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candor_classify/
policy.rs

1//! The canonical CANDOR_POLICY DSL parser (candor-spec SPEC §6.2).
2//!
3//! This is the **single** Rust implementation of the policy grammar — shared by the nightly dylint
4//! gate (`src/lib.rs`, AS-EFF-006/008/009) and the stable `candor-query` (`whatif`, and the
5//! `parsepolicy` dump the cross-impl conformance suite diffs against the JVM engine). Keeping one
6//! parser here is what makes "the gate means the same thing in every language" a fact rather than a
7//! hope: the Rust gate, the Rust pre-edit tool, and the cross-impl differential all read THIS code.
8//!
9//! Pure, stable Rust (string parsing only — no rustc types), so it lives beside the classifier.
10
11use crate::cap_from_name;
12use std::collections::{BTreeMap, BTreeSet};
13
14/// The honesty marker (SPEC §4). Denyable so `deny Unknown <scope>` forbids the *unverifiable* case.
15pub const UNKNOWN: &str = "Unknown";
16
17/// The NORMATIVE projection of a raw `unknown_why` reason onto a fixed, cross-engine reason CLASS
18/// (candor-spec REASON-SCOPED-UNKNOWN-DESIGN.md §1). Reason-scoped policies (`deny E Unknown[class]`)
19/// quantify over these classes, so the mapping MUST be identical in every engine — this mirrors the
20/// java reference `ReasonClass` (its `classify(String)` path, since rust emits raw string reasons). The
21/// class set is CLOSED (six members); a raw reason matching no pinned prefix maps to `Unresolved` —
22/// conservative: it stays in scope of any `Unknown[*]` / `Unknown[dynamic]` policy, never silently
23/// tolerated.
24#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash)]
25pub enum ReasonClass {
26    /// reflection / metaprogramming
27    Reflect,
28    /// unresolved virtual/dynamic dispatch, same-name ambiguity, invokedynamic
29    Dispatch,
30    /// callback / closure / function-value / async-continuation indirection
31    Indirect,
32    /// FFI / native boundary
33    Native,
34    /// generic unresolvable call/import, AND the catch-all for any unrecognized raw reason
35    Unresolved,
36    /// analysis not wired up (fixable, not a real dynamic hole): missing-config / no-tsconfig
37    Setup,
38}
39
40impl ReasonClass {
41    /// The lowercase policy-facing token (`deny E Unknown[<token>]`).
42    pub fn token(self) -> &'static str {
43        match self {
44            ReasonClass::Reflect => "reflect",
45            ReasonClass::Dispatch => "dispatch",
46            ReasonClass::Indirect => "indirect",
47            ReasonClass::Native => "native",
48            ReasonClass::Unresolved => "unresolved",
49            ReasonClass::Setup => "setup",
50        }
51    }
52
53    /// Parse a policy-facing token back to a class; `None` if it names no class.
54    pub fn from_token(t: &str) -> Option<ReasonClass> {
55        Some(match t {
56            "reflect" => ReasonClass::Reflect,
57            "dispatch" => ReasonClass::Dispatch,
58            "indirect" => ReasonClass::Indirect,
59            "native" => ReasonClass::Native,
60            "unresolved" => ReasonClass::Unresolved,
61            "setup" => ReasonClass::Setup,
62            _ => return None,
63        })
64    }
65
66    /// Map a raw `unknown_why` reason to its normative class — prefix-based (raw reasons carry a
67    /// `kind:detail` shape, e.g. `dispatch:foo::Bar`), unrecognized → `Unresolved`. Byte-identical
68    /// intent to the java `ReasonClass.classify(String)`.
69    ///
70    /// ⟨0.24⟩ THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE THIS ENGINE HOLDS SPEC §4's KIND VOCABULARY. Every other reference
71    /// to a kind is either a raw string being emitted or the `dispatch:` prefix test in candor-query's
72    /// dispatch frontier; there is no typed kind enum here. §4's "AN ENGINE HOLDS THIS VOCABULARY TWICE,
73    /// AND THE HALVES DRIFT" paragraph records the JVM engine classifying `ambiguous` correctly HERE
74    /// while its typed `Kind` enum lacked the kind entirely — one token, two answers, inside one engine,
75    /// concealed precisely because this half was right. Holding it once is why that is not reachable in
76    /// this engine; a future typed representation must be added at the same commit as its control
77    /// (`off_vocabulary_kinds_round_trip_and_classify_through_the_catch_all`).
78    ///
79    /// The five §4 kinds are `reflect`/`native`/`dispatch`/`callback`/`ambiguous`. `ambiguous` maps to
80    /// `dispatch` and rust is its only PRODUCER; `indy`/`task-handoff` are candor-java's migration kinds
81    /// and `dep:`/`dep-stale:` are swift's registered per-dependency-ENTRY kinds, reaching `Unresolved`
82    /// through the catch-all, which is the class §6.2 prescribes for them.
83    pub fn classify(why: &str) -> ReasonClass {
84        let w = why.trim().to_ascii_lowercase();
85        if w.starts_with("reflect") || w == "dynamicmemberlookup" {
86            ReasonClass::Reflect
87        } else if w.starts_with("native") {
88            ReasonClass::Native
89        } else if w.starts_with("callback") || w.starts_with("closure") || w.starts_with("task-handoff") {
90            ReasonClass::Indirect
91        } else if w.starts_with("dispatch") || w.starts_with("indy") || w.starts_with("ambiguous") {
92            ReasonClass::Dispatch
93        } else if w.starts_with("missing-config") || w.starts_with("no-tsconfig") || w.starts_with("no-node_modules") {
94            ReasonClass::Setup
95        } else {
96            ReasonClass::Unresolved
97        }
98    }
99
100    /// The `dynamic` alias — every GENUINE blind-spot class (excludes `setup`), incl. `unresolved` (the
101    /// catch-all) so `Unknown[dynamic]` never under-gates. The design's recommended usable strict gate.
102    pub fn dynamic_set() -> BTreeSet<ReasonClass> {
103        [
104            ReasonClass::Reflect,
105            ReasonClass::Dispatch,
106            ReasonClass::Indirect,
107            ReasonClass::Native,
108            ReasonClass::Unresolved,
109        ]
110        .into_iter()
111        .collect()
112    }
113}
114
115/// SPEC §6.2 ⟨0.24⟩ — does a function's TRANSITIVE reason-class set intersect `want` (class tokens)?
116///
117/// THE `None`/EMPTY ARM IS THE FAIL-CLOSED NET, and it is why this lives here rather than being
118/// open-coded twice. §6.2: "a function whose `Unknown` carries no recorded reason CONTRIBUTES
119/// `unresolved` to its class set — so a narrowed filter never *silently* tolerates a hole it failed to
120/// classify." Read the other way round, `!contains ⇒ exclude` over an empty set drops the entry from
121/// EVERY filter including one naming its own class: a silent under-report wearing a filter.
122///
123/// `classes` is the ACCUMULATED (post-`propagate_str`) set, never the direct `unknownWhy`: a reason
124/// names a site in the function's OWN body (§4), so a function whose `Unknown` is purely inherited
125/// carries none, and matching against the direct field answers a different question. SHARED by the
126/// `deny E Unknown[class]` gate (candor-scan) and `unverified --class` (candor-query) so a gate and the
127/// disclosure explaining it cannot disagree about which holes a class names.
128///
129/// The empty arm is a NET, not a route: it keys on the ABSENCE of a class set, so any other reason on
130/// the same function hides whatever it was covering. The reasonless case that CAN co-occur with a
131/// reason — a direct `Unknown` the unit did not name — must therefore contribute `unresolved` into the
132/// DIRECT map before propagation (candor-scan's `unknown_via_dep`, candor-query's report-side signature),
133/// not arrive here by absence.
134pub fn reason_class_matches(classes: Option<&BTreeSet<String>>, want: &BTreeSet<&str>) -> bool {
135    match classes {
136        None => want.contains(ReasonClass::Unresolved.token()),
137        Some(cs) if cs.is_empty() => want.contains(ReasonClass::Unresolved.token()),
138        Some(cs) => cs.iter().any(|t| want.contains(t.as_str())),
139    }
140}
141
142/// Parse `unknown-alias <name> = <class,…>` lines from `.candor/config` text (⟨0.19⟩, SPEC §6.2) into a
143/// name→classes map. A name that shadows a built-in (`*`/`dynamic`/a class token) is warned-and-skipped (a
144/// config alias may not redefine a built-in), as is a definition naming no valid class. Byte-shape with the
145/// java reference `Config.addAlias`.
146pub fn parse_unknown_aliases(config_text: &str) -> std::collections::BTreeMap<String, BTreeSet<ReasonClass>> {
147    let mut out = std::collections::BTreeMap::new();
148    for raw in config_text.lines() {
149        let line = raw.split('#').next().unwrap_or("").trim();
150        if line.is_empty() {
151            continue;
152        }
153        let mut it = line.splitn(2, char::is_whitespace);
154        // Case-INSENSITIVE key match, like the config loaders in java/ts/swift (which lowercase the key) —
155        // a case-sensitive match here made `Unknown-Alias …` define an alias everywhere BUT rust (a four-way
156        // parse divergence; caught in review). The rest of the line (name + classes) stays case-sensitive.
157        if !it.next().is_some_and(|k| k.eq_ignore_ascii_case("unknown-alias")) {
158            continue;
159        }
160        let val = it.next().unwrap_or("").trim();
161        let Some((name, classes)) = val.split_once('=') else {
162            eprintln!("candor: ignoring `unknown-alias` (want `unknown-alias <name> = <class,…>`): {val}");
163            continue;
164        };
165        let name = name.trim();
166        if name.is_empty() || name == "*" || name == "dynamic" || ReasonClass::from_token(name).is_some() {
167            eprintln!("candor: ignoring `unknown-alias` with reserved/empty name `{name}` (may not shadow `*`/`dynamic`/a class token)");
168            continue;
169        }
170        let mut set = BTreeSet::new();
171        let mut bad: Vec<&str> = Vec::new();
172        for cn in classes.split(',') {
173            let cn = cn.trim();
174            if cn.is_empty() {
175                continue;
176            }
177            if cn == "dynamic" {
178                set.extend(ReasonClass::dynamic_set());
179            } else if let Some(rc) = ReasonClass::from_token(cn) {
180                set.insert(rc);
181            } else {
182                bad.push(cn);
183            }
184        }
185        // ⟨0.24⟩ **AN UNRECOGNISED TOKEN REFUSES THE WHOLE DEFINITION** — SPEC §6.2 `be0b9a9`: the rule
186        // binds every policy value list, and *"the second is the sharper one: the typo is in the
187        // vocabulary the policy is written against rather than in the policy itself, and it fails open
188        // identically."*
189        //
190        // MEASURED: `unknown-alias corp = dispatch,nativ` → the DEFINITION silently became `{dispatch}`,
191        // so `deny Unknown[corp]` exited 0 over a native-caused hole that `= dispatch,native` catches.
192        // The alias resolved, `used_aliases` recorded it, the verdict named the config — every disclosure
193        // fired correctly ABOUT A DEFINITION THAT WAS NOT THE ONE ON DISK.
194        //
195        // REFUSING THE DEFINITION rather than minting a new error channel is what makes this fit: an
196        // alias that does not exist is one the policy's own `Unknown[<name>]` cannot resolve, so it lands
197        // on the `errors` path already there and the gate routes refuse with exit 2 — naming the token
198        // AND the accepted set, as §6.2 requires. It also keeps the blast radius honest: a config
199        // defining ten aliases, one of them typo'd and NONE of them mentioned by this policy, changed
200        // nothing, and turning that into a red gate would be the mirror over-reach. The refusal is
201        // triggered by USE, exactly like `used_aliases` (recorded at the point of use, for the same
202        // reason).
203        if !bad.is_empty() {
204            eprintln!(
205                "candor: REFUSING `unknown-alias {name}` — it names unrecognised reason-class(es) `{}` \
206                 (accepted: reflect, dispatch, indirect, native, unresolved, setup, plus `dynamic`). The \
207                 definition is refused WHOLE rather than narrowed to the tokens that parsed: keeping the \
208                 rest would silently redefine `{name}` as something narrower than the config says, and a \
209                 policy using it would gate less than it reads. `{name}` is now undefined, so a policy \
210                 naming it is a policy error (exit 2).",
211                bad.join("`, `")
212            );
213        } else if set.is_empty() {
214            eprintln!("candor: ignoring `unknown-alias {name}` — no valid reason-class");
215        } else {
216            out.insert(name.to_string(), set);
217        }
218    }
219    out
220}
221
222/// ⟨0.20⟩ Parse `net-partner <host>` lines from `.candor/config` (NET-DESTINATION-CLASS-DESIGN.md): the
223/// per-project set of business-partner hosts the `Net` destination-class classifier treats as
224/// `known-partner`. Multi-value (repeatable key); the value is host-normalized (`:port` stripped,
225/// lowercased) like `MODEL_HOSTS`. Case-insensitive key match, mirroring `parse_unknown_aliases` + the
226/// java/ts/swift config loaders. A partner is per-project — never a universal list.
