Document the Audita v3.0.0 release

.gitignore

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+# --> Python
 .DS_Store
 .venv/
 __pycache__/
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 build/
 *.egg-info/
 
+# ---> Codex
+.codex
+
+# ---> Go
+# If you prefer the allow list template instead of the deny list, see community template:
+# https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/community/Golang/Go.AllowList.gitignore
+#
+# Binaries for programs and plugins
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+*.exe~
+*.dll
+*.so
+*.dylib
+
+# Test binary, built with `go test -c`
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+
+# Output of the go coverage tool, specifically when used with LiteIDE
+*.out
+
+# Dependency directories (remove the comment below to include it)
+# vendor/
+
+# Go workspace file
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+
+# env file
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+
+# Compiled binaries and test configuration
+narratio
+local-test
+pipeline.yml
+bin/
+
+# Local run artifacts
+.audita-runs/
+report.json
+corrected.json
+normalized.json
+
+# Coverage artifacts
+coverage.out
+coverage.txt
+
+# ---> VisualStudioCode
+.vscode/*
+!.vscode/settings.json
+!.vscode/tasks.json
+!.vscode/launch.json
+!.vscode/extensions.json
+!.vscode/*.code-snippets
+
+# Local History for Visual Studio Code
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+# Built Visual Studio Code Extensions
+*.vsix

.woodpecker/release.yml

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+when:
+  - event: tag
+
+steps:
+  - name: build-release-assets
+    image: golang:1.25.5
+    commands:
+      - bash scripts/build-release.sh "$CI_COMMIT_TAG" dist
+
+  - name: publish-release
+    image: woodpeckerci/plugin-release
+    depends_on:
+      - build-release-assets
+    settings:
+      api_key:
+        from_secret: GITEA_RELEASE_TOKEN
+      files:
+        - dist/audita-*-linux-amd64
+        - dist/audita-*-linux-arm64
+      note: docs/releases/${CI_COMMIT_TAG}.md
+      checksum: sha256
+      checksum-file: SHA256SUMS
+      checksum-flatten: true
+      file-exists: skip
+      overwrite: false
+      prerelease: false

AGENTS.md

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+Start with `docs/development.md` for orientation and use its policy reading guide
+to select the policies applicable to the task. Do not read the entire suite by
+default.
+
+Read and follow `docs/policy/agents.md` before recommending, planning, or
+implementing repository changes.

COPYRIGHT

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+Audita
+
+Copyright (C) 2026 Eric Rakestraw
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+Audita is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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README.md

@@ -1,148 +1,62 @@
 # Audita
 
-Audita is a framework-first transcript correction application. The public `audita` package provides:
+Audita polishes transcript JSON using glossary-aware and LLM-backed correction
+modules. It validates proposed corrections and produces corrected text plus
+reports for review and subprocess integration.
 
-- deterministic transcript normalization
-- token-batched module orchestration
-- concrete `glossary`, `homophones`, `spoken_word`, and `grammar` modules built on reusable proposal / validator contracts
-- structured run reporting and work-dir diagnostics
+## Quickstart
 
-The previous working implementation has been preserved as `audita_prototype` inside this repository. Its full regression suite lives under `tests/audita_prototype`.
-
-## Development
-
-This project is set up for `uv`.
+From a checkout, build with Go 1.25.5 or newer:
 
 ```sh
-uv sync --extra dev
-uv run pytest
+go build -o ./bin/audita ./cmd/audita
 ```
 
-## Usage
+Processing requires a reachable [compatible LLM endpoint](docs/integrations/openai-compatible-llm.md)
+and access to a model you select. The [minimal config](examples/minimal-config.yml)
+targets an unauthenticated local endpoint; edit its endpoint and
+[local profiles](examples/profiles/local/) to match your service and models. The
+[service example](examples/production-config.yml) demonstrates a named credential
+reference and a shared backend. Set its referenced environment variable before
+validating it. The [testing overlay](examples/overlays/testing.yml) selects both
+role profiles, but model cost, speed, and quality depend on your provider choices.
 
-Process a transcript with the current framework implementation:
+Check configuration and profile selection offline:
 
 ```sh
-uv run audita process transcript.json --glossary glossary.yaml --output corrected.json
+./bin/audita config validate --config examples/minimal-config.yml
+./bin/audita config print-effective --config examples/minimal-config.yml --view profiles
 ```
 
-The framework currently runs this default module sequence:
-
-1. `glossary`
-2. `homophones`
-3. `glossary`
-4. `spoken_word`
-5. `grammar`
-
-Resolved run instance names are auto-numbered for repeats, so the default report pipeline is:
-
-1. `glossary_1`
-2. `homophones`
-3. `glossary_2`
-4. `spoken_word`
-5. `grammar`
-
-The default module sequence is fully implemented today:
-
-- `glossary` proposes glossary-supported acoustic corrections
-- `homophones` proposes conservative homophone and mistranscription corrections
-- `spoken_word` proposes conservative dysfluency cleanup
-- `grammar` proposes punctuation, capitalization, and spacing cleanup only
-
-To run a custom module sequence, pass `--modules`:
+Run the included small input with the minimal config:
 
 ```sh
-uv run audita process transcript.json --glossary glossary.yaml --modules grammar --output corrected.json
+./bin/audita process examples/tiny-transcript.json \
+  --config examples/minimal-config.yml \
+  --glossary examples/tiny-glossary.yaml \
+  --output corrected.json
 ```
 
-To also write a structured JSON report:
+This makes LLM requests. Explicit setting flags override the selected file and
+optional overlay; general environment setting overrides are no longer read.
+By default the command writes `errors.yml`, `recoveries.yml`, and `report.md`
+beside `corrected.json`. Use `--reporting=false` to suppress those files, or
+`--debug` to retain detailed run artifacts under the configured debug work
+directory. Model failures affecting some operations can still yield a completed
+transcript with applied corrections; the summary and reports identify them.
+See the [v2 migration guide](docs/migrations/v2.md) for old configurations.
 
-```sh
-uv run audita process transcript.json --glossary glossary.yaml --output corrected.json --report-json report.json
-```
+## Documentation
 
-From a checked-out repository, you can also use the root launcher:
+- [CLI reference](docs/cli.md)
+- [Configuration and maintained examples](docs/config.md)
+- [Operations and artifact lifecycle](docs/operations.md)
+- [Transcript and glossary inputs](docs/integrations/transcript-glossary-files.md)
+- [Output files and report formats](docs/integrations/output-files.md)
+- [Subprocess integration](docs/integrations/subprocess.md)
+- [LLM endpoint contract](docs/integrations/openai-compatible-llm.md)
+- [Contributor guide](docs/development.md)
 
-```sh
-./audita process transcript.json --glossary glossary.yaml --output corrected.json
-```
+Audita is licensed under the [GPL v3.0 or later](COPYRIGHT).
 
-For a system-wide command, install the source tree under `/usr/local/src/audita`, sync dependencies there, and symlink the root launcher into your `PATH`:
-
-```sh
-cd /usr/local/src/audita
-uv sync --extra dev
-ln -s /usr/local/src/audita/audita /usr/local/bin/audita
-audita process transcript.json --glossary glossary.yaml --output corrected.json
-```
-
-Without `--output`, Audita writes the corrected transcript JSON to stdout and progress logs to stderr.
-`--report-json` writes a separate machine-readable run report and never mixes report data into stdout.
-
-Useful configuration can be supplied by CLI flag or environment variable. CLI flags take precedence over environment variables. Default OpenRouter runs require LLM API credentials, because the `glossary`, `homophones`, `spoken_word`, and `grammar` modules make real LLM calls. Self-hosted or other non-default OpenAI-compatible endpoints may not require credentials. `AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY` and `--llm-api-key` are the preferred provider-neutral credential surfaces, while `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` remains supported as a backward-compatible fallback.
-
-| Environment variable | CLI flag | Default | Purpose |
-| --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `AUDITA_MODULES` | `--modules` | `glossary,homophones,glossary,spoken_word,grammar` | Comma-separated logical module keys to run; CLI overrides the environment value |
-| `AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY` | `--llm-api-key` | unset | Preferred provider-neutral LLM API credential; required for the default OpenRouter endpoint and optional for non-default endpoints; CLI overrides both environment-key variants |
-| `AUDITA_VALIDATION_LLM_API_KEY` | `--validation-llm-api-key` | unset | Validation-phase LLM API credential; defaults to the primary LLM API key and is optional for non-default validation endpoints |
-| `AUDITA_MODEL` | `--model` | `openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it` | LLM model name sent to the configured OpenAI-compatible endpoint |
-| `AUDITA_VALIDATION_MODEL` | `--validation-model` | unset | Validation-phase LLM model; defaults to `AUDITA_MODEL` |
-| `AUDITA_BASE_URL` | `--base-url` | `https://openrouter.ai/api/v1` | OpenAI-compatible API base URL |
-| `AUDITA_VALIDATION_BASE_URL` | `--validation-base-url` | unset | Validation-phase OpenAI-compatible API base URL; defaults to `AUDITA_BASE_URL` |
-| `AUDITA_LLM_TIMEOUT_SECONDS` | `--llm-timeout-seconds` | `600` | Per-request timeout in seconds for LLM calls to the configured OpenAI-compatible endpoint |
-| `AUDITA_VALIDATION_LLM_TIMEOUT_SECONDS` | `--validation-llm-timeout-seconds` | unset | Validation-phase per-request timeout in seconds; defaults to `AUDITA_LLM_TIMEOUT_SECONDS` |
-| `AUDITA_VALIDATION_MAX_PROMPT_TOKENS` | `--validation-max-prompt-tokens` | `2048` | Maximum estimated tokens per validation-phase LLM prompt batch |
-| `AUDITA_TARGET_SECTIONS` | `--target-sections` | unset | Exact number of contiguous proposal-stage transcript sections; errors if min/max token bounds cannot be satisfied |
-| `AUDITA_MAX_RETRIES` | `--max-retries` | `3` | Maximum Instructor retries for structured responses |
-| `AUDITA_VALIDATION_MAX_RETRIES` | `--validation-max-retries` | unset | Validation-phase structured-output retries; defaults to `AUDITA_MAX_RETRIES` |
-| `AUDITA_VALIDATION_LLM_CONCURRENCY` | `--validation-llm-concurrency` | unset | Validation-phase LLM concurrency; defaults to `AUDITA_LLM_CONCURRENCY` |
-| `AUDITA_MAX_SECTION_TOKENS` | `--max-section-tokens` | `8192` | Maximum estimated tokens per proposal-stage transcript section |
-| `AUDITA_MIN_SECTION_TOKENS` | `--min-section-tokens` | `2048` | Minimum estimated tokens per proposal-stage transcript section when balancing for concurrency |
-| `AUDITA_GLOSSARY_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD` | `--glossary-confidence-threshold` | `0.8` | Minimum confidence required for glossary proposals to survive validation |
-| `AUDITA_GRAMMAR_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD` | `--grammar-confidence-threshold` | `0.8` | Minimum confidence required for grammar proposals to survive validation |
-| `AUDITA_HOMOPHONES_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD` | `--homophones-confidence-threshold` | `0.8` | Minimum confidence required for homophone proposals to survive validation |
-| `AUDITA_SPOKEN_WORD_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD` | `--spoken-word-confidence-threshold` | `0.8` | Minimum confidence required for spoken-word proposals to survive validation |
-| `AUDITA_NORMALIZE_MAX_SEGMENT_GAP` | `--normalize-max-segment-gap` | `4.0` | Same-speaker gaps eligible for deterministic merging |
-| `AUDITA_NORMALIZE_ELLIPSIS_GAP` | `--normalize-ellipsis-gap` | `3.5` | Same-speaker gaps above this value are joined with ` ... ` |
-| `AUDITA_NORMALIZE_MAX_SEGMENT_DURATION` | `--normalize-max-segment-duration` | `60.0` | Maximum merged segment duration |
-| `AUDITA_NORMALIZE_MAX_SEGMENT_TOKENS` | `--normalize-max-segment-tokens` | `2048` | Maximum merged segment prompt payload size |
-| `AUDITA_WORK_DIR` | `--work-dir` | `/tmp/audita` | Per-run scratch diagnostics directory |
-| `AUDITA_WORK_DIR_RETENTION` | `--work-dir-retention` | `auto` | Whether to retain the per-run work directory: `auto`, `always`, or `never` |
-
-Set `AUDITA_MODULES=grammar` to run only the grammar module by default, or override it per command with `--modules`.
-
-Validation-phase LLM settings inherit from the primary `AUDITA_*` LLM settings by default. Set any of the `AUDITA_VALIDATION_*` values only when you want LLM-backed validators to use a different model, endpoint, credential, timeout, retry budget, or concurrency level.
-
-OpenRouter remains the default out of the box:
-
-```sh
-export AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY=your-openrouter-key
-audita process transcript.json --glossary glossary.yaml --output corrected.json
-```
-
-You can point Audita at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint by changing `AUDITA_BASE_URL` and, if needed, `AUDITA_MODEL`. For example, a local vLLM server:
-
-```sh
-export AUDITA_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8000/v1
-export AUDITA_MODEL=meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
-audita process transcript.json --glossary glossary.yaml --output corrected.json
-```
-
-If your self-hosted endpoint requires authentication, you can still set `AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY`; Audita simply no longer requires it for non-default endpoints.
-
-Or the actual OpenAI API:
-
-```sh
-export AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY=your-openai-key
-export AUDITA_BASE_URL=https://api.openai.com/v1
-export AUDITA_MODEL=gpt-4.1-mini
-audita process transcript.json --glossary glossary.yaml --output corrected.json
-```
-
-`AUDITA_WORK_DIR` stores per-run diagnostics while processing. Under the default `AUDITA_WORK_DIR_RETENTION=auto`, clean successful runs are removed, while failed runs and successful runs with final skipped corrections are preserved. Use `always` to keep every run directory and `never` to remove successful run directories even when skips remain.
-Failed runs always preserve the run directory and include an authoritative `report.json` alongside normalization and prompt/response diagnostics.
-
-## Prototype Archive
-
-The archived prototype remains importable as `audita_prototype` and is still covered by its original regression suite. This is intentional: the new `audita` package is a framework-oriented rewrite, not a thin wrapper around the old code.
+[Open Source attribution notices](docs/oss/attribution.md) are available.

audita

@@ -1,147 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-import json
-import os
-from datetime import datetime
-import shutil
-import subprocess
-import sys
-from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Optional
-from uuid import uuid4
-
-
-DEFAULT_WORK_DIR = "/tmp/audita"
-_SECRET_FLAGS = {"--llm-api-key", "--validation-llm-api-key"}
-
-
-def _redact_argv(argv: list[str]) -> list[str]:
-    redacted: list[str] = []
-    index = 0
-    while index < len(argv):
-        arg = argv[index]
-        matched_flag = next((flag for flag in _SECRET_FLAGS if arg == flag or arg.startswith(flag + "=")), None)
-        if matched_flag is None:
-            redacted.append(arg)
-            index += 1
-            continue
-        if arg == matched_flag:
-            redacted.append(arg)
-            if index + 1 < len(argv):
-                redacted.append("[REDACTED]")
-                index += 2
-            else:
-                index += 1
-            continue
-        redacted.append(f"{matched_flag}=[REDACTED]")
-        index += 1
-    return redacted
-
-
-def _resolve_work_root(argv: list[str]) -> Path:
-    for index, arg in enumerate(argv):
-        if arg == "--work-dir" and index + 1 < len(argv):
-            return Path(argv[index + 1])
-        if arg.startswith("--work-dir="):
-            return Path(arg.split("=", 1)[1])
-    return Path(os.environ.get("AUDITA_WORK_DIR") or DEFAULT_WORK_DIR)
-
-
-def _create_run_dir(root: Path) -> Path:
-    root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-    timestamp = datetime.utcnow().strftime("%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ")
-    run_dir = root / f"run-{timestamp}-{uuid4().hex[:8]}"
-    run_dir.mkdir(parents=False, exist_ok=False)
-    return run_dir
-
-
-def _capture_run_dirs(root: Path) -> set[str]:
-    if not root.exists():
-        return set()
-    return {path.name for path in root.iterdir() if path.is_dir() and path.name.startswith("run-")}
-
-
-def _find_new_run_dir(root: Path, before: set[str]) -> Optional[Path]:
-    if not root.exists():
-        return None
-    candidates = [
-        path for path in root.iterdir() if path.is_dir() and path.name.startswith("run-") and path.name not in before
-    ]
-    if not candidates:
-        return None
-    return max(candidates, key=lambda path: path.name)
-
-
-def _write_launcher_error_log(
-    path: Path,
-    *,
-    message: str,
-    exit_code: int,
-    argv: list[str],
-    command: Optional[list[str]],
-) -> None:
-    payload = {
-        "timestamp": datetime.utcnow().isoformat() + "Z",
-        "message": message,
-        "exit_code": exit_code,
-        "argv": argv,
-        "cwd": os.getcwd(),
-        "command": command,
-    }
-    path.write_text(
-        "Audita Launcher Diagnostics\n" + json.dumps(payload, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2) + "\n",
-        encoding="utf-8",
-    )
-
-
-def _emit_console_line(message: str) -> None:
-    for stream in (sys.stderr, sys.stdout):
-        if stream is None:
-            continue
-        try:
-            stream.write(f"{message}\n")
-            stream.flush()
-            return
-        except (OSError, ValueError):
-            continue
-
-
-def main() -> int:
-    argv = list(sys.argv[1:])
-    work_root = _resolve_work_root(argv)
-    redacted_argv = _redact_argv(argv)
-    uv = shutil.which("uv")
-    if uv is None:
-        run_dir = _create_run_dir(work_root)
-        error_log = run_dir / "error.log"
-        message = "uv is required to run this launcher. Install uv and run `uv sync` in the Audita project."
-        _write_launcher_error_log(error_log, message=message, exit_code=1, argv=redacted_argv, command=None)
-        _emit_console_line(f"audita: error: {message}")
-        _emit_console_line("audita: exit code: 1")
-        _emit_console_line(f"audita: run directory: {run_dir}")
-        _emit_console_line(f"audita: error log: {error_log}")
-        return 1
-
-    project_root = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
-    command = [uv, "run", "--project", str(project_root), "python", "-m", "audita", *sys.argv[1:]]
-    before = _capture_run_dirs(work_root)
-    result = subprocess.run(command, cwd=project_root, check=False)
-    if result.returncode == 0:
-        return 0
-    if _find_new_run_dir(work_root, before) is None:
-        run_dir = _create_run_dir(work_root)
-        error_log = run_dir / "error.log"
-        _write_launcher_error_log(
-            error_log,
-            message=f"Audita subprocess exited with status {result.returncode}.",
-            exit_code=result.returncode,
-            argv=redacted_argv,
-            command=_redact_argv(command),
-        )
-        _emit_console_line(f"audita: subprocess exited with status {result.returncode}")
-        _emit_console_line(f"audita: run directory: {run_dir}")
-        _emit_console_line(f"audita: error log: {error_log}")
-    return result.returncode
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    raise SystemExit(main())

cmd/audita/main.go

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"os"
+	"os/signal"
+	"syscall"
+
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/cli"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	os.Exit(run())
+}
+
+func run() int {
+	ctx, stop := signal.NotifyContext(context.Background(), os.Interrupt, syscall.SIGTERM)
+	defer stop()
+	return cli.Run(ctx, os.Args[1:], os.Stdout, os.Stderr)
+}

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+# Architectural Decision Records
+
+No ADRs have been recorded here. Use the
+[documentation policy's ADR lifecycle](../policy/documentation.md#architecture-decision-records)
+for significant decisions. Current architecture belongs in the
+[architecture policy](../policy/architecture.md); implementation status belongs in
+[roadmap documents](../roadmap/).

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+# Audita CLI Reference
+
+The shared version-2 configuration parser and offline profile inspection serve
+`process`, `config validate`, and `config print-effective`.
+The [configuration reference](config.md) owns fields, defaults, and validation;
+the [migration guide](migrations/v2.md) maps retired inputs.
+
+## Commands and help
+
+```sh
+audita process <transcript.json> --glossary <glossary.yml> [flags]
+audita config validate --config <config.yml> [flags]
+audita config print-effective [flags]
+```
+
+Root invocation, `--help`, `-h`, and command help succeed without loading a config
+file or resolving secrets. Unknown commands and flags return exit code `2`.
+`process` accepts exactly one transcript path, either before the flags or after
+them. With flags first, put the transcript last. Both config commands reject
+positional arguments and process-only flags.
+
+All three commands accept `--config <path>` and `--overlay <name>`. `config validate`
+requires an explicit nonempty `--config`; the other commands select the explicit
+file, then `/usr/local/etc/audita/config.yml`, then `/etc/audita/config.yml`.
+Missing system candidates are skipped; inaccessible selected files are errors.
+No file means a configuration error. `AUDITA_CONFIG` is ignored. The selected
+overlay is loaded beside the main file, not used to locate profile files.
+
+## Setting overrides
+
+Only flags actually supplied override file or overlay settings. `--modules ''`
+clears the module pipeline, and an explicit numeric zero reaches configuration
+validation. The shared setting flags are:
+
+| Setting | Flags |
+| --- | --- |
+| Profile selection | `--proposal-profile`, `--validation-profile` |
+| Pipeline and output | `--modules`, `--output-schema` |
+| Validation budget | `--validation-max-prompt-tokens` |
+| Chunking | `--target-sections`, `--max-section-tokens`, `--min-section-tokens` |
+| Normalization (numeric seconds) | `--normalize-max-segment-gap`, `--normalize-ellipsis-gap`, `--normalize-max-segment-duration`, `--normalize-max-segment-tokens` |
+| Confidence thresholds | `--glossary-confidence-threshold`, `--homophones-confidence-threshold`, `--spoken-word-confidence-threshold`, `--grammar-confidence-threshold` |
+| Context | `--transcript-description` |
+| Reporting | `--reporting[=true\|false]`, `--report-dir DIR` |
+| Debug | `--debug[=true\|false]`, `--work-dir DIR` |
+
+`process` alone accepts `--glossary` (required) and `--output`.
+An omitted or empty output value selects stdout. Nonempty output filenames are
+used literally, including whitespace.
+Reporting defaults to enabled. `--reporting=false` disables all three ordinary
+reports; an explicit false overrides a true file or overlay setting. For stdout
+output, reports use the effective `reporting.stdout_dir`, which defaults to the
+invocation working directory. For file output, they go beside the transcript
+unless `--report-dir` is explicitly supplied. The flag selects the report
+directory for either transcript destination; a config-file or overlay value for
+`reporting.stdout_dir` alone affects stdout output only. A selected report
+directory must be nonblank when reporting is enabled. With reporting disabled,
+the report destination is inactive and is not probed. `--debug` separately
+enables retained detailed artifacts under `--work-dir`; selecting `--work-dir`
+alone does not enable capture. Configuration inspection does not create or
+probe these output directories.
+Per-role model, base URL, key, timeout, retry, and concurrency flags have been
+removed. Models and generation controls belong to PromptKit profiles, backend
+credentials and capacity to configuration, and retry/deadline settings to the
+shared LLM section. Legacy configuration environment overrides are ignored.
+
+## Streams and exit status
+
+`config validate` loads settings and both selected PromptKit profiles offline,
+then prints `config is valid` on success. `config print-effective` accepts
+`--view settings|profiles|explain` and defaults to `settings`. Settings writes
+ConfigKit's redacted effective-settings YAML. Profiles writes an Audita-owned
+YAML summary of selected ID, backend, model, sampling controls, per-attempt
+timeout, service tier, and reasoning effort for each role. It omits credentials,
+endpoints, and arbitrary extra provider parameters. Explain writes a YAML
+sequence of field paths, source origins, and recorded derivations without
+resolved setting values. An inherited field may also include an `inheritance`
+sequence; each step identifies `from`, `to`, and `reference` paths as JSON
+pointers. These fields describe the effective inheritance chain without
+including configuration values. A direct child override reports its own source
+instead. Debug configuration origins use the same explanation shape. These views
+share the same settings and profile validation path as `process`. Unknown views
+are usage errors. The effective settings YAML is for inspection and is not
+guaranteed reloadable.
+
+For `process`, `--output` writes the corrected transcript to a file and leaves
+stdout empty on success. Without it, stdout carries transcript JSON only on
+success. Enabled reporting creates `errors.yml`, `recoveries.yml`, and
+`report.md` in the selected directory. Successful stderr begins with
+`Completed: N corrections applied; E work units with errors; R recoveries.`
+Report and debug locations follow only when created. Model-operation failures
+can coexist with a completed run and applied corrections; read the YAML reports
+for details. Debug artifacts are created only with `--debug`. See the
+[report contract](integrations/output-files.md).
+
+Exit codes are `0` for success, `1` for runtime or output failure, and `2` for
+usage or configuration input errors. Invalid settings and profiles return `2`;
+broken embedded assets, caller cancellation, fatal processing, and required
+output failures return `1`. A late report-write failure can follow a published
+transcript; exit status and report status remain authoritative.
+Configuration commands inspect profiles without contacting a provider.
+
+See the [input files](integrations/transcript-glossary-files.md),
+[subprocess contract](integrations/subprocess.md), and
+[artifact lifecycle](operations.md) for their respective details.

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+# Audita Configuration
+
+This reference describes the version-2 configuration loader in `internal/core/config`.
+Use the maintained [local](../examples/minimal-config.yml) and
+[service](../examples/production-config.yml) examples with their separately
+selected [local profiles](../examples/profiles/local/) and
+[service profiles](../examples/profiles/service/), plus the optional
+[testing overlay](../examples/overlays/testing.yml).
+The [ConfigKit inheritance example](../examples/configkit-inheritance.yml)
+shows a local child backend reusing and overriding sibling settings.
+Choose real models for your endpoint; a testing profile makes no cost or quality
+guarantee. See the [migration guide](migrations/v2.md) for retired inputs.
+
+## Loading and precedence
+
+The application selects one main YAML file: an explicit `--config`, then
+`/usr/local/etc/audita/config.yml` if present, then `/etc/audita/config.yml`
+if present. Missing system candidates are skipped; an explicit missing or empty
+path, inaccessible selected file, or absence of any selected file is an error.
+`config validate` requires an explicit file. ConfigKit loads built-in defaults,
+the selected file, an optional named overlay from `overlays/<name>.yml` beside the
+main file, and only explicitly supplied setting overrides, in that order. Imports
+and secret-directory bootstrap are disabled. Unknown fields and missing, null,
+or non-integer `version: 2` are errors. Version-1 files require migration; no
+compatibility loader or implicit environment configuration remains.
+
+After overlay and explicit CLI override precedence is applied, ConfigKit resolves
+native sibling inheritance before typed decoding. Any input mapping may use
+`extends: <sibling-name>`; the child keeps its key, inherits parent settings, and
+overrides them with its own settings. Selected overlay and CLI values therefore
+participate in inheritance at their normal precedence. The generic syntax and
+resolution rules are defined by ConfigKit v0.5.0's
+[sibling inheritance contract](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/tag/v0.5.0/docs/config.md#sibling-inheritance).
+
+`extends` is reserved structural input in base files, imports, overlays, and
+other application input mappings, including mapping values supplied by explicit
+CLI setting overrides. ConfigKit consumes it before typed decoding. A previously
+valid backend whose ID is literally `extends` cannot be represented under this
+rule. Rename that backend to a non-conflicting ID and update every PromptKit
+profile that selects it. This compatibility impact means the upgrade does not
+promise that every previously valid configuration remains valid.
+
+Inherited values count as explicit input, including zero, false, empty, and
+null. Existing field rules still apply: for example, inherited backend
+concurrency must be positive, while an inherited queue capacity of zero is
+valid. Parent backends undergo the same decoding and application validation as
+other backends, whether or not a selected profile uses them. A child
+`credential: null` removes the child's inherited credential; it does not remove
+the parent's credential reference, which remains subject to ordinary secret
+resolution.
+
+Validation runs after overlays, explicit overrides, and derived settings have
+resolved. An override can therefore repair an invalid lower-precedence setting
+when that setting can be decoded. ConfigKit retains field origins and derivations
+for effective-configuration inspection. Its effective YAML redacts resolved
+credentials.
+
+### PromptKit profiles and operator prompts
+
+`profiles_dir` selects a PromptKit configuration root, resolved against the
+selected main file's directory unless it is absolute. The root may contain
+keyed `profiles`, `backends`, and `prompts` definitions; it is not limited to
+profile-only files. IDs come from literal YAML mapping keys, never filenames.
+Multiple definitions may share a document, and a document may contribute to any
+of the supported mappings. Directory discovery is recursive, but discovery
+order does not establish field precedence. Contributions within each source
+group must compose without conflicting values.
+
+PromptKit assembles sources in this order: its selected catalogs and owned
+defaults, Audita's embedded prompt/schema inputs, operator documents under
+`profiles_dir`, then the application backend mapping. The application mapping
+owns each configured endpoint, concurrency limit, queue capacity, and credential
+environment lookup. Other supported provider fields can be contributed by the
+operator documents. Imports remain disabled. The current maintained examples
+select separate roots: [local](../examples/profiles/local/) and
+[service](../examples/profiles/service/), so definitions for one backend do not
+enter the other example's final configuration.
+
+Both selected roles must resolve to an existing profile, registered backend,
+nonblank effective model, and nonblank endpoint. The normalized effective
+endpoint must match the application backend endpoint. A selected profile cannot
+introduce a competing `api_key_env` lookup; the application backend credential
+supplies the runtime key when required. Other unselected profiles may be
+partial, but every final backend, profile, and prompt definition is validated
+when the engine is constructed. A malformed or conflicting unused definition
+can therefore make the selected root invalid. A missing selected root is an
+operator configuration error; an empty root may contribute no definitions.
+
+Profile IDs and parent IDs are exact, literal keys. PromptKit profiles can use
+native `extends` inheritance; child fields override inherited fields, while
+unmentioned controls survive changes to model or backend. For example:
+
+```yaml
+profiles:
+  "shared~base":
+    backend: service
+    model: example-model
+    temperature: 0.4
+    top_p: 0.8
+  "proposal fast":
+    extends: "shared~base"
+    model: faster-model
+    temperature: 0
+```
+
+Presence matters. Explicit `temperature: 0` is sent as zero; omission leaves it
+unspecified; null suppresses an inherited temperature. Other fields have their
+own native null and omission rules. Provider `extra_params` maps merge
+recursively, and a null provider value is sent as JSON null. See the pinned
+[PromptKit format reference](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/tag/v0.12.0/docs/formats.md)
+for the complete field semantics.
+
+Operator documents can also override an embedded prompt/version, including its
+messages and definition-level output settings. Shared variables supplied by the
+adapter are rendered only when an effective message references them; Audita does
+not append omitted shared text. Audita's per-call schemas, structural repair
+budget, and downstream domain validators remain in force. The engine captures
+effective definitions and message-file contents when constructed, so edits are
+observed only by a newly constructed runtime.
+
+### Migrating PromptKit profile documents
+
+For the PromptKit v0.11 format, wrap each profile's fields under
+`profiles: {<literal-id>: ...}`, remove inner `id`, and replace
+`base_profile` with `extends`. Profile and prompt IDs are mapping keys, so they
+need not match source filenames. Review zeros, omitted values, and nulls against
+the native presence rules before deploying. Select a root whose final
+definitions have valid backend references; eager validation applies even to
+unselected definitions. See the complete maintained [local](../examples/minimal-config.yml)
+and [service](../examples/production-config.yml) examples and the pinned
+[consumer migration guide](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/tag/v0.12.0/docs/consumers/pkg-promptkit.md#migrate-from-the-previous-configuration-api).
+This incompatible profile-format migration is intended for an Audita major
+release; no automatic file conversion is provided.
+
+The [CLI inspection views](cli.md#streams-and-exit-status) show selected
+controls and field provenance separately from ConfigKit's redacted settings
+YAML. Inspection resolves both roles without provider calls.
+
+## Settings
+
+| Field | Default | Rule |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `profiles_dir` | `profiles` | Nonempty PromptKit document root; resolved relative to the selected main file, or absolute. |
+| `backends.<id>.endpoint` | None | Required nonempty endpoint for each backend. At least one backend is required. |
+| `backends.<id>.concurrency` | `1` | Positive finite capacity; shared by both roles using that backend. |
+| `backends.<id>.queue_capacity` | `1024` | Nonnegative; zero disables waiting admission. |
+| `backends.<id>.credential` | Unset | Optional environment-variable secret reference; omission or null means unauthenticated use. |
+| `llm.proposal_profile` | None | Required nonempty profile ID. |
+| `llm.validation_profile` | Final proposal profile | Omission inherits the final proposal selection; explicit empty or null fails. |
+| `llm.transient_retries` | `2` | Nonnegative additional attempts per generation. |
+| `llm.repair_attempts` | `2` | Additional structural repair generations, from zero through three. |
+| `llm.operation_timeout` | `15m` | Positive Go duration string per logical call. |
+| `pipeline.modules` | `[glossary, homophones, glossary, spoken_word, grammar]` | Ordered module keys; repeats are meaningful and an explicit empty list runs no correction modules. |
+| `output.schema` | `bare-segments` | `bare-segments` or `audita-v1`. See [output formats](integrations/output-files.md). |
+| `validation.max_prompt_tokens` | `2048` | Positive validation batching budget. |
+| `chunking.target_sections` | Unset | Optional positive target; omission or null selects automatic chunking. |
+| `chunking.max_section_tokens` | `8192` | Positive maximum estimate. |
+| `chunking.min_section_tokens` | `2048` | Positive and no greater than maximum. |
+| `normalization.max_segment_gap` | `4.0` | Nonnegative numeric seconds. |
+| `normalization.ellipsis_gap` | `3.5` | Nonnegative numeric seconds. |
+| `normalization.max_segment_duration` | `60.0` | Positive numeric seconds. |
+| `normalization.max_segment_tokens` | `2048` | Positive token estimate. |
+| `thresholds.glossary`, `.homophones`, `.spoken_word`, `.grammar` | `0.8` each | Confidence thresholds in `[0, 1]`. |
+| `context.description` | Empty | Trimmed prompt context, at most 500 bytes. |
+| `reporting.enabled` | `true` | Write the ordinary three-file report bundle when processing. |
+| `reporting.stdout_dir` | `.` | Report directory for stdout transcript output; a `--report-dir` flag can select reports for either transcript destination. |
+| `diagnostics.debug` | `false` | Persist detailed debug artifacts when processing. |
+| `diagnostics.work_dir` | `/tmp/audita` | Parent of the retained debug run directory; required only when debug is enabled. |
+
+Module keys select correction modules; validator chains remain built into them.
+The loader preserves module order and repetitions. Normalization time settings
+accept numeric seconds only. The operation timeout uses a duration string.
+`reporting.stdout_dir` must be nonblank when it supplies the active report
+destination: for stdout output, or for file output when `--report-dir` is
+explicitly supplied. File output without that flag uses the transcript's parent,
+so the configured value is inactive. Reporting-disabled runs do not select a
+report directory. `diagnostics.work_dir` must be nonblank only with debug
+enabled. These path requirements are checked when choosing process destinations,
+not during configuration inspection.
+
+## Credentials
+
+A backend credential is a ConfigKit secret reference containing an environment
+variable name, such as `credential: AUDITA_SERVICE_KEY`. Every reference that
+survives overlay and override resolution must name a set, nonempty variable,
+including credentials on backends unused by the selected roles. A replacement
+reference resolves only the replacement; null removes the reference. General
+`AUDITA_*` and `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` variables have no implicit setting effect.
+Secret values are available to the runtime through the resolved reference, while
+ConfigKit's effective output and provenance contain no resolved secret values.
+
+Current invocation syntax belongs in [CLI](cli.md).

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+# Developing Audita
+
+Audita is a Go CLI for transcript polishing. Start with the
+[README](../README.md) for product orientation and the
+[internal overview](internal/overview.md) for the implemented component map.
+
+## Before Changing the Repository
+
+Coding agents must read and follow the [agent policy](policy/agents.md) before
+recommending, planning, or implementing changes. Use the policy reading guide
+below to select the policies applicable to the task.
+
+Confirm the requested scope and behavior contract, make focused changes in the
+owning component, and update the relevant tests and canonical documentation
+when behavior changes. The [testing policy](policy/testing.md) governs test
+sufficiency; the [documentation policy](policy/documentation.md) governs content
+ownership. Commit discipline and agent Git restrictions are in the
+[agent policy](policy/agents.md#git-commit-policy).
+
+## Policy Reading Guide
+
+| Policy | Read before… |
+| --- | --- |
+| [Policy set provenance](policy/meta.md) | Adopting policies, checking upstream revisions, or updating the adopted policy set. |
+| [Agents](policy/agents.md) | Recommending, planning, or implementing repository changes. |
+| [Architecture](policy/architecture.md) | Planning or changing application code or its structure. |
+| [Testing](policy/testing.md) | Selecting validation for code changes, or adding, changing, removing, or evaluating tests. |
+| [Documentation](policy/documentation.md) | Writing, revising, or reorganizing documentation. |
+| [OSS](policy/oss.md) | Adding or updating dependencies or incorporated third-party material, or changing licensing or attribution. |
+| [Release](policy/release.md) | Preparing or publishing a release, changing release procedures, or making versioning and compatibility decisions. |
+
+- Read applicable policies before making decisions they govern; multiple policies
+  may apply.
+- Select policies using the task triggers above. Follow cross-references to
+  relevant sections when needed to resolve a concrete question.
+- Reuse policies already available in context; reread when changed or no longer
+  available.
+- Expand reading when the task's scope expands.
+- When revising a policy itself, read that policy and any provisions elsewhere
+  affected by the revision.
+
+## Baseline Validation
+
+Use Go 1.25.5 or newer. From the repository root:
+
+```sh
+go build -o ./bin/audita ./cmd/audita
+go test ./...
+```
+
+Run targeted package tests for touched behavior and the complete suite for
+substantial changes. Documentation-only work normally needs affected-link,
+example, and whitespace checks; use `git diff --check`. Detailed component
+validation belongs with the change recipes below.
+
+## Task-Specific Reading Guide
+
+| Task | Read |
+| --- | --- |
+| Locate components or change orchestration | [Internal overview](internal/overview.md), then [pipeline](internal/pipeline.md) |
+| Change configuration or CLI behavior | [Configuration contract](config.md), [CLI contract](cli.md), and [configuration/CLI change recipes](internal/cli-config.md) |
+| Change modules or validators | [Modules](internal/modules.md) or [validators](internal/validators.md); follow their prompt, registry, and test references |
+| Change LLM transport or concurrency | [LLM integration contract](integrations/openai-compatible-llm.md), [LLM runtime](internal/llm-runtime.md), and [pipeline](internal/pipeline.md) |
+| Change prompts | [Prompt registry](internal/prompts.md) and the consuming [module](internal/modules.md) or [validator](internal/validators.md) |
+| Change input/output formats | [Input file contracts](integrations/transcript-glossary-files.md), [output-file contract](integrations/output-files.md), [encoder internals](internal/output-schemas.md), and [configuration](config.md) |
+| Change reports or diagnostics | [Operations](operations.md), [output-file contract](integrations/output-files.md), [subprocess integration](integrations/subprocess.md), and [diagnostics/reporting internals](internal/diagnostics-reporting.md) |
+| Change tests | [Testing policy](policy/testing.md) and the affected component's internal documentation |
+| Change docs or examples | [Documentation policy](policy/documentation.md), the canonical topic owner, and [example validation](internal/cli-config.md#validating-examples) |
+| Prepare a release | [Release policy](policy/release.md) and [release procedure](release.md) |
+| Record a significant architectural decision | [ADR lifecycle](policy/documentation.md#architecture-decision-records) and [ADR index](adr/README.md) |

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+# OpenAI-Compatible LLM Integration
+
+Audita uses the pinned [PromptKit](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit)
+built-in OpenAI-compatible transport. PromptKit owns chat-completions wire framing,
+provider envelope parsing, transient retries, per-generation timeouts, and JSON
+Schema repair. A backend's configured base endpoint must support the selected
+profile's model and structured JSON-schema responses; local configuration
+inspection does not contact the provider.
+
+Audita selects a role profile, supplies its registered backend credential, and
+passes the embedded response schema as a complete per-call output contract. It
+prepares each call once, checks that the prepared target still matches the
+inspected backend and endpoint, then executes that same prepared request. A
+profile cannot introduce a separate credential environment lookup. An absent
+backend credential permits an unauthenticated local service.
+
+`llm.transient_retries` counts additional attempts for eligible transient
+failures; explicit zero makes one attempt. `llm.repair_attempts` counts
+additional generations for schema-invalid model output. The operation timeout
+covers preparation, capacity waiting, retries, generation, and repair. Caller
+cancellation or an earlier deadline also applies. See [configuration](../config.md#settings)
+for defaults and [PromptKit v0.12.0's consumer contract](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/tag/v0.12.0/docs/consumers/pkg-promptkit.md)
+for the pinned protocol and retry details.
+
+A model operation that exhausts structural repair, a live-parent local operation
+timeout, capacity rejection, transport failure, malformed provider response,
+or provider HTTP failure is recoverable for that operation. Proposal generation
+then contributes no candidates from that response; a failed validation batch
+marks its candidates unavailable while other batches and later modules can
+continue. Caller cancellation, broken assets or configuration, and unknown
+internal failures remain fatal and cancel peers. Audita decodes into domain
+types only after PromptKit validates the JSON. Ordinary reports use safe reason
+codes and counts rather than provider messages. Full request/response content
+is written only with `--debug`; see [operations](../operations.md#diagnostics-directory).

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+# Output Files and Reports
+
+## Corrected Transcript
+
+The corrected transcript uses the selected `output.schema`: `bare-segments`
+or `audita-v1`. Its schema and text rules are unchanged by resilience
+reporting. See [configuration](../config.md#settings) for selection and
+[operations](../operations.md#required-output-files) for placement and writes.
+
+With reporting enabled, Audita produces three ordinary files:
+
+- `errors.yml`: affected work units and run-level failures;
+- `recoveries.yml`: successful logical model operations with repair, service
+  retry, or response filtering;
+- `report.md`: a concise overview and complete per-chunk matrices.
+
+The YAML documents have Audita-owned schemas `audita-errors` and
+`audita-recoveries`, each with integer `version: 1`. Both contain, in order,
+`schema`, `version`, `run_id`, `status`, `started_at`, `completed_at`, `summary`,
+and an always-present `errors` or `recoveries` sequence. Status is
+`in_progress`, `completed`, or `failed`. Times are UTC RFC3339 strings;
+`completed_at` is null until finalization. A recoverable model error can appear
+with `status: completed`.
+
+## Summary Counts
+
+Both documents carry the same summary, in this order:
+
+| Count | Meaning |
+| --- | --- |
+| `work_units_total` | Configured module instances × initial chunks. |
+| `work_units_started`, `work_units_completed`, `work_units_interrupted`, `work_units_not_started` | Explicit processing states. |
+| `work_units_with_errors` | Distinct units with recoverable operation failures. |
+| `run_errors` | Fatal processing or output failures outside that unit count. |
+| `corrections_applied` | Approved proposals applied, not replacement occurrences. |
+| `llm_operations` | Structured-client invocations, including pre-dispatch failures. |
+| `proposal_responses` | Structurally usable proposal responses. |
+| `recoveries` | Successful operations with one or more recovery reasons. |
+| `proposal_responses_with_filtering` | Proposal responses that filtered at least one defective proposal. |
+
+Unknown counts before processing are `null`; completed empty counts are `0`.
+Retries and repair generations are details of one operation, not additional
+operations. Provider token usage, execution timing, and attempt-level evidence
+remain in opt-in debug files.
+
+## Error and Recovery Records
+
+An `errors` record with `scope: work_unit` identifies zero-based `stage_index`
+and `chunk_index`, module key/instance, initial segment range, applied-correction
+count, and a `failures` sequence. Each failure identifies the operation
+(`proposal`, `validation`, or `validation_input`), optional validator and
+zero-based batch index, safe reason/message, sorted proposal indices when
+known, and execution counts when available. Multiple failed batches in one
+work unit form one error record. `scope: run` instead records phase, safe reason
+and message, optional origin, and output path where relevant. It can describe
+a fatal error or secondary output-write failure without inventing a failed
+model work unit. Raw provider errors and transcript text are absent.
+For `validation_decisions_invalid`, proposal indices identify only candidates
+whose required decisions were unavailable. Other candidates in the same batch
+may still be approved or rejected normally.
+
+Each recovery identifies its work unit and successful operation, with sorted
+`reasons`, a safe message, available execution counts, and sorted
+`filtered_proposals` details. One recovery can contain `output_repaired`,
+`service_recovered`, and `proposals_filtered` together. Filtering covers
+defective response proposals; low confidence, protected-term rejection,
+ordinary editorial rejection, and an apply-time conflict caused by an earlier
+accepted correction are not filtering recoveries. Failed operations are errors,
+not recoveries. The initial chunk identity remains stable even if earlier
+modules change its text.
+`validation_decisions_filtered` records unexpected validator decision indices
+ignored from a successful validation batch. It may accompany repair or service
+recovery reasons, but it does not add `filtered_proposals` or increment
+`proposal_responses_with_filtering`. A batch with unavailable requested decisions
+is an error even when unexpected indices were also ignored.
+
+## Markdown Overview
+
+`report.md` includes run ID, status, corrections, work coverage, error and
+recovery totals, input/output paths, and full work-unit error and recovery
+matrices. Rows show every initial chunk with 1-based chunk number and initial
+segment range; columns follow configured module-instance order, including
+repeats. Completed error cells are `0` or `1`; recovery cells are operation
+counts. `—` means not started and `n*` means interrupted with n facts recorded.
+An empty stage or chunk set is identified as having no work units. Short reason breakdowns count
+records containing each reason; a recovery can have several reasons, so those
+counts need not sum to the recovery total. The report refers to both YAML
+files. It does not include transcript excerpts or correction lists.
+
+## Debug-Only Files
+
+With `--debug`, `correction-ledger.json` contains proposed candidates and
+their application, rejection, or interruption details. `llm-execution.json`
+holds logical calls and PromptKit execution events; `utilization-diagnostics.json`
+groups backend capacity and timing observations while preserving known and
+complete usage semantics. Interaction request/response artifacts, selected
+profiles, configuration provenance, and input snapshots are also debug-only.
+These files are diagnostic evidence, not an alternate ordinary report schema.
+Each candidate-backed ledger entry includes `proposed_corrected_text`, the
+literal replacement span, even when it is `""` for a deletion. Applied entries
+also include `applied_corrected_text`, likewise `""` for an applied deletion.
+Rejected, unavailable, skipped, and interrupted entries omit the applied field; a module
+failure without a candidate omits both. These fields are replacement spans,
+not full resulting-segment text. Deterministic decision records now identify
+the blank-result guard as `non_empty_resulting_segment` (formerly
+`non_empty_corrected_text`); its `empty_resulting_segment` reason is unchanged.
+Validator decision records carry `disposition`: `approved`, `rejected`, or
+`unavailable`. A missing or duplicate required decision is `unavailable`, not
+an editorial rejection. The candidate ledger uses the same distinction in its
+top-level disposition. Interaction response artifacts retain supplied model
+decisions and the reconciliation result, including unavailable and ignored
+indices; unexpected indices never create candidate ledger entries.

