Compliance Audit — Workplan v1.6 §3 + Phase 1 Stop Conditions¶
Date: 2026-03-04
Auditor: automated (Claude Code)
Scope: telemetry/wal.go, all telemetry/*_test.go files, scripts/portability/, CI workflows
Verdict: COMPLIANT (Phase 1 stop conditions S1–S12 closed; prior WS-1..WS-4 addressed)
Closure provenance: WS-1..WS-4 were implemented in PR #37
(telemetry(portability): complete Phase 1 WAL contract and close WS-1 - WS-4).
1. Normative Clause Matrix¶
Each row maps one normative requirement from v1.6 §3 to the production code that enforces it, the tests that prove it, and the CI / evidence mechanism that captures it at scale.
§3.3 Frame Format & Structural Integrity¶
Clause |
Requirement |
Enforcing Code |
Tests |
CI / Evidence |
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§3.3 frame format |
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All |
Every |
§3.3 structural tail |
Partial frame at EOF is a crash artifact; silently repaired by truncation |
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§3.3 R1 (v1.x) |
First frame |
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§3.3 R2 |
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All 20 crash-harness iterations verify monotonic recovery |
§3.3 R3 |
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§3.3 R4 |
Frame with |
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§3.3 fail-hard log |
Invariant violations logged as |
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All |
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§3.4 Steady-State Detection & Policy¶
Clause |
Requirement |
Enforcing Code |
Tests |
CI / Evidence |
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§3.4 steady-state detection |
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§3.4 |
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Implicit: |
S11 stop condition checked; verified in operator reset tests |
§3.4 first-run |
No safe_seq + no other state → OK (no error, no warning) |
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First |
§3.4 steady-state fail-hard |
Steady + no safe_seq + no override → |
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§3.4 legacy upgrade |
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S7 stop condition closed |
§3.4.1 operator reset |
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S12 stop condition closed; slog capture is tested |
§3.5 Option B — Safe-Point Mechanism¶
Clause |
Requirement |
Enforcing Code |
Tests |
CI / Evidence |
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§3.5 encoding |
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§3.5 corrupt safe_seq |
Wrong-length file → fail-hard (never silently tolerated) |
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S4 stop condition closed |
§3.5 temp-then-rename atomicity |
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Core matrix step 4 (atomic rename check); |
§3.5 MUST ordering step 1 |
WAL |
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S8 stop condition closed (see WS-1 below re: ordering coverage) |
§3.5 MUST ordering step 2 |
tmp write → tmp fsync |
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Implicit in every crash harness iteration |
§3.5 MUST ordering step 3 |
tmp fsync → rename |
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Atomic rename test in core matrix |
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§3.5 monotonicity |
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Crash harness invariant: |
§3.5 safe_seq after recovery |
On reopened WAL, |
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Crash harness per-iteration assertion |
§3.6 Directory Fsync Policy¶
Clause |
Requirement |
Enforcing Code |
Tests |
CI / Evidence |
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§3.6 dir fsync after rename |
Parent directory MUST be fsynced after |
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S9 stop condition closed; |
§3.6 NOT after WAL append |
No dir fsync after |
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Implicit: append path does not call |
Correct by code inspection; no superfluous dir fsyncs measured |
§3.5 / §3.4 ReadFrom Correctness¶
Clause |
Requirement |
Enforcing Code |
Tests |
CI / Evidence |
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R5 (no phantoms) |
After |
Truncation ( |
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Crash harness: every iteration calls |
§3.5 corrupt JSON fail-hard |
Structurally valid frame with unparseable JSON in committed range → |
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S5 stop condition closed |
2. Phase 1 Stop Conditions Verification¶
ID |
Condition |
Status |
Test |
Code Location |
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S1 |
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✅ CLOSED |
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S2 |
Recovery truncates to safe-point, not structural boundary |
✅ CLOSED |
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S3 |
No phantom entries survive recovery |
✅ CLOSED |
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Truncation before open-for-append |
S4 |
Corrupt |
✅ CLOSED |
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S5 |
Malformed JSON in valid frame → |
✅ CLOSED |
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S6 |
Seq gap in committed range → |
✅ CLOSED |
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S7 |
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✅ CLOSED |
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S8 |
WAL |
✅ CLOSED* |
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S9 |
Dir fsync after |
✅ CLOSED |
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S10 |
All pre-existing |
✅ CLOSED |
82/82 tests pass |
Entire test suite |
S11 |
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✅ CLOSED |
Implicit; |
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S12 |
Operator reset: |
✅ CLOSED |
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S8 has an indirect test only — see WS-1 below.