227pub fn parse_net_partners(config_text: &str) -> BTreeSet<String> {
228    let mut out = BTreeSet::new();
229    for raw in config_text.lines() {
230        let line = raw.split('#').next().unwrap_or("").trim();
231        if line.is_empty() {
232            continue;
233        }
234        let mut it = line.splitn(2, char::is_whitespace);
235        if !it.next().is_some_and(|k| k.eq_ignore_ascii_case("net-partner")) {
236            continue;
237        }
238        let val = it.next().unwrap_or("").trim();
239        if val.is_empty() {
240            continue;
241        }
242        // ⟨0.29⟩ A MALFORMED VALUE IS DISCLOSED, NOT SILENTLY KEPT AS JUNK. The grammar is
243        // `net-partner <host>`; the `=` spelling an operator reaches for by habit
244        // (`net-partner = partner.example`) parsed as the HOST `"= partner.example"`, which entered the
245        // set and matched nothing for the rest of the run. The direction is SAFE — the gate stays armed,
246        // so nothing is certified that should not be — which is precisely why it sat unnoticed: the
247        // operator believes a partner is declared, the verdict disagrees, and no line connects the two.
248        // ⟨0.28⟩ gave POLICY files an `ignored` block for exactly this; config files had none.
249        if val.contains(char::is_whitespace) || val.starts_with('=') {
250            eprintln!(
251                "candor: net-partner takes a bare host — `net-partner <host>`, one per line; \
252                 '{val}' is not one and was IGNORED (an '=' or extra words is the usual cause) — {}",
253                raw.trim()
254            );
255            continue;
256        }
257        out.insert(host_part(val).to_ascii_lowercase());
258    }
259    out
260}
261
262/// Discover `.candor/config` text for a policy/scan anchored at `start`: `$CANDOR_CONFIG` if set + readable,
263/// else the nearest `.candor/config` walking UP from `start`, else `None`. Read-only + lenient (no
264/// process-exit — the caller decides fail-closed); used to resolve `unknown-alias` for the §6.2 gate +
265/// `parsepolicy` so both reflect the same checked-in config.
266pub fn discover_config_text(start: &std::path::Path) -> Option<String> {
267    discover_config(start).map(|(_, t)| t)
268}
269
270/// THE RUNNING BINARY'S REFUSAL WRITER, registered by whichever entry armed a sink.
271///
272/// (These paragraphs once sat ABOVE this static while documenting `discover_config`, which is below it —
273/// so rustdoc rendered that function's path/canonicalization rationale as a description of this hook.
274/// They now live on the item they describe: a doc block belongs to the next item, and separating it with
275/// a blank line is not a fix — clippy's `empty_line_after_doc_comments` rejects that, and CI said so.)
276///
277/// [`discover_config`] is SHARED and sits BELOW every gate sink, so its `exit(2)` for an unreadable
278/// config could not write the refusal document `--gate-json` was promised. Measured: on the `gate`
279/// verb route an unreadable `CANDOR_CONFIG` exited 2 with an EMPTY stream in candor-scan and
280/// candor-ts while candor-java and candor-swift wrote the refusal. The FILE sink was covered — the
281/// armed placeholder survives an exit that writes nothing — so only the stream, which cannot be
282/// pre-armed, was exposed.
283///
284/// NOT registered at startup: `set_refusal_sink` is called by the gate entries that arm a sink, so a
285/// process that never arms one still exits 2 plainly. The comment inside `discover_config` already
286/// records this cause being fixed once, for the EXIT
287/// CODE: the scan route refused and the query route did not. That fix stopped at the exit code and
288/// left the machine channel, which is exactly the split conformance PART 35 and PART 36 exist to
289/// keep apart. A hook rather than a Result because every caller of this function wants the same
290/// answer — refuse through whatever sink this process armed — and threading a new error type through
291/// all of them would create the second copy of a rule that this project keeps getting bitten by.
292static REFUSAL_SINK: std::sync::OnceLock<fn(&str) -> !> = std::sync::OnceLock::new();
293
294/// Register the process's refusal writer. Idempotent; the first registration wins.
295pub fn set_refusal_sink(f: fn(&str) -> !) {
296    let _ = REFUSAL_SINK.set(f);
297}
298
299/// Exit 2 through the registered sink when there is one, and plainly when there is not — a library
300/// consumer that never armed a sink must still get the documented exit code.
301fn refuse_unevaluable(reason: &str) -> ! {
302    if let Some(f) = REFUSAL_SINK.get() {
303        f(reason)
304    }
305    std::process::exit(2)
306}
307
308/// ⟨0.24⟩ As [`discover_config_text`], but ALSO the PATH the text came from, canonicalized.
309///
310/// **WHY THE PATH IS NOW LOAD-BEARING** (SPEC §3.1): a `.candor/config` supplying `unknown-alias`
311/// vocabulary can move a verdict 0→1, and discovery walks PARENT DIRECTORIES, so a file anywhere above
312/// the policy participates — ambient, and until now invisible in the output. *"A verdict changed by a
313/// file the operator cannot see named in the output is the ambient-input failure this whole format
314/// exists to refuse; the remedy is the same one used everywhere else here — not to forbid the input, but
315/// to make it impossible for it to act unnamed."* So the gate document NAMES it, and the path has to
316/// travel out of discovery for that to be possible.
317///
318/// CANONICALIZED because the two routes reach the same file from different working directories, and
319/// §3.1's byte-equality MUST is about the DOCUMENT: a relative path would differ between them for no
320/// reason other than where each was invoked.
321pub fn discover_config(start: &std::path::Path) -> Option<(std::path::PathBuf, String)> {
322    let canon = |p: &std::path::Path| std::fs::canonicalize(p).unwrap_or_else(|_| p.to_path_buf());
323    // CONFIGURED-BUT-UNUSABLE FAILS LOUD, ON THIS ROUTE TOO. `.ok()` turned an unreadable config into
324    // "no config", so the run continued WITHOUT whatever it declared — a policy, a baseline, an engine
325    // pin, an `unknown-alias` vocabulary. The SCAN route already refuses; this QUERY route did not, so
326    // `gate --report R --policy P` with a broken CANDOR_CONFIG exited 1 here and 2 in java and ts on the
327    // same input. §3.4's posture does not vary by verb.
328    if let Ok(p) = std::env::var("CANDOR_CONFIG") {
329        let p = std::path::PathBuf::from(p);
330        match std::fs::read_to_string(&p) {
331            Ok(t) => return Some((canon(&p), t)),
332            Err(e) => {
333                eprintln!("candor: CANDOR_CONFIG set but {} could not be read ({e}) — failing (exit 2,", p.display());
334                eprintln!("        unevaluable). A config that cannot be read is a guard the operator believes is on.");
335                refuse_unevaluable(&format!("CANDOR_CONFIG set but {} could not be read ({e})", p.display()));
336            }
337        }
338    }
339    let start = canon(start);
340    let mut cur = if start.is_dir() { Some(start.as_path()) } else { start.parent() };
341    while let Some(d) = cur {
342        let cand = d.join(".candor/config");
343        if cand.is_file() {
344            match std::fs::read_to_string(&cand) {
345                Ok(t) => return Some((canon(&cand), t)),
346                Err(e) => {
347                    eprintln!("candor: {} exists but could not be read ({e}) — failing (exit 2,", cand.display());
348                    eprintln!("        unevaluable). Treating it as absent would run without what it declares.");
349                    refuse_unevaluable(&format!("{} exists but could not be read ({e})", cand.display()));
350                }
351            }
352        }
353        cur = d.parent();
354    }
355    None
356}
357
358/// One `deny <Effect…> [scope]` / `pure <scope>` rule (AS-EFF-006). `effects` empty ⇒ a `pure` rule
359/// (ANY effect forbidden). `scope` is a path segment-scope the rule applies to (None = whole unit).
360#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
361pub struct PolicyRule {
362    pub effects: BTreeSet<&'static str>,
363    pub scope: Option<String>,
364    /// Reason-class filter on an `Unknown` membership (REASON-SCOPED-UNKNOWN-DESIGN.md): empty ⇒
365    /// `Unknown[*]` (any reason — the bare form); non-empty ⇒ the Unknown hit fires ONLY for a fn whose
366    /// (transitive) reason classes include one of these. Ignored when `effects` doesn't contain `Unknown`.
367    pub unknown_classes: BTreeSet<ReasonClass>,
368    /// Destination-class filter on a `Net` membership (NET-DESTINATION-CLASS-DESIGN.md): empty ⇒ `Net[*]`
369    /// (any destination — the bare form); non-empty ⇒ the Net hit fires ONLY for a fn whose (transitive)
370    /// destination classes include one of these. Ignored when `effects` doesn't contain `Net`.
371    pub net_classes: BTreeSet<String>,
372    pub raw: String,
373}
374
375/// One `allow <Effect> [in <scope>] <literal>…` rule (AS-EFF-008). The effect is one of the four
376/// that carry a literal surface (`Net` hosts / `Exec` commands / `Fs` paths / `Db` tables); a
377/// function in `scope` performing it may reach ONLY the listed literals. Matching is
378/// effect-specific (`literal_allowed`).
379#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
380pub struct AllowRule {
381    pub effect: &'static str,
382    pub scope: Option<String>,
383    pub literals: BTreeSet<String>,
384    pub raw: String,
385}
386
387/// One `forbid <A> -> <B>` module-layering rule (AS-EFF-009): a function in scope `A` must not
388/// transitively call into scope `B`.
389#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
390pub struct LayerRule {
391    pub from: String,
392    pub to: String,
393    pub raw: String,
394}
395
396/// ⟨0.29⟩ One `only <A> -> <B> [<C> …]` PERMISSION rule (AS-EFF-011): a function in scope `A` may reach
397/// `A` itself and the listed scopes, and NOTHING else.
398///
399/// **`forbid` FAILS OPEN; `only` FAILS SAFE, and that is the whole reason the form exists.** A dependency
400/// you forgot to prohibit is silently permitted, so "this package is a leaf" can only be spelled by
401/// enumerating what it must not reach — a list that does not cover a package added later, and nothing says
402/// so. That is the allowlist hazard this project refuses everywhere in the analysis, living in the POLICY
403/// LANGUAGE instead. Under `only`, a dependency you forgot to permit is a loud violation.
404///
405/// Found by pointing candor's own architecture gate at candor: the natural
406/// `forbid io.poly.candor.model -> io.poly.candor` SELF-FIRES at 58 violations, because a scope matches a
407/// contiguous run of segments and `model` sits under the very prefix it is trying to protect itself from.
408///
409/// THE WALK STOPS AT A PERMITTED SCOPE, and that is a semantic decision rather than an optimisation: a
410/// permitted callee's own dependencies are governed by the rules about IT, not by this one. Descending
411/// past it would make `only` require the transitive closure of everything you permit — which is the
412/// enumeration-that-rots this form exists to replace, one level down.
413#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
414pub struct OnlyRule {
415    /// The scope being constrained. It may always reach ITSELF: an explicit `A -> A` would be noise, and
416    /// without the implicit permission the form is unusable for exactly the case it exists for.
417    pub from: String,
418    /// The scopes `from` may reach. At least one — `only A ->` with nothing after the arrow is DROPPED as
419    /// malformed rather than read as "A may reach nothing at all", which is a different rule (and one a
420    /// reader is far more likely to have typed by accident than to have meant).
421    pub to: Vec<String>,
422    pub raw: String,
423}
424
425/// ⟨0.24⟩ ONE POLICY LINE THE PARSER DID NOT HONOUR AS WRITTEN (SPEC §3.1 `901f14d` / `195d45a`).
426///
427/// **THE DEFECT.** `parsepolicy` emitted **no `errors` key at all** (measured 2026-07-28 on the
428/// conformance battery: java 10, ts 4, rust 0, swift 0). Every one of these facts existed — they were
429/// printed to stderr as "ignoring policy rule …" — so the verb whose entire purpose is to let a consumer
430/// diff what an engine made of a policy answered the question with the not-honoured half deleted. Worse,
431/// it was INCONSISTENT with this engine's own gate: the gate refuses an unrecognised class token while
432/// the parse narrowed it silently, which is two answers to one question.
433///
434/// **`kind` IS A CLOSED SET, AND IT IS THE SPEC'S, NOT THE REFERENCE ENGINE'S.** `901f14d` pins four
435/// values: `reason-class/alias`, `Net destination-class`, `effect-name`, `rule-kind`. Measured, candor-java
436/// emits `forbid form`, `allow values` and `rule kind` (space, not hyphen) — three values outside the set
437/// and one spelling divergence — and candor-ts renames `kind`→`vocabulary` and `rule`→`where` and emits
438/// `accepted` as a PROSE STRING. This engine follows the clause: a line that names a rule keyword but does
439/// not form that keyword's rule formed no rule kind, so it is `rule-kind`.