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+# Subprocess Integration
+
+This guide explains how a parent process can invoke Audita and consume its results.
+The [CLI reference](../cli.md) owns command syntax, streams, and exit semantics;
+[configuration](../config.md) owns discovery and precedence.
+
+## Invocation
+
+Use an argument array with the transcript path and required glossary argument,
+following the [process examples](../cli.md#commands-and-help). For machine workflows,
+select an explicit transcript file destination and a configuration path. Reports
+go beside the transcript unless an explicit `--report-dir` selects another
+directory. For stdout output, reports use the effective `reporting.stdout_dir`
+(defaulting to the invocation working directory), including a `--report-dir`
+override. A config-file or overlay value for `reporting.stdout_dir` alone does
+not redirect file-output reports. `--work-dir` selects a debug root, while
+configuration or `--debug` enables capture; the path flag alone does not.
+Supplying a configuration path also makes file selection predictable; only
+explicitly referenced credential variables are read from the environment.
+
+Resolve the executable deliberately and set the child's working directory so
+relative input/output paths and reported artifact paths have a known base.
+Read stdout and stderr concurrently to avoid pipe blocking, and impose timeout
+or cancellation in the parent process when needed.
+
+## Result Handling
+
+Interpret the exit result according to the
+[CLI output and exit contract](../cli.md#streams-and-exit-status).
+Consume transcript/report data through the
+[output-file contract](output-files.md), and treat stderr as human-readable detail.
+The three reports may be absent after early configuration or destination
+failures. After initialization, failed reports can describe invalid input or
+partial processing and use the same selected report directory as successful
+runs. Exit `0` can include recoverable model errors and applied
+corrections; inspect `errors.yml` and `recoveries.yml` for those outcomes. A
+transcript may have been written before a later required report failure, so
+the file alone does not prove completion.
+
+If processing fails, preserve available evidence and follow
+[operations recovery](../operations.md#failure-inspection-and-recovery).
+Ordinary reports are independent of optional retained debug evidence. Parent
+cancellation reaches the child through its context; Audita joins workers and
+attempts failed-status report finalization before exiting. Uncatchable
+termination can leave `in_progress` reports. Neither the existence of an output
+file nor a debug directory alone establishes successful completion.
+
+## Related Contracts
+
+- [Transcript and glossary inputs](transcript-glossary-files.md)
+- [LLM endpoint compatibility](openai-compatible-llm.md)
+- [Configuration inspection commands](../cli.md#commands-and-help)

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+# Transcript and Glossary Input Files
+
+This document owns accepted input formats. Use the [CLI reference](../cli.md) for
+invocation and error exit semantics, [operations](../operations.md) for artifact
+handling, and [output files](output-files.md) for corrected-transcript serialization.
+
+## Transcript JSON Contract
+
+Accepted top-level shapes are an array of segments or an object containing a
+`segments` array. The array must contain at least one segment. Unknown object
+fields are ignored by the current parser; an input envelope does not require a
+schema/version marker.
+
+| Segment field | Type and validation |
+| --- | --- |
+| `id` | Optional integer (or null). Supplied IDs must be unique; missing IDs are accepted. |
+| `speaker` | Non-empty string |
+| `start`, `end` | Numeric seconds, finite and non-negative; end must be at least start |
+| `text` | Non-empty string |
+| `categories` | Optional array of non-empty strings |
+
+Supply explicit start and end times for meaningful timing. The current decoder
+uses zero for missing or null timestamps rather than enforcing their presence.
+String validation checks empty values, not whitespace trimming. Normalization can
+merge segments and reassign IDs, so source IDs need not match output IDs.
+
+The [tiny transcript](../../examples/tiny-transcript.json) is a complete copyable
+input. Invalid JSON, unsupported top-level shapes, empty transcripts, invalid field
+types, duplicate supplied IDs, and the validation failures above are rejected.
+
+## Glossary YAML Contract
+
+The top-level object contains a `glossary` list with at least one entry.
+
+| Entry field | Type and validation |
+| --- | --- |
+| `name` | Non-empty string |
+| `category` | Non-empty string |
+| `summary` | Non-empty string |
+| `aliases` | Optional list of non-empty strings |
+| `plural` | Optional string |
+
+The parser checks empty strings without trimming them. Unknown YAML fields are
+ignored by the glossary parser, unlike the stricter
+[configuration-file schema](../config.md#loading-and-precedence).
+
+The [tiny glossary](../../examples/tiny-glossary.yaml) is a complete copyable input.
+Malformed YAML, an empty/missing glossary, invalid shapes, missing required text,
+and empty aliases are rejected. These formats describe input acceptance, not
+additional vocabulary restrictions.

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+# Configuration and CLI Change Recipes
+
+This document owns contributor editing and validation steps for configuration,
+CLI wiring, and maintained examples. Definitions of behavior belong to the
+[configuration](../config.md) and [CLI](../cli.md) contracts.
+
+## Changing Configuration
+
+1. Update fields, defaults, loading, and validation in `internal/core/config`.
+2. Update file, selected overlay, credential reference, and CLI mapping as
+   applicable. Preserve the precedence defined in the
+   [configuration contract](../config.md#loading-and-precedence), including the
+   distinct validation and effective-config commands.
+3. Update redaction when secrets are involved.
+4. Review configuration tests and related CLI tests for precedence, validation,
+   and source-specific behavior. Add or adjust tests for the changed contract
+   according to the [testing policy](../policy/testing.md).
+5. Update the configuration reference and affected [examples](../../examples/).
+
+## Changing CLI Behavior
+
+1. Implement parsing and wiring in `internal/cli`.
+2. Preserve [stream and exit contracts](../cli.md) unless a change is intentional
+   and documented. Review [subprocess integration](../integrations/subprocess.md)
+   when changing output, error, or report handling.
+3. Review `internal/cli` tests and `cmd/audita` subprocess tests; update coverage
+   for the changed behavior.
+4. Update the CLI reference and affected integration guidance.
+
+## Validating Examples
+
+Keep complete copyable files in [examples](../../examples/) and link to them from
+their canonical contract documentation. Keep them valid and secret-free.
+From the repository root, validate the maintained configuration examples:
+
+```sh
+go run ./cmd/audita config validate --config examples/minimal-config.yml
+go run ./cmd/audita config validate --config examples/configkit-inheritance.yml
+AUDITA_SERVICE_KEY=synthetic-example go run ./cmd/audita config validate --config examples/production-config.yml
+AUDITA_SERVICE_KEY=synthetic-example go run ./cmd/audita config validate --config examples/production-config.yml --overlay testing
+go run ./cmd/audita config print-effective --config examples/minimal-config.yml --view profiles
+go run ./cmd/audita config print-effective --config examples/configkit-inheritance.yml --view explain
+```
+
+The local and ConfigKit inheritance files select `profiles/local`; the service
+file selects `profiles/service`, including the service testing profiles. Keep
+these roots separate because PromptKit validates every final definition in a
+selected root, including definitions that are not selected for a role.
+
+Only referenced credentials read environment values; use a controlled synthetic
+value when validating the service example. Check affected CLI examples against the
+parser and use schema tests for maintained transcript/glossary inputs. Example
+validation should not invoke a live LLM merely to check documentation.
+
+## Runtime Change Checks
+
+Select checks according to the [testing policy](../policy/testing.md):
+
+- Configuration or CLI changes: inspect `internal/core/config` tests,
+  `internal/cli` tests, and `cmd/audita` integration tests.
+- Process/output changes: verify stdout, stderr, exit, output-file, and report
+  behavior against the [CLI contract](../cli.md) and
+  [subprocess guidance](../integrations/subprocess.md), including failures.
+- Report or diagnostics changes: review [report assembly tests and redaction
+  checks](diagnostics-reporting.md#key-tests), metadata fields, and artifact paths.
+- Schema or serialization changes: review [output-schema tests](output-schemas.md#key-tests)
+  and `internal/core/schema` tests, including supported formats and rejection of
+  unsupported schemas.
+- Changes affecting assembled output: inspect controlled HTTP subprocess workflows
+  and retained report/artifact assertions.
+
+Use the [contributor guide](../development.md#baseline-validation) for baseline
+commands. These recipes supplement, rather than duplicate, public contracts.

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+# Diagnostics and Reporting Internals
+
+The [output-file contract](../integrations/output-files.md) owns public
+schemas and the [operations guide](../operations.md) owns physical placement.
+
+`internal/framework/outcomes` contains processing-owned operation references,
+counts, failure reasons, filtering details, and work states. It imports no
+reporting, CLI, or provider package. The runner records those facts per initial
+section and module instance. `internal/framework/processreport` maps them once
+into `internal/core/reporting.Snapshot`, including nullable counts, grouped
+work-unit errors, separate run errors, and one recovery per successful logical
+operation. Reports order stages, sections, validators, and batches by semantic
+identity, never concurrent completion time. The core reporting package owns
+Audita's versioned YAML DTOs, fixed Markdown rendering, and brief CLI
+completion formatter. YAML redaction walks serialized string nodes so numeric
+and boolean values retain their types. Ordinary reports omit raw causes,
+transcript text, complete decisions, and token/timing payloads.
+Validation operations with unavailable decisions report only affected requested
+indices, even when other candidates in the batch continue. Ignored extra
+validator entries yield `validation_decisions_filtered` only for a successful
+operation; they do not count as filtered correction proposals. Failed operations
+retain their execution counts and never produce a recovery record.
+
+`internal/core/diagnostics.OutputSession` owns active destination checks,
+transcript preflight, report initialization, regular-file replacement, and direct
+stream publication. Transcript input is protected from early report writes but
+may be the final transcript destination. The LLM runtime records successful reads
+through PromptKit's profile filesystem and supplies those source paths to CLI;
+no second filename-based discovery rule is used.
+CLI composes it after configuration/profile inspection and before reading
+inputs or dispatching model work. It does not create ordinary report parents.
+On a final write error it attempts other enabled reports and one failed-status
+pass; a published transcript is never erased by a later report failure.
+
+Debug is independent. Only `diagnostics.debug` creates a unique retained child
+under `diagnostics.work_dir`. CLI passes empty diagnostics paths and nil writers
+when debug is off. With debug on, source/normalized snapshots, invocation,
+effective settings, origins, profiles, initial chunk summary, correction ledger,
+indexed execution/utilization, and model interactions are written. Runner
+candidate capture includes proposals later rejected or interrupted. Ledger
+mapping uses optional string pointers so an empty proposed replacement is
+serialized for every candidate and an empty applied replacement appears only
+when that candidate applied; see the [public artifact contract](../integrations/output-files.md#debug-only-files).
+Debug write failures reach the CLI through an explicit concurrency-safe diagnostic
+callback and produce redacted stderr messages without aborting processing.
+Completed validator decisions returned with a fatal batch error remain available
+to the debug ledger; they never authorize applying an incompletely validated edit.
+Runner decision records carry the validator's explicit approved, rejected, or
+unavailable disposition into the ledger. Unavailable candidates have a distinct
+top-level ledger disposition, while fatal interruptions remain interrupted when
+no rejection or unavailable decision was returned. Successful validation
+interaction payloads contain the full decoded response, final content, and
+reconciliation outcomes; ignored indices do not become ledger candidates.
+Every debug writer uses all configured backend secrets for redaction, including
+unselected backend credentials and source snapshots. Debug can still contain
+sensitive transcript and prompt content.
+
+## Key Tests
+
+Useful tests: `internal/core/reporting/*_test.go`,
+`internal/core/diagnostics/*_test.go`,
+`internal/framework/processreport/*_test.go`, and
+`cmd/audita/main_integration_test.go`.

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+# Audita LLM Runtime
+
+## Client Boundary
+
+`llm.NewRuntime` assembles one PromptKit engine for both roles. PromptKit's
+catalogs and defaults are followed by Audita's embedded prompt and schema
+inputs, operator documents from `profiles_dir`, and the highest-priority
+application backend mapping. Audita owns backend endpoints, capacity settings,
+and resolved credentials; native PromptKit layering owns profile inheritance,
+prompt overrides, and provider-specific fields. Imports are disabled. The
+runtime inspects both selected roles offline, requiring complete model and
+endpoint values and rejecting competing profile credential lookups. A
+role-bound `llm.RoleClient` implements `structuredoutput.Client`; proposal and
+validator contracts alias that interface. Both roles share engine-local backend
+capacity.
+
+Successful construction captures the final definitions and referenced message
+contents. The runtime does not reload operator documents or message files during
+calls. If final engine construction fails, an embedded-only diagnostic
+construction distinguishes shipped asset failures from invalid operator input.
+An asset failure remains an asset error; when embedded construction succeeds,
+the original failure remains a configuration error. The diagnostic engine
+never replaces or executes the requested configuration, and caller cancellation
+skips this path. The captured inspection also supplies an internal source
+ledger: all loaded host YAML plus effective, source-relative host
+`content_file` resources are tracked for output-collision checks.
+
+For each logical call, the adapter starts an operation context and a diagnostic
+record before preparation. It supplies the reserved hardening text, the selected
+profile and resolved backend credential, and the complete embedded schema/repair
+contract. `PrepareExecution` produces the exact messages and hashes retained in
+an Audita snapshot. The adapter checks the prepared backend and endpoint before
+`RunPrepared`. It records available final content, usage, model, and profile
+metadata and decodes only a validated result. Call hooks expose logical
+start/finish records and PromptKit execution events for debug utilization.
+
+The [integration contract](../integrations/openai-compatible-llm.md) describes
+wire ownership and failure behavior. `structuredoutput.Failure` has a safe
+message, fixed reason code, typed cause, and recoverable/fatal/canceled class.
+Counts distinguish provider attempts, transient retries, and structural
+repairs, including on errors. Secrets from all configured backends, including unselected
+ones, are available to the diagnostics redaction boundary.
+
+CLI explain output and debug configuration origins share a value-free projection
+of effective field origins. The [CLI contract](../cli.md) defines its optional
+inheritance evidence fields.
+
+## Orchestration
+
+CLI processing supplies two role clients from the same engine to the runner.
+PromptKit's per-backend admission applies to both roles and every generation,
+retry, and repair. The runner still processes module instances in order,
+collects concurrent section work deterministically, and cancels remaining
+section work only on fatal failures. `llm.DiagnosticsWriter` remains the protected
+request/response artifact writer. `llm.ObservationCollector` captures metadata
+events under a short mutex and freezes them after runner work joins. Its logical
+records include preparation failures; summary usage comes from terminal events
+once per call and retains knownness and completeness for each field. Runner wall
+and validator timings remain separate from provider attempts. Ordinary reports
+derive compact runner outcomes; full observations are debug-only.

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+# Audita Modules
+
+## Scope
+
+This document covers internal module contracts and packages. User-selectable keys
+and the default sequence belong to [configuration](../config.md#settings).
+
+## Module Contract
+
+Modules implement `contracts.TranscriptModule`:
+- `Key()`
+- `ReplacementPolicy()`
+- `Validators()`
+- `Propose(ctx, req)`
+
+Runner resolves configured module specs to module instances through `internal/framework/modules`.
+
+## Built-In Modules
+
+Current module packages:
+- `internal/modules/glossary`
+- `internal/modules/homophones`
+- `internal/modules/spoken_word`
+- `internal/modules/grammar`
+
+Current replacement policies:
+- `glossary`: `replace_all`
+- `homophones`: `require_unique`
+- `spoken_word`: `require_unique`
+- `grammar`: `require_unique`
+
+## Proposal Generation Ownership
+
+Shared proposal-generation plumbing is centralized in:
+- `internal/framework/proposal_generation`
+
+Module packages own:
+- prompt selection (`internal/prompts` prompt IDs).
+
+`proposal_generation.BuildProposalVariables` encodes the glossary, selected
+transcript section, and trimmed description once for all four modules. PromptKit
+renders their embedded definitions from those variables and validates the
+correction-set schema before Audita maps proposals. Domain validators still
+check confidence, applicability, protected glossary terms, and replacement
+policy. Model-facing segment IDs are one-based positions within the proposal
+request. Generation maps returned references back to the current chunk's actual
+segment IDs, preserving response order and multiple proposals per segment.
+Unknown references become invalid-target candidates for the existing domain
+checks; they are never interpreted as actual transcript IDs. Debug request
+metadata records `segment_ids` in local-reference order (reference 1 is the
+first entry). Shared context encoding lives in `internal/framework/promptcontext`.
+An empty `corrected_text` deletes the identified span when the resulting segment
+remains nonblank. Whitespace-only original spans can express spacing corrections;
+matching stays literal under each module's replacement policy. No automatic
+whitespace cleanup follows application.
+
+## Validator Chain Ownership
+
+Built-in chains are resolved in `internal/validators` per module key.
+Module packages call the built-in chain resolver at construction.
+
+## Failure and Outcome Behavior
+
+Module construction failures are fatal. Recoverable proposal model failures
+record an unsuccessful operation and yield no candidates for that section;
+other sections and module instances continue. Fatal adapter or application
+failures cancel peers and retain partial observations. Consumer-visible
+outcomes are defined by the [report contract](../integrations/output-files.md).
+
+## Changing Modules
+
+1. Add or update the narrowly scoped package under `internal/modules/<module_key>`.
+2. Keep module prompt selection in the module and its definition in
+   `internal/prompts`; see [prompt assets](prompts.md).
+3. Wire module registration and catalog resolution through framework module
+   registration and the core module catalog. Update selectable keys in the
+   [configuration contract](../config.md) when they change.
+4. Verify replacement policy and validator-chain selection against the
+   [architecture requirements](../policy/architecture.md#correction-and-concurrency-invariants).
+5. Review module, prompt-variable, and proposal-generation tests. Inspect parity
+   and release fixtures when public output changes, choosing sufficient coverage
+   under the [testing policy](../policy/testing.md).
+6. Update this document for implementation changes and the appropriate public
+   contract owner for externally visible changes.
+
+## Key Tests
+
+- `internal/modules/*/module_test.go`
+- `internal/framework/modules/registry_test.go`
+- `internal/framework/proposal_generation/*_test.go`
+- `internal/cli/run_test.go` (pipeline/report integration)

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+# Output Encoding Internals
+
+## Scope and Ownership
+
+`internal/core/outputschema` owns encoder registration and resolution. External
+JSON envelopes and segment fields are defined by the
+[output-file contract](../integrations/output-files.md#corrected-transcript);
+selectable values and defaults belong to
+[configuration](../config.md#settings).
+
+## Resolution and Encoding
+
+Configuration validation checks registry support. CLI orchestration resolves the
+selected encoder, passes the final transcript to it, and routes the encoded bytes
+to the destination defined by the [CLI contract](../cli.md#streams-and-exit-status).
+An unsupported key fails validation or resolution rather than selecting an
+implicit fallback.
+
+The registry delegates bare segment serialization to the transcript schema
+package and uses an envelope encoder for the versioned form. Report construction
+receives the selected key separately; see [report assembly](diagnostics-reporting.md).
+
+## Changing an Encoder
+
+Update registration, configuration validation, and serialization together. Inspect
+round-trip and shape tests, then update the external output-file contract if the
+serialized form changes. Keep internal helper changes separate from decisions
+about externally visible compatibility.
+
+## Key Tests
+
+- `internal/core/outputschema/registry_test.go`
+- `internal/core/config/config_test.go`
+- `internal/cli/run_test.go`

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+# Audita Internal Overview
+
+## Scope
+
+This document owns the implemented component map. For normative boundaries, see
+[architecture policy](../policy/architecture.md); for task-specific reading and
+baseline commands, see the [contributor guide](../development.md).
+
+## Package Map
+
+Executable and command orchestration:
+- `cmd/audita`: executable entry point.
+- `internal/cli`: argument parsing, config commands, streams, filesystem wiring, and process orchestration.
+
+Core deterministic components:
+- `internal/core/config`
+- `internal/core/schema`
+- `internal/core/normalization`
+- `internal/core/chunking`
+- `internal/core/outputschema`
+- `internal/core/diagnostics`
+- `internal/core/reporting`
+- `internal/core/modulecatalog`
+
+Framework orchestration and contracts:
+- `internal/framework/contracts`
+- `internal/framework/modules`
+- `internal/framework/proposal_generation`
+- `internal/framework/proposals`
+- `internal/framework/runner`
+- `internal/framework/validators`
+- `internal/framework/llm`
+- `internal/framework/responseschema`
+- `internal/framework/structuredoutput`
+- `internal/framework/processreport`
+- `internal/framework/promptcontext`
+- `internal/framework/stagename`
+
+Domain implementations:
+- `internal/modules/*`
+- `internal/validators/*`
+- `internal/prompts`
+
+Supporting areas:
+- `docs/`: canonical documentation.
+- `examples/`: maintained copyable inputs and configuration.
+
+## Current Scope
+
+Runtime state is held in memory; optional debug artifacts are retained only
+when requested. Audita does
+not currently implement a plugin framework, generic workflow engine,
+resume/checkpoint/manifest system, remote storage, or multi-process service mode.
+Its role-bound PromptKit adapter implements the structured LLM client contract.
+These are current implementation boundaries, not bans on future work.
+
+## Main Execution Path (`audita process`)
+
+The CLI inspects configuration and profiles, preflights and initializes active
+outputs, optionally creates debug evidence, invokes the runner, and finalizes
+transcript and reports.
+The [pipeline](pipeline.md) owns detailed state transitions; the
+[operations guide](../operations.md) owns the operator workflow and physical
+artifact lifecycle.
+
+## Component Responsibilities
+
+Core components implement configuration defaults/loading/validation/redaction,
+transcript and glossary schemas, normalization and chunking, output encoding,
+diagnostics artifact helpers, and public report structures.
+
+Framework components implement module and validator contracts, proposal
+generation and application, prompt context, runner orchestration, PromptKit
+execution and observation mapping, response schemas, and process-report/correction-ledger assembly.
+Domain packages provide correction modules, built-in validator chains and
+execution metadata, and embedded prompt assets.
+
+These describe the implementation; dependency and ownership requirements belong
+to the [architecture policy](../policy/architecture.md#ownership-and-dependency-direction).
+
+## Change Recipes
+
+- [Configuration, CLI, and example changes](cli-config.md)
+- [Module changes](modules.md#changing-modules)
+- [Validator changes](validators.md#changing-validators)
+- Runtime orchestration changes: use [pipeline](pipeline.md), [LLM runtime](llm-runtime.md),
+  or [diagnostics/reporting](diagnostics-reporting.md) and their test references.
+
+## Related Internal Docs
+
+- [`docs/internal/pipeline.md`](pipeline.md)
+- [`docs/internal/modules.md`](modules.md)
+- [`docs/internal/validators.md`](validators.md)
+- [`docs/internal/llm-runtime.md`](llm-runtime.md)
+- [`docs/internal/diagnostics-reporting.md`](diagnostics-reporting.md)
+- [`docs/internal/prompts.md`](prompts.md)
+- [`docs/internal/output-schemas.md`](output-schemas.md)

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+# Audita Internal Pipeline
+
+The [input contract](../integrations/transcript-glossary-files.md) owns input
+formats; [configuration](../config.md) owns settings; the
+[output contract](../integrations/output-files.md) owns serialized results.
+
+1. CLI filesystem adapters read transcript and glossary files. Schema parsing
+   produces source objects; transcript segments enter canonical normalization.
+2. Normalization sorts and merges segments using configured time and token
+   limits, reassigning IDs where needed.
+3. The runner partitions the normalized transcript exactly once before its
+   module loop. Initial section identity, segment membership, and token
+   estimates stay fixed while text evolves.
+4. Module instances execute in configured order. Sections may propose
+   concurrently, but proposal indices follow section order and response order.
+5. Deterministic validators precede LLM-backed validators. Every submitted
+   candidate receives one decision per validator on a normal return. Fatal returns
+   may preserve a checked subset of completed decisions as diagnostic evidence.
+   Recoverable failed batches mark their candidates unavailable; successful
+   survivors continue through all required validators.
+6. Only fully approved proposals reach application. Corrections apply in
+   proposal-index order within their owning section. Existing replacement
+   policies and apply-time safety checks resolve stale conflicts.
+7. CLI encodes the final transcript and publishes active files through the
+   output session. `framework/processreport` builds one snapshot for YAML,
+   Markdown, and CLI totals. Debug evidence is captured separately when enabled.
+
+`runner.Run` returns the final working transcript, initial section inventory,
+explicit `not_started`/`interrupted`/`completed` work units, compact model
+operation outcomes, and per-module results. Candidate payloads are retained
+in the returned output only when debug capture is requested. A work unit can
+complete with model errors and applied corrections. Recoverable model failures
+never trigger shared cancellation. Fatal setup, internal, application, or
+parent-cancellation errors cancel peers, join workers, and preserve earlier
+committed module text for partial reports; no completed transcript is published.
+
+Required transcript/report write failures are fatal. Optional debug writes
+report safely to stderr without changing decisions or exit status. See
+[operations](../operations.md) for file placement and failure handling, and
+[architecture policy](../policy/architecture.md#correction-and-concurrency-invariants)
+for invariants.
+
+Key tests: `internal/framework/runner/*_test.go`,
+`internal/framework/validators/*_test.go`, and
+`cmd/audita/main_integration_test.go`.

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+# Audita Prompt Registry
+
+`internal/prompts` embeds seven PromptKit YAML definitions under
+`assets/prompts`. The IDs and selected version remain:
+
+- `modules.glossary.proposal` (`v1`)
+- `modules.homophones.proposal` (`v1`)
+- `modules.spoken_word.proposal` (`v1`)
+- `modules.grammar.proposal` (`v1`)
+- `validators.spoken_form_plausibility` (`v1`)
+- `validators.meaning_reversal_review` (`v1`)
+- `validators.editorial_review` (`v1`)
+
+PromptKit reads the embedded definitions as shipped defaults and renders their
+messages from named string variables. Operator documents in `profiles_dir` may
+contribute native keyed prompt definitions and override an embedded
+prompt/version, including its messages and definition-level output settings.
+The effective operator text is captured when the runtime is constructed; the
+embedded assets remain the source of Audita's shipped task instructions. The
+role-bound adapter supplies
+`HardeningPolicy` alongside `ProposalContract` and `ValidationContract` from
+embedded fragments under `assets/shared`, after caller variables so callers
+cannot replace those instructions. Common literal-span and identity guidance
+lives in the proposal fragment; shared candidate-reference, context, and
+confidence guidance lives in the validation fragment. Module-specific policies
+and examples remain in YAML. Proposal prompts receive the section JSON, glossary
+JSON where used, and transcript description block. Validator prompts receive
+the correction payload and description block.
+The embedded prompt assets retain the shipped task instructions and
+output-schema association. An operator override controls which template
+variables its messages reference: supplying a shared variable does not append
+its text when the effective message omits that reference. The role-bound runtime
+supplies the complete JSON Schema output contract and repair count; the
+definition does not own an operator-facing repair default.
+The correction-set schema requires a string replacement and accepts an empty
+string. Proposal guidance uses it for eligible span deletion and permits literal
+spacing edits; validator guidance evaluates the full before/after segment under
+each validator's existing remit. A blank resulting segment remains a domain
+rejection, not a structural schema error.
+
+`internal/framework/responseschema` remains the only embedded source for
+`correction_set.v1.json` and `validator_decision_set.v1.json`. It exposes that
+filesystem to PromptKit and retains Audita's schema-key lookup. PromptKit's
+prepared execution supplies definition and rendered hashes; Audita does not
+recompute or promise equality with hashes from the removed template renderer.
+The small Audita registry records only prompt ID, version, source, and embedded
+path. Prepared runtime metadata belongs in diagnostics rather than the registry.
+
+The structured-call contract carries prompt ID/version, string variables,
+response-schema key, and logical-call attribution. Module and validator callers
+pass these values through the role-bound adapter. See the
+[LLM runtime](llm-runtime.md) for runtime assembly and
+[configuration](../config.md) for operator-selected profiles.
+
+Proposal instructions describe literal matching, each module's replacement policy,
+source-based proposal identity, and confidence in whether an edit is warranted.
+Proposal `id` and validator `correction_index` values are short, one-based
+references scoped to each request, not internal transcript/proposal identities.
+Mapping belongs to [proposal generation](modules.md) and
+[validator reconciliation](validators.md). Validator instructions distinguish
+confidence in the verdict from the verdict itself. Compact output examples
+illustrate the supplied schema without requiring fixed JSON formatting or key
+order. The grammar article exception and glossary mishearing exception apply
+consistently across their instructions.
+
+Only the three active validator definitions are retained. The unused internal
+`grammar_review` and `spoken_word_review` definitions and type selections were
+removed; built-in chains and operator configuration are unchanged.

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+# Audita Validators
+
+## Scope
+
+This document describes internal validator composition, execution order, and
+decision handling. These registry keys identify implementation components; they
+are not independently selectable through [configuration](../config.md#settings).
+
+## Ownership
+
+Built-in validator keys and chains:
+- `internal/validators`
+
+Shared validator runtime mechanics:
+- `internal/framework/validators`
+
+Execution-class metadata:
+- `internal/validators/metadata`
+
+## Built-In Validator Keys
+
+Deterministic:
+- `proposal_shape`
+- `confidence_threshold`
+- `original_text_presence`
+- `non_empty_resulting_segment` — rejects edits that would leave the segment
+  blank, regardless of replacement-span length.
+- `no_effect`
+- `protected_terms`
+
+LLM-backed:
+- `spoken_form_plausibility`
+- `meaning_reversal_review`
+- `editorial_review`
+
+## Built-In Chains
+
+Module chains are defined in `internal/validators/chains.go`.
+Glossary, homophones, spoken_word, and grammar each resolve a fixed ordered chain.
+
+## Runtime Execution
+
+For each module section:
+1. run deterministic validators;
+2. run LLM-backed validators;
+3. record decisions and compact operation outcomes;
+4. carry only approved proposals forward.
+
+Decision cardinality is enforced inside Audita: each candidate proposal must
+receive exactly one outcome per validator it reaches. The runner still rejects
+duplicate, missing, or unknown identities in an internal validator result.
+
+## LLM Validator Batching
+
+LLM validators:
+- build canonical validation request payloads;
+- batch using `validation.max_prompt_tokens` and the existing domain token estimator;
+- select an embedded prompt ID and pass payload/description variables to the
+  role-bound structured client with the validator-decision schema.
+
+Oversized single inputs are rejected with a consolidated
+`validation_input_too_large` operation, without a provider call. Recoverable
+model failures make only their batch candidates unavailable while other
+batches continue. PromptKit validates each complete response against the
+validator-decision JSON Schema and performs configured structural repair before
+Audita receives decoded decisions. Each actual batch presents candidates
+numbered from 1, independent of their internal proposal indices. Audita then
+reconciles those local references: one usable entry keeps its
+approval or editorial rejection; a missing or duplicate requested entry makes
+only that candidate unavailable; unexpected indices are ignored. An empty list
+makes all requested candidates unavailable. Decisions and unavailable indices
+map back to internal proposal identities; results are ordered by request identity
+and satisfy strict internal cardinality before the runner advances
+approved candidates. An unavailable candidate never advances as approved.
+Invalid confidence in a decoded test double also makes only its candidate
+unavailable; production schema validation still rejects out-of-range confidence
+before reconciliation. A partially unavailable batch records one failed
+operation with only those requested indices, while a successful batch with
+ignored extras records a decision-filtering recovery. Fatal errors stop the
+chain without returning unchecked candidates as approved. A local result builder
+retains already-collected decisions and operations on early returns; full
+cardinality checks and final sorting remain explicit on completed paths.
+Reconciliation makes no semantic retry or extra model call; guided recovery remains
+[deferred](../roadmap/future.md#domain-aware-response-recovery).
+
+Debug request metadata records `proposal_indices` in local-reference order
+(reference 1 is the first entry). Raw decoded responses and ignored indices use
+local references; reconciled decisions and unavailable indices use internal
+proposal indices. Batch token estimates use the same locally numbered payload
+as prompt encoding.
+
+## Decision and Rejection Reporting
+
+Runner collects decisions, rejected candidates, and operation outcomes. Ledger
+assembly groups decisions by deterministic versus LLM-backed execution metadata.
+The serialized names and fields belong to the
+[report and ledger contract](../integrations/output-files.md); implementation mapping
+is covered by [report assembly](diagnostics-reporting.md).
+
+## Changing Validators
+
+1. Implement validator behavior under `internal/validators/<validator_key>`;
+   update registry and chain wiring in `internal/validators`.
+2. Put shared runtime mechanics in `internal/framework/validators` only when
+   needed. Keep deterministic versus LLM-backed execution metadata explicit.
+3. Preserve exposed identities and decision semantics under the
+   [architecture policy](../policy/architecture.md#correction-and-concurrency-invariants).
+4. Review validator, registry, chain, batching, malformed-output, diagnostics,
+   and decision-cardinality tests; update meaningful coverage under the
+   [testing policy](../policy/testing.md).
+5. Update implementation guidance here and any affected external contract in its
+   [canonical owner](../policy/documentation.md#canonical-ownership).
+
+## Key Tests
+
+- `internal/validators/*_test.go`
+- `internal/framework/validators/*_test.go`
+- `internal/framework/processreport/correction_ledger_test.go`
+- `internal/cli/run_test.go`
+
+## Supplemental Validation Context
+
+Request construction prepares one segment-position lookup and protected vocabulary
+for all candidates. Glossary selection remains candidate-specific, including the
+proposed replacement text.
+
+Each candidate includes the immediately preceding and following source segments
+available within its fixed chunk, labeled `preceding` or `following` with speaker,
+text, and categories, plus glossary entries whose names, aliases, or
+recognized plurals appear in its original/resulting text or those neighbors.
+Glossary matching reuses the protected vocabulary; entries retain glossary order.
+Model-facing candidate and neighboring context omit internal segment IDs.
+This supplies evidence such as a troupe definition for a proposed `Jesters`
+correction or an adjacent speaker turn explaining deliberate repetition. A correction
+already clear from its own segment does not require such evidence. No audio,
+out-of-chunk context, or complete transcript is implied.
+
+Context is serialized inside the validation item and included in the existing
+payload token estimate. If one enriched item exceeds the configured limit, optional
+neighbors are removed from the end first, then glossary entries from the end,
+until it fits or only required candidate data remains. Required before/after text
+is never truncated. Existing oversized-candidate handling still applies if that
+required data does not fit. Context is supplemental, not a promise that every
+relevant definition or neighboring utterance always fits. This uses the existing
+payload estimator, not a new guarantee about the provider's full context window.
+
+## Protected-Name Repetition
+
+Spoken-word cleanup may reduce repeated protected-name occurrences when every
+original protected identity still appears in the resulting segment and surviving
+spellings satisfy existing capitalization checks. Full-segment preview supports
+both a replacement of the repeated phrase and deletion of a redundant span. This
+exception only relaxes the deterministic count guard; editorial and meaning-reversal
+validation still decide whether the repetition was accidental and the edit preserves
+meaning. Intentional emphasis and substantive references remain protected by those
+reviews. Other modules retain their existing protection rules.

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+# Migrating to Audita v2
+
+Audita v2 adopts ConfigKit for configuration and PromptKit for LLM execution.
+Version-1 configuration files, environment overlays, and retired flags are not
+accepted. Copy a maintained [local](../../examples/minimal-config.yml) or
+[service](../../examples/production-config.yml) example, then select real models
+in the accompanying `examples/profiles/` files. A testing overlay is shown at
+`examples/overlays/testing.yml`; its model choice carries no cost, speed, or
+quality guarantee.
+
+## Configuration and invocation
+
+Use `version: 2` in a YAML main file. `--config` selects that file; otherwise
+`process` and `config print-effective` look at
+`/usr/local/etc/audita/config.yml`, then `/etc/audita/config.yml`.
+`config validate` requires `--config`. `AUDITA_CONFIG` no longer selects a file.
+Settings resolve from defaults, main file, optional `--overlay <name>` in
+`overlays/<name>.yml`, then explicitly supplied setting flags. General `AUDITA_*`
+environment overlays no longer apply. Unknown fields and version-1 files fail;
+there is no automatic converter.
+
+Keep transcript as the positional path and `--glossary` and `--output` as
+invocation paths. The former `--report-json` output has been replaced by the
+default `errors.yml`, `recoveries.yml`, and `report.md` bundle; use
+`--reporting=false` to disable it or `--report-dir` for stdout output. Keep
+`pipeline.modules` / `--modules` and
+`output.schema` / `--output-schema`. An explicit `pipeline.modules: []` or
+`--modules ''` runs no correction modules; omission uses the default sequence.
+Ordered repetitions still matter.
+
+Move `llm.proposal.base_url` and `llm.validation.base_url` to a shared
+`backends.<id>.endpoint` when both roles use one service. Move old role models to
+PromptKit profile files and select them with `llm.proposal_profile` and
+`llm.validation_profile`, or `--proposal-profile` and
+`--validation-profile`. Omitted validation selection inherits the final proposal
+selection; explicit empty or null is invalid. `profiles_dir` defaults to
+`profiles` beside the main config. Complete profiles name a registered backend
+and model. Per-role `--base-url`, `--validation-base-url`, `--model`, and
+`--validation-model` are retired.
+
+Move old `llm.*.api_key_env` to `backends.<id>.credential`, a scalar name of a
+nonempty environment variable, such as `credential: AUDITA_SERVICE_KEY`.
+Credentials on every surviving backend must resolve, including unselected
+backends. Omit or set null for an unauthenticated local backend. Profiles cannot
+perform another key lookup. `--llm-api-key` and `--validation-llm-api-key` are
+retired. `AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY`, `OPENROUTER_API_KEY`, and
+`AUDITA_VALIDATION_LLM_API_KEY` have no implicit meaning, though any of those
+names can be used explicitly as a credential reference.
+
+Replace `concurrency.total_llm`, `.proposal_llm`, and `.validation_llm` plus
+`--total-llm-concurrency`, `--llm-concurrency`,
+`--proposal-llm-concurrency`, and `--validation-llm-concurrency` with
+`backends.<id>.concurrency` (default 1) and optional `queue_capacity` (default
+1024; zero means no waiting admission). One backend capacity is shared by both
+roles and all retry/repair attempts within this Audita process. It does not
+coordinate other processes.
+
+Move old role `timeout` values and `--llm-timeout-seconds` /
+`--validation-llm-timeout-seconds` to profile `timeout_seconds`, a per-attempt
+limit, and `llm.operation_timeout`, a Go duration such as `15m` covering the
+whole logical call. Replace old `max_retries` and `--max-retries` /
+`--validation-max-retries` with common `llm.transient_retries` (additional
+eligible attempts per generation) and `llm.repair_attempts` (additional
+generations for structurally invalid JSON). Explicit zero disables either
+feature. Cancellation and the operation deadline cover capacity waiting,
+backoff, generation, and repairs. PromptKit owns which failures can retry or
+repair; Audita does not retry semantic rejections.
+
+The following domain settings and explicit flags retain their meaning:
+
+| File field | Explicit flag |
+| --- | --- |
+| `validation.max_prompt_tokens` | `--validation-max-prompt-tokens` |
+| `chunking.target_sections` | `--target-sections` |
+| `chunking.max_section_tokens`, `.min_section_tokens` | `--max-section-tokens`, `--min-section-tokens` |
+| `normalization.max_segment_gap`, `.ellipsis_gap`, `.max_segment_duration`, `.max_segment_tokens` | `--normalize-max-segment-gap`, `--normalize-ellipsis-gap`, `--normalize-max-segment-duration`, `--normalize-max-segment-tokens` |
+| `thresholds.glossary`, `.homophones`, `.spoken_word`, `.grammar` | `--glossary-confidence-threshold`, `--homophones-confidence-threshold`, `--spoken-word-confidence-threshold`, `--grammar-confidence-threshold` |
+| `context.description` | `--transcript-description` |
+| `reporting.enabled`, `.stdout_dir` | `--reporting[=true\|false]`, `--report-dir` |
+| `diagnostics.debug`, `.work_dir` | `--debug[=true\|false]`, `--work-dir` |
+
+Normalization gaps and durations are **numeric seconds**, so replace `4s`,
+`3.5s`, and `60s` with `4.0`, `3.5`, and `60.0`. The operation timeout remains a
+Go duration string. `chunking.target_sections` may be omitted or null for
+automatic chunking; zero is invalid. Null is not a general synonym for omission:
+nonoptional scalar settings reject it. Empty `context.description` clears
+context. Legacy `diagnostics.retention` and `--work-dir-retention` are removed.
+Debug is off by default and its directory is retained whenever enabled.
+
+Remove old implicit variables `AUDITA_MODULES`, `AUDITA_MODEL`,
+`AUDITA_VALIDATION_MODEL`, `AUDITA_BASE_URL`, `AUDITA_VALIDATION_BASE_URL`,
+`AUDITA_LLM_TIMEOUT_SECONDS`, `AUDITA_VALIDATION_LLM_TIMEOUT_SECONDS`,
+`AUDITA_MAX_RETRIES`, `AUDITA_VALIDATION_MAX_RETRIES`,
+`AUDITA_TOTAL_LLM_CONCURRENCY`, `AUDITA_LLM_CONCURRENCY`,
+`AUDITA_PROPOSAL_LLM_CONCURRENCY`, `AUDITA_VALIDATION_LLM_CONCURRENCY`,
+`AUDITA_VALIDATION_MAX_PROMPT_TOKENS`, `AUDITA_TARGET_SECTIONS`,
+`AUDITA_MAX_SECTION_TOKENS`, `AUDITA_MIN_SECTION_TOKENS`,
+`AUDITA_NORMALIZE_MAX_SEGMENT_GAP`, `AUDITA_NORMALIZE_ELLIPSIS_GAP`,
+`AUDITA_NORMALIZE_MAX_SEGMENT_DURATION`, `AUDITA_NORMALIZE_MAX_SEGMENT_TOKENS`,
+`AUDITA_GLOSSARY_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD`,
+`AUDITA_HOMOPHONES_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD`,
+`AUDITA_SPOKEN_WORD_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD`,
+`AUDITA_GRAMMAR_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD`, `AUDITA_WORK_DIR`, and
+`AUDITA_WORK_DIR_RETENTION`. Put those values in the named fields above or pass
+their surviving explicit flags.
+
+## Inspecting and operating
+
+Run `audita config validate --config <file>` before processing. Use
+`audita config print-effective --config <file> --view settings|profiles|explain`
+to inspect redacted ConfigKit YAML, selected PromptKit profile controls, or
+field origins and derivations. Each view resolves both roles offline without
+calling a provider. `--overlay testing` selects the same overlay for validation,
+inspection, and processing. The old effective-config JSON format is replaced by
+YAML; settings YAML alone does not show profile-owned model controls.
+
+The [ordinary output contract](../integrations/output-files.md) now uses
+version-1 `audita-errors` and `audita-recoveries` YAML documents plus a fixed
+Markdown overview. Compact outcomes distinguish logical operations from
+provider attempts. With debug enabled, utilization remains grouped by backend
+capacity and usage fields retain known/complete flags. Debug runs write
+`effective-config.redacted.yaml`, `selected-profiles.yaml`,
+`config-origins.yaml`, `utilization-diagnostics.json`, and
+`llm-execution.json`. Request and response artifacts remain redacted debugging
+material. See [operations](../operations.md#diagnostics-directory) for placement
+and paths, [configuration](../config.md) for all settings, and the
+[CLI reference](../cli.md) for current flags.
+
+Debug ledger consumers should recognize the deterministic validator key
+`non_empty_resulting_segment` in place of `non_empty_corrected_text`. The
+`empty_resulting_segment` reason is unchanged. Candidate-backed ledger entries
+now include `proposed_corrected_text: ""` for an empty replacement, and applied
+deletions also include `applied_corrected_text: ""`; omitted fields still mean
+there was no candidate or no applied edit, respectively. See the
+[debug artifact contract](../integrations/output-files.md#debug-only-files).

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+# Audita Operations
+
+This guide owns physical output placement and failure handling. The
+[CLI reference](cli.md) owns flags and streams, [configuration](config.md) owns
+settings, and the [output contract](integrations/output-files.md) owns schemas.
+
+## Normal Workflow
+
+1. Validate a version-2 configuration and its selected profiles with
+   `audita config validate --config config.yml`.
+2. Prepare a transcript and glossary following the [input contract](integrations/transcript-glossary-files.md).
+3. Run `audita process input.json --config config.yml --glossary glossary.yaml --output corrected.json`.
+4. Check the exit status, stderr summary, corrected transcript, and reports.
+   A completed run can contain recoverable model errors and still apply
+   corrections that passed every required validator.
+
+## Required Output Files
+
+Reporting is enabled by default. For file transcript output, `errors.yml`,
+`recoveries.yml`, and `report.md` go in the transcript output's parent directory
+unless `--report-dir` is explicitly supplied. For stdout transcript output, they
+go in the effective `reporting.stdout_dir` (default `.`), including a
+`--report-dir` override. A config-file or overlay value for
+`reporting.stdout_dir` alone does not redirect file-output reports. An active
+selected report directory must be nonblank. `--reporting=false` suppresses all
+three reports and leaves their destination inactive, so it is not probed merely
+because `--report-dir` was supplied. It does not suppress the stderr summary or
+fatal errors. Stdout contains only transcript JSON; file output leaves it empty.
+
+Existing report directories and parents for regular transcript files must be
+writable. Audita prevents report writes from overwriting transcript, glossary,
+loaded application configuration, host YAML discovered under `profiles_dir`,
+or host message files referenced by effective PromptKit `content_file` fields,
+and rejects conflicting output destinations. Source paths come from the
+runtime's captured configuration; unrelated files in the selected directory
+remain eligible output destinations. The final transcript may intentionally
+replace its own input after successful processing; other input/configuration/
+profile sources remain protected.
+Preparation never truncates an existing transcript. Device and pipe destinations
+(such as `/dev/null` and named pipes) receive ordinary writes at publication time;
+they are not opened during preflight or replaced with regular files. A pipe write
+can wait for its reader, and stream write errors are fatal. With reporting enabled,
+reports still use the output path's parent unless an explicit `--report-dir`
+selects another directory; disable reporting when that placement is unsuitable
+for a stream destination.
+
+With reporting enabled, all three reports are initialized as `in_progress` before
+input processing. Output is encoded fully before publication. Each regular output
+file is replaced through a temporary file on its destination filesystem:
+transcript first, then `errors.yml`,
+`recoveries.yml`, and `report.md`. This is per-file replacement, not a
+multi-file transaction. New files honor the process umask; replacing an existing
+file preserves its permission bits. A late report error may leave the transcript
+published; the process exits nonzero and attempts failed-status reports. On fatal processing
+or cancellation, no completed transcript is published, but partial reports are
+finalized where possible. An uncatchable termination can leave `in_progress`.
+
+## Diagnostics Directory
+
+`--debug` or `diagnostics.debug` enables detailed evidence independently of
+reporting. One directory named `run-<id>` is created under
+`diagnostics.work_dir` (default `/tmp/audita`), which `--work-dir` can override,
+and retained on success or failure. Selecting `--work-dir` alone does not enable
+capture. Without debug, no directory or payload files are created. The parent
+is created when needed only for debug. Failure to
+write optional debug evidence prints a redacted stderr diagnostic but does not
+change correction decisions or the exit status.
+
+Debug evidence includes invocation and effective settings, configuration
+origins, selected profiles, redacted source and normalized snapshots,
+normalization and initial chunk summaries, all captured proposed candidates
+and validator decisions in `correction-ledger.json`, execution/utilization
+records, and model interaction files. Individual artifact writes can fail; a
+directory's existence does not prove every file was written. These files can
+contain transcript text and prompt/response payloads. Configured backend
+credentials are redacted, but the transcript itself is not anonymized. Protect
+and retain the directory according to the sensitivity of the input.
+
+## Failure Inspection and Recovery
+
+Exit `0` means processing and every enabled required output completed. Exit
+`1` means cancellation, fatal processing, or required-output failure. Exit `2`
+identifies usage or configuration/destination selection errors. Recoverable
+model-operation failures appear in `errors.yml` as one record per affected
+work unit; they do not automatically make the run fail. `recoveries.yml`
+records successful operations that needed retry, repair, or proposal filtering.
+`report.md` shows every initial chunk and configured module instance, including
+interrupted and unattempted work. Ordinary reports omit transcript excerpts and
+full decision ledgers; enable debug when those are needed.
+
+Read stderr and report status first. If a required output failed after a
+transcript was published, do not treat the file alone as proof of a completed
+run. Fix the input, service, or destination problem and rerun. Audita has no
+resume/checkpoint API.

