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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	0e10f6bb8a	feat(rules)!: retire the always-on tier — every rule arrives by retrieval (#394) ... Milestone 394, steps 5-8. Operator: "remove the always on rule functionality as the goal was to not have it at all since it didn't seem to work as expected." Unconditional preload had three failures the retrieval arms do not. It could not be MEASURED — a resident rule is in the context whether or not it mattered, so nothing distinguished "this governed the act" from "this was scenery", and it was the one surface structurally exempt from the scoreboard judging every other. It was SUMMARISED AWAY by compaction while the session went on believing it held the rules. And it CROWDED OUT the few rules that applied with the thirty that did not. WHAT GOES Schema (0100): rules.tier + ck_rules_tier, rule_versions.tier, rulebooks.always_on, and project_rulebook_exclusions — a table recording a project's opt-out of something that no longer binds it unasked. Tools: list_always_on_rules, exclude_always_on_rulebook, include_always_on_rulebook. Service: the same three plus rules_etag_for, _valid_tier and the whole etag family. The SessionStart preload and the write-path staleness arm go with them: nothing is resident, so nothing can have drifted since a session loaded it. THREE CALLS WORTH REVIEWING enter_project got NARROWER, not wider. Its filter was `always_on OR area-tagged`; dropping the tier arm leaves the deterministic half, so a project with no canonical-tagged Systems gets no bulk rules and reaches them by retrieval instead. Dropping the whole clause would have made that payload bigger than the preload this milestone deletes. Backups import tolerantly. A pre-394 archive carries tier, always_on and the retired inception choice; none is read, and the exclusion key is DROPPED rather than remapped, because restoring it would write data that validate_inception now rejects as unknown. The migration is irreversible in the way that matters and says so: downgrade recreates the columns at their defaults and cannot restore which rules were always-on. A value invented to fill a hole is not a measurement. THE INSTRUCTION SURFACES SAY THE HARDER THING Deleting "call list_always_on_rules()" is easy; replacing it is not, because the new model asks a session to trust something it cannot see. All three surfaces now say a session holds nothing, that rules arrive when work matches them, and — the half that got dangerous — that "no rule arrived" means "nothing matched", never "there is no rule". Under residency an empty session was rare and suspicious; it is now the ordinary state of most turns, so reading it as permission is wrong on nearly every turn rather than occasionally. That is #3720's defect at session scale. test_instruction_surfaces_agree is repointed rather than retired: its two halves collapsed into one instruction, and it gains a guard that every surface states what absence means. _INSTRUCTIONS is back at 1999/2000 — the inception clause paid for the longer HOW line. UI (rule 27, and the opportunity step 8 named) The tier selector is gone, and what replaces it is the point: `when_to_apply` is now the field that decides whether a rule is ever seen, so the editor marks it required, warns while it is empty, and both rule lists badge a trigger-less rule "never surfaces". A rule without one is not quiet, it is unreachable. TESTS Two files deleted outright — test_rules_etag.py and test_inception_rules.py tested subsystems that no longer exist. Elsewhere obsolete cases were removed and the rest repointed. One deserves naming: the wiring test asserted the act arms pass no `tier`, which had become an assertion that could not fail. It is repointed onto `kind`, which does still exist and where the same claim is live — a preference must reach a write exactly as a rule does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011cPyzNnegXHr5iRMzzy5KJ	2026-09-11 16:22:17 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	410d616c22	feat(rules): the staleness sweep — which standing rules assert a fact nobody has confirmed (#3097, milestone 312 step 3) ... The query the last two steps were storage for. `rules_due_for_verification` returns every rule carrying a `verify_with`, ordered by `verified_at` ASC NULLS FIRST, each row carrying the check IN FULL — the opposite call from rule_brief, because the reader is about to go and run it. NULLS FIRST is the ordering this turns on. Postgres sorts NULLs last on an ASC ordering, which would put the rules nobody has ever confirmed BEHIND every rule someone once looked at. Exactly backwards: a claim with no evidence at all outranks an old one. Rules with no check never appear, and that is the property that keeps the list worth reading. Most rules are decisions — no truth value, nothing to go and check. If they appeared here the sweep would be the rulebook. `mark_rule_verified(rule_id, still_true)` closes the loop, asymmetrically: passing writes a stamp, FAILING WRITES NOTHING. There is no "verified false" state because a rule whose check failed is not in a special condition, it is wrong — and recording the failure as a flag would let it sit there being false with the sweep satisfied that someone had looked. So it stays at the top until someone corrects or retires it, and the response says so. An unrecognised `tier` filter raises rather than falling back. _valid_tier's silent always_on default is right for a WRITE — a typo should leave a rule binding — and wrong for a FILTER, where the same fallback quietly answers a different question and returns a short list that reads as good news. Deliberately NOT filterable by project: a project reaches rules through project scope, subscriptions, always-on rulebooks and exclusions, and a filter missing one of those paths would UNDER-report — the exact failure this surface exists to prevent. Said so in the docstring rather than shipping a half-correct filter. Ownership-scoped like every other rule read (owned rulebook, or owned project), in ONE statement with an OR across the XOR rather than two queries merged in Python, so the ordering is the database's and cannot disagree with itself. Note that rules have no sharing ACL in this schema — no rule_shares, no rulebook_shares — so there is no wider set for access.py to consult here. Also fixes a test title that had been lying for ten tools: "all sixteen tools" asserted 26. The number now lives only in the assertion. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-27 10:49:47 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	c61925be76	feat(rules): the write path carries a rule's check, and empty finally means empty (#3096, milestone 312 step 2) ... verify_with / expires_when now reach a rule through both doors and come back on every read. The open question this step existed to settle was how to UNSET a nullable field, and the answer is one convention per door: - MCP: "" still means "leave unchanged" — an agent filling three fields must not wipe the other five — so clearing is explicit, clear_fields=["..."]. Naming the field is the one form that cannot happen by accident. - REST: a cleared form input arrives as "", and the service normalises "" to NULL for every nullable rule column, so an emptied input does what it looks like it does. Two idioms, one outcome, and the normalisation is what makes the step-3 sweep correct: `verify_with IS NOT NULL` would otherwise be true for every rule ever touched through the UI, and the sweep would list the whole rulebook and mean nothing. to_dict renders "" and NULL identically, so this is only visible against a real column — hence the integration module rather than a mock. Editing verify_with drops verified_at. A stamp certifies A CHECK, not a rule; reword the check and the old stamp vouches for something that no longer exists. Safe direction, same asymmetry as _valid_tier: a rule wrongly listed as due costs one look, a rule wrongly vouched for costs the thing the sweep exists to catch. Editing anything else leaves the stamp alone, or a rulebook tidy-up would reset every constraint and the ordering would carry nothing. Reads: rule_brief attaches `last_verified` ONLY to a rule that carries a check — its presence is the signal, and it says both "this asserts a fact that can go false" and "here is how long ago anyone confirmed it". "never" rather than null, per #2483. The check text itself stays in get_rule; a listing needs to know which rules can rot, not how to test them. Search hits carry the full trio, since a hit is exactly the moment someone is about to act on a rule. Also folds in the #3078 finding, which had been sitting as a note: create_rule now teaches that when_to_apply is the retrieval surface and must carry the SYMPTOM — the words you would type while stuck — not just the situation. fake_rule gains the three fields as None for the reason the helper already documents one line up: unnamed, verify_with is a truthy MagicMock and every stand-in rule would claim a check it does not have. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-27 09:28:03 -04:00