440///
441/// `accepted` is an ARRAY OF TOKENS — the tokens that WOULD have been honoured in the position the bad one
442/// occupies. Empty where the position is open-ended (a host, a path), which is a fact about the grammar
443/// rather than a gap in the report.
444#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
445pub struct PolicyError {
446    /// One of [`PolicyError::KIND_REASON_CLASS`], [`PolicyError::KIND_NET_CLASS`],
447    /// [`PolicyError::KIND_EFFECT_NAME`], [`PolicyError::KIND_RULE_KIND`].
448    pub kind: &'static str,
449    /// The offending token, verbatim. Empty when the position was EMPTY (a missing arrow, an `allow` with
450    /// no values) — which is itself the finding.
451    pub token: String,
452    /// The tokens accepted in that position. Empty ⇒ the position takes an open-ended literal.
453    pub accepted: Vec<String>,
454    /// The raw policy line, verbatim.
455    pub rule: String,
456    /// The human sentence — the same text the stderr channel carries, so the two cannot disagree.
457    pub message: String,
458    /// ⟨0.28⟩ The 1-based SOURCE LINE the error sits on — SPEC §6.2 pins the verdict's `ignored`
459    /// disclosure as `[{ line, text, reason }]`, and a consumer's next action is to go to that line.
460    /// Counted over the normalized text (bare `\r` line breaks count like `\n`, matching the split).
461    pub line: usize,
462    /// ⟨0.28⟩ The source line VERBATIM — before comment-stripping and trimming, unlike `rule`, because
463    /// §6.2's `text` is "the source line, verbatim" and the operator matches it against their file.
464    pub text: String,
465    /// ⟨0.24⟩ Does this error make the policy UNHONOURABLE, so every gate route must refuse (exit 2)?
466    ///
467    /// FATAL and REPORTED are different questions and this field is the only place they are told apart.
468    /// A dropped `nonsense line` is reported and survivable — the rest of the policy means what it says.
469    /// A rewritten `deny Unknown[dispatch,nativ]` is not: the rule that RAN is not the rule that was
470    /// written, and the direction that matters NARROWS it.
471    pub fatal: bool,
472}
473
474impl PolicyError {
475    pub const KIND_REASON_CLASS: &'static str = "reason-class/alias";
476    pub const KIND_NET_CLASS: &'static str = "Net destination-class";
477    pub const KIND_EFFECT_NAME: &'static str = "effect-name";
478    pub const KIND_RULE_KIND: &'static str = "rule-kind";
479}
480
481/// The rule kinds parsed from a CANDOR_POLICY file.
482#[derive(Default, Debug)]
483pub struct ParsedPolicy {
484    pub rules: Vec<PolicyRule>,
485    pub allow_rules: Vec<AllowRule>,
486    pub layer_rules: Vec<LayerRule>,
487    /// ⟨0.29⟩ the `only <A> -> <B> …` permission rules — see [`OnlyRule`]. Kept in their own list rather
488    /// than folded into `layer_rules` because the two read OPPOSITE ways: a `forbid` names what must not
489    /// happen, an `only` names the complete set of what may, so a route that handled one as the other
490    /// would inverse the verdict rather than approximate it.
491    pub only_rules: Vec<OnlyRule>,
492    /// ⟨0.24⟩ POLICY ERRORS — a policy that cannot be honoured AS WRITTEN (SPEC §6.2). Non-empty ⇒ every
493    /// gate route MUST refuse: exit 2, the unreadable-policy posture. Not a warning list: the rules in
494    /// `rules` are what the text would mean if the error were tolerated, and tolerating it is the defect.
495    ///
496    /// Today the only member is an unrecognised reason-class/alias token in an `Unknown[…]` filter. The
497    /// asymmetry that used to justify a warning — "a dropped policy token leaves a WIDER rule standing,
498    /// so the failure is loud" — is false in the case that matters, and the false half is FAIL-OPEN:
499    ///
500    ///   - `deny Unknown[corp]` (sole unrecognised token) — the filter empties and the rule WIDENS to a
501    ///     bare `deny Unknown`, while the engine prints "ignoring policy rule" and then KEEPS and
502    ///     re-scopes it. Merely surprising, but a FALSE DISCLOSURE.
503    ///   - `deny Unknown[dispatch,nativ]` (a typo BESIDE valid tokens) — the token is dropped, the rule
504    ///     NARROWS to `[dispatch]`, and it stops gating native-caused holes entirely while the operator
505    ///     reads a gate that looks armed. **That is the fail-open, and it is the common case: a typo
506    ///     lands beside correct tokens far more often than alone.**
507    ///
508    /// A policy that cannot be honoured as written is not silently rewritten into a different policy.
509    ///
510    /// ⟨0.24⟩ THIS LIST NOW HOLDS EVERY LINE THE PARSER DID NOT HONOUR, fatal or not (SPEC §3.1
511    /// `195d45a`) — `parsepolicy` reports them all, and the gate routes refuse on
512    /// [`ParsedPolicy::fatal_messages`] alone. Widening the LIST without widening what REFUSES is the
513    /// whole of the change: a dropped `nonsense line` was always survivable and stays so.
514    pub errors: Vec<PolicyError>,
515    /// ⟨0.24⟩ The `.candor/config` `unknown-alias` definitions this policy actually resolved a token
516    /// through (SPEC §3.1) — **name → the reason-class TOKENS it expanded to**, not a bare name list.
517    /// Non-empty ⇒ a config file supplied vocabulary that PARTICIPATED in the verdict, and the
518    /// `--gate-json` document MUST name that file. Recorded at the point of USE, not from the alias map:
519    /// a config defining ten aliases none of which the policy mentions changed nothing, and naming it
520    /// would train the reader to ignore the field.
521    ///
522    /// ⟨0.24⟩ **THE VALUE TRAVELS WITH THE NAME, AND THAT IS A SPEC MUST** (§3.1, candor-spec `7f5b5ba`).
523    /// This engine shipped the bare name — as did java and swift — and candor-ts kept the map and won the
524    /// argument from the clause's OWN sentence: `configSources: [path]` is rejected there because *a
525    /// disclosure that names the source but not the content leaves the reader knowing they were affected
526    /// and not how*, and `["corp"]` fails that same test one level down. **`corp = reflect` and
527    /// `corp = reflect,native` gate DIFFERENTLY under one unchanged policy line**, so a reader given only
528    /// the name cannot tell which gate ran. The map is a strict superset — the keys recover the old array.
529    ///
530    /// Class TOKENS rather than `ReasonClass`, so the wire order is the token's alphabetical one (which
531    /// is what candor-ts's `[...set].sort()` produces) and not `ReasonClass`'s declaration order.
532    pub used_aliases: BTreeMap<String, BTreeSet<String>>,
533}
534
535impl ParsedPolicy {
536    /// ⟨0.24⟩ The messages of the errors that make the policy UNHONOURABLE — what every gate route
537    /// refuses on. Non-empty ⇒ exit 2, the unreadable-policy posture.
538    ///
539    /// Separate from `errors` because REPORTED and FATAL are different questions, and conflating them in
540    /// either direction is a defect: refusing on every dropped line would make `nonsense line` fail a
541    /// build, and reporting only the fatal ones is the silent narrowing this rung exists to close.
542    pub fn fatal_messages(&self) -> Vec<&str> {
543        self.errors.iter().filter(|e| e.fatal).map(|e| e.message.as_str()).collect()
544    }
545}
546
547/// The hostname part of a `host[:port]` literal, port stripped — so `api.stripe.com` in a rule accepts
548/// a reached `api.stripe.com:443`. IPv6-aware: a bracketed `[host]:port` yields the bracketed host, and
549/// a BARE IPv6 literal (>1 colon, no brackets) has no port to strip and is returned whole — a naive
550/// first-colon split collapsed every `2001:db8::*` to `2001`, so one allowed IPv6 accepted any address
551/// in that block (/code-review). A hostname/IPv4 `host` or `host:port` (≤1 colon) splits at the colon.
552pub fn host_part(h: &str) -> &str {
553    if let Some(rest) = h.strip_prefix('[') {
554        // `[ipv6]` or `[ipv6]:port` — the host is between the brackets.
555        return rest.split(']').next().unwrap_or(rest);
556    }
557    if h.matches(':').count() > 1 {
558        return h; // bare IPv6 literal — no port suffix to strip
559    }
560    h.split(':').next().unwrap_or(h)
561}
562
563/// The basename of a command (`/usr/bin/git` → `git`), so `allow Exec … git` accepts an absolute path.
564pub fn cmd_base(c: &str) -> &str {
565    c.rsplit(['/', '\\']).next().unwrap_or(c)
566}
567
568/// Whether an allowed path `a` covers a reached path `r` (SPEC §6.2: path-boundary-respecting prefix).
569/// A directory covers itself and everything beneath it, but NOT a sibling sharing a textual prefix
570/// (`/etc/app` ⊉ `/etc/apppwned`); a `..` that climbs out is never covered; absolute/relative are
571/// never conflated.
572pub fn fs_path_covered(a: &str, r: &str) -> bool {
573    if r.split(['/', '\\']).any(|c| c == "..") {
574        return false;
575    }
576    let absolute = |s: &str| s.starts_with('/') || s.starts_with('\\');
577    if absolute(a) != absolute(r) {
578        return false;
579    }
580    let norm = |s: &str| -> Vec<String> {
581        s.split(['/', '\\'])
582            .filter(|c| !c.is_empty() && *c != ".")
583            .map(|c| c.to_string())
584            .collect()
585    };
586    let (ac, rc) = (norm(a), norm(r));
587    ac.len() <= rc.len() && ac.iter().zip(&rc).all(|(x, y)| x == y)
588}
589
590/// Whether an allowed table entry `a` covers a reached table `r` (SPEC §6.2): case-insensitive
591/// exact match on the (possibly schema-qualified) name, or a `schema.*` entry covering every table
592/// in that schema. Strict on qualification — an allowed `entries` does NOT cover a reached
593/// `ledger.entries` (write both forms if your queries mix them); silent widening is the failure
594/// mode an allowlist exists to prevent.
595pub fn db_table_covered(a: &str, r: &str) -> bool {
596    let (a, r) = (a.to_lowercase(), r.to_lowercase());
597    if let Some(schema) = a.strip_suffix(".*") {
598        return r.strip_prefix(schema).is_some_and(|rest| rest.starts_with('.'));
599    }
600    a == r
601}
602
603/// Whether a reached literal is allowed under an effect-specific match (SPEC §6.2): `Net` host by
604/// name (port ignored), `Exec` command by basename, `Fs` path by boundary-respecting prefix,
605/// `Db` table by qualified name or `schema.*`.
606pub fn literal_allowed(effect: &str, reached: &str, allow: &BTreeSet<String>) -> bool {
607    match effect {
608        // `Llm` ⟨0.13⟩ rides the Net host literal (SPEC §1) — matched by hostname like `Net`.
609        "Net" | "Llm" => allow.iter().any(|a| host_part(a) == host_part(reached)),
610        "Exec" => allow.iter().any(|a| cmd_base(a) == cmd_base(reached)),
611        "Fs" => allow.iter().any(|a| fs_path_covered(a, reached)),
612        "Db" => allow.iter().any(|a| db_table_covered(a, reached)),
613        _ => allow.contains(reached),
614    }
615}
616
617/// Split a function name (or scope) into PATH SEGMENTS on either separator. Reports reach the Rust gate
618/// AND `candor-query` from BOTH the Rust engines (`::`-separated names) and the JVM/Swift/TS engines
619/// (`.`-separated names — `candor-query` is explicitly built to read them). Segmenting on `::` ALONE
620/// left a scoped `deny`/`pure` rule silently INERT on a dotted name: the scope matched nothing, so
621/// `whatif` returned a false green on the security boundary (gate-evasion). The JVM engine's own
622/// `scopeMatches` already splits on `.`; this aligns the Rust side. A `:`/`.` never appears WITHIN a
623/// real segment, so splitting on both never over-segments a Rust name (no spurious match).
624fn name_segments(s: &str) -> Vec<&str> {
625    s.split(['.', ':']).filter(|p| !p.is_empty()).collect()
626}
627
628/// A policy scope matches a function name by **path segment** (SPEC §6.2), not substring: split both
629/// into segments (on `::` or `.`); the scope matches a contiguous run of name-segments where every
630/// segment except the last matches exactly and the last is a prefix. So `domain` matches
631/// `app::domain::h`, `com.acme.domain.h`, and `domain_logic` but not `subdomain`.