3. Weak Spots & Gaps (Status)¶
Ordered by severity: P1 = blocking for release; P2 = should fix before Phase 2 launch; P3 = documentation or minor.
WS-1 (P2) — S8 ordering is not directly asserted at the unit level (CLOSED)¶
What: S8 requires WAL fsync to complete before writeSafeSeq is called.
The code is correct (wal.go:300 before wal.go:306) but the only test
covering this is indirect: TestCrash_BetweenWALFsyncAndSafeSeqWrite proves
that a crash at the S3 window leaves the right recovery state; it does NOT
assert that w.file.Sync() returns before writeSafeSeq starts.
Risk: A future refactor that reorders or batches these calls (e.g., goroutine-based safe-point batching in Phase 2) could silently violate the MUST ordering.
Resolution: Added test-only hooks in WAL (onWalSynced, onSafeSeqAdvanced) and direct ordering test TestAppend_Ordering_WALSyncBeforeSafeSeq asserting exact order ["sync","safe"].
WS-2 (P2) — scanFramesWithSafe misidentifies root cause when corrupt JSON appears before safe_seq (CLOSED)¶
What: If a frame with invalid JSON payload appears within the committed
range (Seq ≤ safe_seq), scanFramesWithSafe treats it as errTruncatedTail
and breaks the scan loop (wal.go:600–604). After the loop: maxSeq < safeSeq,
triggering SAFESEQ_GT_MAXSEQ; but the actual fault is a corrupt frame in
the committed range.
Trace:
WAL: [Seq=1 OK][Seq=2 BAD_JSON][Seq=3][safe_seq=3]
scan: reads Seq=1 → ok. reads Seq=2 → bad JSON → err=errTruncatedTail, break
post-scan: safeSeq=3, maxSeq=1, safeSeq > maxSeq → SAFESEQ_GT_MAXSEQ
The error message says "safe_seq=3 > maxSeq=1" which obscures the true cause (corrupt frame 2).
Risk: Operator confusion during incident response. The operator might incorrectly diagnose a safe_seq file problem when the actual issue is storage corruption.
Resolution: Scanner now fail-hards immediately on malformed JSON in a structurally complete frame with cause WAL_CORRUPT_INVALID_JSON, before SAFESEQ_GT_MAXSEQ post-checks. Added TestScanFramesWithSafe_CorruptJSON_FailHardSpecificCause.
WS-3 (P3) — telemetry.safe_seq.tmp leftover never proactively cleaned (CLOSED)¶
What: If writeSafeSeq crashes between os.OpenFile(tmp) and
os.Rename(tmp, target), the .tmp file accumulates on disk across reboots.
TestCrash_SafeSeqTmpLeftover_OpenWAL_Succeeds proves this is safe
(the stale .tmp does not corrupt recovery). However, the .tmp file is
never cleaned up.
Risk: Minor: disk clutter in long-running deployments; potential confusion for operators checking the WAL directory.
Resolution: OpenWAL now best-effort removes safe_seq.tmp only when canonical safe_seq exists. Added tests:
TestOpenWAL_RemovesTmpWhenCanonicalExistsTestOpenWAL_LeavesTmpWhenCanonicalMissing
WS-4 (P3) — otherStateExists extension protocol not documented; implicit closed list (CLOSED)¶
What: otherStateExists checks exactly 3 paths: lock.fingerprint,
activation/, runtime.db. If a future component adds a new significant
runtime state file (e.g., policy.db, activation.lock), the function must
be manually updated or the steady-state guarantee weakens
(first-run detection becomes incorrect for that state).