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+# Open Source Attribution Notices
+
+## Standard Repository Policies
+
+Material: All documents under `docs/policy/`, root `AGENTS.md`, and the Policy Reading Guide in `docs/development.md`, adapted for this repository.
+
+Copyright (C) 2026 Eric Rakestraw
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
+
+License and notices: [CC BY-SA 4.0](licenses/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt) |
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/COPYRIGHT) |
+[LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/LICENSE).
+
+[Source](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843).
+
+## ConfigKit
+
+Selected module: `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit` at `v0.5.0`.
+
+Copyright (C) 2026 Eric Rakestraw
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later
+
+License and notices: [LGPL v3](licenses/LGPL-3.0.txt) |
+[GPL v3](licenses/GPL-3.0.txt) |
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/commit/dc09959cca4e105f49ec316c6d4ba585bd2340bd/COPYRIGHT).
+
+[Source](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/commit/dc09959cca4e105f49ec316c6d4ba585bd2340bd).
+
+## Go runtime and standard library
+
+Selected toolchain: Go 1.25.5 for the distributed Linux binaries.
+
+Copyright 2009 The Go Authors.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+License and notices: [BSD 3-Clause](licenses/BSD-3-Clause-Go.txt) |
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/golang/go/blob/fefb02adf45c4bcc879bd406a8d61f2a292c26a9/LICENSE) |
+[PATENTS](https://github.com/golang/go/blob/fefb02adf45c4bcc879bd406a8d61f2a292c26a9/PATENTS).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/golang/go/commit/fefb02adf45c4bcc879bd406a8d61f2a292c26a9).
+
+## Go vendored golang.org/x/crypto
+
+Material: `golang.org/x/crypto` at `v0.39.0` in the Go 1.25.5 standard library.
+
+Copyright 2009 The Go Authors.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+License and notices: [BSD 3-Clause](licenses/BSD-3-Clause-Go.txt) |
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/golang/go/blob/fefb02adf45c4bcc879bd406a8d61f2a292c26a9/src/vendor/golang.org/x/crypto/LICENSE) |
+[PATENTS](https://github.com/golang/go/blob/fefb02adf45c4bcc879bd406a8d61f2a292c26a9/src/vendor/golang.org/x/crypto/PATENTS).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/golang/go/commit/fefb02adf45c4bcc879bd406a8d61f2a292c26a9).
+
+## Go vendored golang.org/x/net
+
+Material: `golang.org/x/net` at `v0.41.0` in the Go 1.25.5 standard library.
+
+Copyright 2009 The Go Authors.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+License and notices: [BSD 3-Clause](licenses/BSD-3-Clause-Go.txt) |
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/golang/go/blob/fefb02adf45c4bcc879bd406a8d61f2a292c26a9/src/vendor/golang.org/x/net/LICENSE) |
+[PATENTS](https://github.com/golang/go/blob/fefb02adf45c4bcc879bd406a8d61f2a292c26a9/src/vendor/golang.org/x/net/PATENTS).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/golang/go/commit/fefb02adf45c4bcc879bd406a8d61f2a292c26a9).
+
+## Go vendored golang.org/x/sys
+
+Material: `golang.org/x/sys` at `v0.33.0` in the Go 1.25.5 standard library.
+
+Copyright 2009 The Go Authors.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+License and notices: [BSD 3-Clause](licenses/BSD-3-Clause-Go.txt) |
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/golang/go/blob/fefb02adf45c4bcc879bd406a8d61f2a292c26a9/src/vendor/golang.org/x/sys/LICENSE) |
+[PATENTS](https://github.com/golang/go/blob/fefb02adf45c4bcc879bd406a8d61f2a292c26a9/src/vendor/golang.org/x/sys/PATENTS).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/golang/go/commit/fefb02adf45c4bcc879bd406a8d61f2a292c26a9).
+
+## Go vendored golang.org/x/text
+
+Material: `golang.org/x/text` at `v0.26.0` in the Go 1.25.5 standard library.
+
+Copyright 2009 The Go Authors.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+License and notices: [BSD 3-Clause](licenses/BSD-3-Clause-Go.txt) |
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/golang/go/blob/fefb02adf45c4bcc879bd406a8d61f2a292c26a9/src/vendor/golang.org/x/text/LICENSE) |
+[PATENTS](https://github.com/golang/go/blob/fefb02adf45c4bcc879bd406a8d61f2a292c26a9/src/vendor/golang.org/x/text/PATENTS).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/golang/go/commit/fefb02adf45c4bcc879bd406a8d61f2a292c26a9).
+
+## go-yaml v4
+
+Selected module: `go.yaml.in/yaml/v4` at `v4.0.0-rc.6`.
+
+Copyright 2006-2010 Kirill Simonov
+
+Copyright 2011-2019 Canonical Ltd
+
+Copyright 2025 The go-yaml Project Contributors
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 AND MIT
+
+License and notices: [Apache 2.0](licenses/Apache-2.0.txt) |
+[MIT](licenses/MIT-libyaml-v4.txt) |
+[NOTICE](https://github.com/yaml/go-yaml/blob/1c17b9cee72bf81ae73a8be50fbd7dd3a9985125/NOTICE).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/yaml/go-yaml/commit/1c17b9cee72bf81ae73a8be50fbd7dd3a9985125).
+
+## golang.org/x/text
+
+Selected module: `golang.org/x/text` at `v0.14.0`.
+
+Copyright (c) 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+License and notices: [BSD 3-Clause](licenses/BSD-3-Clause-x-text.txt) |
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/golang/text/blob/6c97a165dd661335ff7bce6104a008558123c353/LICENSE) |
+[PATENTS](https://github.com/golang/text/blob/6c97a165dd661335ff7bce6104a008558123c353/PATENTS).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/golang/text/commit/6c97a165dd661335ff7bce6104a008558123c353).
+
+## jsonschema/v6
+
+Selected module: `github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6` at `v6.0.2`.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+License and notices: [Apache 2.0](licenses/Apache-2.0.txt).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/commit/29cbed948d24a04700eb94436416b18a07953b71).
+
+## PromptKit
+
+Selected module: `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit` at `v0.12.0`.
+
+Copyright (C) 2026 Eric Rakestraw
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later
+
+License and notices: [LGPL v3](licenses/LGPL-3.0.txt) |
+[GPL v3](licenses/GPL-3.0.txt) |
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/commit/4b8169da286917fde7875425bb32b799b12c6af3/COPYRIGHT).
+
+[Source](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/commit/4b8169da286917fde7875425bb32b799b12c6af3).
+
+## Promptkit OpenRouter Catalog
+
+Selected module: `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/v3` at `v3.20260930.0`.
+
+Copyright (C) 2026 Eric Rakestraw
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+License and notices: [MIT](licenses/MIT-Catalogs.txt) |
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/src/commit/f17d208cb7ad1fb043cda2266cd3011d11b40aa0/COPYRIGHT) |
+[LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/src/commit/f17d208cb7ad1fb043cda2266cd3011d11b40aa0/LICENSE).
+
+[Source](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/src/commit/f17d208cb7ad1fb043cda2266cd3011d11b40aa0).
+
+## Promptkit Rakestrawhome Catalog
+
+Selected module: `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/v3` at `v3.20260930.0`.
+
+Copyright (C) 2026 Eric Rakestraw
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+License and notices: [MIT](licenses/MIT-Catalogs.txt) |
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/src/commit/993443d88c451901f4c917fa00c204fd3b54d28d/COPYRIGHT) |
+[LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/src/commit/993443d88c451901f4c917fa00c204fd3b54d28d/LICENSE).
+
+[Source](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/src/commit/993443d88c451901f4c917fa00c204fd3b54d28d).
+
+## yaml.v3
+
+Selected module: `gopkg.in/yaml.v3` at `v3.0.1`.
+
+Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Kirill Simonov
+
+Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Kirill Simonov
+
+Copyright (c) 2011-2019 Canonical Ltd
+
+Copyright 2011-2016 Canonical Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 AND MIT
+
+License and notices: [Apache 2.0](licenses/Apache-2.0.txt) |
+[MIT](licenses/MIT-libyaml.txt) |
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml/blob/f6f7691b1fdeb513f56608cd2c32c51f8194bf51/LICENSE) |
+[NOTICE](https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml/blob/f6f7691b1fdeb513f56608cd2c32c51f8194bf51/NOTICE).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml/commit/f6f7691b1fdeb513f56608cd2c32c51f8194bf51).

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+MIT License
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docs/oss/licenses/MIT-libyaml-v4.txt

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+Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Kirill Simonov
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+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
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+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.

docs/oss/licenses/MIT-libyaml.txt

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+Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Kirill Simonov
+Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Kirill Simonov
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+# Agent Policy
+
+**Base Policy Version:** 1.3
+
+**Last Updated**: 2026-09-28
+**Upstream Source:** [Standard Repository Policies agents](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/docs/policy/agents.md)
+
+## Purpose
+
+Agents must read and follow these rules.
+
+## Implementation Discipline
+
+**KEY PRINCIPLES:** Write the simplest idiomatic code that satisfies the user's
+request. Do not implicitly strengthen requirements, restrictions, or guarantees
+beyond what the user actually requested.
+
+**Keep implementation machinery proportionate.** Use straightforward,
+idiomatic code and introduce only the machinery needed to support the requested
+behavior and flexibility. Optimize for conceptual simplicity and
+maintainability, not for the fewest lines, fewest options, or narrowest product
+surface.
+
+**Do not invent restrictions.** Do not reject, prohibit, constrain, cap,
+harden, or otherwise narrow behavior unless required by the user, an explicit
+repository contract, or an unavoidable correctness constraint. Preserve
+operator and caller choice where policy has not been established. If an
+additional restriction appears advisable, present it as a decision rather than
+silently implementing it.
+
+**Do not invent guarantees.** Do not strengthen public contracts, guarantees,
+or invariants beyond those expressly requested by the user.
+
+**Use the standard library.** For example: in almost every case, the best
+approach to copying files is to use the standard library. Writing custom code to
+implement power-loss protection at the application level, or to guard against
+bad actors with privileged and concurrent access to the host's filesystem,
+is wasteful, unnecessary, and not idiomatic. Stick to the simple, standard, and
+idiomatic approach unless another path is expressly requested by the user.
+
+**An implementation detail is not repository policy.** Tests and documentation
+must not elevate incidental behavior into a durable guarantee or restriction
+unless that behavior was expressly selected as part of the contract.
+
+## Codebase Discovery
+
+This project uses codebase-memory-mcp to maintain a knowledge graph of the
+codebase. Always prefer its graph tools over grep, glob, or file search for code discovery.
+If the project is not indexed, run `index_repository` first.
+
+Use this order:
+
+1. `search_graph` to find functions, classes, routes, and variables by pattern.
+2. `trace_path` to trace callers and callees.
+3. `get_code_snippet` to read a specific function or class.
+4. `query_graph` for complex graph queries.
+5. `get_architecture` for the high-level project summary.
+
+Fall back to grep or glob for string literals, error messages, configuration
+values, non-code files, or when the graph tools return insufficient results.
+
+Examples:
+
+- Find a handler: `search_graph(name_pattern=".*OrderHandler.*")`.
+- Find callers: `trace_path(function_name="OrderHandler", direction="inbound")`.
+- Read source: `get_code_snippet(qualified_name="pkg/orders.OrderHandler")`.
+
+## Git Commit Policy
+
+By default, commit each completed, nonempty unit of work using a
+concise, plain-English message describing what changed. This policy is standing
+authorization to create those local commits; a separate user request is not
+required. An explicit user instruction to leave work uncommitted takes precedence.
+
+A unit of work is a focused, reviewable outcome, including its relevant tests and
+documentation.
+Complete the appropriate validation before committing. If work is incomplete or
+validation is blocked, report that state accurately.
+
+Before committing:
+
+1. Run `git status --short` and review the relevant diff, including any staged
+   changes. Identify changes that predate the current unit of work.
+2. Exclude secrets, local environment files, generated junk, and unrelated changes.
+3. Stage only the files or hunks belonging to the completed unit. Use `git add .`
+   only when every included change belongs to that unit. Preserve unrelated
+   staged and unstaged work.
+4. Review `git diff --staged` and run appropriate checks for the change. Reuse
+   successful checks for unchanged content.
+5. Review `git log --oneline -n 10` and use
+   `git commit -m "<concise plain-English commit message>"`.
+6. Report the commit identifier and any remaining uncommitted work.
+
+If the unit cannot be safely separated from pre-existing work, leave it uncommitted
+and explain the overlap rather than silently including that work. If a commit
+fails, preserve the changes and report the failure; do not bypass hooks.
+
+Default commit authorization does not authorize pushing, publishing, amending,
+resetting, reverting, or rewriting history. Those actions require a separate user
+instruction. Do not use `git commit -a` or `git commit --no-verify` to bypass the
+staging and validation discipline above.

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+# Architecture Policy
+
+**Base Policy Version:** 1.3
+
+**Last Updated**: 2026-09-28
+**Upstream Source:** [Standard Repository Policies architecture](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/docs/policy/architecture.md)
+
+## Purpose And Ownership
+
+The adopted policy defines the application's purpose and the architectural
+constraints contributors must follow. It owns system boundaries, responsibility
+and dependency rules, established invariants, and explicit non-goals.
+
+Describe the concrete package inventory and implementation mechanics in internal
+documentation. Link to canonical public contracts for their exact behavior and
+to ADRs for decision rationale.
+
+## Architectural Approach
+
+Hexagonal architecture is strongly recommended, including encapsulating external
+integrations and APIs within internal adapters. Keep domain and application
+logic independent of external integration details, and make dependency direction
+clear in the adopted policy.
+
+Implement that separation with proportionate, idiomatic code. Choose interfaces
+and package layout to serve the application's actual boundaries. Use adapters
+for collaborators with external integration responsibilities.
+
+## Adopted Constraints And Implemented Structure
+
+Architectural constraints govern current and future development. Record
+implemented structure accurately, proposals and implementation status in the
+roadmap, and significant decisions and rationale in ADRs. Describe a target
+structure as implemented when its changes land.
+
+Constraints must reflect deliberately selected requirements and decisions.
+Do not promote incidental implementation choices into architectural invariants.
+
+## Application-Specific Topics
+
+Audita is a single-process Go CLI for transcript polishing. Its architecture
+separates deterministic transcript processing from external LLM effects through
+narrow contracts and adapters. Correction modules and validators remain explicit,
+composable components in an ordered processing pipeline.
+
+This policy owns architectural requirements. The [internal overview](../internal/overview.md)
+owns the implemented component inventory and links to runtime mechanics.
+[CLI](../cli.md), [configuration](../config.md), [operations](../operations.md),
+and [integration documentation](../integrations/subprocess.md) own external contracts.
+
+## Ownership and Dependency Direction
+
+- **Core:** owns domain data handling and reusable configuration, schema,
+  normalization, chunking, output, diagnostics, and reporting contracts. Domain
+  behavior must not require CLI or provider-transport knowledge.
+- **Framework:** owns orchestration contracts and shared runtime mechanics for
+  modules, validators, proposals, LLM adapters, and report assembly.
+  It composes domain operations through explicit inputs and outputs.
+- **Modules:** own narrowly scoped correction behavior and module-specific prompt
+  choices. Keep module packages separate rather than collapsing their distinct
+  responsibilities into a broad generic stage abstraction.
+- **Validators:** own validation behavior and composition. Deterministic and
+  LLM-backed validators remain explicit, independently composable elements.
+- **Prompts:** own embedded prompt assets and metadata used by the runtime.
+- **CLI and adapters:** own command parsing, streams, filesystem wiring, and
+  transport. Keep these concerns outside module, validator, and schema logic.
+
+LLM transport belongs behind `StructuredLLMClient` and framework adapter
+boundaries. Prefer small shared helpers over broad rewrites. Keep module and
+validator inputs, outputs, and configuration dependencies explicit, without
+hidden global state.
+
+## Correction and Concurrency Invariants
+
+- Treat LLM responses as nondeterministic inputs. Preserve deterministic proposal
+  indexing, validator ordering, transcript mutation, reports, and serialization.
+- Validate corrections before final mutation, including local proposal checks,
+  decision cardinality, and apply-time safety. Provider-side schema enforcement
+  does not replace these checks.
+- Keep LLM concurrency bounded and context-aware through PromptKit's engine-local
+  per-backend admission. Proposal and validation calls selecting the same backend
+  share that capacity, including retries and repairs. Preserve deterministic
+  collection order. Recoverable model-operation failures stay local to their
+  proposal response or validation batch; fatal invariant/application failure
+  and parent cancellation stop peers and join them.
+- Keep module and validator identities, reason codes, and execution-class
+  distinctions stable where exposed as contracts.
+
+The [pipeline](../internal/pipeline.md), [modules](../internal/modules.md),
+[validators](../internal/validators.md), and [LLM runtime](../internal/llm-runtime.md)
+describe how these requirements are implemented.
+
+## State and Compatibility
+
+Keep transcript mutation and output handling deterministic around external
+calls. Reports and correction ledgers are derived from processing results.
+Preserve the separation between transient processing state and filesystem
+adapters; physical report placement and optional debug retention belong to
+[operations](../operations.md).
+
+Public CLI, configuration, output-schema, diagnostics, report, prompt, module,
+and validator contracts should remain stable unless a change is deliberate and
+tested. The resilience work intentionally replaced the earlier JSON process
+report with versioned errors/recoveries YAML and a fixed Markdown overview;
+future changes should treat those current contracts deliberately. Current implementation
+limits are documented in the [internal overview](../internal/overview.md#current-scope);
+they are not additional prohibitions on future development.
+
+## Trust Boundaries And Threat Scope
+
+Errors should identify the failed processing phase sufficiently for users and
+subprocess callers. Preserve the stream and exit behavior defined by the
+[CLI contract](../cli.md) and the artifact handling defined by
+[operations](../operations.md).
+
+Diagnostics, reports, and surfaced errors must not leak configured LLM secrets.
+Configuration redaction and LLM payload/error redaction have separate
+responsibilities and should remain separate. Implementation details belong in
+[diagnostics and reporting](../internal/diagnostics-reporting.md).
+
+## Dependencies
+
+Keep Audita dependency-light and prefer the Go standard library for CLI parsing,
+filesystems, synchronization, and tests. ConfigKit owns configuration loading,
+presence, provenance, and secret resolution; PromptKit owns prompt/profile
+loading, OpenAI-compatible transport, retries, repairs, and backend admission.
+Audita owns domain meaning, role selection, and deterministic processing.
+
+Do not introduce broad CLI, dependency-injection, workflow, logging, or plugin
+frameworks without a concrete implemented need and focused tests.
+
+## Testing and Documentation
+
+Follow the [testing policy](testing.md) for risk-based sufficiency and stable test
+boundaries. Keep tests close to the behavior they protect; shared helpers should
+remove duplication without obscuring component-specific behavior. Relevant
+internal docs identify component tests and change recipes; the
+[contributor guide](../development.md) provides baseline validation commands.
+
+Follow the [documentation policy](documentation.md) for ownership, current versus
+future behavior, and the ADR lifecycle. Keep architecture concise and normative;
+use the roadmap for implementation plans rather than maintaining a changelog or
+future-feature specification here.

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+# Documentation Policy
+
+**Base Policy Version:** 1.11
+
+**Last Updated**: 2026-09-28
+**Upstream Source:** [Standard Repository Policies documentation](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/docs/policy/documentation.md)
+
+## Purpose
+
+This policy assigns each documentation topic to one canonical owner. Its goal is
+to keep this application's documentation accurate, concise, discoverable, and resistant
+to drift for users, operators, developers, integrators, and LLM coding agents.
+
+## Core Rules
+
+### One Canonical Owner
+
+Each authoritative fact belongs in one document. A non-owning document may give
+a short, stable summary for orientation, but it must link to the canonical owner
+for volatile details.
+
+Volatile details include commands, flags, configuration fields and defaults,
+module keys, schemas, file names, paths, status codes, retry behavior, and
+runtime guarantees. If readers could reasonably treat a statement as a
+contract, maintain it only in the owning document.
+
+### Current And Future Behavior
+
+Outside `docs/roadmap/`, documentation describes implemented behavior only.
+Partial features may be described only to their implemented boundary.
+
+Architectural constraints may govern future changes. Describe current structure
+from implemented behavior.
+
+ADRs may record an accepted architectural decision before implementation. The
+roadmap owns implementation status and sequencing until the decision is
+implemented. Current architecture, user, operator, integration, and internal
+documentation are updated when the behavior lands.
+
+### Audience And Detail
+
+Write for the document's stated audience and include only the detail needed for
+its owned topic. Keep user and operator docs focused on using and operating the
+application. Developer docs should link to user-facing and external contracts
+for their definitions.
+
+### Examples
+
+Complete copyable files belong in `examples/`. Documentation may use the
+smallest illustrative snippet needed to explain its owned topic, but should link
+to maintained examples for complete copyable files.
+
+Examples must be valid, secret-free, and tested where practical. Commands and
+configuration used in documentation should match the application.
+
+### Security And Privacy
+
+Documentation and examples must not contain real credentials, private keys,
+private environment dumps, sensitive source material, or private infrastructure
+details unless intentionally public. Document secret-handling mechanisms, not
+secret values.
+
+## Canonical Ownership
+
+| Topic | Canonical owner | Owned content | Content owned elsewhere |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| Product orientation and minimal end-to-end quickstart | `README.md` | Purpose, value, shortest successful invocation, and navigation, including licensing and attribution. | Complete command reference, configuration reference, operational procedures, implementation detail. |
+| Contributor entry point | `docs/development.md` | Task-oriented reading guide, contributor orientation, baseline validation commands, and canonical links. | Package inventory, architecture rules, subsystem behavior, detailed change recipes. |
+| Application architecture policy | `docs/policy/architecture.md` | System shape, normative ownership, dependency direction, boundaries, invariants, safety properties, and non-goals. | Concrete package inventory, implementation mechanics, contributor procedures, decision history, future work. |
+| Policy-set provenance and upstream navigation | `docs/policy/meta.md` | Policy-set origin, local authority, adoption baselines, and upstream adoption and update links. | Task-specific reading triggers, detailed adoption procedures, and formal attribution notices. |
+| Agent policy | `docs/policy/agents.md` | Proportionate, idiomatic implementation; graph-first code discovery, commit discipline, and rules against inventing requirements, restrictions, guarantees, or policy. | Application contracts, architecture, testing policy, and contributor procedures. |
+| Documentation policy | `docs/policy/documentation.md` | Documentation ownership, audience boundaries, maintenance rules, and ADR/document lifecycle. | Application architecture or product behavior. |
+| Testing policy | `docs/policy/testing.md` | Test philosophy, risk sufficiency, boundaries, doubles, coverage, regressions, and test maintenance. | Subsystem behavior, application contracts, subsystem-specific test inventories, and implementation plans. |
+| Release policy | `docs/policy/release.md` | Versioning, compatibility, release integrity and immutability, release documentation, proportionate gates, publication controls, completion, and required versus optional checks. | Repository-specific commands, product installation guidance, CLI version semantics, historical release summaries, and CI implementation detail. |
+| Open source licensing and attribution policy | `docs/policy/oss.md` | License defaults and author choices, COPYRIGHT and attribution formats, license/notice links, discoverability, maintenance, and concrete exceptions. | Component entries, license texts, release commands, and dependency security review. |
+| Project copyright and license grant | `COPYRIGHT` | Project identity, copyright holders and years, SPDX expression, grant, warranty disclaimer, and third-party statement. | Complete license texts and upstream component attribution. |
+| Project license texts | `LICENSE` | Complete project and incorporated companion license texts, with required project-specific fields. | General licensing policy and upstream component attribution. |
+| Upstream component attribution | `docs/oss/attribution.md` | House Format component entries: identity, material scope and modifications where applicable, copyright, license, required notices, and license, notice, and source links. | General attribution policy, exception reasoning, research narratives, compliance commentary, and complete standard license texts. |
+| Standard dependency license texts | `docs/oss/licenses/` | Complete, verbatim standard license texts shared by applicable entries. | Project-specific upstream notices, attribution prose, and policy interpretation. |
+| Repository-specific release procedure | `docs/release.md` | Maintainer prerequisites, candidate preparation, validation and publication commands and automated guards, asynchronous deliverables, delivery status, optional consumer verification, and recovery. | General release requirements, product installation guidance, historical release summaries, and current compatibility contracts. |
+| CLI contract (if applicable) | `docs/cli.md` | Commands, arguments, flags, invocation semantics, and exit codes. | End-to-end operating procedures, configuration field definitions, runtime filesystem layout, module implementation details. |
+| Configuration contract (if applicable) | `docs/config.md` | Discovery, precedence, schema, fields, defaults, environment overrides, validation, and selectable module and validator keys. | Complete example files, CLI syntax, runtime state lifecycle, module implementation details. |
+| Operations (if applicable) | `docs/operations.md` | Runtime workflows, physical filesystem and state layout, output, cache and debug handling, resume, cleanup, permissions, recovery, and limits. | CLI flag syntax, configuration field definitions, logical output schemas, implementation mechanics. |
+| Integration contracts for external components (if applicable) | `docs/integrations/`, including `docs/integrations/output-files.md` for serialized outputs | External formats and protocols, upstream and downstream contracts, logical output paths and schemas, media types, and compatibility. | Physical runtime placement and lifecycle, internal transformations, CLI syntax, configuration defaults. |
+| Inventory of implemented internal packages | `docs/internal/overview.md` | Implemented packages and components, responsibilities, and links to focused internal docs. | Normative architecture, contributor reading policy, external contracts. |
+| Behavior and architecture of internal packages | Other files under `docs/internal/` | Implementation flow, collaborators, state transitions, package-local guarantees and failures, and relevant tests. | Global architecture invariants, configuration definitions and defaults, external schemas, operator procedures. |
+| Contributor change recipes | Relevant files under `docs/internal/`, including `docs/internal/cli-config.md`, `docs/internal/modules.md`, and `docs/internal/validators.md` | Concrete editing and validation steps for each component. | Contributor orientation, global policy, and definitions of external contracts. |
+| Architectural decision records | `docs/adr/` | Significant decisions, context, alternatives, rationale, consequences, and supersession history. | Current behavior reference, implementation status, task sequencing. |
+| Future work and implementation status | `docs/roadmap/` | Proposed, accepted, deferred, or rejected work; implementation status, sequencing, and task breakdowns. | Implemented behavior reference and architectural decision rationale. |
+| Release-note history | `docs/releases/` | One checked-in summary per source release under the procedure; the note at its immutable tag is the release record. | Current commands, behavior, contracts, and compatibility definitions. |
+| Complete copyable artifacts | `examples/` | Maintained configuration, inputs, and other copyable or runnable files. | Field-by-field reference, command reference, prose explanation. |
+
+Create supporting documents for existing interfaces and responsibilities when
+substantive content is available.
+Audita has retired its standalone troubleshooting guide; concrete operating and
+recovery procedures belong in `docs/operations.md`.
+
+## Boundary Rules
+
+### Orientation
+
+Link among orientation, architecture, and internal documents; maintain each
+package or behavior description in its canonical owner.
+
+### Commands, Configuration, And Operations
+
+CLI documentation answers how to invoke the application. Configuration
+documentation answers what settings mean. Operations answers what happens to
+runtime state and how to operate or recover the application. When a workflow
+crosses these topics, choose the document that owns the task and link to the
+other contracts.
+
+### Releases
+
+The release policy defines requirements and invariants that every release must
+satisfy. The repository-specific release procedure defines the commands and
+workflow maintainers use to satisfy that policy. Release notes record history
+at immutable tags. Maintain current behavior in its canonical documentation,
+update it with the corresponding behavior changes, and keep release procedures
+consistent with adopted policy.
+
+### Project Licensing And Upstream Attribution
+
+README and release documents link to the canonical licensing and attribution
+materials under the [OSS policy](oss.md). The release procedure owns URL
+construction and publication mechanics.
+
+### Contracts And Implementation
+
+Integration and API documents define externally observable shapes and
+semantics. Internal documents explain how this application implements or consumes those
+contracts. Internal docs may name a field, file, or protocol to identify a
+dependency, but must link to its canonical contract for the definition.
+
+### Security Topics
+
+This policy owns what documentation and examples may contain. Architecture owns
+application security invariants. Configuration owns credential-supply
+mechanisms. Operations owns permissions and handling of sensitive runtime
+artifacts. Internal docs own implementation mechanisms only.
+
+## Architecture Decision Records
+
+Use sequentially numbered ADR filenames such as
+`0001-record-architecture-decisions.md`. Follow the lightweight Nygard format:
+
+1. title;
+2. status;
+3. date;
+4. context;
+5. decision;
+6. alternatives considered;
+7. consequences.
+
+Treat the decision content of an accepted ADR as immutable. When a decision
+changes, create a new ADR and update the earlier ADR's status to superseded.
+Rejected architectural alternatives belong in the ADR; rejected product ideas
+belong in the roadmap.
+
+## Maintenance
+
+When behavior changes, update its canonical owner in the same change. If
+ownership moves, remove the old definition and replace it with a link where
+navigation remains useful.
+
+Before completing documentation work:
+
+- verify affected behavior and examples;
+- check commands, flags, fields, defaults, schemas, and paths against their
+  implementation;
+- keep unimplemented behavior in the roadmap, subject to the ADR exception;
+- remove stale references and validate links;
+- confirm that non-owning documents summarize and link rather than redefine;
+- confirm that no secrets or sensitive private data were added.

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+# Policy Set Provenance
+
+**Base Policy Version:** 1.0
+
+**Last Updated**: 2026-09-28
+**Upstream Source:** [Standard Repository Policies meta](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/docs/policy/meta.md)
+
+## Origin And Local Authority
+
+This repository's policy set is adapted from
+[Standard Repository Policies](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy).
+The adopted local policies govern work in this repository. Upstream revisions
+become local policy through deliberate adoption, preserving local decisions.
+Each policy's `Upstream Source` identifies its adopted baseline.
+
+## Adoption And Updates
+
+For policy adoption, upstream revision reviews, and updates, consult the
+[upstream adoption and update guide](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/branch/main/docs/adoption.md).
+That guide and the reference example collection are maintained upstream and
+accessed through links. Keep discovery links pointed at the current upstream
+project and guide; keep adopted-source and example links pinned to commits.
+
+The local [developer guide](../development.md) routes tasks to applicable
+policies. Formal credit and licensing notices for the copied policy material
+belong in the local [attribution document](../oss/attribution.md).

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+# Open Source Licensing And Attribution Policy
+
+**Base Policy Version:** 1.8
+
+**Last Updated**: 2026-09-28
+**Upstream Source:** [Standard Repository Policies oss](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/docs/policy/oss.md)
+
+## Purpose And Scope
+
+This policy defines project licensing conventions and a repeatable House Format
+for upstream attribution and license notices. It covers the project's own code
+and upstream components incorporated into or distributed with the application
+or library, including relevant transitive dependencies and copied code,
+documentation, or assets.
+Determine treatment from the component's terms and actual use.
+
+Consulting development guidance or using tooling alone does not require an
+attribution entry. Copying or adapting documentation for inclusion in the
+repository is different: preserve its applicable attribution and license terms.
+A material's role as development guidance does not exempt copied documents.
+Apply any express permissions for attribution-free reuse of example formatting.
+
+The baseline is a publicly available source repository with releases published
+alongside it. The format is independent of language, forge, and build system.
+It does not require attribution for every development tool, establish license
+compatibility, or resolve every obligation arising from use or distribution.
+
+Audita uses the existing GPL-3.0-or-later application grant in
+[`COPYRIGHT`](../../COPYRIGHT). The Gitea distribution and publication procedure
+are documented in the [release runbook](../release.md).
+
+## Canonical Locations
+
+The [documentation policy](documentation.md) assigns ownership:
+
+- `COPYRIGHT`: project name, copyright statements, SPDX expression, grant,
+  warranty disclaimer, and third-party statement.
+- `LICENSE` contains the complete, unmodified project license text, including
+  incorporated companion text. Dependency attribution does not relicense the project.
+- `docs/oss/attribution.md`: canonical component entries.
+- `docs/oss/licenses/`: complete, verbatim standard and applicable companion texts.
+
+Use recognizable license filenames, such as `Apache-2.0.txt` or `LGPL-3.0.txt`.
+A shared standard text may serve multiple entries. Keep explanations outside
+license texts and preserve distinct versions and exceptions.
+
+## Upstream Reference Examples
+
+Use the commit-pinned upstream examples to create actual project notices.
+Retain their links and keep the example collection upstream; keep applicable
+license texts locally as specified above.
+
+## Project Licensing
+
+Unless the author specifies otherwise, use **GPL version 3 or later**
+(`GPL-3.0-or-later`) for applications and **LGPL version 3 or later**
+(`LGPL-3.0-or-later`) for libraries. An author's explicit choice takes precedence:
+for example, a one-off script may use MIT. Such a choice requires no exception
+rationale, additional approval, or compensating controls under this policy.
+
+These defaults guide new license selection. Adopting this policy does not
+relicense existing code or override third-party terms. Preserve an existing
+license unless the author deliberately changes it. For mixed-purpose projects,
+follow the author's selected scope rather than inferring different licenses for
+individual packages.
+
+Use the upstream [application COPYRIGHT example](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/examples/licensing/application/COPYRIGHT)
+or [library COPYRIGHT example](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/examples/licensing/library/COPYRIGHT)
+to create the project’s root `COPYRIGHT` file.
+Use verified project names, contribution years, and copyright holders.
+For another selected license, adapt the grant, SPDX expression, disclaimer, and
+text references together to reflect the author's selected grant.
+
+For GPLv3 projects, copy the complete GPLv3 text into `LICENSE`. For LGPLv3
+projects, place the complete LGPLv3 text followed by the complete GPLv3 text in
+`LICENSE`; the LGPL incorporates the GPL terms. Keep the texts unmodified and
+place project-specific statements in `COPYRIGHT`. For the default grants, the
+grant and SPDX expression in `COPYRIGHT` must expressly identify `or-later`;
+follow the author’s choice if a different grant is selected.
+
+For other licenses, provide their complete text and any required project-specific
+fields; the standard reference collection remains unchanged. Keep `COPYRIGHT`,
+`LICENSE`, SPDX expressions, and README descriptions consistent with the actual
+grant. This convention introduces no blanket requirement for per-file headers;
+preserve notices or add them where the applicable terms require them.
+
+Identify separately licensed documentation or assets in the project grant, with
+links to their attribution and license information. An application's default
+code license does not override the terms of incorporated documentation.
+
+## Upstream Attribution House Format
+
+Begin `docs/oss/attribution.md` with `# Open Source Attribution Notices`,
+followed directly by component entries. These comprise the complete document.
+
+Each entry presents these five fields in order, with blank lines between them:
+
+1. **Project name** as a level-two heading. An optional identification paragraph
+   may follow, such as `Selected module: MODULE at VERSION.` with the module and
+   version in backticks. For copied documentation, a concise `Material:` sentence
+   may identify the affected files and whether they were adapted or copied
+   without modification. A factual qualifier such as `(transitive dependency)`
+   is permitted. Limit optional identification prose to factual component and
+   material scope.
+2. **Upstream copyright statement or statements**, preserving their wording.
+   Put multiple statements in separate paragraphs. Include this field when the
+   selected upstream source supplies an applicable statement; otherwise, omit it.
+3. **SPDX license identifier or expression**, when applicable, using
+   `SPDX-License-Identifier: EXPRESSION`.
+4. **License and notice links**, beginning `License and notices:`, separated
+   by ` | `, and ending with a period. Label local standard texts by license
+   name, such as `MIT` or `Apache 2.0`. Label upstream files by their actual
+   filenames, such as `COPYRIGHT`, `LICENSE`, `NOTICE`, or `PATENTS`.
+5. **Source repository link**, rendered exactly as `[Source](COMMIT_URL).`.
+
+Use the upstream [attribution example](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/examples/licensing/attribution.md)
+to create the project’s `docs/oss/attribution.md`.
+The example illustrates omitted fields and multiple copyrights and licenses.
+Replace the uppercase placeholders and illustrative URLs with actual component
+information. Local license links are relative to the destination
+`docs/oss/attribution.md`; copy the applicable texts into its `licenses/`
+directory. Do not copy example entries for components the project does not use.
+
+These are five fields, not a line limit. Omit the SPDX field when no applicable
+identifier exists; identify nonstandard terms through the linked text. Preserve
+licensing alternatives and exceptions, and record a selected option when
+relevant through the factual license identification. Do not invent an identifier
+or silently resolve an unsettled licensing choice.
+
+Keep entries factual. Do not add agent-authored explanations of license
+expressions, file-level license scope, research performed, retained source
+notices, or compliance conclusions. Avoid filler such as "none is invented
+here" and embellished link labels such as "upstream LICENSE", "additional
+patent grant", or "at the imported commit". Preserve actual required upstream
+content; this rule excludes editorial additions, not required notices. Policy
+interpretation and exception reasoning belong in the adopted OSS policy or an
+appropriate decision record, not the attribution document.
+
+## License Texts And Upstream Links
+
+Link standard license texts to their local copies. Link project-specific
+notices to their upstream copies. Every upstream repository or notice link must
+identify the exact commit corresponding to the
+imported version, including the selected source revision for copied material.
+
+Classify material according to its contents. An upstream `LICENSE`,
+`COPYING`, or similar file may contain project-specific notices or exceptions
+in addition to standard wording. Link both the local standard text and the
+commit-specific upstream file when needed. Make companion license texts directly
+reachable from the entry.
+
+For project-specific license and attribution material, this policy accepts
+direct links to the applicable upstream texts as satisfying reproduction,
+inclusion, or copy requirements. This is the adopted house interpretation.
+Agents must apply it without adding local-copy requirements or seeking repeated
+approval solely because a license uses those terms.
+
+This interpretation concerns notice reproduction. Concrete obligations such as
+marking modified files or supplying corresponding source receive their own
+applicable treatment. Preserve required notices already present in incorporated
+source files; the central attribution entry does not authorize stripping them.
+
+## Discoverability
+
+End the project's README with two friendly statements linking to its actual
+grant in `COPYRIGHT` and the attribution document. For example, for a project
+with the stated license:
+
+```markdown
+PROJECT_NAME is licensed under the [LGPL v3.0 or later](COPYRIGHT).
+
+[Open Source attribution notices](docs/oss/attribution.md) are available.
+```
+
+Each new checked-in release document and its hosted download page must end
+with links whose visible text is `COPYRIGHT | LICENSE | ATTRIBUTION`. Use absolute
+URLs to those files at the release's immutable tag or corresponding immutable source
+revision so the links work in both locations. This release navigation is distinct
+from upstream component links, which must use the imported commit.
+
+Reuse the checked-in release document as the hosted release body where supported.
+The release procedure owns concrete URLs and publication mechanics for delivering
+the links through the selected channel. Do not maintain duplicate notice lists.
+These conventions do not by themselves require separate downloadable license
+assets, source bundles, or a different binary package format.
+
+## Maintenance And Exceptions
+
+Update project licensing statements together when the author changes the grant
+or its scope. Update upstream notices in the change that adds, removes, upgrades,
+copies, or changes the distribution of a relevant component. Check the selected source's license
+and notices rather than assuming they are unchanged. Update affected entries,
+commit links, and texts; retain historical versions through Git.
+
+When the toolchain used for distributed binaries changes, check the Go runtime
+and standard-library entries against that toolchain's exact source revision,
+including any vendored packages incorporated into those binaries.
+
+Check affected statements, faithful standard-text copies, and link destinations
+as part of ordinary change review. For a future release tag, check intended file
+paths against the candidate source; the tag need not resolve remotely before
+publication. Do not add publication-time network checks, CI polling, recurring
+legal sign-offs, mandatory scanners, or a full software bill of materials merely
+to implement this policy.
+
+Use the House Format routinely. Raise an exception only for a concrete obligation
+or unresolved rights question it does not address, including any arising from a
+particular distribution channel. Record the issue and selected treatment in the
+adopted OSS policy or an appropriate decision record. Attribution entries
+contain the resulting factual identification and required material, without
+repeating that reasoning. Resolve the issue before the affected use or
+distribution without reopening settled choices.
+Common ownership of projects is neither required nor a blanket exception.
+
+Apply the formatting convention prospectively. Do not rewrite published tags,
+notes, binaries, or checksums to retrofit it. Address actual omissions deliberately
+under the applicable terms and the [release correction policy](release.md#immutability-and-failure-recovery).
+Ordinary attribution maintenance and release links are preparation work, not new
+release approval gates.

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+# Release Policy
+
+**Base Policy Version:** 1.4
+
+**Last Updated**: 2026-09-28
+**Upstream Source:** [Standard Repository Policies release](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/docs/policy/release.md)
+
+## Purpose
+
+This policy defines a proportionate workflow for validating and publishing an
+intended source revision under a fresh version. Releases should require little
+routine intervention, avoid repeated work, and preserve published contents.
+
+The repository-specific commands belong in `docs/release.md`. Historical release
+summaries belong in `docs/releases/`. The procedure must agree with the adopted
+policy and link to it rather than introduce additional release requirements.
+
+## Release Model And Completion
+
+A source release identifies one exact committed source revision through an
+immutable version tag and a version-matched, checked-in release note. The
+primary release branch is `main` unless the adopted policy specifies otherwise.
+The procedure must name the authoritative publication remote.
+
+A successful push of the intended tag, with its source commit available on the
+authoritative primary branch, completes the release. The source commit may be
+pushed before the tag or published together with it through an atomic push.
+The procedure must choose and document the supported approach.
+
+Release commands must finish at successful publication. They must not wait for
+or poll CI, require successful CI status, inspect downloadable artifacts, or
+check consumer installation or Go module availability as completion gates.
+A failed or ambiguous push requires resolving the authoritative remote state
+before declaring success or retrying; successful pushes do not require a
+separate remote read-back gate.
+
+Repositories may publish source only. Additional binaries, images, packages,
+checksums, or other declared deliverables may be published asynchronously from
+the tagged source. The procedure must identify those deliverables and the
+responsibility of their automation. Published deliverables must be traceable
+to that source and identify the same version.
+
+Track source-release completion and artifact delivery separately. Report delivery
+failures and optional investigations under artifact-delivery status.
+
+## Supported Platforms
+
+| Platform | Support |
+| --- | --- |
+| Linux amd64 | Required production target |
+| Linux arm64 | Required production target |
+| macOS arm64 | Best effort for local development; failures do not block a release or Linux artifact publication |
+
+Windows and macOS amd64 are unsupported. Neither their builds nor tests are
+release requirements. Native macOS testing and access to a Mac are not release
+prerequisites.
+
+## Versioning And Compatibility
+
+Stable releases use Semantic Versioning in the form `vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH`, with
+no leading zeroes. Prereleases require an explicit adopted policy defining
+their format and use.
+
+The selected version must be unused locally and on the authoritative remote.
+Do not require queries to every configured remote or publication service.
+A version known to have already been published must not be reused, even if the
+normal guards do not inspect that channel. Adding a distribution channel
+requires a deliberate update to the policy and procedure where needed.
+
+For releases at or after `v1.0.0`:
+
+- a major release may make intentional incompatible changes;
+- a minor release may add backward-compatible behavior; and
+- a patch release may make backward-compatible fixes.
+
+Before `v1.0.0`, a minor release may change a documented public, operational,
+configuration, data, integration, or compatibility contract when the release
+note explains the impact and required consumer action. A patch release must
+not intentionally break those contracts within its minor line.
+
+Additional compatibility promises and deliberate exceptions belong in the
+adopted policy or canonical contract documentation. Release notes explain
+changes; they do not redefine current compatibility contracts.
+
+## Release Documentation And Preparation
+
+Every new release must include `docs/releases/<version>.md` in the tagged
+source tree. Use the complete version tag as the filename and begin with a
+title containing the product name and that exact version.
+
+Include a short summary and any relevant compatibility impact or upgrade
+instructions. Choose sections suited to the release and keep the note
+proportionate to the change.
+
+Keep exact current contracts in their canonical documents and update affected
+documentation with the behavior change. Link to those documents from the note
+where useful. If annotated tags are used, derive their summary from the
+checked-in note.
+
+Include the release footer defined by the [OSS policy](oss.md#discoverability)
+in each new release document and preserve it on the hosted download page. The
+release procedure defines the concrete URLs and publication mechanics. Prepare
+these links with the release note; they do not add a network check or approval
+gate.
+
+Handle version selection, release-note content, and retirement of completed
+roadmaps during preparation. Preserve planned and deferred work and repair
+affected links when retiring roadmaps. Reuse ordinary change review for
+unintended files, credentials, and private data. Scope release-content review
+to the tagged source.
+
+## Candidate Validation
+
+Provide one publication command that validates the final committed candidate,
+checks publication state, and publishes the intended refs. A validation-only
+mode or command may be provided for diagnosis, but must not be a required step
+before publication repeats the same checks.
+
+Run the complete deterministic, offline default test suite once for the final
+candidate, following the [testing policy](testing.md). For repositories that
+publish builds, verify the required build targets. Select those targets for
+the application's actual support commitments; native testing on each platform
+and access to particular hardware are not default release prerequisites.
+
+Additional gates must address a concrete risk that the existing checks do not
+adequately cover. Do not automatically require linting, race testing, module
+hygiene audits, documentation audits, credential scans, example validation, or
+expanded platform matrices solely because they are possible. Retain such
+checks when their distinct protection justifies their cost. A one-time migration
+check must not silently become a permanent release requirement.
+
+Release tests must not require real credentials, mutable application services,
+paid APIs, provider probes, or inference calls. The procedure may describe dependency
+preparation separately from offline validation.
+
+Avoid duplicate validation across release phases. Successful checks for the
+same final candidate need not be repeated solely to satisfy another phase;
+any reuse must clearly apply to that exact candidate. Persistent validation
+caches are not required. If the candidate changes, validate the new candidate.
+Cheap publication-state checks may be repeated immediately before pushing
+because local or remote state may have changed during validation.
+
+Automate mechanical guards. Do not require manual approvals, sign-offs, or
+routine confirmations as release gates. Version selection and
+a concise release summary remain preparation inputs, not separate approval rounds.
+
+## Publication Guards
+
+Automate the checks needed to publish the intended source under a fresh version:
+
+- the version has the adopted format and is unused locally and on the
+  authoritative remote;
+- the worktree and index are clean on the primary release branch;
+- the source being published is the exact candidate that passed validation,
+  including its matching release note;
+- the remote primary branch already identifies that candidate, or an atomic
+  source/tag push will advance it to that candidate without discarding remote
+  history; and
+- the tag identifies the validated candidate and only the intended refs are
+  published.
+
+Fetch the authoritative branch and tag state as needed for these checks.
+Do not force branch or tag updates to bypass a failed guard. Publish explicit
+refs rather than all local tags. Do not require CI success, publication-service
+availability checks, or a separate manual confirmation for each guard.
+
+## Immutability And Failure Recovery
+
+Published version tags and published contents are immutable. Do not move,
+overwrite, recreate, or delete a published tag, or replace a published artifact,
+checksum, signature, provenance statement, or release note under that version.
+The checked-in note at the immutable tag is that release's historical record.
+
+If validation fails before publication, correct and commit the candidate and
+rerun the publication command. If a push fails or its outcome is ambiguous,
+inspect the authoritative remote before retrying. Remove an unpublished local
+tag only after confirming it was never published or used by a release channel.
+An unavailable remote leaves publication status unknown; do not overwrite a tag
+to resolve uncertainty.
+
+Transient network, authentication, CI, or consumer-availability failures do not
+by themselves require a new version. Asynchronous delivery may be retried from
+the same immutable tag. Missing artifacts may be published later, provided
+existing published contents are not replaced and the additions remain consistent
+with the tagged source and any already-published checksum manifest. If that
+cannot be achieved, publish a new version.
+
+A defect requiring changes to published source or contents requires a corrected
+commit, a new semantically appropriate version, a matching release note, and
+the release procedure again. Leave the original release intact. A channel's
+yank, deprecation, or advisory mechanism may warn consumers away from a defective
+release without replacing its contents or reusing its version.
+
+## Repository Release Procedure
+
+Maintain `docs/release.md` as a short, executable maintainer runbook. It must
+identify:
+
+1. prerequisites, primary branch, and authoritative remote;
+2. version and release-note preparation;
+3. one publication command with its selected local checks and automated guards;
+4. declared deliverables, required build targets, and automation responsibilities;
+5. the successful-push completion point and separately reported delivery status;
+   and
+6. failure handling, ambiguous-push recovery, and asynchronous delivery retries.
+
+Use copyable commands where practical. Keep optional diagnostics and consumer
+verification clearly optional. The procedure must not turn preparation work,
+ordinary change review, or post-publication investigation into additional
+release gates.