632/// ⟨0.29⟩ SCOPE MATCHING FOR A **PERMISSION**, where the prefix rule is FAIL-OPEN.
633///
634/// [`scope_matches`]'s last segment is a PREFIX of its name-segment, so `util` matches `utilities`. For
635/// `deny`/`pure`/`forbid` that widening is FAIL-CLOSED — a scope that matches more forbids more — and it
636/// is why the rule exists. For the `to` list of an `only` rule it is the exact inverse: a permitted scope
637/// that matches more PERMITS more, so the matcher that keeps every other rule kind safe silently widens
638/// the one form whose entire purpose is to fail safe.
639///
640/// MEASURED on the shipped ⟨0.29⟩ implementation, before this function existed:
641///
642/// ```text
643/// only model -> util          `model::go` reaching `utilities_untrusted::exfil`  →  policy ✓
644/// forbid model -> util        the identical reach                                 →  AS-EFF-009
645/// ```
646///
647/// The operator wrote a complete permission list and the matcher quietly extended it to anything sharing
648/// a prefix with an entry. So a `to` scope matches by EXACT segment run, with no prefix on the last —
649/// `only a -> util` permits `util::x` and `crate::util::x`, and does NOT permit `utilities_untrusted::x`.
650///
651/// THE `from` SIDE KEEPS THE PREFIX RULE, deliberately: `from` selects which functions the rule BINDS, so
652/// matching more constrains more, which is the safe direction. The asymmetry is the point — each side
653/// takes the matcher whose over-approximation errs toward the gate firing.
654pub fn scope_matches_permitted(name: &str, scope: &str) -> bool {
655    let segs = name_segments(name);
656    let parts = name_segments(scope);
657    if parts.is_empty() || parts.len() > segs.len() {
658        return false;
659    }
660    segs.windows(parts.len()).any(|w| w == parts.as_slice())
661}
662
663/// A TRAILING SEPARATOR MEANS EXACT SEGMENT — `app::` matches the segment `app` and nothing else,
664/// where bare `app` keeps the documented prefix behaviour and still matches `application_name`.
665///
666/// REPORTED FROM THE FIELD (ebman CI adoption, 2026-08-23) and reproduced: `forbid aws -> app` fired
667/// 14 times on honest AWS SDK calls because `app` prefix-matched `application_name`, and writing
668/// `app::` did not help — `name_segments` drops empty parts, so `app::` segmented to exactly `["app"]`
669/// and the separator never survived to mean anything. The reporter deleted the rule, which is the real
670/// cost: **the genuine `aws -> app` violation it existed to catch will now never fire, and nothing in
671/// the policy file records that a boundary stopped being checked.** The two available responses to the
672/// false positives — delete the rule, or widen the scope until it stops firing — end in the same place.
673///
674/// ADDITIVE ON PURPOSE. Bare `app` is unchanged, so no existing verdict moves; only `app::`, which
675/// today silently behaves as `app`, starts meaning what everyone who writes it intends. Silence was
676/// the worst of the three options available (match exactly / error as unsupported / quietly do
677/// nothing), because ⟨0.24⟩ §3.1 already rules that an unanswerable condition must be DISCLOSED rather
678/// than scored as satisfied — and a scope token that segments away is exactly that.
679fn scope_is_exact(scope: &str) -> bool {
680    let t = scope.trim_end();
681    t.ends_with("::") || t.ends_with('.')
682}
683
684pub fn scope_matches(name: &str, scope: &str) -> bool {
685    let segs = name_segments(name);
686    let parts = name_segments(scope);
687    if parts.is_empty() || parts.len() > segs.len() {
688        return false;
689    }
690    let exact = scope_is_exact(scope);
691    let (last, init) = parts.split_last().unwrap();
692    segs.windows(parts.len()).any(|w| {
693        let (w_last, w_init) = w.split_last().unwrap();
694        w_init == init && if exact { w_last == last } else { w_last.starts_with(last) }
695    })
696}
697
698/// Reconstruct a rule's source form and the `Unknown`-forbidding upgrade for it: `pure <scope>` →
699/// (`"pure <scope>"`, `"deny Unknown <scope>"`); `deny <E…> <scope>` → (`"deny <E…> <scope>"`,
700/// `"deny <E…> Unknown <scope>"`). Shared so the gate note and `candor unverified` name the identical
701/// rule and upgrade — one source of truth for the disclosure's advice.
702///
703/// ⟨0.24⟩ **THE NARROWING FILTERS ARE RENDERED, and they had to start being rendered in the same commit
704/// that made them REACHABLE here.** Making `unverified_hole_rule` filter-aware is what first lets a
705/// `deny Unknown[reflect]` / `deny Net[unknown-host]` rule be the rule a hole is disclosed under — and
706/// this reconstruction dropped the bracket, so the fix would have printed the operator's narrowed rule
707/// back to them as the WIDE one (`deny Unknown`) and advised the nonsense upgrade `deny Unknown
708/// Unknown`. That is the same mis-attribution `whatif` carries, arriving through the fix for a different
709/// defect: the hazard on this rung is that each correction manufactures its own mirror, so the rendering
710/// moves with the predicate rather than after it.
711///
712/// A rule carrying NO filter renders byte-identically to before, which is what keeps conformance PARTs
713/// 12c/12d (`deny Db Net Unknown domain`, four-way) unmoved.
714///
715/// THE UPGRADE SPLITS on whether the rule already denies `Unknown`. If it does, it can only be here
716/// NARROWED — a bare `deny … Unknown` fires on every `Unknown`, so the function would be a violation and
717/// not a hole — and the upgrade is that term WIDENED to bare `Unknown`, not a second `Unknown` appended.
718pub fn rule_and_upgrade(r: &PolicyRule) -> (String, String) {
719    let scope = r.scope.clone().unwrap_or_default();
720    let suffix = if scope.is_empty() { String::new() } else { format!(" {scope}") };
721    if r.effects.is_empty() {
722        // `pure` forbids real effects but not Unknown; to REQUIRE provable purity, add a deny-Unknown.
723        return (format!("pure{suffix}"), format!("deny Unknown{suffix}"));
724    }
725    // One effect term, with its narrowing filter if it has one. Class tokens sorted by TOKEN string, as
726    // `parsepolicy` sorts them and as the java reference's `.sorted()` does — the dump and the
727    // disclosure must spell one rule one way.
728    let term = |e: &str| -> String {
729        if e == UNKNOWN && !r.unknown_classes.is_empty() {
730            let mut t: Vec<&str> = r.unknown_classes.iter().map(|c| c.token()).collect();
731            t.sort_unstable();
732            format!("{UNKNOWN}[{}]", t.join(","))
733        } else if e == "Net" && !r.net_classes.is_empty() {
734            format!("Net[{}]", r.net_classes.iter().map(String::as_str).collect::<Vec<_>>().join(","))
735        } else {
736            e.to_string()
737        }
738    };
739    let effs = r.effects.iter().map(|e| term(e)).collect::<Vec<_>>().join(" ");
740    if r.effects.contains(UNKNOWN) {
741        let widened =
742            r.effects.iter().map(|e| if *e == UNKNOWN { UNKNOWN.to_string() } else { term(e) }).collect::<Vec<_>>();
743        (format!("deny {effs}{suffix}"), format!("deny {}{suffix}", widened.join(" ")))
744    } else {
745        (format!("deny {effs}{suffix}"), format!("deny {effs} {UNKNOWN}{suffix}"))
746    }
747}
748
749/// The single predicate for a provable-purity hole (eval/fixloop/DISPATCH-NOTE.md): a function that is
750/// `Unknown`, sits in a `pure`/`deny <E>` scope, and PASSES that rule (carries none of its forbidden real
751/// effects) — so its compliance is asserted but not verified (the Unknown could hide the very effect the
752/// rule forbids; the classic case is a fn/closure-injected port). A *real* violation is the gate's job, not
753/// this. Returns the first governing rule under which the function is such a hole, or `None` if it is not
754/// one. Shared by candor-scan's gate note and candor-query's `unverified` so "what a hole is" has ONE
755/// definition — the two paths can never drift (conformance PART 12d pins their agreement).
756///
757/// ⟨0.24⟩ **"PASSES" IS NOW ASKED OF THE GATE, NOT OF A SECOND COPY OF IT.** This predicate computed the
758/// passing test from `r.effects` alone — "does the rule NAME an effect this function has?" — which is
759/// the pre-⟨0.19⟩ question, still being asked after two rungs gave rules a NARROWING FILTER. So on
760/// `deny Unknown[reflect]` over an `indirect` hole the gate TOLERATED (exit 0, the class does not match)
761/// while this read the same rule as violated; and a hole is *by definition* a function that PASSES its
762/// rule while `Unknown`, so the real hole was reclassified as a violation-that-isn't and **deleted from
763/// the disclosure** — `unverified` answering "every function in a pure/deny layer is PROVABLY clean ✓"
764/// over a function the gate had just declined to clear. MEASURED 2026-07-28, and reachable with no alias
765/// in play at all: one layer below the widening `ea0df4f` closed, in the same four verbs.
766///
767/// It now calls [`crate::gate::rule_hits`] — the gate's own firing decision — so the two cannot disagree
768/// again. That needs the function's TRANSITIVE reason classes and its ⟨0.20⟩ destination classes, the
769/// same two accumulators the gate reads, which is why they are parameters now rather than derivable.
770///
771/// **THE DIRECTION IS THE MIRROR ARGUMENT.** A filter can only ever SHRINK what a rule charges, so a
772/// filter-aware pass test can only ever find MORE holes — this cannot silently suppress a disclosure
773/// that used to appear. Pinned in both directions by
774/// `a_narrowed_rule_the_gate_tolerates_is_a_hole_and_the_one_it_fires_on_is_not`, in one run, because
775/// the fixture proving the fabrication is closed cannot show the reach closed with it. A WITHHELD filter
776/// — nothing to read — likewise counts as PASSING here: the gate did not clear the function, and an
777/// advisory note's fail-safe direction is to disclose.
778pub fn unverified_hole_rule<'a, S: AsRef<str>>(
779    name: &str,
780    effects: &[S],
781    reason_classes: Option<&BTreeSet<String>>,
782    net_classes: &[String],
783    rules: &'a [PolicyRule],
784) -> Option<&'a PolicyRule> {
785    if !effects.iter().any(|e| e.as_ref() == UNKNOWN) {
786        return None;
787    }
788    let effs: Vec<&str> = effects.iter().map(AsRef::as_ref).collect();
789    rules.iter().find(|r| {
790        // in the rule's scope (a scopeless rule governs the whole unit) …
791        if let Some(s) = &r.scope {
792            if !scope_matches(name, s) {
793                return false;
794            }
795        }
796        // … and PASSES it — the gate's own answer, narrowing filters and all. Empty `hits` IS passing.
797        crate::gate::rule_hits(r, &effs, reason_classes, net_classes).hits.is_empty()
798    })
799}
800
801/// Parse a CANDOR_POLICY file (SPEC §6.2). One rule per line; `#` comments and blanks ignored:
802///
803/// ```text
804/// deny Net Db  domain     # functions whose path contains segment "domain" must not perform Net or Db
805/// deny Exec               # no function anywhere may perform Exec
806/// deny Unknown  api        # functions in "api" must be fully resolvable (forbid the unverifiable)
807/// pure         parse      # functions whose path contains segment "parse" must be effect-free
808/// allow Net in billing  api.stripe.com
809/// forbid domain -> infra
810/// ```
811///
812/// In a `deny` rule, leading tokens that name a known effect (or `Unknown`) are forbidden; the FIRST
813/// non-effect token is the scope and ends the rule. A `deny` naming no known effect is dropped (it is
814/// NOT a `pure` rule). Malformed/unknown lines are ignored with a warning — never silently widened.
815/// The §6.2 token separator: ASCII whitespace ONLY (space/tab/CR/LF/VT/FF). `split_whitespace`/`trim`
816/// use Unicode `White_Space`, which would split a NBSP/ideographic space that Java drops — a gateless-
817/// green cross-engine divergence (adversarial DSL review). A non-ASCII space stays part of its token, so
818/// the rule is malformed and ignored, uniformly.
819fn is_ascii_ws(c: char) -> bool {
820    matches!(c, ' ' | '\t' | '\n' | '\x0b' | '\x0c' | '\r')
821}
822
823pub fn parse_policy(text: &str) -> ParsedPolicy {
824    parse_policy_impl(text, true, &std::collections::BTreeMap::new())
825}
826/// As [`parse_policy`] but with `.candor/config` `unknown-alias` definitions (⟨0.19⟩, SPEC §6.2): an
827/// `Unknown[<name>]` filter resolves a user-defined `<name>` to its reason classes. The gate + `parsepolicy`
828/// pass the discovered aliases (via [`parse_unknown_aliases`]); a config alias never changes what bare
829/// `deny E Unknown` means (always `Unknown[*]`), so the rule stays legible from the policy alone.
