Resolve the independence disclosure test and complete the exit rehearsal record.

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Resolve the independence disclosure test and complete the exit rehearsal record.

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What this commit did to the running system — joined from the forge receipt chain, the part a commit page elsewhere cannot show.

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  • modified INVARIANTS.md
  • modified docs/forge-exit-rehearsals.md
  • modified docs/forge-operator-independence.md
  • modified ops/ci/allowed-sarah-references.txt
  • modified test/openagents/forge/independence_test.exs

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INVARIANTS.md modified +8 -24

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detectable. The first is about replay; the second is about detection, and
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neither substitutes for the other.
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A receipt also depends on no key, which is what makes it survive every key
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rotation this forge can perform. The chain link is unkeyed `sha256` and the
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verifier was compiled against no vault, no `OpenAgents.ApiTokens`, and no
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`OpenAgents.Reputation`; `test/openagents/forge/key_rotation_test.exs` asserts
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both, so a receipt cannot quietly acquire a key dependency. That proof is
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rehearsal 4 of `docs/forge-exit-rehearsals.md`, which had no executable proof
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before #180.
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Evidence: `OpenAgents.Forge.Verification`, `OpenAgents.Forge.WAL`,
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`OpenAgents.Forge.Repos`, `test/openagents/forge/independence_test.exs`, and
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`test/openagents/forge/key_rotation_test.exs`.
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`OpenAgents.Forge.Repos`, and `test/openagents/forge/independence_test.exs`.
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### EXIT-003 — Recovery comes from the WAL, and the mirror is strictly lossy
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which rebuilds this table from the WAL alone. The absence is the invariant
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holding, not an omission.
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Two operational facts bound the claim, and the first was stated wrongly here
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until #180's rehearsal 3 checked it against production. `:forge_mirror_urls` is
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empty in `config/config.exs`, but `config/runtime.exs` reads
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`OPENAGENTS_FORGE_MIRROR_URLS_JSON` and that variable is set in production: the
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live node reports one configured mirror, and `/status` publishes its freshness.
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A mirror runs. And `mirror_now/1` is a force push of every ref, so the
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configured mirror overwrites what direct pushes left there rather than merging
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with it, which matters more now than it did while the claim was that none ran.
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#188 carries both, together with the finding that the mirror currently holds
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307 commits of this repository's history the WAL never held — so for the
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pre-seed history the mirror is strictly *richer* rather than strictly lossy,
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which this invariant does not watch for and cannot detect, because nothing was
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added to the recovery path.
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Two operational facts bound the claim. `:forge_mirror_urls` is empty in
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`config/config.exs` and set by no environment, so no mirror runs today and
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GitHub holds whatever was last pushed to it directly, which is the trade
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`REPOSITORY-002` records. And `mirror_now/1` is a force push of every ref, so
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configuring a mirror overwrites what direct pushes left there rather than
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merging with it.
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Evidence: `OpenAgents.Forge.Sync`, `OpenAgents.Forge.Pushes`,
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`OpenAgents.Forge.PushReceipt`, `OpenAgents.Forge.Verification`, and

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| REPOSITORY-002 | `ops/ci/push-remote-check.sh`, `ops/dev/install-push-guard.sh`, `test/openagents/push_remote_contract_test.exs` |
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| REPOSITORY-003 | `test/openagents/forge/wal_replay_test.exs`, `test/openagents/forge/sync_test.exs`, `test/openagents/forge/independence_test.exs` |
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| EXIT-001 | `test/openagents/data_rights/export_inventory_test.exs`, `test/openagents/data_rights/account_export_test.exs` |
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| EXIT-002 | `test/openagents/forge/independence_test.exs`, `test/openagents/forge/key_rotation_test.exs` |
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| EXIT-002 | `test/openagents/forge/independence_test.exs` |
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| EXIT-003 | `test/openagents/forge/independence_test.exs` |
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| EXIT-004 | `test/openagents/forge/independence_test.exs` |
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| EXIT-005 | `test/openagents/forge/independence_test.exs`, `test/openagents/forge/wal_test.exs`, `test/openagents/forge/git_http_test.exs`, `test/openagents_web/controllers/push_receipt_controller_test.exs`, `test/openagents_web/controllers/forge_anchor_controller_test.exs` |
docs/forge-exit-rehearsals.md modified +14 -324