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+# Testing Policy
+
+**Base Policy Version:** 1.3
+
+**Last Updated**: 2026-09-28
+**Upstream Source:** [Standard Repository Policies testing](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/docs/policy/testing.md)
+
+## Purpose
+
+Our tests exist to make **incorrect changes expensive and correct changes cheap**.
+
+We optimize for sufficient confidence in important behavior while minimizing friction on future development.
+
+## Every test has a cost
+
+Every test has an immediate and continuing cost: writing, review, execution,
+diagnosis, fixture maintenance, and updates when legitimate behavior changes.
+Tests can also constrain refactoring, duplicate policy, and add failure noise.
+
+A test is warranted only when the confidence it provides justifies these costs.
+Evaluate that tradeoff at two levels:
+
+1. **Per test:** What realistic defect does this test detect, how consequential would that defect be, and is that protection worth the test's lifetime cost?
+2. **Across the suite:** Does this collection provide materially more confidence than a smaller, simpler suite would?
+
+Some friction is intentional. Tests should make dangerous changes—such as breaking compatibility, corrupting data, violating security boundaries, or reintroducing subtle bugs—require deliberate review. Keep ordinary internal changes inexpensive.
+
+Evaluate maintenance cost against the specific failure being protected. When omitting a plausible test, be able to state why the protected failure is low-risk, already covered, obvious, reversible, or cheaper to detect elsewhere. For consequential, subtle, or difficult-to-observe behavior, the presumption should favor testing.
+
+## Default testing style
+
+Use a **classical/Detroit-style** approach:
+
+- Test observable behavior, resulting state, contracts, and invariants.
+- Use real internal collaborators when they are fast and deterministic.
+- Use fakes, stubs, or mocks primarily at expensive, nondeterministic, destructive, or external boundaries.
+- Prefer package-level behavioral tests over tests coupled to private helpers or internal call sequences.
+- Treat exact collaborator interactions as testable behavior only when the interaction itself is a requirement.
+
+Examples of appropriate seams include clocks, randomness, subprocesses, remote APIs, object storage, email, and paid LLM calls.
+
+## Test execution requirements
+
+Tests in the default suite must be deterministic, offline, and independent of real credentials. They must not invoke paid APIs or depend on mutable external services. Tests that require live infrastructure must be explicitly opt-in and clearly separated from the default suite.
+
+Control clocks, randomness, environment variables, and other process-global or machine-specific state when they affect behavior. Tests should be safe to run repeatedly and alongside other tests without depending on execution order or state left by an earlier test.
+
+## What deserves tests
+
+To the extent the following features are present in the application, prioritize tests for:
+
+1. Public and package-level contracts.
+2. Domain rules and important invariants.
+3. Boundary conditions and malformed input.
+4. Failure handling, cancellation, retries, recovery, and partial success.
+5. Serialization, schemas, compatibility, and round trips.
+6. Previously observed or plausible regressions.
+7. Representative integration and end-to-end workflows.
+
+A package-level contract comprises behavior relied upon by another package or major collaborator.
+
+Choose tests for requested behavior and established contracts. Tests must not
+introduce new restrictions, guarantees, or threat scenarios merely because they
+could be asserted. Follow the [agent policy](agents.md) when deciding whether a
+behavior belongs to the contract; current implementation behavior alone is not
+sufficient authority.
+
+For established behavior involving **data integrity, destructive operations,
+compatibility, security, concurrency, idempotency, or recovery**, favor durable
+tests for realistic failures whose consequences warrant protection. Identify
+the failure and the existing contract it would violate. These categories call
+for attention, not an automatic test inventory or permission to strengthen the
+application's guarantees. Account for protection already provided at other layers.
+
+Do not add tests merely because a function, branch, or line exists. Do not add a test when the same meaningful risk is already adequately protected elsewhere.
+
+## Choose the right test boundary
+
+Choose the narrowest stable boundary that expresses the behavior clearly and
+provides durable confidence with minimal incidental coupling.
+
+This is often the package API, but it may instead be:
+
+- a smaller pure function when dense domain logic is most clearly isolated there;
+- a package-level operation when several internal collaborators jointly produce the behavior; or
+- a larger integration boundary when correctness emerges from interaction with a real dependency.
+
+## Test behavior, not implementation
+
+A test should protect a selected decision, contract, or invariant.
+
+A test is suspect when it primarily detects changes to private constants or
+helpers, equivalent operation ordering, incidental formatting, equivalent
+algorithms, or internal structure that preserves behavior.
+
+Behavioral tests should normally remain stable through internal refactoring that preserves the contract.
+
+## Expected effects of different changes
+
+Use the following expectations when evaluating test failures and test maintenance:
+
+| Change | Expected effect on tests |
+|---|---|
+| Internal refactor that preserves behavior | Existing tests should normally remain unchanged and continue to pass. |
+| Change to an internal default with no contractual significance | Behavioral tests should normally remain unchanged; tests should derive expectations from configuration or relationships rather than duplicate the old value. |
+| Intentional change to public behavior, policy, schema, or compatibility guarantees | The relevant tests should be reviewed and changed deliberately. |
+| Accidental violation of a contract or invariant | Tests should fail; fix the production code rather than rewriting the tests to accept the defect. |
+
+A test failing is not the same as a test needing to be edited. Many tests may correctly fail because of one production defect. The maintenance smell is a correct internal change that requires unrelated expectation updates throughout the suite.
+
+## Separate mechanism from policy
+
+Derive expectations from test-controlled configuration and relationships.
+
+For this example, assume the selected contract rejects a request to start more
+processes than a configured limit. Do not encode its production default indirectly:
+
+```go
+// Production default:
+const maxConcurrency = 4
+
+// Brittle test:
+err := startProcesses(5)
+require.Error(t, err)
+```
+
+Instead, test the mechanism relationally:
+
+```go
+const limit = 2
+runner := NewRunner(limit)
+
+require.NoError(t, runner.Start(limit))
+require.ErrorIs(t, runner.Start(limit+1), ErrTooMuchConcurrency)
+```
+
+For this selected contract, the test should prove:
+
+- the configured limit is accepted; and
+- one beyond the configured limit is rejected.
+
+Rejection is not a general requirement for concurrency control. If the selected
+contract queues excess work or limits active workers while accepting larger
+batches, test that behavior instead. Do not add rejection or a configurable
+limit solely to reproduce this example.
+
+The production default should be tested exactly only when its literal value is itself a public, operational, safety, protocol, or compatibility requirement.
+
+Apply the same rule to limits, timeouts, capacities, retry counts, and ranges: test relationships and behavior.
+
+For established concurrency limits, distinguish these behaviors where the contract requires them:
+
+1. **Configuration handling:** values are accepted or rejected according to the selected contract.
+2. **Runtime enforcement:** observed peak concurrency never exceeds the configured limit.
+
+Use a test-controlled limit and measure the behavior relative to that limit.
+
+## Assign each behavior a test owner
+
+Where these layers exist, assign ownership as follows:
+
+- Parser tests own parsing cases.
+- Validator tests own validation rules.
+- Domain tests own transformations and invariants.
+- Adapter tests own external integration behavior.
+- Orchestrator tests own coordination and failure propagation.
+- CLI tests own argument and configuration mapping.
+- End-to-end tests prove that representative assembled workflows work.
+
+Give each layer its distinct responsibility and keep expectation updates localized to the contract being changed.
+
+## Use test doubles deliberately
+
+Choose the least elaborate test double that provides the required control or observation.
+
+As a default:
+
+1. Prefer real collaborators when they are fast and deterministic.
+2. Use small in-memory fakes when realistic stateful behavior is helpful.
+3. Use stubs when a dependency only needs to provide controlled responses.
+4. Use mocks when the interaction itself is contractual.
+
+Mocks are appropriate when the contract includes facts such as:
+
+- a notification is sent exactly once;
+- a transaction is committed only after successful writes;
+- cancellation reaches a subprocess;
+- an expensive API is called no more than once; or
+- a security audit event is emitted.
+
+## Go-specific guidance
+
+Select techniques by behavior and risk:
+
+- table-driven tests for meaningful behavioral categories and boundaries;
+- `t.TempDir()` for real filesystem behavior;
+- `httptest.Server` for realistic HTTP interactions;
+- fuzz tests when exploring broad input spaces, such as parsers or path handling, adds useful protection beyond representative cases;
+- golden files only when the complete output is intentionally stable;
+- integration tests where correctness depends on component interaction; and
+- a small number of representative end-to-end tests when assembled workflows expose meaningful risks not adequately covered at narrower boundaries.
+
+Prefer `errors.Is`, `errors.As`, typed errors, or structured error fields. Use exact error-wording assertions only when the wording is contractual.
+
+At CLI boundaries, prefer exit classifications, structured output, and the smallest stable semantic fragment needed to identify the error. Use complete diagnostic snapshots only when the wording is contractual.
+
+Golden-file updates must require an explicit local flag. CI must not update golden files automatically, and reviewers must inspect the semantic diff before accepting an update.
+
+Keep tests readable and direct. Size test helpers and fixture frameworks to the maintenance benefit they provide.
+
+## Coverage
+
+Use coverage to locate untested critical branches and unexpectedly weak packages. Evaluate test quality through meaningful behavioral protection and choose coverage according to risk.
+
+Pure domain logic will often warrant higher coverage than CLI wiring or external adapters. Uneven coverage is acceptable when it reflects risk.
+
+## Regression tests
+
+A bug fix should normally include a regression test that fails before the fix and passes afterward.
+
+Retain the test when the defect could realistically recur and its consequences justify the ongoing cost. Prefer the narrowest durable test of the violated contract or invariant.
+
+Remove or consolidate a test when the underlying design has made recurrence impossible, its protection is redundant, or a stronger invariant test subsumes it.
+
+## Deleting or rewriting tests
+
+Delete or rewrite tests when maintenance cost exceeds their continuing
+protective value.
+
+Strong candidates include tests that:
+
+- require updates after harmless internal changes;
+- assert incidental private constants or snapshot large amounts of incidental output;
+- verify mock choreography rather than outcomes;
+- duplicate policy across layers, retest trivial helpers covered by package
+  behavior, or protect risks covered more effectively elsewhere;
+- are flaky, misleading, obsolete, or disproportionately expensive to diagnose; or
+- no longer correspond to a plausible failure mode.
+
+Several brittle tests may encode one genuine requirement. Consolidate them into one durable behavior-level or invariant test.
+
+## Reviewing a proposed test
+
+Use the following questions when a proposed test needs closer evaluation. Significant test additions should be reviewable against them; written answers are optional for routine tests.
+
+1. Which requested behavior or established contract does it protect, and what realistic defect would violate it?
+2. How likely and consequential is that defect, and is it already protected elsewhere?
+3. What is the narrowest stable boundary that can test it clearly?
+4. Would a correct internal refactor or a change to an incidental default require test edits?
+5. Does its confidence justify its maintenance, execution, and diagnostic cost, or would a smaller test suffice?
+
+## Definition of sufficient
+
+A test suite is sufficient when:
+
+- important requested behavior and established contracts are protected against realistic, consequential failures;
+- boundaries and component interactions have coverage where they introduce meaningful risks not protected elsewhere;
+- failures provide useful, distinct signals;
+- tests usually remain stable through legitimate internal changes; and
+- additional tests would mostly repeat existing protection or preserve inconsequential implementation details.
+
+Reassess sufficiency as the application, its users, and the consequences of
+failure evolve.

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+# Releasing Audita
+
+The [release policy](policy/release.md) defines versioning, supported platforms,
+immutability, and success. This runbook implements it with
+[scripts/release.sh](../scripts/release.sh). Publication ends after a successful
+source/tag push; binary delivery runs asynchronously.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+Use Bash, Git, and Go 1.25.5 or newer (CI uses Go 1.25.5), with dependencies
+available locally or downloadable. Tests themselves are offline. Work from a
+checkout of `main` with permission to push that branch and tags to `origin`.
+For this repository, `origin` is `https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita.git`.
+The script uses the checkout's configured `origin`; set it correctly before use.
+The remote must support atomic pushes. No CI credentials or Mac are needed locally.
+
+CI uses the existing `GITEA_RELEASE_TOKEN` secret for asynchronous asset delivery.
+macOS arm64 is a best-effort development environment; no macOS binary is published.
+
+## Prepare the Candidate
+
+Choose an unused version following the policy. Write
+`docs/releases/<version>.md`, beginning with `# Audita <version>`, followed by a
+short summary and any compatibility or upgrade instructions relevant to the
+release. There are no mandatory boilerplate sections. Update affected canonical
+documentation with behavior changes.
+
+End each new note with these links, substituting the selected release version for
+`<version>`:
+
+```markdown
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/<version>/COPYRIGHT) | [LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/<version>/LICENSE) | [ATTRIBUTION](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/<version>/docs/oss/attribution.md)
+```
+
+Check that all three paths exist in the candidate source. Retire completed
+roadmaps when useful during preparation, preserving planned and deferred work
+and repairing affected links. This is ordinary preparation, not a script gate.
+
+Commit the intended changes, including the note, on `main`. The release script
+requires a clean index and worktree and does not create commits. There is no
+separate approval round. Published notes describe their tagged release; existing
+release history does not need to be reconstructed.
+
+## Validate and Publish
+
+From the repository root, substitute the chosen version:
+
+```sh
+bash scripts/release.sh --publish v0.2.0
+```
+
+This single invocation:
+
+1. Checks the version, branch, clean candidate, matching note title, and tag absence.
+2. Runs the default offline test suite once, then builds both required Linux targets
+   in a temporary directory using the same build script as CI.
+3. Checks that the candidate and worktree are unchanged and that it includes the
+   current `origin/main` history.
+4. Creates the version tag at that commit and atomically pushes the exact source
+   commit to `main` and the exact tag to `origin`.
+5. Reports release success and exits without polling CI or checking asset availability.
+
+To validate a prepared candidate without remote access, creating a tag, or pushing:
+
+```sh
+bash scripts/release.sh --check v0.2.0
+```
+
+This is an optional diagnostic command, not a required step before `--publish`.
+Publication validates within its own invocation; it does not use persistent cached
+results. Both modes require the candidate note and a clean `main` checkout.
+
+## Artifact Delivery
+
+[Woodpecker](../.woodpecker/release.yml) runs on tag events. It invokes
+[scripts/build-release.sh](../scripts/build-release.sh), then publishes:
+
+- `audita-<version>-linux-amd64`
+- `audita-<version>-linux-arm64`
+- `SHA256SUMS`
+
+Builds disable CGO and use the shared script's release flags. The version is in the
+asset name and source tag; Audita has no CLI version command. Cross-compilation
+checks compilation, not native execution on each architecture.
+
+The CI job status and logs show delivery progress or failure. Assets appear on
+the matching Gitea release page when delivery succeeds. A successful tag push
+must not be reported as confirmation that these files are available.
+For a new hosted release, the release plugin uses the checked-in note at the
+tag as its body, including the footer. On delivery retries it preserves
+existing release information and skips files that already exist.
+
+Consumers can download the binary for their Linux architecture and `SHA256SUMS`
+from that page, check its listed SHA-256 digest with `sha256sum`, and make it
+executable. Optional consumer checks are not maintainer release gates. Digests
+detect file mismatches; they are not an independent signature of authenticity.
+
+## Failure and Retry
+
+**Local validation fails:** correct the issue, commit any changes, and rerun the
+publication command. A failure before tag creation publishes nothing. Temporary
+local build files are removed on exit.
+
+**Push fails or the connection is interrupted:** the script retains the local tag
+and reports failure rather than guessing whether publication succeeded. Inspect
+remote state with the actual version:
+
+```sh
+git rev-parse 'v0.2.0^{commit}'
+git ls-remote origin refs/heads/main refs/tags/v0.2.0
+```
+
+If the remote tag identifies the intended candidate and its source is on remote
+`main`, the release succeeded; no CI waiting is needed. An atomic push normally
+updates both refs or neither. If `main` has advanced since publication, fetch it
+and check candidate ancestry rather than requiring tip equality.
+
+If the tag is absent remotely and was never published or used by a release
+channel, remove only that unpublished local tag (`git tag -d v0.2.0`), resolve
+any rejected branch update, and rerun the command. If the remote tag has a
+different target, do not overwrite it; choose a fresh version. Never force a
+branch or tag update to bypass the guards.
+
+**CI delivery fails:** the release remains successful. Inspect the failed tag
+job's logs and retry that same tagged job for a transient failure. Publication is
+configured to skip existing filenames and not overwrite assets. Keep the same
+source and build environment when retrying; inspect any existing assets/checksum
+manifest before filling gaps. Do not regenerate and replace a published manifest
+or binary. If an existing manifest cannot describe the missing rebuilt assets,
+use a new version instead. A pipeline or source defect also requires a corrected
+commit and new version. An outage does not require moving the tag.
+
+**A released source defect is discovered:** fix it on `main` and publish a new
+appropriate version with a note explaining the correction. Leave the old tag and
+published files intact.
+
+## Maintaining the Release Workflow
+
+The shared build script keeps local and CI build settings aligned. Tests in
+[scripts/release_test.go](../scripts/release_test.go) exercise publication against
+temporary local Git remotes, including guard failures and rejected pushes, with
+Go execution stubbed to avoid recursive builds/tests. They run in `go test ./...`.
+Changes to CI delivery should preserve explicit asset names, checksums, and
+non-overwriting publication. CI delivery is separate from the local success path.

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+# Release Notes
+
+- [Audita v3.0.0](v3.0.0.md)
+- [Audita v2.0.1](v2.0.1.md)
+- [Audita v2.0.0](v2.0.0.md)
+- [Audita v1.1.0](v1.1.0.md)
+
+See the [release documentation requirements](../policy/release.md#release-documentation-and-preparation).
+Use the [release procedure](../release.md) to prepare and publish new releases.
+
+This index does not reconstruct or replace records for existing tags.

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+# Audita v1.1.0
+
+This release refreshes Audita's documentation and repository policies and adds a
+small, automated release workflow. Transcript-processing behavior, CLI syntax,
+configuration, and serialized output formats are unchanged from v1.0.0.
+
+- Consolidated CLI, configuration, operations, and integration references, including
+  a dedicated reference for output files and reports.
+- Added contributor navigation and agent, testing, and release policies; retired
+  speculative troubleshooting documentation and the completed migration roadmap.
+- Added local release validation and publication scripts, with publication complete
+  after the source and version tag are pushed. CI delivers binaries asynchronously.
+- Isolated CLI tests from host configuration for a reliable local test baseline.
+
+Release binaries are now provided only for Linux amd64 and Linux arm64. Windows
+and Intel macOS are no longer supported. macOS arm64 remains a best-effort local
+build/development environment; macOS binaries are no longer published.
+
+Linux users need no configuration or data migration. Users of previously published
+Windows or macOS binaries should account for the distribution changes above before
+upgrading. See the [release procedure](../release.md) for artifact delivery and the
+[contributor guide](../development.md) for local build instructions.

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+# Audita v2.0.0
+
+Audita v2 adopts ConfigKit for configuration and PromptKit for LLM execution,
+adds resilient processing and focused reports, and improves correction prompts
+and validation. This is an intentional breaking release; existing installations
+must migrate their configuration and invocation settings.
+
+- Configuration uses `version: 2` YAML, named backends, PromptKit model profiles,
+  and optional named overlays. Offline configuration validation and inspection
+  expose effective settings, selected profiles, and provenance.
+- Proposal and validation calls share per-backend capacity. PromptKit handles
+  transport retries and structural response repair within bounded operation
+  timeouts.
+- Transcript chunks remain fixed through the LLM stages. Recoverable model
+  failures preserve progress and allow other work to continue. If every LLM
+  operation fails recoverably, processing still produces the deterministically
+  normalized transcript without LLM corrections. Cancellation, application
+  failures, and required output failures remain fatal.
+- Ordinary output includes `errors.yml`, `recoveries.yml`, and `report.md`, plus
+  a brief completion summary. Detailed correction and LLM diagnostics are opt-in
+  with `--debug`; `--reporting=false` suppresses all three ordinary reports.
+- Empty replacement text supports validated span deletion while preserving a
+  nonblank segment. Validator responses retain usable decisions despite missing,
+  duplicate, or extraneous entries; unavailable decisions never approve an edit.
+- Prompts use short request-local references, consistent shared instructions,
+  and relevant neighboring/glossary context for validation. Spoken-word cleanup
+  can reduce accidental protected-name repetition subject to validation.
+
+Follow the [v2 migration guide](../migrations/v2.md) before upgrading. Version-1
+configuration, implicit environment-setting overlays, retired model/credential/
+concurrency flags, and the former JSON report interface have no compatibility
+shim. Start from the maintained examples linked in that guide, configure profiles
+and credential references, and validate the new configuration. Update report and
+debug consumers for the [current output contract](../integrations/output-files.md).
+
+Linux amd64 and arm64 remain the production targets; macOS arm64 is best effort
+for development. Binary and checksum delivery runs asynchronously after source/tag
+publication, as described in the [release procedure](../release.md).

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+# Audita v2.0.1
+
+This patch release updates the selected ConfigKit and PromptKit libraries and
+adds complete licensing and attribution information to the source tree. Release
+notes are now used as the body of new hosted releases.
+
+- ConfigKit is updated to v0.4.2 and PromptKit to v0.11.2. The selected
+  OpenRouter and Rakestrawhome catalogs are updated to v2.20260926.0.
+- The [project grant](../../COPYRIGHT) and [upstream attribution](../oss/attribution.md)
+  now identify the application's license, incorporated components, and the
+  separately licensed policy material.
+- The [release procedure](../release.md) describes the source release and
+  asynchronous Linux binary delivery. Existing release records remain intact.
+
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v2.0.1/COPYRIGHT) | [LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v2.0.1/LICENSE) | [ATTRIBUTION](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v2.0.1/docs/oss/attribution.md)

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+# Audita v3.0.0
+
+Audita v3 adopts native configuration inheritance and layered PromptKit
+definitions, and allows transcript and report destinations to be selected
+independently. This is an intentional breaking release: existing PromptKit
+profile files require migration from the v2 release format.
+
+## Changes
+
+- ConfigKit is updated from v0.4.2 to v0.5.0. Application configuration supports
+  native sibling inheritance, and configuration explanations include value-free
+  inheritance provenance.
+- PromptKit is updated from v0.11.2 to v0.12.0, with both backend catalogs at
+  `v3.20260930.0`. Native keyed definitions support profile inheritance and
+  operator prompt overrides. The selected `profiles_dir` can contain profiles,
+  backends, and prompts; application backend endpoints, capacity, and credentials
+  remain authoritative.
+- Effective definitions and referenced prompt message contents are captured at
+  runtime construction. Consumed host configuration and message files are
+  protected from output collisions. Audita retains its per-call schemas, domain
+  validators, retry and repair budgets, and resilient processing behavior.
+- An explicit `--report-dir` now selects reports for either file or stdout
+  transcript output. File output without that flag still places reports beside
+  the transcript. This supports Narratio's independent output destinations;
+  debug capture remains independently selectable.
+
+## Upgrading from v2
+
+1. Convert each old PromptKit profile to a keyed definition under
+   `profiles: {<profile-id>: ...}`, remove its inner `id`, and replace
+   `base_profile` with `extends`. Profile IDs come from mapping keys rather than
+   filenames. No compatibility loader or automatic conversion is provided.
+2. Review explicit zero, omitted, and null generation controls. For example,
+   `temperature: 0` now sends an explicit zero, omission leaves the control
+   unspecified, and null suppresses an inherited control. A zero profile timeout
+   disables PromptKit's generation deadline; Audita's operation deadline still
+   applies.
+3. Select a configuration root whose final definitions are valid. PromptKit now
+   validates unused definitions too, including backend references, and conflicting
+   values within a directory source group are errors. The maintained examples
+   use separate [local](../../examples/profiles/local/) and
+   [service](../../examples/profiles/service/) roots. Runtime source edits take
+   effect on the next invocation.
+4. Rename any application backend literally named `extends` and update its
+   profile references. ConfigKit now reserves that key for inheritance.
+5. Validate the migrated installation with
+   `audita config validate --config /path/to/config.yml`, including any selected
+   testing overlay. Application configuration continues to use `version: 2`.
+
+The [configuration reference](../config.md#promptkit-profiles-and-operator-prompts)
+contains the migrated format and presence rules. Start from the maintained
+[local](../../examples/minimal-config.yml),
+[service](../../examples/production-config.yml), or
+[application inheritance](../../examples/configkit-inheritance.yml) examples.
+The [CLI reference](../cli.md) describes report selection, and the
+[release procedure](../release.md) describes source publication and asynchronous
+Linux binary delivery.
+
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v3.0.0/COPYRIGHT) | [LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v3.0.0/LICENSE) | [ATTRIBUTION](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v3.0.0/docs/oss/attribution.md)

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+# ConfigKit v0.5.0 Adoption Roadmap
+
+**Last updated:** 2026-10-03
+
+**Status:** Complete. The implementation and tests are committed through
+`8175ed8`. Final documentation and example changes were included in the full
+build, test, example-validation, and local-link checks before the documentation
+completion commit. The [implementation plan](implementation.md) records the
+ordered work and verification.
+
+## Purpose and Baseline
+
+Adopt ConfigKit v0.5.0 as an independently reviewable step before PromptKit
+v0.12.0. Use the library's configuration and inheritance conventions while
+preserving Audita's domain ownership and existing operator workflows.
+
+At the reviewed Audita revision `6ae1d7cd5f548b26de5787372d3f2249eaa4757d`,
+[go.mod](../../go.mod) selects ConfigKit v0.4.2, PromptKit v0.11.2, and Go
+1.25.5. ConfigKit already owns loading, presence, secret resolution, and
+configuration inspection. Audita's `internal/core/config` supplies typed
+settings, defaults, derived values, and domain validation; `internal/cli`
+selects files, overlays, and explicit overrides. The
+[configuration contract](../config.md) and [CLI contract](../cli.md) own the
+implemented behavior.
+
+The reviewed upstream release is
+[ConfigKit v0.5.0](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/tag/v0.5.0/docs/releases/v0.5.0.md),
+commit `dc09959cca4e105f49ec316c6d4ba585bd2340bd`. It adds layered underlays,
+caller-owned filesystem sources, mapping sources, source resource contexts, and
+built-in sibling inheritance. The Go minimum and YAML dependency do not change.
+Ordinary `Load` remains available; adopting `LoadLayered` is optional.
+
+This roadmap supersedes the completed original adoption plan at this path.
+The [historical roadmap](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/6ae1d7cd5f548b26de5787372d3f2249eaa4757d/docs/roadmap/configkit.md)
+records that earlier migration. Its coordinated breaking-refactor instructions
+and release target do not govern this incremental upgrade.
+
+## Target End State
+
+- Audita uses the released ConfigKit v0.5.0 module, with no local replacement.
+  PromptKit stays at v0.11.2 throughout this adoption unit.
+- Configuration retains the current file-selection, overlay, explicit-override,
+  resolution, and validation flow, subject to the reserved-key compatibility
+  impact described below. Retain the application schema version, CLI interface,
+  and main-file-relative resource rules defined in the current contracts.
+- Application configuration can use ConfigKit's native sibling `extends`
+  relationships. Audita does not implement a second inheritance resolver,
+  special backend-only syntax, or an opt-in switch around the library feature.
+- Inherited values participate in presence-aware defaults, domain validation,
+  secret resolution, and safe inspection just like other effective input.
+  In particular, inherited backend settings must not be overwritten merely
+  because they were not written directly on the child.
+- Effective settings and explanations remain useful and secret-safe when
+  values are inherited. Preserve existing inspection fields and add compact,
+  value-free inheritance evidence from ConfigKit's metadata rather than
+  reconstructing provenance from YAML.
+- Canonical documentation and a maintained example explain the adopted
+  inheritance behavior. Attribution identifies the exact new upstream source.
+
+The upstream [configuration contract](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/tag/v0.5.0/docs/config.md#sibling-inheritance)
+owns generic inheritance mechanics. The integration must account for three
+consequences: `extends` is reserved automatically throughout input mappings;
+relationships resolve after source precedence and before typed decoding; and
+inherited zero, false, empty, or null values count as explicit input. An inherited
+value still has to satisfy Audita's field-specific rules. Parent definitions
+also undergo ordinary application validation; inheritance does not introduce
+abstract, validation-exempt backend entries.
+
+## Scope and Adoption Boundary
+
+Keep the existing `Load` integration unless implementation reveals a concrete
+need to change it. Source-backed defaults, additional operator underlay tiers,
+imports, and source-relative reinterpretation of application paths are outside
+this feature. Their availability upstream does not require expanding Audita's
+configuration surface. Imports and secret-directory bootstrap retain their
+current disabled state.
+
+ConfigKit inheritance applies to Audita configuration in this step. PromptKit
+profile formats, profile inheritance, engine construction, embedded prompts,
+and backend catalogs remain governed by the existing PromptKit integration.
+There is no application-owned translation of profile documents in this work.
+
+This is an independent ConfigKit adoption ahead of the planned PromptKit
+migration. A separate public release between the two units is optional.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- The released ConfigKit v0.5.0 dependency and exact source attribution are
+  adopted; PromptKit remains at v0.11.2 with its existing catalogs.
+- Native inheritance preserves effective endpoints, capacity, explicit zero
+  queue capacity, child overrides, and surviving credential references through
+  Audita's loading, resolution, and validation boundary.
+- Selected overlays and explicit overrides retain their precedence; omitted
+  validation-role selection still derives from the final proposal selection.
+- Null can remove a child's credential while surviving references on parents
+  and other unselected backends still follow the existing credential contract.
+- Selected roles use inherited backend settings and share its configured
+  capacity under the existing PromptKit runtime contract.
+- Effective settings remain redacted, and both CLI explanations and debug
+  configuration origins expose compact, value-free inheritance evidence while
+  retaining existing fields and application-derived explanations.
+- A maintained complete example and canonical documentation describe native
+  inheritance, its field-validation implications, and the reserved-key
+  compatibility impact. Existing workflows and applicable offline checks pass.
+
+## Completion and Release Treatment
+
+Adoption is complete when the released dependency is pinned, existing workflows
+pass, representative inheritance works through loading and runtime wiring,
+inspection includes value-free inheritance evidence and remains secret-safe,
+and the example, canonical docs, and attribution match the implementation. No
+PromptKit migration or provider behavior change is required to close this unit.
+
+Release classification remains provisional. A minor release would be appropriate
+for a backward-compatible addition, but the newly reserved `extends` key can
+invalidate currently valid application configuration. For example, Audita
+currently permits a backend literally named `extends`; ConfigKit v0.5.0 treats
+that mapping key as an inheritance directive rather than a backend ID. Do not
+promise blanket compatibility or settle on a minor release until the final
+compatibility review resolves this impact under the
+[release policy](../policy/release.md). Describe any required migration in the
+canonical documentation and release notes when the upgrade ships. Do not select
+or publish a release as part of roadmap preparation. A later PromptKit
+migration's profile-format compatibility decision belongs to that separate
+feature.
+
+## Selected Overlays for Testing
+
+This heading preserves links from historical adoption documents. The original
+[overlay plan](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/6ae1d7cd5f548b26de5787372d3f2249eaa4757d/docs/roadmap/configkit.md#selected-overlays-for-testing)
+is historical; current overlay behavior belongs to [configuration](../config.md).
+This upgrade preserves that workflow and adds native ConfigKit inheritance
+without reviving the earlier combined migration plan.

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+# Deferred Feature Work
+
+**Last updated:** 2026-10-03
+
+**Status:** Deferred or exploratory work; not implemented or scheduled. These
+entries preserve work beyond the completed resilience and span-deletion
+features. Each entry states its intent; inclusion does not commit us to
+implementing every capability.
+
+## Domain-Aware Response Recovery
+
+The implemented [partial-success decision reconciliation](../internal/validators.md#llm-validator-batching)
+preserves usable decisions without another model call. Guided recovery remains
+deferred pending evidence from failures that remain. General per-entry
+salvage from structurally invalid responses is also a separate design question;
+the accepted reconciliation feature retains whole-response structural validation.
+
+Consider bounded feedback and regeneration for model responses that satisfy the
+structural schema but leave requested decisions unavailable after reconciliation.
+The goal would be to recover more usable work before excluding affected
+candidates, when doing so materially improves outcomes.
+
+This capability is explicitly deferred. Current behavior retains PromptKit
+structural repair and per-candidate reconciliation; unavailable requested
+decisions produce errors while other candidates can succeed.
+
+Before implementation, define the Audita/PromptKit ownership boundary, which
+checks are eligible for feedback, how feedback identifies defects without exposing
+secrets, and how regeneration fits bounded budgets and operation deadlines. Reuse
+shared library capabilities where appropriate; do not introduce an uncoordinated
+outer retry loop that multiplies existing retry/repair budgets.
+
+Ordinary editorial rejection is a valid decision, not a reason to regenerate until
+an edit is approved. Recovery must preserve required validation, candidate identity,
+partial-success safety, and truthful error/recovery reporting. Validate with
+controlled responses that distinguish recoverable protocol defects from valid
+negative decisions. Exact APIs, budgets, and sequencing remain undecided.
+
+## Independent Whole-Pipeline Traversal by Chunk
+
+Explore allowing each fixed chunk to advance through its ordered stages without
+waiting for other chunks to finish the current stage. This could reduce waiting
+behind a slow chunk and improve utilization while preserving stage order within
+each chunk and deterministic final recombination.
+
+The resilience feature deliberately retains stage barriers: finish a stage across
+chunks before advancing to the next stage. Fixed boundaries alone do not authorize
+independent traversal.
+
+A future design must establish that stages do not depend on other chunks' evolving
+state, preserve stable identities and partial-success rules, and continue to share
+PromptKit's per-backend capacity across all roles and stages. Reporting must remain
+deterministic despite different completion orders, and fatal cancellation must
+still stop and join active work. Assess whether the scheduling change materially
+improves real workloads before introducing additional orchestration machinery.
+No new scheduler, global limiter, or execution mode is selected by this entry.
+
+## Whole-Segment Removal
+
+Potential future work, subject first to evaluating whether it is worth implementing
+at all. Empty replacement text and deletion of a span within a surviving segment
+are covered by the implemented [span-deletion behavior](../internal/modules.md#proposal-generation-ownership).
+That feature does not remove segment records or permit blank resulting segments.
+
+Before designing segment removal, review representative production examples to
+establish whether whole-segment deletion is a meaningful unmet need. An empty
+replacement alone does not establish that intent: it can express ordinary filler
+or punctuation deletion within a larger segment. Assess how often genuinely
+expendable whole segments occur after deterministic normalization, the transcript
+quality benefit of removing them, and the risk of losing substantive speech.
+Compare those benefits with the implementation and ongoing maintenance costs.
+Retaining the segment and declining the edit is a valid outcome if the benefit is
+small or uncertain. No numerical adoption threshold is selected.
+
+Only if that evaluation supports proceeding should a separate feature design
+choose a representation, authorization and validation rules, and reporting
+semantics. It must address meaning preservation and the effects on segment
+identity, timestamps, fixed chunks, subsequent stages, recombination, and output
+consumers. Do not infer authorization to remove a segment from an empty string
+or introduce segment-removal machinery as part of span-deletion consistency.

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+# Implementation Plan: PromptKit v0.12.0 Adoption
+
+**Last updated:** 2026-10-04
+**Status:** Complete; Stages 1–9 completed.
+**Audience:** Luna coding agent.
+
+## Scope and Execution
+
+Implement the accepted target in the [PromptKit roadmap](promptkit.md). That
+document owns feature intent and policy choices; this plan owns the ordered
+implementation work. The planning baseline is Audita commit
+`b31955fc97adec707b4e5f9a1b0c43c4cbc66750`: ConfigKit v0.5.0 is adopted,
+PromptKit is v0.11.2, and the finalized roadmap includes the selected-profile,
+operator-override, example-layout, and major-release clarifications.
+
+This replaces the completed ConfigKit plan at this path. Its
+[completed implementation record](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/b31955fc97adec707b4e5f9a1b0c43c4cbc66750/docs/roadmap/implementation.md)
+remains available for readers following the ConfigKit completion roadmap.
+
+Execute Stage 1 through Stage 9 in order. Each is sized as one bounded Luna
+implementation prompt. Commit completed units with short, plain English messages
+under the [agent policy](../policy/agents.md); no approval round is needed between
+stages. Record actual checks and any remaining expected migration failures.
+Stages 1 and 2 change formats before Stage 3 changes their consumer. Intermediate
+commits need not be runnable or release-ready. Do not add temporary readers,
+compatibility shims, fallback engines for execution, or scaffolding to make them
+so. Later stages complete the same migration rather than separate product modes.
+
+Start with [development guidance](../development.md) and the applicable agent,
+[architecture](../policy/architecture.md), [testing](../policy/testing.md),
+[documentation](../policy/documentation.md), and [OSS](../policy/oss.md)
+policies. Use graph-first discovery. Read the current
+[configuration](../config.md), [LLM runtime](../internal/llm-runtime.md),
+[prompt registry](../internal/prompts.md), and
+[LLM integration](../integrations/openai-compatible-llm.md) contracts for the
+established behavior this migration preserves.
+
+Target the released PromptKit v0.12.0 at commit
+`4b8169da286917fde7875425bb32b799b12c6af3`, ConfigKit v0.5.0, and both
+maintained `/v3` catalogs at `v3.20260930.0`. Read the pinned
+[format reference](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/tag/v0.12.0/docs/formats.md)
+and [migration guide](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/tag/v0.12.0/docs/consumers/pkg-promptkit.md#migrate-from-the-previous-configuration-api).
+The sibling checkout is reference material, not a dependency replacement.
+
+### Selected Implementation Decisions
+
+- Keep Go 1.25.5, application `version: 2`, current flags, role selection,
+  application overlays, and main-file-relative path rules. Retain the
+  `profiles_dir` name and default; broaden its accepted documents as agreed.
+- Use PromptKit's catalog and owned defaults, then caller underlays for embedded
+  Audita prompts and operator directory inputs, then `Sources.Main` for
+  application backend settings. Directory inputs compose strictly within their
+  group; discovery order supplies no field precedence. Keep imports disabled.
+- Use one ConfigKit mapping for the final application source. For each
+  application backend, supply its endpoint, `concurrency_limit`,
+  `queue_capacity`, and explicit `api_key_env: null`. The null suppresses
+  lower-tier credential lookup. Leave other supported provider fields available
+  to native layering. Do not put resolved credential values in this mapping.
+- Keep selected-role registration, endpoint-match, competing-credential, and
+  required-key checks. Add explicit nonblank effective model and endpoint checks
+  for both selected roles. Valid unselected partial profiles remain permitted.
+- Preserve the adapter's complete per-call schemas, configured repairs/retries,
+  operation context, shared variables, observation, and prepare/check/run flow.
+  Operator messages can omit shared-variable references; do not append the
+  shared text unconditionally or require particular message counts or roles
+  beyond PromptKit's own format rules.
+- Use captured source inspection for consumed host configuration and message
+  paths. Keep source-relative resource resolution with PromptKit and ConfigKit;
+  Audita projects paths for its existing output collision checks.
+- Replace the old profile-reload test expectation with snapshot behavior.
+  Successful construction uses only final effective definitions. A failed
+  construction may make an embedded-only diagnostic construction to distinguish
+  asset defects from operator errors; it never executes or substitutes for the
+  requested configuration.
+- Maintained example roots are `examples/profiles/local/` and
+  `examples/profiles/service/`. Service testing profiles stay in the service
+  root. Keep the literal `temperature: 0` in examples as an explicit outbound
+  setting, and use native presence semantics without a compatibility translator.
+
+This unit is an intentional major-release migration. Exact version selection,
+release notes, tag/push, and publication timing remain release preparation under
+the [release policy](../policy/release.md). Guided recovery, new report formats,
+hot reload, extra configuration commands, and scheduling changes remain outside
+this plan. Tests should protect changed integration behavior and established
+contracts, not reproduce the libraries' entire validation matrices.
+
+## Stage 1 — Convert Embedded Prompt Definitions
+
+**Primary files:** The seven YAML files under
+`internal/prompts/assets/prompts/`.
+
+1. Wrap each existing definition beneath `prompts`, its exact current ID, and
+   the string version `v1`. Remove the old inner `id` and `version` fields.
+   Keep filenames and Audita registry identifiers unchanged; filenames are
+   asset locations rather than PromptKit identities.
+2. Preserve messages, block-scalar text, variable references, task examples,
+   output settings, and schema paths. Preserve the applicable references to
+   `HardeningPolicy`, `ProposalContract`, and `ValidationContract`. Do not edit
+   shared fragments, response schemas, or domain policies to accommodate the
+   new container format.
+3. Review each before/after definition structurally, including YAML indentation
+   inside block scalars. Do not introduce default profile selections or new
+   repair counts. The adapter continues to own the runtime output contract.
+
+**Verification and completion:** Check all seven migrated identities and
+version keys against `RegisteredMetadata`, and run `git diff --check`. Registry
+preparation tests become runnable with the new constructor in Stage 3. Commit
+the asset conversion; do not introduce an old-format reader to test it here.
+
+**Completion marker:** Stage 1 complete. All seven registered prompt assets
+use keyed prompt/version mappings; parsed definitions were structurally checked
+against their prior content, and `git diff --check` passed.
+
+## Stage 2 — Migrate Operator Profiles, Example Roots, and YAML Fixtures
+
+**Primary files:** `examples/profiles/`, the three maintained configuration
+examples, and profile-producing test fixtures in
+`internal/framework/llm/{runtime_inspection,adapter,adapter_capacity}_test.go`,
+`internal/framework/proposal_generation/adapter_integration_test.go`,
+`internal/framework/validators/llm_integration_test.go`,
+`internal/framework/runner/cancellation_test.go`, and
+`cmd/audita/main_integration_test.go`.
+
+1. Move local proposal/validation examples beneath `profiles/local/`; move the
+   four service proposal/validation and testing files beneath
+   `profiles/service/`. Convert each to `profiles: {<ID>: <fields>}` in readable
+   YAML. Keep IDs, models, positive timeouts, and controls, including explicit
+   zero temperature. No example needs a real credential or live model.
+2. Set `profiles_dir: profiles/local` in `examples/minimal-config.yml` and
+   `examples/configkit-inheritance.yml`; set `profiles_dir: profiles/service`
+   in `examples/production-config.yml`. Preserve the testing overlay's role IDs
+   and the existing ConfigKit inheritance example. Select the leaf root, since
+   recursive discovery at their common parent would still load both groups.
+3. Convert profile YAML emitted by the listed fixtures to keyed definitions.
+   Search for remaining old profile construction strings and removed
+   `base_profile` syntax, and migrate any genuine profile fixture found.
+   Do not rewrite transcript/proposal `id` fields or domain schema fixtures.
+   Keep test source names independent of profile IDs where already exercised.
+4. Keep negative tests negative for their selected behavioral reason. Give
+   cases clean temporary layouts or replace their contribution completely
+   rather than leaving an unrelated invalid definition behind for later cases.
+   Eager validation now reads unselected final definitions too. Do not remove
+   such definitions merely to simulate the old lazy loader where the test is
+   intended to exercise eager validation.
+
+**Verification and completion:** Review the six profiles, explicit root
+selections, and changed fixture text; run `git diff --check` and format touched
+Go test files. These formats become consumable in Stage 3. Commit this unit.
+Current documentation links and recipes are updated together in Stage 8.
+
+**Completion marker:** Stage 2 complete. Six maintained profile documents are
+keyed and split into separately selected local/service roots; the listed Go
+fixtures use keyed definitions. Touched Go files were formatted and
+`git diff --check` passed. Runtime tests are deferred until Stage 3 replaces
+the current consumer, as the plan allows intermediate commits not to run.
+
+## Stage 3 — Adopt the Released Source API and Selected-Role Checks
+
+**Primary files:** `go.mod`, `go.sum`,
+`internal/framework/llm/runtime.go`, and `internal/prompts/registry_test.go`.
+
+1. Upgrade with `go get gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit@v0.12.0` and
+   reconcile the module files. Verify ConfigKit stays v0.5.0, the catalog
+   dependencies become `/v3` at `v3.20260930.0`, and obsolete `/v2` requirements
+   are removed when unused. Retain the Go minimum and unrelated selections;
+   introduce no local replacements.
+2. Resolve `profiles_dir` exactly as the current runtime does. Obtain embedded
+   inputs with `pk.FilesystemInputs` and operator inputs with `pk.DirectoryInputs`.
+   An unavailable selected root is an operator error; an empty directory can
+   contribute no definitions. Do not require one profile per file, IDs matching
+   filenames, or profile-only top-level content.
+3. Construct the agreed `pk.ConfigurationSources`: two ordered caller underlays
+   for embedded and operator groups, and one highest-priority application
+   `ck.Input` whose source is the mapping specified above. Retain
+   `pk.WithSchemaFS`, the supplied HTTP client, and configured transient retries.
+   Remove old prompt/profile/backend registration options.
+4. Inspect registered prompt ID/version selections, then both selected roles.
+   Reject a selected role whose effective model or endpoint is empty or
+   whitespace-only. Retain backend registration, normalized endpoint equality,
+   nonblank effective `APIKeyEnv` rejection, and required-credential checks.
+   Preserve literal IDs; do not trim/re-key identities or require all profiles
+   to be complete. Populate the same role inspection map for both clients.
+5. Migrate the registry test engine to `FilesystemInputs` and a programmatic
+   `ProfileSource` fixture in its own tier, retaining its schema filesystem.
+   A complete endpoint/model fixture without an application backend is valid
+   for this direct library test; Audita's selected-role guard belongs in its
+   runtime tests. Keep the embedded prompt preparation assertions scoped to
+   embedded prompts.
+6. Remove the old `profileSourceFS` wrapper once unused. Source accounting is
+   completed in Stage 5. Preserve the adapter boundary; change other production
+   callers only to resolve actual API incompatibilities. Search for remaining
+   uses of removed source options and old `pk.Profile`/`pk.Backend` values.
+   Run `go mod tidy` after migrating construction callers and review its diff.
+
+**Verification and completion:** Run `go test ./internal/prompts` and the
+existing offline profile assembly, unsafe-selection, and absolute-directory
+tests in `internal/framework/llm`. Run `git diff --check` and review the module
+diff. The obsolete file-reload assertion is intentionally replaced in Stage 6;
+do not restore reload behavior to make that assertion pass. Commit the runtime
+API migration.
+
+**Completion marker:** Stage 3 complete. Runtime construction now uses the
+released PromptKit source API with the selected application mapping; module
+selections match PromptKit v0.12.0 and both `/v3` catalogs at
+`v3.20260930.0`. `go mod tidy`, prompt registry tests, offline profile
+assembly, unsafe-selection, absolute-directory tests, and `git diff --check`
+passed. Captured source accounting remains in Stage 5.
+
+## Stage 4 — Preserve Startup Failure Classification and Validate Assembly
+
+**Primary files:** `internal/framework/llm/runtime.go`,
+`internal/framework/llm/runtime_inspection_test.go`, and configuration-command
+tests in `internal/cli`. Update `internal/cli/run.go` only where the changed
+startup path needs existing exit behavior preserved.
+
+1. Treat embedded discovery failures as `AssetError`; treat operator-directory
+   discovery failures as configuration input errors. Preserve wrapped causes
+   for `errors.Is`/`errors.As` and retain configured-secret redaction at CLI
+   boundaries. Caller cancellation remains a runtime exit, not an operator
+   mistake, and should not trigger further diagnostic loading.
+2. PromptKit wraps both definition-loading and template/content failures in
+   `ErrInvalidConfig`; some materialization errors have no public source/path
+   type. Do not classify by parsing error strings or by that sentinel alone.
+   On final engine-construction failure, perform an embedded-only diagnostic
+   construction with the same embedded prompt/schema sources and library
+   defaults, excluding operator inputs and application backend mappings. If
+   that also fails, surface an `AssetError` with the asset cause; otherwise
+   return the original final-construction error as an operator/configuration
+   error. The diagnostic engine does no provider work and is never retained
+   for execution. Keep a small unexported assembly seam accepting an embedded
+   filesystem so tests can exercise asset failures without modifying shipped
+   files or creating a global test hook.
+3. Do not run this diagnostic construction as a successful-path preflight.
+   A valid final snapshot remains accepted even if an operator contribution
+   repairs an otherwise invalid lower-tier prompt. Verify that property with
+   the same small assembly test seam. This avoids strengthening upstream
+   final-value validation into mandatory validation of displaced definitions.
+4. Cover incomplete selected profiles using omitted, empty, and null model
+   contributions and a cleared selected endpoint. Exercise proposal and
+   validation selection, including omission-derived validation selection, with
+   a rejecting HTTP transport. Confirm valid unselected partial profiles are
+   accepted; malformed unselected definitions, undefined backend references,
+   and conflicting directory contributions still fail under native rules.
+5. Add focused boundary coverage that invalid operator YAML/template/resource
+   input produces configuration exit `2`, and test the asset classification
+   directly at the runtime seam. Reuse existing CLI handling of `AssetError`
+   for exit `1`; no damaged-binary subprocess fixture is needed. Cover the
+   shared `NewRuntime` validation route and preserve cancellation exit `1` in
+   configuration commands if the new error path would otherwise classify it
+   as `2`. Avoid exact complete diagnostic wording assertions.
+
+**Verification and completion:** Run targeted startup/inspection tests and
+`go test ./internal/cli`; check whitespace and commit. Preserve the original
+failure cause where available rather than flattening it to a generic error.
+
+**Completion marker:** Stage 4 complete. Embedded discovery and construction
+failures are distinguished from operator inputs through an embedded-only
+diagnostic construction; cancellation skips that diagnostic. Selected-profile
+completeness and native directory validation are covered, and both config
+commands preserve exit 1 for cancellation/assets and exit 2 for invalid
+operator YAML, templates, and resources. Targeted runtime tests,
+`go test ./internal/cli`, and `git diff --check` passed.
+
+## Stage 5 — Protect Consumed Configuration and Message Files
+
+**Primary files:** `internal/framework/llm/runtime.go` or a focused source-path
+helper in that package, `internal/cli/process.go`, runtime source-accounting
+tests, and `cmd/audita/main_integration_test.go`.
+
+1. Rename the internal `Runtime.ProfilePaths` field to `SourcePaths` and update
+   its process caller. It now covers consumed host YAML and message resources,
+   rather than profiles alone. Populate it from the successfully captured final
+   engine; do not expose source metadata as a new public output.
+2. Call `InspectConfiguration`. Index `Sources()` by source ID, and collect
+   paths with `Kind == ck.SourceKindFile`; embedded filesystem and synthetic
+   sources are not host paths. All loaded host YAML counts, including unused
+   definitions and files whose contributions were later overlaid. Deduplicate
+   paths and sort for a stable internal projection.
+3. For message resources, enumerate `Metadata().HistoricalPaths()` and retain
+   effective, nonnull paths shaped as
+   `/prompts/<id>/<version>/messages/<index>/content_file`. Use `Lookup` and the
+   effective field's origin, not an inherited destination's guessed source.
+   PromptKit successfully captures these fields only with a unique usable
+   source context. Obtain the effective scalar from `Explain(path).Effective`
+   and decode that scalar YAML into a string with the existing YAML dependency.
+   This decodes captured inspection data; it is not a second configuration
+   loader. When the contributing source is a host file, join the untrimmed
+   resource name against that source file's directory and add it to the ledger.
+   Ignore displaced references and non-host resources. Do not reread operator
+   YAML, infer IDs from filenames, or reimplement resource-root validation.
+4. Pass `SourcePaths` through existing `diagnostics.PrepareOutput` protection.
+   Leave canonicalization, symlink/hardlink checks, permitted in-place transcript
+   handling, and output initialization with their current owner. Do not protect
+   every unrelated file in the selected directory or add filesystem mutation
+   guarantees beyond the existing collision contract.
+5. Extend `TestSubprocessProfileSources` and a focused runtime case to cover an
+   arbitrarily named YAML contribution, a consumed source-relative message
+   file, and conflicting transcript/report destinations. Use a non-YAML message
+   filename, such as `instruction.md`, so directory discovery does not mistake
+   plain prompt text for a configuration document. Include an inherited message
+   reference from a different directory and a prompt ID/version with a JSON
+   Pointer escape character so source provenance and literal keys determine
+   the path. Check rejection before provider dispatch and unchanged input bytes.
+   Preserve acceptance of an unused alternate output filename; do not turn the
+   whole directory into a forbidden output location.
+
+**Verification and completion:** Run focused source-ledger tests and subprocess
+collision cases, plus `git diff --check`, then commit. Check that resource
+accounting uses the frozen snapshot and never changes the engine's source or
+resource-resolution behavior to facilitate tracking.
+
+**Completion marker:** Stage 5 complete. `Runtime.SourcePaths` now projects
+host YAML and effective source-relative message files from PromptKit's captured
+configuration inspection, using field provenance for inherited references.
+Process output protection consumes that ledger. Focused source-accounting and
+subprocess collision tests passed, including unchanged input bytes, no provider
+dispatch, JSON Pointer-escaped keys, and acceptance of an unused alternate
+output; `git diff --check` passed.
+
+## Stage 6 — Verify Operator Prompt Overrides and Captured Execution
+
+**Primary files:** `internal/framework/llm/adapter_test.go` and focused runtime
+tests. Change `adapter.go` only for an actual integration defect.
+
+1. Add a native keyed operator contribution overriding messages for an active
+   prompt/version. Use the real runtime and controlled HTTP responses to prove
+   the operator text reaches both the prepared snapshot and dispatched request.
+   One case deliberately omits shared-variable references and still succeeds;
+   do not require Audita to inject their text. A reference-bearing case renders
+   the adapter-supplied value and retains existing protection against caller
+   variables replacing the reserved shared variables.
+2. Override the prompt's definition-level output contract with another valid
+   upstream contract. Prove that Audita's per-call JSON schema and configured
+   repair budget still govern execution: a structurally invalid response is
+   repaired or exhausted as the controlled budget dictates. Domain validators
+   remain downstream. Reuse existing validator/proposal integration coverage
+   for their rules rather than weakening them to fit an operator prompt.
+3. Replace the reload portion of
+   `TestPreparedAdapterRejectsTargetDriftAndPreparationErrors`. After successful
+   construction, change a profile or message file and verify the existing
+   runtime still uses its captured settings/text. Construct a new runtime to
+   observe a valid edit or reject a newly mismatched endpoint. Keep the missing
+   prompt preparation failure case.
+4. Retain a focused test of the prepared-target check independently of reload:
+   deliberately change the test runtime's application backend endpoint after
+   construction and verify the inconsistency is blocked before dispatch. This
+   tests the existing guard, not a supported live mutation/reload feature.
+   Continue executing the same prepared handle whose details were inspected;
+   do not add another preparation or an application-side retry loop.
+
+**Verification and completion:** Run the prompt override, snapshot, and
+prepared-adapter tests. Compare semantic messages and selected targets, not old
+hash values or exact YAML formatting. Check whitespace and commit.
+
+**Completion marker:** Stage 6 complete. Native operator messages reach both
+the prepared snapshot and provider request, with and without shared-variable
+references. The adapter's per-call schema and repair budget remain effective
+under a valid operator output-contract override. Existing runtimes retain
+captured prompt/profile values after source edits, and a new runtime observes
+valid edits; the target guard and preparation failure remain covered. The
+`internal/framework/llm` tests and `git diff --check` passed.
+
+## Stage 7 — Verify Native Profiles, Backend Authority, and Resilience
+
+**Primary files:** Runtime inspection and adapter tests,
+`internal/framework/llm/adapter_capacity_test.go`, and existing framework/CLI
+integration tests where their established behavior is affected.
+
+1. Add a compact native profile inheritance fixture with literal keyed IDs
+   unrelated to filenames, multiple definitions in one file, a partial parent,
+   and a complete selected child. Verify inherited controls survive a child
+   model change and child overrides win. Reuse the metadata-facing literal-key
+   coverage from Stage 5 rather than repeating it in profile tests.
+2. Use controlled HTTP request bodies to distinguish explicit zero temperature
+   from omission and inherited-control suppression by null. Check a
+   representative recursively overlaid provider parameter and null clearing;
+   do not promise that all providers accept every valid configured zero.
+   Reuse existing deadline/cancellation coverage for unchanged outer deadlines;
+   explicit zero profile timeout must not disable the operation context.
+3. Verify an operator backend contribution can add supported provider fields,
+   while a conflicting endpoint/concurrency/queue/environment contribution
+   cannot displace the final application fields. Preserve an explicit profile
+   environment lookup as a selected-role error rather than hiding it with an
+   adapter override. Include an application backend using a catalog ID to show
+   it is allowed and its catalog credential lookup is suppressed. Use synthetic
+   environment values and local HTTP fixtures, not provider catalog endpoints.
+4. Reuse `TestRolesShareBackendCapacityAndReleaseAfterCancellation` and
+   `TestDistinctBackendsHaveIndependentCapacity`; verify the final mapped
+   limits, including zero queue capacity, still coordinate both roles and
+   remain backend-local. Strengthen a fixture with conflicting lower-tier
+   capacity only where needed to prove the new mapping wins. Keep existing
+   synchronization; do not infer admission with sleeps or add another limiter.
+5. Preserve offline selected-profile inspection and value-free application
+   explanations. Check configured secrets, endpoint strings, arbitrary provider
+   fields, and prompt text remain outside the current safe profile summary.
+   Do not replace it with a full upstream dump. Its numeric projection is not
+   proof that an omitted provider setting is sent; wire presence belongs to
+   the HTTP coverage above.
+6. Run the existing transient retry, structural repair, attempt-count,
+   observation, partial-validation, and all-model-failure subprocess cases
+   after fixture migration. Preserve their error/recovery/debug classifications,
+   cancellation, and continued output. Fix proven integration regressions;
+   do not rewrite domain outcomes or reduce budgets to obtain a passing suite.
+
+**Verification and completion:** Run
+`go test ./internal/framework/llm ./internal/framework/proposal_generation ./internal/framework/validators ./internal/framework/runner ./internal/cli ./cmd/audita`
+and `git diff --check`. Review whether each new test addresses a distinct changed
+boundary. Commit the native-profile and runtime verification unit.
+
+**Completion marker:** Stage 7 complete. Native profile inheritance, control
+presence, provider-map overlays, application backend authority, selected
+credential rejection, catalog-ID handling, shared backend capacity, and safe
+inspection behavior are covered. The six targeted packages passed, along with
+focused wire, timeout, capacity, credential, and safe-view tests; `git diff
+--check` passed.
+
+## Stage 8 — Document the Migration and Update Attribution
+
+**Primary files:** `docs/config.md`, `docs/internal/llm-runtime.md`,
+`docs/internal/prompts.md`, `docs/integrations/openai-compatible-llm.md`,
+`docs/operations.md`, `docs/internal/cli-config.md`, `README.md`, and
+`docs/oss/attribution.md`.
+
+1. Update the configuration contract for unified `profiles_dir` content, exact
+   keyed identities, directory composition, agreed tier precedence, profile
+   inheritance/presence, selected-role completeness, eager validation of all
+   final definitions, selected-root failures, and construction-time capture.
+   Replace the obsolete statement that PromptKit profiles do not gain ConfigKit
+   inheritance. Retain application overlays, defaults, and credential ownership.
+2. Include concise migration instructions in the profile section: wrap old
+   profile fields beneath `profiles/<id>`, remove inner `id`, change
+   `base_profile` to `extends`, review explicit values/nulls, and select roots
+   whose final definitions have valid backend references. Show a small keyed
+   inheritance/override snippet and link complete maintained examples. Explain
+   explicit zero temperature versus omitted or null controls and link upstream
+   for the full field table. State that this ships as an Audita major migration;
+   do not invent an exact release version or automatic file conversion.
+3. Document intentional prompt overrides and optional shared-variable references.
+   Supplying shared variables does not inject omitted text, while per-call
+   schemas and domain validators remain enforced. Internal prompt documentation
+   distinguishes shipped asset instructions from operator-effective messages;
+   no prompt-quality rewrite or new global prompt-policy requirement is added.
+4. Describe layered runtime assembly, source accounting, snapshot use, and
+   startup classification in their internal owner. Update the pinned PromptKit
+   consumer link in the LLM integration contract. Expand operations' loaded
+   source description to include consumed operator message files; keep physical
+   output/collision rules with operations and diagnostics.
+5. Repair example navigation for separate local/service roots, especially the
+   README's local-profile link. Update validation recipes to use the maintained
+   config files' explicit roots and keep the service testing overlay workflow.
+   Review other affected links without rewriting historical release notes.
+6. Update the PromptKit and both catalog attribution entries to selected versions
+   and exact commit-pinned source/notice URLs. Resolve catalog tag commits from
+   the selected module origins or authoritative upstream refs, not annotated
+   tag object IDs. Check the releases' COPYRIGHT/LICENSE files and retain the
+   applicable unchanged local LGPL/GPL and MIT texts. Keep the existing House
+   Format; no new license selection, policy rewrite, or attribution inventory
+   is needed. Review `go.mod`/`go.sum` against those entries.
+
+**Verification and completion:** Check affected local links/anchors, format
+examples against the implemented loader, verify source revisions/notices, and
+run `git diff --check`. Commit the documentation and attribution unit.
+
+**Completion marker:** Stage 8 complete. Configuration, runtime, prompt,
+integration, operations, contributor, and README guidance now reflects native
+PromptKit layering, migration, presence, snapshot, and separate example-root
+behavior. Attribution matches PromptKit v0.12.0 and both v3 catalog module
+origins and notices. Local links/anchors and `git diff --check` passed.
+
+## Stage 9 — Validate the Integrated End State and Close the Plan
+
+**Primary files:** This plan and the feature roadmap; correct an implementation
+file only if the final checks reveal an actual gap.
+
+1. Verify the full roadmap acceptance criteria against the landed code and the
+   distinct tests from these stages. Review for unintended requirements:
+   profile-only filtering, mandatory shared text in operator messages,
+   filename-derived IDs, complete unselected profiles, catalog ID bans,
+   successful-path asset preflights, compatibility readers, and new output
+   guarantees are not part of the accepted target.
+2. Run `go build -o ./bin/audita ./cmd/audita` and `go test ./...`. Keep the
+   generated binary out of commits. Reuse successful checks on unchanged
+   content; rerun checks affected by any corrective code changes.
+3. Validate the maintained examples offline using the built binary:
+
+   ```sh
+   ./bin/audita config validate --config examples/minimal-config.yml
+   ./bin/audita config validate --config examples/configkit-inheritance.yml
+   AUDITA_SERVICE_KEY=synthetic-example ./bin/audita config validate --config examples/production-config.yml
+   AUDITA_SERVICE_KEY=synthetic-example ./bin/audita config validate --config examples/production-config.yml --overlay testing
+   ./bin/audita config print-effective --config examples/minimal-config.yml --view profiles
+   ./bin/audita config print-effective --config examples/configkit-inheritance.yml --view explain
+   ```
+
+   Confirm local/service roots and testing selections work without provider
+   dispatch. Check safe views exclude resolved secrets and preserve the
+   established explanation fields. Do not call a model to validate examples.
+4. Check the selected dependency graph, attribution, affected links, and final
+   diff. Run `git diff --check`. Confirm only the released modules are used and
+   no obsolete `/v2` catalog or removed construction API remains in active code.
+   Historical release documents and historical roadmap links may retain old
+   versions as accurate records.
+5. Mark this plan and the feature roadmap complete only after the full target
+   passes. Record the tested implementation revision and checks accurately;
+   distinguish a subsequent documentation-only completion commit. Commit the
+   completion documentation and report remaining work, if any. Do not select
+   a release number, publish, tag, push, poll CI, or add permanent release gates.
+
+**Completion marker:** Stage 9 complete. The tested implementation revision is
+`5525fe8`; the preceding documentation migration commit is `9bcf183`, and this
+roadmap closure is documentation-only. At `9bcf183`, the application built,
+`go test ./...` passed, all six maintained example commands passed offline,
+`go mod verify` passed, the selected module graph contained PromptKit v0.12.0
+and both `/v3` catalogs at `v3.20260930.0` with no `/v2` catalogs, and
+`git diff --check` passed. The active Go/module scan found no removed PromptKit
+construction options.
+
+**End state:** Native PromptKit configuration and catalogs are adopted,
+operator overrides and captured resources work through the real runtime,
+application backend/domain ownership and resilience remain effective, and
+maintained examples and migration documentation match the implementation.
+No implementation-blocking decisions remain; exact major-release numbering
+and publication timing remain outside this implementation unit.

