: Extract the shared validation for job_id, attempt_key,
publication_claim.job_id, worker_fence, revised_content, trigger preservation,
and content digest into a private helper, following the pattern of
_validate_subject_epochs_json. Call that helper from both
PublicationRequest.__post_init__ and the provisional publication validation,
while keeping each class’s incumbent identity checks local.

In `@tests/server/services/playbook/test_provisional_publication_contract.py`:
- Around line 298-316: Add a parametrized negative test for
ProvisionalPublicationRequest covering invalid evidence_bundle_digest,
candidate_digest, and subject_epochs_json values, asserting ValueError with the
corresponding validation message. Reuse the existing _request helper and
established canonical-payload utilities, alongside
test_provisional_publication_rejects_coerced_full_snapshot_scalars.

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