830pub fn parse_policy_with_aliases(text: &str, aliases: &std::collections::BTreeMap<String, std::collections::BTreeSet<ReasonClass>>) -> ParsedPolicy {
831    parse_policy_impl(text, true, aliases)
832}
833/// ⟨0.24⟩ [`parse_policy_with_aliases`] but SILENT — for a caller that must inspect
834/// [`ParsedPolicy::errors`] / [`ParsedPolicy::used_aliases`] BEFORE it parses for real (candor-scan
835/// refuses before touching the classifier's accumulators). Silent so the ordinary parse warnings are not
836/// printed twice on the same text.
837pub fn parse_policy_silent(
838    text: &str,
839    aliases: &std::collections::BTreeMap<String, BTreeSet<ReasonClass>>,
840) -> ParsedPolicy {
841    parse_policy_impl(text, false, aliases)
842}
843/// Same as [`parse_policy`] but SILENT about malformed rules — for a SECOND, advisory re-parse within the
844/// same run (candor-scan parses once for the gate check and again for the `unverified` disclosure), so the
845/// CI log doesn't print every "ignoring policy rule …" warning twice (#21). The first parse already warned.
846pub fn parse_policy_quiet(text: &str) -> ParsedPolicy {
847    parse_policy_impl(text, false, &std::collections::BTreeMap::new())
848}
849fn parse_policy_impl(text: &str, warn: bool, aliases: &std::collections::BTreeMap<String, std::collections::BTreeSet<ReasonClass>>) -> ParsedPolicy {
850    macro_rules! warn_ignore { ($($a:tt)*) => { if warn { eprintln!($($a)*); } } }
851    let mut out = ParsedPolicy::default();
852    // ⟨0.28⟩ The source position of the line under the cursor, for `PolicyError::{line, text}` — bound
853    // BEFORE the macro below so its body (whose free identifiers resolve at definition scope) can read
854    // them; the loop updates both per iteration. §6.2's `ignored` disclosure is `[{line, text, reason}]`.
855    let mut cur_line: usize;
856    let mut cur_text: &str;
857    // ⟨0.24⟩ Record a line the parser did not honour (SPEC §3.1 `195d45a`), on the ONE list `parsepolicy`
858    // reports and the gate routes filter for `fatal`. The stderr sentence and `message` are the SAME
859    // string by construction — a disclosure that can drift from the one beside it is how this family
860    // produced a FALSE disclosure once already (conformance PART 13b).
861    macro_rules! not_honoured {
862        ($fatal:expr, $kind:expr, $token:expr, $accepted:expr, $rule:expr, $msg:expr) => {{
863            let message: String = $msg;
864            out.errors.push(PolicyError {
865                kind: $kind,
866                token: ($token).to_string(),
867                accepted: ($accepted).iter().map(|s: &&str| s.to_string()).collect(),
868                rule: ($rule).to_string(),
869                message,
870                line: cur_line,
871                text: cur_text.to_string(),
872                fatal: $fatal,
873            });
874        }};
875    }
876    // `str::lines()` splits on \n and \r\n but NOT bare \r — a classic-Mac file then collapses to ONE
877    // line, and since \r is also an in-line ASCII-ws token separator (is_ascii_ws), every rule after the
878    // first was glued into the first rule's tokens and dropped (sweep [16], a gateless-green divergence).
879    // Java's Files.readAllLines (the reference) breaks on bare \r too — normalize to match it. Allocation
880    // only when a bare \r is actually present (the overwhelmingly-common \n / \r\n files are untouched).
881    let normalized;
882    let text = if text.contains('\r') {
883        normalized = text.replace("\r\n", "\n").replace('\r', "\n");
884        normalized.as_str()
885    } else {
886        text
887    };
888    for (line_idx, raw_line) in text.lines().enumerate() {
889        cur_line = line_idx + 1;
890        cur_text = raw_line;
891        let line = raw_line.split('#').next().unwrap_or("").trim_matches(is_ascii_ws);
892        if line.is_empty() {
893            continue;
894        }
895        let mut toks = line.split(is_ascii_ws).filter(|s| !s.is_empty());
896        match toks.next().unwrap_or("") {
897            "allow" => {
898                let effect = match toks.next().unwrap_or("") {
899                    "Net" => "Net",
900                    // `Llm` ⟨0.13⟩ rides the Net host literal (SPEC §1) — `allow Llm <host…>` restricts which
901                    // MODEL hosts a scope may reach, matched by hostname like Net (its reached surface IS the
902                    // Net host surface). Match candor-java's Policy.parsePolicy.
903                    "Llm" => "Llm",
904                    "Exec" => "Exec",
905                    "Fs" => "Fs",
906                    "Db" => "Db",
907                    other => {
908                        let msg = format!(
909                            "unknown effect-name `{other}` in `allow` (accepted: Db, Exec, Fs, Llm, Net \
910                             \u{2014} `allow` covers only the effects carrying a literal surface: Net/Llm \
911                             hosts, Exec commands, Fs paths, Db tables): {line}"
912                        );
913                        warn_ignore!("candor: policy error — {msg}");
914                        // ⟨0.24⟩ FATAL (SPEC §6.2 `1e1748a`). MEASURED four-way before this:
915                        // `allow Nett host.example` -> exit 0 on rust, ts, java AND swift. The rule is
916                        // DELETED and the certification silently vanishes, so the operator reads an
917                        // armed allowlist that does not exist.
918                        //
919                        // The grammar defence that kept the token rule inside the bracket does NOT
920                        // reach here: `allow`'s effect position is a fixed, closed set with **no scope
921                        // reading available**, so an unrecognised token there is unambiguously a typo
922                        // and there is no legitimate policy it could be. This document already calls a
923                        // dropped rule "the limit case of silently rewritten into a different policy…
924                        // a bigger rewrite than a narrowed filter" — and the bigger rewrite was
925                        // warning-only while the smaller one was already exit 2.
926                        not_honoured!(
927                            true,
928                            PolicyError::KIND_EFFECT_NAME,
929                            other,
930                            ["Db", "Exec", "Fs", "Llm", "Net"],
931                            line,
932                            msg
933                        );
934                        continue;
935                    }
936                };
937                let mut rest: Vec<&str> = toks.collect();
938                let scope = if rest.first() == Some(&"in") {
939                    let s = rest.get(1).map(|s| s.to_string());
940                    rest.drain(..2.min(rest.len()));
941                    s
942                } else {
943                    None
944                };
945                let literals: BTreeSet<String> = rest.iter().map(|h| h.to_string()).collect();
946                if literals.is_empty() {
947                    let msg = format!("`allow {effect}` names no values: {line}");
948                    warn_ignore!("candor: ignoring policy rule ({msg})");
949                    // `accepted` is EMPTY on purpose: the position takes an open-ended literal (a host, a
950                    // path, a command, a table), so there is no token list to offer. A fact about the
951                    // grammar, not a gap in the report.
952                    not_honoured!(false, PolicyError::KIND_RULE_KIND, "", [], line, msg);
953                    continue;
954                }
955                out.allow_rules.push(AllowRule { effect, scope, literals, raw: line.to_string() });
956            }
957            "deny" => {
958                let mut effects = BTreeSet::new();
959                let mut scope = None;
960                // Reason-class filter on `Unknown` (REASON-SCOPED-UNKNOWN-DESIGN.md): empty ⇒ `Unknown[*]`
961                // (any reason — the bare form); non-empty ⇒ only those classes. `*` = all.
962                let mut unknown_classes: BTreeSet<ReasonClass> = BTreeSet::new();
963                let mut unknown_star = false;
964                // Destination-class filter on `Net` (NET-DESTINATION-CLASS-DESIGN.md): empty ⇒ `Net[*]`
965                // (any destination — the bare form); non-empty ⇒ only those classes. `*` = all.
966                let mut net_classes: BTreeSet<String> = BTreeSet::new();
967                let mut net_star = false;
968                for t in toks {
969                    // `Net[unknown-host]` / `Net[*]` / `Net[known-telemetry,unknown-host]`: the destination-scoped form.
970                    if let Some(inner) = t.strip_prefix("Net[").and_then(|s| s.strip_suffix(']')) {
971                        effects.insert("Net");
972                        for cn in inner.split(',') {
973                            let cn = cn.trim();
974                            if cn.is_empty() {
975                                continue;
976                            }
977                            if cn == "*" {
978                                net_star = true;
979                            } else if crate::NET_DEST_CLASSES.contains(&cn) {
980                                net_classes.insert(cn.to_string());
981                            } else {
982                                // ⟨0.24⟩ A POLICY ERROR, not a warning — SPEC §6.2 `be0b9a9`. Byte-identical
983                                // in shape to the reason-class arm below, and byte-identical in harm:
984                                // MEASURED `deny Net[known-telemetry,unknown-hosst]` → exit 0 where the
985                                // correctly-spelled rule exits 1. The typo is dropped, the filter NARROWS
986                                // to `[known-telemetry]`, and the gate stops covering unidentifiable
987                                // destinations while the operator reads a gate that looks armed.
988                                not_honoured!(
989                                    true,
990                                    PolicyError::KIND_NET_CLASS,
991                                    cn,
992                                    ["known-telemetry", "known-partner", "unknown-host", "*"],
993                                    line,
994                                    format!(
995                                        "unrecognised Net destination-class `{cn}` in `{line}` — \
996                                         accepted: known-telemetry, known-partner, unknown-host, plus `*`"
997                                    )
998                                );
999                            }
1000                        }
1001                        continue;
1002                    }
1003                    // `Unknown[dispatch,reflect]` / `Unknown[*]` / `Unknown[dynamic]`: the reason-scoped form.
1004                    if let Some(inner) = t.strip_prefix("Unknown[").and_then(|s| s.strip_suffix(']')) {
1005                        effects.insert(UNKNOWN);
1006                        for cn in inner.split(',') {
1007                            let cn = cn.trim();
1008                            if cn.is_empty() {
1009                                continue;
1010                            }
1011                            if cn == "*" {
1012                                unknown_star = true;
1013                            } else if cn == "dynamic" {
1014                                unknown_classes.extend(ReasonClass::dynamic_set());
1015                            } else if let Some(rc) = ReasonClass::from_token(cn) {
1016                                unknown_classes.insert(rc);
1017                            } else if let Some(a) = aliases.get(cn) {
1018                                unknown_classes.extend(a.iter().copied()); // ⟨0.19⟩ config `unknown-alias`
1019                                // ⟨0.24⟩ → the verdict names it AND what it expanded to (SPEC §3.1
1020                                // `7f5b5ba`): the NAME alone cannot tell a reader which gate ran.
1021                                out.used_aliases
1022                                    .insert(cn.to_string(), a.iter().map(|c| c.token().to_string()).collect());
1023                            } else {
1024                                // ⟨0.24⟩ A POLICY ERROR, not a warning — see `ParsedPolicy::errors`. The
1025                                // token is still dropped below so `rules` stays well-formed for the
1026                                // advisory readers (`unverified`, `parsepolicy`); the gate routes refuse
1027                                // on `errors` before any of it is used as a verdict.
1028                                not_honoured!(
1029                                    true,
1030                                    PolicyError::KIND_REASON_CLASS,
1031                                    cn,
1032                                    [
1033                                        "reflect",
1034                                        "dispatch",
1035                                        "indirect",
1036                                        "native",
1037                                        "unresolved",
1038                                        "setup",
1039                                        "dynamic",
1040                                        "*"
1041                                    ],
1042                                    line,
1043                                    format!(
1044                                        "unrecognised reason-class/alias `{cn}` in `{line}` — accepted: \
1045                                         reflect, dispatch, indirect, native, unresolved, setup, plus the \
1046                                         aliases `dynamic` and `*`, plus any `unknown-alias` defined in \
1047                                         the `.candor/config` beside the policy. (⟨0.24⟩ an \
1048                                         `unknown-alias` whose OWN definition names an unrecognised class \
1049                                         is refused WHOLE, so a typo in the config surfaces as an \
1050                                         undefined alias here — check the `unknown-alias` lines too, and \
1051                                         the line above this one.)"
1052                                    )
1053                                );
1054                            }
1055                        }
1056                        continue;
1057                    }
1058                    let e = if t == UNKNOWN { Some(UNKNOWN) } else { cap_from_name(t) };
1059                    match e {
1060                        Some(e) => {
1061                            effects.insert(e);
1062                            if e == UNKNOWN {
1063                                unknown_star = true; // bare Unknown ⇒ all classes
1064                            }
1065                            if e == "Net" {
1066                                net_star = true; // bare Net ⇒ all destinations
1067                            }
1068                        }
1069                        None => {
1070                            scope = Some(t.to_string());
1071                            break;
1072                        }
1073                    }
1074                }
1075                if effects.is_empty() {
1076                    // The accepted set is the §1 effect vocabulary plus `Unknown` — SORTED, so the
1077                    // document is deterministic and diffable across engines.