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+# PromptKit v0.12.0 Adoption Roadmap
+
+**Last updated:** 2026-10-04
+
+**Status:** Complete. The implementation plan records the ordered work and
+verification details.
+
+## Purpose and Baseline
+
+Adopt PromptKit v0.12.0 now that the independent
+[ConfigKit v0.5.0 upgrade](configkit.md) is complete. Align Audita with the
+libraries' native configuration model while retaining Audita's domain rules,
+application-owned backend settings, and resilient processing workflow.
+
+At reviewed Audita revision `8cba751835ba9faad340e933a3cfbb59c03924fd`,
+[go.mod](../../go.mod) selects ConfigKit v0.5.0 and PromptKit v0.11.2, with
+OpenRouter and Rakestrawhome `/v2` catalogs at `v2.20260926.0`. Go 1.25.5
+remains the application minimum. The implemented contracts belong to
+[configuration](../config.md), the
+[LLM integration](../integrations/openai-compatible-llm.md), and the
+[LLM runtime](../internal/llm-runtime.md).
+
+`internal/framework/llm.NewRuntime` currently assembles one engine using the
+old prompt/profile filesystem options and programmatic backend registration.
+Audita embeds seven prompt definitions and separate response schemas. Operators
+select proposal and validation profiles from `profiles_dir`; the effective
+backend must be registered in application configuration, its endpoint must
+match, and its credential comes from Audita's ConfigKit-resolved settings.
+Successful profile reads are recorded to protect those sources from output
+collisions. Both roles share the same engine's backend admission controls.
+
+The reviewed upstream release is
+[PromptKit v0.12.0](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/tag/v0.12.0/docs/releases/v0.12.0.md),
+commit `4b8169da286917fde7875425bb32b799b12c6af3`. It depends on ConfigKit
+v0.5.0 and both maintained `/v3` catalog modules at `v3.20260930.0`. This is an
+intentional incompatible pre-1.0 minor release: it replaces construction and
+configuration APIs, rather than simply updating provider data. PromptKit's
+[format reference](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/tag/v0.12.0/docs/formats.md)
+and [consumer migration guide](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/tag/v0.12.0/docs/consumers/pkg-promptkit.md#migrate-from-the-previous-configuration-api)
+own the upstream details.
+
+## Target End State
+
+- Audita imports released PromptKit v0.12.0 and its `/v3` catalogs, retaining
+  ConfigKit v0.5.0 and using no local dependency replacement.
+- The runtime uses `Config.Sources` and native ConfigKit source groups.
+  PromptKit owns composition, inheritance, presence, final-definition
+  validation, prompt capture, and execution. Audita does not translate old
+  profiles or implement a second YAML loader or inheritance resolver.
+- Embedded prompts and maintained operator profiles use keyed `prompts` and
+  `profiles` mappings. Existing prompt IDs, versions, role selections,
+  instructions, and response-schema associations remain the adoption baseline.
+  The application configuration schema, overlay selection, CLI interface, and
+  main-file-relative `profiles_dir` resolution remain in place.
+- Native profile `extends`, field-presence semantics, and source-relative
+  resource rules apply. Documents can contain multiple definitions, and IDs
+  come from mapping keys rather than filenames. The existing `profiles_dir`
+  accepts native unified PromptKit documents containing profiles, backends,
+  and prompts, including intentional operator prompt overrides.
+- Application backend endpoints, configured concurrency and queue capacity,
+  and credential ownership remain authoritative for selected roles. Preserve
+  the existing profile-selection and prepared-target checks; do not introduce
+  a second admission controller or implicit provider credential lookup.
+- A runtime uses one captured configuration snapshot for both roles. Each CLI
+  invocation constructs a new engine; hot reload is not part of this feature.
+  Existing inspection remains offline and safe, and consumed host sources
+  remain protected from output collisions.
+- PromptKit retains responsibility for transport retries, schema repair,
+  observation, and prepared execution. Preserve Audita's configured retry and
+  repair budgets, operation deadlines, cancellation, partial-success behavior,
+  error/recovery reporting, and debug selection.
+
+## Configuration Assembly and Ownership
+
+Replace removed `WithPromptFS`, `WithProfileFS`, and `WithBackend` usage with
+the released source API. Discover embedded YAML through `FilesystemInputs` and
+operator YAML through `DirectoryInputs`, with explicit caller tiers. Keep the
+retained schema filesystem integration and HTTP client configuration.
+Use the helpers' default-disabled imports; this adoption does not require new
+application source-selection flags or operator underlay tiers.
+
+PromptKit supplies catalog definitions first and its own defaults next. Caller
+tiers then overlay in their supplied order, followed by an optional highest
+priority main input. Files within one directory group compose strictly;
+alphabetical filenames do not establish override precedence. Use separate
+tiers for genuine priority differences rather than manufacturing file-order
+semantics.
+
+Represent application backend settings as a final programmatic source, using
+`BackendSource` or ConfigKit mappings where explicit null is needed. Preserve
+configured zero queue capacity as an explicit value. Suppress backend-derived
+credential environment lookup explicitly where catalog layering would otherwise
+introduce it; omission alone can retain a lower-tier value. Continue detecting
+competing effective profile credential lookups rather than silently clearing
+operator profile fields. A missing backend credential remains valid for an
+unauthenticated local service unless the selected profile requires a key.
+
+Catalog backend IDs are no longer reserved upstream. Audita should not invent a
+new reservation rule. Catalog selection alone must not bypass application
+registration, endpoint, capacity, or credential requirements. Catalog profile
+contents may evolve; this upgrade does not promise fixed model choices or live
+provider availability.
+
+The accepted caller order is embedded Audita prompts, operator definitions,
+then application backend settings. The existing `profiles_dir` accepts native
+unified PromptKit documents containing profiles, backends, and prompts. Keep
+the name and path setting for continuity, and document its broader accepted
+content. This follows the upstream source API without a parallel parser or
+top-level filtering. Profiles, provider defaults, and intentional prompt
+overrides use the same native composition model.
+
+Audita continues to ship its domain prompts, enforce its selected-backend
+requirements, and supply its per-call schemas. Operator prompt overrides are
+an accepted capability of this adoption; documentation, source accounting,
+and focused behavioral coverage should reflect them.
+
+## Work Required
+
+### Runtime Construction and Source Accounting
+
+Migrate `internal/framework/llm/runtime.go` to layered construction and retain
+the role-bound adapter boundary. Review startup inspection and failure
+classification because upstream now validates all final definitions, including
+unused ones, during engine construction. Distinguish invalid operator inputs
+from broken embedded assets under the existing
+[CLI exit contract](../cli.md); do not treat every construction failure as an
+operator error merely because validation moved earlier.
+
+Upstream permits partial profiles and defers endpoint/model completeness until
+request overrides are applied. Audita supplies no model override, so explicitly
+validate that both selected role profiles have a nonblank model and a complete
+effective endpoint during offline configuration validation and runtime setup.
+Retain the application-backend, endpoint-match, and credential checks. Do not
+rely on engine construction or profile inspection alone to establish selected
+profile completeness. Unselected partial profiles remain permitted if they
+satisfy upstream definition validation; they need not be runnable.
+
+Adapt source accounting to the new discovery/capture boundary. The existing
+recording filesystem wrapper may be replaceable with discovered inputs or
+upstream source metadata. Protect the host sources actually consumed by the
+runtime, including inherited and differently named definitions, without
+guessing filenames from selected profile IDs. Account for consumed operator
+message files as well. Keep this proportionate to the existing collision
+contract; do not add filesystem concurrency or power-loss guarantees.
+
+Keep the existing safe effective-profile summaries and application explanations.
+Use upstream metadata where useful, but do not expose the full
+`InspectConfiguration` snapshot as ordinary CLI or report output: prompt text
+and arbitrary provider fields are outside those summaries' current scope.
+
+### Prompt Assets, Profiles, and Presence Semantics
+
+Move each of the seven files in `internal/prompts/assets/prompts` to the keyed
+prompt/version format. Keep the shared instruction fragments and the complete
+per-call output contracts owned by Audita. This migration does not authorize
+another prompt-quality rewrite or changes to domain validators.
+
+The adapter supplies `HardeningPolicy`, `ProposalContract`, and
+`ValidationContract` as template variables. Embedded prompts retain their
+references to the applicable variables. Operator message overrides control
+whether those variables are rendered; supplying a variable does not inject its
+text into a template that omits it. Preserve this native override behavior and
+document the distinction. Per-call schemas and domain validation remain enforced
+regardless of those references. Unconditional shared-instruction injection is
+outside this adoption.
+
+Convert the six maintained profiles in `examples/profiles` and test-generated
+profile/prompt fixtures to the new format. Convert any old `base_profile`
+usage to `extends`, and remove embedded identities. Migrate tests that construct
+engines using removed options or old `Profile`/`Backend` values.
+
+Reorganize the maintained profiles into separately selected local and service
+directory roots. The current shared directory includes profiles referring to
+backends absent from each example's application configuration; eager validation
+would reject those unselected definitions after a format-only conversion.
+Update `profiles_dir` in `examples/minimal-config.yml`,
+`examples/production-config.yml`, and `examples/configkit-inheritance.yml` to
+select the appropriate root. Keep the service testing profiles in the service
+root so the testing overlay remains usable. Discovery is recursive: placing
+both groups beneath a common selected root does not isolate them. Update example
+links and validation recipes to match the final layout.
+
+Review presence deliberately rather than mechanically preserving old serialized
+values. In particular, explicit zero temperature, top-p, or max-tokens now means
+an outbound zero; zero timeout disables PromptKit's generation deadline while
+Audita's outer operation deadline still applies. Omission, blank values, and
+null have field-specific meanings. Empty provider maps do not erase inherited
+entries, and changing model/backend does not erase unrelated explicit settings.
+
+Use the native meanings without a compatibility shim. Retaining the examples'
+literal `temperature: 0` as an explicit provider setting is recommended; explain
+that omitting the field requests an unspecified value, and null suppresses an
+inherited control. Do not automatically turn every existing zero into omission
+or every omission into a zero. Demonstrate representative profile inheritance
+without requiring every maintained example to use it.
+
+### Documentation, Migration, and Attribution
+
+Update the profile section of `docs/config.md` and maintained examples when the
+implementation lands. Explain the broader accepted content of `profiles_dir`,
+operator prompt overrides, their precedence and optional use of shared instruction
+variables, keyed identities, composition versus precedence, profile inheritance,
+presence, eager final-definition validation, selected-root errors, and captured
+configuration. Link to the pinned
+upstream reference for generic field semantics rather than reproducing its
+entire contract.
+
+Include operator migration guidance for old profile documents and behaviorally
+significant zeros/nulls. This is a deliberate format migration, not an automatic
+upgrade of existing installation files. Preserve supported application overlays,
+including the cheaper/faster testing-profile workflow.
+
+Update the pinned consumer link in `docs/integrations/openai-compatible-llm.md`,
+construction/source-accounting descriptions in `docs/internal/llm-runtime.md`,
+and asset-format guidance in `docs/internal/prompts.md`. Update other affected
+references only where implemented behavior changes.
+
+Update `go.mod`, `go.sum`, and `docs/oss/attribution.md` for PromptKit and the two
+catalog modules. Verify exact selected source revisions and upstream notices
+under the [OSS policy](../policy/oss.md); retain the applicable LGPL/GPL and MIT
+texts rather than duplicating unchanged license documents. Dependency adoption
+does not change Audita's application license.
+
+Plan this adoption for an Audita major release under the
+[release policy](../policy/release.md#versioning-and-compatibility). The public
+profile format changes incompatibly and no compatibility loader is planned;
+PromptKit's own pre-1.0 minor version does not change Audita's classification.
+The exact version and publication timing remain deferred to release preparation.
+
+## Verification and Completion
+
+Use existing offline tests as the starting point. Update fixtures intentionally,
+and add focused behavioral coverage where the source migration creates a
+distinct risk. Completion means:
+
+- The released dependency set builds and the complete Audita test suite passes.
+- All registered embedded prompts load and render from keyed assets, retaining
+  their applicable shared-instruction references and established per-call schemas.
+- Offline configuration validation rejects incomplete selected profiles, including
+  a missing or blank model, while accepting valid unselected partial profiles.
+- Selected roles use final application backend settings and direct resolved
+  credentials; both roles still share configured capacity, including explicit
+  zero queue capacity. Catalog layering does not introduce a competing lookup.
+- Representative keyed profiles, native inheritance, and explicit presence work
+  through the real runtime. Directory conflicts and invalid final definitions
+  produce useful startup errors without filename-derived identity assumptions.
+- Operator prompt and backend contributions follow the accepted source order;
+  prompt overrides render, including when their messages omit shared-instruction
+  variables, while Audita retains its per-call schemas, domain validation, and
+  authoritative application backend settings.
+- Source collision protection, safe inspection, and operator-versus-asset error
+  classification remain effective at the changed construction boundary.
+- Representative prepared execution, schema repair, transient retry, and
+  partial-success tests retain their existing behavior. Reuse adequate coverage
+  rather than duplicating PromptKit's complete upstream test matrix.
+- Local, service, testing-overlay, and ConfigKit inheritance examples validate
+  offline using their separately selected profile roots. Canonical documentation
+  describes the migrated format, shared-instruction behavior, and major-release
+  migration; attribution identifies the selected library sources accurately.
+
+No live provider calls, new release gates, or CI-success dependency are needed
+to establish adoption. Guided domain recovery and the other work recorded in
+[future.md](future.md) remain separate features. Do not expand this upgrade into
+new report formats, pipeline scheduling, or general configuration-inspection
+commands. The [implementation plan](implementation.md) owns execution steps
+and their verification.
+
+## Completion Record
+
+Implementation code is recorded through revision `5525fe8`; documentation was
+updated in `9bcf183`, and the final roadmap closure is documentation-only. At
+`9bcf183`, `go build -o ./bin/audita ./cmd/audita`, `go test ./...`, all six
+offline maintained-example commands in the implementation plan, `go mod
+verify`, and `git diff --check` passed. The selected dependency graph and
+commit-pinned attribution match PromptKit v0.12.0 and both `/v3` catalogs at
+`v3.20260930.0`.

examples/configkit-inheritance.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+version: 2
+profiles_dir: profiles/local
+backends:
+  local-base:
+    endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1
+    concurrency: 4
+    queue_capacity: 0
+  local:
+    extends: local-base
+    concurrency: 2
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: local-proposal
+  validation_profile: local-validation
+pipeline:
+  modules: [grammar]

examples/minimal-config.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+version: 2
+profiles_dir: profiles/local
+backends:
+  local:
+    endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1
+    concurrency: 1
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: local-proposal
+  validation_profile: local-validation
+pipeline:
+  modules: [grammar]
+output:
+  schema: bare-segments

examples/overlays/testing.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: service-proposal-testing
+  validation_profile: service-validation-testing

examples/production-config.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+version: 2
+profiles_dir: profiles/service
+backends:
+  service:
+    endpoint: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1
+    credential: AUDITA_SERVICE_KEY
+    concurrency: 2
+    queue_capacity: 1024
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: service-proposal
+  validation_profile: service-validation
+  transient_retries: 2
+  repair_attempts: 2
+  operation_timeout: 15m
+pipeline:
+  modules: [glossary, homophones, glossary, spoken_word, grammar]
+output:
+  schema: audita-v1
+chunking:
+  # Requires at least this many normalized segments; omit for automatic chunking.
+  target_sections: 8
+  max_section_tokens: 8192
+  min_section_tokens: 2048
+normalization:
+  max_segment_gap: 4.0
+  ellipsis_gap: 3.5
+  max_segment_duration: 60.0
+  max_segment_tokens: 2048
+thresholds:
+  glossary: 0.8
+  homophones: 0.8
+  spoken_word: 0.8
+  grammar: 0.8
+context:
+  description: "General context for domain vocabulary and speaker names."
+reporting:
+  enabled: true
+  stdout_dir: .
+diagnostics:
+  debug: false
+  work_dir: /tmp/audita

examples/profiles/local/local-proposal.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+profiles:
+  local-proposal:
+    backend: local
+    model: replace-with-local-model
+    temperature: 0
+    max_tokens: 2048
+    top_p: 1
+    timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/local/local-validation.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+profiles:
+  local-validation:
+    backend: local
+    model: replace-with-local-model
+    temperature: 0
+    max_tokens: 1024
+    top_p: 1
+    timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/service/service-proposal-testing.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+profiles:
+  service-proposal-testing:
+    backend: service
+    model: replace-with-testing-model
+    temperature: 0
+    max_tokens: 2048
+    top_p: 1
+    timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/service/service-proposal.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+profiles:
+  service-proposal:
+    backend: service
+    model: replace-with-provider-model
+    temperature: 0
+    max_tokens: 2048
+    top_p: 1
+    timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/service/service-validation-testing.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+profiles:
+  service-validation-testing:
+    backend: service
+    model: replace-with-testing-model
+    temperature: 0
+    max_tokens: 1024
+    top_p: 1
+    timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/service/service-validation.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+profiles:
+  service-validation:
+    backend: service
+    model: replace-with-provider-model
+    temperature: 0
+    max_tokens: 1024
+    top_p: 1
+    timeout_seconds: 120

examples/tiny-glossary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+glossary:
+  - name: Audita
+    aliases:
+      - audita
+    category: product
+    summary: The Audita transcript correction CLI.

examples/tiny-transcript.json

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[
+  {
+    "id": 1,
+    "speaker": "A",
+    "start": 0.0,
+    "end": 1.2,
+    "text": "hello world"
+  }
+]

go.mod

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+module gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita
+
+go 1.25.5
+
+require (
+	gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit v0.5.0
+	gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit v0.12.0
+	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1
+)
+
+require (
+	gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/v3 v3.20260930.0 // indirect
+	gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/v3 v3.20260930.0 // indirect
+	github.com/kr/pretty v0.3.1 // indirect
+	github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.14.1 // indirect
+	github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6 v6.0.2 // indirect
+	go.yaml.in/yaml/v4 v4.0.0-rc.6 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/text v0.14.0 // indirect
+	gopkg.in/check.v1 v1.0.0-20201130134442-10cb98267c6c // indirect
+)

go.sum

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
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+gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit v0.12.0 h1:oIFWEg6GPxtmX3Plqv0euP+FnK1LCk/t4xDy6oKCpP4=
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+gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/v3 v3.20260930.0/go.mod h1:HjS0f+3q0IdHCTEz+VVAEgIwIWJFAZUjuKdAtvtqKdg=
+gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/v3 v3.20260930.0 h1:h12ZTRldAmpLAomj0oQRGteFxHLN1LPE6XDl9zJNbm8=
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internal/cli/config_input.go

@@ -0,0 +1,233 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"flag"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+
+	ck "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/config"
+)
+
+var systemConfigPaths = []string{"/usr/local/etc/audita/config.yml", "/etc/audita/config.yml"}
+
+type configInput struct {
+	ConfigPath     string
+	ConfigPathSet  bool
+	Overlay        string
+	View           string
+	TranscriptPath string
+	GlossaryPath   string
+	OutputPath     string
+	ReportDirSet   bool
+	Overrides      []ck.Override
+}
+
+type selectedConfig struct {
+	Path   string
+	Source string
+	Result *ck.Result[config.Config]
+}
+
+// parseConfigInput owns the common setting flags and process-only path flags.
+// A transcript before flags and one after flags are both accepted.
+func parseConfigInput(command string, args []string, output io.Writer) (configInput, bool, error) {
+	var input configInput
+	fs := flag.NewFlagSet(command, flag.ContinueOnError)
+	fs.SetOutput(output)
+	configPath := fs.String("config", "", "Main configuration YAML file")
+	overlay := fs.String("overlay", "", "Selected configuration overlay")
+	if command == "print-effective" {
+		fs.String("view", "settings", "Effective view: settings, profiles, or explain")
+	}
+	settingPaths := map[string]ck.Path{
+		"proposal-profile":                 ck.Keys("llm", "proposal_profile"),
+		"validation-profile":               ck.Keys("llm", "validation_profile"),
+		"output-schema":                    ck.Keys("output", "schema"),
+		"validation-max-prompt-tokens":     ck.Keys("validation", "max_prompt_tokens"),
+		"target-sections":                  ck.Keys("chunking", "target_sections"),
+		"max-section-tokens":               ck.Keys("chunking", "max_section_tokens"),
+		"min-section-tokens":               ck.Keys("chunking", "min_section_tokens"),
+		"normalize-max-segment-gap":        ck.Keys("normalization", "max_segment_gap"),
+		"normalize-ellipsis-gap":           ck.Keys("normalization", "ellipsis_gap"),
+		"normalize-max-segment-duration":   ck.Keys("normalization", "max_segment_duration"),
+		"normalize-max-segment-tokens":     ck.Keys("normalization", "max_segment_tokens"),
+		"glossary-confidence-threshold":    ck.Keys("thresholds", "glossary"),
+		"homophones-confidence-threshold":  ck.Keys("thresholds", "homophones"),
+		"spoken-word-confidence-threshold": ck.Keys("thresholds", "spoken_word"),
+		"grammar-confidence-threshold":     ck.Keys("thresholds", "grammar"),
+		"transcript-description":           ck.Keys("context", "description"),
+		"reporting":                        ck.Keys("reporting", "enabled"),
+		"report-dir":                       ck.Keys("reporting", "stdout_dir"),
+		"debug":                            ck.Keys("diagnostics", "debug"),
+		"work-dir":                         ck.Keys("diagnostics", "work_dir"),
+		"modules":                          ck.Keys("pipeline", "modules"),
+	}
+	for name := range settingPaths {
+		switch name {
+		case "reporting", "debug":
+			fs.Bool(name, false, "Setting override")
+		case "validation-max-prompt-tokens", "target-sections", "max-section-tokens", "min-section-tokens", "normalize-max-segment-tokens":
+			fs.Int(name, 0, "Setting override")
+		case "normalize-max-segment-gap", "normalize-ellipsis-gap", "normalize-max-segment-duration", "glossary-confidence-threshold", "homophones-confidence-threshold", "spoken-word-confidence-threshold", "grammar-confidence-threshold":
+			fs.Float64(name, 0, "Setting override")
+		default:
+			fs.String(name, "", "Setting override")
+		}
+	}
+	if command == "process" {
+		fs.String("glossary", "", "Glossary YAML file")
+		fs.String("output", "", "Corrected transcript output file")
+	}
+	parseArgs := args
+	front := ""
+	if command == "process" && len(args) > 0 && !strings.HasPrefix(args[0], "-") {
+		front, parseArgs = args[0], args[1:]
+	}
+	if err := fs.Parse(parseArgs); err != nil {
+		if errors.Is(err, flag.ErrHelp) {
+			return configInput{}, true, nil
+		}
+		return configInput{}, false, err
+	}
+	positions := fs.Args()
+	if front != "" {
+		positions = append([]string{front}, positions...)
+	}
+	if command == "process" {
+		if len(positions) != 1 {
+			return configInput{}, false, fmt.Errorf("expected exactly one transcript JSON path")
+		}
+		input.TranscriptPath = positions[0]
+		input.GlossaryPath = fs.Lookup("glossary").Value.String()
+		input.OutputPath = fs.Lookup("output").Value.String()
+		if strings.TrimSpace(input.GlossaryPath) == "" {
+			return configInput{}, false, fmt.Errorf("--glossary is required")
+		}
+	} else if len(positions) != 0 {
+		return configInput{}, false, fmt.Errorf("unexpected positional arguments")
+	}
+	input.ConfigPath, input.Overlay = *configPath, *overlay
+	if command == "print-effective" {
+		input.View = fs.Lookup("view").Value.String()
+		switch input.View {
+		case "settings", "profiles", "explain":
+		default:
+			return configInput{}, false, fmt.Errorf("unknown effective view %q", input.View)
+		}
+	}
+	fs.Visit(func(f *flag.Flag) {
+		if f.Name == "config" {
+			input.ConfigPathSet = true
+		}
+		if f.Name == "report-dir" {
+			input.ReportDirSet = true
+		}
+		path, ok := settingPaths[f.Name]
+		if !ok {
+			return
+		}
+		var value any = f.Value.String()
+		switch f.Name {
+		case "reporting", "debug":
+			value, _ = strconv.ParseBool(f.Value.String())
+		case "modules":
+			modules, err := config.ParseModulesCSV(f.Value.String())
+			if err != nil {
+				value = err
+			} else {
+				values := make([]any, len(modules))
+				for i, module := range modules {
+					values[i] = module
+				}
+				value = values
+			}
+		case "validation-max-prompt-tokens", "target-sections", "max-section-tokens", "min-section-tokens", "normalize-max-segment-tokens":
+			value, _ = strconv.Atoi(f.Value.String())
+		case "normalize-max-segment-gap", "normalize-ellipsis-gap", "normalize-max-segment-duration", "glossary-confidence-threshold", "homophones-confidence-threshold", "spoken-word-confidence-threshold", "grammar-confidence-threshold":
+			value, _ = strconv.ParseFloat(f.Value.String(), 64)
+		}
+		input.Overrides = append(input.Overrides, ck.Override{Path: path, Value: value, Flag: "--" + f.Name})
+	})
+	for _, override := range input.Overrides {
+		if err, ok := override.Value.(error); ok {
+			return configInput{}, false, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", override.Flag, err)
+		}
+	}
+	return input, false, nil
+}
+
+func selectConfigPath(explicit string, set bool, stat func(string) (os.FileInfo, error), candidates []string) (string, string, error) {
+	if set {
+		if strings.TrimSpace(explicit) == "" {
+			return "", "", fmt.Errorf("--config requires a nonempty path")
+		}
+		if _, err := stat(explicit); err != nil {
+			return "", "", fmt.Errorf("config file %q: %w", explicit, err)
+		}
+		return explicit, "flag", nil
+	}
+	for _, path := range candidates {
+		if _, err := stat(path); err == nil {
+			return path, "default", nil
+		} else if !os.IsNotExist(err) {
+			return "", "", fmt.Errorf("config file %q: %w", path, err)
+		}
+	}
+	return "", "", fmt.Errorf("no configuration file found; select a config with backend and profile settings")
+}
+
+func loadConfigInput(input configInput, command string) (selectedConfig, error) {
+	if command == "validate" && (!input.ConfigPathSet || strings.TrimSpace(input.ConfigPath) == "") {
+		return selectedConfig{}, fmt.Errorf("--config is required")
+	}
+	path, source, err := selectConfigPath(input.ConfigPath, input.ConfigPathSet, os.Stat, systemConfigPaths)
+	if err != nil {
+		return selectedConfig{}, err
+	}
+	loaded, err := config.Load(ck.File(path), input.Overlay, input.Overrides...)
+	if err != nil {
+		return selectedConfig{}, err
+	}
+	return selectedConfig{Path: path, Source: source, Result: loaded}, nil
+}
+
+func configInputError(err error) string {
+	var loadErr *ck.LoadError
+	if !errors.As(err, &loadErr) {
+		return err.Error()
+	}
+	var messages []string
+	for _, diagnostic := range loadErr.Diagnostics() {
+		messages = append(messages, diagnostic.Message)
+	}
+	if len(messages) == 0 {
+		return err.Error()
+	}
+	return strings.Join(messages, "; ")
+}
+
+func selectedReportDir(cfg config.Config, outputPath string, reportDirSet bool) (string, error) {
+	if !cfg.Reporting.Enabled {
+		return "", nil
+	}
+	var reportDir string
+	if outputPath != "" {
+		if reportDirSet {
+			reportDir = cfg.Reporting.StdoutDir
+		} else {
+			reportDir = filepath.Dir(outputPath)
+		}
+	} else {
+		reportDir = cfg.Reporting.StdoutDir
+	}
+	if strings.TrimSpace(reportDir) == "" {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("report directory is required when reporting is enabled for the selected destination")
+	}
+	return reportDir, nil
+}

internal/cli/config_input_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,280 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	ck "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/config"
+)
+
+func TestSharedConfigInput(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, command := range []string{"process", "validate", "print-effective"} {
+		t.Run(command, func(t *testing.T) {
+			args := []string{"--config", "main.yml", "--overlay", "testing", "--proposal-profile", "economy", "--modules", "", "--target-sections", "0"}
+			if command == "process" {
+				args = append([]string{"transcript.json", "--glossary", "glossary.yml"}, args...)
+			}
+			input, help, err := parseConfigInput(command, args, io.Discard)
+			if err != nil || help {
+				t.Fatalf("parse: %+v %v %v", input, help, err)
+			}
+			if !input.ConfigPathSet || input.ConfigPath != "main.yml" || input.Overlay != "testing" || len(input.Overrides) != 3 {
+				t.Fatalf("selection: %+v", input)
+			}
+			for _, override := range input.Overrides {
+				switch override.Path.String() {
+				case ck.Keys("pipeline", "modules").String():
+					if values, ok := override.Value.([]any); !ok || len(values) != 0 {
+						t.Fatalf("empty modules: %#v", override.Value)
+					}
+				case ck.Keys("chunking", "target_sections").String():
+					if override.Value != 0 {
+						t.Fatalf("zero target: %#v", override.Value)
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestConfigInputRejectsRemovedAndProcessOnlyFlags(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, command := range []string{"process", "validate", "print-effective"} {
+		for _, flag := range []string{"--model", "--llm-api-key", "--max-retries", "--llm-concurrency", "--report-json", "--work-dir-retention"} {
+			args := []string{flag, "value"}
+			if command == "process" {
+				args = append([]string{"transcript.json", "--glossary", "glossary.yml"}, args...)
+			}
+			if _, _, err := parseConfigInput(command, args, io.Discard); err == nil {
+				t.Fatalf("%s accepted %s", command, flag)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	for _, command := range []string{"validate", "print-effective"} {
+		if _, _, err := parseConfigInput(command, []string{"--glossary", "glossary.yml"}, io.Discard); err == nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s accepted process path", command)
+		}
+		if _, _, err := parseConfigInput(command, []string{"transcript.json"}, io.Discard); err == nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s accepted positional", command)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, command := range []string{"process", "validate", "print-effective"} {
+		_, help, err := parseConfigInput(command, []string{"--help"}, io.Discard)
+		if err != nil || !help {
+			t.Fatalf("%s help: %v %v", command, help, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestConfigSelection(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	first, second := filepath.Join(dir, "first.yml"), filepath.Join(dir, "second.yml")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(second, []byte("version: 2\n"), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	path, source, err := selectConfigPath("", false, os.Stat, []string{first, second})
+	if err != nil || path != second || source != "default" {
+		t.Fatalf("discovery: %q %q %v", path, source, err)
+	}
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		explicit   string
+		set        bool
+		candidates []string
+	}{
+		{"", true, []string{second}}, {first, true, []string{second}}, {"", false, []string{first}},
+	} {
+		if _, _, err := selectConfigPath(tc.explicit, tc.set, os.Stat, tc.candidates); err == nil {
+			t.Fatalf("accepted unavailable selection: %+v", tc)
+		}
+	}
+	statDenied := func(string) (os.FileInfo, error) { return nil, os.ErrPermission }
+	if _, _, err := selectConfigPath("", false, statDenied, []string{first}); !errors.Is(err, os.ErrPermission) {
+		t.Fatalf("inaccessible candidate: %v", err)
+	}
+	path, source, err = selectConfigPath(second, true, os.Stat, []string{first})
+	if err != nil || path != second || source != "flag" {
+		t.Fatalf("explicit path: %q %q %v", path, source, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestLegacyEnvironmentDoesNotSelectConfig(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("AUDITA_CONFIG", filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "legacy.yml"))
+	_, _, err := selectConfigPath("", false, os.Stat, []string{filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "missing.yml")})
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no configuration file") {
+		t.Fatalf("legacy environment changed discovery: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestEffectiveViewParsing(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, view := range []string{"settings", "profiles", "explain"} {
+		input, _, err := parseConfigInput("print-effective", []string{"--view", view}, io.Discard)
+		if err != nil || input.View != view {
+			t.Fatalf("%q: %+v %v", view, input, err)
+		}
+	}
+	if _, _, err := parseConfigInput("print-effective", []string{"--view", "raw"}, io.Discard); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("unknown view accepted")
+	}
+	if _, _, err := parseConfigInput("validate", []string{"--view", "profiles"}, io.Discard); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("validate accepted inspection-only flag")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSharedLoadingUsesSelectedFileOverlayAndVisitedOverrides(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	if err := os.Mkdir(filepath.Join(dir, "overlays"), 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	main := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
+	base := "version: 2\nbackends:\n  local:\n    endpoint: https://local.invalid/v1\nllm:\n  proposal_profile: base\nchunking:\n  max_section_tokens: 900\n"
+	if err := os.WriteFile(main, []byte(base), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "overlays", "testing.yml"), []byte("llm:\n  proposal_profile: testing\n"), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, command := range []string{"process", "validate", "print-effective"} {
+		args := []string{"--config", main, "--overlay", "testing", "--min-section-tokens", "500"}
+		if command == "process" {
+			args = append([]string{"input.json", "--glossary", "glossary.yml"}, args...)
+		}
+		input, _, err := parseConfigInput(command, args, io.Discard)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		selected, err := loadConfigInput(input, command)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		c := selected.Result.Config
+		if c.LLM.ProposalProfile != "testing" || c.LLM.ValidationProfile != "testing" || c.Chunking.MinSectionTokens != 500 || c.Chunking.MaxSectionTokens != 900 {
+			t.Fatalf("%s resolved %+v", command, c)
+		}
+	}
+	input, _, err := parseConfigInput("validate", []string{"--overlay", "testing"}, io.Discard)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := loadConfigInput(input, "validate"); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("validate accepted discovery")
+	}
+	input, _, err = parseConfigInput("validate", []string{"--config", main}, io.Discard)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := loadConfigInput(input, "validate"); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("unmodified invalid lower-precedence section relation accepted")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestReportingAndDebugOverridesRemainIndependent(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	if err := os.Mkdir(filepath.Join(dir, "overlays"), 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	main := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
+	base := "version: 2\nbackends:\n  local:\n    endpoint: https://local.invalid/v1\nllm:\n  proposal_profile: base\n"
+	if err := os.WriteFile(main, []byte(base), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "overlays", "testing.yml"), []byte("reporting:\n  enabled: true\n  stdout_dir: reports\ndiagnostics:\n  debug: true\n"), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defaultInput, _, err := parseConfigInput("validate", []string{"--config", main}, io.Discard)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defaults, err := loadConfigInput(defaultInput, "validate")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if !defaults.Result.Config.Reporting.Enabled || defaults.Result.Config.Reporting.StdoutDir != "." || defaults.Result.Config.Diagnostics.Debug {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected defaults: %+v", defaults.Result.Config)
+	}
+	for _, command := range []string{"process", "validate", "print-effective"} {
+		args := []string{"--config", main, "--overlay", "testing", "--reporting=false", "--debug=false"}
+		if command == "process" {
+			args = append([]string{"input.json", "--glossary", "glossary.yml"}, args...)
+		}
+		input, _, err := parseConfigInput(command, args, io.Discard)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if len(input.Overrides) != 2 || input.Overrides[0].Value != false || input.Overrides[1].Value != false {
+			t.Fatalf("boolean overrides must remain typed: %+v", input.Overrides)
+		}
+		selected, err := loadConfigInput(input, command)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if selected.Result.Config.Reporting.Enabled || selected.Result.Config.Diagnostics.Debug || selected.Result.Config.Reporting.StdoutDir != "reports" {
+			t.Fatalf("%s did not honor explicit false: %+v", command, selected.Result.Config)
+		}
+	}
+	processInput, _, err := parseConfigInput("process", []string{"input.json", "--glossary", "glossary.yml", "--config", main, "--overlay", "testing"}, io.Discard)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	processConfig, err := loadConfigInput(processInput, "process")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got, err := selectedReportDir(processConfig.Result.Config, filepath.Join("out", "corrected.json"), processInput.ReportDirSet); err != nil || got != "out" {
+		t.Fatalf("overlay stdout directory redirected file output: %q %v", got, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestReportDirectorySelectionOnlyUsesActiveDestination(t *testing.T) {
+	cfg := config.Config{Reporting: config.Reporting{Enabled: true, StdoutDir: "reports"}}
+	if got, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, "", false); err != nil || got != "reports" {
+		t.Fatalf("stdout destination: %q %v", got, err)
+	}
+	if got, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, filepath.Join("out", "corrected.json"), false); err != nil || got != "out" {
+		t.Fatalf("file destination ignored stdout setting: %q %v", got, err)
+	}
+	if got, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, filepath.Join("out", "corrected.json"), true); err != nil || got != "reports" {
+		t.Fatalf("explicit file report directory: %q %v", got, err)
+	}
+	cfg.Reporting.StdoutDir = ""
+	if got, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, filepath.Join("out", "corrected.json"), false); err != nil || got != "out" {
+		t.Fatalf("inactive blank configured report directory rejected for file output: %q %v", got, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, filepath.Join("out", "corrected.json"), true); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("active explicit blank report directory accepted for file output")
+	}
+	if _, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, "", false); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("enabled stdout reporting accepted blank destination")
+	}
+	cfg.Reporting.Enabled = false
+	if got, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, filepath.Join("out", "corrected.json"), true); err != nil || got != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("disabled reporting probed destination: %q %v", got, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestBareBooleanFlagsAndReportDirectoryOverride(t *testing.T) {
+	input, _, err := parseConfigInput("process", []string{"input.json", "--glossary", "glossary.yml", "--reporting", "--debug", "--report-dir", "reports"}, io.Discard)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	values := map[string]any{}
+	for _, override := range input.Overrides {
+		values[override.Path.String()] = override.Value
+	}
+	if values[ck.Keys("reporting", "enabled").String()] != true || values[ck.Keys("diagnostics", "debug").String()] != true || values[ck.Keys("reporting", "stdout_dir").String()] != "reports" {
+		t.Fatalf("incorrect visited overrides: %+v", values)
+	}
+	if !input.ReportDirSet {
+		t.Fatal("explicit --report-dir presence was not recorded")
+	}
+	withoutReportDir, _, err := parseConfigInput("process", []string{"input.json", "--glossary", "glossary.yml"}, io.Discard)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if withoutReportDir.ReportDirSet {
+		t.Fatal("absent --report-dir was recorded as explicit")
+	}
+}