Risk: Silent regression: new state file added; WAL mistakenly opened in first-run mode on a recovery; safe_seq missing not detected as steady-state.
Resolution: Added extension-protocol guidance directly above
otherStateExists in wal.go, explicitly requiring new persisted runtime
state checks to be registered there and reiterating that telemetry.pos
is excluded.
4. Non-Blocking Observations (Informational)¶
These are not weak spots but are worth noting for review context.
OBS-1: safe_seq=0 is a valid committed value.
readSafeSeq explicitly documents this (wal.go:482:
“Zero (seq=0) is a valid committed safe-point”). The distinction between
“found=false” (missing file) and “found=true, seq=0” is correctly preserved.
Tests: TestReadSafeSeq_ZeroSeq_IsValid.
OBS-2: R3 guard has an intentional asymmetry. wal.go:649:
if safeSeq > 0 && maxSeq > 0 && safeSeq > maxSeq.
When maxSeq == 0 (empty WAL) and safeSeq > 0, the R3 check is skipped;
R4 (bytesAtSafe == 0) fires instead. This is correct: an empty WAL with
a non-zero safe_seq is best reported as SAFESEQ_NOT_FOUND
(the frame doesn’t exist), not SAFESEQ_GT_MAXSEQ (a reorder bug).
Documented in TestScanFramesWithSafe_SafeSeqNotFound.
OBS-3: Append increments seq before write.
If Write or Sync fails, seq was already incremented but no frame was
written. The next successful Append would produce a seq gap.
However, OpenWAL resets w.seq.Store(maxSeq) on reopen, so the gap only
persists within a single crashed WAL instance. Standard practice is to close
and reopen after any failed Append. Not a new concern; pre-existing behavior.
OBS-4: legacyUpgradeEnvVar performs no gap check on the legacy WAL.
When AUTONOMYOPS_WAL_LEGACY_UPGRADE=1, all frames up to validBytes are
treated as committed with safePoint=0; gap checking is not performed on
pre-Phase-1 WAL content. A genuinely gapped legacy WAL would be accepted.
This is acceptable for Phase 1 (the env var is a one-shot migration escape
hatch), but Phase 2 should consider adding a WARNING-level gap scan on the
legacy path.
OBS-5: WAL rotation not implemented.
maxSize = 64 MiB is tracked but no rotation logic exists. If exceeded,
writes continue. This is documented as deferred to Phase 2.
No compliance impact for Phase 1.
5. Proposed Follow-Up Actions (Minimal, PR-ready)¶
ID |
Priority |
Type |
Action |
Estimated Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
FU-1 |
P2 |
Test |
Direct Append ordering assertion ( |
CLOSED |
FU-2 |
P2 |
Code |
Specific scanner cause for malformed JSON ( |
CLOSED |
FU-3 |
P3 |
Code |
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CLOSED |
FU-4 |
P3 |
Docs |
Extension protocol note above |
CLOSED |
FU-1 through FU-4 are implemented; no remaining weak-spot follow-ups are required for Phase 1 closure.
6. CI Coverage Summary¶
Coverage Dimension |
Mechanism |
Gap? |
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Unit correctness |
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None |
Race detector |
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None |
Randomized crash recovery |
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None |
Cross-arch (amd64, arm64) |
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riscv64 is QEMU / informational only |
Cross-FS (ext4, xfs) |
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xfs requires root; informational on non-root CI |
Evidence artifact |
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Correct; schema documents all invariants |
Release gate |
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Only gates on tag push; nightly is advisory |
This document was generated from static analysis of telemetry/wal.go and telemetry/*_test.go. Last verified against commit state 2026-03-04.