1078                    let mut acc: Vec<&str> = candor_report::EFFECTS.to_vec();
1079                    acc.push(UNKNOWN);
1080                    acc.sort_unstable();
1081                    let msg = format!(
1082                        "`deny` names no known effect (accepted: {}): {line}",
1083                        acc.join(", ")
1084                    );
1085                    warn_ignore!("candor: policy error — {msg}");
1086                    // ⟨0.24⟩ FATAL (SPEC §6.2 `1e1748a`). MEASURED four-way: `deny Nett app` -> exit 0
1087                    // on all four; the rule is DELETED and the gate is green. `Nett` is read as the
1088                    // SCOPE (the first unrecognised token ends the effect list), so the line parses to
1089                    // a deny of NOTHING.
1090                    //
1091                    // **A `deny` whose effect list ends up EMPTY is malformed under EITHER reading** —
1092                    // typo-in-the-effect or scope-with-no-effect are both nonsense — so there is no
1093                    // legitimate policy it could be and refusing it loses nothing. What stays open is
1094                    // only the genuinely ambiguous middle (`deny Net Exex app`: at least one valid
1095                    // effect plus an unrecognised trailing token that MIGHT be a scope), which the
1096                    // parser cannot tell from a legitimate scope and which `parsepolicy` shows either
1097                    // way by dumping the `scope` it read.
1098                    not_honoured!(
1099                        true,
1100                        PolicyError::KIND_EFFECT_NAME,
1101                        scope.as_deref().unwrap_or(""),
1102                        acc,
1103                        line,
1104                        msg
1105                    );
1106                    continue;
1107                }
1108                // `*` (or bare `Unknown`) means all classes ⇒ empty filter (matches any Unknown).
1109                if unknown_star {
1110                    unknown_classes.clear();
1111                } else if !unknown_classes.is_empty() && !unknown_classes.contains(&ReasonClass::Unresolved) {
1112                    // A2 under-gating lint: a narrowed scope that omits `unresolved` (the catch-all for holes
1113                    // an engine couldn't classify) may silently tolerate exactly those — flag it (advisory).
1114                    warn_ignore!("candor: policy rule narrows `Unknown[…]` but omits `unresolved` — may UNDER-gate on holes the engine couldn't classify; add `unresolved` (or use `dynamic`) to stay conservative: {line}");
1115                }
1116                // `*` (or bare `Net`) means all destinations ⇒ empty filter (matches any Net).
1117                if net_star {
1118                    net_classes.clear();
1119                }
1120                out.rules.push(PolicyRule { effects, scope, unknown_classes, net_classes, raw: line.to_string() });
1121            }
1122            "pure" => out.rules.push(PolicyRule {
1123                effects: BTreeSet::new(),
1124                scope: toks.next().map(str::to_string),
1125                unknown_classes: BTreeSet::new(),
1126                net_classes: BTreeSet::new(),
1127                raw: line.to_string(),
1128            }),
1129            "forbid" => {
1130                let a = toks.next().unwrap_or("");
1131                let arrow = toks.next().unwrap_or("");
1132                let b = toks.next().unwrap_or("");
1133                if a.is_empty() || arrow != "->" || b.is_empty() {
1134                    let msg = format!("`forbid` is malformed (want `forbid <scope> -> <scope>`): {line}");
1135                    warn_ignore!("candor: ignoring layering rule ({msg})");
1136                    // The token reported is whatever sat in the ARROW position — `->` must be its own
1137                    // token, so `forbid glued->arrow` finds nothing there and that absence is the finding.
1138                    not_honoured!(false, PolicyError::KIND_RULE_KIND, arrow, ["->"], line, msg);
1139                    continue;
1140                }
1141                out.layer_rules.push(LayerRule {
1142                    from: a.to_string(),
1143                    to: b.to_string(),
1144                    raw: line.to_string(),
1145                });
1146            }
1147            // ⟨0.29⟩ `only <A> -> <B> [<C> …]` — the PERMISSION form. Everything after the arrow is a
1148            // scope, so the rule takes a LIST where `forbid` takes one destination; that is the whole
1149            // ergonomic difference, and it is why the tail is not read left-to-right for anything else.
1150            "only" => {
1151                let a = toks.next().unwrap_or("");
1152                let arrow = toks.next().unwrap_or("");
1153                let to: Vec<String> = toks.map(str::to_string).collect();
1154                if a.is_empty() || arrow != "->" || to.is_empty() {
1155                    let msg = format!(
1156                        "`only` is malformed (want `only <scope> -> <scope> [<scope> …]`): {line}"
1157                    );
1158                    warn_ignore!("candor: ignoring permission rule ({msg})");
1159                    // Same witness as `forbid`: whatever sat in the ARROW position, since `->` must be
1160                    // its own token and `only glued->arrow` finds nothing there.
1161                    not_honoured!(false, PolicyError::KIND_RULE_KIND, arrow, ["->"], line, msg);
1162                    continue;
1163                }
1164                out.only_rules.push(OnlyRule {
1165                    from: a.to_string(),
1166                    to,
1167                    raw: line.to_string(),
1168                });
1169            }
1170            other => {
1171                let msg = format!(
1172                    "unknown rule kind `{other}` (accepted: allow, deny, forbid, only, pure): {line}"
1173                );
1174                warn_ignore!("candor: ignoring policy rule ({msg})");
1175                not_honoured!(
1176                    false,
1177                    PolicyError::KIND_RULE_KIND,
1178                    other,
1179                    ["allow", "deny", "forbid", "only", "pure"],
1180                    line,
1181                    msg
1182                );
1183            }
1184        }
1185    }
1186    out
1187}
1188
1189#[cfg(test)]
1190mod tests {
1191    #[test]
1192    fn db_table_covering_is_strict() {
1193        use super::db_table_covered as c;
1194        assert!(c("ledger.entries", "Ledger.Entries")); // case-insensitive exact
1195        assert!(c("ledger.*", "ledger.entries"));       // schema wildcard
1196        assert!(!c("ledger.*", "ledgerx.entries"));     // boundary-respecting
1197        assert!(!c("entries", "ledger.entries"));       // no silent qualification widening
1198        assert!(c("entries", "entries"));
1199    }
1200
1201    #[test]
1202    fn allow_db_parses_and_gates() {
1203        let p = super::parse_policy("allow Db in billing  ledger.* customers\n");
1204        assert_eq!(p.allow_rules.len(), 1);
1205        assert_eq!(p.allow_rules[0].effect, "Db");
1206        assert!(super::literal_allowed("Db", "ledger.entries", &p.allow_rules[0].literals));
1207        assert!(super::literal_allowed("Db", "customers", &p.allow_rules[0].literals));
1208        assert!(!super::literal_allowed("Db", "audit.log", &p.allow_rules[0].literals));
1209    }
1210
1211    use super::*;
1212
1213    #[test]
1214    fn policy_parses() {
1215        let p = parse_policy(
1216            "# the domain layer must stay pure of I/O\n\
1217             deny Net Db  domain\n\
1218             deny Exec\n\
1219             pure  parse\n\
1220             nonsense line\n\
1221             deny notaneffect\n",
1222        );
1223        let rules = &p.rules;
1224        assert_eq!(rules.len(), 3);
1225        assert_eq!(rules[0].effects, ["Db", "Net"].into_iter().collect::<BTreeSet<_>>());
1226        assert_eq!(rules[0].scope.as_deref(), Some("domain"));
1227        assert!(rules[1].effects.contains("Exec") && rules[1].scope.is_none());
1228        assert!(rules[2].effects.is_empty() && rules[2].scope.as_deref() == Some("parse"));
1229        // sweep [16]: a classic-Mac (bare \r) multi-rule policy must NOT collapse to the first rule.
1230        let cr = parse_policy("deny Net a\rdeny Exec b\rdeny Db c\r");
1231        assert_eq!(cr.rules.len(), 3, "bare-CR lines must each parse");
1232        assert!(cr.rules.iter().any(|r| r.effects.contains("Exec") && r.scope.as_deref() == Some("b")));
1233        // mixed \r\n and bare \r normalize identically.
1234        assert_eq!(parse_policy("deny Net a\r\ndeny Exec b\r").rules.len(), 2);
1235        // `Unknown` is a denyable token; a bare `deny` with no effect is ignored.
1236        assert_eq!(parse_policy("deny Unknown core").rules[0].effects, ["Unknown"].into_iter().collect());
1237        assert!(parse_policy("deny\ndeny   \n").rules.is_empty());
1238        // a `deny` whose first token is a non-effect names no effect -> dropped, NOT a pure rule.
1239        assert!(parse_policy("deny notaneffect scope").rules.is_empty());
1240        // the first non-effect token ENDS the rule: a later effect token is not collected.
1241        let p2 = parse_policy("deny Net foo Db");
1242        assert_eq!(p2.rules[0].effects, ["Net"].into_iter().collect::<BTreeSet<_>>());
1243        assert_eq!(p2.rules[0].scope.as_deref(), Some("foo"));
1244        // NBSP is NOT a token separator (only ASCII White_Space is) — pinned to MATCH Java, which
1245        // drops it: a `deny\u{a0}Net` is one token `deny\u{a0}Net`, NOT `deny` + `Net`, so it names no
1246        // known effect and is dropped. Splitting on Unicode whitespace here would let candor see a deny
1247        // the JVM engine doesn't — a gateless-divergence between impls. (See is_ascii_ws.)
1248        assert!(parse_policy("deny\u{a0}Net core").rules.is_empty(),
1249                "an NBSP between deny and the effect must NOT split into separate tokens");
1250        // The NBSP rides INTO the scope token rather than separating it: `deny Net\u{a0}domain` is
1251        // `deny` + `Net` + `\u{a0}domain` — Net is the effect, the scope keeps the NBSP verbatim.
1252        let nb = parse_policy("deny Net \u{a0}domain");
1253        assert_eq!(nb.rules.len(), 1);
1254        assert_eq!(nb.rules[0].effects, ["Net"].into_iter().collect::<BTreeSet<_>>());
1255        assert_eq!(nb.rules[0].scope.as_deref(), Some("\u{a0}domain"));
1256    }
1257
1258    #[test]
1259    fn reason_scoped_unknown_parses() {
1260        use super::ReasonClass::*;
1261        // `Unknown[dispatch,indirect]` narrows the Unknown membership to those classes.
1262        let p = parse_policy("deny Net Unknown[dispatch,indirect] dom\n");
1263        let r = &p.rules[0];
1264        assert!(r.effects.contains("Unknown") && r.effects.contains("Net"));
1265        assert_eq!(r.scope.as_deref(), Some("dom"));
1266        assert_eq!(r.unknown_classes, [Dispatch, Indirect].into_iter().collect());
1267        // bare `Unknown` and `Unknown[*]` ⇒ empty filter (all classes).
1268        assert!(parse_policy("deny Net Unknown dom\n").rules[0].unknown_classes.is_empty(), "bare Unknown ⇒ all");
1269        assert!(parse_policy("deny Net Unknown[*] dom\n").rules[0].unknown_classes.is_empty(), "Unknown[*] ⇒ all");
1270        // `dynamic` alias = every genuine class incl. unresolved, excl. setup.
1271        assert_eq!(
1272            parse_policy("deny Net Unknown[dynamic] dom\n").rules[0].unknown_classes,
1273            [Reflect, Dispatch, Indirect, Native, Unresolved].into_iter().collect()
1274        );
1275        // config `unknown-alias` (⟨0.19⟩): a user-defined name resolves; a reserved name is rejected.
1276        let aliases = super::parse_unknown_aliases(
1277            "unknown-alias risky = reflect,native\nunknown-alias telemetry = indirect\nunknown-alias reflect = native\n");
1278        assert_eq!(aliases.get("risky"), Some(&[Reflect, Native].into_iter().collect()));
1279        assert_eq!(aliases.get("telemetry"), Some(&[Indirect].into_iter().collect()));
1280        assert!(!aliases.contains_key("reflect"), "a config alias may not shadow a class token");
1281        // the `unknown-alias` KEY matches case-insensitively (parity with java/ts/swift, which lowercase it)
1282        assert_eq!(super::parse_unknown_aliases("Unknown-Alias hot = native\n").get("hot"),
1283                   Some(&[Native].into_iter().collect()), "the unknown-alias key must match case-insensitively");
1284        let pr = super::parse_policy_with_aliases("deny Net Unknown[risky] api\n", &aliases);
1285        assert_eq!(pr.rules[0].unknown_classes, [Reflect, Native].into_iter().collect());
1286        // an UNDEFINED alias name is dropped-with-warning → empty filter (behaves like bare Unknown[*])
1287        assert!(super::parse_policy_with_aliases("deny Net Unknown[nope] api\n", &aliases).rules[0].unknown_classes.is_empty());
1288        // classify: raw reason tokens → normative classes (mirrors java ReasonClass.classify).