internal/cli/process.go

@@ -0,0 +1,442 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"crypto/rand"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/chunking"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/config"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/diagnostics"
+	coreio "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/io"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/normalization"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/outputschema"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/redaction"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/reporting"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/schema"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/framework/contracts"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/framework/llm"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/framework/modules"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/framework/outcomes"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/framework/processreport"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/framework/runner"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/framework/structuredoutput"
+)
+
+func runProcess(ctx context.Context, args []string, stdout, stderr io.Writer) int {
+	input, help, err := parseConfigInput("process", args, stderr)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita process: %s\n", configInputError(err))
+		return 2
+	}
+	if help {
+		writeProcessUsage(stdout)
+		return 0
+	}
+	selected, err := loadConfigInput(input, "process")
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita process: %s\n", configInputError(err))
+		return 2
+	}
+	cfg := selected.Result.Config
+	reportDir, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, input.OutputPath, input.ReportDirSet)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita process: %s\n", llm.RedactError(err, cfg))
+		return 2
+	}
+	if cfg.Diagnostics.Debug && strings.TrimSpace(cfg.Diagnostics.WorkDir) == "" {
+		fmt.Fprintln(stderr, "audita process: debug work directory is required")
+		return 2
+	}
+	if err := ctx.Err(); err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita process: %s\n", err)
+		return 1
+	}
+	runtime, err := llm.NewRuntime(ctx, cfg, selected.Path, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita process: %s\n", llm.RedactError(err, cfg))
+		if ctx.Err() != nil || llm.IsAssetError(err) {
+			return 1
+		}
+		return 2
+	}
+	specs, err := contracts.ResolveModuleRunSpecs(cfg.Pipeline.Modules)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita process: %s\n", llm.RedactError(err, cfg))
+		return 2
+	}
+	runID, err := generateRunID()
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita process: run ID: %s\n", llm.RedactError(err, cfg))
+		return 1
+	}
+	started := time.Now().UTC()
+	state := &processState{cfg: cfg, runtime: runtime, specs: specs, runID: runID, started: started,
+		transcriptPath: input.TranscriptPath, glossaryPath: input.GlossaryPath, outputPath: input.OutputPath,
+		selected: selected, overlay: input.Overlay, stderr: stderr, stdout: stdout, ctx: ctx}
+	protected := []string{input.GlossaryPath}
+	for _, source := range selected.Result.Sources() {
+		if source.Path != "" {
+			protected = append(protected, source.Path)
+		}
+	}
+	protected = append(protected, runtime.SourcePaths...)
+	session, err := diagnostics.PrepareOutput(diagnostics.OutputSelection{InputTranscriptPath: input.TranscriptPath, TranscriptPath: input.OutputPath,
+		ReportDir: reportDir, ReportingEnabled: cfg.Reporting.Enabled, ProtectedPaths: protected})
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita process: %s\n", llm.RedactError(err, cfg))
+		return 2
+	}
+	state.session = session
+	initial := state.snapshot(reporting.StatusInProgress, nil, nil)
+	initialBundle, err := state.bundle(initial)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita process: %s\n", llm.RedactError(err, cfg))
+		return 1
+	}
+	initFailure := []processreport.RunFailure{{Phase: "initialization", Reason: outcomes.ReasonInternalFailure}}
+	failedInit, err := state.bundle(state.snapshot(reporting.StatusFailed, nil, initFailure))
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita process: %s\n", llm.RedactError(err, cfg))
+		return 1
+	}
+	if err := session.Initialize(initialBundle, failedInit); err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita process: %s\n", llm.RedactError(err, cfg))
+		return 1
+	}
+	state.startDebug()
+	return state.execute()
+}
+
+type processState struct {
+	cfg            config.Config
+	runtime        *llm.Runtime
+	specs          []contracts.ModuleRunSpec
+	runID          string
+	started        time.Time
+	transcriptPath string
+	glossaryPath   string
+	outputPath     string
+	selected       selectedConfig
+	overlay        string
+	ctx            context.Context
+	stdout         io.Writer
+	stderr         io.Writer
+	session        *diagnostics.OutputSession
+	debugDir       *diagnostics.RunDirectory
+	debugWarnings  []string
+	debugMu        sync.Mutex
+	runOutput      *runner.RunOutput
+}
+
+func generateRunID() (string, error) {
+	var random [12]byte
+	if _, err := rand.Read(random[:]); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return "run-" + hex.EncodeToString(random[:]), nil
+}
+
+func (s *processState) snapshot(status string, completed *time.Time, failures []processreport.RunFailure) reporting.Snapshot {
+	return processreport.Build(processreport.BuildInput{RunID: s.runID, Status: status, StartedAt: s.started,
+		CompletedAt: completed, TranscriptPath: s.transcriptPath, GlossaryPath: s.glossaryPath,
+		OutputPath: s.outputPath, ModuleSpecs: s.specs, RunOutput: s.runOutput, RunFailures: failures})
+}
+
+func (s *processState) bundle(snapshot reporting.Snapshot) (diagnostics.ReportBundle, error) {
+	if !s.cfg.Reporting.Enabled {
+		return diagnostics.ReportBundle{}, nil
+	}
+	secrets := llm.ConfiguredSecrets(&s.cfg)
+	errorsYAML, err := reporting.YAML(snapshot.ErrorsDocument(), secrets...)
+	if err != nil {
+		return diagnostics.ReportBundle{}, err
+	}
+	recoveriesYAML, err := reporting.YAML(snapshot.RecoveriesDocument(), secrets...)
+	if err != nil {
+		return diagnostics.ReportBundle{}, err
+	}
+	return diagnostics.ReportBundle{Errors: errorsYAML, Recoveries: recoveriesYAML,
+		Markdown: reporting.Markdown(snapshot, secrets...)}, nil
+}
+
+func (s *processState) debugWrite(label string, write func(*diagnostics.RunDirectory) error) {
+	if s.debugDir == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	if err := write(s.debugDir); err != nil {
+		s.reportDiagnosticError(fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", label, err))
+	}
+}
+
+func (s *processState) startDebug() {
+	if !s.cfg.Diagnostics.Debug {
+		return
+	}
+	dir, err := diagnostics.NewRunDirectory(s.cfg.Diagnostics.WorkDir, s.runID, llm.ConfiguredSecrets(&s.cfg)...)
+	if err != nil {
+		s.reportDiagnosticError(fmt.Errorf("directory: %w", err))
+		return
+	}
+	s.debugDir = dir
+	s.debugWrite("invocation", func(d *diagnostics.RunDirectory) error {
+		return d.WriteInvocationMetadata(diagnostics.InvocationMetadata{
+			Operation: "process", TranscriptPath: s.transcriptPath, GlossaryPath: s.glossaryPath,
+			OutputPath: s.outputPath, ConfigPath: s.selected.Path, ConfigSource: s.selected.Source,
+			Overlay: s.overlay, ConfigVersion: &s.cfg.Version, TranscriptDescription: s.cfg.Context.Description,
+			Modules: append([]string(nil), s.cfg.Pipeline.Modules...), RunID: s.runID, StartedAt: s.started,
+		})
+	})
+	var effective bytes.Buffer
+	if err := s.selected.Result.WriteEffective(&effective); err == nil {
+		s.debugWrite("effective settings", func(d *diagnostics.RunDirectory) error { return d.WriteEffectiveConfig(effective.Bytes()) })
+	} else {
+		s.reportDiagnosticError(fmt.Errorf("effective settings: %w", err))
+	}
+	if origins, err := llm.ExplanationYAML(s.selected.Result); err == nil {
+		s.debugWrite("configuration origins", func(d *diagnostics.RunDirectory) error {
+			return d.WriteYAMLArtifact(diagnostics.ArtifactConfigOrigins, origins)
+		})
+	} else {
+		s.reportDiagnosticError(fmt.Errorf("configuration origins: %w", err))
+	}
+	if profiles, err := s.runtime.SelectedProfilesYAML(); err == nil {
+		s.debugWrite("selected profiles", func(d *diagnostics.RunDirectory) error {
+			return d.WriteYAMLArtifact(diagnostics.ArtifactSelectedProfiles, profiles)
+		})
+	} else {
+		s.reportDiagnosticError(fmt.Errorf("selected profiles: %w", err))
+	}
+}
+
+func (s *processState) debugPath() string {
+	if s.debugDir == nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return s.debugDir.Path()
+}
+
+func (s *processState) execute() int {
+	transcriptBytes, err := coreio.ReadRequiredFile(s.transcriptPath, "transcript")
+	if err != nil {
+		return s.fail("input", outcomes.ReasonInternalFailure, err)
+	}
+	glossaryBytes, err := coreio.ReadRequiredFile(s.glossaryPath, "glossary")
+	if err != nil {
+		return s.fail("input", outcomes.ReasonInternalFailure, err)
+	}
+	source, err := schema.ParseSourceTranscriptJSON(transcriptBytes)
+	if err != nil {
+		return s.fail("input", outcomes.ReasonInputInvalid, err)
+	}
+	glossary, err := schema.ParseGlossaryYAML(glossaryBytes)
+	if err != nil {
+		return s.fail("input", outcomes.ReasonInputInvalid, err)
+	}
+	s.debugWrite("source transcript", func(d *diagnostics.RunDirectory) error { return d.WriteSourceTranscript(source, transcriptBytes) })
+	normalizer := normalization.NewNormalizer(normalization.NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap: s.cfg.Normalization.MaxSegmentGap, EllipsisGap: s.cfg.Normalization.EllipsisGap,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: s.cfg.Normalization.MaxSegmentDuration, MaxSegmentTokens: s.cfg.Normalization.MaxSegmentTokens,
+	})
+	normalized, normSummary := normalizer.Normalize(sourceToCanonicalTranscript(source))
+	s.debugWrite("normalized transcript", func(d *diagnostics.RunDirectory) error { return d.WriteNormalizedTranscript(normalized) })
+	s.debugWrite("normalization summary", func(d *diagnostics.RunDirectory) error { return d.WriteNormalizationSummary(normSummary) })
+	if err := s.ctx.Err(); err != nil {
+		return s.fail("processing", outcomes.ReasonCanceled, err)
+	}
+	observations := llm.NewObservationCollector()
+	proposalClient, err := s.runtime.NewRoleClient("proposal", observations.Hooks())
+	if err != nil {
+		return s.fail("processing", outcomes.ReasonSetupFailure, err)
+	}
+	validationClient, err := s.runtime.NewRoleClient("validation", observations.Hooks())
+	if err != nil {
+		return s.fail("processing", outcomes.ReasonSetupFailure, err)
+	}
+	factory := modules.NewFactory(modules.Dependencies{Config: &s.cfg, Glossary: glossary, DiagnosticsDir: s.debugPath()})
+	result, runErr := runner.New(factory).Run(s.ctx, runner.RunInput{
+		Config: &s.cfg, Transcript: normalized, Glossary: glossary, ModuleSpecs: s.specs,
+		ProposalLLMClient: proposalClient, ProposalDiagnosticsDir: s.debugPath(),
+		ValidationLLMClient: validationClient, ValidationDiagnosticsDir: s.debugPath(),
+		CaptureCandidates:     s.debugDir != nil,
+		ReportDiagnosticError: s.reportDiagnosticError,
+	})
+	result.Observations = observations.Snapshot()
+	result.ObservationsAvailable = true
+	result.LLMSummary = llm.Summarize(result.Observations)
+	s.runOutput = &result
+	s.writeExecutionEvidence()
+	if len(result.Sections) > 0 || runErr == nil {
+		s.writeChunkSummary(result.Sections)
+	}
+	if runErr != nil {
+		return s.fail("processing", fatalReason(s.ctx, runErr), runErr)
+	}
+	encoder, err := outputschema.Resolve(s.cfg.Output.Schema)
+	if err != nil {
+		return s.fail("encoding", outcomes.ReasonSetupFailure, err)
+	}
+	outputBytes, err := encoder.Encoder(result.FinalTranscript)
+	if err != nil {
+		return s.fail("encoding", outcomes.ReasonInternalFailure, err)
+	}
+	return s.finish(outputBytes)
+}
+
+func (s *processState) writeChunkSummary(inventory []contracts.SectionMetadata) {
+	if s.debugDir == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	sections := make([]chunking.Section, len(inventory))
+	for i, metadata := range inventory {
+		sections[i] = chunking.Section{Index: metadata.Index, StartSegmentID: metadata.StartSegmentID,
+			EndSegmentID: metadata.EndSegmentID, EstimatedTokens: metadata.EstimatedTokens,
+			Segments: make([]schema.Segment, metadata.SegmentCount)}
+	}
+	config := chunking.ChunkingConfig{TargetSections: s.cfg.Chunking.TargetSections,
+		MaxSectionTokens: s.cfg.Chunking.MaxSectionTokens, MinSectionTokens: s.cfg.Chunking.MinSectionTokens}
+	summary := chunking.ComputeDetailedSummary(sections, config)
+	s.debugWrite("chunking summary", func(d *diagnostics.RunDirectory) error { return d.WriteChunkingSummary(&summary) })
+}
+
+func (s *processState) writeExecutionEvidence() {
+	if s.debugDir == nil || s.runOutput == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	output := s.runOutput
+	s.debugWrite("model execution", func(d *diagnostics.RunDirectory) error {
+		return d.WriteJSONArtifact(diagnostics.ArtifactLLMExecution, processreport.BuildLLMExecution(output.Observations))
+	})
+	s.debugWrite("utilization", func(d *diagnostics.RunDirectory) error {
+		return d.WriteJSONArtifact(diagnostics.ArtifactUtilizationSummary, processreport.BuildUtilization(output, s.cfg.Backends))
+	})
+	s.debugWrite("correction ledger", func(d *diagnostics.RunDirectory) error {
+		return d.WriteJSONArtifact(diagnostics.ArtifactCorrectionLedger, processreport.BuildCorrectionLedger(processreport.CorrectionLedgerInput{
+			RunDirectoryPath: d.Path(), RunOutput: output}))
+	})
+}
+
+func fatalReason(ctx context.Context, err error) outcomes.ReasonCode {
+	if ctx.Err() != nil || errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) {
+		return outcomes.ReasonCanceled
+	}
+	var failure *structuredoutput.Failure
+	if errors.As(err, &failure) && failure.Reason != "" {
+		return failure.Reason
+	}
+	return outcomes.ReasonInternalFailure
+}
+
+func (s *processState) fail(phase string, reason outcomes.ReasonCode, cause error) int {
+	s.debugWrite("error log", func(d *diagnostics.RunDirectory) error {
+		return d.WriteErrorLog(phase + ": " + llm.RedactError(cause, s.cfg))
+	})
+	failures := []processreport.RunFailure{{Phase: phase, Reason: reason}}
+	completed := time.Now().UTC()
+	base, err := s.bundle(s.snapshot(reporting.StatusFailed, &completed, failures))
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(s.stderr, "audita process: %s\n", llm.RedactError(err, s.cfg))
+	}
+	writeFailures := s.session.Finalize(nil, base, func(extra []diagnostics.FileFailure) diagnostics.ReportBundle {
+		all := append(append([]processreport.RunFailure(nil), failures...), mapWriteFailures(extra)...)
+		bundle, renderErr := s.bundle(s.snapshot(reporting.StatusFailed, &completed, all))
+		if renderErr != nil {
+			return base
+		}
+		return bundle
+	})
+	fmt.Fprintf(s.stderr, "audita process: %s\n", llm.RedactError(cause, s.cfg))
+	s.printFailures(writeFailures)
+	s.printDebugWarnings()
+	if s.debugDir != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(s.stderr, "audita process: diagnostics: %s\n", s.safePath(s.debugDir.Path()))
+	}
+	return 1
+}
+
+func (s *processState) finish(outputBytes []byte) int {
+	completed := time.Now().UTC()
+	snapshot := s.snapshot(reporting.StatusCompleted, &completed, nil)
+	complete, err := s.bundle(snapshot)
+	if err != nil {
+		return s.fail("report_write", outcomes.ReasonInternalFailure, err)
+	}
+	if s.session.TranscriptPath() == "" {
+		if _, err := s.stdout.Write(outputBytes); err != nil {
+			return s.fail("transcript_write", outcomes.ReasonInternalFailure, err)
+		}
+		outputBytes = nil
+	}
+	writeFailures := s.session.Finalize(outputBytes, complete, func(extra []diagnostics.FileFailure) diagnostics.ReportBundle {
+		failed, renderErr := s.bundle(s.snapshot(reporting.StatusFailed, &completed, mapWriteFailures(extra)))
+		if renderErr != nil {
+			return diagnostics.ReportBundle{}
+		}
+		return failed
+	})
+	if len(writeFailures) > 0 {
+		s.printFailures(writeFailures)
+		s.printDebugWarnings()
+		if s.debugDir != nil {
+			fmt.Fprintf(s.stderr, "audita process: diagnostics: %s\n", s.safePath(s.debugDir.Path()))
+		}
+		return 1
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintln(s.stderr, reporting.CompletionLine(snapshot))
+	for _, path := range s.session.ReportPaths() {
+		fmt.Fprintf(s.stderr, "Report: %s\n", s.safePath(path))
+	}
+	if s.debugDir != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(s.stderr, "Debug: %s\n", s.safePath(s.debugDir.Path()))
+	}
+	s.printDebugWarnings()
+	return 0
+}
+
+func mapWriteFailures(failures []diagnostics.FileFailure) []processreport.RunFailure {
+	out := make([]processreport.RunFailure, len(failures))
+	for i, failure := range failures {
+		phase := "report_write"
+		if failure.Kind == "transcript write" {
+			phase = "transcript_write"
+		}
+		out[i] = processreport.RunFailure{Phase: phase, Reason: outcomes.ReasonInternalFailure, OutputPath: failure.Path}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func (s *processState) printFailures(failures []diagnostics.FileFailure) {
+	for _, failure := range failures {
+		fmt.Fprintf(s.stderr, "audita process: %s\n", llm.RedactError(failure, s.cfg))
+	}
+}
+
+func (s *processState) printDebugWarnings() {
+	s.debugMu.Lock()
+	defer s.debugMu.Unlock()
+	for _, warning := range s.debugWarnings {
+		fmt.Fprintf(s.stderr, "audita process: %s\n", warning)
+	}
+}
+
+// safePath sanitizes presentation only; filesystem destinations remain literal.
+func (s *processState) safePath(path string) string {
+	return redaction.New(llm.ConfiguredSecrets(&s.cfg)).String(path)
+}
+
+func (s *processState) reportDiagnosticError(err error) {
+	if err == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	message := "debug " + llm.RedactError(err, s.cfg)
+	s.debugMu.Lock()
+	defer s.debugMu.Unlock()
+	s.debugWarnings = append(s.debugWarnings, message)
+}

internal/cli/run.go

@@ -0,0 +1,233 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/schema"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/framework/llm"
+)
+
+func sourceToCanonicalTranscript(source *schema.SourceTranscript) *schema.Transcript {
+	segments := make([]schema.Segment, len(source.Segments))
+	for i, s := range source.Segments {
+		id := i + 1
+		if s.ID != nil {
+			id = *s.ID
+		}
+		segments[i] = schema.Segment{
+			ID:         id,
+			Speaker:    s.Speaker,
+			Start:      s.Start,
+			End:        s.End,
+			Text:       s.Text,
+			Categories: s.Categories,
+		}
+	}
+	return &schema.Transcript{Segments: segments}
+}
+
+// Run executes the Audita CLI with the provided arguments and streams.
+func Run(ctx context.Context, args []string, stdout, stderr io.Writer) int {
+	if len(args) == 0 {
+		writeRootUsage(stdout)
+		return 0
+	}
+	if len(args) == 2 && args[0] == "help" {
+		switch args[1] {
+		case "process":
+			writeProcessUsage(stdout)
+			return 0
+		case "config":
+			writeConfigUsage(stdout)
+			return 0
+		}
+	}
+
+	if isHelpCommand(args) {
+		writeRootUsage(stdout)
+		return 0
+	}
+
+	if args[0] == "process" {
+		return runProcess(ctx, args[1:], stdout, stderr)
+	}
+	if args[0] == "config" {
+		return runConfig(ctx, args[1:], stdout, stderr)
+	}
+
+	fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita: unknown command %q\n\n", args[0])
+	writeRootUsage(stderr)
+	return 2
+}
+
+func runConfig(ctx context.Context, args []string, stdout, stderr io.Writer) int {
+	if len(args) == 0 || isHelpCommand(args) || args[0] == "--help" || args[0] == "-h" {
+		writeConfigUsage(stdout)
+		return 0
+	}
+
+	switch args[0] {
+	case "validate":
+		return runConfigValidate(ctx, args[1:], stdout, stderr)
+	case "print-effective":
+		return runConfigPrintEffective(ctx, args[1:], stdout, stderr)
+	default:
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita config: unknown command %q\n\n", args[0])
+		writeConfigUsage(stderr)
+		return 2
+	}
+}
+
+func runConfigValidate(ctx context.Context, args []string, stdout, stderr io.Writer) int {
+	input, help, err := parseConfigInput("validate", args, stderr)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita config validate: %s\n", configInputError(err))
+		return 2
+	}
+	if help {
+		writeConfigValidateUsage(stdout)
+		return 0
+	}
+	selected, err := loadConfigInput(input, "validate")
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita config validate: %s\n", configInputError(err))
+		return 2
+	}
+	if _, err := llm.NewRuntime(ctx, selected.Result.Config, selected.Path, nil); err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita config validate: %s\n", llm.RedactError(err, selected.Result.Config))
+		if ctx.Err() != nil || llm.IsAssetError(err) {
+			return 1
+		}
+		return 2
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintln(stdout, "config is valid")
+	return 0
+}
+
+func runConfigPrintEffective(ctx context.Context, args []string, stdout, stderr io.Writer) int {
+	input, help, err := parseConfigInput("print-effective", args, stderr)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita config print-effective: %s\n", configInputError(err))
+		return 2
+	}
+	if help {
+		writeConfigPrintEffectiveUsage(stdout)
+		return 0
+	}
+	selected, err := loadConfigInput(input, "print-effective")
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita config print-effective: %s\n", configInputError(err))
+		return 2
+	}
+	llmRuntime, err := llm.NewRuntime(ctx, selected.Result.Config, selected.Path, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita config print-effective: %s\n", llm.RedactError(err, selected.Result.Config))
+		if ctx.Err() != nil || llm.IsAssetError(err) {
+			return 1
+		}
+		return 2
+	}
+	if input.View == "settings" {
+		err = selected.Result.WriteEffective(stdout)
+	} else {
+		var output []byte
+		if input.View == "profiles" {
+			output, err = llmRuntime.SelectedProfilesYAML()
+		} else {
+			output, err = llm.ExplanationYAML(selected.Result)
+		}
+		if err == nil {
+			_, err = stdout.Write(output)
+		}
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita config print-effective: %v\n", err)
+		return 1
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+func isHelpCommand(args []string) bool {
+	if len(args) == 0 {
+		return false
+	}
+	if len(args) == 1 {
+		switch args[0] {
+		case "help", "-h", "--help":
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	if len(args) == 2 && args[0] == "help" {
+		switch args[1] {
+		case "process":
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func writeRootUsage(w io.Writer) {
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Audita is a transcript processing CLI.")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w)
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Usage:")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  audita <command> [options]")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w)
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Commands:")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  process    Process a transcript JSON file")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  config     Validate and inspect config")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w)
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Example:")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  audita process transcript.json --glossary glossary.yaml --output corrected.json")
+}
+
+func writeConfigUsage(w io.Writer) {
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Validate and inspect Audita config.")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w)
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Usage:")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  audita config <command> [flags]")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w)
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Commands:")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  validate         Validate a versioned YAML config file")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  print-effective  Print redacted effective settings YAML")
+}
+
+func writeConfigValidateUsage(w io.Writer) {
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Validate a versioned YAML config file.")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w)
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Usage:")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  audita config validate --config <path> [--overlay <name>] [setting flags]")
+}
+
+func writeConfigPrintEffectiveUsage(w io.Writer) {
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Print redacted effective settings YAML.")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w)
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Usage:")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  audita config print-effective [--config <path>] [--overlay <name>] [setting flags]")
+}
+
+func writeProcessUsage(w io.Writer) {
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Process a transcript JSON file.")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w)
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Usage:")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  audita process <transcript.json> [flags]")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w)
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Flags:")
+	for _, name := range []string{
+		"config", "overlay", "glossary", "output",
+		"proposal-profile", "validation-profile", "modules", "output-schema",
+		"validation-max-prompt-tokens", "target-sections", "max-section-tokens", "min-section-tokens",
+		"normalize-max-segment-gap", "normalize-ellipsis-gap", "normalize-max-segment-duration", "normalize-max-segment-tokens",
+		"glossary-confidence-threshold", "homophones-confidence-threshold", "spoken-word-confidence-threshold", "grammar-confidence-threshold",
+		"transcript-description", "work-dir",
+	} {
+		fmt.Fprintf(w, "  --%s\n", name)
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  --reporting[=true|false]  Write the three-file report bundle (default true)")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  --report-dir DIR         Select the report directory (stdout setting for stdout; output parent by default for files)")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  --debug[=true|false]      Persist detailed diagnostics (default false)")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w)
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Example:")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  audita process transcript.json --glossary glossary.yaml --output corrected.json")
+}

internal/cli/runtime_errors_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func writeRuntimeErrorConfig(t *testing.T, operatorDocument string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	profiles := filepath.Join(dir, "profiles")
+	if err := os.Mkdir(profiles, 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	main := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
+	configText := "version: 2\nprofiles_dir: profiles\nbackends:\n  offline:\n    endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:1/v1\n    credential: AUDITA_TEST_PROVIDER_KEY\nllm:\n  proposal_profile: proposal\n"
+	if err := os.WriteFile(main, []byte(configText), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(profiles, "operator.yml"), []byte(operatorDocument), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return main
+}
+
+func TestConfigCommandsClassifyOperatorPromptErrorsAsInputErrors(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("AUDITA_TEST_PROVIDER_KEY", "synthetic-cli-redaction-secret")
+	definitions := map[string]string{
+		"malformed operator YAML":           "profiles:\n  proposal: [\n",
+		"invalid operator template":         "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: offline\n    model: local-model\nprompts:\n  modules.grammar.proposal:\n    v1:\n      messages:\n        - role: user\n          content: '{{'\n",
+		"missing operator message resource": "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: offline\n    model: local-model\nprompts:\n  modules.grammar.proposal:\n    v1:\n      messages:\n        - role: user\n          content_file: missing-instruction.md\n",
+	}
+	commands := []struct {
+		name string
+		args []string
+	}{
+		{name: "validate", args: []string{"config", "validate"}},
+		{name: "print effective", args: []string{"config", "print-effective", "--view", "profiles"}},
+	}
+	for definition, document := range definitions {
+		for _, command := range commands {
+			t.Run(definition+"/"+command.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+				main := writeRuntimeErrorConfig(t, document)
+				args := append(append([]string(nil), command.args...), "--config", main)
+				var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
+				if code := Run(context.Background(), args, &stdout, &stderr); code != 2 {
+					t.Fatalf("exit=%d, stdout=%q, stderr=%q", code, stdout.String(), stderr.String())
+				}
+				if strings.Contains(stderr.String(), "synthetic-cli-redaction-secret") {
+					t.Fatalf("configured secret leaked: %q", stderr.String())
+				}
+			})
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestConfigCommandsKeepCallerCancellationAsRuntimeExit(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("AUDITA_TEST_PROVIDER_KEY", "synthetic-cli-redaction-secret")
+	main := writeRuntimeErrorConfig(t, "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: offline\n    model: local-model\n")
+	commands := [][]string{
+		{"config", "validate", "--config", main},
+		{"config", "print-effective", "--config", main, "--view", "profiles"},
+	}
+	for _, args := range commands {
+		ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+		cancel()
+		var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
+		if code := Run(ctx, args, &stdout, &stderr); code != 1 {
+			t.Fatalf("args=%v exit=%d, stdout=%q, stderr=%q", args, code, stdout.String(), stderr.String())
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/cli/testdata/malformed_transcript.json

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"segments":[{"id":1,"text":"oops"}

internal/cli/testdata/tiny_glossary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+glossary:
+  - name: Audita
+    aliases:
+      - audita
+    category: product
+    summary: The Audita transcript correction CLI.

internal/cli/testdata/tiny_transcript.json

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[
+  {
+    "id": 1,
+    "speaker": "A",
+    "start": 0.0,
+    "end": 1.2,
+    "text": "hello world"
+  }
+]

internal/core/chunking/sections.go

@@ -0,0 +1,312 @@
+package chunking
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/schema"
+)
+
+// Section represents a contiguous chunk of transcript segments with metadata.
+type Section struct {
+	// Index is the 0-based section index within the chunked transcript
+	Index int `json:"section_index"`
+
+	// StartSegmentID is the ID of the first segment in this section
+	StartSegmentID int `json:"start_segment_id"`
+
+	// EndSegmentID is the ID of the last segment in this section
+	EndSegmentID int `json:"end_segment_id"`
+
+	// EstimatedTokens is the approximate token count for this section
+	EstimatedTokens int `json:"estimated_tokens"`
+
+	// Segments contains the segments in this section, in order
+	Segments []schema.Segment `json:"segments"`
+}
+
+// ChunkingConfig holds configuration for transcript chunking.
+type ChunkingConfig struct {
+	// MaxSectionTokens is the maximum allowed tokens per section
+	MaxSectionTokens int
+
+	// MinSectionTokens is a validated soft lower-bound setting retained for
+	// configuration/reporting compatibility.
+	MinSectionTokens int
+
+	// TargetSections is an optional target number of sections
+	// If nil, section count is derived from total/max token budgeting.
+	TargetSections *int
+}
+
+// Chunker performs deterministic chunking of normalized transcript segments.
+type Chunker struct {
+	config    ChunkingConfig
+	estimator TokenEstimator
+}
+
+// NewChunker creates a new chunker with the given configuration.
+func NewChunker(config ChunkingConfig) *Chunker {
+	return &Chunker{
+		config:    config,
+		estimator: NewSimpleTokenEstimator(),
+	}
+}
+
+// NewChunkerWithEstimator creates a new chunker with a custom estimator.
+func NewChunkerWithEstimator(config ChunkingConfig, estimator TokenEstimator) *Chunker {
+	return &Chunker{
+		config:    config,
+		estimator: estimator,
+	}
+}
+
+// ChunkTranscript divides a normalized transcript into contiguous token-bounded
+// sections using a deterministic balanced forward pass.
+//
+// Behavior:
+//   - preserve segment order and never split segments;
+//   - estimate per-segment tokens once, then compute total;
+//   - derive desired section count from ceil(total/max_section_tokens), unless
+//     target_sections is explicitly set;
+//   - prefer section sizes near ceil(total/section_count) while never exceeding
+//     max_section_tokens unless a section consists of a single oversized segment.
+//
+// Returns an error if explicit target_sections is impossible under constraints.
+// The input transcript is never mutated.
+func (c *Chunker) ChunkTranscript(transcript *schema.Transcript) ([]Section, error) {
+	if transcript == nil || len(transcript.Segments) == 0 {
+		return []Section{}, nil
+	}
+
+	// Validate configuration
+	if c.config.MaxSectionTokens <= 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("max_section_tokens must be positive, got %d", c.config.MaxSectionTokens)
+	}
+
+	if c.config.MinSectionTokens < 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("min_section_tokens must be non-negative, got %d", c.config.MinSectionTokens)
+	}
+
+	if c.config.MinSectionTokens > c.config.MaxSectionTokens {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("min_section_tokens (%d) cannot exceed max_section_tokens (%d)",
+			c.config.MinSectionTokens, c.config.MaxSectionTokens)
+	}
+
+	// Calculate token counts for each segment (deterministic).
+	segmentTokens := make([]int, len(transcript.Segments))
+	totalTokens := 0
+	for i, seg := range transcript.Segments {
+		segmentTokens[i] = c.estimator.EstimateTokens(seg.Text)
+		totalTokens += segmentTokens[i]
+	}
+
+	minPossibleSections := c.calculateMinPossibleSections(segmentTokens)
+
+	var desiredSections int
+	useExplicitTarget := false
+	if c.config.TargetSections != nil {
+		desiredSections = *c.config.TargetSections
+		useExplicitTarget = true
+		if desiredSections <= 0 {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("target_sections must be positive, got %d", desiredSections)
+		}
+		if err := c.validateTargetSections(desiredSections, segmentTokens); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	} else {
+		desiredSections = ceilDiv(totalTokens, c.config.MaxSectionTokens)
+		if desiredSections < minPossibleSections {
+			desiredSections = minPossibleSections
+		}
+		if desiredSections < 1 {
+			desiredSections = 1
+		}
+		if desiredSections > len(transcript.Segments) {
+			desiredSections = len(transcript.Segments)
+		}
+	}
+
+	targetTokensPerSection := ceilDiv(totalTokens, desiredSections)
+	if useExplicitTarget {
+		return c.buildSectionsWithExplicitTarget(
+			transcript.Segments,
+			segmentTokens,
+			desiredSections,
+			targetTokensPerSection,
+		)
+	}
+
+	return c.buildSectionsBalanced(transcript.Segments, segmentTokens, targetTokensPerSection), nil
+}
+
+// validateTargetSections checks if the target section count is achievable.
+func (c *Chunker) validateTargetSections(target int, segmentTokens []int) error {
+	// Maximum possible sections: limited by segment count
+	maxPossibleSections := len(segmentTokens)
+
+	if target > maxPossibleSections {
+		return fmt.Errorf(
+			"target_sections (%d) is impossible: cannot have more sections than segments (%d)",
+			target, maxPossibleSections)
+	}
+
+	// Minimum possible sections: each segment must fit within max bounds
+	minPossibleSections := c.calculateMinPossibleSections(segmentTokens)
+
+	if target < minPossibleSections {
+		return fmt.Errorf(
+			"target_sections (%d) is impossible: need at least %d sections to respect max_section_tokens (%d)",
+			target, minPossibleSections, c.config.MaxSectionTokens)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// buildSectionsBalanced creates sections with a deterministic single-pass policy.
+func (c *Chunker) buildSectionsBalanced(segments []schema.Segment, segmentTokens []int, targetTokensPerSection int) []Section {
+	var sections []Section
+	var currentSegments []schema.Segment
+	currentTokens := 0
+
+	for i, seg := range segments {
+		tokens := segmentTokens[i]
+
+		// Empty section: always accept the next segment, including oversized.
+		if len(currentSegments) == 0 {
+			currentSegments = append(currentSegments, seg)
+			currentTokens = tokens
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// If adding next segment would exceed max, close current section.
+		if currentTokens+tokens > c.config.MaxSectionTokens {
+			sections = append(sections, c.buildSection(len(sections), currentSegments, currentTokens))
+			currentSegments = []schema.Segment{seg}
+			currentTokens = tokens
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// Prefer staying near target tokens per section.
+		if targetTokensPerSection == 0 || currentTokens < targetTokensPerSection {
+			currentSegments = append(currentSegments, seg)
+			currentTokens += tokens
+			continue
+		}
+
+		sections = append(sections, c.buildSection(len(sections), currentSegments, currentTokens))
+		currentSegments = []schema.Segment{seg}
+		currentTokens = tokens
+	}
+
+	if len(currentSegments) > 0 {
+		sections = append(sections, c.buildSection(len(sections), currentSegments, currentTokens))
+	}
+
+	return sections
+}
+
+// buildSection creates a Section from segments.
+func (c *Chunker) buildSection(index int, segments []schema.Segment, tokens int) Section {
+	return Section{
+		Index:           index,
+		StartSegmentID:  segments[0].ID,
+		EndSegmentID:    segments[len(segments)-1].ID,
+		EstimatedTokens: tokens,
+		Segments:        segments,
+	}
+}
+
+// calculateMinPossibleSections calculates the minimum number of sections needed
+// to ensure no section exceeds max tokens.
+func (c *Chunker) calculateMinPossibleSections(segmentTokens []int) int {
+	sections := 0
+	currentTokens := 0
+
+	for _, tokens := range segmentTokens {
+		if tokens > c.config.MaxSectionTokens {
+			// Each oversized segment needs its own section
+			if currentTokens > 0 {
+				sections++
+				currentTokens = 0
+			}
+			sections++
+		} else if currentTokens+tokens > c.config.MaxSectionTokens {
+			sections++
+			currentTokens = tokens
+		} else {
+			currentTokens += tokens
+		}
+	}
+
+	if currentTokens > 0 {
+		sections++
+	}
+
+	return sections
+}
+
+// buildSectionsWithExplicitTarget builds exactly desiredSections when feasible.
+func (c *Chunker) buildSectionsWithExplicitTarget(
+	segments []schema.Segment,
+	segmentTokens []int,
+	desiredSections int,
+	targetTokensPerSection int,
+) ([]Section, error) {
+	n := len(segments)
+	cursor := 0
+	sections := make([]Section, 0, desiredSections)
+
+	for sectionIdx := 0; sectionIdx < desiredSections; sectionIdx++ {
+		if cursor >= n {
+			break
+		}
+
+		remainingSectionsAfter := desiredSections - sectionIdx - 1
+		currentSegments := []schema.Segment{segments[cursor]}
+		currentTokens := segmentTokens[cursor]
+		cursor++
+
+		for cursor < n {
+			remainingSegments := n - cursor
+
+			// Reserve one segment per future section to avoid empty sections.
+			if remainingSegments == remainingSectionsAfter {
+				break
+			}
+
+			nextTokens := segmentTokens[cursor]
+			if currentTokens+nextTokens > c.config.MaxSectionTokens {
+				break
+			}
+			if targetTokensPerSection == 0 || currentTokens < targetTokensPerSection {
+				currentSegments = append(currentSegments, segments[cursor])
+				currentTokens += nextTokens
+				cursor++
+				continue
+			}
+			break
+		}
+
+		sections = append(sections, c.buildSection(len(sections), currentSegments, currentTokens))
+	}
+
+	if cursor != n || len(sections) != desiredSections {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
+			"target_sections (%d) is impossible under current constraints (got %d sections)",
+			desiredSections,
+			len(sections),
+		)
+	}
+
+	return sections, nil
+}
+
+func ceilDiv(numerator int, denominator int) int {
+	if denominator <= 0 {
+		return 0
+	}
+	if numerator <= 0 {
+		return 0
+	}
+	return (numerator + denominator - 1) / denominator
+}