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| Rehearsal | Executable proof | Performed against the live forge |
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| --- | --- | --- |
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| 1. Restore a repository and its work history | `EXIT-004`, `EXIT-001` | 2026-08-23 — **failed**, #179; re-run 2026-08-24 — **still failed**, #187 |
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| 2. Detect a forged, missing, reordered, or mismatched receipt | `EXIT-002`, `EXIT-005` | 2026-08-24 — **performed, and the result is worse than a failure**: #187, #190 |
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| 3. Mirror divergence | `EXIT-003` | 2026-08-24 — **performed, failed**: #188, #189 |
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| 4. Key rotation | `test/openagents/forge/key_rotation_test.exs` | 2026-08-24 — **performed, partly failed**: #191, #192 |
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| 5. Operator loss | `EXIT-003` | 2026-08-24 — **performed as far as it can be**; the blocking half is named below |
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| 6. Partial export | `EXIT-001` | 2026-08-24 — **performed, failed**: #187 |
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All six have now been run against the live forge. Five of them found something,
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and one finding is common to three of them: `main` is 57 commits ahead of the
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deployed revision `6d421b3c7ffe`, and the exit surfaces #94 audits are all in
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those 57 commits. #187 carries that.
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The general lesson is the one #179 already taught, now with five more
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instances. Every invariant `EXIT-001` through `EXIT-006` was green throughout,
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because each runs against a forge the test process builds. A rehearsal runs
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against the forge people use, and that is the entire difference.
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| 1. Restore a repository and its work history | `EXIT-004`, `EXIT-001` | 2026-08-23 — **failed**, see #179 |
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| 2. Detect a forged, missing, reordered, or mismatched receipt | `EXIT-002`, `EXIT-005` | No |
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| 3. Mirror divergence | `EXIT-003` | No |
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| 4. Key rotation | None | No |
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| 5. Operator loss | `EXIT-003` | No |
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| 6. Partial export | `EXIT-001` | No |
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Five of the six have never been run outside the test suite, which #180 carries.
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That is the honest state, and the one that was run failed.
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## 1. Restore a repository and its bounded work history
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`OpenAgents.Forge.Sync` reconciles the graft against the objects a projection
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actually holds, so a repository that cannot be walked repairs itself from the
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WAL. The pre-seed history remains outside this forge and is not recoverable
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from it.
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### Re-run, 2026-08-24
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**Step 1 failed again, and it will keep failing until a release is promoted.**
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The repair is on `main`; the live forge runs `6d421b3c7ffe`, which predates
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it. Verbatim:
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$ git clone https://openagents.com/OpenAgentsInc/openagents.com.git restored
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Cloning into 'restored'...
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remote: error: Could not read c91327d60c520d11133ddcc6cb3304784f2f0481
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remote: fatal: Failed to traverse parents of commit eda094c6ae9f100060b96cd93bad9e4ecd117e94
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remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
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fatal: early EOF
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fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
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Four of the five branches #179 recorded still fail at depth 2:
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`codex/github-backed-repositories`, `codex/posthog-integration`,
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`components-gallery`, and `repos-ui`. `codex/admin-posthog-analytics` now
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succeeds, because something pushed across its boundary in the interval.
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**One sentence of #179's diagnosis is wrong, and rehearsal 2 is what found
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it.** #179 says the seed "was written before WAL entries carried a `shallow`
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key. The log therefore records no boundary." The live WAL says otherwise. Its
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seq 0 entry carries a `shallow` key naming five boundary commits, `eda094c6`
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among them, and the served projection has no `shallow` file at all:
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```
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The log holds the boundary; the projection does not. The deployed replay does
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`6d421b3c7ffe` — but only while applying an entry, and this cache was
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rewrite it. So the repair `main` carries is the right one, and the reason it is
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needed is a stale projection rather than a silent log.
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the WAL, so the repository becomes cloneable, with history that honestly stops
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at the boundary. The 307 pre-seed commits are not in the WAL and are not
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recoverable from it. See rehearsal 3 for where they are.
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## 2. Detect a forged, missing, reordered, or mismatched receipt
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   A rewritten prefix reports `anchor_mismatch`. Without the anchor argument
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   the same log reports clean, which is the whole point of publishing one.
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### Result, 2026-08-24
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`docker exec openagents /app/bin/openagents rpc`. Steps 1 and 2 ran. Step 3
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could not.
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**Step 1 does not work as written.** The rehearsal says `{storage_key}` and the
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           findings: [%{code: "wal_unreadable", detail: %{"reason" => ":not_found"}}]}}
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`wal_unreadable` is what a verifier says when the write-ahead log is gone. The
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a stale bare repository sits under the name holding one ref at a commit `main`
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passed long ago. Filed as #190.
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**Step 2 reports clean on a repository that cannot be cloned.**
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Zero findings, at the same hour a full clone of that repository aborts. This is
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the sharpest available statement of why rehearsals exist. The deployed verifier
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checks that every ref tip resolves, and every ref tip does; it does not walk
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amendment on `main`. A green verifier and an unservable repository, at the same
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moment, on the same node.
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document it proves cannot be downloaded from the forge it describes.
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rehearsal was being performed, so the route now accepts an `age` recipient and
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returns a document encrypted to a key the operator does not hold. That widens
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## What these rehearsals do not cover
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- **Attribution of operator reads.** No operator read is audited, so no
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`docs/forge-exit-rehearsals.md` defines six rehearsals — restore, receipt
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verification, mirror divergence, key rotation, operator loss, and partial
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export — with what each proves, what it cannot, and whether anyone has run it.
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something. The restore rehearsal found that a full clone of this repository
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aborts on a missing object (#179); the receipt rehearsal found that the
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verifier reports zero findings on that same repository at the same hour, and
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that no entry in the live log carries the chain link `EXIT-005` describes; the
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mirror rehearsal found a configured mirror two contracts said did not exist,
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and 307 commits that live only on it (#188); the rotation rehearsal found two
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key families that lose data or history when rotated (#191, #192); and the
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this repository at all, and says so.
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against a forge the test process builds; a rehearsal runs against the forge
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people use, and that is the entire difference.
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was run against the live forge failed: a full clone of this repository aborts
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| The published WAL anchor is served by the operator and witnessed by nobody, so a consistent rewrite is caught only by a reader who kept a copy | #151 |
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| No column is encrypted at rest, so the operator reads the source every export is built from | #193 |
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