1289        assert_eq!(ReasonClass::classify("reflect:Class.forName"), Reflect);
1290        assert_eq!(ReasonClass::classify("native:extern fn"), Native);
1291        assert_eq!(ReasonClass::classify("callback:unresolved call"), Indirect);
1292        assert_eq!(ReasonClass::classify("ambiguous:same-name local defs"), Dispatch);
1293        assert_eq!(ReasonClass::classify("unresolved"), Unresolved);
1294        assert_eq!(ReasonClass::classify("whatever-new"), Unresolved); // conservative catch-all
1295    }
1296
1297    /// THE CONTROL SPEC §4 ⟨0.24⟩ MAKES A SHOULD: a FABRICATED, off-vocabulary kind must still behave as
1298    /// §2 forward-compatibility requires. Without it, "added a fifth kind" and "stopped checking the kind
1299    /// set" are the same diff — the classifier is one `_ =>` arm away from either.
1300    ///
1301    /// This engine holds the §4 vocabulary ONCE (the raw `kind:detail` string, read back only through
1302    /// `classify`), so there is no typed half here to drift from it. That is why the JVM engine's failure
1303    /// — a string classifier correct on `ambiguous` since July while its typed `Kind` enum lacked the kind
1304    /// entirely, one token classified two ways inside one engine — is not reproducible here. If a typed
1305    /// kind representation is ever added, this test is where its half gets its control.
1306    #[test]
1307    fn off_vocabulary_kinds_round_trip_and_classify_through_the_catch_all() {
1308        use ReasonClass::*;
1309        // A kind no engine emits and no section names. §2: tolerated, and classified CONSERVATIVELY —
1310        // `unresolved`, the catch-all, so a narrowed `Unknown[unresolved]`/`[dynamic]`/`[*]` still bites it.
1311        assert_eq!(ReasonClass::classify("banana:whatever"), Unresolved);
1312        assert_eq!(ReasonClass::classify("banana:dispatch of a banana"), Unresolved,
1313                   "a canonical kind appearing in the DETAIL must not leak into the classification");
1314        // …and it must not be swallowed into a narrower class. These are the four wrong answers.
1315        for wrong in [Reflect, Dispatch, Indirect, Native] {
1316            assert_ne!(ReasonClass::classify("banana:whatever"), wrong);
1317        }
1318        // The five §4 ⟨0.24⟩ kinds all classify, and `ambiguous` is the fifth — pinned beside the
1319        // fabricated one deliberately: one arm chain answers both, so a change that stops distinguishing
1320        // them fails here rather than in the field.
1321        assert_eq!(ReasonClass::classify("reflect:x"), Reflect);
1322        assert_eq!(ReasonClass::classify("native:x"), Native);
1323        assert_eq!(ReasonClass::classify("dispatch:Owner.member"), Dispatch);
1324        assert_eq!(ReasonClass::classify("callback:x"), Indirect);
1325        assert_eq!(ReasonClass::classify("ambiguous:x"), Dispatch);
1326        // ⟨0.24⟩ `dep:<hash>` / `dep-stale:<pkg>` are REGISTERED §4 kinds, not migration ones — swift
1327        // emits them per dependency ENTRY, and this engine CONSUMES swift/ts reports through
1328        // candor-query. §6.2 pins their class as `unresolved`, which is where the catch-all lands them;
1329        // pinned so a future prefix arm cannot move them without saying so.
1330        assert_eq!(ReasonClass::classify("dep:9f2c1a"), Unresolved);
1331        assert_eq!(ReasonClass::classify("dep-stale:somepkg"), Unresolved);
1332    }
1333
1334    #[test]
1335    fn net_destination_class_parses_and_classifies() {
1336        // `Net[unknown-host,known-telemetry]` narrows the Net membership to those destination classes.
1337        let p = parse_policy("deny Net[unknown-host,known-telemetry] dom\n");
1338        let r = &p.rules[0];
1339        assert!(r.effects.contains("Net"));
1340        assert_eq!(r.scope.as_deref(), Some("dom"));
1341        assert_eq!(
1342            r.net_classes,
1343            ["unknown-host", "known-telemetry"].iter().map(|s| s.to_string()).collect()
1344        );
1345        // bare `Net` and `Net[*]` ⇒ empty filter (all destinations).
1346        assert!(parse_policy("deny Net dom\n").rules[0].net_classes.is_empty(), "bare Net ⇒ all");
1347        assert!(parse_policy("deny Net[*] dom\n").rules[0].net_classes.is_empty(), "Net[*] ⇒ all");
1348        // an unknown destination-class is dropped-with-warning → empty filter (behaves like bare Net[*]).
1349        assert!(parse_policy("deny Net[nope] dom\n").rules[0].net_classes.is_empty());
1350        // the classifier: telemetry (subdomain-aware), model host, unresolved, and the config-partner path.
1351        let no_partners = BTreeSet::new();
1352        assert_eq!(crate::net_dest_class("sentry.io", &no_partners), "known-telemetry");
1353        assert_eq!(crate::net_dest_class("us.i.posthog.com", &no_partners), "known-telemetry"); // 0.20.1 corpus-grown
1354        assert_eq!(crate::net_dest_class("o1.ingest.sentry.io", &no_partners), "known-telemetry");
1355        assert_eq!(crate::net_dest_class("api.openai.com", &no_partners), "known-partner", "a model host is known-partner");
1356        assert_eq!(crate::net_dest_class("evil.example.com", &no_partners), "unknown-host");
1357        let partners: BTreeSet<String> = ["api.stripe.com".to_string()].into_iter().collect();
1358        assert_eq!(crate::net_dest_class("api.stripe.com", &partners), "known-partner", "config-declared partner");
1359        assert_eq!(crate::net_dest_class("api.stripe.com", &no_partners), "unknown-host", "partner is config-only");
1360        // `net-partner` config parsing: host-normalized, case-insensitive key, multi-value.
1361        let pset = super::parse_net_partners("net-partner Api.Stripe.com:443\nNET-PARTNER hooks.stripe.com\n");
1362        assert!(pset.contains("api.stripe.com") && pset.contains("hooks.stripe.com"));
1363    }
1364
1365    #[test]
1366    fn allowlist_parses() {
1367        let p = parse_policy(
1368            "allow Net in billing  api.stripe.com  hooks.stripe.com\n\
1369             allow Exec in ci  git\n\
1370             allow Fs in config  /etc/app\n\
1371             allow Net  github.com\n\
1372             allow Clock  whatever\n\
1373             allow Net in nohosts\n\
1374             allow\n",
1375        );
1376        assert_eq!(p.allow_rules.len(), 4); // Clock carries no literal surface — rejected; Db now does
1377        assert_eq!((p.allow_rules[0].effect, p.allow_rules[0].scope.as_deref()), ("Net", Some("billing")));
1378        assert_eq!(
1379            p.allow_rules[0].literals,
1380            ["api.stripe.com", "hooks.stripe.com"].iter().map(|s| s.to_string()).collect()
1381        );
1382        assert_eq!((p.allow_rules[1].effect, p.allow_rules[1].scope.as_deref()), ("Exec", Some("ci")));
1383        assert!(p.allow_rules[1].literals.contains("git"));
1384        assert_eq!((p.allow_rules[2].effect, p.allow_rules[2].scope.as_deref()), ("Fs", Some("config")));
1385        assert_eq!((p.allow_rules[3].effect, p.allow_rules[3].scope.is_none()), ("Net", true));
1386
1387        let set = |xs: &[&str]| xs.iter().map(|s| s.to_string()).collect::<BTreeSet<_>>();
1388        assert!(literal_allowed("Net", "api.stripe.com:443", &set(&["api.stripe.com"])));
1389        // IPv6: a bare literal is matched WHOLE (no first-colon collapse), so a different address in the
1390        // same block is NOT accepted; a bracketed `[host]:port` matches the bare host. (/code-review.)
1391        assert!(literal_allowed("Net", "2001:db8::aa", &set(&["2001:db8::aa"])));
1392        assert!(!literal_allowed("Net", "2001:db8::ff", &set(&["2001:db8::aa"])));
1393        assert!(!literal_allowed("Net", "2001:dead::1", &set(&["2001:db8::aa"])));
1394        assert!(literal_allowed("Net", "[2001:db8::aa]:443", &set(&["2001:db8::aa"])));
1395        assert_eq!(host_part("2001:db8::aa"), "2001:db8::aa");
1396        assert_eq!(host_part("[2001:db8::aa]:443"), "2001:db8::aa");
1397        assert_eq!(host_part("api.stripe.com:443"), "api.stripe.com");
1398        assert!(literal_allowed("Exec", "/usr/bin/git", &set(&["git"])));
1399        assert!(!literal_allowed("Exec", "/usr/bin/curl", &set(&["git"])));
1400        assert!(literal_allowed("Fs", "/etc/app/conf.toml", &set(&["/etc/app"])));
1401        assert!(!literal_allowed("Fs", "/etc/shadow", &set(&["/etc/app"])));
1402        assert_eq!(cmd_base("/usr/bin/git"), "git");
1403    }
1404
1405    #[test]
1406    fn layering_rule_parses() {
1407        let p = parse_policy(
1408            "forbid domain -> infra\n\
1409             forbid  app::web  ->  app::db \n\
1410             forbid domain infra\n\
1411             forbid domain ->\n\
1412             forbid\n",
1413        );
1414        assert_eq!(p.layer_rules.len(), 2);
1415        assert_eq!((p.layer_rules[0].from.as_str(), p.layer_rules[0].to.as_str()), ("domain", "infra"));
1416        assert_eq!((p.layer_rules[1].from.as_str(), p.layer_rules[1].to.as_str()), ("app::web", "app::db"));
1417    }
1418
1419    /// ⟨0.29⟩ `only <A> -> <B> [<C> …]` — the PERMISSION form. The tail is a LIST, which is the whole
1420    /// ergonomic difference from `forbid`; a missing arrow or an EMPTY tail is dropped rather than read
1421    /// as "A may reach nothing", a rule far likelier to be a typo than an intention.
1422    #[test]
1423    fn parses_the_only_permission_form_and_drops_the_malformed() {
1424        let p = parse_policy(
1425            "only model -> util\n\
1426             only  app::web  ->  app::db  app::dto \n\
1427             only model util\n\
1428             only model ->\n\
1429             only\n",
1430        );
1431        assert_eq!(p.only_rules.len(), 2, "the two well-formed lines, and only those");
1432        assert_eq!(p.only_rules[0].from.as_str(), "model");
1433        assert_eq!(p.only_rules[0].to, vec!["util".to_string()]);
1434        assert_eq!(p.only_rules[1].from.as_str(), "app::web");
1435        assert_eq!(p.only_rules[1].to, vec!["app::db".to_string(), "app::dto".to_string()],
1436                   "every token after the arrow is a permitted scope");
1437        // …and an `only` line is a RULE for the zero-rule refusal: a policy holding one is ARMED, so a
1438        // route that counted only deny/allow/forbid would call this file empty and refuse a live gate.
1439        assert!(!p.rules.is_empty() || !p.only_rules.is_empty(),
1440                "an only-only policy must not read as a zero-rule file");
1441    }
1442
1443    #[test]
1444    fn scope_matches_by_segment_not_substring() {
1445        assert!(scope_matches("app::domain::handle", "domain"));
1446        assert!(scope_matches("domain::handle", "domain"));
1447        assert!(scope_matches("app::domain", "domain"));
1448        assert!(scope_matches("crate::domain_logic", "domain"));
1449        assert!(!scope_matches("app::subdomain::handle", "domain"));
1450        assert!(!scope_matches("app::not_my_domain::f", "domain"));
1451        // multi-segment: intermediates exact, last is a prefix, contiguous.
1452        assert!(scope_matches("crate::net::client::send", "net::client"));
1453        assert!(scope_matches("crate::net::client_pool::get", "net::client"));
1454        assert!(!scope_matches("crate::net::server::send", "net::client"));
1455        assert!(!scope_matches("crate::network::client::send", "net::client"));
1456        assert!(!scope_matches("crate::net::x::client", "net::client"));
1457        assert!(!scope_matches("net", "net::client"));
1458        // DOTTED names (JVM/Swift/TS reports `candor-query` consumes): a scope must match across `.` too,
1459        // else a scoped deny/pure rule is silently inert → whatif false-green (gate-evasion). Both a
1460        // `.`-written and a `::`-written scope must match a dotted name.