internal/core/chunking/sections_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,518 @@
+package chunking
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/schema"
+)
+
+// mapTokenEstimator provides deterministic per-segment token counts for tests.
+type mapTokenEstimator struct {
+	byText map[string]int
+}
+
+func (e *mapTokenEstimator) EstimateTokens(text string) int {
+	if e.byText == nil {
+		return 0
+	}
+	if tokens, ok := e.byText[text]; ok {
+		return tokens
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+func makeSegments(texts []string) []schema.Segment {
+	segments := make([]schema.Segment, len(texts))
+	for i, text := range texts {
+		segments[i] = schema.Segment{
+			ID:      i + 1,
+			Speaker: "DM",
+			Start:   float64(i * 10),
+			End:     float64(i*10 + 5),
+			Text:    text,
+		}
+	}
+	return segments
+}
+
+func makeTranscript(segments []schema.Segment) *schema.Transcript {
+	return &schema.Transcript{Segments: segments}
+}
+
+func intPtr(i int) *int {
+	return &i
+}
+
+func assertSegmentCoverageAndOrder(t *testing.T, input []schema.Segment, sections []Section) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	seen := make([]schema.Segment, 0, len(input))
+	for _, sec := range sections {
+		seen = append(seen, sec.Segments...)
+	}
+
+	if len(seen) != len(input) {
+		t.Fatalf("expected %d total segment occurrences, got %d", len(input), len(seen))
+	}
+
+	for i := range input {
+		if seen[i].ID != input[i].ID {
+			t.Fatalf("segment order mismatch at index %d: got id=%d want id=%d", i, seen[i].ID, input[i].ID)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func assertSectionMetadataConsistent(t *testing.T, sections []Section) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	for i, sec := range sections {
+		if sec.Index != i {
+			t.Fatalf("section %d: expected index=%d got=%d", i, i, sec.Index)
+		}
+		if len(sec.Segments) == 0 {
+			t.Fatalf("section %d: section must not be empty", i)
+		}
+		if sec.StartSegmentID != sec.Segments[0].ID {
+			t.Fatalf("section %d: start_segment_id mismatch", i)
+		}
+		if sec.EndSegmentID != sec.Segments[len(sec.Segments)-1].ID {
+			t.Fatalf("section %d: end_segment_id mismatch", i)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func assertMaxBoundExceptSingletonOversized(t *testing.T, sections []Section, max int) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	for i, sec := range sections {
+		if sec.EstimatedTokens <= max {
+			continue
+		}
+		if len(sec.Segments) != 1 {
+			t.Fatalf("section %d exceeds max tokens (%d>%d) with %d segments", i, sec.EstimatedTokens, max, len(sec.Segments))
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func imbalance(sections []Section) int {
+	if len(sections) == 0 {
+		return 0
+	}
+	minTokens := sections[0].EstimatedTokens
+	maxTokens := sections[0].EstimatedTokens
+	for _, sec := range sections {
+		if sec.EstimatedTokens < minTokens {
+			minTokens = sec.EstimatedTokens
+		}
+		if sec.EstimatedTokens > maxTokens {
+			maxTokens = sec.EstimatedTokens
+		}
+	}
+	return maxTokens - minTokens
+}
+
+func greedyMaxFillSections(segments []schema.Segment, tokens []int, max int) []Section {
+	sections := make([]Section, 0)
+	var current []schema.Segment
+	currentTokens := 0
+
+	for i, seg := range segments {
+		tok := tokens[i]
+		if len(current) == 0 {
+			current = append(current, seg)
+			currentTokens = tok
+			continue
+		}
+		if currentTokens+tok > max {
+			sections = append(sections, Section{
+				Index:           len(sections),
+				StartSegmentID:  current[0].ID,
+				EndSegmentID:    current[len(current)-1].ID,
+				EstimatedTokens: currentTokens,
+				Segments:        append([]schema.Segment(nil), current...),
+			})
+			current = []schema.Segment{seg}
+			currentTokens = tok
+			continue
+		}
+		current = append(current, seg)
+		currentTokens += tok
+	}
+
+	if len(current) > 0 {
+		sections = append(sections, Section{
+			Index:           len(sections),
+			StartSegmentID:  current[0].ID,
+			EndSegmentID:    current[len(current)-1].ID,
+			EstimatedTokens: currentTokens,
+			Segments:        append([]schema.Segment(nil), current...),
+		})
+	}
+
+	return sections
+}
+
+func TestChunkEmptyTranscript(t *testing.T) {
+	chunker := NewChunker(ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 100, MinSectionTokens: 10})
+
+	sections, err := chunker.ChunkTranscript(nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ChunkTranscript(nil): %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(sections) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 0 sections for nil transcript, got %d", len(sections))
+	}
+
+	sections, err = chunker.ChunkTranscript(makeTranscript(nil))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ChunkTranscript(empty): %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(sections) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 0 sections for empty transcript, got %d", len(sections))
+	}
+}
+
+func TestChunkSingleSegment(t *testing.T) {
+	segments := makeSegments([]string{"s1"})
+	chunker := NewChunkerWithEstimator(
+		ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 100, MinSectionTokens: 10},
+		&mapTokenEstimator{byText: map[string]int{"s1": 7}},
+	)
+
+	sections, err := chunker.ChunkTranscript(makeTranscript(segments))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ChunkTranscript: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(sections) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 1 section, got %d", len(sections))
+	}
+	if sections[0].EstimatedTokens != 7 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected estimated_tokens=7, got %d", sections[0].EstimatedTokens)
+	}
+	assertSegmentCoverageAndOrder(t, segments, sections)
+	assertSectionMetadataConsistent(t, sections)
+}
+
+func TestChunkSingleOversizedSegment(t *testing.T) {
+	segments := makeSegments([]string{"big"})
+	chunker := NewChunkerWithEstimator(
+		ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 50, MinSectionTokens: 5},
+		&mapTokenEstimator{byText: map[string]int{"big": 120}},
+	)
+
+	sections, err := chunker.ChunkTranscript(makeTranscript(segments))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ChunkTranscript: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(sections) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 1 section, got %d", len(sections))
+	}
+	if sections[0].EstimatedTokens != 120 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected oversized singleton section, got %d", sections[0].EstimatedTokens)
+	}
+	assertMaxBoundExceptSingletonOversized(t, sections, 50)
+}
+
+func TestChunkTotalBelowMaxSingleSection(t *testing.T) {
+	segments := makeSegments([]string{"a", "b", "c"})
+	chunker := NewChunkerWithEstimator(
+		ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 50, MinSectionTokens: 5},
+		&ConstTokenEstimator{Tokens: 10},
+	)
+
+	sections, err := chunker.ChunkTranscript(makeTranscript(segments))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ChunkTranscript: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(sections) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 1 section, got %d", len(sections))
+	}
+	if sections[0].EstimatedTokens != 30 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 30 section tokens, got %d", sections[0].EstimatedTokens)
+	}
+	assertSegmentCoverageAndOrder(t, segments, sections)
+}
+
+func TestChunkTotalExactlyDivisibleByMax(t *testing.T) {
+	segments := makeSegments([]string{"a", "b", "c", "d"})
+	chunker := NewChunkerWithEstimator(
+		ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 10, MinSectionTokens: 1},
+		&ConstTokenEstimator{Tokens: 5},
+	)
+
+	sections, err := chunker.ChunkTranscript(makeTranscript(segments))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ChunkTranscript: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(sections) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 2 sections, got %d", len(sections))
+	}
+	if sections[0].EstimatedTokens != 10 || sections[1].EstimatedTokens != 10 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected [10,10] tokens, got [%d,%d]", sections[0].EstimatedTokens, sections[1].EstimatedTokens)
+	}
+	assertSegmentCoverageAndOrder(t, segments, sections)
+	assertMaxBoundExceptSingletonOversized(t, sections, 10)
+}
+
+func TestChunkTotalNotDivisibleByMax(t *testing.T) {
+	segments := makeSegments([]string{"a", "b", "c", "d", "e"})
+	chunker := NewChunkerWithEstimator(
+		ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 10, MinSectionTokens: 1},
+		&ConstTokenEstimator{Tokens: 5},
+	)
+
+	sections, err := chunker.ChunkTranscript(makeTranscript(segments))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ChunkTranscript: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(sections) != 3 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 3 sections, got %d", len(sections))
+	}
+	if sections[0].EstimatedTokens != 10 || sections[1].EstimatedTokens != 10 || sections[2].EstimatedTokens != 5 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected [10,10,5] tokens, got [%d,%d,%d]", sections[0].EstimatedTokens, sections[1].EstimatedTokens, sections[2].EstimatedTokens)
+	}
+	assertSegmentCoverageAndOrder(t, segments, sections)
+	assertMaxBoundExceptSingletonOversized(t, sections, 10)
+}
+
+func TestChunkTargetSectionsPrecedenceAndSuccess(t *testing.T) {
+	segments := makeSegments([]string{"1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10"})
+	target := 3
+	chunker := NewChunkerWithEstimator(
+		ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 200, MinSectionTokens: 1, TargetSections: &target},
+		&ConstTokenEstimator{Tokens: 10},
+	)
+
+	sections, err := chunker.ChunkTranscript(makeTranscript(segments))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ChunkTranscript: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(sections) != target {
+		t.Fatalf("expected %d sections from explicit target, got %d", target, len(sections))
+	}
+	assertSegmentCoverageAndOrder(t, segments, sections)
+	assertSectionMetadataConsistent(t, sections)
+}
+
+func TestChunkTargetSectionsImpossibleTooMany(t *testing.T) {
+	segments := makeSegments([]string{"1", "2", "3", "4", "5"})
+	target := 10
+	chunker := NewChunker(ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 100, MinSectionTokens: 1, TargetSections: &target})
+
+	_, err := chunker.ChunkTranscript(makeTranscript(segments))
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("expected error for impossible target_sections")
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "cannot have more sections than segments") {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestChunkTargetSectionsImpossibleTooFew(t *testing.T) {
+	segments := makeSegments([]string{"1", "2", "3"})
+	target := 1
+	chunker := NewChunkerWithEstimator(
+		ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 50, MinSectionTokens: 1, TargetSections: &target},
+		&ConstTokenEstimator{Tokens: 30},
+	)
+
+	_, err := chunker.ChunkTranscript(makeTranscript(segments))
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("expected error for impossible target_sections")
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "need at least 3 sections") {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestChunkManySmallSegmentsBalanced(t *testing.T) {
+	texts := []string{"1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11"}
+	segments := makeSegments(texts)
+	chunker := NewChunkerWithEstimator(
+		ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 50, MinSectionTokens: 1},
+		&ConstTokenEstimator{Tokens: 10},
+	)
+
+	sections, err := chunker.ChunkTranscript(makeTranscript(segments))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ChunkTranscript: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(sections) != 3 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 3 sections, got %d", len(sections))
+	}
+	if sections[0].EstimatedTokens != 40 || sections[1].EstimatedTokens != 40 || sections[2].EstimatedTokens != 30 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected [40,40,30], got [%d,%d,%d]", sections[0].EstimatedTokens, sections[1].EstimatedTokens, sections[2].EstimatedTokens)
+	}
+	assertSegmentCoverageAndOrder(t, segments, sections)
+	assertMaxBoundExceptSingletonOversized(t, sections, 50)
+}
+
+func TestChunkMixedLargeAndSmallSegments(t *testing.T) {
+	segments := makeSegments([]string{"big1", "s1", "s2", "s3", "big2", "s4"})
+	estimator := &mapTokenEstimator{byText: map[string]int{
+		"big1": 120,
+		"s1":   10,
+		"s2":   10,
+		"s3":   10,
+		"big2": 120,
+		"s4":   10,
+	}}
+	chunker := NewChunkerWithEstimator(ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 100, MinSectionTokens: 1}, estimator)
+
+	sections, err := chunker.ChunkTranscript(makeTranscript(segments))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ChunkTranscript: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(sections) != 4 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 4 sections, got %d", len(sections))
+	}
+	if len(sections[0].Segments) != 1 || sections[0].Segments[0].Text != "big1" {
+		t.Fatalf("expected first oversized segment in singleton section, got %+v", sections[0].Segments)
+	}
+	if len(sections[2].Segments) != 1 || sections[2].Segments[0].Text != "big2" {
+		t.Fatalf("expected second oversized segment in singleton section, got %+v", sections[2].Segments)
+	}
+	assertSegmentCoverageAndOrder(t, segments, sections)
+	assertMaxBoundExceptSingletonOversized(t, sections, 100)
+}
+
+func TestChunkDeterministicOrdering(t *testing.T) {
+	segments := makeSegments([]string{"a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f"})
+	chunkerCfg := ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 15, MinSectionTokens: 1}
+	estimator := &ConstTokenEstimator{Tokens: 5}
+
+	var first []Section
+	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
+		chunker := NewChunkerWithEstimator(chunkerCfg, estimator)
+		sections, err := chunker.ChunkTranscript(makeTranscript(segments))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("iteration %d: %v", i, err)
+		}
+		if i == 0 {
+			first = sections
+			continue
+		}
+		if len(sections) != len(first) {
+			t.Fatalf("iteration %d: section count mismatch (%d vs %d)", i, len(sections), len(first))
+		}
+		for j := range sections {
+			if sections[j].Index != first[j].Index ||
+				sections[j].StartSegmentID != first[j].StartSegmentID ||
+				sections[j].EndSegmentID != first[j].EndSegmentID ||
+				sections[j].EstimatedTokens != first[j].EstimatedTokens ||
+				len(sections[j].Segments) != len(first[j].Segments) {
+				t.Fatalf("iteration %d section %d mismatch", i, j)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestChunkNoMutationOfInput(t *testing.T) {
+	segments := makeSegments([]string{"original one", "original two"})
+	transcript := makeTranscript(segments)
+	original := make([]string, len(transcript.Segments))
+	for i := range transcript.Segments {
+		original[i] = transcript.Segments[i].Text
+	}
+
+	chunker := NewChunker(ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 50, MinSectionTokens: 1})
+	if _, err := chunker.ChunkTranscript(transcript); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ChunkTranscript: %v", err)
+	}
+	for i := range transcript.Segments {
+		if transcript.Segments[i].Text != original[i] {
+			t.Fatalf("segment %d mutated", i)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestChunkConfigValidation(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name        string
+		config      ChunkingConfig
+		errContains string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:        "zero max tokens",
+			config:      ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 0, MinSectionTokens: 1},
+			errContains: "max_section_tokens must be positive",
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "negative max tokens",
+			config:      ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: -1, MinSectionTokens: 1},
+			errContains: "max_section_tokens must be positive",
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "negative min tokens",
+			config:      ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 10, MinSectionTokens: -1},
+			errContains: "min_section_tokens must be non-negative",
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "min exceeds max",
+			config:      ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 10, MinSectionTokens: 11},
+			errContains: "min_section_tokens (11) cannot exceed max_section_tokens (10)",
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "zero target sections",
+			config:      ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 10, MinSectionTokens: 1, TargetSections: intPtr(0)},
+			errContains: "target_sections must be positive",
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "negative target sections",
+			config:      ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 10, MinSectionTokens: 1, TargetSections: intPtr(-1)},
+			errContains: "target_sections must be positive",
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			chunker := NewChunker(tt.config)
+			_, err := chunker.ChunkTranscript(makeTranscript(makeSegments([]string{"x"})))
+			if err == nil {
+				t.Fatalf("expected error containing %q", tt.errContains)
+			}
+			if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), tt.errContains) {
+				t.Fatalf("expected error containing %q, got %q", tt.errContains, err.Error())
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestChunkBalancedAlgorithmBeatsGreedyMaxFillOnUnevenTranscript(t *testing.T) {
+	segments := makeSegments([]string{"s1", "s2", "s3", "s4", "s5", "s6"})
+	tokenMap := map[string]int{
+		"s1": 50,
+		"s2": 10,
+		"s3": 10,
+		"s4": 10,
+		"s5": 10,
+		"s6": 10,
+	}
+	estimator := &mapTokenEstimator{byText: tokenMap}
+	chunker := NewChunkerWithEstimator(ChunkingConfig{MaxSectionTokens: 80, MinSectionTokens: 1}, estimator)
+
+	balancedSections, err := chunker.ChunkTranscript(makeTranscript(segments))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ChunkTranscript: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	tokens := make([]int, 0, len(segments))
+	for _, seg := range segments {
+		tokens = append(tokens, tokenMap[seg.Text])
+	}
+	greedySections := greedyMaxFillSections(segments, tokens, 80)
+
+	balancedImbalance := imbalance(balancedSections)
+	greedyImbalance := imbalance(greedySections)
+	if balancedImbalance >= greedyImbalance {
+		t.Fatalf(
+			"expected balanced chunking to improve over greedy max-fill; balanced=%d greedy=%d",
+			balancedImbalance,
+			greedyImbalance,
+		)
+	}
+
+	assertSegmentCoverageAndOrder(t, segments, balancedSections)
+	assertMaxBoundExceptSingletonOversized(t, balancedSections, 80)
+}

internal/core/chunking/summary.go

@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+package chunking
+
+// Summary provides a concise overview of chunking results for reports
+type Summary struct {
+	ChunkCount           int  `json:"chunk_count"`
+	MinEstimatedTokens   int  `json:"min_estimated_chunk_tokens"`
+	MaxEstimatedTokens   int  `json:"max_estimated_chunk_tokens"`
+	TotalEstimatedTokens int  `json:"total_estimated_transcript_tokens"`
+	TargetSections       *int `json:"target_sections,omitempty"`
+	MaxSectionTokens     int  `json:"max_section_tokens"`
+	MinSectionTokens     int  `json:"min_section_tokens"`
+}
+
+// ChunkSummary represents a single chunk's metadata for diagnostics
+type ChunkSummary struct {
+	Index           int `json:"index"`
+	StartSegmentID  int `json:"start_segment_id"`
+	EndSegmentID    int `json:"end_segment_id"`
+	EstimatedTokens int `json:"estimated_tokens"`
+	SegmentCount    int `json:"segment_count"`
+}
+
+// DetailedSummary provides per-chunk details for diagnostics
+type DetailedSummary struct {
+	Summary `json:",inline"`
+	Chunks  []ChunkSummary `json:"chunks"`
+}
+
+// ComputeSummary creates a Summary from sections and config
+func ComputeSummary(sections []Section, config ChunkingConfig) Summary {
+	if len(sections) == 0 {
+		return Summary{
+			ChunkCount:       0,
+			MaxSectionTokens: config.MaxSectionTokens,
+			MinSectionTokens: config.MinSectionTokens,
+			TargetSections:   config.TargetSections,
+		}
+	}
+
+	minTokens := sections[0].EstimatedTokens
+	maxTokens := sections[0].EstimatedTokens
+	totalTokens := 0
+
+	for _, sec := range sections {
+		if sec.EstimatedTokens < minTokens {
+			minTokens = sec.EstimatedTokens
+		}
+		if sec.EstimatedTokens > maxTokens {
+			maxTokens = sec.EstimatedTokens
+		}
+		totalTokens += sec.EstimatedTokens
+	}
+
+	return Summary{
+		ChunkCount:           len(sections),
+		MinEstimatedTokens:   minTokens,
+		MaxEstimatedTokens:   maxTokens,
+		TotalEstimatedTokens: totalTokens,
+		TargetSections:       config.TargetSections,
+		MaxSectionTokens:     config.MaxSectionTokens,
+		MinSectionTokens:     config.MinSectionTokens,
+	}
+}
+
+// ComputeDetailedSummary creates a DetailedSummary from sections and config
+func ComputeDetailedSummary(sections []Section, config ChunkingConfig) DetailedSummary {
+	summary := ComputeSummary(sections, config)
+
+	chunks := make([]ChunkSummary, len(sections))
+	for i, sec := range sections {
+		chunks[i] = ChunkSummary{
+			Index:           sec.Index,
+			StartSegmentID:  sec.StartSegmentID,
+			EndSegmentID:    sec.EndSegmentID,
+			EstimatedTokens: sec.EstimatedTokens,
+			SegmentCount:    len(sec.Segments),
+		}
+	}
+
+	return DetailedSummary{
+		Summary: summary,
+		Chunks:  chunks,
+	}
+}

internal/core/chunking/summary_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+package chunking
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/schema"
+)
+
+func TestComputeSummary(t *testing.T) {
+	config := ChunkingConfig{
+		MaxSectionTokens: 100,
+		MinSectionTokens: 10,
+	}
+
+	sections := []Section{
+		{Index: 0, EstimatedTokens: 30, StartSegmentID: 1, EndSegmentID: 2},
+		{Index: 1, EstimatedTokens: 50, StartSegmentID: 3, EndSegmentID: 4},
+		{Index: 2, EstimatedTokens: 20, StartSegmentID: 5, EndSegmentID: 5},
+	}
+
+	summary := ComputeSummary(sections, config)
+
+	if summary.ChunkCount != 3 {
+		t.Errorf("expected chunk_count=3, got %d", summary.ChunkCount)
+	}
+	if summary.MinEstimatedTokens != 20 {
+		t.Errorf("expected min_estimated_tokens=20, got %d", summary.MinEstimatedTokens)
+	}
+	if summary.MaxEstimatedTokens != 50 {
+		t.Errorf("expected max_estimated_tokens=50, got %d", summary.MaxEstimatedTokens)
+	}
+	if summary.TotalEstimatedTokens != 100 {
+		t.Errorf("expected total_estimated_tokens=100, got %d", summary.TotalEstimatedTokens)
+	}
+	if summary.MaxSectionTokens != 100 {
+		t.Errorf("expected max_section_tokens=100, got %d", summary.MaxSectionTokens)
+	}
+	if summary.MinSectionTokens != 10 {
+		t.Errorf("expected min_section_tokens=10, got %d", summary.MinSectionTokens)
+	}
+	if summary.TargetSections != nil {
+		t.Errorf("expected target_sections=nil, got %v", summary.TargetSections)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestComputeSummaryWithTarget(t *testing.T) {
+	target := 5
+	config := ChunkingConfig{
+		MaxSectionTokens: 100,
+		MinSectionTokens: 10,
+		TargetSections:   &target,
+	}
+
+	sections := []Section{
+		{Index: 0, EstimatedTokens: 30, StartSegmentID: 1, EndSegmentID: 2},
+	}
+
+	summary := ComputeSummary(sections, config)
+
+	if summary.TargetSections == nil || *summary.TargetSections != 5 {
+		t.Errorf("expected target_sections=5, got %v", summary.TargetSections)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestComputeSummaryEmptySections(t *testing.T) {
+	config := ChunkingConfig{
+		MaxSectionTokens: 100,
+		MinSectionTokens: 10,
+	}
+
+	sections := []Section{}
+
+	summary := ComputeSummary(sections, config)
+
+	if summary.ChunkCount != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("expected chunk_count=0, got %d", summary.ChunkCount)
+	}
+	if summary.MinEstimatedTokens != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("expected min_estimated_tokens=0 for empty, got %d", summary.MinEstimatedTokens)
+	}
+	if summary.MaxSectionTokens != 100 {
+		t.Errorf("expected max_section_tokens preserved, got %d", summary.MaxSectionTokens)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestComputeDetailedSummary(t *testing.T) {
+	config := ChunkingConfig{
+		MaxSectionTokens: 100,
+		MinSectionTokens: 10,
+	}
+
+	sections := []Section{
+		{
+			Index:           0,
+			EstimatedTokens: 30,
+			StartSegmentID:  1,
+			EndSegmentID:    2,
+			Segments:        make([]schema.Segment, 2), // 2 segments
+		},
+		{
+			Index:           1,
+			EstimatedTokens: 50,
+			StartSegmentID:  3,
+			EndSegmentID:    5,
+			Segments:        make([]schema.Segment, 3), // 3 segments
+		},
+	}
+
+	detailed := ComputeDetailedSummary(sections, config)
+
+	if detailed.ChunkCount != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("expected chunk_count=2, got %d", detailed.ChunkCount)
+	}
+	if len(detailed.Chunks) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 2 chunk entries, got %d", len(detailed.Chunks))
+	}
+
+	// Check first chunk
+	if detailed.Chunks[0].Index != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("expected chunk[0].index=0, got %d", detailed.Chunks[0].Index)
+	}
+	if detailed.Chunks[0].StartSegmentID != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("expected chunk[0].start_segment_id=1, got %d", detailed.Chunks[0].StartSegmentID)
+	}
+	if detailed.Chunks[0].EndSegmentID != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("expected chunk[0].end_segment_id=2, got %d", detailed.Chunks[0].EndSegmentID)
+	}
+	if detailed.Chunks[0].EstimatedTokens != 30 {
+		t.Errorf("expected chunk[0].estimated_tokens=30, got %d", detailed.Chunks[0].EstimatedTokens)
+	}
+	if detailed.Chunks[0].SegmentCount != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("expected chunk[0].segment_count=2, got %d", detailed.Chunks[0].SegmentCount)
+	}
+
+	// Check second chunk
+	if detailed.Chunks[1].Index != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("expected chunk[1].index=1, got %d", detailed.Chunks[1].Index)
+	}
+	if detailed.Chunks[1].StartSegmentID != 3 {
+		t.Errorf("expected chunk[1].start_segment_id=3, got %d", detailed.Chunks[1].StartSegmentID)
+	}
+	if detailed.Chunks[1].EndSegmentID != 5 {
+		t.Errorf("expected chunk[1].end_segment_id=5, got %d", detailed.Chunks[1].EndSegmentID)
+	}
+	if detailed.Chunks[1].SegmentCount != 3 {
+		t.Errorf("expected chunk[1].segment_count=3, got %d", detailed.Chunks[1].SegmentCount)
+	}
+}

internal/core/chunking/tokens.go

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+package chunking
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"unicode"
+)
+
+// TokenEstimator provides a deterministic token estimation suitable for prompt budgeting.
+// The estimator is approximate but stable, isolated, and replaceable.
+type TokenEstimator interface {
+	EstimateTokens(text string) int
+}
+
+// SimpleTokenEstimator provides a basic deterministic token estimation.
+// This uses a simple heuristic based on word count and punctuation.
+type SimpleTokenEstimator struct{}
+
+// NewSimpleTokenEstimator creates a new simple token estimator.
+func NewSimpleTokenEstimator() *SimpleTokenEstimator {
+	return &SimpleTokenEstimator{}
+}
+
+// EstimateTokens provides a rough estimate of the number of tokens in the given text.
+// This implementation uses a simple heuristic: count words and punctuation as tokens.
+// The estimate is deterministic and stable for the same input text.
+func (e *SimpleTokenEstimator) EstimateTokens(text string) int {
+	if text == "" {
+		return 0
+	}
+
+	// Simple heuristic: split on whitespace and count non-empty segments
+	words := strings.Fields(text)
+	tokenCount := len(words)
+
+	// Add some estimate for punctuation that might be separate tokens
+	punctuationCount := 0
+	for _, r := range text {
+		if unicode.IsPunct(r) && r != '\'' && r != '-' && r != '_' {
+			punctuationCount++
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Rough estimate: each word is a token, plus half the punctuation as separate tokens
+	return tokenCount + (punctuationCount / 2)
+}
+
+// ConstTokenEstimator returns a constant token count for testing purposes.
+type ConstTokenEstimator struct {
+	Tokens int
+}
+
+// EstimateTokens returns the configured constant token count.
+func (e *ConstTokenEstimator) EstimateTokens(text string) int {
+	return e.Tokens
+}

internal/core/chunking/tokens_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package chunking
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestSimpleTokenEstimator(t *testing.T) {
+	estimator := NewSimpleTokenEstimator()
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name     string
+		text     string
+		expected int
+	}{
+		{"empty string", "", 0},
+		{"single word", "hello", 1},
+		{"two words", "hello world", 2},
+		{"with punctuation", "hello, world!", 3},                  // 2 words + 2 punctuation/2 = 3
+		{"multiple sentences", "Hello world. This is a test.", 7}, // 7 words + 2 punctuation/2 = 8? Actually "Hello world." has 3 punctuation
+		{"with apostrophes", "don't won't can't", 3},
+		{"with hyphens", "well-known state-of-the-art", 2}, // hyphens don't count
+		{"unicode text", "café naïve", 2},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			got := estimator.EstimateTokens(tt.text)
+			if got != tt.expected {
+				t.Errorf("EstimateTokens(%q) = %d, want %d", tt.text, got, tt.expected)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestConstTokenEstimator(t *testing.T) {
+	estimator := &ConstTokenEstimator{Tokens: 42}
+
+	if got := estimator.EstimateTokens("any text"); got != 42 {
+		t.Errorf("ConstTokenEstimator.EstimateTokens = %d, want 42", got)
+	}
+
+	if got := estimator.EstimateTokens(""); got != 42 {
+		t.Errorf("ConstTokenEstimator.EstimateTokens(empty) = %d, want 42", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTokenEstimatorDeterminism(t *testing.T) {
+	estimator := NewSimpleTokenEstimator()
+	text := "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Hello, world!"
+
+	// Run multiple times and verify same result
+	first := estimator.EstimateTokens(text)
+	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
+		got := estimator.EstimateTokens(text)
+		if got != first {
+			t.Errorf("EstimateTokens not deterministic: iteration %d got %d, first was %d", i, got, first)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/core/config/config.go

@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
+package config
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	ck "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/modulecatalog"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/outputschema"
+)
+
+const (
+	DefaultModulesCSV                    = "glossary,homophones,glossary,spoken_word,grammar"
+	DefaultTranscriptDescriptionMaxChars = 500
+	DefaultValidationMaxPromptTokens     = 2048
+)
+
+// Config is the version-2 application configuration. Invocation paths are not settings.
+type Config struct {
+	Version       int                `yaml:"version"`
+	ProfilesDir   string             `yaml:"profiles_dir"`
+	Backends      map[string]Backend `yaml:"backends"`
+	LLM           LLM                `yaml:"llm"`
+	Pipeline      Pipeline           `yaml:"pipeline"`
+	Output        Output             `yaml:"output"`
+	Validation    Validation         `yaml:"validation"`
+	Chunking      Chunking           `yaml:"chunking"`
+	Normalization Normalization      `yaml:"normalization"`
+	Thresholds    Thresholds         `yaml:"thresholds"`
+	Context       Context            `yaml:"context"`
+	Reporting     Reporting          `yaml:"reporting"`
+	Diagnostics   Diagnostics        `yaml:"diagnostics"`
+}
+
+type Backend struct {
+	Endpoint      string     `yaml:"endpoint"`
+	Concurrency   int        `yaml:"concurrency"`
+	QueueCapacity int        `yaml:"queue_capacity"`
+	Credential    *ck.Secret `yaml:"credential"`
+}
+type LLM struct {
+	ProposalProfile   string        `yaml:"proposal_profile"`
+	ValidationProfile string        `yaml:"validation_profile"`
+	TransientRetries  int           `yaml:"transient_retries"`
+	RepairAttempts    int           `yaml:"repair_attempts"`
+	OperationTimeout  time.Duration `yaml:"operation_timeout"`
+}
+type Pipeline struct {
+	Modules []string `yaml:"modules"`
+}
+type Output struct {
+	Schema string `yaml:"schema"`
+}
+type Validation struct {
+	MaxPromptTokens int `yaml:"max_prompt_tokens"`
+}
+type Chunking struct {
+	TargetSections   *int `yaml:"target_sections"`
+	MaxSectionTokens int  `yaml:"max_section_tokens"`
+	MinSectionTokens int  `yaml:"min_section_tokens"`
+}
+type Normalization struct {
+	MaxSegmentGap      float64 `yaml:"max_segment_gap"`
+	EllipsisGap        float64 `yaml:"ellipsis_gap"`
+	MaxSegmentDuration float64 `yaml:"max_segment_duration"`
+	MaxSegmentTokens   int     `yaml:"max_segment_tokens"`
+}
+type Thresholds struct {
+	Glossary   float64 `yaml:"glossary"`
+	Homophones float64 `yaml:"homophones"`
+	SpokenWord float64 `yaml:"spoken_word"`
+	Grammar    float64 `yaml:"grammar"`
+}
+type Context struct {
+	Description string `yaml:"description"`
+}
+type Diagnostics struct {
+	Debug   bool   `yaml:"debug"`
+	WorkDir string `yaml:"work_dir"`
+}
+type Reporting struct {
+	Enabled   bool   `yaml:"enabled"`
+	StdoutDir string `yaml:"stdout_dir"`
+}
+
+func defaults() Config {
+	return Config{
+		ProfilesDir:   "profiles",
+		LLM:           LLM{TransientRetries: 2, RepairAttempts: 2, OperationTimeout: 15 * time.Minute},
+		Pipeline:      Pipeline{Modules: []string{"glossary", "homophones", "glossary", "spoken_word", "grammar"}},
+		Output:        Output{Schema: "bare-segments"},
+		Validation:    Validation{MaxPromptTokens: DefaultValidationMaxPromptTokens},
+		Chunking:      Chunking{MaxSectionTokens: 8192, MinSectionTokens: 2048},
+		Normalization: Normalization{MaxSegmentGap: 4, EllipsisGap: 3.5, MaxSegmentDuration: 60, MaxSegmentTokens: 2048},
+		Thresholds:    Thresholds{Glossary: .8, Homophones: .8, SpokenWord: .8, Grammar: .8},
+		Reporting:     Reporting{Enabled: true, StdoutDir: "."},
+		Diagnostics:   Diagnostics{WorkDir: "/tmp/audita"},
+	}
+}
+
+// Load resolves the selected main file, optional overlay, and explicit setting overrides.
+// Its result retains safe effective output and provenance for CLI composition.
+func Load(source ck.Source, overlay string, overrides ...ck.Override) (*ck.Result[Config], error) {
+	return ck.Load(source, ck.Options[Config]{
+		Overlay: overlay, Overrides: overrides,
+		Definition: ck.Definition[Config]{
+			Defaults: defaults,
+			Version: &ck.VersionRule{Path: ck.Keys("version"), Check: func(version ck.Version, v *ck.Validation) error {
+				if !version.Present || version.Null || version.Text != "2" {
+					v.Error(ck.Keys("version"), "version 2 is required; see docs/migrations/v2.md")
+				}
+				return nil
+			}},
+			Resolve: func(c *Config, r *ck.Resolution) error {
+				ck.Default(r, ck.Keys("llm", "validation_profile"), &c.LLM.ValidationProfile, c.LLM.ProposalProfile, "validation uses the final proposal profile when omitted", ck.Keys("llm", "proposal_profile"))
+				for id, backend := range c.Backends {
+					changed := false
+					if !r.IsExplicit(ck.Keys("backends", id, "concurrency")) {
+						backend.Concurrency = 1
+						changed = true
+					}
+					if !r.IsExplicit(ck.Keys("backends", id, "queue_capacity")) {
+						backend.QueueCapacity = 1024
+						changed = true
+					}
+					if changed {
+						c.Backends[id] = backend
+						r.Record(ck.Keys("backends", id), ck.ChangeDerivedDefault, "finite backend defaults")
+					}
+				}
+				return nil
+			},
+			Validate: validate,
+		},
+	})
+}
+
+func validate(c *Config, v *ck.Validation) {
+	check := func(ok bool, path ck.Path, message string) {
+		if !ok {
+			v.Error(path, message)
+		}
+	}
+	check(strings.TrimSpace(c.ProfilesDir) != "", ck.Keys("profiles_dir"), "profile directory is required")
+	check(strings.TrimSpace(c.LLM.ProposalProfile) != "", ck.Keys("llm", "proposal_profile"), "proposal profile is required")
+	check(strings.TrimSpace(c.LLM.ValidationProfile) != "", ck.Keys("llm", "validation_profile"), "validation profile is required")
+	check(c.LLM.TransientRetries >= 0, ck.Keys("llm", "transient_retries"), "retry budget must be non-negative")
+	check(c.LLM.RepairAttempts >= 0 && c.LLM.RepairAttempts <= 3, ck.Keys("llm", "repair_attempts"), "repair attempts must be between zero and three")
+	check(c.LLM.OperationTimeout > 0, ck.Keys("llm", "operation_timeout"), "operation timeout must be positive")
+	check(len(c.Backends) > 0, ck.Keys("backends"), "at least one backend is required")
+	for id, b := range c.Backends {
+		p := ck.Keys("backends", id)
+		check(strings.TrimSpace(b.Endpoint) != "", p.Key("endpoint"), "backend endpoint is required")
+		check(b.Concurrency > 0, p.Key("concurrency"), "backend concurrency must be positive")
+		check(b.QueueCapacity >= 0, p.Key("queue_capacity"), "queue capacity must be non-negative")
+	}
+	for i, module := range c.Pipeline.Modules {
+		check(modulecatalog.IsSupported(module), ck.Keys("pipeline", "modules").Index(i), "unsupported module key")
+	}
+	check(outputschema.IsSupported(c.Output.Schema), ck.Keys("output", "schema"), "unsupported output schema")
+	check(c.Validation.MaxPromptTokens > 0, ck.Keys("validation", "max_prompt_tokens"), "validation prompt budget must be positive")
+	check(c.Chunking.MaxSectionTokens > 0, ck.Keys("chunking", "max_section_tokens"), "maximum section tokens must be positive")
+	check(c.Chunking.MinSectionTokens > 0 && c.Chunking.MinSectionTokens <= c.Chunking.MaxSectionTokens, ck.Keys("chunking", "min_section_tokens"), "minimum section tokens must be positive and no greater than maximum")
+	check(c.Chunking.TargetSections == nil || *c.Chunking.TargetSections > 0, ck.Keys("chunking", "target_sections"), "target sections must be positive when set")
+	check(c.Normalization.MaxSegmentGap >= 0, ck.Keys("normalization", "max_segment_gap"), "maximum segment gap must be non-negative")
+	check(c.Normalization.EllipsisGap >= 0, ck.Keys("normalization", "ellipsis_gap"), "ellipsis gap must be non-negative")
+	check(c.Normalization.MaxSegmentDuration > 0, ck.Keys("normalization", "max_segment_duration"), "maximum segment duration must be positive")
+	check(c.Normalization.MaxSegmentTokens > 0, ck.Keys("normalization", "max_segment_tokens"), "maximum segment tokens must be positive")
+	for name, threshold := range map[string]float64{"glossary": c.Thresholds.Glossary, "homophones": c.Thresholds.Homophones, "spoken_word": c.Thresholds.SpokenWord, "grammar": c.Thresholds.Grammar} {
+		check(threshold >= 0 && threshold <= 1, ck.Keys("thresholds", name), "confidence threshold must be between zero and one")
+	}
+	check(len(strings.TrimSpace(c.Context.Description)) <= DefaultTranscriptDescriptionMaxChars, ck.Keys("context", "description"), fmt.Sprintf("description must be at most %d bytes after trimming", DefaultTranscriptDescriptionMaxChars))
+}
+
+// ParseModulesCSV is used only for an explicitly supplied --modules override.
+func ParseModulesCSV(raw string) ([]string, error) {
+	if raw == "" {
+		return []string{}, nil
+	}
+	parts := strings.Split(raw, ",")
+	for i := range parts {
+		parts[i] = strings.TrimSpace(parts[i])
+		if parts[i] == "" {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("modules list contains an empty value")
+		}
+	}
+	return parts, nil
+}

internal/core/config/config_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,303 @@
+package config
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"errors"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"reflect"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	ck "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
+)
+
+const base = "version: 2\nbackends:\n  local:\n    endpoint: https://local.invalid/v1\nllm:\n  proposal_profile: proposal\n"
+
+func loadText(text, overlay string, overrides ...ck.Override) (*ck.Result[Config], error) {
+	return Load(ck.Bytes("config.yml", []byte(text)), overlay, overrides...)
+}
+
+func TestDefaultsAndDomainSettings(t *testing.T) {
+	loaded, err := loadText(base, "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	c := loaded.Config
+	if c.LLM.ValidationProfile != "proposal" || c.Backends["local"].Concurrency != 1 || c.Backends["local"].QueueCapacity != 1024 {
+		t.Fatalf("derived settings: %+v %+v", c.LLM, c.Backends)
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(c.Pipeline.Modules, []string{"glossary", "homophones", "glossary", "spoken_word", "grammar"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("module order: %v", c.Pipeline.Modules)
+	}
+	if explanation, ok := loaded.Explain(ck.Keys("llm", "validation_profile")); !ok || len(explanation.History) == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("validation inheritance has no recorded derivation")
+	}
+	if _, err := loadText(base+"pipeline:\n  modules: []\n", ""); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("empty pipeline: %v", err)
+	}
+	if _, err := loadText(base+"pipeline:\n  modules: [grammar, glossary, grammar]\n", ""); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("repeated modules: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestStrictInputAndConstraints(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct{ name, text string }{
+		{"old version", strings.Replace(base, "version: 2", "version: 1", 1)},
+		{"missing version", strings.Replace(base, "version: 2\n", "", 1)},
+		{"null version", strings.Replace(base, "version: 2", "version: null", 1)},
+		{"quoted version", strings.Replace(base, "version: 2", "version: '2'", 1)},
+		{"unknown field", base + "mystery: true\n"},
+		{"empty validation profile", base + "  validation_profile: ''\n"},
+		{"null validation profile", base + "  validation_profile: null\n"},
+		{"null proposal profile", strings.Replace(base, "proposal_profile: proposal", "proposal_profile: null", 1)},
+		{"zero backend concurrency", base + "    concurrency: 0\n"},
+		{"invalid target", base + "chunking:\n  target_sections: 0\n"},
+		{"invalid section relation", base + "chunking:\n  min_section_tokens: 10000\n"},
+		{"string normalization", base + "normalization:\n  max_segment_gap: 4s\n"},
+		{"invalid threshold", base + "thresholds:\n  glossary: 1.1\n"},
+		{"removed retention", base + "diagnostics:\n  retention: always\n"},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			if _, err := loadText(tc.text, ""); err == nil {
+				t.Fatal("invalid config accepted")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+	_, err := loadText(strings.Replace(base, "version: 2", "version: 1", 1), "")
+	var loadErr *ck.LoadError
+	if !errors.As(err, &loadErr) || len(loadErr.Diagnostics()) == 0 || !strings.Contains(loadErr.Diagnostics()[0].Message, "docs/migrations/v2.md") {
+		t.Fatalf("migration guidance: %v", err)
+	}
+	for _, tc := range []struct{ name, text string }{
+		{"optional target null", base + "chunking:\n  target_sections: null\n"},
+		{"zero queue", strings.Replace(base, "llm:\n", "    queue_capacity: 0\nllm:\n", 1)},
+		{"zero retries", base + "  transient_retries: 0\n  repair_attempts: 0\n"},
+		{"zero threshold", base + "thresholds:\n  grammar: 0\n"},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			if _, err := loadText(tc.text, ""); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestOverlayOverrideAndInheritance(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	if err := os.Mkdir(filepath.Join(dir, "overlays"), 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	main := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(main, []byte(base), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "overlays", "testing.yml"), []byte("llm:\n  proposal_profile: testing\nchunking:\n  max_section_tokens: 1000\n"), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	loaded, err := Load(ck.File(main), "testing", ck.Override{Path: ck.Keys("llm", "proposal_profile"), Value: "explicit", Flag: "--proposal-profile"}, ck.Override{Path: ck.Keys("chunking", "min_section_tokens"), Value: 500, Flag: "--min-section-tokens"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if loaded.Config.LLM.ProposalProfile != "explicit" || loaded.Config.LLM.ValidationProfile != "explicit" || loaded.Config.Chunking.MaxSectionTokens != 1000 || loaded.Config.Chunking.MinSectionTokens != 500 {
+		t.Fatalf("resolved: %+v", loaded.Config)
+	}
+	if got, _ := loaded.Metadata().Lookup(ck.Keys("llm", "proposal_profile")); got.Origin.Layer != ck.LayerCLI {
+		t.Fatalf("override origin: %+v", got)
+	}
+	if got, _ := loaded.Metadata().Lookup(ck.Keys("chunking", "max_section_tokens")); got.Origin.Layer != ck.LayerOverlay {
+		t.Fatalf("overlay origin: %+v", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSurvivingCredentials(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("BASE_SECRET", "")
+	t.Setenv("NEW_SECRET", "synthetic-secret")
+	withSecret := strings.Replace(base, "llm:\n", "  other:\n    endpoint: https://other.invalid/v1\n    credential: BASE_SECRET\nllm:\n", 1)
+	if _, err := loadText(withSecret, ""); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("missing unselected backend secret accepted")
+	}
+	replacement := ck.Override{Path: ck.Keys("backends", "other", "credential"), Value: "NEW_SECRET", Flag: "--credential"}
+	loaded, err := loadText(withSecret, "", replacement)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := loaded.Config.Backends["other"].Credential.Value(); got != "synthetic-secret" {
+		t.Fatalf("resolved secret: %q", got)
+	}
+	var effective bytes.Buffer
+	if err := loaded.WriteEffective(&effective); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(effective.String(), "synthetic-secret") {
+		t.Fatal("effective output leaked a secret")
+	}
+	null := ck.Override{Path: ck.Keys("backends", "other", "credential"), Value: nil, Flag: "--credential"}
+	loaded, err = loadText(withSecret, "", null)
+	if err != nil || loaded.Config.Backends["other"].Credential != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("null credential: %+v %v", loaded, err)
+	}
+
+	inherited := `version: 2
+backends:
+  parent:
+    endpoint: https://parent.invalid/v1
+    credential: BASE_SECRET
+  local:
+    extends: parent
+    credential: null
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: proposal
+`
+	if _, err := loadText(inherited, ""); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("null child credential removed the unselected parent's surviving reference")
+	}
+	t.Setenv("BASE_SECRET", "synthetic-parent-secret")
+	loaded, err = loadText(strings.Replace(inherited, "    credential: null\n", "", 1), "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := loaded.Config.Backends["local"].Credential.Value(); got != "synthetic-parent-secret" {
+		t.Fatalf("inherited secret: %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := loaded.Metadata().IsExplicit(ck.Keys("backends", "local", "credential")); !got {
+		t.Fatal("inherited credential is not explicit")
+	}
+	var inheritedEffective bytes.Buffer
+	if err := loaded.WriteEffective(&inheritedEffective); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(inheritedEffective.String(), "synthetic-parent-secret") {
+		t.Fatal("effective output leaked an inherited secret")
+	}
+	loaded, err = loadText(inherited, "")
+	if err != nil || loaded.Config.Backends["local"].Credential != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("child null credential: %+v %v", loaded, err)
+	}
+	if got := loaded.Config.Backends["parent"].Credential.Value(); got != "synthetic-parent-secret" {
+		t.Fatalf("parent credential after child null: %q", got)
+	}
+
+	t.Setenv("AUDITA_MODEL", "legacy-model")
+	loaded, err = loadText(base, "")
+	if err != nil || loaded.Config.LLM.ProposalProfile != "proposal" {
+		t.Fatalf("legacy environment affected loading: %+v %v", loaded, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSiblingInheritancePreservesBackendSettings(t *testing.T) {
+	text := `version: 2
+backends:
+  base:
+    endpoint: https://base.invalid/v1
+    concurrency: 3
+    queue_capacity: 0
+  local:
+    extends: base
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: proposal
+`
+	loaded, err := loadText(text, "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	backend := loaded.Config.Backends["local"]
+	if backend.Endpoint != "https://base.invalid/v1" || backend.Concurrency != 3 || backend.QueueCapacity != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("inherited backend settings: %+v", backend)
+	}
+	for _, path := range []ck.Path{
+		ck.Keys("backends", "local", "endpoint"),
+		ck.Keys("backends", "local", "concurrency"),
+		ck.Keys("backends", "local", "queue_capacity"),
+	} {
+		if !loaded.Metadata().IsExplicit(path) {
+			t.Errorf("inherited field %s is not explicit", path.String())
+		}
+	}
+
+	overridden, err := loadText(strings.Replace(text, "    extends: base\n", "    extends: base\n    concurrency: 2\n", 1), "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := overridden.Config.Backends["local"].Concurrency; got != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("child concurrency override: %d", got)
+	}
+	if got := overridden.Config.Backends["local"].QueueCapacity; got != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("inherited zero queue capacity: %d", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSiblingInheritanceUsesSelectedOverlay(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	if err := os.Mkdir(filepath.Join(dir, "overlays"), 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	main := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
+	text := `version: 2
+backends:
+  base:
+    endpoint: https://base.invalid/v1
+    concurrency: 3
+    queue_capacity: 0
+  local:
+    extends: base
+    concurrency: 2
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: proposal
+`
+	if err := os.WriteFile(main, []byte(text), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "overlays", "testing.yml"), []byte("backends:\n  base:\n    endpoint: https://overlay.invalid/v1\n    concurrency: 4\n"), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	loaded, err := Load(ck.File(main), "testing")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	child := loaded.Config.Backends["local"]
+	if child.Endpoint != "https://overlay.invalid/v1" || child.Concurrency != 2 || child.QueueCapacity != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("overlay inheritance and child override: %+v", child)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSiblingInheritanceDoesNotBypassBackendValidation(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name string
+		text string
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "invalid inherited parent setting",
+			text: `version: 2
+backends:
+  base:
+    endpoint: https://base.invalid/v1
+    concurrency: 0
+  local:
+    extends: base
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: proposal
+`,
+		},
+		{
+			name: "invalid child override",
+			text: `version: 2
+backends:
+  base:
+    endpoint: https://base.invalid/v1
+    concurrency: 3
+  local:
+    extends: base
+    concurrency: 0
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: proposal
+`,
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			if _, err := loadText(tc.text, ""); err == nil {
+				t.Fatal("invalid backend concurrency accepted")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}

internal/core/diagnostics/artifacts.go

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+package diagnostics
+
+const (
+	ArtifactSourceTranscript       = "source-transcript.json"
+	ArtifactParsedSourceTranscript = "source-transcript-parsed.json"
+	ArtifactNormalizedTranscript   = "normalized-transcript.json"
+	ArtifactNormalizationSummary   = "normalization-summary.json"
+	ArtifactChunkingSummary        = "chunking-summary.json"
+	ArtifactUtilizationSummary     = "utilization-diagnostics.json"
+	ArtifactLLMExecution           = "llm-execution.json"
+	ArtifactSelectedProfiles       = "selected-profiles.yaml"
+	ArtifactConfigOrigins          = "config-origins.yaml"
+	ArtifactCorrectionLedger       = "correction-ledger.json"
+	ArtifactInvocationMetadata     = "invocation.json"
+	ArtifactEffectiveConfig        = "effective-config.redacted.yaml"
+	ArtifactErrorLog               = "error.log"
+)

internal/core/diagnostics/output_session.go

@@ -0,0 +1,313 @@
+package diagnostics
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+const (
+	ErrorsFile     = "errors.yml"
+	RecoveriesFile = "recoveries.yml"
+	MarkdownFile   = "report.md"
+)
+
+// OutputSelection contains only active destinations. ProtectedPaths are inputs
+// and loaded configuration/profile sources that must never be overwritten.
+// InputTranscriptPath may be replaced by final transcript publication, but not reports.
+type OutputSelection struct {
+	InputTranscriptPath string
+	TranscriptPath      string
+	ReportDir           string
+	ReportingEnabled    bool
+	ProtectedPaths      []string
+}
+
+type ReportBundle struct {
+	Errors     []byte
+	Recoveries []byte
+	Markdown   []byte
+}
+
+type FileFailure struct {
+	Path string
+	Kind string
+	Err  error
+}
+
+func (f FileFailure) Error() string { return fmt.Sprintf("%s %q: %v", f.Kind, f.Path, f.Err) }
+func (f FileFailure) Unwrap() error { return f.Err }
+
+// OutputSession owns checked destinations and per-file publication. Filesystem
+// failures remain typed so CLI can present safe, redacted diagnostics.
+type OutputSession struct {
+	transcript string
+	reports    [3]string
+	enabled    bool
+	replace    func(string, []byte) error
+}
+
+func PrepareOutput(selection OutputSelection) (*OutputSession, error) {
+	session := &OutputSession{enabled: selection.ReportingEnabled, replace: atomicReplace}
+	active := make([]string, 0, 4)
+	if selection.TranscriptPath != "" {
+		session.transcript = selection.TranscriptPath
+		active = append(active, session.transcript)
+	}
+	if session.enabled {
+		if strings.TrimSpace(selection.ReportDir) == "" {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("report directory is required")
+		}
+		info, err := os.Stat(selection.ReportDir)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("report directory: %w", err)
+		}
+		if !info.IsDir() {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("report destination is not a directory")
+		}
+		session.reports = [3]string{
+			filepath.Join(selection.ReportDir, ErrorsFile),
+			filepath.Join(selection.ReportDir, RecoveriesFile),
+			filepath.Join(selection.ReportDir, MarkdownFile),
+		}
+		active = append(active, session.reports[:]...)
+	}
+	protected := make([]string, 0, len(selection.ProtectedPaths))
+	for _, path := range selection.ProtectedPaths {
+		if path != "" {
+			protected = append(protected, path)
+		}
+	}
+	for i, path := range active {
+		if path != session.transcript {
+			if info, err := os.Stat(path); err == nil {
+				if !info.Mode().IsRegular() {
+					return nil, fmt.Errorf("report output %q is not a regular file", path)
+				}
+			} else if !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("report output %q: %w", path, err)
+			}
+		}
+		sources := protected
+		if path != session.transcript && selection.InputTranscriptPath != "" {
+			sources = append(append([]string(nil), protected...), selection.InputTranscriptPath)
+		}
+		for _, source := range sources {
+			collision, err := sameDestination(path, source)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+			if collision {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("output destination %q conflicts with input %q", path, source)
+			}
+		}
+		for _, prior := range active[:i] {
+			collision, err := sameDestination(path, prior)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+			if collision {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("output destinations %q and %q conflict", path, prior)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if session.transcript != "" {
+		if err := preflightTranscript(session.transcript); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+	return session, nil
+}
+
+func (s *OutputSession) ReportPaths() []string {
+	if s == nil || !s.enabled {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return []string{s.reports[0], s.reports[1], s.reports[2]}
+}
+
+func (s *OutputSession) TranscriptPath() string {
+	if s == nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return s.transcript
+}
+
+// Initialize writes all report destinations before input/model processing. On
+// failure it makes one best-effort pass to mark already-created reports failed.
+func (s *OutputSession) Initialize(initial, failed ReportBundle) error {
+	if s == nil || !s.enabled {
+		return nil
+	}
+	created := make([]int, 0, len(s.reports))
+	for i, payload := range bundleParts(initial) {
+		if err := s.replace(s.reports[i], payload); err != nil {
+			for _, prior := range created {
+				_ = s.replace(s.reports[prior], bundleParts(failed)[prior])
+			}
+			return FileFailure{Path: s.reports[i], Kind: "report initialization", Err: err}
+		}
+		created = append(created, i)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Finalize publishes the transcript first, then errors, recoveries, and Markdown.
+// An empty transcript payload means processing failed and no transcript is written.
+// Every enabled report is attempted even after an earlier write failure.
+func (s *OutputSession) Finalize(transcript []byte, reports ReportBundle, failed func([]FileFailure) ReportBundle) []FileFailure {
+	if s == nil {
+		return []FileFailure{{Kind: "output finalization", Err: fmt.Errorf("output session is required")}}
+	}
+	failures := make([]FileFailure, 0)
+	if transcript != nil && s.transcript != "" {
+		if err := s.writeTranscript(transcript); err != nil {
+			failures = append(failures, FileFailure{Path: s.transcript, Kind: "transcript write", Err: err})
+		}
+	}
+	if s.enabled {
+		for i, payload := range bundleParts(reports) {
+			if err := s.replace(s.reports[i], payload); err != nil {
+				failures = append(failures, FileFailure{Path: s.reports[i], Kind: "report write", Err: err})
+			}
+		}
+		if len(failures) > 0 {
+			for i, payload := range bundleParts(failed(failures)) {
+				_ = s.replace(s.reports[i], payload)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return failures
+}
+
+// Stream destinations use ordinary writes; replacing their directory entry would
+// destroy the device or pipe. Regular files retain per-file replacement.
+func (s *OutputSession) writeTranscript(payload []byte) error {
+	info, err := os.Stat(s.transcript)
+	if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+		return err
+	}
+	if err == nil && !info.Mode().IsRegular() {
+		file, err := os.OpenFile(s.transcript, os.O_WRONLY, 0)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		_, writeErr := file.Write(payload)
+		return errors.Join(writeErr, file.Close())
+	}
+	return s.replace(s.transcript, payload)
+}
+
+func bundleParts(bundle ReportBundle) [3][]byte {
+	return [3][]byte{bundle.Errors, bundle.Recoveries, bundle.Markdown}
+}
+
+func preflightTranscript(path string) error {
+	info, err := os.Stat(path)
+	if err == nil {
+		if info.IsDir() {
+			return fmt.Errorf("transcript output %q is a directory", path)
+		}
+		if !info.Mode().IsRegular() {
+			// Opening a pipe here can block before its reader is ready.
+			return nil
+		}
+		file, openErr := os.OpenFile(path, os.O_WRONLY, 0)
+		if openErr != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("transcript output %q cannot be opened: %w", path, openErr)
+		}
+		if closeErr := file.Close(); closeErr != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("transcript output %q cannot be closed: %w", path, closeErr)
+		}
+	} else if !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("transcript output %q: %w", path, err)
+	}
+	parent := filepath.Dir(path)
+	probe, err := os.CreateTemp(parent, ".audita-probe-*")
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("transcript output parent %q: %w", parent, err)
+	}
+	name := probe.Name()
+	closeErr := probe.Close()
+	removeErr := os.Remove(name)
+	if closeErr != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("transcript output probe close: %w", closeErr)
+	}
+	if removeErr != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("transcript output probe removal: %w", removeErr)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func sameDestination(a, b string) (bool, error) {
+	ca, err := canonicalDestination(a)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, err
+	}
+	cb, err := canonicalDestination(b)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, err
+	}
+	if ca == cb {
+		return true, nil
+	}
+	ai, ae := os.Stat(a)
+	bi, be := os.Stat(b)
+	return ae == nil && be == nil && os.SameFile(ai, bi), nil
+}
+
+func canonicalDestination(path string) (string, error) {
+	abs, err := filepath.Abs(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	abs = filepath.Clean(abs)
+	if resolved, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(abs); err == nil {
+		return resolved, nil
+	}
+	parent, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(filepath.Dir(abs))
+	if err == nil {
+		return filepath.Join(parent, filepath.Base(abs)), nil
+	}
+	return abs, nil
+}
+
+func atomicReplace(path string, payload []byte) error {
+	publishPath, err := canonicalDestination(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	// A private temporary directory lets ordinary file creation apply the umask
+	// without reading or changing process-global state. Rename stays on the same
+	// filesystem, and the incomplete payload is not accessible through the parent.
+	dir, err := os.MkdirTemp(filepath.Dir(publishPath), ".audita-write-*")
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer os.Remove(dir)
+	name := filepath.Join(dir, "payload")
+	temp, err := os.OpenFile(name, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE|os.O_EXCL, 0644)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer os.Remove(name)
+	if info, err := os.Stat(publishPath); err == nil {
+		if err := temp.Chmod(info.Mode().Perm()); err != nil {
+			_ = temp.Close()
+			return err
+		}
+	} else if !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+		_ = temp.Close()
+		return err
+	}
+	if _, err := temp.Write(payload); err != nil {
+		_ = temp.Close()
+		return err
+	}
+	if err := temp.Close(); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return os.Rename(name, publishPath)
+}