1461        assert!(scope_matches("com.acme.domain.Pricing.quote", "domain"));
1462        assert!(scope_matches("com.acme.domain.Pricing.quote", "acme.domain"));
1463        assert!(scope_matches("com.acme.domain.Pricing.quote", "acme::domain"));
1464        assert!(scope_matches("com.acme.infra.Net.fetch", "infra.Net"));
1465        assert!(!scope_matches("com.acme.subdomain.h", "domain"));
1466        assert!(!scope_matches("com.acme.domain.h", "infra"));
1467    }
1468
1469    #[test]
1470    fn fs_path_covered_respects_boundaries() {
1471        assert!(fs_path_covered("/etc/app", "/etc/app"));
1472        assert!(fs_path_covered("/etc/app", "/etc/app/cfg.toml"));
1473        assert!(fs_path_covered("/etc/app/", "/etc/app/cfg"));
1474        assert!(!fs_path_covered("/etc/app", "/etc/apppwned"));
1475        assert!(!fs_path_covered("/etc/app", "/etc/application/x"));
1476        assert!(!fs_path_covered("/etc/app/cfg", "/etc/app"));
1477        assert!(!fs_path_covered("/etc/app", "/etc/app/../passwd"));
1478        assert!(fs_path_covered("/", "/etc/app/x"));
1479        assert!(!fs_path_covered("etc/app", "/etc/app/cfg"));
1480        assert!(!fs_path_covered("/etc/app", "etc/app/cfg"));
1481        assert!(fs_path_covered("etc/app", "etc/app/cfg"));
1482    }
1483
1484    /// ⟨0.24⟩ THE PROVABLE-PURITY DISCLOSURE MUST ASK THE GATE WHAT "PASSES" MEANS — SPEC §6.2, and both
1485    /// directions in ONE test, because killing an over-charge is exactly where a silent under-report gets
1486    /// introduced and the fixture proving the fabrication is closed cannot show the reach closed with it.
1487    ///
1488    /// A hole is a function that PASSES its rule while `Unknown`. `unverified_hole_rule` used to compute
1489    /// PASSES from `r.effects` alone — the pre-⟨0.19⟩ question, asked after two rungs gave rules a
1490    /// NARROWING FILTER — so a rule the gate TOLERATES was read here as violated and the hole was DELETED
1491    /// from the disclosure. MEASURED 2026-07-28: `deny Unknown[reflect]` over an `indirect` hole → gate
1492    /// exit 0, `unverified` "every function in a pure/deny layer is PROVABLY clean ✓".
1493    ///
1494    /// ROW 1 (the fix) — the filter does NOT match, so the gate tolerates and this IS a hole.
1495    /// ROW 2 (the mirror) — the SAME rule, SAME function, filter spelled to MATCH: the gate fires, so it
1496    /// is a violation and NOT a hole. Without row 2 the fix is satisfied by a predicate that calls
1497    /// everything a hole, which is the mirror over-report of the thing being fixed.
1498    /// ROW 3 — the ⟨0.20⟩ `Net[dest…]` filter, the same shape on the other narrowing axis.
1499    /// ROW 4 — no filter at all: byte-identical to pre-⟨0.24⟩, which is what keeps conformance PARTs
1500    /// 12c/12d (four-way) from moving.
1501    #[test]
1502    fn a_narrowed_rule_the_gate_tolerates_is_a_hole_and_the_one_it_fires_on_is_not() {
1503        let effs = ["Unknown"];
1504        let indirect: BTreeSet<String> = ["indirect".to_string()].into_iter().collect();
1505        let hole = |src: &str, classes: Option<&BTreeSet<String>>, nets: &[String]| -> Option<String> {
1506            let p = parse_policy(src);
1507            unverified_hole_rule("app::go", &effs, classes, nets, &p.rules).map(|r| rule_and_upgrade(r).1)
1508        };
1509
1510        // ROW 1 — tolerated by the gate (indirect ∉ {reflect}) ⇒ a hole, and the upgrade WIDENS the
1511        // filter rather than appending a second `Unknown`.
1512        assert_eq!(
1513            hole("deny Unknown[reflect]\n", Some(&indirect), &[]).as_deref(),
1514            Some("deny Unknown"),
1515            "a rule the gate TOLERATES leaves the function unproven — that is the disclosure's whole subject"
1516        );
1517
1518        // ROW 2 — THE MIRROR. Same rule, same signature, filter spelled to match: the gate FIRES, so this
1519        // is a violation and the disclosure must stay silent about it.
1520        assert_eq!(
1521            hole("deny Unknown[indirect]\n", Some(&indirect), &[]),
1522            None,
1523            "a rule the gate FIRES on is a violation, not a hole — filter-awareness must not start \
1524             disclosing the gate's own findings back as unproven passes"
1525        );
1526        assert_eq!(hole("deny Unknown[dynamic]\n", Some(&indirect), &[]), None, "`dynamic` covers indirect");
1527
1528        // ROW 3 — the ⟨0.20⟩ destination filter, both ways, on a fn carrying Net BESIDE its Unknown.
1529        let netfn = ["Net".to_string(), "Unknown".to_string()];
1530        let telemetry = vec!["known-telemetry".to_string()];
1531        let p = parse_policy("deny Net[unknown-host]\n");
1532        assert_eq!(
1533            unverified_hole_rule("app::go", &netfn, Some(&indirect), &telemetry, &p.rules)
1534                .map(|r| rule_and_upgrade(r).1)
1535                .as_deref(),
1536            Some("deny Net[unknown-host] Unknown"),
1537            "a `Net[dest…]` the fn's destinations do not match is tolerated, so the Unknown beside it is a hole"
1538        );
1539        let p = parse_policy("deny Net[known-telemetry]\n");
1540        assert_eq!(
1541            unverified_hole_rule("app::go", &netfn, Some(&indirect), &telemetry, &p.rules).map(|r| r.raw.clone()),
1542            None,
1543            "MIRROR: the matching destination filter FIRES, so it is a violation and not a hole"
1544        );
1545
1546        // ROW 4 — UNFILTERED, unchanged. `deny Unknown` fires on every Unknown (never a hole); `pure` and
1547        // `deny Fs` pass a fn with no real effect (always a hole) — the forms PARTs 12c/12d pin four-way.
1548        assert_eq!(hole("deny Unknown\n", Some(&indirect), &[]), None);
1549        assert_eq!(hole("pure\n", Some(&indirect), &[]).as_deref(), Some("deny Unknown"));
1550        assert_eq!(hole("deny Net Db  domain\ndeny Fs\n", Some(&indirect), &[]).as_deref(), Some("deny Fs Unknown"));
1551        assert_eq!(
1552            hole("deny Net Db  go\n", Some(&indirect), &[]).as_deref(),
1553            Some("deny Db Net Unknown go"),
1554            "the sorted multi-effect upgrade PART 12c-deny pins in all four engines"
1555        );
1556
1557        // A WITHHELD filter — no class set to read — counts as PASSING, so the hole is disclosed rather
1558        // than dropped. The gate withholds there too; between an advisory note that speaks and one that
1559        // goes quiet over a rule that never ran, only the first stays true.
1560        assert_eq!(hole("deny Unknown[reflect]\n", None, &[]).as_deref(), Some("deny Unknown"));
1561    }
1562}
1563
1564// ── ⟨0.27⟩ SPEC §3.4 `engine` — the engine↔baseline coupling ─────────────────────────────────────
1565/// What an `engine` pin says about the build that is running. Data, not a print-and-exit, so every
1566/// branch is testable — including the two that MUST NOT change the exit code.
1567#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
1568pub enum PinVerdict {
1569    /// No pin, or a pin qualified for another implementation. Today's behaviour, exactly.
1570    Absent,
1571    Match,
1572    /// A different version — the engine↔baseline coupling is broken. Exit 2 (UNEVALUABLE, never 1).
1573    Mismatch,
1574    /// Present but unreadable (`engine latest`, a bare `engine`, trailing junk). Exit 2: a pin that
1575    /// cannot be read is a guard the operator believes is on. This is the one place §6.2's
1576    /// warn-and-skip posture INVERTS — skipping a key that ADDS something costs that key; skipping a
1577    /// PIN costs the guard.
1578    Malformed,
1579    /// Well-formed, and this build cannot state its own release. UNANSWERABLE — §3.1's rule applies:
1580    /// disclosed, never scored, INCLUDING as satisfied.
1581    Undetermined,
1582}
1583
1584/// The pin that applies to `impl_name` — the qualified form wins over the unqualified one, and the
1585/// LAST occurrence wins (matching candor-java's map semantics). Two lines that DISAGREE about the same
1586/// key return a value that cannot parse, so they surface as [`PinVerdict::Malformed`] rather than one
1587/// silently discarding the other: two lines disagreeing about which engine to run is not a preference
1588/// to resolve, it is a question the config leaves unanswered.
1589pub fn engine_pin_for(text: &str, impl_name: &str) -> Option<String> {
1590    const IMPLS: [&str; 5] = ["java", "rust", "ts", "swift", "agents"];
1591    let (mut wild, mut qual): (Option<String>, Option<String>) = (None, None);
1592    let mut bad = false;
1593    for raw in text.lines() {
1594        let line = raw.split('#').next().unwrap_or("").trim();
1595        if line.is_empty() {
1596            continue;
1597        }
1598        let mut it = line.split_whitespace();
1599        if !it.next().is_some_and(|k| k.eq_ignore_ascii_case("engine")) {
1600            continue;
1601        }
1602        let rest: Vec<&str> = it.collect();
1603        let slot = |cur: &mut Option<String>, v: String| {
1604            if cur.as_ref().is_some_and(|p| *p != v) {
1605                *cur = Some(format!("{} / {v}", cur.as_ref().unwrap()));
1606            } else {
1607                *cur = Some(v);
1608            }
1609        };
1610        // A KNOWN QUALIFIER DECIDES OWNERSHIP BEFORE ARITY. Checking the one-token case first made `engine swift` a WILDCARD pin whose version is the literal "swift" -> MALFORMED -> exit 2 in every engine, so one operator forgetting a version on a qualified line killed the whole family. SPEC 3.4 says the skip is whole-line 'whatever follows it' -- and nothing following it is a case of that too.
1611        if let Some(head) = rest.first() {
1612            if IMPLS.contains(&head.to_ascii_lowercase().as_str()) {
1613                if head.eq_ignore_ascii_case(impl_name) {
1614                    if rest.len() == 2 { slot(&mut qual, rest[1].to_string()); } else { bad = true; }
1615                }
1616                continue;                                     // another impl's line, whatever follows it
1617            }
1618        }
1619        match rest.len() {
1620            0 => bad = true,                                  // a bare `engine` line
1621            1 => slot(&mut wild, rest[0].to_string()),        // engine <version>
1622            _ => bad = true,                                  // trailing junk / unknown qualifier
1623        }
1624    }
1625    if bad {
1626        return Some("<unreadable>".to_string());
1627    }
1628    // AN UNREADABLE UNQUALIFIED LINE IS NOT HIDDEN BY A QUALIFIED PIN. `qual ?? wild` returned the qua
1629    // lified value, so `engine garbage` beside a good qualified line passed SILENTLY here while candor-java ex
1630    // ited 2 — the exact mirror of the bug just fixed in java, four engines the other way. Unreadability is a property of the LINE; precedence only decides which VERSION applies.
1631    if let Some(w) = &wild {
1632        if normalize_version(w).is_none() { return Some(w.clone()); }
1633    }
1634    qual.or(wild)
1635}
1636
1637/// [`PinVerdict`] for `pin` against `running`. Pure: no printing, no exit.
1638pub fn pin_verdict(pin: Option<&str>, running: &str) -> PinVerdict {
1639    let Some(pin) = pin else { return PinVerdict::Absent };
1640    let Some(want) = normalize_version(pin) else { return PinVerdict::Malformed };
1641    if running.trim().is_empty() || running == "unknown" {
1642        return PinVerdict::Undetermined;
1643    }
1644    if want == normalize_version(running).unwrap_or_else(|| running.trim().to_string()) {
1645        PinVerdict::Match
1646    } else {
1647        PinVerdict::Mismatch
1648    }
1649}
1650
1651/// A pin token → its comparable form, or None when it is not a version at all. A leading `v` is
1652/// optional (the GitHub-tag `v0.27.0` and the crate `0.27.0` are the same pin) and a two-part `0.27`
1653/// means `0.27.0`. Anything else — `latest`, a branch name — is MALFORMED rather than a version that
1654/// can never match: the difference decides whether the operator reads "wrong version" or "that is not
1655/// a version".
1656fn normalize_version(raw: &str) -> Option<String> {
1657    let s = raw.trim().strip_prefix(['v', 'V']).unwrap_or_else(|| raw.trim());
1658    let parts: Vec<&str> = s.split('.').collect();
1659    if !(parts.len() == 2 || parts.len() == 3) || !parts.iter().all(|p| !p.is_empty() && p.bytes().all(|b| b.is_ascii_digit())) {
1660        return None;
1661    }
1662    Some(if parts.len() == 2 { format!("{s}.0") } else { s.to_string() })
1663}