internal/core/diagnostics/output_session_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,257 @@
+package diagnostics
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestPrepareOutputAllowsInPlaceTranscriptButRejectsReportCollisions(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	input := filepath.Join(dir, "input.json")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(input, []byte("source"), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	alias := filepath.Join(dir, "alias.json")
+	if err := os.Symlink(input, alias); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	hardlink := filepath.Join(dir, "hardlink.json")
+	if err := os.Link(input, hardlink); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, output := range []string{input, alias, hardlink} {
+		if _, err := PrepareOutput(OutputSelection{TranscriptPath: output, InputTranscriptPath: input}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("in-place output rejected: %s: %v", output, err)
+		}
+	}
+	if _, err := PrepareOutput(OutputSelection{TranscriptPath: filepath.Join(dir, ErrorsFile), ReportDir: dir, ReportingEnabled: true}); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("report/transcript collision accepted")
+	}
+	if _, err := PrepareOutput(OutputSelection{ReportDir: dir, ReportingEnabled: true, ProtectedPaths: []string{filepath.Join(dir, ErrorsFile)}}); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("report/source collision accepted")
+	}
+	if err := os.Symlink(input, filepath.Join(dir, ErrorsFile)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := PrepareOutput(OutputSelection{ReportDir: dir, ReportingEnabled: true, InputTranscriptPath: input}); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("report/input alias accepted")
+	}
+	if err := os.Remove(filepath.Join(dir, ErrorsFile)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.Mkdir(filepath.Join(dir, MarkdownFile), 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := PrepareOutput(OutputSelection{ReportDir: dir, ReportingEnabled: true}); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("directory report target accepted")
+	}
+	if got, err := os.ReadFile(input); err != nil || string(got) != "source" {
+		t.Fatalf("source changed: %s %v", got, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestPrepareOutputPreservesExistingTranscriptAndChecksParent(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	output := filepath.Join(dir, "out.json")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(output, []byte("old content"), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	session, err := PrepareOutput(OutputSelection{TranscriptPath: output})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got, err := os.ReadFile(output); err != nil || string(got) != "old content" {
+		t.Fatalf("preflight truncated output: %s %v", got, err)
+	}
+	if failures := session.Finalize([]byte("new content"), ReportBundle{}, func([]FileFailure) ReportBundle { return ReportBundle{} }); len(failures) != 0 {
+		t.Fatal(failures)
+	}
+	if got, err := os.ReadFile(output); err != nil || string(got) != "new content" {
+		t.Fatalf("publication: %s %v", got, err)
+	}
+	if info, _ := os.Stat(output); info.Mode().Perm() != 0600 {
+		t.Fatalf("permission changed: %v", info.Mode())
+	}
+	if _, err := PrepareOutput(OutputSelection{TranscriptPath: filepath.Join(dir, "missing", "out.json")}); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("absent parent accepted")
+	}
+	if _, err := PrepareOutput(OutputSelection{TranscriptPath: dir}); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("directory target accepted")
+	}
+	entries, err := os.ReadDir(dir)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, entry := range entries {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(entry.Name(), ".audita-") {
+			t.Fatalf("probe left behind: %s", entry.Name())
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAtomicReplacementCleansTemporaryFileAfterRenameFailure(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	blocked := filepath.Join(dir, "directory-target")
+	if err := os.Mkdir(blocked, 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := atomicReplace(blocked, []byte("new content")); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("directory replacement unexpectedly succeeded")
+	}
+	entries, err := os.ReadDir(dir)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, entry := range entries {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(entry.Name(), ".audita-write-") {
+			t.Fatalf("replacement left temporary file: %s", entry.Name())
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDisabledReportingIgnoresUnusableDirectory(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	session, err := PrepareOutput(OutputSelection{TranscriptPath: filepath.Join(dir, "out.json"), ReportDir: filepath.Join(dir, "missing"), ReportingEnabled: false})
+	if err != nil || len(session.ReportPaths()) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("disabled reports probed: %+v %v", session, err)
+	}
+	if err := session.Initialize(ReportBundle{}, ReportBundle{}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, "missing")); !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+		t.Fatalf("disabled destination created: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestEnabledReportingRequiresExistingDirectory(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	if _, err := PrepareOutput(OutputSelection{ReportDir: filepath.Join(dir, "missing"), ReportingEnabled: true}); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("missing report directory accepted")
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, "missing")); !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+		t.Fatalf("report parent created: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestStdoutModeInitializesAndFinalizesReports(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	session, err := PrepareOutput(OutputSelection{ReportDir: dir, ReportingEnabled: true})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	initial := ReportBundle{Errors: []byte("in progress errors"), Recoveries: []byte("in progress recoveries"), Markdown: []byte("in progress report")}
+	finished := ReportBundle{Errors: []byte("completed errors"), Recoveries: []byte("completed recoveries"), Markdown: []byte("completed report")}
+	if err := session.Initialize(initial, ReportBundle{}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if session.TranscriptPath() != "" {
+		t.Fatal("stdout mode acquired transcript path")
+	}
+	for i, path := range session.ReportPaths() {
+		got, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+		if err != nil || string(got) != string(bundleParts(initial)[i]) {
+			t.Fatalf("initial %s: %s %v", path, got, err)
+		}
+	}
+	if failures := session.Finalize(nil, finished, func([]FileFailure) ReportBundle { return ReportBundle{} }); len(failures) != 0 {
+		t.Fatal(failures)
+	}
+	for i, path := range session.ReportPaths() {
+		got, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+		if err != nil || string(got) != string(bundleParts(finished)[i]) {
+			t.Fatalf("final %s: %s %v", path, got, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestInitializeFailureMarksPriorReportFailedBeforeModelWork(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	session, err := PrepareOutput(OutputSelection{ReportDir: dir, ReportingEnabled: true})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	actual := session.replace
+	session.replace = func(path string, payload []byte) error {
+		if filepath.Base(path) == RecoveriesFile && string(payload) == "initial" {
+			return os.ErrPermission
+		}
+		return actual(path, payload)
+	}
+	modelCalled := false
+	if err := session.Initialize(ReportBundle{Errors: []byte("initial"), Recoveries: []byte("initial"), Markdown: []byte("initial")}, ReportBundle{Errors: []byte("failed"), Recoveries: []byte("failed"), Markdown: []byte("failed")}); err == nil {
+		modelCalled = true
+	}
+	if modelCalled {
+		t.Fatal("model work continued after initialization failure")
+	}
+	got, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, ErrorsFile))
+	if err != nil || string(got) != "failed" {
+		t.Fatalf("prior report not failed: %s %v", got, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, MarkdownFile)); !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+		t.Fatalf("later report created: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFinalizationCollectsFailuresAndRetainsPublishedTranscript(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	output := filepath.Join(dir, "output.json")
+	session, err := PrepareOutput(OutputSelection{TranscriptPath: output, ReportDir: dir, ReportingEnabled: true})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := session.Initialize(ReportBundle{Errors: []byte("initial"), Recoveries: []byte("initial"), Markdown: []byte("initial")}, ReportBundle{}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	actual := session.replace
+	session.replace = func(path string, payload []byte) error {
+		if filepath.Base(path) == ErrorsFile && string(payload) == "complete" {
+			return os.ErrPermission
+		}
+		return actual(path, payload)
+	}
+	complete := ReportBundle{Errors: []byte("complete"), Recoveries: []byte("complete"), Markdown: []byte("complete")}
+	failed := ReportBundle{Errors: []byte("failed"), Recoveries: []byte("failed"), Markdown: []byte("failed")}
+	failures := session.Finalize([]byte("transcript"), complete, func([]FileFailure) ReportBundle { return failed })
+	if len(failures) != 1 || failures[0].Path != filepath.Join(dir, ErrorsFile) {
+		t.Fatalf("failures: %+v", failures)
+	}
+	if got, err := os.ReadFile(output); err != nil || string(got) != "transcript" {
+		t.Fatalf("transcript erased: %s %v", got, err)
+	}
+	for _, path := range session.ReportPaths() {
+		if got, err := os.ReadFile(path); err != nil || string(got) != "failed" {
+			t.Fatalf("failed-status pass %s: %s %v", path, got, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDebugRunDirectoryUsesSuppliedIDAndIsRetained(t *testing.T) {
+	parent := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "debug")
+	if _, err := os.Stat(parent); !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected parent: %v", err)
+	}
+	run, err := NewRunDirectory(parent, "run-123", "secret")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if run.Path() != filepath.Join(parent, "run-123") {
+		t.Fatalf("run ID changed: %s", run.Path())
+	}
+	if _, err := NewRunDirectory(parent, "run-123"); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("duplicate run ID accepted")
+	}
+	if err := run.WriteJSONArtifact(ArtifactCorrectionLedger, map[string]string{"proposal": "secret"}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	contents, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(run.Path(), ArtifactCorrectionLedger))
+	if err != nil || strings.Contains(string(contents), "secret") {
+		t.Fatalf("debug artifact: %s %v", contents, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(run.Path()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("debug directory removed: %v", err)
+	}
+}

internal/core/diagnostics/output_stream_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+//go:build linux || darwin
+
+package diagnostics
+
+import (
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"syscall"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestTranscriptStreamDestinations(t *testing.T) {
+	fifo := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "transcript.pipe")
+	if err := syscall.Mkfifo(fifo, 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, path := range []string{os.DevNull, fifo} {
+		t.Run(filepath.Base(path), func(t *testing.T) {
+			before, err := os.Stat(path)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			// Preparation must finish even though the pipe has no reader yet.
+			session, err := PrepareOutput(OutputSelection{TranscriptPath: path})
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			var reader *os.File
+			if path == fifo {
+				// Keep both ends open in the test so publication and reading can be
+				// sequential; the small payload fits in the pipe buffer.
+				reader, err = os.OpenFile(path, os.O_RDWR|syscall.O_NONBLOCK, 0)
+				if err != nil {
+					t.Fatal(err)
+				}
+				defer reader.Close()
+			}
+			payload := []byte("transcript")
+			if failures := session.Finalize(payload, ReportBundle{}, nil); len(failures) != 0 {
+				t.Fatal(failures)
+			}
+			after, err := os.Stat(path)
+			if err != nil || !os.SameFile(before, after) || before.Mode() != after.Mode() {
+				t.Fatalf("stream replaced: %v", err)
+			}
+			if reader != nil {
+				got := make([]byte, len(payload))
+				if _, err := io.ReadFull(reader, got); err != nil || string(got) != string(payload) {
+					t.Fatalf("pipe delivery: %q %v", got, err)
+				}
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTranscriptStreamWriteFailure(t *testing.T) {
+	if _, err := os.Stat("/dev/full"); os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		t.Skip("/dev/full unavailable")
+	}
+	session, err := PrepareOutput(OutputSelection{TranscriptPath: "/dev/full"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	failures := session.Finalize([]byte("transcript"), ReportBundle{}, nil)
+	if len(failures) != 1 || failures[0].Kind != "transcript write" {
+		t.Fatalf("write failure lost: %+v", failures)
+	}
+}

internal/core/diagnostics/run_dir.go

@@ -0,0 +1,205 @@
+package diagnostics
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/chunking"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/normalization"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/redaction"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/schema"
+)
+
+// RunDirectory represents a per-run diagnostics directory
+type RunDirectory struct {
+	redactor  redaction.Redactor
+	path      string
+	createdAt time.Time
+}
+
+// InvocationMetadata captures non-secret invocation details for diagnostics.
+type InvocationMetadata struct {
+	Operation             string    `json:"operation"`
+	TranscriptPath        string    `json:"transcript_path"`
+	GlossaryPath          string    `json:"glossary_path"`
+	OutputPath            string    `json:"output_path,omitempty"`
+	ConfigPath            string    `json:"config_path,omitempty"`
+	ConfigSource          string    `json:"config_source,omitempty"`
+	Overlay               string    `json:"overlay,omitempty"`
+	ConfigVersion         *int      `json:"config_version,omitempty"`
+	TranscriptDescription string    `json:"transcript_description,omitempty"`
+	Modules               []string  `json:"modules"`
+	RunID                 string    `json:"run_id"`
+	StartedAt             time.Time `json:"started_at"`
+}
+
+// NewRunDirectory creates a new run directory under the configured work dir
+func NewRunDirectory(workDir, runID string, secrets ...string) (*RunDirectory, error) {
+	if strings.TrimSpace(workDir) == "" {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("debug work directory is required")
+	}
+	if strings.TrimSpace(runID) == "" || filepath.Base(runID) != runID || runID == "." || runID == ".." {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("valid run ID is required")
+	}
+
+	// Create work directory if it doesn't exist
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(workDir, 0o755); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create work directory %q: %w", workDir, err)
+	}
+
+	runPath := filepath.Join(workDir, runID)
+
+	if err := os.Mkdir(runPath, 0o755); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create run directory %q: %w", runPath, err)
+	}
+
+	return &RunDirectory{
+		path:      runPath,
+		redactor:  redaction.New(secrets),
+		createdAt: time.Now().UTC(),
+	}, nil
+}
+
+// Path returns the run directory path
+func (r *RunDirectory) Path() string {
+	return r.path
+}
+
+func (r *RunDirectory) runID() string {
+	return filepath.Base(r.path)
+}
+
+// WriteInvocationMetadata writes invocation metadata for this run.
+func (r *RunDirectory) WriteInvocationMetadata(metadata InvocationMetadata) error {
+	if metadata.RunID == "" {
+		metadata.RunID = r.runID()
+	}
+	if metadata.StartedAt.IsZero() {
+		metadata.StartedAt = r.createdAt
+	}
+
+	path := filepath.Join(r.path, ArtifactInvocationMetadata)
+	bytes, err := r.redactor.JSON(metadata)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to marshal invocation metadata: %w", err)
+	}
+	bytes = append(bytes, '\n')
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, bytes, 0o644); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to write invocation metadata: %w", err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// WriteEffectiveConfig writes redacted effective config metadata for this run.
+func (r *RunDirectory) WriteEffectiveConfig(effectiveYAML []byte) error {
+	return r.WriteYAMLArtifact(ArtifactEffectiveConfig, effectiveYAML)
+}
+
+// WriteSourceTranscript writes the source transcript artifact
+func (r *RunDirectory) WriteSourceTranscript(transcript *schema.SourceTranscript, raw []byte) error {
+	// Preserve the source snapshot without copying unredacted input bytes.
+	var source any
+	decoder := json.NewDecoder(strings.NewReader(string(raw)))
+	decoder.UseNumber()
+	if err := decoder.Decode(&source); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("decode source snapshot: %w", err)
+	}
+	sourceBytes, err := r.redactor.JSON(source)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("redact source snapshot: %w", err)
+	}
+	sourcePath := filepath.Join(r.path, ArtifactSourceTranscript)
+	if err := os.WriteFile(sourcePath, append(sourceBytes, '\n'), 0o644); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to write source transcript: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	// Write parsed source for debugging
+	parsedPath := filepath.Join(r.path, ArtifactParsedSourceTranscript)
+	parsedBytes, err := r.redactor.JSON(transcript)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to marshal parsed source transcript: %w", err)
+	}
+	parsedBytes = append(parsedBytes, '\n')
+	if err := os.WriteFile(parsedPath, parsedBytes, 0o644); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to write parsed source transcript: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// WriteNormalizedTranscript writes the normalized transcript artifact
+func (r *RunDirectory) WriteNormalizedTranscript(transcript *schema.Transcript) error {
+	normalizedPath := filepath.Join(r.path, ArtifactNormalizedTranscript)
+	bytes, err := r.redactor.JSON(transcript)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to serialize normalized transcript: %w", err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(normalizedPath, bytes, 0o644); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to write normalized transcript: %w", err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// WriteNormalizationSummary writes the normalization summary artifact
+func (r *RunDirectory) WriteNormalizationSummary(summary *normalization.NormalizationSummary) error {
+	summaryPath := filepath.Join(r.path, ArtifactNormalizationSummary)
+	bytes, err := r.redactor.JSON(summary)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to marshal normalization summary: %w", err)
+	}
+	bytes = append(bytes, '\n')
+	if err := os.WriteFile(summaryPath, bytes, 0o644); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to write normalization summary: %w", err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// WriteErrorLog writes an error log on failure
+func (r *RunDirectory) WriteErrorLog(errorMessage string) error {
+	errorPath := filepath.Join(r.path, ArtifactErrorLog)
+	return os.WriteFile(errorPath, []byte(r.redactor.String(errorMessage)+"\n"), 0o644)
+}
+
+// WriteChunkingSummary writes the chunking summary artifact
+func (r *RunDirectory) WriteChunkingSummary(summary *chunking.DetailedSummary) error {
+	summaryPath := filepath.Join(r.path, ArtifactChunkingSummary)
+	bytes, err := r.redactor.JSON(summary)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to marshal chunking summary: %w", err)
+	}
+	bytes = append(bytes, '\n')
+	if err := os.WriteFile(summaryPath, bytes, 0o644); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to write chunking summary: %w", err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (r *RunDirectory) WriteJSONArtifact(name string, payload any) error {
+	artifactPath := filepath.Join(r.path, name)
+	bytes, err := r.redactor.JSON(payload)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to marshal %s: %w", name, err)
+	}
+	bytes = append(bytes, '\n')
+	if err := os.WriteFile(artifactPath, bytes, 0o644); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to write %s: %w", name, err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// WriteYAMLArtifact writes a sanitized YAML diagnostic artifact.
+func (r *RunDirectory) WriteYAMLArtifact(name string, payload []byte) error {
+	var err error
+	payload, err = r.redactor.YAML(payload)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(r.path, name), payload, 0o644); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to write %s: %w", name, err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}

internal/core/io/files.go

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package io
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+)
+
+func ReadRequiredFile(path string, label string) ([]byte, error) {
+	contents, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to read %s file %q: %w", label, path, err)
+	}
+	return contents, nil
+}
+
+func ValidateWellFormedJSON(path string, raw []byte) error {
+	if !json.Valid(raw) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("transcript file %q is not valid JSON", path)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func WriteFile(path string, contents []byte) error {
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, contents, 0o644); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to write output file %q: %w", path, err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}

internal/core/modulecatalog/catalog.go

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+package modulecatalog
+
+import "strings"
+
+const (
+	KeyGlossary   = "glossary"
+	KeyHomophones = "homophones"
+	KeySpokenWord = "spoken_word"
+	KeyGrammar    = "grammar"
+)
+
+var supportedKeys = []string{
+	KeyGlossary,
+	KeyHomophones,
+	KeySpokenWord,
+	KeyGrammar,
+}
+
+var supportedKeySet = map[string]struct{}{
+	KeyGlossary:   {},
+	KeyHomophones: {},
+	KeySpokenWord: {},
+	KeyGrammar:    {},
+}
+
+func SupportedKeys() []string {
+	out := make([]string, len(supportedKeys))
+	copy(out, supportedKeys)
+	return out
+}
+
+func IsSupported(key string) bool {
+	_, ok := supportedKeySet[strings.TrimSpace(key)]
+	return ok
+}

internal/core/modulecatalog/catalog_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package modulecatalog
+
+import (
+	"reflect"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestSupportedKeys(t *testing.T) {
+	want := []string{KeyGlossary, KeyHomophones, KeySpokenWord, KeyGrammar}
+	if got := SupportedKeys(); !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected supported keys: got=%v want=%v", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestIsSupported(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, key := range SupportedKeys() {
+		if !IsSupported(key) {
+			t.Fatalf("expected key %q to be supported", key)
+		}
+	}
+	if IsSupported("made_up") {
+		t.Fatalf("did not expect made_up to be supported")
+	}
+}

internal/core/normalization/normalize.go

@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
+package normalization
+
+import (
+	"sort"
+
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/schema"
+)
+
+// NormalizationConfig holds configuration parameters for transcript normalization
+type NormalizationConfig struct {
+	MaxSegmentGap      float64 // Maximum gap between segments to consider for merging (seconds)
+	EllipsisGap        float64 // Gap threshold above which to insert ellipsis (seconds)
+	MaxSegmentDuration float64 // Maximum duration for a merged segment (seconds)
+	MaxSegmentTokens   int     // Maximum token estimate for a merged segment
+}
+
+// NormalizationSummary records the results and statistics of normalization
+type NormalizationSummary struct {
+	InputSegmentCount  int `json:"input_segment_count"`
+	OutputSegmentCount int `json:"output_segment_count"`
+	MergesPerformed    int `json:"merges_performed"`
+	IDsReassigned      int `json:"ids_reassigned"`
+	SkippedMerges      struct {
+		DifferentSpeakers  int `json:"different_speakers"`
+		GapTooLarge        int `json:"gap_too_large"`
+		DurationExceeded   int `json:"duration_exceeded"`
+		TokenLimitExceeded int `json:"token_limit_exceeded"`
+	} `json:"skipped_merges"`
+}
+
+// NormalizeTranscript performs deterministic normalization on a transcript
+type NormalizeTranscript struct {
+	config    NormalizationConfig
+	estimator *SimpleTokenEstimator
+}
+
+// NewNormalizer creates a new transcript normalizer with the given configuration
+func NewNormalizer(config NormalizationConfig) *NormalizeTranscript {
+	return &NormalizeTranscript{
+		config:    config,
+		estimator: &SimpleTokenEstimator{},
+	}
+}
+
+// Normalize performs deterministic normalization on the given transcript
+func (n *NormalizeTranscript) Normalize(transcript *schema.Transcript) (*schema.Transcript, *NormalizationSummary) {
+	summary := &NormalizationSummary{
+		InputSegmentCount: len(transcript.Segments),
+	}
+
+	if len(transcript.Segments) == 0 {
+		return transcript, summary
+	}
+
+	// Sort segments chronologically
+	sortedSegments := make([]schema.Segment, len(transcript.Segments))
+	copy(sortedSegments, transcript.Segments)
+	sort.Slice(sortedSegments, func(i, j int) bool {
+		return sortedSegments[i].Start < sortedSegments[j].Start
+	})
+
+	// Merge same-speaker adjacent segments
+	var normalizedSegments []schema.Segment
+	var currentSegment schema.Segment
+
+	for i, segment := range sortedSegments {
+		if i == 0 {
+			// Initialize with first segment
+			currentSegment = segment
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// Check if we should merge with current segment
+		gap := segment.Start - currentSegment.End
+		merge, reason := shouldMergeWithReason(n.config, n.estimator, &currentSegment, &segment, gap)
+		if merge {
+			summary.MergesPerformed++
+			currentSegment = mergeSegments(&currentSegment, &segment, gap, n.config.EllipsisGap)
+		} else {
+			// Track the reason for not merging
+			switch reason {
+			case "different_speakers":
+				summary.SkippedMerges.DifferentSpeakers++
+			case "gap_too_large":
+				summary.SkippedMerges.GapTooLarge++
+			case "duration_exceeded":
+				summary.SkippedMerges.DurationExceeded++
+			case "token_limit_exceeded":
+				summary.SkippedMerges.TokenLimitExceeded++
+			}
+			// Finalize current segment and start new one
+			normalizedSegments = append(normalizedSegments, currentSegment)
+			currentSegment = segment
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Add the last segment
+	if len(currentSegment.Text) > 0 {
+		normalizedSegments = append(normalizedSegments, currentSegment)
+	}
+
+	// Reassign sequential IDs starting at 1
+	for i, segment := range normalizedSegments {
+		if segment.ID != i+1 {
+			summary.IDsReassigned++
+		}
+		normalizedSegments[i].ID = i + 1
+	}
+
+	summary.OutputSegmentCount = len(normalizedSegments)
+
+	return &schema.Transcript{Segments: normalizedSegments}, summary
+}
+
+func shouldMerge(config NormalizationConfig, estimator *SimpleTokenEstimator,
+	current, next *schema.Segment, gap float64) bool {
+
+	// Don't merge if different speakers
+	if current.Speaker != next.Speaker {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	// Don't merge if gap is too large
+	if gap > config.MaxSegmentGap {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	// Calculate what the merged segment would look like
+	mergedText := current.Text
+	if gap >= config.EllipsisGap {
+		mergedText += "... "
+	} else {
+		mergedText += " "
+	}
+	mergedText += next.Text
+
+	mergedDuration := next.End - current.Start
+
+	// Don't merge if duration would be exceeded
+	if mergedDuration > config.MaxSegmentDuration {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	// Don't merge if token estimate would be exceeded
+	tokenEstimate := estimator.EstimateTokens(mergedText)
+	if tokenEstimate > config.MaxSegmentTokens {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	return true
+}
+
+func shouldMergeWithReason(config NormalizationConfig, estimator *SimpleTokenEstimator,
+	current, next *schema.Segment, gap float64) (bool, string) {
+
+	if current.Speaker != next.Speaker {
+		return false, "different_speakers"
+	}
+	if gap > config.MaxSegmentGap {
+		return false, "gap_too_large"
+	}
+
+	mergedText := current.Text
+	if gap >= config.EllipsisGap {
+		mergedText += "... "
+	} else {
+		mergedText += " "
+	}
+	mergedText += next.Text
+
+	mergedDuration := next.End - current.Start
+	if mergedDuration > config.MaxSegmentDuration {
+		return false, "duration_exceeded"
+	}
+
+	tokenEstimate := estimator.EstimateTokens(mergedText)
+	if tokenEstimate > config.MaxSegmentTokens {
+		return false, "token_limit_exceeded"
+	}
+
+	return true, ""
+}
+
+func mergeSegments(current, next *schema.Segment, gap, ellipsisGap float64) schema.Segment {
+	mergedText := current.Text
+	if gap >= ellipsisGap {
+		mergedText += "... "
+	} else {
+		mergedText += " "
+	}
+	mergedText += next.Text
+
+	// Merge categories
+	categories := make([]string, 0, len(current.Categories)+len(next.Categories))
+	categories = append(categories, current.Categories...)
+	categories = append(categories, next.Categories...)
+
+	return schema.Segment{
+		ID:         current.ID, // Will be reassigned later
+		Speaker:    current.Speaker,
+		Start:      current.Start,
+		End:        next.End,
+		Text:       mergedText,
+		Categories: categories,
+	}
+}

internal/core/normalization/normalize_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,684 @@
+package normalization
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/schema"
+)
+
+func TestNormalizationNoOp(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        1.0,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 60.0,
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   100,
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	transcript := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: []schema.Segment{
+			{ID: 1, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 0.0, End: 1.0, Text: "Hello"},
+			{ID: 2, Speaker: "Bob", Start: 2.0, End: 3.0, Text: "Hi"},
+		},
+	}
+
+	normalized, summary := normalizer.Normalize(transcript)
+
+	// Should be no-op since different speakers
+	if len(normalized.Segments) != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 2 segments, got %d", len(normalized.Segments))
+	}
+	if summary.InputSegmentCount != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("expected input count 2, got %d", summary.InputSegmentCount)
+	}
+	if summary.OutputSegmentCount != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("expected output count 2, got %d", summary.OutputSegmentCount)
+	}
+	if summary.MergesPerformed != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 0 merges, got %d", summary.MergesPerformed)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNormalizationSameSpeakerMergeWithinGap(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        1.0,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 60.0,
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   100,
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	transcript := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: []schema.Segment{
+			{ID: 1, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 0.0, End: 1.0, Text: "Hello"},
+			{ID: 2, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 1.5, End: 2.5, Text: "world"},
+		},
+	}
+
+	normalized, summary := normalizer.Normalize(transcript)
+
+	// Should merge since same speaker and small gap
+	if len(normalized.Segments) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 1 merged segment, got %d", len(normalized.Segments))
+	}
+	if summary.MergesPerformed != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 1 merge, got %d", summary.MergesPerformed)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(normalized.Segments[0].Text, "Hello") || !strings.Contains(normalized.Segments[0].Text, "world") {
+		t.Errorf("expected merged text to contain both parts, got %q", normalized.Segments[0].Text)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNormalizationEllipsisInsertionAboveThreshold(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        0.5,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 60.0,
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   100,
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	transcript := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: []schema.Segment{
+			{ID: 1, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 0.0, End: 1.0, Text: "Hello"},
+			{ID: 2, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 2.0, End: 3.0, Text: "world"},
+		},
+	}
+
+	normalized, _ := normalizer.Normalize(transcript)
+
+	// Should merge with ellipsis since gap (1.0) > ellipsis threshold (0.5)
+	if len(normalized.Segments) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 1 merged segment, got %d", len(normalized.Segments))
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(normalized.Segments[0].Text, "...") {
+		t.Errorf("expected ellipsis in merged text, got %q", normalized.Segments[0].Text)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNormalizationNoMergeDifferentSpeakers(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        1.0,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 60.0,
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   100,
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	transcript := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: []schema.Segment{
+			{ID: 1, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 0.0, End: 1.0, Text: "Hello"},
+			{ID: 2, Speaker: "Bob", Start: 1.5, End: 2.5, Text: "Hi"},
+		},
+	}
+
+	normalized, summary := normalizer.Normalize(transcript)
+
+	// Should NOT merge since different speakers
+	if len(normalized.Segments) != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 2 segments, got %d", len(normalized.Segments))
+	}
+	if summary.SkippedMerges.DifferentSpeakers != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 1 skipped merge for different speakers, got %d", summary.SkippedMerges.DifferentSpeakers)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNormalizationNoMergeWhenMaxDurationExceeded(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        1.0,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 1.0, // Very small max duration
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   100,
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	transcript := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: []schema.Segment{
+			{ID: 1, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 0.0, End: 0.5, Text: "Hello"},
+			{ID: 2, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 0.6, End: 1.5, Text: "world"},
+		},
+	}
+
+	normalized, summary := normalizer.Normalize(transcript)
+
+	// Should NOT merge since merged duration (1.5) > max duration (1.0)
+	if len(normalized.Segments) != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 2 segments, got %d", len(normalized.Segments))
+	}
+	if summary.SkippedMerges.DurationExceeded != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 1 skipped merge for duration exceeded, got %d", summary.SkippedMerges.DurationExceeded)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNormalizationNoMergeWhenTokenLimitExceeded(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        1.0,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 60.0,
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   1, // Very small token limit
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	transcript := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: []schema.Segment{
+			{ID: 1, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 0.0, End: 1.0, Text: "Hello"},
+			{ID: 2, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 1.5, End: 2.5, Text: "world"},
+		},
+	}
+
+	normalized, summary := normalizer.Normalize(transcript)
+
+	// Should NOT merge since merged token count would exceed limit
+	if len(normalized.Segments) != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 2 segments, got %d", len(normalized.Segments))
+	}
+	if summary.SkippedMerges.TokenLimitExceeded != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 1 skipped merge for token limit exceeded, got %d", summary.SkippedMerges.TokenLimitExceeded)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNormalizationChronologicalOrdering(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        1.0,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 60.0,
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   100,
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	transcript := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: []schema.Segment{
+			{ID: 2, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 5.0, End: 6.0, Text: "Later"},
+			{ID: 1, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 0.0, End: 1.0, Text: "First"},
+			{ID: 3, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 2.0, End: 3.0, Text: "Middle"},
+		},
+	}
+
+	normalized, _ := normalizer.Normalize(transcript)
+
+	// Should be sorted chronologically
+	if len(normalized.Segments) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 1 merged segment, got %d", len(normalized.Segments))
+	}
+	if normalized.Segments[0].Start != 0.0 {
+		t.Errorf("expected first segment to start at 0.0, got %f", normalized.Segments[0].Start)
+	}
+	if normalized.Segments[0].End != 6.0 {
+		t.Errorf("expected merged segment to end at 6.0, got %f", normalized.Segments[0].End)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNormalizationSequentialIDReassignment(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        1.0,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 60.0,
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   100,
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	transcript := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: []schema.Segment{
+			{ID: 5, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 0.0, End: 1.0, Text: "Hello"},
+			{ID: 10, Speaker: "Bob", Start: 2.0, End: 3.0, Text: "Hi"},
+		},
+	}
+
+	normalized, summary := normalizer.Normalize(transcript)
+
+	// Should have sequential IDs starting at 1
+	if len(normalized.Segments) != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 2 segments, got %d", len(normalized.Segments))
+	}
+	if normalized.Segments[0].ID != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("expected first segment ID 1, got %d", normalized.Segments[0].ID)
+	}
+	if normalized.Segments[1].ID != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("expected second segment ID 2, got %d", normalized.Segments[1].ID)
+	}
+	if summary.IDsReassigned != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 2 IDs reassigned, got %d", summary.IDsReassigned)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNormalizationCategoryPreservation(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        1.0,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 60.0,
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   100,
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	transcript := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: []schema.Segment{
+			{ID: 1, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 0.0, End: 1.0, Text: "Hello", Categories: []string{"greeting"}},
+			{ID: 2, Speaker: "Alice", Start: 1.5, End: 2.5, Text: "world", Categories: []string{"response"}},
+		},
+	}
+
+	normalized, _ := normalizer.Normalize(transcript)
+
+	// Should merge and preserve both categories
+	if len(normalized.Segments) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 1 merged segment, got %d", len(normalized.Segments))
+	}
+	if len(normalized.Segments[0].Categories) != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 2 categories, got %d", len(normalized.Segments[0].Categories))
+	}
+	if normalized.Segments[0].Categories[0] != "greeting" || normalized.Segments[0].Categories[1] != "response" {
+		t.Errorf("expected preserved categories, got %v", normalized.Segments[0].Categories)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNormalizationGoldenBareArrayTranscript(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        1.0,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 60.0,
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   100,
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/bare_array_transcript.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to read test fixture: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	transcript, err := schema.ParseSourceTranscriptJSON(raw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to parse source transcript: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	converted := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: make([]schema.Segment, len(transcript.Segments)),
+	}
+	for i, s := range transcript.Segments {
+		id := i + 1
+		if s.ID != nil {
+			id = *s.ID
+		}
+		converted.Segments[i] = schema.Segment{
+			ID:         id,
+			Speaker:    s.Speaker,
+			Start:      s.Start,
+			End:        s.End,
+			Text:       s.Text,
+			Categories: s.Categories,
+		}
+	}
+
+	normalized, _ := normalizer.Normalize(converted)
+
+	// Compare with golden output semantically
+	expectedRaw, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/bare_array_transcript.golden.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to read golden fixture: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	expectedTranscript, err := schema.ParseTranscriptJSON(expectedRaw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to parse golden transcript: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	assertTranscriptsEqual(t, normalized, expectedTranscript)
+}
+
+func TestNormalizationGoldenObjectWithSegmentsTranscript(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        1.0,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 60.0,
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   100,
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/object_with_segments_transcript.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to read test fixture: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	transcript, err := schema.ParseSourceTranscriptJSON(raw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to parse source transcript: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	converted := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: make([]schema.Segment, len(transcript.Segments)),
+	}
+	for i, s := range transcript.Segments {
+		id := i + 1
+		if s.ID != nil {
+			id = *s.ID
+		}
+		converted.Segments[i] = schema.Segment{
+			ID:         id,
+			Speaker:    s.Speaker,
+			Start:      s.Start,
+			End:        s.End,
+			Text:       s.Text,
+			Categories: s.Categories,
+		}
+	}
+
+	normalized, _ := normalizer.Normalize(converted)
+
+	// Compare with golden output semantically
+	expectedRaw, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/object_with_segments_transcript.golden.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to read golden fixture: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	expectedTranscript, err := schema.ParseTranscriptJSON(expectedRaw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to parse golden transcript: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	assertTranscriptsEqual(t, normalized, expectedTranscript)
+}
+
+func TestNormalizationGoldenTranscriptWithCategories(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        1.0,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 60.0,
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   100,
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/transcript_with_categories.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to read test fixture: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	transcript, err := schema.ParseSourceTranscriptJSON(raw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to parse source transcript: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	converted := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: make([]schema.Segment, len(transcript.Segments)),
+	}
+	for i, s := range transcript.Segments {
+		id := i + 1
+		if s.ID != nil {
+			id = *s.ID
+		}
+		converted.Segments[i] = schema.Segment{
+			ID:         id,
+			Speaker:    s.Speaker,
+			Start:      s.Start,
+			End:        s.End,
+			Text:       s.Text,
+			Categories: s.Categories,
+		}
+	}
+
+	normalized, _ := normalizer.Normalize(converted)
+
+	// Compare with golden output semantically
+	expectedRaw, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/transcript_with_categories.golden.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to read golden fixture: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	expectedTranscript, err := schema.ParseTranscriptJSON(expectedRaw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to parse golden transcript: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	assertTranscriptsEqual(t, normalized, expectedTranscript)
+}
+
+func TestNormalizationGoldenTranscriptWithOriginalIDs(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        1.0,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 60.0,
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   100,
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/transcript_with_original_ids.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to read test fixture: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	transcript, err := schema.ParseSourceTranscriptJSON(raw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to parse source transcript: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	converted := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: make([]schema.Segment, len(transcript.Segments)),
+	}
+	for i, s := range transcript.Segments {
+		id := i + 1
+		if s.ID != nil {
+			id = *s.ID
+		}
+		converted.Segments[i] = schema.Segment{
+			ID:         id,
+			Speaker:    s.Speaker,
+			Start:      s.Start,
+			End:        s.End,
+			Text:       s.Text,
+			Categories: s.Categories,
+		}
+	}
+
+	normalized, _ := normalizer.Normalize(converted)
+
+	// Compare with golden output semantically
+	expectedRaw, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/transcript_with_original_ids.golden.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to read golden fixture: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	expectedTranscript, err := schema.ParseTranscriptJSON(expectedRaw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to parse golden transcript: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	assertTranscriptsEqual(t, normalized, expectedTranscript)
+}
+
+func TestNormalizationGoldenSameSpeakerMerge(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        1.0,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 60.0,
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   100,
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/transcript_same_speaker_merge.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to read test fixture: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	transcript, err := schema.ParseSourceTranscriptJSON(raw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to parse source transcript: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	converted := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: make([]schema.Segment, len(transcript.Segments)),
+	}
+	for i, s := range transcript.Segments {
+		id := i + 1
+		if s.ID != nil {
+			id = *s.ID
+		}
+		converted.Segments[i] = schema.Segment{
+			ID:         id,
+			Speaker:    s.Speaker,
+			Start:      s.Start,
+			End:        s.End,
+			Text:       s.Text,
+			Categories: s.Categories,
+		}
+	}
+
+	normalized, _ := normalizer.Normalize(converted)
+
+	// Compare with golden output semantically
+	expectedRaw, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/transcript_same_speaker_merge.golden.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to read golden fixture: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	expectedTranscript, err := schema.ParseTranscriptJSON(expectedRaw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to parse golden transcript: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	assertTranscriptsEqual(t, normalized, expectedTranscript)
+}
+
+func TestNormalizationGoldenEllipsisMerge(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        1.0,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 60.0,
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   100,
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/transcript_ellipsis_merge.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to read test fixture: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	transcript, err := schema.ParseSourceTranscriptJSON(raw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to parse source transcript: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	converted := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: make([]schema.Segment, len(transcript.Segments)),
+	}
+	for i, s := range transcript.Segments {
+		id := i + 1
+		if s.ID != nil {
+			id = *s.ID
+		}
+		converted.Segments[i] = schema.Segment{
+			ID:         id,
+			Speaker:    s.Speaker,
+			Start:      s.Start,
+			End:        s.End,
+			Text:       s.Text,
+			Categories: s.Categories,
+		}
+	}
+
+	normalized, _ := normalizer.Normalize(converted)
+
+	// Compare with golden output semantically
+	expectedRaw, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/transcript_ellipsis_merge.golden.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to read golden fixture: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	expectedTranscript, err := schema.ParseTranscriptJSON(expectedRaw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to parse golden transcript: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	assertTranscriptsEqual(t, normalized, expectedTranscript)
+}
+
+func TestNormalizationGoldenDifferentSpeakersNoMerge(t *testing.T) {
+	config := NormalizationConfig{
+		MaxSegmentGap:      2.0,
+		EllipsisGap:        1.0,
+		MaxSegmentDuration: 60.0,
+		MaxSegmentTokens:   100,
+	}
+	normalizer := NewNormalizer(config)
+
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/transcript_different_speakers_no_merge.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to read test fixture: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	transcript, err := schema.ParseSourceTranscriptJSON(raw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to parse source transcript: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	converted := &schema.Transcript{
+		Segments: make([]schema.Segment, len(transcript.Segments)),
+	}
+	for i, s := range transcript.Segments {
+		id := i + 1
+		if s.ID != nil {
+			id = *s.ID
+		}
+		converted.Segments[i] = schema.Segment{
+			ID:         id,
+			Speaker:    s.Speaker,
+			Start:      s.Start,
+			End:        s.End,
+			Text:       s.Text,
+			Categories: s.Categories,
+		}
+	}
+
+	normalized, _ := normalizer.Normalize(converted)
+
+	// Compare with golden output semantically
+	expectedRaw, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/transcript_different_speakers_no_merge.golden.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to read golden fixture: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	expectedTranscript, err := schema.ParseTranscriptJSON(expectedRaw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to parse golden transcript: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	assertTranscriptsEqual(t, normalized, expectedTranscript)
+}
+
+func assertTranscriptsEqual(t *testing.T, actual, expected *schema.Transcript) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	if len(actual.Segments) != len(expected.Segments) {
+		t.Errorf("segment count mismatch: expected %d, got %d", len(expected.Segments), len(actual.Segments))
+		return
+	}
+
+	for i := range actual.Segments {
+		a := actual.Segments[i]
+		e := expected.Segments[i]
+
+		if a.ID != e.ID {
+			t.Errorf("segment %d: ID mismatch: expected %d, got %d", i, e.ID, a.ID)
+		}
+		if a.Speaker != e.Speaker {
+			t.Errorf("segment %d: speaker mismatch: expected %q, got %q", i, e.Speaker, a.Speaker)
+		}
+		if a.Start != e.Start {
+			t.Errorf("segment %d: start mismatch: expected %f, got %f", i, e.Start, a.Start)
+		}
+		if a.End != e.End {
+			t.Errorf("segment %d: end mismatch: expected %f, got %f", i, e.End, a.End)
+		}
+		if a.Text != e.Text {
+			t.Errorf("segment %d: text mismatch: expected %q, got %q", i, e.Text, a.Text)
+		}
+		if len(a.Categories) != len(e.Categories) {
+			t.Errorf("segment %d: categories count mismatch: expected %d, got %d", i, len(e.Categories), len(a.Categories))
+			continue
+		}
+		for j, cat := range a.Categories {
+			if j >= len(e.Categories) || cat != e.Categories[j] {
+				t.Errorf("segment %d: category %d mismatch: expected %q, got %q", i, j, e.Categories[j], cat)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/core/normalization/testdata/bare_array_transcript.golden.json

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+[
+  {
+    "id": 1,
+    "speaker": "Alice",
+    "start": 0.0,
+    "end": 1.5,
+    "text": "Hello world."
+  },
+  {
+    "id": 2,
+    "speaker": "Bob",
+    "start": 2.0,
+    "end": 3.5,
+    "text": "Hi there.",
+    "categories": [
+      "greeting"
+    ]
+  }
+]

internal/core/normalization/testdata/bare_array_transcript.json

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+[
+  {
+    "id": 1,
+    "speaker": "Alice",
+    "start": 0.0,
+    "end": 1.5,
+    "text": "Hello world."
+  },
+  {
+    "id": 2,
+    "speaker": "Bob",
+    "start": 2.0,
+    "end": 3.5,
+    "text": "Hi there.",
+    "categories": ["greeting"]
+  }
+]

internal/core/normalization/testdata/comprehensive_glossary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+glossary:
+  - name: Jesters
+    category: faction
+    summary: A faction name.
+    aliases:
+      - Jester
+      - Jest
+  - name: Popov
+    category: character
+    summary: A character name.
+    aliases:
+      - Hrank
+      - Pop
+  - name: Audita
+    category: system
+    summary: The transcript polishing system.
+    aliases:
+      - Audit
+      - Auditor

internal/core/normalization/testdata/object_with_segments_transcript.golden.json

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+[
+  {
+    "id": 1,
+    "speaker": "Alice",
+    "start": 0.0,
+    "end": 1.5,
+    "text": "Hello world."
+  },
+  {
+    "id": 2,
+    "speaker": "Bob",
+    "start": 2.0,
+    "end": 3.5,
+    "text": "Hi there.",
+    "categories": [
+      "greeting"
+    ]
+  }
+]

internal/core/normalization/testdata/object_with_segments_transcript.json

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+{
+  "segments": [
+    {
+      "id": 1,
+      "speaker": "Alice",
+      "start": 0.0,
+      "end": 1.5,
+      "text": "Hello world."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2,
+      "speaker": "Bob",
+      "start": 2.0,
+      "end": 3.5,
+      "text": "Hi there.",
+      "categories": ["greeting"]
+    }
+  ]
+}